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Title: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on January 04, 2012, 02:44:22 am
For the opposite of Awesome Protest Signs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: big_electron on January 04, 2012, 10:25:24 am
C'mon, we can't have this thread without "Get a brain morans"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on January 04, 2012, 10:28:19 am
C'mon, we can't have this thread without "Get a brain morans"
If you insist:

(http://i41.tinypic.com/aujr7b.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: shadowpanther on January 04, 2012, 10:34:21 am
(http://adambroome.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/dm-3.jpg)
Well here's a Moran. I suspect he may already have a brain though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on January 04, 2012, 11:57:45 am
Tea Party signs should fit in here rather well.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3654/3446270869_da873af5ea.jpg)

(http://www.ndhill.com/pubicoption.jpg)

(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR4HQgmmOHu2rjn5lTSafPQ7hq01TyjSBFoFHYPg0l5JWoLpNvpB5pdCGIn)

(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.15322.1313671353!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/image.jpg)

(http://threesecondsofdeadair.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/tea-party-sign.jpg)

(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/2673/slide_2673_37540_large.jpg)

(http://www.obamaftw.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tea-party-racism.jpg)

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kVfpAQ-XBJA/TaxdCTdbtFI/AAAAAAAAIWI/-0eUNaQcx0A/s1600/racist_tea_party.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on January 04, 2012, 11:41:52 pm
Tea Party signs should fit in here rather well.

....

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kVfpAQ-XBJA/TaxdCTdbtFI/AAAAAAAAIWI/-0eUNaQcx0A/s1600/racist_tea_party.jpg)

Gee, where did anyone get the idea tea baggers had a racist element?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 04, 2012, 11:51:44 pm
I do not know booly.  It is a mystery to me.  Just like these human emotions/robot voice.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on January 04, 2012, 11:53:55 pm
I wish I took pictures of the LaRouche posters. They were fucking hilarious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on January 04, 2012, 11:54:48 pm
I still find it hilarious that the Teabaggers claimed OWS was racist and that they weren't.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 05, 2012, 12:01:36 am
Well they're racist so every other movement that comes after them must be the same.

Ironbite-logic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on January 05, 2012, 12:02:47 am
Well they're racist so every other movement that comes after them must be the same.

Ironbite-logic.

They're not racist! Those racist signs are held by secret agents working for the Democratic Party to discredit the Tea Party movement! /shit my dad says
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on January 05, 2012, 10:36:23 am
Oldies from the old mega thread:

(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/298543_1896011007703_1464424242_31558102_3254903_n.jpg)

(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/228882_1895933925776_1464424242_31558022_8274002_n.jpg)

I like to read this one like someone whose sentence just got away from them:
(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/295832_1895932925751_1464424242_31558015_422166_n.jpg)
"Obama! The last time I was this....tax...Carter...1976....yeah."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on January 05, 2012, 10:42:13 am
Uh
(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/295832_1895932925751_1464424242_31558015_422166_n.jpg)
"Obama! The last time I was this....tax...Carter...1976....yeah."
The top tax rate is half of what it was during the Carter administration. So, yeah.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on January 05, 2012, 12:41:42 pm
Take your "facts" somewhere else, buddy!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on January 05, 2012, 01:48:34 pm
Make me! :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on January 05, 2012, 02:04:43 pm
Oh please (to the last pic), the last you were taxed that much was under Reagan. That's right, the conservative hero.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on January 05, 2012, 03:26:17 pm
More Tea Partiers:

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://action.naacp.org/page/-/TeaParty/willis.jpg&sa=X&ei=HQMGT-W6KcH50gHv5cGcBA&ved=0CAwQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNHa79wG8ivolACf5l1GcwhB2yRnjw)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://action.naacp.org/page/-/TeaParty/jews.jpg&sa=X&ei=NwMGT6nYEuff0gHD6vy2Aw&ved=0CAwQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNEG6OF7cVf5cLfgw83o7KtJjxB9Jg)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://www.actiondreamteam.org/adtblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/tea-party-racist-signs-04-back-to-kenya.jpg&sa=X&ei=TAMGT_TlFuHm0QGN9dAh&ved=0CAsQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNHwix18s2u9wZ2ntOO3H0SVa0I19g)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/1398/slide_1398_20068_large.jpg&sa=X&ei=bgMGT9baK-La0QGh64GiAg&ved=0CAwQ8wc4DA&usg=AFQjCNEXLRgJgDQ9R5TPsor-YRhPShZWFg)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://www.blackenterprise.com/files/2010/06/0602_teaparty.jpg&sa=X&ei=oAMGT-S1CIrX0QGr6rH3Cw&ved=0CAsQ8wc4GA&usg=AFQjCNEGF0HNKqtTm0x-2MCBBKIszY_CSg)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://futiledemocracy.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/racist_sign-tea_party.jpg&sa=X&ei=2QMGT4uaKMHk0QG16NGZAg&ved=0CAwQ8wc4JA&usg=AFQjCNFymXfh1n9T4khFW0paBxPXSfyr7w)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MLTNfPqOEZk/S9rgm9r4RhI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/pU18FA5um5g/s1600/slide_2673_37538_large.jpg&sa=X&ei=-gMGT_n2GuP20gGfmN22Ag&ved=0CAsQ8wc4MA&usg=AFQjCNHd7jiqyWw7s-gdHuvvz7fwkDGJKg)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://www.newscorpse.com/Pix/Misc/obamacare1.jpg&sa=X&ei=OgQGT4zEN4bj0QHDy6XOCw&ved=0CAsQ8wc4YA&usg=AFQjCNGbBzC-E--l2Iz16gwz4_NGTs6f4Q)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://motherjones.com/files/imagecache/node-gallery-display/photoessays/20100415_ave_cf4_235.jpg&sa=X&ei=bgQGT9vUIMbZ0QHb2c30Bg&ved=0CAsQ8wc4eA&usg=AFQjCNGeh0TCnRiqREtc8kvK1sbwXRIIJw)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://www.journalscape.com/kenny/images/politics/obamahitler.jpg&sa=X&ei=ogQGT7DSMsPv0gGJsbSuAg&ved=0CAwQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNH6UgOJs0nYmqeiDOBOT3aTa4TK8Q)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://likeawhisper.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/homophobiaaprilwsalter.jpg&sa=X&ei=OAUGT4v9Aanu0gGa7PCKAg&ved=0CAwQ8wc4Mw&usg=AFQjCNGMLMgTVNZIgtesB8na2ltAl3BHpw)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FcFWpvGQL18/S6tBo6O5bvI/AAAAAAAAB8U/pFfwKjmKOcY/s1600/Tea+Party+protest+signs+II+(via+HuffPost).jpg&sa=X&ei=fgUGT-HuMOnx0gG33-iDBQ&ved=0CAsQ8wc4xgE&usg=AFQjCNGEJm7HmtmKNo1tJ7WKEH1YcGF79Q)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/in-pictures-images/tea_party_copyedit/09/7674109-1-eng-US/09_full_600.jpg&sa=X&ei=xAUGT9edN4nm0QGJopz4Cg&ved=0CAwQ8wc4Zg&usg=AFQjCNGgW-mOa1-u0MqafwDOemXr410Z_A)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://crazyartideas.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dont-steal-medicare.jpg&sa=X&ei=5QUGT5mxNOPt0gG6neSRBg&ved=0CAwQ8wc4fg&usg=AFQjCNEL2u081qT1eXSzRz0WpBi3wMl4Tw)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://beaufortcountynow.com/uploads/article_images/diane_rufino/9_12_rally_3_reduced_630_pxlw.jpg&sa=X&ei=HwYGT8yNHsTV0QGbkpmWBg&ved=0CAwQ8wc4Iw&usg=AFQjCNG1OKQmG2QgrQ6qKAxT4avUzzIgnQ)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://sarahpalininformation.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/912-march-gray-power-and-sarah-palin-posters.jpg?w=506&h=380&sa=X&ei=TQYGT5m8KIXv0gGXo-DMAg&ved=0CAsQ8wc4UQ&usg=AFQjCNErG2RmVMm1cheDg0saZGB8kWQ2rw)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__ZRjDTujoEo/Sq1C4EqAGmI/AAAAAAAABQI/0TDV1WK9ggM/s800/Glenn-Beck-9-12-Project4.jpg&sa=X&ei=cgYGT5LHNOfn0QHo3vGpAg&ved=0CAwQ8wc4XQ&usg=AFQjCNEu99pXBGr1xPolFqZ0YlckdnW3sQ)

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/3913498973_d85e377704.jpg&sa=X&ei=qAYGT6L5GcXg0QHTucSOAg&ved=0CAsQ8wc4xgE&usg=AFQjCNFamu7aCTbrVdoXBhpVtGrj1ytFKg)

(http://likeawhisper.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/912homophobe.jpg)

(http://likeawhisper.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/blackcriminal912photo.jpg)

(http://likeawhisper.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/aprilteaparty.jpg)

(http://likeawhisper.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/tphangthem.jpg)

(http://likeawhisper.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/blackdevil912photo.jpg)

(http://likeawhisper.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/confederacymtcstream.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auri-El on January 05, 2012, 03:39:47 pm
So much fail. The next to last one, "Real Americans Don't Bow." I seem to recall this picture showing up a while back.
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/11/19/1258647769650/Saudi-King-Abdullah-bin-A-001.jpg)

And this one.
(http://ll-media.tmz.com/2008/01/15/0115_george_bush_getty-1.jpg)

Not a real American, huh.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on January 05, 2012, 03:45:04 pm
Took this picture (http://bayimg.com/naLmiAADl) last year in Texas, forgot to put it up.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on January 05, 2012, 03:48:47 pm
So much fail. The next to last one, "Real Americans Don't Bow." I seem to recall this picture showing up a while back.
<snip>

And this one.
<snip>

Not a real American, huh.
Clearly shop'd.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on January 05, 2012, 03:55:43 pm
Took this picture (http://bayimg.com/naLmiAADl) last year in Texas, forgot to put it up.
Oh dear...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on January 05, 2012, 04:15:03 pm
(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://www.newscorpse.com/Pix/Misc/obamacare1.jpg&sa=X&ei=OgQGT4zEN4bj0QHDy6XOCw&ved=0CAsQ8wc4YA&usg=AFQjCNGbBzC-E--l2Iz16gwz4_NGTs6f4Q)

Not racist, huh?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on January 05, 2012, 06:01:54 pm
More Tea Partiers:

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://sarahpalininformation.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/912-march-gray-power-and-sarah-palin-posters.jpg?w=506&h=380&sa=X&ei=TQYGT5m8KIXv0gGXo-DMAg&ved=0CAsQ8wc4UQ&usg=AFQjCNErG2RmVMm1cheDg0saZGB8kWQ2rw)


What a waste of a perfectly hot woman (the one holding the sign).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on January 05, 2012, 06:03:34 pm
(http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/2010/0318/03-18-tea-party/7594456-1-eng-US/03-18-tea-party_full_600.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 05, 2012, 06:37:34 pm
(http://www.blackenterprise.com/files/2010/06/0602_teaparty.jpg)

.......WHAT?!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on January 05, 2012, 08:28:59 pm
It's what I call "I Can't Believe It's Not Racist!" You can lather it on top of your political rhetoric, and it also tastes good on crackers with anchovies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smilodon on January 05, 2012, 08:36:01 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/XQ8lz.jpg)

The cut off part says "Congress".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rosenewock21 on January 27, 2012, 08:31:28 pm
(http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/315736_292633797420704_100000222587468_1369714_417306624_n.jpg)

Also, may I suggest we sticky the Protest Signs/Political Cartoons threads?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 01, 2012, 12:28:30 am
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/313220_10150397143177971_189885532970_8330429_1616589828_n.jpg)

(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/314387_10150321286697971_189885532970_7977355_438683358_n.jpg)

(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/403279_10150463029247971_189885532970_8583348_2010824219_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eniliad on March 01, 2012, 12:40:48 am
Oh come on. the "Government hates Competition" one is actually funny. ;)

Seriously, though, I had to activate my IQ Guard to get through even this much stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 01, 2012, 06:59:34 am
Took this picture (http://bayimg.com/naLmiAADl) last year in Texas, forgot to put it up.

Can anyone explain the humor to me?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on March 01, 2012, 07:23:31 am
It is a reference to the film The Hangover. Actually, it is moreso a reference to some of the merchandising of said film (http://www.wbshop.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-WB-Site/default/Product-Show?pid=HARJBABAT&src=CAFRGL&CAWELAID=908427417&gclid=CLqJncvXxa4CFSgCQAodrjs3tQ).

Explanation:
The plot centers on a group of friends that got wasted at a bachelor party, only to wake up and find that the groom is missing and they cannot remember anything at all from the previous night. They have to figure out what happened so they can find the groom, with only a few clues to go on. Clues like a tiger in their hotel bathroom, a missing tooth, and a baby from out of nowhere. It is actually better than it sounds.

Anyway, one of the characters spends some time carrying the baby in a harness and gives it some shades, so it looks very similar to the shirt I linked to. The shirt had a bit of moderate popularity, and so is easily recognizable to folks familiar with the film.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on March 01, 2012, 09:11:26 am
How is Obama connected to this, though?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on March 01, 2012, 01:23:08 pm
In the film, the guys embark on a night of drunken and drugged up debauchery only to wake up with a wrecked hotel room, a stolen tiger, a chipped tooth, the groom missing, a stolen cop car, a naked Asian gangster in their trunk, and stuck caring for a mysterious baby. Not to mention terrible hangovers.

The shirt, proclaiming Obama to be worse than a hangover, seems to be implying that America got all drunk on hope & change & Bush hate and ended up with the country in disarray while stuck with Obama.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on March 01, 2012, 09:41:58 pm
The shirt, proclaiming Obama to be worse than a hangover, seems to be implying that America got all drunk on hope & change & Bush hate and ended up with the country in disarray while stuck with Obama.

I didn’t even read that much into it. Just looked at it as a stupid, stupid caricature.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on March 02, 2012, 01:29:45 pm
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2296/2258574311_dc0b6cb098.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on March 02, 2012, 02:08:12 pm
Normal 71yrs?  I thought we at least made it to 79 or 80 by now.

Oh yeah, the anti-gay stuff is idiotic too...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on March 02, 2012, 03:14:40 pm
Assuming that sign is accurate, which I highly doubt, maybe if fuckwads like that would stop gay-bashing and bullying LGBT teens, the death rates would drop and life expectancy would rise.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on March 02, 2012, 03:16:21 pm
Assuming that sign is accurate, which I highly doubt, maybe if fuckwads like that would stop gay-bashing and bullying LGBT teens, the death rates would drop and life expectancy would rise.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 02, 2012, 03:26:18 pm
Average life expectancy of of bigoted dickhead - ~20 minutes with application of sufficient bricks
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on March 02, 2012, 05:33:22 pm
Assuming that sign is accurate, which I highly doubt, maybe if fuckwads like that would stop gay-bashing and bullying LGBT teens, the death rates would drop and life expectancy would rise.

^dat
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 05, 2012, 09:36:37 pm
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s320x320/419110_2949940783456_1109432743_38245637_1870520600_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on March 05, 2012, 10:09:35 pm
Fuck you, mom and dad! Imma hold my breath until I get my way!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on March 06, 2012, 10:47:47 am
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s320x320/419110_2949940783456_1109432743_38245637_1870520600_n.jpg)

Awesome! Way to throw your temper tantrum by being socially irresponsible and a douche at the same time! Seriously, of all the good reasons not to hire people (and there are several), you find a truly stupid reason.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kain on March 06, 2012, 11:10:44 am
More Tea Partiers:

(http://likeawhisper.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/blackcriminal912photo.jpg)


What on earth are they doing behind that sign? ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on March 06, 2012, 11:33:49 am
What on earth are they doing behind that sign? ;D

I think he is taking the wallet off of the person with the sign. Where he/she is from it's called "THEFT" but in Washington it's called "SPREADING THE WEALTH."

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jodie on March 06, 2012, 11:47:07 am
So I recently went on a trip to Florida and while there my friends and I visited the city of St. Augustine. We entered the city their the St. Georges street entrance and immediately ran into these people. I didn't notice their signs at first and was all like "Cool! People in period costume!" and aimed my camera for a picture. And then I... noticed the signs...

Took the pictures anyway so I could laugh at them later.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/6813133794_429bcb886d_b.jpg)
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7042/6813133788_a81da1a031_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on March 06, 2012, 12:08:30 pm
So I recently went on a trip to Florida and while there my friends and I visited the city of St. Augustine. We entered the city their the St. Georges street entrance and immediately ran into these people. I didn't notice their signs at first and was all like "Cool! People in period costume!" and aimed my camera for a picture. And then I... noticed the signs...

Took the pictures anyway so I could laugh at them later.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/6813133794_429bcb886d_b.jpg)
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7042/6813133788_a81da1a031_b.jpg)
They don't practice democratic socialism in cuba, silly sign. They have a full-blown dictatorial "communism."

I think what you mean is "go to Europe."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on March 06, 2012, 02:51:30 pm
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s320x320/419110_2949940783456_1109432743_38245637_1870520600_n.jpg)

Wonder what will happen if their employees leave (for any reason)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on March 06, 2012, 02:58:34 pm
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s320x320/419110_2949940783456_1109432743_38245637_1870520600_n.jpg)

Wonder what will happen if their employees leave (for any reason)

Then they either cave in, or downsize to the point where they go out of business.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on March 06, 2012, 03:17:42 pm
So I recently went on a trip to Florida and while there my friends and I visited the city of St. Augustine. We entered the city their the St. Georges street entrance and immediately ran into these people. I didn't notice their signs at first and was all like "Cool! People in period costume!" and aimed my camera for a picture. And then I... noticed the signs...

Took the pictures anyway so I could laugh at them later.

/pics

I see an entire 5 people, so I really take them seriously (especially when they're dressed like that) [/sarcasm]

And does the one guy realize they didn't have sun glasses in 1776?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on March 06, 2012, 03:49:54 pm
So I recently went on a trip to Florida and while there my friends and I visited the city of St. Augustine. We entered the city their the St. Georges street entrance and immediately ran into these people. I didn't notice their signs at first and was all like "Cool! People in period costume!" and aimed my camera for a picture. And then I... noticed the signs...

Took the pictures anyway so I could laugh at them later.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/6813133794_429bcb886d_b.jpg)
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7042/6813133788_a81da1a031_b.jpg)

An I the only one that notice the 7(guessing) year old girl wearing a shit that says, "Sexy and I know it."   And gay people are the ones having immoral sex? Oh right, fucking (or even raping) little kids is a-ok in the bible.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 06, 2012, 04:06:28 pm
I don't think she's a protester.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on March 07, 2012, 03:52:04 am
(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0i170qovY1rnu9sjo1_500.jpg)

Can anyone spot why this is stupid? (the edited parts, mind)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on March 07, 2012, 10:15:14 am
 
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s320x320/419110_2949940783456_1109432743_38245637_1870520600_n.jpg)

Wonder what will happen if their employees leave (for any reason)

Then they either cave in, or downsize to the point where they go out of business.

How very mature of them. ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on March 07, 2012, 10:47:35 am
An I the only one that notice the 7(guessing) year old girl wearing a shit that says, "Sexy and I know it."   And gay people are the ones having immoral sex? Oh right, fucking (or even raping) little kids is a-ok in the bible.

Yeah, I was about to comment on that. I doubt she's with the protesters, but it's still pretty WTF.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on March 07, 2012, 12:36:58 pm
(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0i170qovY1rnu9sjo1_500.jpg)

Can anyone spot why this is stupid? (the edited parts, mind)

?
You mean it's not poking fun at how posters for many large organizations seem to have mostly white people and then a couple of token black people, even editing in the token black people sometimes?

EDIT: Or perhaps it's the insinuation that white people have no business helping Africa? >_< I can be stupid sometimes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on March 07, 2012, 12:42:37 pm
No, it's not. It's making the assumption everyone in Africa is black when that simply isn't the case. Considering the tumblr that I got it from made it seem like nobody who is African can be white the added and maybe one or two people of color seems snide and ignorant.

Just my take on it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on March 07, 2012, 12:46:38 pm
There are multiple things wrong with the poster.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on March 08, 2012, 12:35:25 am
There are multiple things wrong with the poster.

Oh good, so it's not just me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eniliad on March 08, 2012, 05:20:52 am
The dude with the green sunglasses sticks out to me for some reason.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Prophet Mohammed (PBUM) on March 08, 2012, 10:51:16 am
(http://oi40.tinypic.com/a11we0.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on March 08, 2012, 11:01:17 am
America: Home of Americans.
Canada: Home of Canadians.
Australia: Home of Australians.
England: Home of English people.

etc.

Countries are identified by nationalities, not races.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on March 08, 2012, 11:31:51 am
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2296/2258574311_dc0b6cb098.jpg)

Gawds, I wish I knew where I put the picture of took at the NY gay Pride of a catholic priest with a sigh that read "pedophiles against Gay Rights"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on March 08, 2012, 12:37:39 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/427629_10150659573488211_131769178210_9041114_1332287244_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 08, 2012, 08:29:28 pm
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/387462_235516136518860_103005129769962_561345_386155028_n.jpg)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on March 08, 2012, 08:31:05 pm
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/387462_235516136518860_103005129769962_561345_386155028_n.jpg)
Look on the bright side; they managed to spell the whole sign correctly for once.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 08, 2012, 08:32:28 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/427629_10150659573488211_131769178210_9041114_1332287244_n.jpg)

Can someone explain this crap to me?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on March 08, 2012, 08:35:47 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/427629_10150659573488211_131769178210_9041114_1332287244_n.jpg)

Can someone explain this crap to me?

Ellen DeGeneres and her many clones (recognizable by their similar appearance and sexual orientation, yet with misspelled last names) are holding public school assemblies which quickly turn into bacchanalian orgies. Then they pickpocket everyone's wallets. The bitches.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sandafluffoid on March 08, 2012, 11:23:44 pm
America: Home of Americans.
Canada: Home of Canadians.
Australia: Home of Australians.
England: Home of English people.

etc.

Countries are identified by nationalities, not races.
If I am going to pick nits, England as the home of English people is a little iffy since some of us certainly consider English to be an ethnicity, not a nationality. I get irked by being called English since I consider myself to be British, much like it would be irksome to refer to an American of Chinese descent consistently and exclusively as 'Chinese'.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 08, 2012, 11:25:26 pm
(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/417162_286213628115893_100001817750563_657216_1507668626_n.jpg)

And here's his commentary.

Quote
On to business. I was driving home from work, (for you liberals, that's where you go and do something in return for money as opposed to just demanding money), and listening to Sean Hannity when they started talking about all those wonderful things that were said about Sarah Palin by the left. In the interview, there was a female doctor that said she would say far worse things because Governor Palin was bad. I'm not sure why Governor Palin is bad but, if a liberal said it, it must be true. There was also a tape from someone talking to one of those wonderful congresswomen that called for Rush's head. She refused to comment on some of the things that Bill Mauar said so I guess that the lesson here, boys and girls, is if a conservative says something bad about a liberal nut job, he or she should be drawn and quartered, hung, skinned and burned at the stake, in whatever order you would like. When a liberal says something bad about a conservative, they had it coming.

It is now three days since Rush apologized for calling someone a slut and we are still going on about. I'm reminded of when David Letterman thought that it would be funny to joke about Governor Palin's daughter being raped by a baseball player. To his credit, he did apologize and all was forgiven. Now I know that Governor Palin is far too gracious to hold a grudge, I however, am not. I would think that joking about a young girl being raped would be far worse than calling an adult woman a slut, but that's just me. And, of course, no advertisers jumped ship on Letterman and it didn't drag out.

I was also treated to the wonderful pearls of wisdom from the mouth of our Dear Leader. He said, of Rush, "That type of thing has no place in public debate". We, however, do have a place for things that were said about the people in rural Pennsylvania, "They cling to their bibles, guns and apathy for people that don't look like them". I guess calling someone a racist just because they don't like you is okay. We also have, "Republicans can come along if they want to, they will have to ride in the back of the bus, but they can come along". I also remember our Dear Leader laughing when a comedian said she hoped Rush's kidneys failed. That's funny stuff. Oh, and who can forget his lovely wife saying "For the first time in my adult life, I'm proud of my country". I'm sure she didn't get out much.

Newt Gingrich is right, this is nothing more than the crisis of the week, or perhaps " crisis of the weak" might be the correct spelling here. The real crisis is gas prices jumping by leaps and bounds. And, those pesky unemployment numbers are going up again. The liberals will try to keep our attention away from the real issues. STAY FOCUSED!!! Keep your voices loud and strong and don't let our Dear Leader get away with dodging his record.

To my fellow conservatives, stay strong and keep the faith.

As always, thank-you liberals for correcting my spelling and grammar.
This has been one man's opinion.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on March 08, 2012, 11:39:24 pm
Didn't Letterman make the joke assuming that it was her older, adult, onetime unwed teen mother daughter at the game with her?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on March 08, 2012, 11:47:57 pm
1.I'm sick and tired of the whole "liberals don't work, and just want a handout" bs, hey you know what fucker, I have a fucking job, and I felt like shit the 2 years I was unemployed for, thanks to assholes like you who are too pigheaded to understand.
2. I love how this jackass is bitching about unemployment, well you know the republicans aren't exactly helping with it, instead they would rather focus on going apeshit over birth control, or gays, and usually start the "crisis of the week".

Didn't Letterman make the joke assuming that it was her older, adult, onetime unwed teen mother daughter at the game with her?

Yes, he thought it was Bristol
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 09, 2012, 06:38:00 am
Quote
I'm reminded of when David Letterman thought that it would be funny to joke about Governor Palin's daughter being raped by a baseball player.

This is a straight up lie. Letterman joked about Palin's 18-year-old daughter (who was famously pregnant at the time) being 'knocked up' by a baseball player- no suggestion of rape at all. But then, this conservative knows that and chooses to lie. He should be ashamed.

Of course, Letterman mixed up some names. That's totally as bad as deliberately, systematically and baselessly smearing an individual for publically arguing, in good faith, for what she believes is a right.

Quote
when they started talking about all those wonderful things that were said about Sarah Palin by the left. 

Again, the left rationally criticised Palin for being an idiot, a demagogue, ignorant, not caring about politics, ect. That's just like hating all women, forever as Rush does.

Quote
We, however, do have a place for things that were said about the people in rural Pennsylvania, "They cling to their bibles, guns and apathy for people that don't look like them".

That's a perfectly reasonable opinion. 'Women are inferior sluts' is not.

Quote
I guess calling someone a racist just because they don't like you is okay.

Because many of them are demonstrably racists.

Quote
Newt Gingrich is right, this is nothing more than the crisis of the week, or perhaps " crisis of the weak" might be the correct spelling here. The real crisis is gas prices jumping by leaps and bounds.

Because you can ignorantly blame Obama for gas prices (instead of the Israelis, of course). You can't blame Obama for the completely unimportant issue of the right of 51% of the population to equally participate as citizens. So that's not important.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on March 09, 2012, 06:41:37 am
2. I love how this jackass is bitching about unemployment, well you know the republicans aren't exactly helping with it, instead they would rather focus on going

I am beginning to think they don’t want to help solve unemployment because then there would be fewer unemployed people—both liberal and conservative—that they could insult and feel superior to.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: myusername on March 09, 2012, 07:05:03 am
Not to mention it's more difficult for workers to get better conditions if there is high unemployment as there's always that threat hanging over your head...It's easier to demand a better job & pay if labour is scarce, not so much if there's a large "industrial reserve army"... And we can't have the proletariat demanding better conditions can we? Might cut into the profits of the capitalists, and that's just not on is it? [/marxian analysis]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on March 09, 2012, 07:19:34 am
Exactly. That’s one of the reasons so called “right to work” is totally BS, too. For unions to work, you need solidarity.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on March 09, 2012, 12:36:14 pm
2. I love how this jackass is bitching about unemployment, well you know the republicans aren't exactly helping with it, instead they would rather focus on going

I am beginning to think they don’t want to help solve unemployment because then there would be fewer unemployed people—both liberal and conservative—that they could insult and feel superior to.

I don't think they want to at all, but asshast like this guy lap up the kool-aid. Also on the subject of being "proud" of the US, I'm sorry but please explain to how I'm suppose to be proud that we're in a country that is behind countries that we helped put back together after WWII, we've regressed, that is pathetic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 09, 2012, 05:34:11 pm
Not to mention it's more difficult for workers to get better conditions if there is high unemployment as there's always that threat hanging over your head...It's easier to demand a better job & pay if labour is scarce, not so much if there's a large "industrial reserve army"... And we can't have the proletariat demanding better conditions can we? Might cut into the profits of the capitalists, and that's just not on is it? [/marxian analysis]

I'm not sure that's even Marxist any more. It's pretty much confirmed that wages stagnate in periods of high unemployment.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 09, 2012, 06:09:59 pm
Its Marxist because it sympathizes with poor people.  [/randroid]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Qlockworkcanary on March 09, 2012, 06:10:50 pm
Not to mention it's more difficult for workers to get better conditions if there is high unemployment as there's always that threat hanging over your head...It's easier to demand a better job & pay if labour is scarce, not so much if there's a large "industrial reserve army"... And we can't have the proletariat demanding better conditions can we? Might cut into the profits of the capitalists, and that's just not on is it? [/marxian analysis]

Exactly. I've seen this in small town Ohio -not many jobs exist anymore, so the ones that still exist have become more competitive and some tend to overwork their employers and they are often treated worse (the company can always find more willing workers because jobs are so scarce). This is why I moved the hell out of that region!

But I still visit different small towns and it's always the same -some working seven days a week (one guy worked the entire summer with only one day off, for example) and sever others went through cycles of working for a few months, getting laid off, having to take crappier jobs in the meantime (as in worse conditions).

A few years ago, I had no choice but to take a job in one of those small towns at what was considered a nice place to work...it was not fun. The work hours were ok and the conditions weren't bad, but the pay was shit and everyone yelled at each other all the time -even the people in the office!  I probably heard a loud, cuss-filled argument about once a week...and I was in the office area! Terrible communication and people skills! Ditched that place and headed to an urban area in short order.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on March 12, 2012, 06:18:06 pm
(http://blogs.courant.com/susan_campbell/1X00232_9.jpg)


I'm sure that same sentance was used during women's sufferage and the civil rights movement.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: myusername on March 12, 2012, 06:30:42 pm
Oh no, change!! How will we cope?! I mean a successful transformation of society has never happened before right??!!
[/sarc]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on March 12, 2012, 06:46:01 pm
As they say: The only thing constant is change. As such, the country is always transforming. It is only a matter of what it is transforming into.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on March 12, 2012, 07:33:17 pm
(http://blogs.courant.com/susan_campbell/1X00232_9.jpg)


I'm sure that same sentance was used during women's sufferage and the civil rights movement.

