Republicans are the stupidest people in the world

[Morning Glory]

I was watching some guy on TV who was some representitive for the Republican party and they were talking about raising minimum wage, an issue that has been discussed here before. here's what this fucking dumbass said:

"If we pay poor people more money, then they won't work... there are people that want to raise minimun wage and make this a socialist country [laughs] where people make more money, take more vacations- and more unemployment."

I'm not even going to try to comprehend that first statement because there is just no logical rationality behind it what-so-ever. It makes zero fuckin sense.
ok, secondly, yes, there are people that want to raise minimum wage, no shit, that's what we are talking about... what I fail to understand is how the government regulating how much private businesses have to pay their employees ISN'T socialism, but the government deciding to increase that amount of payment is? someone please explain that to me.
and finally how is improving job stress level, and giving people more incentive to want to work going to lead to more unemployment?

If you're a Republican i'd like to hear your answers to these questions. Of course If I was a republican I wouldn't want anyone to know and I'd be ashamed that I associate myself with an organisation that not only allows dipshits like this to be a part of them, but actually let's them speak for and represent the other members of their party.

[Lady Alias]

The minimum wage is being raised to keep up with inflation. If, say, 70 years from now, we still had the same minimum wage, while prices around us kept gradually increasing....what will that leave the common person with? Even now, a single parent can hardly keep up, even at a couple dollars above the minimum wage. And you know what? The fight for the increase is not a whole lot, either.
I completely agree with you. This man has foggy logic.

[killerkat]

yup,those goddamned repubs. striking again,i swear there gonna be the death to the entire world,let alone the u.s.........

[One Eyed Cat]

The actual economic problem that can be associated with raising the minimum wage: Companies will offer less jobs as the price of labor exceeds that of its output. Neither regulating or increasing the minimum wage is "socialism". As far as parties, I don't think either major party has any bragging rights. I just watched Senator Robert "KKK" Byrd lecture about his theory of white and black "ni**ers"

OEC

[CarnalxKiss]

Americans already work more than Europeans, take less pay and less vacations..hell , In August in France...noone works...they take the whole month off...and they only work 4 days a week....yet, they still make good money....I guess America is like this...The Rich get Richer, the Poorer work their ass off for minimum wage (2 and 3 jobs) and die early deaths from working too much...

[killerkat]

Americans already work more than Europeans, take less pay and less vacations..hell , In August in France...noone works...they take the whole month off...and they only work 4 days a week....yet, they still make good money....I guess America is like this...The Rich get Richer, the Poorer work their ass off for minimum wage (2 and 3 jobs) and die early deaths from working too much...

holy shit i didn't know that,ffrance just went a little higher on my list,that's awesome,bet it works good too......


how long have they done this?..........

[CarnalxKiss]

holy shit i didn't know that,ffrance just went a little higher on my list,that's awesome,bet it works good too......


how long have they done this?..........

I'm not sure.. for a long while....I read books where they speak of it..and my best friend is married to a french man...he says August is like a ghost town in Paris..very minimal is open..he also says they work 4 -5 days a week and 6-8 hours...per day...(this is of course a generalization)

[CarnalxKiss]

right now it is 35 hour work weeks in France...but the French gov wants to increase to 40. I do not know how long August has been a vacation month for them...but it must of been for a while now..
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/02/08/...ate_france.php


http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0901-01.htm

[Lady Alias]

The actual economic problem that can be associated with raising the minimum wage: Companies will offer less jobs as the price of labor exceeds that of its output. Neither regulating or increasing the minimum wage is "socialism". As far as parties, I don't think either major party has any bragging rights. I just watched Senator Robert "KKK" Byrd lecture about his theory of white and black "ni**ers"

OEC

Yeah. You just have to go with the lesser of two evils.

[Tequila Zaire]

"some guy who represents the republican party"...who exactly? Both sides have idiots who like to talk for "the party".

Besides...both sides are total idiots when it comes to money and taxes for the middle and below middle class. It just doesn't matter what they say since even if they agreed to give those in need more money they'd figure out a way to tax them so they never rise above their social class.

The congress is controlled and oporated by the rich...and they do no want any class below them anywhere near them. They do not want the lower class and minorities to have actual wealth...that would endanger their social and political standings...

They can say what they want...for good or bad...their actions speak louder and are already well known anyhow. Both sides are simply rich corrupt white guys who want to keep their pale white world the way it has been since their fathers father father landed on plymouth fucking rock.

[CarnalxKiss]

"some guy who represents the republican party"...who exactly? Both sides have idiots who like to talk for "the party".

Besides...both sides are total idiots when it comes to money and taxes for the middle and below middle class. It just doesn't matter what they say since even if they agreed to give those in need more money they'd figure out a way to tax them so they never rise above their social class.

