Y'know, using this obviously loony person's anonymous post on a site to denigrate all liberals is just as loony as the original poster.

Maybe I'll start writing big articles about Freeper quotes.

The Kos kids are getting desperate.

I can't tell which is better: Norbit or the fact that this got a greenlight.

BobtheFascist: The Kos kids are getting desperate.

The Kos kids aren't getting dick. It's a huge site. They get more comments than Fark does on the Politics tab. It's like claiming a trend about Fark from one poster- ridiculous.

THIS is why you shouldn't let your kids engage in Kos-play.

hillbillypharmacist: BobtheFascist: The Kos kids are getting desperate.

The Kos kids aren't getting dick. It's a huge site. They get more comments than Fark does on the Politics tab. It's like claiming a trend about Fark from one poster- ridiculous.

This.

Also, get ready for the upcoming article about Fark diarist advocates U.S. getting nuked by Russians!! (ZOMG)

UNC_Samurai: THIS is why you shouldn't let your kids engage in Kos-play.

i lol'd.

Also:



I think 2 hands ought to about cover it.

/ba dum bum bssh!

Locke3k: Also, get ready for the upcoming article about Fark diarist advocates U.S. getting nuked by Russians!! (ZOMG)

Gee.

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hillbillypharmacist

I was leaning more toward the whole theory not making any damn sense. It's like accusing a Planned Parenthood employee of bombing their own clinic so they could make freepers look bad. Kind of "tin foil" if you ask me.

hillbillypharmacist: BobtheFascist: The Kos kids are getting desperate.

The Kos kids aren't getting dick.

So we've established that Kos kids are straight men or gay women.

The paranoid style is not confined to our own country and time; it is an international phenomenon. Studying the millennial sects of Europe from the eleventh to the sixteenth century, Norman Cohn believed he found a persistent psychic complex that corresponds broadly with what I have been considering-a style made up of certain preoccupations and fantasies: "the megalomaniac view of oneself as the Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph; the attribution of gigantic and demonic powers to the adversary; the refusal to accept the ineluctable limitations and imperfections of human existence, such as transience, dissention, conflict, fallibility whether intellectual or moral; the obsession with inerrable prophecies...systematized misinterpretations, always gross and often grotesque."

This glimpse across a long span of time emboldens me to make the conjecture-it is no more than that-that a mentality disposed to see the world in this way may be a persistent psychic phenomenon, more or less constantly affecting a modest minority of the population. But certain religious traditions, certain social structures and national inheritances, certain historical catastrophes or frustrations may be conducive to the release of such psychic energies, and to situations in which they can more readily be built into mass movements or political parties. In American experience ethnic and religious conflict have plainly been a major focus for militant and suspicious minds of this sort, but class conflicts also can mobilize such energies. Perhaps the central situation conducive to the diffusion of the paranoid tendency is a confrontation of opposed interests which are (or are felt to be) totally irreconcilable, and thus by nature not susceptible to the normal political processes of bargain and compromise. The situation becomes worse when the representatives of a particular social interest-perhaps because of the very unrealistic and unrealizable nature of its demands-are shut out of the political process. Having no access to political bargaining or the making of decisions, they find their original conception that the world of power is sinister and malicious fully confirmed. They see only the consequences of power-and this through distorting lenses-and have no chance to observe its actual machinery. A distinguished historian has said that one of the most valuable things about history is that it teaches us how things do not happen. It is precisely this kind of awareness that the paranoid fails to develop. He has a special resistance of his own, of course, to developing such awareness, but circumstances often deprive him of exposure to events that might enlighten him-and in any case he resists enlightenment.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well. - Richard Hofstader, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics"

Doctor Funkenstein: I can't tell which is better: Norbit or the fact that this got a greenlight.

This is the only correct response in this thread. It's over everyone go back to work.

I heard the window shattered at near free-fall speed.

"What happened to crazy?? People can't just be crazy no more?"

Just another in a long line of Kos/DU nutcases. Lest we forget the Karl Rove is going to blow up the Super Bowl and the fire in the VPs office was just like the Reichstag and now Bushiatler is going to start locking up dissidents or some such crap

Let's face it... People are pissed and paranoid all over.

Maybe they are just words, but if Obama can honestly give people a sense of hope and optimism, even if it's false... I consider that a good thing.

Hang On Voltaire: Just another in a long line of Kos/DU nutcases. Lest we forget the Karl Rove is going to blow up the Super Bowl and the fire in the VPs office was just like the Reichstag and now Bushiatler is going to start locking up dissidents or some such crap

Yeah, that's pretty stupid.

That's about as likely as saying that the abortion bombings are coming from women's rights groups.

