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 Liked by a friend's brother. The original poster commented "I'll take this job... FOR FREE!!!!!" and a bunch of smiley faces. Sweet, man. Looking forward to you attempting to sate your murder-lust in an elementary school. EDIT: Also got this ad the other day. Not too crazy but it's funny to see it here. 
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Veterans: historically, a mentally well-balanced group.
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XyloJW posted:Veterans: historically, a mentally well-balanced group. "Back there I could fly a gunship. I could drive a tank. I was in charge of million dollar equipment! Back here I can't even HOLD A JOB GUARDING SCHOOLS!"
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andrew smash posted:does varmint mean different things in different parts of the country? I'm from Oregon and I grew up thinking varmint meant prairie dog to coyote sized pest and the appropriate weapons to deal with them are .22 LR or .22 mag chambered, not .223 which is a whole different beast.
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This just came up on my facebook wall:quote:
Yes the Jews would have stopped the Germans if they only had a gun. Also, I think this was posted here, but Switzerland is moving away from having guns in households: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/mythbusting-israel-and-switzerland-are-not-gun-toting-utopias/ It was posted from a Facebook group called "The Conservative Club" so yeah...
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I love how you can kind of tell what parts of these forwards were added on at different times. They're often stuck at the beginning or the end, a line separated by several spaces, and it's either in all caps or characteristically not in caps. In this case, there's a hilariously glaring point where the dates and history stop, and all caps exclamation marks start. I also like that as each person adds their own piece, they remind you to spread it, so there's literally 3 places you're told to spread the message. quote:If you value your freedom, please spread this antigun-control message to all of your friends.
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Cat Face Joe posted:
Good God. I teach at a small university and absolutely do not want some random armed veterans wandering around my classroom. I don't want to have to lecture while holding a loaded gun, either (I am seeing a lot of suggestions that teachers should be armed). What kind of hosed up atmosphere would that create, particularly in an elementary school?
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Cacatua posted:Good God. I teach at a small university and absolutely do not want some random armed veterans wandering around my classroom. Then I think back to meetings where the student is flipping out and shudder. EDIT: also, I would absolutely love to have someone with a gun in my class when I teach about abortion or God! Ghost of Reagan Past fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Dec 19, 2012 |
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Dec 19, 2012 06:49
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Speaking as a veteran, I would much rather we had an environment that let kids go to school WITHOUT worrying about being shot, than an environment where having armed security guards for grade schoolers is considered to be perfectly normal.
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Hastings posted:The man in question must literally have to shoe horn his massive dick into his jeans every day. He's actually a light plane pilot as well, and last I heard he's in a consulting job where he gets to fly himself to meetings, so he's pretty much the manliest. He actually looks totally normal, blond hair and a button-down shirt, slightly shorter than average, clean shaven, hell he works in IT, but once a man gives you some free bear steaks and takes you for a ride in his seaplane you have no choice but to acknowledge the manliness.
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Cat Face Joe posted:
This is absurd, obviously, but for fun let's look at this from a purely cost-benefit standpoint.
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seiferguy posted:This just came up on my facebook wall:
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Choadmaster posted:This is absurd, obviously, but for fun let's look at this from a purely cost-benefit standpoint. On the other hand, it'd take a huge chunk out of the number of unemployed veterans. You could give them an office where only one of them actually has to be on station, the other two veterans can spend their time helping teachers, cleaning or just playing with kids. Maybe it'd be a really good program to help re-integrate our recently separated veterans back into normal society.
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20 million dissidents? Isn't that including the holodomor and other famines? In that case, I don't see where the "rounding up" comes from, except to plant an image in people's minds and/or exploit holocaust imagery. I see the number 20 million come up a lot, and they're always described differently. I remember a flyer for a local Russian Orthodox church, proclaiming (as though this would be something that would entice someone to come) "20 million martyrs in the 20th century alone!"
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 I responded with "And that's why we ban these on planes." Not to mentioned that 10x as many people in the US died from gunshot wounds in 2001 than died from terrorist attacks.
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Citation: This actually happened. Edit: Eviction notice? They know he got re-elected right? And he can't be again so it's not much of an eviction if you're waiting 4 years and he has to go either way. RagnarokAngel fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Dec 19, 2012 |
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Dec 19, 2012 13:52
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RagnarokAngel posted:Edit: Eviction notice? They know he got re-elected right? And he can't be again so it's not much of an eviction if you're waiting 4 years and he has to go either way. The goal is to make Obama so embarrassed by Facebook image macros that he'll resign.
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Dec 19, 2012 14:22
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Choadmaster posted:I think 12 billion dollars could probably save more than 50 children every year if put to better use. Say, improving poor kids' access to healthcare. Or food. But that would be socialism! No expense must be spared to provide all with negative rights, but god forbid you even think about spending a single penny on a positive right, no matter how many lives it will save.
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Dec 19, 2012 14:29
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Today, on facebook adventures! 
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I see a bunch of stupid poo poo on Facebook but this is pretty  
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Nebalebadingdong posted:Today, on facebook adventures! Soviet Commubot posted:I see a bunch of stupid poo poo on Facebook but this is pretty
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This is it. The absolute highest-pitched dogwhistle racism I have ever seen. "Minorities tend to vote democratic. Minorities also tend to commit (read: get convicted for) more violent crimes than non-minorities. Therefore my image macro makes perfect sense."
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seiferguy posted:This just came up on my facebook wall:
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vyelkin posted:This is it. The absolute highest-pitched dogwhistle racism I have ever seen. Hmm, it's a white guy in the picture. So clearly you're the racist. Checkmate, lib  For the charlie brown one, do people honestly not understand why some people don't say "merry christmas"? Or is it just a temper tantrum?
