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Freepers: It’s all about dope and homosex. I think I am in love with that quote. 
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quote:This is more about creating the new minority class to fight against the evils of White Males and capitalism. In socialism the Gays and the media types will be killed off first because they will be a threat to the Socialist power house. I love this, because if true, the obvious solution would be to treat gays like people and give them equal rights to defuse their revolutionary anger, but nope! Can't do that!
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Mar 12, 2014 05:37
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quote:Behold the coming nightmare. Holy poo poo one of them gets it 
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Mar 12, 2014 05:38
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MattD1zzl3 posted:I think the air force academy is across the street from some kind of major republican superPAC-style political group in el paso, colorado, "Heritage Action" or "American Heritage" or something, and the bleeding influence is clear in the culture there, and even the training process. I wonder if there is any actual data to back up the Air Force = Conservative Fundie thing. It matches up perfectly with 90% of the Air Force people I know. I know a former ordnance guy through the national guard whose been in trouble a few times for facebooking poo poo about deposing the president for being Muslim.
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Mar 12, 2014 05:47
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Dirt5o8 posted:I wonder if there is any actual data to back up the Air Force = Conservative Fundie thing. It matches up perfectly with 90% of the Air Force people I know. I know a former ordnance guy through the national guard whose been in trouble a few times for facebooking poo poo about deposing the president for being Muslim. Anecdotes are not data, but Michael Weinstein wrote a book about the experiences he and his son had the Air Force Academy called "With God On Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military". I read a few excerpts some years ago, including one (I think) about some of the stained glass at the chapel featuring the Hand of God clutching some atomic weapon imagery. My cousin is retired from the Air Force and I know someone currently enlisted. They're both smart, thoughtful, funny guys to talk to about anything other than politics or religion, then they go from zero to Tea Party in the blink of an eye.
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Mar 12, 2014 05:56
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Schizotek posted:You're not alone. Gary Larson did this cartoon also.
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Mar 12, 2014 05:57
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Captain_Maclaine posted:I have been hearing for years that the Air Force's service academy is massively infested with fundamentalists, as is the city in which it's located, so that wouldn't surprise me one bit. I can second this. Its an open question as to whether Colorado Springs is a cluster of mega-churches surrounded by military installations or a cluster of military installations surrounded by mega-churches. Home of focus on the family and a bazillions copy cats their temples are amply endowed with money changers ( and bowling alleys, and movie theaters, and restaurants, and hair salons, and whatever else you need to never interact with someone not in the church ).
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Mar 12, 2014 07:55
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Don't forget thatquote:The US Air Force Academy hired a man to run their character coaching program for young cadets who, for the past two decades, has devoted his entire professional career to the cause of “curing homosexuality,” and who claims that he himself has been “cured” of the “addiction.” quote:Rosebush is a former vice president of one of the lead religious right, and anti-gay activist, organizations, Focus on the Family, which is also headquartered in Colorado Springs.
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Mar 12, 2014 08:11
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:For a minute I was really confused by this. I know they just call Obama any vaguely insulting thing they can think of, but calling Obama "man-child" while Zach Galifianakis is also in the room is just too loving I always thought it was non-controversial that the US Air Force leadership were far-right fundamentalist christians, I've heard a lot about here in Europe anyway. Can't find the juicy articles I used to read, though, so maybe it's bunk.
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Mar 12, 2014 08:48
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for me.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3127003/postsoriginalbuckeye posted:Are there any bigger bullies than Leftists?? If they don't get their way on EVERYTHING, they mobilize the ignorant and cause trouble. Then they get their sycophant Media to use Alinsky tactics on the ‘evil ones’. I am sick to death of these manipulators and bullies! 
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Mar 12, 2014 10:30
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Did Alinsky become a Republican meme just in 2007, or was this a thing before the current  pResident too?
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Mar 12, 2014 11:07
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quote:With youth, it’s all about dope and homosex. I'm a youth, and I don't have any dope or homosex. Have I wasted my life thus far? 
