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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:"Wow! This Canucks fan just GETS it! And instead of rantings by Bill Cosby, we'd get rantings from Don Cherry instead.
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Handsome Ralph posted:And instead of rantings by Bill Cosby, we'd get rantings from Don Cherry instead. *note that this forces Gretzky to bless himself which is kind of awkward... EDIT: "Gretzky bless Canada!"
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UtinniOnTheRocks posted:I'm surprised this hasn't been repackaged and attributed to some celebrity yet. Reminds me of Ben Bella. Dunno the exact quote, but when asked why they fight in cafes, in ambushes, bombs, etc, he responded "give us the planes, automatic weapons, tanks, etc and we will fight the war how you want". Or cue Colonial English soldier whining about how American rebels don't fight in lined formation.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:I don't see how removing firearms from people who are at a higher risk of harming themselves or others is an arbitrary roadblock. What other hurdles are next - therapy? Medication? Inpatient treatment? Where will it end?????? These are people who legitimately believe that the government is conspiring to take away their guns so that they'll be unable to resist the imposition of some even more dramatic tyranny. It's a relatively small leap from there to assuming that the government conspiracy also has the power to arbitrarily declare someone mentally ill (remember that academia is liberal, so they will follow along with the conspiracy!). So if mental illness removes your right to own guns, then the government will simply have the DSM edited to declare conservatism a mental illness and then it's Game Over. They are already doing this by inventing the fake illness of PTSD to steal guns from our heroic, conservative Veterans!
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I don't think they're calling PTSD as made up, right wingers tend to take mental illness of soldiers very seriously (although they are really bad at understanding what should be done to actually help them). It's just that there have been autocratic governments that label dissenters as mentally ill in order to justify sending them away where they can't cause trouble. This is a real thing, just not a thing that's happening to this group (though they want to believe it).
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quote:WAL-MART VS. THE MORONS (NOT A JOKE) This showed up on my facebook from someone I consider a friend, and it made me so mad I can't even coherently respond to it.
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Iunnrais posted:This showed up on my facebook from someone I consider a friend, and it made me so mad I can't even coherently respond to it. I got this one, and I can help you out with it! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3186581&pagenumber=570&perpage=40#post413047142
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Wal-Mart passes on a rather significant portion of what would have otherwise been employee costs to the taxpayer due to social assistance programs. We're effectively subsidizing Wal-Mart's business.
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Iunnrais posted:This showed up on my facebook from someone I consider a friend, and it made me so mad I can't even coherently respond to it. Shut it down boys, this failed experiment is over!
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Iunnrais posted:This showed up on my facebook from someone I consider a friend, and it made me so mad I can't even coherently respond to it. Wal-Mart is awesome and government services are total poo poo and we're broke but we need government services to help the poor and elderly and the vets and oh god POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and we're giving money to foreign countries isn't Wal-Mart awesome because they speak English? Why won't someone think about the orphans? Jesus Christ this is like a a fist full of chewed up FWD:s that's been thrown up and stirred around.
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I just saw the AMEN GOD BLESS CANADA AND AMERICA letter pop up on my Facebook feed. Everything about it is just so  The guy that shared it also continually posts about his not-so-casual racism and homophobia so I can't particularly say I'm surprised.
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quote:To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature, I like the 'it is now official' part. It's like those guys who tried to impeach Obama with a Super American Grand Jury. Real legit morons.
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Just like the addition of intros, that part of the Walmart email after the AND was clearly added later. Not that it would be a "good" email without that part. And the post office isn't even taxpayer funded. And wouldn't be (that) broke without Congress meddling.
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Me in Reverse posted:Is there a specific fallacy that covers "They did thing X, so I am completely justified in doing (unrelated/irrelevant/significantly worse) thing Y"? 
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myron cope posted:Just like the addition of intros, that part of the Walmart email after the AND was clearly added later. Not that it would be a "good" email without that part. XyloJW counted 8 distinct endings when I posted it.
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Iunnrais posted:This showed up on my facebook from someone I consider a friend, and it made me so mad I can't even coherently respond to it. The most effective response I've seenis to suggest that if they want to vote for someone who is involved in Walmart's stunning successthey can probably vote for Hillary Clinton, former member of their Boad of Directors.
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Iunnrais posted:This showed up on my facebook from someone I consider a friend, and it made me so mad I can't even coherently respond to it. You should congratulate your friend for the "guts" he showed by posting something on facebook. Also one or both of these: Knight posted:The United States of America was established in 1776. You've had 237 years to get it right and it is broke! Soviet Commubot posted:The most effective response I've seenis to suggest that if they want to vote for someone who is involved in Walmart's stunning successthey can probably vote for Hillary Clinton, former member of their Boad of Directors.
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Iunnrais posted:c. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are bringing in record amounts of money. http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/09/news/economy/fannie-mae-freddie-mac/index.html
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Are people really forwarding/Facebook posting that email without even updating the year counts?
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myron cope posted:Just like the addition of intros, that part of the Walmart email after the AND was clearly added later. Not that it would be a "good" email without that part.
