Food for Thought

[S O F I]

If you're interested in the Tea Party, the far right, and the journalist backlash against it, here are some very recent articles:

Tea & Crackers | Rolling Stone Politics

That's an interesting read from a very angry perspective. I wouldn't advise you to develop your own view of the Tea Party completely just from that though. Here's an interview with Obama (Obama in Command: The Rolling Stone Interview | Rolling Stone Politics) where he talks about the Tea Party. It's a good way to balance out the subjective view in the first article.

White America Has Lost Its Mind - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice

catchy title.

 

[ARon]

Lmao at that title. Seriously though, all the tea party is is white america, and they're so angry. Even if their ideas were decent, which I think they can be very outlandish, they would never get my support just cus of how they carry themselves

 

[Ristol]

Thank you very much S O F I. I was going to make a thread about the Tea Party, but I figured the reaction would be too much to the "these people are ridiculous" side.

 

[dilla]

It seems the Republicans are so frustrated with the way things are going, they bring out good ideas, but the anger is the driving emotion and it comes out wrong. They start stumbling over themselves and end up looking stupid, all because it's driven by emotion and the logic has been phased out.

You know what I'm saying? Every time they get knocked down, they're even more desperate to get back up and end up failing harder. If they stopped for a few seconds and planned something out and didn't lose composure, they would look decent. And that Christine O'Donnell (sp.) bitch.

 

[Ristol]

Well, they may look stupid, but they're not going to fail this November. It's not going to be pretty. Anyway, politics is for alienated jerks who hate America.

 

[dilla]

I think the same. I just got banned from AndroidForums for a week because I got into it with a member that is always on my nuts in the Politics section. I just go in a thread, post my view, and walk out. And this guy just won't stop with the questions. "Can you clarify this for me..?.." like he's a goddamn diplomat himself.

What got me banned? He mentioned in another thread that he thought he had a serious relationship with a girl....on a forum...and that SHE messed it up. I laughed. I brought it up and said "I wonder why she left you?" with a sarcastic smiley at the end. Banned.

I got fans on that board like I do here. So it's ok. Some appreciate it, and while it's same mods on my nuts with the warnings and bannings, I know they find it just as hilarious.

I can't, don't, and won't stop.

 

[Ristol]

Count me a fan, Smacky. I'm guilty of being too serious on this board sometimes, but we really shouldn't take it so seriously. I'd rather cast my lot with you than with some other people on the board.

 

[dilla]

I just wanna toss this out there too. The Android thread on this forum>>>> all of AndroidForums. Casey and Masta fucking know more than any coon-fuck on AF.

 

[Casey]

Thanks.

The problem with phone forums is that every time a new phone is released you get another flood of noobs asking the same dumb-ass questions.

Kinda like how it was here back in the day when we were a Tupac board and a new album would come out.

 

[dilla]

Yeah. And the questions were so stupid, I could help them out with the problem and I don't know shit about phones. The questions were so elementary and asked so often that I almost had responses for each issue practically memorized. Never gave it a thought.

I guess I'll let someone else have the honors of that now. I don't plan on returning. I don't miss anything about it, save for that loser fucksy that essentially got the last laugh. I'm sure he was the one that reported my post, despite responding to it many times afterwards.

But he was a liberal dipshit that just would just ask "why? why? why?" to everything you said. Pisses me off, but I'll let it go.

 

[S O F I]

It seems the Republicans are so frustrated with the way things are going, they bring out good ideas

can you clarify this for me?

 

[dilla]

can you clarify this for me?

See, asking for clarification is not the issue. It's just that this guy's responses were all "oh, so you believe this? Does this mean you also believe in.....?" Which was not true...by a long shot. But it seemed like he had no views of his own, and he was just there playing devil's advocate.

This whole thread: Mosque Being Built 2 Blocks Away From Ground Zero... What Do You Think? - Android Forums

I tell him what I think. He's trying to change my mind on it. Why? Fucking accept people have different opinions and they don't have to write a dissertation explaining it to you.

 

[Sebastian]

Great interview by Obama.

Long but worth reading.