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Mar 12, 2014 11:36
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A potpourri of Freep out of context. quote:To: SeekAndFind quote:To: 7thson quote:To: 7thson quote:To: Kaslin quote:To: circlecity quote:To: Nachum quote:To: colorado tanker
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Mar 12, 2014 11:55
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I wish Obama would stop talking about the abortions his daughters keep having.
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Mar 12, 2014 13:05
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Haven't all the presidents used humour every now and again, especially when they wanted to make a point about their policies?
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Mar 12, 2014 13:58
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OldMemes posted:Haven't all the presidents used humour every now and again, especially when they wanted to make a point about their policies? Remember when W went looking for WMDs in the White House. That was hilarious.
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Mar 12, 2014 14:00
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OldMemes posted:Haven't all the presidents used humour every now and again, especially when they wanted to make a point about their policies? It's not ok if you're a Democrat, especially a black Democrat.
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Mar 12, 2014 14:41
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Alter Ego posted:It's not ok if you're a Democrat, especially a black Democrat. And even for white Republican presidents it's only okay if the humour kicks down, some darker skinned or sexually different group of people must be slurred.
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Mar 12, 2014 14:48
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Tias posted:I always thought it was non-controversial that the US Air Force leadership were far-right fundamentalist christians, I've heard a lot about here in Europe anyway. Can't find the juicy articles I used to read, though, so maybe it's bunk.
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Mar 12, 2014 15:12
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skaboomizzy posted:Anecdotes are not data, but Michael Weinstein wrote a book about the experiences he and his son had the Air Force Academy called "With God On Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military". I read a few excerpts some years ago, including one (I think) about some of the stained glass at the chapel featuring the Hand of God clutching some atomic weapon imagery. I guess there's a reason why my fairly liberal cousin decided to go become a Navy pilot instead.
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Mar 12, 2014 15:35
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Mind Loving Owl posted:And even for white Republican presidents it's only okay if the humour kicks down, some darker skinned or sexually different group of people must be slurred. Or, as others have pointed out, if you make light of the fact that you got hundreds of thousands of people killed for a reason you made up.
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Mar 12, 2014 16:23
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skaboomizzy posted:Anecdotes are not data, but Michael Weinstein wrote a book about the experiences he and his son had the Air Force Academy called "With God On Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military". I read a few excerpts some years ago, including one (I think) about some of the stained glass at the chapel featuring the Hand of God clutching some atomic weapon imagery. Tias posted:I always thought it was non-controversial that the US Air Force leadership were far-right fundamentalist christians, I've heard a lot about here in Europe anyway. Can't find the juicy articles I used to read, though, so maybe it's bunk. Acquilae fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Mar 12, 2014 17:23
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TetsuoTW posted:Did Alinsky become a Republican meme just in 2007, or was this a thing before the current Glenn Beck discovered "Rules for Radicals" when he started his Fox-era P. T. Barnum act and now it's seen as the liberal Bible by right-wingers who've never read it. Funny thing about "Rules for Radicals" is that its lessons can pretty easily be applied by any outsider political group of any political persuasion. It's basically a book about how to play hardball with the establishment.
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Mar 12, 2014 17:26
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Badera posted:Or, as others have pointed out, if you make light of the fact that you got hundreds of thousands of people killed for a reason you made up. Another important lesson, horrors committed in the name of realpolitik are okay if you can make lame jokes about it years later. Kissinger knows this well.
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Mar 12, 2014 17:59
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Zeroisanumber posted:Funny thing about "Rules for Radicals" is that its lessons can pretty easily be applied by any outsider political group of any political persuasion. It's basically a book about how to play hardball with the establishment. The only true manual for playing hardball with the establishment was the product of Johann "Dyna" Most. quote:The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion. 
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Mar 12, 2014 18:07
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Acquilae posted:Yeah it was a question my aunt asked my brother at dinner once if he had any religious peer pressure and he was like "everyone's cool about it because most of the cadets have never met a Sikh but at least it's not the Chair Force, they're crazy religious and I'd probably be kicked out for not being Christian!"
