Eighty Deuce
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I make around 45 stops per week, at least 3-4 need to be investigated. I'm not going to call the authorities about it, I'm more concerned about giving them proper medical attention.
Those awful right-wing Facebook pics your friends/family share
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I make around 45 stops per week, at least 3-4 need to be investigated. I'm not going to call the authorities about it, I'm more concerned about giving them proper medical attention.
Yeah, I guess that's true actually.
No doubt they probably feel the same way about liberalism.
Why delete or unfollow them? The salt, narcissism, and ignorance is hilarious.
These are the people that make Facebook worth reading come election time. I guess I understand if you don't like being on FB much, and only have time read stuff from the people you give a shit about.
Frankly, I don't care enough to actually unfollow people.
These are the people that make Facebook worth reading come election time. I guess I understand if you don't like being on FB much, and only have time read stuff from the people you give a shit about.
Frankly, I don't care enough to actually unfollow people.
teruterubozu
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Yup, mine are mostly distant relatives I met at a wedding or reunion, or some old high school friend that I haven't spoken to in decades. They've all been unfollowed.
Sometimes I'll take a peek for shits and giggles, but it can get too much when something is in the news - like a school shooting.
Mr_Antimatter
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So focus on legit abuse and investigating, rather then the blanket 'food stamps make people slaves / get rich off welfare' stuff you see all the time in the conservative side of things.
Conservatives hate poor people who don't look or act poor. It is a challenge to their superiority complex, and that complex is what drives their ideology.
LaserBuddha
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Ask a gay person or person of color if these views are "just" views. Go ahead and try to tell them that voters who spread and reinforce some of these views are not tangibly harming them.
makingmusic476
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My aunt works in social services for the state of Texas, particularly overseeing a department that handles TANF benefits, iirc, and she's said similar.
She's the most left leaning person in my family after me. Though she's also a lesbian, which I'm sure influenced her politics relative to the rest of the family.
I've had a few annoyingly liberal ones from friends, too. Like ones that were that kind of militant atheism where any other person would be like "yeeesh." I go to college in Idaho, though, so election years are terrible for the amount of agitating conservative stuff.
Also I'm friends with a lot of Brazilians who post just the most empty stuff, hahaha.
Also I'm friends with a lot of Brazilians who post just the most empty stuff, hahaha.
ShadowSoldier89
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This is right, however we also need to better define abuse, and that gets trickier.
Is a healthy man that hasnt had a job in a year and hasn't even applied for one abusing the system. I think so, but how do you actually track that.
Mammoth Jones
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This. I have a few hard right friends. I just keep scrolling. Once in a while I'll either agree or disagree with them.
But I guess it's easier for both sides to vilify those they disagree with than actually have a rational discussion.
Mind you, these are just as irritating.
Oh god I hate these.
Vincent Alexander
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Hell yeah. Now this I can get behind. I have a friend that constantly posts "inspiration" quotes about dating and women...and hasn't had a girlfriend for about 5 years. They just seem....odd, more than anything.Mind you, these are just as irritating.
And this is from a friend after the racist comments were made. This is one of many, many, many....pretty much trying to defend him.
When you create these blatantly false stories you should probably look up what the maximum food stamp limit to make it more believable. Hint: your example is 300 dollars over the maximum limit.
Any other made up stories you would like to share with us?!?
Yeah, same here. Don't inspire me, dammit!
And this is from a friend after the racist comments were made. This is one of many, many, many....pretty much trying to defend him.
But... I thought conservatives were opposed to the idea of cultural relativism.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
The sad thing about those images are they're more thought suppressing and less thought provoking. If you honestly think about those things, it reveals that much of the conservative perspective is from a place were you're being asked to not consider the merits of points being made by the other opponents of the idea and to simply believe in a certain thing blindly. Its amazingly insidious.
I knew a woman like that and here name was La-a. You wanna know how she pronounced it??
I don't get Liberals trying to understate the amount of welfare abuse in this country. Just yesterday I saw a mom with 8 kids driving a Lamborghini Gallardo. I followed her closely in the checkout lane of the local grocery store and saw her pull out a welfare foodstamp card. The checker said she had a balance of $3,000 left. The woman disputed the amount, so she asked one of her barefoot kids for an iPad so she could check her balance online. Apparently the checker was off about $300. Her iPhone rings, apparently her husband answers and I can overhear him talking about that new 4k flat screen he just bought. How can you sit there and tell me welfare abuse doesn't exist?
Hahaha, yeah I totally missed that. Here are the FNS allotments through 9/30/2014. As you state, the maximum allotment is $497 (unless Aqua lives in Alaska or Hawaii).
http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/em/fsh/allotments/ffy-2013-allotment-tables.pdf
OldAsUrSock
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We should have a thread dedicated to bad image macros.
Vincent Alexander
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Well-played, my good woman or sir
It could be a real story, but the numbers weren't big enough to make a strong point so they were bumped a bit. Or he has shit memory and couldn't remember the right number. Or the whole thing is made up.
TwEE-N-Toast
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How do you not have fun with this and post your own but taken to even more extreme "A Modest Proposal" type levels?
Chuckie
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Well you have to admit...we do live in toubled times.
Is your father in law a racist? Sounds like he is.
I think Welfare fraud is like 3% which is tiny, plus the amount of money that the average citizen pays for welfare is like $36 a year so... eh.
BobbyRobby
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He feels like he is in his team's camp now, and assumes everyone is as entrenched in this partisan war as much as him.
googleplex
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When this shit pops up on my Facebook I don't run from it. I shame the fuck out of the subtle racist bullshit.
