Why nasty?
 

"Let them eat sand", "Let them die", "execute them", "Nuke 'em", "bomb them back to the stone age", "those lazy bastards don't deserve welfare", etc.

Why do conservatives always try to come across as tough, nasty, callous, "people" with no compassion or the ability to put themselves in another's circumstances?

I think, somehow, it elevates them. "Look how tough I am."

It takes a really tough and strong person to show compassion. It takes guts to care.

A cop-out is to say all the nasty things and pretend one's bravado is what sets one apart from the "bleeding hearts."

Inside, they're scared to death. This is their wall, which must afford them some small comfort. I don't buy it, though.

Let me make it simple. I'm fiscal conservative and I hate you all. ;)

We could probably go off on some all too long argument about what a real conservative or a liberal is, then move into who hates babies and kicks more puppies, then veer into who is more American and compassionate, before winding up at the inevitable "You insensitive bastard my dog died under a falling giraffe saddle on 9/11!".

I would, however, on a somewhat serious note point out that your premise ("why do conservatives always...") is just as ridiculous as UG's anti-liberal rhetoric or Merc's "demoncrats" posts. People are people regardless of creed. Some are compassionate and caring some are heartless assholes. Welcome to humanity.

Thanks lookout, and I'mma let you finish, but Greenspan is one of the most compassionless people of all time.

Compassionless? who cares about that, the guy didn't even do his job well and that is the part I care about.

My parents read a conservative paper.
It has its own memes, one of which is that left wing loonies love rules. Anyone with even a slight liberal bent is trying to make life as joyless as possible for everyone. They don't say so precisely (any more) but the idea is that England will become like Russia under Communism if anyone with any kind of socialism in their agenda is allowed to have their way.

So I am wary of painting with broad strokes.

Hahhahahaha---haggis.

That made me chortle a lot.

True, true...but the liberals are just as bad. They just wring their hands a little more before they harpoon you in the back and go back to their soy lattes.

Sure he did.

It's just that he wasn't, you know, working for you and I.

He wasn't working for I? He ain't not?

He ran the banking system. Of course he wasn't working in your best interests.

From the POV of the board of directors of the banks, however, he did a GREAT job.

I was referring to your poor grammar. I don't give a hoot about your opinions.[/grammarnazi]

Which poor grammar? I thought you were just having a trailer park moment.

Working for you. Working for me. Working for you and me.

As you were, smartest man on earth.

Oh, what WOULD my 3rd grade teacher say? :sniff:

Probably that you need to repeat 3rd grade.

Probably. I was all fucked up on drugs the first time around, IIRC.

some things never change

True, true.

You can basically replace anything I say with "I'm all fucked up on little yellow pills".

What's your excuse?

little blue pills?

Okay, I'll buy that.

Cypher: I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?

What if you took BOTH?

they'd mash up into a green pill? Cool.

And then you could be off to see the Wizard?

Haggis:D

Fair enough. But have you ever heard a bleeding heart liberal say something like "nuke 'em" or "they're not getting any of my money - let them starve"?

Damm. Who said that?

Prolly you, merc. ;)

:lol: I doubt I ever said I wanted someone to starve. Well I mean other than the trolls from PD. :lol2:

I wanna lose 10 pounds, can you throw some 'starvin' mojo' my way? :lol:

Hell, I wanna lose 20. :D

fixed that for ya

Well crap, c-man, you almost made diet coke come out my nose.

Anyway, it wouldn't work. I'll chop up and cook ANY hobo, no matter the meatiness or lack thereof.

Shawnee, everyone knows the hobo diet is the best around...even better than Atkins, they say.

There was some good eatin on old Doc Atkins but free range hobo is healthier.

Have you noticed conservatives are getting more pessimistic these days?

Pissy-mystics?

Hail FSM:fsm:

I'd like to poke you in the eye with my finger

I'm with Shawnee.

Whether or not you want it that way, in English, the pronouns decline -- as in every other language in the Germanic group. Pronouns have an objective case when they are the objects of verbs and prepositions, and only second-person pronouns singular or plural show no visible change. First- and third-person pronouns do, mostly.

So do avoid incomprehensible solecisms (that they occur at all among normally intelligent adult native speakers being the incomprehensible part) such as "between her and I."

Frankly that sort of thing is tough on my tooth enamel.

No. And I know more conservatives than you do, and better besides.

What kind of pessimist goes to TEA parties, Spexx?

A tea baggee.

That's no answer, and why did you think it might be?

Because you like having scrotums draped across your face.

Spexx! When you are talking to UG, remember, he insists on scrota being draped across his face...

Actually, that's not something I insist on, being broadminded and not terribly difficult to amuse... ;)

Broadminded. Is that what happens when someone spreads their cheeks as they sit on your face?

:corn:

I love these guys! ;)

Do you think it's one person, playing both parts? TWUG?

All hail TWUG. He is like the everypolitician.

I've been telling you that for years.

let me tell you how to properly cook an MBA.

...first, you take a leek....

Ask your doctor about Flomax if uninary symptoms are impacting your recipe writing.

MPMs do it with gusto.

Particularly those of us who specialized in anti-guerrilla and anti-mercenary strategies and tactics.

Heat oil to 350 degrees...

"I am quite convinced that I do in fact exist," said Spock.

I'm also more than you can handle, Spexx. I'm realer than you are or can be, I'm smarter than you are through not being a hoplophobe and therefore able to ratiocinate (phobias negate thought, you know -- and have shown), and I'm saner than you are too. Better-than-you looks and sounds like me. As long as you labor under your debits, it shall always be that way. You being bad is by no means necessary to me feeling good; I'd rather hail Spexxvet as a good man than bash him as a bad one, but I don't always get just what I want, do I?

Tw's image, of course, just follows his spherical-asshole nature. That guy doesn't believe in anything that's good. He also thinks he can bother me by exhibiting this side of his mentality. No effective intelligence seen there.

what?

i mean ....i got tha part about you being smarter and better than spex....but ..duh...who isn't? ...but the rest of it???? whacky man...whacky.

Just an old silverback preening his fur and bellowing about being king of the jungle, mostly.

And 100 times more humble, right, you moron?

Unlike a cubical asshole, like you.