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The real joke is that Trump slashed costs and removed the parachutes beforehand. And had the cheap engines that failed installed.
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E-Tank posted:If someone genuinely believes Donald "back the bus over 'em" Trump would give his life for a child to live, then I don't think there's any possibility for rehabilitation. 
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Jurgan posted:Can someone translate this phrase?
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I’m more picturing that scene from Seinfeld with George running from the fire.
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I don't even remember the original version of that joke but it was probably either racist or an Aggie/blonde joke (they are interchangeable)
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I'm so sorry, the stupidity is terminal. 
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TheKennedys posted:I don't even remember the original version of that joke but it was probably either racist or an Aggie/blonde joke (they are interchangeable) it was a blonde joke in the 90s for sure, dunno prior to that
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TheKennedys posted:I don't even remember the original version of that joke but it was probably either racist or an Aggie/blonde joke (they are interchangeable) I had heard it in the 90's using: the Pope, a boy scout, some politician, and Al Sharpton (the smartest black man in America). Feels like something that probably hails from the 50's or 60's.
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zeroprime posted:I had heard it in the 90's using: the Pope, a boy scout, some politician, and Al Sharpton (the smartest black man in America). Feels like something that probably hails from the 50's or 60's. Someone on my facebook feed posted the exact same thing, but with Trump and Hillary switched, and the child is Greta Thunberg.
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Lol gently caress
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So many daddy issues.
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Trump is here seen getting a hug from his young gay lover.
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Anonymous The Infection of Jesus, 2020 Digital
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TheKennedys posted:I don't even remember the original version of that joke but it was probably either racist or an Aggie/blonde joke (they are interchangeable) The version that we told when I was a child did not have any named person in it. It was a doctor, the world's smartest man, the pilot, and the kid. Maybe one more person that was their occupation, but no names or races or hair colors. To be clear, we did have terrible blonde jokes and racist jokes, just this wasn't one of them. jjack229 fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Apr 6, 2020 |
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jjack229 posted:The version that we told when I was a child did not have any named person in it. It was a doctor, the world's smartest man, the pilot, and the kid. Maybe one more person that was their occupation, but no names or races or hair colors. That's likely it, the Aggie/blonde/racist jokes were rampant but that dings a memory of it being a silly completely inoffensive Reader's Digest thing, so you're probably right.
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I didn't realize Jesus was 7 feet tall! Those are some very obvious photoshop filters too. The creator just cut and pasted pictures together and ran it through some filters.
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Alterian posted:I didn't realize Jesus was 7 feet tall! Are you saying this photo was faked? Huge if true.
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I bet this thread has hashed it to hell and back, but... what are the preferred strategies to deal with fox news-poisoned parents? My mother has started to share "just asking questions" videos in the family's main communication channel. Questions such as "corona is a CHINESE BIOWEAPON, carefully prepared ina Chinese laboratory, we must counterattack!!1!1". I have shut that poo poo right down, and called to explain that I don't share fake bullshit, and also that "Oh I didnt make the video, I dont know" is cowardice. And that "well that's a matter of perspective, all data has an agenda" is bullshit, if your argument is that we cant rely on reuters data that criticises china, because it has am american agenda. So yeah... I've been shooting down all of the stupid Shapiroisms, but what else could I do?
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Dawncloack posted:I bet this thread has hashed it to hell and back, but... what are the preferred strategies to deal with fox news-poisoned parents? Sever.
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Dawncloack posted:I bet this thread has hashed it to hell and back, but... what are the preferred strategies to deal with fox news-poisoned parents? I gave up a while back. I love my parents but I'm never changing their mind that Trump is an amazing gift from God. I should have known when in early 2016 I shared something about Trump on Facebook and my mom told me my dad was nearly in tears because I was "A Hillary lover" (I was the furthest thing from a Hillary lover). Facts have no place in these arguments, so I just do my weekly call to talk about the weather and my dog.
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Depending on where it's being shared and what's that's like, you can take a less direct approach by saying 'this isn't a place for politics, it's about family'. My extended family has a Whatsapp channel that is used for family talk, but anyone starting to post political stuff gets brought up short and told to share it elsewhere. It's usually pretty straightforward - 'there are lots of different views in our family, this channel is not for debating them but for sharing about ourselves and keeping in touch. If you didn't write it and it's not about us, it doesn't belong here'. It helps that we've also exiled other stuff in the same way - fantasy league chat got sent to another channel because it was like 400+ posts a day about team management and grandma does not want to see that. If its just mom pounding out her facebook with links, it's tougher to deal with. 
