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New Study Finds Wimpy Guys More Likely To Be Socialists

Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 11 months ago to News
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Reading what's in the link, I immediately thought of my lib brother. I have four brothers. The only lib is the second wimpiest.
I'm pretty sure the wimpiest, who washed out as an Air Force recruit, is still a conservative.
At family reunions we don't discuss politics because of the lib.
My most conservative of brothers is not a wimp at all and likes to talk about the lib behind his back.
So far none of my brothers know I'm here in The Gulch. Or at least~I don't think so.


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  • Posted by scojohnson 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No, it's because most Republicans were raised with some strict manners and it's a trying not to be rude / trying not to 'offend' thing.

    I'll exempt the head of the College Republican Party in Minnesota 25 years ago when I was there, he was an asshole. Most of the ones that turn into professional campaign operatives are assholes though.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I found a good spot recently while passing through... Logan, UT.

    Think about it... Utah already kind-of/sort-of looks the other way on some Latter Day Saints stuff. I bet they may be open to a self-run community that kicks down a little bit of tax revenue.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 7 years, 11 months ago
    Someone needed a study to know this?

    They also tend to drive Subaru station wagons...
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 11 months ago
    It only is logical. A wimpy guy wants someone to take care of him and see to his (or her) needs. He can be relied upon to do some pretty good stuff if all his needs are met, but if not, he tends to feel as if the world owes him a living. He tends to like demonstrations but rarely would participate. I suppose you can tell that I know a few.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So....What are "Neanderthal knuckle-draggers (non-wimpy) who care more about greedy gain at the expense of others than about win-win scenarios? "
    " I hope that" ......You aren't ...."using the distorted and incorrect definition that substitutes the definition of"..a totalitarian.."communist in place of the real definition of a..." politically conservative American.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, at least you don't have to put up with nasty looks and temper tantrums and being called the usual...hater, selfish, racist, etc. My brother in law...and in fact my whole side of the family are a bunch of libtards. My wife's folks however are all conservative to the core. They treat me like the "Second coming"
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 7 years, 11 months ago
    I think this is dangerous wishful thinking. It's great if it's true since we don't want socialists to be strong, but I would not count on this wish being true. It reminds me of calling suicide attacks "cowardly". They're actually brave if they go through with it. We wish they would always chicken out, but unfortunately our wish does not come true.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He was a loudmouth during late 60s and the 70s before he realized he was the only one not voting for Reagan.
    Political conversation around him froze over and I think he caught on and decided to shut up also.
    For some reason he likes to talk about weapons; but when a year ago I told him my son and I had recently been at a pistol range, he looked at me all appalled.
    He was spending a weekend with my most conservative of brothers who later told me the lib
    could not comprehend how shooting a gun at a range could be fun or even necessary.
    I always thought target practice helps one shoot straight~but what do I know?
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  • Posted by GaryL 7 years, 11 months ago
    Can a Hero be a Wimp? Don't answer that. I don't assign the term Hero lightly but I do know a few who have performed heroic actions.
    John McCain who is often called a Hero is about the wimpiest RINO of the bunch. I suspect he might have been neutered during his stay in the Hanoi Hilton but at some point real soon I hope the wimps in AZ decide to put him out to pasture. Wow has he become a complete disgrace IMO.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 7 years, 11 months ago
    Look again at the footage from the news cameras when, on the night of Hillary's defeat, they panned the audience at her convention hall. Really look at those guys...Tell me what you see.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Maybe it works both ways depending on the individual~er, but one not into individualism.
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  • Posted by trogwolf 7 years, 11 months ago
    First: What is a wimpy guy and what is a socialist?
    I hope that whoever buys into this isn't using the distorted and incorrect definition that substitutes the definition of communist in place of the real definition of socialist. A Socialist is somebody who wants the kind of social reforms that eliminate poverty, hunger, disease, ignorance, you know, all those symptoms of economic inequality that result when there are a rich class, a middle class and a poor class within a society.


    So, if Wimpy guys are more likely to actually care about the needs of their fellow citizens, and therefor are more likely to be attracted to socialist ideals, does that mean that Capitalism is more likely to attract Neanderthal knuckle-draggers (non-wimpy) who care more about greedy gain at the expense of others than about win-win scenarios?
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 7 years, 11 months ago
    There is a shocker..."wimps tend to be socialists"...Who would-a-thunk it!....I suspect because they prefer to be part of a group...[mob] rather than risk anything by themselves.

    Hey, Allosour....too bad about your "second wimpiest" brother...I suspect that you end up being more or less barred from speaking politics at family reunions because Mr. "second wimpiest" gets nasty and starts calling people names when he uses his one canned argument on any given subject and it gets parried by a conservative and then he has no comeback. I have a brother in law like that. What a pain in the behind.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That occurred to me too. It's all about peace being "conserved" during the few times we get together.
    My most conservative brother lives half an hour away on the other side of Birmingham, the lib moved from California to Delaware two years ago, another lives in Tennessee and the wimp lives in North Carolina.
    No one wants trouble during a somewhat rare family reunion.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have vacationed in the state and liked it very much. I know a couple who live there. They are big supporters of the Second Amendment and help out with the organization that takes disabled veterans hunting.
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  • Posted by GaryL 7 years, 11 months ago
    I always thought that Socialism is what made guys wimpy!
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  • Posted by Esceptico 7 years, 11 months ago
    This seems like an internal contradiction: "My most conservative of brothers is not a wimp at all and likes to talk about the lib behind his back." In my experience, wimps do this wheres as non-wimps will actually talk- face-to-face.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You aren't wrong there. The northern plains are awash in oil and provide plenty of grazing for cattle and fields of wheat. And despite their somewhat progressive social outlook, most Montanans are hard-core Second Amendment supporters. Only thing to watch out for there is the weather. Lived there for seven years.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 11 months ago
    Those who can't control themselves often seek arbitrary control over others as a false substitute. Those who are actually in control of themselves know that they have enough to worry about in controlling themselves that it is self-delusion to believe they can control another person on top of that.
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  • Posted by jhagen 7 years, 11 months ago
    For this they needed a 'study'? And did the people performing this innovative brain racking work get paid to state the bloody obvious???
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