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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:This came with a picture of World Trade Center in flames Ugh this email has the same intro paragraph like 5 loving times in a row.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:This just in, Muslims believe in Nirvana. We brought them from The Stone Age to 1992 I guess. USA USA USA.
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Feb 27, 2012 19:07
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Whenever I see that "Only quote:If I were ever trapped in a burning building or under an earthquake-flattened one, or were caught in a flood, or fell over a ledge while hiking, I am 100% certain that there are men and women in my community who would offer to give their lives in the attempt to save mine. I worked for the Clark County [Nev.] Fire Department for a couple of years — it’s the only job I’ve ever had where my starry-eyed admiration for heroes grew stronger instead of fading through familiarity. Those men (they were all men in the ’70s) would help a stranger with no questions asked, at the risk of their own lives. That’s what I think of whenever I hear a siren in the distance: Someone is in trouble, and someone else is rushing to help.
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Feb 27, 2012 19:29
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Also, aren't Islamic terrorists offering to die for their people? The offer doesn't immediately make what your doing "good", nor do only the "good guys" make the offer. But maybe my problem is seeing terrorists as human beings who have parents, siblings, children, etc; instead I guess I should view them as some mixture of disposable movie and video game villians.
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Feb 27, 2012 20:12
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If Muslims believe in Nirvana, I guess those fundamentalists want to bring us back to the days of Mother Love Bone and those drat Baptists want to make us all listen to Creed 
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Feb 27, 2012 20:37
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quote:One Pissed off Canadian Housewife This one surely doesn't!
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Feb 27, 2012 20:48
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Sarion posted:Also, aren't Islamic terrorists offering to die for their people? The offer doesn't immediately make what your doing "good", nor do only the "good guys" make the offer. But maybe my problem is seeing terrorists as human beings who have parents, siblings, children, etc; instead I guess I should view them as some mixture of disposable movie and video game villians. Mahmoud Darwish said this about Palestinian suicide bombers, but it applies to all of them in general I think: "We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves."
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Feb 27, 2012 21:51
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babies havin rabies posted:Isn't there quite a bit of difference between a point-of-sales tax and a value-added tax from the consumer's perspective? On second though, maybe there isn't when you consider most of those costs would be pushed directly onto the consumer in either case.
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Feb 27, 2012 23:29
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My dad just forwarded me this: "The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever. It has reached the highest level in the last two years. Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals" because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves." I'm just blown away by my father's casual racism/classism.
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Feb 28, 2012 03:22
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Unbootable posted:My dad just forwarded me this: I'm pretty sure there are way, way more white folks on food stamps in the US then colored peoples. Just send him some statistics to that effect. It probably won't do a lot of good, but it maybe it'll make him think. "If white people can go broke, I could too!"
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Feb 28, 2012 03:24
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I just sent him the list off this URL as I felt it had pretty good fact checking going on: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/02/poverty_myths_facts.html
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Feb 28, 2012 03:32
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Unbootable posted:My dad just forwarded me this:  gently caress the poor.and  poors are animals!the guy who posted it replied that he forgot he gets lynched every time he posts something mildly conservative.  Christ, dude, what would be full bore conservative to you?
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Feb 28, 2012 03:59
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Nth Doctor posted:This came across my Facebook feed an hour ago. When I pointed out it was equal parts You should be more considerate of his beliefs and stop persecuting him.
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Feb 28, 2012 04:10
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It always amazes me that people think that if you just bootstraps hard enough, your problems will be solved! Those lazy fucker, the bums with Any Change Helps signs, gently caress them, they need to get a job! I wonder if they read about the French Revolution and just laugh and think pansies, loving froggies getting their asses handed to them by the poor. Desperation makes people do crazy things. You pay a little now (in your taxes for food stamps) or you pay a poo poo ton later (a desperate soul decides three hots and a cot is worth it for the simple price of your mugging or life).
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Nth Doctor posted:This came across my Facebook feed an hour ago. When I pointed out it was equal parts Did he literally use the word lynched?
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Feb 28, 2012 04:20
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Did he literally use the word lynched?
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Feb 28, 2012 04:28
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"The poor are animals who deserve to go without medicine if they have an unskilled job and go without food if they lose that job due to a recession. I am better than them. Also, liberals are elitist." Remind them, they are in the middle of a recession. There aren't enoug jobs to go around. It's not a choice between food stamps and a job, but food stamps and STARVING. All the gumption in the world won't put food on the able if there is no way to work for it. Even then, there's the fact at so many jobs aren't enough to put food on the table and pay rent and stuff. Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Feb 28, 2012 |
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Feb 28, 2012 05:26
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Dr Christmas posted:All the gumption I. The world won't put food on the able if there is no way to work for it. Even then, there's the fact at so many jobs aren't enough to put food on the table and pay rent and stuff. And yet record grain production! Oh, capitalism 
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Feb 28, 2012 05:58
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:This came with a picture of World Trade Center in flames I really wanted to call a guy out for posting this, but he's active duty, and even though that objectively makes it worse, there's just something that keeps me from criticizing him for living in an institution that acts as an echo chamber for this kind of thing, and for being impotently upset that his friends are dying. I am really divided about it. (it's still not ok, not even for him, but I can't think of a way to call him out and not look like the guy who should just let it go)
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Feb 28, 2012 09:22
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Nth Doctor posted:Yes, he actually said lynched. I would say shoot him, but it'd be a waste of a bullet.
