Woolie Wool posted:

But then they will have to kill each other to keep acquiring capital. Will the last one be an immortal cyborg Scrooge McDuck swimming in his money bin until he realizes the complete futility of a life without other people, and the complete futility of his wealth without poors to admire it, and kills himself?

Woolie Wool posted:

Perhaps, but the drive to accumulate more and more and more will remain. Capital can never be satisfied with what it has, so what happens when it has everything?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Huckabee was governor during the time of Josh police report

The Duggars campaigned for Huckabee governor races

The judge who ordered the documents to be destroyed was appointed by Huckabee

Woolie Wool posted:

So like a high-tech Aztec flower war, only with human sacrifice to the dollar bill instead of Huitzilopochtli.

E: That sounds like a pretty lovely endgame though, you've become this all-powerful economic overlord but the only thing you can do with your power is to carry out hollow, meaningless ritual bloodlettings because there's no space left for real competition and no possibility of actual growth. It sounds like even the Captains of Industry would get terminal ennui at some point.

Neukoln19 posted:

Two things

1) loving breeder poo poo bag

2) can I get a tl dr on

A) who this is

B) what happened

C) what happened since what happened happened

D) significant reactions and revelations that have occurred in the last 20 pages of this thread

Thanks god bless good night

platedlizard posted:

A) josh duggar is the oldest son of the Duggars a fundie family famous for having 19 kids & a TV show. He was on the board of noted anti-LBGT hate group Family Research Council. One of their positions is that gay and trans people want to touch your child in their naughty bits.

B) as a teen he molested 4 sisters and one non-sister in their sleep & sometimes when they were awake. When they told he got sent to a family-friend's place & had to help him remodeled a home for three months. This was called therapy. He also got a stern talking-to by a cop who was another friend of his parents who later got a 56 year sentence for child porn. Later later a 61 year old women probably from their church reported to the correct authorities (Oprah) & when a real investigation took place Jim Bob stalled it until the statute of limitations ran out (3years). It all got swept under the rug until In Touch Magazine did a FOIA & got a redacted police report.

C) one of the sisters asked for the original report to be destroyed which has apparently happened although no one is fooled. Josh stepped down from his position with the hategroup. Josh apologized for making a mistake, presumably we're supposed to believe sticking his fingers in his sister's vaginas repeatedly was accidental.

D)Fundies are circling the wagons proclaiming "we're all sinners" like having a normal sex life outside of marriage is equivalent to raping a sister. Also Bill Gothard, the Duggar's cult-leader apparently sexually harassed over 30 teens & young women who worked for him.

Basically the world of fundie Evangelicals is making the Catholic Priests look tame bc at least they didn't molest children who were actually related them.

JIM BOB

Razorwired posted:

Looks like these whores got D&*#@red

Vicodiva posted:

Have you ever read A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood? The movie adaptation sort of sucked but the book? It gave me chills and nightmares. Anyone who wants a peek at what a fundie theocracy would look like should read this novel and pass it along to a friend.

dog buttz posted:

lmao yeah right Jim Bob's been getting his dick wet every night for the past twenty seven years

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

FreudianSlippers posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHxGyJp0_5I

also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw7lUMC-m3Q

shiksa posted:

p hosed up that we're selling this duggar dude up the river for something that we let danny elfman get away with and then rewarded with a lifetime contract to work on tim burton films

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jItz-uNjoZA

Grand Theft Autobot posted:

The best part about all of this is that god isn't real.

Free Market Mambo posted:

Imagine, if you will, a perfectly sphrical governor's son, torturing a stray dog in a vacuum.

Agag posted:

Would you rather leave your children with an elderly Christian couple or a vaping atheist? It can go wrong a lot of ways.

TNG posted:

I've seen you post about how we're being conditioned to become an underclass of wage slaves and occupants of body bags from foreign wars that are started at the behest of the rich. I fully agree with that, but I also feel like it really won't matter in the long run.

Capital and material wealth doesn't matter one bit when all the fresh water starts running out due to fracking, desertification, drought, and global warming. In the beginning there will be mass migrations, food and water riots, and die offs of mass proportions of both people, plants, and livestock.

