NationStates Jolt Archive


The LEFT is a myth.

Sinuhue
13-06-2005, 19:33
And so is the RIGHT, the LIBERALS, the CONSERVATIVES, the THIS, the THAT...

STOP SPEAKING ABOUT SUCH 'GROUPS' AS THOUGH THEY ARE HOMOGENOUS MINIONS OF THE OVERMIND!!!!!!!

[/rant]
Fass
13-06-2005, 19:36
STOP SPEAKING ABOUT SUCH 'GROUPS' AS THOUGH THEY ARE HOMOGENOUS MINIONS OF THE OVERMIND!!!!!!!

Thank you for the suggestion, but, no, I don't think I will.
Chicken pi
13-06-2005, 19:38
And so is the RIGHT, the LIBERALS, the CONSERVATIVES, the THIS, the THAT...

STOP SPEAKING ABOUT SUCH 'GROUPS' AS THOUGH THEY ARE HOMOGENOUS MINIONS OF THE OVERMIND!!!!!!!

[/rant]

*sigh*

Another victim of the massive leftist conspiracy. ;)
Willamena
13-06-2005, 19:39
The LEFT is a myth.
I *knew* there was a reason why I always have to think, 'Which hand do I write with?'

(Generalisations piss me off, too.)
The Eagle of Darkness
13-06-2005, 19:41
And so is the RIGHT, the LIBERALS, the CONSERVATIVES, the THIS, the THAT...

STOP SPEAKING ABOUT SUCH 'GROUPS' AS THOUGH THEY ARE HOMOGENOUS MINIONS OF THE OVERMIND!!!!!!!

[/rant]

You mean they aren't? My word...

The Overmind isn't going to be very happy when it hears about this one...

(In all seriousness, though, it's true. While there are situations in which they can be used, it's being done far too often. If anything, a specific person can be classified as liberal or conservative - by the real, original meanings of wanting progress or wanting stability - on specific issues, and can /sometimes/ be classed as one or the other in general, if a lot of their ideas happen to be that way. But as a group? No, except in extreme, cult-like situations where they really /do/ all have the same ideas, mindset and what have you)
The Downmarching Void
13-06-2005, 19:42
ALL politics are Absurd. Reason and logic are a myth perpetrated by politics to hide their absurdity. Reality is an illusion. My socks stink after I wear them. So what else is new?
Blood Moon Goblins
13-06-2005, 19:42
I aint no bloody homo![/badjoke]
Sumamba Buwhan
13-06-2005, 19:45
Just what I would expect to hear from a leftist pinko commie Canadian. Good attempt at trying to cloak the existence of the vast left wing conspiracy though. *hi5*
Sinuhue
13-06-2005, 19:46
Thank you for the suggestion, but, no, I don't think I will.
Fine. Then I will refer to everyone I disagree with as a Fass. Since you're all the same and all... :eek:
Dobbsworld
13-06-2005, 19:49
Something upsetting you today Sinuhue?


Ahhhh, call me 'Left'. It's not as though I think of myself that way, necessarily, but the rabid right-wingers in these parts all say I'm a commie, so... just call me Left. Or call me Dobbs; just don't call me late for dinner.
Cogitation
13-06-2005, 19:50
And so is the RIGHT, the LIBERALS, the CONSERVATIVES, the THIS, the THAT...

STOP SPEAKING ABOUT SUCH 'GROUPS' AS THOUGH THEY ARE HOMOGENOUS MINIONS OF THE OVERMIND!!!!!!!YES! THIS ONE SPEAKS THE TRUTH! They are all MYTHS!

There is only... NATIONSTATES!

BOW DOWN to MAX BARRY ...and ALL HAIL HIS RIGHT HAND, [VIOLET]!

--The Jovial States of Cogitation
"Laugh about it for a moment."
NationStates Self-Proclaimed Court Jester
Marmite Toast
13-06-2005, 19:50
And so is the RIGHT, the LIBERALS, the CONSERVATIVES, the THIS, the THAT...

STOP SPEAKING ABOUT SUCH 'GROUPS' AS THOUGH THEY ARE HOMOGENOUS MINIONS OF THE OVERMIND!!!!!!!

