Are Republicans Autistic?

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Radio personality Jack Rice leapt into the news this weekend by asking if Republicans were autistic. The metaphor is crude, and largely undeserved, but merits further exploration.

The word autism was first used in 1911 to describe human behaviors so self-centered as to suggest failure to process the realities of the outside world in language, and an inability to relate to other humans. In the 1940s symptoms were defined further as social withdrawal, difficulty in communicating, extreme self-absorption, and repetitive or stereotyped behaviors.

Now called Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), it is generally agreed that people with ASD have few linguistic, social, cultural or logical constraints to manage their lives. A current definition adds " ...people with ASD have difficulty seeing things from another person's perspective. Most 5-year-olds understand that other people have different information, feelings, and goals than they have. A person with ASD may lack such understanding. This inability leaves them unable to predict or understand other people's actions."

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As a general group, no.

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As a general group, no.

To have the vile hatred toward poor people to want to deny them basic social svs under the guise of fairness requires the formation of mens rea, hence they cannot be autistic. If they were they would have an excuse for their depraved sense of humainity.

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As a general group, no.

To have the vile hatred toward poor people to want to deny them basic social svs under the guise of fairness requires the formation of mens rea, hence they cannot be autistic. If they were they would have an excuse for their depraved sense of humainity.

Speaking of not being able to see another's perspective...

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As a general group, no.

To have the vile hatred toward poor people to want to deny them basic social svs under the guise of fairness requires the formation of mens rea, hence they cannot be autistic. If they were they would have an excuse for their depraved sense of humainity.

Speaking of not being able to see another's perspective...

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"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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As a general group, no.

To have the vile hatred toward poor people to want to deny them basic social svs under the guise of fairness requires the formation of mens rea, hence they cannot be autistic. If they were they would have an excuse for their depraved sense of humainity.

Speaking of not being able to see another's perspective...

Speaking of continual and meaningless 1-liners....

I'm just saying Republicans are not autistic, they are able o formulate the kind of schemes that they do, they are of competent mind.

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As a general group, no.

To have the vile hatred toward poor people to want to deny them basic social svs under the guise of fairness requires the formation of mens rea, hence they cannot be autistic. If they were they would have an excuse for their depraved sense of humainity.

Speaking of not being able to see another's perspective...

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From 1-liner to 2 characters. Cheerleader points noted.

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As a general group, no.

To have the vile hatred toward poor people to want to deny them basic social svs under the guise of fairness requires the formation of mens rea, hence they cannot be autistic. If they were they would have an excuse for their depraved sense of humainity.

Speaking of not being able to see another's perspective...

Speaking of continual and meaningless 1-liners....

I'm just saying Republicans are not autistic, they are able o formulate the kind of schemes that they do, they are of competent mind.

No what you said was Republicans have vile hatred toward poor people because they don't agree with you and your desire for social services which means you cannot see their point of view making my one liner rather meaningful.

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As a general group, no.

To have the vile hatred toward poor people to want to deny them basic social svs under the guise of fairness requires the formation of mens rea, hence they cannot be autistic. If they were they would have an excuse for their depraved sense of humainity.

Speaking of not being able to see another's perspective...

Speaking of continual and meaningless 1-liners....

I'm just saying Republicans are not autistic, they are able o formulate the kind of schemes that they do, they are of competent mind.

No what you said was Republicans have vile hatred toward poor people because they don't agree with you and your desire for social services which means you cannot see their point of view making my one liner rather meaningful.

I never said that they possess vile hatred because they cannot see it my way, I said they have vile hatred for people because they don't have simple compassion for poor people. We can expand that to mean young, struggling families and a littany of other groups.

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I never said that they possess vile hatred because they cannot see it my way, I said they have vile hatred for people because they don't have simple compassion for poor people. We can expand that to mean young, struggling families and a littany of other groups.

You're just proving his point. Please, continue.

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Speaking of continual and meaningless 1-liners....

Here's a 1 liner: No, they're just drunk.

It's not meaningless however.

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I never said that they possess vile hatred because they cannot see it my way, I said they have vile hatred for people because they don't have simple compassion for poor people. We can expand that to mean young, struggling families and a littany of other groups.

You're just proving his point. Please, continue.

And you're just cheerleading and/or adding nothing important. Repubs don't care about people in need, is that rerally up for consideration? Or is it that the Rpubs want to pave the way so once the indigent become millionaires then they will have a low tax base from which to operate?

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I never said that they possess vile hatred because they cannot see it my way, I said they have vile hatred for people because they don't have simple compassion for poor people. We can expand that to mean young, struggling families and a littany of other groups.

You're just proving his point. Please, continue.

