You know, the unredeemedly stupid are quite entertaining.

[Rabrrrrrr]

Well, it's a sad kind of entertaining when they're the ones in charge of the government and media, but outside of that, they are pretty funny.

Stuff that I've heard over the years (and no lie - I have, in all truthfulness, heard all of these phrases over the span of my life; and, sadly, not all of them in the 80s and before - a fair amount I've heard after Russia imploded AND some I've still heard even in the last couple of years - conservatives are a hilariously ignorant bunch, and I just love that they're still weak in the knees with fear about "Communists"; please note, most of my experience is with the blue collar kind of ignorance, not the rich kind of ignorance, hence the "Opera? Communist" inclusion here, which one would not get from the rich end of the ignorati):

"Vegetarian? That's Communist!"

"Better gas mileage? That's Communist!"

"Reducing pollution? That's Communist!"

"Take care of the poor? That's Communist!"

"Reading? That's Communist!" (and this one I've heard many times in the same paragraph as the person saying that Americans are the smartest people in the world; way smarter than Communists)

"Opera? Classical music? High brow stuff? That's Communist!"

"Not working? That's Communist!"

"Working too much? That's Communist!"

"Three/Four weeks of vacation? That's Communist!"

"No/One weeks of vacation? That's Communist!"

(two weeks of vacation is apparently the appropriate Christian amount of vacation; and I say that because obviously, even to the dumbest person alive, one is either Communist or Christian)

And other silly contradictory bullshit, such as "Commies? Bunch of fucking pussies - we could beat the shit out of 'em easily. If those fuckers ever invaded here, they'd be dead within minutes" counterposed against the same people who say "Commies? We gotta spend more money defending against them! Build the military! They are the greatest threat in the history of humanity!!!!!!"

Which is similar to the same kind of contradictory belief that "illegal" immigrants are simultaneously stealing all our jobs AND sucking off the public welfare teat because they're too goddamned lazy to work.





Anyway, just felt like pointing it out.

[ZombieNixon]

1. Nice post, Dzhugashvili.

Communist. :eyes: :P

[DS1]

2. I hear people going on about commies now and then

and usually take them to task. Tore a guy's "argument" to shreds in a barbershop once.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. I find it's not worth the effort -

I'm sure your guy went home and talked about the "Commie loving hippy pinko fag latte drinking Gore-worshiping atheist".

[Marrah_G]

4. Well at least they aren't MASONS!

:hide:

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. Mars? That's Communist!

There's a reason they call it the Red Planet, you know!