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Zerilan posted:The language in the video is no worse than what I've heard said around kids or by kids in countless rural Appalachian households. It's totally different when white people do it because
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Mister Bates posted:It's totally different when white people do it because Because then it's not continuing the cycle of thuggery. Which is buggery but with a lisp, and totally not a dog whistle.
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I guess those Funny or Die videos with Will Ferrell and that two year old girl as a ball-busting hardass were actually SUPER CHILLING.
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Is anyone else getting a lot of Fukushima stuff lately? The ocean is poisoned, we'll never eat seafood from the Pacific Ocean agaiiiiin  This one just came out: http://themindunleashed.org/2013/08/at-very-least-your-days-of-eating.html Half of the links in the article just link to the website that produced it, or the facts listed have no sources at all. Credible! Hilariously enough, after someone posted that article, Facebook suggested two articles to me, which debunk the Fukushima scare: http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-facts-about-ocean-radiation-and-the-fukushima-disaster/ http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/fukushima.asp Thanks, Facebook 
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seiferguy posted:Is anyone else getting a lot of Fukushima stuff lately? The ocean is poisoned, we'll never eat seafood from the Pacific Ocean agaiiiiin One of my fiance's friends was over at our place for dinner a week ago and asking about this. She said her crazy hippie cousin was really worried about the  TOXINS in the water that she was leaving the West coast. I explained to her that the radioactive exposure we will get on this side of the world is negligible compared to background radiation; any toxic material leaking from the reactor in Japan would be incredibly diluted once it reached Vancouver Island. I don't think that explanation would work on her considering she seems like the type to believe in homeopathy.
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Taaaaaaarb! posted:One of my fiance's friends was over at our place for dinner a week ago and asking about this. She said her crazy hippie cousin was really worried about the I'd be more worried about the radioactive waste in your own backyard before I'd worry about Fukushima.
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Taaaaaaarb! posted:One of my fiance's friends was over at our place for dinner a week ago and asking about this. She said her crazy hippie cousin was really worried about the Don't ever explain the concept of background radiation to her, she might just implode. There's no way to escape RADIATION, NEUTRINOS and COSMIC RAYS. Tell her it's a government conspiracy to force mankind to evolve 
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Jan 12, 2014 20:18
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 Not as bad as the usual stuff, but the jingoism is painful. The reporter is clearly trying to articulate his reaction to the film, and for some reason Lutrell takes offense, which means we all should take offense! How dare that loving civilian speak to one of our heroic warriors in such a disrespectful manner?!
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EightBit posted:Don't ever explain the concept of background radiation to her, she might just implode. There's no way to escape RADIATION, NEUTRINOS and COSMIC RAYS. Tell her it's a government conspiracy to force mankind to evolve I should tell her that they're the active ingredient CHEMTRAILS giving people cancer.
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Taaaaaaarb! posted:One of my fiance's friends was over at our place for dinner a week ago and asking about this. She said her crazy hippie cousin was really worried about the People have trouble understanding just how mind-bogglingly huge the Pacific Ocean is.
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Flaggy posted:Got a good one today: A few pages back (and much older than that), but someone posted this little gem relating to it just now: http://www.ijreview.com/2014/01/107990-story-prof-fails-entire-class-illustrate-obamas-socialism-left-furious/ Apparently lefties are mad about a right-wing e-mail forward that has been around since Obama took office, as proven by this "article" that is totally not just said e-mail forward dressed up as an article. 
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Forgive the formatting, I'm on a phone: It was Martin's first day at Free Republic University as an exchange student and he was already feeling nervous. Looking around the classroom he noticed that most of the other students had pens and notebooks. Martin was concerned because when he attended classes back in his home country, they'd always provided those basic materials. He did notice that two students had laptops and one even had a video camera to record the lecture, "Wow, those two students have really high quality study materials," he thought. The professor walked in and without introducing himself he began the lecture. "I'm sure many of you idealistic young students are excited about this new 'Obamacare,' We will have to do an exiperiment in this class on Obama's great plan." "The math is indisputable, in this classroom, the average student has better study materials than anywhere else in the world. Just look at those expensive laptops. On average, each student has over $200 in study materials ranging from paper and pencils to video recording equipment." Martin began to do some mental math, "50 students times $200 = $6,000... but subtract $4000 for two laptops, another $1000 for the camera..." The professor interrupted Martin's thought process "Before we begin, I'd like to know a little bit about how some of my students got their study materials. Janet! I noticed you've got a notebook and some paper, how did you pay for that?" Janet answered "I work in an office and my employer has a deal with a supplier, part of the cost comes out of my paycheck and my employer pays the rest." The professor commented, "See, that's the great part, the employer can get a group rate instead of each person having to negotiate on their own." The professor hastily added, "a tactic that is only admirable when it comes to insurance, never when used unethically by workers to extort higher wages." The professor pointed to another student, "Steve, I noticed that you have an index card and a crayon. How'd you get that?" Steve blushed and said "Well, my employer doesn't offer insurance so I had to buy it on my own. I paid a few hundred dollars for this crayon, my plan doesn't cover pencils." The professor beamed "See! The system works! It's the envy of every other nation on earth" Martin couldn't help but frown, this system seemed VERY weird. The professor's mood darkened as he said, "Now, we'll do an experiment where we'll see how it works under OBAMACARE." "Everyone who gets office supplies through their employer, people in Janet's situation? NOTHING CHANGES!" The