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RagnarokAngel posted:FLAGS! Do I see the Union Jack in there in Dubya's picture? gently caress! No wonder he was so bad, he was a British plant to get revenge on us for breaking away to begin with! Those tea sucking bastards!
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Cjones posted:I thought everybody knew Darwin's theory stated that while evolution are simply (in layman's terms) genetic mutations, only the animals of the species that have advantageous mutations survive in the long run. You know, the fittest. When you say "Survival of the fittest" most people think "Bunch of crazy anarchy animals killing each other like 24/7". At least in the US. Evolution isn't readily understood or accepted, hence why you can have people with domesticated animals railing against the UNTRUE EVILS of evolution.
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MOLLUSC posted:Joe gets up at 5/a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning Joe gets up at 5 AM. The world explodes. Liberals. VVVVVVV Naet posted:Even simpler: LIBERALS TGLT fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Oct 21, 2010 |
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Chunk posted:better rankings by the WHO. Chunk posted:Ask him how government is intrinsically corrupt and inefficient, despite Medicare having an overhead cost of 3% and private insurance having an overheard cost of ~20%. Ask him how we can trust our health to be placed above profit. It's a pretty stupid cycle in arguing wherein everything you cite is liberal propaganda somehow. I had my mother tell me the statistics on terrorism were from liberals and they didn't know what they were talking about. Statistics gathered by the FBI on the crimes they investigated. Everything is a liberal agenda here.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:They brushed it off with "We needed the land and we fought a war for it"? Or like illegal immigrants come to the US because they need jobs. Well, y'know, except for the part where unlike Europeans Mexicans aren't bayonetting people.
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crime fighting hog posted:Someone correct me if I'm wrong: I think you fail to understand how important it is to throw money into an arsenal that could destroy the world many times over. This is a very important use of our money instead, say, healthcare or welfare. Also Russians.
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Miss Fats posted:Zwabu is spot on. My crazy conservative family and friends think that not believing in trickle down economics is akin to not believing in God (see what I did there?). When I say Trickle Down doesn't work, they dismiss anything else I have to say on the basis that I'm crazy to think it doesn't. Have you tried confronting them on the fact that a number of corporations have more money than ever but are simply not investing? If trickle down was in any way accurate this whole thing would be solved so gently caress hard we'd be in a second golden age.
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Miss Fats posted:It goes back further than that, my friend. And it's not necessarily a GOP thing so much as a rich white folks thing (who are incidentally represented by the GOP). No, I know that pretty much everything suddenly becomes "liberal" when it disagrees with their previously held notion but even something like the Wall Street Journal reported that. I don't think the WSJ is considered liberal. That being said you do add more guided menace to the birth of racism than there probably was. I'm going to agree with MrNemo, people are just pretty quick to look at anything vaguely in the out group and say "gently caress you". That being said it is certainly accurate that the rich have used race to blunt criticisms of themselves. Or religious hatred. Or really anything that can be used to say "Hey I'm totally like you gently caress those other guys". Such as the GOP's manipulative Southern strategy. They didn't create racism, and hell I don't even know to what extent every one of them believed black people were evil themselves at the start(Strom Thurmond certainly loved him some darker skin) but drat did they love winning.
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Blarghalt posted:I'm talking about people who, in place of thinking or making an argument, just like to quote Thomas Jefferson ad nauseum. It's just intellectually lazy. I do wish more people would at least quote the men properly instead of just picking, choosing, and combining the parts they like. Still they were human beings and wrong about things. Probably the best line from 1776 is from Franklin - "What will posterity think we were, demigods? We're men, no more no less, trying to get a nation started against greater odds than a more generous God would have allowed."
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Tape Speed posted:The Moors were thought of as "foreigners with bad ideas that will send you to hell." If a brown person had been brought up in Venice from a youth and everyone knew their life history and they spoke Italian and were loyal to the Doge, they would not have been the Other. This is not true of racism, and your point is misleading. Not Othello but "If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me." People hate. People hate for a lot of reasons. Racism isn't an invention by the rich elites to control the poor, although it certainly is used as a tool to do that same end.
