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Could someone please explain, in small words, what the deal with Monsanto and GMO is and why everyone is  at it? My sister and her fiancee just liked and shared this. 
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May 27, 2013 16:49
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There's a couple articles about it in the NYT and AP that you should check out for some basic information. The D&D Pictures thread has some good content posts on it as well. The shortest version is that the safety of GMO products is a nebulous topic at best which relies on appeals to emotions, but the unambiguously anti-farmer practices of Monsanto are a worthy target for protest.
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May 27, 2013 17:02
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kinmik posted:Could someone please explain, in small words, what the deal with Monsanto and GMO is and why everyone is The story I heard is Monsanto use genetic modification to effectively tag their seeds as their property, and if they find anybody selling their crop they take the farmers to court for the cash they made on it or some equally exploitative crap. The average
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May 27, 2013 17:03
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RillAkBea posted:The story I heard is Monsanto use genetic modification to effectively tag their seeds as their property, and if they find anybody selling their crop they take the farmers to court for the cash they made on it or some equally exploitative crap. The average It's not even a GMO issue since legally GMO food can only be created through what amounts to advanced horticulture, not putting fish genes in corn (though they can do that for experiments and shits n' giggles) However, Monsato does have some really hosed up business practices, lobbying for protections in the USA and generally acts like a poo poo. If people could stop blaming every disease, environmental problem and health issue on GMO crops or red food colouring maybe we could make some progress. Someone on my wall posted a link to an article that blamed Monsato purely for the sudden disappearances of bees. Like, really? Sudden Colony Collapse syndrome is a huge deal and it's happening all over the world, not just where Monsato sprays roundup. Dumbasses.
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May 27, 2013 17:09
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From gently caress the poor! To gently caress everyone but landowners!  OP is my cousin, I'm FB User #1 and I don't know the other two.
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May 27, 2013 19:04
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Respond with landowners should have to own at least 5 acres fully paid off to be able to vote. No one cares about a stupid 1/2 acre suburban house you haven't even paid off yet, you in fact don't own jack yet. What motivation does anyone have to be a responsible citizen when their hand holdings are insignificant enough that they can just move around whenever.
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May 27, 2013 19:41
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Amused to Death posted:Respond with landowners should have to own at least 5 acres fully paid off to be able to vote. No one cares about a stupid 1/2 acre suburban house you haven't even paid off yet, you in fact don't own jack yet. What motivation does anyone have to be a responsible citizen when their hand holdings are insignificant enough that they can just move around whenever. My cousin deleted the thread after her friend started posting about how Indians were better off now after the "godly pilgrims" came. I responded with Bartolomé de las Casas' report of conquistador treatment of Native Americans (with a warning for graphic content). Guess that was enough for her. Oh well.
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May 27, 2013 19:45
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RillAkBea posted:The story I heard is Monsanto use genetic modification to effectively tag their seeds as their property, and if they find anybody selling their crop they take the farmers to court for the cash they made on it or some equally exploitative crap.
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May 27, 2013 19:51
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Strudel Man posted:That's not exactly exploitative crap - it's the only business model that genetically modified seeds can really have. Farmers have to enter a licensing agreement to grow Monsanto crops; if someone is found growing their crop without such an agreement, Monsanto sues them in order to protect their intellectual property. Except this is often applied to cases where natural cross-pollination leads to a neighboring field "growing" monsanto crops without authorization; resulting in big M dropping the hammer on them.
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May 27, 2013 19:55
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Royal W posted:Except this is often applied to cases where natural cross-pollination leads to a neighboring field "growing" monsanto crops without authorization; resulting in big M dropping the hammer on them.
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May 27, 2013 19:59
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I agree, Ian Monsanto sure is an idiot on facebook (this is the poo poo that got the last thread closed).
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May 27, 2013 20:28
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Amused to Death posted:Respond with landowners should have to own at least 5 acres fully paid off to be able to vote. No one cares about a stupid 1/2 acre suburban house you haven't even paid off yet, you in fact don't own jack yet. What motivation does anyone have to be a responsible citizen when their hand holdings are insignificant enough that they can just move around whenever. Technically speaking, you do own it, but it's collateral against the mortgage you borrowed from the bank to buy it. Unless you're purchasing as a contract for deed or landowner contract, which are fairly rare and consistently arrangements between private individuals.
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May 27, 2013 21:13
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:From gently caress the poor! To gently caress everyone but landowners! I don't think there is a better phrase from this thread than "My girl friend had her's daughter identity stolen by 5 different illegal immigrants. Screw it. Send them back!"
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May 27, 2013 21:21
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Ularg posted:I don't think there is a better phrase from this thread than "My girl friend had her's daughter identity stolen by 5 different illegal immigrants. Screw it. Send them back!" I'm honestly surprised someone didn't call that person out (assuming, from the way they worded it, their girlfriend's kid had her identity stolen on five separate occasions).
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May 27, 2013 21:42
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Regalingualius posted:I'm honestly surprised someone didn't call that person out (assuming, from the way they worded it, their girlfriend's kid had her identity stolen on five separate occasions). Actually, from the way they worded it, the daughter had her identity stolen FROM five different immigrants, which I assume means that legally she is now an amalgam of five different unfortunate Mexicans.
