Merry Xmas to all my Right Wing Frenemies

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   Pcunixposted 12 years ago

   No joke. no sarcasm, I mean it.
   
   I may think you are all illogical and worse, but I do realize that at least MOST of you (all but the Koch Brothers, Murdoch and the like) actually want the same thing all we  fuzzy thinking Liberals want - a better world.
   
   So: Merry Xmas.

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      paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Merry Christmas, Pcunix!
      
      Sincerely,
      
      paradigmsearch (a registered independent)

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         melbelposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Merry Christmas!
         
         -Melanie (Independent)

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      lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Merry Christmas and also a happy new year

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      Motown2Chitownposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Merry Christmas right backatcha!
      
      

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   EmpressFelicityposted 12 years ago

   What kind of reply do you think this is going to get?

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      Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Nastiness from those who won't even declare  a Xmas truce, maybe, but perhaps a recognition from some that we do have some  patches of ground that we don't have to fight over?

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         EmpressFelicityposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Oh. Right. Well, Merry Christmas then.
         
         (from a Brit Tory who's right wingness is probably very lame and milquetoast by most American standards)

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            Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Might even be a dreaded Liberal over here :-)

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            Hollie Thomasposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            EmpressFelicity, when Cam's been kicked out as the tory leader, who would you want to lead?

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               EmpressFelicityposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               I dunno!
               
               I am a bit cynical about party politics really. I don't think that these days, there is anything to choose between the mainstream political parties/politicians in Britain - they all hover in the same quadrant of the political compass.
               
               Another thing that is never acknowledged by the media (or by voters themselves) is that a lot of the "stuff" that goes on with the economy and so forth is beyond the control of politicians. As Alessio Rastani* said, "Governments don't rule the world. Goldman Sachs rules the world."
               
               *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC19fEqR5bA

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                  Hollie Thomasposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Your absolutely right, Goldman Sachs does rule the world. For the time being that is. Strangely, although a left winger, I  believe that John Major was twice the man that TBlair was. I wish I had had that insight at the time and not been so caught up in the left and right mentality. JM never allowed the likes of Murdoch and GS, JP Morgan etc. to have unbridled control the way they've had over the last couple of decades.
                  
                  If I had to pick a right winger, it would be good old Ken, don't laugh!

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         paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Alas...

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            paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            The ambiguity of my previous statement leaves no bounds.

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         SirDentposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         

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            Mighty Momposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Hey, that looks just like Randy Godwin!

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               SirDentposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               I am sure he owns the patent on it.

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   Hollie Thomasposted 12 years ago

   Merry Xmas (a fully fledged, paid up member of the Greens)

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   MissEposted 12 years ago

   Frenemies!  LOL!  That's classic.  Merry CHRISTmas everyone!!!!!!!!!!!

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   manlypoetrymanposted 12 years ago

   Merry Christmas...you fuzzy thinking Liberal...you! (Well...you said it first...!)
   
   We all do want a better World...that is for sure.

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      Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      You people always forget "looney".  The proper extended form is Lunatic Tree Hugging Fuzzy Headed Bleeding Heart Liberal, but I do understand the space that wastes..

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         manlypoetrymanposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Well...Please feel free to edit at will...if you insist (And a Happy New Year, too!)

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   Stacie Lposted 12 years ago

   Can't we all just get along?
   at least for a few days.
   http://youtu.be/1sONfxPCTU0

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      Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Ayup.  But on January 2d, I'm turning nasty again.  Well, maybe semi-nasty.  Or possibly just mildly critical and it can build from there?
      
      Til then, sweetness and light.  Well, maybe not sweetness.  But I put away the poison darts.

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   Mighty Momposted 12 years ago

   Merry Christmas and a PROSPEROUS New Year to you, Pcunix, and all of us at Hub Pages.
   Mighty Mom
   Registered Dem
   
   We're only confessing political leanings here, right? Or left, as the case may be.

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      Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      You can confess anything you like :-)

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      Lisa HWposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Merry Christmas, everyone.
      
      OK, hold the rotten tomatoes for my big (and brave) confession:
      
      Registered, just-over-the-line, Republican (but with several toes on the other side of that line - if that helps). Classic "right-winger"?  No, but left-winger?  Really no.   (I always like to point all that out because I don't like getting lumped in with "right wing nuts" when there's so much about what some "real" right-wingers believe that I don't (but nobody ever seems to realize that no all right-leaners are at the same point on the "how-far-right" scale. 
      
