VitalSigns posted:

Content: one of my friends posted this.


Not perfect, but if pro-life people are going to advocate helping pregnant women with health care and child care so they don't feel constrained by poverty to seek abortion, then I'll be on board with that. Anything helps. So...I decided to agree, but slipped in an innocent suggestion that contraception would help as well. It did not disappoint.



Abortion rates have dropped but I'm mad about it anyway! Why can't we be more like Europe, well known for their hatred of free condoms, their Puritan attitudes about sex, and their small-government values?

gatesealer posted:

"get rid of government programs that don't work" ok which ones? And how do they not work? And what would you propose we replace them with? One thing I never see come out of these people is "what will you replace the thing with". I get that they don't like the program, but if you can't come up with a better solution then get out.

Zerilan posted:

Someone on my FB feed posted the story about the marine punching the professor. Does anyone still have the version with the bear and Richard Dawkins?

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A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan . One of the courses had a professor who was a vowed atheist and a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, “God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I’ll give you exactly 15 minutes.” The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.

Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, “Here I am God. I’m still waiting.” It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and lifted up his arm to strike him.

At that moment the professor was transformed into a 7-foot grizzly, wreathed in a halo of holy fire. The bear spoke: "Blasphemer thou art, thou thinkst to take the place of God? Those who deny me face eternal fire, but you who knows my work and yet commits the sin of Satan I curse a hundred times over!" The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently picking at his boils. Then Richard Dawkins burst into the room, wielding a copy of The Selfish Gene and crying "Leave that boy alone, you pathetic atavism!" As the holy bear whirled around, terrible light flashing in its eyes, Dawkins shed his mortal form, raised each of his seven horned heads, and hissed. "It'ssss me you want!". And then the Lord and the Antichrist joined in the final battle.

The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence.

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And that soldier...was Albert Einstein

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A liberal muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx, known atheist

”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater than Jesus Christ!”

At this moment, a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock.

”How old is this rock, pinhead?”

The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and smugly replied “4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian”

”Wrong. It’s been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real… then it should be an animal now”

The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the “poor” (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, DeShawn Washington, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, but he himself had petitioned against them!

The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named “Small Government” flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and God himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.

The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the gay plague AIDS and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.

Semper Fi.
p.s. close the borders

Augmentropy posted:

[Courtesy of this thread.]
Marine-Dawkins-Apocalypse

BatteredFeltFedora posted:

VideoTapir posted:

No one wants kids to go hungry, I just want things that will directly result in kids going hungry. Big difference.

VideoTapir posted:

No one wants kids to go hungry, I just want things that will directly result in kids going hungry. Big difference.

VideoTapir posted:

No one wants kids to go hungry, I just want things that will directly result in kids going hungry. Big difference.

VitalSigns posted:

Well she did say that she supported public assistance for those who need it.

Not sure how supplementing inadequate pay with public money is different from raising the minimum wage, but hey. I suppose she could argue that direct wealth redistribution is less likely to have employment effects than increasing the wage floor. Or she could prefer public assistance because it also helps people who don't have a job. Or perhaps because the poverty line increases with family size so bigger families get more assistance.

Or maybe because it's easier to feel superior to someone who gets paid less than me and has to mooch off the government. If they get paid the same it might look like it's something they deserve for working and then I'm not special anymore.

You know, whatever.

gatesealer posted:

I almost want to bet that she doesn't actually like welfare because there are "welfare queens, and why should I have to give money to people who aren't working hard enough." It is always the weirdest thing to me when I hear something like that. "I don't want them to raise minimum wage because they are just doing menial labor. I don't want to pay for welfare because why should I pay for these people to work minimum wage jobs?" Choose one or the other.

BatteredFeltFedora posted:

I've had this argument with her before, too.

BatteredFeltFedora posted:

I've had this argument with her before, too.

gatesealer posted:

"I don't want them to raise minimum wage because they are just doing menial labor."

