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In reply to the discussion: I'm so confused. A new term has entered the fist-fight [View all]Hekate
(94,446 posts)60. "but why should we be relegated to hanging out in a safe haven, as if we have no right to speak? "
This is exactly my point. If I have to hide out, if I have to put half the current DUers on Ignore, what is the point of being here at all? Something is really sick at this place -- it's never been as bad before, and actual harm is being done not only to DU but to the Democratic brand, imo. There's work to be done, and instead what we've got going on is a mass false-equivalency plus pure falsehoods plus voter suppression tidal wave. I just don't get it.
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Ambrose Bierce's defintion in the The Devil's Dictionary is somewhat similar:
freshwest
Jul 2013
#43
What you all willfully fail to grasp is that it has nothing to do with the messenger (snowden) and
Ed Suspicious
Jul 2013
#51
The hyperbole in this thread nicely matches that of the one discussed...
Democracyinkind
Jul 2013
#3
Thanks IrishAyes. There a few people on this site I'd love to meet and you are one of them.
freshwest
Jul 2013
#58
I'm sure it's a complete coincidence but Authoritarianism is the polar opposite of Libertarianism.
great white snark
Jul 2013
#24
Evil! I'm on the side of evil! Ipso facto and summa cum laude and a bunch of other Latin tags.
Hekate
Jul 2013
#28
It means if you don't espouse libertarian ideology, you must be an authoritarian.
freshwest
Jul 2013
#30
Thanks. There are other forces ready and eager to fill any vacuum left by government.
freshwest
Jul 2013
#38
As Bill Maher says, Libertarians are just Republicans who want to smoke weed. nt
SunSeeker
Jul 2013
#49
Yes, I trashed that thread when I saw the wrecking decided to go in for the kill there.
freshwest
Jul 2013
#53