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Why don't I get to deduct a portion of my rent from my taxes when someone with an interest-only loan is basically doing the same thing? I think as a taxpayer I should get to use your bathrooms and store some crap in your garage if my tax dollars are going to get used to send you a little bonus when you file your taxes. I'd better not find any liquor either, if you have enough money to drink, you don't need a mortgage interest deduction. As for social security, My grandparents paid into a fund to keep their grandparents out of the gutter. That was what they paid for and that's what they got. My parents paid into a fund to keep their grandparents out of the gutter. That was what they paid for and that's what they got. Today, I pay to keep my grandparents out of the gutter. I am so happy to make that payment, it is totally worth the price. It's always been a welfare transfer of money from the young to the old. It's not a pension, its not your retirement account, it's welfare.
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Mo_Steel posted:"Welfare caddys" is now my new favorite term for a car. Accuse every luxury car owner of being on welfare. Better still, do this at a Republican/Tea Party event.
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Mar 22, 2014 05:37
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Why don't I get to deduct a portion of my rent from my taxes when someone with an interest-only loan is basically doing the same thing? Your landlord does that for you.
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Mar 22, 2014 05:44
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Why don't I get to deduct a portion of my rent from my taxes when someone with an interest-only loan is basically doing the same thing? Move to Minnesota! We have a Renter's Credit. It's great!
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Mar 22, 2014 06:32
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Crain posted: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. Actually what you could do is tell him: "Well fortunately for you there is a place where the society you hate so much does not exist. And you can go there and be as free as you want. Pack warmly though, I hear the antarctic is really cold this time of year." Alternatively: "Pack body armor, Somalia is filled with other 'Great free men' much like you.
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Mar 22, 2014 06:41
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They agreed to the social contract when they moved here or their parents signed it for them when they made them. Parents give consent for their children in lots of things, complain to them.
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Mar 22, 2014 08:19
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ratbert90 posted:The president is from Kenya!
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Mar 22, 2014 10:59
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Keshik posted:Hang on, what is this one even trying to say? That the administration tried to convince people that Vile Rat, Stevens, Doherty, and Woods weren't actually killed? Did anyone ever see "Vile Rat" and "Sean Smith" at the same time? 
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Mar 22, 2014 11:13
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Keshik posted:Hang on, what is this one even trying to say? That the administration tried to convince people that Vile Rat, Stevens, Doherty, and Woods weren't actually killed? That anything less than admitting that everything Republicans say is true and resigning is just denying basic reality and spitting on the graves of hose men. Also birtherism, because they really do not understand how to admit fault ever.
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Mar 22, 2014 15:10
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ratbert90 posted:
Literally the plot of Idiocracy.
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Mar 22, 2014 15:42
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Fulchrum posted:That anything less than admitting that everything Republicans say is true and resigning is just denying basic reality and spitting on the graves of hose men. Also birtherism, because they really do not understand how to admit fault ever. I don't know what a hose man is, but it sounds kind of disgusting.
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Mar 22, 2014 16:03
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Mar 22, 2014 19:08
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Crain posted:Doesn't every president talk about uniting the country? Has anyone other than tea party tools even used that obama campaign "symbol" since 2008 anyway?
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Mar 22, 2014 19:33
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Sexism and classism all in one image. If only there was some dogwhistle racism and we could have a hat trick 
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Mar 22, 2014 19:39
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Branis posted:Has anyone other than tea party tools even used that obama campaign "symbol" since 2008 anyway? Er, yeah? It's still the logo of Organizing for Action, formerly known as Obama for America.
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KKKLIP ART posted:Sexism and classism all in one image. If only there was some dogwhistle racism and we could have a hat trick More boobs benefits all of America, nay, the world 
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Mar 22, 2014 23:41
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ratbert90 posted:Liberals are the real racist! This image reminds me of an old anti-abolition political cartoon I saw in one of my history books. Unfortunately I can't find it, but it depicted freed slaves and northern blacks as outcasts in society who couldn't get a meal in one frame and a benevolent southern family accepting and feeding slaves in the second panel. Dyz fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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Mar 23, 2014 00:05
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Branis posted:Has anyone other than tea party tools even used that obama campaign "symbol" since 2008 anyway? 
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Mar 23, 2014 00:12
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Ana Lucia Cortez posted:So I had a doozy of a phone conversation with my dad the other day. First he tells me about the Fukishima reactor and how it's leaking radiation across the ocean and people have detected high levels of it on the west coast. I should buy nascent iodine and put a few drops under my tongue each day to counteract the radiation poisoning. Then we got on the topic of religion. Apparently aliens came to earth and mated with humans in the Old Testament days and that's the reason for the flood because God wanted to purge the world of these aliens. From a few pages ago, but I can't stop thinking about this rant. "We're about to be invaded by aliens! Also, inflation!" I don't even understand how it's possible to be afraid of these things at the same time.
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Mar 23, 2014 00:48
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Looks like this is making the rounds. Every website I've seen reporting on it are absolutely losing their loving minds "LIEbral agenda!!!" I have no idea what "disgrace to our homage" means, but ok.  Revisionist history, JUST LIKE COMMUNISM!!! Blaze article linked in the second post.
