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quote:To top it all off, he is black! HOLY loving poo poo I THINK LUIE IS ONTO SOMETHING
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quote:REAL! Someone needs to explain this one, it's a clip of "Lord Christopher Monckton" which a quick wiki scan says is some ex-politician who has joined the global warming is a scam crowd. I watched... well half listened to it and what I got from it was: -America is awesome -In a couple weeks Obama is going to sign away... something by signing some treaty. Maybe our money? -This is being signed in blood I guess because not even our 'future governments' will be able to undo this horror once it is writ I dunno what the gently caress, never heard of this treaty with satan. Just got this one too! Two for one crazy poo poo night! quote:
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Oct 22, 2009 04:22
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Hey once a treaty is signed, there is no earthly power that may unbind it! It'll be up to Jesus then... Though you can't beat the quote "your constitution says that [the treaty] takes precedence over your constitution." This guy is a nutbar. edit: his other problem is that it uses the word "government" to describe it's governing body, and is thus, the start of the world government. O lawdy. edit2: this guy is classy, calling for the permanent quarantining of HIV positive people, in an article called "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS" dphrag fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Oct 22, 2009 |
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Oct 22, 2009 04:49
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quote:From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.' Oh dear god if we start hanging Muslims from tree's Obama is going to oppose us!!!!1
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Oct 22, 2009 04:58
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Deuce posted:Oh dear god if we start hanging Muslims from tree's Obama is going to oppose us!!!!1 I looked that one up. The full context quote is: quote:In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. So very horrible of him 
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Oct 22, 2009 05:06
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dphrag posted:edit2: this guy is classy, calling for the permanent quarantining of HIV positive people, I got in to this argument with my sister the other week. I was trying to explain the ban on people with AIDS visiting America, and she (22 years old) said she agreed with it. Her boyfriend and I tried very hard to explain to her that it maybe made sense in the early '80's when we didn't know how it was caused, but now it amounted to a defacto ban on gay people, even people seeking medical treatment, even women raped in Africa under the mistaken belief that loving a virgin would cure you of AIDS, even though we let people with far more communicable diseases in. It boiled down to: My sister is an idiot. It disturbs me, because my Republican father agrees with me on this, but my sister, who generally is liberal (go me and my brainwashing) disagrees, because she's never thought about it. Her opinion is a knee jerk "I don't want AIDS!!!!" position. She's never been to a gyno exam and refuses to use condoms with her boyfriend and generally has a very hosed up stance about sex, so I shouldn't be surprised, I guess, but every time a discussion of a penis comes up I want to beat her dumb rear end senseless.
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Oct 22, 2009 09:46
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chesh posted:even women raped in Africa under the mistaken belief that loving a virgin would cure you of AIDS Interestingly, this point is debatable: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/babyrape.asp However Snopes' article is dated, and wikipedia links to a couple medical papers that describe single instances of an individual having been raped under the pretense it would cure aids, but I cannot find a wider based statistical study that confirms this is a widely held belief. Interestingly, it may have been the very media that threw up a storm about it that created the folk belief, not the other way around. From Snopes: "Their study found 60% of participants first heard of the cleansing theory in the media"
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Oct 22, 2009 17:08
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quote:Which evolved first? The Mouth, saliva, tongue, taste-buds, the stomach or the ability to feel hungry, without dying of hunger before hand? Can anyone else see that this is a faith based system. Imagine a giant stomach running around digesting everything in its path. This is ridiculous. quote:Which Evolved First? The Body, The Mind (Consciousness, Self Awareness, The Will and Thought... All of which are required for survival by the way), or Emotion (That reacts to the mind). You can't say from a single cell organism, because it doesn't have a brain, if it did have a mind, could it then choose not to Evolve. If you believe this stuff, you have got to be depressed. OK, not exactly a crazy political email from family, but constant Facebook posts from a high school friend who's gone Jesus-crazy. In reply I just posted a link to Wikipedia's "Introduction to Evolution" article, and he responded with the following: quote:Still doesn't answer the question of a single cell organism becomes a complex being. Darwin wrote the "Origin of the Species", not the change of species one from another. Ok, I'll grant micro-evolution/adaptation, but the question still remains... Which evolved first? Photosynthesis or Cellular Respiration. It's been a good five years since I last took a biology class, and I'm kind of rusty. Would someone please help me formulate a good response to this, and ideally link me to a good source or two?
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Oct 23, 2009 17:04
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I'd help you but apparently I'm too depressed.
