The GOP’s golden calf

Loki

@bachophile said in The GOP’s golden calf:

@horace said in The GOP’s golden calf:

@mik said in The GOP’s golden calf:

You are of course correct, Horace. The problem is that any attempt at reason would simply be met with a tirade of nutzi indignation from he and his friends. There's just no point.

It's anecdotes like this that make me believe that left wing nuttery is way more prevalent than right wing nuttery. I hear about right wing nuttery from twitter reports by jon, little elsewhere. I live with, and hear personal accounts of, left wing nuttery.

I think that’s just selective hearing. Nuttery is strictly bell curve. Law of nature. Just like Newton’s laws of motion.

No, culture creates nuttery, often more in one direction than another.

Nuttery appears to be a feature rather than a bug, especially in tribal rituals.

Rainman

You must admit, that without left-wing nuttery and right-wing nuttery, the centrists couldn't handle carrying either torch and our lives would be all the more boring. And "reporters" could save hundreds of hours of writing nonsense.

I liked the Nazi's boots. The ones that come up almost to the knee, and are polished like a high priced tier 1 polyester.

That was one of only a couple of things my dad was able to bring over to the U.S. from his years in the Wehrmacht. I think he wore the boots under his pants both in Germany in the DP camps, and on the ship.

When I was in Jr. High and in a rock band, and even into high school where we were playing gigs every weekend, I wore those boots. The souls were so worn out I had to use nails to keep it together. But everyone thought they were way cool, and were certainly a catalyst for lame jokes of every politically incorrect persuasion.

Mik

This cartoon struck me as appropriate.

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xenon

@george-k said in The GOP’s golden calf:

@aqua-letifer said in The GOP’s golden calf:

They're far, far older than the Third Reich assholes who used them for their terrible propaganda.

You're, of course, right. But try explaining that to someone who puts a swastika on his sleeve.

Sisters and female cousins tie a decorated string on your wrist for a particular annual Indian holiday. I remember one year, maybe I was 10 or 12 - one of the strings had a swastika on it.

Edit: it was more subtle than this. Still, example:

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taiwan_girl

(Almost) every temple in Taiwan (and rest of north Asia) will have many swastikas on them.

jon-nyc

I remember seeing swastikas on the B’hai temple in Evanston near George.

Doctor Phibes

A swastika's nowhere near as embarrassing as that statue.

Jesus, what is wrong with you people?

Renauda

I agree that statue is just too much.

Beyond tacky.

Catseye3

It's crap.

Mik

It is unclear what the intent was in such a ridiculous piece.

Doctor Phibes

@mik said in The GOP’s golden calf:

It is unclear what the intent was in such a ridiculous piece.

It sounds like the guy's trying to sell it. $100K and it's yours, to do with as you will!

Maybe one of his sons will buy it.

mark

@mik said in The GOP’s golden calf:

@horace said in The GOP’s golden calf:

@mik said in The GOP’s golden calf:

You are of course correct, Horace. The problem is that any attempt at reason would simply be met with a tirade of nutzi indignation from he and his friends. There's just no point.

It's anecdotes like this that make me believe that left wing nuttery is way more prevalent than right wing nuttery. I hear about right wing nuttery from twitter reports by jon, little elsewhere. I live with, and hear personal accounts of, left wing nuttery.

I see both regularly. Don't like it from either side.

This.