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tacodaemon posted:I'm enjoying my $159,386 per capita GDP right now baby I got into a boredom induced debate with some idiot on Twitter who was convinced California was hemorrhaging all its population, this might explain where it came from.
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Jagged Jim posted:Did somebody say Benghazi? I hate Ben Ghazi so god drat much. Can't believe those corrupt libs let him off for killing Vilerat.
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fishmech posted:The drought doesn't really affect the average person's lifestyle. And it's not like Austin is cheap at all, especially if you want to live somewhere where you won't have a long commute to work and stuff to do. A lot of the companies moving to the Austin area are just doing that because they can pay a decent grip less and still get employees for a while, and some people have to move for that. Yeah, most of the Bay Area people I knew over the last 15 years that transferred to Austin weren't from California to begin with and just wanted a larger house AND modest $85k-$100k tech job. Plus they were almost all about to have kids/had small kids. They basically wanted the same lifestyle which would have taken a $300k+ salary or stock option lottery winnings/east coast trustafarian money to afford somewhere like Mountain View.
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# ? Dec 27, 2016 18:41 |
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From ‘Fake’ Obama Birth Certificate Was ‘Inside Job’ posted by freeper HomerBohn tl;dr: conservatives misunderstand how photocopiers work and come to unsurprising conclusions It starts off surprisingly sane, for freep. quote:
And then it goes to hell. quote:To: samtheman With original underlines. quote:To: FewsOrange Ladies and gentlemen, authoritarians. quote:To: HomerBohn Freep opinions: Obama's birth certificate is a fake because it's not racist enough quote:To: All How do these people not understand photocopiers!? loving hell, just look at the actual PDF yourself, http://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/birth-certificatelongform quote:To: XEHRpa quote:To: jsanders2001 OH COME ON quote:To: HomerBohn Jesus Christ, another one of these. I guess this goes from freep being freep to freep parroting stupid poo poo someone else said. quote:To: HomerBohn; All
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Is it too late to go over to the Muslim Shadow Government? It sounds a lot nicer than the one we have now.
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From Why Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Might Actually Stand Up for LGBT Rights posted by freeper Salman It's an article from the Daily Beast. It quotes parts of Tillerson's support of permitting gay members of the Boy Scouts, as president of the BSA. The excerpt stops right before these paragraphs, which are perhaps more interesting. the article posted:On the other hand, Tillerson’s LGBT record at ExxonMobil is poor. True, the company has recently improved its score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index (PDF), from 40 in the 2016 guide to 85 in the 2017 guide—but a closer look reveals that the change is illusory. It's a shame we just did a title change, because Freepers: quote:To: Salman quote:To: Salman Freep opinions: the existence of gay people is intolerable quote:To: Ann Archy gently caress you. quote:To: bimboeruption quote:To: Salman Freep opinions: gay people are the natural enemy of god quote:To: DiogenesLamp quote:To: Salman Freep opinions: You can't be pro-life while also supporting LGBTQ rights. (Actually, that'd be an interesting thing to see...) quote:To: CodeToad I love their continual redefinition of the word "destroyed" quote:To: Salman So much to unpack here... quote:To: KyCats quote:To: Ann Archy; All
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Where are all these roving bands of lesbian girl scouts, and are any of them age appropriate?Jagged Jim posted:Is it too late to go over to the Muslim Shadow Government? It sounds a lot nicer than the one we have now.
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Joshmo posted:Where are all these roving bands of lesbian girl scouts, and are any of them age appropriate? The whole point of a shadow government is that it's pulling the strings but isn't the actual government. That way they never take the blame, just running poo poo behind the scenes. Important, powerful people would know who they are and would follow orders (often under threat of "...or else") which would then trickle down the ranks. Private Rifle McShooteyman probably has no idea it exists but when Major Brassy Brass McBrasseronson says "do what the man in the suit says" you listen. The conspiracy of a shadow government also would have super secret special forces types of dudes who are in the military but are classified to hell and back. They don't have their hands on the levers but they have levers on the people whose hands are there. In the real world that doesn't actually make a ton of sense because it's pretty unlikely a tiny handful of old, white dudes in black suits could have that much control over the entire world but it makes for a good story. It would, in reality, involve a ton of 11-th dimensional chess and prescience. Best we have that comes close is a bunch of lovely rich people who just throw money at the government in return for more money coming back at them.
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SocketWrench posted:Holiday season the main theme seems to be "peace on earth, good will towards man" I'm also fairly sure this never happened.
