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Originally Posted by Origen
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I wish more conservatives actually had libertarian values, but most of them are just authoritarians with a low "disgust" threshold
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"You touch it with a needle" -- Pompei Magnus, Rome, HBO S01;Ep3 "An Owl in a Thornbush"
I had the distinct pleasure of being raised in the Long Island NY area in the pre-Aids era. You cannot trust the old videos. If you just watch the videos, you would think everyone dug the cocaine, the non-stop partying, the pure desire to be a stoned idiot.
I mean, it's a huge area, but I can tell you, a general "disgust" with the NYC of the late 70's and 80's cut across class and racial lines.
However, and this is my point, we all had lives to live. So the fact that a bunch of people were being kinda gross was just a daily thing. If you got hung up, God help your sanity. God help the entire area. It survives b/c people were forced to maintain a healthy immune system to disgusting things.
And a healthy immune system just dissolves the shit it does not want or like. An allergic reaction -- ie, modern conservatives -- is a sign of a whacked out immune system, not a good one.
So that gets my bingo award clearly. I brought out a Rome quote, that's special for me.