Romney: 'I'm not concerned about the very poor'

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The comment is comically tin eared. It's the kind of thing that can actually lose votes. Accept this and move on.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I'm not concerned about the very poor, and neither are most Americans.  They give money to charities, in the hope that it helps the few who have encountered tragedy in their lives.  The rest?  Largely responsible for their own situation.

Americans are for lifting up the deserving and helping those who face difficulties.  People who suck at life?  They can drown.

There's a word for people like you. First syllable of 'country', in case you'd not guessed. I think in your case we can extend it somewhat; perhaps by adding 'obnoxious' in front of it. Perhaps things could be done with words like 'scum' and 'reprobate', and I suppose a case exists for the use of 'depraved'.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

You really do have an amusing level of self regard for someone who's never shown any sign of intellectual depth or even basic critical faculties. You're what Gramsci would have called an organic intellectual. That's not really a complement, by the way.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Interesting, coming from someone who has made a small cottage industry out of exactly what I'm complaining about.  I seriously do not remember a single time you've posted anything of substance on this forum.

That's because you define 'substance' in a fundamentally inaccurate manner, mon.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The least some of these folks could do, however, is show some intellectual integrity and argue the issues on the merits, rather than devolving into this showy, cloying, left-wing demogoguery.

But your positions have no merits. Don't you see? Your positions in this thread (by way of convenient example) are worse than immoral, they actually violate something a bit deeper and more universal than that. They are objectively despicable. Most sane conservatives would agree, so this isn't really a lefty thing. Understand?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This thread has a very interesting relationship with reality... and I mean, interesting.

Reality as interpreted by the terminally unselfaware, perhaps.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This quote is and has always been absolute bullsh**t and the attitude reflected in it destroyed the British middle class and industrial base. 'It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour' is also, incidentally, just one of the many, shall we say, morally questionable utterances that lead one to think that she was completely insincere and hypocritical as a Christian.

Oh Americans and their special use of language

Anyway.

I've used this example before and I shall use it again. In the 1970s County Durham was occasionally cited by academics as an example of an area with a remarkable lack of social problems for somewhere as utterly working class and as comparatively remote as it was. By the early 1990s it was occasionally cited by academics as an example of an area with unusually serious social problems for somewhere in a Western country.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

If the Romney is to be the first poststructuralist president, Is this the first poststructuralist thread to commemorate this fact? The signs and the signifiers don't seem to be getting along much here.

The possible Romney Presidency does not exist outside the text. Thus, this thread is the only place where it is real.