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Radd McCool posted:Ahhh! Ahhh! Ahhhhh! That SS money is going to buy bonds is a correct knock on the idea that there's a trust fund, and focusing on that obscures the things that are actually wrong with it.
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Just for a nice anecdote in Mexico, people tend to forward emails and things in the form of powerpoints. Many of these are "you can do it!" type things or celebrating famous people's lives (one I got was for Gandhi). However, one day my mom sent me one asking for verification. The powerpoint dealed with how the US refuses to recognize the sovereignty of Brazil over the Amazon rainforest and how it labels that region "International Amazon Rainforest Zone" or something to that effect. It was very odd to see FWD:FWD:FWD: type emails coming from somewhere outside of the Anglophone zone.
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# ? Oct 6, 2009 03:12 |
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ManoliIsFat posted:Christian groups are the ones filing all the FCC complaints against college radio and public radio stations all the time, too. They got crews of people to listen to your station 24 hours a day so they can file some complaints and hopefully get the station fined which will assuredly shut it down or at least make renewing the license a huge task. Then, when the independent station gets shut down, the Christians buy the bandwidth and pop up another Christian talk/music station. A group of people totally pumped about destroying independent media. The system you describe sounds pretty much antithetical to free speech. Sad.
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# ? Oct 7, 2009 16:10 |
Not an e-mail, but my dad is often a walking embodiment of a crazy political e-mail. He was complaining that Michael Moore is a waste of oxygen as he is criticizing capitalism while at the same time making a good deal of money from his films. I pointed out that the people he is talking about in his new movie are billionaires, and that, as far as I know, he does not suggest communism as a solution. My dad then tells me that Michael Moore wouldn't have done so well in the USSR. I think that someone making a movie critical of the capitalists would actually get a lot of backing from the Communists. Then he starts complaining about how Obama gave AIG a lot of money that was spent on bonuses, and that the rich have always abused the poor, and that you can't do anything about it and we should just survive and not worry about it. Can you tell he watches Fox News a lot?
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# ? Oct 7, 2009 19:36 |
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Chajara posted:My sister just sent me this: Bill Cosby didn't say that.
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# ? Oct 8, 2009 17:47 |
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Nog64 posted:Just for a nice anecdote in Mexico, people tend to forward emails and things in the form of powerpoints. Many of these are "you can do it!" type things or celebrating famous people's lives (one I got was for Gandhi). However, one day my mom sent me one asking for verification. The powerpoint dealed with how the US refuses to recognize the sovereignty of Brazil over the Amazon rainforest and how it labels that region "International Amazon Rainforest Zone" or something to that effect. It was very odd to see FWD:FWD:FWD: type emails coming from somewhere outside of the Anglophone zone. The idea that someone aside from American rightwingers is doing this is a bit frightening to me.
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Zwabu posted:The idea that someone aside from American rightwingers is doing this is a bit frightening to me.
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Zwabu posted:The idea that someone aside from American rightwingers is doing this is a bit frightening to me. That story originated with some Argentinian satirist publishing an article in the 80s. It used to be passed around by fax machine chain faxes, and I think was originally presented as a set of pages in an "upcoming textbook". I assume these days someone's redone the images to look nice and repackaged it.
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Armyman25 posted:the rich have always abused the poor, and that you can't do anything about it and we should just survive and not worry about it. there is definitely hope for your dad; if he believes that the rich not only historically have abused the poor but that they continue to do so, he is one foot out of the grave the problem is when people say "the rich have the right to abuse the poor". Focus on these kinds of sentiments when talking to him, as he seems to have some response to injustice.
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# ? Oct 8, 2009 23:01 |
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quote:Subject: impeach Obama
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perianwyr posted:
My husband's aunt said this almost word for word. She is thankful that her company fires the old and sick because it keeps her health insurance down and she doesn't want to pay for other people's healthcare. I tried to think of ways to address that mindframe, but I came up with nothing. Any ideas?
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Tesla Insanely Coil posted:My husband's aunt said this almost word for word. She is thankful that her company fires the old and sick because it keeps her health insurance down and she doesn't want to pay for other people's healthcare. I tried to think of ways to address that mindframe, but I came up with nothing. Any ideas? "what happens when you are old and sick" "what you do to the least of my brothers you do to me" "gently caress you" any work
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Tesla Insanely Coil posted:My husband's aunt said this almost word for word. She is thankful that her company fires the old and sick because it keeps her health insurance down and she doesn't want to pay for other people's healthcare. I tried to think of ways to address that mindframe, but I came up with nothing. Any ideas? Tell her that she's an absolute moron for not realizing that when she is paying for insurance she is still paying for other people's healthcare because the dumb bitch is too stupid to comprehend that that is the very purpose of insurance. Goddamn, I hate it when people say things that stupid.