      

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   Stevennix2001posted 12 years ago

   Isn't it kind of naive to assume that all right wing voters are religious though, as I know quite a few that are atheists.  Just saying.

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      Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I believe that as a lunatic liberal, I am both entitled and expected to be naive?

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         Stevennix2001posted 12 years agoin reply to this

         I never said anything about what was expected of you, as I just think the generalization is naive.  That's all.  However, good luck with your thread.  By the way, I don't think liberals are lunatics anymore than I do about conservatives, as I think both parties have their good points and bad.  Besides, I have followers myself that are on both sides of the fence, so it would be foolish of me have any preconceived notions about a person's choice of political party.  In my mind all political parties lie to people.  Some politicians just lie more than others.  However, that's another topic to discuss at another time. 
         
         Knowing you don't like people saying anything religious towards you, I'll just say Happy New Year to you.  Yes, I know new year hasn't happened yet, but it's close though.  Plus, I don't know when I'll see you again, as I don't visit forums as often as I used to, so I hope you have a happy new year.

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            Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            I don't care about people saying religious things.. My wife does - she gets very annoyed  when neighbors sends cards with angels, never mind the ones that say anything about 'God".
            
            But she was brought up Catholic.  Some of them get very bitter.  Me, I don't care.  Don't tell me who your god wants me to vote for, though :-)
            
            So again: Merry Christmas!

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               Stevennix2001posted 12 years agoin reply to this

               lol. Okay.  I thought I read a few forum posts that you didn't care for people saying religious things to you, so I was merely trying to be considerate, but that's good to know thanks. 
               
               
               
               I honestly don't care who you vote for Pcunix, as I feel that's a private matter anyway.
               
               And again:  Happy New Year!

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               Mighty Momposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               My god still believes in HOPE!
               

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                  Hollie Thomasposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Happy Xmas, MM and Wes!

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         Mighty Momposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Oh hell. Waaayyyy worse than naive.
         Deliberately slow on the uptake.
         Unwilling to listen to reason or see the truth.
         Frustratingly and fatally obtuse!
         They don't call us LibTARDS for nothing, now do they?
         
         Oops. Sorry. I momentarily lapsed out of the seasonal politically correct mood.
         

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            American Viewposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            MM
            
            Have a great Christmas holiday for you and your family. See you around

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      Lisa HWposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Stevennix, I don't know about naive, but it's certainly incorrect.  There are a lot of completely non-religious Republicans.

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         Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Like Jamie on Mythbusters, I reject your reallity and substitute my own.

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   Peter Hogganposted 12 years ago

   A great new year, when it comes, to everyone. I am stopping smoking this year... again.

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      Hollie Thomasposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Buy an e-cigarette. I have not smoked for five weeks, and have had a 30 a day habit for 20 years. I could not have done it without the e-cigarette!

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    wildernessposted 12 years ago

    How can a godless liberal know anything of Christmas?
    
    A Merry Christmas to you, PC, from an atheist usually a little right of center.  May the new year be a better one for all of us, even those terrible and fearsome liberals.

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    calpol25posted 12 years ago

    Merry Christmas from your newly converted Atheist & Communist

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    melbelposted 12 years ago

    Merry Christmas, pcunix? And not Happy Holidays? You've got yourself some right leaning manners tonight! I expected a nice lib Happy Insert_Your_Holiday_or_non-holiday_Here. After all, I was raised Baptist/Catholic/Methodist/Jewish (for real!) Where's my Happy Hanukkah? I'm feeling left out in this thread. :'(
    
    Joking aside, it's the first night of Hanukkah. Time to get blasted on manischewitz wine and eat some latkes. I'd get snazzy with some jordan almonds, but I'm allergic. Found that out on T-giving.
    
    I was going to write a hub on getting menorah candles to fit, but bloody hell, I couldn't get them to fit for my demo. I guess I didn't perfect it as I'd originally thought. Next year, I'm heading to the hardware store for a soldering iron. Hopefully I won't be joyous on manischewitz, that would be scary.

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       Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Well, if I do not know a person well, I do say "Happy Holidays".  I'm apt to say that to Jewish friends too because I never pronounce Hanukkah well and it's so hard to keep track of when it is.
       
       But Christmas has so little religious attachment, I don't think of it in any PC context.

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    skyfireposted 12 years ago

    Happy New year.

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    Uninvited Writerposted 12 years ago

    I am sick to death of so called Christians whining about Happy Holidays.
    
