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For Ben Affleck, It's Ridicule Before Reason
Townhall.com ^ | October 11, 2014 | Tony Katz

Posted on 10/11/2014 6:15:22 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: GOPJ

Holey moley Batman he’s stupid.


21 posted on 10/11/2014 6:54:29 AM PDT by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: Salamander

He will never touch Bale’s Batman, he was a Conservative and in the last two was George Bush. Afflick will be a liberal and stink up the entire movie.

When it comes to Islam, liberals have to be tolerant which is close to sainthood. Intolerance is their only sin.

Pray America wakes up


22 posted on 10/11/2014 6:56:28 AM PDT by bray (Read: Republic of Texas 2022)
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To: Kaslin

Liberals cannot be honest about liberal principals. If they were they couldn’t be liberals. Their principals make absolutely no sense.


23 posted on 10/11/2014 7:01:33 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: allendale
The real problem is that there are too many vapid people (voters) who worship celebrities and take this fool seriously.

Excellent point.

Liberalism - leftism - is at its core authoritarian. It is populist in the sense that it offers a comfortable haven of intellectual pretension for those too uninformed to develop a set of opinions.

Liberal followers are uniformly uninformed. They will parrot edicts propounded by those they respect without consideration. Because liberal positions are based on emotion rather than reason they are not interested in trivialities like facts, truth or knowledge.

24 posted on 10/11/2014 7:08:13 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Kaslin

My son told me the ancient Greeks thought actors needed to be of low intelligence so they could more easily play their character. That is because low intelligence people don’t have a firm grasp of reality and they could create reality in their character.


25 posted on 10/11/2014 7:30:28 AM PDT by the_daug
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To: Kaslin

This goes to the theory that a lot of leftism is based on toxoplasmosis, a protozoa infection in the brain that may affect anywhere from 11-30 million Americans.

To explain, the usual life cycle of the protozoa is between rodents and cats. It can only reproduce in the gut of a cat, so it is vital that the cat eats an infected rodent.

To bring this about, the protozoa has evolved a very unusual technique. When it detects the chemical signals for fear in the rodent’s blood, it releases an enzyme that makes the rodent’s brain secrete two chemicals: dopamine, the “pleasure chemical”, and GABA, the “wakefullness/drowsiness” chemical.

This means, when the rodent senses something that it *should* be afraid of, and has a fear response, its brain is instead filled with feelings of drowsy pleasure. Which, over time, “retrains” its brain to be attracted to that which it *should* fear.

In the case of rodents, when they smell cat urine, they *should* be afraid, and depart in the opposite direction. But with the protozoa, they are instead attracted to the smell of cat urine, enter the territory of a cat, and are eaten by the cat. The protozoa has retrained them to be destroyed.

From cat feces or undercooked meat, humans can get the protozoa as well, and chemically, our brains have similar mechanisms to the brains of rodents.

Humans are not afraid of the smell of cat urine. But there are other things that humans *are* afraid of, and *should* be afraid of.

Associating this with leftism is not hard. Leftists have some weird compulsions, like being attracted to people that truly hate Americans and want to annihilate us.

On a more subtle note, it seems that their training also has other effects as well: first, that leftists are repelled by things and people that are healthy, wholesome, beneficial, and friendly. Second, that they are attracted to all sorts of behaviors that are extremely unhealthy, such as drugs, irresponsible and perverse sexual behavior, etc. And third, a dangerous one, that they are not just content with self-immolation; they want to harm as many people as possible as they destroy themselves.

That their efforts to do so are remarkably irrational has no impact on them, for they are beyond rationality.

A great example is their profound rejection of any form of missile defense for the United States. The best thing they can imagine to support this bizarre idea is that missile defenses are “provocative”, and would encourage our enemies to launch missiles at us.

But it leads to Ben Affleck, and his profound love for murderous Muslims. Bill Maher *may* be a “genuine” leftist, who is balking at least at some of the irrationality. Not a mind controlled zombie person.


26 posted on 10/11/2014 7:31:34 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Vaquero

Exactly. Republicans/Conservatives need to start employing ridicule. Sadly, it’s not in our nature.


27 posted on 10/11/2014 7:35:00 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: allendale

And THAT is why Obama has gained the WH twice. He is nothing but an actor (albeit a very destructive one), reading other people’s words from a teleprompter and carousing with other celebrities. He only really gets into trouble when he goes off teleprompter. I WISH this country had awakened to the destruction before November, 2012. If it’s not close, they can’t cheat. As for Ben Affleck, he has achieved well above his abilities in Hollyweird. Should be falling in the next few years.


28 posted on 10/11/2014 7:38:48 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: originalbuckeye
Exactly. Republicans/Conservatives need to start employing ridicule. Sadly, it’s not in our nature.

Challenge accepted.

29 posted on 10/11/2014 7:52:56 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (There will be another crusade in our lifetime.)
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To: Kaslin

Bill Maher is at least right-er than Affleck. But its nice to see him get a little taste of some of the hate he’s given conservatives over the years. Perhaps he may even emerge from this a little wiser about the people he’s usually aligned with.

Think of it as Kharma, Bill.


30 posted on 10/11/2014 7:56:39 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (The ferguson rioters, looters and arsonists are DOMESTIC LEFT WING TERRORISTS)
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To: Zenjitsuman
Holey moley Batman he’s stupid.

LOL

31 posted on 10/11/2014 8:01:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (The beast roams the earth... there has been a seismic shift in our world. Rabbi Shalom Lewis)
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To: Kaslin
I'm sure Wise Ben Affleck can fly over and straighten out their misunderstanding of peaceful Islam.


32 posted on 10/11/2014 8:09:42 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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33 posted on 10/11/2014 8:10:58 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: 2banana

Well, that’s one of his problems: He can’t act.


34 posted on 10/11/2014 8:14:43 AM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

The concentric circle principle is also the foundation of liberal opposition to Christianity. Curiously the same theory of all things does not apply to their own position.

Liberalism is nieve Leninism, best exemplified by Obama. The fawning adoration of his hole-liness is based on his ability to apply regurgitated communist principles in every context. This makes him a genius, capable of lowering the oceans and cleaning the air.
The simple fact that Obama’s deeply ingrained ideology bears no application to reality is his undoing.


35 posted on 10/11/2014 8:16:57 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: GOPJ

Ditto.


36 posted on 10/11/2014 8:21:28 AM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: Kaslin

Good article.


37 posted on 10/11/2014 8:30:51 AM PDT by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: allendale

I went and saw the new “Gone Girl” movie. I was expecting a great thriller. It was just ok. Nothing to brag about.


38 posted on 10/11/2014 9:04:07 AM PDT by napscoordinator (I guarantee every FRiend Misses the lost opportunity of a President Santorum!)
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To: Kaslin

Affleck’s just another member of goofywood they all have money but no brains they make a living doing what they are told to say and do.


39 posted on 10/11/2014 9:28:36 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: GOPJ
The punishment for such a crime? Ridicule, shame and - at times - outright abandonment. Whether that be a lifetime ban, or a specific time frame unknown to the victim.

There will be no lifetime ban, for obvious reasons . . .


40 posted on 10/11/2014 9:31:31 AM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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