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hamster_style posted:That is... something else. I somehow forgot Dean Cain was hyper-religious/conservative. The worst part of this dumb meme is that people seem to have completely missed the original, self-deprecating nature. It used to be like WHAT MY MOM THINKS: *picture of Neo hacking the matrix* WHAT I REALLY DO: *picture of guy plugging in power cord that was knocked loose* Somehow that turned into "no one understands how great I am/how hard I work."
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Soviet Commubot posted:I still enjoy this one Yeah that was the winner hands down; I plotzed.
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Soviet Commubot posted:I still enjoy this one This one and the one with the Muslim bear are my favorites. quote:A Christian was walking through the woods one day in Alaska admiring all that Jesus had created.
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hamster_style posted:After hearing about it in this thread many times throughout the years it finally showed up on my feed. Though I don't remember the original incarnation having a picture of a swole Marine accompanying it. "The liberal jew ACLU professor called in Obama's personal oppression force (the police) and proceeded to defecate all over the Constitutional right to free speech the Marine had chosen to exercise by punching him. A brainwashed jury of 12 sheeple found the Marine guilty of assault and fined him $1000 that the government immediately spent on an illegal alien's abortion and foreign aid to an island of brown people."
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Popular Thug Drink posted:e: Especially if dude's never even seen active service. It's kind of important when it comes to specifically military history. Else you end up coming off as a chickenhawk douche. Hell, Keegan's PhD was honorary and he had terrible health which kept him out of the war but he's still the best known military historian, even though he kind of sucks. It's one of the lesser fields of history. I attended a lecture given by this guy in 2004 at UT Austin and subsequent dinner. He's an engaging and knowledgable teacher of history - the subject of the lecture was the Pelopponesian War - but his application of the lessons of Athenian naval victories to, say, the American electoral college are offputting. Eugene V. Dubstep fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Mar 21, 2014 |
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Tigntink posted:I'm really sad that video has no sound. The saddest part of whooping cough is hearing their tiny little lungs struggle to suck in another gulp of air before their body is wracked with another round of coughs. Plus their tiny little ribs breaking from it as well.  Soviet Commubot posted:I still enjoy this one Definitely my favorite. Something about Dawkins shouting about atavisms before transforming into a demon is magical.
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Tigntink posted:I'm really sad that video has no sound. The saddest part of whooping cough is hearing their tiny little lungs struggle to suck in another gulp of air before their body is wracked with another round of coughs. Plus their tiny little ribs breaking from it as well. Did not know that last part.  Never thought I'd say this, but I'm really glad I caught whooping cough as a fourteen year old. My parents did have me vaccinated. I'm just lucky. (In fact, one of those pertussis awareness commercials was how I realized what I'd had. Very distinctive cough, but none of the doctors I saw thought of it.)
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Nyarai posted:Did not know that last part. Your doctors didn't catch that? drat that's like malpractice levels of incompetence. If I had a school-age child presenting with any sort of lingering, severe cough, I would definitely suspect pertussis, even if the child were vaccinated.
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It's that time again! Ma-ma-ma-ma-MEGA LIBERAL LOGIC LOGIC LOGIC Bush Vacation == good, Obama vacation == bad.  Liberals are the real racist!  No really, they are the REAL racists!  The president isn't black guys!  By the way, these guys are thugs!  And these guys are racist because they are unemployed and are lookin like fools with their pants on the ground.  The president is from Kenya!  Black people are poor because of anti-poverty programs!  Guns.  Abortion:  Abortion and guns.  Abortion again:  Murdering somebody:  Health care:  Birth control is bad! (I honestly though this was going to be about gay weddings at first.)  Evolution is a lie!  Obama literally is causing the California drought guys.  Racsism yet again!  STOP TWISTING MY lovely WORDS GUYS!  Liberals are dumb! STOP CALLING ME NAMES!  I wanted to post this one last, because it goes beyond the hypocrisy normally found in LL101. YOU ARE NOT FREE!  This was posted a few weeks ago: 
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RC and Moon Pie posted:
Start calling the highway the Socialist Obamaway. Then accuse him of mooching on the roads your tax dollars pay for.
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Rosalind posted:Your doctors didn't catch that? drat that's like malpractice levels of incompetence. If I had a school-age child presenting with any sort of lingering, severe cough, I would definitely suspect pertussis, even if the child were vaccinated. Nope. They just kept trying to treat my lungs spazzin' out with inhalers and stuff. Towards the end of the... months, I think it was, they were down to stuff like cystic fibrosis as a possibility. Nothing lifts the spirits like, "Hey teen, you may have a fatal disease!" Wasn't that, but I dreaded that I would never get better... then I just did. Chalked it up to some mystery disease until I heard that commercial. Guess doctors in my area are pretty bad, or they were in 2002. It's on the rise now, so I really hope they've gotten better about identifying it since.