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Tape Speed posted:Yea, no, it is Did you know the origin of the word Barbarian is from the Greek opinion that everyone else is just saying "Bar bar bar" nonsense? Aristotle suggested that 'barbarians', or non-greeks, were just more prone to docility and slavery because that's just how it was. Racism is just othering based on race. It's just hatred. It's not magical or unique or so specially cruel and hateful that a human being can't manage it without rich people. You accept that people can be xenophobic just fine but that they need help getting to racism? It's generated from the same basic fear - of the other who is not you. How about the treatment of the Jewish people? They didn't exactly get treated well and it was certainly more than just being of the Jewish faith. How about the story of the descendants of Ham? They were cursed to be black. Or how about Miriam who was cursed to be incredibly white? Certainly the whole Ham nonsense saw increasing popularity as justification during the 18th and 19th century slave trade but it didn't come from no where and it was always with the slave trade to begin with. TGLT fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Dec 16, 2010 |
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PerniciousKnid posted:I don't care; writing fiction stories about Joe Biden raping Bank of America's CEO makes me feel better. Your underclass hero is Joe Biden? Mine is the underclassiest of the underclassiest! With their grunge clothing and their dirtiness and their powerful UNNHHHHHH Seriously though, let's get the gently caress away from masturbating over people getting brutalized and back on topic, other people's crazy political views. quote:MUSLIMS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF MORE THAN 270 MILLION NON-MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE Boy do I love lopsided statistics and false comparisons.
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freebooter posted:"Point to other countries" is a fantastic argument for about 80% of the issues America gets so worked up about. Universal healthcare? Gays in the military? Gay marriage? Abolishing capital punishment? Hey, Canada's still trucking! I think you fail to understand just how different we are from them. I mean, sure it works on Europe and sure Germany has 1/3rd of our population but it clearly wouldn't work here in the US. We're just too different, bro. Too different. Too different. Too different.
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tek79 posted:I meant it more from the standpoint that it leads to even more implausibility/absurdity to consider that top brass would risk their careers and reputations by blatantly disobeying orders directly from their highest commander. The whole thing is just so loving stupid. But they do it all the time in Hollywood, just like Jack Bauer and torturing terrorists 
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ibroxmassive posted:Denmark, chief exports; Carlsberg, Bacon, cartoons You're forgetting Windmills and Islamofascist Terrorism. What kind of an American are you? Also, windmills are a plot by islamofascists to convert us all to inefficient green energy so that they can hoard all the oil for themselves. When shoddily built windmills by OPEC conspiracies all break in sync it'll end western civilization whil the Arabs bring forth the Anti-Christ and institute a new communist Caliphate. This poo poo is easy to make up.
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Fire posted:Atlantis through interviews with Egyptian priests. Do your research. He's joking, right? He is aware Atlantis is a purely philosophical construct that doesn't actually exist, right? That all of its history is contradictory and no one who spoke of it likely believed it was real and it was used to illustrate anti-Athenian virtues, right? gently caress me how does this happen. Why does this happen. Like, gently caress, if I remember correctly Atlantis history contradicts actual Greek history so hard Athens exists thousands of years before it was actually founded, solely to stop Atlantis. Does he think Athenians are also time travelers? Also that "i am equal, not better than in any fashion, the war-loving fascist" is either some "more equal" bullshit or he's got the depth of a puddle in Texas.
