Virtue: Liberalism ...

[amrchaos]

Well since we are talking politics in a religion and ethics forum(really, we do have a board for this type of discussion!!)

I always thought that republicans call anybody a liberal if they do not agree with many of their ideas of what conservatism is or the political agenda outlined by the 'conservative' group leading the GOP at the time.

That is how people from Barney Sanders(socialist) to Ron Paul(libertarian) are called liberals by Republicans and the rights talking heads.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

modern day liberals have tainted the word

The last thing liberals care about is liberty.

wtf would a moron like you know about liberty, freedom, or diddly squat?

Which side wants to limit an individual's ability to buy a sugary drink in excess of 16 ounces? Case closed.

Any individual can buy and consume as many sugary ounces as they want. What is being proposed by a conservative billionaire (Mayor Bloombberg) with responsibility for a major metropolitan city (NYC), is the sales of sugary drinks. Sales are regulated in the market place. Always have been and always will. There is NO restriction being proposed on how much sugar can be consumed. Liberty at stake?

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[amrchaos]

Actually, Bloomberg is looking at restrictions on the size of the drinks being sold. Why in the helll do that, huh?

Add in his crusade against transfats and Bloomberg comes across as a Soup Nazi!

 

[kwc57]

wtf would a moron like you know about liberty, freedom, or diddly squat?

Which side wants to limit an individual's ability to buy a sugary drink in excess of 16 ounces? Case closed.

Any individual can buy and consume as many sugary ounces as they want. What is being proposed by a conservative billionaire (Mayor Bloombberg) with responsibility for a major metropolitan city (NYC), is the sales of sugary drinks. Sales are regulated in the market place. Always have been and always will. There is NO restriction being proposed on how much sugar can be consumed. Liberty at stake?

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Bloomberg - conservative. Have you no shame or intelligence?

 

[Skull Pilot]

wtf would a moron like you know about liberty, freedom, or diddly squat?

Which side wants to limit an individual's ability to buy a sugary drink in excess of 16 ounces? Case closed.

Any individual can buy and consume as many sugary ounces as they want. What is being proposed by a conservative billionaire (Mayor Bloombberg) with responsibility for a major metropolitan city (NYC), is the sales of sugary drinks. Sales are regulated in the market place. Always have been and always will. There is NO restriction being proposed on how much sugar can be consumed. Liberty at stake?

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The fact that the government tells anyone what they can and can't sell is a suppression of liberty.

Now run on back to the flock little sheep. The rancher needs dinner.

 

[kwc57]

Actually, Bloomberg is looking at restrictions on the size of the drinks being sold. Why in the helll do that, huh?

Add in his crusade against transfats and Bloomberg comes across as a Soup Nazi!

Ravi has a point(ed head) in that you can buy as many 16 ounce drinks as you want. Of course carrying two or three cups around instead of one is kind of difficult.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Actually, Bloomberg is looking at restrictions on the size of the drinks being sold. Why in the helll do that, huh?

Add in his crusade against transfats and Bloomberg comes across as a Soup Nazi!

anyone can still but ten drinks. stupid, eh?

so where is the threat to liberty?


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[Procrustes Stretched]

Actually, Bloomberg is looking at restrictions on the size of the drinks being sold. Why in the helll do that, huh?

Add in his crusade against transfats and Bloomberg comes across as a Soup Nazi!

Ravi has a point(ed head) in that you can buy as many 16 ounce drinks as you want. Of course carrying two or three cups around instead of one is kind of difficult.

only if you walk around NYC with a hoola hoop in place of a brain.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Which side wants to limit an individual's ability to buy a sugary drink in excess of 16 ounces? Case closed.

Any individual can buy and consume as many sugary ounces as they want. What is being proposed by a conservative billionaire (Mayor Bloombberg) with responsibility for a major metropolitan city (NYC), is the sales of sugary drinks. Sales are regulated in the market place. Always have been and always will. There is NO restriction being proposed on how much sugar can be consumed. Liberty at stake?

