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Coitus_Interruptus posted:I'd like to ask, how healthy are the relationships you guys have with the immediate family that believes in and forwards you this absolute crap? My parents and I have always had a rocky relationship. I love them, but every forward or remark makes me lose a bit more respect for them. We've had several blowups where I've tried to get them to stop sending me forwards or tried to send them Snopes links. Of course that got me a forward about how Snopes is run by Obama supporters and to not believe anything from it. There's no way to win with them.
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DerpDerp posted:Where do they come up with this poo poo? It doesn't look that hard. You just take every issue or major institution and either make up a strawman to rail against or construct two frames to inaccurately set against each other. What Is Wrong With America? Do you want to live in a country where the following is true: - We invade other nations to bring democracy, but when a black President is elected we start hearing about revolution at home. - Corporations are given rights as if they're people, while people can be arrested for speaking freely. - It's wrong to seek modern interpretations of the Constitution, but we can re-write it if it's giving brown people too many rights. - It's discriminatory to not talk about the Christian god in school, but there are certain places that Muslim worship is Just Not Okay. blah blah blah. It's the simplest thing in the world, because no actual issues are addressed at all. You're just looking for pure emotional outrage.
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quote:How is this for a straight answer... Illegal alien cop killer gets justice from a gun barrel! Oh yeah, another life snuffed out! This certainly is something to be smug about! unf unf  
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Lansdowne posted:Illegal alien cop killer gets justice from a gun barrel! Oh yeah, another life snuffed out! This certainly is something to be smug about! PRAISE JESUS
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Lansdowne posted:Illegal alien cop killer gets justice from a gun barrel! Oh yeah, another life snuffed out! This certainly is something to be smug about! Being happy that another person died: a sign you may be a sociopath. Proudly sending emails to your friends/family praising the death of another person: a sign you need to be isolated from the civil world.
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Death be not proud. That is reserved for bored housewives with AOL accounts.
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Coitus_Interruptus posted:I'd like to ask, how healthy are the relationships you guys have with the immediate family that believes in and forwards you this absolute crap? You have to learn not to let politics interfere with family relationships. My parents are quite conservative, both politically and religiously. The rest of my family is really far right (they get their news from Pat Robertson and Glenn Beck). We talk politics a lot, but we keep it light-hearted. One aunt of mine, though, takes it all very personally. In 2008, my mom said told my aunt that she was thinking of voting for Obama. My aunt refused to talk to her for several months. I've lost all respect for that aunt. Not because her political views are the opposite of mine, but that she lets politics interfere with personal relationships.
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Logan 5 suggested I post in this thread an absurd, Breitbart-quality forward that a family member hit me with. I waffle'd all the stupid loving images in it- but you are missing out on the absurd font / color. Here it is:some insane poo poo was posted:Subject: LOOK WHAT THEY FOUND ON THE ARIZONA BORDER!! FRIGHTENING!!! Here's the great thing. THIS, is the real event where the photos came from- crossposted from the GBS 'foxnews lies' thread: Radd McCool posted:Nearly 700 miles away from the nearest corner of Arizona, in Higueras, Nueva Leon, Mexico...
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At work today an old woman called and said that she heard 26,000 people have been murdered in Arizona because of the drug cartels, and then the real tragedy is that 5000 of our troops have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. I really don't know what I'm supposed to say, she just called me to point it out.
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5er posted:Logan 5 suggested I post in this thread an absurd, Breitbart-quality forward that a family member hit me with. I waffle'd all the stupid loving images in it- but you are missing out on the absurd font / color. Here it is:  Does Carly want the Mexican citizen vote or something?
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nm posted:I'm amused by this ad on that page: "A Pro-Life Conservative": she obviously wants the Hispanic Catholic vote.
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I know that going after grammar is a kind petty, but do any of these understand the concept of coherent paragraph breaks? It's not that hard; it just seems like they do it on purpose to give the email a hysterical and twitchy edge to it. We should turn it into a game: "Was this crazy email forward written by a teabagger, or a schitzophrenic?"
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Blarghalt posted:I know that going after grammar is a kind petty, but do any of these understand the concept of coherent paragraph breaks? It's not that hard; it just seems like they do it on purpose to give the email a hysterical and twitchy edge to it. I always thought it was some crazy word processing thing they used. Like how the text paragraphs rarely flow to the edge of the document. Almost as it they wrote it up in notepad and manually created line- breaks and then copy/pasted it into the mail. Then as people in the chain edit it with awesome colors/fonts and add/remove stuff here and there everything gets messed up.
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Given an infinite amount of time we'll eventually see a chain email recreation of Hamlet.
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Doomclown posted:Given an infinite amount of time we'll eventually see a chain email recreation of Hamlet.
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Anosmoman posted:I always thought it was some crazy word processing thing they used. Like how the text paragraphs rarely flow to the edge of the document. The best guess I can give it is that it is foresight for forwarding to old people that still use AOL/Compuserve at a 640x480 resolution. They may not be able to see well but they're sitting on retirement funds that tend to go to either lottery or megachurches, and can still vote...
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5er posted:Logan 5 suggested I post in this thread an absurd, Breitbart-quality forward that a family member hit me with. I waffle'd all the stupid loving images in it- but you are missing out on the absurd font / color. Here it is: The hilarious part is that I don't think there's any woodland like that anywhere near the border. Of course, I wouldn't expect the people who eat this stuff up without looking into it at all to know basic geography, but still. Edit: just noticed "there is arabic writing on some of them". Just trying to cram in as much xenophobia as possible per e-mail, I suppose.
