IlXors: Are YOU a Neocon?

[ Results are not scientific. ]

see? i'm no hippie!

I don't know if I'd think of Theodore Roosevelt as a neoconservative though.

Historical realist: President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Modern realist: Secretary of State Colin Powell

this is pretty accurate wr2 my entire political outlook, not just wr2 foreign policy.

I don't know if I'd think of Theodore Roosevelt as a neoconservative though.

OK, for the imperialistic side I'll buy it, though perhaps Polk is a better choice, but they sure don't make neo-cons like they used to, at least not in regard to domestic policy.

Actually, I find it baffling that this quiz focused on foreign policy, because I'm more inclined to think of domestic issues when I think of neocons.

This quiz isn't too shabby.

No actually, my problem is that my attitudes toward a lot of these issues changes from day-to-day so I didn't feel comfortable answering some of them.

Though I agree w/Ned, many of these responses seemed like rote, pre-digested talking points.

What do you mean, did I do the test?

you are if yr votin' for hillstory

shut the fuck up dude

vote tfu

https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/743414536192032768

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/16/us/politics/obama-and-clinton-differ-on-terror-approach.html

pretty sure we all know that jackass

but it's a relevant point bc this election is between Obama and Clinton

th fuck

I gotta say morbs is consistent.

Bristol chart consistency

Chomsky says you can vote for the Horrible Democrat if yr in a swing state, that's defensible

who are you even talking to. stop yelling at clouds it's not good for your health.

but it's a relevant point bc this election is between Obama and Clinton

lol from the past tho

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/07/26/obama-calls-clinton-like-diplomacy-stance-bush-cheney-light/

Tell us more of the wisdom related to u by the TA in your poli sci class today.

Did he lend you his copy of the Howard Zinn book yet or is one of your classmates still having his mind blown by it?

yer confusing me w/ someone who didn't give up on this country in '84, laddie

You do get that probably a very large number of people here agree with you politically, right?

xp could you give up on the topic of this country in 2016 on ilx please

and that even if they don't, it isn't necessary to harangue them every day for months on end.

Nothing persuades like a good harangue.

who doesn't like a good lemon harangue

I feel better about morbs coming to ilx to vent his bitter frustrations than his haunting the various comments sections of the web. we are used to him and we are generally a very tolerant and forgiving crew.

that's true and it's good to be tolerant and forgiving but it's also good to be real. morbius contributes bile to political threads 95% of the time. every once in a while he might simply drop a link or say something in a neutral tone but that's rare. his contributions add a level of unpleasantness that isn't necessary. not to mention his misogynistic language and inappropriate attacks @ another poster. the three days he was banned from the primary thread were a relief. imo it's time for a more permanent break.

dammit i want a meringue

not to mention his misogynistic language and inappropriate attacks @ another poster

you're delusional

the three days he was banned from the primary thread were a relief.

never happened

Tell us more of the wisdom related to u by the TA in your poli sci class today.

i actually think you kidz who go to every Marvel movie are more like undergrads, OL

that cloud looks like a person who goes to every marvel movie

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/06/the-party-left-me-and-other-complaints-of-the-voter-as-atomistic-consumer

Alfred posted this elsewhere, seems relevant

Voting for Johnson, as we’ve discussed, was a classic “lesser evil” vote in the sense that he means it. So was FDR, given the many compromises the New Deal had to make with the white supremacist faction of the party. So was Lincoln, an incrementalist on an issue of the utmost moral urgency. Major progressive reforms are almost always the result of lesser-evil voting and coalition-building, and are virtually never the result of dramatic flounces out of the coalition, as the same-sex marriage movement shows. Did movement conservatives take over the Republican Party by voting third party if they didn’t win? They did not. They try to get their candidates elected in the primaries, they won some and they lost some, but they kept pushing. It’s not complicated, but it works. As a theory of political change, it’s perfectly coherent.

I always figured us more for the kids huffing paint fumes in shop class, Morbz.

xpost Yes, exactly. I would happily write in Chomsky 4 Prez every four years if the net effect would be anywhere north of nothing.

not to mention his misogynistic language and inappropriate attacks @ another poster

you're delusional

the three days he was banned from the primary thread were a relief.

never happened

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, June 16, 2016 6:29 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i could have sworn you were tempbanned from the last primary thread a few months ago, but i can't find it. whatever, it doesn't matter. i'm delusional? you're a gaslighting fucking creep. i'm not going to waste my time searching for instances of your sexist language and attitude because it's "consistent" enough that i don't need to prove my point. your repeated attacks on mordy are nasty, antisemitic garbage posting of the worst degree. i don't think it's really up for debate tbh and i don't think anyone here would argue otherwise. yet here we are, you get to be a faux-sophisticated toxic shit and we all get to forgive you. how edifying.

dissent is a motherfucker

I beg to differ. Dissent can be framed with respect while still containing the essentials of disagreement. Disrespect is a motherfucker.

Dr. Morbius, you were definitely thread-banned from the primary thread about three weeks ago in response to a flurry of FPs one day. We later realized that some of those FPs initiated from a post on a different thread, but we left the thread-ban only for the primaries thread. It may have been coincidence that you didn't post to the that thread for a week or so after that? Seems unlikely.

Thursday, May 26, 2016 3:26 AM I Love Everything User: we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds has been banned from thread: Conventional Mealy Mouths: The 2016 Primary Voting Thread, Part 5 temporarily

I kind of want to create a chrome extension that alerts me with an audience groan sound every time Morbs revives a random thread with some sharp political point.

btw this "cis" white faggot is a misanthrope, "map" -- i hate all equally.

good argument for a ban from the man himself.

An admission of misanthropy from Morbs is about as revelatory as pronouncing that air is breathable.

As I've said elsewhere, I don't believe the threadban function works properly.

if there's one thing i can't stand it's people who wear their misanthropy / misery on their sleeve in a way that feeds on the sympathy / attention of others, not in the interest of looking for a way out but of creating a codependent dynamic that reinforces it.

fassssssssscinating

i think you could've found room for a fourth 21st-century Jerkwad Buzzword in there if you tried a leeeetle harder!

serious q: what exactly do you get out of this after more than a decade?

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