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02-24-2010 , 09:01 PM

#2101

Ineedaride2

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ElliotR

This may be the dumbest thing you've ever done. Certainly the dumbest thing that you've done and posted about. next time, eat first and ask philosophical questions later.

Not to mention, what in the WORLD is this doing in the low political content thread?!?

Next time, make something like this its own thread.

02-24-2010 , 09:34 PM

#2102

vulturesrow

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ineedaride2

Not to mention, what in the WORLD is this doing in the low political content thread?!?

Next time, make something like this its own thread.

And petition for sticky.

02-24-2010 , 11:19 PM

#2103

Wynton

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ineedaride2

Not to mention, what in the WORLD is this doing in the low political content thread?!?

Next time, make something like this its own thread.

Quote:

Originally Posted by vulturesrow

And petition for sticky.

You guys are playing with fire. If you think I don't have an ample supply of similarly silly drivel to post, then you got another think a-comin'.

02-25-2010 , 12:57 AM

#2104

Borodog

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kurto

but his overtop language is the problem. Because if you believe that people in fact owe taxes, then the money isn't really their possessions.

I just found it amusing that he took issue with some one elses semantics then proceeded to use semantic wordplay to assert that all tax collectors are knowing and willing thieves.

We have a word for people who believe they are entitled to take other people's stuff.

Guess what it is.

02-25-2010 , 01:37 AM

#2105

General Tsao

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thief?
tyrant?
dirtbag?
thug*?

*jackbooted if necessary.

02-25-2010 , 12:42 PM

#2106

General Tsao

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Just saw this posted on facebook, Alexander McCobin's (President of Students for Liberty) comments that instigated the gay-bashing idiot Sorba's bigoted remarks at CPAC. I like Alexander's speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzjUThztmjQ

02-25-2010 , 12:49 PM

#2107

Not_In_My_Name

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Since the intelligible end of the reproductive act is reproduction, I propose we make it illegal for infertile people to be married. It makes just as much sense as his comments about civil rights conflicting with natural rights or whatever the hell he was talking about.

02-25-2010 , 12:54 PM

#2108

General Tsao

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Obv any comment based on some imaginary rights is going to end up looking pretty silly :P

Yah, that guy is an idiot. My brother got into a two hour long ("waste of time") debate with him at 4am in the hotel lobby.

02-25-2010 , 01:24 PM

#2109

vulturesrow

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Web page of a friend of mine who is running for the PA House of Representatives in District 85 as a Libertarian. He is currently a Borough Councilman and Vice-president of Selinsgrove Council.
Erik Viker

02-25-2010 , 02:19 PM

#2110

Wynton

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02-25-2010 , 02:40 PM

#2111

RollinHand

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lol trick questions

02-25-2010 , 02:40 PM

#2112

zasterguava

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Taso

awesome. sad that seemingly civilized people booed him for supporting the inclusion of fellow gay conservatives/libertairans though.

02-25-2010 , 02:58 PM

#2113

ErikTheDread

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From the Sentences You Don't Expect To Find While Reading The Local Newspaper file:

"Nonetheless, all but one of the zombies were taken to the Hennepin County jail, and stayed there for two days."

02-25-2010 , 05:59 PM

#2114

obsidian

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California assembly approves "cuss-free" week

Quote:

The resolution includes no enforcement mechanism and is simply meant to promote greater harmony and connectedness, said Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, a Democrat from La Canada Flintridge and co-author of the measure.

Important stuff

02-25-2010 , 06:04 PM

#2115

RollinHand

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Politicians and priorities ftw.

02-25-2010 , 06:05 PM

#2116

Vecernicek

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Wynton

This graph has been "corrected."

02-25-2010 , 06:05 PM

#2117

bluef0x

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They get paid to create no cuss week? jesus

02-25-2010 , 06:10 PM

#2118

TomVeil

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bluef0x

They get paid to create no cuss week? jesus

Quote:

Said one GOP lawmaker: **** no cuss week. It's bull****

02-25-2010 , 06:37 PM

#2119

Not_In_My_Name

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Vecernicek

This graph has been "corrected."

The disparity in results between "welfare" and "aid to the poor" is a really good example of the effectiveness of the media and right-wing politicians over the past 30 years or so in demonizing the word "welfare" and its recipients.

Aid to the poor = giving a helping hand to people who have fallen on hard times through no fault of their own.

Welfare = lazy, thieving blacks and white-trash who won't even look for a job and just want to live on government money their who lives RRRAAARRRRGGGHHHH

02-25-2010 , 06:56 PM

#2120

SL__72

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Lol at the idea that the word welfare has been demonized when <50% of self-described "conservatives" think we should cut spending on it.

The problem isn't that welfare has been demonized. Its that it has now apparently become socially acceptable for healthy adults to live completely on the charity of others.

02-25-2010 , 07:02 PM

#2121

TheQuietAnarchist

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Quote:

The problem isn't that welfare has been demonized. Its that it has now apparently become socially acceptable for healthy adults to live completely on the charity of others.

Yeah this is definitely problem #1 here. Hasn't been demonized at all...

02-25-2010 , 07:07 PM

#2122

Not_In_My_Name

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I'm not making a point about welfare being good or bad. I'm making the point that when people are asked whether they support government helping the poor, most say yes, but when the question is whether they support welfare, the support is much, much lower. I've seen other studies with exactly the same result.

It's no surprise that when conservatives look to cut aid to the poor, they almost invariably use the word welfare because of the negative images it now conjures up in peoples' minds.