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four legs good, two legs better. four legs good, two legs better. Much like the person who wrote that bullshit earlier I don't understand what that book was actually about! gently caress socialism! JD Brickmeister posted:What, you mean bullshit idealistic stories pushing someone's agenda don't actually correspond to reality? gently caress! Seriously thought, a metaphor shouldn't require that much loving explanation. Either it's a good metaphor and you just have to say "NOW LOOK AT <X>" if you really need to, or it's a poo poo metaphor and you should rethink it. TGLT fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Jun 13, 2011 |
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JerkyBunion posted:I don't understand. Do mosques get built based on census data? A place of worship can only be built if its specific religion dominates the other, much like how it works in Black and White. So, you see, if Christians or people who aren't Christian but are willing to lie for Jesus say they're Christians they win and the Muslims lose. Alternatively, it's a bunch of crazy rear end bullshit from some one who hates Muslims. Like every other chain letter.
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Strudel Man posted:Eh, I don't know, it doesn't feel like that to me. "Invent a convenient way of pronouncing it" sounds like a specific reference to probably just a single term - but I have no idea what term that would be. If they're really behind the times, they're bitching about poo poo like "axe". It is a dog whistle. The only other thing I could think of is spanglish maybe, but it all boils down to "LEARN TO SPEAK AMERICAN, NOT-AMERICANS" as if language is some sort of simple static thing. TGLT fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Nov 11, 2011 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:It's completely incomprehensible to me how someone could think that people, of any ideological belief, somehow does not look upon 1984 as any sort of warning. The people in the book call themselves socialists. Liberals are socialists. Therefor liberals love big brother, and think 1984 is a guide to how to socialist by "socialist" George Orwell. Ha ha, those dumb liberals. Also, why the gently caress did he write so much about double think anyways? Not enough focus on the glorious soldiers of Oceania, if you ask me. This is the kind of person that thinks Animal Farm is pro-capitalist.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Well poo poo, who knew that being the world's top neurosurgeon told you anything about how insurance companies and economics work? It apparently doesn't tell you how evolution or geology works either. I can't wait for this guy to show up some more, he seems like a conservative's wet dream.
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DarkHorse posted:Islamists have no Jesus? Isn't he the last prophet before Mohammed in Islam? He's one of the most frequently mentioned prophets in the Qur'an, and he's an incredibly important figure in the Islamic version of the Day of Judgement as well. Jesus here is just a round about as gently caress way of saying "Not good clean WASPs." edit: Also I don't understand where he gets the idea that the Salafi movement is some sort of recent occurrence in the "past eighty years." Or Shinto. Or Communism. Like he's obviously not well informed to begin with, but "this ideology or religion or movement started at this point in time" seems like really basic knowledge. TGLT fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Dec 19, 2013 |
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DoctorWhat posted:They think the Earth is a closed system... and forget about the Sun. They don't know poo poo about what constitutes a closed system, so they think the second law of thermodynamics applies because they've been told it applies. Creationists prey on a lack of knowledge by throwing out a ton of poo poo that might, at first blush, sound reasonable or logical or scientific, but is debunked with a greater understanding of what they're actually talking about. And you combine that with people that are predisposed to think creationism is right and you got a lot of people thinking the second law of thermodynamics apply and half-lifes were once faster or are unpredictable and unreliable. Look at all the creationist v. evolution debates, or don't and just loving go to one of their websites where they lay out all the argument they've been using since forever. It's a bunch of poo poo that makes more sense the less you actually know about the subject matter. It's also usually just poo poo that you can fling out there rapid fire, knowing that each argument takes more time to refute than it took to put out there. Whatever gets let over you just claim was proven or agreed with or what the gently caress ever. Plus you get to look aggressive while them dumb scientists look like they're just on the defensive.
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Vorpal Cat posted:I love when they argue that the sun doesn't count because it doesn't provide any new "information". Demonstrating that they have no idea what the second law of thermodynamic, entropy, or information means in a scientific context. One of Ken Ham's creationist scientist people addressed the study where some bacteria evolved to survive on citrate, and his refutation was that it didn't add any "new information" but rather the bacteria just flipped a switch for genes they always had. As proven by the following information: I said they had it, so they did. I think it was about this particular experiment.
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sentientcarbon posted:Hahaha wow, a toy set that teaches spatial reasoning and self reliance? Holy poo poo, my toys were just good for mock-fighting each other. They're talking about stuff like legos for the spatial reasoning thing. Being a super awesome muscle man that murders the bad guys is self-reliance though.
