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Not exactly an email forward, but here's a lovely comment and resulting conversation I noticed from a kid I employed last summer. It's so cute when high-school aged kids parrot what their parents say without understanding any of it.  Click here for the full 1045x1117 image. There it is folks, this is the future. 
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Yeah, upon reading it my thought was that it makes perfect sense to search the hell out of a bunch of 18-24 year old males who've recently had access to explosives.
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Feb 16, 2011 00:44
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LaMarre, Landreville & Beam 2009 posted:This study investigated biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report and the influence of political ideology on perceptions of Stephen Colbert. Results indicate that political ideology influences biased processing of ambiguous political messages and source in late-night comedy. Using data from an experiment (N = 332), we found that individual-level political ideology significantly predicted perceptions of Colbert's political ideology. Additionally, there was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements. Conservatism also significantly predicted perceptions that Colbert disliked liberalism. Finally, a post hoc analysis revealed that perceptions of Colbert's political opinions fully mediated the relationship between political ideology and individual-level opinion.
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Feb 18, 2011 21:55
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Tab8715 posted:I use to have faith in humanity, until I met conservatives who think they simply calling me a "liberal" or whatever buzzword is an acceptable counter argument. I love how they think "liberal" "progressive" and "socialist" are among the most terrible insults known to man, and somehow invalidate anything you might say.
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Feb 19, 2011 03:05
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XyloJW posted:Upon meeting with the Taliban who were at the time using plenty of terrorist tactics against our enemy Russia, President Ronald Reagan said they were the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers. Maybe that's not so far out there? Rich, educated people leading an insurgency to get a foreign power out of their country. He was actually talking about the Contras, not that that makes it any better.
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Feb 28, 2011 08:25
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The the way the edited version can rail against unions in one line, and decry the shrinking of the middle class in another makes me 
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Mar 2, 2011 02:56
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The moment someone says "In a post 9-11 world..." in earnest, they lose all credibility in my eyes.
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Mar 8, 2011 10:32
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Blarghalt posted:This rings especially true, because the only country who's ever actually invaded us spoke...English.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Aleutian_Islands And how about a crazy political letter? I got one regarding a town election ballot question. Specifically the question would result in some teachers getting a pay raise. This line jumped out at me quote:Have you received a 13% salary increase since last year? Milford Teachers will if the proposed school budget passes. Send the teachers' union a message that Milford families are struggling in this economy and cannot afford the 13% increase demanded by the union. Aren't these the same people who complain that liberals want to drag people down in favor of equality? VV It wasn't a state yet, but it was a US territory. VV TerminalSaint fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Mar 9, 2011 |
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Mar 9, 2011 03:42
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Armyman25 posted:Can we just get rid of the electoral college already? We all know college is just full of LIEberal elitists anyway.
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Mar 17, 2011 03:15
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You mean a functional social safety net will prevent people from looting in a bid to keep from starving? Say it ain't so!
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Mar 23, 2011 22:59
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Thank goodness we have these modern philosophers to come up with fresh concepts like the rule of law. If only people centuries ago had thought of these things.
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Mar 25, 2011 20:40
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyCdfOXvec You see, setting up a no-fly zone is exactly like a full scale invasion, and furthermore
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Mar 30, 2011 20:25
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I've never heard of this Right Network before. Not a single person there thought better of using a red flag as part of their branding?
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Apr 1, 2011 08:29
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Welp, that's it. Thread's over. Everyone can go home.
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Apr 7, 2011 04:45
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Orange Devil posted:Yeah, if they'd give every taxpayer 10,000, that'd pick the economy right up and it'd only cost a trillion. I actually ran the math for the hell of it. You could give each taxpayer nearly 10 grand for the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to date.
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Apr 8, 2011 22:59
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Habibi posted:The hilarious thing is that this criticism wasn't true "in the past." Immigrants from Europe had experienced the same sort of xenophobic attitudes over the past 150+ years because the first generation didn't always learn the language. see: Italians. The response to this goes "Yeah, but MY ethnic group took care of their communities, not like 'these people'."
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Apr 11, 2011 23:43
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It's quite telling how conservatives practically worship people with business experience. They seem to think it qualifies your for anything vaguely leadership related, and no other experience or training can compare.
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Apr 13, 2011 16:47
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Better require fertility tests for marriage too. "Sorry mom, you can't remarry after dad died in an accident all those years ago. You see, you're post-menopausal, and we don't want to go extinct."
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Apr 14, 2011 02:24
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Thenipwax posted:The fact that "liberal" is often preceded by "bleeding-heart" shows that conservatives try to use compassion and caring as negative character traits. Their mentality is seriously "gently caress everybody else except me and people exactly like me". It's funny because they'll say "gently caress you, got mine" and then turn around and talk about how liberals are selfish little brats, and conservatives are all about caring for people and taking care of their family, community, nation, etc.
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Apr 14, 2011 19:44
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Idran posted:Speaking of... I don't know what to believe 
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Apr 16, 2011 19:43
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Oh God no, don't let us end up like the British. What those peasants do in those godforsaken hellholes of islands can scarcely be called "living" by any rational being.