How about you stop transforming our country into the 1880s?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 13, 2012, 10:48:33 pm
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/404765_238609566210419_145981747_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on March 13, 2012, 11:41:21 pm
Good heavens, the rest of the world has enough stupid to deal with already, why the hell are we giving them our stupid, too!?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on March 14, 2012, 03:19:37 am
I wouldn't be surprised if those guys don't even know what that sign says.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on March 14, 2012, 05:22:50 am
There's mass murder going on in Syria, and watching won't help. They have a point there.
Though they're optimistic in assuming that Bush would act. Also, there's the rest of the package to consider.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on March 14, 2012, 05:24:58 am
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/404765_238609566210419_145981747_n.jpg)

Wasn't Bush the one who got them all killed while Obama took out Bin Ladin and pulled our troops out?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on March 14, 2012, 06:31:59 am
They do know that the Repubs were against war intervention, right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on March 14, 2012, 07:03:09 am
No, they don’t. As said above, there is a good chance they don’t even know what the sign says.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on March 14, 2012, 07:29:09 am
(http://blogs.courant.com/susan_campbell/1X00232_9.jpg)


I'm sure that same sentance was used during women's sufferage and the civil rights movement.

Oh noes! We must have our blood-stained carpet! We must! Why can't we keep it?!

Because it's blood-stained and gross and we need to get new carpet.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on March 14, 2012, 07:42:43 am
(http://blogs.courant.com/susan_campbell/1X00232_9.jpg)


I'm sure that same sentance was used during women's sufferage and the civil rights movement.

Columbia Prime!  Transform and roll out!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on March 15, 2012, 03:18:27 pm
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/425617_1955351379822_1723847291_969012_552843505_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 15, 2012, 04:22:47 pm
Waitwaitwait...you can have that kinda blatantly racist bumper sticker and not get pulled out of your vehicle and beaten to death with truncheons?  Tha hell's this world comin to?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on March 15, 2012, 04:37:27 pm
While that isn't my photo, I was driving behind one of these at the university. The car also had a "give war a chance" sticker.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on March 15, 2012, 04:42:14 pm
Ah, warmongers.

Just slightly below homophobic jockasses on the "I hate myself and I'm taking it out on you" rankings.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auri-El on March 15, 2012, 06:25:22 pm
"Give war a chance?" Okay, go for it! You can be on the front lines! If war's so great, fight it yourself.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on March 15, 2012, 08:39:34 pm
Just today I heard someone say we should kill all the "damn Arabs" and it's all their fault, and he was serious. Him and the "south will rise again" guy were going on about how awesome the army was, how the rangers are like the ODSTs from Halo, and how good the guy that killed the afghan civilians was. He said the civilians DESERVED it and we should give the guy a medal and kill MORE civilians. I tryed arguing but it was an exercise in futility. This was in school and the teacher didn't say a thing about it. The guy is the biggest jock in the school and a complete douche. I would beat the shit out of him if I could win, but I probibly wouldn't and would be hated by everyone.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on March 15, 2012, 09:20:17 pm
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4067/4525371830_2120d76223.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on March 15, 2012, 10:19:35 pm
Just today I heard someone say we should kill all the "damn Arabs" and it's all their fault, and he was serious. Him and the "south will rise again" guy were going on about how awesome the army was, how the rangers are like the ODSTs from Halo, and how good the guy that killed the afghan civilians was. He said the civilians DESERVED it and we should give the guy a medal and kill MORE civilians. I tryed arguing but it was an exercise in futility. This was in school and the teacher didn't say a thing about it. The guy is the biggest jock in the school and a complete douche. I would beat the shit out of him if I could win, but I probibly wouldn't and would be hated by everyone.

Dope his food with steroids just before he takes a drug test.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on March 15, 2012, 10:48:01 pm
Just today I heard someone say we should kill all the "damn Arabs" and it's all their fault, and he was serious. Him and the "south will rise again" guy were going on about how awesome the army was, how the rangers are like the ODSTs from Halo, and how good the guy that killed the afghan civilians was. He said the civilians DESERVED it and we should give the guy a medal and kill MORE civilians. I tryed arguing but it was an exercise in futility. This was in school and the teacher didn't say a thing about it. The guy is the biggest jock in the school and a complete douche. I would beat the shit out of him if I could win, but I probibly wouldn't and would be hated by everyone.

Dope his food with steroids just before he takes a drug test.

Or poppyseeds.  Get him to eat a few muffins.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 15, 2012, 11:44:24 pm
Teabaggers don't make good capitalists.

(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s320x320/427079_290126807725818_277491422322690_735163_102326332_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 16, 2012, 12:12:22 am
Say random, meaningless shit and get free cupcakes?  Sounds like a fuckin deal to me!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on March 16, 2012, 01:41:13 am
I want to go in, point at them, and scream "SOCIALIST!" over and over again until I'm escorted out by police.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on March 16, 2012, 03:25:34 am
Me: I hate Obama.
Them: Have a free cupcake.
Me: I lied.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on March 16, 2012, 03:03:13 pm
Me: I hate Obama.
Them: Have a free cupcake.
Me: I lied.
Me: I hate Obama.
Them: Have a free cupcake.
Me: Very little. I hate the Tea Party a lot more.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ranger_Joe on March 16, 2012, 03:52:12 pm
Just today I heard someone say we should kill all the "damn Arabs" and it's all their fault, and he was serious. Him and the "south will rise again" guy were going on about how awesome the army was, how the rangers are like the ODSTs from Halo, and how good the guy that killed the afghan civilians was. He said the civilians DESERVED it and we should give the guy a medal and kill MORE civilians. I tryed arguing but it was an exercise in futility. This was in school and the teacher didn't say a thing about it. The guy is the biggest jock in the school and a complete douche. I would beat the shit out of him if I could win, but I probibly wouldn't and would be hated by everyone.

The Rangers are pretty goddamned awesome, if you ask me. It's not like I have any bias or anything. ;)

As far as Halo comparisons....War is not a video game. Civillians don't deserve to die simply for being born in a hostile country... ::sigh:: I saw all too many ground grunts with this mentality. Fortunately, there are many rational folks as well..
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on March 16, 2012, 07:13:36 pm
Just today I heard someone say we should kill all the "damn Arabs" and it's all their fault, and he was serious. Him and the "south will rise again" guy were going on about how awesome the army was, how the rangers are like the ODSTs from Halo, and how good the guy that killed the afghan civilians was. He said the civilians DESERVED it and we should give the guy a medal and kill MORE civilians. I tryed arguing but it was an exercise in futility. This was in school and the teacher didn't say a thing about it. The guy is the biggest jock in the school and a complete douche. I would beat the shit out of him if I could win, but I probibly wouldn't and would be hated by everyone.

The Rangers are pretty goddamned awesome, if you ask me. It's not like I have any bias or anything. ;)

As far as Halo comparisons....War is not a video game. Civillians don't deserve to die simply for being born in a hostile country... ::sigh:: I saw all too many ground grunts with this mentality. Fortunately, there are many rational folks as well..

To quote Jon Stewart; "We can only make decisions about war if we see what war actually is - and not as a video game where bodies quickly disappear leaving behind a shiny gold coin."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on March 17, 2012, 01:30:10 pm
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4067/4525371830_2120d76223.jpg)

I don't think this one's that that bad.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 17, 2012, 07:45:06 pm
It's the most pernicious lie about the American government- it is debt-constrained and finding itself unable to borrow. In reality, the US government has never had cheaper borrowing costs. It's about as far from foreclosed as possible.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 17, 2012, 07:50:36 pm
Would this count?

(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/426829_1988504128559_1722017258_972802_1795714882_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 17, 2012, 07:53:06 pm
Wait...volunteering for a non-profit organization?  Since when?  I've done work (not volunteer work, I got paid) for a non-profit on a semi-annual basis for years, and I've never been asked once for my ID.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on March 17, 2012, 08:10:35 pm
I have never been asked for my ID to use my credit card. Ever. Or buying tickets to an amusement park. That one is odd.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 17, 2012, 08:18:17 pm
Do you need an ID to obtain a credit card?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on March 17, 2012, 08:37:03 pm
I have never been asked for my ID to use my credit card. Ever. Or buying tickets to an amusement park. That one is odd.

They can ask for your ID if you want to get certain ticket prices.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on March 17, 2012, 08:39:37 pm
Would this count?

(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/426829_1988504128559_1722017258_972802_1795714882_n.jpg)

So you need an ID to be an Atheist now? We're a non-prophet organization :D. I was never asked for my ID.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on March 17, 2012, 08:44:10 pm
You don’t need an ID to drive. You need to be licensed, and the card that proves you are licensed just so happens to be able to act as an ID. Same thing with a library card.

Half the crap on there doesn’t even appear to be legal ID requirements. They mostly seem to be at the option of whatever party is providing the required service. For instance, the only time I have ever been required to show ID when writing a check is when writing a check in a store while out-of-state. And that has always been the choice of the store-management.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sandafluffoid on March 18, 2012, 09:51:37 am
It's also missing the whole point of the racist id-checking debate. Sure checking the ID of every single person who comes to vote isn't racist, but the way it actually works, where non-whites are checked disproportionately is racist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on March 18, 2012, 01:56:38 pm
Actaully, I think it is a tad more classist than racist. Of course, given the disproportionate racial distribution among classes, it is hard to be classist without also being racist. So… whatever.

And another thing: I don’t think anything on that list is a constitutionally protected right (except maybe “buy a firearm,” depending on your interpretation of the 2nd ammendment). They are privileges.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on March 19, 2012, 03:42:52 pm
(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/292230_10150630099932358_557392357_9427475_1279655186_n.jpg)

So tell me, where in the Bible did it ever concluded Christians are to be 'pro-life'? (Hint: It's not in Jeremiah. . . or anywhere else really).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on March 19, 2012, 03:53:45 pm
*checks Pro-Choice without a second thought*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on March 19, 2012, 04:09:03 pm
(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/292230_10150630099932358_557392357_9427475_1279655186_n.jpg)

So tell me, where in the Bible did it ever concluded Christians are to be 'pro-life'? (Hint: It's not in Jeremiah. . . or anywhere else really).
Christian is a blanket term for anyone of any faith that believes the Jesus depicted in the Gospels is the true son of God.

I can start a church that is pro-choice -the Modern Day Advent Penecostal Lutheran Friends of Life Church if you will- , and as long as I recognize Jesus as the one true God, we would be Christians. So I object to this, since it falls under "no true Scotsman."

Either way, you make me choose, you're NOT going to like my answer.




EDIT

Now that I've thought about it, I need to get one of these cards, at least for Roman Catholocism:

YOU DECIDE...
[ ] Pro Death Penalty

[ ] Roman Catholic


(And no, you can't be both)


The Roman Catholic Church stands against the Death Penalty. It's also against contraceptives, so...

YOU DECIDE...
[ ] Birth Control

[ ] Roman Catholic

(And no, you can't be both)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on March 19, 2012, 04:20:00 pm
(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/292230_10150630099932358_557392357_9427475_1279655186_n.jpg)

So tell me, where in the Bible did it ever concluded Christians are to be 'pro-life'? (Hint: It's not in Jeremiah. . . or anywhere else really).
You mean I can choose the answer guaranteed to both anger and terrify them? SCORE!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on March 19, 2012, 04:33:42 pm
I chose both because we have this thing called 'free will'.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on March 19, 2012, 05:11:59 pm
So tell me, where in the Bible did it ever concluded Christians are to be 'pro-life'? (Hint: It's not in Jeremiah. . . or anywhere else really).

The OT actually clearly makes a differentiation between a fetus and a person who has been born. If someone causes a pregnant woman to miscarry, "he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine." (Exodus 21:22). If the person causes a pregnant woman to die, then the person is executed. (Exodus 21:23)

But of course, since I doubt most right-wing Christians have ever read the Bible, most would never know those verses are there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on March 19, 2012, 05:14:22 pm
So tell me, where in the Bible did it ever concluded Christians are to be 'pro-life'? (Hint: It's not in Jeremiah. . . or anywhere else really).

The OT actually clearly makes a differentiation between a fetus and a person who has been born. If someone causes a pregnant woman to miscarry, "he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine." (Exodus 21:22). If the person causes a pregnant woman to die, then the person is executed. (Exodus 21:23)

But of course, since I doubt most right-wing Christians have ever read the Bible, most would never know those verses are there.

Exactly. The most is that the aborted fetus is property damage rather than lost of life in the Bible. Also it only counted towards forced abortions, which is not pro-choice.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on March 19, 2012, 05:21:51 pm
Okie dokie.

(http://i42.tinypic.com/izpd1i.jpg)

(http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/150/f/2011/011/4/5/troll_face_says_the_game__by_james_mizuhara-d36zguw.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 25, 2012, 05:42:14 pm
Another dichotomy, arguably more offensive.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/550702_197286410384686_100003099867656_335717_1599869506_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on March 25, 2012, 06:26:50 pm
Another dichotomy, arguably more offensive.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/550702_197286410384686_100003099867656_335717_1599869506_n.jpg)
OK, so what's the other kind of person?  ;)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on March 25, 2012, 07:12:58 pm
Another dichotomy, arguably more offensive.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/550702_197286410384686_100003099867656_335717_1599869506_n.jpg)

That's basically my dad's philosophy. If you're not willing to suck Ron Paul's dick, then by default you are sucking the dick of Big Government, Big Pharma, the Bilderberg Group, and the NWO.

I prefer to say that there are three kinds of people in this world: People who can count and those who can't.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on March 26, 2012, 12:21:28 am
Another dichotomy, arguably more offensive.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/550702_197286410384686_100003099867656_335717_1599869506_n.jpg)

That's basically my dad's philosophy. If you're not willing to suck Ron Paul's dick, then by default you are sucking the dick of Big Government, Big Pharma, the Bilderberg Group, and the NWO.

I prefer to say that there are three kinds of people in this world: People who can count and those who can't.

I'm starting to not like your father.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 26, 2012, 08:46:02 pm
I didn't like him a looong time ago. Like 2 months.

(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s320x320/557766_381824238507931_100000410754614_1300888_988748604_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on March 26, 2012, 08:57:16 pm
Well, guess what. Unless you are paying for her insurance, your money don’t even enter into the equation.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on March 26, 2012, 10:30:55 pm
I bet someone else is paying for the birth control of the bitch with the sign, that's if she gets bc through her insurance.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 27, 2012, 08:44:41 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/539512_2517578117355_1790310630_1444738_1753883734_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on March 27, 2012, 08:48:33 pm
I didn't like him a looong time ago. Like 2 months.

(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s320x320/557766_381824238507931_100000410754614_1300888_988748604_n.jpg)

Misogynistic women, please stop trying to send us back to the 19th century.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on March 27, 2012, 08:53:16 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/539512_2517578117355_1790310630_1444738_1753883734_n.jpg)

A wedding ring doesn't make sex safe. In fact, a wedding ring can make everything unsafe if we consider abusive relationship.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on March 27, 2012, 08:57:21 pm
Because things like infidelity don't exist and you're ready for kids the second the wedding band hits finger.

I have no problem with people who are abstinent, who expect the same from their partners, or recommend it to others (in the right context, it's not that much different than recommending any other kind of birth control). People who advocate for it to the detriment of other forms of birth control are myopic jerks who are usually shooting their own cause (I.E. preventing teen pregnancy, STDs, etc) in the foot. If you teach that abstinence is the only fool proof form of birth control but here's how to use other methods effectively, you're teaching facts. If you're teaching people that abstinence is the only form of birth control that works at all, you're spewing crap and contributing to teen pregnancy and STDs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on March 27, 2012, 09:20:57 pm
Because things like infidelity don't exist and you're ready for kids the second the wedding band hits finger.

I am reminded of a series of Swedish (I think) PSAs about STDs—chlamydia in particular—based around tracing one particular chain of infection back to its source. Each ad would show someone confronting another person about how they got infected from the other. Then the next ad in the series would show the first person being confronted by someone else.

Anyway, I am reminded of this because one of the steps included a woman that got infected by her husband who had been cheating on her. So… wedding band: not particularly safe.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 27, 2012, 09:42:57 pm
Who'd want to put a wedding band around their cock, anyway?  Something tells me that'd hurt like a motherfucker.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 27, 2012, 09:44:31 pm
If you're into that kind of stuff...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on March 27, 2012, 10:44:20 pm
If it's just the right size, it can do some nice stuff.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mechtaur on March 27, 2012, 11:57:12 pm
Last time I used a ring I had to cut the damn thing off because it cut off circulation, I wouldn't say it's safe.

And, yes, the brand name was "Wedding Ring".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on March 28, 2012, 01:24:22 pm
It wasn't just the right size then D:
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mechtaur on March 28, 2012, 02:47:52 pm
It wasn't just the right size then D:

The sad thing was it was the largest size they had.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on March 28, 2012, 02:55:44 pm
It wasn't just the right size then D:

The sad thing was it was the largest size they had.

You don't say? :3
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on March 28, 2012, 03:26:16 pm
Wait, I just thought of something. What if I do get a wedding ring? One with another guy?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on March 28, 2012, 03:41:52 pm
Wait, I just thought of something. What if I do get a wedding ring? One with another guy?
Then you are living in sin *fundie*
Seriously one dumb thing I saw once said that gay people who were in long term relationships didnt have sex till gay marriage got passed
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on March 28, 2012, 06:40:42 pm
Wait, I just thought of something. What if I do get a wedding ring? One with another guy?

Then you would be oppressing real marriage. ;)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zombie Goddess on March 29, 2012, 07:42:52 pm
I wonder if the one with the birth control sign made the sign herself or if hubby made it for her.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on March 31, 2012, 11:39:26 am
(http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2012/03/27/behind-court-challenge-to-health-care-lies-the-right-s-freedom-fetish/_jcr_content/body/inlineimage.img.503.jpg/1332837923454.jpg)

1. I don't think botox for Pelosi would be covered, any more that tanning for Boehner.

2. Is that drawing of Breitbart?? That's fucking creepy...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on March 31, 2012, 04:43:17 pm
(http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2012/03/27/behind-court-challenge-to-health-care-lies-the-right-s-freedom-fetish/_jcr_content/body/inlineimage.img.503.jpg/1332837923454.jpg)

1. I don't think botox for Pelosi would be covered, any more that tanning for Boehner.

2. Is that drawing of Breitbart?? That's fucking creepy...

Ironic since pelosi and any other member of congress already gets government subsidized health care.  So the tax payer already pays.

BTW is that andrew brietbart's face over that one lady's arm?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 01, 2012, 04:15:02 pm
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4038/4617035852_8a58112b89.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 01, 2012, 05:31:33 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/425678_381697888521430_100000436670220_1289361_142113914_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on April 01, 2012, 05:46:18 pm
That image should say. Republicans, this is what they think Democrats think.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on April 01, 2012, 05:56:55 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/539512_2517578117355_1790310630_1444738_1753883734_n.jpg)
Cock rings are more useful.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mechtaur on April 01, 2012, 06:29:00 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/539512_2517578117355_1790310630_1444738_1753883734_n.jpg)
Cock rings are more useful.

This topic was quite thoroughly covered. xD
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 01, 2012, 07:29:08 pm
That image should say. Republicans, this is what they think Democrats think.

(http://oi42.tinypic.com/8yajw7.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 01, 2012, 07:35:05 pm
Should say "Republicans: they'll believe anything!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 01, 2012, 07:57:19 pm
In the nurse's office at my school, there's a pamphlet that I should totally take home and scan sometime. It's lulzy.

The cover asks you to write the number of sexual partners you've had.

Then on the inside it's a diagram to show the effect of "zomg so many people have been smashing their bits together with so many other people and DATS ICKY!"

It goes on to explain on the back cover that the only "safe sex" is 1) abstinence or 2) waiting until marriage. Because it's not like condoms exist or anything.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 02, 2012, 02:33:59 pm
In the nurse's office at my school, there's a pamphlet that I should totally take home and scan sometime. It's lulzy.

The cover asks you to write the number of sexual partners you've had.

Then on the inside it's a diagram to show the effect of "zomg so many people have been smashing their bits together with so many other people and DATS ICKY!"

It goes on to explain on the back cover that the only "safe sex" is 1) abstinence or 2) waiting until marriage. Because it's not like condoms exist or anything.


That sums up pretty much everything my high school taught during sex ed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 02, 2012, 02:58:13 pm
I'm glad the schools I attended offered proper sex ed classes. Combining lessons on contraception with explaining to kids why it's so important to wait until you're ready = best possible outcome.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 02, 2012, 03:48:48 pm
(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1v92tx17Q1r602aro1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 02, 2012, 03:55:26 pm
(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1v92tx17Q1r602aro1_500.jpg)
Ghetto hoodlum...I wonder how he would react when he found out that his step dad lived in that gated community
also that last line...is that violence against Obama's kids?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 02, 2012, 04:22:00 pm
OH THAT'S SO ADORABLE!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on April 02, 2012, 04:25:54 pm
Digging the blue socks and black shoes!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 02, 2012, 04:48:15 pm
(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1v92tx17Q1r602aro1_500.jpg)
Ghetto hoodlum...I wonder how he would react when he found out that his step dad lived in that gated community
also that last line...is that violence against Obama's kids?

The last line is something Obama himself said. Although, it could be a threat too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 02, 2012, 06:59:29 pm
So the White House is a Ghetto Neighborhood?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on April 02, 2012, 07:37:24 pm
(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1v92tx17Q1r602aro1_500.jpg)
Ghetto hoodlum...I wonder how he would react when he found out that his step dad lived in that gated community
also that last line...is that violence against Obama's kids?

The last line is something Obama himself said. Although, it could be a threat too.

False. He said his son would look like Trayvon, i.e. his son would be black.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 02, 2012, 07:56:25 pm
I didn't think I had to be exact. >.>
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on April 02, 2012, 08:18:00 pm
I didn't think I had to be exact. >.>

It's important because of the way Obama phrased it. It's a really brilliant line because it references the fact that he's black without actually saying it. I'm kind of in love with it. <.<
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 02, 2012, 09:33:41 pm
Well why don't you marry it then!? Along with the lawn?! And the tree?!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 02, 2012, 09:41:32 pm
Christ, that website. "Klan with a Tan"? And when introducing an Alex Jones video, "I know he's got a Jewish wife or whatever, but Alex Jones deserves our applause for this video."

Yeah, this totally isn't racist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: clockworkgirl21 on April 02, 2012, 10:07:20 pm
No, Trayvon wasn't a saint. He was just a teenage kid. You don't have to be a saint for it to be a tragedy you were shot dead.

And why was he a hoodlum? It is because he was black, wore a hoodie, and walked around at night?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 02, 2012, 10:10:06 pm
Well why don't you marry it then!? Along with the lawn?! And the tree?!

Think of the fit the GOP would throw! :D

No, Trayvon wasn't a saint. He was just a teenage kid. You don't have to be a saint for it to be a tragedy you were shot dead.

And why was he a hoodlum? It is because he was black, wore a hoodie, and walked around at night?

And in the rain? (Which is no excuse for wearing a hoodie while black!) ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on April 03, 2012, 12:48:12 am
No, Trayvon wasn't a saint. He was just a teenage kid. You don't have to be a saint for it to be a tragedy you were shot dead.

And why was he a hoodlum? It is because he was black, wore a hoodie, and walked around at night?

And in the rain? (Which is no excuse for wearing a hoodie while black!) ::)

Don't forget he was suspended for having an emtpy pot baggie, because only ghetto kids smoke pot  ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 03, 2012, 03:35:22 am
Well why don't you marry it then!? Along with the lawn?! And the tree?!

Think of the fit the GOP would throw! :D

No, Trayvon wasn't a saint. He was just a teenage kid. You don't have to be a saint for it to be a tragedy you were shot dead.

And why was he a hoodlum? It is because he was black, wore a hoodie, and walked around at night?

And in the rain? (Which is no excuse for wearing a hoodie while black!) ::)

My quote is actually something a fundie said (the tree and lawn thing). I'm sure somebody around here remembers the exact wording. My apologies if you knew already. lol

As for the hoodie thing... yeahhh. I wear hoodies in the rain. At night. And I'm a little tan. Shock. Horror.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auri-El on April 03, 2012, 07:59:31 am
Everyone wears hoodies. I live in a predominantly white, rather affluent community, and you go to the store, and around half the people in the store are wearing hoodies. Hell, I wear a hoodie every day from about October to April. The whole "hoodie = gangsta" thing the Zimmerman supporters are spewing is irritating.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on April 03, 2012, 10:01:42 am
Everyone wears hoodies. I live in a predominantly white, rather affluent community, and you go to the store, and around half the people in the store are wearing hoodies. Hell, I wear a hoodie every day from about October to April. The whole "hoodie = gangsta" thing the Zimmerman supporters are spewing is irritating.

Same. Although there are so many Asians in my community that to call it "predominantly white" is a bit of a stretch.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 08, 2012, 09:37:31 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/544782_10150920572217576_741292575_12984525_1016471842_n.jpg)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/549181_130768630381400_129232723868324_63923_999476614_n.jpg)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/560438_129278420530421_129232723868324_61826_1575953229_n.jpg)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542134_2971740175917_1334154867_32508347_470938920_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 08, 2012, 09:49:39 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/544782_10150920572217576_741292575_12984525_1016471842_n.jpg)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/549181_130768630381400_129232723868324_63923_999476614_n.jpg)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/560438_129278420530421_129232723868324_61826_1575953229_n.jpg)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542134_2971740175917_1334154867_32508347_470938920_n.jpg)
@ last one Uh the US is not the top of the economic freedom index

1    Hong Kong    89.9    0.2
2    Singapore    87.5    0.3
3    Australia    83.1    0.6
4    New Zealand    82.1    -0.2
5    Switzerland    81.1    -0.8
6    Canada    79.9    -0.9
7    Chile    78.3    0.9
8    Mauritius    77.0    0.8
9    Ireland    76.9    -1.8
10    United States    76.3    -1.5
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 08, 2012, 11:15:35 pm
He doth sully the countenance of yon awesome R. Lee Ermey with BS. :(
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: myusername on April 09, 2012, 04:45:27 am

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/560438_129278420530421_129232723868324_61826_1575953229_n.jpg)

Capitalism does not work that way. I mean, is it really that hard to understand that plenty of people work hard and get absolutely nowhere? I mean my dad works all his life (except for a brief period where he was made redundant) and his pay is comparatively worse now than it was before. A lot is dependent on whether you have the skills wanted in an economy for example, which may be down to nothing to do with personal choice (eg. you went to a poor school), or even that your skills become irrelevant over time (e.g handloom weavers in the nineteenth century). Plenty of people pour time and dedication into their own businesses and they still fail.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 09, 2012, 06:58:00 am

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/560438_129278420530421_129232723868324_61826_1575953229_n.jpg)

Capitalism does not work that way. I mean, is it really that hard to understand that plenty of people work hard and get absolutely nowhere? I mean my dad works all his life (except for a brief period where he was made redundant) and his pay is comparatively worse now than it was before. A lot is dependent on whether you have the skills wanted in an economy for example, which may be down to nothing to do with personal choice (eg. you went to a poor school), or even that your skills become irrelevant over time (e.g handloom weavers in the nineteenth century). Plenty of people pour time and dedication into their own businesses and they still fail.
If everyone were the 1% then there would be none
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 09, 2012, 07:13:12 am
I’m reminded of that old joke: “I wasn’t in the top half of my class. I was in the half that mad the top half possible.”
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 09, 2012, 01:49:18 pm


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I'm sorry, but I am not very proud to live in a nation with a government that thinks it's okay to tell me what to do with my uterus, or tell me who I can and can't marry, or refuse to give me decent health care.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on April 09, 2012, 02:02:10 pm


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I'm sorry, but I am not very proud to live in a nation with a government that thinks it's okay to tell me what to do with my uterus, or tell me who I can and can't marry, or refuse to give me decent health care.
This. As well as every war said gov't feels the need to fight, and the rich people who own said gov't while paying nothing to maintain it.

I also feel no need to take pride in something I had no choice in.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: shykid on April 09, 2012, 02:38:49 pm
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* More taxes
* More welfare
* More government
* More regulation

Sounds good to me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on April 09, 2012, 06:23:39 pm
Much like one's own children, you can love something, but not be too proud of them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 09, 2012, 07:32:55 pm
Aristocracy isn't something you earn, it's something you inherit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 09, 2012, 09:09:03 pm


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I'm sorry, but I am not very proud to live in a nation with a government that thinks it's okay to tell me what to do with my uterus, or tell me who I can and can't marry, or refuse to give me decent health care.
This. As well as every war said gov't feels the need to fight, and the rich people who own said gov't while paying nothing to maintain it.

I also feel no need to take pride in something I had no choice in.

Echoing the sentiments here. I'm not proud of the shit my country's gotten itself involved in, but it's not like I BAWWWWWWWWWW about it and "apologize" for being American. I can't help it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on April 09, 2012, 10:01:27 pm
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It's still change, it's just not change you like.

[snip]

I'm sorry, but I am not very proud to live in a nation with a government that thinks it's okay to tell me what to do with my uterus, or tell me who I can and can't marry, or refuse to give me decent health care.
This. As well as every war said gov't feels the need to fight, and the rich people who own said gov't while paying nothing to maintain it.

I also feel no need to take pride in something I had no choice in.

Echoing the sentiments here. I'm not proud of the shit my country's gotten itself involved in, but it's not like I BAWWWWWWWWWW about it and "apologize" for being American. I can't help it.

I don't have to join the rest of the masses in mindless flag-waving and international pissing contests to "prove" I'm proud of my country. Patriotism should be like religion: not mandatory and not in public.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: agentCDE on April 09, 2012, 10:37:19 pm
[snip image] When was the last time you heard a Liberal say "I'm proud to be an American!"?

Right before the kind of people who ask this kind of "question" started SHITTING UP THE WHOLE COUNTRY.

Funny that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 09, 2012, 11:00:09 pm
I'm sorry (no I'm not), but demanding we say "I'm proud to be an American" is just borderline nationalism (and if the 20th century taught us anything is that nationalism leads to disaster) and it is also a non-argument. How are liberal arguments wrong if they don't say "I'm proud to be an American"?