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One of the things I like to say when I'm bored and trolling pol is that the real redpill is that there is no redpill. There are too many unknowable variables and the world and its 7-8 billion inhabitants' countless and ongoing interactions with said variables are far too complex and unpredictable for any one individual or group of individuals to control. Vast, all-encompassing conspiracy theories are absolutely ridiculous, and only very small-minded people fall for them.
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Alter Ego posted:I'm also fairly sure this never happened. I'm sure it did because he even admitted he WOULD be a tough guy...if she said what he needed to hear.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The whole point of a shadow government is that it's pulling the strings but isn't the actual government. That way they never take the blame, just running poo poo behind the scenes. Important, powerful people would know who they are and would follow orders (often under threat of "...or else") which would then trickle down the ranks. Private Rifle McShooteyman probably has no idea it exists but when Major Brassy Brass McBrasseronson says "do what the man in the suit says" you listen. The conspiracy of a shadow government also would have super secret special forces types of dudes who are in the military but are classified to hell and back. Also it helps to have your conspiracy backed up by real aliens and super soldiers.
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From How Trump’s win changed my Deep South college experience posted by freeper 2ndDivisionVetthe article posted:My first election made me question whether I actually have a voice in this country. To be in a red state as a minority student means my dignity felt stripped away. The fact that American voters supported Trump’s hate speech made feel threatened; some of his rhetoric was directed against my black skin. My identity feels more expendable to America now, as if my ancestors had not helped build this country. So I’ve been finding ways to make my identity an integral part of my academic journey, whether that’s by writing an English essay on race or picking up an African American Studies course for the spring semester. Before we get to the horrible things freep has to say, I want you to go back and re-read those three paragraphs, replacing the experience of a liberal northern black woman in the deep south to a conservative southern white "Christian" man in, say, San Francisco. How many of us would dismiss what they'd write just because of who they are and where they are, and what we want society to be. Let's be better than freep. quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Freep opinions: racism is the fault of the victim for thinking of them as a minority quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Seriously though, let's be better than freep. quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Freep opinions: racism is the fault of the victim for not being enough of a patriot quote:To: All quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Freep opinions: racism is the fault of the victims. Period, full stop. quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Freep opinions: dogwhistles? What dogwhistles? quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Original emphasis. It's an album. You can tell from the context that it's an album. quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet By the second page, there have been multiple freepers using phrases like "post racial" and talking about how black people just don't consider themselves American enough. Who is feeding them this poo poo? quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Freep opinions: racism is the fault of the victim for being a minority quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet This is not the only post in the thread telling her to get laid, but is is the only one telling her to get married. quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Freep opinions: I'm not RACIST, I'm just TIRED of all these LAZY BLACK PEOPLE and SLUTTY WOMEN THAT GET PREGNANT I have to hire - or - Freep opinions: What do you mean it's illegal to fire a woman for getting pregnant? - or - This is the best/worst post in the thread, just read it. quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Freep opinions: black Americans have no idea how privileged they are quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: CatOwner quote:To: CatOwner quote:To: NonValueAdded; All quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Remember all that stuff at the beginning about how we should be better than freep? We still should be better from freep, but gently caress freepers forever.
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McGlockenshire posted:To: Salman Stop making a big deal out of it and let them have normal lives and you won't hear anything.
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Alter Ego posted:I'm also fairly sure this never happened. Doesn't matter if it happened or not, it's the attitude that counts. these fuckers are so bent on "CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS!!!11" they're willing to ignore everything christ actually stood for to poo poo on someone
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McGlockenshire posted:From How Trump’s win changed my Deep South college experience posted by freeper 2ndDivisionVet I'm pretty sure he'd have a lot less to fear. Last I checked Hillary didn't have well known groups of racists backing her or people that felt women shouldn't have a choice when it comes to abortion, or people shouldn't have easy access to healthcare or want to go kick every other nation's rear end based on religion, resources, or because they said something mean. People that backed the democratic party have a lot more to fear from this election than a conservative could if it were reversed. quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Because they won't vote for a party backed by racists whose leader not only has stated racist things but also a healthy dose of sexism too. Nah, couldn't be, it has to be because they're racist SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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McGlockenshire posted:To: 2ndDivisionVet Oh so FEMA camps are good now that it's the liberals getting sent to them? Gotcha. quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Jesus Christ, what a nice dude, what an honor and blessing it would be to work for this paragon of industry. quote:There has not been, nor will there be any widespread racism, bigotry, hatred, or intolerance from white people or conservatives. What in the actual gently caress, how are these people even real.
