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happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

FuzzySkinner posted:

Why is God viewed as a vengeful dick by conservatives?

Like...he sent his only son because he loved us (You know...all of humanity, not just white males) so much. That's like...the most simple, basic tenant of the faith.

For control and to make wars easier to approve.

# ? Feb 2, 2015 22:36

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# ? May 28, 2024 11:54

ToxicSlurpee: Nov 5, 2003; -=SEND HELP=-; Pillbug

Gravel Gravy posted:

Doesn't really jive well with the narrative that the Cold War is starting back up or that it never ended. And given that Russia doesn't really give two damns about Cuba anymore...so what? It's like defending the Maginot Line after the tanks and bombers already zoomed past.

Far as the right is concerned the Cold War never really ended. Oh yeah Russia fell apart but communism is still alive and well that that Islamofascistshariacommubot Obummer brought the fight here. Worse yet communism allied with Islam and its only goal is eating YOUR BABIES! YES YOURS! YOU THERE! WITH THE BABY! OBAMA WANTS TO EAT IT!

# ? Feb 2, 2015 22:39

Acquilae: May 15, 2013

Intel&Sebastian posted:

New testament G-d for me
Old testament G-d for thee

This...actually sums it up perfectly. Especially with how conservatives see how everyone else needs to feel the wrath of Terminator Jesus upon any wrongdoing but asking for and giving forgiveness when one of their own engages in sin (recent example being when that Hobby Lobby girl had an affair).

# ? Feb 2, 2015 22:53

Warcabbit: Apr 26, 2008; Wedge Regret

What was that thing Fishmech was quoting? It reminds me of a book I read about Texas seceding because the female President armed the Secret Service with SS Tanks and so on.

# ? Feb 2, 2015 23:02

BiggerBoat: Sep 26, 2007; Don't you tell me my business again.

Rip Testes posted:

lol, some redneck caller into Herman Cain just now drooling over his dream ticket of Herman Cain 'arm in arm' with Dr. Ben Carson. Herman Cain was earlier saying how he would consider running if he was 'asked', as if it's solely up to the people and not him.

I'll ask him to run. Hey, Herman Cain, please run for President. With Ben Carson. Pretty please.

# ? Feb 2, 2015 23:29

Good Citizen: Aug 12, 2008; trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump

FuzzySkinner posted:

Why is God viewed as a vengeful dick by conservatives?

Judging only by the state of the world it's not a totally outlandish stance to take.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 00:06

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Matt Walsh on Plastic Surgery

quote:

Completely agree with this Vatican report. I think there's an argument to be made that the medical field should prohibit elective plastic surgery. I'm not saying that the government should make a law against it, just that "doctors" who perform unnecessary, completely superficial, potentially harmful operations should probably not be allowed to call themselves doctors (Note: I'm not advocating for a law against it, hence me just writing that I'm not advocating for a law against it, only for it to be appropriately categorized so that people understand what they're doing). Plastic surgery for a burn patient or something is completely different. The problem is plastic surgery for people who want to fundamentally alter their appearance just for the sake of altering it.

Not to mention, it exploits the mentally ill. When you see these women with 12 different procedures done -- fake lips, breasts, nose, altered face, the whole nine yards -- I'm positive they are suffering from some serious psychological malfunctions. It seems odd that doctors are allowed to keep their medical license after blatantly conning these delusional people.

I'm sort of old fashioned, so I think of a "doctor" as someone who treats and heals. If you do neither of those things, I don't think you are a doctor, and if I was in charge of these matters, I wouldn't let you claim the title.

(Note again: please understand the lines I'm drawing here. YES plastic surgery should be legal, as it currently is. NO I don't think it should exist in the realm of medicine. A tattoo artist is allowed to perform tattoos and you are allowed to get them, as I have. But he can't call himself a doctor because drawing on your skin ain't medicinal. Same goes for, I would argue, elective plastic surgery. So it should be categorized as such, just for the sake of letting everyone understand what it is and what it isn't. So when I specifically said the medical field should prohibit it, but it should still be allowed, I mean that the medical field shouldn't allow it to occur UNDER THE AUSPICES OF MEDICINE. Because it isn't. It should occur, relatively unimpeded, out in the general realm of tattooing. That's my thought on the matter. If anyone doesn't understand what I'm saying here, feel free to message me and I will try to elaborate further. God bless and godspeed).