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Bloomberg - conservative. Have you no shame or intelligence?

not being an ideological purist nutjob like you....

Wikipedia may be on to something:

Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman and politician who is currently Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $22 billion in 2012, he is also the 11th-richest person in the United States.[3] He is the founder and 88% owner of Bloomberg L.P., a financial data-services firm.[4][5][6]

A Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his registration in 2001 and ran for mayor as a Republican, winning the election that year and a second term in 2005. Bloomberg left the Republican Party over policy and philosophical disagreements with national party leadership in 2007 and ran for his third term in 2009 as an independent candidate on the Republican ballot line. He was frequently mentioned as a possible independent candidate for the 2008 presidential election, which fueled further speculation when he left the Republican Party

Michael Bloomberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Some of the policies Bloomberg advocates parallel those of either the Democratic or the Republican party platform. He is socially liberal, supporting abortion rights, gay marriage, gun control, and amnesty for illegal immigrants, for example. On economics, foreign, and domestic issues, Bloomberg tends to be conservative. He opposed a timeline for withdrawal from the Iraq War, and criticized those who favored one. Economically, he supports government involvement in issues such as public welfare and climate change, while being strongly in favor of free trade, pro-business, and describing himself as a fiscal conservative

 

[Dr.Drock]

Actually, Bloomberg is looking at restrictions on the size of the drinks being sold. Why in the helll do that, huh?

Add in his crusade against transfats and Bloomberg comes across as a Soup Nazi!

anyone can still but ten drinks. stupid, eh?

so where is the threat to liberty?


next

As long as the statists are aware this is just a game Bloomberg is playing to try to appeal to the dumbest of New Yorkers, all is well.

However I bet come election time, Bloomberg is going to campaign on this showing how much he cares about New York youth and those same idiot statists will buy every word of it.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Which side wants to limit an individual's ability to buy a sugary drink in excess of 16 ounces? Case closed.

Any individual can buy and consume as many sugary ounces as they want. What is being proposed by a conservative billionaire (Mayor Bloombberg) with responsibility for a major metropolitan city (NYC), is the sales of sugary drinks. Sales are regulated in the market place. Always have been and always will. There is NO restriction being proposed on how much sugar can be consumed. Liberty at stake?

next

The fact that the government tells anyone what they can and can't sell is a suppression of liberty.

Now run on back to the flock little sheep. The rancher needs dinner.

Government regulation is a built in part of any and all economic systems. The market place always recognizes the rights of government to regulate.

 

[Nosmo King]

modern day liberals have tainted the word

The last thing liberals care about is liberty.

wtf would a moron like you know about liberty, freedom, or diddly squat?

Which side wants to limit an individual's ability to buy a sugary drink in excess of 16 ounces? Case closed.

And nothing says "freedom" more than a Big Gulp!

Fly shit out of the pepper.

Which "side" wants to cede more power to global corporations and less to the one institution designed to serve 'We, the People'?

 

[Nosmo King]

Which side wants to limit an individual's ability to buy a sugary drink in excess of 16 ounces? Case closed.

Any individual can buy and consume as many sugary ounces as they want. What is being proposed by a conservative billionaire (Mayor Bloombberg) with responsibility for a major metropolitan city (NYC), is the sales of sugary drinks. Sales are regulated in the market place. Always have been and always will. There is NO restriction being proposed on how much sugar can be consumed. Liberty at stake?

next

The fact that the government tells anyone what they can and can't sell is a suppression of liberty.
Now run on back to the flock little sheep. The rancher needs dinner.

Like marijuana?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Actually, Bloomberg is looking at restrictions on the size of the drinks being sold. Why in the helll do that, huh?

Add in his crusade against transfats and Bloomberg comes across as a Soup Nazi!

anyone can still but ten drinks. stupid, eh?

so where is the threat to liberty?


next

As long as the statists are aware this is just a game Bloomberg is playing to try to appeal to the dumbest of New Yorkers, all is well.

However I bet come election time, Bloomberg is going to campaign on this showing how much he cares about New York youth and those same idiot statists will buy every word of it.

