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Sardine Wit
Sep 3, 2004

Tomahawk posted:

Uhh dont you realize we are sitting on top of all the oil we will ever need in our lifetime but Obummer refuses to drill?

If only we had a republican in office, we would drill baby, drill. And through the glory of the free market, that oil would collectively belong to us and not be sold to any other freedom hating country in the world and gas would be .50 cents a gallon just like the goodoledays

Can you imagine the shitstorm if Obama decided to drill in Alaska and nationalise the drilling process so that they could guarantee it's sale in the US.

BIG GOVERNMENT STEALING OUR OIL

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VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
It used to be that Alaskan oil could only be sold on the US market. It was kind of a big deal in the 90s to get that restriction removed.

Propaganda Hour
Aug 25, 2008



after editing wikipedia as a joke for 16 years, i ve convinced myself that homer simpson's japanese name translates to the "The beer goblin"

VideoTapir posted:

It used to be that Alaskan oil could only be sold on the US market. It was kind of a big deal in the 90s to get that restriction removed.

Mostly because the bottom fell out of the Alaskan oil market in the late 80s and the state just about collapsed economically.

Teriyaki Hairpiece
Dec 29, 2006

I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.
Things got a lot worse in Alaska after the feds revoked the special status of the District of Sitka and all the millions of people there had to leave.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
Yeah, funny when you have less or no choice of buyer, you can't get a good price.

XyloJW
Jul 23, 2007
A Ron Paul-loving friend forwarded a nonsense image from this Facebook page.



When someone asked "Why not 2013? Or 2014?" the page owner said "We won't have enough people committed to the plan at that point. We need a million, so they can't just ignore us."

I wrote on the wall that he wasn't going to do anything. I'll update if I get a good response.

Victory Lap
Feb 25, 2001

XyloJW posted:

A Ron Paul-loving friend forwarded a nonsense image from this Facebook page.



When someone asked "Why not 2013? Or 2014?" the page owner said "We won't have enough people committed to the plan at that point. We need a million, so they can't just ignore us."

I wrote on the wall that he wasn't going to do anything. I'll update if I get a good response.

And here I thought their view was that 47% already didn't pay taxes - surely kicking that up a measly 1% will show Obama who's boss!

babies havin rabies
Feb 24, 2006

Wait, by "not paying taxes", do they mean "not filing an income tax return", or literally having their employers not take out any withholdings, or not paying anything in if self-employed.

If it's the former, they are just leaving their own money on the table. They are actually paying more taxes by not filing a tax return. They also have zero idea how income taxes/tax returns/withholdings work, which is comically stupid considering they are obsessed with taxes. If it's the latter, ha ha ha. Enjoy your audit, the IRS has more time and resources than you busy Captains of Industry.

On a technical level, how are they going to avoid paying sales tax, gas tax, property taxes, or other misc. taxes like tobacco tax?

babies havin rabies fucked around with this message at 15:18 on May 3, 2013

peak debt
Mar 11, 2001
b& :(
Nap Ghost
They're also going to manually deduct the sales tax from each purchase and hope the cashier won't notice.

Defenestration
Aug 10, 2006

"It wasn't my fault that my first unconscious thought turned out to be-"
"Jesus, kid, what?"
"That something smelled delicious!"


Grimey Drawer

Autumncomet posted:

I'm curious, did she not know about Beta Israelis or is this a "person looks Muslim!!" thing? Or both?
Little of both? I didn't know about Ethiopian Jews until I went to an Ethiopian restaurant in Portland and the owner told me all about it (that was weird).

She's been all over the world, to China and Africa and South America, but she has this one glaring blind spot. Infuriating.

shoplifter
May 23, 2001

bored before I even began

ProperGanderPusher posted:

I honestly thought it was the name of a porn star. As in, they've never seen a porno with someone in a hijab playing a slutty nurse, like hypothetical porn actress Candy Striper, who everyone fapped to back in the 70s or whatever decade is was when the undoubtedly old-rear end author of the email came of age.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Stripers_(1978_film)

XyloJW
Jul 23, 2007

babies havin rabies posted:

Wait, by "not paying taxes", do they mean "not filing an income tax return", or literally having their employers not take out any withholdings, or not paying anything in if self-employed.

