Yes it is. As much as I sometimes disagree with Bricker, this was over the top.
Why do you idiots always think it is my job to respond to arguments you only hint at but never actually make?
Look, the point is that you idiots are arguing against fiscal conservatism by bringing up things done by people who could possibly be called conservative but aren’t necessarily fiscal conservatives.
I see that in the wank fest of liberal vs conservative here that the ultimate irony has been overlooked:
These morons were throwing dollar bills at the Parkinson’s guy while yelling, “no handouts!”. Weren’t they giving him a handout?
Bricker is not evil: he’s just absolutely certain that his POV is the correct one and he’s pompous enough to strain forbearance. None of the conservatives here are evil–it’s silly to even try to label them that way. I do think most of them are mighty shrill as they oversimplify issues. Then again, Our Gang does seem to bait them or at least never fail to rise to their challenge. And a good time is had by all…
“Salvadoran,” but otherwise yes. 
I just started reading this thread, so I’m just on Page 1, but you’re painting a picture hear that is not true. Only one guy threw money at the guy. One crass ass. But you try to make it uglier, that they did it en masse. Untrue.
I can’t tell you how surprised I am that you would take such liberty with the facts.
That said, I don’t know how these people find interest in trying to out=chant each other. No thanks. If I was there and could find some of the more sensible people they show toward the end, I’d say, “hey, want go grab a coffee and talk about this someplace else?”
While I would agree with the first two, the French Revolutionists were mostly radicals. Definitely NOT conservative.
But it’s a concept that pushes one to do what he doesn’t have to do. He does that which is beyond what he has to. Someone might choose to build a library, fund a school sports team, be a patron of the arts, fund a soup kitchen, an orphanage, etc. All wonderful things, but once an action becomes mandatory, the sense of noblesse oblige (which I share with you) becomes lost.
Wow. This may be my favorite SDMB post EVER. It sums up the open-mindedness and tolerance the left embraces so well.
A work of art, it is.
Hey prejudiced douchebag. Howya doin? 
Lessee now. We had one poster say crap about Bricker, and several of those of us on the left (including myself) denounced it.
And from this you draw the assumption that the statement “sums up the open-mindedness and tolerance” of the left.
I think I see your problem.
Good for you. I was going through the thread and commented as things came up. So good for you for not being an ass and doing the right thing.
You may want to look through the thread again. Several posters decided to show their ass. They couldn’t respond to Bricker’s arguments, so they resorted to insult (as opposed to me, who is able to answer other poster’s arguments and insult simultaneously, you fucking retard).
I didn’t say Revolutionaries or Revolutionists.
The government that generated the revolutionary sentiment was conservative.
So I see you actually have no argument whatsoever. At least your capitulation didn’t come with too much stupidity.
According to the 2015 Texas edition of World History they were all Jeffersonian liberal [del]d[/del]Democrats.
Fortunately the Republican republican Napoleon Bonaparte put an end to it all!
CMC fnord!
Liberté, égalité, fraternité!
Long live Danton!
Warm up Marat’s bath-water!
Try not to pay too much attention to Jacques Roux!
Give Corday a better knife, or take it away, or something!
First, as I said earlier I don’t believe people who claim to be fiscally conservative. And second, you most certainly support slavery, because that would be the inevitable result of the society you want, where the government is weak and the rich unrestrained. At most, you don’t support calling it slavery.
So what? What’s important is that the wealthy be forced to pay their fair share, instead of playing parasite like they overwhelmingly prefer. Not that a few get their jollies by playing small scale altruist.
Shouldn’t people be talking about the jackasses who mocked a man with Parkinson’s instead of yet another rehash of left and right viewpoints on health care?
Seems to me that anyone with even a smidgen of empathy would see how wrong that was instead of focusing on their own grievances with people an opposing political view.
It doesn’t matter whether it was teabaggers or flaming liberals who were dicks to this guy. What matters is that people are so wrapped up in their ideologies that they’re willing to say or do anything to make their “points”.
Apparently we’re walking talking points instead of human beings.
Okay, whoever’s hand is up The Facts’s body, can you quit it? Okay? We get it. Yes, you’re imitating Der without the substance, ha ha very funny. Your accuracy in recreating cra-a-azy liberals is stunning. Now can you do us a favor and leave? Nobody cares. Nobody likes one-trick pony socks.
But that is the grievance in question. It’s a demonstration that the people who say things like that the Republican health care reform plan is “die” are correct. The right wing position on health care directly leads to behavior like this.
Ahem…cough Mao * cough * Fidel * cough, cough * Stalin *
Sorry, chum. The most egregious and murderous ideologies of the last hundred years, and the greatest populations forced to live in misery, deprivation and oppressiveness lie squarely on your side of the ideological divide.
And they were the result of typical liberal intolerance for anyone who disagrees with liberal ideology. Give up the farm, store, pharmacy, etc., or you will be SHOT!…ahem…For the good of the people, of course.
And? I didn’t say that conservatives were the only bad people.
As opposed to having your shop, home or whatever handed over to a company? Or being forced to submit as a sex toy for your boss? Or beaten to death for being gay or having dark skin? Good conservative behavior like that.
The difference between Right and Left in this is that the Left is sometime good, sometimes bad; the Right is always bad. Which is why you had to bring up people like Stalin instead of trying to bring up pretty much nonexistent examples of right wing benevolence. That’s a standard tactic of the Right; since the Right is morally bankrupt and has nothing to offer but oppression and exploitation, bash the Left.