The rich will probably be spared from these initial stages as they'll be able to hole up in compounds, both underground and above, and stockpile the remaining water. They'll be able to go north or far far south as the methane in the permafrost in Siberia and the arctic ocean starts to unfreeze and begin a feedback loop that will drown the coasts and islands of the world and raise the temperature to a level not seen since 170,000,000 years ago during the Permian extinction. The rich and the ruling class with go further and further to the poles, holding down what little vestige of civilization there might be.

But does it really matter that you used to be worth 6.8 billion dollars when the desalination technology starts failing, sea life becomes more and more scarce, red algae becomes the dominate life form on the planet, and that your daddy's daddy was a Walton, or a Koch, or a Rockefeller? You're sitting in your little floating habitat, with people who, like you, need to eat and there are more of them than there are of you and you begin to grow weary when the smaller and smaller fish they serve you each night comes with a linoleum knife stuck in its head.

This is also discounting that during all the wars and die offs that nuclear weapons aren't used to try and secure resources, arable land, or just plane spite any future survivors that might try and eek out a basic existence at the poles.

200 years and the rich will be dealt with, along with the rest of humanity. Good riddance.

But most of the GOP base will be dead in 100. Cause Jesus don't give a poo poo about thermodynamics. So there's that to look forward to!

platedlizard posted:

Actually it tells her that it should be brought to the church so that he be kicked out of the church until he repents, and also that law enforcement officers are ministers of the church whose duty is to praise the good and inflict punishment on the terrible ie that she should also go to the police and let the law deal with him.

To be fair you have to be pretty steeped in churchspeak to get all that, these guys are worse than lawyers when it comes to impenetrable language.

happyhippy posted:

Huckabee's FB page is in damage control mode.
They cant delete the posts so are commenting and liking on well wisher ones so they replace the recent most posts.

Who knew a vagina fondling years ago would have killed a presidential nomination.

Do It Once Right posted:

Why give a mother in a vulnerable position a specific timeframe or detailed instructions?

This way there's still plenty of opportunities for the woman to be in the wrong or shoulder some blame for her failures.

Woolie Wool posted:

The children might be listening to Fox News but the father will be in what used to be a third world country as an American soldier participating in the genocide of the indigenous population and the plunder of the area's remaining natural resources.

Then the ships from the US stop coming and he's left behind to fend for himself in a ruined land that grows ever more incompatible with human life by the year.

Accretionist posted:

Anyone following what conspiracy theorists are angling on this? I want Huckabee and the Duggars embroiled in a True Detective narrative before the primaries

Casimir Radon posted:

Apparently god has forgiven JOsh. Whoever has the "God" Facebook account needs to go in there and be all "Who says I've forgiven him? That guy is a total oval office."

Boo This Man posted:

The son who tortured a poor dog can play the part of the yellow king.

Jack Gladney posted:

Has anyone mentioned that one of the kids called her vagina a penis holder? That seems even sadder than not knowing what to call it, which none of the other kids seemed able to do:

Krispy Kareem posted:

Fortunately it doesn't look like he got away with anything. Let's say authorities did get involved back in 2003, it's not like he'd done jailtime - he was a minor. Heck, it might have worked out better for the Duggars. It'd just be 18 Kids and Counting, or "look at how good we reformed young Josh, let us fix your perverts kids." Except for the damage done to the victims, we should be praising Jesus this came public 12 years later. Suddenly it's not a family dealing with disappointment and drama beyond their control; now it's a decade long cover-up by a family who very loudly warned us against gays abusing children. Suddenly their show and all its spinoff shows are kaput. Just like my one really wants to watch the Cosby show or 7th Heaven anymore, Duggars are media poison. This wouldn't have happened had Josh gotten even a smidge of punishment 12 years ago.

Gene Hackman Fan posted:

now hobby lobby is being caught up in this.

jesus christ, it's like a who's who of gently caress you.

platedlizard posted:

Basically every Evangelical who doesn't describe themselves as 'progressive' is like this to varying degrees.

Just wait until you find out about the folks trying to breed the 'red calf' so it can be sacrificed at the site of the Temple in order to summon Jesus and end the world, I swear I'm not making this up.

Boo This Man posted:

Have you ever watched Jesus Camp?