# ? Feb 3, 2015 01:37

Pander: Oct 9, 2007; Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Matt Walsh on Plastic Surgery

I miss Keith Olbermann on MSNBC solely for the worst person in the world segment at times like this, because my god matt walsh is the worst person in the world right now.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 01:43

Chimera-gui: Mar 20, 2014

Oh Christ, O'Reilly is talking about :godwin:

# ? Feb 3, 2015 02:06

site: Apr 6, 2007; Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch

Chimera-gui posted:

Oh Christ, O'Reilly is talking about .

Positively i assume?

# ? Feb 3, 2015 02:11

Xand_Man: Mar 2, 2004; If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Matt Walsh on Plastic Surgery

Dear Matt Walsh,

Google Reconstructive surgery. Then go gently caress yourself.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 02:26

AsInHowe: Jan 11, 2007; red winged angel

FuzzySkinner posted:

Why is God viewed as a vengeful dick by conservatives?

Like...he sent his only son because he loved us (You know...all of humanity, not just white males) so much. That's like...the most simple, basic tenant of the faith.

Because they are vengeful dicks that didn't read the book.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 02:49

STAC Goat: Mar 12, 2008; Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

AsInHowe posted:

Because they are vengeful dicks that didn't read the book.

Maybe they read the first couple of chapters and then got distracted.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 03:26

Dirk the Average: Feb 7, 2012; "This may have been a mistake."

Xand_Man posted:

Dear Matt Walsh,

Google Reconstructive surgery. Then go gently caress yourself.

Be somewhat fair, he said elective plastic surgery. Reconstructive surgery is done under the guidance of a doctor after a disfiguring injury and wouldn't fall under what he says.

He's still wrong, but at least he's not arguing against a legitimate medical treatment.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 03:27

Parachute: May 18, 2003

Dirk the Average posted:

Be somewhat fair, he said elective plastic surgery. Reconstructive surgery is done under the guidance of a doctor after a disfiguring injury and wouldn't fall under what he says.

He's still wrong, but at least he's not arguing against a legitimate medical treatment.

True, the same doctor who fixed my thumb after my dog bit it causing it to split down the middle to the knuckle also does tons of boob jobs, and did a truly amazing job on my thumb. I asked him what percentage of his patients are there for elective surgery and he said at least 70, but he said he loves working on hands more than anything and plastic surgeons have medical bills to pay.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 03:43

ToxicSlurpee: Nov 5, 2003; -=SEND HELP=-; Pillbug

Wait, I thought that the Free Market was supposed to determine what gets supplied so drat it if there is demand for boob jobs it's the right of doctors to supply them.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 03:52

SpiderHyphenMan: Apr 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

Pander posted:

I miss Keith Olbermann on MSNBC solely for the worst person in the world segment at times like this, because my god matt walsh is the worst person in the world right now.

See it's this kind of hyperbole that made that segment unbearable in the first place. Come on, it's a guy who thinks that people who do elective plastic surgery are exclusively educated for that, rather than, you know, how medical school actually works. All the anti-vaccination poo poo going on right now and you're really going to get angry at this?

# ? Feb 3, 2015 04:04

icantfindaname: Jul 1, 2008

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Wait, I thought that the Free Market was supposed to determine what gets supplied so drat it if there is demand for boob jobs it's the right of doctors to supply them.

Theocracy > free market. Really the hierarchy is very simple

# ? Feb 3, 2015 05:19

A Fancy 400 lbs: Jul 24, 2008

Oh no, not someone using hyperbole on the internet!

# ? Feb 3, 2015 05:29

Pander: Oct 9, 2007; Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

See it's this kind of hyperbole that made that segment unbearable in the first place. Come on, it's a guy who thinks that people who do elective plastic surgery are exclusively educated for that, rather than, you know, how medical school actually works. All the anti-vaccination poo poo going on right now and you're really going to get angry at this?

