OneThousandMonkeys posted:

Speaking as a loathsome atheist, all Easter represents for me is an even more bizarre version of Halloween.

Loving Life Partner posted:

Dunno if its been posted before, but this is the greatest Obamashop I've seen

SaltLick posted:

drat I didn't realize that the entire American Muslim population had gotten on a plane just in time to celebrate 9-11 in the middle east. Talk about rapid deployment. We could probably learn from them a thing or two.

Dr Christmas posted:

What's the story about that particular headdress? Someone posted it in my feed, but only with a comment saying this would make them want to vote for Obama more,

JoshTheStampede posted:

Capitalists drive like THIS, and Socialists drive like THIS. Also Anarchists be shoppin.

Thompsons posted:

The fact that it's a Lenscrafters that got its windows smashed is really funny to me for some reason

MisterBadIdea posted:

I'm sure much of that list is total bullshit, but specifically, what's this about Muslims not being allowed football? Never heard of Islam being anti-sports; if that's true, someone should tell Muhammad Ali and Kareem, and also isn't Qatar hosting the World Cup soon? Do they mean specifically American football? Seriously, though, are the shittier fundamentalist sects anti-football or was that just complete bullshit?

muscles like this? posted:

No, see, because Allah isn't just another name for the Abrahamic god of the Jews and Christians. Allah is in reality a pagan moon god that they're just lying about.

ProperGanderPusher posted:

I almost guarantee that more people than you think disapprove of D&D for religious reasons. Among the ones who actually know what D&D is instead of taking Pastor Bob's word for it, they claim that even though you're not actually casting spells, you're still doing so in the game through your character. That's bad because the Old Testament calls sorcery a capital offense and it's bad taste to even pretend to do it.

ProperGanderPusher posted:

Eh. In my experience anti-D&D Christians tend to be hardcore evangelicals and probably think transubstantiation is idolatrous black magic as well.

Interlude posted:

I mean yeah there are definitely those types out there, but most people conceal carry to protect themselves from deady physical force and not because they want to stop robberies or play at being Rambo. Which is why concealed carry licensees hardly ever commit crimes. But maybe that doesn't fit your stereotype.

Interlude posted:

Is that a real thing, though? Beyond the fringe people who think guns solve every problem.

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

Because without the US doing...something...there will be a new golden age of piracy...?

This just makes me want to cut our defense spending and become a pirate.

thegalagakid posted:

Here's another gem I've gotten aggravated about recently.

Brawnfire posted:

I didn't know where else to put this. I hate people.

Wapole Languray posted:

Do people who watch this not realize how completely insane the "characters" are? The entire conversation is between a lunatic and a moron. Why are these so popular? And why the hell do they use those lovely "3d movie" websites with the Microsoft Sam voices? Is there some weird compulsion to spread bigoted horseshit via as many mediums as possible?

UnmaskedGremlin posted:

But then I noticed this post in my timeline like 30 minutes later. From the same guy who called me "liberal scum" when his team scored a goal on me during a hockey game (that we won). I want to post a smarmy response, but I dunno if I wanna open the can of worms. Its amost certainly directed at me.

Interlude posted:

That sounds snazzy but you're more likely than not to run into small business owners who have done all of that, got lucky, and now use their past as a badge of entitlement. For every person who gets their lovely paycheck and blames capitalism, there are a hundred more who blame the government for taking so much out in taxes.

Nick Hanauer (Amazon investor) posted:

There's something unusual about Nick. For a multimillionaire, he doesn't have your average multimillionaire view. In fact, he's come to believe that the system he benefits so richly from is built on nonsense—specifically, the idea that "the markets are perfectly efficient and allocate benefits and burdens perfectly efficiently, based on talent and merit. So by that definition, the rich deserve to be rich and the poor deserve to be poor. We believe this because we have an almost insanely powerful need to self-justify."

And the biggest nonsense of all, he says, "is the idea that because the rich are the smartest, and because we're the job creators, the richer we get, the better it is for everyone. So taxes on the rich should be very, very low because we're essentially the center of the economic universe, the font of productivity." Nick pauses. "If there were a shred of truth to the claim that the rich are our nation's job creators, then given how rich the rich have gotten, America should be drowning in jobs!"

"So if the rich don't create the jobs," I ask, "who does?"

"The middle classes!" Nick roars. "A huge middle class will produce an unbelievable opportunity for capitalists."

I tell Nick about Rebecca and Dennis in Iowa, about how their health-insurance costs are preventing them from driving across the state to celebrate their anniversary, thus denying them happiness and small businesses across Iowa their money.

"I fly around in a $25 million Falcon 2000," he replies. "And they can't afford to drive across the state to celebrate their anniversary? It's not fair, and it's terrible for business. The best ideas in the world aren't worth jack poo poo unless you have someone to sell to."

B. Wayne Hughes (creator of the self-storage concept) posted:

Wayne's avuncular manner deserted him when he talked about what to do about the have-nots. "I remember an advertisement with an Indian in a canoe in a river," he said, "and tears are running down his face because he sees all the trash in the water, and he sees what's happening. That's how I feel about America. It's an emotional thing for me." He paused, and that's when he said, "I'm a little surprised to find out that I'm an enemy of the state at this time in my life. They talk about your 'fair share.' 'Are you paying your fair share?' Fair is in the eyes of the beholder." He paused. "I hope I don't come off like some big person...so conservative.... I believe in spreading it around, but I believe in doing it myself."

"So the trash in the river is higher taxes?" I asked.