Besides, we're not the one trying to drag American into a shit-hole.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auri-El on April 10, 2012, 08:08:22 am
I'll be proud to be American when they finally let us catch up with the rest of the civilised world.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on April 10, 2012, 08:48:43 am
I've always been a little skeptical of people who are "proud" to be a nationality or ethnicity. I am happy I am an American. I am glad I am white. But my pride is saved for accomplishments, for things I did. I am proud of my military service. I am proud of the way I keep my lawn. I was proud when my oldest got a 103% on her spelling test (extra credit words). I am not proud of the fact that almost 32 years ago, I was born to a white middle class American family. Glad, but not proud. My pride is worth more than that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 10, 2012, 09:14:03 am
People need to stop loving countries and start loving their countrymen.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on April 10, 2012, 09:44:05 am
People need to stop loving countries and start loving their countrymen.
Damn commy socialist hippie nazi. Go back Australia! >:( :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 10, 2012, 09:48:18 am
Why Australia?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on April 10, 2012, 10:27:27 am
*straightens tie, spits on hand, smooths back hair*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on April 10, 2012, 12:46:35 pm
Why Australia?
If I curse you for stating a thought out opinion, the least I can do is suggest a great vacation spot!  8)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 10, 2012, 09:09:08 pm
Why Australia?
If I curse you for stating a thought out opinion, the least I can do is suggest a great vacation spot!  8)

Oh, I thought you were trying to get her envenomed by a platypus or Sydney funnel web. Or any of the other gazillion Australian creatures with far more potent venom than sanity should allow.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 10, 2012, 09:38:34 pm
Why Australia?
If I curse you for stating a thought out opinion, the least I can do is suggest a great vacation spot!  8)

Oh, I thought you were trying to get her envenomed by a platypus or Sydney funnel web. Or any of the other gazillion Australian creatures with far more potent venom than sanity should allow.

Australia: Where Every Phylum Has a Representative That Can Kill You
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 10, 2012, 10:09:50 pm
What living organism isn't trying to kill you in Australia? Koalas are generally good as long as you don't piss them off, right? Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if they found the worlds first venomous rock in Australia.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 11, 2012, 04:35:38 pm
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Background: Maine will be voting to return marriage equality in November. This is the oppositions official pledge given out at the University of Maine.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 11, 2012, 04:56:28 pm
Well, while they weren't lovers, I was raised by two women (mother and aunt) and I'd like to think I turned out okay.  Not hellish or evil here, though my aunt can be annoying when she wants to shove potato salad down my throat every time she makes it just in case my taste has changed.  It hasn't.   I digress, though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on April 11, 2012, 05:17:53 pm
Well, while they weren't lovers, I was raised by two women (mother and aunt) and I'd like to think I turned out okay.  Not hellish or evil here, though my aunt can be annoying when she wants to shove potato salad down my throat every time she makes it just in case my taste has changed.  It hasn't.   I digress, though.

You didn't grow up to be a gay-hating Christian, therefore you WERE raised wrong!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 11, 2012, 05:29:37 pm
Oh, okay.  Whoopsies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 11, 2012, 06:36:27 pm
What the fuck is up with right-wingers and pledges?!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: clockworkgirl21 on April 11, 2012, 07:14:57 pm
Sodomy based marriage? They sure love to think about the gay butt sex.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 11, 2012, 07:16:18 pm
Never mind the fact that hetrosexuals can partake in sodomy as well...

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on April 11, 2012, 07:22:28 pm
God damn!  Oppressing the religious right?  Freedom to have father and mother?  They're not even trying to be subtle anymore. 

Get a fucking dictionary and look up the word 'freedom', assholes!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: speshuled67 on April 11, 2012, 07:28:57 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NPQ5YCe4_qA/T4Q0Zhn_nhI/AAAAAAABVHM/5mTSdZhYrLM/s1600/Maine2.jpg)

Background: Maine will be voting to return marriage equality in November. This is the oppositions official pledge given out at the University of Maine.


when i read that i heard michelle malkin's voice in my head. now i have a headache.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 11, 2012, 08:06:02 pm
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Background: Maine will be voting to return marriage equality in November. This is the oppositions official pledge given out at the University of Maine.

@ the ass-munch that wrote this shit.

1. So lesbian can butt fuck each other? How so?(dildos don't count, otherwise suppositories are sodomy too)

4. Bullshit

5. What is this "Natural Law" and where can I find exactly what it say? I suspect it's bullshit you made up.

6. What the fuck do you mean "special rights?"

7. Waaaaah! I'm being persecuted because I can't persecute people anymore! Did this ass really just use the term "True Christian" in a serious manner?

8. Bullshit

9. And what about the fact that Christian fundamentalists have the highest divorce rates of anyone? That doesn't sound like a "good" family to me.

10. Why? Because you don't want your kids learning about the real world?

11. Go right ahead. It will do just as much good as any other time you pray. That is to say it won't do jack-fucking-shit.

Lastly, as I'm a heterosexual male, and I dig chick's asses. So it is not a gay thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 11, 2012, 08:18:18 pm
Oh, wow. I didn’t even read down to number 9. What exactly do they propose to do about one or both parents up and dying on the family?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 11, 2012, 08:27:56 pm
What if one or both of the parents is abusive?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 11, 2012, 08:54:38 pm
What if one or both of the parents is abusive?

It fine as long as it's good Christian abuse. (http://fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=67487)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 11, 2012, 09:08:58 pm
Oh, wow. I didn’t even read down to number 9. What exactly do they propose to do about one or both parents up and dying on the family?

Cast True Res on them.

Ironbite-duh.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 11, 2012, 09:23:18 pm
But true resurrection is magic. And thou shalt not suffer a witch and all that.

On the other hand, it is a pretty expensive spell, so it does fit in with the “Only the Rich Deserve It” mentality.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 11, 2012, 10:18:52 pm
But true resurrection is magic. And thou shalt not suffer a witch and all that.

On the other hand, it is a pretty expensive spell, so it does fit in with the “Only the Rich Deserve It” mentality.
Use raise dead just cost 1 level
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 11, 2012, 10:24:56 pm
I am glad I am white.

Me, too. Just because I got a brand new hoodie with my employer’s logo on it, and I can wear it without getting shot.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 12, 2012, 03:44:56 am
Sodomy based marriage? Marriage based on rape?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on April 12, 2012, 04:33:38 am
Marriage based on rape?

You mean Biblical Marriage!  (Dt21:10-13, 22:28-29)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on April 12, 2012, 07:10:07 pm
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 12, 2012, 07:32:36 pm
I never understood why you need so many birther bumper stickers.


I don't want to know how much of a moron you are when I'm behind you at stoplight.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on April 12, 2012, 07:48:39 pm
I have two neighbors with interesting political/religious messages on their cars. One guy has "Smile, God Loves You" painted on the tailgate of his pick-up. The other has a bumper sticker on his rear passenger window (way to commit) with a picture of Ronald Reagan in a cowboy hat that says "Where have all the cowboys gone?". If I weren't such a nice guy, I'd have defaced it with a sharpies to say "actors" a long time ago. I also want a Ronald Reagan bumper sticker - same picture but saying "Where have all the professors who hire women to help them raise a chimp with human morals gone?".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 12, 2012, 07:50:31 pm
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 12, 2012, 08:06:56 pm
She is far too smug for her own good.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 12, 2012, 11:03:18 pm
@Stupid Sign Lady:  ...Yep, pretty much.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 13, 2012, 02:26:32 pm
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Sometimes, its good to remember there are dummies on our side too:

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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 13, 2012, 02:37:07 pm
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NpSCcU02sy4/T4gvRjH-KSI/AAAAAAABVWk/QXHO9tlvtk0/s1600/NOMnh.jpg)

I love how they equate things like DOMA to "traditional marriage"

No, seriously, that parentheses is the most blatant lie I've seen today.

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Sometimes, its good to remember there are dummies on our side too:

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

*Warning: You, the sign makers, have pressed the dragon's berserk button.*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 13, 2012, 03:52:12 pm
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You mean the marriage between one man and multiple women, some of them as young as 15?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 13, 2012, 06:25:52 pm
Once my family was driving back from eastern WA and we passed by a very run-down little cabin on the side of the road. It had a car in front of it so it was definitely inhabited. But all over the house, there was plywood propped up against the sides, and on the plywood the owner had painted some of the most schizophrenic conspiracy shit I've ever seen. I mean everything. Jews, Obama, reptilians, Big Pharma, aliens, alt med, anti-vaxxer, you name it. I kinda wish I had snapped a picture.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 13, 2012, 07:19:14 pm
Once my family was driving back from eastern WA and we passed by a very run-down little cabin on the side of the road. It had a car in front of it so it was definitely inhabited. But all over the house, there was plywood propped up against the sides, and on the plywood the owner had painted some of the most schizophrenic conspiracy shit I've ever seen. I mean everything. Jews, Obama, reptilians, Big Pharma, aliens, alt med, anti-vaxxer, you name it. I kinda wish I had snapped a picture.

I'm sure your dad agreed with most of it, right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 13, 2012, 08:13:41 pm
I wish you'd snapped a pic too, Wykked; because that sounds very familiar, and I think I've seen or heard about it somewhere. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 13, 2012, 10:33:00 pm
Once my family was driving back from eastern WA and we passed by a very run-down little cabin on the side of the road. It had a car in front of it so it was definitely inhabited. But all over the house, there was plywood propped up against the sides, and on the plywood the owner had painted some of the most schizophrenic conspiracy shit I've ever seen. I mean everything. Jews, Obama, reptilians, Big Pharma, aliens, alt med, anti-vaxxer, you name it. I kinda wish I had snapped a picture.

I'm sure your dad agreed with most of it, right?

He was snoring like a bear in the passenger's seat. I swear he's got some sort of sleep apnea but he never admits to it.

Sometimes, its good to remember there are dummies on our side too:

(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/564323_10150671878856275_177486166274_9781069_1647553738_n.jpg)

Well, anti-GMO sentiment can come from the left or the libertarian/conspiracy theorist right. As far as I'm concerned, since there's no proven health danger from eating GMO food, companies shouldn't be forced to distinguish it from non-GMO crops. They can if they want to, but it's not something that needs to be mandated. If a consumer wants to know for sure, they can do their own research or maybe just ask the company themselves.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 13, 2012, 10:37:56 pm
Just in case people want to know why that's a trigger warning...

I was once assigned to a group with two people (this was ethics class) who wanted to do their presentation on this.  They wouldn't work with me on it, and then accused me of being a slacker.

The school counselor was siding with them before I even entered the room.

As it turns out, their presentation was like... double the length it was supposed to be... and this was a Very Bad Thing.  I think they actually got a worse grade than I did doing the project solo (but then, I got an A on my project)

...The fact of the matter is, GMO fearmongers remind me of them, and that makes me angry.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 13, 2012, 11:05:11 pm
I don't really have a problem with people knowing whether or not the food they eat is genetically modified. My issue is with the bullshit misinformation being spread around, making this sound like creepy "frankenfood" rather than what it really is, and turning "genetically modified" into the equivalent of "toxic death food of doom that will turn your child into a mutant". Simply labeling it isn't giving people the chance to make an informed decision -- it's merely scaring them with the unknown.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auri-El on April 13, 2012, 11:35:15 pm
Isn't genetically modified food just a sped-up version of selective breeding?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on April 13, 2012, 11:47:09 pm
Basically. The bit where it becomes a problem is where you have GMO crops that are genetically modified to have dud seeds, forcing farmers to buy new seeds every year, which is expensive. Also they can mess up weeds, because GMO crops are often resistant to pesticide (which allows farmers to use more, which is bad) and then cross-pollination causes the weeds to also be resistant, which means you have to modify the crops again or use more pesticide. That's when it's bad.

Good things: rice that has Vitamin A and other nutrients so that people can have nutritious food in poor countries, crops that yield more which means more food for everyone, vaccinations in the form of food, and all other sorts of things. The idea of "frankenfood" is bullshit - however, GMO crops have upsides and downsides.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 13, 2012, 11:56:07 pm
Another problem is that the GMO crops can become too homogenized, which makes them an easy target for an advanced pest or biological weapon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 14, 2012, 12:41:58 am
Yeah, the genetic weakness is a major problem for GM food. (But then again, the same thing can be said about maize since it can't seed itself without intervention.) It's why you need to develop heterogeneous kinds of crops. But it's absurd that people want to ban them for largely unscientific reason.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 14, 2012, 04:15:21 am
GM food is hardly without its issues. Unfortunately, the issues that anti-GM activists whine about are not the issues that actually exist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on April 14, 2012, 09:26:22 am
GM food is hardly without its issues. Unfortunately, the issues that anti-GM activists whine about are not the issues that actually exist.
Well, the real issues are something that can be worked with and planned around, thus keeping GM foods on the market. We can't have that!  ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 14, 2012, 10:49:32 pm
I don't really have a problem with people knowing whether or not the food they eat is genetically modified. My issue is with the bullshit misinformation being spread around, making this sound like creepy "frankenfood" rather than what it really is, and turning "genetically modified" into the equivalent of "toxic death food of doom that will turn your child into a mutant". Simply labeling it isn't giving people the chance to make an informed decision -- it's merely scaring them with the unknown.

But...science is scary!

Also, you're a woman, so, uh...why tha hell aren't you in the kitchen?  [/asshole]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 14, 2012, 11:44:40 pm

Well, anti-GMO sentiment can come from the left or the libertarian/conspiracy theorist right. As far as I'm concerned, since there's no proven health danger from eating GMO food, companies shouldn't be forced to distinguish it from non-GMO crops. They can if they want to, but it's not something that needs to be mandated. If a consumer wants to know for sure, they can do their own research or maybe just ask the company themselves.

A libertarian probably wouldn't want mandates on foods, and would probably say it's the government that is doing it and we should let businesses do what they want. I don't necessarily have a problem with GM crops being labeled.

Shows a lot when SPUSA's platform calls to make GMOs illegal.

Isn't genetically modified food just a sped-up version of selective breeding?

Not really. A strawberry is never going to have pig genes no matter how much you breed it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 15, 2012, 12:37:06 am

Well, anti-GMO sentiment can come from the left or the libertarian/conspiracy theorist right. As far as I'm concerned, since there's no proven health danger from eating GMO food, companies shouldn't be forced to distinguish it from non-GMO crops. They can if they want to, but it's not something that needs to be mandated. If a consumer wants to know for sure, they can do their own research or maybe just ask the company themselves.

A libertarian probably wouldn't want mandates on foods, and would probably say it's the government that is doing it and we should let businesses do what they want. I don't necessarily have a problem with GM crops being labeled.

Shows a lot when SPUSA's platform calls to make GMOs illegal.

Isn't genetically modified food just a sped-up version of selective breeding?

Not really. A strawberry is never going to have pig genes no matter how much you breed it.

I have to ask, why the hell does a strawberry need pig genes?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 15, 2012, 12:51:46 am
To make it taste like bacon?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 15, 2012, 01:03:34 am
You insert a set of genes for a certain property, to give the crops an advantage. If animal X happens to have genes for this property (say, thriving in drought conditions), you splice those with your crops. Think of how the genes from certain types of bacteria have been used to make glowing fish and whatnot -- it's the same thing, but with practical results. It's not like they're making a true plant-pig hybrid (although bacon-flavoured veggies would rule), just using a small number of pig genes.

The actually process is way more complicated than I'm making it sound, but that's the gist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 15, 2012, 01:49:18 am
Wait a minute...glowing fish isn't a practical use of gene modification technology?  Imagine the raves you could have with an aquarium full of those bastards!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 15, 2012, 01:52:42 am
I know Japan has fun with them glowing fish critters.   Trippy!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: StallChaser on April 15, 2012, 02:52:55 am
Wait a minute...glowing fish isn't a practical use of gene modification technology?  Imagine the raves you could have with an aquarium full of those bastards!

I think tying them on strings and spinning them would be animal cruelty, so there's still a need for regular glowsticks.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on April 15, 2012, 11:21:36 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/577248_334859913243054_119640064765041_933331_1341707905_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 15, 2012, 11:27:43 pm
I though the fossils were planted by satan to make us question our faith in God.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 15, 2012, 11:29:06 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/577248_334859913243054_119640064765041_933331_1341707905_n.jpg)

The fossils say the opposite. That is a nice triceratops skull though :P.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jodie on April 16, 2012, 08:58:08 am
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups?

That's a shiney mirror you have there, religious person.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 16, 2012, 12:10:07 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/577248_334859913243054_119640064765041_933331_1341707905_n.jpg)

....oh boy my brain just broke again!  TIME FOR THE RAMPAGING!

Ironbite-*cackles madly as he vanishes into the night that is broken by explosions*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 16, 2012, 07:31:30 pm
What fossils are against evolution?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MisterMuncher on April 16, 2012, 08:32:41 pm
I consider a wee Christian fish badge on a car a sign to handle it with care, as the drivers of same tend toward the lower end of the driving skill/ highway code knowledge/ cyclist friendly pool

If I seen that coming, I'd get myself into the next county sharpish.

(Anecdotally. In my time, I reckon I've nailed the "problem road users by decoration" thing quite well. Basically, anyone using a car as an advert for their beliefs or a fashion accessory is best avoided. And pretty much anyone in a Hyundai Accent, small Vauxhall vans, brightly coloured french hatchbacks. And definitely any business-sponsored SMaRT, MINI, Fiat 500 or suchlike. By comparison, the perennial bugbears of motorists, like Beemers, Mercs, SUVs tend to stay the fuck away from me. Perhaps I look like my sideburns would scratch their paintwork).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Deus ex Populo on April 16, 2012, 11:05:59 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/Sve8h.jpg)

"Big Ass Misteak [sic]" indeed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 16, 2012, 11:21:26 pm
Misteak...not quite as good as proper steak, but it serves its purpose.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 17, 2012, 12:27:52 am
Mmmmmm... misteak *Drools*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 17, 2012, 03:16:18 am
I consider a wee Christian fish badge on a car a sign to handle it with care, as the drivers of same tend toward the lower end of the driving skill/ highway code knowledge/ cyclist friendly pool

If I seen that coming, I'd get myself into the next county sharpish.

(Anecdotally. In my time, I reckon I've nailed the "problem road users by decoration" thing quite well. Basically, anyone using a car as an advert for their beliefs or a fashion accessory is best avoided. And pretty much anyone in a Hyundai Accent, small Vauxhall vans, brightly coloured french hatchbacks. And definitely any business-sponsored SMaRT, MINI, Fiat 500 or suchlike. By comparison, the perennial bugbears of motorists, like Beemers, Mercs, SUVs tend to stay the fuck away from me. Perhaps I look like my sideburns would scratch their paintwork).

The only things I have on my car now are:

1) A POW/MIA ribbon. Now, some people think there's no point to them. But it means a lot to me considering I've known some POWs. It isn't some platitude like 'support our troops'. It's true blue emotion and belief about how I want our POWs and MIAs home, safe and sound. But I won't get any further into that debate.
2) A 'runs on caffeine' magnet from Think Geek. It might have a tinge of comedy considering I drive an SUV.

Plus, I like to think I drive responsibly for someone in an SUV. ;)

As for 'misteak'. Wow.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on April 17, 2012, 06:38:15 am
Where I live, it seems like the more political and/or religious the bumper stickers, the worst the driver.  Unfortunately, this applies to the anti and pro Obama ones as well.  The ones who actually use turn signals and observe stop signs and red lights have stuff like, "Coexist," "Save the Strippers," or a tattoo company as bumper stickers.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on April 17, 2012, 01:19:01 pm
I have a Penn State bumper sticker, which is mostly my brother reminding me that the car is technically ours to share, although he's off at, well, Penn State, and I'm here.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 17, 2012, 03:12:38 pm
Now from Australia: (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FefEAcM95u0/T4wPCvkPiuI/AAAAAAABVig/6lEwQl9OuDU/s1600/IslamicCancer2.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on April 17, 2012, 04:10:34 pm
You should see the 'kiss-ins' (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/04/17/the-effectiveness-of-kiss-ins/) that were staged to protest their protest. Nothing like gay dudes making out to piss off extremists.

And make us straight folk slightly uncomfortable XD
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: myusername on April 17, 2012, 05:05:15 pm
Now from Australia: (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FefEAcM95u0/T4wPCvkPiuI/AAAAAAABVig/6lEwQl9OuDU/s1600/IslamicCancer2.jpg)

What's Athiesm???
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 17, 2012, 06:18:27 pm
1) A POW/MIA ribbon. Now, some people think there's no point to them. But it means a lot to me considering I've known some POWs. It isn't some platitude like 'support our troops'. It's true blue emotion and belief about how I want our POWs and MIAs home, safe and sound. But I won't get any further into that debate.

My understanding of the POW/MIA thing is that it's a conspiracy theory about the Vietnamese government.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on April 17, 2012, 06:39:25 pm
1) A POW/MIA ribbon. Now, some people think there's no point to them. But it means a lot to me considering I've known some POWs. It isn't some platitude like 'support our troops'. It's true blue emotion and belief about how I want our POWs and MIAs home, safe and sound. But I won't get any further into that debate.

My understanding of the POW/MIA thing is that it's a conspiracy theory about the Vietnamese government.

...how? We know for a fact that people get captured by enemy forces. That's how war works.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on April 17, 2012, 07:18:39 pm
I consider a wee Christian fish badge on a car a sign to handle it with care, as the drivers of same tend toward the lower end of the driving skill/ highway code knowledge/ cyclist friendly pool

If I seen that coming, I'd get myself into the next county sharpish.

(Anecdotally. In my time, I reckon I've nailed the "problem road users by decoration" thing quite well. Basically, anyone using a car as an advert for their beliefs or a fashion accessory is best avoided. And pretty much anyone in a Hyundai Accent, small Vauxhall vans, brightly coloured french hatchbacks. And definitely any business-sponsored SMaRT, MINI, Fiat 500 or suchlike. By comparison, the perennial bugbears of motorists, like Beemers, Mercs, SUVs tend to stay the fuck away from me. Perhaps I look like my sideburns would scratch their paintwork).

...I drive a Hyundai Accent. :<  With an "I <3 My Poodle" magnet.  I'm tempted to get a "Coexist" bumper sticker, but I'm not sure how the blue would match with a powder-blue paint job.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SimSim on April 17, 2012, 07:58:16 pm
1) A POW/MIA ribbon. Now, some people think there's no point to them. But it means a lot to me considering I've known some POWs. It isn't some platitude like 'support our troops'. It's true blue emotion and belief about how I want our POWs and MIAs home, safe and sound. But I won't get any further into that debate.

My understanding of the POW/MIA thing is that it's a conspiracy theory about the Vietnamese government.

...how? We know for a fact that people get captured by enemy forces. That's how war works.
There are rumors that the North Vietnamese government turned some American POWs over to the Soviet Union and they were never seen again. There are also rumors that the North Vietnamese government didn't return all living American POWs.

As for the validity of the rumors, I have no idea.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 17, 2012, 08:33:08 pm
And this pertains to my bumper sticker, which I plainly said was because I knew POWs, how?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SimSim on April 17, 2012, 08:51:55 pm
Thread drift.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 17, 2012, 09:20:11 pm
And this pertains to my bumper sticker, which I plainly said was because I knew POWs, how?

He's probably a conspiracy theorist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 17, 2012, 10:04:12 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ocwhvKNh1rrx8p2o1_500.jpg)

Not a protest sign, but Tyson chicken for $2? I don't think Wal Mart's prices are that low.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 17, 2012, 10:09:36 pm
They're not.

Ironbite-anywhere.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 17, 2012, 10:10:37 pm
It's like these people think there are 36 hours in the day of someone who's poor.

When you're finished working two jobs, sometimes you don't have TIME to cook up a nice healthy meal... sometimes, you need a pre-cooked meal made by someone other than yourself.

Not to mention the energy needed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 17, 2012, 10:18:47 pm
It's like these people think there are 36 hours in the day of someone who's poor.

When you're finished working two jobs, sometimes you don't have TIME to cook up a nice healthy meal... sometimes, you need a pre-cooked meal made by someone other than yourself.

Not to mention the energy needed.

Well they should have thought about that before getting two jobs now shouldn't they? /1%
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on April 18, 2012, 12:37:32 am
Where do these people shop!?
Here?
Chicken breasts (boneless/skinless) averages around $6/lb.
3 litres (.79 gallon) of milk - $5
10 lbs potatoes - $8
1 lb of peaches - $2-5 (seasonal)
1 lb ground beef - $4
2 lbs frozen peas - $3
8 ears of corn - $3-6 (seasonal)
Big tub of yogurt - $5
Can of oats - $4
1 lb kidney beans - $3

Total is roughly $45
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 18, 2012, 02:41:37 am
And this pertains to my bumper sticker, which I plainly said was because I knew POWs, how?

He's probably a conspiracy theorist.

I was talking to you both, dingbat.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 18, 2012, 03:19:46 am
And this pertains to my bumper sticker, which I plainly said was because I knew POWs, how?

He's probably a conspiracy theorist.

I was talking to you both, dingbat.

The POW/MIA think is largely a conspiracy theory sticker. So putting it on your car might give the wrong impression. Two American soldiers are currently POWs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 18, 2012, 05:47:42 am
Is that so?

(http://www.americanroadmagazine.com/zencart/images/rib9.jpg)

That's the exact ribbon I have on my car. I see nothing conspiracy theory-y about it... And I've had it on my car for who knows how long.

But of course, I'm not really 'up' on my conspiracies anymore these days.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on April 18, 2012, 07:18:12 am
Is that so?

That's the exact ribbon I have on my car. I see nothing conspiracy theory-y about it... And I've had it on my car for who knows how long.

But of course, I'm not really 'up' on my conspiracies anymore these days.

Going by Rational Wiki, the conspiracy theory was at its height in the 80's. There was a time where that black ribbon or flag being flown often meant that the person who had it believed that Americans POWs were still being held in Vietnam. Now, since we've gotten involved in wars again and have normalized relations with Vietnam, it seems that it is drifting toward a more general meaning.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 18, 2012, 09:21:51 am
Yeah, that's the conspiracy theory sticker.

The funny part is that there are a lot more MIA soldiers from WW2 than 'Nam, Where are the Germans and Japanese hiding them?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on April 18, 2012, 10:22:30 am
Yeah, that's the conspiracy theory sticker.

The funny part is that there are a lot more MIA soldiers from WW2 than 'Nam, Where are the Germans and Japanese hiding them?

As Kit mentioned, it's drifted back to a more general meaning, as in support for those who were POW and MIA.

The whole thing originally stemmed from the fact that Vietnam was the most brutal war and different war that we had fought.  It was in a terrain that we had almost no way to train for and was against people who were literally willing to do anything to win.  That doesn't even take into account the fact that many of those people saw us as interlopers trying to take their homes.

It was also the first conflict that we, as a country, could point to as a clear loss.  Therefore, many people believed that we left quite a few people behind to rot in POW camps.  My dad was in Nam, so he got pretty into the movement in the 80s.  He did admit that there was a large amount of conspiracy theory behind it, but he also said that you couldn't rule out the fact that there may be people still there.  Also, it was pretty huge with biker culture.  We used to go to bike and skydiving rallies and there was almost always a POW speaker (or at least major presence) and literature.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on April 18, 2012, 07:24:56 pm
It was also the first conflict that we, as a country, could point to as a clear loss.

War of 1812.  Not only did the British burn down the presidential mansion, we also managed nothing more than a restoration of the status quo ante bellum.  We did not win that war.  You'll notice that history classes love to play up the Battle of New Orleans, which, despite being an awesome battle with a funny song written about it, had no effect on the outcome of the war, since it was fought AFTER the treaty was signed, but before the generals involved got the news.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 18, 2012, 08:12:13 pm
Quote from: Bezron link=topic=20.msg49809#msg49809 date=1334758950 It was also the first conflict that we, as a country, could point to as a clear loss. [/quote

Some Americans regard the civil war as a loss /offtopic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 18, 2012, 09:41:10 pm
Yeah, that's the conspiracy theory sticker.

The funny part is that there are a lot more MIA soldiers from WW2 than 'Nam, Where are the Germans and Japanese hiding them?

I still don't see how since we damn well know we have POWs and MIAs in the middle east... But okay. Maybe if it had been in another time and place, I would see where the whole thing is coming from. Also, the ribbon thing is kinda newer than the conspiracy itself.

Dammit this is exactly why I said I didn't want to get into the politics of it. >_>

Here, on-topic:
(http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0tzk9xT9d1qkx16go1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on April 18, 2012, 09:53:07 pm
Here, on-topic:
(http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0tzk9xT9d1qkx16go1_500.jpg)
Awwww.... it's so cute when they do that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 18, 2012, 09:53:37 pm
Here, on-topic:
(http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0tzk9xT9d1qkx16go1_500.jpg)

Ah! Classics.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 18, 2012, 10:02:54 pm
Maybe if it had been in another time and place, I would see where the whole thing is coming from.

Basically this. It is about prior context. That is all.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 18, 2012, 10:23:10 pm
It was also the first conflict that we, as a country, could point to as a clear loss.

War of 1812.  Not only did the British burn down the presidential mansion, we also managed nothing more than a restoration of the status quo ante bellum.  We did not win that war.  You'll notice that history classes love to play up the Battle of New Orleans, which, despite being an awesome battle with a funny song written about it, had no effect on the outcome of the war, since it was fought AFTER the treaty was signed, but before the generals involved got the news.

This. People also forget that initially, the US tried to invade Canada and failed. But it's sugared so we don't look like the aggressor (that isn't to say the British wasn't also doing wrong by kidnapping our sailor, but that it's a lot grayer than people think.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 18, 2012, 10:33:47 pm
It was also the first conflict that we, as a country, could point to as a clear loss.

War of 1812.  Not only did the British burn down the presidential mansion, we also managed nothing more than a restoration of the status quo ante bellum.  We did not win that war.  You'll notice that history classes love to play up the Battle of New Orleans, which, despite being an awesome battle with a funny song written about it, had no effect on the outcome of the war, since it was fought AFTER the treaty was signed, but before the generals involved got the news.

This. People also forget that initially, the US tried to invade Canada and failed. But it's sugared so we don't look like the aggressor (that isn't to say the British wasn't also doing wrong by kidnapping our sailor, but that it's a lot grayer than people think.)

The Canadian kids I know totally like to rub in my face that they burned down the White House, but neglect to mention the fact that they were only doing it because they were Britain's bitch at the time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 18, 2012, 10:48:59 pm
But we acted as their bitch in the single most awesome way we possibly could.