Twelve by Pies posted:

Huh, see, when I almost had this discussion with a coworker it was "I don't want them to raise the minimum wage because then all the companies will shut down and we'll have even more unemployment and people on welfare."

I just didn't bother responding at that point.

Twelve by Pies posted:

Huh, see, when I almost had this discussion with a coworker it was "I don't want them to raise the minimum wage because then all the companies will shut down and we'll have even more unemployment and people on welfare."

I just didn't bother responding at that point.

gatesealer posted:

"get rid of government programs that don't work" ok which ones? And how do they not work? And what would you propose we replace them with? One thing I never see come out of these people is "what will you replace the thing with". I get that they don't like the program, but if you can't come up with a better solution then get out.

gatesealer posted:

See this one never made sense to me either. Like a point could be made if minimum wage was increased to a ridiculous amount, but why would companies go out of business? The way I explained it to my room mate was that even if they cut your hours at walmart, you can work for $15 an hour at walmart part time and $15 an hour part time somewhere else and still make more money. If the problem is small business owners not having the money to pay that amount, well that isn't much different than the system we already have. Those who can't make it fail. That is the very definition of our current system of economics.

VitalSigns posted:

gatesealer, suggest to your roommate that we cut the minumum wage to $4/hr so companies can afford to create more jobs. Now he can get that second job and work 80 hours a week at $4 instead of being condemned to 40 hours a week at $7.25 Profit!!

HiroProtagonist posted:

I don't understand this circular-rear end reasoning. So your justification for being armed is simply paranoia and you're okay with admitting that? In what world is this considered appropriate or logical?

Soviet Commubot posted:

Their reasoning is that the only people who would want to restrict gun ownership are urban ferals career criminals who don't want to be shot by good honest citizens while doing their crimes, evil socialists who don't want good honest citizens to resist their evil by force and effete latte-sipping liberals whose misguided and patronizing attempts to protect people from themselves would open the way for the two previous honest to god real threats that really do exist in the real world.

At least that was the accepted "wisdom" when I was growing up in a conservative rural community. People who've never lived inside it often don't get how isolated a bubble these people live in.

HiroProtagonist posted:

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

R Lee Emery's character in FMJ was not meant to be someone to admire...

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

R Lee Emery's character in FMJ was not meant to be someone to admire...

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

R Lee Emery's character in FMJ was not meant to be someone to admire...

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

R Lee Emery's character in FMJ was not meant to be someone to admire...

Radish posted:

"If gun ownership is made illegal, then there will no longer be a concept of law abiding citizens being armed and thus there will be no reason for law abiding citizens to be armed. QED"
-Alternate Dimension Supreme Court Justice John Roberts

ADSCOTUS Justice John Roberts posted:

Shelby County's arguments that racism in Alabama is a thing of the past are facially absurd. The mere fact the county even filed this lawsuit is an admission that they have nursed and nourished their racism and resentment through all these decades since its passage and are now prepared to disenfranchise African Americans by hook or by crook

SalTheBard posted:

My cousins defense in his choice to continue supporting Cliven Bundy

Deceptive Edit of the Day: http://youtu.be/5Q_c02cVFcI

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I'm sorry, where are you living? I live in this place called the "real world" where life isn't fair. It's BS, but it's a fact. Equal opportunity doesn't mean equal results. Equal results means we go the way of the USSR, millions dying of starvation and illness.

HiroProtagonist posted:

Polybius91 posted:

Okay, looking back at it, I think arguing with this guy is going to be a waste. Someone pointed out that it was unfair that people born in poverty should have to work three jobs just to survive while others can do well on one job, and promptly replied with

Polybius91 posted:

Okay, looking back at it, I think arguing with this guy is going to be a waste. Someone pointed out that it was unfair that people born in poverty should have to work three jobs just to survive while others can do well on one job, and promptly replied with

Polybius91 posted:

I'm sorry, where are you living? I live in this place called the "real world" where life isn't fair. It's BS, but it's a fact. Equal opportunity doesn't mean equal results. Equal results means we go the way of the USSR, millions dying of starvation and illness.