...no, I don't literally think that Walsh is the worst person in the world. The point of the segment wasn't that the person being discussed is literally the worst person in the world. The point was "hey this person is a lovely, lovely person." Sure it was Bill-O or Rush half the time, but there's still a certain catharsis about dissecting right-wing media.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 05:59

The Rokstar: Aug 19, 2002; by FactsAreUseless

icantfindaname posted:

Theocracy > free market. Really the hierarchy is very simple

This is kind of out there, but your post made me think of it. I read a post on some random blog once that was a guy going over a bunch of first-hand accounts of the meeting of the Southern Baptist Association or whatever where they basically decided they were going to start pushing conservative economic causes and prosperity theology. Does anyone know what I'm talking about (and better yet, do you have a link)?

# ? Feb 3, 2015 06:13

AsInHowe: Jan 11, 2007; red winged angel

The Rokstar posted:

This is kind of out there, but your post made me think of it. I read a post on some random blog once that was a guy going over a bunch of first-hand accounts of the meeting of the Southern Baptist Association or whatever where they basically decided they were going to start pushing conservative economic causes and prosperity theology. Does anyone know what I'm talking about (and better yet, do you have a link)?

I remember this. I'm not joking when I say this, it was published in many parts on an old LiveJournal account.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 06:43

Xibanya: Sep 17, 2012; Clever Betty

This: http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/118585.html ?

# ? Feb 3, 2015 07:41

The Rokstar: Aug 19, 2002; by FactsAreUseless

Xibanya posted:

This: http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/118585.html ?

Yep, that's the one. Thanks for the internet sorcery.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 07:48

kik2dagroin: Mar 23, 2007; Use the anger. Use it.

mr. mephistopheles posted:

Limbaughw is absolutely raging about vegetarians suing McDonald's saying they did it because they are bitter it is a successful capitalist company. I don't even loving know. Wasn't that case settled years ago?

Just look at this :yum:

quote:

RUSH: ... I'm now prepared to explain fully why McDonald's is in trouble, and I have the answer, which I would have had last week had I been all here. You'll have to forgive me for not being -- and I'm talking about mentally. I was here physically. But it is clear... I'll just tell you: The root of what is happening to McDonald's is exactly what's happening to the Republican Party. McDonald's is trying to appease and please their critics. And who are McDonald's critics? Vegans!

Militant vegans, militant vegetarians, are attempting not to get McDonald's to serve food they want to eat because they're never gonna go to McDonald's. They're trying to shut McDonald's down just like they tried to shut Burger King down in Berkeley by making 'em sell veggie burgers out there in the fast-food lane or whatever. You start appeasing the left... I don't care if you're the Republican Party or if you're McDonald's.

If you start appeasing them, you try to make them happy... One of the things they do... They've perfected this. McDonald's ended up thinking that half the country was ticked off at 'em for serving unhealthy food, and it was probably 12 people. Twelve people making themselves look like they were 300,000 people with weird Twitter algorithms and whatever other kinds of abuses they engage in, and we know this because they do it to us.

We've nailed them. We've identified the 10 people that comprise the Stop Rush. It's 10 people, and they are able to fire out thousands and thousands and thousands of supposedly legitimate, threatening complaint tweets and e-mails, and they're just 10 people. This has always been the case with me. I've always known. We've just been able to approve it with this bunch. It's always been the case that people protesting certain businesses or whatever.

Businesses don't want to deal with complaints. It's the last thing in the world they want. They'll do anything to shut the complaint down. If it's a result of where their advertising, they'll get rid of it. If they're selling a product people don't like, they'll cancel the product, whatever it is. And you've got 10 or 12 "nattering nabobs of negativism," a bunch of worthless people sitting in their basements with nothing better to do than harass people, making themselves look like 300,000 or a million or whatever.

The McDonald's CEO was simply cowered into fear. First move: Take the beef tallow out of the grease that they use to make the French fries. That was the reason to go to McDonald's for many people. Once you take the beef tallow out, french fries at Mickey D's are no different than anywhere else. Then along comes Michelle Obama and her health kick, and then the Happy Meal. For crying out, the Happy Meal! Who are McDonald's customers?

