# Let me be real clear: this message board does NOT need conservatives

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 28, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474 "2021-07-28T02:12:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474/3012 "2022-03-18T18:20:24Z")

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Oh, “leopards”, why was it I kept hearing “Lepers-Eating-Peoples’-Faces Party”?

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474/3013 "2022-03-18T19:45:23Z")

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> [@Mallard](#):
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> The type that espoused “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”

Saint _motherfucking_ Ronnie? _Still_? Naah, fuck that noise. Fucker was just as bad as Trump. Worse, even, since he has the extra term to fuck the world up in.

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474/3014 "2022-03-18T21:18:56Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> Worse, even

Was he the one who issued the edict “never speak ill of a fellow R”, or did he just firmly endorse it?

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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474/3015 "2022-03-20T15:05:06Z")

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> [@Mallard](#):
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> The type that espoused “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” or those that advocate “Poutine is a genius”?

What’s the difference? I can assure you I know people who espoused exactly those views, 40 years apart, and would never have identified as anything other than conservative in that same span.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-be-real-clear-this-message-board-does-not-need-conservatives/947474/3016 "2022-03-31T04:37:35Z")

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Maybe that’s because lepers were outcasts. Lepers, republicans, to-may-to, to-mah-to.\*

\*My apologies to anyone currently inflicted with Hansen’s disease. I’m referring back to the time when such sufferers were treated as outcasts.

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