Topic: Culture Wars (Read 78110 times)

Rico · « **Reply #780 on:** January 24, 2013, 09:42:27 AM »

The Hippocratic Oath doesn't say that, but doctors don't really swear to the Hippocratic Oath these days, so maybe they do swear that and you're accidentally right?

Brentai · « **Reply #781 on:** January 24, 2013, 10:16:45 AM »

For obvious reasons it's kind of a bad idea to bring up the Greek Oath in the middle of an abortion debate. Unless you actually like to derail things.

Rico · « **Reply #782 on:** January 24, 2013, 10:30:43 AM »

I think in general consciousness the Oath is nothing more than "Physician, do no harm". It gets referenced plenty, but kind of like the Bible: you know, it's in there, just somewhere towards the back

Rico · « **Reply #783 on:** January 24, 2013, 11:46:30 AM »

I'm sure a lot of people have read about the proposed New Mexico bill criminalizing abortion after rape as "tampering with evidence." But did you know that the bill's creator has come out and said this protects women from forced abortions from people just looking to hide their crimes! WHEW! Thanks for protecting women, you collossal, party-line-humping monster!

Büge · « **Reply #784 on:** January 24, 2013, 12:07:50 PM »

The US is already trying to criminalize pregnancy.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #785 on:** January 24, 2013, 01:18:34 PM »

Speaking of which: a new bill introduced in the New Mexico legislature would charge rape victims who terminate their pregnancies with a felony for "tampering with evidence".

Rico · « **Reply #786 on:** January 24, 2013, 01:26:47 PM »

Two posts up, dude.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #787 on:** January 24, 2013, 02:57:19 PM »

TA · « **Reply #788 on:** January 30, 2013, 05:11:06 PM »

Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod

Okay so you know how, like, whenever President Obama says anything - like, anything - there is a vocal chunk of the right-wing that will just kneejerk say the opposite because Black President Always Wrong? And you ever wonder if, like, he might ever make public statements just to bait those people into taking extreme and visibly insane stances in public?

Well I don't know if that's what happened. But on Sunday, Obama gave a statement to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. And so, on Monday, the National Review had no choice but to defend Naziism.

Mongrel · « **Reply #789 on:** January 30, 2013, 05:49:57 PM »

Oh wow.

EDIT: Hey, maybe they're just good fans of Berlusconi.

Thad · « **Reply #790 on:** January 30, 2013, 10:14:05 PM »

I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.

Brentai · « **Reply #791 on:** February 04, 2013, 01:28:42 PM »

Favorite comment about the Obama skeet shooting flap: "The first time conservatives have ever doubted that a black man is holding a gun."

Royal☭ · « **Reply #792 on:** February 18, 2013, 08:32:48 PM »

Mississippi finally gets around to adopting 13th amendment/banning slavery

Royal☭ · « **Reply #793 on:** February 22, 2013, 01:57:11 PM »

North Carolina throws its hat in the ring for the Worst State in the Union competition

I didn't even know they wanted IN to that fight, but here's the highlights to their strong entry:

- Specially marked drivers licenses for all non-US citizens. Hey, you know who else had identity cards for non-sanctioned groups...?
- Almost completely dismantling their unemployment system, overnight
- proposed legislation to remove tax credits for low and moderate-income people
- Making the exposure of [female] nipples a felony punishable with up to six months in prison

TA · « **Reply #794 on:** February 25, 2013, 10:25:06 AM »

No, the Tea Party isn't racist! Why ever would you say such a thing?

JDigital · « **Reply #795 on:** February 28, 2013, 12:00:45 AM »

Top DHS checkpoint refusals

Büge · « **Reply #796 on:** March 05, 2013, 06:57:43 PM »

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/05/politicians_think_americans_are_super_conservative/

Interesting.

Thad · « **Reply #797 on:** March 05, 2013, 08:04:46 PM »

One of the statistics Jon Stewart likes to trot out is that Americans are more likely to CALL themselves "conservative" in a survey, but more likely to be on the liberal side of most major issues.

Büge · « **Reply #798 on:** March 05, 2013, 08:27:10 PM »

So is it one of those situations where people agree with a philosophy but don't want to say they're a certain thing because they've internalized the idea that the term in question is a pejorative one? (e.g. feminist)

Brentai · « **Reply #799 on:** March 05, 2013, 08:29:29 PM »

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(“It’s a center-right country,” we hear all the time, which it turns out is both meaningless and untrue.)

I hate to be pedantic, but since they started it...

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