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There are two people in my office that tend to do a lot of forwards. Luckily for me, they try to keep away from political ones. But I got two in the last week that I through were worth posting.quote:--- General Eisenhower Warned Us Didn't bother to post the four pictures, they don't really add anything. Funny thing is, I think one of the three pictures that are from the Holocaust was actually taken by the Germans. Doesn't really fit with the point of the message. I didn't hear about this so called debate, but someone how I doubt it is anything like the email portrays it. quote:Wonder it the President has seen this one. This demonstration is the backlash from Danish comic strip a while back. And you can bet it was all over the news. Snopes has the pictures up if you are interested. The exact same ones my friend forwarded me. The signs are pretty damning, but they are only marginally worse than the kind you would find at a Tea Party. But this demonstration seem to only involve 500 to 700 people. So the concentration of awful signs is probably a lot higher. http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/muslimprotest.asp
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Eisenhower warned us explicitly against the military industrial complex.
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# ? Oct 9, 2009 23:15 |
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Never forget the millions of Native Americans, Haitains, South Americans, Afghanis, Iraqis, Vietnamese, Africans, etc that died because.. oh wait, those instances of historical revisionism are cool because they assuage our white guilt for murdering a bunch of colored folk for our own imperialist benefit.
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# ? Oct 10, 2009 02:06 |
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It's late, I just posted a new thread and hosed up the title...it is missing a "thing" in the middle of the title...is there a mod that can help? I went back to edit after posting, and well I can't edit the title... Title should read, "There is no such thing as nothing"....thanks!
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Gunuin posted:It's late, I just posted a new thread and hosed up the title...it is missing a "thing" in the middle of the title...is there a mod that can help? I went back to edit after posting, and well I can't edit the title... That would be quite the email forward
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Yeah it was a late night I saw help and thought, like many other of SAs pages, was a ask small questions or ask for help thread...sorry. And no worries I closed my lovely post anyways.
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While my republican dad and non-voting stepmom know to leave me out of their political crazy, my fundamentalist aunt hasn't caught on yet. I present to you... a facebook argument.chesh posted:President Barack Obama made good on his promise on postpartisanship as people from every ideological and political stripe regard his Nobel Prize and unite in asking "what the gently caress?" crazy aunt posted:I'm tellin' ya honey . . . it's all part of a bigger 'global' plan! I mean . . . give me a break ~ even SNL has been dishing on just how much Mr. Obama HASN'T accomplished during his first 10 months in office!!! If this bestowal of such prestigious honor isn't a misappropriate disgrace, I don't know what is! chesh posted:Can't we just agree it's silly without invoking a global conspiracy headed by the utterly useless Norwegians? crazy aunt posted:I find 'conspiracy' to be a tired out, overused term and a back-door for people who don't like to delve into Biblical prophecy . . . and by the way I said NOTHING about the Norwegians ~ And frankly ~ something of this magnitude, my love, doesn't deserve the label 'silly' - it's TRAGIC. However, by the reaction of the general masses, at least on this continent, I think we can all agree that this award had no merit. whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? OK, so, giving a peace award to Obama is TRAGIC, and he's going to play a role in Biblical Prophecy, which I guess means she thinks he will hearld the coming of the anti-christ. loving wonderful. I'm trying really hard to play nice. She's one of those "no point in arguing" people because she's a fundamentalist pentacostal and I am a heathen atheist and she will kick my butt with her Bible knowledge on this, no matter how completely irrational her interpretation is. I defused the situation with humor, which is about the best I can do while still not letting her have the final word. But seriously? Peace Prize = Anti-Christ?
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# ? Oct 10, 2009 19:29 |
Yeah Revelations is basically "Take it however you want". I got an email that claimed the Book of Revelations says the "Anti-Christ will be a Muslim in his 40s". In fact, lemme just post it. quote:WE STRONGLY URGE each one of you to repost this as many times as you can! FYI The Bible doesn't mention Muslims even once... probably because it was written 600 years before Islam even came around.
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# ? Oct 10, 2009 22:03 |
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17 and 40 is a pretty wide age gap there. Even if Obama was a muslim, he's a bit over 40 so isn't he technically beyond their prophecy?