The congress is controlled and oporated by the rich...and they do no want any class below them anywhere near them. They do not want the lower class and minorities to have actual wealth...that would endanger their social and political standings...

They can say what they want...for good or bad...their actions speak louder and are already well known anyhow. Both sides are simply rich corrupt white guys who want to keep their pale white world the way it has been since their fathers father father landed on plymouth fucking rock.

Couldn't of said it better,myself! *applauds you fervently*

[Tequila Zaire]

Couldn't of said it better,myself! *applauds you fervently*

I'm gonna start my own party the "I'm Not Here to Cut Your Grass" party. If I'm elected president I'll drive to the White House in my low rider where a mariachi band will play the national anthem. I won't have a little sissy dog either...it'll be a pit bull with an attitude who'll bite people who lie and chase after special interest groups. My first action will be too make the entire congress cut their own fucking grass for one day a week so they can see how hard it really is. I'll even cut the lawn of the white house in my tricked out riding lawnmower with bad ass rims, a loud as hell stereo, and a lil TV on the side so I can watch my novellas.

[nyar]

problem with thred name- republicans aren't "people"

[Lady Alias]

Tequila Zaire, I'm sure many people before you have claimed such things before they enter office, and when they are inside, their agenda completely changes. It's rather easy to say then to do. Though, you do bring about fair points and I'm not one to say you wouldn't whip out that snazzy lawn-mower and walk that pitbull. Something like that is comendable.

[Ellis]

EVERY REPUBLICAN IS STUPID. Yes, and they are all bigots and opinionated too... theyre ALWAYS putting people into groups, those assholes.


Oh shit, my sarcasm's dripping all over my pants!

How about this instead "I just saw the stupidest republican ever" Instead of "Oh shit, that guy was dumb... and hes a republican... and hes a man... ALL MEN AND ALL REPUBLICANS ARE DUMB!"

[Morning Glory]

are you trying to say that I'm a hypocrite using a broad generalisation to blanket people into a group? see that really only works if you AREN'T in a group. if you choose to be a part of a group and that group is fundamentally stupid even if your more or less aren't, then you are also entitled to the responsibility of the actions/opinions/ stupidity of your group by association.

although I can change my sex, I wasn't given a choice to become a man or a woman in the first place. you do have the choice of what group you want to affiliate with so I can say in my oppinion without conflict that all republicans are stupid. if you're not a republican it doesn't neccesarily mean that you aren't stupid, either. most men are stupid. I have the misfortune of being a white man, if you were to generalise and hate me for that, it wouldn't be true, but it would be justified and I wouldn't object to it.

[Wickedanima]

1)Its a strange habit of the rich to think that being poor is a choice.
2)Our president is a spoiled rich kid who's Ivy league degrees were purchaced, and he is still as ignorant as my 6th grade drop-out southern neighbors. Its IN FASHION NOW.
3)I'm moving to France.

[curiositykilledthecat]

I think it is not so much a strange habit of the rich to think that people choose poverty, but a paralyzing fear of poverty. They are so afraid of not having everything that they have that they are willing to sell out anything or anyone to hang on to what they have. I agree he is a spoiled rich kid with store bought ivy-league degrees. I also submit that his current office was purchased with a bit of help from Die-Bolt voting machines. His isgnorance does not bother me half as much as that of the average american that parrots all that republican rhetoric nonsense without stopping to think for even a half a second about the verity of their statements. Indeed, if they did stop to think about it, or listen to reason, their brains might explode from the strain of sudden use. As for me, this is still my country and no republican or any one else is going to chase me off my mountain. NO F#$%ng WAY!

[CPRB]

I'm gonna start my own party the "I'm Not Here to Cut Your Grass" party. If I'm elected president I'll drive to the White House in my low rider where a mariachi band will play the national anthem. I won't have a little sissy dog either...it'll be a pit bull with an attitude who'll bite people who lie and chase after special interest groups. My first action will be too make the entire congress cut their own fucking grass for one day a week so they can see how hard it really is. I'll even cut the lawn of the white house in my tricked out riding lawnmower with bad ass rims, a loud as hell stereo, and a lil TV on the side so I can watch my novellas.

now that is party I can support!!!....hahha and I don't even live there

[Morning Glory]

I think it is not so much a strange habit of the rich to think that people choose poverty, but a paralyzing fear of poverty. They are so afraid of not having everything that they have that they are willing to sell out anything or anyone to hang on to what they have. I agree he is a spoiled rich kid with store bought ivy-league degrees. I also submit that his current office was purchased with a bit of help from Die-Bolt voting machines. His isgnorance does not bother me half as much as that of the average american that parrots all that republican rhetoric nonsense without stopping to think for even a half a second about the verity of their statements. Indeed, if they did stop to think about it, or listen to reason, their brains might explode from the strain of sudden use. As for me, this is still my country and no republican or any one else is going to chase me off my mountain. NO F#$%ng WAY!

it's ok, you can say "fucking" here. fuck fuck fuckity fuck. isn't it fun?

oh yeah, you live on a mountain? sweet dude. my freind james built a cabin on a mountain and then the government came and burnt it down. how shitty is that?

