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I'm curious about the psychological reason, if there is any. Conservatives love using CAPITALIZATION, "quotation" "marks", and Exclamation Points!!! all the loving time. Why?
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Mar 12, 2013 20:15
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my conservative boss has texts with a poo poo ton of ellipsis. Also I'm really starting to hate the term "common sense."
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Mar 12, 2013 20:19
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Have you seen my apex seals? I seem to have lost them.
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Mar 12, 2013 20:20
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Mitchicon posted:I'm curious about the psychological reason, if there is any. Conservatives love using CAPITALIZATION, "quotation" "marks", and Exclamation Points!!! all the loving time. Why? Probably because they hope to highlight certain things, like putting things in quotation marks to belittle things like "strong leader" Obama. Exclamation points on the other hand are seemingly great to really drive a point home, especially at the very end of a rant! Lots of subtext can be made easier to understand by the right punctuation...
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Mar 12, 2013 20:27
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Mitchicon posted:I'm curious about the psychological reason, if there is any. Conservatives love using CAPITALIZATION, "quotation" "marks", and Exclamation Points!!! all the loving time. Why? If I had to guess, it's because the writer is just attempting to type in the same manner that they are thinking. These types of messages do have a certain "stream of consciousness" format. When the writer pauses to think, they type ellipses reflect the fact. When they would put emphasis on a word, they capitalize it. All sentences get a quantity of exclamation points relative to their importance.
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Mar 12, 2013 20:37
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Mar 12, 2013 20:43
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Mitchicon posted:I'm curious about the psychological reason, if there is any. Conservatives love using CAPITALIZATION, "quotation" "marks", and Exclamation Points!!! all the loving time. Why? I always figure it's the craziness/hate and they are blacking out.
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Mar 12, 2013 20:51
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 Starting to see stuff like this more often on my feed. Can someone explain the whole deal with the military tuition stuff? I think the "lower tuition for illegals" thing here is just letting kids that graduate from high school in Colorado count as in-state students for college.
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Mar 12, 2013 21:03
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Just had a friend tweet the most fantastically ironic sentence I've seen in awhile."I'm now paying more in taxes than I made total when I was in the navy #damfreeloaders" Dude dicked around on a submarine for a few years, got free meals, free healthcare, money, and even enjoyed himself a few French whorehouses but to hell with all that, gently caress these freeloaders trying to eat on my dime! 
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Mar 12, 2013 21:09
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Zerilan posted:
Besides that, federal government != state government.
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Mar 12, 2013 21:11
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Zerilan posted:
Well it's important to note that the tuition bill in question was passed by the state of Colorado and it's dealing with a problem the kids had no control over because they were illegal immigrants presumably brought into this country by their parents or other adult relatives since they graduated from Colorado high schools: quote:The bill allows students who graduate from Colorado high schools to attend college at the in-state rate regardless of their immigration status. So basically it's just allowing children who were brought there illegally and raised there and went to high school there to go to college there at the same rates as all other Denver residents if they follow some requirements, but hey I guess charging them 3 times as much is cool too? The military tuition stuff is related to the Sequestration laws on Federal spending. It's sad to see this sort of thing happen, but when political parties cut off their nose to spite their face then lovely things are bound to happen, particularly when the cuts are off their own making and not something that we had no choice but to do.
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Mar 12, 2013 21:17
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Zerilan posted:
I've seen people on here, including some ex military people, making the point this doesn't affect any education help in the general GI bill and that the tuition program was essentially one giant give away to lovely for-profit universities. So there may also be that.
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Mar 12, 2013 21:17
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Mitchicon posted:I'm curious about the psychological reason, if there is any. Conservatives love using CAPITALIZATION, "quotation" "marks", and Exclamation Points!!! all the loving time. Why? In my experience it's an old person thing, and most people don't get many emails from old people that aren't conservative forwards. My grandmother's facebook page is full of this stuff (both from her and her few friends who know how Facebook works), and absolutely none of it is political.
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Mar 12, 2013 21:24
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Amused to Death posted:I've seen people on here, including some ex military people, making the point this doesn't affect any education help in the general GI bill and that the tuition program was essentially one giant give away to lovely for-profit universities. So there may also be that. I have as well, but can someone link to a more informative post or resource? A good friend of mine is ex-military and he's pretty irritated about it, but he's smart enough (and generally leans left anyway) that I don't want to say "well it was just a racket for the for-profit universities" and leave it at that.
