Blind Pineapple posted:

poo poo Bill Cosby didn't say 2: Now with more transparent racism

Palisader posted:

"My dear". Good Christ, what a dick.

A friend of mine posted this:


and followed it up a few days later with this doozy:

HidingFromGogo posted:

Let me tell you about Joe Arpaio.

If you're lucky enough not to live in AZ like I do, you might not know about Joe Arpaio. He's the Maricopa County Sheriff signed a promise(1) to serve only one term when he was elected in 1992. He's still the Sheriff. When it comes to drug warriors, this guy doesn't mess around. He's got a self-propelled howitzer with "Sheriff Arpaio's War on Drugs" painted on it, with some tasteful lightning bolts added for effect.

He'll kill your dog and burn your house down(2) if you get in his way (while simultaneously crushing your neighbor's car with an armored personnel carrier).

He's got that tent jail in the desert, where you have to wear old-timey striped uniforms with pink underwear, eat substandard food, and work on chain gangs but at least he provides rebar for you(3) (pdf) to make it easier for to beat other inmates to half to death. If you don't want to read the pdf, the gist of it he got fined over $600,000 because the rebar had been used as weapons before, and he still chose not to secure them from the inmates. The judge said "...among other things, the Sheriff and his deputies had actual knowledge that prisoners used rebar tent stakes and tent poles as weapons and did nothing to prevent it." Furthermore, "the Sheriff admitted knowing about, and in fact intentionally designing, some conditions at Tent City that created a substantial risk of inmate violence."

Your tent-mates are the least of your worries, however. Joe will beat you death even if you're blind(4) (and destroy evidence in a cover-up attempt), although to be fair to Joe he really only beat that guy partway to death- he only died after being left unattended in a cell for 6 days from the perforated intestine and broken neck he got from the beating- last time he gets picked up for shoplifting.

Don't count on a wheelchair earning you any sympathy from America's Toughest Sheriff, either. If you go to jail as a paraplegic on a 1-gram marijuana possession charge and ask for a catheter to piss in, you might just leave as a quadriplegic(5) after you get a 6-hour ride in a restraint chair followed by a guard breaking your neck.

Hey, at least the chair ride didn't kill him like it killed Scott Norberg(6), right? Well, it might not have been the chair- it could have been the stun guns or the towel shoved in his mouth. Joe Arpaio personally conducted an investigation of that incident and "surprisingly" found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the officers involved. The lawsuit found differently to the tune of $8 million, possibly because he got caught destroying evidence again. A man of principle, Joe publicly addressed Norberg's family and stated that he essentially got what he deserved because he was a drug addict and besides only bad people are in jail anyway.

Mentally-handicapped(7)? Too bad, you might get killed in the chair too- on a loitering charge.

Hope you don't have diabetes(8), cause you ain't getting insulin even if you go and die on him, like Deborah did.

Yeah, Joe sure does love him some wrongful-death lawsuits(9), combined with all of his other suits, he's a defendant in almost fifteen hundred cases- if they all come to settlement, Maricopa taxpayers could pay up to $50 million.

Criticizing him in the newspapers or on the Web might get you locked up(10).

Smokin Joe and his deputies work hard outside of jail too, what with all the racial profiling and immigration crackdowns(11); so you know they play hard(12) too- nothing takes the edge off like getting a happy ending from a hooker while on the clock. Oh, it was a "sting," and sure, 60 of the 70 cases got thrown out due to that gross misconduct, but hey, got to break some eggs you know.

My next Arpaio fun fact really stretches the imagination. He staged his own assassination attempt(13), involving blowing up his personal $70,000 armored vehicle with a pipe bomb. He created an elaborate sting culminating in a televised arrest of the "assassin," who was quickly released when courts saw that he had been entrapped and most of the plot was in fact fabricated by Arpaio.

But what would Joe be without a sidekick? Meet Andy Thomas(14), Joe's District Attorney who took a break from editing his own Wikipedia entry(15) to prosecute a 16-year old boy (seeking a *ninety year* sentence- without parole) for showing a Playboy to some of his classmates. Oh, he was arrested in an early morning tactical raid and his family held at gunpoint; the family would go on to spend over $250,000 in legal fees and even when the child porn charges were thrown out he *still* tried to get the boy listed as a sex offender. Andy's other adventures include spending $2 million of taxpayer money on TV commercials about himself. Not campaign commercials, just pointless self-promotion commercials. He had a "crime-prevention book" published, which was also largely self-promotion and included portraits of himself in it. Looking at his wiki entry now, there are some curious edits which weren't there the last time I checked, so maybe he's had some down time lately to brush it up.

