Topic: Culture Wars (Read 78199 times)

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #500 on:** November 22, 2010, 09:22:46 AM »

Best parts of the video on the site:

1) Dad taking an hour to get his daughter's bracelet on; her losing patience.

2) Most of those girls are like twelve. Seriously, are we at a point where we have to celebrate a twelve year old still being pure?

Mongrel · « **Reply #501 on:** November 22, 2010, 09:25:38 AM »

Considering when most girls lose their virginity these days.... yep.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #502 on:** November 22, 2010, 09:35:57 AM »

The most hilarious part is that not-only are they ineffective, they're actually bad for girls

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Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today
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more than half of youths became sexually active before marriage regardless of whether they had taken a "virginity pledge," but that the percentage who took precautions against pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases was 10 points lower for pledgers than for non-pledgers.

Emphasis mine.

Mongrel · « **Reply #503 on:** November 22, 2010, 09:50:30 AM »

Sooo... like pretty much everything else "abstinence-only" related?

Büge · « **Reply #504 on:** November 22, 2010, 12:24:44 PM »

"Daddy I Do" documentary TRAILER

Yeeeeah...

Eponymous Bosch · « **Reply #505 on:** November 23, 2010, 02:11:11 PM »

Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but I guess the Southern Poverty Law Center finally listed the American Family Association* and the Family Research Council as anti-LGBT hate groups. So... does this actually mean anything? It doesn't seem like it does, other than that both groups can now tell their followers, "Oh, you can now safely ignore anything the SPLC has to say. They've proven themselves deluded and no better than the ACLU/ACORN/ACRONYM."

*Their site now seems to stream Fox live on there, so that's subtle and neat.

Büge · « **Reply #506 on:** November 24, 2010, 09:14:49 PM »

Apparently the Privilege Denying Dude meme hit a nerve.

Eponymous Bosch · « **Reply #507 on:** November 24, 2010, 10:01:52 PM »

I'm just happy to see Ryan Gosling for any reason.

Um, also, I guess this is as good a place and time as any to bring this up (unless it's already been brought up): people on 4chan were falling over themselves to heap praise on this video, but since it's 4chan, I have no idea if this was done ironically or earnestly. Either way, it's the worst video and the guy has a book out of the same name, so if you want to ruin your night, check out the reviews on Amazon.

What Men Know That Women Don't

Mongrel · « **Reply #508 on:** November 25, 2010, 09:34:10 PM »

Sorry, but James Brown did that already. And not only is his version is about a thousand times better, it's also a lot shorter.

It's A Man's Man's Man's World - James Brown (Lyrics)

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #509 on:** November 30, 2010, 07:59:12 PM »

Tea party leader: restricting voting rights to property owners 'makes a lot of sense'.

Thad · « **Reply #510 on:** November 30, 2010, 09:38:56 PM »

Do you remember a time when women weren't allowed to vote and certain people weren't allowed on golf courses? Petridge Farm remembers.

Dooly · « **Reply #511 on:** November 30, 2010, 10:55:08 PM »

The obvious question there is whether or not non-land-owners will then be exempt from paying taxes.

McDohl · « **Reply #512 on:** December 01, 2010, 04:23:59 AM »

Ah, I love being slathered in hot, creamy hypocrisy in the morning.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #513 on:** December 01, 2010, 04:54:46 AM »

The GOP used to want to bring America back to some idyllic 1950s that never existed. With the emergence of the tea party, they're dead set on taking us back to 1850.

Mongrel · « **Reply #514 on:** December 01, 2010, 05:22:49 AM »

Hahaha!

Bring back property qualifications? I knew some idiot was going to propose that! I fuckin' KNEW IT!

Laughing so hard IRL, you have no idea.

Büge · « **Reply #515 on:** December 01, 2010, 06:23:04 AM »

Quote from: Constantmean on December 01, 2010, 04:54:46 AM

The GOP used to want to bring America back to some idyllic 1950s that never existed. With the emergence of the tea party, they're dead set on taking us back to 27 BC.

Norondor · « **Reply #516 on:** December 01, 2010, 06:31:59 AM »

so, like, now that the right is MOTHERFUCKING CAESAR'S LEGION, can we please all admit i was right and start a horrifying purge?

Catloaf · « **Reply #517 on:** December 01, 2010, 07:48:24 AM »

Quote from: Norondor on December 01, 2010, 06:31:59 AM

so, like, now that the right is MOTHERFUCKING CAESAR'S LEGION, can we please all admit i was right and start a horrifying purge?

I wish exodus to Canada were a viable option, but that would only serve to empower them, and we can't let that fucking happen. There's a good chance they'd start trying to conquer the world with military force and go about war the old way, where civilians gave a 3X multiplier bonus rather than -50pts

Detonator · « **Reply #518 on:** December 01, 2010, 05:10:08 PM »

As much as I'd like to pile on here, had anyone actually heard of Judson Phillips before this and does being the president of the "Tea Party Nation" actually mean anything?

Mongrel · « **Reply #519 on:** December 01, 2010, 06:39:30 PM »

Nope, but the Tea Party is a pretty disorganized "organization" anyway, with a boatload of factional infighting.

The main point is that it's possible that there's an argument to be made for "regressing" the US to it's isolationist era (effectively decimating all international commitments and plowing the resources back into purely commercial pursuits). I don't necessarily agree with such an argument or think it would be a good idea (or practical), but there's a cogent argument somebody could make, and it's a debate the US could probably stand to have.

But since the Tea Party is mostly made up of complete morons, they pick bizarre and random things to cling to - things which call back to an older time, like "OMG GOLD STANDARD" - with no real understanding of the underlying causes of such phenomena. So, comedy. Even if they wouldn't all call for a return to a property qualifications for voting, it's an absolutely perfect example of the kind of batshit thinking that drives the movement.

Hell, just look at their name.

P.S. This was by far my favourite comment on the article:

Quote from: Grinder

renters still have a vested interest in the area they live in. maybe not as much as owners. perhaps 3/5ths of a vote is appropriate?

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