Comments on: What’s wrong with this picture #2?

By: IgotBupkis, President, United Anarchist's Society

IgotBupkis, President, United Anarchist's Society — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:35:13 +0000

Fools, knaves, or some toxic combination of the two?

I believe the words you’re searching for is something along the lines of “c-sucking walking, talking humaniform excreta masquerading as something only slightly less odious, but far more odiferous”?

By: golo

golo — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:49:22 +0000

One thing I learned when I went to law school is how may people really and truly hate America, think America is inherently a bad place, and want to see bad things done to America.
Some of this can be explained by Evan Syat’s “Regurgitating the Apple” theory. But a lot more can simply be explained by the idea that they honestly believe America is inherently bad and hurting America and any who side with her, is therefore inherently good.
The same evil is ascribed to “heterosexual white males” or any of those characteristics separately.
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Obama most certainly hates America or at lest the American Revolution.
And it is hate, a deep seeded ingrained hate.
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By: Sergey

Sergey — Sun, 01 May 2011 19:40:41 +0000

The question “knaves or fools” implies that these people live in the same moral universe as we, and either do not understand that their actions are immoral (“fools”), or knowingly embrace immorality (“knaves”). But it can be worse than that: they live in another moral universe, and their ideas of good and bad are very different from ours. Were Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot knaves or fools? No, they were anti-human villains. Modern day liberals are approaching the territory when we can not anymore suppose that they have the same core values and norms that normal people have.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 01 May 2011 16:32:06 +0000

It’s a little bit too late and too much blood has been spilled to talk about simply foolishness.

By: bob sykes

bob sykes — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:32:07 +0000

Obama was bounced from one communist re-education camp after another for most of his life. He is so seriously maleducated as to be psychotic. He is in fact a dangerously insane thug.

By: Bob From Virginia

Bob From Virginia — Sun, 01 May 2011 05:18:48 +0000

Perhaps Orwell summed up the whole Obama administration with this sentence,”What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

By: Tom the Redhunter

Tom the Redhunter — Sun, 01 May 2011 01:11:08 +0000

Recall that not too long ago the left accepted without question not only that we must “interfere” in apartheid South Africa, but that anyone who didn’t want to was a racist.

By: Trimegistus

Trimegistus — Sun, 01 May 2011 01:01:02 +0000

There’s a point at which you’re such a big goddamned fool you become a knave. It’s the point at which you’re so goddamned foolish you lie, compromise whatever principles you have left, and take steps harmful to yourself and others because you think there’s some short-term political benefit.

By: Bob From Virginia

Bob From Virginia — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:51:04 +0000

As usual, Barry Rubin has a good essay on this at pajamas media. I also recommend Bruce Brawer’s essay.

Isn’t it incredibly sad that the only country founded on an ideology of freedom has come to this.

By: gs

gs — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:36:39 +0000

Fools, knaves, or some toxic combination of the two?

The knaves theory is getting harder and harder to ignore.

The counterargument is that they are fools who think they are demonstrating how much smarter they are than everybody else.