Let's hear Joe in his own words-

"Well you know, they call you KKK. They did me. I think it's an honor. It means we're doing something."(16) "I spend $0.40 day on inmates, and $1.50 on dogs, the dogs get air conditioning."

1 http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2008/09/29/20080929arpaioprofile0929.html
2 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2004-08-05/news/dog-day-afternoon/full
3 http://www.cofad1.state.az.us/opinionfiles/cv/cv010239.pdf
4 http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2008/04/14/20080414mcsoallegations04142008-CR.html
5 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1997-01-23/news/jailers-show-a-paraplegic-who-s-boss/1
6 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-01-14/news/the-8-million-victim/
7 http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1305836.html
8 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-12-20/news/inhumanity-has-a-price/3
9 http://www.websupp.org/data/DAZ/355904-DAZ.pdf
10 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003661135
11 http://www.ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=798765
12 http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/?sty=23162
13 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-08-05/news/the-plot-to-assassinate-arpaio/
14 http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/print?id=2791529
15 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-02-28/news/andrew-thomas-maricopa-county-s-top-prosecutor-burnishes-his-wikipedia-page/
16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFTUQ71Aq0o

scorpiobean posted:

Idiots on Facebook: Not everything is rainbows and accidents.

dijon du jour posted:

He's also posted a macro that I don't think I've seen before.

Because your family is in exactly the same level of danger as the President of the United States of America.

Experto Crede posted:

Is that a rocket launcher?

omg chael crash posted:

This would be peak Facebook idiot bait if the second image had "uses this to defend his family" or something along those lines.

FighterKnuckles posted:

Okay, this I don't get. How the hell is Iowa the 'oldest state', and why is that necessarily a bad thing? Did they just run out of ideas at that point?

Fake Edit: or did they mean it has the oldest average age of its residents? Whatever, its still dumb

Minchin Dupree posted:

MUH XBAWX

Vicas posted:

You know, I honestly wonder if 20 years down the line these people are going to look back and think "why hasn't he been revealed for the monster he truly was" or if they'll get a grip and only hate the most recent president whose views weren't theirs

RyuujinBlueZ posted:

Isn't he also technically a civilian as well? And, generally, civilians aren't really expected to salute. I've been told once or twice that it can even seem rude or patronizing for a civilian to do so.

Amused to Death posted:

Really Ayn Rand is a terrible author. I mean there has to be authors with just a lovely philosophy who can actually write. The best thing to do is recommend Ayn Rand, then after someone has tortured themselves with it, tell them about how Rand basically backpedaled on her philosophy when old when she needed Medicare and Social Security to like, live.

Then recommend Milton Friedman, then later inform them on how Freidman also was in favor of a guaranteed minimum income.

Every conservative hero is basically a bleeding red socialist in some regard that always gets ignored.

El Fappo posted:

Looks like it's time to clean out the friends list again! I'm red, green is a shining beacon of hope, no idea who purple is, and black is a guy I graduated with who is 21 and still doesn't know the alphabet past H.

No idea why he thinks I would agree with his holocaust justification and plan to apparently kill off poor people and stupid people.

Captain Pissweak posted:

This guy fairly regularly posts misogynistic bullshit like this and is usually egged on to keep doing it by people like, but not exclusively limited to, shitheads two and three.

carnivaljunkie posted:

Honestly, I don't know if it's this thread making me notice more nonsense on my feed or what, but here's another one.




I'm not blocking out any names since this was taken from a public page. The rest of the comments are pretty much the same as those three. My boyfriend's mom commented on it too (which is how I came to find the picture) about how we're just brainwashed.

I'd be willing to bet the majority of the posters have not been to college, given they don't really seem to understand how college works...

College grads, we're terrorists. Did any of you guys know? Cause I think I missed "terrorist training day" during undergrad.

Regalingualius posted:

Aww, gently caress. Just when I thought my feed was clear of the Zimmerman bullshit, my former history teacher went and linked this:



Is anyone familiar at all with this case so I could rebut him, for once? A very brief search brought up a bunch of stuff on a soccer player.

Pneub posted:

...,says literally the only muppet that doesn't speak english.

e: vvv Irregardless vvv

OptimusShr posted:

I wish I could think of something to say but all I end up doing is slamming my head into my desk.

serbp posted:

kannonfodder posted:

Two people just shared that "Sheriff Joe Arpaio is great!" thing.

I know it won't do anything to change their minds, but does anyone have that huge counter-argument that shows how terrible of a person he is? I'm on mobile so I'd never be able to find it myself.