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Oct 23, 2009 17:09
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Rollersnake posted:OK, not exactly a crazy political email from family, but constant Facebook posts from a high school friend who's gone Jesus-crazy. In reply I just posted a link to Wikipedia's "Introduction to Evolution" article, and he responded with the following: In the end though, all these arguments turn in to is basically giving someone a lecture in evolution. They haven't engaged in any real scientific discourse, so they think their obvious-as-hell objections haven't been discussed for the last 200 years. I used to really love getting in evolution arguments online, but its 2009 now, the evolution-denial movement has been thoroughly shown for the fraud it is. People who talk like your friend are willfully ignorant. Evoking Darwin is pretty silly, too. Its like "ohhh, the 19th century conceptions of the atom have proven to be wrong. GUESS THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS ATOMS" ManoliIsFat fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Oct 23, 2009 |
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Oct 23, 2009 17:22
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ManoliIsFat posted:These are scrubby as hell objections. Spend some time on talkorigins. But the macro/micro distinction is the lamest one. All it really takes is to understand evolution beyond a 5th grader's conception of genetics and selection pressures. I know, I'd just like to find the best way to specifically address his "photosynthesis or cellular respiration" nonsense question because past arguments with people like this ended with them essentially saying "you didn't fully answer my question, therefore God did it." He also linked to this website, which will probably be loving hilarious after I've had a bit to drink but right now is just depressing me.
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Oct 23, 2009 17:30
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Rollersnake posted:I know, I'd just like to find the best way to specifically address his "photosynthesis or cellular respiration" nonsense question because past arguments with people like this ended with them essentially saying "you didn't fully answer my question, therefore God did it." He wants an answer to that question the same way people want to know why Obama wants to kill old people and want to know why he refuses to release his long form birth certificate. Any answer will just result in a new question until he asks one you can't answer, then he 'wins'. Don't waste your time.
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Oct 23, 2009 17:44
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Rollersnake posted:I know, I'd just like to find the best way to specifically address his "photosynthesis or cellular respiration" nonsense question because past arguments with people like this ended with them essentially saying "you didn't fully answer my question, therefore God did it." You don't need to be drunk to appreciate that site. The youtube on the front page had me giggling within 30 seconds and I'm famously difficult to get giggling. quote:Ray Comfort apologized for his mistake about the banana saying “My apologies for not explaining myself more clearly. I was not aware that the common banana had been so modified through hybridization. However, the truth remains that God gave man the knowledge and ability to modify it so that it perfectly fit into his hand. He did the same with big dogs so they could fit into his car and with wild cats so they are perfectly fit for his wife. “ Thanks God!
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Oct 23, 2009 17:51
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Anosmoman posted:You don't need to be drunk to appreciate that site. The youtube on the front page had me giggling within 30 seconds and I'm famously difficult to get giggling. And the ability for animals to evolve through natural selection. Wow. It's so simple even a young earth creationist can understand it.
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Oct 23, 2009 17:54
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dphrag posted:Interestingly, this point is debatable: I'm really glad to be wrong about that.
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Oct 23, 2009 21:15
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Just to show that this is not a new phenomena  I did not know that JFK was supposedly a bigamist. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-61139564.html
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Oct 24, 2009 01:33
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quote:Subject: FW: THE COW AND THE ICE CREAM I liked the subtle "I had never met Olivia's mother." (lol birthers) Who doesn't love a vague metaphorical anecdote with BS numbers? Since it was family, I had to contain my rage, so I countered with this little gem: 
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Oct 24, 2009 08:25
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chrisxcross posted:I liked the subtle "I had never met Olivia's mother." (lol birthers) I'd love to see the person who reads this and says, "Yeah! gently caress Obama's ice cream!" Like...what do things like this even mean. It's like they took literally every annoying aspect of a chain email (bullshit, wistful anecdote, vague connection to politican of the moment) and created a brand of supercrazy.
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Oct 25, 2009 04:09
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HipGnosis posted:I'd love to see the person who reads this and says, "Yeah! gently caress Obama's ice cream!" Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and Obama has a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? You watching?. And his straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake... I... drink... your... milkshake! AND THAT'S HOW OBAMA DESTROYED AMERICA!
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Oct 25, 2009 04:45
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chesh posted:AND THAT'S HOW OBAMA DESTROYED AMERICA! 