If it's the former, they are just leaving their own money on the table. They are actually paying more taxes by not filing a tax return. They also have zero idea how income taxes/tax returns/withholdings work, which is comically stupid considering they are obsessed with taxes. If it's the latter, ha ha ha. Enjoy your audit, the IRS has more time and resources than you busy Captains of Industry.

On a technical level, how are they going to avoid paying sales tax, gas tax, property taxes, or other misc. taxes like tobacco tax?

I think the intention is to have no withholdings, and not file at all. I'm going to give them a ton of credit and assume they also don't have traditional incomes, because the IRS will just garnish their wages from their employers (although I'm pretty sure they're too stupid to realize this).

I love that they're declaring this on a public website, with all of their personal information attached. They're making it so easy to get caught.

babies havin rabies
Feb 24, 2006

XyloJW posted:

I think the intention is to have no withholdings, and not file at all. I'm going to give them a ton of credit and assume they also don't have traditional incomes, because the IRS will just garnish their wages from their employers (although I'm pretty sure they're too stupid to realize this).

I love that they're declaring this on a public website, with all of their personal information attached. They're making it so easy to get caught.

They won't do anything, so it doesn't matter. Just empty bellyaching.

The Casualty
Sep 29, 2006
Security Clearance: Pop Secret


Whiny baby

SaltLick posted:

Oh I know, but that doesn't stop idiots from posting it and getting upset. Huffington Post is liberal rag while Breitbart is a totally legit newsource. :jerkbag:

I got called out, legitimately I suppose, for ridiculing a source like Breitbart as a "neo-conservative shill" (they've been proven right time and time again dude!) and saying my friend's post could be used for a political buzzword drinking game. Then I got called a hypocrite for citing the Washington Post article instead. Followed soon after by the whole "you liberals are all the same!" tripe. There's just no pleasing some people, I guess if I want any credibility with these fucks I'll have to make sure all my sources are Fox News or Blaze. Funny to get accused of ridicule in the same breath that they mistake the person for the argument, though. And of course now that the DOD has made a clarification they see that as validation that Breitbart was right all along.

I'm this close to just taking the easy way out and trolling these guys any time they open their mouths. Fighting their rear end-backwards train of thought is a losing proposition. Breitbart is right all the time? Sorry bro, there's no helping you.

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
If it makes you feel any better, I was on the receiving end of several ad hominem attacks and called a fascist when "debating" some libertarian freetard. He later banned me (because he's the admin) when I pointed out his dog whistle racism.

Irony isn't on the spectrum for some people.

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

The Casualty posted:

I got called out, legitimately I suppose, for ridiculing a source like Breitbart as a "neo-conservative shill" (they've been proven right time and time again dude!) and saying my friend's post could be used for a political buzzword drinking game. Then I got called a hypocrite for citing the Washington Post article instead. Followed soon after by the whole "you liberals are all the same!" tripe. There's just no pleasing some people, I guess if I want any credibility with these fucks I'll have to make sure all my sources are Fox News or Blaze. Funny to get accused of ridicule in the same breath that they mistake the person for the argument, though. And of course now that the DOD has made a clarification they see that as validation that Breitbart was right all along.

I'm this close to just taking the easy way out and trolling these guys any time they open their mouths. Fighting their rear end-backwards train of thought is a losing proposition. Breitbart is right all the time? Sorry bro, there's no helping you.

Try to avoid linking newspaper articles if possible. If the newspaper article cites a study or something, locate it and link to the primary source instead. If they try to call bullshit, ask for specific criticisms of the methodology.

Also, Breitbart's stance on global warming is the most effective and succinct way to demonstrate that he is a worthless shill.

V-Men
Aug 15, 2001

Don't it make your dick bust concrete to be in the same room with two noble, selfless public servants.

baw posted:

Try to avoid linking newspaper articles if possible. If the newspaper article cites a study or something, locate it and link to the primary source instead. If they try to call bullshit, ask for specific criticisms of the methodology.

Also, Breitbart's stance on global warming is the most effective and succinct way to demonstrate that he is a worthless shill.