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Fathis Munk posted:What in the actual gently caress, how are these people even real. I do find the shifting ideological currents on freep interesting in regards to this. The mainline freep opinion has mostly been racism is bad, conservatives are good. Therefore conservatives cannot be racist. Liberals are bad, so therefore liberals must be racist. That racism is bad somehow even penetrated the thick skulls of these people. But for some years now I've noticed a growing number of freepers that simply dispense with the above half-cooked defensive bullshit and state quite clearly, Yeah I hate black people, so what?
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# ? Dec 28, 2016 14:25 |
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Black people were racist to me first, therefore
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Didn't you know? Racism is explicitly saying "you are black, you filthy friend of the family. Your black skin is the sole reason I am saying this, and also the reason I am beating you and hanging you from this tree. Because you are black, no other reason. friend of the family friend of the family friend of the family friend of the family."
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^ this too. Quite a few have vented that racism is standing in front of a black person with a noose screaming "friend of the family" at the top of your lungs. Just calling them ferals, useless blacks, and other such slurs aren't racist because they're not the big scary "n-word".Fathis Munk posted:Oh so FEMA camps are good now that it's the liberals getting sent to them? Gotcha. Well, see, those things are bad, and white conservatives are good, so white conservatives couldn't be those things SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet "White people completely respect black women, and to prove it I would angrily rant at this woman and tell her how stupid she is if I met her."
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SocketWrench posted:^ this too. Quite a few have vented that racism is standing in front of a black person with a noose screaming "friend of the family" at the top of your lungs. Just calling them ferals, useless blacks, and other such slurs aren't racist because they're not the big scary "n-word". Even now, to them, the n word means a specific KIND of black person, who you are judging based on actions and definitely not skin color so definitely not racist.
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They believe that if you're racist, that this means you hate all people of that race with no exceptions. But they like Allen West and Ben Carson, who are black, so even if they think every other black person in America is a thieving murdering welfare cheat, well, they like these two black people, so they can't possibly be racist.
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SocketWrench posted:Last I checked Hillary didn't have well known groups of racists backing her Wrong Hillary Clinton called Robert Byrd her friend and mentor, and Byrd was in the KKK, and since we all know that no one can ever change, that means despite renouncing the KKK and working against them, Robert Byrd is actually still part of the KKK, which means by extension, $HRILLARY CUNTON (the butcher of benghazi) is an abominable racist, thus everyone on her side is an abominable racist. Checkmate, Lieberal. Fake Edit: Also something about Planned Parenthood. Fathis Munk posted:Jesus Christ, what a nice dude, what an honor and blessing it would be to work for this paragon of industry. I had a laugh at the last line of that post, "IT will be time to act like an adult & think like an adult."
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McGlockenshire posted:Before we get to the horrible things freep has to say, I want you to go back and re-read those three paragraphs, replacing the experience of a liberal northern black woman in the deep south to a conservative southern white "Christian" man in, say, San Francisco. How many of us would dismiss what they'd write just because of who they are and where they are, and what we want society to be. Desperately trying to equivocate a black woman in the deep south with a white guy in San Fran is the funniest part about this post. Tiberius Thyben fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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This was pretty lol inducing "To be a white conservative student on a conservative campus in a blue state means I am living a life of cognitive dissonance. My campus, where I feel loved and wanted, is situated in a state where many people have been taught to tolerate those who think like me." Yeah, poor white bread would get tolerated to death, those damned liberals Might as well just place him in Canada where he'll really be hated "I'm sorry sir. You'll have to write your hate message in English and French....eh" SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Star Wars Princess Leia Actress Carrie Fisher Dead At 60! Drugs Takes Another ICON Leia, No! quote:FReepers there's no bad language so don't be wary of watching it. WENDLE status: still possibly a troll. quote:To: Morgana The guy in the linked video is black, by the way. quote:To: Mr. M.J.B.; ButThreeLeftsDo Remember, Liberals are the real racists. quote:To: Mr. M.J.B.; Morgana quote:To: Steely Tom quote:To: Mr. M.J.B. Oh, right, Fisher. quote:To: Morgana quote:o: Morgana; Mr. M.J.B.; Yaelle; Steely Tom; Chode; All Haha their even trying to work in conservative persecution to this story. quote:To: Chode; All quote:To: Morgana quote:To: Yaelle; All quote:To: justiceseeker93; Nifster But hearts never suddenly fail for seemingly no reason! quote:To: NobleFree
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SocketWrench posted:This was pretty lol inducing It's an interesting lack of perspective to acquaint "Being told that I can't call gay people fags and beat them up any more" with "Being called a fag and beaten up."
