...conservatives, is that we assume everyone is rational."

From my poli sci class lecture on DVD. gg unbiased academia... 

5/29/2006 2:08:20 PM

That is absolutely applicable when you're dealing with people basing politics on religion.

5/29/2006 2:35:39 PM

both parties have their irrational factions. For an educational film to posit that liberals are more rational than conservatives just smacks of the condescending, self-righteous elitism that is pervasive in liberal academia.

5/29/2006 2:48:09 PM

one problem liberals have is like not winning, especially since they are better than republicans

5/29/2006 3:25:53 PM

drunknloaded totally nailed it.

Losing the presidential election in 2004 was downright shameful and humiliating.

5/29/2006 3:55:24 PM

As far as being rational, off the top of my head I can think of one absolutely absurd move by conservatives that spookyjon has already touched on in this thread a bit...abstinence-only sex education...and I'm not just talking about public schools...they took it international...like fucking Uganda and shit...

IS THAT FUCKING RATIONAL?

5/29/2006 4:03:56 PM

yes

because this was encouraged by reagan and everything he did was perfect for this country and everyone else.

5/29/2006 4:05:50 PM

http://blow.ytmnd.com

5/29/2006 4:12:35 PM

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"unbiased academia"

gg oxymoron

5/29/2006 4:12:41 PM

The bias is intelligence.

5/29/2006 4:23:10 PM

^^You understood TGD was being sarcastic, right?

Anyway, back to the original topic, I always assumed academics were "liberally" biased because they're academics, you know, they study and think about shit.

[Edited on May 29, 2006 at 4:24 PM. Reason : ^LOL, he said it better.]

5/29/2006 4:23:50 PM

^^the bias is not being intelligent enough to win an election

5/29/2006 5:20:46 PM

^^ Academics are the only people that think about shit. Someone's politics has nothing to do with their choice of occupation.

5/29/2006 5:48:24 PM

^Academics are the only people who think about shit? I disagree.

5/29/2006 7:22:07 PM

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"NCSU Poli Sci Professor: Many of you will get life-threatening diseases, like cancer, not because of your genetics but because you lived here [in Raleigh]. Our air is as polluted as Los Angeles. So you could make a good case for mass transit."

haha [wow]... 

5/29/2006 8:12:32 PM

^Okay, I'm confused now. I thought Raleigh does have a pollution problem, and we do need mass transit. Major cities in the entire South need mass transit.

Are you objecting to his or her assertion that we're in a cancerous zone? Cancerous zone. LOL.

[Edited on May 29, 2006 at 8:20 PM. Reason : sss]

5/29/2006 8:19:52 PM

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"BridgetSPK: I thought Raleigh does have a pollution problem, and we do need mass transit."

Mass transit is a policy debate I'll skip, but Raleigh doesn't have a "pollution problem." Take a look at some of the EPA's studies on Raleigh's air, as well as some of the independent analysis of EPA methodology.

That, or just spend a week in LA  

5/29/2006 8:30:26 PM

Its too much of a generalization to say that all conservatives favor abstinence-only education. You need to qualify it with a "social" or something so you don't confuse it with us all.

5/29/2006 8:50:34 PM

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"the bias is not being intelligent enough to win an election"

not our fault there is a dumb fucking electorate

5/29/2006 8:51:00 PM

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"NCSU Poli Sci Professor: Are corporations, modern multinational corporations, 'private' in any meaningful sense given their power over us as individuals? [explaining the importance of teh g0v regulating the shit out of private enterprise]"

and this is just the first lecture...

 

5/29/2006 9:02:16 PM

not happy with a liberal? just bust out the communist label, and suddenly you have the moral upper hand! you wouldnt want to argue back and look like a dirty red, would you?

[Edited on May 30, 2006 at 12:03 AM. Reason : .]

5/30/2006 12:00:54 AM

explain why academia is supposed to be unbiased

5/30/2006 12:04:28 AM

and i missed when the gov. of the us started to regulate the shit out of everything.

oh, wait, gotta keep up apprearances for the libertarians, right?

5/30/2006 12:08:44 AM

Which prof was it, TGD?

5/30/2006 12:17:55 AM

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"...conservatives, is that we assume everyone is rational." From my poli sci class lecture on DVD. gg unbiased academia... "

What does this have to do with bias? You think this implys conservatives are irrational?

5/30/2006 12:24:26 AM

omg he questioned whether or not corporations should be given the same rights as privite citizens.

COMMUNIST

5/30/2006 12:24:35 AM

if you dont favor repealing all laws which might possibly maybe hinder corporations, you are a CARD-CARRYING RED!

5/30/2006 12:28:18 AM

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"Woodfoot: explain why academia is supposed to be unbiased"

I never claimed it was, bias is inevitable. It's the pretense of unbiasedness that annoys me. Unfortunately liberals just don't like to admit their liberals, b/c they realize they'll be ignored by the overwhelming majority of the population.

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"Waluigi: not happy with a liberal? just bust out the communist label, and suddenly you have the moral upper hand! you wouldnt want to argue back and look like a dirty red, would you?"

haha you remind me of that hippie from Australia, too bad I can't remember his sn. that's gotta be a pretty bitter existence you lead though...

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"Lumex: What does this have to do with bias? You think this implys conservatives are irrational?"

You think it doesn't?

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"boonedocks: omg he questioned whether or not corporations should be given the same rights as privite citizens."

And... what exactly is a corporation again?

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"Waluigi: if you dont favor repealing all laws which might possibly maybe hinder corporations, you are a CARD-CARRYING RED!"