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Holy poo poo, so this just got posted by a conservative acquaintance on my Facebook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-s0LL_1Vk0 Points 1) The kings tax the rich, which makes the rich poor and the poor poorer (??) and the king (I assume Obama???????? maybe SOROS?) get richer 2) The constitution establishes a free-market system because the Founders know the best way to life up the downtrodden African American community is strong competition 3) The real problem is that Conservatives have been too meek and quiet about these issues 4) Black people are actually Republicans because republicans want the LOWER TAXES, which will make better families, better schools, and gun ownership 5) Democrats are dumb and liberals are idiots I don't even know.
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Laminator posted:Holy poo poo, so this just got posted by a conservative acquaintance on my Facebook You forgot 6) Elbert Guillory looks sharp as hell. 
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I'm probably not going to watch that video but the idea of a "Free at Last PAC" advocating for conservative economic issues is making Martin Luther King Jr's grave spin so fast we could solve world energy problems with it.
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The Democrats being the party of Jim Crow must explain why he switched from R to D so that he could run in a heavily democratic district for his first state office run! It's increasingly difficult to listen to anyone espousing conservative ideology and not try to identify if they're the salesman or the sucker. boner confessor fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Aug 8, 2013 |
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:The Post Office thing is the weirdest. How did that pension funding disaster even get justified? Government + unions = inevitable failure
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"Is this the plan that God had in mind for us when he delivered us from slavery?" Yep, it was sure God that delivered black people from slavery, and not a giant civil war, the battle lines of which just so happen to mirror American political differences to this day. I also love the clearly white woman's voice doing the voiceover asking you to join the cause at the end. It's like they could find a grand total of one black person to head up their PAC and couldn't even be bothered to find a second one to do the voiceover at the end.
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vyelkin posted:"Is this the plan that God had in mind for us when he delivered us from slavery?" Not so sure you want to be calling other people racist while assuming a person's race based on nothing but the sound of their voice.
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SalTheBard posted:
What if one was to try pointing out Strom Thurmond's switch to the Republican Party instead of generic Dixiecrats?
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SalTheBard posted:Any truth to this or is this more No you are the racist for pointing out racism I can't speak to the legislature, but they're wrong about Presidential elections at least.
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tek79 posted:Wal-Mart is awesome and government services are total poo poo and we're broke but we need government services to help the poor and elderly and the vets and oh god POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and we're giving money to foreign countries isn't Wal-Mart awesome because they speak English? Why won't someone think about the orphans? My favourite part: quote:d. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.  Oh, wait, I forgot:  the poor are those urban people with their chrome-rim Cadillacs and latest RnB ringtones who are livin' large off foodstamps.
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SalTheBard posted:
Democrats didn't lose control of the Alabama state legislature until 2010. Now this is because everything was gerrymandered all to hell, and they were all conservative anyway. Split votes, like ending sales tax on groceries, were not split on party lines but on racial lines.
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SalTheBard posted:
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Nice Davis posted:Just point him to the Atwater clip.
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Another thread has someone who showed it to a libertarian and the response was that he meant something else absurd that isn't racist. It's pretty much the same idea as the "camel through the eye of a needle" where the speaker is very clear in his point but the listener desperately wants it to be the opposite so stuff that is to be taken literally is suddenly a complex metaphor that doesn't even make sense.
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:I've never shown a diehard the Atwater clip but I do wonder what the reaction would be. Is it like watching a whole worldview come crashing down, or do the defense mechanisms somehow explain away Atwater? Always, always the latter.
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Radish posted:Another thread has someone who showed it to a libertarian and the response was that he meant something else absurd that isn't racist. It's pretty much the same idea as the "camel through the eye of a needle" where the speaker is very clear in his point but the listener desperately wants it to be the opposite so stuff that is to be taken literally is suddenly a complex metaphor that doesn't even make sense. Also, apparently Lee Atwater (who was apparently a mean guitarist) released a blues album that included collaborations from BB King. Thanks Wiki for that weird little tidbit that will surely be used as evidence that he's not racist!
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:I've never shown a diehard the Atwater clip but I do wonder what the reaction would be. Is it like watching a whole worldview come crashing down, or do the defense mechanisms somehow explain away Atwater? Well, I think his point is that state legislatures continued to be dominated by racist Democrats and I think the best response is, who loving cares. The point is that the national level Democrats were won over by the anti-racist bloc and national level Republicans took advantage of this by appealing to racist voters. Both parties is the South have traditionally sucked, but that's because a lot of the South is terrible, so who gives a poo poo about his point. Now, whether what he is saying is true or not, I don't know, but it doesn't matter.
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Mitchicon posted:Well, I think his point is that state legislatures continued to be dominated by racist Democrats and I think the best response is, who loving cares. The point is that the national level Democrats were won over by the anti-racist bloc and national level Republicans took advantage of this by appealing to racist voters. Both parties is the South have traditionally sucked, but that's because a lot of the South is terrible, so who gives a poo poo about his point. Now, whether what he is saying is true or not, I don't know, but it doesn't matter. I mean, at the end of the day it's not really that important because the Southern Strategy, as you say, is a national strategy, but I remember being utterly shocked about the Atwater quote in my younger, more naive days, so I'd hope others are as shocked too.
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