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UltraPenguinX posted:The hilarious part is that I don't think there's any woodland like that anywhere near the border. Of course, I wouldn't expect the people who eat this stuff up without looking into it at all to know basic geography, but still. Also how they keep quoting the US "street prices" for the weapons. As if the whole reason the Mexican cartels were gathering shitloads of military weapons was just so they could sell them in the US and not, you know, engage in daily gun battles with everyone else in Mexico.
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Notahippie posted:Also how they keep quoting the US "street prices" for the weapons. As if the whole reason the Mexican cartels were gathering shitloads of military weapons was just so they could sell them in the US and not, you know, engage in daily gun battles with everyone else in Mexico. Besides, wouldn't these same people completely approve of selling illegal firearms on the street in the U.S. if gun control was enacted? e: Hell, I'll bet that at least one person has received this e-mail, agreed and forwarded it, while simultaneously belonging to an organization with a larger and more dangerous cache of illegal weaponry. e2: In fact, if I happened to get this e-mail, I think I'd just send back "Wow, I always thought you were against gun control. Why are you criticizing these Patriots for exercising their Second Amendment Rights?" Mornacale fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Aug 6, 2010 |
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Mornacale posted:Besides, wouldn't these same people completely approve of selling illegal firearms on the street in the U.S. if gun control was enacted? Massive illegal caches of weaponry are only dangerous when other people have them, silly.
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Notahippie posted:Also how they keep quoting the US "street prices" for the weapons. As if the whole reason the Mexican cartels were gathering shitloads of military weapons was just so they could sell them in the US and not, you know, engage in daily gun battles with everyone else in Mexico. I love the idea of the $5000 grenade. What does it blow up? Everything?
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Well, to be fair, the street price of a single grenade would be astronomical, as they're virtually impossible to obtain. As soon as I saw the second picture, I thought "Let me guess, the author is never going to make mention that these aren't American troops". I also liked how they claim some of the weapons are "Afghanistan" make. Ah yes, the booming Afghani defense industry has been a thorn in our side for too long!
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muscles like this? posted:I love the idea of the $5000 grenade. What does it blow up? Everything? It's the fabled DEATHKILL 5000 grenade. At $5,000 it's a bargain at $1 per guaranteed white protestant death.
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Duck_King posted:Well, to be fair, the street price of a single grenade would be astronomical, as they're virtually impossible to obtain. 
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Taerkar posted:It's the fabled DEATHKILL 5000 grenade. At $5,000 it's a bargain at $1 per guaranteed white protestant death. Can I buy 2? I mean 5.
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How much is that in food stamps?
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Intel&Sebastian posted:How much is that in food stamps? almost 2 days worth, if you are an illegal
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crime fighting hog posted:I figure if you're an illegal Obama mails you a dozen The photos are from an intercepted shipment from the White House to a mosque in Arizona run by illegal immigrants.
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5er posted:The photos are from an intercepted shipment from the White House to a mosque in Arizona run by illegal immigrants. Westbound and Brown 
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RagnarokAngel posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8u7px_GzWQ HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *breathe*  Goddamn Solicitor General representin' the Government's opinion!
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Special "It came from FaceBook!" edition (X) posted: I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. (I grew up saying this every morning in school - it's a shame we no longer do that for fear of offending ...someone). NOW, LET'S SEE HOW MANY AMERICANS WILL REPOST AND NOT CARE ABOUT OFFENDING ANYONE I commented saying "We still do this?" but I imagine he'll just say something about atheists ruining the country.
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crime fighting hog posted:Special "It came from FaceBook!" edition Tell him "You know who else said a pledge to a flag? Nazis."  I think if we just start making nazi accusations to all of their stuff it'll cancel out with all of glenn beck's nazi accusations and eventually everyone will just tune out nazi arguments.
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Neckbeard v. 2.0 posted:Tell him "You know who else said a pledge to a flag? Nazis."  Breaking news!Recent pictures of the Lincoln Memorial show that the chair Lincoln sits in has representations of fasces on the arms, that's where the word FASCISM comes from!  Click here for the full 800x600 image. I don't remember noticing them when Bush was president, Is B. Hussein Obama the one who made the change?
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Neckbeard v. 2.0 posted:Tell him "You know who else said a pledge to a flag? Nazis." That's American children though and that picture predates WW2. That style of salute fell out of fashion for that exact reason. That said who gets offended at the pledge? I mean there's people that don't do it for various reasons but who calls the ACLU on someone's rear end for it?
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Neckbeard v. 2.0 posted:Tell him "You know who else said a pledge to a flag? Nazis." My friend just responded with this: idk, but they dont cuz it reps the G-man... What the gently caress?
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RagnarokAngel posted:That's American children though and that picture predates WW2. That style of salute fell out of fashion for that exact reason. You're making the incorrect assumption that it has to make sense. nsaP fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Aug 7, 2010 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:That's American children though and that picture predates WW2. That style of salute fell out of fashion for that exact reason. Yes, we knew that.
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crime fighting hog posted:Special "It came from FaceBook!" edition "It's a shame we no longer do that"? What the gently caress is he talking about, I had to say it every single morning K-12 without fail. Hell, it was mandatory. As far as I know that is pretty much the case in every public school.
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