# MSNBC: Socialist is the new 'n' word **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 12, 2009, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171 "2009-08-12T13:35:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/61 "2009-08-14T01:06:33Z")
Choice for the wealthy. Tiny American flags for others. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/62 "2009-08-14T01:12:23Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Not sure if I’d strictly define it as socialistic. But it is certainly anti-choice and anti-freedom. :dubious: “Anti-freedom”? The people of Canada, the UK, France, Sweden, etc., etc. – you know, all the industrialized democracies that have had UHC in one form or another for a long time now – are no less free than you are. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/63 "2009-08-14T01:34:19Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > A far more intelligent and defensible approach, at any rate, than usage of the word “Obamabot.” I’m going to start calling the people stupid enough to believe the stuff Palin makes up “Palintwats” ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/64 "2009-08-14T01:35:34Z")
> [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](#): > > I’m going to start calling the people stupid enough to believe the stuff Palin makes up “Palintwats” No, you missed the more obvious, more euphonious one: Palindrones ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/65 "2009-08-14T01:47:19Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > No, you missed the more obvious, more euphonious one: > > Palindrones Oh that is better. I guess I just wanted to be obscene. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/66 "2009-08-14T02:10:09Z")
I like “Palinuts.” I prefer saying “nuts” with Haley Barbour’s accent, 'cause that makes it more fun. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/67 "2009-08-14T15:49:23Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Palindrones With asses for heads, they’re the same forwards and backwards! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/68 "2009-08-14T16:07:10Z")
> [@adhay](#): > > The biggest lie ever put over on the American populace is that the n word was is race based. I just sprained my eyeballs. This is a thoroughly ludicrous statement. > [@Olentzero](#): > > In that we will both most likely be dead, yeah. 😃 …thanks to Obama’s death panels… ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/69 "2009-08-14T16:28:13Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > With asses for heads, they’re the same forwards and backwards! 😃 Excellent. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/70 "2009-08-14T17:29:59Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > No, you missed the more obvious, more euphonious one: > > Palindrones God: “Palin, I’m madder. It’s Wasilla—all I saw 's tired, dam mini lapdog.” ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/71 "2009-08-14T17:54:45Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > …thanks to Obama’s death panels… I can’t believe I’m about to admit this, but I read that as “Obama’s death penises.” I… don’t even want to know where my mind was going. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/72 "2009-08-14T19:06:18Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Obama’s death penises Would go see. Especially if Japanese. ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171/73 "2009-08-27T17:50:36Z")
What has to happen is for someone to finally dare to say it: Socialism is good. This is what gave us everything good in the modern world. The opposite is not “free markets”, but inherited wealth, private monopolies, privilege and feudalism. Free markets and socialism get along fine. Ask Europe. The Enlightenment and the American Revolution were socialist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-socialist-is-the-new-n-word/506171.md?page=3)