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Medullah posted:I gave up a while back. I love my parents but I'm never changing their mind that Trump is an amazing gift from God. I should have known when in early 2016 I shared something about Trump on Facebook and my mom told me my dad was nearly in tears because I was "A Hillary lover" (I was the furthest thing from a Hillary lover). This is what gets me, their positions come with so little nuance that you literally can't get them to shift their views slightly. It's always all-or-nothing. If you're not voting for Trump you love whoever runs against Trump. There can't be a problem with Trump, you can't dislike Trump and be a moderate Republican, nobody's actually socialist, there's nothing left of the Democrats except riot mobs... I had SO many problems with Hillary, and still every time I brought up a problem I had with Trump, my relatives would say "Well, HILLARY-" I don't give a poo poo about Hillary. I don't give a poo poo about the DNC. It's like they're trying to win a duel by catching your bullet and throwing it back at your heart, but they have no idea where the gently caress your heart is so they somehow shoot themselves twice.
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They are being radicalized and programmed. If you care enough to stop them from finishing this, you have to approach this as a de-radicalization and deprogramming. There is no possibility of approaching them with logic to get this done. It is, at its core, deeply emotionally driven. They want to believe this poo poo, and you need to address that and help them replace it with something that doesn't involve brain worms. It won't be fast. It won't be easy. It won't be clean.
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Not worth it, unless they are personally effected by something they won’t change their minds.
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Dawncloack posted:I bet this thread has hashed it to hell and back, but... what are the preferred strategies to deal with fox news-poisoned parents?  The e/n way or the cspam way
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I will admit that I don't know how Cspam does it's severing.
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Dawncloack posted:I will admit that I don't know how Cspam does it's severing. 
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My mom chose her crazy beliefs over me and her only grandkids. I had to sever communication last August for my own sake and haven't talked to her since.
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Deus Ex was a pretty good game. Not real though.
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No need to worry about covid-19, because 
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There's only one cold virus in the world, it just has a lot of hats and fake mustaches
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Should have been the screenshot for "do you have a single fact to back that up?" Really, you could respond to nearly all of this poo poo with any Deus Ex screenshot
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Medullah posted:Facts have no place in these arguments, so I just do my weekly call to talk about the weather and my dog. Earlier today I was so offended by the stupidity that I gave up on a 60yo+ acquaintance. I hope she'll return in a few months but for now I'm not initiating or responding to any coronavirus stuff. If she tells me about the person she knows who is in the hospital, fine, I'll be nice. If she asks how I am, I'll focus on working from home annoyances and progress on my chores. I've never seen this change be quite so rapid, from someone who is actively reading, thinking, and aware, to a person who constantly strawmans, ignores facts and statistics, appeals to false authority, etc. This: This was her story almost 8wk ago. Never mind that the first reported case in the state was the end of January, that she doesn't travel for work, that no one at her Xmas parties was or got sick. Naup, the virus apparently took a quick jet stream trip to infect her the day after Christmas. I've tried twice in the last month but as soon as you mention basic probability and the timeline, the argument becomes "then I won't know until they have an antibody test". For weeks the CDC was stupid, but of course today when I mentioned the WHO recommendations, naup the CDC is the authority. There's a ton of denial and anger floating around with all this. It truly reveals character quickly. I try to always provide links (X dept says this) unless it's an anecdote (shelves were empty). For some, this will be the end, either because "they predicted it and will make it so" or because they'll never recover (mentally, socially, culturally). Others are going to use it as an excuse for everything for the next decade (eg the Presidential election).
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 A bunch of my family members post this one all the time. I don't get it. I mean, I get it, it's saying "Just because I think America shouldn't let it Mexicans doesn't mean I'm a racist!"
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The worst part about that parachute joke is not that it’s just recycled madlibs style, but that anyone thinks this sort of joke is clever in 2020. It’s just played out. Progressive commercials are funnier.
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There's not enough coronavirus tests to go around, and the underclasses are starting to get desperate. Your turn.
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