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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 01/08/2009 : 02:48:09
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Be cool, I've almost got them cleared out.
The concept is a little hard to grasp, really, feeling sorry for that, well, I don't feel up to racking my imagination for yet another profanely accurate, descriptive term for Bush this morning. Maybe tomorrow. You have to go deep. You have to scrape and dig and plow, hunt and dive and sigh and even then it might take so long and cost so much invaluable energy and ultimately prove to be so damn near impossible, you will wonder if it's even worth it and why the hell I am even trying because, well, sweet Jesus knows he doesn't deserve it in the first place.
But if you're so inclined, if the temperature of your temperament is just so, if that fourth glass of $10 recession-defying wine is making you feel unusually generous, maybe, just maybe you can muster a bit of sympathy for George W. Bush.
Possible? Insane? Blasphemous? Damn straight.
It's already happening. I've read a number of pieces and a few strange, sepia-toned articles of late (like this one) that, while certainly not daring to paint Bush with any sort of gushing, rose-colored, wasn't-he-an-unrecognized-genius brush of overt kindness, still attempt to give him a far larger dose of humanity and pathos than which might sit well with your very soul.
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Nobody likes to admit that they made a bad move, not you, not me, and not those who supported Bush through two extremely doubtful elections and a truly fucked-up eight years (thank you, Congress, you pack of snivling pussies!). So, apologetics for the fool are bound to be slathered through the more hysterical facets of the media, and indeed, some of the more sober ones. And d'ya wanna know the punch line? It will matter not at all to Bush. Sociopaths really don't care.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Mycroft
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 01/09/2009 : 17:02:39 [Permalink]
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I think a normal human being should be capable of sympathy for any other human being. Stalin paralyzed by hist stroke awaiting death? Hitler huddling in his bunker? Jeffry Dahmer being beaten to death in prison? Saddam Hussein as the noose pulls tight? Yasser Arafat wasting away of his mystery *cough, AIDS, cough* illness?
I can evoke sympathy in myself for all these people. That doesn't mean I condone what they have done or would alter their fate in any way, only that I recognize that for all their evil they are still human beings and that it must be just awful to be them at that horrible time.
George W Bush? I've read interviews of people close to him who say what a nice guy he is and I can't help thinking what a tragedy it is that he wasn't left alone to live out his life as an amiable, wealthy, drug-addled, playboy. Wouldn't things be much better!
Sympathy for him? Sure! But that doesn't mean I'm not happy to see him go. I am. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2009 : 17:56:30 [Permalink]
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I want to have sympathy for George W. Bush. But since he's a sociopath, he's immune from empathy with, or the ridicule of, others. So he's not feeling bad about anything.
Thus my sympathy will have to be earned. Preferably by something really horrible happening to him, first. I can't wait until I have an opportunity to be sympathetic.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 01/09/2009 17:57:07 |
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Sympathy for the W?