Kids, children, and parents who want to eat in less than 10 minutes and move on and get things done. It's not a white-tablecloth restaurant. It's not custom-made food! It's not you go in and order, specify how you want it. You go in and it's already made, sitting in the rack. You buy it, whatever. You walk out, you eat it, feed your kids. You don't take out the French fries and put an apple slice in there, in a kid's Happy Meal. That's just not what McDonald's is. But that's what they... Well, it's certainly not a Happy Meal.

The kids that get a Happy Meal with an apple slice in there or Tangerine Tango, whatever it is, are the same kids that are protesting this kind of crap being on their school lunches, and they're not eating it. But this is clear as a bell what happened here. The cure for McDonald's, just like the cure for the Republican Party and the cure for anybody, is to stand up to these people on the left and not be bullied by 'em, 'cause that's all they are. They don't want to work with anyone!

They're not trying to help McDonald's. They're not trying to make McDonald's a healthier restaurant. They're trying to shut McDonald's down. That is their objective. On the militant left -- I don't care if it's vegans, if it's vegetarians, if it's environmentalist wackos, if it's feminazis -- there is no desire to work together to compromise to take their enemies or their opponents and straighten 'em out and make 'em right. They want to shut everybody down. It's like Obama.

He wants not a level playing field. He wants to wipe out the opposition. It's just who they are. That is part of their political existence and playbook. Eliminate the opposition. The very idea that a bunch of miserable, unhappy people in this country who are nameless and faceless don't like McDonald's and therefore need to embark on a crusade to shut it down? Okay, if you don't like McDonald's, don't go there! But that's not good enough. They want to shut down McDonald's.

They don't like McDonald's, and McDonald's needs to be shut down. They don't like McDonald's -- and by God you better not go! If they find out you go, you're gonna get harassed. And it's not... This is exactly what happened, and it's what the Republican Party's up against. Whenever you hear the Republicans say, "Yeah, well, you know, we gotta meet the Democrats halfway on amnesty."

No, you don't! That's not the answer. You're not gonna be loved and adored by people that hate you if you go halfway in on amnesty. It doesn't work that way. They're trying to eliminate you. They're trying to get you to destroy yourself by supporting things your supporters are never gonna support you on. This is why it's such a mystery. The Republican consultants should know this.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I'm gonna tell you one more thing about this McDonald's thing. Some of you people, "No, no, no, Rush, they can't follow your strategy." I'm gonna tell you somebody who did. Scott Walker. Scott Walker running away with it so far, way too soon to mean anything, really, but in terms of early polling data right now Scott Walker is running away with every Republican presidential poll out there. You know why?

Even though he may not be right on immigration for some people, and even though he may not be right on this issue or that issue, you know why he's governor? Because he fights back on 'em; because he stands up to 'em; because he does not capitulate; because he does not try to compromise. He stands up to 'em.

So many people on our side are just demanding and ready for anybody on our side to stand up and fight these guys. And the same lesson, I guarantee you, McDonald's, whoever, stand up and fight the 10 or 12 people making themselves look like half a million, and you are gonna be rewarded. I know it's hard to do. You think it's a lot of customers upset that you're selling French fries and beef tallow. Stand up to 'em.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: So I got some e-mails during the break questioning my take on what's wrong with McDonald's. There's one thing I understand and I wish there were a way to change this. I think many of you people will agree with me that there are a lot of institutions, companies, businesses, individuals, who really, really do not understand the militant left. And even if you explain it to them, they think it's crazy. They think you're crazy for believing it. They think it isn't possible.

"Militant vegetarians? Come on," is their reaction. They can't possibly conceive of what is really actually happening to them. In McDonald's case, for example, I would wager you, they just can't come to grips, get their arms around whatever cliche you want to use, the fact that there are actually people who want to shut them down, other than their competitors.

And so when presented with this reality, when presented with the possibility that, hey, do you realize that maybe the people hammering you to get rid of beef tallow or to get rid of French fries, replace 'em with apple slices for eight-year-olds, you maybe think that there are people who are not trying to help you? That they're not gonna ever come in here and buy one of your Happy Meals anyway. That their real purpose is to get you to undermine yourself?

