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I'm engaging in a gross generalization and I know it, especially since most of my IRL friends/coworkers would be considered to have "progressive" politics and generally don't act this way, but would you agree that there is a certain Debbie Downer type of progressive? The type of progressive who has no life outside of politics, and can't find joy in anything because there's always some type of "exploitation" going on?

No, i think its the exact opposite... if you're a real progressive intellectual.

Some people aren't happy unless they're miserable.

Nitpicking how? There's no difference between species and race.

Originally posted by Super Marie 64
Nitpicking how? There's no difference between species and race.

Well, there is difference between the words, in this context it's not an issue though.

Originally posted by Dr Will Hatch
I'm engaging in a gross generalization and I know it, especially since most of my IRL friends/coworkers would be considered to have "progressive" politics and generally don't act this way, but would you agree that there is a certain Debbie Downer type of progressive? The type of progressive who has no life outside of politics, and can't find joy in anything because there's always some type of "exploitation" going on?

compared with the high spirits and optimism of the tea partyers?

its a basic psychological mechanism, the idea of "looming disaster", we all suffer from it. If its not a political thing for you, it is something else.

Originally posted by Super Marie 64
Nitpicking how? There's no difference between species and race.

Uh, yes there is. Technically there is one human subspecies, homo sapiens sapiens.

Depending on whom you ask there are between 3 and 7 different human races.

And depends on how you use the word "race". It's used synonymously with "ethnicity" a lot.

Originally posted by The Dark Cloud
I agree with every word of this except I would replace human "race" with human "species"(nitpicking I know)


Damn, and I tried so hard to impress you