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This has historically not worked out well for the black folks in question
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Alkydere posted:Which works out great when you have the Joker who won't stop killing people. I remember being a bit confused and outraged as a kid watching the Saturday morning cartoon Batman where the Joker's schemes involved using laughing gas that made people laugh until they die. So the Joker would launch loving gas attacks on Gotham and all he gets is locked away in the super special minimum security prison for people Batman beats up. Batman is one giant stealth argument in favor of capital punishment, particularly for the mentally ill.
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May 17, 2014 20:42
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keiran_helcyan posted:Batman is one giant stealth argument in favor of capital punishment, particularly for the mentally ill. Why is Metropolis such a great city? Because in the animated series, Metropolis isn't scared to execute murderers.
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May 17, 2014 21:17
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Rygar201 posted:This has historically not worked out well for the black folks in question True, but I'd like to think the circumstances were a bit different back then than they would be in this hypothetical future land argument. Basically my point is is that of all the people that should get the Americas back, it probably should not be Britain and France. SwingShift fucked around with this message at 21:44 on May 17, 2014 |
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May 17, 2014 21:40
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Alkydere posted:Which works out great when you have the Joker who won't stop killing people. I remember being a bit confused and outraged as a kid watching the Saturday morning cartoon Batman where the Joker's schemes involved using laughing gas that made people laugh until they die. So the Joker would launch loving gas attacks on Gotham and all he gets is locked away in the super special minimum security prison for people Batman beats up. Gotham is a Ravenloft Domain, and Batman is it's Domain Lord.  Spacedad posted:I kind of feel like the 'money = speech' ruling will eventually lead to a clever lawyer or judge setting precedent with 'okay, therefore, we need to fairly redistribute an equal amount of 'speech' to everyone' which will cause much head-explosioning. Finding ways to treat speech more like money sounds like great material for a "Modest Proposal"-type political satire.
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May 17, 2014 22:14
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Time to read Zinn posted:http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378172/harrys-dirty-amendment-charles-c-w-cooke
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May 17, 2014 22:29
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JediTalentAgent posted:Why is Metropolis such a great city? Because in the animated series, Metropolis isn't scared to execute murderers. Yes, but they also have to deal with a spite-fueled despot who has mastery over a cosmic force that can cause people's brains to shut down and become puppets for whatever whim he has. But, enough about Rush Limbaugh. They have to deal with Darkseid, too!
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May 18, 2014 15:57
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Alkydere posted:Which works out great when you have the Joker who won't stop killing people. I remember being a bit confused and outraged as a kid watching the Saturday morning cartoon Batman where the Joker's schemes involved using laughing gas that made people laugh until they die. So the Joker would launch loving gas attacks on Gotham and all he gets is locked away in the super special minimum security prison for people Batman beats up. Isn't Mystery Men a great movie?
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May 18, 2014 21:37
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Davethulhu posted:USA! USA! Drill Baby Drill! Drill Baby Drill! Drill Baby Drill! Dr.Zeppelin fucked around with this message at 22:59 on May 18, 2014 |
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May 18, 2014 22:08
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:Drill Baby Drill! Drill Baby Drill! Drill Baby Drill! One of my strongest political memories post-9/11 is my dad getting crawling drunk while watching the 2004 Republican convention and chanting "Screw the French! Screw the French!" after Bush went on stage to speak. Certainly seemed serious to me at the time.
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May 19, 2014 05:38
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Technical Analysis posted:Little of column A, little of column B. If you look into deep enough, it's likely that Arkham is a privately funded prison managed by a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises. Whenever Batman gets bored he has a criminal released so he can go beat them up. If he's having a bad week at the office, gently caress it, let's have a full prison break. I wonder how the Joker* would feel finding out he's really just been the patsy for a hosed up billionaire's bizarre vigilante fantasy. *Probably too mentally ill to notice or care.
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May 19, 2014 07:15
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Spacedad posted:I wonder how the Joker* would feel finding out he's really just been the patsy for a hosed up billionaire's bizarre vigilante fantasy. The Joker is already pretty sure this is true.
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May 19, 2014 07:59
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Spacedad posted:I wonder how the Joker* would feel finding out he's really just been the patsy for a hosed up billionaire's bizarre vigilante fantasy. He'd be a very different person if that was the sort of realization that had the slightest possibility of bothering him.