It's a serious problem. People do not understand the militant left. There is a militant left and there's a docile left. Even the docile left can get militant. Occupy Wall Street, militant. The idea that there would be militant vegetarians doesn't compute. Vegetarians, what's their image? Rail-thin, waif-like, obsessed with themselves health freaks. They may be oddballs, but the idea that they would mobilize and try to bully other people? The idea that there are any group of people that believe in something so strongly that if you don't do it as well they want to eliminate you. It's just something that I don't think enough people in our culture, particularly American businesses, understand about the militant left.

Therefore, when you present them with the truth of how the militant left operates, in this case, you know, I don't have any proof in this instance, but because I know it happens, and has happened for 27 years on this program, I can guarantee you that the people bitching at McDonald's and sending 'em complaints and filing protests and all this, are trying to make themselves look like they're actually McDonald's customers, and they're not. They're just a bunch of anti-capitalist militants who have figured out Twitter algorithms and any number of other procedures to make themselves look like they are hundreds of thousands and maybe millions, when they are 10 to 20 people.

They're taking advantage of the fact that businesses can't take the chance, getting this many complaints, why, we gotta respond to it. They're not even really getting any complaints. They're not getting any legitimate complaints. The complaints they need to be worried about are the people stopping shopping there, because the food doesn't taste as good anymore. That's the real complaint. They ignore that, and instead pay attention to the militants because they don't understand who they are.

... I know who these people are. I've been targeted by 'em. I know exactly how they work. I know what they're doing. I know why they don't like you.

Have you not been paying attention? They think cows are the biggest problem, global warming. Beef, have you not known they're coming for you? They've been coming for you for 20 years. Did you not see what happened to Burger King? They demanded Burger King sell veggie burgers in Berkeley, of course, because in Berkeley they're politically correct, they're not gonna eat beef at all. Well, okay, so Burger King put veggie burgers on the menu. You know what? Burger King ended up closing. They lost their customer base, and the militant vegans didn't go in and shop because that's not what they're about.

I'm telling you, folks, from a personal and professional standpoint it gets real frustrating, and it has been for years, trying to persuade people that are not as politically educated and informed as we wish they were to try to tell them who their enemies really are and what their enemies' tactics are and what their enemies' objectives are. They reject it, because they personally can't conceive of it. It doesn't compute. They think that accusations made in this nature say more about the accuser.

This has not happened, but just to illustrate what I just said. Let's say that I was able to get a meeting with a generic executive at McDonald's, don't care, CEO, no names, don't know anybody there. Let's say I had a meeting and told him exactly what I just told you, he would think I'm the one that's nuts. Not the people that are harassing him about the lack of healthy food on the menu. He wouldn't understand, why, make all the changes, accommodate every complaint. Get rid of French fries. Get rid of beef tallow. Put apple slices in the Happy Meal, and don't understand why they're not setting sales records. And then furthermore don't understand why sales are plummeting, and sales are because the CEO just got blamed for it by being fired or let go.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Here is Dennis in Richmond, Virginia, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Wow, Rush, thanks for taking my call. Longtime listener, first-time caller and I'm just thrilled to be on with you.

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. Same here.

CALLER: I'll be quick. I was just thinking about the McDonald's situation, and one of the most important ways to gauge your product mix, and even your core value mix, is to look at your competition and see how they act and respond to different things. You'd think that McDonald's people would look at how Chick-fil-A responded to the left when they came out in defense of marriage. They tried to take Chick-fil-A down. They tried to boycott 'em, and in that couple of weeks following that you couldn't even get into a Chick-fil-A because people responded because Chick-fil-A stood up to the left and defended their core values.

RUSH: Right, but there's another factor, and that is the existing customer base of Chick-fil-A dwarfed whatever number of protesters there were out there trying to make themselves look like they were the majority of people, they were a barely visible minority. And the customer base that Chick-fil-A already had dwarfed 'em.

CALLER: You would think McDonald's and, by extension, the Republican Party, would take a cue from those folks and see what it is to stand up to the left and defend your core values.

RUSH: I don't know that McDonald's even recognized they're being attacked by the left, that's my point. They might have fallen for the fact that, you know, we're living in a healthier country now. Who knows, the CEO might think, "Yeah, I got a problem with my menu here. You know, I really do have to modify." You never know what was going through his head. But, the point is, he ended up appeasing, and he created menu items that the existing customer base, that's not why they go there. They don't go there for a little slice of an apple in a Happy Meal for their screaming kid. It's fast food by definition. It's fast food. It has its purpose.

