# Give it up LIB ER AL s **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 24, 2010, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816 "2010-07-24T06:12:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/81 "2010-07-25T06:47:08Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > All your base are BE LONG to us. For great JUST ICE! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/82 "2010-07-25T06:58:11Z")
Is that symptomatic of Hooked on Phonics? ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/83 "2010-07-25T07:04:21Z")
Yeah well, if Sarah Palin jumped off a bridge, i’d cheer. That hopey changey thing is a vast improvement over McCain, who wouldn’t be able to organize an orgy in a whorehouse. As for you, lurkey, you make me sick. You are too stupid to insult, and i’ve seen better writing from kindergartners hopped up on sugar. You are the fuck stain from Tila Tequla’s used condoms. ---
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/84 "2010-07-25T07:19:58Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I did submit it, and it comes back as Cory Doctorow. > > For comparison, I fed it the abstract of my Master’s thesis and it came back as David Foster Wallace. It’s also of the opinion that Mister Time Cube writes like Dan Brown. I admit, I was skeptical at first, but now I’m starting to see the similarities. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/85 "2010-07-25T15:25:48Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > > [@Ace309](#): > > > > > [@lurking\_guest](#): > > > > > > The People of the world have more in common with one another than the privileged “TOP” ten percent of the world. > > > > I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the people who post on this board are within the top ten percent of the world in terms of income, including you. > > Yeah I don’t know if [this is a reputable source](http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/7F3AAE93-F41C-4E60-B9E8-D67D7A9D3C0D/) or not but they are citing the World Bank’s figures to say the top 10 percent of the world is anyone who makes over $25,400. Wonder how much the OP makes. What’s shocking is that he got smacked down in his last thread for whining about the top 1%, which he believed required tens of millions of dollars. After being shown to be wrong, he **expands** his definition of the elite tenfold. ---
**Author:** ![gang\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@gang\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gang_green)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/86 "2010-07-25T17:16:14Z")
I can’t quite figure out why he’s telling the LIB ER AL s to give up. I mean, most of the people/organizations he’s spewing about are conservatives. Is he asking us to all bow down to the uber rich, giggling, “I take your money” crowd? His ranting seems to be a call for a Marxist uprising, I think. Maybe. Because he’s completely incoherent. I must admit I’ve never read any of Karl Marx’s works, but I somehow think they are somewhat better constructed that the OP’s. I’d say, take your medication, take a couple of writing courses, and try again. I give it a D-, and only because most of the words (wtf is MEENS?) were properly spelled. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/87 "2010-07-25T17:53:25Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > If you make our heads hurt we cannot help organize the revolution which is so fervently to be desired. No more fluoridated water - check. Remove amalgam fillings - check. Maintain an alkaline acid-base balance - check. Real paragraphs and complete words - PLEASE!!! A couple of hundreds dollars at Home depot will buy a RO filter to remove most of the fluoride and any dentist will remove your old mercury fillings easily. Not sure if the maintaining an alkaline-acid balance is much left to run a revolution over. I can’t see it fitting easily on a poster or generating much of a rallying cry from the masses. What I’ve learned from the OP’s rant. 6 billion people are idiots. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/88 "2010-07-25T19:22:43Z")
> [@Ace309](#): > > What’s shocking is that he got smacked down in his last thread for whining about the top 1%, which he believed required tens of millions of dollars. After being shown to be wrong, he **expands** his definition of the elite tenfold. By the transitive property, he’ll next resurface to rally us against the mean ol’ top 100%. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/89 "2010-07-25T22:23:48Z")
“Wake up, sheeple! We are all against us!” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/90 "2010-07-26T04:43:24Z")
“A point in every direction is the same as no point at all.” ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/91 "2010-07-26T05:31:35Z")
Surren DER dor OTHY . ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/92 "2010-07-26T05:58:35Z")
> [@](#): > > The People of the world have more in common with one another than the privileged “TOP” ten percent of the world. **Lurking** , have you ever slowed down long enough to realize that _you_ are part of that top ten percent? Yes. If you have enough to eat every day, shelter, hot and cold running water – not to mention the absurd luxuries of things like computers and ipods and celll phones and cars – you are definitely in that top ten percent. And when those luxuries are added, you are probably in the top two or three percent. Someone posted a chart showing the distribution of wealth and how most Americans fit in. Does anyone remember something similar to that? **Lurking** needs to count her or his blessings and then go out and make the world a better place. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/93 "2010-07-26T06:12:01Z")
I don’t quite make it into the top 10% if I count only my own wages, though I make it into the top 15%. Of course, I don’t know anyone in the U.S. who doesn’t make more than a couple thousand a year, especially if you average it across their lifetime. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/94 "2010-07-26T10:25:40Z")
> [@lurking\_guest](#): > > WHAT SHALL WE DO?? Blawg! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/95 "2010-07-26T12:00:59Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > **Lurking** , have you ever slowed down long enough to realize that _you_ are part of that top ten percent? Yes. This was proved about three threads ago, and I’ve been trying to get her to acknowledge it since then. But she seems to lose interest in these threads after a day or two, and never comes back, until it’s time to post the next installment in a new thread. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/96 "2010-07-26T13:03:45Z")
Is there some meaning to splitting the word as “LIB ER AL”? I’ve seen “LIE-BERAL” and variations, the meaning there is pretty obvious, but wtf is “LIB ER AL”? ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/97 "2010-07-26T13:05:20Z")
Next time I write an essay, or need to submit something for publication, I’m going to use the OP’s writing style. It’s just so gosh darn effective and persuasive! ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/98 "2010-07-26T13:18:15Z")
> [@lurking\_guest](#): > > OBAMA..the “Great White (0r, not so ‘white’…) Hope” that has proven that his election speeches are nothing more than screed. > > As Sarah Palin has said, “How is that ‘Hopey/Changey ‘Thing’ workin’ for you?” About the same as it would have worked if (God fucking forbid) she had been elected to office (I mean, the real office). Funny how things people say aren’t always congruent with things people do. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/99 "2010-07-26T14:37:44Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Is there some meaning to splitting the word as “LIB ER AL”? I’ve seen “LIE-BERAL” and variations, the meaning there is pretty obvious, but wtf is “LIB ER AL”? “Hmm, I’ve tried CAPITALIZING for emphasis but my message still isn’t getting across. I know, I’ll break up words into their SYL LAB LES as well. They’ll have to take my arguments seriously after that!” ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816/100 "2010-07-26T14:38:58Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Is there some meaning to splitting the word as “LIB ER AL”? I’ve seen “LIE-BERAL” and variations, the meaning there is pretty obvious, but wtf is “LIB ER AL”? LIB = Liberace ER = Queen Elizabeth of England AL = Al Sharpton The Homosexual Black Royalists. Or HBR. **H** ali **B** u **R** ton! Can’t you hear the screaming of the sheeple!?! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-it-up-lib-er-al-s/547816.md?page=6)