People are idiots

[MrScorpio]

It's amazing that some people's brains are even capable of autonomic functions.

>>Mel Gibbs: “The Patriot Act will put both of you (Neuharth and Mitchell) on trial for treason and convict and execute both of you as traitors for running these stories in a time of war and it should be done on TV for other communist traitors like you two to know we mean business. This is war and you should be put in prison NOW for talking like this. Who the hell do you people think you are? You give aid and comfort to our enemies and aid them in murdering our proud soldiers. You people are a disgrace to America. Your families should be put in prison with you, then be made to leave and move to the Middle East ...This is a great Christian nation and god wants us to lead the world out of darkness with great leaders like President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Communists like Al and Greg will soon be in prison and on death row for your ugly papers. We won the election and now you are mad. We own America and all the rights, you people are trash, go back to Russia and Africa and take your friends with before we put you on death row after a fair trial.”<<

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000743012

[Deja Q]

1. Then the fucker can pay us all one-way plane tickets.

They want to whine yet do nothing. So they'll stay.

[Droopy]

2. Gibbs sounds like a true fascist

My dad voted for Bush, but he's a nice guy who thinks Bush is, also. I should have taken something like this rant from Gibbs and showed it to my dad and said, "Look, these are the type of people who vote for Bush. They see him as he truly is and they like what they see."

[Elidor]

3. People? No. AMERICANS are idiots.

I have come to the carefully considered opinion that Americans are the stupidest motherfuckers on the planet. A poor bushman in Africa with nothing but a spear and a loincloth has more fucking sense than the average American. Americans are a pox on the world.

[MrScorpio]

5. Thank God the Air Force has allowed me to travel the world

Because I fucking agree with you.

[jjmalonejr]

6. Slight over-generalization, don't you think? n/t

[Elidor]

8. Only slight.

And the day is approaching when it won't be a generalization at all. We are a mindless bunch of consumers and wage-whores who live at the sufferance of corporations and ideologues.

Perhaps I never should have cut off the cable TV subscription, because now I feel like one of the people with the magic sunglasses in that movie with Roddy Piper.

I'll repeat: Americans are fucktards. I know, because I'm one, too.

[jjmalonejr]

10. I just don't see the value in such a generalization.

If I created a post on DU that said that Muslims are religious fanatics, I'd be flamed incessantly.

But if I create a post on DU that says that Americans are fucktards, I'm applauded.

All generalizations have the grain of truth in them, but what value are they for understanding anything?

I don't disagree with your observations, I just dispute your sweeping and misguided conclusion. It just strikes me as somehwat bigoted rhetoric.

[Left Is Write]

14. I'm with you.

Yes. A large number of Americans are incredibly stupid and selfish.

But 56 million of us voted AGAINST Bush, his policies, his megalomania, his cronies, his destruction, his devastation. There IS hope. There has to be. I have to believe it, or I couldn't go on.

[jjmalonejr]

16. Exactly

Whether that means there's hope or not, I'm not sure.

Frankly, I don't get how so many people voted for Bush, but I'd prefer to understand WHY than to simply dismiss those voters as "fucktards" and "Jesus freaks."

[Wapsie B]

17. That's right.

A great number of us know what's going on in DC and disapprove. We don't have our head in the sand. We don't just follow what the media tells us. This one fact differentiates today from the 50's, a time that so many rwingers would love to go back to.

[Elidor]

18. I agree - I'm an anti-American bigot.

I'm not asking for applause. I'm just waking up to a new reality. I don't hate America. I just despise Americans. I want to leave this country now. Not because Dubya got back into office, but because I have so little in common with the fools around me. I want to live somewhere where the government spends more on schools than the military. Where hungry people are empowered rather than spat on and derided. Fuck America.

[DrGonzoLives]

22. Then fucking move and quit pissing and moaning

:eyes:

[Elidor]

24. I'm working on it

But I always reserve the right to piss and moan, even if I have no right to. Congratulations on the success of your freeper imitation.

[liberalmuse]

11. I have to wholeheartedly agree.

We have all the necessities and more for survival. We have education and information at our fingertips--more so than most of the world, yet Americans choose to be the most ignorant, vacuous, shallow, arrogant, destructive, gluttonous people on the planet. There is no excuse. The world would be better off without today's America. Americans, as a collective, SUCK. The America I thought we would one day become is dead.

[Groggy]

12. don't forget self-loathing!

:evilgrin:

[JohnnyRingo]

4. I think Mel's pleas might be honored if he....

...Moved to fuckin' China.
Otherwise he's stuck in the land of free speech.

[FDRrocks]

7. It's not the right time to be sober...

cause now the idiots have taken over.

Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool. :) (apologies in advance to NoFX)

[EstimatedProphet]

9. I am so sick and tired of jackasses like Mr. Mel Gibbs

Hey! Mr. Mel Gbbs! YOU are the traitor! YOU are the coward! YOU are the one who needs to try and put people in prison in order to feel important! YOU are a pathetic little POS, and I hope and pray I get to call you out to your inbred toothless face!

Had to rant. I'm tired of being stuck in Red State Heaven.

[Left Is Write]

13. That is the most disgusting piece of filth I have ever read. Sickening.

[miss_kitty]

15. Well. The traitorous and shameful behaviuor here is calling for the death

and expulsion of dissenters. These people spit on the work of soldiers who, over the last couple of hundred years, fought and died for our right to free speech, his right to free speech as well. Too bad these GDCSers are too fucking ignorant to savvy dissent is the basis of democracy, not a threat to it.

"...before we put you on death row after a fair trial..." That's sooooo Cardassian.

I don't see him bragging about his service. Which branch, I wonder.

[Solly Mack]

19. That's pretty much been my philosophy for 30 years now

[Tweed]

20. All them Hollywood liberals should just shut up!

Unfair! I love sweet potatoes!

[gizmo1979]

21. generally I assume people suck!

[Orsino]

23. The story doesn't tell us...

...how many of those polled were on their way to their local recruiting offices to stand up for their country. Bet I know.

In Newspeak, "standing up for your country" means sitting down and shutting up.