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Mar 23, 2014 04:15
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hamster_style posted:Looks like this is making the rounds. Every website I've seen reporting on it are absolutely losing their loving minds "LIEbral agenda!!!" How dare they prevent those ex-inmates from owning unregistered guns!
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Mar 23, 2014 04:32
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And according to the school, they are getting bombarded by angry second amendment enthusiasts who totally aren't unbalanced and are capable of controlling their emotions.
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Mar 23, 2014 04:51
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I hope that school does okay.
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Mar 23, 2014 04:55
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I understand they have a bunker
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Mar 23, 2014 04:58
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quote:You're Λll hosed A high school friend believes this.
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Mar 23, 2014 05:26
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hamster_style posted:Looks like this is making the rounds. Every website I've seen reporting on it are absolutely losing their loving minds "LIEbral agenda!!!" Really, the only problem with that picture is that it implies that the second amendment explicitly states those restrictions, which it does not. That and comic sans.
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Mar 23, 2014 05:47
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How appropriate that figurative children flip their poo poo at a definition provided to literal children.
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Mar 23, 2014 06:41
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The Walking Dad posted:A high school friend believes this. Yeah, that looks an awful lot like paranoid schizophrenia. Has your friend had a drug abuse problem in the past? Did this come on suddenly?
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Fellatio del Toro posted:The worst part of this dumb meme is that people seem to have completely missed the original, self-deprecating nature. The last panel should definitely be "what I think I do" and the "what I actually do" panel should be a baby covered in measles. 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. And that soldier...was Albert Einstein. Verisimilidude fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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Mar 23, 2014 15:11
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Discendo Vox posted:Yeah, that looks an awful lot like paranoid schizophrenia.
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Mar 23, 2014 15:19
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Popular Thug Drink posted:How appropriate that figurative children flip their poo poo at a definition provided to literal children. People shouldn't be upset that their children are being taught incorrect information?
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Mar 23, 2014 15:53
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LeJackal posted:People shouldn't be upset that their children are being taught incorrect information? It's OK that the actual parent got it corrected. It's loving ridiculous that certain players in the media try to make it a national story when it's the most minuscule local news story. 'Local man asks for correction on teaching material' HOLD THE PRESSES, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE AMERICA KNOWS
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Mar 23, 2014 15:57
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berzerker posted:Other than accepting "Professor so-and-so" that a perfectly legitimate thing. Sexism in academia is a real issue and women get called "Miss so-and-so" way more often than men get called "Mr. so-and-so." Related article: I got my degree in electrical engineering and my microelectronics class had two professors since one of them was pregnant and was going to be leaving halfway through to have her baby. Dr. Greene and... Ginger.
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pacerhimself posted:It's OK that the actual parent got it corrected. It's loving ridiculous that certain players in the media try to make it a national story when it's the most minuscule local news story. According to the article, it was only for that one school and produced in-house by teachers no longer working there, so I agree with you. If it had been more widely distributed then that would have warranted a wider response. Ugh, who knows what other inaccuracies are in that book.
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LeJackal posted:People shouldn't be upset that their children are being taught incorrect information? Yeah, wouldn't want them to think there's a possibility of not being able to own a gun  It's just more proof you should never read anything written in Comic Sans.
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duz posted:Yeah, wouldn't want them to think there's a possibility of not being able to own a gun Would you be as upset if they described the First Amendment as the right to an Abrahamic religion and a state-run newspaper? Or that the USA has a tricameral legislature? Or that George Washington was appointed president for life? The problem is that they were misrepresenting basic historical and factual civics.  This complaint seems familiar. I should be careful with it, its probably an antique. LeJackal fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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Mar 23, 2014 17:21
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A good lesson plan should just have the actual text of the amendment and then a discussion of what it means in contemporary thought.
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^^^ I was late to school.  LeJackal posted:Would you be as upset if they described the First Amendment as the right to an Abrahamic religion and a state-run newspaper? Or that the USA has a tricameral legislature? Or that George Washington was appointed president for life? The problem is that they were misrepresenting basic historical and factual civics. A more apt comparison is if the section on the first amendment included in the description of Right to Freedom of Speech a bit that said "except for some cases like inciting riots or yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater", but I digress. The material should state the amendments as written, and then have a section on how the Supreme Court is often asked to rule on nuances to those laws and bills that may cover ground similar to those amendments (firearms for convicted felons, flag burning in protest, religious articles in government buildings, defining search and seizure in the digital age, etc.) Then you give students the knowledge that the amendments are written one way, but they are constantly being interpreted and reinterpreted by the changing circumstances of American Society which they are a part of. The only part that I really take issue with is the facebook response of "this is why we need to be homeschooling" because the implication of the presented example is that public education is biased or flawed and homeschooling isn't. quote:
It's one of my favorite repeating processes. Since the dawn of human history, the current generation was respectful and the new generation is not respectful. One would think by now we'd have all become so disrespectful after thousands of generations to just be throwing poo poo at each other constantly like monkeys. Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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Solution: don't speak to your parents. Problem solved.
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