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Apr 20, 2011 07:24
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I've been seeing this pop up other places too. The template seems to be "Even if we took <liberal idea> to the theoretical maximum it wouldn't be enough to fix the budget!" I saw it applied to military spending on slashdot. "Even if we cut all funding to the military it wouldn't fix the national debt!" They conveniently ignore that liberals propose doing numerous things to a reasonable degree, rather than one thing to the extreme.
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Apr 20, 2011 07:51
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Orange Devil posted:There's also often a heavy conflation of deficit/budget and debt. Debt won't be 'fixed' in a single year no matter what you do, the deficit could be. Ofcourse, given the economic situation, it's not really desirable to do so. I've noticed that as well. I've just assumed that most of them don't understand the difference and think they're the same thing.
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Apr 20, 2011 19:45
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Cut countless jobs to get people back to work. Got it.
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Apr 21, 2011 02:13
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I guess FDR is his favorite president than. Too soon.
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Apr 25, 2011 21:38
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jojoinnit posted:This months British GQ had an article stating that political discourse in America has gotten to the point where the gun debate doesn't even pretend to be about hunters anymore. Now they openly admit that they have guns to scare liberals and threaten to overthrow the government. I suspect that's partly due to the "Why would you need an X to hunt?" arguement. The easy answer is "The 2nd amendment isn't about hunting." Edit: Oh I agree, I'm a fan of things that go bang myself. I just suspect that's why the debate has shifted. You don't need to make the hunting argument when arguing constitutionality. TerminalSaint fucked around with this message at 19:09 on May 4, 2011 |
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May 4, 2011 05:13
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duck monster posted:Not quite as nefarious as some of the things you folks have parents emailing around... The video is pretty innocuous, but for some reason the mere mention of "Obama" has turned the comments section into a worse hellhole than usual(which is saying a lot for youtube).
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May 11, 2011 18:01
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He was being sarcastic 
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May 17, 2011 04:06
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I've never understood how easily people put the value of property above that of human life. Even on big stuff, I love my car, but I'm not going to shoot a guy over it. My cousin took a course to get his concealed carry permit and related to me how surprised he was to learn that you can't shoot a guy who's walking off with your TV.
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May 19, 2011 02:45
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JD Brickmeister posted:I got a phone call today from Dick Morris blabbing on and on - somehow they got the idea I am a tea-party patriot and because I had nothing better to do, I listened. Finally a real person comes on and continues telling me about how Obama is wrecking the country, etc. Finally she tells me they are taking a poll and she wants to know which person I most think represents the true ideas that will make America great again or should be running for president or something like that. I pause and think, and then say "David Duke" I would have said Bernie Sanders; partly to see what her reaction would be, but mostly because it's true.
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Jun 1, 2011 04:49
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There's even a name for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
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Jun 12, 2011 20:03
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I was so hopeful until the last line...quote:U.S.A. Homeless go without eating.
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Jul 5, 2011 22:43
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Vector 7 posted:...Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ." If only there was some concept dating back to antiquity that the law should apply equally to all persons in a society...
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Jul 19, 2011 22:55
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Juffo-Wup posted:This is something about the religious ultra-right jingoists that has always mystified me. And it's not just unbridled aggression, either. Even relatively (by our cultural standards) mild violent inclinations seem contrary to Christian belief. Where in the Bible does Jesus even give permission to defend oneself? I'm pretty sure he explicitly denies his followers even that right. How can people reconcile their violent attitudes with their faith? Well you see, they've been Christian their entire life, so they've clearly got the being Christian thing down pretty well. This means any feelings they have are to be justified by interpreting Christianity in such as way as to make these feelings ok. Striving to better yourself and be more like Jesus? Well... 
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Jul 20, 2011 04:49
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CDOR Gemini posted:Another good topic might be the gargantuan amount of shady-rear end tax dodging that giant American corporations pull off. Good for them! They've found ways to outsmart the tax-and-spendocrats. Now they can make more jobs.
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Aug 9, 2011 23:22
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quote:What is all this doing in the budget in the first place? More good than you can possibly imagine.
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Aug 15, 2011 05:18
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I'm working on my immigration paperwork to move to Canada to be with my Canadian wife. My mother-in-law likes to bitch about "all these immigrants coming in" and abusing the system. She also like to complain about how much bureaucracy and paperwork I have to deal with and how they should just let me in. I guess I'm just the right kind? Edit: VVV Yep. TerminalSaint fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Aug 18, 2011 |
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Aug 18, 2011 03:42
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THE GAYEST POSTER posted:Post pictures of children injured by rocket attacks. If they call you anti-semitic, ask them why they're being anti-arabic. Palestinians are Semites, so you can call the other person anti-semitic as well.
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Aug 21, 2011 00:40
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So apparently this fellow pays 100% in taxes and somehow, despite presumably living in a society, derives no benefit from tax revenue himself.
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Aug 29, 2011 17:52
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Well you have to remember that poor people are poor because they're bad, lazy people who deserve to be poor. I, on the other hand, am a good person who's going through a rough patch and just need a little help to get back on my feet.
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Aug 30, 2011 06:12
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