Dr Christmas posted:

Birth control is abortion now. Protestants were fine with it before

Twelve by Pies posted:

This is not entirely true. Quiverfull has been around since the 1930s. If you remember the Duggars, the people with 19 kids, they were getting famous during the Bush administration.

Wang_Tang posted:

This guy was in the military, but seems to not remember that your average soldier is equipped with semi-automatic rifles of the same model as civilians. Difference being there's a three-round burst option whos use is highly discouraged.

1stGear posted:

Also the whole bit where if the military feels they might lose dudes attacking your house and there's nothing in your house they particularly care to keep, they will blow it up from a mile away. Not to mention the myriad of ways they have to neutralize you if they don't feel like leveling your block.

The KEEP YOUR POWER DRY folks seem to be stuck in the mindset that the military still wears bright red coats and forms up in firing lines.

Wang_Tang posted:

poo poo like this pisses me off. Is feminism always about abortion? As far as I've seen, reproductive rights were a recent addition thanks to advances in medicine and obstetrics over the last century.

Ringo Star Get posted:

I've been shaming friends on my FB by pointing out how fast they went from "Oh no those poor kids!" To "By gawd they're gonn take our guns!" It's honestly sickening to see someone go from supportive to nut job gun wacko in less than a week.

In a debate on Germany and the whole guns thing, I got called a Wikipedia History Teacher because the guy thought that it was impossible for a college-educated person like me to know a lot about history itself. It was only my major, rear end in a top hat!

vyelkin posted:

Honestly, the best response I can think of to that kind of idiotic meme is simply to point out that even America already draws lines on what 'arms' you are and aren't allowed to have. You can't have your own F-16, you can't have your own Abrams tank, you can't have your own Apache helicopter, you can't have your own Javelin missile launcher, you can't have your own aircraft carrier, and you can't have your own Predator drone. Considering those are the tools that a patriotic militia would really need to fight against the nebulous 'government' they're so afraid of, which has all of those and more, the fact that such a line already exists is pretty telling evidence that the second amendment is completely useless if one tries to apply it to an armed anti-government revolution. All pro-gun control advocates want to do is open a discussion about moving that line a little more. Since everyone has already tacitly admitted that that line needs to exist (I don't see any gun advocates yelling and screaming about how they need their own TOW missile launcher and Bradley IFV), it really should be a debate about degrees of restriction rather than black and white 'all guns or no guns'. But it's not.

ponzicar posted:

Even if they were legal to own, only a few very rich people would be able to buy any of those things, and even then it wouldn't be in quantities that would make any sort of difference against a real military, especially against one as well funded as the USA's.

vyelkin posted:

Honestly, the best response I can think of to that kind of idiotic meme is simply to point out that even America already draws lines on what 'arms' you are and aren't allowed to have. You can't have your own F-16, you can't have your own Abrams tank, you can't have your own Apache helicopter, you can't have your own Javelin missile launcher, you can't have your own aircraft carrier, and you can't have your own Predator drone.

ponzicar posted:

Even if they were legal to own, only a few very rich people would be able to buy any of those things, and even then it wouldn't be in quantities that would make any sort of difference against a real military, especially against one as well funded as the USA's.

CB_Tube_Knight posted:

Even a lot of the people for stronger gun control went "huh?" with this one:

http://imageshack.us/a/img829/3176/30752550919291911464988.jpg

quote:

What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his rear end.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the heck happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'
I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!!

GO AHEAD. . . BE AN AMERICAN!!!

RC and Moon Pie posted:

The ol' Charley Reese's last column was also included in this, but this little ditty was at the end of a cousin-in-law's posting.


I love how some of these things didn't exist or were new technology in 1913 (at least in rural America, where Mr. Cousin-in-law is from).

And some of these taxes did exist then. Like the school tax. Counties levied a tax at a certain amount of mills per district to keep the little rural schools open. If it weren't for the state and federal governments finally taking some control, they'd likely still be scattered all over the place with zero technology because the local districts couldn't afford to improve them at all.

quote:

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

RC and Moon Pie posted:

The ol' Charley Reese's last column was also included in this, but this little ditty was at the end of a cousin-in-law's posting.