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Mar 12, 2013 21:24
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This one's been popping up on my feed today with much handwringing about "decent, hard-working Americans" having their entire vacations to D.C. completely ruined while Michelle Obama goes golfing. http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2013/20130312005-sequester-vacations.html I've also got a veteran on my feed pissing and moaning about having to study when he's got a seasonal cold because the Sequester is loving up his TAP. Apparently, he was just going to drop out of all his classes this semester so he didn't have to study when he doesn't feel well because TAP will just pay for them again next semester, but now he can't and abloobloobloo, how will he feed his family if he doesn't finish his Master's Degree with TAP? (He's a 50 year old divorced retiree whose children are all grown and no longer dependents.)
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Mar 12, 2013 21:28
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Fionnoula posted:This one's been popping up on my feed today with much handwringing about "decent, hard-working Americans" having their entire vacations to D.C. completely ruined while Michelle Obama goes golfing. Sounds like he shouldn't be mooching off the government. loving freeloaders and their welfare programs.
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Mar 12, 2013 21:38
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Is there some place that says where you can or can't use tuition assistance? I was looking through a couple of the faqs and didn't find anything specific about it.
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Mar 12, 2013 21:57
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*sigh* I thought I saved the awesome responses to the "Proffesor does socialism in his classroom and proves its terrible* email but I lost them. Could someone please repost them for me? There were 2 great ones IIRC.
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Mar 12, 2013 22:02
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:*sigh* I thought I saved the awesome responses to the "Proffesor does socialism in his classroom and proves its terrible* email but I lost them. Could someone please repost them for me? There were 2 great ones IIRC. quote:To get a more apt example, you need to limit the amount of possible points available to the entire class. We’ll set the student number at 100 for simplicity and the limit at 7,000 points per test so that if it was evenly distributed among all 100 students everyone would get a C on each 100 point test. Let’s assume that the distribution of all points follows the current U.S. distribution of income. Here’s how we end up:
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Mar 12, 2013 22:08
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Countblanc posted:In my experience it's an old person thing, and most people don't get many emails from old people that aren't conservative forwards. My grandmother's facebook page is full of this stuff (both from her and her few friends who know how Facebook works), and absolutely none of it is political. Look at Time Cube, Yvette's Bridal, and conspiracy websites and websites made by the mentally ill in general. It seems to be more about being unbalanced and/or paranoid than about being old.
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Mar 12, 2013 22:10
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totalnewbie posted:I have as well, but can someone link to a more informative post or resource? A good friend of mine is ex-military and he's pretty irritated about it, but he's smart enough (and generally leans left anyway) that I don't want to say "well it was just a racket for the for-profit universities" and leave it at that. Yeah, I'd be careful throwing around negative critiques about TAP despite what others here have said. It can be helpful for more than just padding reviews - I know people who have used TAP to get their Bachelor's while in active duty and using their GI Bill towards a Master's when they got out, so it can help give you a head start and possibly a little more freedom in how to use your GI Bill benefits. I can see the point about for-profit schools, just wanted to point out that it's not completely unnecessary.
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Mar 12, 2013 22:29
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Aeka 2.0 posted:my conservative boss has texts with a poo poo ton of ellipsis. Yeah "common sense" is completely an oxymoron, especially because one thing we learn when we educate ourselves is that the most easy answer is not always the best one. The way some people abuse "common sense," it really means "I have no proof at all."
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Mar 12, 2013 22:30
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 Just got this in my feed.
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Mar 12, 2013 23:37
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:*sigh* I thought I saved the awesome responses to the "Proffesor does socialism in his classroom and proves its terrible* email but I lost them. Could someone please repost them for me? There were 2 great ones IIRC. This is a pretty good demonstration regarding what the inequality actually is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM It's quite likely that people discussing this topic have no idea how bad inequality actually is and if they aren't completely stuck in their views learning about the facts might change their opinions.
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Mar 12, 2013 23:39
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Craftics posted:Just had a friend tweet the most fantastically ironic sentence I've seen in awhile."I'm now paying more in taxes than I made total when I was in the navy #damfreeloaders" Is he by any chance working for a military contractor?
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Mar 13, 2013 01:32
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Agents are GO! posted:
Well, this just made my list of things that manage to both irrationally anger me and gross me out at the same time
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Mar 13, 2013 05:37
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Of course both numbers are just pulled out of their rear end.
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Mar 13, 2013 06:20
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It's funny because when I think 'jokes about people loving livestock' my first thought is Wales.
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Mar 13, 2013 06:36
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Mo_Steel posted:I'm seriously curious if you could write a program to automatically detect crazy political emails by format alone. An algorithm that accounts for capitalization patterns, ellipses and exclamation points as well as the prevalence of single sentence paragraphs. Include incidence of FWD in the title and a few other factors like multiple fonts in a single email. In a crosspost from the Conservapedia Thread, Andy Schaflay has got you covered! http://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:Quantifying_Liberal_Style
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Mar 13, 2013 07:52
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I heard the same joke recently, except it was New Zealanders loving sheep. Just another racist Mad Lib.