Hang On Voltaire: Just another in a long line of Kos/DU nutcases. Lest we forget the Karl Rove is going to blow up the Super Bowl and the fire in the VPs office was just like the Reichstag and now Bushiatler is going to start locking up dissidents or some such crap

And the Clinton black helicopters....

Seriously, American political junkies are farking nuts, regardless of their place on the spectrum.

Pssh. Like a right-winger would be caught dead doing anything on a bicycle.

My first thought on hearing about it in the morning news: "Terrorism," or "faux terrorism"?

It IS an election year, ya know....


/still thinks our October Surprise will come in the form of an "Iranian attack" or attack on Iran after uncovering scant evidence on their resumption of a nuclear weapons development program...

Now this 'article' is some high drama right wing paranoia

". . .not sure whether this fits the profile of an anti-war activist attack."

/comedy gold.
//remember kids, the leftists are out to get the military.
///LEAVE THE MILITARY ALONE!

Krymore:

I don't promote tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.

I blame Ron Paul.

Oh, and George W. Bush.

Hang On Voltaire: Krymore:

I don't promote tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.

Doesn't that just depend on interpretation, though?

Hang On Voltaire: Krymore:

I don't promote tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.

No, and you never seem to notice them either... Unless they come from the mouths of radical leftists.

You gotta love HOV. One random internet diarist makes a random conspiracy claim on the intarweb and its worth posting about as a trend.

But a multimegamillion dollar Fox cable television network brings in "experts" live to discuss Senator Clinton's "evil" body language ( holding beer in her left hand) and that's nothing?

Christ the crap is deep in here. I oughta make some outrageous claim that another website can refer to in order to characterize all of Fark.

Somacandra: You gotta love HOV. One random internet diarist makes a random conspiracy claim on the intarweb and its worth posting about as a trend.

But a multimegamillion dollar Fox cable television network brings in "experts" live to discuss Senator Clinton's "evil" body language ( holding beer in her left hand) and that's nothing?

Christ the crap is deep in here. I oughta make some outrageous claim that another website can refer to in order to characterize all of Fark.

Toothpaste causes cancer.

hillbillypharmacist: Y'know, using this obviously loony person's anonymous post on a site to denigrate all liberals is just as loony as the original poster.

Maybe I'll start writing big articles about Freeper quotes.


Well, yes, to be fair.

But on the other hand, also to be fair, the article it's a comment on isn't much better... FTFA (emphasis mine):
Inevitably, we're going to start hearing about "left-wing terrorism" from the usual suspects in the media. And I'm guessing the drumbeat is going to be especially loud in this political environment.

We've already heard some noise about Barack Obama's purported "connections" to left-wing radicals and members of the Weather Underground. A contemporary example of a terrorist attack in the mold of WO will certainly inflame already rabid interest on the right, especially to the extent that it can be said to be "against the troops."

As for my own speculation, I'm not about to don the tinfoil here. Suffice to say that I don't believe any genuine "leftist" would see such an act as serving the interests of anyone but the political right. While random, unhinged individuals are always a possibility, I think there are plenty of other possibilities.

In other words, 'I don't want to say it and admit it openly, but I'm thinking it.'

ALSO, the comment in the thread *is* only getting modded up, and not tagged as a troll or anything... (5+ / 0- feedback as of right now, with 101 comments) So one could make a plausible argument that this is a theory that - if not actually shared widely - at least the folks over on Daily Kos are comfortable with...

Anyhow, anyone still reading Kos has my condolences for the loss of their dear departed mind.

Gulper Eel: Pssh. Like a right-winger would be caught dead doing anything on a bicycle.



/Had a 10-speed

Oh yeah, I remember this site Hot Air. And why I don't bother reading the articles there. :P

Unhip1:
/still thinks our October Surprise will come in the form of an "Iranian attack" or attack on Iran after uncovering scant evidence on their resumption of a nuclear weapons development program...



Approves.

Odds are this was an angry islamic fellow.

The idea that an American liberal could have done it is ludicrous on its face. The closest thing to terrorism that the left can muster these days is liberating chickens and keying SUV's.

As to it being the act of an agent provocateur, that doesn't make sense. An agent provocateur would do something more destructive. Why would the evil insiders who destroyed the World Trade Center to start a war for Halliburton profits bother themselves with a matchhead bomb at a store front? They'd be thinking BIG! They wouldn't satisfied with anything less than wiping out a complete combat brigade or a squadron of F-16's!

Hang On Voltaire: And the Clinton black helicopters....

But it's totally okay to spout off Waco conspiracy theories.

Much as you hate to admit it, most of the acts of terrorism committed on American soil since 9/11 were committed by right wingers. The anthrax mailings to the press. The possession of WMD by William Krar with the intent to kill liberals. The mailing of white powder by a Freeper to Keith Olbermann and several Democratic members of Congress.

