We all have those crazy family members who feel it’s their duty to forward on every single ridiculous piece of political garbage that hits their inbox to everybody on their mailing list. Unfortunately every time we see another email from granny it’s a 50/50 chance it’s either a rundown of how their day went with pictures or some terrible forwarded chain letter that usually describes Obama as a baby eating Nazi Jew who will put granny in a death camp while swallowing your soul. Many of us probably even set up their computer enabling this and a good chunk wish we could go back and maybe write them hand written letters some more so they wouldn’t feel they had to get the internet in order to keep track of the family. Oh well, damage done. This thread is going to serve two purposes: A. A repository of all the crazy we get emailed so we can laugh at them. B. A place for you to write out thoughtful “canned” responses to mail back so maybe, just maybe, some of them can be reached with logic and reason. Oh well at least we can still have some laughs. ~How this works~ If you receive an email from granny that is one of your typical lunatic fw:fw:FW:You won't believe this but it's true!!! style emails we want you to post them in this thread. We'll all have a good laugh at them but more importantly some of you will write out a reasoned cited response which we will then link in the OP. People will inevitably get the same email since these go around in cycles and you'll then have a ready response for when you inevitably get the same one in your email.
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 17:14 |
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We'll start it off by everybody's favorite sheriff Joe Arpaio! Including family members commentary for extra cringe...quote:The bleeding heart liberal media don't report the good stuff, they only only report negative stuff.
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 17:16 |
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I'm sure most of these will be e-mails from Conservatives. On the opposing side of the coin, I have a crazy Liberal cousin. She's deep into meditation, holistic treatment, organic foods, paleolithic diets, and whatever the pseudoscientific treatment "du jour" is. She constantly posts that new age poo poo on Facebook all the time. I'm almost certain she hasn't vaccinated her child, since I got into a huge argument with her once on Facebook when she suggested that it would have given her son autism. When I mentioned that I needed to get my tetanus booster shot, she proudly proclaimed that she hadn't had one in about 12 years. She's even suggested that the H1N1 outbreak was somehow related to the government. Just showing that there are familiar crazies on both sides of the aisle. I don't know which is worse.
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 18:03 |
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By popular demand and easy reference:quote:A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan . One of the courses had a professor who was a vowed atheist and a member of the ACLU. Subject:Economics 101 (Stimulus Bill) Shortly after class, an economics student approaches his economics professor and says, "I don't understand this stimulus bill. Can you explain it to me?" The professor replied, "I don't have any time to explain it at my office, but if you come over to my house on Saturday and help me with my weekend project, I'll be glad to explain it to you." The student agreed. At the agreed-upon time, the student showed up at the professor's house. The professor stated that the weekend project involved his backyard pool. They both went out back to the pool, and the professor handed the student a bucket. Demonstrating with his own bucket, the professor said, "First, go over to the deep end, and fill your bucket with as much water as you can." The student did as he was instructed. The professor then continued, "Follow me over to the shallow end, and then dump all the water from your bucket into it." The student was naturally confused, but did as he was told. The professor then explained they were going to do this many more times, and began walking back to the deep end of the pool. The confused student asked, "Excuse me, but why are we doing this?" The professor matter-of-factly stated that he was trying to make the shallow end much deeper. The student didn't think the economics professor was serious, but figured that he would find out the real story soon enough. However, after the 6th trip between the shallow end and the deep end, the student began to become worried that his economics professor had gone mad. The student finally replied, "All we're doing is wasting valuable time and effort on unproductive pursuits. Even worse, when this process is all over, everything will be at the same level it was before, so all you'll really have accomplished is the destruction of what could have been truly productive action!" The professor put down his bucket and replied with a smile, "Congratulations! You now understand the stimulus bill." Edit: I don't think there's a way to respond to this. It's just a story about a professor being a dickhole to one of his students and instead of explaining something, he just shoehorns the subject into an analogy that could work for anything. Professor, I don't understand (Defense spending, Foreign Aid, Prayer, etc.) I'm going to throw in another email, this time with a response that I thought was pretty good when I wrote it. >> Subj: FW: A VINDICATION OF PRESIDENT BUSH >> >> look at this! Time will tell more of what we thought >> of the man all along, won't it? How is the media in >> such control of