class gasped in horror. "It gets worse!" The professor continued, "Obamacare will create an office supplies marketplace, and every office supplier will be allowed to sell office supplies through it..." The professor was interrupted by hisses and jeers, "Let me finish, this marketplace will have minimum standards. They'll be required to sell pencils and paper, not just crayons. They'll have to have clearly labeled prices and once those prices are set, they aren't allowed to change them until the end of the day!" A student yelled out "THAT'S COMMUNISM!" The professor went on, "I haven't even gotten to the individual mandate. Every student will be required to buy a minimum of one sheet of paper and a pencil. EVEN IF THEY DON'T WANT TO!" "FASCISM! HITLER! STALIN!" The professor looked around the class, "But I don't think anyone here wants that, I think we'll just keep things the way they are. Does anyone object?" Martin raised his hand, the professor scowled, "What? Do you really think there's a better way?" Martin said "Back in my country, the government buys a bunch of school materials, this gives them a good position to negotiate from so they get a good price, then they divide up the materials to everyone. They even provide special equipment to blind or deaf students. Why don't we do it that way?" The professor stared, "What's your name, boy?" Martin replied, "Martin, sir. Martin Luther King Jr." The professor turned red and screamed,"Get out of my class, monkey! " Dr. Arbitrary fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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Duncan Doenitz posted:A few pages back (and much older than that), but someone posted this little gem relating to it just now: "What I am reading now is liberals, progressives or those that dismiss the STORY because it’s a scenario and not real. They can’t cope with the real truth that you can’t move poor people into prosperity by legislation from Washington, DC. Government doesn’t have the authority to take from Citizen A and give to Citizen B to make things even." From thought to page, this never disturbed him. An editor approved it. Readers didn't demand his resignation for it.
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Taaaaaaarb! posted:One of my fiance's friends was over at our place for dinner a week ago and asking about this. She said her crazy hippie cousin was really worried about the Well homeopathy is just the idea that if you take something harmful and dilute it a crazy amount it becomes health-giving. So then by that reasoning the contamination in the Pacific ocean should be making people healthier. QED.
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Time to read Zinn posted:"What I am reading now is liberals, progressives or those that dismiss the STORY because it’s a scenario and not real. They can’t cope with the real truth that you can’t move poor people into prosperity by legislation from Washington, DC. Government doesn’t have the authority to take from Citizen A and give to Citizen B to make things even." I really wish someone would respond to him by saying, 'Yes, comrade, I too agree that true equality can only be achieved through a workers' revolution to abolish the corrupt capitalist system. True reform will not come from above!' and follow it by linking to a Youtube video of L'Internationale.
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McDowell posted:I never knew points on a test were a finite resource. They are - there's a perfect score you can attain, and you can't go above it. SALARY CAPS!
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quote:Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this…
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Jan 13, 2014 19:43
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I want to know why all these rich people who supposedly hate taxes willingly congregate in the highest tax states in the highest taxed cities in said states instead of buying homes in bumfuck Mississippi instead.
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Jan 13, 2014 19:46
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The untold part of this allegory is that the beers cost the bar $90. After a few months the dumb bartender selling the beers for $80 had run the bar into bankruptcy.
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Jan 13, 2014 19:57
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Rewrite so that the tenth man flaunted his wealth all the time at the bar, but when it came time to pay he would constantly claim that he had left his wallet at home and that he paid them all back by giving them sips of his beer sometimes.
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Dr. VonHugenstein posted:The untold part of this allegory is that the beers cost the bar $90. After a few months the dumb bartender selling the beers for $80 had run the bar into bankruptcy. Also instead of the 9 men beating the richest man up, the rich man hires some thugs to beat up the four poorest while convincing the other 5 that the poor ones deserve it.
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Amused to Death posted:I want to know why all these rich people who supposedly hate taxes willingly congregate in the highest tax states in the highest taxed cities in said states instead of buying homes in bumfuck Mississippi instead. Seriously they could be getting paid to go live in Alaska right now.
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JohnClark posted:
So what wad said that offended our precious Hero Solider?
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KomradeX posted:So what wad said that offended our precious Hero Solider? “One of the emotions I felt while watching the film is, first of all, just the hopelessness of the situation. How horrific it was. And also, all that loss of life of these brave American men. And I was torn about the message of the film,” Tapper commented, “in the same way that I think I am about the war in Afghanistan itself. I don’t want any more senseless American death and at the same time, I know that there are bad people there, and good people who need help. Was that intentional?” “Well, I don’t know what part of the film you were watching, but hopelessness really came into it,” the Navy SEAL Luttrell retorted. “Where did you see that? Because there was never any point where we just felt like we were just hopelessly lost or anything like that. We never gave up, we never felt like we were losing, until we were actually dead. That never came across in the battle and while we were fighting on the mountain and it was just us against them.” “Just the sense of all these wonderful people who died,” Tapper tried to clarify. “It seemed senseless. I don’t mean to disrespect in any way, but it seemed senseless — all of these wonderful people who were killed for an op that went wrong.” “We spend our whole lives training to defending this country and then we were sent over there by this country, so you’re telling me because we were over there doing what we were told by our country that it was senseless?” Luttrell asked. “And my guys, what? They died for nothing?” “No,” Tapper replied. “That’s what you said,” Luttrell shot back.