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May 27, 2013 21:52
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Fatkraken posted:Actually, from the way they worded it, the daughter had her identity stolen FROM five different immigrants, which I assume means that legally she is now an amalgam of five different unfortunate Mexicans. Sort of like a mexican Voltron?
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May 27, 2013 21:55
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SiKboy posted:Sort of like a mexican Voltron? ˇY yo formo la cabeza!
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May 27, 2013 22:06
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Bertrand Hustle posted:ˇY yo formo la cabeza! 
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May 27, 2013 22:17
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There's a guy on my facebook who periodically forgets it's not twitter: And just in case you thought it might be one of those 'automatically upload your tweet to facebook' things, think again:  Because that one would be way, way longer than a tweet could possibly ever be.
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May 27, 2013 22:42
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I usually hate people complaining about the occasional hashtag, but jesus christ. He's hashing the tag of every noun in the picture.
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May 27, 2013 23:46
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I assume it's what he posted on his instagram. Doesn't make hashtagging every word any less dumb though.
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May 28, 2013 00:10
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A libertarian from high school strikes again.
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May 28, 2013 01:27
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I was recently unfriended by this person. I have a sneaking suspicion it was because she realised I was a Catholic because I didn't do anything particularly offensive recently. Here's some of what I can still see anyway, for general flavour.   Seriously though, God sometimes. What a guy. And some stuff from a while ago about protests in Belfast (from public pages, I'm not blanking out names)  
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May 28, 2013 01:42
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 MUH XBAWX 
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May 28, 2013 01:45
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Minchin Dupree posted:
MUH XBAWX don't need your fancy punk-tchoo-ay-shun 
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May 28, 2013 02:03
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 A local rock/metal/punk/emo club is being racist. I can’t imagine calling them out would go well.
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May 28, 2013 04:20
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Minchin Dupree posted:
Ouch, that made my brain spasm.
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May 28, 2013 07:50
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Welp, this just showed up in my news feed. 
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May 28, 2013 11:07
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Someone just set up the page Belfast Rate Your Shags which is full of lovely, lovely lad banter. But I can't tell if this is excellent satire or not
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May 28, 2013 15:35
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Recent events have brought out all sorts of Facebook. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Woolwich_attack for the general background http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22684489 for the specific news that pissed off this guy  Bonus for excellent grammar from both sides...
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May 28, 2013 17:34
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That last comment he makes, holy loving poo poo.
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May 28, 2013 17:37
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Shannonmcn posted:That last comment he makes, holy loving poo poo. For posterity:
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May 28, 2013 17:41
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I genuinely worry that one day someone will say things like around me in real life and I don't know what my reaction will be. If I only throw up in their face I'll count that as superhuman self-restraint.
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May 28, 2013 17:43
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loving hell. That's one of the most bizarre and racist things I've heard in a while. Is Red your friend? Is this normal for him (or her, whatever)? Well, anyway, here's some content:  Try to parse this complaint. What do you think Red is angry about? If you guessed "people who think Jesus was Jewish," you're right!
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May 28, 2013 17:44
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Edit: Oh wow that's a whole new level of hosed up. If he wasn't jewish what the gently caress was he? RE: Muslim gang rape whilst on drugs: I think - perharp naively - that most of those people wouldn't say that kind of things in real life; they need the buffer of the internet to protect themselves. Because holy poo poo, I would slap them.
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May 28, 2013 17:45
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You know, this happened 3 weeks beforehand http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/02/birmingham-murder-racially-motivated-police oddly enough, I don't think there was any backlash against the entire white dude community of England.
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May 28, 2013 17:45
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The "raped by ahmed while on drugs thing" is a problem at the minute since the tabloids love to publicise child sex trafficking rings which are made up of non-whites (while ignoring those that are all white middle class guys) to stir up racial hatred and as click-bait. This article is a bit of a satricial criticism. Idiocy can be found in the comments section, just so I indirectly provide content!
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May 28, 2013 17:52
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Shannonmcn posted:That last comment he makes, holy loving poo poo. For content, here's yet another visit to the Armageddon-loving page my parents like. This is in response to news about an earthquake in AZ: 
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May 28, 2013 18:00
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Taliaquin posted:Seriously. I forgot I was here and tried to reply for a moment. Obviously, the guy thinks he's the moral one here, but he's just espousing that same prurient fascination with rape that so many people pat themselves on the back for. He's the one having the clearly graphic fantasy about a girl being gangraped here. Jesus these people are eagerly awaiting the apocalypse are they? And what about that secret evacuation of the West coast? 
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May 28, 2013 18:02
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Shannonmcn posted:That last comment he makes, holy loving poo poo. FrozenVent posted:For posterity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_sex_trafficking_gang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_sex_gang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_sex_grooming_case http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344218/Asian-sex-gangs-Culture-silence-allows-grooming-white-girls-fear-racist.html By no means defending his comments, but just pointing out they are not comlpete batshit insanity for someone who thinks like that.
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