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myron cope posted:For the charlie brown one, do people honestly not understand why some people don't say "merry christmas"? Or is it just a temper tantrum? What is there not to agree with in that one? It is really strange when you're not even allowed to say it in the largest Christian nation in world. I mean, we can say "merry christmas" even here in the Socialist Caliphates of Europe! Nenonen fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Dec 19, 2012 |
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Dec 19, 2012 17:47
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myron cope posted:Hmm, it's a white guy in the picture. So clearly you're the racist. Checkmate, lib The war on Christmas folks are a very loud and annoying minority; I imagine that most people, even Christians, appreciate the gesture and don't think twice about it.
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I kind of wish there was a war on Christmas. This year all the stores skipped right over Thansgiving and started doing Christmas stuff immediately after Halloween. If someone doesn't mobilize to resist the relentless advance, next year we'll start the jingles right after Labor Day.
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Dec 19, 2012 17:52
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Every goddamn year I hear people here in England bitching about how "you're not allowed to say Merry Christmas", and how it's being renamed "Winterval" and other stupid poo poo that has literally never happened anywhere ever. Well actually Winterval did happen, it was a festival that Birmingham city council once put on, yknow, during winter. It's Pee See Gorn Mahd I tell ya. The Mail, Express, Sun and their ilk need to start having a massive block on their front page every day that reads "This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to current events or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental."
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Cat Face Joe posted:
Professional armed guards in schools? That's depressing, but not entirely unreasonable, and miles away from "give all schoolteachers handguns". I guess quite a few veterans would qualify, too. I don't really see the crazy here.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Professional armed guards in schools? That's depressing, but not entirely unreasonable, and miles away from "give all schoolteachers handguns". I guess quite a few veterans would qualify, too. I don't really see the crazy here. I'm not sure I'd want some PTSD suffering veterans with a gun near school children. It wouldn't take a year until one of them pulls a gun on some brat that shot a spitball at him.
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peak debt posted:I'm not sure I'd want some PTSD suffering veterans with a gun near school children. It wouldn't take a year until one of them pulls a gun on some brat that shot a spitball at him. Or Joe the Supply Clerk who only fired his rifle 5 times in his whole career either.
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Or better yet, as someone else put it earlier in the thread: I don't really want my kids going to school where seeing armed guards is considered part of their normal, everyday lives.
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Sarion posted:Or better yet, as someone else put it earlier in the thread: I don't really want my kids going to school where seeing armed guards is considered part of their normal, everyday lives. Exactly this. In what world is armed guards in an elementary school not a war-torn dystopia? For fucks sake.
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So Facebook has given us a lot of gun-chat lately; and this is not likely to end anytime soon. But, as a break from gun-chat, here's an email forward I got from my father-in-law. My father-in-law is fairly typical Virginian, blue collar, labor union guy nearing retirement age. Reliable Democratic voter, strong on worker's rights but holds some conservative views, too (distrustful of strong federal government, opposes gay marriage, etc). Anyways, I think this email is kind of interesting. It could almost pull off being a "liberal" forward, something we don't see often. It's attacking a Republican Senator, and the fear-factor stems from changes to Social Security and Medicare. However, it also uses language typical of conservative forwards, regarding the trustworthiness and laziness of public servants, and so forth. I don't think it really classifies solidly as left or right leaning; more of just a general "scare old people" leaning. Here it is, all formatting is per the original, not emphasis from me. Also, I should point out, I have no idea who Rick Barry is, or what he or basketball have to do with anything else in the email. Fwd: I don't think pissed really covers this!!!! posted:Amen to all of this!! I'll probably do a line by line response to it later, but I need to get back to work for a bit first. Sarion fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Dec 19, 2012 |
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Waffles Inc. posted:Exactly this. In what world is armed guards in an elementary school not a war-torn dystopia? For fucks sake.  I mean, yeah, ideally you would make better gun control, but you have to enact policies until that finally comes into effect. ETA: Searching my memory, I can't remember if we had a guard in my elementary school. I definitely remember there being one in my middle-school and high-school. Absurd Alhazred fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Dec 19, 2012 |
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Ashcans posted:I kind of wish there was a war on Christmas. This year all the stores skipped right over Thansgiving and started doing Christmas stuff immediately after Halloween. If someone doesn't mobilize to resist the relentless advance, next year we'll start the jingles right after Labor Day. Well, there IS a war on Christmas. "Happy Holidays" is used in advertising to superficially acknowledge other religious beliefs, while at the same time replacing any spiritual meaning behind Christmas with consumerism. The same people bemoaning the war on Christmas will often talk about "The Reason For the Season" bullshit, but somehow not making the connection to capitalism. This is especially baffling considering that every classic Christmas story is anti-consumerism.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Professional armed guards in schools? That's depressing, but not entirely unreasonable, and miles away from "give all schoolteachers handguns". I guess quite a few veterans would qualify, too. I don't really see the crazy here. No, it's unreasonable. It creates a hosed-up atmosphere of fear and paranoia. Most large schools and universities do have security personnel and that works just fine. Although these suggestions of putting combat veterans in schools kind of remind me of this: http://www.dontevenreply.com/view.php?post=62
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Professional armed guards in schools? That's depressing, but not entirely unreasonable, and miles away from "give all schoolteachers handguns". I guess quite a few veterans would qualify, too. I don't really see the crazy here. I went to schools that had cops in them, it does drive violence down. The metal detectors and other poo poo was obnoxious, but the shootings (on school grounds at least) did go down. There is also a "troops to teachers" program my buddy did. He used the GI Bill for his undergrad and the government paid for his graduate degree. He's a teacher now, and he's former Navy EOD. He could easily kill someone in a shooting situation, or disarm a bomb if needed.
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