you know, this thread had the potential to be interesting---despite what i took to be a mistaken motive for starting it----it nonetheless could have been an interesting discussion.
but the posts from the lumpenconservatives have been so consistently and thoroughly appalling that i see no reason to continue.
good job, gentlemen: it is obvious that you do not appreciate "terrorism"--bogeyman of the moment--relativized and questioned.
it is obvious that you are not interested in thinking about the signifiers that order your politics.
were you to think about it, at the formal level red4ever's post was just a version of the same kind of move that the right has done since reagan--here a terrorist, there a freedom fighter---curious reactions from the lumpenconservatives, given that the post was situated in the context of a conversation about the arbitrariness of the term "terrorism"--but it appears that even the most rudimentary forms of attention to context are too much to expect from these folk.
better to react with bluster and threats.
quite a demonstration of a variety of reasons why people who operate outside the fantasyworld of right ideology consider that ideology to be dangerous--why the equation of populist conservatism and the fine legacy of the brownshirts keeps returning---you do your politics proud--making sure that no-one forgets the kind of thug mentality that underpins the otherwise arbitrary positions that comprise that political space is a kind of accidental public service.
seriously, this is about the most noxious display from the right that i have seen on this board since i have been participating in it.
unbelievable.
just unbelievable.
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