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We are dealing with the same sort of people that supported the zombabby, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. (warning, link  ) ..It just takes a special kind of  when I have to read the same people that call for straight-up murder of the unbelievers many times a day, cry that their 'culture of life' is being violated because a brain dead person gets to, well, be dead.
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Tias posted:We are dealing with the same sort of people that supported the zombabby, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. (warning, link Yeah but that's what the doctors say but they're dumb. Remember Tim Tebow? They said he was going to be mentally challenged and look how he turned out! He bootstrapped his way into being the best QB since Joe Flacco or some poo poo.
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cafel posted:'...wimpy Antioch humans...'? Anyone have any idea what this could possibly mean? My best guess is it has something to do with the Patriarch of Antioch or the Crusades, but nothing really comes to mind that makes sense in that context. I can't think of any close spellings that it might be autocorrected from that make any sense. I'm just as confused as you are. I thought they were talking about the grenade from Monty Python and that didn't make any sense at all.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Yeah but that's what the doctors say but they're dumb. Remember Tim Tebow? They said he was going to be mentally challenged and look how he turned out! He bootstrapped his way into being the best QB since Joe Flacco or some poo poo. I'm eurotrash, so I don't know much about Tebow, except he was a good christian young man who somehow got gypped by the commienazimuslim conspiracy.
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Tias posted:I'm eurotrash, so I don't know much about Tebow, except he was a good christian young man who somehow got gypped by the commienazimuslim conspiracy. He's a great example of the persecution complex Freep-types have. They blame the fact that he washed out of the NFL on him being a Christian as opposed to have like zero NFL-caliber ability.
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Openly gay NBA player Jason Collins to be guest of Michelle Obamaquote:To: massmike  quote:To: massmike The United States of Fabulous  quote:To: massmike If only we had shouted that he was black and gay louder and with more frequency  quote:To: massmike quote:To: massmike quote:To: massmike quote:To: massmike
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Saudi Arabia already has the capability to acquire nuclear weapons if they want them, after all they provided funding for Pakistan's own nuclear weapons program with the understanding that weapons would be made available should SA request them. The Cold War is over so it's unlikely either Turkey or Germany are concerned with the threat of Russian attack, and Japan and South Korea already have more than enough military backing from the US's conventional forces. Japan has repeatedly said nearly straight-out that they would build their own bombs if it weren't for us backing them up with ours, and South Korea would likely start a program of their own rather than be the one non-nuclear state caught between China, Japan, and the DPRK. Germany and Turkey might not go for it, but a unilateral abandonment of nuclear arms by the US would only serve to destabilize international politics.
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Tias posted:I'm eurotrash, so I don't know much about Tebow, except he was a good christian young man who somehow got gypped by the commienazimuslim conspiracy. In addition to what DemeaninDemon said about his being a mediocre-bordering-on-average quarterback notable solely for being ostentatiously Christian, supposedly also his mother was advised to consider aborting him during her pregnancy due to some pretty serious health risks should she carry to term, but chose not to and was fortunate enough that the problems never manifested. Much is made of this by anti-choice types here, Tebow himself included, to belittle  concerns.
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kik2dagroin posted:
If you consider systemic alcoholism and an oligarchy run like a crime syndicate to be civilization, sure.
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Nessus posted:In that period, actually paving the roads was probably a meaningful improvement in infrastructure. It still is in some parts of Alabama. Seriosuly, our roads are pretty poo poo.
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Jan 27, 2014 20:42
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Darkman Fanpage posted:If you consider systemic alcoholism and an oligarchy run like a crime syndicate to be civilization, sure. I don't think you don't understand, gently caress the homos and not in that way (but secretly totally in that way). edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jan 28, 2014 |
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Vagabundo posted:I don't think you don't understand, gently caress the homos and not in that way (but secretly totally in that way). Freep: All They Can Think About Is Anal Sex Freep: All Gay All The Time Freep: BLACK and GAY They have a hell of a bulb the those projectors they're using.
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The Gays are notoriously bad about washing their hands I guess?
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LunarShadow posted:It still is in some parts of Alabama. Seriosuly, our roads are pretty poo poo. Hell, my dad still lives on a dirt road in Georgia and my mom campaigned for county commissioner in 1996 with a platform that really emphasized how many roads she was going to get paved. There are a lot of poor counties who can't afford to pave their roads all over the South. When it rains too much, they have to cancel school because the school buses can't go down the dirt roads.
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Skinny King Pimp posted:Hell, my dad still lives on a dirt road in Georgia and my mom campaigned for county commissioner in 1996 with a platform that really emphasized how many roads she was going to get paved. There are a lot of poor counties who can't afford to pave their roads all over the South. When it rains too much, they have to cancel school because the school buses can't go down the dirt roads. Thats surprising for a non-US goon. How far are they from the nearest small town?