us? >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Subj: A VINDICATION OF PRESIDENT BUSH >> This has been flying under the radar. Read the >> MSNBC article and check the truthorfiction.Com site. The >> TruthOrFiction version is shown below. >> This event is factual. President Bush has taken >> the heat of being called a liar and a war monger for 5 years >> while he kept his silence to protect the people of the >> world. This is truly a display of selfless honor. >> On July 5, 2008, the Associated Press (AP) released >> a story titled: Secret U.S. Mission hauls uranium from Iraq >> The opening paragraph is as follows: >> The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's >> nuclear program a huge stockpile of concentrated natural >> uranium reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a >> secret U.S. Operation that included a two week airlift from >> Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. >> See anything wrong with this picture? We have been >> hearing from the far-left for more than five years how, Bush >> lied. >> Somehow, that slogan loses its credibility now that >> 550 metric tons of Saddam's yellowcake, used for nuclear >> weapon enrichment, has been discovered and shipped to >> Canada for its new use as nuclear energy. >> It appears that American troops found the 550 >> metric tons of uranium in 2003 after invading Iraq . They >> had to sit on this information and the uranium itself, for >> fear of terrorists attempting to steal it. It was guarded >> and kept safe by our >> military in a 23,000-acre site with large sand >> beams surrounding the site. >> This is vindication for the Bush administration, >> having been attacked mercilessly by the liberal media and >> the far-left pundits on the blogosphere. Now that it is >> proven that President Bush did not lie about Saddam's >> nuclear ambitions, one would think the mainstream >> media would report the story. Once the AP released the >> story, the mainstream media should have picked it up and >> broadcast it worldwide. >> This never happened, due in large part I believe, >> to the fact that the mainstream media would have to admit >> they were wrong about Bush's war motives all along. >> Thankfully, the AP got it right when it said, The removal of >> 550 metric tons of yellowcake the seed material for >> higher-grade nuclear enrichment was a significant step >> toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. >> Closing the book on Saddam's nuclear legacy. >> Did Saddam have a nuclear legacy after all? I thought Bush >> lied. >> As it turns out, the people who lied were Joe >> Wilson and his wife. Valerie Plame engaged in a clear case >> of nepotism and convinced the CIA to send her husband on a >> fact finding mission in February 2002, seeking to determine >> if Saddam Hussein attempted to buy yellowcake from Niger . >> The CIA and British intelligence believed Saddam contacted >> Niger for that purpose but needed proof. >> During his trip to Niger , Wilson actually >> interviewed the former prime minister of Niger , Ibrahim >> Assane Mayaki. Mayaki told Wilson that in June of 1999, an >> Iraqi delegation expressed interest in 'expanding >> commercial relations for the purposes of purchasing >> yellowcake. Wilson chose to overlook Mayaki's remarks >> and reported to the CIA that there was no evidence of >> Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger . >> However, with British intelligence insisting the claim was >> true, President Bush used that same claim in his State of >> the Union address in January of 2003. >> Outraged by Bush's insistence that the claim >> was true, Wilson wrote an op-Ed in the New York Times in >> the summer of 2003 slamming Bush. Wilson did this in spite >> of the fact that Mayaki said Saddam did try to buy the >> yellowcake from Niger . >> The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence >> disagreed with Wilson and supported Mayaki's claim. >> This meant nothing to Wilson who was opposed to the Iraq >> war and thus had ulterior motives in covering up the prime >> minister's statements. >> It was a simple tactic really. If the far-left and >> their friends in the media could prove Bush lied about >> Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger , it >> would undermine President Bush's credibility and give >> them more cause for asking what other lies he may have told. >> Yet, the real lie came from Wilson, who interpreted >> his own meaning from the prime minister's statements and >> concluded all by himself that the claim of Saddam attempting >> to purchase yellowcake was 'unequivocally wrong.' >> Curiously, the CIA sat on this information and did >> not inform the CIA Director, who sided with Bush on the >> yellowcake claim. This was made public in a bipartisan >> Senate Intelligence Committee report in July 2004. >> Valerie Plame also engaged in her own lie campaign >> by spreading the notion that the Bush administration outed >> her as a CIA agent. Never mind that it was Richard Armitage >> -- no friend of the Bush administration -- who leaked >> Plame's identity to the press. Never mind that Plame had >> not been in the field as a CIA agent in some six years. >> The truth is, due to their opposition to the war, >> Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, the mainstream media and their >> left-wing friends on the blogosphere engaged in a propaganda >> campaign to undermine the Bush administration. Now that >> Saddam's uranium has been made public and is no longer a >> threat to the world, do you think these aforementioned >> parties will apologize and admit they were wrong? Don't >> count on it. The rest of the American people >> should hear the truth about