Liberals, how do they work?

[Wezil]

I was never much of a Honeymooners fan but that was amusing.

Bonus: I now know WTF "poloponies" is from.

[Elok]

On a political spectrum from 0 to 10, with 0 being "MrFun" and 10 being "Ben Kenobi," Aggie was probably about a -20. It's not that he was that much more liberal than MrFun, it's just that his posts were that much more annoying.

MrFun posts things like "So I guess I'm the only one who's opposed to child sacrifice in Laos ." Agathon would have required twenty paragraphs to say the same thing, and would have somehow mentioned Microsoft in the process.

Ah. See, he's been gone a long time (thankfully), and I tried to avoid contact with him. All I remember is that he refused to use plain, comprehensible English--or possibly didn't know how--and was a staunch advocate of burning books. Also he was a New Zealander, a commie, an atheist, a philosophy prof, etc., but mostly just a nutter.

[Elok]

Which is not to say that he would ever actually burn a book. His was a very dry, academic sort of evil that worked in abstractions, and he wasn't too skilled at convincing others to share his point of view. If you set him down on a stage before the kind of mob that normally engages in the destruction of unacceptable ideas and/or people, it would be like sticking a military historian inside a tank: he'd have no idea what the hell to do. After shifting back and forth on his feet nervously for a few seconds, he'd start talking about the necessary preconditions for epistemological certainty and collective so-and-so. Presently the mob would get bored and antsy, and start turning over cars to let off steam. Aggie would remonstrate with another stream of jargon, fretting, waving his hands and becoming even less articulate. Eventually the whole crew would dissolve into undirected villainy, smashing windows and stealing TVs and such, and Aggie would go off into some dark corner to quietly sulk.

[loinburger]

Philosophers in general make terrible leaders

Philosopher: ...and that is why I'm smarter than all of you.
Mob: Okay, now what?
Philosopher: Ponder the weighty words I have imparted on you - I'll give another lecture next week.
Mob: This sucks.

vs.

Philosopher: ...and that is why I'm smarter than all of you.
Mob: Okay, now what?
Leader: What he means is that we can kill people and take their stuff.
Mob: Awesome.

[molly bloom]

Would you call Aristotle a liberal or a conservative?

He's a dead Greek.

Conservative on slavery and rights for women- positively NAMBLA on younger teenage boys.

And no, Al, we're not talking about 18 year olds who get their pictures in international news media clad only in Speedos and a smile.

[molly bloom]

Do liberals even play golf?

Golf- even worse dress sense required than for cricket.

More boring than watching the fluid move over the surface of your eye. Unaccountably popular with some lesbians- but I've yet to meet a gay man who admits to having played it, let alone watched it.


And no, Crazy Golf with your 7 & 8 year old nieces and nephews most definitely doesn't count.

[The Mad Monk]

For those who actually bothered to read it, Atlas Shrugged had a college professor as one of the major villains; Agathon's online persona was the spitting image of that character.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Am I the only one who thinks that this should not be high on Speer's priority list ?

Well at least this has nothing to do with the Marines.

[Al B. Sure!]

Well at least this has nothing to do with the Marines.

Golf has EVERYTHING to do with Marine officers

[MRT144]

On a political spectrum from 0 to 10, with 0 being "MrFun" and 10 being "Ben Kenobi," Aggie was probably about a -20. It's not that he was that much more liberal than MrFun, it's just that his posts were that much more annoying.

MrFun posts things like "So I guess I'm the only one who's opposed to child sacrifice in Laos ." Agathon would have required twenty paragraphs to say the same thing, and would have somehow mentioned Microsoft in the process.

Not enough thanks here.

[MRT144]

For those who actually bothered to read it, Atlas Shrugged had a college professor as one of the major villains; Agathon's online persona was the spitting image of that character.

It's hilarious to see this dovetail with the overall dislike of education by conservatives.

[Elok]

For those who actually bothered to read it, Atlas Shrugged had a college professor as one of the major villains; Agathon's online persona was the spitting image of that character.

It would be nice to think that Agathon was really just an elaborate, Wiglaf-style parody. Then we could only accuse him of terrible, terrible taste in literature.

[Sava]

speer is hilarious

cheer for the anglo-pride party
you aren't useful enough to avoid the cattle car to mexico
learn spanish so they don't shoot you in the street outright for being arab or muslim or whatever cousin ****ing people you descend from