Lefto Tree-hugging Mopes

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Item added by GenghisTheHun on 02/20/2008

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numbah16tdhaha
02/24/2009

Trees are fine, but I just can't call myself anything close to left of anything... wait, I dated this left handed chick for awhile. Does that count? Hmm...

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twansalem on 2/24/2009
Don't know about that, but my old roommate has actually chained himself to a tree before.

numbah16tdhaha on 2/24/2009
Hardcore, man. Did he save the tree?

twansalem on 2/24/2009
I don't know, he's one of those guys who likes to hear the sound of his own voice. I often avoided asking for more details out of fear that he'd expound on those details for about 20 minutes.

But yeah, he's pretty hardcore. He's a backpacker, rock climber, and white water rafting afficianado from Oregon. He plays ultimate frisbee, uses ultimate frisbee jargon when talking about it. He only votes for Democrats because the people that are as far left as he is couldn't get elected because they are too far left. His dad helped draft dodgers during the Vietnam War, and he considers one of the orignal members of the Weathermen (for those not familiar with them, an anti-Vietnam terrorist group in the 60s and 70s). Wow, looking back on it, I don't know how I managed to be a roommate with that guy for four years. But all of that stuff aside, I actually still get along with him pretty well.

twansalem on 2/24/2009
That last comment was incomplete. Insert "to be a close family friend" after the statement in parentheses.
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SilverFox
02/23/2009

I'm not radical in this area, but I do strongly favor protecting our environment, and I agree with, belong, and contribute to the Natural Resources Defense Council, probably the largest and most effective environmental group. It may arise from my love of the outdoors and a concern that we protect it and the species who live in it, who can't act for themselves. I oppose man's efforts to exploit it purely for profit without also taking steps to protect it in the process.

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fitman
02/23/2009

Apparently someone believes anyone with any concern for the environment or the fate of the working class is to be scorned and ridiculed regardless of the facts involved.

Could he be a 'reactionary winger'?

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oscargamblesfr o
02/23/2009

I do lean to the left on many things, though there is one major issue that I will only discuss in the real world that I am pretty conservative on for personal reasons, and I am also a fan of the real old school politicians from a bygone era who, whatever their flaws, had real contacts with people, understood that it's all a game really, and who really helped ordinary people-Al Smith, Mayor Curley, George Washington Plunkett, Huey Long, Boss Tweed- yes, you read that right. I see nothing wrong with ' honest graft' and I hate sanctimonious hypocrites and pompous would be reformers who turn around and peddle their own self serving bullshit in contrast. A real hardcore left winger or right winger would find those to be cynical and dated choices, but I find that a lot of politicians today have minimal contact with their constituents, and in some cases probably can't even relate to their concerns.

Trees are great, but I see no need to hug them, and find it a pretty silly thing to actually do. Pissed on some in my misspent and very...umm...Hibernian American youth. With my luck, I'll be walking somewhere and need to take a piss, and I'll go off into the woods and piss on...Treebeard, who'll proceed to kick me sky high.

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irishgit on 2/23/2009
Excellent, and I fully agree. Canada has produced its share of honest grafters, like Joey Smallwood, Jimmy Gardiner, W.A.C. Bennett, Amor de Cosmos, Maurice Deplessis, and W.L.M. King. While they lined their pockets, they made their province, their country or their district better.

I believe, like a brief mentor of mine believed that ``all politics is local politics`` and that sometimes requires greasing the wheels to get things done. A few hundred more pols like him in Congress, or Capitol Hill, and both our countries wold be better places.

oscargamblesfro on 2/23/2009
I'll have to look up those names sometime, though King sounds familiar. Amor de Cosmos sounds like an album by The Police!

irishgit on 2/23/2009
King was a Prime Minister from about 1925 to 1949. Smallwood was the guy who brought Newfoundland into confederation and ran the province like a fiefdom for almost 20 years. Gardiner ran Saskatchewan during the thirties with unbridled graft, Bennett ruled British Columbia from the fifites to the seventies presiding under a phenomenally corrupt government that provided more infrastructure per year than any other in Canada, Amor De Cosmos was an early BC Premier who would steal anything, including a red hot stove, and Maurce Deplessis was the bete noire of Quebec, an authoritarian, repressive and greedy little bastard who took the province out of the 18th Century,

fitman on 2/23/2009
Many years ago, Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin ran for office in New York City with the slogan, "VOTE THE RASCALS IN!".

Breslin defended the Tweeds et al, pointing out the fact that Republican 'reformers' tend to adhere to the letter of the law as they loot the treasury, whilst making sure none of the loot reaches the hoi polloi.

Due to their honesty, Mailer/Breslin lost the election.
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irishgit
02/23/2009

Two separate groups. Not all lefto mopes are tree-huggers, and not all tree-hugging mopes are leftists.

They`re both equally tiresome though.

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ILikePie
07/23/2008

Not at all... and I like the distinct lack of bias the person who submitted this clearly has...

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twansalem
02/27/2008

No, definitely not. But apparently my roommate once chained himself to a tree.

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GenghisTheHun
02/20/2008

A gaggle of these show up once in a while.

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