It would be totally unsurprising if the terrorist in this instance was a right winger.

mongbiohazard: In other words, 'I don't want to say it and admit it openly, but I'm thinking it.'

What? I'm reading an rereading what you posted and your reaction to it. And the only thing I can see is blind hate on your part.

I *agree* with the sentiment. A crazy person *tried* to blow up a recruiting center. The right *will* use this to demonize leftists -- despite the fact that anyone who blows up a recruiting station is mentally ill, not a liberal.

And you come here peddling the same shiat. Jesus. Insinuating that huge blocks of your fellow Americans are terrorists does not make *you* look sane.

Gulper Eel: Pssh. Like a right-winger would be caught dead doing anything on a bicycle.

Hang on Voltaire has grown weary of this thread and is gone....as usual.

DarnoKonrad: I *agree* with the sentiment. A crazy person *tried* to blow up a recruiting center. The right *will* use this to demonize leftists -- despite the fact that anyone who blows up a recruiting station is mentally ill, not a liberal.

But...but...Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder. Don't you read anything by Ann Coulter?

DarnoKonrad: mongbiohazard: In other words, 'I don't want to say it and admit it openly, but I'm thinking it.'

What? I'm reading an rereading what you posted and your reaction to it. And the only thing I can see is blind hate on your part.


That's your opinion. My opinion is that I think he was pretty clearly hinting at what I interpreted it as... I'd normally toss out a "fail" here, but honestly it's open to interpretation enough that I don't think you earned it yet.


I *agree* with the sentiment. A crazy person *tried* to blow up a recruiting center. The right *will* use this to demonize leftists -- despite the fact that anyone who blows up a recruiting station is mentally ill, not a liberal.


You aren't helping make my interpretation of the Kos' OP any less believable, you know...


And you come here peddling the same shiat. Jesus. Insinuating that huge blocks of your fellow Americans are terrorists does not make *you* look sane.


BULLSHIAT. Now this is exactly where you fail, and fail hard.

I've only made ONE comment in this thread so far, just one. I would like you to quote for me right now my exact words where I said, or could reasonably interpreted to have insinuated, that leftists were terrorists, or made any comment or guess whatsoever as to the identity or political affiliation of the bomber.

Quote me saying that. I dare you. You don't even need to search through posts, since I only made one.

If you can quote where in my above comment I said that leftists were behind the bombing then I will sponsor your for a month of TF. If not, then I expect that you will admit that you pulled that completely out of your ass.


Hint: I did no such farking thing, as I was only talking about the childish theory that *righties* were behind the bombing to make lefties look bad - and the prevalence or lack thereof of this view on Kos.

Hideously Gigantic Smurf: Hang On Voltaire: Krymore:

I don't promote tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.

No, and you never seem to notice them either... Unless they come from the mouths of radical leftists.

I'm a "Fark Independent" and have voted for more Dems than Repubs. Weird.

Hang On Voltaire: Just another in a long line of Kos/DU nutcases.

As opposed to the completely rational folks on your team who claim Barack Obama is the anti-Christ. Oh, I forgot, that was just a joke.

Kos vs. Hot Air

Retard fight!

LocalCynic: Hang On Voltaire: And the Clinton black helicopters....

But it's totally okay to spout off Waco conspiracy theories.

Much as you hate to admit it, most of the acts of terrorism committed on American soil since 9/11 were committed by right wingers. The anthrax mailings to the press. The possession of WMD by William Krar with the intent to kill liberals. The mailing of white powder by a Freeper to Keith Olbermann and several Democratic members of Congress.

It would be totally unsurprising if the terrorist in this instance was a right winger.

Then he would be forced to add him as a personal hero.

LocalCynic:It would be totally unsurprising if the terrorist in this instance was a right winger.

Do you ever get tired of being a crazy left-wing idiot?

As opposed to the completely rational folks on your team who claim Barack Obama is the anti-Christ. Oh, I forgot, that was just a joke.

of course it is. the only one affiliated with Satan in this race is Hillary

Arnold T Pants: LocalCynic:It would be totally unsurprising if the terrorist in this instance was a right winger.

Do you ever get tired of being a crazy left-wing idiot?

Do you ever get tired of being a partisan Bush worshipper?

TFA: Since the Code Pink contingent and the nutcases who throw bombs can't possibly win through the democratic process, they want to engage in intimidation - and now terrorism - to frighten people into acquiescence.

Does that particular phrase strike anyone else as odd? Why can they not possibly win through the democratic process?

The Only Good Moran: Arnold T Pants: LocalCynic:It would be totally unsurprising if the terrorist in this instance was a right winger.

Do you ever get tired of being a crazy left-wing idiot?

Do you ever get tired of being a partisan Bush worshipper?


Some people are just afraid if they don't worship the Bush, they'll catch teh ghay.