# What are we to do with these insects we refer to as Republicans? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076 "2019-10-01T04:34:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 212
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/212 "2019-10-02T12:00:02Z")
TIL that a “thorny locust” is a tree, not an insect. Good to know. > [@Miller](#): > > “ **Bricker** got less shit than **Starving Artist** ,” is not exactly a high bar to clear. He still collected a ton of shit, and most of it was pretty undeserved, at least from where I’m sitting. **Bricker** was a disingenuous asshole who deserved quite a lot of the shit he got, even if I didn’t see the full volume of it. His main shtick was to start endless “liberal hypocrisy” threads using the formulation “If one liberal says or does a thing, we can claim it’s representative of liberal ideology or actions as a whole even if there is ample evidence to the contrary, whereas if even one conservative doesn’t say or do a thing, it can’t be assumed to be representative of conservative ideology or actions as a whole even if there is ample evidence to the contrary.” I don’t deny his substantial positive contributions to the board in many ways but his fundamental dishonesty and hypocrisy in all political matters are not fully mitigated by them. > [@The\_Plutonium\_Kid](#): > > Okay, I’m wondering how you plan to do away with me and most of the people I know. Perhaps you want to follow the Stalinist example and ship us off to work camps where, lacking adequate food, clothing, shelter and medical, we will be slowly die off from exhaustion, starvation, beatings and execution by the camp guards. You mean in the way that the current administration is currently detaining immigrants including children in camps lacking adequate food, clothing, shelter and medical supplies - or indeed where Joe Arpaio held prisoners in even worse conditions - where there have already been multiple deaths? Is that the sort of thing you’re worried about? How about ICE rounding up people without proper warrants, including several American citizens, and detaining them indefinitely without legal representation or due process? I mean, if you’re concerned about these things happening, you must be furious with the Trump administration. > [@](#): > > Or perhaps you want to go full blast and send us to death camps where we will be gassed and machine gunned, everybody, all of us, from grandmothers and grandfathers down to toddler and newborn babies. Meanwhile this week it’s been revealed that Trump has actively been suggesting US troops shoot immigrants (which include everyone from grandparents to toddlers) to “protect the border”. It’s funny how these things you’re worried about liberals doing are things being advocated or have already been implemented by Republicans. > [@](#): > > Maybe you want to reduce to chattel, a social class of creatures barely considered human, the property of the ideologically correct elite who have no rights you are morally and legally required to respect and whose lives you may dispose of as you please with no regard for whatever suffering and death you may inflict on us. I’m guessing there’s a few women who might have some views on that one. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076)._