Sir Rolo posted:

Gays stealing our words.

Sir Rolo posted:

Gays stealing our words.

Radish posted:

If I've learned anything from political cartoons, once employers have to pay their employees more money they will have to fire exactly enough staff so that they are still paying the same amount in labor costs, go immediately out of business or both.

Sir Rolo posted:

Help Help I'm being repressed.

Radish posted:

If I've learned anything from political cartoons, once employers have to pay their employees more money they will have to fire exactly enough staff so that they are still paying the same amount in labor costs, go immediately out of business or both.

Crackbone posted:

And frankly, I'm not sure it's a good thing to have a business model that's predicated on paying your employees poverty level wages. If you can't give your employees a living wage then maybe your business isn't a net positive on the economy.

Moridin920 posted:

They think raising the minimum wage to liveable levels would cause a 1:1 inflation/wage increase ratio, so in effect no one's real wages would really go up and everything would be more expensive. Nightmare Zimbabwe and Germany inflation scenarios then go nuts in their heads.

They call it Econ 101 to be clever because they heard "when everyone gets more money, it's worth less" in high school, but really they're just mocking themselves because if they really took Econ 101 they'd know better. People earning minimum wage and the prices of stuff don't exist just by themselves in a vacuum.

That analogy would only work in some sort of commune (or economic vacuum hypothetical for the purposes of explaining inflation to new people) where everyone only got paid X and all the prices reflected those wages, but if one day everyone got X + 10, the prices would all increase accordingly so really everyone's purchasing power stays the same.

V-Men posted:

Wait, when did the Bible start commanding women to wear skirts to work?

edit: Why did I think this was the picture thread?

e_angst posted:

Exactly. I had a libertarian try to argue about the minimum wage the last time they were going to raise it and he kept saying that the minimum wage might as well just be $1, because literally every penny added to the minimum wage would only result in every other item costing exactly that much more.

e_angst posted:

Exactly. I had a libertarian try to argue about the minimum wage the last time they were going to raise it and he kept saying that the minimum wage might as well just be $1, because literally every penny added to the minimum wage would only result in every other item costing exactly that much more.

Sir Rolo posted:

Help Help I'm being repressed.

V-Men posted:

Wait, when did the Bible start commanding women to wear skirts to work?

cbirdsong posted:

Sir Rolo posted:

The week in LL101:

Gays stealing our words.

cbirdsong posted:

Radical Griff posted:

It is a pretty Hitler move.

Amused to Death posted:

Jesus christ people are dumb.

OneThousandMonkeys posted:

Speaking as a loathsome atheist, all Easter represents for me is an even more bizarre version of Halloween.

My mother on Facebook posted:

"Dear President Obama,

My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don’t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos’n Mate. Now I live in a “rest home” located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.

One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.

So here goes.

I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.

I can’t figure out what country you are the president of.
You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:

” We’re no longer a Christian nation”
” America is arrogant”

– (Your wife even
announced to the world,” America is mean-spirited. ” Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our
war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)

I’d say shame on the both of you, but I don’t think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.

After 9/11 you said,” America hasn’t lived up to her ideals.”

Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn’t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.

I don’t think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.

Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.

Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don’t, I’ll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue . You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don’t want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts , who was putting up a fight? You don’t mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don’t want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.

One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you’re the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you’re not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you’re thinking of.

You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.
You’re not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That’s not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.
And I sure as hell don’t want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle…

Sincerely,
Harold B. Estes"

Amused to Death posted:

Easter represents home made mashed potatoes, which is the ultimate measure of every holiday


There's no point in posting any single one, because it keeps popping up, but jesus the Monsanto thing is everywhere. The couple of times though I've seen a version of "While you were busy being distracted with gay marriage, Obama was busy protecting Monsanto" I just respond with "While you were busy being distracted with telling other people they were distracted from things that actually matter, you totally missed the Supreme Court case involving Monsanto and the larger right to patent genes which is far more important than this drat thing"

cbirdsong posted:

Generic American posted:

You know, I was feeling good about my Facebook lately. No homophobic stuff. No blatant racism. No "a shoulder to cry on becomes a dick to ride on" posters from douchebag friends.

And then... this pops up, also getting another six shares from other family members. I really hope it doesn't catch on like that Cosby letter that ~still~ gets floated around.

quote:

Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.

Generic American posted:

You know, I was feeling good about my Facebook lately. No homophobic stuff. No blatant racism. No "a shoulder to cry on becomes a dick to ride on" posters from douchebag friends.

And then... this pops up, also getting another six shares from other family members. I really hope it doesn't catch on like that Cosby letter that ~still~ gets floated around.

Generic American posted:

You know, I was feeling good about my Facebook lately. No homophobic stuff. No blatant racism. No "a shoulder to cry on becomes a dick to ride on" posters from douchebag friends.

And then... this pops up, also getting another six shares from other family members. I really hope it doesn't catch on like that Cosby letter that ~still~ gets floated around.

XyloJW posted:

My father-in-law is staying with us for Easter. He's hooked in hardcore into the Limbaugh/Beck feed 24/7 and keeps trying to bait me into getting into an argument. But the plus side is I finally have confirmation right wingers literally think Obama is setting up concentration camps.

He was talking to me about how the local gun shop is out of 22LR (this is true). He said it's because manufacturers are out, because the DHS just made a purchase of 1 billion 22 LR shells, more than were used in the entire Iraq War, allegedly for "target practice." I staid silent, because nothing will ever convince him and we're trying to have a nice family day. He then added that if you do the math, that's about 3 bullets for every person in the US. "Makes you wonder what they're planning on doing with all that?"

My wife, who used to be right-wing but is now pretty centrist, said "What are you getting at? You can't think they're going to kill everyone in America." "No no, I think they probably just did it so that no one else would be allowed to buy any bullets. They're buying up all the bullets, as a defacto work-around the 2nd Amendment. But what does worry me is all the Armored Personal Carriers they just bought. What're they going to do with those?"

It was only by the strongest willpower that I was not rolling my eyes and scoffing aloud.

Parachute posted:

Well good luck with all that.

Zwabu posted:

Well it may be a photoshop that is misattributed and with poor spelling and grammar, but I think it raises some very valid points! Just asking questions, and really makes you think!

XyloJW posted:

He was talking to me about how the local gun shop is out of 22LR (this is true). He said it's because manufacturers are out, because the DHS just made a purchase of 1 billion 22 LR shells, more than were used in the entire Iraq War, allegedly for "target practice." I staid silent, because nothing will ever convince him and we're trying to have a nice family day. He then added that if you do the math, that's about 3 bullets for every person in the US. "Makes you wonder what they're planning on doing with all that?"