You and your fellow travelers only have a hard-on for Chavez because he’s a left-wing dictator rather than a right-wing dictator. Nothing wrong with that; just don’t pretend his human-rights abuses are the reason you’re upset about him. They’re not.
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I ain’t smiling bandit’s “fellow traveler” by a long shot, but I must confess that I’m at least at half-mast for Chavez because, unlike other thugs on the U.S. payroll, like Hosni Mubarak or Pervez Musharraf, this douchebag is the one who’s loading up on Sukhoi Su-30 jets and Tor-M1 anti-air defenses while coming to New York and calling our Fearless Leader (also a douchebag, but he’s our douchebag) “the devil” and calling on all of Latin America to rise up against the Evil Yanqui Overlords.
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I’ll agree with the obnoxious habit of quoting a long exhaustive super-liberal source, and not responding to posts that matter.
That’s really fucking irritating, Brainglutton. One sentence to summarize 8 pages (whether the source is bullshit or not, but it usually is) followed by half a paragraph of snark isn’t the way to start a discussion. Knock it off.
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I believe he’s been pitted for this before, and yet continues to do so. (At least, the starting threads with some link and political article/editorial, and just doing the “what do you think” crap)
However, I do take issue with the “liberal” part. What difference does it make-the style of his posting is what’s really the issue. Let’s face it-liberals AND conservatives all pull this shit.
I like the rant, but ALL posters lose credibility when they classify large aspects of anything as complex as politics and international diplomacy as either good or bad.
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If you can find more than mild criticism of Chavez from Brainglutton, please point it out. So far as I can see, he mostly said it was silly for Chavez to attack Halloween celebrations. OTOH, he lavished a lot of praise on Chavez in the past that looks misplaced now.
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Who cares? My point is that Chavez shouldn’t even be an issue. His conduct is more important than who does and doesn’t wear flag lapel pins, but that shouldn’t be an issue either.
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I ain’t smiling bandit’s “fellow traveler” by a long shot, but I must confess that I’m at least at half-mast for Chavez because, unlike other thugs on the U.S. payroll, like Hosni Mubarak or Pervez Musharraf, this douchebag is the one who’s loading up on Sukhoi Su-30 jets and Tor-M1 anti-air defenses
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Musharraf, of course, has nukes. Chavez doesn’t.
And haven’t we given Mubarak a whole bunch of shiny toys, or do I misremember?
Besides, are we really concerned that Chavez is going to invade Guyana or bomb Colombia? If not, then so what?
C’mon fuck that “fellow travelers” shit, President Chávez is one scary dude. He’s a demagogue in charge of vast petro-resources, only he’s got no follow-through. Imagine Saddam Hussein without that awesome 'stache and you get the picture; Chávez is exactly what the US wants and he’s exactly where we want him.
Brainglutton is my Der Trihs Lite. You know, for when I want a nice dose of self-hating pinko commie guilt addict bullshit, but without feeling heavy afterwards.
Otherwise, this pitting is weaksauce. Let’s jazz it up people.
[QUOTE=Grossbottom] Brainglutton is my Der Trihs Lite. You know, for when I want a nice dose of self-hating pinko commie guilt addict bullshit, but without feeling heavy afterwards.
Otherwise, this pitting is weaksauce. Let’s jazz it up people.
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I wish somebody’d pit Demo for resurrecting “weaksauce.” Seriously, Pud from FuckedCompany called and he wants his safeword back.
BrainGlutton is thread Metamucil: enhanced, artificial and peristaltic.
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Musharraf, of course, has nukes.
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Courtesy of China. Not the US of A.
Yet. He is making the right kinds of pals who might send some of the good stuff, though.
Right. Operative word being “we”, i.e. the USA. You do know who makes (and licenses) the Sukhoi Su-30, right?
I don’t know about “we” in this case, but IMHO Chavez is nothing more than a blowhard who’s using petro-dollars and anti-Americanism to prop up his domestic support. But, if we’re going to be fair, if Bush is judged on his "Axis of Evil’ rhetoric and other associated “War on Terror” propaganda, then excuse me if I label an individual a douchebag who has, amongst numerous other statements:
“He [Chavez] even said recently that he could imagine the Sukhoi jets firing missiles at an American aircraft carrier off Venezuela’s main La Guaira port.”
