They ain't "conservatives"

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Fafhrd
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They ain't "conservatives"

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... they are reactionaries, ain't they?

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:shrug

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I thought zebras are reactionaries?
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Who is "They". We talking Illuminati? The Greys? Lizard People? Mole Men? Body Snatchers?
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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Antelopes are missionaries.

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And the elephants are kindly, but they're dumb.

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Pigeons plot in secrecy, and hamsters turn on frequently.

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Dont forget about the rabbits. They get rabid when mad.

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Big RR wrote:And the elephants are kindly, but they're dumb.

Kindly? Not this year...just dumb. :nana
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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Fafhrd wrote:... they are reactionaries, ain't they?

Ronald Reagan invented the genre of the radical reactionary; someone who harks back to an earlier golden time which never actually existed.


" when I was a boy there was no race problem." (RR quote)

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The French Revolution gave the English language three politically descriptive words denoting anti-progressive politics: reactionary, conservative and right. Reactionary derives from the French word réactionnaire (a late eighteenth-century coinage based on the word réaction, "reaction"), and conservative from conservateur, identifying monarchist parliamentarians opposed to the revolution.

In this French usage, reactionary denotes "a movement towards the reversal of an existing tendency or state" and a "return to a previous condition of affairs." The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first English-language usage in 1799 in a translation of Lazare Carnot's letter on the Coup of 18 Fructidor.
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Ronald Reagan invented the genre of the radical reactionary
That is so absurd, I'm not even going to respond to it...

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