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Oct 25, 2009 13:47
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HipGnosis posted:I'd love to see the person who reads this and says, "Yeah! gently caress Obama's ice cream!" Speaking realistically I think the most obvious example is UHC. UHC is the "ice cream" that everyone wants but 48% of America knows they "can't afford", feeding the cow being taxes etc. I know its ridiculous just speaking from point of view of whoever would agree with this. I think it just avoids mentioning any particular issue because then it never gets outdated no matter what other "crazy ideas" Obama introduces.
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Oct 25, 2009 14:31
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Didn't GWB and GOP win the previous two elections largely due to their promises of tax cuts? So why is GWB's ice cream good but Obama's ice cream bad? 
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Oct 25, 2009 23:32
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Subject: FW: THE PENCILS AND THE PROLETARIAT THE PENCILS AND THE PROLETARIAT ONE OF THE BEST EXPLANATIONS OF WHY OBAMA WON THE ELECTION --From a teacher in the Chicago area "We are worried about 'the pencils' when it is all about the 'Proletariat.' The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year... The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. I decided we would have an election for a class president. We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote. To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have. We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot. The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids. The most pressing issue in the classroom was that almost half of the children were failing and many were teetering on the edge. Many of the children were too poor to afford pencils and when it was time to take tests they could only stare at the questions. A few students had made deals with the wealthy students and received pencil scraps in exchange for doing their homework hand helping them cheat on tests. The day arrived when they were to make their speeches. Jamie went first. Jamie proposed that the money the class received for parties be distributed as cash to the students with the highest grades. He argued that it wasn't fair to have a party that everyone could enjoy when only a few kids were doing well. He concluded, everyone in the class was given a free pencil at the beginning of the year and the kids that are blaming the lack of pencils for their poor grades shouldn't have wasted them taking notes or drawing pictures. The three kids with the highest grades applauded, as did a few kids who figured that if the kids with high grades got extra money, they'd get pencil scraps at some point down the line. Now is was Olivia's turn to speak. Her speech was concise. She said, "If you will vote for me, I will set aside a supply of pencils that will be handed out on test days and returned at the end of the test." She sat down. The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want pencils." She surely would say more. She did not have to. A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the pencils? She wasn't sure. Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it. She didn't know. The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was pencils. Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide. Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered pencils and 52 percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They want pencils. 3 percent know that they're going to be the ones paying for pencils The other 45 percent know that if everyone gets pencils for tests they won't enjoy their pencil scraps anymore." These are the pencils Obama promised us!
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Oct 25, 2009 23:36
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Nenonen posted:Didn't GWB and GOP win the previous two elections largely due to their promises of tax cuts? So why is GWB's ice cream good but Obama's ice cream bad? "The Democrats wanna take away your Sharper Image gift certificate. You was gonna get one a them foot massagers... Oooh, wouldn't a foot massage sound good right about now? Democrats wanna take that away."
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Oct 25, 2009 23:38
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Subject: FW: THE PENCILS AND THE PROLETARIAT Wait, it sounds like everyone except the top 3 percent are getting hosed because they didn't have rich parents. Is this e-mail more subversive than it first appears? And if the teacher needs free pencils, she should go to the nearest military recruiting stations. They'll give you a box of hundreds for free! (yes, I see the extra irony there.)
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Oct 25, 2009 23:55
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Disco Duck posted:Proud to be White I got this from my grandma a while back. Here was my response to everyone she copied me in with: quote:Whites – particularly in America – have enslaved, massacred, and exploited non-whites for a very long time. This is the difference between saying you’re “proud to be white” and “proud to be Black/Latino/Native/etc.” In other words, non-whites have historically been told they’re inferior by whites who oppress them, so, to say otherwise is to righteously spit in the faces of those who embrace racist notions such as white pride. It’s a matter of context. Please think critically. Thank you. fwah fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Oct 26, 2009 |
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Oct 26, 2009 02:36
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Rollersnake posted:It's been a good five years since I last took a biology class, and I'm kind of rusty. Would someone please help me formulate a good response to this, and ideally link me to a good source or two? Jesus Freak posted:Which evolved first? The Mouth, saliva, tongue, taste-buds, the stomach or the ability to feel hungry, without dying of hunger before hand? Can anyone else see that this is a faith based system. Imagine a giant stomach running around digesting everything in its path. This is ridiculous. 
