What makes one Conservative?

[Quantum Windbag]

Plenty? Two or three percent isn't plenty. Stop being a subjective child, if that's possible.

I live in San Francisco, I meet gay men almost every day.

Want to prove how stupid you are again?

Learn what the word "subjective" means. I didn't post the picture for faggots, liberal or conservative.

You claimed that all men find the picture hot, I proved you wrong. Just admit it.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

What makes one Conservative

Hatred, fear, and paranoia. And a need for government to legislate morality.

Hatred is the defining characteristic of one side of the debate.

http://www.usmessageboard.com/general-discussion/367624-why-i-am-no-longer-a-leftist.html

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

What makes one Conservative

Hatred, fear, and paranoia. And a need for government to legislate morality.

Spot on, that is today's conservative GOP.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

So you make your choices of ideology based on the actions of others.

How interesting.

Me. I detested Bush from the start, protested the wars before they started. And vomitted when I voted for him in 04 because of the alternative.

But that makes me no less conservative today than then.

If you voted for Bush twice, then you're the one with ideological problems based on emotion and a lack of critical thinking skills, certainly not reality.

Another reactionary comment.

I am still a conservative despite the party.

Bush was not a conservative by any stretch.......

Sorry, you need to go after others reasoning skills to hide your own deficiencies in that area.

BTW: I'd never vote for anyone based on any such things as a "second attack". I've learned that they ALL utilize marketing to sell their horseshit.

But you voted for him anyway. And I need help withy my reasoning skills....

 

[PaintMyHouse]

I live in San Francisco, I meet gay men almost every day.

Want to prove how stupid you are again?

Learn what the word "subjective" means. I didn't post the picture for faggots, liberal or conservative.

You claimed that all men find the picture hot, I proved you wrong. Just admit it.

No, I didn't.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

By they way, if you actually read the study, which is not directly linked to in your article, you might discover how stupid you are for posting this in the first place.

The study isn't directly linked, as in you click on a link and it opens? God you're an idiot.

As for your view on where this should be posted, God you're an idiot.

It isn't. The only link is to the publication it is in, which you cannot read unless you register, feel free to prove me wrong.

So sign up, it will do you good, and here then: http://journals.cambridge.org/downl...92a.pdf&code=2608042bf725233cb5d589f01343f27c

 

[Erand7899]

What makes one conservative?

Logic, a knowledge of history, a knowledge of economics, maturity, intelligence, life experience, skepticism and a thirst for freedom.

How I wish we still had some of those? Those I can deal with.

No, you can't. You just need to stick to the field of BS, wherein you are an expert.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Remember a poster in gradeschool showing the various positions side-by-side Democrats or Republicans have. Googling around for something like it I couldn't find one (though admittedly I gave up when page 1 results didn't yield results.) But I often find I have positions and beliefs on both sides. Am pro-death penalty and anti-abortion (with a few conditions like life/health of the mother, or if from rape,) but pro-LGBT legal equality (marriage, adoption, etc.) and more than slightly anti-corporate/capitalism.

I like to think most people are like this and few come down entirely on either side. And think the ones that claim they do more likely just avoid discussions on the issues they're not as sure where they come down on.

 

[Erand7899]

What shouldn't we spend money on? Let's do that math eh?

Name the program, and the cost?

Who is we ?

But to answer your question......

Research dollars at colleges.

Well that would equal a rounding error. Keep going.

A $billion here, and a $billion there, and pretty soon you start saving real money. However, the real drivers of our debt and Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Defense Department. Next year, we can add Obamacare to that list.

Being one of those rabid conservatives, logic tells me that the only way to get a handle on the deficits is to reform those programs, while attempting to grow the economy and begin to pay down the debt with the resultant tax revenues. A real extreme position.

Eliminating fraud and waste wouldn't hurt either. That would have the effect of allowing people to think their government is, at least, competent.

 

[TheIceMan]

Not this shit again.

It's not shit, it's psychology. Aren't you interested in why people are so wedded to their ideology? If you knew the dogs would always kill the cats, no matter what you did, wouldn't you keep them apart?

Yeah. Good point. I'm all for sending all you leftwingers to Europe and letting you have your own country. Just not mine.

And not to worry, whoever you oppose will cave and Obama will endorse it.

 

[Erand7899]

I used to be fairly conservative up until about 12 years ago and then had my eyes opened by someone in a position to know just what kind of shit Bush and Cheney were pulling on America with Iraq and Afghanistan. Then the Patriot Act and letting Wall Street go wild with the mortgage industry left me in shock.

So fine, 2004 and time to dump his ass. HELL NO, the idiots REELECTED HIM! Based on lies about a second attack on domestic soil by Al Queda.

I was done right then and there.

So you make your choices of ideology based on the actions of others.

How interesting.

Me. I detested Bush from the start, protested the wars before they started. And vomitted when I voted for him in 04 because of the alternative.

But that makes me no less conservative today than then.

If you voted for Bush twice, then you're the one with ideological problems based on emotion and a lack of critical thinking skills, certainly not reality. I was born n' raised by Eisenhower Republicans in the far west. I don't recognize the zombies who are in charge of the GOP now.

