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duck monster
Dec 15, 2004

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2011/10/mitt_romney_s_mormon_cult_controversy_anti_mormonism_is_the_prej.html

quote:

Latter-Day Sins
"Why don’t we challenge anti-Mormonism? Because it’s the prejudice of our age."
On the side bar its listed as "Is anti-Mormoinism a bigger problem than racism".

Total whitepeople.txt territory here.

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duck monster
Dec 15, 2004

Urban Space Cowboy posted:

From the Occupy America thread, a student-written editorial that starts off
and just keeps getting worse from there.

It could be worse. The occupy perth group, which is part of organizing the CHOGM convergence's facebook pages etc have been completely run over by oval office libertarians and larouchite conspiracy theorists.

Seriously crazies, nobody gives a poo poo if Rothwell owns some dumb american bank. Its not very important.

Needless to say the local activists are despairing a bit over it.

duck monster
Dec 15, 2004

Kieselguhr Kid posted:

Here's my conspiracy theory: The government makes up conspiracy theories to short-circuit activism by flooding protests with utter drips.

The old joke goes: The CIA invented conspiracy theories to stop stupid hippies from learning about economics.

Forgot if I posted that already. Dunno.

duck monster
Dec 15, 2004

TetsuoTW posted:

I find it kind of amusing how hard they're going on the "If you hate the excesses of capitalism, you clearly hate all capitalism." Literal children.

Its a pretty accurate description of my views to be perfectly honest.

v:shobon:v Maybe I just want to see the world burn, I dunno.

duck monster
Dec 15, 2004

Pope Guilty posted:

e: Where on earth did you get that pony av? Who did you piss off?
^^^^^

I want to believe that HL Mencken's ghost is going to strangle that guy in his sleep.

Raptorfag went a bit nuts and brought everyone in the Au embassy pony AVs. If anyone feels generous, I'd love my duck AV back (I'm poor :( )

duck monster
Dec 15, 2004

I don't know if this is the right thread, of if theres a "loving retarded poo poo your great aunt forwarded to you on face book" type thread.

But this is going around facebook. Just read it. Its loving berk.

quote:


WHY DOES THE CHILD IN HANDS OF THE BEGGAR ALWAYS SLEEPING??????????????

"Why is sleeping child in the hands of beggars? Have you ever wondered ... "

This article I read a few months ago. Who is the author of, I don't know.
Please read…..

""Near the metro station sits a woman of uncertain age.
Women’s hair
is confused and dirty, her head bowed in grief.

The woman sits on the dirty floor and next to her lies a bag. In that bag
people throw money. On the hands of a woman, asleep, is a two year old baby. He's in a dirty hat and dirty clothes.

“Madonna with baby” - numerous passers-by will donate money. The people of our kind- we always feel sorry for less fortunate. We are ready to give unfortunate people the last shirt, the last penny out of your pocket and never think another issue.
Helping, seems like. “Good job done”...

I walked past a beggar for a month. Did not give any money, as I knew that this is a gang operated scam and money collected by the beggar will be given to whoever controls beggars in the area. Those people own numerous luxury properties and cars.
Oh and beggar also gets something, of course “ A bottle of vodka in the evening and a döner kebab”.
A month later, walking past the beggars, as shock, it suddenly
hit me….
I'm staying at a busy crossing, stared at the baby, dressed as always- dirty track suit. I realized that it
seemed "wrong", finding a child in a dirty underground station from morning to evening.
The baby slept. Never sobbed or screamed, always asleep, burying his face in the knee of a woman who was his MUM.

Do any of you, dear readers, have children? Remember how often they
slept at the age of 1-2-3 years? Hour two, maximum three (not consecutive)
afternoon nap, and again – movement. For the whole month, every day of my
walking in the underground, I've never seen a child awake! I looked
at the tiny little man, with his face buried in the knee of his mother, then at the beggar, and my
suspicion was gradually formed.
– Why he sleeps all the time? I asked, staring at the baby.