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Oct 27, 2009 06:10
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Well, I just got one containing nothing but images. Here's the pick of the litter. Exhibit 1:  Wonder why you can't find STANAG mags or 5.56? It's not a conspiracy by the Obama administration. Exhibit 2:  Well, I'll just go order me a P99 through the mail, just like I can a cap-and-ball revolver. This dumbassery has not been brought to you by the letters C, R, F, F, or L. Exhibit 3:  You know, there's a long list of grievances with George III in the Declaration of Independence. Nowhere is weapons confiscation mentioned. These two patriotic cosplayers would know that if they'd actually read the loving document to which they jerk off. In other news, the phrase "touch hole" now makes me feel kind of icky. Exhibit 4:  
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Oct 27, 2009 06:42
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Man personally I do enjoy guns but god do I hate the TFR style culture and this poo poo exactly why.
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Oct 27, 2009 07:33
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I am being asked to seriously respond to an article written by Ted Nugent concerning the "Barry O administration". http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34131 quote:Light ‘em Up, Fox News
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Oct 27, 2009 19:44
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quote:Even though Fedzilla has bankrupted –– bankrupted –– Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the O Administration wants to place your health care under the care of Fedzilla. Only a fool would endorse the very system that has ruined every thing it has placed its greedy, power-hungry, unaccountable bureaucratic fingers on. Right, because putting social security in the free market (i.e. stock market) would have worked wonders.
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Oct 27, 2009 19:54
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streetlamp posted:I am being asked to seriously respond to an article written by Ted Nugent concerning the "Barry O administration". How can you even "seriously" respond to that. Ted makes a bunch of opinionated statements and assumes they are true. He constantly uses pejoratives, which only takes away from his argument and make him look juvenile. He includes an odd statement about Mao Tse Tung, which I admit seems odd, but I don't even know the full story and imagine it is taken out of context. And wonders why she doesn't turn to Lincoln who, using the same criteria as he did for Mao, was responsible for more American deaths than any single man in history. So not only was Lincoln a mass murderer, but he murdered Americans instead of dirty foreigners. This is nothing more than another disillusioned Conservative/Republican on a rant.
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streetlamp posted:I am being asked to seriously respond to an article written by Ted Nugent concerning the "Barry O administration". Respond by air guitaring a killer riff and leave it at that.
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Oct 27, 2009 20:24
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Vilerat posted:Respond by air guitaring a killer riff and leave it at that.
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Don't know if it's been discussed here, but is there any sort of leftist/liberal equivalent to these emails? I ask because I used to get 3-4 of these a week from my conservative in-laws before I got tired of waking up to an inbox full of bullshit everyday and told them to stop. On the flip side, my family and most of my friends are fairly liberal, and I have never received anything even remotely as asinine as the poo poo my Republican acquaintances routinely sent. If anybody has any Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:I'M A RETARDED LEFTIST, SAVE AMERICA!!!! emails, I'd love to read them. Do they even exist?
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tek79 posted:Don't know if it's been discussed here, but is there any sort of leftist/liberal equivalent to these emails? I ask because I used to get 3-4 of these a week from my conservative in-laws before I got tired of waking up to an inbox full of bullshit everyday and told them to stop. On the flip side, my family and most of my friends are fairly liberal, and I have never received anything even remotely as asinine as the poo poo my Republican acquaintances routinely sent. If anybody has any Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:I'M A RETARDED LEFTIST, SAVE AMERICA!!!! emails, I'd love to read them. Do they even exist? I know they exist, because my mother (liberal) used to laugh that her brother (conservative) used to put a lot of effort in debunking any email of that type she forwarded to him. She said he didn't get that they were suppose to be funny and not taken seriously, so she stopped forwarding them to him. Despite being liberal as well, my mother never sent them to me, and I honestly never really had any interest in them, so I never asked her to.
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quote:Two Good Old Boys Buy A Mule From A Farmer 
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Oct 28, 2009 14:36
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Should I feel stupid for not understanding what in the gently caress that is supposed to mean?
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Oct 28, 2009 15:56
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Naet posted:Should I feel stupid for not understanding what in the gently caress that is supposed to mean? No, I haven't any idea what they're trying to say there.
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Naet posted:Should I feel stupid for not understanding what in the gently caress that is supposed to mean? If I'm remembering correctly, I'm pretty sure I've seen this before the whole bailout thing came about. I think it's been badly repurposed to make you think they're making a point. I can just see the recipients who send this along; smirking, nodding their head in agreement, and thinking to themselves "hehe, they sure hit the nail on the head with this one!".
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