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I met an American around 2004 who toured the world and made his living painting murals for whichever guesthouse would have him. I was taken aback by his disdain for 'welfare queens'. Point of this story, hating on the lower classes is the most american thing there is. E: 
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:I met an American around 2004 who toured the world and made his living painting murals for whichever guesthouse would have him. There's a passage in Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London when he's slumming around the London casual wards and meets an out of work tradesman of some sort who's been tramping for months on account of want of tools and work, and as soon as Orwell comments on how lousy the food is, this guys responds with something like "oh they have to. If they made it too comfortable then all the scum would just flood in, they don't appreciate the value of good honest work like you and I. Just scum, the lot of them." edit: found the exact passage: quote:Then I told him about the wastage of food in the workhouse kitchen, and what I thought of it. And at that he changed his tone instantly. I saw that I had awakened the pew-renter who sleeps in every English workman. Though he had been famished along with the others, he at once saw reasons why the food should have been thrown away rather that given to the tramps. He admonished me quite severely. Captain_Maclaine fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Apr 28, 2017 |
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Apr 28, 2017 17:42
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:I met an American around 2004 who toured the world and made his living painting murals for whichever guesthouse would have him. For the record Regan's Welfare Queen, the woman who is what R's love to tote out, was a massive scam artist, who murdered a roommate for her Social Security. I didn't know until this week that she was also buying and selling babies. I had know about her for a few years, but she was covered in The Dollop this week: http://thedollop.libsyn.com/260-the-welfare-queen-live-in-chicago
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Apr 28, 2017 17:42
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Also note that people use the plural when there was only one of her.
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Apr 28, 2017 17:48
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If they can use her as a measure to curb welfare how about we use (choose your favorite white guy mass shooter) to curb guns?
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Apr 28, 2017 17:51
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Ambitious Spider posted:If they can use her as a measure to curb welfare how about we use (choose your favorite white guy mass shooter) to curb guns? Too many to choose from
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Apr 28, 2017 17:55
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Ambitious Spider posted:If they can use her as a measure to curb welfare how about we use (choose your favorite white guy mass shooter) to curb guns? "Well that shooter was nothing like me average Joe white male conservative so clearly he is no representative of my group! That black women reaffirms by existing biases about her group therefore she is the perfect representative of her group! What's that? I'm not racist! You are the real you swarthy cuck!"
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Apr 28, 2017 18:19
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Apr 28, 2017 18:57
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please don't doxx my hotel pay-per-view invoice, Peters
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Apr 28, 2017 19:08
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Cat Mattress posted:So, it's an investment. They are entrepreneurs. Free market environmentalism
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Apr 28, 2017 19:09
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Captain_Maclaine posted:How could it be justified given the glut already on the market? Bad posting is not a zero-sum game.
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Apr 28, 2017 19:18
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Selachian posted:Trump announced in his Reuters interview that he considers himself a "globalist." Ben Garrison headsplosion in 3, 2, 1....  I never thought I'd be excited to see a political cartoon, but here we are.
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Apr 28, 2017 19:35
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Selachian posted:Trump announced in his Reuters interview that he considers himself a "globalist." Ben Garrison headsplosion in 3, 2, 1....   1 2Trump is about to make an absolute mess of the tax code.  3 4This just needs a jug and some animation.  5 6 7 8 9 10Don't stress over robots; a bright new economy is being born.  11 12Welfare recipients wearing $400 jeans, baseball announcers making climate change comments (at all, let alone in the middle of a play)...I do believe this Lester fellow's being a mite disingenuous. And oh yeah, Curt Schilling.  13 14Pat Campbell is back from the dead!   15 16
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Apr 28, 2017 19:50
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The only reason he's against the death penalty is so he is free to murder people he knew from high school.
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Why is that woman's office out in the street? Why didn't she object on account of what "woman who works in the street" means? Why was a fax machine installed in the Wall Street bull's rear end? Why doesn't the cartoonist get that his belabored attempt at making an "Obama is bullshit" toon just doesn't work? A bright future of jobs from fracking and Uber. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/how-many-jobs-does-fracking-really-create/445227/ The real jobs will be in cleaning up the colossal environmental damage; for that fracking will sustain employment for millennia! That's... actually not a bad Rall? Yeah, the death penalty is a blight and the justifications for it are without exception massively hypocritical.
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Apr 28, 2017 20:09
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Okay, this one went over my head (hur hur), what's it supposed to be about?
