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[Christ was Socialist]

Have you noticed this show attracts the dumbest fucks on the planet? And what is it with republicans and rambling on incoherently? In fact Listen to what a conservative said of air america:

If its intelligence as defined by "getting by" I would say they are equally intelligent. But if its intelligence in terms of nuance and complexities, liberals win hands down.
That's why liberals will always make crappy telepundits/talk radio commentators... how many times have you heard some local guy call in and discuss
how Sartre's idea of NOTHINGNESS from an existentialist perspective conflicts with the real everyday manifestations of the Nietschzean will to power within a background post-MacLuhan consumerism? You don't... complexity, nuance, and cultural texture can't be reduced to a "DITTO, RUSH!"



Only IN fucking America (as far as "free" and "civilized" western nations go) Is it not appealing to be intelligent. The ussr loved this shit. They would pay manual laborers more than univeristy grads. And convinced the laborers that they were making the country great, while "intellectuals" sat at desks all day.



H.L. Mencken says:
<44> All professional philosophers tend to assume that common sense
means the mental habit of the common man. Nothing could be further
from the mark. The common man is chiefly to be distinguished by his
plentiful _lack_ of common sense: he believes things on evidence that
is too scanty, or that distorts the plain facts, or that is full of non
sequiturs. Common sense really involves making full use of _all_ the
demonstrable evidence--and of nothing _but_ the demonstrable
evidence.

<45> The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is
yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he
granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a
snake.

<118> ...The only really respectable Protestants are the
Fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots...

<125> The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most
that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one
delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked...

<181> What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world?
Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them
from an imaginary hell. It is a business almost indistinguishable from
that of a seller of snake-oil for rheumatism.

<309> The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its
massive proof that God is a bore.

<311> The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the
mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no
longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that
prayer can cure after medicine fails.

<323> The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce
his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

<326> The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics
is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there
is no limit to oppression.

<330> Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to
trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both
commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never
developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia
really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations
between two gangs of frauds.