RenegadeStyle1 posted:

My mental image is that you come home one day and a Chinese family is living in your house.

Not The Wendigo posted:

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I really wished that worked, but every time I ask for sources from people they just get angrier. I'm this close to realizing how stupid I'm being and just not bothering.

LtStorm posted:

I've been lurking this topic, and some insanity finally showed up on my wall that wasn't here already (that I could find);


I just love this. I mean, my absolute knee-jerk response by paragraph two was "We fought this war already and you lost." but really, I'm in Mississippi, so this is doubly hilarious to me in its total lack of self-awareness.

My favorite bit is bolded, because it was passed along by a farmer "friend" who is heavily subsidized by the government and entirely blind to this.

e: I ain't your friend, pal. We aren't friends, they're someone I went to high school with that inexplicably friended me on Facebook years later.

e2: vvv Also Shirley McLaine is their go-to for an example of a liberal dunderhead.

the2ndgenesis posted:

The crazy thing is that that image is kinda hosed up whether or not it's intended to be a joke. If USMC posted it as a joke then they're implicitly acknowledging that Jesus would never have espoused the extreme FYGM ideology that they love so much. The alternative is that they posted it seriously, which means that they're 100% okay with projecting that ideology on a man whom they claim to revere and worship. A man who, so they say, decried the excesses of the rich and extolled the virtues of charity to the poor.

That image just blows my mind the more I think about it.

TURN IT OFF! posted:

You seem very quick to dismiss those concerns because they are also shared by some people who have a poor understanding of biology/science. Broken clocks twice a day etc.

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

One thing to think about is that many socialists also pushed for guaranteed work for all people. Basically in the ideal socialist society in which “He who does not work shall not eat” would apply, the only people not working would be the one who voluntarily decided not to work. It also doesn't apply to those who are physically or mentally unable to work.

poo poo For Brains posted:

Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.

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Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

vyelkin posted:

No, it's talking about taxes. 'Taking someone's money for doing absolutely nothing' refers to the argument that 'I haven't done anything wrong, why are you taking all my money to pay for those lazy poors?'

The argument is basically "You think it's demeaning to enslave you for being poor? Well did you ever think about how paying taxes makes rich people feel? "

Zeitgueist posted:

Oh poo poo, we're actually at the point where Liberal Logic makes coherent points.

Tibeerius posted:

I mean, it would be one thing if that Liberal Logic pulled the old "Both sides are bad" card, but instead it blows right past that into "Obama worse than Bush" crazytown.

botany posted:

He's been extrajudicially killing American citizens, pretty sure that counts for something.

Scratch Monkey posted:

If Iraq has taught us anything it's that no rabble of men armed with rifles and improvised weapons can possibly stand against the mightiest military power the world has ever seen and not be instantly crushed.

TerminalSaint posted:

She admits to using it 30 years ago while referring to a man who robbed her. She claims not to have used it when discussing the racist as gently caress wedding plans, and that's good enough for conservatives.

I'd bet a dollar that it's such a normal thing to her that she said it and doesn't even remember.

Sir Rolo posted:

You know, considering there have been chemtrails as long as there have been airplanes, this seems like one of the slowest, least ineffective methods of mass-poisoning ever. In fact, I'm pretty sure the average lifespan has gone up considerably over the age of air travel.

Why doesn't the NWO just start directly poisoning large bodies of water?

Idiot Kicker posted:

Conservatives should be excited since they won the Voting Rights review case.
This is probably the best place to ask: Why do people opposed to gay marriage always talk about "two guys marrying" or "Adam and Steve" but don't say anything about lesbians? It's got to be either sexism or secret love of girl-on-girl porn right?

Countblanc posted:

That one can involve a boy and a girl doing stuff to you, and dudes know some crazy good stuff dogg.

Sir Rolo posted:

salty stinging tears

Gourd of Taste posted:

This is pretty recent, and she clarified that she didn't mean it in a 'mean way.'

Also she contributed to her brother sexually harassing women and making black employees use the back entrance at her restaurant, among other things.

Guilty Spork posted:

I'm increasingly of the opinion that pro-lifers are just really phenomenally dishonest, and one great example of that is that they paint the entire pro-choice movement as "pro-abortion," as though having the choice to carry the fetus to term and raise the resulting child isn't even on the table.

Ferroque posted:

Yeah but gun control doesn't work and criminals will have free reign over guns and

seiferguy posted:

As mentioned before, the 30-years ago thing is masking the bigger issue, which was her restaurant racially discriminating against black workers, by forcing them use the back door and whatnot. And that happened in 2007.

