'Conservatism' is mental illness.

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I strongly support political freedom, but I can’t help but agree strongly with the basic facts that being conservative means you’re mentally ill. Let’s look at the facts;

Conservatives tend to believe in non-existent creatures that they think whisper to them that noone else can hear.

Conservatives believe in giant conspiracies on every level - in the UN, in the US government, in schools, etc, and react violently as cause of these delusions.

Conservatives don’t believe in cause and effect, and think that other people getting married can ruin their marriage, or cause them to drive drunk.

Conservatives don’t believe in basic scientific facts, and instead blame facts they don’t like on even more non-existent creatures manipulating people, or vast conspiracies again.

Conservatives can be told something, and have it explained, but then forget it in later threads, or even just a few posts later - they clearly have severe memory or mental issues.

Conservatives have such a strong feeling of things having to be a specific way that they’ll attempt to ruin and change the lives of others to suit this, like some hyper-exaggerated form of ADD that instead causes them to control the lives of others.

Conservatives believe in things that physically don’t exist, and continue to insist that they do, attacking and screaming at anyone who points out they are wrong.

Conservatives are extremely emotional and irrationally violent, literally cheering and applauding when they hear about hate crimes committed on other people.

What should we do with these people who are clearly mentally ill?

(note: my apologies to the actually mentally ill, but I wanted to turn the hatespeech that’s been going on recently back on the speakers)

Mod edit: link to parodied thread.

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I think that using the wide brush like the OP does is **the **illness.

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Well, I guess this shows that liberals can be bigots too.

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The Truthiness shall set you free.

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Maybe we should call it Elephantiasis of the Brush. That brush is so broad that it reaches planetary levels. It is so big that Sherwin Williams would find it useful.

But I hope it is a parody of a thread in GD.

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OP. You are being exactly what you hate. It’s the crazy calling the loony insane.

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So you think that Martin Luther King was mentally ill while Joseph Stalin was not?

Or did I misread you and you think they were both mentally ill, but Stalin was for different reasons?

Please explain.

Thanks.

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Thread; not to be taken seriously. I guess I wasn’t entirely clear. This thread is to make fun of the fact that it is apparently totally OK in great debates to repeatedly insist that other dopers are mentally ill. While the most obvious thread in question wasn’t started by a conservative it’s being championed by them, and they started the claims of mental illness in other threads before it, earlier this week.

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OK. I’ll take it lightly. You are mentally ill.

Get treatment.

Seriously now, why would you open such an idiotic thread for the sake of nothing?

BTW, I am so liberal that I ought to be in Guantanamo by my own biases. So yeah, I am “mentally ill” as well.

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Ok, fair enough, forget my question, but I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Accusing dopers of being “mentally ill” in GD is certainly a violation of board rules and if someone has accused you of that then report it and Marly or Tom, when they have a chance will deal with it.

Otherwise, start a thread protesting it on ATMB.

Note to any mods reading this: I hope this isn’t considered “junior modding” because I’m not exactly sure what is and isn’t considered as such.

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Are you wearing a cape? Cuz that’s when the trouble starts.

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This thread.

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Not only that, but literally every single thread on Chelsea Manning pretty much contains some form of it, too - it started well before that thread, that was just my tipping point of “Fuck all of you stupid fucks forever”.

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46 posts since April of 2009. Fucking sock puppet. Or generic dumbass. Either way, you’ve contributed nothing of substance here. You should leave now.

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I am not a sock puppet, just mostly a lurker who’s felt like posting recently. I’ve been lurking on the SDMB since well before 2009. It’s good to see as always you are completely and totally incapable of reading, though. Do you think that the people who are saying trans people are mentally ill should leave?

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I haven’t expressed any opinion on that issue. You, on the other hand, launched a broadbrush attack on all conservatives which even embarrassed some of your fellow liberals. You should attempt a physiologically unlikely act of self-reproduction, you less than intelligent actualizer of the classic Oedipal fantasy.

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Let me make things very, very clear for you.

I am not actually saying being a conservative is a mental illness. It was a parody post, on how this form of attack is considered extremely distasteful and evil, unless applied to certain minorities. Is that more clear for you, or should I try explaining it for people with a first grade reading level?

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I think you’re a lying sack of shit. I think you meant and truly believe exactly what you posted in the OP, and when you caught called on it, you’re scrambling to cover your ass.

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Too late for an edit: The reason I specifically chose “Conservatism”, despite the thread being made by a liberal (who I still think is a complete pile of human garbage) is because the majority of posters spewing the shit in the thread and others are conservative, and you, Oakminster, ALWAYS going on about how poor, mistreated conservatives are oppressed here, despite the fact that fucking hate speech is perfect OK as long as it’s against trans people, or brazil’s racist screeds, etc, etc.

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You also think I’m a sock puppet. Would you like to make any more outright false claims?

I don’t think conservatives are mentally ill. I just think they’re stupid.
But I mean, the OP specifically contained this line: but I wanted to turn the hatespeech that’s been going on recently back on the speakers.

What the fuck did you think that was referring to, and why the fuck would I specifically copy the wording in the first line of the other “Hate speech” thread if I wasn’t trying to make a point?