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Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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Edible Hat posted:

What would Obama get out of assassinating Paul Walker?

Obviously trying the cover up his role in Operation Fast and Furious.

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Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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On Ted Cruz's Facebook page, unedited because it's public.




This is the number three top rated comment.

Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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Nativity In Black posted:



I agree, they should teach people not to fight wars.

Are people seriously unaware that there is a large difference between women shouldn't learn self-defense and women shouldn't have to learn self defense?

What probably kicked all this off was Miss Nevada's answer during the Miss USA pageant:

quote:

Judge Rumer Willis noted a disturbing statistic about sexual assaults among college students and asked why she thought such crimes have been "swept under the rug for so long" and what colleges can do to combat that—a question the Taekwondo expert (and ultimate winner) answered with a personal touch.

Her response: "I believe that some colleges may potentially be afraid of having a bad reputation and that would be a reason it could be swept under the rug, because they don't want that to come out into the public. But I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. Myself, as a fourth-degree black belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself. And I think that's something that we should start to really implement for a lot of women."

Some feminists critiqued the answer such as:

Miss Nevada might be gorgeous, but needs to realize teaching self defense to women isn't the solution for ending sexual assault #YesAllWomen
— Elisabeth Jasina (@jasinae)

Oh course, the right wing persecution machine picked it up as those crazy feminists freaking out again:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/06/09/feminists-freak-out-over-miss-nevada-suggestion-women-learn-self-defense-n1849213

Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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The fallout from Ferguson seems to have driven the racists out of hiding. A friend of mine posted the cutest picture of her cousin, who happens to be an african-american toddler.

Some random racist from her hometown (Monroe, LA) decides this is a perfect opportunity to rant about "nigers".



Right now we're debating reporting the posts to her workplace.

Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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A good litmus test on just how racist your local gun nut is:

Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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Uroboros posted:

Is that really the reason? Is there really some special water preparation method coming from a culture that originates in a historically water scarce environment?

It's more likely they are threatening to go on a hunger strike to protest a move by the Hungarian government to force them into a refugee camp.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/hungary-train-diverts-refugees-back-to-camp

Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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I have a a friend on Facebook who's quite reasonable, but he has some batshit insane friends.

He's John Windawind, Peta Sarira is Vladimir Putin (who was tagged by his follower for some reason).

Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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right to bear karma posted:

Hope this isn't a repost. I browsed around and didn't see it, but it's so outlandish I'll be surprised if it hasn't made an appearance somewhere.



Found the original image. Google says it was posted on Twitter by some random guy in Medellín, Colombia, but I couldn't find the tweet. So my guess id that's Colombia.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-EJTW6XcAAE4el.jpg

Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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Astrofig posted:

Basically, Republican voters are idiot children who buy whatever is shouted at them the loudest.

And already fits their prejudices.

Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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I'm working on an effortpost to detail just how much the administration's story has changed on this. Here's what I have so far:

We're going to deter illegal immigration by separating families!
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610116389/transcript-white-house-chief-of-staff-john-kellys-interview-with-npr

We are not separating families!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kirstjen-nielsen-battles-senate-democrats-on-family-separation-at-the-border

The Bible says we must separate families!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/16/jeff-sessions-bible-romans-13-trump-immigration-policy/707749002/

It's the Democrat's fault we're separating families, we can't do anything!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-gaggle/

We're signing an executive order to stop separating families. Now they all get jailed together! Problem solved, right?
http://time.com/5317703/trump-family-separation-policy-executive-order/

Anything I should add or change?

Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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DarkHorse posted:

I might steal this wholesale if that’s ok. I have a shithead friend that’s somehow ok with this bullshit policy change

Go ahead and steal it. You might want to remove the links and put them in a comment, because I got very little reaction to my Facebook post and suspect the algorithm didn't like all the links. *sigh* Facebook...

You should also update it with Dr. Faustus's info to show how early this was being planned.

Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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MasterSlowPoke posted:

I seem to remember a few newspapers explicitly not endorsing Trump for president in 2016, but I can't remember which.

More newspapers that endorsed Mitt Romney in 2012 either endorsed Clinton or had No Endorsement than endorsed Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_newspaper_endorsements_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election

Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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Dameius posted:

Doesn't matter, the right wing grift machines have already labeled Snopes as liberal bias and no amount of facts or reasons will budge that label.

Take the label off. Just copy the text of the article, remove any mention of Snopes and include the links cited.

Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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jivjov posted:




Jesus. How many corpses will it take?

Sometimes I see things like this and figure it's so goddamn stupid that it has to be some edgy troll posting, but it's been posted by an actual Mississippi State Senator for Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/senatormcdaniel/posts/4748048281925689

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Tequila25
May 12, 2001
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VitalSigns posted:

Yeah we get it, there's information printed right on the labels, that's what labels are for, let's go gramps it's time for your nap

I wonder how he's going to feel when he finds out those labels are mandated and regulated by the GUBMINT.

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