Conservative Stages Of Grief: the right's predictable cycle of whining as the world gets better

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Tuesday December 17, 2013 · 9:07 AM PST

2013/12/17 · 09:07

To the uninitiated, conservative whining sounds like a frenzied inferno of random hate: sound and fury signifying nothing. Not true! As the quote goes: "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Conservative whining follows a cyclical pattern, by observing their current talking points we can measure how much progress has been made on various issues, and predict what future debates will be about.

Though, I'm not going to use the term "whine" any more, I'm going to use a more vulgar and politically-incorrect one. Because I'm just like that.

(Article continues after, for some reason, a picture of a redhead's pubic hairs).

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What's the best name for this model?

Conservative Stages of Grief

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Bitcher Scale

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Something about whine snobs having whine samplings

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How to visualize wealth inequality: compare to the dragon hoard from The Hobbit

PatriotismOverProfits

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Thursday October 31, 2013 · 2:09 PM PDT

2013/10/31 · 14:09

Forbes Magazine, looking at the pile of money in the above illustration, calculated that it's worth $14.7 billion.

Consider that there's 62 people who have more money than that. 16 people have inherited more money than that. Just let it sink in for a while.

PatriotismOverProfits

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Wednesday November 14, 2012 · 4:28 PM PST

2012/11/14 · 16:28

Sick of seeing scorched-earth Republicans in Congress holding America hostage?
Sick of our guys letting them get away with it?

We need to make it clear, right here, right now, that we are obsessed with increasing voter turnout in mid-term elections. That - and nothing else - will put backbone into the congressional Dems and fear of accountability into the GOP. We need to make everybody know that we are eating, sleeping, and breathing 2014 turnout.

PatriotismOverProfits

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Friday November 09, 2012 · 10:33 AM PST

2012/11/09 · 10:33

...America voted for Obama because progressive values are American values. This election has proven yet again that America values solidarity, fairness, equal rights, and real responsibility. The values that made America a great nation. These values are ageless, genderless, and raceless.

...Presidential elections are the ones which citizens pay the most attention to, and are most likely to vote in. If you're looking for the purest existing way of expressing the will of the American majority, you look at the popular vote in Presidential elections. In the last 6 presidential elections, Republicans only won the popular vote once - and only by a few thousand votes...

PatriotismOverProfits

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Saturday April 21, 2012 · 7:41 AM PDT

2012/04/21 · 07:41

| Mitt Romney=More Bailouts
| Romney: Believe In Anything
| Romney: Bailout My Bankers
| Romney: I Believe In Money

PatriotismOverProfits

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Friday August 13, 2010 · 8:25 PM PDT

2010/08/13 · 20:25

Who are the worst people in American history?

Right Wing News reports:

"Out of all the gangsters, serial killers, mass murderers, incompetent & crooked politicians, spies, traitors, and ultra left-wing kooks in all of American history -- have you ever wondered who the worst of the worst was? Well, we here at RWN wondered about that, too, and that's why we decided to email more than a hundred bloggers to get their opinions..."

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Worst people in American History:

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Worst people in American History:

People who broke treaties with the natives and committed genocide

26 votes

People who did business/collaborated with the Nazis, "ex"-nazi immigrants

4 votes

People who introduced slavery, owned slaves, and defended slavery

34 votes

Successionists and Klansmen

14 votes

People who wanted to start World War 3

13 votes

Filibusters, coup-plotters, American-born dictators

4 votes

Economic hitmen and other financial industry criminals

13 votes

Community organizers

11 votes

International community organizers

0 votes

Birth control activists

3 votes

People with Buns of Steel

13 votes

Why Obama should move GITMO to Alaska

PatriotismOverProfits

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Monday May 25, 2009 · 6:07 AM PDT

2009/05/25 · 06:07

Instead of moving Gitmo detainees to supermax prisons in the continental USA, Obama should build a new prison in Alaska, either in the Aleutian Islands, or on some other island even further north.

The benefits are as follows:

It's even more isolated than Cuba.

It's still within American jurisdiction.

It will put Sarah Palin in the spotlight.

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What to do about Gitmo?

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What to do about Gitmo?

Move 'em to Alaska.

34 votes

Move 'em to some Pacific Island.

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Move 'em to supermax prisons.

26 votes

Don't close Gitmo.

9 votes

Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out.

3 votes

I don't know/care, just make sure Dick Cheney joins 'em.

26 votes

Meet Bobby Jindal

PatriotismOverProfits

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Saturday January 03, 2009 · 10:57 AM PST

2009/01/03 · 10:57

In 2012, the stage will be set for a clash of titans - the unstoppable force meeting the immovable object - a knock-down drag-out battle between the white-backlash social conservatives who give the republican party its votes, and the Wall Street republicans who own, operate, and profit from the party. Their champions: Sarah Palin, for the GOP base, and Bobby Jindal, for the GOP management.

Sarah Palin has the power of stupid people in large numbers. But the GOP management have been manipulating those same stupid people to screw them selves - both economically and politically - for decades without breaking a sweat. Plus, nobody knows anything about their candidate - that's always a plus in Republican politics.

So, to help out our hard-working, long-oppressed brothers in the GOP base, I present: MEET BOBBY JINDAL

PatriotismOverProfits

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 8:20 AM PST

2008/11/06 · 08:20

The battle isn't over. The battle has not even begun. On Janurary 20th, 2009, the battle begins as humanity gets one last chance to save democracy, civilization, and what's left of the environment. This window of opportunity will last, at most, 2 years. More realistically, we will get a few months.

What should we do? What reforms should we make? Dicuss in this thread.

My opinion, after the jump.

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The reform we need to push first and hardest is:

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The reform we need to push first and hardest is:

De-bankrupting the government (aka tax the rich)

2 votes

voters rights

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campaign finance

0 votes

education

0 votes

energy

0 votes

healthcare

0 votes

restoring the constitution

7 votes

Something else (leave a comment)

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Will the media slander Gustav survivors as they did Katrina survivors?

PatriotismOverProfits

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Sunday August 31, 2008 · 7:28 PM PDT

2008/08/31 · 19:28

I highly recommend contacting the media and reminding them that you are watching like a hawk to see if they slander the hurricane victims as they did last time, and that you will do all you can to hold them and their advertisers will be held accountable.

Here is a page I wrote for DKosopedia about the media coverage of Katrina survivors. I think I overdid the rhetoric a bit, but it still stands that by reporting outrageous rumours the same way they report facts, the media, did a lot of damage to blacks, poor people, and all victims of Hurricane Katrina, and that they did so without any consequences. Can you imagine the consequences had a media outlet reported that 9/11 victims were shooting their rescuers?

PatriotismOverProfits

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Wednesday March 05, 2008 · 10:15 AM PST

2008/03/05 · 10:15

Too many people seem to think that "war is a video game". This brings up the question, why do video games glamorize war instead of portraying it realistically? If your average game was a movie, it would have more in common with "The Green Berets" than "Platoon". I've been thinking of some ways video games can de-glamorize war while also adding to the gameplay.

PatriotismOverProfits

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Friday October 07, 2005 · 7:30 PM PDT

2005/10/07 · 19:30

dKosopedia is an always-under-construction encyclopedia/database of political knowledge, as well as many related projects. Ideally, it should be able to insantly provide the facts and arguments you will need to debate any political subject.

It is quietly growing, it now has 3822 articles and is recieving an absurd amount of hits. It's got lots of good stuff, but it has a lot of gaping holes that need to be filled - by you.
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