And you're just cheerleading and/or adding nothing important. Repubs don't care about people in need, is that rerally up for consideration? Or is it that the Rpubs want to pave the way so once the indigent become millionaires then they will have a low tax base from which to operate?

So you casting the entire party as uncaring, evil, etc.. is important? It's not "cheerleading"?

Do you ever go back and read what you write?

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As a general group, no.

To have the vile hatred toward poor people to want to deny them basic social svs under the guise of fairness requires the formation of mens rea, hence they cannot be autistic. If they were they would have an excuse for their depraved sense of humainity.

Speaking of not being able to see another's perspective...

+1

From 1-liner to 2 characters. Cheerleader points noted.

Thank You

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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I never said that they possess vile hatred because they cannot see it my way, I said they have vile hatred for people because they don't have simple compassion for poor people. We can expand that to mean young, struggling families and a littany of other groups.

You're just proving his point. Please, continue.

+1

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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I never said that they possess vile hatred because they cannot see it my way, I said they have vile hatred for people because they don't have simple compassion for poor people. We can expand that to mean young, struggling families and a littany of other groups.

You're just proving his point. Please, continue.

And you're just cheerleading and/or adding nothing important. Repubs don't care about people in need, is that rerally up for consideration? Or is it that the Rpubs want to pave the way so once the indigent become millionaires then they will have a low tax base from which to operate?

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"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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I never said that they possess vile hatred because they cannot see it my way, I said they have vile hatred for people because they don't have simple compassion for poor people. We can expand that to mean young, struggling families and a littany of other groups.

You're just proving his point. Please, continue.

And you're just cheerleading and/or adding nothing important. Repubs don't care about people in need, is that rerally up for consideration? Or is it that the Rpubs want to pave the way so once the indigent become millionaires then they will have a low tax base from which to operate?

So you casting the entire party as uncaring, evil, etc.. is important? It's not "cheerleading"?

Do you ever go back and read what you write?

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"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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That's some funny stuff dude.

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I never said that they possess vile hatred because they cannot see it my way, I said they have vile hatred for people because they don't have simple compassion for poor people. We can expand that to mean young, struggling families and a littany of other groups.

You're just proving his point. Please, continue.

And you're just cheerleading and/or adding nothing important. Repubs don't care about people in need, is that rerally up for consideration? Or is it that the Rpubs want to pave the way so once the indigent become millionaires then they will have a low tax base from which to operate?

So you casting the entire party as uncaring, evil, etc.. is important? It's not "cheerleading"?

Do you ever go back and read what you write?

I'm really casting the general Replican ideology of cutting taxes, cutting social svs, pumping military spending as the devil.....the Republicans just seem to embrace that ideology.

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Do you ever go back and read what you write?

Instead of creating an ad hominem, explain to me how the Republican / conservative stance on people's welfare can be interpreted as humane and caring.

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That's some funny stuff dude.

Yea, shame you're unable to actually respond; I'm looking for a good counterargument.

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That's some funny stuff dude.

Yea, shame you're unable to actually respond; I'm looking for a good counterargument.

Oh you mean take the bait?

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That's some funny stuff dude.

Yea, shame you're unable to actually respond; I'm looking for a good counterargument.

Oh you mean take the bait?

Paranoid, aren't we? No, just explain how the Republican Party is so much more compassionate to people in need. I'mnot trying to limit your scope, you want to tell me how they coddle the rich, I won't argue. Just show me the ways that the R Party takes care of needy people.

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Instead of creating an ad hominem, explain to me how the Republican / conservative stance on people's welfare can be interpreted as humane and caring.

I haven't the time at the moment (going to go drink some good beer with great friends), but here's a few quotes that I believe reflect my ideals, and I consider myself a conservative.


"I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag."

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. ... This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard."

"I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. "

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. "

"Everyone has the right to make his own decision/s, but none has the right to force his decision on others."

"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."

"Capitalism demands the best of every man – his rationality – and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him."


You get bonus points if you can name whom they are from.

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Just show me the ways that the R Party takes care of needy people.

Sixteen months ago, Arthur C. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University, published "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism." The surprise is that liberals are markedly less charitable than conservatives.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservatives_more_liberal_giv.html

More info:

Liberal Kristof Admits Conservatives More Generous Than Liberals

http://blog.fortiusone.com/2009/01/07/dataset-of-the-day-who-is-more-generous-republicans-or-democrats/

Liberals Are More Selfish Than Conservatives

Who Gives and Who Doesn't?

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

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Honestly, this thread is insulting to those with Republican beliefs and to those that are autistic. (ya know... there are actually posters on this site with autistic children.)

This is NOT "news" nor is it funny.