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Mar 12, 2014 18:24
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When I was seriously considering running off to join the Legion, I heard something similar about it. Because of its nature, the enlisted ranks are as diverse as you can get, but if you planned on trying to become an officer, you pretty much had to be Catholic, or at least willing to become Catholic, which seemed a bit odd as I'd always understood France to be rather more secular than that. But institutional cultures tend to try and preserve themselves, I guess.
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Mar 12, 2014 18:39
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Finnankainen posted:
TVTropes account haver spotted.
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Mar 12, 2014 18:54
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ReidRansom posted:When I was seriously considering running off to join the Legion, I heard something similar about it. Because of its nature, the enlisted ranks are as diverse as you can get, but if you planned on trying to become an officer, you pretty much had to be Catholic, or at least willing to become Catholic, which seemed a bit odd as I'd always understood France to be rather more secular than that. But institutional cultures tend to try and preserve themselves, I guess. The major split between France's secular population and Catholic die-hards dates back to the Revolution and never has entirely gone away.
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Mar 12, 2014 20:12
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quote:To: rdl6989
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That's a pretty amazing bit of paranoia. He wants it to be Muslims so badly. You can almost feel him aching for it.
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Mar 12, 2014 20:49
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Speaking of the Air Force Academy: Air Force Cadets Angry Over What Happened W/ Bible Verses Staged a ‘Revolt' (Mikey Weinstein) quote:The leader of a church-state separatist group says that there’s a “revolt” underway at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., after officials there removed a Bible verse from a white board outside a cadet’s bedroom door following complaints that its presence was offensive. quote:To: TexasCajun quote:To: TexasCajun quote:To: TexasCajun quote:To: TexasCajun quote:To: TexasCajun quote:To: TexasCajun
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Mar 12, 2014 22:09
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The benevolent and merciful Christian deity ladies and gentlemen!
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Mar 12, 2014 22:15
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quote:To: TexasCajun This guy was definitely masturbating while he wrote this, right?
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Mar 12, 2014 22:21
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Ainsley McTree posted:This guy was definitely masturbating while he wrote this, right? Almost certainly. Although Dante wrote that one of the pleasures that blessed souls could partake in in Heaven would be to watch souls being tortured in Hell, so that kind of gross wankery has been around for a long, long time.
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Mar 12, 2014 22:31
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Swan Oat posted:
OH god, crossbreeding!
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Mar 13, 2014 00:07
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Zeroisanumber posted:Almost certainly. Although Dante wrote that one of the pleasures that blessed souls could partake in in Heaven would be to watch souls being tortured in Hell, so that kind of gross wankery has been around for a long, long time. Yeah but Dante mostly used hell as a punishment to those political and personal opponents he believed had slighted hi-OH MY GOD.
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Yeah but Dante mostly used hell as a punishment to those political and personal opponents he believed had slighted hi-OH MY GOD. And if I remember right, in Inferno he put Muhammad in the lowest circle of hell, reserved for the most vile! I don't like where this train of thought is leading. I don't like it one bit.
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Mar 13, 2014 01:09
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At least Dante put unbaptized children in the part of Hell without suffering. I wouldn't put it past most freepers to suggest they go to one of the worse circles. Captain_Maclaine posted:And if I remember right, in Inferno he put Muhammad in the lowest circle of hell, reserved for the most vile! Wasn't Ninth Circle for traitors and people who broke hospitality? Like Judas (fulfil your role in some prophecy and look where it gets ya) or Marc Antony? Muhammad went to the Eighth Circle for Apostasy. Apparently Dante viewed Islam as a offshot of Christianity.
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Mind Loving Owl posted:Wasn't Ninth Circle for traitors and people who broke hospitality? Like Judas (fulfil your role in some prophecy and look where it gets ya) or Marc Antony? Muhammad went to the Eighth Circle for Apostasy. Apparently Dante viewed Islam as a offshot of Christianity. Brutus and Cassius were in the 9th Circle for their betrayal of Julius Caesar (alongside Judas for his betrayal of Christ of course). Coming up with a new religion is one thing, but not obeying your dictator (whom God divinely selected) and supporting a republic instead, now that's some real bad poo poo.
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