Who is America: Baron-Cohen convinces Republican to attempt to bomb liberals

[Underseer]

https://hillreporter.com/trump-supporter-tries-to-blow-up-liberals-on-who-is-america-6459

OK, so the button didn't actually do anything, but he believed that pushing the button would set off a bomb at the time he pressed it.

If someone asks you to commit mass murder, and your response is anything other than "fuck off," then you're a mass murderer.

With the Mollie Tibbetts murder, we found yet again that Republicans (both conservatives and libertarians) expect us to judge entire populations by their worst, so as per conservolibertarian arguments, we should now consider all of them to be mass murderers.

So what do you think white mothers are doing wrong that causes so many white people to be mass murderers?

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

I don't see anything about libertarians in that article.

 

[whollygoats]

I don't see anything about libertarians in that article.

Do you mean libertarians, or Libertarians?

There is a vast difference between them.

 

[phands]

Even though it exposed some hideous people, I'm glad the series is over.

When SBC first gained notoriety, I found him toe-curlingly un-funny and Borat was just embarrassing.

 

[whollygoats]

Even though it exposed some hideous people, I'm glad the series is over.

When SBC first gained notoriety, I found him toe-curlingly un-funny and Borat was just embarrassing.

I thought that was the point. That's what he has always done. Declasse all the way. I can only stand it in small doses.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

If we consider this from a viewpoint of entertainment or humor, it is pretty punk. But if you consider it from a viewpoint of experimental psychology such as Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority, it is interesting in an appalling way.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

I don't see anything about libertarians in that article.

Do you mean libertarians, or Libertarians?

There is a vast difference between them.

Both.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Even though it exposed some hideous people, I'm glad the series is over.

When SBC first gained notoriety, I found him toe-curlingly un-funny and Borat was just embarrassing.

I thought that was the point. That's what he has always done. Declasse all the way. I can only stand it in small doses.

He's a Yoko Ono of comedy.

 

[Underseer]

I don't see anything about libertarians in that article.

Do you mean libertarians, or Libertarians?

There is a vast difference between them.

The only difference is one word on their voter registration, not in how they vote.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

I don't see anything about libertarians in that article.

Do you mean libertarians, or Libertarians?

There is a vast difference between them.

The only difference is one word on their voter registration, not in how they vote.

Here I thought you might try to point out where you found libertarians in that article, and it turns out you can't.

 

[Jarhyn]

I don't see anything about libertarians in that article.

Do you mean libertarians, or Libertarians?

There is a vast difference between them.

Yes, one hides racism and corporate favor behind "states rights, deregulate" linguistics. The other hides racism and corporate favor with... Well, they just don't bother to hide them at all anymore

Edit: I guess the bigger difference is that libertarians aren't afraid of weed.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

I don't see anything about libertarians in that article.

Do you mean libertarians, or Libertarians?

There is a vast difference between them.

Yes, one hides racism and corporate favor behind "states rights, deregulate" linguistics. The other hides racism and corporate favor with... Well, they just don't bother to hide them at all anymore

Edit: I guess the bigger difference is that libertarians aren't afraid of weed.

Well, you described the difference between conservatives and Republicans in the first and didn't get around to libertarians until the edit.

 

[Jarhyn]

Yes, one hides racism and corporate favor behind "states rights, deregulate" linguistics. The other hides racism and corporate favor with... Well, they just don't bother to hide them at all anymore

Edit: I guess the bigger difference is that libertarians aren't afraid of weed.

Well, you described the difference between conservatives and Republicans in the first and didn't get around to libertarians until the edit.

No, pretty sure libertarians are at the very least the ones who started that lipservice to "states rights" and hide their stripping of federal power to prevent universally bad behavior behind that banner. I could be wrong, though, it's been a while. Oh, maybe it's that the libertarian flavor is that "the freedom to own guns and shoot each other and have racist policies that exclude segments of the public for public business is fine because violating neutrality considerations is 'freedom!'" or some such? Again, like certain sex traffickers and racists, I have a hard time keeping them separate. The ick just kind of blurs together in a big regressive oil-slick.

 

[Underseer]

So who here is surprised that conservolibertarians are willing to commit mass murder given the chance?

Based on past arguments made by conservatives and libertarians, should we not judge the entire population of conservolibertarians based on the behavior of their worst? Should we not conclude that all of them are mass murderers and consider deporting them all to protect ourselves?

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

So who here is surprised that conservolibertarians are willing to commit mass murder given the chance?

Everyone. Your article only mentioned conservatives.

 

[scombrid]

Let us know when you folks decide to start taking policy positions that differentiates you from Trump, Joe Arpaio, and Alex Jones. Or have you guys been shouting fron the roof tops in opposition to Trump/Sessions immigration policy and nobody has noticed?

 

[scombrid]

I know what libertarian academics and economists say about immigration. Curious though the absence of threads here started by libertarians to oppose Trump when they have so many threads to attack other stuff they do not like such as SJWs and such.

 

[Underseer]

I don't see anything about libertarians in that article.

Do you mean libertarians, or Libertarians?

There is a vast difference between them.

Yes, one hides racism and corporate favor behind "states rights, deregulate" linguistics. The other hides racism and corporate favor with... Well, they just don't bother to hide them at all anymore

Edit: I guess the bigger difference is that libertarians aren't afraid of weed.

That is a difference.

Also, many libertarians are isolationist like paleoconservatives and not like interventionist neoconservatives, so it is probably more accurate to call them paleoconservative if we're going to insist on accuracy.

 

[RavenSky]

If we consider this from a viewpoint of entertainment or humor, it is pretty punk. But if you consider it from a viewpoint of experimental psychology such as Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority, it is interesting in an appalling way.

^^^ good point

 

[Underseer]

I know what libertarian academics and economists say about immigration. Curious though the absence of threads here started by libertarians to oppose Trump when they have so many threads to attack other stuff they do not like such as SJWs and such.

Also, notice that neither libertarians or conservatives are decrying this person's willingness to cause the mass murder of liberal protesters?

Let's get back to talking about the propensity for mass murder here.

Both conservatives and libertarians routinely demand that we judge entire populations by their worst (e.g. the guy who killed Mollie Tibbetts), so therefore none of them will complain about us judging all rightists by this charming gentlemen, right? Because if they have a problem with that generalization, they would be a bunch of hypocrites, and they're definitely not hypocrites.