Alert!
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whenever you see the terms 'statist' or 'sovereign people' in a post, it is almost always a sure bet you are dealing with a whack-a-doodle-doo revisionist dumb fuck

 

[Dr.Drock]

Any individual can buy and consume as many sugary ounces as they want. What is being proposed by a conservative billionaire (Mayor Bloombberg) with responsibility for a major metropolitan city (NYC), is the sales of sugary drinks. Sales are regulated in the market place. Always have been and always will. There is NO restriction being proposed on how much sugar can be consumed. Liberty at stake?

next

The fact that the government tells anyone what they can and can't sell is a suppression of liberty.
Now run on back to the flock little sheep. The rancher needs dinner.

Like marijuana?

Yes, exactly like marijuana.

How someone can think marijuana should be legal, and simultaneously support one of the 2 corporate parties is mind-boggling to me.

 

[Dr.Drock]

anyone can still but ten drinks. stupid, eh?

so where is the threat to liberty?


next

As long as the statists are aware this is just a game Bloomberg is playing to try to appeal to the dumbest of New Yorkers, all is well.

However I bet come election time, Bloomberg is going to campaign on this showing how much he cares about New York youth and those same idiot statists will buy every word of it.

Alert!
Alert!
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whenever you see the terms 'statist' or 'sovereign people' in a post, it is almost always a sure bet you are dealing with a whack-a-doodle-doo revisionist dumb fuck

There's statists in both parties and indies, Bloomberg is a perfect example.

Well done ignoring my post though, I'm surprised you even quoted me when you obviously didn't have a reply,

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

As long as the statists are aware this is just a game Bloomberg is playing to try to appeal to the dumbest of New Yorkers, all is well.

However I bet come election time, Bloomberg is going to campaign on this showing how much he cares about New York youth and those same idiot statists will buy every word of it.

Alert!
Alert!
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whenever you see the terms 'statist' or 'sovereign people' in a post, it is almost always a sure bet you are dealing with a whack-a-doodle-doo revisionist dumb fuck

There's statists in both parties and indies, Bloomberg is a perfect example.

Well done ignoring my post though, I'm surprised you even quoted me when you obviously didn't have a reply,

statist? reply to your inanities?


'what planet are you from, Drokster? talking to you is like talking to my keyboard.' - paraphrasing Barney Frank

 

[Skull Pilot]

Any individual can buy and consume as many sugary ounces as they want. What is being proposed by a conservative billionaire (Mayor Bloombberg) with responsibility for a major metropolitan city (NYC), is the sales of sugary drinks. Sales are regulated in the market place. Always have been and always will. There is NO restriction being proposed on how much sugar can be consumed. Liberty at stake?

next

The fact that the government tells anyone what they can and can't sell is a suppression of liberty.
Now run on back to the flock little sheep. The rancher needs dinner.

Like marijuana?

Yes or anything for that matter.

What business is it of the fucking government what you decide to eat drink or smoke?

 

[Skull Pilot]

The fact that the government tells anyone what they can and can't sell is a suppression of liberty.
Now run on back to the flock little sheep. The rancher needs dinner.

Like marijuana?

Yes, exactly like marijuana.

How someone can think marijuana should be legal, and simultaneously support one of the 2 corporate parties is mind-boggling to me.

How anyone can support the two party system which has so utterly failed us is beyond me

 

[Dr.Drock]

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whenever you see the terms 'statist' or 'sovereign people' in a post, it is almost always a sure bet you are dealing with a whack-a-doodle-doo revisionist dumb fuck

There's statists in both parties and indies, Bloomberg is a perfect example.

Well done ignoring my post though, I'm surprised you even quoted me when you obviously didn't have a reply,

statist? reply to your inanities?


'what planet are you from, Drokster? talking to you is like talking to my keyboard.' - paraphrasing Barney Frank

Yes, statist, someone who favors heavy gov't control. If someone favors gov't regulating cup sizes, that person is by definition a statist.

Didn't really say anything that should invoke tantrum throwing.