Topic: I'm Gonna Have to Teabag My Shit (Read 11189 times)

Royal☭ · « **Reply #180 on:** April 15, 2009, 05:18:47 PM »

Woman on Social Security and Welfare joins the Tea Parties to protest a "welfare state"

She also didn't have to pay any money in taxes last year. She is, in essence, trying to screw herself over.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #181 on:** April 15, 2009, 05:23:44 PM »

Norondor · « **Reply #182 on:** April 15, 2009, 05:29:10 PM »

Quote from: Constantine on April 15, 2009, 05:08:11 PM

I was actually just referring to how you hold a "Take-No-Prisoners" approach to your views. Most of us on her have an understanding that even if they're batshit insane, conservatives have a right to be batshit insane. Basically, we understand what you're saying we just don't support locking up people because they don't realize a tax plan is good for them.

I am joking more or less half the time i discuss anything, politics included.

However, the half in which i am totally, 100% serious is alloyed to the unserious half, and is quite impossible to seperate.

Kayin · « **Reply #183 on:** April 15, 2009, 05:30:51 PM »

Quote from: Third Strongest Brentai on April 15, 2009, 01:08:47 PM

AFAIK Japan doesn't take its Shinto-Zen crap very seriously. Are they the most enlightened society on Earth? I mean, according to anybody who's not Japanese?

EDIT: Shut up Norondor.

Well for everything that's been said about this topic, lets just remember that the japanese are insanely obsessed with cultural standards and nuances, are prone to extreme obsessions and are consumers on a level that resembles religious zeal.

Just sayin'.

Brentai · « **Reply #184 on:** April 15, 2009, 05:46:44 PM »

...so are we.

Kayin · « **Reply #185 on:** April 15, 2009, 05:58:14 PM »

Quote from: Third Strongest Brentai on April 15, 2009, 05:46:44 PM

...so are we.

Not nearly to that level. Of course we are equally fanatical about religion, dumb political stances and other crap. Which is exactly my point.

Thad · « **Reply #186 on:** April 15, 2009, 07:30:47 PM »

HOW IS THIS FUCKING THREAD TEN PAGES LONG

Royal☭ · « **Reply #187 on:** April 15, 2009, 07:38:26 PM »

Shit, Dad's home.

Mongrel · « **Reply #188 on:** April 15, 2009, 07:39:19 PM »

Quote from: Thad on April 15, 2009, 07:30:47 PM

HOW IS THIS FUCKING THREAD TEN PAGES LONG

It's a self-perpetuating bullshit machine. We're applying for a patent in the morning.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #189 on:** April 15, 2009, 07:48:18 PM »

Quote from: Thad on April 15, 2009, 07:30:47 PM

HOW IS THIS FUCKING THREAD TEN PAGES LONG

Well, Bongo Bill said something, and everybody else said something, then noronder said some stuff, and it just sort of kept going on like that for another couple of pages.

Kazz · « **Reply #190 on:** April 15, 2009, 07:54:37 PM »

someone let Shinra out of the WoW thread

Norondor · « **Reply #191 on:** April 15, 2009, 08:01:56 PM »

sorry...?

Thad · « **Reply #192 on:** April 15, 2009, 08:09:43 PM »

...I skimmed it.

Bongo has a point but has employed entirely too many strawmen in making it. And Norondor keeps encouraging him by actually giving him crazy over-the-top shit to argue with.

...the last paragraph of Taibbi's article in the latest Rolling Stone is actually apt here, but doesn't appear to be online at the moment. The gist is that the Republican Party's core values are useful and in fact very necessary in the midst of huge government spending like we're seeing; the problem is that the actual Republicans running our government are a bunch of fucking clowns.

Opposing wasteful spending is a great idea. Waving around a "budget" that doesn't actually include a single number -- and bear in mind that I am now talking about the elected leadership of the Republican Party, not random idiots throwing tea in a river -- is theater. And not very good theater.

Brentai · « **Reply #193 on:** April 15, 2009, 08:26:09 PM »

I think the point that they wrote the first $700 billion deficit bill and McCain went as far as to attempt to take credit for it should be repeated. Again and again and again.

Thad · « **Reply #194 on:** April 15, 2009, 09:15:00 PM »

Yes.

And that's pretty much the entirety of Taibbi's article: a laundry list of things Congressional Republicans have said over the past three months that completely contradict things they said over the preceding eight years (or, in one case, weren't around to say over the previous eight years -- a freshman Republican Congressman actually tried to use the "I didn't vote for any of this the last time" line).

Also, it opens with the following sentence:

Quote

Following the Republican Party of late has been a movingly depressing experience, sort of like watching Old Yeller die -- if Old Yeller were a worm-infested feral bitch who spent the past eight years biting children at bus stops and shitting in neighborhood swimming pools.

...if any of you guys got a copy in the mail for free, it is totally worth checking out. (Though I admit the rest of the article is not nearly as awesome as that sentence.)

Oh hey, a Google search for "worm-infested feral bitch" shows that part of the article is on the RS website. Not the whole thing, but a decent enough preview.

Brentai · « **Reply #195 on:** April 15, 2009, 09:29:02 PM »

Now I just want to see what the other results for that are.

*click*

Thad · « **Reply #196 on:** April 15, 2009, 09:33:21 PM »

...I assume the reason I've been getting free, unsolicited Rolling Stones in the mail is part of that whole Print is Dead thing. ...which, come to think of it, was another thread I wanted to get in on but it ballooned up while I was gone for a couple days.

Büge · « **Reply #197 on:** April 16, 2009, 10:54:18 AM »

Quote from: Iron_Mongrel on April 15, 2009, 07:39:19 PM

Quote from: Thad on April 15, 2009, 07:30:47 PM
HOW IS THIS FUCKING THREAD TEN PAGES LONG

It's a self-perpetuating bullshit machine. We're applying for a patent in the morning.

Hate to disappoint you, but...

_{hee hee butt}

Sharkey · « **Reply #198 on:** April 16, 2009, 10:18:13 PM »

Just to maybe put Nor's crap to bed, I'm going to admit that I'd very fucking much like to have guys in snappy black uniforms beat the holy screaming shit out of these people. Maybe throw them in a tank with a bunch of box jellyfish. Honestly, that'd probably make me feel more tingly than them.

Meanwhile, there are also occasions where I'd very much like to wrestle marketing people to the ground and shit directly in their filthy mouths, or put acid in the water supply just to see if anyone notices the difference. They all seem like fantastic ideas at the time, but I tend not to indulge myself on account of it'd be a pain in my ass later if everyone got the idea to do that kind of thing.

People are entitled to their own idiocy. You can wear yourself out trying to save them, or even beat the shit out of them for it, but really, it's hardly worth the trouble. Especially when it pretty unambiguously bites them in the ass, and tends to do so even harder without your interference. I think I can deal with the rich inciting the stupid to throw themselves over a cliff. I'm not so dead inside that I can't enjoy that.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #199 on:** April 19, 2009, 12:35:45 AM »

What went wrong. A perspective I had not considered.

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