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Mar 13, 2013 07:56
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In 1272 most "Arabic Muslims" were probably way more educated and had a much higher standard of living than the majority of speakers of English, which is the language of the writing in that horrible racist image.
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Mar 13, 2013 10:12
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Who wants to start a faux-libertarian activist campaign to enshrine bestiality in our American constitution? After all, if you're just loving your animals, that's definitely not the government's business. If you're loving someone else's animals and the owner gets paid, that's not at all the business of the evil government. Right? Right??
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Mar 13, 2013 10:14
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dphi posted:Yeah, I'd be careful throwing around negative critiques about TAP despite what others here have said. It can be helpful for more than just padding reviews - I know people who have used TAP to get their Bachelor's while in active duty and using their GI Bill towards a Master's when they got out, so it can help give you a head start and possibly a little more freedom in how to use your GI Bill benefits. I can see the point about for-profit schools, just wanted to point out that it's not completely unnecessary. Lets go ahead and have this conversation. I'm currently in the AF and these stupid military vs immigrant memes keep popping up and its driving me insane. Tuition Assistance: * Offers a set amount of total money per year, and money per credit hour. It essentially allowed someone to take cheap online classes to the tune of about ~15 credits a year. * It is only available to Active Duty members, Guard currently working in an Active capacity, and some civilian contractors * Because of its existence military promotion in many branches, specifically AF have made it difficult to get a great yearly review (which is used for promotion) without taking a few classes per year. * It has become so integral to the promotion process for enlisted that you're nearly required to get a CCAF (community college of the air force) associates in order to reach E-7. Note that the CCAF is pushed on people who already have a regular Bachelor's and few if any of the credits transfer to real schools. * For the officers a Masters degree is considered a de facto requirement in order to reach O-4. * Due to the widely dispersed military stations and nature of military jobs nearly everyone on Tuition Assistance is taking some form of online class. It's exceedingly rare for non office hour members to take classes in person and it's basically impossible if you are stationed overseas or on deployment. * I'll see if I can get the numbers but many of these online classes are run through for profit degree mills which strike deals with squadron commanders on base to allow their recruiters to talk at official sqaudron meetings. * The for profit schools hire a staggering number of former generals in order to help its image as "military friendly" * This is the most important point. They still have a GI Bill which they can use while still serving in an Active Duty capacity.
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Mar 13, 2013 12:17
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cheerfullydrab posted:Who wants to start a faux-libertarian activist campaign to enshrine bestiality in our American constitution? After all, if you're just loving your animals, that's definitely not the government's business. If you're loving someone else's animals and the owner gets paid, that's not at all the business of the evil government. Right? Right?? American Libertarianism, the sort Ron Paul has popularized, involves a huge exception when it comes to sex--the (state) government has every right to make homosexuality and birth control illegal. So no, you wouldn't show anyone the error of their ways, you'd just make yourself look like a weirdo.
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Mar 13, 2013 13:45
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My brother, who's in the airforce, just posted this one: He's going to school on the GI bill right now. 
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Mar 13, 2013 16:49
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The Rock is horrified that some Republican has already gotten to AnnaSophia Robb and is making her spew idiotic talking points.
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Mar 13, 2013 17:28
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MisterBadIdea posted:The Rock is horrified that some Republican has already gotten to AnnaSophia Robb and is making her spew idiotic talking points. A good cartoon.
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Mar 13, 2013 17:54
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Ror posted:We've been fools all along. The liberals' best move is to take out Obama ourselves. I touched the poop in this video. Need a little help: 
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Mar 13, 2013 19:40
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David Min wrote an article debunking the CRE causing the financial crisis myth that Republican think tanks started which Krugman talked about. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/07/why-wallison-is-wrong-about-the-genesis-of-the-u-s-housing-crisis/
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Mar 13, 2013 19:49
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Aeka 2.0 posted:I touched the poop in this video. Need a little help: I usually don't counsel people to be a jerk or defriend people in Facebook arguments, since these are people you presumably interact with on a daily basis, maybe even family. Cutting them out of your life based on their inconsequential political opinions always seemed a really petty thing to do. But you are arguing with a Youtube commenter. For all you know, that guy is an actual Nazi living in Argentina. He has a poster of Hitler on his wall while he's typing his responses. Link him to goatse and be done with it. e: his original response says "In reply to: UtterFlatulence"
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