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Jeedy Jay posted:Gotham is a Ravenloft Domain, and Batman is it's Domain Lord. It's pretty clearly a ruling that everybody's speech is equal, some people are just more equal. Spacedad posted:I wonder how the Joker* would feel finding out he's really just been the patsy for a hosed up billionaire's bizarre vigilante fantasy. He's probably perfectly aware of it... 
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May 19, 2014 09:08
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 Right Wing Watch continues to stymie the two twin brother bigots who are doing the crybaby tour after their planned reality show got shitcanned by HGTV, which was brought on by a RWW report about them and their fathers pretty out there protests against gay and muslims. Note what happens when Alan Colmes delves deep into the journalists playbook and tries a little known maneuver from yesteryear called "a follow up question" http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/understanding-benham-familys-expression-love quote:On Friday, Alan Colmes interviewed David and Jason Benham about the on-going controversy over the cancellation of their HGTV program due to their anti-gay, anti-choice, and anti-Islam activism. Yep, no hate there. Move along.
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May 19, 2014 19:26
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The great thing about shitbags who insist that everything is a cut and dry/black and white dichotomy is that they usually don't have the toolset to deal with nuance. And hey look at that, it really is cut and dry that they're usually the dipshit that they're claiming not to be.
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May 19, 2014 20:13
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Intel&Sebastian posted:
You know what I love about these type of stories? You almost always have some douchebag consertive(s) whining about how the LIBRUL MEDIA!!! is trying to slander them, but whenever they're given an opportunity to defend and elaborate their position, they always whine and go "WHA?? I NEVER SAID THAT YOU COMMIE GESTAPOS!". It shows that even these fucks realize that their opinions wouldn't really get much sympathy from the public.
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May 19, 2014 20:25
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My Q-Face posted:It's pretty clearly a ruling that everybody's speech is equal, some people are just more equal. whoa awesome
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May 19, 2014 20:36
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Mr Interweb posted:You know what I love about these type of stories? You almost always have some douchebag consertive(s) whining about how the LIBRUL MEDIA!!! is trying to slander them, but whenever they're given an opportunity to defend and elaborate their position, they always whine and go "WHA?? I NEVER SAID THAT YOU COMMIE GESTAPOS!". It shows that even these fucks realize that their opinions wouldn't really get much sympathy from the public. I think it's less malice and more sloth. They know exactly why HGTV dropped their poo poo, there are more gays buying stuff from their advertisers than mouth breathing christian Jihadists. So now that they aren't going to get famous doing a reality show they want to get famous for being the lamest martyrs ever. They're on a publicity tour and gently caress if they're going to spend the time to explain why and how they've been wronged, 99% of the places they're visiting don't give a gently caress about it so why should they? They're two christians who didn't get a toy that someone promised them because of how intensely christian they are and the whiny gays. Only an idiot like Alan Colmes would need that explained further. Duh.  Just throw him a bone, "I don't know, I probably never said it. The liberal media lies...what? They didn't say I said that. Jesus loving Christ Alan, what are you a walking wikipedia? Fine then OUR DAD never said it. Happy? Have we successfully bullshitted long enough to get you to stop asking us why we're bullshitting?"
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May 19, 2014 20:50
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Former New Hampshire Police Commissioner posted:‘‘I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse,’’ Copeland said in a April e-mail that was sent to the two other commissioners and forwarded to the resident. ‘‘For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.’’ I think this may have been mentioned earlier in the thread, but he's officially resigned now after initially refusing for the above reasoning. Source.
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May 19, 2014 20:59
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Somehow I doubt that the police commissioner is Chris Rock... When R-Money is calling you out, the gig might be up.
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May 19, 2014 21:05
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That case is kind of cool because it's a nice example of a public N-Bomb exchange that's light on the usual "FREE SPEEEECH! I didn't say that and also it's my 1st amendment right to keep my job if I did say it, racism is over, black people say it all the tiiiiiiiiiiime!!!" cloud of bullshit. He said it, he admits it, he's got reasoning for it that he feels gives him cover for doing so, but more importantly he's trying to defend it while furiously running away from it. I accept that completely, and agree it's his 1st amendment right to sit back in a local diner booth and complain about niggers. Now his constituents get to exercise their free speech on what they think about that. Same with Donald Sterling, he can say whatever he pleases about black people. Just like black people can say whatever they want about him. It's a bummer that it came to light the way it did but there's a bigger issue than his privacy and the court of public opinion doesn't strike evidence based on how it was gathered.