Saddam's uranium. >> It is up to you and me to inform them every chance we get. >> This story was verified, if you want to check it >> for yourself, click on the links below. >> http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/u/uraniumyellowcake.htm >> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334 My response: I'm not really sure why Bush would need vindicating, most people I talk to think that it was great that we kicked butt in Iraq back in 1990 and stopped all the weapons programs that Hussein had been working on. It was nice to read the article and see that all the materials were remnants of that old research done before George H.W. Bush stepped in and stopped Hussein from continuing to develop and produce WMDs. It's heartening to get confirmation that if Bush hadn't stepped up to the plate in 1990 and crushed Saddam's weapons programs, he'd definitely have been able to make weapons that would threaten the balance of power in the Middle East. Anyone who thinks that Desert Storm/Desert Shield was a waste of manpower and resources really needs to look at the evidence, that war really is a model of an effective modern military campaign. I suppose it may have been better to confiscate all the weapons materials that were in Iraq at the time but it's nice to see that the munitions sat and rusted in their bunkers between then and now rather than being used. Dr. Arbitrary fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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I got this e-mail from my dad the other day, I think it's a popular one.quote:An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before,
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 18:38 |
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Sgt. McKill posted:I got this e-mail from my dad the other day, I think it's a popular one. To that I would say, "Explain to me one policy of the Obama administration that is even close to something like this."
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 18:48 |
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Sgt. McKill posted:I got this e-mail from my dad the other day, I think it's a popular one. I think it'd be fun to see a study that actually did something like this in a middle school or something. Because even in the dumb hypothetical I bet it wouldn't work such that the whole class agrees to fail.
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 18:51 |
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Sgt. McKill posted:I got this e-mail from my dad the other day, I think it's a popular one. Wouldn't socialism be: The professor has everyone bring in all their computers, encyclopedias, pens, pencils, paper and any other supplies. He sets up a study room where anyone in the class can use the computers or materials, a situation that is far less convenient for the people who used to have home computers and encyclopedias, but a very good deal for the people who had no prior access. I'm not sure how to finish the story, maybe the students don't want to buy supplies next year so the university has to charge more to cover the cost of materials. It's not nearly as dramatic as the original story I guess.
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 18:53 |
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Of course the hypothetical also implies that studying hard/working hard = guaranteed success. Never mind how silly this is in a real life example, but as anyone who has ever taken an economics class knows, it's not uncommon for half the class to study really hard and just not "get it" and end up flunking out.
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 19:01 |
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Sgt. McKill posted:I got this e-mail from my dad the other day, I think it's a popular one. This analogy makes no sense, because 1) stimulus in a depression is meant to "buy time" until the next true economic boom, so that civil unrest doesn't happen in between the bust and boom, and 2) there is no real expectation that the US will ever pay back all its debt (so the money is free, in that sense).
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 19:31 |
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No offense, but I think this is kind of a pointless idea. While it's an interesting phenomenon that the widespread use of the Internet has brought back a resurgence of chain letters and smug emails, the people who send them aren't looking for a political discussion. If somebody forwards poo poo like this to everybody in their contacts list, it isn't the initiation of a conversation, it's more like a declaration of ignorance. If you reply back with facts and figures, they will not accept it because they don't care about such things. They only care about hypothetical situations that reinforce their views and that they believe are witty or clever. For most of these people, I doubt it's even political, but rather a fear of Obama or generational differences or other forces beyond their control, so when they get one of these messages that reinforces those fears and seems to strike back at them, they forward them as an offensive against those forces. I think if you really want to bother the person who sent the forward, you shouldn't try to calmly and cooly respond with logic and opinion, but you should try to feed their fear.
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 21:14 |
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Some of the purpose of this thread is just to have a good laugh at the e-mails themselves, though. Man, there are some awesome Mormon ones that I saw in a blog awhile back. I'll have to try and find them.