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…this douchebag is the one who’s loading up on Sukhoi Su-30 jets and Tor-M1 anti-air defenses while coming to New York and calling our Fearless Leader (also a douchebag, but he’s our douchebag) “the devil” and calling on all of Latin America to rise up against the Evil Yanqui Overlords.
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Fuckin’ A he’s right! ‘bout time they did. The Latin-American oligarchies’ marriage to their American counterparts (to the detriment of the great majority of the exploited LA population) is past due-date. And the fact that he is “your* douchebag” doesn’t make any less of one.
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Fuckin’ A he’s right! ‘bout time they did. The Latin-American oligarchies’ marriage to their American counterparts (to the detriment of the great majority of the exploited LA population) is past due-date. And the fact that he is “your* douchebag” doesn’t make any less of one.
*underlining mine.
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Do you know why Ann Coulter and Michael Savage and Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh make millions talking about how liberals are mentally ill and hate America and how they support our enemies, because they want to see our nation destroyed? It’s because (a)the world is full of angry halfwits on both sides of the political fence and (b)shit like what you post ensures that they will never be 100% wrong.
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Fuckin’ A he’s right! ‘bout time they did. The Latin-American oligarchies’ marriage to their American counterparts (to the detriment of the great majority of the exploited LA population) is past due-date. And the fact that he is “your* douchebag” doesn’t make any less of one.
*underlining mine.
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To you, a non-American, it doesn’t. To me, an American, it does.
Let’s be grown-ups, shall we? Any way you slice it, nearly every person on earth will stick up for their country when it’s externally threatened. I don’t begrudge the IED-planters in Mesopotamia, or the tech-dudes working the centrifuges in Iran. Likewise, if some foreign asshole comes to my country and starts talking shit about us, then you’re damn right I’ll call him on it. It’s called “nationalism”. It used to be called “tribalism”. Good or bad, until (or if) humanity makes another leap in consciousness, that’s the way it is.
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To you, a non-American, it doesn’t. To me, an American, it does.
Let’s be grown-ups, shall we? Any way you slice it, nearly every person on earth will stick up for their country when it’s externally threatened. I don’t begrudge the IED-planters in Mesopotamia, or the tech-dudes working the centrifuges in Iran. Likewise, if some foreign asshole comes to my country and starts talking shit about us, then you’re damn right I’ll call him on it. It’s called “nationalism”. It used to be called “tribalism”. Good or bad, until (or if) humanity makes another leap in consciousness, that’s the way it is.
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:smack: My bad! Sorry, I always assumed RedFury was an American, and I thought he was trashing his own country here..
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I hope I didn’t slander him unfairly. I’m still new here, but I seem to recall some other threads where he said he was Spanish.
ETA: This being the SDMB, of course I meant to say “libel” instead of “slander”. Of course.
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Meh, don’t worry about it. I could easily be wrong. Red is the guy who’s always threatening to kick people’s asses over the Internet and then whining like a little bitch when he gets called on it. Maybe I associated him with being American, because that reminded me of our foreign policy.
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Do you know why Ann Coulter and Michael Savage and Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh make millions talking about how liberals are mentally ill and hate America and how they support our enemies, because they want to see our nation destroyed? It’s because (a)the world is full of angry halfwits on both sides of the political fence and (b)shit like what you post ensures that they will never be 100% wrong.
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Is that all you’ve got? That I’m a “halfwit” for stating the obvious?
Good luck with that intellect of yours…fits right in with the nutters you named.
Might do you well to inform yourself about what you speak of before you open your yap: Latin America and Caribbean
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To you, a non-American, it doesn’t. To me, an American, it does.
Let’s be grown-ups, shall we? Any way you slice it, nearly every person on earth will stick up for their country when it’s externally threatened. I don’t begrudge the IED-planters in Mesopotamia, or the tech-dudes working the centrifuges in Iran. Likewise, if some foreign asshole comes to my country and starts talking shit about us, then you’re damn right I’ll call him on it. It’s called “nationalism”. It used to be called “tribalism”. Good or bad, until (or if) humanity makes another leap in consciousness, that’s the way it is.
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Right. Because Aznar is a countryman of mine I shouldn’t think he was – and still is-- a complete asshole. :rolleyes:
Get some glasses will ya.
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Meh, don’t worry about it. I could easily be wrong. Red is the guy who’s always threatening to kick people’s asses over the Internet and then whining like a little bitch when he gets called on it…
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You forgot the cheese. And I stand for everything I’ve ever written here.