You know who else didn’t respond with grace or class when his side lost? Hitler.
And the mods wouldn’t let him have Diogenes the Asshole.
Jesus, man. You always been a bit over the top, but it seems you have utterly lost your sense of perspective.
You too, huh?
I had a good one all put together, then I just C & P’d it into an e-mail and saved it. Like a gun in a holster, or the shotgun in the closet, it’s probably best that it stays there.
Ha!
Seriously, the comparison sort of has that " I’m late for my appointment at the rubber ramada" feel to it.
As a non-American, I tend to agree with DtC, not in the true sense that Hitler=Bush, but for the many similarities that are evident. Hitler brought war to the world, Bush has set out on that path and there is no knowing where the war monger is headed, where he will stop, and what evil he will do. They are both evil! It is a sad day for America and and even sadder day for the world! As they say history has seen massive and powerul empires falling to dust, sometimes I think that maybe the time has come and this is how America is going eventually destroy itself. Sad.
You should rethink this.
See, that’s just it. Doggy Knees may be off the deep end with a comparison to Hitler, but we may very well be looking at the New American Fascism. A lot of the warning signs are there. And maybe we’re not – maybe I’m just being paranoid. But I think we’d be smart to keep an eye on things.
No, Worldeater, listen to beergeek.
It’s people like Dio calling every conservative a racist, homophobic asshole that may have cost Kerry the election.
It’s people like Dio calling every conservative an ignorant religious fruitcake that may have cost Kerry the election.
It’s people like Dio calling every conservative a Nazi that may have cost Kerry the election.
Every time I turn on HBO, I get Bill fuckling Maher and his hand-picked panel of liberal wankers (with one token conservative getting shouted down to make him feel “fair and balanced”) telling me that anyone who supports Bush is an idiot, a moron, the dumbest fucking goober that ever drew breath, a racist, a homophobe, a Nazi, and every bad epithet that the liberal arsenal has at its disposal.
Bush at 51%? Shit. I honestly thought that it would be higher than that.
In a way, I kind of admire Dio’s “Fuck you; I give you nothing! NOTHING!” attitude.
But only to a very limited extent.
Do you really believe that? That people voted for Bush simply because a few liberals were whiny? I don’t buy it for a second.
I haven’t called anybody a racist.
Dio: If you say you haven’t, then I apologize for implying that you have.
But it is people like you (clearly bitterly disappointed and rancorously partisan) that have, here on the SDMB and around the world today.
My eloquence has left me (I’m approaching Message Board Burnout), but Liberal summed up my feeling nicely here.
From this thread: Congratulations to Bush and his supporters
I beg to differ. Quote yours, bolding mine:
Unless you’d care to argue that calling someone a big isn’t the same as calling someone a racist.
And while we’re at it, you need to highlight the portion of that linked article that points to definitive proof that the U.S. plans to carry out executions. AFAI can see, the only “proof” The Guardian can dredge up is the sentiment that a courtroom is being built on the premises. The executions are simply conjecture on the part of the author, and the article bears no facts to back up the claim.
Propping up a stupid point against a shoddy tabloid article is shaky at best, cousin. You’d do best to cut your losses, stop talking, and wait until this thread blows over.
Chin up, Dio.
I share both you passion and concerns about the future of America under the new Bush mandate. I am simply amazed – and more than a bit disgusted – that your countrymen and women would ultimately reward the criminal behavior of this Administration and the ensuing chaos it has brought to the world by legitimizing his regime.
For as much as during the past four years there was always the excuse “well, Americans didn’t put him there,” that is obviously gone now. America has gone off the deep end, its head buried in an imaginary a world of fear and loathing where the only defense is religious fervor and bombs galore. State terrorism sanctioned by the masses and The Almighty, with Bush the hand-picked representative of the latter. Is it any wonder, given the above, that they can afford to “create their own reality”?
Grim picture and tough and bloody times ahead no doubt. Ironically, it appears that you’ll be losing many of those very ‘freedoms’ you’re supposedly ‘spreading throughout the world.’ That US as a police state, who would have thunk it just a short five years ago?
All that said, allow yourself all the time you need to grieve and express your frustrations. But once you do get it out of your system – and you will, for its a dead-end road and you’re too smart not to realize that it leads nowhere – you need to come back, stronger than ever. For it is precisely Americans such as yourself that the rest of the world is counting on as allies to put and end to this insanity.
And we will, my friend, we will. They may have won this battle, but this war’s only just begun. Sooner or later, BushCo is going down. You can only defy reality for so long – as Hitler found out in the end.
Remember, you are not alone – in fact, quite the opposite. You’re part of a great majority.
Cheers.
You know, normally, I don’t join in on thses PIT bashings. I don’t like the ruel that the PIT can be used to flame other posters.
But gawd, dude- DtC- you have gone way, way too far. Are you off your meds or something? :eek:
There are types of bigotry that are not racial. One can be bigoted towards people of a certain sexual orientation, for instance. Or towards practitioners (or non-practitioners) of a particular religion. I suspect that is what Dio meant with his charges of bigotry.
Absolutely.
I personally know several anyone-but-a-Liberal voters.
Calling someone a bigot is absolutely not the same thing as calling someone a racist.
from www.m-w.com
Main Entry: big·ot
Pronunciation: 'bi-g&t
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French, hypocrite, bigot
: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices
i.e.: Gays and straights don’t have the same rights. Absolutely nothing to do with race.
Main Entry: rac·ism
Pronunciation: 'rA-"si-z&m also -"shi-
Function: noun
1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
2 : racial prejudice or discrimination
- rac·ist /-sist also -shist/ noun or adjective
choke cough The moment?! Hasn’t Diogenes been riding this pony for some time, now?
To be fair, **Dio **called BUSH a racist, by implication, but I think he meant that he didn’t call any posters here racist.