Scientists can be biased. Follow the money man!!

http://www.citizensoldierhandbook.com/index.php/Biased-Education/liberal-funding-of-global-warming-scientists.html

I love hearing that. Because climate research organizations stand to lose millions, whereas energy companies... what? Have nothing to gain?

V-Men fucked around with this message at 19:07 on May 3, 2013

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
I wonder how much it would cost to pay off 97% of actively-publishing climatologists. And NASA.

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
Nothing they do it for free because they hate freedom :911:

tetrapyloctomy
Feb 18, 2003

Okay -- you talk WAY too fast.
Nap Ghost

baw posted:

I wonder how much it would cost to pay off 97% of actively-publishing climatologists. And NASA.

Not very much after we cut research budgets further.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

XyloJW posted:

I love that they're declaring this on a public website, with all of their personal information attached. They're making it so easy to get caught.
The whole point of civil disobedience is to do it publicly and give the government the opportunity to crack down on you. A lot of what they think and do may be stupid, but not this.

myron cope
Apr 21, 2009

XyloJW posted:

because the IRS will just garnish their wages from their employers (although I'm pretty sure they're too stupid to realize this).

No because then they will have won :911:

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004
This has been making the rounds today from a couple of my friends, who cite it as CLEAR EVIDENCE that Obummer lied and covered up Benghazi.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/benghazi-talking-points_720543.html?page=1

19 o'clock
Sep 9, 2004

Excelsior!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TvWXN7OLfU

This came up on Facebook recently.

This is absolutely glorious. The guy blames the illuminati and freemasons for his failures as a musician. He and others talk about the cosmic 432hz as being a way to fight back against the oppressive mind control of 440hz tuning of instruments. Reading that led me to a whole other level of crazy conspiracy nut poo poo about how music is bad if it isn't played based on a 432hz A natural.

Vulich the Subtle
Nov 25, 2012

Paul is unimpressed by the glories of the Host.
I don't mean to continuously post my interactions with idiots on Facebook but I just got into a discussion with someone and this is how he responded:

quote:

Vulich, normally I would not associate you as an idiot. This is that one time. The KKK is a leftist group created by the democrat party against Republicans for supporting the black community. Many white Republicans were murdered for that support, which is excluded from your revisionist history. White supremacy/nationalism have traditionally been beacons of democrat philosophy. (And wanting legal immigration is hardly anti-immigrant Vulich). All politicians that have had affiliations with the KKK have been democrat, save for David Duke. Look up anything regarding Woodrow Wilson and you'll find the true democrat stand on race even to this day. But then there's your ridiculous Dixicrat LIE ... that in 1963, dems are still racist and Republicans are color-blind. But then, magically, switch entire ideologies the following year ... as likely as getting residents of New York and L.A. to pack up their poo poo and switch places.

The south became more Republican, yes. Because the old democrat men were dying. There was no change in ideology but a change in party. By youth wanting small government.

You don't like to learn the truth, so I know you won't watch this, but this guy can exlain much better than I:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C2CjR-kvVM

To this day, the KKK praises democrats because blacks are being crushed under democrats now more than ever. They LOVE Obama oddly.

Then there's the Nazi's. Fascists, right? Fascism is LEFTIST. The silence of any and all opposite expression. Democrats do that. NOT Republicans. "Homophobia". "Bigoted". "Sexist". All terms meant to divide rather than discuss. All made by democrats.

OH! And Hitler was inspired by Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. Gee ...

Learn real history laddy.

I'm actually scared of getting probated/banned here because of so many buzzwords this friend of mine is hitting. The reelection of Barack Obama broke his brain.

SalTheBard
Jan 26, 2005

I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!

Fallen Rib
Can someone explain to me how states can "nullify all federal gun regulations past, present and future"?

myron cope
Apr 21, 2009

SalTheBard posted:

Can someone explain to me how states can "nullify all federal gun regulations past, present and future"?

In your imagination, you can do anything!

(they can't)

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007
Just like all those states that legalized marijuana for various purposes were able to stop the Feds from raiding dispensaries and customers, am I right? :v:

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
Revisionist history? Like saying the Republicans have never been racist?

