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Linkster
2013-07-22 12:12:39 AM  
No, politics tab----------->
 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:13:16 AM  
No, I just get more conservative.
 
Heathen
2013-07-22 12:13:40 AM  
oh shove it libmitter
 
monty666 [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:14:30 AM  
No, I can't be conservative because I actually care about other human beings.

And take it to the politics tab, troll.
 
Linkster
2013-07-22 12:14:50 AM  
INSTA GREEN?  WTF?
 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:15:01 AM  

monty666: No, I can't be conservative because I actually care about other human beings.

And take it to the politics tab, troll.


He did!
 
MappingChick [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:15:03 AM  
No, but a lot of people like telling me how I should know more about Jesus.
 
CommieTaoist [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:15:13 AM  
The older I get, the more liberal I get.
 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:15:39 AM  

MappingChick: No, but a lot of people like telling me how I should know more about Jesus.


Come on over on Thursday he does the lawn with a couple of other guys.

/I think he is married.
 
MIAppologia [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:15:51 AM  
Hell no.  I was married to an arch conservative Republican, and the most I'd do is to tell him to stop talking politics around me, since his idea of talking politics was to gravely insult the politicians I admired.

And when that didn't work, I'd just turn the music up loud and clean the house.
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:16:25 AM  
And this goes green? Freakin' trollmins.
 
Heathen
2013-07-22 12:16:49 AM  

MIAppologia: Hell no.  I was married to an arch conservative Republican, and the most I'd do is to tell him to stop talking politics around me, since his idea of talking politics was to gravely insult the politicians I admired.

And when that didn't work, I'd just turn the music up loud and clean the house.


Jess?
 
MappingChick [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:17:35 AM  

feckingmorons: MappingChick: No, but a lot of people like telling me how I should know more about Jesus.

Come on over on Thursday he does the lawn with a couple of other guys.

/I think he is married.


Your joke is much better than the one I was trying to formulate.
 
MIAppologia [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:17:58 AM  

Heathen: Jess?


Huh?  I believe you have me confused with someone else.  :)
 
sn82
2013-07-22 12:18:17 AM  
I was a democrat until I met my ex several years ago. Then he told me more about republican and it made sense. I'm still kind of in the middle of the two parties but am more to the right than in the past. I still mostly vote for the right candidate versus voting for which party they're affiliated with.
 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:19:13 AM  

MIAppologia: Hell no.  I was married to an arch conservative Republican, and the most I'd do is to tell him to stop talking politics around me, since his idea of talking politics was to gravely insult the politicians I admired.

And when that didn't work, I'd just turn the music up loud and clean the house.


If I insult politicians you like will you play music loudly and clean my house?
I'll even buy dinner!
 
syrynxx [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:19:24 AM  
Yeah, when Bush the Younger got the power to arrest and execute without trial any American citizen, just by naming them a terrorist.  F*ck you Obama for not having the balls to grant habeus corpus to everyone in Guantanamo Bay.  Who am I going to vote for now?  It's obvious the political parties are both corrupt.
 
Abacus9
2013-07-22 12:19:39 AM  
No, I prefer to do my own thinking instead of having someone else do it for me. It makes me a riot at family get-togethers. Also this:

CommieTaoist: The older I get, the more liberal I get.
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:19:56 AM  

MappingChick: feckingmorons: MappingChick: No, but a lot of people like telling me how I should know more about Jesus.

Come on over on Thursday he does the lawn with a couple of other guys.

/I think he is married.

Your joke is much better than the one I was trying to formulate.


hateandanger.files.wordpress.comView Full Size
 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:20:09 AM  

CommieTaoist: The older I get, the more liberal I get.


I figure I'm going to hit 180 degrees one of these days and plaster Jerry Brown stickers on my car.
 
RedPhoenix122 [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:20:20 AM  

syrynxx: Who am I going to vote for now?


Pedro.
 
MIAppologia [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:20:45 AM  

feckingmorons: If I insult politicians you like will you play music loudly and clean my house?
I'll even buy dinner!


Um, sure.  I must warn you, however, that when I cleaned the bathroom, I dipped his toothbrush in the toilet.  :)
 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:20:47 AM  

syrynxx: Yeah, when Bush the Younger got the power to arrest and execute without trial any American citizen, just by naming them a terrorist.


I think you have that confused with the current administration which blows them up from the sky.
 
monty666 [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:20:51 AM  

doglover: MappingChick: feckingmorons: MappingChick: No, but a lot of people like telling me how I should know more about Jesus.