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Fathis Munk posted:Jesus Christ, what a nice dude, what an honor and blessing it would be to work for this paragon of industry. Y'know, I just read this one and... hung on it for a while. I know Freep ain't exactly the image of human compassion, but... It's just pure power fantasy. To demand that much of someone else with incredibly lessened expectations of giving anything in return. This "paragon of industry" is, in truth, anything but industrious. It captures their own greediness against their own laziness. One where they enjoy the benefits of being at the top of hierarchy while doing absolutely nothing to maintain the hierarchy’s health or mutual benefit. They deny there could be any mutual benefit. They would create a situation that is only good for them while being absolute hell for everyone beneath them. They yearn to be the tyrant, and they would happily tell you that. But in that way, they kind of reveal the point of it all. Throughout all of this is the underlying assumption that even through everything, no matter how educated you may be, no matter the needs that motivate you, not only is all of that irrelevant to them but they don't even want to give us the jobs anyway. To even try with them would be a pointless exercise, and they would happily tell you that.
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I clicked through to the thread and read his profile. He's a semi retired independent bookkeeper. He's not hiring nobody.
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But drat if he doesn't wish so super hard he could refuse to hire you.
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jojoinnit posted:I clicked through to the thread and read his profile. He's a semi retired independent bookkeeper. He's not hiring nobody. This isn't just Free Republic, this is like 90% of online conservatives. From my few incursion into /pol/, I've seen the same mindset. They go on and on about how they're all rich and immune from classicism dialogue and can survive any fallout from racist policies somehow hitting them. The reality? Probably all 15 year olds still in high school who want to be edgy or depressed middle aged people who want to play to delusions of grandeur due to feelings of inadequacy.
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Just imagine those UN bureaucrats having to leave the luxury of the US for some hellhole in Eurabia.
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MeLKoR posted:
It really is just amazing how happily they'd gouge out their nose and both eyeballs to spite the UN. "Permanent veto power as part of the security counsel? gently caress that, we don't need them!"
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I don't think Trump or his voters get the UN is rigged to give America power over the rest of the western world.
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Erenthal posted:I do find the shifting ideological currents on freep interesting in regards to this. The mainline freep opinion has mostly been racism is bad, conservatives are good. Therefore conservatives cannot be racist. Liberals are bad, so therefore liberals must be racist. That racism is bad somehow even penetrated the thick skulls of these people. Essentially they assume that "racism" means hating every single person of that race unconditionally and advocating for literal genocide. You pretty much have to be Hitler to be a racist. Racism is also based on false information and bullshit. In their minds if you say "black people are inherently inferior" it isn't racism because they have proof that black people are, in fact, inferior. Ignoring that that kind of logic is what led to black people being slaves and then second-class citizens in the first place. This is also why they consider stuff like affirmative action and helping poor black folks get out of being poor is reverse racism. They believe that if blacks wanted out that badly they'd get themselves out. If they don't they either didn't want it or couldn't do it so gently caress 'em. Then they enact policies that put barriers up, cheer on racial profiling, and disenfranchisement while saying "they should just work harder." Well no poo poo you rigged the game against them. They have to work harder than you to get anywhere and it's your god damned fault.
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Covok posted:I don't think Trump or his voters get the UN is rigged to give America power over the rest of the western world. Trump and his followers don't realize a lot of things. They were told at some point that x is bad and that's all the proof they need
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Desperately trying to equivocate a black woman in the deep south with a white guy in San Fran is the funniest part about this post. Yes, it's false equivalence, I'll fully admit to that and just say that drunk freep posting might not be the best use of my time.
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Covok posted:This isn't just Free Republic, this is like 90% of online conservatives. From my few incursion into /pol/, I've seen the same mindset. They go on and on about how they're all rich and immune from classicism dialogue and can survive any fallout from racist policies somehow hitting them. The reality? Probably all 15 year olds still in high school who want to be edgy or depressed middle aged people who want to play to delusions of grandeur due to feelings of inadequacy. I have a friend that used to be like this. He inherited a small business from his parents and suddenly he was very into the fart-huffing JOB CREATOR Libertarian mindset. After he hurt his back and couldn't perform the duties of that job anymore, he sold it off and slowly came to the realization that not everyone can do every job and even motivated and skilled people can get completely floored by random, uncontrollable events. He's an actually tolerable and nice human being now.
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