EmCeeGramr
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And as she was buying her 100lbs of steak and lobster, an elderly black man walked up and said "I fought in twelve wars and defended my country's freedom and you are a shame to your race. You can't attack me, a real person, by saying I'm racist, either, because I'm black. Martin Luther King was a Republican."
At this the large woman pushed the old man down. (He shouted about how black-on-black crime was the real issue as this happened) It looked like a race riot was about to happen when a liberal atheist Marxist college professor named Dr. Jewenstein showed up and began to blame George W. Bush for this, and that it was proof that God wasn't real.
Luckily, a bear decorated in full Marine uniform came up and punched the professor in the face.
"God was busy protecting our police officers in Ferguson, so he sent me," he growled in beartongue.
And that bear's name? Albert Einstein.
Carnby
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Do you remember that clip in Fahrenheit 9/11 where Bush talks about getting the terrorists and then immediately says "now watch me hit this shot" and swings a golf club? I don't see anything wrong with holding it against Obama too.
Vincent Alexander
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This bear sounds like a true American patriot.
LaserBuddha
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In the real world, we don't expect presidents to refrain from all personal leisure activity because there is something bad going on in the world. There is always something bad going on. People that don't know anything about politics or the world or have an agenda against the president are the kind to worry about empty symbolic points like this.
DurielBlack
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Is "the opposite of what America does" some sort of popular conservative meme? I have a crazy racist tea-partier friend who has a ton of those plastered on his page. Most of them make no sense and the ones that are intelligible can be easily debunked. Never seen them anywhere else though.
Omegasquash
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Well done. I particularly like "welfare foodstamp card."
AbortedWalrusFetus
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They are mostly people who reject the deep polarization in politics right now. They vote for individual politicians on a stance by stance basis. They may be socially liberal and economically conservative. Mostly they are just moderate in a political system that seems to have rejected the entire notion of moderation.
My dad used to be pretty conservative, but has gotten more liberal with age. However, he still gets tons of these forwarded, bogus/racist/faux-patriotic conservative emails from his old buddies.
Knowing my brother and I are both bleeding hearts (heck, my brother's a lawyer for AFL-CIO), my dad then passes on the emails to us, saying things like "I found this really interesting. Did you know this?" I have to admit it's pretty great, if only because it drives my brother freaking crazy.
Knowing my brother and I are both bleeding hearts (heck, my brother's a lawyer for AFL-CIO), my dad then passes on the emails to us, saying things like "I found this really interesting. Did you know this?" I have to admit it's pretty great, if only because it drives my brother freaking crazy.
CharminUltra
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This was unbearably cheesy. I would like you to paws fur a moment and think about what you've done.
Omegasquash
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Oh yeah and to the actual thread topic, I just defriend them unless they're family, in which case I just unfollow them. I'm too old to give a shit about hanging on to a friend that I never talk to and that just irks me every time I see 'em post something.
I had a friend post this one, last election. Even though it's so obviously making fun of the fringe right.
lmao
Yes. His other favorite topic to rant about is the influx of Somalian immigrants in his area.
Eighty Deuce
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If I start reporting them they will stop getting medical attention from us. I rather not contribute to human suffering.
I had a friend post this one, last election. Even though it's so obviously making fun of the fringe right.
Superallah Obama, had I been drinking milk it would've rocketed out of my nose.
PhoncipleBone
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I had a friend post this one, last election. Even though it's so obviously making fun of the fringe right.
B-Rock, The Islamic Shock!
Sounds like a wrestling name.
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
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Yes. Because pointing out the truth about Columbus being a genocidal sex trafficker and enslaver that does not deserve a holiday is the same as Obamacare killing our poor white grandmothers.This. The other side of the spectrum can be just as annoying.
Most of my friends are liberal, but a few are pretty far on the left. I had a friend who posted this the other day.
There's a difference between differing political views and stupid ones. A lot of the shit posted by the right is based on bigotry and a lack of critical thinking skills.
My dad - who is a wealthy, white, christian, republican, baby-boomer, VP of his company which he's worked at for 40+ years - occasionally sends me those ludicrous right-wing chain-emails that come off as Onion articles. The most recent one went on about how Obama clearly has a mental illness like Down syndrome which explains his poor decision making abilities.
NekoFever
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There's a whole genre of memes making fun of right-wing British anti-Islam images.
https://twitter.com/BritainFurst
The Albatross
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Thank god I've weeded my FB feed down and basically don't see any of these. My feed, for the last 3 months, has been ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and #PicADaySummerVacay because like 70% of my FB friends are teachers who just drink all summer.
I did have one guy I went to high school with, who I recently became friends with again through a sports league, and all he does is post batshit crazy conspiracy theories about Republicans funding ISIS to make Obama look bad, and then general anti-Israel propaganda.
I blocked him after the "Real Jews believe X, Y, Z" post because I found it ignorant.
But, there's probably a handful of people here who might agree with this and would be upset that somebody else would put this into the same category as th eother garbage in this thread (obviously, there's some that's crazier). He has other posts that are generally conspiracy theory ideas, I'd wager he's a 9/11 truther or at least sympathizes with the truther movement.
I did have one guy I went to high school with, who I recently became friends with again through a sports league, and all he does is post batshit crazy conspiracy theories about Republicans funding ISIS to make Obama look bad, and then general anti-Israel propaganda.
I blocked him after the "Real Jews believe X, Y, Z" post because I found it ignorant.
But, there's probably a handful of people here who might agree with this and would be upset that somebody else would put this into the same category as th eother garbage in this thread (obviously, there's some that's crazier). He has other posts that are generally conspiracy theory ideas, I'd wager he's a 9/11 truther or at least sympathizes with the truther movement.
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