Which "Right-Wing" vice do you secretly engage in?

[Gringo]

We all have our weaknesses...

[AnnabelLee]

1. I haven't voted yet

because I don't do any of the things listed. Could someone list some other rightwing vices, please? I'm starting to feel a little self-righteous here; I can't think of anything, but there's got to be something...

[ForrestGump]

2. Yeah, same here

Are long-ago fantasies about Bo Derek acceptable?

[supernova]

3. I drive a conversion van

but, it's 10 years old and paid for. So there.

[Piperay]

26. Yeah me too

its from the 80's and I am not going to apologize for it because I was hit and run on the freeway and would be dead if I had been in anything lesser.

[Loonman]

4. I smoke cigarettes

Own firearms.
Drink Coca-Cola.
Eat meat.

[AnnabelLee]

5. Ah, smoking

Yup. I had quit for about two years. Started again about three months ago. I feel much better now--I'm guilty!

[Moosenose]

24. I own guns too...

because the Second Amendment is far too important to leave to the gun nuts.

[shimmergal]

29. Coca-cola is for liberals.

Pepsi is the drink of the conservatives. Or at least according to a marketing survey I read a while back.

[Sean Reynolds]

35. Coke is RED which equals COMMUNIST

:D

I like Coke.

[Randi_Listener]

6. #3

How can you choose this option? Wouldn't choosing it be impossible? If you choose it and you are a constant liar, you are no longer lying. If you choose it, and don't lie, you are lying. Humph...

[AmandaRuth]

7. I love the NFL

Does that Count? :)

[sasquatch]

37. no because Vince Lombardi was a liberal

He was once asked to be a VP runningmate with Nixon but, told him he was a Kennedy Democrat

[starroute]

8. Does secretly engaging in right-wing virtues count?

I value the past.

I respect the wisdom of my elders. They paid their dues and deserve to be listened to.

I believe that social reforms should be governed by the rule of "Measure twice, cut once."

I believe that material goods are no substitute for spiritual values.


I mean, it's not like the right is practicing any of these itself any more. So can I have them, can I have them, huh?

[Gringo]

11. Those are universal, aren't they?

n/t

[eyesroll]

9. I don't really do any of the above

but I like a nice, medium-rare piece of dead cow with a hearty red wine...

Of course, the wine is French, thus negating the right-wingedness of the beef. If beef even has political affiliations.

[Gringo]

12. Funny how vegetarianism/veganism has become associated with "left-wing"

Wasn't Hitler a vegetarian?

I know that many vegetarians do so out of concern for the environment or animal "rights", but I think even more people do it for their health or because it's trendy in some areas. I've met many a vegetarian who is completely clueless about politics, though if they ever got involved, they might be left-inclined.


I love beef, and I think it's less cruel than chicken, since one head of cattle produces hundreds of servings compared to a chicken.

The deforestation problem is an issue, and because of that and the cholesterol, I try to cut down.

I'd be willing to bet that the percentage of people who are vegetarian in both parties is less than 5%.

[JohnKleeb]

13. I am a meat eater

Hitler was a vegiterain yeah. I have yet to meet a vegterian republican though. I myself could never do that.

[Ivory_Tower]

17. I know a vegetarian Republican

He's a big O'Really fan, too.

Go figure. I think he might have "issues". :)

[mitchum]

14. and it shouldn't be

I would certainly think that Marx would consider animals to be materials. It distresses me that so much left-wing energy is wasted on animal "rights"

[amazona]

22. yes, hitler was a vegetarian

It may be an urban legend, but it's said that when he came to power, he enacted a law forbidding the boiling of live lobster, since lobster is said to scream when it's boiled.

As far as the environmental thing, I would lean more toward chicken than beef. Reason: Many veggies argue that producing meat requires a greater amount of grain and water than producing an equivalent amount of grain. This may or may not be true, and *some* beef is certainly raised on land where grain or vegetables could not be grown, but I have no way to know which beef is the beef being grown on marginal lands and which beef is actually using valuable farmland or wildlife resources. I still eat beef on occasion but I can accept that there is a sound ecological reason not to eat it.

But what about chicken? I just don't see any reasonable ecological environment against consuming this valuable food. Chickens eat crap that humans cannot efficiently or healthfully eat. They create valuable protein almost out of nothing. I have raised chickens, and they ate insects and table scraps. Commercial chickens are converting such things as protein from euthanized pets and restaurant waste into food. They do not compete with us or wildlife for resources. So if you want to be ecologically correct, and you care about wildlife, you would be much better off eating chicken and eggs than consuming soy, which creates agricultural desert and is responsible for habitat destruction that affects our native wildflowers (many close to extinction), birds, butterflies, and other native wildlife. Chickens aren't deforesting anything but soy and other grains most assuredly are.

[Sick of Bullshit]

25. That may be true about chickens, but

layers are kept under duress (lights continuously on) for nearly their entire productive lives (which aren't very long). Plus, mega chicken farms have a tendency to produce a large amount of excreta which often ends up in surface or ground water.

[shimmergal]

30. This isn't an argument against eating chicken or eggs per se,

It's the factory farming of animals that causes it.

If we're going to eat meat (and I do, but feel slightly guilty about it) we should support farming methods in which the animal can live an OK life before it dies. I could use more information about how to do so.

