Comments on: Who Knew Restricting People’s Freedom is Unpopular?

by: tensor

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:31:03 +0000

It’s absolutely amazing how the abortion issue - and the wingnut inability to understand how extreme and outside of the mainstream the anti-choice position really is - has completely fucked with people’s heads.

These people have been living in their own private Idaho for almost forty years, and the pain of constant defeat has driven more than one of them to terrorism. Ironically, the end result of their false claims about how reproductive choice degrades society is their own bitter dehumanization of everyone who disagrees with them.

(Also, by this time, the equation of Seattle/Frisco/New York with hellish dens of Satan-worshippers has become reflexively ingrained into their rhetoric. I can just see them now, stepping out of the airport van, gaping in wonder that New Yorkers actually wear clothes and walk upright.)

by: worf

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:30:26 +0000

“She was the better debater, communicating confidently and with the style of a problem-solver.”

Really? The only thing I remember her saying during the debate was that she would send in the marines if the Green River flooded. After that I was laughing too hard to catch any thing else that fell from her vapid, insipid mouth.

by: Thehim

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:27:54 +0000

It was that passage that inspired me to write up this post (as opposed making fun of some of the other wingnutty stuff on that blog right now).

by: Demo Kid

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:40:20 +0000

Of course, Seattle-ites are not “most” Americans and probably share more in common with the citizens of Amsterdam, San Francisco and Manhattan than the average American citizen, raising a family, volunteering at their public schools and church and paying a mortgage.

Whenever I read anything like that from some kind of asshole conservative, I really do want to punch them in the face a few times. In a survey of volunteerism in large American cities, Seattle ranked FOURTH, with only Minneapolis, Portland, and Salt Lake City ahead. (And note that secular, baby-killing Portland was AHEAD of Mormon-ville.) The state of Washington is fifth in terms of volunteer hours. It is also fifth in terms of college student volunteerism, second in terms of millenial volunteerism, and third with teenage volunteerism, meaning that the young folks in the state are the driving force with this.

Not to mention:

Seattle residents were the most likely to attend public meetings between 2006 and 2008 at 14.2 percent. During the same time period, they also had the third highest rate of working with their neighbors to fix community problems at 11.6 percent after Baltimore at 14.5 percent and Salt Lake City at 12.9 percent.

For some vile piece of shit conservative to ladle scorn on Seattle for not being more like “middle America” in volunteering is garbage. Middle America should be more like Seattle in volunteering.