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diffx is right. I was watching Jon's comment on the state of the union and the rebuttal.He flamed both pretty well, but the audience only seemed to really give a fuck when he was flaming Bush.
I take back what i said. Jon isn't to deep in his bias(yet) it's his fucking audience.
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I was thinking about politics on the way home tonight. There are good and bad conservatives. There are also good and bad liberals. Maybe it's because I live in a left-leaning metropolis in a left-leaning country, but I never, ever hear the bad liberal stereotypes made fun of. Yet, I see 'em all the time.
My philosophy on politics is this: if you don't know what you're talking about, shut up. I don't care if you're a liberal or conservative, if you you can't back up your argument with facts, get out of my face.
I mean, each side has it's quirks. Bad conservatives refuse to understand anything different them. Bad liberals don't understand that it costs money to fund the social services they ask for.
(Aside: And, this one thing got me annoyed: Conservatives want lower taxes but understand that this means less social services. That doesn't matter to them because, right or wrong, they want less goverment intrusion. Liberals want more social spending, lower tuition, AND a freeze on taxes. They want more for less! This isn't Walmart. This is the real world. Things cost money.)
(NB:You could call me slightly left of centre. And I don't hate liberals or conversatives. I just noticed something.)
I've had so many liberals come up to me and just bait me into stupid debates about politics.
"George Bush is evil." No, he's not evil. He's just socially conservative. That why we call him a conservative.
"Stephen Harper will ruin our country." Stephen Harper just won a minority government, meaning he has to adopt some Liberal or Bloc policies to keep his government alive.
MSN name: "Stephen wins and Hamas wins. Coincidence, I think not!" ...
The thing is, nobody ever talks about this. Conservatives can be insensitive, crass and aggresively assholish about anything and everything that they don't believe in or understand. But so do liberals.
I don't know why, but thinking about this made me so angry.
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Keep in mind, I'm talking about the worst of the worst.
In all fairness, there's more to it than that. There are social conservatievs who I think are fine people even if I disagree with their views and politics, but then there's Bush.Quote:
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Or, just so nobody accuses me of being partisan or whatever, Hillary.