[/rant]

Yep.
Sinuhue
13-06-2005, 19:51
Something upsetting you today Sinuhue?
Yeah. That bitch, Eve, screwed it all up so I get to bleed once a month. DAMN YOU, EVE!!!


just don't call me late for dinner.
Still my favourite joke of all time!
Sinuhue
13-06-2005, 19:53
YES! THIS ONE SPEAKS THE TRUTH! They are all MYTHS!

There is only... NATIONSTATES!

BOW DOWN to MAX BARRY ...and ALL HAIL HIS LEFT HAND, [VIOLET]!


*yoink! look at me, I'm subversive! Yay!*
Sdaeriji
13-06-2005, 19:54
Fine. Then I will refer to everyone I disagree with as a Fass. Since you're all the same and all... :eek:

Fassholes?
Sumamba Buwhan
13-06-2005, 19:54
Dobbs yer late for dinner! It's getting cold dammit.
Matchopolis
13-06-2005, 19:56
STOP SPEAKING ABOUT SUCH 'GROUPS' AS THOUGH THEY ARE HOMOGENOUS MINIONS OF THE OVERMIND!!!!!!!

[/rant]

it's not an overmind it's shared values.
Whispering Legs
13-06-2005, 19:56
To cheer up Sinuhue...

A man standing in line at a check-out counter of a grocery store was very surprised when a very attractive woman behind him said, "Hello!"

Her face was beaming.

He gave her that "who are you look," and couldn't remember ever having seen her before.

Then, noticing his look, she figured she had made a mistake and apologized. "Look," she said "I'm really sorry but when I first saw you, I thought you were the father of one of my children," and walked out of the store.

The guy was dumbfounded and thought to himself, "What is the world coming to? Here is an attractive woman who can't keep track of who fathers her children! "

Then he got a little panicky. "I don't remember her," he thought but, MAYBE....during one of the wild parties he had been to when he was in
college, perhaps he did father her child!

He ran from the store and caught her in the parking lot and asked, "Are you the girl I met at a party in college and then we got really drunk and fucked on the pool table in front of everyone?"

"No", she said with a horrified look on her face. "I'm your son's second grade teacher!"
Dempublicents1
13-06-2005, 19:56
Yeah. That bitch, Eve, screwed it all up so I get to bleed once a month. DAMN YOU, EVE!!!

Yeah, don't you wish that Adam had eaten the apple first? Then things would be so much better....

=)
Dobbsworld
13-06-2005, 19:58
And here I was thinking all that blood had something to do with Luna...
Fass
13-06-2005, 19:58
Fine. Then I will refer to everyone I disagree with as a Fass. Since you're all the same and all... :eek:

Oh, please do. I'd like the attention, being the whore for it that I am.
Sinuhue
13-06-2005, 19:59
it's not an overmind it's shared values.
Yeah, and guess what...THE LEFT DON'T SHARE ALL THE SAME VALUES, WANT THE SAME THINGS, NOR DO THEY EVEN PARTICULARLY LIKE OTHERS BELONGING TO "THE LEFT". *head explodes*

You may actually share some of my values...does that make you LEFT!!!???
Zotona
13-06-2005, 20:01
Yeah. That bitch, Eve, screwed it all up so I get to bleed once a month. DAMN YOU, EVE!!!
Whoa, Sinuhue, baby, I know it sucks, but we've just gotta deal. It is our duty as women to be strong. Come on, cheer up. PLEASE? :fluffle:
Sdaeriji
13-06-2005, 20:01
Oh, please do. I'd like the attention, being the whore for it that I am.

You sure are.
Sinuhue
13-06-2005, 20:02
*wicked awesome teacher joke*
Thanks! Seriously. *tries to chill...*
Fass
13-06-2005, 20:02
You sure are.

I spread my legs like the best of them.
Sinuhue
13-06-2005, 20:04
Whoa, Sinuhue, baby, I know it sucks, but we've just gotta deal. It is our duty as women to be strong. Come on, cheer up. PLEASE? :fluffle:
Oh, don't worry, I'm cheerful.

Just in a "I'm going to rip someone's face off" kind of way.

I'll be okay. I won't bite anyone too hard. I hope.
Sdaeriji
13-06-2005, 20:06
Oh, don't worry, I'm cheerful.

Just in a "I'm going to rip someone's face off" kind of way.

I'll be okay. I won't bite anyone too hard. I hope.