Come on over on Thursday he does the lawn with a couple of other guys.

/I think he is married.

Your joke is much better than the one I was trying to formulate.

[hateandanger.files.wordpress.com image 500x587]


I really have to get a cowboy hat.
 
HotWingAgenda
2013-07-22 12:20:51 AM  
When I was a kid, I was a super arch-conservative. When I was a teenager, I was a kneejerk liberal. Somewhere along the line, the pants-on-head idiocy of both ends of the spectrum convinced me that neither side has any f*cking clue what they're doing, so I just subscribe to the beliefs from the Federalist Papers now.

/#10 was the best, and has still never been honored by our lawmakers
 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:21:31 AM  

MIAppologia: feckingmorons: If I insult politicians you like will you play music loudly and clean my house?
I'll even buy dinner!

Um, sure.  I must warn you, however, that when I cleaned the bathroom, I dipped his toothbrush in the toilet.  :)


Oh, um ... nevermind.
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:21:59 AM  

monty666: doglover: MappingChick: feckingmorons: MappingChick: No, but a lot of people like telling me how I should know more about Jesus.

Come on over on Thursday he does the lawn with a couple of other guys.

/I think he is married.

Your joke is much better than the one I was trying to formulate.

[hateandanger.files.wordpress.com image 500x587]

I really have to get a cowboy hat.


3.bp.blogspot.comView Full Size
 
SuperTramp [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:23:16 AM  
feckingmorons
No, I just get more conservative.

This is why you and I are but two ships that pass in the night. And just so you know, I have torpedos, too.
 
EatenTheSun [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:23:17 AM  
Life experiences have pushed me to become more libertarian.
 
monty666 [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:23:42 AM  

doglover: monty666: doglover: MappingChick: feckingmorons: MappingChick: No, but a lot of people like telling me how I should know more about Jesus.

Come on over on Thursday he does the lawn with a couple of other guys.

/I think he is married.

Your joke is much better than the one I was trying to formulate.

[hateandanger.files.wordpress.com image 500x587]

I really have to get a cowboy hat.

[3.bp.blogspot.com image 570x402]


I'm thinking more Roofie Cowboy. Yeee-ha!
 
stilted [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:23:51 AM  
I seem to oscillate between the two.

/Or is it "vacillate"
//Oscillate...vacillate
///Someone just tell me what to think!
 
Linkster
2013-07-22 12:24:05 AM  

monty666: doglover: MappingChick: feckingmorons: MappingChick: No, but a lot of people like telling me how I should know more about Jesus.

Come on over on Thursday he does the lawn with a couple of other guys.

/I think he is married.

Your joke is much better than the one I was trying to formulate.

[hateandanger.files.wordpress.com image 500x587]

I really have to get a cowboy hat.


I really need to WEAR my Cowboy hat.

/my head (hair) shrank
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:24:35 AM  

monty666: doglover: monty666: doglover: MappingChick: feckingmorons: MappingChick: No, but a lot of people like telling me how I should know more about Jesus.

Come on over on Thursday he does the lawn with a couple of other guys.

/I think he is married.

Your joke is much better than the one I was trying to formulate.

[hateandanger.files.wordpress.com image 500x587]

I really have to get a cowboy hat.

[3.bp.blogspot.com image 570x402]

I'm thinking more Roofie Cowboy. Yeee-ha!


i25.photobucket.comView Full Size
 
EatenTheSun [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:24:41 AM  

SuperTramp: feckingmorons
No, I just get more conservative.

This is why you and I are but two ships that pass in the night. And just so you know, I have torpedos, too.


Like Madonna?
 
SuperTramp [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:25:58 AM  
EatenTheSun
Life experiences have pushed me to become more libertarian.

I hear you. Who the hell would get pimples, become socially awkward, obese, read Ayn Rand, and live in their mom's basement on purpose?
 
EatenTheSun [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:27:37 AM  

SuperTramp: EatenTheSun
Life experiences have pushed me to become more libertarian.

I hear you. Who the hell would get pimples, become socially awkward, obese, read Ayn Rand, and live in their mom's basement on purpose?


I've only ever done 3 of those things.
 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:29:27 AM  

SuperTramp: feckingmorons
No, I just get more conservative.

This is why you and I are but two ships that pass in the night. And just so you know, I have torpedos, too.


I bet they're lovely.

/I'm writing in Nixon for 2016.
 
SuperTramp [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:29:27 AM  
EatenTheSun
Like Madonna?

