I was just responding to the "lol you just made it up" accusations. Really now, that's even more absurd than some of the pictures shared in this thread.
Anecdotal evidence doesn't really make for a compelling argument though.
I was just responding to the "lol you just made it up" accusations. Really now, that's even more absurd than some of the pictures shared in this thread.
Yeah, I was just challenging the assertion that both liberals and conservatives make loads of dumb facebook images. So far, the evidence provided has been underwhelming. And that's me being generous.
for everyone thinking this is made up, every word on this is absolutely true.
every adult man in switzerland needs to join the military for basic training.
the assault rifle will then be stored at home. so its true, every adult man owns a SIG 550 assault rifle and its stored somewhere in a wardrobe.
its also true that we have a very low rate of crime.
however, this picture seems to imply a connection between those two statements, this is of course not true at all.
because the assault rifle wardrobe storing is done purely because of logistical reasons, so we dont have to store weapons and transport them in a case of war (or to the trainings). so only ammunition has to be transported, not the guns themselves. and no one is allowed to store ammunition for these assault rifles at home. no one is able to use these rifles outside a heavily supervised area. so while we have the guns, this is true, we do not have the ammo for them.
generally, owning any other kind of gun is heavily frowned upon, and if you ever tell someone you are actually carrying a gun with you (in my 31 years of live I have never encountered someone who carried a gun with him) people will think you are crazy and/or call the police on you.
and the reason for our low rate of crime is because we are very rich and use that money to help people who arent that lucky. from a US perspective we most certainly are socialists, hell, we even call our politic right wing "liberals", no kidding, thats how far left we are(we mean economically liberal by that)
I have a good friend who used to post liberal pics maybe 2-3 times/day. I can't really call them stupid since I at least agreed with the general spirit of most of them, but it was nonetheless annoying due to the frequency of these posts and the sensationalistic or holier-than-thou tone of many of them.
This is not to say this happens with nearly the same frequency as with conservative posts. But it certainly can happen.
The reason it's hilarious is not that it's made up, it's that the ones who typically post this are adamantly against any sort of governmental gun control. I imagine a government-issued weapon, which you can't generally keep loaded, isn't, in their minds, what they actually want.for everyone thinking this is made up, every word on this is absolutely true.
every adult man in switzerland needs to join the military for basic training.
the assault rifle will then be stored at home. so its true, every adult man owns a SIG 550 assault rifle and its stored somewhere in a wardrobe.
its also true that we have a very low rate of crime.
however, this picture seems to imply a connection between those two statements, this is of course not true at all.
because the assault rifle wardrobe storing is done purely because of logistical reasons, so we dont have to store weapons and transport them in a case of war (or to the trainings). so only ammunition has to be transported, not the guns themselves. and no one is allowed to store ammunition for these assault rifles at home. no one is able to use these rifles outside a heavily supervised area. so while we have the guns, this is true, we do not have the ammo for them.
generally, owning any other kind of gun is heavily frowned upon, and if you ever tell someone you are actually carrying a gun with you (in my 31 years of live I have never encountered someone who carried a gun with him) people will think you are crazy and/or call the police on you.
and the reason for our low rate of crime is because we are very rich and use that money to help people who arent that lucky. from a US perspective we most certainly are socialists, hell, we even call our politic right wing "liberals", no kidding, thats how far left we are(we mean economically liberal by that)
I don't know what my stance is on this and I haven't put much thought into it but I would probably ask myself "what are the reasons for classing murder as a crime" and why is it wrongand subsequently examine whether those same reasons apply to foetuses.
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Seriously, if you've got these images, let's see them. I'm curious about how extreme and sensationalist they are and how they compare to the conservative ones.
One of my distantly related cousins is in a fanatically religious family (I mean FANATICALLY, her mom thought she could speak in tongues for a while), and she posts these dumb anti-abortion pics every once in a while:
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That's a fairly decent criterion in my opinion, and under this standard you can see the situations are fundamentally different. If I recall correctly, human fetuses are anatomically and intellligence-wise pretty similar to other mammal species that we have no qualms killing, even after they're born. However, from birth onward humans are set apart from other species in terms of intelligence, making killing them clear murder. The key difference is intelligence. I guarantee cows go through more suffering when being slaughtered than do aborted fetuses, for example.
Where is the dumb part?
Conflating abortion with murdering a child, obviously.
In that case, I could probably understand pro-life activists' feelings if they feel similarly for all life.