That's pretty hot.
Melkor Unchained
13-06-2005, 20:07
That's pretty hot.
Oh yeah. I love it when women get feisty!
Matchopolis
13-06-2005, 20:07
You may actually share some of my values...does that make you LEFT!!!???

We agree we want a better world for our kids but the differences come in how we impliment change.
Sinuhue
13-06-2005, 20:09
Oh yeah. I love it when women get feisty!
Look you men...not all my threads have to turn into a heap of sexual innuendoes! You'll have everyone thinking I'm the NS trollop around here...BEHAVE DAMNIT!!!!
Sdaeriji
13-06-2005, 20:09
Oh yeah. I love it when women get feisty!

Definately. Sinuhue can rip my face off anytime.
Sinuhue
13-06-2005, 20:10
We agree we want a better world for our kids but the differences come in how we impliment change.
But our undelying VALUES are the same...you LEFTY YOU!

*runs around saying, na na na na na, Matchopolis is a LEFTY...*
Matchopolis
13-06-2005, 20:18
thems fightin' words down here...

make sure you're not holding scissors while you're doing that
Sdaeriji
13-06-2005, 20:21
Look you men...not all my threads have to turn into a heap of sexual innuendoes! You'll have everyone thinking I'm the NS trollop around here...BEHAVE DAMNIT!!!!

Aww, we know you're not a trollop, sweetie. We just love ya.

Oh, and you have a TG.
Sumamba Buwhan
13-06-2005, 20:26
If we can't generalize in General then where can we?

Of course conservatives are going to see things in more of a black and white style while liberals see things on mroe of a shades of grey scale. Thats why there is one conservative party and several liberal style parties.
Sinuhue
13-06-2005, 20:27
If we can't generalize in General then where can we?

Of course conservatives are going to see things in more of a black and white style while liberals see things on mroe of a shades of grey scale. Thats why there is one conservative party and several liberal style parties.
*gets out her beatin' stick*...
Sumamba Buwhan
13-06-2005, 20:29
*evil grin*
Dobbsworld
13-06-2005, 21:20
Why's it always an *evil grin*?

Why can't it be a *lurid grin* occasionally?
Sumamba Buwhan
13-06-2005, 21:25
Why's it always an *evil grin*?

Why can't it be a *lurid grin* occasionally?

sometimes it is... I also like to *snicker*
CthulhuFhtagn
13-06-2005, 21:27
STOP SPEAKING ABOUT SUCH 'GROUPS' AS THOUGH THEY ARE HOMOGENOUS MINIONS OF THE OVERMIND!!!!!!!

Well, duh. The Overmind is dead. Now they're homogenous minions of Kerrigan.
Cadillac-Gage
13-06-2005, 22:02
Um... Sinuhue, do you need some chocolate? I'll contact the Overmind and have a couple minions bring it to you if you do. ;)
Kryozerkia
13-06-2005, 22:25
And so is the RIGHT, the LIBERALS, the CONSERVATIVES, the THIS, the THAT...

STOP SPEAKING ABOUT SUCH 'GROUPS' AS THOUGH THEY ARE HOMOGENOUS MINIONS OF THE OVERMIND!!!!!!!

[/rant]
[sourthern accent]

Oh my word! Oh dear... Miss Scarlet, I think I'm getting a case of the vapours. All this ranting is making me lightheaded...

[/southern accent]

*faints*
Pure Metal
13-06-2005, 22:27
To cheer up Sinuhue...

A man standing in line at a check-out counter of a grocery store was very surprised when a very attractive woman behind him said, "Hello!"

Her face was beaming.

He gave her that "who are you look," and couldn't remember ever having seen her before.

Then, noticing his look, she figured she had made a mistake and apologized. "Look," she said "I'm really sorry but when I first saw you, I thought you were the father of one of my children," and walked out of the store.

The guy was dumbfounded and thought to himself, "What is the world coming to? Here is an attractive woman who can't keep track of who fathers her children! "

Then he got a little panicky. "I don't remember her," he thought but, MAYBE....during one of the wild parties he had been to when he was in
college, perhaps he did father her child!

He ran from the store and caught her in the parking lot and asked, "Are you the girl I met at a party in college and then we got really drunk and fucked on the pool table in front of everyone?"