    Even on Facebook where a game I play posted Happy Hanukkah wishes all these Christians came in yelling that it should be Merry Christmas. One even went as far as to posts "I thought this was America, we celebrate Christmas." These people are out of control I tell you.
    
    Let me finish by saying that I know this is not the majority of Christians who act like total jackasses.
    
    It is not hypocritical for non-Christians to celebrate Christmas, the holiday has become so much more than just a religious holiday. It has been since I was a kid and it always will be. Just try and ignore Christmas.
    
    Sorry, don't want to turn this into a religious argument

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       Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       I know, I know.
       
       The thing is that they feel threatened.  They think it's a slippery slope that will lead to religious persecution.
       
       I know, that's utterly ridiculous - but when people FEEL threatened, their feelings ARE real. 
       
       I try to remind them that even I, a strong atheist who loudly objects to the intrusion of religion into governenment, am a strong defender of their religious freedom. 
       
       Does that help?  Probably not :-)  But maybe it gives them some reason to be a little less fearful.

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          couturepopcafeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          Wow, Pc, that's as 'fuzzy' as I've every read you.  I think I'm gonna cry.  Happy Holy Days!

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             Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

             Now THAT I would not like.  There's nothing "holy" about it to me and a lot of other people.  That makes me feel like you want to impose your beliefs on me.
             
             I don't get hopping mad about it and if you said it verbally, I would respond with "Happy Holidays" unless I knew you to be Christian, in which case I'd say "Merry Xmas". 
             
             But I WOULD be annoyed.

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    Reality Bytesposted 12 years ago

    Happy Solstice everyone!!!!!  Today!!!!
    
    Have a grand yuletide.
    
    Woohoo longer days.....
    
    Merry Christmas too...........

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    Uninvited Writerposted 12 years ago

    Hard to believe Christmas is coming here. It's foggy right now and rain is predicted

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       Paragliderposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       It's not coming here - but I'm going home in a couple of days to find it

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          wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          Went outside to set garbage out early, and the barest skiff of snow.
          
          Unfortunately, that's all that is predicted for the week.

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             Paragliderposted 12 years agoin reply to this

             Well, I'm in the deserts of Arabia. We get a handful of rainy days per year, but snow - no chance!

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                couturepopcafeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                Where is Home?

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                   Paragliderposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                   Home is West Midlands, England. Heading back for Christmas

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    habeeposted 12 years ago

    Merry Christmas, PQ!
    (from a card-totin' Republican who sometimes rebels by voting D or I)

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    Greenhousewifeposted 12 years ago

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS PQ, from a  fellow liberal! A reminder folks, it is the holiday season and not just CHRISTMAS is going on right now! It is ignorant of those who claim only "Merry Christmas" is appropriate during this season! So I say to all my hubber friends: Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Blessed Yule, A Peaceful Bodhi Day, and an enlightening Day of Ashura!

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    Pcunixposted 12 years ago

    Well, it didn't last long.  Right wing illogic has driven me to insanity yet again.
    
    I tried, I really, really tried but it is just hopeless.  I want to scream.

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       Hollie Thomasposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       As much as we'd all like to, you can't make people see through your eyes. We have to accept each other, however hard, for our own sanity. I'm saying this as what you Americans would define as a liberal. Keep talking, keep reasoning and don't give up. A little understanding?

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          Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          I tried.  There is no point.  They can't see past their rhetoric, don't ever notice that their own words are illogical.
          
          I give up.  Too frustrating.  You can't reason with people incapable of reason.

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             Hollie Thomasposted 12 years agoin reply to this

             No, but you can still keep reasoning. All is not lost, remember the inspiration for this post. And, Pcunix, wishing  a very merry Christmas, to you and yours. I'm gonna post a nice link soon, too.

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    American Viewposted 12 years ago

    Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah. May everyone be safe and with their loved ones. Please remember those who cannot be with their loved ones like those brave men and women in the armed forces, all the first responders who will also be out protecting us all. I worked many holidays while I was with the FDNY. I know what it is like to miss time with the family. And to not forget the politics here, I am an independent.
    
    By the way, sure lot of people who are not on the right that answered a post titled for the right LOL

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       Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       We can agree on all that, anyway.

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    PaulGoodman67posted 12 years ago

    These spats and arguments belong in the politics and religion forums, not here, and I say that as a left-of-center, liberal, atheist type!  Happy xmas to all anyway!

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