CALLER: I never ate at a Chick-fil-A until that all happened, and I've become a regular customer at lunch. I'm on the road quite a bit.

RUSH: You must like it then.

CALLER: I support 'em.

RUSH: You must like Chick-fil-A.

CALLER: Part of it is I can get a chicken sandwich at McDonald's, but, you know, I go to the Chick-fil-A because I support their values.

RUSH: Yeah, but, I mean, you wouldn't go to Chick-fil-A if you didn't particularly like it, would you, or would you just to support them?

CALLER: No, you know what, I'm not a big fan of fast food, but when I do decide to eat fast food I do go to Chick-fil-A. It's not because of the product. Like I said, a chicken sandwich is a chicken sandwich, but I defend their core values. If I'm gonna spend my money, I'm gonna vote with my pocketbook in that direction.

RUSH: Well, see, that's the thing. Now, I may be a little bit different from you in this regard. A chicken sandwich is not a chicken sandwich. I cannot make a chicken sandwich at home that tastes anywhere near as good as what I get at Chick-fil-A or even Mickey D's. Whatever they call theirs. I just can't. Ditto burgers. I love the beef tallow in French fries, I swear I don't know anybody that can get that stuff and use it at home. McDonald's gave it up, the signifying factor in their French fries, their signature factor.

But at any rate, you're right, Chick-fil-A had a customer base that came out in total support, as did Scott Walker's voters, and as did, you know, when Occupy Wall Street showed up some place, the Tea Party showed up and opposed them. In your case, your example, why didn't McDonald's take the example or see it at Chick-fil-A, I have no way of knowing. I could only hazard a guess and that probably wouldn't make much sense. But it clearly was an example to be seen and learned from. They don't understand that these health Nazis are not about improving McDonald's because they don't want to eat there. They want to shut the place down.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Okay, so I got some e-mails. "What do you mean, McDonald's got rid of the beef tallow in their French fries?" You may not remember this because it's all the way back in 2002 that McDonald's did this. That would be 13 years ago, almost 13 years ago. The New York Times had the celebratory article. The New York Times was happy as they could be. The New York Times was ecstatic.

"The McDonald's Corporation plans to issue an apology and pay $10 million to vegetarian and religious groups for using beef flavoring in its French fries. The action is part of a proposed settlement of lawsuits charging that the company misled consumers." The lawsuit was based on an assumption, folks. From the New York Times article: "...McDonald's said it had switched to vegetable oil to cook its fries in 1990, many people assumed that the food was suitable for vegetarian diets."

Vegetable oil, vegetarian.

No, it doesn't work that way. Because McDonald's is a capitalist company, and that's why they were targeted. They were big, they were pleasing to young people and children, and these literally insane lunatics were out trying to make people think that global warming and climate change was being caused drastically by McDonald's! I'm sure McDonald's thought, "Okay, let's get rid of this. We've got a hassle. We don't want people protesting. Let's just give 'em what they want. Fine."

The problem never goes away. You cannot ever appease the left. You can't appease ISIS. You can't appease Al-Qaeda. There was nobody that was gonna appease the Nazis. All these people have to be defeated, folks! McDonald's didn't recognize that they're up against enemies, not health freaks. They were up against enemies, and that's what I think a lot of people don't want to even go near.

They don't even want to go there, don't want to admit that. That requires an entirely different kind of business model. You know, a corporation may say, "We don't want to get anywhere near politics." But if the people trying to put 'em out of business are doing so with a political agenda, I'm sorry: They're being dragged into it by virtue of the fact the aggressor in conflicts always sets the rules.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/02/02/mcdonald_s_falls_prey_to_same_trick_the_militant_left_uses_on_republicans
BONUS:

WHERE IS MY DELICIOUS BEEF TALLOW, OBAMA :byodood:

# ? Feb 3, 2015 07:52

icantfindaname: Jul 1, 2008

drat, he looks old in that picture. Not a flattering angle at all

# ? Feb 3, 2015 08:10

Majorian: Jul 1, 2009

kik2dagroin posted:

BONUS:
WHERE IS MY DELICIOUS BEEF TALLOW, OBAMA

Boy, he does not like gay people.

