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That macro is a good example of how sidetracked we get when we focus legalistically on "rights" instead of articulating and discussing actual policy goals.
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Mornacale posted:That macro is a good example of how sidetracked we get when we focus legalistically on "rights" instead of articulating and discussing actual policy goals. That sounds un-American to me. 
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Mar 11, 2013 22:17
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Since some of us started to make fake bullshit to forward, I made this one today:
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Mar 11, 2013 22:41
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 Of course, five seconds on google would tell anybody who was curious that he bought the guns to see how the background check system works and doesn't actually want to ban guns but facts are stupid and liberal. gently caress you mark.
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Mar 11, 2013 23:15
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Sprecherscrow posted:
But, we do control what gets put on TV with censorship laws, the FCC, timing rules. The internet is a little looser but whenever copyrights are enforced that's a loose form of control. Hell, they get controlled by registering and selling bandwidths and IP addresses. There is no analogy. What a dishonest piece-of-poo poo argument, but I suppose I shouldn't expect better from an e-card.
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Mar 11, 2013 23:20
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800peepee51doodoo posted:
Skeptics unplugged eh? I'm skeptical and I get to be caustic and a dick. gently caress YOU LIEBERALS
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Mar 11, 2013 23:20
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No doubt these are the same skeptics who have such sick skeptic cred that they doubt even global warming, another well-known leftist conspiracy.
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Mar 11, 2013 23:50
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Has anyone ever tried to make "Conservative Logic 101"? There's an unending stream of contradictory viewpoints one could issue forth, and they wouldn't be falsehoods, either.ThePeteEffect posted:But, we do control what gets put on TV with censorship laws, the FCC, timing rules. The internet is a little looser but whenever copyrights are enforced that's a loose form of control. Hell, they get controlled by registering and selling bandwidths and IP addresses. I really dislike the argument because it smacks of blackmail. It's like some kind of "gotcha!" rule where oh we'll have to let AR-15s skate by or else we'll have to throw out the 1st Amendment for TV and Internet and we couldn't have that now would we?
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800peepee51doodoo posted:
So what exactly do macros like this try to prove? Are they honestly saying that the president (and the president alone) will take all the average citizens guns and then statesmen will show up at your door and gun you down? Or better yet the task of systematic extermination of all TRUE AMERICANS will be handed down to retired astronauts? Because that is sure as hell what it sounds like they are implying.
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Mar 12, 2013 00:19
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I think what they are trying to prove is gently caress you mark
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Mar 12, 2013 00:37
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gradenko_2000 posted:Has anyone ever tried to make "Conservative Logic 101"? There's an unending stream of contradictory viewpoints one could issue forth, and they wouldn't be falsehoods, either. Alright, I think I might have something that will work:  And in honor of the originals:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6kXKwi5qGs 
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Mar 12, 2013 00:54
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What is it with conservatives having no sense of aesthetics anyway?
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Mar 12, 2013 01:18
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Graphics Design is a LIBERAL Art.gradenko_2000 posted:Has anyone ever tried to make "Conservative Logic 101"? There's an unending stream of contradictory viewpoints one could issue forth, and they wouldn't be falsehoods, either. Just have it mirror Liberal Logic 101 and put a border around it that says "Conservative Logic"
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Mar 12, 2013 01:22
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gradenko_2000 posted:Has anyone ever tried to make "Conservative Logic 101"? There's an unending stream of contradictory viewpoints one could issue forth, and they wouldn't be falsehoods, either. It looks like somebody made it back in December. https://www.facebook.com/conservativelogic101
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Mar 12, 2013 02:06
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gradenko_2000 posted:Has anyone ever tried to make "Conservative Logic 101"? There's an unending stream of contradictory viewpoints one could issue forth, and they wouldn't be falsehoods, either. Actually, yes, there is a Conservative Logic 101 on Facebook. Here are three examples of their macros.   
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The first two are good (I especially like how the first one separates the punchline below the white space), but the third one is unreadable, not to mention it blasts Bob Jones University for teaching a historical tidbit that's both factual and interesting. (My girlfriend's grandmother used to talk about how the KKK, in her town when she was a kid, was mostly a temperance movement who burned crosses on the lawns of wife-beating drunks.) Maybe with more context that quote is as horrifying as the image maker wants it to be, but as it is, it's just not as powerful as it thinks it is. Surely there's a better example than this of BJU being horrible.
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Mar 12, 2013 03:02
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MisterBadIdea posted:The first two are good (I especially like how the first one separates the punchline below the white space), but the third one is unreadable, not to mention it implies that it's wrong to teach a historical tidbit that's both factual and interesting. (My girlfriend's grandmother used to talk about how the KKK, in her town when she was a kid, was mostly a temperance movement who took on wife-beating drunks.) Surely there are better examples of institutionalized ignorance and prejudice in the Bob Jones curriculum than this. Not to mention that anytime the KKK is mentioned to conservatives they will say THEY WERE DEMOCRATS 
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Mar 12, 2013 03:05
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When did the word "classified" appear in the constitution?
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Mar 12, 2013 03:21
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Aw crap, Virginia bluescreened again, somebody power-cycle it.
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Mar 12, 2013 03:29
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VideoTapir posted:When did the word "classified" appear in the constitution? Yes, well, it doesn't and by that definition Reagan and North should have been hanged.
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Mar 12, 2013 03:40
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People link to that Onion thing all the time, but this is really "Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be"quote:Section. 3.
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Mar 12, 2013 03:44
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They both should have hanged anyway. Instead the former has a hagiographical cult to rival that of any of the Catholic saints and the latter is a political pop star who promotes FPS games. C'est l'Amérique.