The reason it's hilarious is not that it's made up, it's that the ones who typically post this are adamantly against any sort of governmental gun control. I imagine a government-issued weapon, which you can't generally keep loaded, isn't, in their minds, what they actually want.
I get their reasoning, but they don't have the entire picture. And "government-issued" makes me laugh.the way I seet it, this picture seems to support the US gun lobby philisophy that if everyone is armed, no one will dare to be violent/criminial. that guns equal safety.
of course that only works if you dont mention the fact that the guns come without ammunition.
Hey man. I'm not the person that used blatantly false information. If you didn't know how much she was getting why did you make up a number that was over 50% higher than the maximum benefit you can get? You specifically said over 800 dollars in food stamps. Frankly it throws your whole story into limbo land. Why should any of us take you seriously now???Oh shut up already. I know EXACTLY what I saw and I have NO reason to lie about ANYTHING on GAF. Why would I? What could I possibly be achieving by lying?
I physically went to their place in Queens and saw the Mercedes-Benz parked out front.
I physically saw her take out her EBT card and brag about it to me.
I physically USED that EBT card to get groceries from the local supermarket for her.
Anything else you want to know?
I'm sorry I don't know the exact amount on the EBT card because guess what? I'm lucky enough that I've never had to use food stamps in my life.
Conflating abortion with murdering a child, obviously.
Hey man. I'm not the person that used blatantly false information. If you didn't know how much she was getting why did you make up a number that was over 50% higher than the maximum benefit you can get? You specifically said over 800 dollars in food stamps. Frankly it throws your whole story into limbo land. Why should any of us take you seriously now???
There' a thread about that already so I'm not derailing this further, but my two cents are:
I dunno man. The child is already well formed by the time you find out it may have down syndrome. We approach eugenics levels there.
.... So... You think that killing a child that is developed enough for the parents/medics to notice a malformity, or down syndrome, is NOT murdering it...?
Wow...
You didn't make a mistake you lied. I'm sorry that I caught your lie but someone had to point it out. I find anecdotes like yours tiring because the vast majority of the time they are completely made up. If they aren't completely made up it's very common for people to lie about how much in benefits people are receiving. Kind of like what you just did.Well, everybody else seems to taking me seriously and making legitimate arguments against the nature of anecdotes, but hey let's just continue to harp on this one mistake I made.
Woo everybody look, Aquamarine made a mistake!
B-ROCK "THE ISLAMIC SHOCK" HUSSEIN SUPERALLAH OBAMA
lmao
Just look up stuff like "Americans Against Right Wing Terrorists," "Americans Against the Republican Party," "Snarky Democrat," "Americans Against the Tea Party" or "The Everlasting GOP Stoppers" on Facebook.
.... So... You think that killing a child that is developed enough for the parents/medics to notice a malformity, or down syndrome, is NOT murdering it...?
Wow...
Dude no one told us we had to google the right-wing pics, people posted them as evidence.
Is it that hard to do it with the left-wing stuff?
No I just didn't feel like doing it.
Is this a problem for you?
What are people who claim to be "in the middle" even in the middle of? Do you not pick sides on any issue? Seems like a convenient way of just saying "I'm above it all on every issue," without having to take a stand on anything.
The "in the middle" (or "independent") people I know seem like conservatives who don't want to call themselves Republicans. But maybe that's not the case for most who self-identify as such.
This one is just too much. Wanting what is best for society is to be linked to Hitler? Who the fuck are these people? Disgraceful.
I can't believe people keep trying to defend that Columbus image? "Stop genocide"? Really?
Actually, yes. We want to see the evidence.
Anyone can google anything, this is a threat for posting the pics, not dismissing people and telling them to go google them.
Out of curiosity, what do you think Columbus did? Like, what do you think are the most heinous acts he commited?
Well, he sailed the ocean blue, in 1492.
Or so I've been told...
You go on Facebook and look up those accounts like I said, it's not dismissive at all. If you seriously don't comprehend those instructions, then I'm very sorry for you, but here you go:
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Again, they don't exist with nearly the same prevalence as the right-wing ones. But they do exist.
Why couldn't you do this in the first place? No, I comprehended your instructions but I am going with the theme of the thread (e.g. post outrageous political pics from facebook)
Just look up stuff like "Americans Against Right Wing Terrorists," "Americans Against the Republican Party," "Snarky Democrat," "Americans Against the Tea Party" or "The Everlasting GOP Stoppers" on Facebook.
This so much.love the ones with a quote attributed to a person of something that the person never actually said.
anyways these are without a doubt the worst people.