Iron Crowned posted:I've heard sound bytes of conservatives claiming that Ebola in the USA is some kind of political correctness conspiracy (I can't remember the exact wording, but political correctness was part of it). I still can't wrap my head around that one I just saw a random conservative website claiming that liberals were blaming the NRA on ebola due to this article: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-because-of-the-nra-20141012-column.html In reality, the article is stating that we do not have a Surgeon General due to the NRA which is 100% true.
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Iron Crowned posted:I've heard sound bytes of conservatives claiming that Ebola in the USA is some kind of political correctness conspiracy (I can't remember the exact wording, but political correctness was part of it). I still can't wrap my head around that one The one I remember seeing here was Rush, and his assertion was that because liberals want to appear politically correct, they are keeping the conservatives from disallowing all flights to the USA from nations with ebola cases. Because by doing so we'd be racist (which is true), but it'd keep ebola from reaching us (which isn't). E: Here he is quoted saying Ebola in Europe is a socialist conspiracy to control people: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3512233&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=729#post435951101 And here's part of his political correctness bit, where he says both that acknowledging Ebola jeopardizes amnesty so libs won't do it, and that we are advertising open borders so Ebola patients can try to come here and get care: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3512233&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=724#post435732696 parasyte fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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This is pitch-perfect talk radio. Fear driven message, call to righteous anger, instructions for how you can stem the tide (by buying the host's product!): https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/savage-obama-bringing-ebola-to-america-committing-treason
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Iron Crowned posted:I've heard sound bytes of conservatives claiming that Ebola in the USA is some kind of political correctness conspiracy (I can't remember the exact wording, but political correctness was part of it). I still can't wrap my head around that one
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parasyte posted:The one I remember seeing here was Rush, and his assertion was that because liberals want to appear politically correct, they are keeping the conservatives from disallowing all flights to the USA from nations with ebola cases. Because by doing so we'd be racist (which is true), but it'd keep ebola from reaching us (which isn't). There are relatively few direct flights from the USA to West Africa. The Dallas case arrived via a stopover in Brussels, and not everyone arriving from there is going to have originated in countries with an ebola outbreak either. Stupid.
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Iron Crowned posted:I've heard sound bytes of conservatives claiming that Ebola in the USA is some kind of political correctness conspiracy (I can't remember the exact wording, but political correctness was part of it). I still can't wrap my head around that one I can explain this. Their solution to Ebola would have been to murder everyone whose skin is darker than lily white, and probably everyone who is trying to enter the country from the entire continent of Africa. That way, Ebola can't spread to the US. The only reason this wasn't done is, clearly, political correctness.
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Orange Devil posted:I can explain this. Their solution to Ebola would have been to murder everyone whose skin is darker than lily white, and probably everyone who is trying to enter the country from the entire continent of Africa. That way, Ebola can't spread to the US. The only reason this wasn't done is, clearly, political correctness. Hey now, let's not exaggerate. There's probably a lot of lily white people that they want to kill as well. Just to be safe, mind.
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My dad is bitching about how the president is picking and choosing which laws he decides to enforce and which he doesn't. Does anyone have a concise link to a rundown on how the Republicans can sue the President if they actually cared about the issues besides rabble-rousing? Alternatively: A gigantic list of all the laws that every president has chosen to ignore since forever
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I think this one sums things up pretty well as long as we're posting cartoons.Necc0 posted:My dad is bitching about how the president is picking and choosing which laws he decides to enforce and which he doesn't. Does anyone have a concise link to a rundown on how the Republicans can sue the President if they actually cared about the issues besides rabble-rousing? Every President does this.
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Presuming your dad didn't side with the South, Abraham Lincoln's a pretty good example to provide.
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Megaschmoo posted:Do conservatives believe that the entire judicial system is part of some liberal conspiracy just like they believe all scientists are part of a climate change conspiracy? Yes, they think the judiciary is filled with liberals in key places, and the recent change to the filibuster rules is so that Obama can fill the open slots with radical marxists. "Liberal" in this case is defined as any judge who makes a decision they don't like even if that judge was appointed by Saint Reagan, pbuh.
