Comments on: The Wingnut Debate Dictionary

The Wingnut Debate Dictionary

madamjujujive — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 20:56:11 -0800

The Wingnut Debate Dictionary - spice up your political screeds with some colorful new terms like Colmestrato (n.) - an emasculated, harmless "liberal" stand-in included for purposes of fairness and balance and Condiment - a statement that needs to be taken with a heavy pinch of salt. I am so adding Deus ex rectum and Stepford Democrat to my vocabulary. And how is it that fucksimilie hasn't found it's way here long before now?
This is a game that MeFi wags of all political persuasions can play...anyone have any terms to add to the lexicon? (compiled by Ethel the Blog)

By: jamsterdam

jamsterdam — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 21:16:42 -0800

How about europlexy, i.e., the condition of a conservative being worked up into a froth about what Europeans think of the U.S. while simultaneously insisting that he/she "doesn't care at all" what the Europeans think of the U.S.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 21:46:27 -0800

neoconsternation - the flapping of wingnuts at lucianne.com every time someone mentions Hillary.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 21:49:03 -0800

I was thinking of posting this, but I didn't. So it's good that you did, I think.

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 22:39:38 -0800

I'm partial to "Republican Jackal." The second meaning of jackal being (according to dictionary.com, in the interest of being accurate) "an accomplice or a lackey who aids in the commission of base or disreputable acts," or "One who performs menial tasks for another." I use it to refer to republicans acting in the interest of big business. So, you know, most of them.

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 22:55:45 -0800

False DickChenomy: The arguer offers only two options in a situation, one of which is objectively pro-saddam. Hah!

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 23:01:54 -0800

Shooting for the moon: An attempt to tire an opponent into even partially accepting a patently ridiculous argument and then declaring yourself the winner in perpetuity. e.g., America is a Christian nation because the word 'Lord' appears in the declaration of independence.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 23:10:41 -0800

ok, not to go all brad on y'all, but I thought of two more potential additions: Odd Lott Theory - concept that a fall guy can be culled from a political peer group and turned into a pillar of salt thereby deflecting criticism for a widely shared belief. Harrisment - purging the black vote from election results to achieve a desired effect.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 23:30:49 -0800

The Time Warp: failing to realize that communists are not the biggest threat to your freedom or existance. I don't read enough blogs to attribute these to any particular internet writer, but they are things that I notice fairly often.

By: RavinDave

RavinDave — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 23:47:30 -0800

luskin (v.): 1. to secretly desire the status and intelligence of one's opponent while engaging in a systematic misrepresentation of him/her. 2. to stalk Bwahhaha ... I'm dyin' here ...

By: neuroshred

neuroshred — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 09:11:51 -0800

I love Harrisment! The term, not the action.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 09:29:21 -0800

I already submitted my own two suggestions: Going Dennis Miller - using 9/11 as one's excuse to support the entire GOP agenda because you endorse George W. Bush's to rid the world of the godless, Judeo-Christian-hating mud people but in a way that doesn't sound racist because 9/11 hurt you a lot Involuntary Rallaction - the immediate disapproval of anything said or done by Ted Rall on the grounds that he is, in fact, Ted Rall. (See also "Moore's Code" or "Treachering")

By: scody

scody — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 11:10:41 -0800

Involuntary Rallaction - the immediate disapproval of anything said or done by Ted Rall on the grounds that he is, in fact, Ted Rall. Shouldn't this also be known as Getting Your Lileks In? And on that note, what would be the term for simultaneously loving Lileks' kooky pop culture writing (I genuinely believe his Institute for Official Cheer is altogether one of the great delights of the internet) and loathing his special shouldn't-his-head-be-spinning-around-now? brand of neo-con blather?

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 11:57:43 -0800

For years now I've described various mentally and emotionally draining group procedures, like committee meetings, contract negotiations, closing a house mortgage, etc., the Death of a Thousand Buts. I'm partial to "Republican Jackal." In college, my dormmate used "Republiclones" as an answering epithet to the Reagan Zeitgeist. In retrospect, I've thought of myself as a onetime REMocrat who listened to a lot of Michael Stipe and voted Democrat basically because all my friends did. I've used Stepford as an adjective to describe just about any kind of mindless conformist I've come across. Damned few people get the reference, though.

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 12:26:36 -0800

This one is amazingly spot-on : Clenis Syndrome: An uncontrollable urge to blurt out "Clinton did it!" or "Oh yeah? What about Clinton?" rather than using logic and reason to make one's point. I can't tell you HOW many times when discussing a policy of President Bush, and the response is "Well Clinton...." Uhh I thought we were discussing Bush????

By: kavasa

kavasa — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 13:28:33 -0800

"And on that note, what would be the term for simultaneously loving Lileks' kooky pop culture writing (I genuinely believe his Institute for Official Cheer is altogether one of the great delights of the internet) and loathing his special shouldn't-his-head-be-spinning-around-now? brand of neo-con blather?" This is why I hate this sort of shit. No one on either side is ever willing to have a principled disagreement. It's the bed-wetting liberals vs. the monstrous neocons, 24-7 and 365. Not only is everyone right, they know they're right, and everyone that disagrees is both evil and an idiot, and of course we then need special pejoratives to describe them. In fact, we need a whole pejorative lexicon so we can distinguish those in our clubhouse from those outside. God it's frustrating.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 14:38:48 -0800

'den Beste ex machina - The creation of a fake political movement, such as Transnational Progressivism, that has virtually no basis in reality in order to disparage ideological opponents.' Steve needs the Chim Cam HA. great link Madam.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 15:14:31 -0800

It's not so much a prejoritive lexicon as it is a more area-specific list of logical fallacies.

By: Mossy

Mossy — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 18:00:39 -0800

Ahh.. My vocabulary has several excellent new additions now. My verbose rambles will make even less sense now. Fantastic ^_^

By: plep

plep — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 20:13:32 -0800

It made me chuckle - thanks mjjj. Jamsterdam - 'europlexy' is brilliant. ;)

By: mosch

mosch — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 20:24:54 -0800

Very novel... somebody should put together the search and replaces neccessary for this to work for the right wing. I guess we'd start by replacing Anne Coulter with Michael Moore, and Reagan with Clinton?

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 21:34:02 -0800

Now, mosch, getting your own entry will take more effort than that. The "x is bad, but the left has y, and they're exactly the same because... well because I repeat the two names together enough times that it becomes true" move is so common it doesn't even deserve a name.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 21:53:41 -0800

mjjj. thanks. And especially for Harrisment. That's gold.

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 22:41:30 -0800

Pure genius. Great linking as always, MJ³.

By: taz

taz — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 23:15:14 -0800

Applepiety: A "holier (and more patriotic) than thou" attitude Behemotheism: The belief that my God is bigger than your God.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:05:01 -0800

Republicrat: A member of the USA's current one-party system.