[curiositykilledthecat]

it's ok, you can say "fucking" here. fuck fuck fuckity fuck. isn't it fun?

oh yeah, you live on a mountain? sweet dude. my freind james built a cabin on a mountain and then the government came and burnt it down. how shitty is that?

Wow...That really sucks. Tell me how that came about? You know though, nothing really comes as a huge surprise since the Patriot Act, no one can really know for sure how many rights we have lost until somebody stands up and takes them to the Supreme Court--many years before that can happen. A similar thing happened during the Reagan years--they declared War on Drugs and it wasn't long before the police were breaking into people's houses all over the country. A government that declars war on it's own citizens...very sad and bizarre. They tell a different story on public radio--there they talk all about how Bush and Cheney (especially) are hooked up with the heroin and opium trade in the asian triangle and this is why they are so against weed because it interferes with their own drug sales=wealth. I don't know if it's true or not, but it certainly is interesting.

CKTC

[Morning Glory]

well he built a cabin in the woods, and then one day when he was going to it he ran into them and they were like we'd like to show you some pictures, and they showed him pictures of the cabin, and then pictures of them burning it down. and that's about it, I don't remember the actual conversation.

[Tequila Zaire]

well he built a cabin in the woods, and then one day when he was going to it he ran into them and they were like we'd like to show you some pictures, and they showed him pictures of the cabin, and then pictures of them burning it down. and that's about it, I don't remember the actual conversation.

HAHHAHAHAHAHAHA that's just a funny situation to picture...I gotta use that in something. Sucks but hey, given all the problems people who live in log cabins cause I can see the reasoning for it...unless it was just to be mean and malicious...in that case...well it's still funny, sucks, but funny.

[Tequila Zaire]

They tell a different story on public radio--there they talk all about how Bush and Cheney (especially) are hooked up with the heroin and opium trade in the asian triangle and this is why they are so against weed because it interferes with their own drug sales=wealth. I don't know if it's true or not, but it certainly is interesting.

Does it really matter? Those who hate em will preach it true anyhow, though I gotta admit it wouldn't be a great big shock...I've seen the U.S. pull the same shit in Mexico...White Guys Sellings Drugs...OK...anyone else sellings drungs Not Ok. Hell all the big families of america's past were built on some sort of illegal trade...why would it stop now?

I have no problem with that...cause really at the end of the day it's the users of the drugs that keep in all going and profitable. We all know drug use is not gonna end ever so why complain when people figure out a way to make a money off it.

hell if I had the resources to do it I would...they live well...not long...but well.

[Morning Glory]

good point. the cia may be evil assholes.. ok.. no maybe about it... but they may be the one's that keep brining in heroin, but it's all the idiots that use that's the problem. no one sells drugs. they just acquire drugs and the drugs sell themselves.

[Templar13]

I am a Libertarian. I believe people should be able to use any drug they wish. However, since I am, by definition, totally against any kind of Socialism, I am also strongly against the government being involved in the drug trade in any way whatsoever. Let the free market take it's course.
As for Bush, well... I hate him just as much, if not more, than I hate the Liberals, but if he can somehow manage to even partially privatize Social Security, he would earn buku brownie points in my book. It will never make up for the Patriot Act, but it's a start.

[Templar13]

Oh... I digressed way off-topic, I apologize.
About the minimum wage... raising it is a quick fix, a band-aid for a gaping chest wound, and it actually makes things worse in the long run. It raises the price of goods for everyone so that your dollar becomes worth less. It is not nearly as destructive as runaway spending, but both are prime causes of hyper-inflation. Every time Congress spends money it doesn't have, forcing the FED to print it out of thin air, it becomes a backdoor tax, and you grow poorer.

[the_plague]

the only thing is about conservatives...they're pretty much born that way. can't really hold it against them, but you can't do much about it either...somewhat of a conundrum methinks.

[sheramil]

are you trying to say that I'm a hypocrite using a broad generalisation to blanket people into a group?

oh yeah. people do that all the time.

makes me glad i'm posthuman.

[Morning Glory]

how can you advocate liberatarianism? it's a contradiction.

[Dark Z]

As a Republican, I should feel bad, but to be honest I really don't care about what others think of my views anymore. The Mainstream media has turned politics into a competition rather than a discussion.

sunday Sunday SUNDAY Democratic hacks vs. Republican hacks battle it out in a STEEL CAGE political death match! They will battle in a battle where there can be no winner...... WHO WILL WIN?!