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Notorious QIG posted:It's in the OP of the political cartoons thread. And with gas back under $3 a gallon.... THANKS OBAMA!!!
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ErIog posted:Yes, they think the judiciary is filled with liberals in key places, and the recent change to the filibuster rules is so that Obama can fill the open slots with radical marxists. "Liberal" in this case is defined as any judge who makes a decision they don't like even if that judge was appointed by Saint Reagan, pbuh. "Liberal" means anyone to the left of George Wallace, and in that sense they are 100% correct that the judiciary is filled with liberals in key places. Hopefully it stays that way
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sweart gliwere posted:The "veteran visits closed war memorial" stories got way more traction than deserved. I had to remind coworkers that for all the solemn elderly patriots going to DC for the first time, conveniently choosing the worst possible time in more than five years, there's going to be a few guys taking a leak or littering or dropping cigarettes. Maybe even graffiti. Not to mention basic public safety - was DC metro supposed to assign police officers to patrol every monument? Who's liable when somebody gets robbed or stabbed or raped at an unguarded memorial Republicans chose to close? Sorry, no, closing down open air monuments was dumb as hell. I can understand no permitting people entry into museums, but the Vietnam Memorial is a wall and a side walk. Why exactly did it need to be fenced off? As far as who is liable if someone is assaulted, that would be the person who is doing the assaulting. The police are not responsible for ensuring the safety of any one person, and they're not held liable if a crime is committed in their jurisdiction.
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Crowder being Crowder
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It's not like gold grows out of the ground!
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Ralepozozaxe posted:It's not like gold grows out of the ground! Everybody who's ever played any video game ever knows that gold just drops out of nowhere when you kill somebody.
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The glorious start of the Mayan civilization.
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Notorious QIG posted:Everybody who's ever played any video game ever knows that gold just drops out of nowhere when you kill somebody. Through systematic testing and observation, I've noted that sometimes they also yell "BARF!".
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Armyman25 posted:Sorry, no, closing down open air monuments was dumb as hell. I can understand no permitting people entry into museums, but the Vietnam Memorial is a wall and a side walk. Why exactly did it need to be fenced off? Shutting down the government is dumb as hell. Why do you give a gently caress about whether people can walk around some statues or not for a few days when we're shutting down actual important poo poo like women's shelters, scientific research, immigration paperwork, and child care? It takes fewer people to man a barricade than it does to pick up trash, police, and maintain the monuments. If you think the shitfit was bad when some people couldn't go see free statues, just imagine how crazy people would have gone if we'd just said "gently caress it" and let our national monuments be trashed and vandalized.
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e:beat while alt+tabbed in msreaderArmyman25 posted:Sorry, no, closing down open air monuments was dumb as hell. I can understand no permitting people entry into museums, but the Vietnam Memorial is a wall and a side walk. Why exactly did it need to be fenced off? I mean the increase in blind-spot zones isn't a good thing, and sure person-to-person assaults weren't a good example. But I don't have a problem with the fencing. The government shut down, there were no staff available. How about basic slip-and-fall legal problems, and the sort of ordinary issues that don't arise when you have staff walking around and handling problems? ADA noncompliance due to debris or disfigurement, some doofus greasing the path or leaving out shattered glass, vandals with graffiti or sledgehammers, whatever. You can't think of any problems involved with accepting "Hey, we're open but not patrolled anymore!" for what amount to street corners with fancy sculpture?
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sweart gliwere posted:I mean the increase in blind-spot zones isn't a good thing, and sure person-to-person assaults weren't a good example. But I don't have a problem with the fencing. The government shut down, there were no staff available. Yup, someone will take advantage of unattended areas to do risky things that will result in injuries and then negligence suits, or someone will go breaking poo poo up. Even if something looks "unattended" normally, there's probably park people keeping half an eye on things for vandalism and safety, even if their job description is "mow the lawn" or "pick up trash".