The beggar pretended not to hear me. She lowered her eyes and
hid her face in the collar of her shabby jacket. I repeated the question. The woman again
looked up. She looked somewhere behind my back, tired with utter irritation. Her look was similar to the creatures from a different planet.
-F **k off ... her lips murmured.
-Why is he asleep?! I almost cried ...

Behind me someone put his hand on my shoulder. I looked back. A some old man was looking at me disapprovingly:

– What do you want from her? Can’t you see how hard she’s got it in her life… Eh …
He gets some coins from his pocket and throws them in the beggar’s bag.

Beggar made a hand wave of a cross, portraying the face of humility and universal
grief. The guy removed his hand from my shoulder and strolled out of the underground station.
I bet, at home, he will tell how he defended poor, distraught woman from a soulless man in a tube station.

Next day I called a friend. It was a funny man with eyes like olives Romanian nationality. He only managed to complete three and a half years of education. The complete lack of education does not prevent him from moving around the
City streets on very expensive foreign cars and live in a “small” house with countless number of windows and balconies. From my friend I managed to find out that this business, despite the apparent
spontaneity, clearly organized. Its supervised by begging organized crime rings. The children used are in "rent"
from families of alcoholics, or simply stolen.
I needed to get the answer to the question – why is the baby sleeping? And I received it. My friend Gypsy said the phrase, completely ordinary with calm voice that twisted me in shock, just like he was talking about weather report:
-They are on heroin, or vodka ...
I was dumbfounded. "Who is on heroin? Whom – under vodka?! "
He answered
-The Child, so he doesn’t scream. The women will be sitting whole day with him, imagine how he might get bored?


In order to make the baby slept the whole day, it pumped up with vodka or drugs. Of course, children's bodies are not able to cope with such a shock. And children often die. The most terrible thing – sometimes children die
during the "working day". And imaginary mother must hold another dead child on her hands until the evening. These are the rules. And the by passers-by will throw some money in the bag, and believe that they are moral. Helping
"mother alone" …
… The next day I was walking near the same underground station. I stocked up journalistic identity, and was ready for a serious conversation. But the conversation didn't work out. But turned out the following ...
A woman was sitting on the floor and in her hands she was holding a child. I asked her a question about the documents on the child, and, most importantly, where was yesterday's kid, which she simply ignored.
My questions were not ignored by passers-by. I was told that I was out of my mind screaming at poor beggar with a child. All in all, I was escorted out of the tube station in disgrace. One thing remained was to call the police. When police arrived, beggar with the baby disappeared. I stood with a full sense of - “I'm trying to fight windmills”.

When you see in the subway, on the street whether women with children,
begging, think before your hand climb for money. Think about that, if it wasn't for your hundreds of thousands of handouts, the business like this would have died. The business would die and not the children-inflated with vodka or
drugs. Do not look at the sleeping child with affection. See horror… Since you're reading this article, you know now- why the child is sleeping in beggars hands.

P.S.
If you copy this article on your wall or just click "Share", your friends will read it too.
And when you decide again to open your wallet to throw a coin to a beggar, remember that this
charity could cost another child's life.""


And then the gypsy said "Welcome to the republican party!"

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duck monster
Dec 15, 2004

Play posted:

"Schizophrenics are too disorganized to set off simultaneous bombs, for example."

-Charles Krauthammer, obviously an expert on mental illness, speculating wildly about the Boston bombing.

Having dealt with serious schizophrenics a fair bit, this is actually a pretty reasonable assessment. Schizophrenics are rarely implicated in big-end-of-town violence precisely because they tend to have disordered thinking that makes pulling off such a complex scheme rather difficult. Plus the reclusive nature of schizophrenia means they tend not to be particularly violent people even if totally paranoid and freaked out. The usual reaction to percieved threats is to try and flee in a panic. When I worked at the MOJ the claremont serial killer investigation was still pretty heated. Cops generally disregarded both calls from and about schizophrenics, because the clls from where usually loopy (I saw her on a UFO!) and because schizophrenics are usually a fairly harmless bunch.

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