Followed up by a FREE FOR ALL DEMOLITION DERBY...... IN THE MUUUUUD PIIIIIIIT. Also a special appearance by Carrrrzilla.
See YOU! at the Buck.

[Morning Glory]

I wish that's how it was.

[Templar13]

how can you advocate liberatarianism? it's a contradiction.

Not sure I understand.

[Morning Glory]

well do you mean liberatarian party? or true liberatarianism- which means absolute freedom. it's a contradiction because if you could do whatever you wanted to you could do things that opposed other people's right to freedom-such as slavery, murder, etc.- and thus the system would be a failure because everyone would no longer have the right ti do whatever they wanted.

[Templar13]

well do you mean liberatarian party? or true liberatarianism- which means absolute freedom. it's a contradiction because if you could do whatever you wanted to you could do things that opposed other people's right to freedom-such as slavery, murder, etc.- and thus the system would be a failure because everyone would no longer have the right ti do whatever they wanted.

I mean Libertarianism... the political philosophy that you may do whatever you wish, as long as it does not infringe upon the rights of others.

You are speaking of Libertinism, which was advocated by Marquis de Sade. Basically, might makes right. If you are strong enough to enslave someone, then do it. More accurately, de Sade was a Nihilist.
I like de Sade, and I believe that he was intellectually, and probably morally, correct. But it is not a practical philosophical base upon which to found any sort of society that I know of. Not that that's an indictment of him, really. Society kind of sucks, if you haven't noticed. So do politics and philosophy, for that matter.

P.A.

[Morning Glory]

I'd disagree with you on that... what you're suggesting is closer to anarchism/autonomy but it really doesn't matter does it? all these ist and isms are just bullshit that cripple any revolutionary ideals and give a target for our opposition, the point is that you got the right idea. now as far as you being opposed to socialism.. how can that be possible? you claim to support a "free market" but there is no such thing, in a capitalist society only the one's that control the capital have any power, and subsequently control the market- which is the wealthiest 3% of the population. the rest of us having no capital and no bargaining chip in the market are forced to offer our only other commiditty in exchange for some capital, our labour, and since we cannot live in a society without exchanging our labour and time to the capitalists (because nothing in this "free" market is free) we are essentially indentured servants. what you call free market capitalism was better known in old times as feudalism. the only way to have a truly free market would be to have a co-op exchange market -a barter system, or even better a gift-giving market. where all capital is divided up evenly in a socialist collective is the onyl way to have a progressive environement where people can truly be free to pursue whatever they want to- liberation- without having to worry about wage slavery and competition. as an old syaing goes: Minimum wage means all for me and none for you.

[Templar13]

Oops... I let this one slip by me. I'm going to bump it, though, because I just have to respond here.

When I say 'free' market, I do not mean as in 'you get to eat for free'. Frankly, I could care less whether you or anyone else has food on their table. That is for you to figure out. I mean 'free' as in 'free from centralized planning'. You may feel like a serf, but unlike a serf, noone is holding a sword to your throat. You are free to come and go, trade your labor, as you please.

It is about the use of force, not about whether Joe has more stuff than me. Centralized state authority is what concerns me, not that fact that I'm poor (which I am).

[Morning Glory]

I know that's not what a free market means but I think it's a misnomer and that it's ironic because it is in fact a very limiting and constricted system.

when people hear buzz words like Communism and Socialism they tend to think of them as some far off utopian ideal or else some evil cold war machine that threatens our way of life, but the fact is that these thins are very much a part of our daily economic system. The Government does own many businesses, and while they also allow for private ownership or business, they also control many aspects of those business from regulatuions to licenses, to goods that may come from the government to exchange in other systems that are also government regulated. and as far as socialism goes, well our tax dollars do got toward social welfare programs, and most of the goods that we manufacture are developed for public distribution ( although not free or equally)

[Skavian]

It should be said that existing Socialist systems are in place, and they have some of the highest living standards in the world. Namely the Scandinavian countries.

[Templar13]

I know that's not what a free market means but I think it's a misnomer and that it's ironic because it is in fact a very limiting and constricted system.

when people hear buzz words like Communism and Socialism they tend to think of them as some far off utopian ideal or else some evil cold war machine that threatens our way of life, but the fact is that these thins are very much a part of our daily economic system. The Government does own many businesses, and while they also allow for private ownership or business, they also control many aspects of those business from regulatuions to licenses, to goods that may come from the government to exchange in other systems that are also government regulated. and as far as socialism goes, well our tax dollars do got toward social welfare programs, and most of the goods that we manufacture are developed for public distribution ( although not free or equally)

Right, that thing. I don't like that.

And just like Marxism, Libertarianism is also a far-off utopian ideal that will never happen in real life, so don't feel bad.

P.A.