"It's the idea of entitlement," he snapped. "That idea wasn't there in the history of this country. When the politicians said, 'Everybody is entitled to a house,' you saw what happened. And now you have 'Everybody is entitled to go to college.' Which is stupid! When I went to college, I had to drive a truck to pay. I had a partial scholarship, but I took care of myself."

"So you're saying everybody is entitled to college but should have to pay his or her own way?" I asked.

"Some people don't belong in college!" he said. "That should occur to you."

I understand why Wayne's great love in life is his stud farm. There's something very thoroughbred-horses about his view of the world. Perhaps the different ways Nick and Wayne made their money helps explain their politics. Nick sees an economy of luck. He got lucky, and he understands that fragility for what it is. Wayne sees an economy of earning, where those with exceptional talent or exceptional grit rise, as they should, to the top.

seiferguy posted:

I had a friend who blamed me and other selfish liberals for voting for the "business-killing" public smoking ban of WA State in 2005, because he had a friend who had a failing bar and said "if this passes, my bar will definitely go under" and sure enough it did. Definitely because of that smoking ban, not because of any other factors, I'm sure!

hawaiian_robot posted:

Cowslips Warren posted:

There is a reason MMF is called The Devil's Threesome. Because if you are a Real Man, a Manly Man, another penis anywhere NEAR you makes you a human being. But a MFF is the best dream in the world, two hot women slaving over your cock. You are the Man! YOU ARE THE MANLY MAN.

MAN.

Crackbone posted:

Can we not turn this into abortion debate 101? I come here for Chemtrails and all-caps stories about how Einstein was a bear.

Mister Bates posted:

Right-wing chain emails featuring or mentioning Einstein are always loving hilarious, because Albert Einstein was a straight-up socialist. How socialist? Socialist enough that he wrote an article called 'Why Socialism?' published in a socialist magazine about how awesome socialism is. You'd think the American right would consider him basically the devil incarnate.

DJ Turbo Punch posted:

So my step brother shared this gem from some Tea Party Facebook page a few days ago:



As far as I can tell the facts presented in this image are complete bullshit. I can't find any crime statistics or murder rate numbers that put the United States anywhere close to that. I also can't make any sense of exactly what the message is supposed to be here. The United States would be some kind of Utopia without cities that have a lot of (black) people? There's too much gun control that isn't working in these cities? The US is supposedly one of the worst countries in the world as far as murder rates, yet gently caress gun control? I don't know, someone help me out here.

Mo_Steel posted:

Prepare the floodgates:



I expect a lot more of this coming up. It's a relatively minor thing, but why do conservatives hate the Post Office? I can send a piece of paper pretty much anywhere in the United States for under fifty cents and expect it to get there in less than a week. I can send a letter just about anywhere on the entire planet for about a dollar. I put it in a box outside my home and some guy in a truck shows up, almost daily, takes it, puts it on a plane or a boat or however the gently caress they deliver mail to Kenya should I be so inclined. For a dollar. How much more efficient could it possibly get, should they write the letter for me while I dictate to them?

I mean I probably know the answer is that the Post Office flies directly contrary to preconceived notions of government being universally terrible and thus is a sort of mental neon light disturbing the otherwise bland peacefulness of their broadly simplistic view of how society functions, but is there more to it than that?

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

If I could be king for a day, I'd have the IRS calculate your taxes and email you the forms all filled out. If you're okay with the numbers they came up with, do nothing and get a check in April. If you think you can do better, do the taxes yourself.

Defenestration posted:

And for good measure: A good macro

Dr Creflo A Dollar posted:

Trying to think of good things about Alabama and all I can come up with is 'space camp' and 'not Mississippi'

VitalSigns posted:

When I engage someone who is being self-righteous and calling people murderers, baby-killers, etc; rather than trying to argue that zygotes aren't people (it's a religious belief that I'm unlikely to change, and it just gives him more ammunition to call me bloodthirsty) or convince him of women's rights (he'll never accept that a woman has the right to commit what he thinks of as murder), I take him at his word that abortion has killed 50 million people. What a terrible holocaust! Rather than banning abortion and pushing women into illegal back alley places that still kill embryos (and sometimes the mothers too), we need to bend all our efforts to solving the problems that cause unwanted pregnancies. We need comprehensive sex education, free contraceptives, full pre-natal care, WIC, child welfare, etc etc.

He'll usually start in on not with my tax dollars or those sluts don't deserved it and then I can throw his words back in his face: "But I thought you said this was a modern-day holocaust that kills more Americans than every war we've ever had combined. If it's a crisis, we need to use the most effective remedies available It's curiously convenient that the slaughter is just bad enough for coercion and moralizing, yet somehow not bad enough to spend any money to actually fix."

Idiot Kicker posted:

I agree 100% with this, which is why I get so frustrated with the Vatican trying to have it both ways. People, including teenagers, are going to have sex. Without birth control/condoms, unwanted pregnancies will happen. If the church is really so opposed to abortion, why can't they accept that human nature isn't going to magically change?

ratbert90 posted:

I always love the line of thinking that schools have the right show their faith in god! Yet if you ask these same people if that means muslims should be able to pray in school the exact same people will turn around and go "Not in my country! "

nm posted:

He's protecting his home by killing urban youth.
Just like in American History X. (Seriously, some people actually like the curb stomping scene)

Tab8715 posted:

I tried... but some people

Flaggy posted:

So they are basically building another freep? Do they think that only "true patriots®" will join their new social media site and it will be a glorious haven for all the "true patriots®" without persecution from those dirty liberals? Buy our shirts, thats the only true way to get rid of nobama.