The people in charge of the GOP today are not conservatives, have never been conservatives, and will never be conservatives. They are not left wing zealots like many of you loonies, but they lean left.

Perhaps you are ignorant of the war within the party as conservatives attempt to take the party back from the RINOs who have been running it, as a Democrat lite party.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Learn what the word "subjective" means. I didn't post the picture for faggots, liberal or conservative.

You claimed that all men find the picture hot, I proved you wrong. Just admit it.

No, I didn't.

Sigh.

If you don't find this hot, you are too conservative:

Cosmopolitan Magazine Offers Sexual Positions For Lesbians

And this would mean libs think with their dicks ?

All men do...

Maybe you should reconsider lying about what you said.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

The study isn't directly linked, as in you click on a link and it opens? God you're an idiot.

As for your view on where this should be posted, God you're an idiot.

It isn't. The only link is to the publication it is in, which you cannot read unless you register, feel free to prove me wrong.

So sign up, it will do you good, and here then: http://journals.cambridge.org/downl...92a.pdf&code=2608042bf725233cb5d589f01343f27c

What makes you think I didn't sign up? After all, I challenged you to actually read the study your article referenced, but didn't link to. Have you read it yet?

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

So you make your choices of ideology based on the actions of others.

How interesting.

Me. I detested Bush from the start, protested the wars before they started. And vomitted when I voted for him in 04 because of the alternative.

But that makes me no less conservative today than then.

If you voted for Bush twice, then you're the one with ideological problems based on emotion and a lack of critical thinking skills, certainly not reality. I was born n' raised by Eisenhower Republicans in the far west. I don't recognize the zombies who are in charge of the GOP now.

The people in charge of the GOP today are not conservatives, have never been conservatives, and will never be conservatives. They are not left wing zealots like many of you loonies, but they lean left.

Perhaps you are ignorant of the war within the party as conservatives attempt to take the party back from the RINOs who have been running it, as a Democrat lite party.

So you voted for Bush twice, too. [[[shaking head]]] We told you that was going to be a mistake.

You sold out, honey. Plain n' simple. Now suck it up and and try to buy it back.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

You claimed that all men find the picture hot, I proved you wrong. Just admit it.

No, I didn't.

Sigh.

And this would mean libs think with their dicks ?

All men do...

Maybe you should reconsider lying about what you said.

All men think with their dicks moron, that I said.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

It isn't. The only link is to the publication it is in, which you cannot read unless you register, feel free to prove me wrong.

So sign up, it will do you good, and here then: http://journals.cambridge.org/downl...92a.pdf&code=2608042bf725233cb5d589f01343f27c

What makes you think I didn't sign up? After all, I challenged you to actually read the study your article referenced, but didn't link to. Have you read it yet?

It did link idiot, and no, I haven't yet.

 

[whitehall]

Something a bit more interesting than what's being posted today, although I'm using that term "conservative" loosely since nearly all here aren't conservative, they're Reactionary.


Scientists Discover the Fascinating Psychological Reason Why Conservatives Are…Conservative
Right-wing ideology is tailored to a particular psychological profile.

A large body of political scientists and political psychologists now concur that liberals and conservatives disagree about politics in part because they are different people at the level of personality, psychology, and even traits like physiology and genetics.

That's a big deal. It challenges everything that we thought we knew about politics—upending the idea that we get our beliefs solely from our upbringing, from our friends and families, from our personal economic interests, and calling into question the notion that in politics, we can really change (most of us, anyway).

The occasion of this revelation is a paper by John Hibbing of the University of Nebraska and his colleagues, arguing that political conservatives have a "negativity bias," meaning that they are physiologically more attuned to negative (threatening, disgusting) stimuli in their environments. (The paper can be read for free here.) In the process, Hibbing et al. marshal a large body of evidence, including their own experiments using eye trackers and other devices to measure the involuntary responses of political partisans to different types of images. One finding? That conservatives respond much more rapidly to threatening and aversive stimuli (for instance, images of "a very large spider on the face of a frightened person, a dazed individual with a bloody face, and an open wound with maggots in it," as one of their papers put it).

Scientists Discover the Fascinating Psychological Reason Why Conservatives Are?Conservative | Alternet

The world according to a "paper" written by somebody named John Hibbing (and his colleagues) at Nabraska U? The radical left must be desperate.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

The world according to a "paper" written by somebody named John Hibbing (and his colleagues) at Nabraska [sic] U? The radical left must be desperate.

Desperate? No, just curious, as always. And Nebraska, home of the Radical Left eh?

 

[mamooth]

The people in charge of the GOP today are not conservatives, have never been conservatives, and will never be conservatives.

Just as True Marxism never fails, according to Marxists, True Conservativism never fails, according to conservatives. If we'd only implement them properly, they wouldn't fail!

That's just one way in which it's so difficult to distinguish modern conservatives from Marxists.

 

[Smashy]

You know you're a true conservative when you say "Rush Limbaugh!" and then laugh as liberal heads explode. No fear or need to conserve anything other than your giggles.