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What the hell kind of filter jujitsu do you have to perform to make Kathleen Sibelius look that unattractive? Also, only blacks sag their pants. This is a fact.
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Wow, the Tea Party supported at least a dozen African-American candidates! Meanwhile, the number of African-Americans in congress is 44, of which I believe a single one is Republican.
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Mar 21, 2014 20:29
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ratbert90 posted:Black people are poor because of anti-poverty programs! Nothing else has happened in 40 years. There are no other factors. It's all that fucker LBJ's fault.
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Mar 21, 2014 20:33
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ratbert90 posted:Birth control is bad! (I honestly though this was going to be about gay weddings at first.) They aren't; the insurance company is. A company paying for an employee insurance policy isn't a gift or charity, it's part of their goddamn compensation for doing work just like money is. We're not going back to paying people in company scrip you assholes, shut up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0
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You wouldn't force a vegetarian to buy you a hamburger. So why force a Jehovah's Witness to pay for your blood transfusion? If you need that blood you can make it yourself, you lazy moocher. You wouldn't force an atheist to buy you a bible. So why force your Muslim boss to buy you alcohol by spending your paycheck on it?
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Mo_Steel posted:They aren't; the insurance company is. A company paying for an employee insurance policy isn't a gift or charity, it's part of their goddamn compensation for doing work just like money is. We're not going back to paying people in company scrip you assholes, shut up. But paying women in scrip redeemable at the company store only for bibles, baby food and maternity wear is the only way to keep company money from supporting sin! Why do you hate religious freedom?
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ratbert90 posted:This was posted a few weeks ago: How are these analogous?
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That's a mega-citation needed there, buddy. I just tried verifying it myself and even traveling through the usual suspects of anti-welfare wingnut sites, I could find no corroboration of any such statistic, even someone just repeating it without verification. I'm perusing my way through the Moynihan Report about black families (released 1965) and it only concerns babies born out of wedlock and not single-parent households (not the same thing). But considering that the whole report is predicated on a crisis of increasing broken-home rates in the black community, I think we can officially declare this "7 percent" bullshit to be bullshit.
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ratbert90 posted:It's that time again! Yes, I remember all those liberals claiming that no one died at Benghazi.
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This is driving me nuts, I want a real answer. The Government making you participate in a gay wedding is like Condoleeza Rice speaking at your college, maybe? And Liberals don't have to go to it, so they shouldn't be mad? How do I rebut this?
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Time to read Zinn posted:This is driving me nuts, I want a real answer. The Government making you participate in a gay wedding is like Condoleeza Rice speaking at your college, maybe? And Liberals don't have to go to it, so they shouldn't be mad? "You're a loving idiot." That's the only response. To both points.
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Time to read Zinn posted:This is driving me nuts, I want a real answer. The Government making you participate in a gay wedding is like Condoleeza Rice speaking at your college, maybe? And Liberals don't have to go to it, so they shouldn't be mad? The analogy, as best I understand, is that both the anti-gay baker and the Rutgers college students are protesting against things they find offensive, but in the former case the offended party is being forced to disregard their moral objections, but in the latter the offended party are themselves forcing their moral objection to be accommodated.
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VitalSigns posted:Start calling the highway the Socialist Obamaway. Then accuse him of mooching on the roads your tax dollars pay for. Those poors keep driving their welfare caddys on those Obamaroads.
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Time to read Zinn posted:This is driving me nuts, I want a real answer. The Government making you participate in a gay wedding is like Condoleeza Rice speaking at your college, maybe? And Liberals don't have to go to it, so they shouldn't be mad? Think I remember someone saying that the 'event' they are free not to attend is their graduation.
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Fakebacon posted:Think I remember someone saying that the 'event' they are free not to attend is their graduation. Yup. She's gonna be the 2014 commencement speaker. I mean, it's not like Joe Cakemaker has to attend the wedding. He just has to provide the same public service that he provides to his other customers.
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Time to read Zinn posted:This is driving me nuts, I want a real answer. The Government making you participate in a gay wedding is like Condoleeza Rice speaking at your college, maybe? And Liberals don't have to go to it, so they shouldn't be mad? It turns out that different standards of behavior exist for producers vs consumers of services. Who knew?
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Buzkashi posted:"The liberal jew ACLU professor called in Obama's personal oppression force (the police) and proceeded to defecate all over the Constitutional right to free speech the Marine had chosen to exercise by punching him. A brainwashed jury of 12 sheeple found the Marine guilty of assault and fined him $1000 that the government immediately spent on an illegal alien's abortion and foreign aid to an island of brown people." I saw this one today, I think. My response was simply "I am absolutely, 100% sure this really happened. No doubt."
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borkencode posted:Those poors keep driving their welfare caddys on those Obamaroads. "Welfare caddys" is now my new favorite term for a car.  Jurgan posted:I saw this one today, I think. My response was simply "I am absolutely, 100% sure this really happened. No doubt." "It doesn't matter if it really happened, the point is about freedoms." It's like one of those stories you would tell when you were ten years old. 'Oh man if I ever saw a bank robbery I'd totally kick their asses and save the day.'