 

5/30/2006 12:45:07 AM

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"haha you remind me of that hippie from Australia, too bad I can't remember his sn. that's gotta be a pretty bitter existence you lead though... "

lost on the first part, but i was telling the truth. i mean, remember that stuff about Kerry the Communist? better not see you people getting upset next time someone brands you all dumb hicks who think everyone needs a gun and a tax cut to get by.

this thread is just typical trolling disguised as "intelligence" from you, anyway.

[Edited on May 30, 2006 at 1:00 AM. Reason : .]

5/30/2006 12:59:24 AM

^honestly, your posts in the Soap Box are just 1 straw man after another.

Literally.

Do you ever add anything to this forum?

I'm just curious.

5/30/2006 1:08:08 AM

not any more, no. but really, who does?

i should probably stay out of here, i stopped arguing for real a long time ago once i realized that noone cares what others opinions are on the internet anyway.

5/30/2006 1:13:03 AM

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"And... what exactly is a corporation again?"

not a private citizen

5/30/2006 1:17:05 AM

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"not our fault there is a dumb fucking electorate"

that's the attitude of a loser

and i don't mean that in a "talking shit" or "making fun of Democrats" way. I mean that you (as a party) continually shoot yourselves in the foot, then act like it's the fault of the electorate for not being insightful enough to choose you.

the electorate is stupid, yes, but not THAT stupid. I mean, by that logic, is the electorate stupid for approving of the President at a 30% rate? You can't really have it both ways, you know.


I think the GOP might very well screw itself in the next election, but I'm not gonna sit here and say it's the American people's fault for not recognizing GOP genius--no, it's the fault of the GOP for being stupid, among a number of other negative adjectives, and for being out of touch with what America wants.




Now, one place that Americans are a bunch of retards is that they bitch about getting robbed blind by taxes and about our ridiculously huge deficit, but still don't want to be weaned from the governmental teat...but that's another subject for another thread.

[Edited on May 30, 2006 at 1:18 AM. Reason : asdfasd]

5/30/2006 1:17:54 AM

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"boonedocks: not a private citizen"

well yes, see it's very easy to tell what things are not. this website for example is not, say, a rooster. or a chair. or any of all kinds of other things.

hence why "what exactly is a corporation not again" wasn't the question.

so, not to get repetitive, but...

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"TGD: And... what exactly is a corporation again?"

5/30/2006 2:08:58 AM

what prof was it?

and your taking poli sci at a university. Of course all of the profs have liberal bias. Thats like complaning that your Engineering class is using calculators instead of an abacus

5/30/2006 9:50:21 AM

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"not a private citizen"

It's worth noting that a corporation can indeed be a private citizen, there is no size requirement on a business that says that it must have X thousand people before it can be a corporation.

5/30/2006 10:03:26 AM

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE START A GODDAMN POLITICAL PARTY

THAT IS FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE AND SOCIALLY LIBERAL?

Seriously, i could give two shits and a fuck about abstinence based sex education or gay marriage.

I just want to pay as little taxes as possible and not start pointless wars.

5/30/2006 10:10:22 AM

^But the Iraqis would have no freedom?/ But what about the poor people/children?

5/30/2006 10:14:29 AM

It probably would suck for them either way, but our government's responsibility is to our own people, not to those of other countries.

5/30/2006 10:27:37 AM

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"I mean, by that logic, is the electorate stupid for approving of the President at a 30% rate?"

Yes. It's stupid of them that it took this long for that to happen. The president is no worse than he was two years ago when the people elected him.

5/30/2006 10:44:28 AM

that's not the point i was getting at.

i was using that to illustrate that it's stupid to say "the only reason Democrats aren't winning is because the electorate doesn't know what's good for them".

5/30/2006 10:47:27 AM

i like how the liberals want to blame U.S. troop occupancy in Iraq for all the reasons why extremist Muslims hate the USA, but they dont realize policies like tolerating gay marriage piss them off just as much

5/30/2006 11:14:31 AM

bush should send homos a thank you card for his second term

5/30/2006 11:31:29 AM

also send those cards to ignorant rednecks, conservative idiots and anybody else who foolishly voted for him

meanwhile all the intelligent and intellectual liberal geniuses are still puzzled 2.5 years later that the biggest idiot in the known universe is somehow president again

5/30/2006 11:36:09 AM

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"^Academics are the only people who think about shit? I disagree."

I do too. Apparently you missed the sarcasm.

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"WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE START A GODDAMN POLITICAL PARTY THAT IS FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE AND SOCIALLY LIBERAL? Seriously, i could give two shits and a fuck about abstinence based sex education or gay marriage."

I'm in.

5/30/2006 11:39:11 AM

maybe if all you fucking johnny cakes werent closet homos you would make gay marriages illegal to please the crazy muslims

5/30/2006 11:43:02 AM

^^No, I caught the sarcasm. I chose to ignore it because you were twisting my assertion.

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"WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE START A GODDAMN POLITICAL PARTY THAT IS FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE AND SOCIALLY LIBERAL? Seriously, i could give two shits and a fuck about abstinence based sex education or gay marriage."

You couldn't win an election without the hypocritical, homophobic wannabe Puritans.

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"I just want to pay as little taxes as possible and not start pointless wars."

I'm trying to think of a place where this has been achieved...I'm drawing a blank.

It's sad that the US sucks so bad, but we still wouldn't trade it for any other country.

5/30/2006 11:55:33 AM

You spend so long telling a lie, you just don't know when its safe.

5/30/2006 11:55:43 AM

^Elaborate? I'm not following.

5/30/2006 11:57:53 AM

I love you too, Johnny Cakes.

5/30/2006 11:58:26 AM