Say, that's a lovely new White House you have there. Would be a shame if something happened to it... again.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 19, 2012, 12:05:10 am
Come now children, the war is over.  Canucks, go back to your hockey and curling, and you Yanks go back to cleaning your guns.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on April 19, 2012, 12:07:51 am
Come now children, the war is over.  Canucks, go back to your hockey and curling, and you Yanks go back to cleaning your guns.
But if we clean them we'll need to use them again.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 19, 2012, 12:23:32 am
Shhh!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: davedan on April 19, 2012, 01:05:00 am


Sorry wrong thread - don't mind me - nothing to see here.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 19, 2012, 03:27:16 am
But we acted as their bitch in the single most awesome way we possibly could.

Say, that's a lovely new White House you have there. Would be a shame if something happened to it... again.

This White House?
(http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111102020939/fallout/images/thumb/2/28/White_House.jpg/497px-White_House.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 19, 2012, 09:24:50 am


Sorry wrong thread - don't mind me - nothing to see here.

Glad I'm not the only one who does this.

But we acted as their bitch in the single most awesome way we possibly could.

Say, that's a lovely new White House you have there. Would be a shame if something happened to it... again.

This White House?
(http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111102020939/fallout/images/thumb/2/28/White_House.jpg/497px-White_House.jpg)

SOON
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 19, 2012, 01:35:19 pm
...Yes. Soon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 19, 2012, 06:31:59 pm
Now watch as Shane gets a visit from Homeland Security.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on April 19, 2012, 08:44:18 pm
Now watch as Shane gets a visit from Homeland Security.
You'll just be kidnapped and sent to a CIA black site somewhere.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on April 19, 2012, 09:22:57 pm
(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc170/mhoodnc/renig-2.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 19, 2012, 09:47:10 pm
I knew you Canucks were untrustworthy! You're too polite!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 19, 2012, 09:50:47 pm
(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc170/mhoodnc/renig-2.gif)

I didn't realize that sticker was still alive. Damn.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 20, 2012, 04:31:06 am
Now watch as Shane gets a visit from Homeland Security.

I'm not sure they'll make that same mistake again (http://www.1up.com/news/fallout-3-art-terrorist-video).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on April 20, 2012, 07:58:31 am
I'm not sure they'll make that same mistake again (http://www.1up.com/news/fallout-3-art-terrorist-video).

I may have told this story before. If so, sorry...

The DC Metro allows companies to purchase advertising "themes," which allows the companies to put images on station walls, buses, and the pylons in stations. Bethesda had their Fallout 3 theme put up the week of the game's release, with multiple images from the game. All pictures were clearly marked with "Fallout 3" and Bethesda Studios.

Not long after, there was a letter to the editor in the Washington Post from someone complaining about the theme because "we had a terrorist attack here not long ago and people walking through Metro should not be forced to look at images of a bombed out DC." I don't remember if the author claimed the images were from terrorist attacks on DC or not. I think the author knew Fallout 3 is a game, but was just upset the images were all over the DC area.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: clockworkgirl21 on April 20, 2012, 02:54:30 pm
Part of the reason why I hope Obama wins again is because racist tears taste so good.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 20, 2012, 04:17:36 pm
I'm not sure they'll make that same mistake again (http://www.1up.com/news/fallout-3-art-terrorist-video).

I may have told this story before. If so, sorry...

The DC Metro allows companies to purchase advertising "themes," which allows the companies to put images on station walls, buses, and the pylons in stations. Bethesda had their Fallout 3 theme put up the week of the game's release, with multiple images from the game. All pictures were clearly marked with "Fallout 3" and Bethesda Studios.

Not long after, there was a letter to the editor in the Washington Post from someone complaining about the theme because "we had a terrorist attack here not long ago and people walking through Metro should not be forced to look at images of a bombed out DC." I don't remember if the author claimed the images were from terrorist attacks on DC or not. I think the author knew Fallout 3 is a game, but was just upset the images were all over the DC area.

Understandably so. Fallout 3 was difficult for me to play since I grew up in and around the DC and Baltimore areas.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on April 20, 2012, 04:22:31 pm
Understandably so. Fallout 3 was difficult for me to play since I grew up in and around the DC and Baltimore areas.

Different strokes. I was living in the DC area at the time I wandered around trying to figure out where my apartment would be.  ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 20, 2012, 06:42:00 pm
That's nothing.  I kept wandering around Fairfax trying to find my house.

Ironbite-never could find it's bombed out ruins.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 20, 2012, 07:45:04 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r3jw1gLV1qcfoo3o1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 20, 2012, 07:51:01 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r3jw1gLV1qcfoo3o1_500.jpg)

RAGE!!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 20, 2012, 08:11:53 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r3jw1gLV1qcfoo3o1_500.jpg)
My response? I support Wisconsin. It’s up to the governor to decide if he does likewise.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 20, 2012, 08:51:00 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r3jw1gLV1qcfoo3o1_500.jpg)
I'm sure Governer is a nice guy governor not so mucb
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Prophet Mohammed (PBUM) on April 21, 2012, 04:19:28 pm
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg220/scaled.php?server=220&filename=14892332555682084522210.jpg&res=landing)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 21, 2012, 04:21:30 pm
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg220/scaled.php?server=220&filename=14892332555682084522210.jpg&res=landing)

Men are not flies. Man can choose not to rape. And it's completely ignoring the fact that women in full Islamic garb are still subjected to rape. Once more, this prove that misandry is misogyny and vise versa.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 21, 2012, 04:22:27 pm
Cuz heaven forbid men have to keep it in their pants otherwise.  Are they THAT weak-willed?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on April 21, 2012, 04:34:49 pm
Can we get a translation of the 'flies' billboard?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Prophet Mohammed (PBUM) on April 21, 2012, 04:57:46 pm
Can we get a translation of the 'flies' billboard?

There's already a translation underneath the Arabic - "Veil is security".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 21, 2012, 04:58:42 pm
Can we get a translation of the 'flies' billboard?

It's an Egyptian campaign telling women to cover up to prevent rape. Here is one of the earlier incarnations: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/who_are_you_calling_a_fly.php
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 21, 2012, 05:29:15 pm
They do relize that the rapist doesn't give a fuck about what the victim is wearing, right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 21, 2012, 05:32:25 pm
They do relize that the rapist doesn't give a fuck about what the victim is wearing, right?

Even if they did I don't think they care as women led man to original sin.

Ironbite-don't you read your babble?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 21, 2012, 05:37:14 pm
They do relize that the rapist doesn't give a fuck about what the victim is wearing, right?

If they do, they certainly don’t think the people they are addressing this to do. There’s gotta be someone who thinks what the victim is wearing makes a difference, or that argument wouldn’t be used all the fucking time!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on April 21, 2012, 08:27:27 pm
Can we get a translation of the 'flies' billboard?

There's already a translation underneath the Arabic - "Veil is security".

*squints*  So there isss... I didn't see that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 22, 2012, 12:58:51 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/306541_352814894764573_243300992382631_1072564_1945838081_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on April 22, 2012, 01:30:23 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/306541_352814894764573_243300992382631_1072564_1945838081_n.jpg)

EDIT: Because of the new page I added the pic.

So, I googled the term "cotton ceiling" and most of the things I found were blog posts where the writers were explaining how they don't think trans women are REAL women and should not be considered so.

They all did start the post with "I'm not transphobic" or "at the risk of sounding transphobic" so, yay for additional irony. (Just once I'd like to have someone start a conversation with I'm not racist/bigot/homophobe/etc. and then prove that the claim IS true.)

One post did claim that the term cotton ceiling refers to the panties of an lesbian and simply means the fact that lesbians don't want to have sex with men.

Although in that case I really don't get what Lexikon's pic is supposed to mean. (Is it supposed to be ironic?)


Ps. On the subject of "cotton ceiling" On one hand, demanding that a person should have sex with you just because you are of the gender/sex that the other person's orientation should prefer is not cool. If I walk up to an random hetero-woman and demand that she should have sex with me because I am a man it would not be "ok," since, you know, people have a right to decide who they fuck. Besides it takes more than gender for sexual attraction. (appearance, personality, etc.)

On the other hand... Those on the other side of the debate did not reply with "What if that particular lesbian just isn't attracted to you." Their reply is "We won't have sex with any transwomen since you aren't real women." Or as one person said: "Sit down, shut up, and read a book (or a blog). We will be over here, having fabulous queer sex without you." (In other context that would be a cool statement.)

Sorry about the rant.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 22, 2012, 01:46:58 am
"men" meaning MTF transsexuals.

Basically Planned Parenthood tried to organize a meeting trying to help MtF transexuals to get into relationships, and cue a bunch of radfems screaming that it was rape.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on April 22, 2012, 02:00:38 am
"men" meaning MTF transsexuals.

Basically Planned Parenthood tried to organize a meeting trying to help MtF transexuals to get into relationships, and cue a bunch of radfems screaming that it was rape.

So I actually was on topic?!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 22, 2012, 02:20:13 am
MTF people are not men.  They are women.

It's not about "curing lesbians".  It's about being your true self, making your body match who you really are.  Sometimes, these transwomen are lesbians.  It happens.

Fuck it... -_-
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 22, 2012, 02:29:02 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/306541_352814894764573_243300992382631_1072564_1945838081_n.jpg)

I thought "curing lesbians" meant a guy raping them to make them straight. I've never understood the logic of that. There's also straight guys who rape gay guys to turn them straight. How the hell does that make any sense at all?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 22, 2012, 03:29:54 am
MTF people are not men.  They are women.

It's not about "curing lesbians".  It's about being your true self, making your body match who you really are.  Sometimes, these transwomen are lesbians.  It happens.

Fuck it... -_-

On the same token, some people think FTMs are trying to destroy feminism and taking advantage of patriarchy to get a 'higher place in society'. I don't understand any of that logic, myself. Said FTMs can also 'become' gay males.

As for 'curing lesbians' by raping them... yeah. That's some really funky logic and heartbreaking.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TenfoldMaquette on April 22, 2012, 09:16:39 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/306541_352814894764573_243300992382631_1072564_1945838081_n.jpg)

I thought "curing lesbians" meant a guy raping them to make them straight. I've never understood the logic of that.

The train of thought here is that MtF transsexuals are still men, and thus by trying to enter into a lesbian relationship they are corrupting it by sneaking their "male-ness" in under the lie of presenting themselves as female to a prospective partner. Since lesbians, pretty much by definition, don't want to have sex with men, there is this sentiment that it's just another covert attempt to force them into a straight (male-female) partnership against their will, and is thus identical to a "normal" straight man raping them straight.

It's a horrible convoluted and insulting mess of a conclusion, and I most certainly do not agree with it in any capacity.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on April 22, 2012, 09:58:05 am
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg220/scaled.php?server=220&filename=14892332555682084522210.jpg&res=landing)

Response to this, response to all modesty ads:
(http://i.imgur.com/Ulkdy.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on April 22, 2012, 11:08:05 am
Ok, this time I really DO need a translation.  What's going on in the breastfeeding picture?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on April 22, 2012, 11:52:12 am
Ok, this time I really DO need a translation.  What's going on in the breastfeeding picture?

Looks like the man is just talking to the woman, even though she has her breast out. Contrast to the two men turning around to look at the woman in a burka.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 22, 2012, 12:15:33 pm
Ok, this time I really DO need a translation.  What's going on in the breastfeeding picture?

Looks like the man is just talking to the woman, even though she has her breast out. Contrast to the two men turning around to look at the woman in a burka.

Took me a moment to notice those to men’s cycle was stopped. Kinda took all the fun out of imagining them hitting a parked car because they were too busy ogling the lady to pay attention to what was ahead of them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on April 22, 2012, 02:18:17 pm
Looks like the man is just talking to the woman, even though she has her breast out. Contrast to the two men turning around to look at the woman in a burka.

Slightly undercut by the man behind him who might be looking at her boob.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 22, 2012, 02:39:45 pm
How the hell can you perv over a woman in burka?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on April 22, 2012, 02:45:10 pm
How the hell can you perv over a woman in burka?
Ankles were risque at one point in Western history. Same logic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on April 22, 2012, 03:03:23 pm
How the hell can you perv over a woman in burka?
Ankles were risque at one point in Western history. Same logic.

DAT FOOT.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 22, 2012, 04:17:36 pm
How the hell can you perv over a woman in burka?


Very easily.

When a lot is left to the imagination...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on April 22, 2012, 08:06:47 pm
It was also the first conflict that we, as a country, could point to as a clear loss.

War of 1812.  Not only did the British burn down the presidential mansion, we also managed nothing more than a restoration of the status quo ante bellum.  We did not win that war.  You'll notice that history classes love to play up the Battle of New Orleans, which, despite being an awesome battle with a funny song written about it, had no effect on the outcome of the war, since it was fought AFTER the treaty was signed, but before the generals involved got the news.

This. People also forget that initially, the US tried to invade Canada and failed. But it's sugared so we don't look like the aggressor (that isn't to say the British wasn't also doing wrong by kidnapping our sailor, but that it's a lot grayer than people think.)

The Canadian kids I know totally like to rub in my face that they burned down the White House, but neglect to mention the fact that they were only doing it because they were Britain's bitch at the time.

It's probably unpatriotic of me to like having 1812 rubbed in my face (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ety2FEHQgwM), but sometimes it's done humorously.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 22, 2012, 08:14:31 pm
It's probably unpatriotic of me to like having 1812 rubbed in my face (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ety2FEHQgwM), but sometimes it's done humorously.

I think we Americans kinda need that sort of reality check a little more often, really.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Igor on April 22, 2012, 08:20:45 pm
It's probably unpatriotic of me to like having 1812 rubbed in my face (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ety2FEHQgwM), but sometimes it's done humorously.
cuz it burned burned burned, and we're the ones that did it~

By the way I'm not trying to be an asshole by quoting the song there, I would assume you guys have a sense of humour about these kinds of things. As a Canadian, I get to hear jokes about my country all the time, feels good to joke back for once... but I'm off-topic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 22, 2012, 08:57:32 pm
It was also the first conflict that we, as a country, could point to as a clear loss.

War of 1812.  Not only did the British burn down the presidential mansion, we also managed nothing more than a restoration of the status quo ante bellum.  We did not win that war.  You'll notice that history classes love to play up the Battle of New Orleans, which, despite being an awesome battle with a funny song written about it, had no effect on the outcome of the war, since it was fought AFTER the treaty was signed, but before the generals involved got the news.

This. People also forget that initially, the US tried to invade Canada and failed. But it's sugared so we don't look like the aggressor (that isn't to say the British wasn't also doing wrong by kidnapping our sailor, but that it's a lot grayer than people think.)

The Canadian kids I know totally like to rub in my face that they burned down the White House, but neglect to mention the fact that they were only doing it because they were Britain's bitch at the time.

It's probably unpatriotic of me to like having 1812 rubbed in my face (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ety2FEHQgwM), but sometimes it's done humorously.

Yeah rub that historical fact in my face.  It makes me feel all tingly.

Ironbite-I'M SORRY I'M SORRY!  I COULDN'T HELP IT!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on April 23, 2012, 01:20:20 am
How the hell can you perv over a woman in burka?


Very easily.

When a lot is left to the imagination...
As long as we keep blaming women for, well, existing, men will always find something to perv over, and it will never be their fault for what they do afterwards.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 23, 2012, 07:48:55 am
Old protest sign is old but...

(http://gamepodunk.ipbhost.com/uploads/gallery/album_6/gallery_5_6_11560.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 23, 2012, 10:04:00 am
Aren't those from a protest which was staged for marketing? Or is that another on all together?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 23, 2012, 11:13:11 am
Aren't those from a protest which was staged for marketing? Or is that another on all together?
Yeah it was this fake thing proving that EA marketers have the maturity of 5 year olds
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 23, 2012, 12:31:17 pm
Well, there are some real ones now since the Florida Family Association has called for people to protest EA for including homosexuality.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 23, 2012, 12:51:38 pm
Hey, EA made some decent NASCAR games... IMHO...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 23, 2012, 02:04:50 pm
A phrase that should never ever be uttered.

Ironbite-decent NASCAR game?  Seriously?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 23, 2012, 02:12:28 pm
Well... I AM me, you know...  *Points to custom title*  *Shrugs*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 23, 2012, 04:51:57 pm
Well, there are some real ones now since the Florida Family Association has called for people to protest EA for including homosexuality.

Which seems to be the only thing that EA has done right.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on April 23, 2012, 05:59:49 pm
I'm starting to think Burkas do prettymuch the opposite of what they're supposed to - rather than protect and hide, they're almost a fetishistic thing that allows men to imagine they're surrounded by idealized, perfect women just waiting to be unwrapped like the candy in the ads.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 23, 2012, 06:06:13 pm
Guys those are niquabs burkas cover the whole face.  I thought the idea was in theroy to block out sunlight
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 23, 2012, 08:38:36 pm
Well, there are some real ones now since the Florida Family Association has called for people to protest EA for including homosexuality.

Yeah, I didn't know which that was for. lol
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on April 24, 2012, 01:05:17 am
Guys those are niquabs burkas cover the whole face.  I thought the idea was in theroy to block out sunlight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpH83Vi7b9E
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: OscarApollo on April 24, 2012, 12:16:10 pm
MTF people are not men.  They are women.

It's not about "curing lesbians".  It's about being your true self, making your body match who you really are.  Sometimes, these transwomen are lesbians.  It happens.

Fuck it... -_-

On the same token, some people think FTMs are trying to destroy feminism and taking advantage of patriarchy to get a 'higher place in society'. I don't understand any of that logic, myself.

They're trying to get to a more respected place in the social hierarchy...

... which is why they're transgendered, the most hated and neglected minority there is.

God damn these people are fuckwits.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 24, 2012, 12:49:34 pm
Making people adhere to a gender that they does not reflect their identity just seems counter feminist to me. We should move beyond second wave and into intersecting feminism.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 24, 2012, 03:21:13 pm
MTF people are not men.  They are women.

It's not about "curing lesbians".  It's about being your true self, making your body match who you really are.  Sometimes, these transwomen are lesbians.  It happens.

Fuck it... -_-

On the same token, some people think FTMs are trying to destroy feminism and taking advantage of patriarchy to get a 'higher place in society'. I don't understand any of that logic, myself.

They're trying to get to a more respected place in the social hierarchy...

... which is why they're transgendered, the most hated and neglected minority there is.

God damn these people are fuckwits.

Yep. They really are.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on April 24, 2012, 05:15:34 pm
The Ms. Magazine blog had a quasi-bigoted (acknowledge the controversy as though it were valid type of thing) article and a pretty good response piece on the topic of trans feminism. The comments thread of both articles, particularly the pro-trans response, saw people objecting to the use of "cis", claims that trans folk were setting back the movement by reinforcing the gender binary, decrying the idea that "some women have a penis" (who's reinforcing the gender binary again?), and numerous other arguments that were rather privileged ("How dare you say that there's no universal experience for women! What about the menstrual cycle and childbirth? What about the threat of rape? You just don't understand womanhood.")

I bring this up only because damn, there's definitely a ceiling in the women's movement holding back trans people, regardless of what its made out of.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on April 24, 2012, 10:32:15 pm
(http://www.yourblackworld.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/6406White-House-Nigger-300x224.jpg)

If anyone is wondering the blurred out word is it's the N-word, here's the story (http://www.yourblackworld.net/2012/04/uncategorized/atlanta-bar-owner-posts-sign-calling-president-obama-a-ngger/)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on April 24, 2012, 10:40:59 pm
Pic doesn't show up.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 24, 2012, 10:54:41 pm
(http://www.yourblackworld.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/6406White-House-Nigger-300x224.jpg)

If anyone is wondering the blurred out word is it's the N-word, here's the story (http://www.yourblackworld.net/2012/04/uncategorized/atlanta-bar-owner-posts-sign-calling-president-obama-a-ngger/)

I can't see pic, but the fact that it's named "White House Nigger" is very telling about what the content likely is. Is it bad that I've become rather used to people saying the N word in a offensive context? I thought the world had moved past blatant racism and at least made an attempt to hide it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on April 24, 2012, 10:58:06 pm
Why is everyone having trouble seeing the pic, I can see it fine on my computer....
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on April 24, 2012, 11:02:41 pm
It failed to show up the first time I looked, but now it shows up just fine.

While I abhor the sentiment, I like seeing it expressed so bluntly. If you're going to be a piece of shit racist, at least be "out of the closet" about it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on April 25, 2012, 01:35:51 pm
(http://www.yourblackworld.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/6406White-House-Nigger-300x224.jpg)

If anyone is wondering the blurred out word is it's the N-word, here's the story (http://www.yourblackworld.net/2012/04/uncategorized/atlanta-bar-owner-posts-sign-calling-president-obama-a-ngger/)

What that story doesn't mention is that the bar is run by Klansmen, and has a site covered in proud racism, including a graphic of a blond boy (modeled after the Calvin image) urinating  on an African-American stereotype with Obama's face pasted on...  But they're not racist, no no.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on April 25, 2012, 03:16:43 pm
As for anyone having issue with the image, it's your browser, it's trying to save you from the stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on April 25, 2012, 05:56:11 pm
(http://www.yourblackworld.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/6406White-House-Nigger-300x224.jpg)

If anyone is wondering the blurred out word is it's the N-word, here's the story (http://www.yourblackworld.net/2012/04/uncategorized/atlanta-bar-owner-posts-sign-calling-president-obama-a-ngger/)

What that story doesn't mention is that the bar is run by Klansmen, and has a site covered in proud racism, including a graphic of a blond boy (modeled after the Calvin image) urinating  on an African-American stereotype with Obama's face pasted on...  But they're not racist, no no.

You're right this guy's an all around loud mouth racist douche...I found this joy of another sign the asshole had up a few years ago
(http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/obamanrig.jpg)
again the blurred out word is the N-word
and a sweet little advertisment for a Klan rally on stormfront (http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t457753/)...but he's not a racist he has a NAACP memership card and pictures of Mandela & MLK hanging in his bar (http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-10-10/news/17936815_1_health-care-n-word-president-obama).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Prophet Mohammed (PBUM) on April 27, 2012, 12:28:00 pm
From some kind of Welsh anti-windfarm protest:

(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg827/scaled.php?server=827&filename=hytres.jpg&res=landing)
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg152/scaled.php?server=152&filename=kjhgtrez.jpg&res=landing)
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg233/scaled.php?server=233&filename=mhyt.jpg&res=landing)
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg607/scaled.php?server=607&filename=notbadu.jpg&res=landing)
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg267/scaled.php?server=267&filename=hgdk86t.jpg&res=landing)
(http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg715/scaled.php?server=715&filename=10800734.jpg&res=landing)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on April 27, 2012, 01:11:50 pm
Green colonialism? First I've heard that term.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 27, 2012, 01:51:20 pm
Maybe if you spent more than 5 minutes on your propaganda signs people might actually listen to you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 27, 2012, 02:05:20 pm
One of those SHOULD have had an awesome red dragon on it.
Welsh my ass...  >:(
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: myusername on April 27, 2012, 02:11:45 pm
^ Those Welsh signs look like they were done in about 5 minutes by a 12 year old on MS Paint
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 27, 2012, 04:54:58 pm
And if they'd spent that time thinking through their complaint, it would never have been made.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on April 27, 2012, 05:37:51 pm
And if they'd spent that time thinking through their complaint, it would never have been made.

But that would require thinking, and we know how fundies are...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on April 28, 2012, 05:25:22 am
I like the term "Windmills of Mass Destruction". I disagree with it, it's hysterical, it's absurd, but I like absurd funny.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on April 28, 2012, 11:33:27 am
I like the term "Windmills of Mass Destruction". I disagree with it, it's hysterical, it's absurd, but I like absurd funny.

I think it falls into “Good Name For a Band” territory, myself.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on April 28, 2012, 02:05:08 pm
really?  Why? - why does THAT matter now?
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2614/3912797069_b6e974a826.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 28, 2012, 02:36:41 pm
At that point, I think Obama should just whip it out.  Fix this shit in a jiffy.  Whipping it out solves all problems.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 28, 2012, 03:12:02 pm
His penis?


























Yes, I know what you really meant.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 28, 2012, 09:44:36 pm
I meant his cellphone, you sick fuck!

(No, I didn't!)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 28, 2012, 11:07:01 pm
I meant his cellphone, you sick fuck!

(No, I didn't!)

WAKKA WAKKA!  :-D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 28, 2012, 11:58:22 pm
We have a great sense of camaraderie here at FSTDT.  :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on April 29, 2012, 12:13:11 am
It's why this place is so damn awesome.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 29, 2012, 12:54:04 am
That and the boobs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Da Rat Bastid on April 29, 2012, 02:09:26 am
At that point, I think Obama should just whip it out.  Fix this shit in a jiffy.  Whipping it out solves all problems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYlDbv7MqE8
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 29, 2012, 04:02:18 am
That and the boobs.

Saw this post out of context on the Recent Posts page and still found myself nodding in agreement.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on April 29, 2012, 09:55:16 pm
(https://d34f86ucm7d2ii.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/2012/04/wcdprotest.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 29, 2012, 10:34:09 pm
Are they claiming Andrew Breitbart can defy a fundamental law of the universe, and occupy more than one place at any given time?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 30, 2012, 01:17:37 am
It may be some "He lives on in our hearts" tripe.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on April 30, 2012, 02:12:43 am
Those images make Breitbart look like The Amazing Atheist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: OscarApollo on April 30, 2012, 04:38:05 pm
Those images make Breitbart look like The Amazing Atheist.

Funny you should say that:

"I was actually sad that Andrew Breitbart died ... I guess it didn't really make me feel bad that he was dead, it just made me feel bad to know that it's pretty much gonna be the same reaction I'm gonna get when I die. The people who like me will be sad, and everybody fucking else will be like, 'good riddance to that fucking piece of shit'. I even read a comment that said, 'Now he's he dead, his anger and his hatred can die'. I'm like, 'YEAH- oh wait, I'm full of anger and hatred too. That's not good.' I even felt up to my hairline and I was like, 'Ah, look, losing my hair right there.' Oh, I'm getting old. I'm only 16 years away from 43. What if I die at 43 too? What if I die even sooner than 43? It'll be just like Andrew Breitbart, it'll be percieved the same way. Not by the same groups of people, but it's gonna be the same, because I'm the same kinda person, really. I'm an angry fuck, I yell a lot, I insult my opponents, I even retweet haters in the same way he did. I even sorta look like him, just a disheveled fuck."
- The Amazing Atheist
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 30, 2012, 10:19:28 pm
Wait...he's being honest?  Someone, give me the 10-day forecast for Hell!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 30, 2012, 10:21:42 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GJJ6iD1iigQ/TiyGk8vJpdI/AAAAAAAADRw/38Gy9fx53Zo/s1600/011+10+day+forecast.JPG)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 30, 2012, 10:23:25 pm
I said Hell, not Pine Bluff, AR.  Though, I can see how you'd mistake the two...its pretty damn easy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Deus ex Populo on April 30, 2012, 10:35:46 pm
Quote
Someone, give me the 10-day forecast for Hell!

Here you go, then:

(http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-pb08837fHzE/T59LsCT5-bI/AAAAAAAAAN8/ghazC-d7jsU/s624/weatherinhell.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 04, 2012, 09:47:05 pm
(http://hot-topic.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Heartbomb.png)

You know who believed in eating? Hitler! See how stupid that argument is?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on May 05, 2012, 12:00:33 am
You know who believed in eating? Hitler! See how stupid that argument is?

That would be an awesome line for a parody pro-ana site.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on May 12, 2012, 11:55:54 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xtivn6IB1qcfoo3o2_500.png)

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xtivn6IB1qcfoo3o4_1280.png)

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xtivn6IB1qcfoo3o5_1280.png)

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xtivn6IB1qcfoo3o3_1280.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 13, 2012, 12:00:28 am
Way to ruin a perfectly good car.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on May 13, 2012, 12:04:09 am
No true Christan and ultimatums. Yeah, I haven't even met the guy, and I can already tell he's a dick.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on May 13, 2012, 12:28:51 am
If Presidential hopefuls could sponsor cars in NASCAR...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 13, 2012, 12:41:38 am
The silent majority minority!

I fixed it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: StallChaser on May 13, 2012, 06:06:54 am
The silent blowhard majority minority!

I fixed the other part.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 13, 2012, 12:20:24 pm
He misses Reagan? Does he realize Reagan would have had higher taxes than any current GOP candidates. And he wasn't exactly the arbiter of the constitution.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on May 13, 2012, 12:59:09 pm
He misses Reagan? Does he realize Reagan would have had higher taxes than any current GOP candidates. And he wasn't exactly the arbiter of the constitution.

Politicar is impervious to your facts and logic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 13, 2012, 01:52:04 pm
He misses Reagan? Does he realize Reagan would have had higher taxes than any current GOP candidates. And he wasn't exactly the arbiter of the constitution.

Politicar is impervious to your facts and logic.

XD Bwahahahahaha!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on May 13, 2012, 03:23:49 pm
How can he drive? I don't think the hooves would reach the break and accelerator, and he couldn't grab the wheels or gear stick.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 13, 2012, 05:11:31 pm
^ What?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on May 13, 2012, 05:13:39 pm
Sheep? Pig? Demon?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on May 13, 2012, 06:07:48 pm
^ Obama is a Christian, therefore the driver is a flying pig.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on May 13, 2012, 07:01:46 pm
(car pics)
What the fuck? An enthusiastic Romney supporter!?!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 13, 2012, 07:58:54 pm
^ Obama is a Christian, therefore the driver is a flying pig.

OH.

Right :S
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on May 13, 2012, 08:20:58 pm
What kind of Red Blooded American Republican drives a Toyota Prius?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on May 13, 2012, 09:12:38 pm
The Toyotas SOLD in the US are by and large MADE in the US.  Ironically, it's the manufacturer with the most US involvement in parts and assembly when compared to the other US-based companies.
So... That's not really an issue; that it's a Prius.   Mainly I think he shoulda stopped at one or two bumper stickers...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on May 14, 2012, 12:41:11 am
The Toyotas SOLD in the US are by and large MADE in the US.  Ironically, it's the manufacturer with the most US involvement in parts and assembly when compared to the other US-based companies.
So... That's not really an issue; that it's a Prius.   Mainly I think he shoulda stopped at one or two bumper stickers...
It's not the country of origin, it's the fact that it's a hybrid and not a half-ton. Only commies and queers care about the environment.  ;)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on May 14, 2012, 12:45:46 am
(http://www.about-face.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/strong4life.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 14, 2012, 12:51:00 am
Because fat shaming always works!

