The Lief Reservoir of Simple Truths and Smart One-Liners

[DavidB.]

"Are you liberal or conservative?"
"I'm actually pretty libertarian."
"What's libertarian?"
"I'm economically right-wing and socially libertarian."
"Uh... but what's libertarian?"
"Well, it means I'm economically right-wing and socially libertarian."
"You keep defining libertarian as libertarian, I just want to know what that means."
"ARGH, I'M NOT ALLOWED TO SAY FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE AND SOCIALLY LIBERAL BECAUSE IT UPSETS INTERNET LEFTISTS"

[DavidB.]

The "but" simply indicates a situation that is different from the norm, since the assumption is that most people are either "fiscally liberal and socially liberal" or "fiscally conservative and socially conservative". It doesn't necessarily have to be smug.

[DavidB.]

This is truly getting ridiculous. From now on, I will ostentatiously identify as someone who is fiscally conservative but socially liberal.

[DavidB.]

Western Europe may be democratic, but I wouldn't call it a "free society."

I'm afraid you're mistaken, this isn't the bad posts thread.

[DavidB.]

Bringing up the First Amendment should be a sort of Godwin's Law meaning that you've lost. As someone pointed out somewhere once, it's basically admitting that your best argument and defense for you're saying is "Well at least it's not illegal to say."

[DavidB.]

Christie: "I'll get more revenue by lowering taxes"

You have a Bernie sticker. Not surprised how you do not understand this.

[DavidB.]

I support the free market.  Whatever you want and can afford is what you get.  You pay for only your own health care, or give to charity if you are so inclined.  Health care should never be considered a right.

"Ugh, lazy bums who want healthcare from the government. Why can't they just ask their parents for coverage like I do?"

[DavidB.]

Can't wait for this.  Sanders is walking into a trap with this debate series.  This isn't September.  It's game time and Hillary is HUNGRY

You can't walk into a trap when you're up against a robot

[DavidB.]

but I guess that depends on whether parliament is dissolved.

In the same way your birthday depends on the day you were born, yeah. Great insight!

This was a bit rude, and probably unwarranted, but... LOLOLOLOL

[DavidB.]

I'm not acting that way because I have a beef (pun intended) with vegetarians or anything.

[DavidB.]

Very similar to me.  I actually dislike Trump as a person and all things equal prefer Clinton policies overall when compared to Trump but will vote for him for being anti-PC.  Also I want to vote for White consolidation.

This is a great example of what not to do with your vote.

[DavidB.]

I haven't read on him too much, but here's what I know:

-He's not Le Pen, Fillon or Melenchon.
-He seems to piss off right wing populists and True Leftists BIG TIME.

So I have to go with FF.

All neoliberal, all the time!

[DavidB.]

Gotta love 'social democrats' who voted for Trump, have attended Proud Boys events, support eugenics and are rape apologists

Thank you.

[DavidB.]

I was reading back some old threads and had to laugh at this.

By which I don't mean trolling (which can be funny) but, to name one example, responding to a poll simply with "FF" and no extra detail.

I think a good way to solve this without a more harsh moderating approach would be changing the software to set a minimum number of characters (~5?) that a post can contain.

FF!!!