Walter posted:

Can't find anything on James Holmes.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Blarghalt posted:

Conservatives love the Nolan Batman movies. No idea why!

Sir Rolo posted:

The Egyptian constitution has very little to do with why Morsi was tossed out.

aBagorn posted:

Here's a new (to me) "government is bad" one:

ponzicar posted:

It would be so easy to fit gay people into their system as well. Gay people can get married, they can only have sex after marriage, and they are encouraged to adopt as many kids as they can, since adoption is what they push as an alternative to abortion. Not that there's even the slightest chance of this ever happening.

1stGear posted:

The Reagan debt was due to poor economic policies from Carter while the Clinton surplus was because of the majesty of trickle-down economics and the Bush deficit was because of Clinton's disastrous economic management and so on and so forth.

Checkmate, libtards.

Mornacale posted:

I think the big problem with this is the idea that those first five items on the list should have any bearing on our feelings about the death of a child. It is of course horrible and racist that people are out to slander a dead boy, but the fact of the matter is that this is a tragedy whether he was an honors student or a literal gang leader.

(e: It's also worth remembering that "volunteer" and "devoted member of his church" are not unambiguous positives; for all I know he was a devoted member of Westboro Baptist Church and loved to volunteer to scream at gay people.)

Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:

Google says his GPA isn't publicly available.

Gourd of Taste posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2u4xw2XT_Y&t=57s

Scratch Monkey posted:

Tell that to the Cathars, Spanish Jews, Mormons, Quakers, etc...

Poizen Jam posted:

Better yet, go a step further and suggest that if this had not been the case, they'd probably would have grown up following a different religion- some European pagan tradition or perhaps Islam- and been just as bullheaded confident in that faith.

Almost every religious person I've ever talked to seems blissfully ignorant that their religion is culturally imposed. When its come up in debate, they say they're convinced they would have 'found' their true religion (invariably the one they currently follow) somehow. There's just some kind of mental block whereby they can't fathom that if they grew up in bum-gently caress nowhere Afghanistan they probably never would have been a Jew/Catholic/etc.

seiferguy posted:

This is what I'm referring to earlier, posted by a former coworker of mine:


ARE white people rights

Pope Guilty posted:

Wait, what's supposed to be wrong with this?

AShamefulDisplay posted:

Yup, a free market fundamentalist thinks that the UK has an astoundingly efficient government.

Magres posted:

Also even if someone treated their slaves decently, THEY WERE STILL loving SLAVES.

That's such an abysmal argument.

Nyarai posted:

Gah, sometimes I hate the urge to research. At least, if the picture crops up again, you guys'll be able to refute it.

The picture was taken in 1986, during a period of Argentinian repression known as the Dirty War. Here's an article.

http://noticias.univision.com/america-latina/argentina/article/2004-01-23/argentina-revive-el-drama-de#axzz2a4Owdaq2 (They have more pictures too, so just to be on the safe side.)

The tool being used is called a picana electrica (a modified cattle prod), which sees almost no use outside of Argentina.

It's not entirely clear (the fact I don't speak Spanish doesn't help) whether this depicts actual torture being carried out or a training exercise to educate soldiers in such methods. Regardless, the article was posted eight years before the Benghazi attack, so no way could it be Stevens.

THE GAYEST POSTER posted:

I really do not understand people claiming Obama wasn't tough enough on Libya. He helped remove their dictator from power.

VideoTapir posted:

That isn't the point. Their goal is to provoke emotional responses via the visual resemblance to a viable baby.

HipGnosis posted:

Nothing would guarantee gun control faster in America than a huge spike in gun sales among young black men.

seiferguy posted:

Hmm... I'm not quite sure what to make of this one.



Sexism and racism are no big deal guys!

Armacham posted:

Someone posted a snopes link in response: http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/medicaldevice.asp

and then someone said:

Mitchicon posted:

And then all of Democrats became Republicans! I love how the right conveniently forgets the Southern Strategy.

Zeroisanumber posted:

I remember being surprised that a high-level member of Reagan's election team just came out and said that they used coded language to appeal to racist voters, but I wasn't particularly surprised by the tactic. What I was surprised by (being a worldly boy from suburban Minnesota) was the fact that a president in my lifetime decided that his election chances would be helped rather than hindered by pandering to crazy racists.