# Reactionaries of the world unite! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 9, 2003, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484 "2003-01-09T08:42:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chumpsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chumpsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chumpsky)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/1 "2003-01-09T08:42:51Z")
You have nothing to lose but your boats, your wage-slaves, your expensive cars, your mansions, your fine wines, and your expensive hookers. You have a world to destroy. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/2 "2003-01-09T08:44:54Z")
I like my expensive car and mansion. And I love my expensive hookers, thank you very much. Count me out. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/3 "2003-01-09T08:52:36Z")
I lost an expensive hooker once. It turned out she kind of slipped down in between the cushions of the couch, with the TV remote. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/4 "2003-01-09T08:53:42Z")
I would \*like[/i an expensive car (or any car really) and a mansion (but an Edwardian cottage would do), and if you were to deprive me of fine wine, I would be positively bereft. I am aiming to be a reactionary…it’s my ambition! Oh, I don’t need expensive hookers, otherwise that’d be one of my ambitions too!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/5 "2003-01-09T09:01:16Z")
Tell me, do you think all people are equal? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/6 "2003-01-09T09:14:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gary Kumquat \* > \*\*Tell me, do you think all people are equal? \*\* Who are ya asking **Gary**? If I may venture an answer here (on the offchance you might have directed the question to anybody who might be in or reading this thread) then YES, all people are equal, but NO, there is no equality of opportunity in the real sense of the term. This is just MHO, but has been repeatedly supported by socio/economic studies over the years. To suggest that every human person has the same ability and/or resources to become ‘successful’ is naive in the extreme…(and I am NOT saying that you _are_ suggesting that, JFTR, OK? 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/7 "2003-01-09T09:24:06Z")
I’m asking Chumpsky, but your reply was more than welcome Kam. Out of interest, if we’re all equal, then how do you better yourself. Not financially, but as a person - intelectually, spiritually, or emotionally. If I’m a smarter person this year than I was last, perhaps I studied, or learnt through experience, am I not a better person than I was last year. And if I can better myself, than how can all people be equal? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/8 "2003-01-09T09:25:38Z")
My name is Torgo, I drive a Yugo. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/9 "2003-01-09T09:29:44Z")
“All men are physico-chemically equal.” —Henry Foster of _Brave New World_ ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/10 "2003-01-09T11:03:17Z")
Looked at that way, all men are worth about $1.73 US, too, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/11 "2003-01-09T11:10:41Z")
Equality is a slippery concept. Are we all of equal value as human beings? Well, some would argue that killers are of lesser inherient worth than other people, simply because they have a psychopathic personality disorder. Others would argue that certain other groups of people are worth less than different groups. I take the view that everyone has equal worth, and nobody is worth so much he can deprive someone else of life or property. Do we all start out equal? Well, some people are born to wealthy families and have large natural talents, while others are born in Somalia with severe handicaps and AIDS (to pick an example). That much is random. Of course, statistics don’t negate success stories, and telling someone that an invisible `System’ is holding him back is an insult to all the talent that person possesses. Do we all have equal rights? Yes, whether or not the law recgonizes them, whether or not society protects them. The majority can no more revoke a fundamental right (such as self-defense) than it can justify cold-blooded homicide or alter the laws of physics. ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/12 "2003-01-09T12:19:04Z")
**Chumpsky** , you’re allright in my book matey. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/13 "2003-01-09T12:46:22Z")
ookay… mansion? no wage-slaves? no boat… does an inflatable raft (w. broken air pump) count? car… toyota Camry. so-so monthly payment expensive hookers? I’m saving to get Teri Weigel next time I’m in Nevada 😃 a world to destroy? Ooh! Ooh! do I get my very own DEATH STAR? If so, I say we zap Pluto – finish once and for all the confusion as to whether it is a planet or not! BTW, take a poll around the folks drinking Pabst, driving rebuilt Chevy pickups, and patronizing cheap strip clubs, who live at the trailer park – you’ll find as many staunch supporters of reaganomics and American military hegemony as you would at a caviar soiree in the yatchs docked in Palm Beach. I tell you, it’s the poor who are the threat!😉 Then again I’m not a reactionary, but a garden-variety moderate-liberal… ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/14 "2003-01-09T13:22:49Z")
> [@](#): > > BTW, take a poll around the folks drinking Pabst, driving rebuilt Chevy pickups, and patronizing cheap strip clubs, who live at the trailer park – When you put it that way, you make me feel so _cheap_. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/15 "2003-01-09T13:29:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chumpsky \* > \*\*You have nothing to lose but your boats, your wage-slaves, your expensive cars, your mansions, your fine wines, and your expensive hookers. You have a world to destroy. \*\* This is in the Pit why? Seems MPSIMS. BTW, you do have another trick- right? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/16 "2003-01-09T13:38:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shodan \* > \*\*When you put it that way, you make me feel so _cheap_. > > Regards, > Shodan \*\* Well, hell, Sho. You _are_ cheap, aren’t you? Me, I’ll take my destruction retail, thanks. And I’m keeping the farmhouse, land and wage slaves. Who else would do the lawn and clean the house? _Moi?_ Surely, you jest. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/17 "2003-01-09T13:38:26Z")
Can we lose _you_, **chumpsky**? _PLLLLEEEEEEEZZZE?_ ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/18 "2003-01-09T13:51:15Z")
I haven’t got a boat. No one works for me. Is a three-year-old Subaru “expensive”, in your book? I live in a “mansion”, true enough, but it’s one that was converted into six flats, and I’m moving to an apartment complex in Texas later this month. I like wine; sometimes I’ll pay as much as ten bucks a bottle for it. I’ve got a good friend who works as a stripper, but I’m afraid I don’t know any hookers, cheap, pricey or otherwise. Who the fuck does the OP think he’s talking to, anyway? It seems his mental image of us is of the guy on the ‘Monopoly’ logo. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/19 "2003-01-09T13:55:00Z")
You mean the world’s reactionaries aren’t already united? Then all those **Chumpskyite** claims about the **International Capitalist Conspiracy** ™ and its continuing plot to grind socialist nations into the dust are false??? You’ve shaken my world to its foundations. I will have to console myself with some cheap wine and a Britney Spears video. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484/20 "2003-01-09T14:19:20Z")
I wanna be a wage slave when I grow up. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reactionaries-of-the-world-unite/147484.md?page=2)