Take it away, Lee Atwater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8E3ENrKrQ

Doctor Butts
May 21, 2002

Hey man, they can't be racist if they aren't KKK

Neptr
Mar 1, 2011

SalTheBard posted:

Can someone explain to me how states can "nullify all federal gun regulations past, present and future"?

A coworker was literally arguing for nullification and interposition the other day WRT North Carolina passing a law saying they refuse to follow PPACA. :eng99:

BrotherAdso
May 22, 2008

stat rosa pristina nomine
nomina nuda tenemus

TinTower posted:

Revisionist history? Like saying the Republicans have never been racist?

Take it away, Lee Atwater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8E3ENrKrQ

I love revisionist history. I'm a history teacher, so I can't resist correcting common misconceptions that get spouted in the comments sections of good, honest videos by educational companies on YouTube. It means I sometimes get hot slices of crazy in my inbox:

Dude with a half-naked devil angel furry as his user icon posted:

I never said that the south didnt want to keep slaves. I just said that the war didn't start over slavery.
The south was winning the war and out numbered the north. So the north decided to free the slaves and feed them into the war, taking back the number advantage. There was a General from the north that went pirate on a coastal town in NC I believe.(he did horrible things and burned a massive area to the ground, which killed the morale of the south) Those are the two things that won the war for the north.
The north bankrupted itself waging the war. Shortly after it ended the north turned around and sold the control of the government to foreign bankers. The Act of 1871... then in 1931(I believe) those bankers gave the FED power to print our currency, using the people as collateral on the debt our government owed to the FED. Which made us all slaves. The illegal wage tax that we all pay goes to pay the interest on that debt.

So after the government steals our hard earned money, most people find it hard just to put food on the table or a roof over their heads.

So if the Civil War was mainly fought to do away with slavery then why are there more slaves now than there ever was in the past?
The south was against big government and were willing to fight/die for the ability to govern themselves. People today ate clueless the the reality they live in and would never risk anything let alone their lives to take back their freedom. So we will all dies as slaves.

I don't even quite know where to start, so I probably won't even try. It just...wow. What kind of educational system in what deprived hellhole made this possible?

DarkHorse
Dec 13, 2006

Vroom vroom, BEEP BEEP!
Nap Ghost

Vulich the Subtle posted:

I don't mean to continuously post my interactions with idiots on Facebook but I just got into a discussion with someone and this is how he responded:


I'm actually scared of getting probated/banned here because of so many buzzwords this friend of mine is hitting. The reelection of Barack Obama broke his brain.
I assume you've already told him about the Southern Strategy, and specifically how notorious racist Strom Thurmond was a member of the Democratic party before 1964 and a Republican after 1964? The people didn't change, the parties did. And I'm not brave or stupid enough to visit StormFront, but I would bet money that they really don't like Democrats, considering they chose a black man to be their presidential representative and all.

e: f, probably b

GrabbinPeels
Jan 3, 2010

I only regret not giving up sooner.

BrotherAdso posted:

I don't even quite know where to start, so I probably won't even try. It just...wow. What kind of educational system in what deprived hellhole made this possible?

Even my incredibly insular Christian Private School in the south didn't mislead me that hard. :psyduck: Although I did learn a lot about how the War of Northern Aggression was totally was fought because of states' rights.

And he is talking about William Sherman? The guy who is famous for attacking Atlanta?

Kro-Bar
Jul 24, 2004
USPOL May
This has popped up on a few feeds.



I guess conservatives are freaking out because the military reiterated its policy that harassing people about your religion isn't allowed. They explicitly allow evangelism, though, so I dunno wtf people are freaking out about.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
They're oppressing my freedom to oppress!

FCKGW
May 21, 2006

I express myself via soap bars in a sock.

KillerJunglist
May 22, 2007

Lion of Judah protect you, Jah be praised.
Oh boy, this guy is back on my feed.



edit: Not political, but he also posted this right after it with the comment "LIBERALS!"

KillerJunglist fucked around with this message at 18:22 on May 4, 2013

Xemloth
Mar 27, 2011

Wait, what?




Reply "Glad to see you support gay marriage"

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Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011


If he ever so much as breathes a word about Conservativism or Republican being somehow more Godly/Christian, I hope you rub his loving nose in the cognitive dissonance between this FYGM piece of poo poo and the actual teachings of Jesus.

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