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Ron Jeremy posted:“And my guys, what? They died for nothing?” He should have said "Yes." The idea that the military is over in Afghanistan "defending our country" in an active sense is loving laughable.
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Ron Jeremy posted:“One of the emotions I felt while watching the film is, first of all, just the hopelessness of the situation. How horrific it was. And also, all that loss of life of these brave American men. And I was torn about the message of the film,” Tapper commented, “in the same way that I think I am about the war in Afghanistan itself. I don’t want any more senseless American death and at the same time, I know that there are bad people there, and good people who need help. Was that intentional?” Actually, yeah, that's one of the biggest tragedies of war. Men and women wasting their bravery, training, and lives in a cause that isn't worth it.
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Ron Jeremy posted:“We spend our whole lives training to defending this country and then we were sent over there by this country, so you’re telling me because we were over there doing what we were told by our country that it was senseless?” Luttrell asked. “And my guys, what? They died for nothing?” Isn't that one of the continuing arguments for the war? "We can't stop the war now, it'd make all the deaths of the soldiers whom have died already meaningless!"
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E-Tank posted:Isn't that one of the continuing arguments for the war? "We can't stop the war now, it'd make all the deaths of the soldiers whom have died already meaningless!" Works the other way too.  "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
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Ron Jeremy posted:“One of the emotions I felt while watching the film is, first of all, just the hopelessness of the situation. How horrific it was. And also, all that loss of life of these brave American men. And I was torn about the message of the film,” Tapper commented, “in the same way that I think I am about the war in Afghanistan itself. I don’t want any more senseless American death and at the same time, I know that there are bad people there, and good people who need help. Was that intentional?” Sounds like Luttrell wants to be offended by a comment like that because the alternative would be admitting that his men did indeed die for no reason. Or rather, that they didn't need to die at all.
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Amused to Death posted:I want to know why all these rich people who supposedly hate taxes willingly congregate in the highest tax states in the highest taxed cities in said states instead of buying homes in bumfuck Mississippi instead. Status. The same reason they need as much money as possible.
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KillerJunglist posted:Sounds like Luttrell wants to be offended by a comment like that because the alternative would be admitting that his men did indeed die for no reason. This seems like the sort of thing that would mentally gently caress you up in a massive way so I can understand him being pretty aggressive about it.
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1stGear posted:This seems like the sort of thing that would mentally gently caress you up in a massive way so I can understand him being pretty aggressive about it. Yeah...Kind of makes you wonder how much war rhetoric from veterans are because if they stopped supporting the war, they'd have to admit their friends died for nothing. 
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That's pretty much the reason I don't hold too much against Luttrell in that exchange; it sounds like he was in a completely horrible situation. I haven't paid much attention to the flim, but a quick look shows that it was a crippling experience for him and it (self-admittedly) messed him up: quote:Luttrell may have been the firefight’s lone survivor, but he hardly emerged unscathed. He struggled with survivor’s guilt, post-traumatic stress disorder and physical after-effects in the ensuing years. “I died on that mountain, too,” he said of his torment in a 2007 interview with NBC. “I left a part of myself up there.” I can't really blame him for feeling like it must have all had some sort of point, that holding his dying friend and then dragging himself around with a broken back meant something, because you probably need that to keep it together every day. It's the people who are jerking off over the story and crowing about it that are the real fuckheads.
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Thompsons posted:I wonder what they're going to tell themselves like a year and a half after we pull out and the place just goes back to exactly the way it was before. Well we could ask Newsmax what they think of that sort of thing: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/marines-angry-fall-fallujah/2014/01/10/id/546384 quote:"I don't think anyone had the grand illusion that Fallujah or Ramadi was going to turn into Disneyland, but none of us thought it was going to fall back to a jihadist insurgency. It made me sick to my stomach to have that thrown in our face, everything we fought for so blatantly taken away," he said. Proust Malone fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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Thompsons posted:I wonder what they're going to tell themselves like a year and a half after we pull out and the place just goes back to exactly the way it was before. "Thanks Obama  "
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Thompsons posted:I wonder what they're going to tell themselves like a year and a half after we pull out and the place just goes back to exactly the way it was before. The same thing conservatives tell themselves about Vietnam - 'We'd have won if it wasn't for those cowards back in Washington!'
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AdjectiveNoun posted:The same thing conservatives tell themselves about Vietnam - 'We'd have won if it wasn't for those cowards back in Washington!' Yeah the real question is, has a war ever been "won" and what does winning mean? How long does it have to last to be considered complete? It reminds me of World War 1 veterans probably being very upset the moment Hitler crossed into France/Russia.
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