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bpower posted:Thats surprising for a non-US goon. How far are they from the nearest small town? About 10-15 minutes to the grocery store in the closest town. It's about 30 minutes or so to get to the closest (very) small city, and an hour and a half to Atlanta. It's not really in the middle of nowhere, to be honest. \/\/\/ Actually, they maintain most of them. The road I grew up on has a crown and ditches and is resurfaced regularly. Some of them are just really bad, though they might not have rain days anymore. It was 10-15 years ago that I was in school down there. Skinny King Pimp fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jan 28, 2014 |
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bpower posted:Thats surprising for a non-US goon. How far are they from the nearest small town? It's hardly unique to the deep South, though perhaps the town he's referring to ignores/neglects maintenance of its dirt roads. My parents, who live five-ten minutes or so outside of town in Vermont, are still on dirt and come mud season each year it can get pretty drat messy, depending on how much snow there is and how fast it melts. We were hardly alone among, nor is it all uncommon these days, once you get outside of town proper and off the main roads. Never known the schools to shut down over mud, though.
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Just a heads-up re:Marlise Munoz, just because her fetus isn't currently viable, doesn't mean it wouldn't have been eventually. People are treating it like the fetus was already dead, but (in spite of almost certain major developmental disablilites) it could have potentially survived outside the womb if given more time. What I'm saying is that the freepers literally want to use this dead woman as a human incubator. This is a point I didn't fully grasp at first. But Rocks Hurt Head fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Jan 28, 2014 |
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Jan 28, 2014 00:23
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gently caress, you really should have a road there.
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bpower posted:Thats surprising for a non-US goon. How far are they from the nearest small town? I live in a kinda dual city area where they are mashed together with a population of around 300k. There are still people living on dirt roads but it's the Desert so it basically never rains. You can get basically anywhere you want without using the dirt roads though minus actually getting to some houses. It was really odd coming from the East Coast where the most 'dirt road' kind of thing might be someone's driveway or driving to a state park/forest. They also beat the poo poo out of my car.
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bpower posted:Thats surprising for a non-US goon. How far are they from the nearest small town? I grew up in Portland, OR. One of the cross streets near my house was a horribly pitted gravel road, it's still like that in fact. Now that I think about it, a huge number of roads in my old neighborhood are like that. I honestly thought it was just really common in residential areas growing up. I grew up in a kinda bad neighborhood I guess.
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But Rocks Hurt Head posted:Just a heads-up re:Marlise Munoz, just because her fetus isn't currently viable, doesn't mean it wouldn't have been eventually. People are treating it like the fetus was already dead, but (in spite of almost certain major developmental disablilites) it could have potentially survived outside the womb if given more time. The fetus had no oxygen for up to an hour. It would be exactly as brain dead as the incubator even if they kept her "alive" for 30 more weeks.
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It may shock you, readers of the freep thread, to learn that the United States is in some ways unusually rural, even provincial!
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Mr.Unique-Name posted:I grew up in Portland, OR. One of the cross streets near my house was a horribly pitted gravel road, it's still like that in fact. SE PDX still has plenty of unfinished roads that get talked about every so often but never really fixed. It's not even in bad neighborhoods, it's just common anywhere south of Powell/east of Sellwood.
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But Rocks Hurt Head posted:What I'm saying is that the freepers literally want to use this dead woman as a human incubator. This is a point I didn't fully grasp at first. If there's one thing you can say about Freepers, they'll always find a point lower than rock bottom. Always more and always worse, indeed.
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Pong Daddy posted:The Gays are notoriously bad about washing their hands I guess? Guess; Freeper is spotted leaving restroom at work without washing up and gets reported. He has to stay for "training" where the boss goes over the necessity/procedure/whatever for washing after using the toilet. Freeper now has a huge chip on his shoulder about it. "I have to wash my hands just for going pee BUT GAYS DO BUTT STUFF. BUTT. STUFF. Do They have to wash before going to White House?? Wher is the soap an water obama were??"
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quote:To: Dilbert San Diego That is the perfect distillation of all Conservative fears about gays, foreigners, other religions, women's rights, etc, etc. If they're not actively boot-stomping the necks of anyone who dares be different from them...then the Others will stomp them instead. They literally cannot conceive of a person who just wants to live his life without forcing everyone else to conform too.
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Honestly I suspect the freepers are just excited. Brain dead women being used as incubators is probably their vision of utopia.
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Mind Loving Owl posted:Honestly I suspect the freepers are just excited. Brain dead women being used as incubators is probably their vision of utopia. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I can sorta kinda see where they are coming from (and then watch as they pass me by and disappear into the distance), because it is a difficult ethical issue. If the baby was viable (which it isn't), then I for one would argue that at least the attempt should be made to continue life support in order to give it a chance. Obviously the family should be consulted, but if a pregnant woman suffers brain death, and if it is medically feasible, then the default should be to keep her on life support. I mean, she is already dead, so she probably doesn't care either way. And if she hadn't planned on getting an abortion, then it would be logical to presume that she would have wanted the child to be born alive in the first place. Obviously, this doesn't apply to this case, since the fetus isn't viable and probably won't ever be since it suffered from prolonged oxygen deprivation. The family wants her off life support, and frankly it is disgusting that freepers imply that the widower just wants her and the child gone because he loves the idea of losing both of them. I just find "using a dead woman as an incubator" to be a rather harsh and inaccurate description of the problem. Not that freepers ever paid it as much mind, it was just a reflex from the Terry Shivago case, now with an extra abortion on top.