Reminds me of an Onion video.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 09:53

HackensackBackpack: Aug 20, 2007; Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?

You kids and your weird Twitter algorithms! :bahgawd:

# ? Feb 3, 2015 10:30

anonumos: Jul 14, 2005; Fuck it.

FuzzySkinner posted:

Why is God viewed as a vengeful dick by conservatives?

Like...he sent his only son because he loved us (You know...all of humanity, not just white males) so much. That's like...the most simple, basic tenant of the faith.

Fear. It's the only thing that keeps them in line and they project that on everyone else.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 13:31

Takoluka: Jun 26, 2009; Don't look at me!

Majorian posted:

Reminds me of an Onion video.

Is that an actual bumper sticker I can get?

# ? Feb 3, 2015 16:57

Intel&Sebastian: Oct 20, 2002; colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!

I'm not sure there's anything more 2015 old man right now than blaming weird twitter algorithms for the disappearance of your precious beef tallow

# ? Feb 3, 2015 18:40

Tender Bender: Sep 17, 2004

I can't wait until we can look back and laugh at the "Children would rather eat pizza and candy than real food, and we should listen to them!" phenomenon.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 19:00

SpiderHyphenMan: Apr 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

Tender Bender posted:

I can't wait until we can look back and laugh at the "Children would rather eat pizza and candy than real food, and we should listen to them!" phenomenon.

Yeah but actually the future will be us yearning for the days when vaccinating children was a bipartisan issue.

:smithicide:

# ? Feb 3, 2015 19:27

Dr. Faustus: Feb 18, 2001; Grimey Drawer

MILITANT PACIFISTS!!! :argh:

# ? Feb 3, 2015 19:30

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

So remember that trip Israel the RNC is taking courtesy of the American Family Association?

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At this very moment, some 60 members of the Republican National Committee are in Israel, courtesy of the anti-gay hate group the American Family Association, on a trip organized by Religious Right activist and full-blown Christian nationalist David Lane.

This trip has been a source of controversy for all involved, resulting in the AFA unsuccessfully trying to distance itself from its most notorious bigot, Bryan Fischer, last week. While Fischer no longer works as the group's director of issues analysis and is no longer an official spokesman, he is still a daily radio host on the AFA's radio network.

Fischer has a long history of not only attacking gays and Muslims, but also of declaring that the First Amendment only applies to Christianity, meaning that no other religion is entitled to any sort of constitutional protection ... and that specifically includes Judaism, as he explained back in 2013 when he said that Jews only represented 0.2 percent of the population at the time of this nation's founding and were never intended to be covered by the First Amendment.

"By 'religion,' the Founders were thinking of Christianity," Fischer said, approximately 2:30 into this clip. "So the purpose was to protect the free exercise of the Christian faith. It wasn�t about protecting anything else. They weren�t providing any cover or shelter for the free exercise of Islam or even Judaism or even atheism."

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/conte...h.4oqbDHNM.dpuf

I wonder how BiBi would feel about that.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 19:47

Mc Do Well: Aug 2, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

CommieGIR posted:

I wonder how BiBi would feel about that.

'Sure, America for Christians, Israel for Jews'

# ? Feb 3, 2015 19:49

StealthArcher: Jan 10, 2010

McDowell posted:

'Sure, America for Christians, Israel for Jews'

'Separate and equal'

# ? Feb 3, 2015 19:53

LloydDobler: Oct 15, 2005; You shared it with a dick.

I don't know what Rush is on about, I'm a fat goon who regularly eats at McDonald's and the fries taste as good as they ever have.

I seriously doubt the McD's marketing department just runs around like babies fearing every protest and changing on a whim... they figured out that I would have never brought my kid there if they didn't offer those god drat apple slices. That decision earned them several hundred dollars just from me. My daughter does love the fries too, so her meal got apples and I'd get a large fries and share some with her. Best of both worlds, and without it I never would have taken her there.