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 21:15 |
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Ah, yes. My normally perfectly sensible father, who knows and shares my thoughts on e-mail forwards, slipped one day and bounced me this. quote: My response (cc'd to my whole family): quote:Before you feel like sending something to me on whatever unbelievable thing just landed in your inbox, do two things.
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 22:35 |
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When something says "NOT A JOKE!" and "HAS BEEN CHECKED BY SNOPES!!" over and over, you can bet that both statements are false.
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# ? Aug 14, 2009 22:42 |
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I thought everyone knew by now that Snopes is just a liberal run site set up to spread lies.
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# ? Aug 15, 2009 01:29 |
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Hagetaka posted:Oil e-mail Wait. If he actually clicked the link at the bottom of the e-mail he sent you, he would have seen that the story about the Bakken formation from USGS says the exact same thing that Snopes does (3 to 4 bbl, averaging around 3.65 bbl). I'm starting to think that e-mails like this are originally written as social experiments to troll people who don't even bother reading the links in the e-mails they forward. Thankfully, I don't get political fwd:fwd:fwd: e-mails that often, but I used to get religious ones all the time.
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# ? Aug 15, 2009 02:27 |
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quote:Fwd: FW: Have You Seen this Irony? I received that from my father, a man who is not David Mackenzie, by the way. I sent him this response. It was put together hastily and with a minimum of research, but I thought it would suffice. If someone would like to use it, go right ahead. Oh, and I went for the Catholic bit because they're all a bunch of hardcore, fundamentalist protestants and they hate Catholicism: "The victims were identified as Erin and Amy Jacobson of St. Helena, Calif., and their children, 4-year-old Taylor; 3-year-old Ava, and 1-year-old Jude; Michael and Vanessa Pullen of Lodi, Calif., and their children, 9-year-old Sydney and 7-year-old Christopher; and Brent and Kristen Ching of Durham, Calif., and their children, 5-year-old Heiley and 3-year-old Caleb." I do see the irony, just not for the reason the author seemingly appreciates; that being said, I'm somewhat glad to see that when God makes a point of crashing a plane full of children into a cemetery as a lesson to the abortionists, He opts for the one holy and apostolic variety and not some schismatic protestant outfit. I'm not certain that qualifies as a raging endorsement, mind you.
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# ? Aug 15, 2009 03:08 |
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:Wait. If he actually clicked the link at the bottom of the e-mail he sent you, he would have seen that the story about the Bakken formation from USGS says the exact same thing that Snopes does (3 to 4 bbl, averaging around 3.65 bbl). I'm starting to think that e-mails like this are originally written as social experiments to troll people who don't even bother reading the links in the e-mails they forward. SA should try writing it's own chain email that's just plausible enough to seem realistic, and then see how long it takes to hit our inboxes or be the subject of commentary on Glenn Beck
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# ? Aug 15, 2009 10:02 |
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amateur economist posted:SA should try writing it's own chain email that's just plausible enough to seem realistic, and then see how long it takes to hit our inboxes or be the subject of commentary on Glenn Beck Yes, yes, and YES. There are some drat good satirists on here that I'm almost positive could come up with good believable lies that might spread like wildfire. People seem to naturally believe things the way they want, honestly, without any research or thought. So, when subjective and biased bullshit that matches their world view comes along, it doesn't matter to them that it might not pass a smell test, they want so badly to believe it, it becomes fact.
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# ? Aug 15, 2009 14:39 |
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amateur economist posted:SA should try writing it's own chain email that's just plausible enough to seem realistic, and then see how long it takes to hit our inboxes or be the subject of commentary on Glenn Beck Obama plans to pass environmental regulations on cars so strict that the type of fuel nascars use will be outlawed. pass it on.
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# ? Aug 15, 2009 16:08 |
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Obama plans to tax the death benefit given to war widows from their husbands' life insurance (SGLI). (the beauty of it is it's taxable income like it always, always, always has been)
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amateur economist posted:SA should try writing it's own chain email that's just plausible enough to seem realistic, and then see how long it takes to hit our inboxes or be the subject of commentary on Glenn Beck This would be awesome. This needs to happen.
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# ? Aug 15, 2009 16:53 |
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amateur economist posted:SA should try writing it's own chain email that's just plausible enough to seem realistic, and then see how long it takes to hit our inboxes or be the subject of commentary on Glenn Beck God, no, don't make the world stupider.