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some commenter posted:I agree with you, but as usual only partially. Yes, some, maybe even most, white people dislike the changing demographics of the country. I do. It's not necessarily a racial issue, as we are also losing much of our culture and the feeling of security that comes with it. And, let's be honest, the country is hardly headed in the right direction. As far as calling for Copeland's head, no one should be punished for a private conversation. Which of us, after all, could claim that if our conversations were disseminated we would survive unscathed -- especially in this climate? Where on earth does this sentiment come from?
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quote:RUSH: You know, when I first moved to Sacramento, California, 1984, and began what would become this program, it was October, I think, 15th of 1984. I think that's the anniversary start date. And of course I was in town for a month prior in and out. One of the things that you do as a newly arrived air personality is get familiar with the town. It's a talk show, people would be calling about local things. This is when I offered to move to Rio Linda if they would rename it Limbaugh, California. They didn't. I tried the same thing with West Sacramento. They refused the offer. They're still paying the price, both places. Yes Limbaugh, you ran across this headline a year ago (or two, but who gives a gently caress) and just had to tell everyone about it today in the Year of Our Lord 2014. quote:RUSH: Do you know what the minimum wage in Switzerland is? Anybody in there want to take a guess? What is the minimum wage in Switzerland? There isn't one. No. No. Zero. There is no minimum wage. (interruption) Yeah. Interesting question. How in the world is anybody employed without a minimum wage? How does anybody live without a minimum wage? How in the world can that be possible? I mean, no minimum wage? How do people live? That's right libtards, if you just get rid of the minimum wage and fix the Obummercare website then the unemployment rate will drop like a stone.  He also sucked Gowdy's dick about asking the right questions with respect to BENGHAZI but it was basically the same poo poo on a different day. Also one moron caller that was being contracted by the Georgia DOT to maintain some traffic lights that argued that the private sector could do everything better on those public roads she is helping maintain at the behest of a government paycheck. kik2dagroin fucked around with this message at 21:28 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 21:26
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SedanChair posted:Where on earth does this sentiment come from? It comes from dealing with bigots who hold opinions that would be criticized harshly if known publicly who desperately want to avoid being sanctioned for those beliefs. They want their private conversations to be off-limits because that's the place where they still free to express their hateful bigoted opinions.
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May 19, 2014 21:33
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SedanChair posted:Where on earth does this sentiment come from? People who voice bigoted opinions in private and are afraid of getting called out on it? Edit: also, that guy is totally a racist, what with the reference to "white" culture. Tarezax fucked around with this message at 21:35 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 21:33
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SedanChair posted:Where on earth does this sentiment come from? I think people confuse the idea of being able to deny things like a leaked Sterling call and the idea that things like the leaked Sterling call should be considered inadmissible to anyone who hears it just because it was leaked, for all time and purposes. In polite society we should hold our judgement until we've got some kind of solid confirmation (e.g. the exasperated sports reporters having to constantly remind eachother to say "allegedly" or "purported" or whatever). But after you confirm it's you on the phone, or in the restaurant booth and yeah you said don't bring blacks to the Staples center or that Obama's a friend of the family...well now we're talking about two separate issues. Yep it's lovely that your girlfriend taped your phone conversation and sent it to TMZ. You should go ahead and do something about that. Doesn't change what you said in the eyes of the rest of the world, bummer for you but guess what offends people more? Edit: And to the "Who among us would survive such a violation???". Uh, I would. I would expect most people would. It's that "context" thing you idiots think is just some magic word. Just based on this post a headline would be accurate if it said "Intel&Sebastian uses n-word on something awful forums". If TMZ put a camera in my face and said "WHY'D YOU CALL OBAMA A friend of the family!?!?!" I would explain that I used it while describing Sherrif Copeland yelling in a restaurant. Intel&Sebastian fucked around with this message at 21:44 on May 19, 2014 |
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I wonder why Rush didn't mention some of the other things Switzerland voted on the other day? You know like the one about giving everyone in Switzerland speedy access to high quality medical care 
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Also:quote:Switzerland, as a country, actually does not have a minimum wage written into law. It does have collective bargaining agreements between its workers and management and almost the entire population is covered by it. The minimum salary of skilled workers ranges from 2,800 to 5,300 Swiss francs, while that of unskilled workers may be anywhere between 2,200 to 4,200 Swiss francs. http://www.therichest.com/business/the-top-10-countries-with-the-highest-minimum-wages/
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May 19, 2014 22:49
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Google says that's roughly 2.5 - 5K a month. Which is basically anywhere between 15 and 25 dollars an hour anyway, so a large portion of their unskilled laborers are already making the amount of money that was in the law to begin with.