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Toad on a Hat posted:FYI The Bible doesn't mention Muslims even once... probably because it was written 600 years before Islam even came around.
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# ? Oct 10, 2009 23:06 |
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I'm surprised there's no reference to African-American crime rate for a two-fer.
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# ? Oct 10, 2009 23:21 |
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Naet posted:I'm surprised there's no reference to African-American crime rate for a two-fer. Well they're not racists man...
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Toad on a Hat posted:Yeah Revelations is basically "Take it however you want". I got an email that claimed the Book of Revelations says the "Anti-Christ will be a Muslim in his 40s". EDIT: The Achille Lauro hijackers were extremists that happened to be Muslim, not Muslim extremists. I'm not sure on this point, though--they might have been Christians. The PLF (to which they belonged) included Christians and all flavors of Muslims, from Alawi to Sunni, and was at one point led by a Christian. dorquemada fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Oct 10, 2009 |
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dorquemada posted:
It's kind of like how when a Republican fucks up, Fox News puts a D after their name. Did you kill someone or blow something up? Congrats, you're a Muslim. Just like Tim McVeigh.
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dorquemada posted:FYI The Bible doesn't mention Muslims even once... probably because it was written 600 years before Islam even came around. Haha I didn't know about the Issa one.
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Nog64 posted:Just for a nice anecdote in Mexico, people tend to forward emails and things in the form of powerpoints... I got a forwarded power point from one of my high school students. I should have know better than to open it. It was all about how in Asia, especially in Taiwan, fetuses were eaten as delicacies. The pictures were horrible, but it turned out to be a very misunderstood art project. WARNING: there is one picture from the exhibit on this website. Snopes Debunk Story Half way down this article, under the heading Cannibalism, interesting how the artist himself frames his work within the context of Christianity and modern law. BBC Article Sad how quickly people jump to conclusions, even to the point of creating a power point, before doing a little bit of research. The internet which allows for this massive spread of misinformation should be the tool to prevent it's spread as well, but I guess not. People want to believe what they believe. RagnarokAngel posted:Well they're not racists man... lol.... Gunuin fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Oct 11, 2009 |
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Gunuin posted:PS: evilweasel, I apologize for my previous posts in D&D, I wasn't high though, just on some massive sleep debt - which I guess isn't very different. I know you're new but avoid putting this kind of stuff in threads, it derails them and you don't have to apologize for making the occasional mistake. New email: quote:Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 - December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. Norman Thomas said this in a 1944 speech: "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." He went on to say: "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform."
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RagnarokAngel posted:SOCIALISM http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/socialism.asp No evidence that he said that. It appears the first time it shows up is when Ronald Reagan "quoted" him.
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Vilerat posted:•If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life. Public bath stalls are private, right?
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V-Men posted:Public bath stalls are private, right? Only if it is in an airport.
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# ? Oct 12, 2009 08:53 |
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quote:Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40. Aren't something on the order of 80% of serial killers socially active white males between the ages of 17 and 40? I should probably make a joke email about 20 some odd famous serial killers and maybe throw in McVeigh for good measure. Fake Edit: I looked it up as best I could. Looks like 88% of serial killers are male. 73% of male serial killers are white. Don't have anything about age groups, but that makes it more like 65%. But either way, it should not be hard to find 13 instances of white males between 17 and 40, who murdered other people. Hell might even be able to make a list that long of just white males between 17 and 40 who killed other white males between 17 and 40. So as it turns out, the enemy of the white man is in fact... the white man.
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Toad on a Hat posted:Yeah Revelations is basically "Take it however you want". I got an email that claimed the Book of Revelations says the "Anti-Christ will be a Muslim in his 40s".
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Pretty good deal, I think we should take it.
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That... doesn't actually sound so bad. Was it supposed to?
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 00:06 |
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Shirley MacLaine? Jane Fonda? Was this written three decades ago?
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Strudel Man posted:Shirley MacLaine? Jane Fonda? Yeah given the 60's/70's cultural reference points, I'm not buying the "John J. Wall Law Student/YOUNG PERSON" thing. Also: quote:You can also have the U.N., but we will no longer be paying the bill. It's almost cute that right wingers think that they pay for everything and subsidize people on the left in this country, instead of the other way around, at least on a state to state level with federal money.
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Vilerat posted:Pretty good deal, I think we should take it. they're trying to take part of manhattan they can get right back the gently caress into their hovel in alabama
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