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10/28/09
This is an example of a reflexive, if oblique, defensive response to those who dare question the sages of the Obama administration. Would it kill you just to say, you know, Sullivan has a point? #glennbeck
10/28/09
The reason he gets so much vitriol is that he's a big fat self-loathing hypocrite who would lick the taint of any righty who would grant him social acceptance. Of course, once he gets such access, he demands that they change to suit him, and then flees into the night when his beer goggles wear off. (And that's just a quote from his barebackcity ad!)
Note how his shameless sucking up to the neocon right and the Roman Catholic Church morphed into support for Obama and (correct) interpretation of the Bible on homosexuality for examples of this.
He thinks Dick Cheney is sexy. He's opposed to public health care, I guess because he can afford it, which is quite a gamble to take when you've got HIV.
Yuck. #glennbeck
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10/28/09
So why is Mao's rancid evil not self-evident for a person like Dunn? Because she retains a double standard for far left totalitarianism over far right totalitarianism.
This is an assumption. Even if I were to agree, then how does that apply to other admirers of Mao like John McCain, George W. Bush, Barry Goldwater, etc? Or are only rightwingers smart enough to recognize that Mao is a pretty awful human being who accomplished things that nobody thought he ever could?
Now if Sullivan's saying that there are far left groups that sympathize with far left totalitarian regimes then yes, that's a self evident truth. Just as far right groups sympathize with far right totalitarian regimes. That's one of the things that makes them the far side.
If Dunn comes out tomorrow as a Mao apologist of some sort, then sure, I'll come right out and agree with Sullivan. I actually like Sullivan and his blog - but that doesn't mean I haven't seen him write plenty of silly things. #glennbeck
10/28/09
Especially since, for Sullivan, it's all about money. "Let 'em all die in a hospice, I can afford my life-extending drugs! And I'll get on barebackcity and take a few more out while I'm at it!"
That's the attitude of the person your defending, bitch! #glennbeck
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10/28/09
If you're reading the NYT rather than giving it cold looks at the newsstand, then you should already know by now how Castro got to be President and who's a dictator where and how bad.
However he got there and however badly he runs it, truth is Castro IS the President of Cuba and that's something even the govt of the US, left or right, has had to deal with. You can hate it as much as you want (and you can't possibly hate it as much as generations of Cubans) but you can't wish it away or protest it away. And it's not being soft on Castro to recognize his title - it's "confronting the truth". #glennbeck
10/29/09
Also you sound like a raging homophobe. #glennbeck
10/29/09
Unless he changed his mind again. #glennbeck
10/28/09
In my younger, college days I had many conversations with trust fund Marxists who spoke of Mao in admiring tones. If I pointed out the fact that he was one of the three worst mass murderers in history, and that that might discount whatever political philosophising he did, it was often met with patronizing condescension, like one was speaking to a small child. #glennbeck
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10/28/09
I don't think I'm incorrect in saying that Mao has been, at various points, a hero of some on the left.
I think we can agree, however, that Glenn Beck is a complete and utter loony toons dipshit. #glennbeck
10/28/09
I'd be interested in knowing exactly how much of the Mao (and other commie dictator love) can be chalked up to simple romanticizing, as opposed to full-on belief in every ideal and every act of the regime in question. This is another thing that is routinely glossed over by right-wing nutcases, that I don't have to be behind Mao or Castro or whomever else entirely in order to find something valuable or stirring in what they did. And honestly, the distinctly American insistence that a single bad act nullifies every sensible thing a person might otherwise say or do has really begun to get old.
10/28/09
Maybe The Little Red Book really was the accessory to have in the 60s but The Motorcycle Diaries are it for my generation.
Plus, I don't think they romanticize the same way between East and West - Mao is always presented as a father figure while Che is the bad boy your father disapproves of.
Of course, I have no explanation for Hugo Chavez. Wtf is that about? Portly megalomaniac love? #glennbeck
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10/28/09
Should the ways we contextualize Mao and Hitler be different? That's never really the point when we're talking about context. The fact is that they are different. Hitler hits far closer to home, and in a far more indelible way, than Mao ever will.
Anybody else find it telling how wingnuts are always off on a tangent about Mao, Stalin, Castro/Che? It's like they know that the political right will always, in some sense, own Hitler, and so they're trying to build up a stable of left-wing Hitlers to act as a counterbalance or some shit. #glennbeck
10/28/09
[andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com] #glennbeck
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10/28/09
Darn. I was hoping for one of those endless meme-threads.
Despite his strict diet, Andrew Sullivan can only handle so many diabetes. #glennbeck
10/28/09
10/07/09
How many people in your precious gay community suffered and died because they were denied health insurance over the course of these last 20 years, Sullivan, and how does it feel knowing that, in part, they suffered and died because you were blinded by ideology, careeerism and your snobbishness about the Clintons?
Just when you think this guy is beginning to show some signs of growing out of his adolescent narcissism, he reminds us just what a flabby, pumped-up dick he is.
10/07/09
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1) Phelps and Co. are drooling morons.
2) Obama sold out the gays. This is simple horseshit on his part. The people who would hate him for being pro-gay already hate him because he's black and a Democrat. He has nothing to lose.
3) The two smooching gays are hot.
10/07/09
He has their votes to lose. He would not have been able to win if the bigots did not vote for him, and they did because it was "the economy, stupid". When it's no longer the economy, voting on social issues will come right back. If he stands with the gays, forget Virgina, he might lose California!
I think he is looking at it this way: why should he do anything for the gays? They will never vote Republican anyhow.
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maybe it was that poster that said hope, and we folk thought we were in on it.
our bad!
10/07/09
10/07/09
Andrew Sullivan seems like the worst kind of loathsome hypocrite. The Democratic party politics are repulsive to him because they are on board with only the gay lobby, and not the gay community?
As opposed to what... The Republican party, which is on board with NEITHER? Which won't touch gay lobby money with a 10 foot pole strapped to a 10 foot pole strapped to a tiny, homophobic intern from Yale?
Sullivan's bending so far backwards to justify his Republicanism that I can see his asshole. Hey Andrew: I'm not even gay and that offends me. Imagine what real gays think of you.
10/07/09
10/07/09
He's still duplicitous and deceiving because he generally refuses to call out the "Conservative" side of things. If you think Sullivan is anything but a panderer, well... he has yet to prove that to me. I still think that at heart he's a die-hard supporter of the Republican party and Conservative status quo politics.
And yeah, you have the right to complain about Obama's not pushing the gay agenda. But frankly, the democratic party is way, WAY more accepting of the gay lobby than the republican party.
10/07/09
Andrew Sullivan is an odd man. Whenever he supports liberal policies, his supporting arguments are always based on facts, statistics, and appeals to the better nature of humankind (and, okay, an irrational obsession with Sarah Palin). Whenever he supports a conservative position, he always starts talking about some 18th-century Christian philosopher.
Anyway, even though I agree with him in theory about this, one: he obviously enjoys the prestige that can easily be gained in Washington that comes from presenting both parties as equally immoral, and two: it's difficult to listen to Sullivan talk about equal rights when he consistently defends the idea that some races are inherently more intelligent than others.
10/07/09
"To the tall, handsome black man I saw campaigning last year. We made eye contact, and I thought you smiled at me, but maybe that was for the person taking a photo of you behind me. We started talking about how much you loved my vest (Express $49.99) Was there something between us or am I imaging things? If interested, tell me what color shirt I was wearing (Hint: salmon!) Maybe we can get together and pass a few laws."
10/07/09
This guy also legislates better.
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