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Time to read Zinn posted:This is driving me nuts, I want a real answer. The Government making you participate in a gay wedding is like Condoleeza Rice speaking at your college, maybe? And Liberals don't have to go to it, so they shouldn't be mad? The Government will force you to gay marry Condoleeza Rice.
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Saw this on reddit (yeah yeah) Apparently people are posting these around Philly. According to the OP it isn't even managers or store owners, just random people going up and posting them on WaWas and other markets. I want to say that someone should make a concerted effort to explain to the public just how "welfare" works and what is entailed in it, but I know no one would listen.
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Crain posted:Saw this on reddit (yeah yeah) If I were the owner of a supermarket who caught someone putting those up you better believe I would look into filing suit for damages on potential lost sales and a criminal complaint.
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ratbert90 posted:Liberals are dumb! STOP CALLING ME NAMES! This was posted days beforehand.  I can't figure out whether its more stupid to say Hitler supported gun control or Obama censored the Media. 
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So tonight a friend posted a picture of a social security card next to something that just said welfare state. The caption went something along the lines of We keep hearing about how Social Security is running out of money. Under the part that said Welfare State it said, "How come we never hear about welfare running out money? What's interesting is the first group worked for their money, but the second group didn't." He followed this up with a "Good point." I said, no this is not a good point. When he asked why, I went the simple route of just saying that Social Security is welfare, he countered with a "I can't collect social security until I retire. Am I wrong?" I responded with this " No, until you hit a certain age, it's welfare for the elderly. There is also the inconvenient fact the people forget when complaining about welfare is ever since Clinton's "reforms" to welfare you cannot be unemployed and collect a "welfare" check. Also social security doesn't work like that, you didn't work for the money in a social security check, it's not tied to any specific account, nor are you limited by how much money you've paid through taxes when you collect it." He hasn't said anything yet, but having some better argument ammunition would be nice.
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Fulchrum posted:I can't figure out whether its more stupid to say Hitler supported gun control or Obama censored the Media. Doesn't every president talk about uniting the country?
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Crain posted:Doesn't every president talk about uniting the country? Romney didn't.
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Mo_Steel posted:If I were the owner of a supermarket who caught someone putting those up you better believe I would look into filing suit for damages on potential lost sales and a criminal complaint. Yeah, because if I saw a sign like that posted at a store I frequent I would find a manager and tell them that they lost my business because of it.
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at the date posted:I attended a lecture given by this guy in 2004 at UT Austin and subsequent dinner. He's an engaging and knowledgable teacher of history - the subject of the lecture was the Pelopponesian War - but his application of the lessons of Athenian naval victories to, say, the American electoral college are offputting. Let me guess: either Victor Davis Hanson or Donald Kagan? Both are staunch hawkish neocons who have views on war that mirror that of Republican Roman authors.
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KomradeX posted:So tonight a friend posted a picture of a social security card next to something that just said welfare state. The caption went something along the lines of We keep hearing about how Social Security is running out of money. Under the part that said Welfare State it said, "How come we never hear about welfare running out money? What's interesting is the first group worked for their money, but the second group didn't." You can also bring up the fact that part of the problem of "social security running out" is that the payroll tax that feeds into it was cut by Bush, the extended by Obama. Even after that the fund will just stop running at a surplus (based on incurred interest from borrowing against the fund). That's not the biggest reason (more people living longer is the major factor as far as I know), but it doesn't help. On top of that though, the program will just run at a deficit when "the money runs out" as in the payroll tax won't fulfill the funds obligation. Now (I think) the government has no obligation to keep paying for the remainder, but you can bet your sweet rear end that in 2025-30 (when the deficit is supposed to start) it will become a campaign issue and even conservative elderly folk are going to demand the government pay for the program's short falls. Also if you want to go the snarky route you can just tell him he's already receiving welfare assuming he got a tax refund, or got a tax credit for having certain vehicles, having a kid, or that his parents got welfare for claiming him as a dependent, or any number of other things that people don't realize are "welfare". If he ends up going with the "Well it was my money in the first place!" in regards to the tax refund argument you can try to point out that his taxes are just compensation for using the governments roads, being covered by emergency services (on the state level), and many more public services that he uses every day and relies on. Let him know he'd pay just as much if not more on "privately owned" roads and to private security and Fire/EMS services if the government didn't run them. There is also historical support that argument as well. So he's saving money in the long run. If it gets to this point though he'll probably talk about not having a "choice" in joining society and thus the rules and obligations are thrust upon him without consent and are "slavery" or some such (The argument being that a private pure free market society lets you choose who to do business with at least, even if it is more expensive). You can either just sever then or tell him he wouldn't have the choice to exist in the first place so it's a moot point. But honestly if he argues this point he's beyond worth dealing with.
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