tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post6619400793014750969..comments2024-01-20T02:06:45.388-08:00Comments on The Political Omnivore: Going Negative for 2014?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-11015626800600471162014-07-24T20:41:08.221-07:002014-07-24T20:41:08.221-07:00Was happier years ago, back before everything suck...Was happier years ago, back before everything sucked.<br /><br />Props on the <i>Song of Ice and Fire</i> phrase-drop, btw.<br /><br />-- ΩAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-20083729581679946802014-07-24T08:39:00.281-07:002014-07-24T08:39:00.281-07:00No, I'll probably approve even if people I lik...No, I'll probably approve even if people I like are involved. <br /><br />If people are going to hurl racist abuse at (for example) Obama, which they are, I'd like them to do it without plausible deniability.<br /><br />And if people are going to support racist policies, which they are, I'd like to see them directly called out on it.<br /><br />And if people I like start tossing out racist BS, it'll let me know I should stop liking them. Which is good, because I want to know when someone I support is awful.<br /><br />I get that impoliteness makes politics look worse. But honest rudeness is better than false courtesy, in my opinion.Sanctaphraxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17117418785914238427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-82157876369354149482014-07-24T08:28:20.464-07:002014-07-24T08:28:20.464-07:00You know nothing, John Omega. Read gun-talk posts ...You know nothing, John Omega. Read gun-talk posts (That new barrel shroud is INCREDIBLY Tacti-cool) and business speak (we must operate in a ruthlessly tactical manner here)!<br /><br />Admit it: ten seconds ago you were *happier*.<br /><br />-The OmnivoreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-90566157759291110352014-07-24T07:52:14.367-07:002014-07-24T07:52:14.367-07:00Did you perhaps mean to say "...very, very sh...Did you perhaps mean to say "...very, very short-term tactical gain"? Because you don't often see intensifiers modifying "tactical".<br /><br />"Whoa dude, that's super tactical!"<br /><br />"Ha, I'm way more tacticaler than you!"<br /><br />Doesn't quite work.<br /><br />And you're right; partisan politics aside (if such a thing is even possible), coarsening the level of political discourse is bad for <i>everyone</i>, long term.<br /><br />-- ΩAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-65114480432035836152014-07-24T06:23:30.670-07:002014-07-24T06:23:30.670-07:00Keep in mind that while it's R-on-R violence, ...Keep in mind that while it's R-on-R violence, someone not-Republican may approve. When people start using the most incendiary language from official sources against targets you like (or coming from sources you like) it's easier to see how things get very, very toxic very, very quickly.<br /><br />What happened in Mississippi is going to give people armor-piercing ammunition for years to come in the political rhetoric wars: That's actually NOT a good thing for a presently divided nation.<br /><br />Now, of course, racism isn't either--on the whole this is just turning the temperature up permanently (long-term) for a very, very tactical short-term gain.<br /><br />-The OmnivoreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-29905574313600750922014-07-23T08:29:36.269-07:002014-07-23T08:29:36.269-07:00I think more open racial ads might be a good thing...I think more open racial ads might be a good thing. Better to make the filth visible. Sunshine is the best disinfectant, after all.Sanctaphraxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17117418785914238427noreply@blogger.com