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Strudel Man posted:The kind of self-reliance that's actively detrimental to one's success as a member of society, perhaps. I'm not saying it does, but it is what we as a society value and in a lot of ways what we define as being self-reliant. It's lovely but that's what it is. But toxic masculinity is more of a feminist concern than an MRA one. At least I've rarely heard an MRA talk about it other than to try and complain about how they're also totally downtrodded (so it's to keep being sexist). TGLT fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Feb 14, 2014 |
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Al Harrington posted:Woke up to this loving gem http://rogerhollander.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/bagram-a-living-hell/ Here's a website from 2009 sourcing it to Bagram. I can't tell if it's actually from there, but it's certainly older than the Benghazi attacks. Fun fact: It was a bit of a pain in the rear end to properly image search because it has a watermark that seems to only show up in fake Benghazi versions of it. edit: Hell, here it is on a 2010 Prison Planet forum post. Either people have magic time cameras or it's bullshit. 2nd edit: 2005 article that says it's from Argentina? Oldest reference I can find. TGLT fucked around with this message at 16:56 on May 4, 2014 |
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Twelve by Pies posted:I looked it up out of curiosity and apparently the first income tax was imposed in 1861, and another in 1862 to pay for the Civil War. It was raised in 1864 and abolished in 1872. There was another in 1894, but a Supreme Court case, Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co, basically ruled in such a way that it was made impractical, until the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913. To add to this, since I've had to actually deal with this same lovely image, before the income tax and after the income tax there were - shockingly - still taxes. The US was funded by gigantic loving excise taxes that basically just shifted all the burden onto the poorest people. Not that the kind of people that post this kind of image think that's a bad thing. Also all the poo poo we had funded by excise tax was largely that, poo poo. Whipping the national army into shape was an issue at the start of the Civil War.
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Dr. Faustus posted:That's weird. The way the Xtians I know behave, I always thought they read it like this: Yeah, those loving liberals, can't read the bible and poo poo. Look what it really says! 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. 6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? 12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. ... Oh. Well poo poo, I guess it does literally say "no seriously deal with your own failings first, if some one asks for something just give it to them don't try to gently caress with them, treat people like you want to be treated, and if you intentionally do bad things I'm not just going to let you into Heaven 'cuz you asked real nice like."
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Verisimilidude posted:How come right wing comedy never has a punchline? The punchline is "these are sheep." The problem is jesus christ look how many loving words there are between "A cowboy named Bud..." and "This is a herd of sheep." Look at the dude's description: "A young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Rayban sunglasses and YSL tie." That's not funny. Who gives a gently caress. Who cares. This could be a funny joke. If instead of the whole "sick burn" circa whenever the gently caress I was in grade school, it just jumped from the 150 page report to "that's great senator, but these are sheep" it'd be better. I mean, it's basically that Ron White skit about having his juvenile record being transmitted through Morse code and satellites, but no, gotta compromise the joke so people know just how much you hate those stupid RayBan wearing mother fuckers. Those young congressmen and their loving sunglasses!
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Bast Relief posted:Even in my humanities classes there wasn't really any indoctrination or dogma. The kind of people who make statements like what is shown in this comic would make me assume they'd never been to college, but if they have, then how the hell did they walk away with this view of it? They teach evolution in biology. If you take history classes, you're eventually going to get a professor who explains that the "Great Man" theory of history is basically dumb baby bullshit. Then they say the bad things about America, and I don't know the crusaders or Europe. If you take any general literature or rhetoric classes, you're bound to have some one tell you the "great universal classics" idea is nonsense. Then you read something by some one who might not be white or a man. Your Pscyh or Sociology courses will suggest that hey, maybe criminal behavior isn't because of some sort of genetic bad guy stain. Your Econ class might even say that austerity isn't absolutely always correct and, god forbid, your courses in government might touch on the fact that the legal roots of the USA aren't Christian but more secular. Also, like, gender studies exists, I guess. edit: Also if your last name is Schlafly, then you know relativity is some sort of liberal voodoo to destroy morality. And that's all leftist indoctrination. TGLT fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Clochette posted:A few neighbors and relatives of mine have been sharing image from the Britain First page. We're from New Jersey. The earliest I can find that image is from last year and it's a story backed up by The BBC so, I mean yeah. They're refugees and in a hotel. For like, two weeks last year while the UK figured out what to do with them. The other image is, as far as I can tell, just a stock image of a homeless guy. But I mean the Daily Mail used it once when talking about servicemen, so maybe that's where they got the misconception? At any rate gently caress 'em.
