The Insular Society
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As conservative blogs have become more distanced from reality (The surge is working! Bush is popular! Americans love useless wars!) they increasingly become self-reinforcing and referential, unable to accommodate any outside information that doesn’t hew to the party line of the moment.
In other words, they’re becoming more like the Bush administration.
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Ok i don’t get this. In the post Reynolds linked to, Malkin writes:
But how many of these grass-roots activists are actually going to bring the fight to, you know, the actual fight by joining the military?
I don’t want to start another lame chickenhawk thread here but there’s a big difference between protesting AGAINST a war and protesting FOR one.
One big issue in this war is the continued strain that long deployments are putting on our current military. We’ll soon have to begin a draw down of forces regardless of how many pro-war protesters show up in Washington because the military can’t sustain its current troop levels in Iraq.
That being the case, don’t these people fighting in favor of continuing the war have a better chance of achieving their goals by actually enlisting and actively encouraging other like-minded folks to do the same?
If your goal is to end a war, staging mass protests in DC, while most likely pointless given this administration, makes sense. if your goal is to continue a war protesting in favor of it makes no sense if the resources simply don’t exist to continue it.
Again, this isn’t a chickenhawk thing, it just doesn’t make any sense to protest in favor of continuing a war you refuse to actually fight in.
It also makes no sense that those crying about the lack of universal health care aren’t enrolling in medical school. And that people who think taxes should be raised aren’t voluntarily paying a higher tax amount.
Welcome to America, my friend!
that’s the stupidest fucking i ever heard, save. That’s not apples and oranges, it’s apples and cement trucks.
I will simply defer back to Oliver’s original post that the right’s ability to ignore reality and the logical inconsistency of its positions is truly something to marvel at.
Exactly the same my friend. You just don’t like it because it’s your ox being gored this time. Which is fine. But to complain about it, in a post about how insular THE OTHER SIDE IS, is just overflowing with rich ironical goodness.
Save,
More doctors isn’t going to solve the health care crisis in this country. Neither is people becoming doctors so they can perform surgery on themselves, you idiot!
And you dipshit, people who want taxes to be raised would be paying hire taxes too!
In the case of these pro-war non-warriors, they are asking other people to pay the price for policies they support.
Jesus you’re a stupid fucking moron.
Watch out for SaveFarris, he’s a deadly idiot. He thinks people who can’t afford health insurance should just be euthanized and he thinks income taxes should be abolished so he wants all the IRS workers killed. Not to mention he doesn’t like that someone left the door open to his office so he will blow it up. And dang it if that old car battery is dead so he has to train to build and operate coal powered electricity generators.
it is an awsum logik …
“ironical?”
Tinkerbell rising
Via Oliver, Michelle Malkin is ecstatic over the change of tide in the Iraq war. How is the tide turning? Well, apparently anti-war protest grafitti was written over with pro-war grafitti. And that means, folks, that we are winning the…
Well, by Farris’ measure, if I want to drive a car, I have to build my own roads, drill for my own oil, refine it into gasoline, and work for an auto company.
There are some things we do together as a society, for better or worse. As a citizen, you should be willing to bear the costs of the things you want government to do.
Health care? Count me in.
Paying my share of taxes? Allrighty.
Roads and bridges? Sure!
Pointless invasions? Not so much.
Greatest Collection of Strawmen Ever. I salute all of you on your creativity! Your internal logic, not so much…
More doctors would mean more supply which means lower costs. If you REALLY cared about health care costs, better start working on that PhD.
Demanding that taxes be paid at a higher rate while your yourself refuse to voluntarily pay that amount before the new rate is enacted: as hypocritical as a family-values senator hooking up with a lady of the evening.
Greatest Collection of Strawmen Ever.
Wow.
Farris is right, Doctors get paid too much. What that has to do with a bunch of people who go on and on about how important the invasion of Iraq is in protecting our country, not enlisting to aid in that fight… even when the army is cracking under the pressure.
Or they could study to become nurses.
Or X-Ray techs.
Or even anesthesiologists.
Jesus, Farris, I knew you were an idiot, but I didn’t know you were this far gone. Your comments on this thread are some of the dumbest ideas I have ever seen written. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Gravypan, you too.
Gosh, Farris, you’ve convinced me. I’m going to march right down to my local med school and enroll. Then, after several years of grueling hard work I can buy a giant house, a Mercedes, have a trophy wife with big boobs and vacation in the south of France.
Meanwhile you will march down to the recruiter’s office, and after six weeks of grueling basic you’ll be shipped off to Iraq and have your ass blown off and you can spend the rest of your days playing checkers down at the local VA and muttering about fucking hippies.
Then we’ll be even.
Yeah right, Ferris. The way to increase the supply of medical doctors is to increase the number of people who get PhD’s.
What a moran…
Don’t pray for me, Mambo.
I’m not worth your effort.
“More doctors would mean more supply which means lower costs.”
How are more doctors going to change the cost of an MRI machine?
In fact, more doctors will mean more expensive medical schools because the demand will go up. Therefore, doctors will need to charge more just to cover their initial expenses.
Just shut the fuck up, you worthless little shit.
“I’m not worth your effort.”
Now there’s a quote that will haunt Gravypan in later debates.
Something tells me its haunting him now …
Good point css. In fact, just as in areas with a glut of lawyers, doctors will perform unnecessary procedures to pad the bill. Recently read that 30% of medical procedures are unnecessary.
All of this because farris believes dying in war is someone else’s job.
I guess if I quote “Billy Madison” I should expect some blank stares. The very idea of me praying at all is funny though, so thanks for the laugh.
But you’re still an imbecile.