Edit: And speaking of fat shaming:

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3s9cd1owX1qd6aqro1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 14, 2012, 03:24:35 am
(http://www.about-face.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/strong4life.jpg)

What the f....

Those kids aren't even that fat!

Hell, the first one isn't fat at all!

What the hell!?

Because fat shaming always works!

Edit: And speaking of fat shaming:

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3s9cd1owX1qd6aqro1_500.jpg)

Have I mentioned I hate people lately?

Because I hate people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 14, 2012, 03:29:12 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2a3jgZja41qiuz5ko1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DarkfireTaimatsu on May 14, 2012, 03:45:20 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2a3jgZja41qiuz5ko1_500.jpg)

Dude, I would totally buy coffin-shaped pot pies. Just for the novelty. I don't even like pot pies. But c'mon, coffin-shaped? That would be totally the best thing to eat on Halloween.

We need to get Hot Pockets on this stat.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 14, 2012, 04:27:08 am
I bet Abby makes coffin-shaped pot pies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 14, 2012, 04:37:16 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2a3jgZja41qiuz5ko1_500.jpg)

Guess what, there are obese vegans, too, and they aren't getting less obese.

Oh yeah, and...

FUCK YOU.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 14, 2012, 02:53:25 pm
Not political but:

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3160pqseq1rtbhwno1_1280.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on May 14, 2012, 03:06:18 pm
This picture brought to you by Freepers. (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2882711/posts (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2882711/posts))

(http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu179/odin2009/ABOR.jpg)

To the creator of the pic above this one: Go shove a red hot iron rod up your ass you vapid, narcissistic, waste of flesh.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 14, 2012, 04:29:19 pm
This picture brought to you by Freepers. (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2882711/posts (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2882711/posts))

(http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu179/odin2009/ABOR.jpg)

To the creator of the pic above this one: Go shove a red hot iron rod up your ass you vapid, narcissistic, waste of flesh.
was this in response to the actual fetal pills or just stupidity
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on May 14, 2012, 05:06:53 pm
This picture brought to you by Freepers. (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2882711/posts (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2882711/posts))

(http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu179/odin2009/ABOR.jpg)

To the creator of the pic above this one: Go shove a red hot iron rod up your ass you vapid, narcissistic, waste of flesh.
was this in response to the actual fetal pills or just stupidity

It's in response to the fetus pills, though I don't think that makes their BS any better.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 14, 2012, 08:21:33 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3160pqseq1rtbhwno1_1280.jpg)
[/quote]

An excellent comparison. Yes, Adele is heavier than the average female singer. Yes, Gwyneth is an average weight for an actress. Has Gwyneth's attractiveness got her success? As far as I can tell, she's never had a major part in anything, she's a terrible actress. What about Adele? Greatest singer alive.

Guess weight isn't everything.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on May 14, 2012, 08:31:10 pm
Adele's actually got talent and she's cute.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on May 14, 2012, 09:03:03 pm
Really sure bout that Fred?  Hasn't had a major part in anything?  Really?

Ironbite-Pepper Potts isn't a major part at all?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 14, 2012, 09:12:31 pm
Really sure bout that Fred?  Hasn't had a major part in anything?  Really?

Ironbite-Pepper Potts isn't a major part at all?

Your mileage may vary, as a Troper would say, but I hated her acting and wish someone competent did her character. Subjective judgement call.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on May 15, 2012, 12:58:41 am
True true.  Just telling ya she's been in what are considered major roles.

Ironbite-and I'm naming one of the bigger named parts she's been.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on May 15, 2012, 01:17:29 am
Who's Pepper Potts? :P:D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 15, 2012, 01:32:37 am
Who's Pepper Potts? :P:D
Irron mans love interest in the Iron man movies she didnt show up much in Avengers instead we were treated to Scarlett JoHansenn
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on May 15, 2012, 02:11:57 am
Ah.  I am just so out of phase with pop culture.  Ah well.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on May 15, 2012, 02:32:07 pm
I think I'm one of the last people who like Gwyneth Paltrow for everything but her boney ass. Oh well...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on May 15, 2012, 03:13:27 pm
I've only seen Adele perform once, on TV... I thought she was very good.  And very cute!
Maybe I'm biased because I'm a fatty, but I think the blonde chick looks like a bobblehead, way too skinny next to the happy curvy girl next to her.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on May 15, 2012, 06:14:47 pm
Your mileage may vary, as a Troper would say, but I hated her acting and wish someone competent did her character. Subjective judgement call.

Her awards would disagree with your assessment of her as talentless:
Quote
for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Outstanding Lead Actress and as a member of the Outstanding Cast. She also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2011 for her role as Holly Holliday on the Fox hit TV show Glee in the episode "The Substitute".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on May 15, 2012, 08:13:43 pm
Regardless of her awards, I've always found her somewhat wooden and withdrawn in quite a few of her roles. She's not terrible, and she has had a few good moments, but overall, her performances haven't really wowed me.

That said, it's difficult to argue that she isn't successful in her career, and none of us are in a position to decide whether or not she's happy.

As for the original image: They both look perfectly fine. It's possible that one or both of them is unhealthy, but neither of them is ugly by any stretch of the imagination.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on May 16, 2012, 04:41:58 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2a3jgZja41qiuz5ko1_500.jpg)

They do know that oreos are vegan and are like 50-75 calories per cookie? Almost all of which are from fat...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on May 16, 2012, 06:35:02 am
Oh, but 75 calories of plant fats are less fatty than 75 calories of animal fats.  Just like a pound of feathers is less than a pound of lead!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 16, 2012, 03:28:48 pm
Fight health!  Go vegan!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 16, 2012, 04:05:46 pm
NSFW

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PETA, where animals should have rights, but women shouldn't.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on May 16, 2012, 04:14:31 pm
PETA, where animals should have rights, but women shouldn't.
Just gotta say, it's not like they round up unwilling women to do these things.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 16, 2012, 04:56:19 pm
It still doesn't help their cause.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 16, 2012, 05:15:05 pm
Meh, everybody uses sex to sell their swill.  PETA's just more blatant about it.  Doesn't help their case, of course...just sayin.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 16, 2012, 07:02:59 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m40tbcvPKQ1rrqes2o1_400.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on May 16, 2012, 07:34:47 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m40tbcvPKQ1rrqes2o1_400.png)

Yes, use a quote from the side which lost. [facepalm]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on May 16, 2012, 07:37:26 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m40tbcvPKQ1rrqes2o1_400.png)

Yes, use a quote from the side which lost. [facepalm]

I’m pretty sure that is the point they are trying to make.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on May 16, 2012, 07:43:40 pm
Oh, wait, after examining it more closely, using the side that won Roe V. Wade.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 16, 2012, 11:20:25 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m40tbcvPKQ1rrqes2o1_400.png)

So, comparing the struggle of an entire race to a clump of cell, eh?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 17, 2012, 12:22:54 am
*sighs*  Fundamental Misunderstanding of a Majority of Abortions Part 1,123,142.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on May 18, 2012, 06:58:28 pm
Oh, but 75 calories of plant fats are less fatty than 75 calories of animal fats.  Just like a pound of feathers is less than a pound of lead!

Well, actually... just to play devil's advocate over here...
Plant-based fats in their natural forms DO tend to be better for you than animal-based fats because of their type (saturation).  Plants don't produce saturated fats or cholesterol.  Unsaturated fats are unstable and remain liquid at room temperature - unlike saturated or hydrogenated fats, which solidify (like butter or lard), and your body doesn't store it as easily or quickly as it does saturated animal fats.

So in a sense plant fats AREN'T as fatty as animal fats.

That said, hydrogenated margarine is an altered fat that's been force-fed hydrogen to stabilize it, and it's just as bad for you as animal fat.  Although there's a non-hydrogenated olive oil margarine that I do like.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on May 18, 2012, 09:19:11 pm
I humbly stand corrected and more informed, Quasi.  :)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 18, 2012, 11:06:36 pm
(http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/yupimadouchebag.jpg)
(http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/TeaPartyFourthOfJuly.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 18, 2012, 11:09:33 pm
Why would you put that on a shirt?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 18, 2012, 11:26:14 pm
He's apparently proud of racial profiling and assuming brown people are either Islamic terrorist or Illegal Mexicans.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 19, 2012, 01:41:10 am
Well...at least he admits it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 19, 2012, 03:07:27 am
How quaint, an honest racist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on May 19, 2012, 04:26:35 am
I think he' wearing that to be sarcastic about the whole "tea party's racist bit," at least I hope he is.

Of course, just because he's wearing it to be sarcastic doesn't mean he's not a racist...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: StallChaser on May 19, 2012, 05:37:14 am
Oh, but 75 calories of plant fats are less fatty than 75 calories of animal fats.  Just like a pound of feathers is less than a pound of lead!

Well, actually... just to play devil's advocate over here...
Plant-based fats in their natural forms DO tend to be better for you than animal-based fats because of their type (saturation).  Plants don't produce saturated fats or cholesterol.  Unsaturated fats are unstable and remain liquid at room temperature - unlike saturated or hydrogenated fats, which solidify (like butter or lard), and your body doesn't store it as easily or quickly as it does saturated animal fats.

So in a sense plant fats AREN'T as fatty as animal fats.

That said, hydrogenated margarine is an altered fat that's been force-fed hydrogen to stabilize it, and it's just as bad for you as animal fat.  Although there's a non-hydrogenated olive oil margarine that I do like.

Hydrogenated fats are actually worse for you than animal fats, because hydrogenation forms trans fats.  They don't normally exist in nature(enzymes that produce unsaturated fats form cis fats), the body isn't prepared to deal with them, which is why they cause so many health problems.  Anything that contains hydrogenated fats has trans fats, even if it says 0g, because the labeling requirements allow less than 0.5g/serving to be rounded down to zero.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on May 19, 2012, 11:06:50 am
I think he' wearing that to be sarcastic about the whole "tea party's racist bit," at least I hope he is.

Actually, I think there are a lot of folks that try to do the whole “Own the insult” thing when they get called on their racism. Of course, that just makes them a bigger-than-ever asshole.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on May 19, 2012, 12:45:26 pm
I don't think "racist" is something one can "own," but maybe that's just me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on May 19, 2012, 02:11:43 pm
I don't think "racist" is something one can "own," but maybe that's just me.

I don't know, I've seen people try to pull "well if (insert racist thing restated as though it is reasonable) makes you a racist, then I'm a racist!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 19, 2012, 03:47:46 pm
Frankly, I'm glad they label themselves as racist instead of pulling the "I'm not racist, but [insert racism]" canard.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on May 19, 2012, 07:52:34 pm
Frankly, I'm glad they label themselves as racist instead of pulling the "I'm not racist, but [insert racism]" canard.

The “I’m not racist, but…” folks are generally the fucktastically clueless ones. There are plenty of different forms of racist personality.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 19, 2012, 08:10:04 pm
At least they're not pretending to have a justification for their absurd, evil lies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on May 19, 2012, 08:21:29 pm
At least they're not pretending to have a justification for their absurd, evil lies.

Well, the truly clueless ones—the ones whose sum total of Delusion and Cognitive Dissonance when stacked end to end would dwarf Mt. Everest—aren’t really pretending per se. They truly believe they are not racist and are surprised when their views cause negative reaction.

Now, neither of the types of racists that have been covered here are very pleasant. They fall into the “Can’t Fix Stupid” category. Can’t do much but practice meditation to control your blood pressure when you are around them.

I think when it comes to racism, it is best to deal with the ones that are not so much clueless as simply plagued by garden-variety ignorance. Such folks can, with a bit of effort, be corrected. They are the folks that you can actually make progress with.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on May 19, 2012, 11:52:22 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/531388_335797746485152_103224119742517_958804_912453757_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on May 19, 2012, 11:56:44 pm
I don't think "racist" is something one can "own," but maybe that's just me.

They may be trying to trivialize the word, so when someone is called a racist it won't seem bad. Which might work, considering how PC is feared this day.

But the sign "Tea Party Fox News" screams poe at me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 20, 2012, 12:30:40 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/531388_335797746485152_103224119742517_958804_912453757_n.jpg)
man so many fucking contradictions on that car and please people stop putting so many fucking stickers on your back windshield you're gonna kill somepony
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 20, 2012, 12:39:00 am
Would that make the pilgrims criminals?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 20, 2012, 12:42:36 am
Funny how it's "I am a good Christian!",  and "Fuck brown people and the poor!" all at the same time. I'm so sure Jesus Christ, the poor brown guy, would have agreed.  ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on May 20, 2012, 06:00:59 am
"Preach the Gospel at all times.  If necessary, use words."  -St. Francis of Assisi

I always kinda liked that one.  Didn't hurt that he liked animals either.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 20, 2012, 06:46:36 am
Ah, St. Francis.

He had my favorite Episcopalian holiday, and he was a friend to all animals.

It also helps that it's not a requirement to believe that any or all of the stories about him are real ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on May 20, 2012, 03:17:37 pm
Ah, St. Francis.

He had my favorite Episcopalian holiday, and he was a friend to all animals.

It also helps that it's not a requirement to believe that any or all of the stories about him are real ;D
He gave up his riches and comfort to lead a life of service. Mr. "I'll Keep My Money and Fuck You" needs to think about that.

St. Francis is one of the few people the church has sainted that I'm good with.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on May 20, 2012, 04:15:30 pm
There's a local Catholic Hospital named after him. They have these beautiful murals and Stained glass windows of him surrounded by all kinds of animals
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on May 20, 2012, 04:31:37 pm
There's a local Catholic Hospital named after him. They have these beautiful murals and Stained glass windows of him surrounded by all kinds of animals
We have one as well, but I don't care for the hospital itself. They treated my grandma like shit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 20, 2012, 04:48:12 pm
I was born in a hospital named after him. I thought it was the coolest hospital ever because it was pink.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on May 20, 2012, 07:09:05 pm
somewhat NSFW

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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on May 20, 2012, 07:12:55 pm
somewhat NSFW

(click to show/hide)

Hee hee. I want to be around when she pulls that off. For those who haven't looked yet, it's a woman using a Ron Paul 2012 bumper sticker as a kind of bra.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on May 20, 2012, 07:42:27 pm
Ummm don't a lot of women including in hollywood have a problem with eating disorders?

And what did Adele even say that was so wrong?  that she  believes her talent is more important in judging her then in how someone else thinks she looks?

Yeah you can be too fat. You can also be too skinny.  You can also (if you are like the vast majority of the species) be unable to look like a model from GQ no matter how much you excercise. 

Maybe we should concentrate more on what's healthy then on what someone wants others to look like.

Gods do humans suck at honest and rational appraisal.

Not political but:

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3160pqseq1rtbhwno1_1280.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 20, 2012, 08:50:08 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m44hakqDxI1qfyl8co1_250.jpg)

"Fight crimes abort black babies."


I hate people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on May 20, 2012, 09:40:55 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m44hakqDxI1qfyl8co1_250.jpg)

"Fight crimes abort black babies."


I hate people.

I've heard people say we should kill gay babies before. Is that the back of a bus seat? Did you take the picture yourself?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 20, 2012, 09:41:45 pm
No, randomly stumbled on it while browsing Tumblr.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: armandtanzarian on May 22, 2012, 08:39:57 am
(http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/555379_397567553615821_110615272311052_1073497_1963931559_n.jpg)
Linking this here so you can shoot them down. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=397567553615821&set=a.125030734202839.9186.110615272311052&type=1&ref=nf
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on May 22, 2012, 09:40:23 am
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/555379_397567553615821_110615272311052_1073497_1963931559_n.jpg

Regarding the last one: So... we should abandon all further research, and live in blissful ignorance? And this is somehow going to lead to curing disease?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on May 22, 2012, 10:19:46 am
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/555379_397567553615821_110615272311052_1073497_1963931559_n.jpg

Regarding the last one: So... we should abandon all further research, and live in blissful ignorance? And this is somehow going to lead to curing disease?
Of course not! Praying to God will make all of your worries go away! [/fundie]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gomer21xx on May 22, 2012, 11:28:32 am
Not political but:

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3160pqseq1rtbhwno1_1280.jpg)

I'm not liking the implications those parentheses are making. *squints*

Also, Adele has the smile of the cute! =3
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 22, 2012, 01:33:31 pm
I wonder if that person is Paltrow's and Adele's personal physican?

You can't just look at a skinny person and assume they're healtier than a chubby person. It doesn't work that way.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 22, 2012, 01:47:27 pm
Lets also not forget mental health. It isn't healthy at all to obsess over your weight like these people want.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TenfoldMaquette on May 22, 2012, 04:08:45 pm
You can't just look at a skinny person and assume they're healtier than a chubby person. It doesn't work that way.

I'm not saying that picture is right, because someone's weight has no bearing on their "worth" as a person. Adele is successful because she's a good singer, not because she's skinny, and her opinion doesn't suddenly become invalid because she's fat.

However, I'm willing to bet that someone who can run five miles and do 20 push-ups (pretty typical for the Hollywood "skinny" crowd) is probably healthier than someone who, because they're carrying 50+ lbs of extra weight, can't climb one flight of stairs without their heart-rate rising.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: OscarApollo on May 22, 2012, 05:12:15 pm
I'd also add that I know tons of fat people who are still hot and tons of thin people who are still ugly. Not that it contributes to their worth as a person either way, of course, but I hate this narrow standard of human beauty that "fat = ugly".

Also, the assumption that fat people can't be outgoing or hard-working. Jeez.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on May 22, 2012, 06:01:09 pm
I'd also add that I know tons of fat people who are still hot and tons of thin people who are still ugly. Not that it contributes to their worth as a person either way, of course, but I hate this narrow standard of human beauty that "fat = ugly".

Also, the assumption that fat people can't be outgoing or hard-working. Jeez.

I don't know what world your living in but beauty does have a significant effect on the worth of a person to others. I remember a study a while back that said something to the affect of "beautiful" people being more likely to get a job and that they make more money on average. Like it or not, being beautiful or ugly does effect your worth. It's bullshit and it pisses me off, but that doesn't change anything.

I have a feeling that the fact girls rarely talk to me might have something to do with the fact that I don't come anywhere near what most people consider attractive.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 22, 2012, 06:13:55 pm
I'd also add that I know tons of fat people who are still hot and tons of thin people who are still ugly. Not that it contributes to their worth as a person either way, of course, but I hate this narrow standard of human beauty that "fat = ugly".

Also, the assumption that fat people can't be outgoing or hard-working. Jeez.

I don't know what world your living in but beauty does have a significant effect on the worth of a person to others. I remember a study a while back that said something to the affect of "beautiful" people being more likely to get a job and that they make more money on average. Like it or not, being beautiful or ugly does effect your worth. It's bullshit and it pisses me off, but that doesn't change anything.

I have a feeling that the fact girls rarely talk to me might have something to do with the fact that I don't come anywhere near what most people consider attractive.

(http://chzfailnation.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/epic-fail-reading-comprehension-fail.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 22, 2012, 06:53:19 pm
I'd also add that I know tons of fat people who are still hot and tons of thin people who are still ugly. Not that it contributes to their worth as a person either way, of course, but I hate this narrow standard of human beauty that "fat = ugly".

Also, the assumption that fat people can't be outgoing or hard-working. Jeez.

I don't know what world your living in but beauty does have a significant effect on the worth of a person to others. I remember a study a while back that said something to the affect of "beautiful" people being more likely to get a job and that they make more money on average. Like it or not, being beautiful or ugly does effect your worth. It's bullshit and it pisses me off, but that doesn't change anything.

I have a feeling that the fact girls rarely talk to me might have something to do with the fact that I don't come anywhere near what most people consider attractive.

Just so you know, this is an is/ought fallacy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on May 22, 2012, 07:05:31 pm
I should just point out that Gwyneth Paltrow's diet and exercise regimen is essentially anorexia. I don't know about Adele, though I do think she looks older than she actually is and I'm not sure why. They're both lovely, and I like both of them (PEPPER POTTS IS AWESOME, HUSH).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on May 22, 2012, 08:33:56 pm
I take it the two recently acquired "Fuck No"s are from my last comment. Maybe I wasn't reading the post I quoted right. Which part is a is/ought fallacy(which I can't say I know what is). I probably RAGE posted out of anger at sign. Can you two clarify what's wrong with my post. I'm sure there's something wrong with it, I just want clarification on what and why for future reference and more enlightened posting in the future. I probably shouldn't have added that last sentence to the post.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: clockworkgirl21 on May 22, 2012, 08:48:47 pm
Just for the record, my overweight sister is definitely healthier than I am, and I'm skinny.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on May 22, 2012, 10:06:08 pm
I should just point out that Gwyneth Paltrow's diet and exercise regimen is essentially anorexia.

Eh. 1.5 hours of exercise five days a week isn't necessarily excessive (depending on what she's doing), and she didn't mention anything about her diet. The bit about "killing" herself could have just been an exaggerated way of saying that she works hard to maintain her physique, which doesn't automatically equate anorexia.

Not that one can assume that she's healthy, either -- or healthier than Adele, for that matter. That's pretty much up to their respective doctors to decide.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on May 22, 2012, 10:37:27 pm
I should just point out that Gwyneth Paltrow's diet and exercise regimen is essentially anorexia.

Eh. 1.5 hours of exercise five days a week isn't necessarily excessive (depending on what she's doing), and she didn't mention anything about her diet. The bit about "killing" herself could have just been an exaggerated way of saying that she works hard to maintain her physique, which doesn't automatically equate anorexia.

Not that one can assume that she's healthy, either -- or healthier than Adele, for that matter. That's pretty much up to their respective doctors to decide.

I read that at least one of her diets involves almost no protein (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1367879/Gwyneth-Paltrows-personal-trainer-Tracy-Andersons-diet-plan-gave-blackouts.html) and another involves "cleansing" (http://www.diet-blog.com/09/gwyneth_paltrow_dumbest_diet_advice_ever.php) (basically eating and drinking nothing but weird cocktails).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on May 22, 2012, 10:49:35 pm
Can we please get this back on topic?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 23, 2012, 12:38:49 am
Can we please get this back on topic?

What's the point of having a political picture thread if you don't discuss the pictures and their content?  I've always seen this topic as something more than a generic image thread...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 23, 2012, 05:24:55 am
I take it the two recently acquired "Fuck No"s are from my last comment. Maybe I wasn't reading the post I quoted right. Which part is a is/ought fallacy(which I can't say I know what is). I probably RAGE posted out of anger at sign. Can you two clarify what's wrong with my post. I'm sure there's something wrong with it, I just want clarification on what and why for future reference and more enlightened posting in the future. I probably shouldn't have added that last sentence to the post.

An is/ought fallacy (also called a naturalistic fallacy) is a fallacious argument using the existence of a phenomenal to argue in favour of said phenomenon. It is, therefore it ought to be. If you want to see an example of this, read any post by m52nickerson (snark).

Basically, you were doing this. You responded to a post criticising beautyism (is that a thing?) by pointing out that judgement on the basis of appearance is common. As far as I'm concerned, that's fallacious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on May 23, 2012, 09:20:05 am
Can we please get this back on topic?

We're still discussing the images, so it's not veering off topic.

I read that at least one of her diets involves almost no protein (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1367879/Gwyneth-Paltrows-personal-trainer-Tracy-Andersons-diet-plan-gave-blackouts.html) and another involves "cleansing" (http://www.diet-blog.com/09/gwyneth_paltrow_dumbest_diet_advice_ever.php) (basically eating and drinking nothing but weird cocktails).

Ah. Then yeah, that's unhealthy.

Basically, you were doing this. You responded to a post criticising beautyism (is that a thing?) by pointing out that judgement on the basis of appearance is common. As far as I'm concerned, that's fallacious.

I think he misread the original post as being a denial that "beautyism" exists, hence his post.

Quote
If you want to see an example of this, read any post by m52nickerson (snark).

You're evil. So very evil.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on May 23, 2012, 12:03:22 pm
Can we please get this back on topic?

We are on topic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on May 23, 2012, 01:19:53 pm
If a soldier/athlete/firefighter made the same comments as Gwyneth about needing to work hard to maintain their physical conditioning in order to keep their job would anyone think twice about it?

At least she acknowledges that it is not an easy thing to do which is better than what you usually hear since a lot of people like to pretend that it's not really any effort and you are just being lazy. Now all we need to hear is a quote about how it took four hours of makeup, another two to get the right shot, and three more doing photo editing in order for her to look that good.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on May 23, 2012, 01:49:25 pm
If a soldier/athlete/firefighter made the same comments as Gwyneth about needing to work hard to maintain their physical conditioning in order to keep their job would anyone think twice about it?


Well, to my mind, the effort to maintain a high-maintenance level of physical condition is required for those jobs, but it really isn't for acting - except that Hollywood has made it so, in its promotion of unrealistic body images - normal is Hollywood fat, after all.
But being skinny doesn't make anyone a better actor.
Nor would it make anyone a better musician.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on May 23, 2012, 02:48:08 pm
But being skinny doesn't make anyone a better actor.

To be a good actor you have to be able to deliver your lines convincingly, but being a visual medium, you also have to look the part. Unfortunately for women, most parts seem to be 'hot <fill in the blank>' and hot seems to be defined in part as something that is rare and out of the reach of the masses and Hollywood is going with skinny right now.

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Nor would it make anyone a better musician.

To be a good commercial pop musician skinny may well make you better since these days it seems how good you look is more important than how good you sound.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on May 23, 2012, 04:28:30 pm
I would disagree with your wording. Being thin doesn't make you a better actor or musician, it makes you a more commercially successful actor or musician (for reasons that have nothing to do with talent/skill).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 26, 2012, 03:12:03 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jkjgvLXn1rs4zizo1_500.jpg)

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m251mczCLk1qj7gpko1_500.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on May 26, 2012, 03:16:50 pm
Because having a baby you can't afford and being impoverished for at least the next decade is a MUCH better option, isn't it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 26, 2012, 03:30:34 pm
Because having a baby you can't afford and being impoverished for at least the next decade is a MUCH better option, isn't it?

Oh I know right, and that poverty will probably fuck up the child's future. Not to mention the pregnancy could destroy the mother.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 26, 2012, 03:39:03 pm
But at least the child was born. That's all anti-choicers seem to care about.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on May 26, 2012, 03:45:04 pm
Once you're born, you're SOL.  If some pro-lifers put as much energy into helping the born as well as the unborn... well... What am I saying, like that'll ever happen.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 26, 2012, 04:04:48 pm
Why's it so difficult for people to keep their holy books out of other people's vaginae?  Just...leave people alone unless they ask for your input.  Its not that difficult.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on May 26, 2012, 04:21:02 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jkjgvLXn1rs4zizo1_500.jpg)
I see a woman with her hands on her pregnant belly - I see that it is her choice to assume that burden of a child and love and take care of it (or give it up to someone who will) - or if she doesn't think she can do that, then I see a hard choice for the WOMAN WHO IS PREGNANT - to end that pregnancy.

I always think it's funny that they show a pregnant woman or a fetus (usually after 20 weeks) when they get all indignant rather than the thing that looks like a malformed duck

(http://www.abortionaccess.info/images/brainwaves.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on May 26, 2012, 04:25:12 pm
I always thought it was kinda cool, how in the stages of development, the fetus seems to go through a series of changes that mirrors evolution a bit. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on May 26, 2012, 05:03:42 pm
I always thought it was kinda cool, how in the stages of development, the fetus seems to go through a series of changes that mirrors evolution a bit.
they just never show the beginning stages on any of their signs.

like this one which is 4 weeks
(http://www.buyamag.com/graphics/embryo_s.jpg)
or this at 6 weeks - (spoilered by request)
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on May 26, 2012, 05:43:44 pm
Even if they did show that 6 week embryo, all that would happen is that people would point to its vague blobby almost-hands and insist that it is a human being because it's vaguely human-shaped. :p
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 26, 2012, 05:47:01 pm
You sure that's an embryo and not just a really weird booger?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on May 26, 2012, 05:48:55 pm
I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt.
Either way, it's not a person.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on May 26, 2012, 06:28:13 pm
Also, in the early stages, embryos tend to look similar. I think somewhere in the Facebook thread in F&B, someone posted a picture of a fetus and asked if people thought it was a person. The pro-lifers said, "Of course it's a human being! Look at its little hands!" Then the OP revealed that it was an elephant fetus. And many lulz were had.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on May 26, 2012, 07:12:56 pm
Why's it so difficult for people to keep their holy books out of other people's vaginae?  Just...leave people alone unless they ask for your input.  Its not that difficult.

If they're pregnant they likely asked for someones input, if you know what I mean.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on May 26, 2012, 07:48:49 pm
OH DEAR GOD, THAT FIRST PICTURE IS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING, KRISTINE! [pretends to vomit everywhere out of disgust]

Please edit the post so that picture is in a spoiler tag so I can stand to look at this page without losing my appetite.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Morgenleoht on May 26, 2012, 07:50:46 pm
If we're talking about the blob in the hand... yeah. I didn't need to see that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on May 26, 2012, 07:56:09 pm
No, I'm talking about the first one. Although both of them are gross, the blob in the hand at least looks kinda cute in a gross way. The first one looks like some kind of horrid Eldritch Abomination.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 26, 2012, 08:13:09 pm
I didn't think of that...inspiration!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on May 26, 2012, 08:13:57 pm
For your videogame? You're going to put demonic fetuses as monsters?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 26, 2012, 08:16:24 pm
Perhaps not demonic fetuses, but they do look abominable...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on May 27, 2012, 01:16:00 am
I played a game once... I think it was Rygar... one of the bosses was a huge dragonish monster hydra thing with baby heads.  It was disturbingly cool.

Legion in a few Castlevania games is symbolised as a fetus.

Gygas....

Hell... fetii are just scary.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on May 27, 2012, 02:09:19 am
Hell yeah - I mean, just look at what they develop into.  Brrr!  :(
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 27, 2012, 09:28:56 pm
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zYGjS0vjimQ/TPgucU22FPI/AAAAAAAAAvI/yozQghgg4hk/s1600/2010-11-09-humor-coexist.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on May 27, 2012, 09:50:09 pm
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zYGjS0vjimQ/TPgucU22FPI/AAAAAAAAAvI/yozQghgg4hk/s1600/2010-11-09-humor-coexist.jpg)

Ugh.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 27, 2012, 10:08:12 pm
It states that LGBT is suppressed by the Christian religion but goes on to say that the Christian religion is no threat to it. Persecution complex is not fond of consistency, is it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 27, 2012, 10:24:12 pm
It states that LGBT is suppressed by the Christian religion but goes on to say that the Christian religion is no threat to it. Persecution complex is not fond of consistency, is it?
Fundie logic easy LGBT supression is not a threat since to Christians the supression is good.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 27, 2012, 10:25:00 pm
But only when it's them doing the surpressing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on May 27, 2012, 11:05:17 pm
It states that LGBT is suppressed by the Christian religion but goes on to say that the Christian religion is no threat to it. Persecution complex is not fond of consistency, is it?