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Man, when I think of countries that are really good at handling hostage situations, I definitely think of Russia. I mean, if this poo poo actually happened in the first place. That LA Times article is just "Well the Jerusalem Post said this" and I'd imagine killing the "relative of a leader of Hezbollah" would have been high profile enough to warrant an actual loving name. edit: A quick check seems to show that the hostages were taken as leverage for a truce, which they got and then after some confusion they were released two weeks later. But I guess that implies a lot less RAH RAH gently caress THE MUSLIMS CUT THEIR DICKS OFF happened than whoever made that picture wishes. TGLT fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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sweart gliwere posted:How does it work, exactly? So he can be a fat, ugly, litigious germophobe, with a whiny voice, sporting a spray-tan with a combover - and it's still considered Alpha Male just because he's an rear end in a top hat most of the time? Alpha male is basically a nice phrase for "huge rear end in a top hat" that other huge assholes invented for themselves, yeah.
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evilmiera posted:Oh there are differences for sure, but they aren't very pronounced aside from medicines working slightly different and slight variations in physiology, as expected when evolution continues apace in different parts of the world. The problem with the articles you mentioned is that people of various races and sexes might have differences, those are oftentimes not going to bar those people from working by and large the same way anyone else does. Culture, diet and surroundings are in all likelyhood the culprits for bigger differences in groups (aside from issues like inbreeding in various locales). Even those differences don't really map to our concept of race. Sickle cell anemia is probably the most obvious example I can think of where prevalence of it gets treated as some sort of scientific confirmation of race. Except when you actually look into it, it isn't equally present throughout all of Africa nor is it wholly restrained to Africa. Also it ~*mysteriously*~ crops up where ever malaria is a real issue. There are different populations, but there are more of them and they are less influential than the modern notion of race permits. And really, you'd think a bunch of insufferable shitheads would be all for embracing that and running with an unduly complicated system of grading inconsequential bullshit but I guess that's too much effort even for them.
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Defenestration posted:Littlefinger the character is...not known for either of those things He's holding up a cup of some sort, and is smug looking? So clearly he's right, and also therefor agrees with me?? Didn't think of that did you??? Maybe I'll use Stannis next time???? Or maybe the person just wants some gullible people of their own to manipulate.
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Pretty sure Richard "'Peaceful' Ethnic Cleansing and Forced Sterilization" Spencer is the fascist. The literal, actual, no joke fascist. Like this ain't Cable Street 2 or whatever the gently caress, but Richard Spencer is the fascist in this scenario because that is literally his political ideology. He can bandy around 'peaceful' all he wants, dude wants to ethnically cleanse the US of non-whites and he quotes Nazi propaganda. I don't think the legal system should condone this but there's not really a lot detestable about Richard Spencer, a dude who is pushing for slaughtering or sterilizing large swathes of the population on ethnic lines, getting punched in the face. TGLT fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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Dejawesp posted:I've seen that one but I can't figure out what the artist means. Kelly's a persona like Stephen Colbert. Ward Sutton, the actual artist, draws those cartoons for the Onion as parody.
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TerminalSaint posted:That's a carousel. No that's a horsey fun time spin spin. edit: galliope TGLT fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Mar 4, 2017 |
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