Good job missing the point. The OP basically says:
Righties: Bite your tongues.
Lefties: Have at it!
That’s the position he staked out, and the one I commented on.
This thread is not about being civil. It is about fighting idiocy, which is a much tougher and more persistent thing than ignorance, and must be approached in a stomp-on-the-testicles-with-both-feet-repeatedly manner.
Meh. There are no libertarian governments on the planet and there will never be any libertarian governments on the planet, yet some on this board people view libertarianism as an idea with any merit whatsoever. THAT’S so cute.
Your argument is negated, and mine supported, by the last line of the OP:
That seems like a clear invitation to add your own. BG may have had a failure of imagination on right-wing-directed insults but did openly ask people to correct this.
See post #62. It is an objectively true fact, to the extent such thing can exist in political discourse, that the RW has largely (never entirely) cornered the market on terminological/rhetorical idiocy/dishonesty over the past 20 years. That is not my fault, and not the LW’s fault – and very definitely not an accident, either.
I think “gun nut” goes on the list, as do variants on libertarian
(glibertarian, schmibertarian, loonietarian)
“Shoved down the throat”. :rolleyes:
I would almost nominate “Regime”. It seems like it is always used in a pejorative way in political conversation, from either side. But it is still a useful word in many contexts, so maybe it gets a pass.
I’ll hear 5 minutes of AM radio on my lunch break, so I can come back with like 30 more if you need.
Right. I guess I thought the purpose of the thread was to list per se idiotic terms. If we’re expanding to list idiocies as applied to particular situations, we could be here a while.
You’ve utterly misinterpreted the point of the thread. A number of euphemistic terms for right-leaning people have been added to the list without complaint. You are free to do so as well.
I trust you mean “dysphemistic”.
“States’ Rights.”
There’s only one acceptable use of that, and it is “States’ rights don’t exist. States have powers not rights.”
I wasn’t commenting on the “point of the thread”. I was commenting on what the OP chose for his list.
As a slight hijack, how exactly are the daily talking points and buzzwords distributed? The Daily Show frequently runs clip montages of Republican politicians, pundits, “news” anchors, and… whatever the hell Sarah Palin is classified as, nowadays… repeating completely identical words and phrases, e.g., “rammed down our throats.”
There’s no way it’s a coincidence, but how is it happening? Is there a daily email distribution list? Morning briefing where Michael Steele (now Reince Priebus) makes a bulleted list on a chalkboard and growls “let’s be careful out there”? Secret code (let’s say 666#) on every Republican’s TV remote that summons a Max-Headroomlike avatar of Ronald Reagan, who presents the quotidian propaganda points in a folksy Speak & Spell voice? Whatever it is, it sure as hell is efficient.
It seems perfectly reasonable that a liberal like BrainGlutton would come up with a lot more idiocy from the right wing than idiocy from the left wing.
It would only be unreasonable if his examples of right wing terms weren’t actually diagnostic of idiocy. It seems to me that all his examples are valid.
“Chimpy” is a disgusting and ignorant term, as it’s a personal appearance slur (like “Monkey Boy”, “Chimp-in-Chief”, etc.), but “Shrub” IIRC was used not only by Bush’s friends long before he was President, but by Bush Senior himself to describe his son.
For my feelings on that, see this new GD thread.
I remember a George Carlin routine, from the start of Bush I’s term, about how amused the earthy Russians (still the elephant in the room, then) were going to be when they found out our new president had a name meaning “crotch hair.”
(Wonder if they ever did find out.)
I’d call it sophomoric, like calling the current President Jugears or something, but hardly disgusting.
Jane Goodall would be offended, she rather likes chimps.