It was a metaphor, dear
 
make me some tea [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:30:31 AM  

sn82: I was a democrat until I met my ex several years ago. Then he told me more about republican and it made sense. I'm still kind of in the middle of the two parties but am more to the right than in the past. I still mostly vote for the right candidate versus voting for which party they're affiliated with.


As an ex-conservatve, what "made sense" to you specifically?
 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:30:55 AM  

SuperTramp: EatenTheSun
Life experiences have pushed me to become more libertarian.

I hear you. Who the hell would get pimples, become socially awkward, obese, read Ayn Rand, and live in their mom's basement on purpose?


Do you know how much money I would save if I could live in my mom's basement?

/she lives on the top floor of a condo building.
// I suppose I could live in her parking spot.
 
SpiderQueenDemon
2013-07-22 12:30:55 AM  
On some issues, yeah. Socially I'm quite liberal, fiscally I'm progressive, on national security I'm all over the map depending on the specific matter at hand and for the most part, I'm what happens when you invite a Lean/Kaizen engineer to the poli-sci majors' table and everyone's head starts to hurt.

There's no party in the 'verse that would want me as a member. As it should be.
 
monty666 [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:30:56 AM  

doglover: monty666: doglover: monty666: doglover: MappingChick: feckingmorons: MappingChick: No, but a lot of people like telling me how I should know more about Jesus.

Come on over on Thursday he does the lawn with a couple of other guys.

/I think he is married.

Your joke is much better than the one I was trying to formulate.

[hateandanger.files.wordpress.com image 500x587]

I really have to get a cowboy hat.

[3.bp.blogspot.com image 570x402]

I'm thinking more Roofie Cowboy. Yeee-ha!

[i25.photobucket.com image 400x400]


Perfect.

I wonder whatever happened to that dude.
 
Satan's Chocolate Starfish [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:32:39 AM  
The more I hear conservatives babble about their hatred and fear and narrow-mindedness and misogyny, the more I want to be exactly the opposite of them.
 
sn82
2013-07-22 12:32:42 AM  

make me some tea: sn82: I was a democrat until I met my ex several years ago. Then he told me more about republican and it made sense. I'm still kind of in the middle of the two parties but am more to the right than in the past. I still mostly vote for the right candidate versus voting for which party they're affiliated with.

As an ex-conservatve, what "made sense" to you specifically?


The theory of small government and not spending as much as democrats do.
 
EatenTheSun [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:32:48 AM  

SuperTramp: EatenTheSun
Like Madonna?

It was a metaphor, dear


I stand by my original question.
 
SuperTramp [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:33:24 AM  
feckingmorons

/I'm writing in Nixon for 2016.

Hardly surprising, since you seem to be stuck in the past. Oh. gee. Is that what you're hoping to "conserve"? A time when men were men, and women were barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, and The Pentagon Papers were just a dream? :)
 
feckingmorons [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:34:39 AM  

SuperTramp: feckingmorons

/I'm writing in Nixon for 2016.

Hardly surprising, since you seem to be stuck in the past. Oh. gee. Is that what you're hoping to "conserve"? A time when men were men, and women were barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, and The Pentagon Papers were just a dream? :)


No, my sanity. Probably a lost cause.

I want to live next to Ozzie and Harriet. I want a maid named Hazel.

And goats. I want goats.
 
Lorelle [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:35:36 AM  
I was quite conservative when I was young (raised Catholic, later became a born-again Christian; was a Reagan Republican who also voted for Bush the Elder). Bad personal experiences led me to question my faith; that, and learning the history of Christianity and other belief systems made me realize that religion was bullshiat. By the late 1980s, conservative Christians had taken over the GOP (I guess I was more of a Barry Goldwater Republican, now that I think about it), and I quit the party in disgust in 1992.

CommieTaoist: The older I get, the more liberal I get.


This.
 
SuperTramp [TotalFark]
2013-07-22 12:36:50 AM  

EatenTheSun: SuperTramp: EatenTheSun
Like Madonna?

It was a metaphor, dear

I stand by my original question.


Stop pushing
 
syrynxx [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-22 12:37:29 AM  

make me some tea: As an ex-conservatve


I think that's a touchy word.  I'd still like to think I'm fiscally-conservative, but "socially conservative" is just a code word for "legislating what we imagine the Bible's version of morality to be".  F* that.  I don't support fining people who don't purchase 3rd-party health insurance.  The US government has no more right to force me to buy 3rd-party health insurance than it does to force me to buy ketchup or soup or footwear.  It certainly doesn't have the authority to penalize me for not buying a commercial product.
 
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