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# ? Aug 15, 2009 17:01 |
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Obama plans to tax the free tuition given to active-duty soldiers as an income benefit in order to pay for Obamacare just find some passage in one of the House bills that mentions veterans in an offhand way and cite it as SEE SEE RIGHT HERE RIGHT HERE
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# ? Aug 15, 2009 17:11 |
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amateur economist posted:SA should try writing it's own chain email that's just plausible enough to seem realistic, and then see how long it takes to hit our inboxes or be the subject of commentary on Glenn Beck Hagetaka has the right idea. Illegal immigrants receiving some form of the coverage in the proposed healthcare bill would be another candidate. Of course it's specifically spelled out that they won't receive it, but you could probably find some wording in another part of the bill that's vague enough. CNN's http://www.factcheck.org/ site has a lot of stuff revolving around.
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# ? Aug 15, 2009 17:36 |
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It just needs some strain of absurdity involved, otherwise it's just another piece of crap floating around the Internet
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# ? Aug 15, 2009 17:59 |
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Obama to require those reported for opposing health care bill to undergo "counseling" to correct their misconceptions. It feeds right into their view of Obama as an evil fascist, plus it builds on an already existing conspiracy theory. Ok, here's what I got so far, I'm asking for input on this as I lack crazy conservative relatives to send me chain emails to use as a model. I have plenty of crazy liberal relatives, but that's a discussion for another time. Stoic Madman's Fake Chainletter posted:I just got off the phone with my cousin who lives in Washington DC. She works the General Accounting Office (they research the cost of all proposed government programs, among other things) and I'm still shaking. She was telling me that Obama just issued a directive to hire several thousand people as “councilors”. Now, these aren't to help people with emotional problems, no way. I think it's kinda lame, but that's what 10 whole minutes of labor got me. So, too over the top, or is this what we're looking for? EDIT: Also, I really have no way to get this into cirulation among the crowd we want it to circulate in. Like I said, I don't really have any crazy conservative relatives, and I'm not on any conservative forums. If I join now just to post this, it might look supicious. Does someone who's got an account as part of the Freep troll project want to use this? Let me know if you post it somewhere, or send it to someone, so we can watch and see if it takes off. Stoic Madman fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Aug 15, 2009 |
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Hagetaka posted:It just needs some strain of absurdity involved, otherwise it's just another piece of crap floating around the Internet The only trouble with this is that most of the chain emails already have this kind of absurdity weaved into the email. The absurd yet veritable tenor of these emails is exactly what leads to their spread. Can you believe how many barrels of oil are in Montana? It's absurd, but here are a few links nobody is going to click. The trick, then, is to find the point where your message is more absurd than the rest (already hard), but not gibberish (probably a distant boundary!) I recommend, whatever the end product is, that it contain an encoded satire which will insult the intended audience. IT doesn't matter if someone picks up on that, as the chain letter will grow exponentially and be unstoppable after a few passes.... There are troubling ethical concerns about this idea, but it does seem like fun.
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# ? Aug 15, 2009 19:10 |
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Want "healthcare reform" to pass? Then just hand over some dough to the DNC, because that $1.5 million/day lobbyist fund just isn't enough to pass a bill that will provide billions in subsidies to the insurance industry:quote:
https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/dnc08dollar?source=20090729_dollar_nd And the best response, from a wonkette poster: quote:A number of understandably perplexed readers have forwarded us this weird, offensive e-mail from the notorious spammer “Mitch Stewart, BarackObama.com,” who wants us to donate money to the DNC — one dollar a day “until real health insurance reform is signed into law,” so as to “show the insurance companies and their allies in Congress that their delay tactics will only make our movement stronger.” Well that’s a great idea, pretend Obama organizing troupe at the DNC! But down here on Planet Earth, we’re going to tell you “no,” and also maybe to eat a bag of lightly salted poison rat dicks. http://wonkette.com/410169/give-barack-obama-money-because-health-care-reform-hasnt-been-passed-yet
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# ? Aug 16, 2009 00:40 |
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Stoic Madman posted:EDIT: Also, I really have no way to get this into cirulation among the crowd we want it to circulate in. Like I said, I don't really have any crazy conservative relatives, and I'm not on any conservative forums. If I join now just to post this, it might look supicious. Does someone who's got an account as part of the Freep troll project want to use this? Let me know if you post it somewhere, or send it to someone, so we can watch and see if it takes off. Gun control is a hot issue, even though the Dems seem to be ignoring it these days. And everyone loves publicly funded abortions! edit Tutankhramen posted:You know about Barack Hussein Obama's radical African-American beliefs, right? Well here's something everyone, democrat or republican needs to know. My cousin's husband is an aide to senator who for obvious reasons I can't name. She told me that buried in the Obama health plan is an "affirmative action" clause. For some medical procedures blacks are given priority, because of their minority status. This means that if you are waiting in line in Obama's socialist DMV hospital, someone can skip in line ahead of you just because of race. If that is not racist I don't know what is. Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Aug 16, 2009 |
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Sir Tonk posted:Gun control is a hot issue, even though the Dems seem to be ignoring it these days. And everyone loves publicly funded abortions! I heard that they cross reference the records of gun sales with the records from that 'report people who oppose Obamacare' list to create a database of 'dangerous' citizens.