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May 19, 2014 23:01
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kik2dagroin posted:RUSH: This is when I offered to move to Rio Linda if they would rename it Limbaugh, California. They didn't. I tried the same thing with West Sacramento. They refused the offer. They're still paying the price, both place Wait!What? He wanted towns renamed after himself. Is he joking or did he actually try this.
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Well it depends, are you just a regular person asking if he did it? Or perhaps a fan who might find that kind of thing cool? Then yes he did it. Are you a group of people large enough to influence a seller of food insurance? Then it was a joke.
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kik2dagroin posted:http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/05/19/conspiracy_kooks_who_believe_fluoride_saps_precious_bodily_fluids_given_boost_by_harvard I could be wrong, but isn't the reason Switzerland doesn't have min. wage laws is because they have guaranteed income? Or something like really strong labor unions compared to the U.S.? Plus does he not know that Switzerland has a universal health care? And not just UHC, but a system that is pretty drat similar to Obamacare?
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Mr Interweb posted:I could be wrong, but isn't the reason Switzerland doesn't have min. wage laws is because they have guaranteed income? Or something like really strong labor unions compared to the U.S.? Plus does he not know that Switzerland has a universal health care? And not just UHC, but a system that is pretty drat similar to Obamacare? No, that whole strip of Central Europe doesn't have minimum wage laws because they ended up having massive labor movements for negotiating different minimum wages paid for various industries during the post WWI and post WWII eras. However, they did also introduce a guaranteed minimum income, but that may not have taken effect just yet.
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 I forgot the stupid poo poo he said about Death Panelsquote:RUSH: ... I've been doing this program for 25 years. Horror stories in the VA, we've had phone calls every year about it. And part and parcel of the VA is the belief -- I don't know if it's actually stated at recruitment, but there's both an implication and an inference. The government, the military implies to inductees, to volunteers, people that sign up for the military, and they infer that their medical care is going to be heightened and focused because they are volunteering essentially their lives for this country. quote:RUSH: Now Trey Gowdy, these questions, this little sound bite, it was actually one sound bite of about three and a half minutes. I didn't want to play it front to back solid three, although it's powerful that way, but actually Trey Gowdy asked these questions last October. The exact date was October 30th on Capitol Hill during a press conference on Benghazi. This is long before anybody knew there was gonna be a select committee, and thus long before Trey Gowdy knew or anybody else knew that Trey Gowdy was gonna be the chairman of the select committee. And it's kind of hard to believe that this recitation of questions he asks took until last week to get noticed. But it did.  The conspiracy thickens! Gowdy sure is going to get the bottom of this one
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Please oh please complain about Hillary not going on Sunday talk shows in your new #Benghazi model U.N. Gowdy. PLEEEEEASE.
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psychic chasms posted:One of my strongest political memories post-9/11 is my dad getting crawling drunk while watching the 2004 Republican convention and chanting "Screw the French! Screw the French!" after Bush went on stage to speak. Certainly seemed serious to me at the time. Easily the most annoying thing about the George Wills and David Brookses of the world is the smug way they pretend that every instance of lowbrow behavior is the exclusive domain of the left and that their own base (and half their caucus at this point) isn't a pack of howler monkeys.
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Dr Christmas posted:The Joker is already pretty sure this is true. The joker is a fake cartoon villain from a children's comic book series. Pretty sure nobody cares for this derail in an already stagnant thread.
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So Rush was seriously saying the United States should operate as a "true" democracy using a majority rules vote for major legislation? The conservatives would never get a drat thing passed. This is exactly the thing that Republicans constantly bitch about with the population on the coasts being more liberal. The constant crying about tyranny of the majority would be priceless if this actually happened in the US, as the GOP loses out on every major issue if put to a national vote.
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Bait and Swatch posted:So Rush was seriously saying the United States should operate as a "true" democracy using a majority rules vote for major legislation?
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