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Those awful right-wing Facebook pics your friends/family share
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I fail to see how celebrating slavery and secesion has anything to do with how one wants to dress. These two points have nothing in common. Whoever did this didn't think it very well.
My SO's dad actually posted this one.
alfredofroylan
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It's in spanish
The problem with this is that Barrabas was not in jail for being a thief, he was in jail for participating in a revolt against the romans.
The problem with this is that Barrabas was not in jail for being a thief, he was in jail for participating in a revolt against the romans.
Half of them are just flat out lies too... like, seriously fabricated news stories that sound almost plausible due to the state of the written media in this country. "This MUSLIM TERRORIST is living in an 8 MILLION POUND HOME in LONDON on WELFARE".
Must say that most of these posts come from a particular generation.
boredofcanada
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I'm not gonna link it but the "Americans have the right to insult Islam" one caused me to delete someone recently, and it felt good.
Red Liquorice
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lol.I almost never see anything explicitly Republican on Facebook, but an old friend posted this gem recently:
What is it exactly that these people don't get? No one can be that dim surely.
NoblesseOblige
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This one is so stupid that I actually laughed at the thought of someone making the argument. I'd concede to it simply because I couldn't carry on any longer due to my sides being in pain.
people were sharing this unironically
Clinton is making the same face I did when I saw this picture.
This particularly teenager seemed to honestly not understand why "I'm proud to be gay" is not as safe of a statement as "I'm proud to be straight". He kept repeating that "everybody should be equal, so straight people should be allowed to be proud".
HP_Wuvcraft
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people were sharing this unironically
I love how this ones not even trying to hide its racism.
people were sharing this unironically
Dead.
Rex Griswold
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Ultra conservatives are fucking despicable and dishonest shitheads. Just like ultra liberals.
The memes and pictures are just as obnoxious and disingenuous on both sides.
The memes and pictures are just as obnoxious and disingenuous on both sides.
I had more of GW Bush look on my face.
Cap'n Cook
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I think it's awful on both sides, it builds anger and division between 2 groups that clearly need to work together for the betterment of our country. The far left and right wingers do something that really annoys me, they choose to only pay attention to the awful media and propaganda that paints the opposite in a bad light, which then of course they build an unfavorable opinion and dislike for that opposite group. I only know 1 other group of people that does this exact same thing and they're called racist.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Yup.
Which is why you can pretty much tell what people mean when they say shit like "SJW".
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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False equivalence.
Xdrive05
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Yeah, I'm really tired of the partisan bullshit on Facebook. I'm old enough to remember what the liberal circles were posting during the first eight years of the last decade. I remember thinking that when Democrats regain political power in this country, that the ridiculous rhetoric would subside and that conservatives would not use the same tactics as liberals were using against Bush when at their worst. That fantasy took about two weeks to destroy. It might be worse now than it's ever been. I have no expectation that reasonable discourse will ever be gained at this point *on social media.
*edited for clarification.
Necromanti
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While there's a divide of "us" vs. "them", the politics of it often just seems like a vehicle for tribalism, especially when a lot of it--and forgive me for focusing on one side of it for a second--seems to have nothing to do with being a conservative or a Republican and the ideologies tied to those identities (since why would people calling for limited government want government to intervene when it suits them?). Because conservatism isn't inherently linked to white supremacy, for example. But I guess those labels have also become synonymous with fundamentalist (American nationalist) Christian that may occasionally have a socially conservative slant.
Gray Matter
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Ever since (and even before) the legalization of same sex marriage my dad has posted numerous pictures/videos on his disapproval of same sex relationships, notice how I say relationships and not marriage.
He doesn't know that I'm atheist (he's very religious) and doesn't understand that there is nothing wrong with same sex relationships.
Just today he tagged me on two of his posts, it's really fucking annoying.
He doesn't know that I'm atheist (he's very religious) and doesn't understand that there is nothing wrong with same sex relationships.
Just today he tagged me on two of his posts, it's really fucking annoying.
Xdrive05
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It is totally tribalism and us vs. them. I think there is a valid and defendable libertarian point of view to be taken on most issues, especially social issues. But what you will notice is that vocal conservatives on social media tend to find their libertarianism when the government starts doing something for somebody else. While the government is doing something that favors them, their libertarianism is nowhere to be found.
For those of us that would like a politics that has moved beyond stagnation from tribalism, it looks like the only thing we can do is keep poking holes in the extremes of both sides in social media. Hard to do when it's your friends and family though.
TapeDispenser1000
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This is particularly distasteful.
Crimsonclaw111
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This is particularly distasteful.
What do they own
Rex Griswold
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Is it?
Both Bush and Obama have been compared to Hitler.
Same sex marriage is being compared to 9/11, and marijuana legalization is being called the only way to cure cancer.
The examples given cannot exist if you're trying to claim I'm making a false equivalence.
Baraka in the White House
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Yeah no, this is usually what bigots say whenever they get called out for being what they are.
"WHY DON'T YOU TOLERATE MY INTOLERANCE? SOOOO ACCEPTING AMIRITE??"
Best one circulating right now:
hey it's adolph
100% on point. "With us or you are some kind of bigot".
NotAllLiberals#, but there have been plenty on GAF who have that mindset. It got so bad that mods cannot allow certain topics to stay open because it showcases how militant some of these people can get.
Militant? lol
teruterubozu
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lol. That post is almost a year ago.
Ya just noticed I'm really late to the discussion. My bad
You'd think they'd at least leave Russia off the map.This is particularly distasteful.
Northeastmonk
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This reminds me of the rants on Craigslist. I'm not a political person and the people I know don't share their beliefs unless it's something that has to do with crime.
I know some people who listen to http://www.theblaze.com/tv/ and it makes me want to gag. I'm just not interested in it and it keeps stirring up issues left and right. It's one of the reasons I don't like politics at all. I had people around me into this kinda stuff (hardcore). It's why I can't stand politics.
I know some people who listen to http://www.theblaze.com/tv/ and it makes me want to gag. I'm just not interested in it and it keeps stirring up issues left and right. It's one of the reasons I don't like politics at all. I had people around me into this kinda stuff (hardcore). It's why I can't stand politics.
dripdripsplash
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Hhahahahahahhaha
Basketball
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This is gold
rokkerkory
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This thread i cant even lol
What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck?
Yes. In a way they are both precisely identical. Neither more harmful and destructive than the other. Both sides, perfectly balanced on the edge of a moral razor.
speculawyer
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This is particularly distasteful.
I don't understand the point of this one.
TheOctodad
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Yes! Finally someone else actually gets it.
Barabas and Jesus is a parallel about a revolution of violence vs. a revolution of love. The people choose violence.
IdreamofHIME
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No one has ever posted shite like this from my friends list.
BlitzerRadic
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The anecdote may not be entirely accurate, but the point is that there is a lot of abuse in the system. I work in an industry that works with government program participants and in my experience, the stories have a element of truth.
MetalGearZed
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Okay, now they believe in science.
Baron von Loathsome
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This is particularly distasteful.
Honestly, I don't even know what that image means, but it doesn't make a good case for the U.S.
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