"No", she said with a horrified look on her face. "I'm your son's second grade teacher!"

lol lol lol :p

as for generalisations, they are pretty useful as insults, lile "you heartless right-wing bastard!" or "you damn airy-fairy leftie pinko!"

i mean without these sweeping generalisations, politics could be..... civilised :eek: ;)
Yupaenu
13-06-2005, 23:49
And so is the RIGHT, the LIBERALS, the CONSERVATIVES, the THIS, the THAT...

STOP SPEAKING ABOUT SUCH 'GROUPS' AS THOUGH THEY ARE HOMOGENOUS MINIONS OF THE OVERMIND!!!!!!!

[/rant]

you can't get anywhere without generalizations. i suggest you take some taxonomy courses.
Gataway_Driver
13-06-2005, 23:54
And so is the RIGHT, the LIBERALS, the CONSERVATIVES, the THIS, the THAT...

STOP SPEAKING ABOUT SUCH 'GROUPS' AS THOUGH THEY ARE HOMOGENOUS MINIONS OF THE OVERMIND!!!!!!!

[/rant]

yes thank you at least someone has seen the light
Texpunditistan
14-06-2005, 00:18
I spread my legs like the best of them.
Funny that noone goes after Fass for stereotyping women as whores.

*walks off whistling*
Neo-Anarchists
14-06-2005, 00:27
Funny that noone goes after Fass for stereotyping women as whores.

*walks off whistling*
Nobody will go after Fass for stereotyping women because Fass is a man.
:p
Texpunditistan
14-06-2005, 00:27
Nobody will go after Fass for stereotyping women because Fass is a man.
:p
SHE'S A MAN, BABY!

:p
New Genoa
14-06-2005, 01:03
bullshit, i don't believe this at all you're fucking lying to me
Gataway_Driver
14-06-2005, 01:10
bullshit, i don't believe this at all you're fucking lying to me

what that fass is a man?


Well Fass is a man. Arn't you Fass?
;)
Disraeliland
14-06-2005, 02:25
All hail the rather large object!
Gataway_Driver
14-06-2005, 02:26
All hail the rather large object!

hmmm I think this is the point i say no comment :D
The Eagle of Darkness
14-06-2005, 02:29
i mean without these sweeping generalisations, politics could be..... civilised :eek: ;)

It'll never happen. Imagine a world where politicians get things done... are intelligent... don't get involved in scandals... and can act civilly... [Shudders] It would be horrible.

...

We'd probably have a world government based on the principle of 'Wouldn't it be nice if everyone was nice?'.
Lenoxus
14-06-2005, 02:35
Even if there aren't any overmind-controlled "groups" out there, can we agree that there are such things as liberalism, conservatism, etc? These are ideologies from which people pick and choose (redundant phrase, I know) what their convictions are - even if they don't pick all of them, or if their choice is heavily influenced by upbringing or coercion.

Also, here's a guy with a gun, 'cuz he looks cool.

:sniper:
Alien Born
14-06-2005, 03:00
I assume that you are refusing to be labelled by your political beliefs Sinahue.

How is that supposed to work then? You believe something, but then claim that this belief does not identify you as part of that group that believe this.

The left does exist.

It is not a homogenous group with everyone holding all the same beliefs, but it is a group defined by a belief about one aspect of life, that that the society in general is prior to the individual.

Likewise the right exists, in respect of being that group of people that believe that the individual is prior to the society. Equally they are not homogenous, except in respect to this belief.

Like it or not, we categorise the world. We do not look at a person and see that person. We see a gender, we see a race, we see tall or short, we see fat or thin. We do not see the individual, we see an intersection between many different categorisations. The same applies to the expressed beliefs of people. We see left or right, we see freedom or authoritarina, we see progressive or traditionalist. Then we define the person's beliefs by the intersection of these binary judgements. And guess what, complaining about it is not going to make people stop doing it. Even knowing it is this way and trying not to act on these lines, you still keep right on make the same type of yes no, up down, black white decisions.
Potaria
14-06-2005, 03:41
Funny. Whenever I look at the thread title, I see "The LEFT is a myrth.".

>.>
CthulhuFhtagn
14-06-2005, 03:48
Funny. Whenever I look at the thread title, I see "The LEFT is a myrth.".

>.>
That's what I saw at first too. Must be Myrth-related withdrawal.
Kervoskia
14-06-2005, 04:58
The LEFT is a myth.
Like the female orgasm?