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Crowder being Crowder Crowder is aggressively stupid.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Crowder being Crowder Then the guys with red beards killed and raped the other half too. quote:Genocide is cool
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I just saw a random conservative website claiming that liberals were blaming the NRA on ebola due to this article: He'll play it off somehow, though. One thing they never do is admit being wrong about anything, ever.
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MariusLecter posted:Genocide is cool The only moral genocide is my genocide.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Thanks so much for this. I got a text message from the same idiot co-worker laughing at MSNBC for "blaming the NRA for Ebola." I knew it was something incredibly stupid, but now I can just send him the article and tell him, again, how CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING. He'll most likely see your effort to reply as "desperation" and won't even read the article.
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beatlegs posted:He'll most likely see your effort to reply as "desperation" and won't even read the article.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Crowder being Crowder Man, where's a union thug when you need one? Preferably a Native American one.
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Oh look he explained his poo poo for brainsquote:Happy Columbus Day! Today’s the day where progressives will indoctrinate your children into believing Columbus to be satan’s incarnate, and the USA to be his evil spawn. In order for progressives to support this idea, here are a few key facts that must be ignored.
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Megaschmoo posted:Do conservatives believe that the entire judicial system is part of some liberal conspiracy just like they believe all scientists are part of a climate change conspiracy? You'll find that the same people are said to control both these groups by totally not neo-nazi just asking questions people.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Oh look he explained his poo poo for brains I really enjoy the completely out-of-nowhere dig at Obama at the end there. It's fine though, I'm sure this post wasn't meant to be too "political"
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Oh look he explained his poo poo for brains Columbus did evil things but everybody does evil things.
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It's okay because he did it for the glory of a Christian God.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Oh look he explained his poo poo for brains They're rough estimates, but still, holy poo poo. And that's mostly before you get to the part where they started killing the natives on purpose. Seriously, I wonder just how different history would be if the Native Americans had had immunity to European diseases, or if even the reverse had happened; imagine Columbus bringing something back to Europe that had the killing power of a second black plague.
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Just a reminder when Columbus reached Hispaniola the native population was either worked to death under the direction of Columbus himself in the growing, harvesting, and processing of sugar or died of disease brought by the Spanish. Columbus was so cruel that Spanish royal officials were horrified by the treatment the natives suffered at the hands of Columbus and his men. Pretty much all of the Caribbean native population was wiped out. There are no native tribes of the Caribbean, they went extinct.
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quote:RUSH: Since when did we start blaming the victims when they come down with a disease? And that's exactly what we're doing in the case of the nurse. Holy poo poo that's a lot to unpack. So Duncan should be treated like a criminal? I think the dude is dead, so good luck with that. And never ending to Limbaugh for ripping on someone for issuing a public non-apology for something. quote:RUSH: "Republican Cuts Kill." Every gubmint agency is just a front for registering Democrats to vote, who are in fact not real people anyway and something something rampant voter fraud stealing elections!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! quote:RUSH: Here's Bill on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Great to have you. Thank you for your patience.
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Let's not forget taking child sex slaves and cutting people's hands off worn around their neck
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Just a reminder when Columbus reached Hispaniola the native population was either worked to death under the direction of Columbus himself in the growing, harvesting, and processing of sugar or died of disease brought by the Spanish. Columbus was so cruel that Spanish royal officials were horrified by the treatment the natives suffered at the hands of Columbus and his men. Pretty much all of the Caribbean native population was wiped out. There are no native tribes of the Caribbean, they went extinct. It was pretty much the same kinds of stuff that Leopold did in the Congo. Workers were told to gather a certain quota of gold and in exchange were given copper medallions. If they were caught without the medallion they'd get their hands cut off.
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Columbus was a sick, sociopathic, racist gently caress. That conservatives are defending him is completely unsurprising at this point, even expected.
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