I was about to point out that the idea that the queer community is intolerant of other religions because of our oppression is a non-sequitur. Just because Group A oppresses Group B does not mean Group B is intolerant of Group A. If anything, British colonialism has shown us that to an extent oppressed peoples begin to acclimate themselves to the values of the dominant group.

I also just realized, it says the queer community has been suppressed by all religions, but then says Christianity poses no threat to the others (a blatant lie on the latter part, but even if that were true his logic only works because of the vagueness of "suppressed." Otherwise, its very contradictory).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 27, 2012, 11:08:07 pm
It states that LGBT is suppressed by the Christian religion but goes on to say that the Christian religion is no threat to it. Persecution complex is not fond of consistency, is it?

I was about to point out that the idea that the queer community is intolerant of other religions because of our oppression is a non-sequitur. Just because Group A oppresses Group B does not mean Group B is intolerant of Group A. If anything, British colonialism has shown us that to an extent oppressed peoples begin to acclimate themselves to the values of the dominant group.

I also just realized, it says the queer community has been suppressed by all religions, but then says Christianity poses no threat to the others (a blatant lie on the latter part, but even if that were true his logic only works because of the vagueness of "suppressed." Otherwise, its very contradictory).
Depends on the british colony.  I mean compare Pakistan to India
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on May 27, 2012, 11:15:00 pm
Depends on the british colony.  I mean compare Pakistan to India

Very true, which is why I said "to an extent." Oppression of peoples can operate in many different ways. I also think the oppression of the queer community fits into both camps. On the one hand we're told to "accept straight lifestyles" and stay in the closet, while those who do come out do so at the risk of their physical and mental health.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 27, 2012, 11:23:46 pm
Depends on the british colony.  I mean compare Pakistan to India

Very true, which is why I said "to an extent." Oppression of peoples can operate in many different ways. I also think the oppression of the queer community fits into both camps. On the one hand we're told to "accept straight lifestyles" and stay in the closet, while those who do come out do so at the risk of their physical and mental health.
I would point out that many north african communities are tolerant (Morocco in particular) and that is French.  It depends on a variety of circumstances one reason might be tourisim (few Pakistan tourism plenty of Indian and Morocan tourism
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 28, 2012, 12:06:37 am
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zYGjS0vjimQ/TPgucU22FPI/AAAAAAAAAvI/yozQghgg4hk/s1600/2010-11-09-humor-coexist.jpg)

The false premise is heavy with this one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on May 28, 2012, 04:17:08 am
Number of Taoists: 400 million

Number of Jews: 19 million

Oops.

And why the hell would nuclear weapon protesters pacifists support Islam over Judaism? And why is the sticker against Xianity and not the others, sine they are all listed?

Jeez, what a dumbass.

EDIT: Going to complete the round of bigotry.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/556098_427662463924108_100000410754614_1422667_986128080_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on May 28, 2012, 09:22:44 am
And why the hell would nuclear weapon protesters pacifists support Islam over Judaism?

I think it may have something to do with over-identification of Islam with Palestine ad Judaism with Israel in regards to that particular conflict.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on May 28, 2012, 11:43:17 am
And why the hell would nuclear weapon protesters pacifists support Islam over Judaism?

I think it may have something to do with over-identification of Islam with Palestine ad Judaism with Israel in regards to that particular conflict.

And this is something I really hate about many groups of people - assuming everyone sees the world in the same terms that they do. For example, many Christian fundamentalists see the world as a conflict between G-d and Satan, between good and evil. Anyone who opposes individual Christian aims, such as supporting gay marriage, believing in evolution, or tolerating Islam, must be a knowing servant of evil. Racists similarly assume that everyone else thinks in racial terms.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 28, 2012, 06:43:55 pm
And why the hell would nuclear weapon protesters pacifists support Islam over Judaism?

I think it may have something to do with over-identification of Islam with Palestine ad Judaism with Israel in regards to that particular conflict.

To add: essentially, the poster is saying the IDF should be allowed to torpedo as many Aid Flotillas as it likes, because they're just Muslims. Or fire rockets at hospitals, or murder children or whatever.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on May 28, 2012, 07:22:46 pm
And why the hell would nuclear weapon protesters pacifists support Islam over Judaism?

I think it may have something to do with over-identification of Islam with Palestine ad Judaism with Israel in regards to that particular conflict.

And this is something I really hate about many groups of people - assuming everyone sees the world in the same terms that they do. For example, many Christian fundamentalists see the world as a conflict between G-d and Satan, between good and evil. Anyone who opposes individual Christian aims, such as supporting gay marriage, believing in evolution, or tolerating Islam, must be a knowing servant of evil. Racists similarly assume that everyone else thinks in racial terms.

Yeah, according to those guys, whenever I see a straight person I look for ways to seduce them and bring them into the queer lifestyle because I actually serve Satan and want him to win, because I do it for the evulz. And when I get my right to marry who I love, I'm going to hold all the Christians hostage at gunpoint and force them to watch us kiss and make out, and then I'll force them to worship our unholy union... actually, they'd probably just enjoy that. Oh, and apparently I'm also scheming to destroy the goyim, and my denial only makes it more true because we Jews are all trained from birth to lie, after all. Anyway, I'll be rejoicing once the Son of God is forced to suck the greasy cock of the Dark Lord, while I and his other faithful followers cavort in victory.

I think fundamentalism like that is partially due to a basic misunderstanding of how people actually think. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of homophobes simply don't know many openly queer people, or if a lot of racists simply didn't know many blacks/Jews/Hispanics/etc.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on May 28, 2012, 07:32:42 pm
Because having a baby you can't afford and being impoverished for at least the next decade is a MUCH better option, isn't it?

At least two decades. You are (legally) responsible for the first 18 years. Add the prior 5-9 months with doctors visits, furniture and such, hospital expenses, dietary changes. So you are looking at close to 19 years right now, but we're not done yet. You still have to get back to X (X being prechild financial level).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on May 28, 2012, 07:50:58 pm
Because having a baby you can't afford and being impoverished for at least the next decade is a MUCH better option, isn't it?

At least two decades. You are (legally) responsible for the first 18 years. Add the prior 5-9 months with doctors visits, furniture and such, hospital expenses, dietary changes. So you are looking at close to 19 years right now, but we're not done yet. You still have to get back to X (X being prechild financial level).

And only the worst of parents would kick their child out of the house because they turned 18. Many parents actually try to help their children get established through work or college and this only adds another 3-5 years depending on circumstances, probably more with current unemployment levels.  :-\
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 28, 2012, 09:47:43 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4qnn8ABoz1qji5pfo1_400.jpg)

It's good though that the billboard was taken down because people saw the racism in it. And from what i heard, the mother of the child in the photo was outraged that it was used that way.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on May 28, 2012, 10:30:33 pm
Because having a baby you can't afford and being impoverished for at least the next decade is a MUCH better option, isn't it?

At least two decades. You are (legally) responsible for the first 18 years. Add the prior 5-9 months with doctors visits, furniture and such, hospital expenses, dietary changes. So you are looking at close to 19 years right now, but we're not done yet. You still have to get back to X (X being prechild financial level).

Can't you give the child? up for foster care if you can't take care of it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 28, 2012, 10:33:14 pm
That's still not very good for the child. Most of them will end up in the foster care system until they reach adulthood which can be very abusive. And when they are adults, they won't have the resources to get out of poverty. It's a nasty circle.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 28, 2012, 10:44:06 pm
shep can vouch but the foster care system is overloaded.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 29, 2012, 12:01:59 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4p1q7WcOG1rs4zizo1_500.jpg)

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4n15l2EQl1rs34yvo1_500.jpg)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on May 29, 2012, 12:09:51 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4n15l2EQl1rs34yvo1_500.jpg)
Of course, there are Holocaust deniers or people that think the number was exaggerated, not that I'm one of them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on May 29, 2012, 12:12:48 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4p1q7WcOG1rs4zizo1_500.jpg)

Comparing non-sentient fetuses to black people does not reflect well on your opinion of black people.

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4n15l2EQl1rs34yvo1_500.jpg)

Ugh, where's Zachski's dragon fire when you need it?

Actual people died in death camps, and you're comparing a woman's desire for reproductive freedom to genocide? Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

Stop appropriating crimes against humanity for your own!

*Yes, I know that other people were thrown into death camps for non-ethnic reasons.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 29, 2012, 12:15:20 am
Repeat after me: "STOP COMPARING ABORTION TO THE HOLOCAUST"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on May 29, 2012, 12:38:53 am
Even if it were immoral to abort a fetus, the fact remains that living, thinking, feeling human beings were rounded up, tossed into camps or plantations, forced into labour, starved, tortured, and murdered. They were conscious and very aware of what was happening to them. They didn't just die -- they suffered.

It's not just the numbers that matter -- it's what happened to those people, what they experienced, what they thought, and the pain and fear the felt. To pretend that it's a matter of numbers and nothing more only serves to belittle the true horrors of slavery and the holocaust.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 29, 2012, 12:49:42 am
Ugh, where's Zachski's dragon fire when you need it?

(http://www.ablazingly.com/posters/fire-dragon-1257005/fire-dragon.jpg)

There you go
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 29, 2012, 01:23:08 am
shep can vouch but the foster care system is overloaded.

Not just overloaded but also terribly broken. But I won't go into that rant again lol
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on May 29, 2012, 06:52:20 am
Ugh, where's Zachski's dragon fire when you need it?

(http://www.ablazingly.com/posters/fire-dragon-1257005/fire-dragon.jpg)

There you go

Hey, I had that one on a poster when I was in college. :D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 29, 2012, 07:09:30 am
Ugh, where's Zachski's dragon fire when you need it?

(http://www.ablazingly.com/posters/fire-dragon-1257005/fire-dragon.jpg)

There you go

Hey, I had that one on a poster when I was in college. :D

I just googled dragon fire and found the first good one that wasn't someone's photobucket or art site :D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on May 29, 2012, 09:42:36 am
Even if it were immoral to abort a fetus, the fact remains that living, thinking, feeling human beings were rounded up, tossed into camps or plantations, forced into labour, starved, tortured, and murdered. They were conscious and very aware of what was happening to them. They didn't just die -- they suffered.

It's not just the numbers that matter -- it's what happened to those people, what they experienced, what they thought, and the pain and fear the felt. To pretend that it's a matter of numbers and nothing more only serves to belittle the true horrors of slavery and the holocaust.

According to Christian belief they're all in hell now. Lovely isn't it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 29, 2012, 01:28:26 pm
Here is a good commentary on why saying abortion harms the African American community is racist:

Quote
It’s racist because it frames the Black community, and black women* in particular, as violent and dangerous. Are the people who made the billboard concerned about the black community or are they just playing on stereotypes of POC in order to achieve their ends? They are attempting to elicit sympathy and concern for black children while simultaneously vilifying black women (and other people who are able to get pregnant). That’s why it’s racist.

Another problem with this billboard is that it makes it seem as if black women* are being somehow targeted for abortion services. This is ridiculous. It’s true that in the US black women* are disproportionately represented when it comes to abortion. But what anti-abortion advocates either haven’t seemed to figure out (or hope that the general public isn’t able to figure out) is that there is an important intervening variable they’re ignoring: economic status. People with lower socioeconomic status and less stable financial situations are more likely to choose abortion due to the fact that they are unable to afford a(nother) pregnancy or child.

Is there racism involved here? Certainly. And though it may be reflected in the racial and ethnic breakdown abortion rates, it would be an incorrect conclusion to label the existence of safe, legal abortion as the problem. The problem lies in the institutional and systemic racism that keeps black people (and black women especially) in poverty. Of course it’s sad when a person has to terminate an otherwise wanted pregnancy because they can’t afford it or afford to take care of the resulting child. But the way to fix this is not by diverting attention from the real problem by creating a false enemy out of abortion— it’s by attacking the systems and institutions that cause a person to be lacking financial resources in the first place. This includes attacking institutional and systemic racism, misogyny, ciscentrism, and transphobia.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on May 29, 2012, 01:32:10 pm
Two things, what does the * mean attached to black women in that?

Quote
This includes attacking institutional and systemic racism, misogyny, ciscentrism, and transphobia.
And is it just me or did the last two of these come flying in low over left field?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 29, 2012, 01:35:22 pm
You know, I'm not sure. I've seen the * used with transgender.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on May 29, 2012, 07:13:48 pm
You know, I'm not sure. I've seen the * used with transgender.

I've seen the * used with Trans as well and from what I was told it meant was that "trans*" is somehow more inclusive than "trans" and think the author of that piece was trying to do the same. I don't understand the whole * thing either, and a side of me rolls my eyes at it as nothing but people just trying to do things differently, but I don't think that detracts from the piece. The piece addresses the issue of why the billboard is racist perfectly by pointing out that in making children of color the victims, pro-life society will demonize women of color. It also does a good job of addressing underlying causes which create that trend.

I think it threw in the last two at the end as other sorts of societal and economic discrimination in our society (it came from a pro-choice* feminist author to the best of my research). While the latter two will rarely cause abortions, they are equally wrong.

*EDIT: D'oh. I meant pro-choice and had a brain slip and typed pro-life (probably because the author's name or my having a derp moment). Gyeonghwa's right and thanks for the correction.  :)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 29, 2012, 09:28:43 pm
Actually I think the name of the author was Safe legal abortion is pro-life. But then again, pro-choice is pro-life.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 30, 2012, 04:47:44 am
Actually trans* is just for a shorthand so you don't have to go 'transmen, transwomen, trans---'


Why it's attached to black women I'm not sure tho... *shrugs* I could've sworn it was just a footnote symbol and there was more to things.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on May 30, 2012, 10:23:07 am
Ah, that make sense.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on May 30, 2012, 09:17:39 pm
Because having a baby you can't afford and being impoverished for at least the next decade is a MUCH better option, isn't it?

At least two decades. You are (legally) responsible for the first 18 years. Add the prior 5-9 months with doctors visits, furniture and such, hospital expenses, dietary changes. So you are looking at close to 19 years right now, but we're not done yet. You still have to get back to X (X being prechild financial level).

Can't you give the child? up for foster care if you can't take care of it.

Except that foster parents can sent you off to be raised by a different family whenever they get sick of you.  Kids in the foster system are shuffled around constantly, creating instability in their lives that makes normal intellectual and psychosocial development a LOT more difficult.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 30, 2012, 10:26:12 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lem6i7U6Rt1qd2x8qo1_500.jpg)

Okay... Maybe it's just me, but that kinda looks like the castle from the Little Mermaid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 30, 2012, 10:49:17 pm
Complete with phallic towers no less.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on May 30, 2012, 10:54:01 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lem6i7U6Rt1qd2x8qo1_500.jpg)

Okay... Maybe it's just me, but that kinda looks like the castle from the Little Mermaid.

To be quite honest, from what I've seen and read(especially from fundies), God seems to be a complete asshole and Satan is quite a nice guy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on May 31, 2012, 07:31:54 am
Because having a baby you can't afford and being impoverished for at least the next decade is a MUCH better option, isn't it?

At least two decades. You are (legally) responsible for the first 18 years. Add the prior 5-9 months with doctors visits, furniture and such, hospital expenses, dietary changes. So you are looking at close to 19 years right now, but we're not done yet. You still have to get back to X (X being prechild financial level).

Can't you give the child? up for foster care if you can't take care of it.

Except that foster parents can sent you off to be raised by a different family whenever they get sick of you.  Kids in the foster system are shuffled around constantly, creating instability in their lives that makes normal intellectual and psychosocial development a LOT more difficult.

Plus, you know, even getting to the point of being able to deliver the child into the foster system can be a problem, too. All that prenatal care is plenty expensive. If you can’t afford to raise the child, can you afford to carry it to term?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 31, 2012, 01:01:10 pm
I used to be behind the 'carry to term then give up for adoption' argument. But once you learn quite a few things, have friends who went through the foster system, you're adopted yourself, the argument becomes extremely ignorant and short-sighted.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on May 31, 2012, 01:32:48 pm
I used to be behind the 'carry to term then give up for adoption' argument. But once you learn quite a few things, have friends who went through the foster system, you're adopted yourself, the argument becomes extremely ignorant and short-sighted.

Absolutely is. However, it's short enough to fit into a soundbite. And that seems to be the way "news" is heading. Soundbites and sensationalism. Real solutions, the ones that won't fit ona bumper sticker, or take longer than 30 seconds to say, tend to go over heads. Or just not get featured. Sad, really, but it's the world we live in.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 31, 2012, 08:14:11 pm
(http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/4/16/13/enhanced-buzz-27324-1271440328-7.jpg)

(http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/4/16/14/enhanced-buzz-27314-1271441135-2.jpg)

(http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/4/16/14/enhanced-buzz-27352-1271441208-0.jpg)

(http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/4/16/14/enhanced-buzz-27325-1271443387-5.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on May 31, 2012, 10:00:45 pm
(http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/4/16/14/enhanced-buzz-27325-1271443387-5.jpg)

Way to use your own kid for political gain.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on June 02, 2012, 05:25:00 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tHFCZKBL-bs/TPktMTiYASI/AAAAAAAAArQ/1h_A3J3AGDU/s1600/Islam+protest.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: zupper on June 02, 2012, 05:47:05 pm
That picture looks shopped. The text looks too straight, the background looks they've just added some vignetting to make it look non-flat And the left hand overlaps the sign weirdly.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DarkfireTaimatsu on June 02, 2012, 06:03:27 pm
That picture looks shopped. The text looks too straight, the background looks they've just added some vignetting to make it look non-flat And the left hand overlaps the sign weirdly.
I can tell by some of the pixels, and having seen a lot of shops in my time.

Fixed~
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on June 02, 2012, 07:23:10 pm
Now that I've looked at it again, it does look kinda weird.


I wonder what the original said?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on June 02, 2012, 07:29:44 pm
That picture looks shopped. The text looks too straight, the background looks they've just added some vignetting to make it look non-flat And the left hand overlaps the sign weirdly.

Was the website shopped?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on June 02, 2012, 07:55:16 pm
I looked it up on Tineye and it couldn't find any alternative versions.  Maybe it's not?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on June 03, 2012, 12:51:55 am
It looks okay to me. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on June 03, 2012, 01:42:23 am
I'm with the "shopped" group.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on June 03, 2012, 04:52:04 am
The lighting around the words does seem a bit off.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on June 03, 2012, 01:15:28 pm
It is possible that the person who made the sign intentionally added vignetting to the sign itself for some effect. Probably to evoke “shedding light onto these truths.”
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on June 03, 2012, 07:35:43 pm
That picture looks shopped. The text looks too straight, the background looks they've just added some vignetting to make it look non-flat And the left hand overlaps the sign weirdly.
I can tell by some of the pixels, and having seen a lot of shops in my time.

Fixed~

(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5850/shopped.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on June 03, 2012, 10:02:58 pm
(http://i50.tinypic.com/de8s5z.jpg)

lolwut
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on June 03, 2012, 10:08:43 pm
What the fuck does that mean?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on June 03, 2012, 10:14:00 pm
(http://i50.tinypic.com/de8s5z.jpg)

lolwut
What the fuck does that mean?

To sorta-paraphrase Yahtzee, it's kind of like my right left hand on a sunday every night. How so? It beats the fuck out of me!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on June 04, 2012, 01:19:50 am
(http://i50.tinypic.com/de8s5z.jpg)

lolwut
All I can think of is, "keep your rosaries off my ovaries."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on June 04, 2012, 01:42:28 am
All I can think of is using a rosary as anal beads... but it's 20 to 2 a.m. and I've been awake since 5 a.m. yesterday, so take it with a grain of salt the size of a truck.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on June 04, 2012, 01:44:58 am
Crazy east coasters, with your drugs and your being in the future and your makeout parties.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on June 04, 2012, 03:16:03 am
Crazy east coasters, with your drugs and your being in the future and your makeout parties.
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m52z8mKMs91rpwaic.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on June 06, 2012, 08:40:49 am
(http://i50.tinypic.com/de8s5z.jpg)

lolwut

Good idea. I fully support this. This and every other initiative where people try to pray away things they don't like rather than legislate them away. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on June 06, 2012, 12:37:32 pm
And since it's a rosary instead of one prayer, they will be occupied for at least two and a half hours. Even more so if they do a novena.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on June 06, 2012, 01:34:38 pm
And since it's a rosary instead of one prayer, they will be occupied for at least two and a half hours. Even more so if they do a novena.
At least your partner will be completely turned off by that knowledge.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on June 09, 2012, 12:55:32 am
(http://i.huffpost.com/gen/638540/thumbs/o-OBAMA-EFFIGY-HUNG-570.jpg?4)

Real classy, folks, real classy...

If anyone is wondering it's the same douche bag pastor who was burning Qurans a couple of years ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/obama-effigy-hanged-outside-church_n_1581272.html?ir=Politics&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/obama-effigy-hanged-outside-church_n_1581272.html?ir=Politics&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on June 09, 2012, 01:26:06 am
(http://i.huffpost.com/gen/638540/thumbs/o-OBAMA-EFFIGY-HUNG-570.jpg?4)

Real classy, folks, real classy...

If anyone is wondering it's the same douche bag pastor who was burning Qurans a couple of years ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/obama-effigy-hanged-outside-church_n_1581272.html?ir=Politics&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/obama-effigy-hanged-outside-church_n_1581272.html?ir=Politics&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009)

Instead of the Obama effigy, the hanged figure would have looked more relevant to his message if it was Uncle Sam (since he is a symbol of America, and hanging it would symbolise his perceived killing of America).  The Obama figure would be more logical standing where the Uncle Sam figure is now, holding all the 'evil' rainbow flags and whatever.    Of course, then he wouldn't get to hang a 'niggra' doll.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on June 09, 2012, 02:08:39 am
I thought it was Abe Lincoln at first.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: sandman on June 09, 2012, 09:25:29 am
(http://i50.tinypic.com/de8s5z.jpg)

lolwut

Someone should inform this person that the way they wrote their sign, it's a pro-choice sentiment. Grammar ignorance is not your friend.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: sandman on June 09, 2012, 09:32:41 am
(http://i.huffpost.com/gen/638540/thumbs/o-OBAMA-EFFIGY-HUNG-570.jpg?4)


I have to say, if this is on church grounds, this really seems to cross the boundary into direct political activism, which should lose the church it's tax-exempt status. According to Federal IRS rules, in order to maintain 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, one of the limitations is that "it may not be an action organization, i.e., it may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates."  That little lynching display certainly seems to fit the bill as working against a political candidate.

Not to mention the before-mentioned idiocy in that his display has Uncle Sam killing Obama when he seems to be trying to say that Obama is killing America, and the insanely inappropriate visualization of hanging a black man.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on June 09, 2012, 07:31:22 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5co0e8CPO1rset1wo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on June 09, 2012, 07:37:14 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5co0e8CPO1rset1wo1_500.jpg)

No.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on June 09, 2012, 07:47:19 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5co0e8CPO1rset1wo1_500.jpg)

[Citation Needed]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on June 09, 2012, 09:30:32 pm
Because Biology is what's being discussed here you FUCKING IDIOTS!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on June 09, 2012, 11:36:12 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5co0e8CPO1rset1wo1_500.jpg)

If anything, modern science has made the issue more complex.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on June 10, 2012, 02:59:43 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5co0e8CPO1rset1wo1_500.jpg)

Hmm..

Pro lifers said abortion causes breast cancer.

Except it doesn't.

Pro-lifers said abortion causes birth defects.

Except it doesn't.

Pro-lifers said abortion accounted for over 90% of Planed Parenthood's income

Not intended as a factual statement, we later hear.

If you have to lie to make your point, then logically doesn't that mean you don't have one?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eniliad on June 10, 2012, 05:01:16 pm
The pro-life sign is impervious to your logic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on June 10, 2012, 07:18:12 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5dfvueHPk1ry02vto1_1280.png)

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5b3qlO8Sf1ry02vto1_1280.png)

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5acuenmDN1qj7gpko1_500.gif)

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5er52g12P1ruvmcfo1_500.png)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on June 10, 2012, 07:52:46 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5dfvueHPk1ry02vto1_1280.png)

Diabetic people and people who rely on ventilators are sentient and aware of their surroundings, and as born citizens they have the right to life. Fetuses do not possess either of these traits for the majority of the pregnancy, with the possible exception of fetuses in the third trimester, when most abortions are illegal anyway except for medical emergencies. In the event that a born, legal person becomes incapable of making decisions for themselves due to illness or other incapacity, they may leave a living will beforehand detailing how they should be treated, and give another person permission to make health decisions for them. Fetuses cannot do this, because there was no sentience capable of making these decisions or being aware of its surroundings in the first place.

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1. Nobody gives a shit what you think.
2. There is no such thing as "natural law," and
3. Your appeal to nature in and of itself is fallacious, and is known as the naturalistic fallacy.
4. The definition of "marriage" and "homosexuality" are not contradictory. They are not even remotely related. One is a religious, social, and/or legal union between two partners (or more in polygamous countries) recognized by law. The other is a sexual orientation.

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5acuenmDN1qj7gpko1_500.gif)

1. English orthography is a bitch (you can blame the French for that), but if you've learned the language right then you can deal with it. I don't hear any kids in China complaining about the pitfalls of a character-based system, so if they can do that then I think you can master this if you just put your mind to it. Language doesn't change just because you can't learn it.
2. Even if you managed to eliminate the use of the letter C for the phonemes /k/ and /s/, you still need a letter to represent the phoneme /tʃ/. "Ch" is almost always pronounced /tʃ/, so I don't think it's necessary to find a new letter, but if you wanted to reduce all the sounds in the English language to one letter, then you could always just use... well... "C". Lots of languages do that. No reason to commit genocide against the entire letter.
3. Overall, trying to reduce English orthography to be strictly phonetic is stupid because dialectal differences will cause more confusion in the written language. (For instance, should "bottle" be spelled bädl or bätl?) I once tried to converse in IPA with an Aussie once, and it was very frustrating.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on June 10, 2012, 08:22:47 pm
I'm for bringing back thorn and eth.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on June 10, 2012, 09:13:43 pm
Quote from: A Complete Moron#msg65165 date=1339370292
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Compare a fetus to a person in a vegetative state. Both rely for their existence on services provided by another. If you do not pay the health insurance company, they stop providing that service, which is not murder. In the same way, a mother can choose to disallow you the use of her body.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on June 10, 2012, 10:58:12 pm
I was supposed to post those in the Facebook thread. I must have posted in this thread by mistake.

Oh well.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: agentCDE on June 10, 2012, 11:57:09 pm
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Cancer is made of living cells that grow and divide. In fact, too much growing and dividing is exactly the problem with cancer.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on June 11, 2012, 09:11:43 am
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Cancer is made of living cells that grow and divide. In fact, too much growing and dividing is exactly the problem with cancer.

I wonder what she'd think of fetus in fetu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus_in_fetu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus_in_fetu)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on June 11, 2012, 12:46:38 pm
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Cancer is made of living cells that grow and divide. In fact, too much growing and dividing is exactly the problem with cancer.

I wonder what she'd think of fetus in fetu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus_in_fetu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus_in_fetu)

It should live, just like cancer.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on June 14, 2012, 02:07:27 am
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Taking care of someone and letting them use your body parts are 2 very different things...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: NonProphet on June 14, 2012, 07:30:49 am
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Taking care of someone and letting them use your body parts are 2 very different things...
Not to mention the fact that there's this thing called the "right to bodily domain"... the same right that prevents us from being forced to involuntarily "donate" organs & blood just because someone else needs them.
Either these people believe in maintaining this right, or they are anti-choice. They can't have it both ways.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on June 14, 2012, 09:21:57 am
Honestly I'm more freaked out that she works at a CPC,
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on June 14, 2012, 02:53:46 pm
Quote from: A Complete Moron#msg65165 date=1339370292
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Compare a fetus to a person in a vegetative state. Both rely for their existence on services provided by another. If you do not pay the health insurance company, they stop providing that service, which is not murder. In the same way, a mother can choose to disallow you the use of her body.

By that same logic, it is a sin to swat a mosquito even if it might give you a blood disease, because obviously it's A) Alive.  B) Intended by God to drink your blood.  And C) Full of eggs, which are baby mosquitoes (All biting mosquitoes are breeding females).  Therefore you'd be murdering all those baby mosquitoes as well as their mother.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lyndon4Christ on June 14, 2012, 04:16:15 pm
Quote from: A Complete Moron#msg65165 date=1339370292
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5dfvueHPk1ry02vto1_1280.png)

Compare a fetus to a person in a vegetative state. Both rely for their existence on services provided by another. If you do not pay the health insurance company, they stop providing that service, which is not murder. In the same way, a mother can choose to disallow you the use of her body.

By that same logic, it is a sin to swat a mosquito even if it might give you a blood disease, because obviously it's A) Alive.  B) Intended by God to drink your blood.  And C) Full of eggs, which are baby mosquitoes (All biting mosquitoes are breeding females).  Therefore you'd be murdering all those baby mosquitoes as well as their mother.


Comparing babies to mosquitoes?  IS THIS THE AMERICA YOU WANT???????????
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eniliad on June 14, 2012, 04:19:03 pm
(http://i.qkme.me/356qou.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on June 14, 2012, 04:35:06 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzsa8eKnZO1qicf15o1_500.jpg)
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on June 14, 2012, 04:40:08 pm
What.. what do the girl scouts, objectification and their COOKIES have to do with abortion?!

*brain breaks*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on June 14, 2012, 04:43:26 pm
What.. what do the girl scouts, objectification and their COOKIES have to do with abortion?!

*brain breaks*

GSA gives money to Planned Parenthood and since Jon Kyl informed us that Planned Parenthood uses 90% of their funds on abortion, that makes GSA evil.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on June 14, 2012, 04:44:21 pm
Ahhh... I see... Makes total sense, then.  *goes back to nomming on frozen delicious, delicious Samoas*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on June 14, 2012, 05:17:12 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood)

Quote
Services provided at locations include contraceptives (birth control); emergency contraception; screening for breast, cervical and testicular cancers; pregnancy testing and pregnancy options counseling; testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases; comprehensive sexuality education, menopause treatments; vasectomies, tubal ligations, and abortion.
 