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Apr 28, 2017 20:13
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Ramos posted:Okay, this one went over my head (hur hur), what's it supposed to be about? "Building castles in the sky" means to dream big but do none of the groundwork to accomplish your goal e although that guy is not donald trump like I thought he was so the metaphor is still right but I have no idea what it's referring to, I need labels dammit Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Apr 28, 2017 |
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Apr 28, 2017 20:20
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Sandpuppy posted:
I am unaware of the existence of Kansas. - Gary Varvel, expert analyst and cool dude
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Apr 28, 2017 20:27
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I have no idea what this is trying to say. Tax cuts are like apple trees? Do the tax cut trees grow jobs?
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Apr 28, 2017 20:27
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Internet Webguy posted:I have no idea what this is trying to say. Tax cuts are like apple trees? Do the tax cut trees grow jobs? They're an invasive species and will create a lot of unforeseen problems
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Apr 28, 2017 20:30
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Internet Webguy posted:I have no idea what this is trying to say. Tax cuts are like apple trees? He's trying to say that the tax cuts will pay for themselves by "growing" the economy. Doesn't work like that. Can work sometimes, if cuts are targeted at growing the economy (e.g. encouraging small business or helping the poor have cash to spend), but these tax cuts seem designed to heap money in already mega rich guys pockets, so probably no. They'll just put it on top of their existing money heap. http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/30/452905475/fact-check-do-tax-cuts-grow-the-economy
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Apr 28, 2017 20:31
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE_iOAQwgL0
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Apr 28, 2017 20:34
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Selachian posted:Trump announced in his Reuters interview that he considers himself a "globalist." Ben Garrison headsplosion in 3, 2, 1.... I'm not one to trawl through twitter looking for dumpster fires (#fyrefestival aside), but compared to previous gently caress-ups and backtracks this seems to be the first time the alt-reich is uniformly decrying Trump. All the other things they found a way to rationalize, but now they're going full blown "Trump is a jew puppet".
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Apr 28, 2017 20:37
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 Guardian:  "Steve Bell on Boris Johnson's tirade against Jeremy Corbyn – The foreign secretary used an article in for the Sun to launch a personal attack on the Labour leader, calling him, inter alia, a ‘mutton-headed mugwump’" Telegraph:  Trump's first 100 days compared to Obama's: All the laws, golf trips, holidays and poll ratings Independent:  Times:  Mail: Mac on... Boris Johnson's mugwump insult  'Ah, Foreign Secretary, what exactly is a mugwump?'
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Apr 28, 2017 20:41
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Internet Webguy posted:I have no idea what this is trying to say. Tax cuts are like apple trees? Do the tax cut trees grow jobs? Tax cut seeds will grow into massive tax cut plants that will pump all the water and minerals from the soil (economy), leaving the soil poorer and less fertile. To keep the tax cuts growing, Farmer Trump will have to spend ever more in fertilizers and pesticides, and Donkey is right to point out that this plan isn't affordable in the long run. So basically AGC.
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Apr 28, 2017 21:13
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That's how I got it, but then people explained that Varvel is a dickhead.
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Apr 28, 2017 21:30
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Cat Mattress posted:Tax cut seeds will grow into massive tax cut plants that will pump all the water and minerals from the soil (economy), leaving the soil poorer and less fertile. To keep the tax cuts growing, Farmer Trump will have to spend ever more in fertilizers and pesticides, and Donkey is right to point out that this plan isn't affordable in the long run. Also, the majority of apple trees grown from seeds produce soar inedible fruit. Even more AGC.
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Apr 28, 2017 21:30
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Sandpuppy posted:
Why is he wasting seeds by throwing them out in what is clearly a barren area that will not support plant life? Hell, even if that were fertile soil, not planting them means that most of them are going to be eaten before they ever sprout.
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Apr 28, 2017 21:33
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the_steve posted:Why is he wasting seeds by throwing them out in what is clearly a barren area that will not support plant life? Tax cuts for the rich are seeds thrown onto barren soil. AGC.
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Apr 28, 2017 21:47
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The well fed rich animals will leave a few fertile seeds behind in their droppings.
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Apr 28, 2017 21:48
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:Varvel is a dickhead. Which is what makes it A Good Cartoon rather than a good cartoon.
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Ted Rall managed to finallysit in a chair without crushing his own balls in the process. Everyone please clap
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SSNeoman posted:Ted Rall managed to finallysit in a chair without crushing his own balls in the process. Everyone please clap Here's a cartoon better explain the situation: Mark fiore cartoon
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Glorious leader, we are being attacked by America. Luckily thier leader is on one of thier carriers which is within striking distance.
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Apr 28, 2017 23:17
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Also what up with the chicago bulls?
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Apr 28, 2017 23:19
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Hihohe posted:Also what up with the chicago bulls? Kim Jong Un has a known, very peculiar relationship with a former member of that team.
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so is Dees back on the Trump train now or what, I thought he was done with him also what is Kim Jong-Un's position vis-a-vis the reptilian Illuminati, this is not clear
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