I love how some of these things didn't exist or were new technology in 1913 (at least in rural America, where Mr. Cousin-in-law is from).

And some of these taxes did exist then. Like the school tax. Counties levied a tax at a certain amount of mills per district to keep the little rural schools open. If it weren't for the state and federal governments finally taking some control, they'd likely still be scattered all over the place with zero technology because the local districts couldn't afford to improve them at all.

Leospeare posted:

What I've noticed--and this has been driven home in the last day by a particularly stupid facebook argument--is that some people will tell you that America is NUMBER ONE, we have the best everything, all other countries envy us, God favors us, etc... but if you bring up taxes, suddenly America is a dystopia and taxes are literally racketeering and all Americans are slaves, simply because they personally don't get a direct benefit from every single taxpayer-funded program out there.

CB_Tube_Knight posted:

I never seem to get past them claiming America is number one in everything. The lists and rankings that say otherwise are propaganda. But I have more and more reason to believe that these people aren't right in the head or something because a lot of the arguments they make will often directly contradict one another and when you show them where they said what they said before, they won't acknowledge it.

Ror posted:

I talked to someone the other day who legitimately thought that the U.S. was still the world leader in science and technology. I didn't have any statistics to cite, but the only thing I can imagine the U.S. might be on top of is the sheer amount of money we throw around, regardless of the results. I find it hard to believe that we are leading anything in that field when our House Committee on Science is literally using the Bible as a playbook.

KillerJunglist posted:

Rose Wreck posted:

You use "nature's flu shot" after you have the flu?

So there is no way at all to prevent yourself getting the flu. But nature has a remedy, humanity just had to find it through trial and error while surviving the flu. You want it? Okay! The ingredients are scattered across the globe.

Nature is a Bond villain.

ratbert90 posted:

Even better yet, it they are telling to to take it until the flu stops. So it doesn't work?

Gen. Ripper posted:

Apparently this is what happens when a Katawa Shoujo fan is right-wing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svB_dWTBLY4

KillerJunglist posted:

Obama shoots anime characters? drat, I really did vote for the right guy.

Blowdryer posted:

This was posted on facebook by a guy who regularly posts illuminati crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx9GxXYKx_8

Wanted to find out if anyone on the forums were talking about it and somewhere to post it but the thread on Sandy Hook is gone. Just want to see what you guys think of it. I didn't watch the whole thing but why do people make these?

Pitch posted:

You can own any of those. You just can't convince Raytheon or General Dynamics to sell you one.

Gen. Ripper posted:

I really wish people would knock this poo poo off.

I mean, come on. It's 20 kids getting slaughtered.

Can't you find a better incident to feed your "uber ebil gubmint, gunna take ARE GUNZ "-addled mind?

vyelkin posted:

Honestly, the best response I can think of to that kind of idiotic meme is simply to point out that even America already draws lines on what 'arms' you are and aren't allowed to have. You can't have your own F-16, you can't have your own Abrams tank, you can't have your own Apache helicopter, you can't have your own Javelin missile launcher, you can't have your own aircraft carrier, and you can't have your own Predator drone. Considering those are the tools that a patriotic militia would really need to fight against the nebulous 'government' they're so afraid of, which has all of those and more, the fact that such a line already exists is pretty telling evidence that the second amendment is completely useless if one tries to apply it to an armed anti-government revolution. All pro-gun control advocates want to do is open a discussion about moving that line a little more. Since everyone has already tacitly admitted that that line needs to exist (I don't see any gun advocates yelling and screaming about how they need their own TOW missile launcher and Bradley IFV), it really should be a debate about degrees of restriction rather than black and white 'all guns or no guns'. But it's not.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I think the Taliban is doing pretty well surviving against all of those technologies by just having better terrain knowledge of an area where a lot of them are a lot less effective than sending ground troops in - which is where terrain knowledge gives them the "dying less than the latest US military atrocity recruits for us". And they do that despite the fact that their guns are illegal.

So my real question is why are American tough-as-nails militia folk such crybabies compared to the Taliban?

SalTheBard posted:

Saw this awesome pieces of poo poo posted on facebook:



Not sure why this enrages me so much, but this is coming from the same guy who thinks Sandy Hook is a false flag by the Gov't to take our guns.