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Religious fundamentalists bent on conquering the universe via twisted morality using women as nothing more than biological grow-tanks? Well, I never. I think I like the Bene Tleilax analogy even more than the Dalek one. This bit of atrocity just puts it over the top.
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ArchangeI posted:I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I can sorta kinda see where they are coming from (and then watch as they pass me by and disappear into the distance), because it is a difficult ethical issue. If the baby was viable (which it isn't), then I for one would argue that at least the attempt should be made to continue life support in order to give it a chance. Obviously the family should be consulted, but if a pregnant woman suffers brain death, and if it is medically feasible, then the default should be to keep her on life support. I mean, she is already dead, so she probably doesn't care either way. And if she hadn't planned on getting an abortion, then it would be logical to presume that she would have wanted the child to be born alive in the first place. When this story first came out, multiple family members came forward saying that life support was not an option she wanted, period. The only question left unanswered was if that was changed by being pregnant. Since the baby wasn't viable, that evaporated. Just goes to show that sometimes when you're discussing these things with loved ones, you need to dig a little deeper to see what, if anything, could change their mind, so you can fully understand their wishes. If that question had been asked, this whole situation and all of the surrounding controversy could've been avoided.
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Doc Hawkins posted:It may shock you, readers of the freep thread, to learn that the United States is in some ways unusually rural, even provincial! Well, my dad is a folk musician and showed me a lot of photos and movies growing up, I'd say one gets a pretty varied view of the states. I always knew the appalachians were hosed, but watching Winter's Bone made me get into reading about it a bit, and holy poo poo it's depressing stuff 
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I grew up in the western foothills of the Appalachians. It was pretty much poverty all the way around. More than 95% of the kids I grew up with got free school lunches from the USDA. This is why it pisses me off so much when certain Congressmen complain about "welfare cheats" when it's 90% likely that either someone in their immediate family or an immediate neighbor got government help from some program or another. And now the "in thing to do" is to strip their food stamps. gently caress that. There's currently a boom in fracking jobs in the region, but what happens in ten years when there's nothing left to extract out of the earth and they've poisoned the aquifers and wells? Are those corporations still going to still pay for kids to go to college? The place I grew up in is going to be a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It wasn't a great place to be before Marcellus Shale moved in, but now it's just going to be even more of a blight on the land. I knew lots of people who got their water from wells "off the grid". What are they gonna do when fracking fucks up their water supply?
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skaboomizzy posted:I grew up in the western foothills of the Appalachians. It was pretty much poverty all the way around. More than 95% of the kids I grew up with got free school lunches from the USDA. This is why it pisses me off so much when certain Congressmen complain about "welfare cheats" when it's 90% likely that either someone in their immediate family or an immediate neighbor got government help from some program or another. What's going to happen? This. http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401170030 They don't give a rat's rear end.
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Badera posted:What's going to happen? This. This.  This is a thing of beauty! libertarianism.txt
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So, anything from Freep about Palin sticking up for McCain? Oh, please say they're going to RINO Saint Sarah.
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Ukraine PM resigns: Governmentquote:To: Berlin_Freeper quote:To: Rapscallion  quote:To: Berlin_Freeper  quote:To: Jimmy Valentine Obama to lay out go-it-alone approach in big speech (Announcement of his coup-d'etat) Reuters posted:President Barack Obama will lay out a strategy for getting around a divided Congress and boosting middle-class prosperity on Tuesday in a State of the Union speech that reflects some scaled-back legislative ambitions after a difficult year. quote:His announcement of this is grounds for impeachment, and then his civil trial for high treason. quote:To: markomalley quote:To: markomalley  quote:To: Ann Archy quote:To: markomalley quote:To: markomalley quote:To: sergeantdave quote:To: markomalley
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The Rokstar posted:Thread is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3116460/posts Very few, actually. It's a whole lot of 'oh Sarah I'm so sorry to criticize you but MAYBE McLame sucks?' posting. It took all of one reply to call McCain a Nazi: quote:Moderator, please fix title. quote:I have to agree. quote:"and then more eyes will be open to see how dangerous an Obama-led retreating America is in this volatile world" A rare actual criticism of St. Palin: quote:“Sarah just ratcheted herself down a few notches”  quote:Possibly McCain has continued to help Sarah in some unknown form or fashion, given the way his family and his campaign used her and abused her. He may now regret putting her through the meat grinder. Most of them have decided that  THEIR SARAH has deigned to be friends with McCain despite the fact that he's an obvious RINO because she's just such a GOOD PERSON.quote:My thoughts? quote:You’re precisely right, sweet palin45potus. Of course you do: quote:I think this is Sarah’s first indication of her intent to run for President in 2016.
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