If the shooter is psychotic, then he's a useful idiot. If he's rational, then he's a tool.

[Stinky The Clown]

This incident is the DIRECT result of the tone and rhetoric of the tea party and the right wing hate machine. This is a natural progression from seeing those mouth breathing motherfuckers showing up at political rallies with guns strapped to their lower thighs like some Rambo wannabe.

Laughner is, whether insane or not, simply a tool. He is the guy the hate speechers were talking to.




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[readmoreoften]

1. Agreed.

[EFerrari]

2. actly is circulating a petition to demand Palin take responsibility.

And I think that's exactly the right thing to do.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x141430

[XanaDUer]

3. If he is a left-leaning winger

why'd he shoot a Dem? B/c health-care reform didn't go far enough? I freaking doubt it.

They are now going to spin this as, "Oh, the rhetoric goes too far on BOTH sides."

I guarantee this young man has some ties to tea partiers.

[madmax]

4. That's been a major thorn in my side

since it happened, "those mouth breathing motherfuckers showing up a political rallies with guns strapped to their lower things like some Rambo wannabe." Nothing was done!

I've brought that up over and over until people I know want to strangle me but, it's fucked up and near the President, no less. Will this make people wake up? There is no place for guns in church, bars or political events. It's just that simple.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. Psychotics aren't "idiots."

And they're only "tools" in the sense that their disease is in control of them. Some person could have heard something from a Democrat or an anarchist or whatever and his diseased mind could have given him other instructions as a result. Psychotic people aren't liberals or conservatives, their disease just pantomimes the ideologies of sane people.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. . . . . which makes my point.

[LuvNewcastle]

9. And your point is what, exactly?

[Stinky The Clown]

12. If he was psychotic, he was a useful idiot.

[LuvNewcastle]

13. I guess if you repeat the offense often enough,

you won't be boorish any longer. What ever works for you.

[QC]

15. The phrase "useful idiot" has a specific meaning. See link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Thank you. I (obviously) wrongly assumed the meaning was more widely known.

[QC]

19. One would expect it to be well known on a site frequented by politics junkies,

but I guess not.

[Odin2005]

6. K&R

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[LuvNewcastle]

11. +1000

[tishaLA]

14. +1001

[Statistical]

10. I find your insulting and incorrect titles applied to the mentally ill to be appalling.

[Stinky The Clown]

16. Your finding is noted.

[Stinky The Clown]

18. You *do* understand the term "useful idiot," do you not.

If you do not, please look upthread.

My thread title is neither insulting nor wrong.

It is, by definition, not insulting.

It can not be wrong as it is a statement of opinion.