In 2009, Planned Parenthood provided 4,009,549 contraceptive services (35% of total), 3,955,926 sexually transmitted disease services (35% of total), 1,830,811 cancer related services (16% of total), 1,178,369 pregnancy/prenatal/midlife services (10% of total), 332,278 abortion services (3% of total), and 76,977 other services (1% of total), for a total of 11,383,900 services.[7][35][37][38][39][40] The organization also said its doctors and nurses annually conduct 1 million screenings for cervical cancer and 830,000 breast exams.

So for every abortion performed, they also;

treated 11 STD's,
provided 3 services for those wanting to have their child,
helped 5 cancer patients,
and helped 11 women prevent accidental pregancies.

Which side is really pro life here?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on June 14, 2012, 05:21:27 pm
What.. what do the girl scouts, objectification and their COOKIES have to do with abortion?!

*brain breaks*

GSA gives money to Planned Parenthood and since Jon Kyl informed us that Planned Parenthood uses 90% of their funds on abortion, that makes GSA evil.

Don't forget that by "sex objectification", they mean "a decent sex education".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on June 14, 2012, 05:39:05 pm
Quote from: A Complete Moron#msg65165 date=1339370292
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Compare a fetus to a person in a vegetative state. Both rely for their existence on services provided by another. If you do not pay the health insurance company, they stop providing that service, which is not murder. In the same way, a mother can choose to disallow you the use of her body.

By that same logic, it is a sin to swat a mosquito even if it might give you a blood disease, because obviously it's A) Alive.  B) Intended by God to drink your blood.  And C) Full of eggs, which are baby mosquitoes (All biting mosquitoes are breeding females).  Therefore you'd be murdering all those baby mosquitoes as well as their mother.

Probably self-defence, even if we regarded killing insects as a moral crime. Which I'm not sold on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on June 14, 2012, 06:07:59 pm
Quote from: A Complete Moron#msg65165 date=1339370292
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5dfvueHPk1ry02vto1_1280.png)

Compare a fetus to a person in a vegetative state. Both rely for their existence on services provided by another. If you do not pay the health insurance company, they stop providing that service, which is not murder. In the same way, a mother can choose to disallow you the use of her body.

By that same logic, it is a sin to swat a mosquito even if it might give you a blood disease, because obviously it's A) Alive.  B) Intended by God to drink your blood.  And C) Full of eggs, which are baby mosquitoes (All biting mosquitoes are breeding females).  Therefore you'd be murdering all those baby mosquitoes as well as their mother.


Comparing babies to mosquitoes?  IS THIS THE AMERICA YOU WANT???????????

See I know this won't penetrate the stupid that surrounds your brain but you really don't get it.  Sex is not just for procreation anymore.  It's also for fun.  And while I know in the narrow world you live in, sex isn't supposed to be fun but it is.  Being able to have risk-free sex, and that includes a baby, is awesome and something everyone, men and women, should have the right to.

Ironbite-now go ahead and say something stupider...I need to laugh at you some more.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on June 14, 2012, 06:17:04 pm
Quote from: A Complete Moron#msg65165 date=1339370292
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5dfvueHPk1ry02vto1_1280.png)

Compare a fetus to a person in a vegetative state. Both rely for their existence on services provided by another. If you do not pay the health insurance company, they stop providing that service, which is not murder. In the same way, a mother can choose to disallow you the use of her body.

By that same logic, it is a sin to swat a mosquito even if it might give you a blood disease, because obviously it's A) Alive.  B) Intended by God to drink your blood.  And C) Full of eggs, which are baby mosquitoes (All biting mosquitoes are breeding females).  Therefore you'd be murdering all those baby mosquitoes as well as their mother.


Comparing babies to mosquitoes?  IS THIS THE AMERICA YOU WANT???????????

See I know this won't penetrate the stupid that surrounds your brain but you really don't get it.  Sex is not just for procreation anymore.  It's also for fun.  And while I know in the narrow world you live in, sex isn't supposed to be fun but it is.  Being able to have risk-free sex, and that includes a baby, is awesome and something everyone, men and women, should have the right to.

Ironbite-now go ahead and say something stupider...I need to laugh at you some more.

Now I'm just confused. Non sequiter ahoy!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on June 14, 2012, 06:49:33 pm
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on June 14, 2012, 10:16:01 pm
oh, that's classy.

Someone remind me why we even listen to these kinds of people? It's patently obvious that they don't want to participate in civil discourse.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on June 14, 2012, 10:25:18 pm
They don't want to, but we can make them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on June 14, 2012, 10:46:13 pm
Comparing babies to mosquitoes?  IS THIS THE AMERICA YOU WANT???????????

Quasi is Canadian, dear.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on June 14, 2012, 11:32:06 pm
Well... you could say NORTH America and be right...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on June 15, 2012, 02:23:37 am
But that would imply that Canada isn't located at the South Pole.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on June 15, 2012, 08:31:05 am
Mile, I hate to break this to you, but Canada is part of the US. It's located between California and Kansas. I know this, because I went to school, and at school, we had maps and books.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on June 15, 2012, 12:15:00 pm
I actually had a discussion with someone who insisted I lived in the USA.  Toronto is a big, well-known CANADIAN city, and she was 100% certain and vehement about it, in fact, being in New York State.  I thought she was joking (the term 'trolling' wasn't around yet,) but she seemed pretty damn serious. XD
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on June 15, 2012, 03:08:51 pm
LOL... "Woman, I think I'd *know* where *I* live..."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on June 15, 2012, 07:12:15 pm
Mile, I hate to break this to you, but Canada is part of the US. It's located between California and Kansas. I know this, because I went to school, and at school, we had maps and books.

Nope. Canada as located at the South Pole, in the great African nation of Asia.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on June 15, 2012, 08:59:41 pm
Mile, I hate to break this to you, but Canada is part of the US. It's located between California and Kansas. I know this, because I went to school, and at school, we had maps and books.

Nope. Canada as located at the South Pole, in the great African nation of Asia.
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4bdwevhNK1qapvns.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on June 15, 2012, 09:44:14 pm
Mile, I hate to break this to you, but Canada is part of the US. It's located between California and Kansas. I know this, because I went to school, and at school, we had maps and books.

Nope. Canada as located at the South Pole, in the great African nation of Asia.
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4bdwevhNK1qapvns.gif)
...I stepped into a reference or something... I'll show myself the way out.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/Entertainer13/Lonely_man.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on June 15, 2012, 10:19:04 pm
/me nicks another gif.


You knew I would.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on June 15, 2012, 10:26:29 pm
LOL... "Woman, I think I'd *know* where *I* live..."

I SAID that!  Almost exactly that.  And she still insisted I was wrong.
I told her I was a Canadian citizen with a Canadian birth certificate.  Nope.  I'm wrong and I'm in Amercia. ;p

(This was around 10 years ago and I still shake my head.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on June 15, 2012, 10:57:02 pm
Mile, I hate to break this to you, but Canada is part of the US. It's located between California and Kansas. I know this, because I went to school, and at school, we had maps and books.

Nope. Canada as located at the South Pole, in the great African nation of Asia.
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4bdwevhNK1qapvns.gif)
...I stepped into a reference or something... I'll show myself the way out.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/Entertainer13/Lonely_man.jpg)
Not a reference. Just a gif expressing my love for antechrist. :D

@Spaceprog- I know. :D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on June 16, 2012, 12:44:01 am
Mile, I hate to break this to you, but Canada is part of the US. It's located between California and Kansas. I know this, because I went to school, and at school, we had maps and books.

Nope. Canada as located at the South Pole, in the great African nation of Asia.
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4bdwevhNK1qapvns.gif)

Bloody love is the best!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on June 16, 2012, 02:25:47 am
Especially if it's Donna Noble bloody love.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on June 16, 2012, 02:50:14 am
Mile, I hate to break this to you, but Canada is part of the US. It's located between California and Kansas. I know this, because I went to school, and at school, we had maps and books.

Nope. Canada as located at the South Pole, in the great African nation of Asia.
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4bdwevhNK1qapvns.gif)

Bloody love is the best!

Only the best for you!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on June 16, 2012, 03:49:59 am
I wish I had a Donna Noble in my life.  I'd like a Mate.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on June 18, 2012, 05:05:45 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5p46n8tnA1rw5dlyo1_500.jpg)
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5n0d9yFFy1rw5dlyo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on June 18, 2012, 06:16:18 pm
Love the way he threw France in there… ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on June 18, 2012, 08:09:17 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5p46n8tnA1rw5dlyo1_500.jpg)
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5n0d9yFFy1rw5dlyo1_500.jpg)
Sees the marine sticker
How the hell did this blood thirsty manic get in there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on June 18, 2012, 08:15:03 pm
I really wouldn't be surprised it that was a selling point after the last decade.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on June 18, 2012, 08:25:54 pm
Nuke them until it glows, huh. Did that dude forget that we aren't the only nations with nukes anymore? (France, in fact, has them too.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auri-El on June 18, 2012, 08:48:11 pm
Why France? Other than protesting U.S. involvement in the Middle East, what have they done wrong? Do these people not realize France is one of our longest and best allies?  Oh wait I forgot who I'm talking about.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on June 18, 2012, 09:47:06 pm
Why France? Other than protesting U.S. involvement in the Middle East, what have they done wrong? Do these people not realize France is one of our longest and best allies?  Oh wait I forgot who I'm talking about.

I think America holds the record for the second most insults towards France.  </bullshitting>
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on June 18, 2012, 09:51:34 pm
sorry it's large...

In 1965, at age 15, 2 kids decided to go "Steady" The Catholic school did not agree, and sent this letter home to their parents...
(http://i.imgur.com/tlvxK.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on June 19, 2012, 07:15:40 am
I'm guessing they rescinded that policy in 1966, when they realized that the majority of students with decent leadership skills were ineligible, leaving them without much of a student council. :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on June 19, 2012, 03:25:24 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5myqnhL2R1rs4zizo1_250.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on June 19, 2012, 03:35:41 pm
snip
Sees the marine sticker
How the hell did this blood thirsty manic get in there.

You can get those stickers at a lot of places, not just AAFES.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on June 19, 2012, 03:39:21 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5myqnhL2R1rs4zizo1_250.jpg)

This from someone who's one busted rubber away from becoming a hypocrite.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on June 19, 2012, 04:28:23 pm
sorry it's large...

In 1965, at age 15, 2 kids decided to go "Steady" The Catholic school did not agree, and sent this letter home to their parents...
*snip*

Are...are they suggesting instead sleep around and see what you like?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on June 19, 2012, 05:30:30 pm
Are...are they suggesting instead sleep around and see what you like?

No, no. They're suggesting you date around, get to know different people, figure out what you like in a person. Unless you're a fuck-on-the-first-date type of person, which they're assuming Catholic youth aren't, that doesn't mean sleep around.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 19, 2012, 05:44:42 pm
Duuuuuuuuuuude...I'd been "steady" with my girl for months before we'd had our first official date.  They had shit fucking backwards.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on June 20, 2012, 02:36:38 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/179945_424339484251760_2142432925_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on June 20, 2012, 03:00:27 am
Just love.  That's all I ask.  Just love.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on June 20, 2012, 10:30:28 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/179945_424339484251760_2142432925_n.jpg)

See also:  Jacob from the book of Genesis, and the kings David and Solomon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on June 20, 2012, 01:48:37 pm
Why are they morally wrong, poster-maker?

Give me a reason that doesn't come from your holy book which has no more place in our government than the Koran does.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on June 20, 2012, 02:13:45 pm
Apperantly this person has never read their own bible.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on June 20, 2012, 02:43:59 pm
Paul actually says marriage isn't even moral. It's just preferable to unmarried sex. That's right, one of your own apostle devalues marriage.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eniliad on June 20, 2012, 02:44:49 pm
To be fair, Paul WAS the first Christian fundie.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on June 20, 2012, 02:49:35 pm
Sometimes I think fundies worship Paul and not Jesus.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on June 20, 2012, 03:00:12 pm
Sometimes I think fundies worship Paul and not Jesus.

DING DING DING DING DING DING

We have a winner

Though to be fair, Jesus DID say some pretty nasty things, so it's not ENTIRELY Paul.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on June 20, 2012, 03:06:54 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5wn6mwSHC1rz3knpo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on June 20, 2012, 03:08:39 pm
Sometimes I think fundies worship Paul and not Jesus.
Thanks for the ammunition against fundies!

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5wn6mwSHC1rz3knpo1_500.jpg)

...[facepalm]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on June 20, 2012, 03:11:47 pm
Sometimes I think fundies worship Paul and not Jesus.
Thanks for the ammunition against fundies!

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5wn6mwSHC1rz3knpo1_500.jpg)

...[facepalm]
Despite what Dogma is saying there is no Islamization of Europe
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on June 20, 2012, 03:13:10 pm
WAAAAAGH MY EYES THEY HUUUUUUUUUURT
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on June 20, 2012, 04:09:45 pm
Genocide. You're using that word. I don't think you know what it means.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on June 21, 2012, 03:06:17 am
Did they forget that there were people here before the white guys came along?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on June 21, 2012, 03:35:41 pm
Oh, them wudn't people.  Them was jus' drunk injuns.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on June 22, 2012, 02:03:05 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m614epnWT61rwy5lto1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on June 22, 2012, 02:11:31 pm
When an Eagle goes to jail for destroying its egg, we'll talk.

Did they forget that there were people here before the white guys came along?

Well, except most of Europe.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on June 22, 2012, 02:13:12 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m614epnWT61rwy5lto1_500.jpg)
I didn't know humans were an endangered species.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on June 22, 2012, 05:10:45 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m614epnWT61rwy5lto1_500.jpg)

There is a fire you can go die in sir.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on June 24, 2012, 12:22:35 pm
Genocide. You're using that word. I don't think you know what it means.
(http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web05/2011/4/30/3/hey-7-you-know-that-word-posers-this-30416-1304147043-22.jpg)

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m614epnWT61rwy5lto1_500.jpg)
I didn't know humans were an endangered species.
(http://www.funny-quotations.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Stop-abortion-protest.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on June 24, 2012, 01:02:53 pm
Technically, that's chicken menstruation, not chicken fetuses ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on June 24, 2012, 06:46:36 pm
There is a fire you can go die in sir.

German Ironbite's language backwards is written.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on June 24, 2012, 07:48:57 pm
Technically, that's chicken menstruation, not chicken fetuses ;D

Depends on where the rooster was at the time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on June 25, 2012, 09:12:58 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/government-medecine.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/gemany-again.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/dump-the-polititions.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/descent-tea-bagger.jpg)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on June 25, 2012, 09:13:48 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/constution-lives.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/birth-certifict.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/bank-of-barock.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on June 25, 2012, 04:06:54 pm
The U.S. is going Baroque? But I liked the Neoclassical look!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on June 25, 2012, 07:10:21 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/descent-tea-bagger.jpg)

Ignoring the misspelling for now…

I seem to remember the going sentiment being rather different ten years ago.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on June 25, 2012, 08:26:30 pm
I seem to remember the going sentiment being rather different ten years ago.

I think the point the guy's trying to make is that if liberals said "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" when the other side was in office, they don't have much of a leg to stand on when their guy is in office and the other side wants to bitch. Mind you, it completely ignore that the reverse is true...but he has a point.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on June 25, 2012, 08:42:31 pm
He forgot the first bit of that slogan: reasoned dissent is patriotic. Absurd conspiracy theory lies are not patriotic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on June 25, 2012, 08:46:52 pm
I seem to remember the going sentiment being rather different ten years ago.

I think the point the guy's trying to make is that if liberals said "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" when the other side was in office, they don't have much of a leg to stand on when their guy is in office and the other side wants to bitch. Mind you, it completely ignore that the reverse is true...but he has a point.

Maybe it is just ‘cause I don’t pay as much attention to the news, but I really haven’t seen very many “United We Stand” type slogans coming from the Democrats. Sure, they might insult Republicans’ intelligence and call out their barely-concealed racism, but for the most part they still let them bitch and moan and otherwise control the rhetoric.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: OscarApollo on June 25, 2012, 10:08:19 pm
"Descent" is the highest form of "patriotic"? Are these people even literate?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on June 26, 2012, 04:28:24 am
"Descent" is the highest form of "patriotic"? Are these people even literate?

They're just dissenting from grammar, which has a liberal bias anyways. I mean its taught in schools and colleges so it must be liberal indoctrination.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on June 26, 2012, 09:40:19 am
"Descent" is the highest form of "patriotic"? Are these people even literate?

They're just dissenting from grammar, which has a liberal bias anyways. I mean its taught in schools and colleges so it must be liberal indoctrination.

Raeg again teh masheen
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on June 26, 2012, 11:49:24 am
(https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/546441_4067172202778_1683007194_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on June 26, 2012, 11:59:04 am
Orange Church? Sounds like a parody.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on June 26, 2012, 12:04:37 pm
(https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/546441_4067172202778_1683007194_n.jpg)

I repent!

Please, Jesus, forgive me for designing the pictures in the church windows, that the priests approved beforehand!

Show mercy to my singing hymns in church every Sunday!

And by you grace, I beg you to allow me back into your kingdom after I gave up meat for Lent!

I thought I was following Your words, but apparently I was a horrible sinner all along!

(Geez, why don't they slam people who come to church or even those who even read the Bible why they're at it!)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on June 28, 2012, 12:05:23 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m68p31yJxZ1qa4ff3o1_500.jpg)

She is technically right though. Affirmative Action, as it currently works (because it was sabotaged to be that way), benefits white people much more than it does people of color. So she is right but she doesn't know why she's right.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on June 28, 2012, 12:13:03 am
Affirmative Action, as it currently works (because it was sabotaged to be that way), benefits white people much more than it does people of color.

Oh? Do explain. I hadn't heard this.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on June 28, 2012, 12:21:52 am
I lost the original article but I'm scouring google scholars for it. Generally speaking, the group of people that benefits the most from Affirmative Action is white women. Also generally speaking, white people gain more scholarships than people of color. Here is the report on that: http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/20110902racescholarships.pdf
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on June 28, 2012, 01:11:53 am
(Edited to remove).

We have a whole thread about this shit, guys. Get this over there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on June 28, 2012, 05:40:46 pm
Not really protest signs, but here are more of those dumb liberal memes:

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m32239hOvt1qcd2qeo1_400.jpg)

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly49sgzjZx1qin3heo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on June 28, 2012, 08:47:20 pm
Not really protest signs, but here are more of those dumb liberal memes:

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m32239hOvt1qcd2qeo1_400.jpg)

...Huh?

Did they even try with this one?

Quote
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly49sgzjZx1qin3heo1_500.jpg)

...Her?

I'm reasonably sure that's a guy, dude.

Also, believe it or not, most liberals support your right to spew whatever bullshit you please.  Just be aware that free speech does not mean freedom from the consequences* of speech.

*Consequences include "Disagreement, loss of friendship, loss of respect, and occasionally a naughty word sent your way."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auri-El on June 28, 2012, 10:13:33 pm
Would you both shut up already?

(http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/wong/bus.jpg)

Sorry if it's a repeat, but it's still funny.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on June 28, 2012, 11:02:20 pm
Pretty dumb, but it does have a point about carpooling and public transportation. Maybe it should have said "Use less oil, Ride the Bus"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on June 29, 2012, 12:06:49 am
Split argument into Flame and Burn, called "Argument about Racism".  Please, guys, I know that this is an emotionally charged topic, but we have Flame and Burn for a reason.  Keep it civil in this and other forums.

Also, reposting the picture that Lexikon posted that was included as part of an argument post:

(https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/425514_166202440171352_1325628391_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on June 29, 2012, 12:24:45 pm


(https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/425514_166202440171352_1325628391_n.jpg)

well I chose my computer and car because I'm a photographer and I needed that stuff to make money in the first place.  My cable tv came with the internet I need to do my job.

I sure as hell don't know where my smart phone, gaming system and flat screen tv are that I supposedly bought.  They are certainly NOT where I live.

However I could get those things if I save up.  They are one time expenditures.

Insurance is nto a one time expenditure. It's ongoing.  So it would be like buying a flat screen every month for years on end.

Not really a good comparison to begin with.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on June 29, 2012, 01:07:05 pm


(https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/425514_166202440171352_1325628391_n.jpg)

well I chose my computer and car because I'm a photographer and I needed that stuff to make money in the first place.  My cable tv came with the internet I need to do my job.

I sure as hell don't know where my smart phone, gaming system and flat screen tv are that I supposedly bought.  They are certainly NOT where I live.

However I could get those things if I save up.  They are one time expenditures.

Insurance is nto a one time expenditure. It's ongoing.  So it would be like buying a flat screen every month for years on end.

Not really a good comparison to begin with.
Oh come now. If these people were any good at critical thinking, they wouldn't be using "arguments" like this in the first place.

Of these things listed, I have a laptop, which I only bought because the last one fried on me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 01, 2012, 09:11:36 pm
(https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/528139_261090690659273_354576704_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on July 01, 2012, 09:14:55 pm


(https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/425514_166202440171352_1325628391_n.jpg)

well I chose my computer and car because I'm a photographer and I needed that stuff to make money in the first place.  My cable tv came with the internet I need to do my job.

I sure as hell don't know where my smart phone, gaming system and flat screen tv are that I supposedly bought.  They are certainly NOT where I live.

However I could get those things if I save up.  They are one time expenditures.

Insurance is nto a one time expenditure. It's ongoing.  So it would be like buying a flat screen every month for years on end.

Not really a good comparison to begin with.
Oh come now. If these people were any good at critical thinking, they wouldn't be using "arguments" like this in the first place.

Of these things listed, I have a laptop, which I only bought because the last one fried on me.

I've got all those things minus that high a car payment and I can afford them because my taxes pay for a publicly funded health care system that is considerably more efficient than a private one and leaves me with a fair bit more money at the end of the day.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 02, 2012, 06:20:59 am
(https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/528139_261090690659273_354576704_n.jpg)

*brain fuses*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on July 02, 2012, 07:22:17 am
(https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/528139_261090690659273_354576704_n.jpg)

(http://i46.tinypic.com/33uc2sy.gif)
I have nothing appropriate to add.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on July 02, 2012, 08:52:17 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/426972_10151244900848136_1592783661_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on July 02, 2012, 09:54:11 am
(https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/528139_261090690659273_354576704_n.jpg)

Because you touch yourself at night.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on July 02, 2012, 10:10:58 am
(https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/528139_261090690659273_354576704_n.jpg)

Because you touch yourself at night.
Why do Fundies Hate America?

Yeesh, that was hard.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 02, 2012, 06:34:28 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/426972_10151244900848136_1592783661_n.jpg)

1. Saving a tree is for environmental reason, stupid.
2. No one think the former is offensive. Just we happened to not adhere to blind patriotism.
3. U Mad Bruh?
4. Hey, you don't seem to bitch about all the illegal white immigrants living here. And you don't seem to realize that on top of targeting Hispanic people, these voting laws target black people, senior citizen and young people. Oh look all the group that could potentially be a threat to conservatives.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on July 02, 2012, 07:00:33 pm
4. Hey, you don't seem to bitch about all the legal white immigrants living here.

Just curious, what white immigrants and why would anyone care about them if they're in the USA legally? ???
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 02, 2012, 07:06:46 pm
4. Hey, you don't seem to bitch about all the legal white immigrants living here.

Just curious, what white immigrants and why would anyone care about them if they're in the USA legally? ???

Meant to say illegal white immigrants. Generally from East European decent. Our anti-Immigration laws targets illegal Mexican immigrants but gives free passes if it's from eastern Europe.

Edit. God I'm doing all sorts of spelling mistakes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Fpqxz on July 02, 2012, 07:15:36 pm
4. Hey, you don't seem to bitch about all the legal white immigrants living here.

Just curious, what white immigrants and why would anyone care about them if they're in the USA legally? ???

Meant to say illegal white immigrants. Generally for East European decent. Our anti-Immigration laws targets illegal Mexican immigrants but gives free passes if it's from eastern europe.

Just FYI, there are a fair number of illegal immigrants from the Middle East, Far East, and Africa as well.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 02, 2012, 07:21:59 pm
I'm aware of that. In fact 1 in 10 is East Asian, IIRC.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on July 02, 2012, 09:32:34 pm
4. Hey, you don't seem to bitch about all the legal white immigrants living here.

Just curious, what white immigrants and why would anyone care about them if they're in the USA legally? ???

I can't help but be amused that the person pointing out a missing "il-" in a post about illegal white immigrants lives in the Sooner State.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on July 02, 2012, 11:06:28 pm
4. Hey, you don't seem to bitch about all the legal white immigrants living here.

Just curious, what white immigrants and why would anyone care about them if they're in the USA legally? ???

I can't help but be amused that the person pointing out a missing "il-" in a post about illegal white immigrants lives in the Sooner State.

Take a closer look at the post I quoted; the "il-" was left out intentionally and you'll and you'll also see the source of my confusion.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 02, 2012, 11:23:52 pm
2. No one think the former is offensive. Just we happened to not adhere to blind patriotism.

Oh, I think it's offensive.

However, I also think that I don't have the right to not be offended.

They love to point out that the two are contradictory, but they're projecting.  They think something is offensive, they want it outlawed.  We think something is offensive, but we protect the right of the person to say that.

Really, the latter is the reason the former is allowed to happen, if that makes sense.

That being said, freedom of speech also means freedom to disagree with speech, so I'm free to call out them on their bullshit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 02, 2012, 11:39:27 pm
4. Hey, you don't seem to bitch about all the legal white immigrants living here.

Just curious, what white immigrants and why would anyone care about them if they're in the USA legally? ???

I can't help but be amused that the person pointing out a missing "il-" in a post about illegal white immigrants lives in the Sooner State.

Take a closer look at the post I quoted; the "il-" was left out intentionally and you'll and you'll also see the source of my confusion.

Um I did correct myself and said I mean to say "illegal". ??? I should probably edit that post.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on July 02, 2012, 11:41:22 pm
4. Hey, you don't seem to bitch about all the legal white immigrants living here.

Just curious, what white immigrants and why would anyone care about them if they're in the USA legally? ???

I can't help but be amused that the person pointing out a missing "il-" in a post about illegal white immigrants lives in the Sooner State.

Take a closer look at the post I quoted; the "il-" was left out intentionally and you'll and you'll also see the source of my confusion.

Um I did correct myself and said I mean to say "illegal". ??? I should probably edit that post.

Meh, you're fine.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on July 04, 2012, 09:51:45 am

Meant to say illegal white immigrants. Generally from East European decent. Our anti-Immigration laws targets illegal Mexican immigrants but gives free passes if it's from eastern Europe.

Edit. God I'm doing all sorts of spelling mistakes.

Not quite. The laws target everyone equally. The enforcement, on the other hand, tends to go after, well, countries with brown people (Latin America, Middle Eastern, Pakistan, you get the idea).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on July 04, 2012, 06:45:23 pm
On #2 - Has any pro-choice person really claimed that an embryo isn't a life?  It's alive.  It's just not a person.   It is a living thing with its own DNA and bodily functions... kind of like a mouse, I guess, if a mouse were completely dependent on its parasitization of your body.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on July 04, 2012, 07:07:40 pm
Oh, I think it's offensive.

However, I also think that I don't have the right to not be offended.

You think that simply flying an American Flag is offensive? The hell?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 04, 2012, 08:19:12 pm
Oh, I think it's offensive.

However, I also think that I don't have the right to not be offended.

You think that simply flying an American Flag is offensive? The hell?

I think that civilians who fly flags 24/7 is offensive.  It's also more offensive to fly flags on things besides buildings, such as on bikes.  It's being "more patriotic than thou".

It's also a good way to identify wingnuts from non-wingnuts.

Government buildings are, IMO, the only buildings that are okay to have flags flying 24/7 at.  Civilian buildings?  Not so much.

It's like people who wear crosses or have cross bumper stickers.  It's in-your-face.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 04, 2012, 08:24:36 pm

Oh, I think it's offensive.

However, I also think that I don't have the right to not be offended.

You think that simply flying an American Flag is offensive? The hell?

I think that civilians who fly flags 24/7 is offensive.  It's also more offensive to fly flags on things besides buildings.  It's being "more patriotic than thou".

Government buildings are, IMO, the only buildings that are okay to have flags flying 24/7 at.  Civilian buildings?  Not so much.

It's like people who wear crosses or have cross bumper stickers.  It's in-your-face.

You know I agree it is very in face and annoying as fuck, but I find flag pattened clothing more offensive but that may be because I find them to be extremely tacky as fuck.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 04, 2012, 08:58:26 pm
To me, that qualifies as "Flying flags on things besides buildings"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 04, 2012, 08:58:45 pm

Oh, I think it's offensive.

However, I also think that I don't have the right to not be offended.

You think that simply flying an American Flag is offensive? The hell?

I think that civilians who fly flags 24/7 is offensive.  It's also more offensive to fly flags on things besides buildings.  It's being "more patriotic than thou".

Government buildings are, IMO, the only buildings that are okay to have flags flying 24/7 at.  Civilian buildings?  Not so much.

It's like people who wear crosses or have cross bumper stickers.  It's in-your-face.

You know I agree it is very in face and annoying as fuck, but I find flag pattened clothing more offensive but that may be because I find them to be extremely tacky as fuck.

Also against The Flag Code (http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagcode.htm).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 04, 2012, 09:26:33 pm
I think it only applies if you actually cut up a flag, and wear it as clothing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on July 04, 2012, 09:32:30 pm
Eh, I don't care about the display of the US flag.  It doesn't harm me any.  At least it's an actual existing country (Confederate Battle Flag, I'm looking at YOU).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on July 04, 2012, 09:56:05 pm
What does annoy me are people who guilt others with the flag.  For instance I didnt stand during tthe pledge at school so faculty forced me. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 04, 2012, 09:57:33 pm
I think it only applies if you actually cut up a flag, and wear it as clothing.

Nope:

Quote
"The words "flag, standard, colors, or ensign", as used herein, shall include any flag, standard, colors, ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any substance, of any size evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America or a picture or a representation of either, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any part or parts of either, by which the average person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the United States of America." (Section 3)

Petty much anything that looks like the flag is supposed to be treated as the flag.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 04, 2012, 09:59:07 pm
What does annoy me are people who guilt others with the flag.  For instance I didnt stand during tthe pledge at school so faculty forced me. 

So much for liberty.

I'm sorry, if you make it a requirement to worship a damn flag (and I don't care that they call it patriotism, it's fucking WORSHIP) then there is no liberty, it is only tyranny under the flag of freedom.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on July 04, 2012, 10:11:15 pm
What does annoy me are people who guilt others with the flag.  For instance I didnt stand during tthe pledge at school so faculty forced me. 

