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The 14 Commandments of the Religious Left

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infinite59:

--- Quote from: Lincoln The Mental Traveller on August 04, 2004, 10:18:05 PM ---Got this from another board, thought it was a fairly good laugh/



5. Honor thy mother. If she is dysfunctional, it is thy father's fault.




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LOL!  Some of those were funny.

infinite59:

--- Quote from: SMiLE on August 04, 2004, 10:28:50 PM ---
--- Quote ---13. Always blame someone else for what thou dost - even so far as to blame the entire society.


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That's the one that always got me.  It's amazing, the lack of responsibility people have for themselves anymore.  They don't want to blame their problems on themselves, instead, they want to blame their problems on everyone else, and blame everyone else's probablems on themselves.  For instance, it's not your fault you're poor, it's society's fault.  However, we should somehow feel responsible that blacks were enslaved centuries ago.  Or we're responsible for poverty in countries I can't spell.  My alcohol problem though is simply a result of the advertising I saw as a child.  

Blah.  Any problems I have are my own fault, but I'm not taking the blame for your fuck ups.  That's how I see things.  

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Actually, that blame thing works both ways.  I can prove it to you.

It was Reagan that popularised the phrase "wellfare queen", and made people believe that it was because of wellfare recipients that they were paying so much in taxes.  This made the middle class blame the lower class for it's economic troubles when really it was a subterfuge, because the large chunk of our taxes actually goes to military spending (with only a very small portion going towards wellfare).

Republican's also try to blame so-called "terrorist's" for the spike in oil prices, or the rise in national security spending; when really it is because of their exploitative foriegn policy that the world oil industry is under attack.

Then in a similar case, Republican's also try to blame the Iraqi's for the current turmoil the country is in.  They blame the insurgents, or the people for lacking the will to work at democracy.... Rather than blaming themselves for the "shock and awe" campaign, the destruction of the country's infrustructure (electricity still hasn't been restored to pre-war level's) and the slaughtering, killing, and abusing of 10's of thousands of Iraqi's!

Trauma-san:
You need to take off your political blinders every once in a while, Inf, so you can look from side to side and see exactly who it is that's standing next to you.

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