McD's is a money machine, Rush. They know a hell of a lot more about what their customers want than you do. And if sales are down it's not because loyal republican customers are mad at them compromising on flavor, it's because there are like 10 new boutique burger joints that have popped up in the last decade to steal all their business. I now eat at either Smashburger, Five Guys, Freddy's, Larkburger, Sonic, or whichever others I'm forgetting, because they all make a way better burger than McD's does. But when I want it fast and simple I still drive through McDonald's. And they still have the best fast food fries in the business, period.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 20:12

turnip kid: May 24, 2010

A hot dose of diarrhea coming through:

http://thewilderness.me/ad-sense/

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No platform gives companies and agencies hired by them a bigger showcase than the Super Bowl. It�s the most watched event of the year drawing a worldwide audience for reasons that outnumber the playing of the actual game. Companies pay millions in blood and brand name to sell their product and their message to millions who will talk about what ads they remembered for weeks to come. These being the �Hope and Change� years of Pepsi style political sloganeering invading pop culture, the country should be standing around water-coolers laughing over how optimistic and great things are. But we�re not.

[...]

The reason and logic behind why all these companies thought they could sell their products better by appealing to our sense of cynicism and fears, rather than our collective sense as Americans of hope and optimism is because they know this is where our culture is at the moment. Despite the self congratulatory rhetoric this President reverberates from the bully pulpit, there aren�t rainbows appearing at will, or Unicorns roaming the plains. The Middle class is not growing and ISIS is not on the run. We feel as though we are governed by crisis at every turn and with the constant notion of impending doom. We are angry, we are exhausted and we have no reprieve from the invasions of social justice into our every day lives. More importantly, we are meant to believe we have no way of stopping it.

If the world constantly feels like it�s spinning off its axis for the past five years, it�s because it is.

The majority of Super Bowl ads were depressing because we as a country are depressed. If there are political undertones in maxi pads and smart phones it�s because our culture has been radically politicized. Any brief moment we seek to shelter ourselves we are faced with a progressive outrage mob screaming in our faces and demanding submission. Watching football no longer means rooting for your favorite team, betting a few bucks and laughing at a chimpanzee trying to work a fax machine. It means having conversations about domestic violence and shaming racist Redskins fans only after we just watched Barack Obama talk about whatever was on TV the past week.

This is the result of integrating radicalized progressivism into pop culture. We almost instinctively reflect the values of the leaders we elect and advertisers reflect us. If our President is taking selfies with Hollywood celebrities, we as a culture imitate and follow suit. If our leaders encourage social activism while standing behind mythical slogans born out of their past as organizers, it�s a green light to block traffic and barge into restaurants. And if our culture is built on a foundation of constant progressive disruption, nothing will be considered safe, not even a leisurely family activity like sitting down and watching a football game.

Is it any wonder that Scientology is beginning to look like a viable option to people?

We are sold on the promise of hope and change and yet we are reminded in our daily activities of a world falling into chaos. This White House continuously bludgeons us over how great things are, and that we just need to change our attitudes about it, like solving our problems by drinking a bottle of Coca Cola. But turning that frown upside down doesn�t bring back the doctor or pediatrician your family lost. Paying for a cheeseburger at McDonald�s with a hug doesn�t prevent the rise of radical Islam and a President telling us to simply turn the page doesn�t erase the lowest workforce in 38 years, which was Super Bowl XII.

Big problems, real problems, are purposely ignored so the focus falls on the imaginary microaggression of tampon shaming.

In 1984, Apple premiered a Super Bowl commercial, directed by Ridley Scott, showing a bleak, depressing, dark and hopeless apocalyptic future. A crowd of mindless drones nods along to a single minded authoritarian on a large monitor, barking slogans at them. A strong, athletic woman appears, charges down a long corridor with a sledgehammer, winds up, and heaves it into the giant screen, shattering it and all preconceived notions of the limits we as a people can accomplish.

That�s what �throwing like a girl� used to mean to us.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 20:50

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# ? May 28, 2024 11:54

Blarghalt: May 19, 2010

In response to those last few lines, I'm gonna say something that might get me in trouble: George Orwell was wrong. Specifically, he had some weird puritanical ideas about the English language and his view of the world and humanity in general was so hilariously bleak that it's hard to not read 1984 as a parody.

So to the internet at large: stop loving quoting him like a History Channel Nostradamus special. Thank you.

# ? Feb 3, 2015 21:03

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