I like the way he keeps calling states 'countries'.

History smackdown!

Dude, I wish we'd let y'all go too, but unfortunately we appear to be stuck with you. The South is our deadbeat uncle we keep hoping will turn his life around.

Uh ... firing on the Army? If that's not treason it really ought be.

I can see that point of view, and even why you might think that of me. However, I've never said he was an idiot, just that he was bad at math. And given that he has completely misunderstood mathematics, I don't think his race has anything to do with my noting that fact. I'm not going to go and tell him how to think…

That's why I decided to poke fun at conservatives instead of him (though he totally got side-eye).

Well, government control/non-government control is the basic axis of the political spectrum but I don't think American political parties fall along that any longer. Republicans want to control people's bodies but not their money and Democrats don't want to control people's bodies but do want to control more of their…

I agree with you too, essentially. I'm very wary of 'what's good for the goose is good for the gander.' And even if I'm pretty sure a people is going about something in a wrong-headed manner I'm not going to force them to follow my thinking. While I'm not a fan of this man's point of view on gay people I would not…

I completely agree that generalizations are tricky. Unfortunately, it's A, how our brains process information and B, necessary for talking about many concepts. If I've given the impression that I think all Republicans are on the shallow end of intelligence I apologize, that was absolutely not my intention. What I was…

Essentially, my belief is there is a big difference between routinely being perceived as a socialist who wants the government to control everything and being perceived as a homophobe who hates poor people. Each side has a reductive perspective on the other, yes, but when you take both ideologies to there basics, one…

I don't believe holding people responsible for their beliefs is bigotry.

I see what you're trying to say, however I don't see them as analogous. What the Republican Party has been doing for a long time is to put the genie back in the bottle and those policies hurt people. Having a problem with that is not bigotry. Studies have repeatedly shown that Republicans are less informed. I choose…

I should have said educated and/or more intelligent. History shows quite clearly that progress never follows conservative thinking. Dems/liberals/blue staters/progressives are usually more nuanced in their thinking and more empathetic. And tend to fall on the right side of history. Perhaps…

Except the Republican Party has been obviously racist, xenophobic, and sexist for years. Being Republican is a choice, being gay or Irish is not.

But they are totally different things. One is oppressing people for something they cannot control and the other is calling out a group for their bigotry. How are they in any way similar?

Given our history of imperialism, it is touchy territory. However, in this case I'm comfortable that accepting gay people is a universal good.

Me too!

I was rather at a loss for what word to use given the international bigotry. Though I'm not entirely sure I would make much distinction between stupid and conservative, at least in the US (if conservative = the GOP). There was a time when that wasn't true, but at this point folks who stick with the republicans tend to…

I've always said conservatives are bad at math. This does nothing to disprove that theorem, uh I mean theory.

Me too! And of course I immediately flashed to their mom under the bed on that cart ... * shudder *