wormil posted:

I expected Facebook to blow up but it was fairly tame. Did find this little gem. (assassination keeps politicians honest)

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you gotta admit that most of those who voted Obama hate Romney just b.c he achieved what he wanted in life.. which is sad.. maybe those are just people i met.

I got so disappointed in people... They chose "more free stuff" over principles!

Spoondick posted:

But surely surface area would be a much more democratic basis for determining elected representatives than population.

Ringo Star Get posted:

I wish there was some way to make this my ringtone. All 24 minutes of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoqti0lzAw

TheLoquid posted:

Somehow he's mad about these things?

Green Puddin posted:

gently caress all these people who think that going on unemployment is anything lucrative. I work a seasonal job and through the winter have to collect, otherwise I wouldn't be able to survive financially for 2 - 3 months. It's not like suddenly I can afford a castle filled with hookers and cocaine from ARE TAXES. Bunch of cunts.

Also, whats this talk about free cell phones? Just more verbal diarrhea or what?

DarkHorse posted:

There's been a lot of dumb crap on my facebook today, but I think this takes the cake.



Just... how do you get that many wrong things in so few sentences?!

Watermelon Daiquiri posted:

where the hell are dallas and pinellas/hillsborough?

13Pandora13 posted:

Never mind that, what are those blue dots in Georgia that aren't Atlanta/Savannah?

thefncrow posted:

Willing to bet that's a map of 2000 or 2004. Especially since, as you mention, Dallas isn't a dot of blue, even though the county went for Obama 57-42 last night.

XyloJW posted:

sicarius posted:

I own farmland there.... and I grow cotton! Hooray...

I don't live there anymore, though... it's pretty miserable. Rural West Tennessee is pretty awful. I didn't know it was once a coastal zone though. Very cool.

XyloJW posted:

I live in North Mississippi, and my brother just moved away from Finger, TN. It's pretty hilariously bad.

Kat R. Waulin posted:

My cousin posted that fake electoral map with ALL the western and southern states, red. With the comment "How could he win?!?"

I asked if he really thought CA, was red. He's always ranting about how evil CA is, with it's gays and Hollywood.
His son, who I only met once when he was 6, (now 18), pounced! "typical liberal blah, blah, blah!!!".
His dad popped in with, "nevermind son, you can't fix stupid."
I mentioned FOX News.... I also mentioned (for the 100th time,) that I have some liberal views, but am mostly Independent.



I left the "III" in his name, because it makes it so much more entertaining.

archangelwar posted:

I am from north MS too and Am so glad I am not there anymore, although my family still is. I live NY now, and my brother called me the other day to tell me about the electrical crews being turned away from Jersey because they are nonunion (false). My kindergarten teacher reminded me that Obama personally killed the Libyan ambassador. A childhood friend made sure to tell me that the media has a liberal bias, because the pointed out that the high education levels found in Northern Virginia meant it would be majority Blue, even though THAT IS 100% TRUE.

Ugh... Oh yeah, some Ole Miss students were apparently riled up and shouting racial slurs into TV cameras today. Stay classy Mississippi!

XyloJW posted:

I have the pleasure of knowing one of those guys--he's been wearing a Romney-Ryan bracelet ever since Ryan was nominated. They pulled a fire alarm at a dorm, forcing everyone out in the middle of the night, where they burned an Obama/Biden sign and shouted the kinds of things you'd expect people like that to shout. The reports of fist-fights and riots, though, were exaggerated. The police department is currently investigating.

For what it's worth, I happened to have been outside walking my dog when the election was called and my neighbor ran out and hugged me.

sicarius posted:

This makes me happy I live in Middle Tennessee. Sure we have our crazies, but they're moderate crazy. Yeah - the whole mosque thing happened and people shouted at me for being a "sand friend of the family lover", but at least I wasn't assaulted.

Laminator posted:

I've been sorely disappointed about the lack of GOP rage on my facebook, especially since Oklahoma went 100% red again this year.

We successfully banned affirmative action, too!

Sarion posted:

Hey <Facebook Person>,

I hope you're feeling better! I saw you say you've been feeling bad lately, fever and a headache?

I just wanted to answer your question from earlier about Obama taxing small businesses. The main thing to remember is that Obama's plan is to increase the tax rates back to pre-Bush levels on INCOME over $250K; not to tax small businesses specifically. Also, the fact that it's only taxing income is pretty critical. For example, a plumber may run his own business and bring in $600,000 a year, but of that he only takes home $75,000. The rest goes to expenses and other employees. So even though the business brings in way more than $250k, they're unaffected because his income is only $75k.

