Sticks bin Stones

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Should the reality-based community pre-emptively take back "Obama bin Biden" as a pride badge before the other side can enshrine it as the giggling sneer they'll piss at us for the rest of the year? Or is it not worth the energy?

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[radtea.livejournal.com]

I'd start printing up stickers and whatnot. Politics brings out the stupid in people (including me) and gets us at our monkey-brain level. Silly things like name calling can make a difference entirely disproportionate to their "rational" impact. "Bellicose conservatives" (2 google hits) understand this much better than "bleeding heart liberals" (100,000 google hits).

The Right has engaged in pretty much nothing but name calling for over a decade. If the Left can aggressively appropriate the Right's slurs they will have the twin advantage of a) looking "strong" in the eyes of the monkey, and b) cutting the Right's stupid strategy off at the knees, which after a decade of nothing but name-calling will leave them to twist in the wind, where they quite properly belongs.

So I'd like to see "Barack Hussein Obama bin Biden: TWIN TOWERS of STRENGTH for a NEW AMERICA" stickers, posters and buttons everywhere. Revel in it. Feed it to the Right with a knife.

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[radtea.livejournal.com]

That should be 114 google hits for "bellicose conservatives" (speeled it rong) but the point still stands.