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# ? Aug 16, 2009 05:47 |
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quote:REMEMBER THAT THEY PUT *MAX BAUCUS* IN CHARGE OF REFORMING HEALTH CARE? DO DNC SLOBS EVER *READ* ABOUT MAX BAUCUS? LOOK AT WHAT THE ANCIENT DEMON MAX BAUCUS IS DOING. GOD. JESUS. KIDDIN’ US? JOKING? ARE YOU ATTEMPTING TO MAKE FUNNIES HERE? FUCKBEANS. gently caress. BEANS. BWAH. FROM MY BASEMENT'S HEART I STAB AT THEE TO THE LAST I SHALL GRAPPLE WITH THEE ON THE INTERNET MAX BAUCUS YOU ASSTARDED FUCKSPROCKET
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# ? Aug 16, 2009 06:04 |
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My fake email: You know about Barack Hussein Obama's radical African-American beliefs, right? Well here's something everyone, democrat or republican needs to know. My cousin's husband is an aide to senator who for obvious reasons I can't name. She told me that buried in the Obama health plan is an "affirmative action" clause. For some medical procedures blacks are given priority, because of their minority status. This means that if you are waiting in line in Obama's socialist DMV hospital, someone can skip in line ahead of you just because of race. If that is not racist I don't know what is. Forward this to all your friends, this is what Comrade Obama is really about.
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# ? Aug 16, 2009 09:30 |
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"Found this picture online, and the question was….. What is she hanging on to? Answer: His stimulus package?????." While on some level funny, this is actually one of the least crazy emails I have gotten. Most of them have been about how "Obama gonna take our guns," or how racist Obama supposedly is, how he is ruining this country, support the Tea Parties, ect.
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# ? Aug 16, 2009 12:59 |
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Tutankhramen posted:My fake email: This really is not any more crazy than believing that the digital cable converter that you had to install on your old TV is a government-designed device to brainwash you. People actually believe this. That's the problem I have with faking emails- I feel like in the long run it's not really doing anything useful. I mean, what do we all get if they're actually believed? No difference from today.
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# ? Aug 16, 2009 14:38 |
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I don't know enough about Obama's health care reform to contribute if that's what the fake chain letter is going to be. But here's a goofy, poinltess one I received last week. quote:Teaching maths in 1970 Binary Logic fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Aug 16, 2009 |
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I like that it portrays a switch from fractions to percentages as a decrease in education or something.
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# ? Aug 16, 2009 16:30 |
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How about stuff pastors hand out?quote:
I'm working on capturing and uploading a power point he had someone do on "An Inconvenient Truth" a few weeks ago. If I can find it I will post the entire email he did on the Rights of the Child (If anyone is interested). It's pretty bad.
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# ? Aug 16, 2009 17:10 |
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thegreatcodfish, Where do you live? Why do you still go to that church? Do you do anything to counter his incorrect information he's putting out there as "facts?" It is too bad that churches do this and get away with it. If you're tax exempt, stay out of politics.
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sheri posted:It is too bad that churches do this and get away with it. If you're tax exempt, stay out of politics.
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# ? Aug 16, 2009 18:59 |