Now, it's common for Republicans to attack Obama's plan by saying most small businesses make over $250k income, but that's not correct. If you look at the number of people who report "business" income on their taxes, only about 2% of them are in that $250k+ range. And even then, lots of those people aren't really small businesses. There are lots of reasons people have to report "business" income. For example, if you own multiple homes and you're renting one that you couldn't sell, that rental income gets classified the same as income from a small business. So do people like Bill Clinton or Mitt Romney, who make money from giving speeches. Income from speaking fees counts as "business" income. Yet, you wouldn't really consider speakers or rental properties as a job-creating-business. The point being that very few small businesses are going to be hit by a tax increase, and for the ones that do, you're talking about someone who is taking home a hefty income AFTER paying for/hiring employees, investing in their business, etc.

Now, you could still wonder, well won't those businesses, even if it's not many, still increase their costs due to those taxes, and make it tougher for my family to get by? The answer is no, for a number of reasons. But the main one is that the tax is so small you won't notice the difference even if they DID pass along the cost to you (which I doubt many would). For example, you have a business owner who makes a taxable income of $500,000 a year. Under Obama's plan, he would pay just over $9000 more in taxes. Now, that seems like a lot. But compared to how much money his business makes, it isn't. For someone to take home that much money after all their business expenses, their business would have to be pulling in several million dollars in sales. So if you assume the company sells $3M worth of stuff, and the owner increases the cost so they bring in an extra $15k to pay for his new taxes, it only requires a cost increase of 0.5%. In other words, if you went to their store and spent $25, the new price would be 1-2 cents higher. It's just not enough that you would really notice that anything changed.

Hope that helps. I tried to keep it short and to the point, cause I know I'm prone to rambling

Sarion posted:

One of the people I get into political discussions with on Facebook is much more calm and reasonable than most of the stuff I see. My wife thinks she may have actually voted for Obama this year because she had mentioned in the past how much she hated Mitt Romney, but generally she's one of those people who is really well meaning and a good heart, but bats Republican and accepts their talking points because that's her team. In any case, whether she voted Obama and wanted to feel better about her decision, or if she was just accepting the results and wanted to know it would be ok; she asked me if I could send her a message explaining how Obama's plan to tax small businesses wouldn't result in higher costs for her family. So this is what I sent her:


Just wanted to post this here in case you guys think of anything else I could include in any follow ups.

And poo poo, I just realized I said the cost increase would be 1-2 cents instead of 12 cents. Not that it changes my point, but I hate when I miss stuff like that until after I send it.

Dirty Job posted:

Facebook posted:

you gotta admit that most of those who voted Obama hate Romney just b.c he achieved what he wanted in life..

XyloJW posted:

This is actually a favorite subject of mine. Note the general U-shaped curve that goes from South Carolina, through Georgia, central Alabama, and up through Mississippi?

Mitchicon posted:

Would you do me your kindness and post your sources? That'd be swell. Thanks abunch!

Mitchicon posted:

What is the racial demographic in OK anyways? I'm watching my family implode on FB. Everyone is afraid of Obama unveiling his Great Leap Forward.

Part of me thinks this should be amusing, but it's actually really depressing. To them, I'm basically a Godless Socialist.

dur posted:

My friend who was predicting a Romney landslide thanks to a silent majority has started posting again, and, surprise! Obama's gonna... use the UN to take your huntin' rifle?

I'm pretty sure that I got my facts right here (I'm blue), and I'm also pretty sure that I'll get no response to it.

dur posted:

My friend who was predicting a Romney landslide thanks to a silent majority has started posting again, and, surprise! Obama's gonna... use the UN to take your huntin' rifle?

I'm pretty sure that I got my facts right here (I'm blue), and I'm also pretty sure that I'll get no response to it.

archangelwar posted:

I am from north MS too and Am so glad I am not there anymore, although my family still is. I live NY now, and my brother called me the other day to tell me about the electrical crews being turned away from Jersey because they are nonunion (false). My kindergarten teacher reminded me that Obama personally killed the Libyan ambassador. A childhood friend made sure to tell me that the media has a liberal bias, because the pointed out that the high education levels found in Northern Virginia meant it would be majority Blue, even though THAT IS 100% TRUE.

Ugh... Oh yeah, some Ole Miss students were apparently riled up and shouting racial slurs into TV cameras today. Stay classy Mississippi!

VideoTapir posted:

Please tell us you have the post.

sicarius posted:

As others have said, I'll repeat, the "conservatives" "won". No one is serious about gun control beyond what we already have in the United States. The NRA and other groups bring this up because if they announce they've won.... people will ignore them, and they want money.

BonoMan posted:

I don't. It was taken down pretty quickly and now her facebook is filled with "Welp. Guess I'm going to the beach. Anybody have a good book to read?"

peak debt posted:

It's a bit frustrating but remember the same thing is also true for birth control and gay marriage. Both those ideas have won in the electorate and any conservative politician that argues against them is only shooting himself in the foot.