[sam sarrha]

40. left wing vegan humor mishap

i made a joke about vegan carniverous plants on the carneverous plant chat, "can flytraps eat tofu", well....... i reeally didnt think i could have ignited that sort of rage with a flame thrower. if you think the PETA people are extremists, mention tofu in a bar. i eat fish, and chicken once in a while. i DO NOT eat beef. the canadian mad cow came from the usa. exposed 47 herds. independant researchers on NPR said they took tests from alshimers patients in care homes and 12% showed misdiagnosed spongiform disease. there is what is called downed cows, beef that is too sick to make it into the slaughter house, they fall down, get up, fall down, get up, fall down and cant get up..then they are a downed cow, downed cows were allowed to be fed to non-agricultural animals..mink in MI and MN, the mink got spongiform disease from the downed cows, escaped and spread it to the deer in the wild, they spread it in the herd by licking each other,in what is now called the RED ZONE, thousands of square miles. salt licks on BLM grazing land for beef cattle attract more deer than cattle. in 1948 a small flock of sheep got spongiform disease, the goverment cremated them at 2200*F and the ashes would still infect healthy animals, it is also called PRION disease, can go inter species in just a few generations. the ashes are being kept in high level radioactive storage areas to keep them from being accidently dumped. people in europe dont lick stamps anymore.

[Gringo]

42. That is very important

Any links?

[SiouxJ]

47. It's not just "deforestation"

the waste that these large factory farms produce is being dumped in the ocean and killing off everything there. The entire ecosystem is dying there. Hog farms are a major problem in the south. This is a good link:

http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/nspills.asp

on edit: this is why I think vegetarianism is seen as a Dem thing. We care more about the environment than repukes.

[mitchum]

10. Hypocrisy

[Archae]

15. You forgot my favorite...

Guns...(slobber) :crazy:

[Ekaterina]

16. SUV driving

yeah, but it is a small one (well under 6k lbs) and I live on the side of a mountain out in the faraway boondocks on a road that a mule cannot travel.......give me a little break? I don't have AC or any other luxury stuff, I need my SUV so I can GET to that job those asshole freepers think none of us have.
nuff said.

[Kamika]

18. open up more votes!

i can only vote on one theres like atleast 3 things i need to vote on :)

[Ramsey]

19. Not guilty

Of any of those things. Whew!!

[mike_c]

20. I think Ann-thrax Coulter is a hottie....

Ok, not. But seriously, she could be damned attractive if she lost the hatchet look and ditched the rabid attack b*tch personality. Well, maybe I'm reaching a bit too far for humour....

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

32. And gained weight?

Stopped looking so much like a walking skeleton? Put some meat on her bones? Got her head out of her toosh?

Yeah, maybe it could work... or not. :D

[alaine]

36. I could change her, I know I could...

She'd be on D.U...her user-name would be Annthrax... we'd all laugh about the tales of her misspent youth...I'd help her through the deprogramming...she'd prostrate herself in front of all liberals and beg forgiveness...she'd serve seven years of penance to make up for all the damage she's done to the world...I'd hold her hair back while she threw up after each meal...

Just letting my inner co-dependent out for a romp. Sorry. Let's pretend that never happened.

[thermodynamic]

21. Michael Moore stopped recycling a long time ago

He said it in "Analyze this" or "Stupid WHite Men"

[CBHagman]

23. I occasionally buy used videos from Blockbuster

...the soulless, mindless corporate behemoth. Shame on me.

[inthecorneroverhere]

27. other...

I don't do the listed items, but I...

eat meat
drink beer
live in an non-diverse neighborhood


I haul my recyclables in my used station wagon and listen to music or NPR on the radio! :hi:

I recycle because I live in a very rural county and I want as little to go into the landfill of this beautiful place as possible.

[Terwilliger]

28. an SUV is a right-wing vice? Do you know how many Dems drive SUV's?

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

31. OK i'm sorry I go to Walmart

I just can't help that I'm a cheapskate, dammit! x(

[Sean Reynolds]

33. I drive a Cheep Cherokee - or in other terms, an SUV.

So shoot me!

[sasquatch]

34. I live on a farm

So I drive an SUV so I can because I have to.

[HEyHEY]

38. mine's real bad

I HATE POOR PEOPLE!

No I don't but I do laugh at racist jokes as long as they aren't too bad.

[Capn Sunshine]

39. I watch NASCAR

LOVE car racing! TOTALLY into it!

[HellKat]

41. Okay

Use to think wrassling was real ;-)

[umcwb]

43. SUV driver here...kinda

Jeep Wrangler. I just love it too much to drive something else.

[ButterflyBlood]

44. I watch movies and look at pictures that exploit women

not really a right wing vice though since the American Taliban are against it too.

I put down shop at WalMart although that's only because I like their cotton candy, nothing to do with cost.

[Regice]

45. I have the hots for Laurie Dhue...

and I can't help it. Maybe she will go for a ride with me in my pickup truck. :)

[Zolok]

46. Zionism....

that is my secret vice, lets face it Israel is the new socialist motherland.
:)

[mvd]

48. write-in vote

I like country music.

[Ein]

49. None of the above

sofar as I can tell. My GF drives a 4 cylinder SUV, but we take my Neon most places.

I do get angry when an ignorant person listens to the facts and just says "Thats Bullshit"... in that case I get real mad and yell sometimes... Is that a republican trait?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

50. My only weakness. Not sure whether it's right wing or not but

I like to drink vintage wine. Not obsessed about it nor do I spend excessive amounts of money on it. I just like to treat myself now and then.