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Feb 28, 2012 09:55
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:This came with a picture of World Trade Center in flames If this a woman "who knows how to write a letter," I shudder to think what they are teaching about comma use in school.
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Feb 28, 2012 14:58
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CCrew posted:My roommate is about as big a libertarian as you could imagine. He strongly believes in going back on the gold standard, that the fair tax would be the best thing ever, and that states rights would be beneficial to everyone. After a discussion with him, I pointed out that Austrian economics is not taught as widely (and barely at all) as Keynesian. On top of that, I pointed out the gold standard was one of the major reasons we were able to get out of the great depression, and that a flat tax would unfairly favor the wealthy. He told me he'd have a conversation with his brother (Who has a masters in economics), and let me know how he sees the situation. Uh, where exactly did this guy go to grad school? I know high school kids who have a better grasp of economics.
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Bubbacub posted:Uh, where exactly did this guy go to grad school? I know high school kids who have a better grasp of economics. The University of Chicago?
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rscott posted:The University of Chicago? Sounds more like George Mason.
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Unbootable posted:My dad just forwarded me this: He didn't even get the reason you shouldn't feed wild animals, or the parent agency of the NPS right.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I would say shoot him, but it'd be a waste of a bullet. Well, if you actually lynched the guy, presumably you could reuse the rope after he was hanged.
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Unbootable posted:My dad just forwarded me this:  
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Huh, last time I tried to forage for food I was arrested. I think I'm doing it wrong!
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Unbootable posted:My dad just forwarded me this: Well, you know there's the fact that the NPS is part of the Department of the Interior but who cares about facts.
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ratbert90 posted:Huh, last time I tried to forage for food I was arrested. I think I'm doing it wrong! Well are you a minority because then you were looting not foraging. Honest mistake!
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Toffile posted:I fixed it. I'm sure someone can come up with better wording than mine though... Get to it, people. 
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Choadmaster posted:I fixed it. I'm sure someone can come up with better wording than mine though... Get to it, people. Well done. Seriously, well done. Send it to Chuck.
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jojoinnit posted:Well done. Seriously, well done. Send it to Chuck. Agreed, it doesn't really require any better wording.
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That's basically it. The whole point of society is to escape the horrible clutches of darwinian selection. We try not to let people starve to death or leave unfit offspring to die of exposure because we see value in people.
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The Dark One posted:That's basically it. The whole point of society is to escape the horrible clutches of darwinian selection. We try not to let people starve to death or leave unfit offspring to die of exposure because we see value in people. I would argue that we not only see value in people but that we, as a society, receive real value from these people as a society. Even taking the most hard-hearted free market stance, it would be a horrible inefficiency to have a person who is trained in any fashion die on the street when it is so easy and cheap to feed them and continue to be in the labor pool. But as a snide aside, if ever you see people on your walls arguing this way while at the same time claiming to be strongly Christian, please pass this along: "Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, 'Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons. For I was hungry, and you didn't feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn't give me a drink. I was a stranger, and you didn't invite me into your home. I was naked, and you didn't give me clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn't visit me.' Then they will reply, 'Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?' And he will answer, 'I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.'" Anubis fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Feb 29, 2012 |
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WOW! I'll bet the ACLU will jump on this as well as NoBama's Justice Dep't. Only 49 more states to go!!!!!!! Hooray for Florida ! I-95 will be jammed for the next month or so...Druggies and deadbeats are now heading north out of Florida because Florida is the first state requiring drug testing to receive welfare! Hooray for Florida! In signing the new law, Republican Gov. Rick Scott said, "If Floridians want welfare, they had better make sure that they are completely drug-free. Applicants who test positive for illicit substances won't be eligible for the funds for a year, or until they undergo treatment. Those who fail a second time would be banned from receiving funds for three years! Naturally, a few people are claiming that this is unconstitutional. How is this unconstitutional ? It's completely legal that every working person has to pass drug tests in order to get a J-O-B which supports those on welfare! Let's get welfare back to the ones who NEED it, not those who WON'T get a JOB. I AGREE. DO YOU? It never ends. An Ouroboros of America's lower class making GBS threads on itself.
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Anubis posted:"Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, 'Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons. For I was hungry, and you didn't feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn't give me a drink. I was a stranger, and you didn't invite me into your home. I was naked, and you didn't give me clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn't visit me.' Then they will reply, 'Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?' And he will answer, 'I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.'" The weirdest thing about the religious Right, to me, is the fact that the parable of the sheep and the goats exists. Tomahawk posted:WOW! I'll bet the ACLU will jump on this as well as NoBama's Justice Dep't. I live in Florida and this person clearly does not. A sheltered delusion-sustaining bubble located somewhere in Flordia, possibly, but they definitely don't occupy both the same state as me and the same reality.
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Wait, welfare folk who fail a drug test are required to get treatment? Who pays for that?
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quote:It's completely legal that every working person has to pass drug tests in order to get a J-O-B which supports those on welfare! This is so hilariously wrong. I love the idea that making life harder and more humiliating for poor working parents is good public policy. I don't think people know welfare recipients have to work.
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chesh posted:Wait, welfare folk who fail a drug test are required to get treatment? Who pays for that? I believe the applicant does. If they pass, they get the hundreds of bucks back. I also remember reading that the gov and/or his wife work at the testing company. So kickbacks, gently caress yes!
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