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Jul. 11th, 2011 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingExhibit A:
Exhibit B:
(Note how close those bottom entries are to The Crazification Factor. I'm just saying.)
Exhibit B:
(Note how close those bottom entries are to The Crazification Factor. I'm just saying.)
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Date: 2011-07-11 12:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-11 01:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-11 01:50 pm (UTC)setting aside the little matter that the money in question is *all* owned by the government they so distrust ...
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Date: 2011-07-11 01:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-11 02:37 pm (UTC)but where will you put all those chickens?
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Date: 2011-07-11 02:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-11 11:09 pm (UTC)No. It is not. Where is this meme coming from? It's factually incorrect and the third time in a week that I've heard it.
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Date: 2011-07-11 01:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-11 01:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-11 02:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-11 02:12 pm (UTC)Who, incidentally, do they think funds these programmes? That's the question that needs answering next.
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Date: 2011-07-11 02:40 pm (UTC)no, hang on. sorry. that's the *other* guys.
erm. they're libertarians. money falls of trees if you're nice to people, right?
maybe i don't have the hang of this after all?
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Date: 2011-07-11 07:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-11 02:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-11 05:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-11 06:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-11 06:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-11 07:05 pm (UTC)It has very little to do with mental illness and more that 27% of the US population will consistently make decisions that are clearly, obviously, objectively, in every way, wrong.
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Date: 2011-07-11 07:12 pm (UTC)"Crazy" is most often used as a slur for the mentally ill. As are "Batshit crazy" and "Head-trauma crazy" (same article). The fact that you're throwing the slur at a different group (as a way of dismissing their political viewpoints by lumping them in with a social group traditionally viewed as irrational and unworthy of a voice in politics) doesn't detract from the fact that that's what the word means.
I agree that a lot of people make ignorant, biased, reactionary and utterly bullshit political decisions. I disagree with lumping them in with the mentally ill. There are better ways of shooting down bullshit arguments and social trends, that don't involve pissing down the kyriarchal ladder on people with comparatively little voice in it.
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Date: 2011-07-11 08:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-12 04:38 am (UTC)Ableism and similar discriminatory avenues that aren't as well known as racism/sexism are still very real and happening, and not ever previously having had say an equivalence drawn between "Gimp" "Lame" "Bitch" and "Fag" doesn't mean that other, incredibly pervasive terms don't have a hurtful history all their own that gets overlooked.
I'm certainly personally guilty of throwing many slurs like lame around, even now that I've had the opportunity to see why and how they are slurs. It's simply a product of the culture I grew up in and breaking ingrained habits.
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Date: 2011-07-11 07:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-12 02:04 am (UTC)