vyelkin posted:

Proof of chemtrails everybody, posted by my crazy half-brother with the comment "Just in case your not paying attention"

McDowell posted:

There an innumerable people and events outside of my direct perception! Help!

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

EDIT: I don't know where else it'd belong, but I'm just gonna leave this actually existing Malcolm X credit card here.

Chimera-gui posted:

Not a forward but I overheard my mother complaining about why African Americans are called thus when European immigrants aren't called like Irish American and that "press two for Spanish" is a thing when supposedly no other country does this.

Chimera-gui posted:

Not a forward but I overheard my mother complaining about why African Americans are called thus when European immigrants aren't called like Irish American and that "press two for Spanish" is a thing when supposedly no other country does this.

AShamefulDisplay posted:

AShamefulDisplay posted:

Thanks to Giuliani's recent foray into moron land, I've been enjoying some reruns from 2008.

Rick_Hunter posted:

I actually have a big problem with this and I've stated it so to people who don't know how to address me. I tell them to say black because African-American gives credence that American has become a specific ethnicity when it hasn't except for real Americans, the ones that have been forced on reservations to die out. I think a large reason for the shift from 'Negro' to 'Afro- and African-American' is because black people want to give credence to whites that black people are americans too. Which is true, but you don't need to add American to your ethnicity to make it so. This delving into the past has also made whites reexamine their past to look at themselves as not just American but German-Ameican, Irish-American, Spanish-American, Polish-American, etc. but the argument is still bullshit. You shouldn't have to add American to your ethnicity to make it different from an old world group. Your ethnicity is Polish, etc. Your nationality is American. I am black. I am also American. I am not African-American.

The second you call me black with disgust in your tone though the gloves are off and I'm gonna bury you.

Teddy Roosevelt posted:

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all … The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic … There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

Armyman25 posted:

On that note, you also run into white immigrants from South Africa how claim to be African American . Wpld you call an immigrant from Libya or Egypt "african American?"

VitalSigns posted:

Yay, the joke I always get to hear whenever I tell someone where I come from.

"If you're from Africa...why are you white?"

AShamefulDisplay posted:

Thanks to Giuliani's recent foray into moron land, I've been enjoying some reruns from 2008.

Rick_Hunter posted:

Do you deadpan respond with, "Colonialism"?

VitalSigns posted:

Of course not!

South Africa was empty when the Dutch arrived. It's the Zulus and the Xhosa who migrated in from the north after we settled the country and started colonizing us! :cryingZARfourcolor:

Chimera-gui posted:

Not a forward but I overheard my mother complaining about why African Americans are called thus when European immigrants aren't called like Irish American and that "press two for Spanish" is a thing when supposedly no other country does this.

Chimera-gui posted:

Not a forward but I overheard my mother complaining about why African Americans are called thus when European immigrants aren't called like Irish American and that "press two for Spanish" is a thing when supposedly no other country does this.

Deptfordx posted:

Wait, isn''t Irish American and Italian American etc a real thing in America that people commonly use? That's certainly the impression your various media gives to us abroad.

Okonner posted:

Yeah, clearly the person complaining still thinks calling people "black" gets people in trouble. They're trying to make the point that "well, I can call Irish people 'whites' so why isn't THAT racist?"

seiferguy posted:

Thankfully the military friend of mine who posted it called this guy a douche.

Who What Now posted:

Assuming this is legit there is a 100% chance that this person never served a single combat tour.

hamster_style posted:

My friend posted the following. The simplified thinking and logic with the OP and the the participants is mind-blowingly dumb. I gave him a few resources that he won't read/watch.

Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread, 18-loving-92 posted:

It is told of Rothschild that, seeing his fortune threatened by the Revolution of 1848, he hit upon the following stratagem: "I am quite willing to admit," said he, "that my fortune has been accumulated at the expense of others; but if it were divided to-morrow among the millions of Europe, the share of each would only amount to four shillings. Very well, then, I undertake to render to each his four shillings if he asks me for it."

Having given due publicity to his promise, our millionaire proceeded as usual to stroll quietly through the streets of Frankfort. Three or four passers-by asked for their four shillings, which he disbursed with a sardonic smile. His stratagem succeeded, and the family of the millionaire is still in possession of its wealth.

It is in much the same fashion that the shrewed heads among the middle classes reason when they say, "Ah, Expropriation! I know what that means. You take all the overcoats and lay them in a heap, and every one is free to help himself and fight for the best."

But such jests are irrelevant as well as flippant. What we want is not a redistribution of overcoats, although it must be said that even in such a case, the shivering folk would see advantage in it. Nor do we want to divide up the wealth of the Rothschilds. What we do want is so to arrange things that every human being born into the world shall be ensured the opportunity, in the first instance of learning some useful occupation, and of becoming skilled in it; and next, that he shall be free to work at his trade without asking leave of master or owner, and without handing over to landlord or capitalist the lion's share of what he produces.

seiferguy posted:

Thankfully the military friend of mine who posted it called this guy a douche.

hamster_style posted:

Yeah that waitress should be honoured to be in the presence of THE Zap Brannigan!

My friend posted the following. The simplified thinking and logic with the OP and the the participants is mind-blowingly dumb. I gave him a few resources that he won't read/watch.

seiferguy posted:

Thankfully the military friend of mine who posted it called this guy a douche.

Yawgmoft posted:

Uh.... this has to be a joke because the Zapper is thankfully not real, though I do believe this is what he would have done.

seiferguy posted:

Thankfully the military friend of mine who posted it called this guy a douche.

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

If Zap Brannigan sat at a table I waited, I'd be giving him a tip.

I do hope whoever did this left some cash on the table though, because it's otherwise a serious rear end in a top hat move for a stupid joke.

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

If Zap Brannigan sat at a table I waited, I'd be giving him a tip.

I do hope whoever did this left some cash on the table though, because it's otherwise a serious rear end in a top hat move for a stupid joke.

Who What Now posted:

Assuming this is legit there is a 100% chance that this person never served a single combat tour.

StealthArcher posted:

Popular Thug Drink posted:

no, from my long foodservice experience, people are very quick and ready to delude themselves into all sorts of idiot reasons as to why they don't need to leave a tip. it's worse when they try to explain it rather than be another lovely tipper with no excuse, like a child who comes up with absurd explanations as to why there is lipstick all over the dog

VitalSigns posted:

Yay, the joke I always get to hear whenever I tell someone where I come from.

"If you're from Africa...why are you white?"

hamster_style posted:

Does anyone have an answer other than "you're an idiot" or "it's not feasible" to the question: "well then why don't all companies just hire women since they're cheaper??"