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Urban Space Cowboy posted:Aw crap, Virginia bluescreened again, somebody power-cycle it. I saw the same thing with "Virginia" replaced with "Indiana" and DC and Maryland replaced with Detroit and Chicago. edit: The making-a-slightly-but-critically-inaccurate-explanation-of-constitutional-treason-look-like-a-quote thing reminded me of something I noticed recently. Almost every "founding fathers" or contemporaries "quote" you see that uses the word "government" is spurious. The word "government" was not used in the modern sense until...IIRC, the 20th century, late 19th at the earliest. In the late 1700s to early 1800s, "government" was used in the same sense that the word "governance" is used today; and from what I've seen on Google Books, ONLY in that sense. The only genuine founding fathers quotes that use the word "government" in a way that a teabagger would use it are the ones where the modern "government" and "governance" are interchangeable. That is the single easiest way to identify probably 3/4 of spurious right-wing quotes. VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Mar 12, 2013 |
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VideoTapir posted:I saw the same thing with "Virginia" replaced with "Indiana" and DC and Maryland replaced with Detroit and Chicago. I just got this on my Facebook feed (  ): Apparently Chicago became a city-state separate from Illinois at some point, as this sign implies. 
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Mar 12, 2013 03:54
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haha you better watch out terrorists, we're on to you.
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Mar 12, 2013 03:57
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Soviet Commubot posted:It looks like somebody made it back in December. These are nearly as awful as the originals.
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Mar 12, 2013 03:58
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Abdul al-Mahakeen slaps his burqa-clad wife in frustration and orders Jaffar al-Nasir to turn around. The attack on the cheese plant will have to wait for Grand Caliph Obama to disarm Wisconsin.
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Mar 12, 2013 04:00
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The terrorists can take my mac and cheese pizza from my cold, dead hands.
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Mar 12, 2013 04:02
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We've been fools all along. The liberals' best move is to take out Obama ourselves. "It’s like what Lenin said…you look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlQJ2n2jayU Also, "America bless God"? Best sign-off ever.
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Mar 12, 2013 05:15
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I wonder how it feels to be a living stereotype.
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Mar 12, 2013 05:38
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Wisconsin has the ELF antenna array at Crab Lake! We're important! So important! A great target! No, wait, don't go to Chicago! We're right here! We have all these wonderful cows and trees for you to blow up! loving muslam terrorists. At least the Reds were gonna nuke us. 
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Mar 12, 2013 06:27
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Ror posted:We've been fools all along. The liberals' best move is to take out Obama ourselves. This is the Southern conservative version of Fragmaster, right?
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VideoTapir posted:I saw the same thing with "Virginia" replaced with "Indiana" and DC and Maryland replaced with Detroit and Chicago.. The funny part about that is that Mchigan cities have no authority to regulate guns and Michigan's gun laws are pretty loose, certainly not much tighter than Indiana if at all.
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King Dopplepopolos posted:Actually, yes, there is a Conservative Logic 101 on Facebook. Here are three examples of their macros. One of the more interesting things about conservative "creativity" and/or "humor" has been it's almost cargo cult level of mimicry of what the left does, but with hilariously bad results and obvious misunderstanding of the underlying mechanism of what makes it work. Like Liberal Logic 101, it always ends up coming off as overtly smug and straw-man in message and visually it amounts to digital vomit. Seeing it in reverse, complete with terrible use of typography and corny stock images just doesn't work for me. Not to sound too smug myself, but liberals can do much better than this.
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Mar 12, 2013 14:33
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Ror posted:We've been fools all along. The liberals' best move is to take out Obama ourselves. Ugh, that guy. There's also this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqQQ1PUrgc "If the men who wrote the Constitution did that, how can it be unconstitutional?" Um...maybe because it's NOT IN THE loving CONSTITUTION.
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tek79 posted:One of the more interesting things about conservative "creativity" and/or "humor" has been it's almost cargo cult level of mimicry of what the left does, but with hilariously bad results and obvious misunderstanding of the underlying mechanism of what makes it work. Like Liberal Logic 101, it always ends up coming off as overtly smug and straw-man in message and visually it amounts to digital vomit. Seeing it in reverse, complete with terrible use of typography and corny stock images just doesn't work for me. Not to sound too smug myself, but liberals can do much better than this. I think they are trying to copy the original formatting. I think anyway.
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tek79 posted:One of the more interesting things about conservative "creativity" and/or "humor" has been it's almost cargo cult level of mimicry of what the left does, but with hilariously bad results and obvious misunderstanding of the underlying mechanism of what makes it work. Like Liberal Logic 101, it always ends up coming off as overtly smug and straw-man in message and visually it amounts to digital vomit. Seeing it in reverse, complete with terrible use of typography and corny stock images just doesn't work for me. Not to sound too smug myself, but liberals can do much better than this. That's a lot of words to say that you don't like Comic Sans MS.
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the2ndgenesis posted:I just got this on my Facebook feed ( Ah yes, Wisconsin, high priority terrorism target. What with the vast swaths of farmland and dairy production facilities, bars, and I guess Lambeau Field. Also Who The gently caress Types Like This, It's loving Obnoxious.
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Mar 12, 2013 20:02
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Mo_Steel posted:Also Who The gently caress Types Like This, It's loving Obnoxious.
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:FACT: 75% of all right-wing emails overuse Capitalization, ellipses...and exclamation points!!! I'm seriously curious if you could write a program to automatically detect crazy political emails by format alone. An algorithm that accounts for capitalization patterns, ellipses and exclamation points as well as the prevalence of single sentence paragraphs. Include incidence of FWD in the title and a few other factors like multiple fonts in a single email.
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