So much for liberty.

I'm sorry, if you make it a requirement to worship a damn flag (and I don't care that they call it patriotism, it's fucking WORSHIP) then there is no liberty, it is only tyranny under the flag of freedom.
meh at least I didn't have to say it.  why do we even have that damn pledge
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 04, 2012, 10:35:34 pm
why do we even have that damn pledge

‘Cause of Godless Commies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on July 04, 2012, 10:40:09 pm
why do we even have that damn pledge

‘Cause of Godless Commies.
so we imitate them?  Seriously it sounds like something that should be reserved for military
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 04, 2012, 10:55:54 pm
why do we even have that damn pledge

‘Cause of Godless Commies.
so we imitate them?  Seriously it sounds like something that should be reserved for military

Well, the pledge itself was actually just an attempt to instill in schoolchildren a sense of nationalism. A lot of folks accept that the much, much later addition of the phrase “Under God” was motivated in a large part as a way to differentiate the U.S. from the Soviet Union.

Bonus irony: The guy that wrote the original pledge was a Christian Socialist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on July 04, 2012, 10:58:39 pm
That is what I hate I dont have nationalism and frankly dont want it
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on July 04, 2012, 11:21:21 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6c8btp9WN1rs4zizo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 04, 2012, 11:29:41 pm
[citation needed]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on July 04, 2012, 11:44:19 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6c8btp9WN1rs4zizo1_500.jpg)
That is not a fetus maybe late term abortions are but those are rare. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on July 05, 2012, 01:21:05 am
The picture looks like a 2 year old. Dishonesty for the lose.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on July 05, 2012, 02:03:08 am
Also against The Flag Code (http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagcode.htm).

I find the whole concept of a flag code a bit silly.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on July 05, 2012, 08:19:34 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6c8btp9WN1rs4zizo1_500.jpg)
That is not a fetus maybe late term abortions are but those are rare.


That's not a fetus by any stretch of the imagination.  That kid has passed his first haircut, making him 18-24 months
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on July 05, 2012, 03:15:15 pm
Well, a fetus's life is as valuable as a two year old's, so killing a fetus is no different than killing a two year old.<anti-choice>

And they're the ones saying we devalue life.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 05, 2012, 05:53:25 pm
Have love how "pro-lifers" argue their position, because they more or less defend cancer's right to exist a lot of times by default.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 05, 2012, 06:22:42 pm
Also against The Flag Code (http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagcode.htm).

I find the whole concept of a flag code a bit silly.

Same here. But it just seems to me that a lot of the folks that don’t find it so silly are also the ones most likely to be breaking said code to begin with.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on July 06, 2012, 09:36:09 am
I like at it this way. Many people want a sense of community in their life. Community comes from tradition and shared experience. To have "community" in a nation, you need something that transcends ideological differences. Most countries have their shared history often revolving around monarchical attitudes and a tradition based around class, and frankly, they have also had the time to move on and just understand that their country is their country, no matter what form.

The US is young. The only thing we have as a shared tradition in this country that isn't imported is, well, our government. We built it on the minds of other people from different places, but darn it all, that's what 'Mericans wrote that piece of paper. To many, the flag represents those ideals, and since we don't have that long and glorious history to cling to, we cling to our supposed right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Honestly, I like a little patriotism now and then. Feels like I'm pledging a personal oath to the ideals written in the Declaration. I also like being overly sentimental towards the flag. It helps remind me of the values we're supposed to associate with democracy and freedom, and personally, I do like to see that flag as one of many symbols I treat with respect. Yet, beyond enjoying the 4th and happily singing the anthem and what have you, I don't like people using patriotism as a tool of division. It should be used to unite people together, not be some partisan means to beginning an "us verses them" campaign.

Too long, didn't read: I actually like a little patriotism now and then, but assholes ruin it by taking it from "idea" to "belief" and turn it into a fucking loyalty litmess test. Fuck that bullshit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on July 11, 2012, 01:45:26 am
On the flag and pledge topic, I once heard from a British guy that such pledges aren't normal over there and that he found it pretty weird. They only other country he knew of that did such a thing that came to mind was Germany (during the late 30s early 40s of course). Is this accurate?

Many Europeans I have talked to think all the religious stuff going on in the states is insane. One said he felt sorry for us few sane ones over here, like me, who carries a 3" knife most of the time for defense from crazies. I know of people being brutally attacked for not being christian.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on July 11, 2012, 02:15:53 am
I remember refusing to do the pledge in class (I think I was just sitting in my desk simply refusing to stand up). Even though I've tried to resist the warnings given by my teacher for standing up, I gave in. What my teacher didn't know was that I am only pretending to do stand up for the pledge by simply doing it wrong. For the rest of high school I've pretended to do the pledge. I will never understand why those assholes are so offended by the objection of the pledge. I have a god damn choice to be unpatriotic, thank you very much.

This is just something that will always upset me, and I can't even believe that there are kids that have to be put through this shit. The only thing worse than being forced to do the pledge against your will is that here in Texas our kids are also being indoctrinated by textbooks revised by people like the Texas GOP (and you guys know how nasty they are (http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=88136), and "nasty" is a gross understatement).

Many Europeans I have talked to think all the religious stuff going on in the states is insane. One said he felt sorry for us few sane ones over here, like me, who carries a 3" knife most of the time for defense from crazies. I know of people being brutally attacked for not being christian.
Oh shit, it looks like I might have to get a license to conceal a weapon, because I'm not going back to Christianity. Especially when a majority of Christians are hypocrites like those psychos you've mentioned. And I don't even understand why people have such a sick obsession with weapons, though sometimes self-defense can be nice when that time comes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on July 11, 2012, 09:13:04 am
I remember refusing to do the pledge in class (I think I was just sitting in my desk simply refusing to stand up). Even though I've tried to resist the warnings given by my teacher for standing up, I gave in. What my teacher didn't know was that I am only pretending to do stand up for the pledge by simply doing it wrong. For the rest of high school I've pretended to do the pledge. I will never understand why those assholes are so offended by the objection of the pledge. I have a god damn choice to be unpatriotic, thank you very much.

This is just something that will always upset me, and I can't even believe that there are kids that have to be put through this shit. The only thing worse than being forced to do the pledge against your will is that here in Texas our kids are also being indoctrinated by textbooks revised by people like the Texas GOP (and you guys know how nasty they are (http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=88136), and "nasty" is a gross understatement).

Many Europeans I have talked to think all the religious stuff going on in the states is insane. One said he felt sorry for us few sane ones over here, like me, who carries a 3" knife most of the time for defense from crazies. I know of people being brutally attacked for not being christian.
Oh shit, it looks like I might have to get a license to conceal a weapon, because I'm not going back to Christianity. Especially when a majority of Christians are hypocrites like those psychos you've mentioned. And I don't even understand why people have such a sick obsession with weapons, though sometimes self-defense can be nice when that time comes.
I would stick to tasers anyways basically that is what happened with me.  To me the pledge implies loyalty and respect and a wise man once said in response to the commandment to respect thy parents that it has to be earned. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on July 11, 2012, 09:57:54 am
You can NOT be forced to stand for the pledge as far as I know. My high school had the pledge in the mornings, but only about half of us ever stood up (including me). It was just something I like to do.

I wish it would be easier to challenge the school, though. They'd likely suspend you for not standing up, and then you'd have to get the ALCU to help, and ugh.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on July 11, 2012, 10:16:02 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzgt8O12f1qe52v7o1_500.jpg)

Can't tell if this goes here...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 11, 2012, 10:19:10 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzgt8O12f1qe52v7o1_500.jpg)

Can't tell if this goes here...

It does! Because being married is no guarantee that something bad won't happen as a result of marriage (not to mention that the marriage itself may become the bad thing). In fact this actually result in more divorces when people find out the only reason they marry is to have sex.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on July 11, 2012, 01:21:35 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzgt8O12f1qe52v7o1_500.jpg)

Can't tell if this goes here...

On your penis?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 11, 2012, 06:06:22 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzgt8O12f1qe52v7o1_500.jpg)

Can't tell if this goes here...

Oh, so a little bit of gold is all it takes to cure any STD, huh?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 11, 2012, 10:03:51 pm
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70yiuV4TN1qhcsyw.jpg)

Because you know, straight folks are all oppressed an all.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on July 11, 2012, 10:06:35 pm
Of course you won't remain silent. You never were silent to begin with.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 11, 2012, 10:15:43 pm
Another one:

(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70yijhkQ91qhcsyw.jpg)

I'm fairly sure you never had to be in the closet. Either at home or at large in the public sphere.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on July 11, 2012, 10:43:43 pm
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70yiuV4TN1qhcsyw.jpg)

Because you know, straight folks are all oppressed an all.

Are you sure these guys aren't being ironic/sarcastic?  I can see this as being supportive of gay equality in that way.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 11, 2012, 10:45:53 pm
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70yiuV4TN1qhcsyw.jpg)

Because you know, straight folks are all oppressed an all.

Are you sure these guys aren't being ironic/sarcastic?  I can see this as being supportive of gay equality in that way.

Nope. Been on their Facebook. They fucking hate us gay folks because we "oppress" them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on July 11, 2012, 11:20:48 pm
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70yiuV4TN1qhcsyw.jpg)

Because you know, straight folks are all oppressed an all.

WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE WHITE STRAIGHT PEOPLE?

Seriously, how this is not a joke is simply astounding. I mean this is the sexual preference equivalent of that bullshit "Christian persecution" meme.

Oh yes, and try to find a single society that suppresses heterosexual activity. There are societies that even violently oppress Christians (the United States is NOT one of them), but this is simply ridiculous.

But as Quasirodent said, it might be Poe. Sorry guys, but I take the internet very seriously. That doesn't mean I don't sometimes laugh at the massive stupidity of the internet.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on July 12, 2012, 01:01:17 am
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRT_PtfPnTuRya6AFq9dcMIBJgCfHIXkKjql0UYxYS6Log_3_uP-mb1aOA2Zw)

leave it to Focus on the Family to decide being treated equally as a sinister plot against them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVfT3ZyJR1A

(http://images.gamers.fr/jeux/diversSonof/epicfacepalm.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on July 12, 2012, 02:03:28 am
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70yiuV4TN1qhcsyw.jpg)

Because you know, straight folks are all oppressed an all.

It sure is hard having the vast majority of society cater to one's demographic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 12, 2012, 02:10:14 am
I can tell it's anti-Gay because it uses a survey taken from the... 50's?  70's?

Namely, that homosexuals only make up about 5% of the population.

For some reason, anti-gay argumentalists (yay for made up words) like to cite that statistic despite its age.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on July 12, 2012, 02:15:22 am
Probably from people intentionally searching only for stats and info that supports their stance, without bothering to check the validity of the sources.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on July 12, 2012, 03:21:24 am
Another one:

(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70yijhkQ91qhcsyw.jpg)

I'm fairly sure you never had to be in the closet. Either at home or at large in the public sphere.

When I first saw that, my first thought was "heterosexual awareness week, supporting back street abortions"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on July 12, 2012, 03:36:55 am
I thought it was an abortion thing at first, too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on July 12, 2012, 04:12:52 am
I can tell it's anti-Gay because it uses a survey taken from the... 50's?  70's?

Namely, that homosexuals only make up about 5% of the population.

For some reason, anti-gay argumentalists (yay for made up words) like to cite that statistic despite its age.
Also, it's jumping from 4.2% gays straight (heh) to 95.8% heteros.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 12, 2012, 05:16:47 am
I can tell it's anti-Gay because it uses a survey taken from the... 50's?  70's?

Namely, that homosexuals only make up about 5% of the population.

For some reason, anti-gay argumentalists (yay for made up words) like to cite that statistic despite its age.
Also, it's jumping from 4.2% gays straight (heh) to 95.8% heteros.

That too
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on July 12, 2012, 05:26:15 am
It's Herterosexual Awareness Month! 
You have oppressed our right to oppress you long enough! 
You have hindered our attempts to hinder your attempts at equal rights long enough! 
We will no longer be silent!

We're straight! We Hate! Get used to it!

(Wow, I felt my IQ drop just typing that.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 12, 2012, 06:40:32 am
I thought it was an abortion thing at first, too.

Can you do a back-alley abortion with a plastic hanger? ;)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on July 12, 2012, 07:52:14 am
I suppose you could if you tried hard enough...  :o
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on July 12, 2012, 09:13:10 am
You can do anything if you just believe!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on July 12, 2012, 10:35:37 am
I thought it was an abortion thing at first, too.

Can you do a back-alley abortion with a plastic hanger? ;)

Possibly, if you actually beat the woman about the uterus until she miscarries.  Not really the same thing though
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 12, 2012, 08:09:10 pm
I thought it was an abortion thing at first, too.

Can you do a back-alley abortion with a plastic hanger? ;)

Possibly, if you actually beat the woman about the uterus until she miscarries.  Not really the same thing though

Well, as long as it can be done… :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on July 13, 2012, 05:16:07 am
You could cut the long side off and sharpen it into a stake, I suppose.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 13, 2012, 12:09:14 pm
(http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/89/5f/895f8bc08ca5b4527dff1777fe3ff3ed.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on July 13, 2012, 05:13:51 pm
(http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/89/5f/895f8bc08ca5b4527dff1777fe3ff3ed.jpg)

I dunno. At the risk of Godwin, I have to admit I can think of worse racist discrimination than equal access to abortion facilities to African-Americans. Mass murder, for instance. Slavery. Not having equal access to abortion facilities.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on July 13, 2012, 09:37:07 pm
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70yiuV4TN1qhcsyw.jpg)

Because you know, straight folks are all oppressed an all.

Are you sure these guys aren't being ironic/sarcastic?  I can see this as being supportive of gay equality in that way.

Nope. Been on their Facebook. They fucking hate us gay folks because we "oppress" them.

Me too. And this is what I have to say:

(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/394698_455700174453670_1496802388_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 14, 2012, 02:52:27 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6uyvq5kUR1qcfoo3o1_1280.jpg)

A creationist t-shirt saying that women should thank men for existing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on July 14, 2012, 03:50:06 pm
I... don't think it was that easy.

God: DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW COMPLICATED YOUR CIRCULATORY SYSTEM IS?!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on July 14, 2012, 06:39:44 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6uyvq5kUR1qcfoo3o1_1280.jpg)

A creationist t-shirt saying that women should thank men for existing.

And that's why Christianity is inherently misogynist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 14, 2012, 11:03:50 pm
Teabagger t-shirt
(http://samuel-warde.com/wp-content/gallery/tea-party-merchandise/b.jpg)

and some more crap (http://26-shocking-photos-of-merchandise-from-tea-party-right-wing-websites) teabagger's waste money on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on July 14, 2012, 11:26:08 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6uyvq5kUR1qcfoo3o1_1280.jpg)

A creationist t-shirt saying that women should thank men for existing.

Somebody should create a shirt with the outline of a uterus on it to counter it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on July 15, 2012, 12:45:22 am
Teabagger t-shirt
(http://samuel-warde.com/wp-content/gallery/tea-party-merchandise/b.jpg)

and some more crap (http://26-shocking-photos-of-merchandise-from-tea-party-right-wing-websites) teabagger's waste money on.

The confederate dictum; vote for our guy or we will shoot you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 15, 2012, 08:14:27 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/s480x480/251875_406564079379805_21662476_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on July 15, 2012, 09:30:32 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/s480x480/251875_406564079379805_21662476_n.jpg)

"Ah gots mine!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on July 16, 2012, 12:17:54 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

What the hell is wrong with cyberpunk?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on July 16, 2012, 12:34:53 pm
Well see Satain de...I have no fucking clue.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on July 16, 2012, 12:40:44 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

What the hell is wrong with cyberpunk?

What is wrong with trilateralism? Or LOTR? Or postmodernism, vegetarism and alt "Comix"?

And if I could levitate I would. Because that would be awesome.


Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 16, 2012, 12:52:38 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

What the hell is wrong with cyberpunk?

What is wrong with trilateralism? Or LOTR? Or postmodernism, vegetarism and alt "Comix"?

And if I could levitate I would. Because that would be awesome.




My problem with post-modernism is that it's pretentious. But it certainly doesn't constitute demonic possession.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on July 16, 2012, 01:47:34 pm
If pretentiousness were an indicator of demonic possession, a whole lotta fundies would be agents of Satan right now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 16, 2012, 01:49:24 pm
Vegetarianism?  Really?

Re-birthing?  Isn't that the torturous technique quacks use on adopted kids to help them "bond" with their adopted parents?

Of course, it isn't a holier-than-thou ministry if it doesn't include the unholy trinity of video games, Dungeons and Dragons, and Harry Potter.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on July 16, 2012, 01:50:37 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

What the hell is wrong with cyberpunk?

Besides Scientology, Twilight films, and vampirism and lycanthropy (presuming the latter exist), what's wrong with any of those things on the list?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on July 16, 2012, 02:00:36 pm
Re-birthing?  Isn't that the torturous technique quacks use on adopted kids to help them "bond" with their adopted parents?

Yup. Though apparently it's also a quack medicine technique (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirthing-breathwork) that tries to free you of the trauma of being born (which you are repressing because of your cellular memory).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on July 16, 2012, 03:28:53 pm
Lycanthropy isn't evil! Grrrrrrr!  I'll eat you!  Arooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Um...

... Never mind me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on July 16, 2012, 03:30:13 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

What the hell is wrong with cyberpunk?
Have you seen third edition?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on July 16, 2012, 06:30:28 pm
My problem with post-modernism is that it's pretentious. But it certainly doesn't constitute demonic possession.

My problem with it is that it pretends to be more complex than it actually is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on July 16, 2012, 06:43:49 pm
Wow, it's a good thing I never learned how to levitate and never got bit by a werewolf!  Talk about dodging the demonic bullet!

Also, my friend is a Mason (he was actually in charge of his lodge for a year).  The very first requirement they have is that you believe and follow God, as in Abhrahamic God.  so how is a group, that requires it followers to follow God, demonic?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on July 16, 2012, 06:44:53 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

Pot parties, hahaha.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on July 16, 2012, 06:55:14 pm
Wow, it's a good thing I never learned how to levitate and never got bit by a werewolf!  Talk about dodging the demonic bullet!

Also, my friend is a Mason (he was actually in charge of his lodge for a year).  The very first requirement they have is that you believe and follow God, as in Abhrahamic God.  so how is a group, that requires it followers to follow God, demonic?

Because of the occult symbolism.  Clearly occult = Satan.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 16, 2012, 07:13:18 pm
Also, my friend is a Mason (he was actually in charge of his lodge for a year).  The very first requirement they have is that you believe and follow God, as in Abhrahamic God.  so how is a group, that requires it followers to follow God, demonic?

According to Jack Chick (http://chick.com/reading/tracts/1074/1074_01.asp), though you believe in your whole heart you are worshiping God, the higher ups in the lodge are actually turning your worship into Satan worship. Don’t ask me how that works.

That list looks like it is from a Chick tract. So Masonry being on it is no surprise.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on July 16, 2012, 07:28:07 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

What the hell is wrong with cyberpunk?

"Video games"
"Rock music"
"Heavy metal music"

I wonder if that applies to Christian rock bands and those NES bible games?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on July 16, 2012, 08:17:10 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

What the hell is wrong with cyberpunk?

"Video games"
"Rock music"
"Heavy metal music"

I wonder if that applies to Christian rock bands and those NES bible games?
Those games aren't very Christian (seeing as the SNES one literally is Wolfenstein)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 16, 2012, 08:51:53 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

What no Star Wars?? It did give us the Sith.
Quick, someone build us a temple to Palpatine, and we can install Ian McDiarmid as the head!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 16, 2012, 08:58:20 pm
"Video games"
"Rock music"
"Heavy metal music"

I wonder if that applies to Christian rock bands and those NES bible games?

Yes. Is all one great big Slip ‘n’ Slide on a Rocky Mountain Mountainside.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on July 17, 2012, 02:10:08 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

I can see the christian slant in most of those, but what the hell does being a vegetarian have to do with Satan?
Not to mention how do you keep away from skulls and bones? Technically you have those inside you all the time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on July 17, 2012, 02:16:27 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

I can see the christian slant in most of those, but what the hell does being a vegetarian have to do with Satan?
Not to mention how do you keep away from skulls and bones? Technically you have those inside you all the time.

It's a reference to a secret society that George W. Bush and some other poitical figures were in during college.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on July 17, 2012, 02:18:05 am
I can see the christian slant in most of those, but what the hell does being a vegetarian have to do with Satan?
Not to mention how do you keep away from skulls and bones? Technically you have those inside you all the time.

I think they are referring to the Skull and bones society. You know the "secret society" in Yale:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: StallChaser on July 17, 2012, 02:32:36 am
The irony is that a lot of early Christian beliefs (as in before people abused it as a means of exerting control) likely came from people tripping their asses off on mushrooms.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on July 17, 2012, 04:31:01 am
Or, recording their hallucinations as they died violently from malaria.

I like the old quote, don't remember who its from, but I think its pretty damned appropriate for that thing: The only difference between a cult and a religion is 1,000 years of murder.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on July 17, 2012, 04:47:38 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

What the hell is wrong with cyberpunk?

did anyone else read the part about "satan's components" and then have their eyes glance up at the boobles so prominent above the picture?

Weird for me as I'm gay.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on July 17, 2012, 06:41:44 am
Also, my friend is a Mason (he was actually in charge of his lodge for a year).  The very first requirement they have is that you believe and follow God, as in Abhrahamic God.  so how is a group, that requires it followers to follow God, demonic?

According to Jack Chick (http://chick.com/reading/tracts/1074/1074_01.asp), though you believe in your whole heart you are worshiping God, the higher ups in the lodge are actually turning your worship into Satan worship. Don’t ask me how that works.

That list looks like it is from a Chick tract. So Masonry being on it is no surprise.

Well, Chick is an idiot (I know, also the sky is blue).  We attended a meeting where my friend got installed as head of his lodge, and from what we saw, they are definitely Christian. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 17, 2012, 06:57:41 am
Also, my friend is a Mason (he was actually in charge of his lodge for a year).  The very first requirement they have is that you believe and follow God, as in Abhrahamic God.  so how is a group, that requires it followers to follow God, demonic?

According to Jack Chick (http://chick.com/reading/tracts/1074/1074_01.asp), though you believe in your whole heart you are worshiping God, the higher ups in the lodge are actually turning your worship into Satan worship. Don’t ask me how that works.

That list looks like it is from a Chick tract. So Masonry being on it is no surprise.

Well, Chick is an idiot (I know, also the sky is blue).  We attended a meeting where my friend got installed as head of his lodge, and from what we saw, they are definitely Christian. 

Well, obviously, they’re not gonna let you see how they’re really all upons for Baphomet, or whatever else they’re going for. That’s how you know they’re really sinister—they’re always acting so good.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on July 17, 2012, 07:04:58 am
Yeah they went through a lot of trouble setting up Christian symbols around the lodge for a bunch of people who don't matter.

Then again, my friend would probably be killed satanic as well.  Although he carries a Bible with him everywhere and prays before every meal, first thing in the morning, and before going to bed, he supports same-sex marriage, openly criticizes his own beliefs, insists the Bible cannot be taken literally or used as a basis for law, and accepts other people and their beliefs. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 17, 2012, 12:09:53 pm
You know the funny thing is that LOTR is on the list, ummm isn't LOTR heavy based upon christian beliefs?? Should just add the Chronicles of Narnia to the list, especially since Tolkien and C. S Lewis were buddies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on July 17, 2012, 12:38:50 pm
You know the funny thing is that LOTR is on the list, ummm isn't LOTR heavy based upon christian beliefs?? Should just add the Chronicles of Narnia to the list, especially since Tolkien and C. S Lewis were buddies.

I thought LOTR was kind of a rebuttal of Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis was a Christian, but I didn't think Tolken was.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on July 17, 2012, 12:48:58 pm
You know the funny thing is that LOTR is on the list, ummm isn't LOTR heavy based upon christian beliefs?? Should just add the Chronicles of Narnia to the list, especially since Tolkien and C. S Lewis were buddies.

I thought LOTR was kind of a rebuttal of Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis was a Christian, but I didn't think Tolken was.

He was a devout catholic but I don't think he put any of it into LOTR. Unless you count Gandalf coming back from the dead to be a Jesus allegory, but I don't think that every single character that comes back from the dead is meant to be Jesus.

Besides a lot of people have seen hidden meaning in the LOTR books, sometimes Sauron is seen as a Hitler expy with orcs representing germans. (The only "proof" I've heard for this theory is that JRR Tolkien lived during WW2 and therefore everything is Hitler.)

EDIT: And just for clarification, in my opinion catholics are christians. Seems like a silly thing to have to say it but then I remembered that some people on the mainpage at least seem to not believe them to be christians.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 17, 2012, 01:01:46 pm
I believe there is some Christian symbolism (http://www.leaderu.com/humanities/wood-classic.html) in LOTR, plus a whole lot of things that Tolkien himself lived through, such WWI.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on July 17, 2012, 01:36:24 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

What the hell is wrong with cyberpunk?
The problem is all of these things tend to be movements or entertainments that take time away from God or spiritual enlightenment, as far as they see it. I read Buddhist stuff, so as long as it doesn't control your happiness or harm others, who cares what you do?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dan on July 17, 2012, 01:39:50 pm
did anyone else read the part about "satan's components" and then have their eyes glance up at the boobles so prominent above the picture?
I was beginning to think I was the only person who'd noticed the boobies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on July 17, 2012, 04:52:40 pm
Too busy noticing the boobies to care about the list.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mechtaur on July 17, 2012, 05:27:12 pm
There is a list?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 17, 2012, 06:37:51 pm
You know the funny thing is that LOTR is on the list, ummm isn't LOTR heavy based upon christian beliefs?? Should just add the Chronicles of Narnia to the list, especially since Tolkien and C. S Lewis were buddies.

I thought LOTR was kind of a rebuttal of Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis was a Christian, but I didn't think Tolken was.

He was a devout catholic but I don't think he put any of it into LOTR. Unless you count Gandalf coming back from the dead to be a Jesus allegory, but I don't think that every single character that comes back from the dead is meant to be Jesus.

Tolkein was a firm believer in applicability (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Applicability). He didn’t put any intentional allegory into his work. He was pretty upset when folks tried to interpret LotR with any overly-specific meaning, whether it be Jesus or WWII. His work had its broad themes, but beyond that, it is for each individual reader to decide how those themes personally apply to them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on July 17, 2012, 07:28:51 pm
If I remember correctly, Tolkien was also quite adamantly anti-technology, sooooo...yeah.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on July 17, 2012, 07:31:23 pm
If I remember correctly, Tolkien was also quite adamantly anti-technology, sooooo...yeah.
Anti-industrialization definitely, anti-technology might not have been as solid. But then the guy did go through a world war, and those didn't do much to improve people's opinions of technology.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on July 17, 2012, 11:40:51 pm
If I remember correctly, Tolkien was also quite adamantly anti-technology, sooooo...yeah.
Anti-industrialization definitely, anti-technology might not have been as solid. But then the guy did go through a world war, and those didn't do much to improve people's opinions of technology.

He also saw what big industry did to his once sleepy farming hamlet when he came back from WW!. He saw it as kinda scaring the land. You can see that by the foundrys and factories of the Goblins or whoever and the happy little smiddy shops on the good lands.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on July 18, 2012, 03:50:15 am
He also saw what big industry did to his once sleepy farming hamlet when he came back from WW!. He saw it as kinda scaring the land. You can see that by the foundrys and factories of the Goblins or whoever and the happy little smiddy shops on the good lands.
The Scouring of the Shire was almost certainly based on this experience.

About Tolkien and Christianity, it's worth noting that he he actually brought C.S. Lewis back to Christianity after the latter had turned agnostic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on July 18, 2012, 04:42:10 am
did anyone else read the part about "satan's components" and then have their eyes glance up at the boobles so prominent above the picture?
I was beginning to think I was the only person who'd noticed the boobies.

I just noticed them.  Guess I'm handing over my Man Card again.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: e13 on July 18, 2012, 12:50:04 pm
did anyone else read the part about "satan's components" and then have their eyes glance up at the boobles so prominent above the picture?
I was beginning to think I was the only person who'd noticed the boobies.

I just noticed them.  Guess I'm handing over my Man Card again.
Noon, you don't need to hand over jack squat. Being a man should never be defined by noticing some breasts. Really! (The internets is serious business!)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on July 18, 2012, 02:15:34 pm
did anyone else read the part about "satan's components" and then have their eyes glance up at the boobles so prominent above the picture?
I was beginning to think I was the only person who'd noticed the boobies.

I just noticed them.  Guess I'm handing over my Man Card again.
don't feel bad.

Being Gay I only noticed them for the irony.

But now having read the list..

LYCANTHROPY? 

Exactly how many people practice transforming into another species?

(and no body modifications don't count)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on July 18, 2012, 03:47:58 pm
About the same amount who practice levitation.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on July 18, 2012, 05:08:36 pm

LYCANTHROPY? 

Exactly how many people practice transforming into another species?

(and no body modifications don't count)

There is, in fact, a fairly sizeable community of 'therianthropes' who believe that they are spiritually animals or animal-human combinations.  Most don't believe in physical transformation (key word: most) but they feel that they change psychologically, taking on mental aspects of their animal spirit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on July 18, 2012, 07:38:09 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-31405-1292819164-4.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-31405-1292818805-2.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-31399-1292818786-1-Copy.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-31275-1292818924-1-Copy.jpg)

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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 18, 2012, 07:55:02 pm
I wonder if they paid attention to the area where the KKK started in and resides, and what the strongest political concentration for that area is now?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on July 18, 2012, 07:57:40 pm
Wow...  you don't see that every day.  (Black right wingers)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 18, 2012, 08:02:42 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-31405-1292819164-4.jpg)

So do you want a cookie for that or something??  :-\
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 18, 2012, 08:15:13 pm
KKK: Dems may have started it, but who is in it now?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on July 18, 2012, 08:43:08 pm
Wow...  you don't see that every day.  (Black right wingers)

There is a small group of them that GWB dragged around to all the debates he had with Kerry.  Always stood on the Kerry side for some reason.  I am willing to bet money Romney will do the same. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 18, 2012, 08:48:34 pm
Wow...  you don't see that every day.  (Black right wingers)

There is a small group of them that GWB dragged around to all the debates he had with Kerry.  Always stood on the Kerry side for some reason.  I am willing to bet money Romney will do the same. 

Remember, there are gay right wingers too. And actually Romney did do the same. They were the ones cheering for him while the rest of the NAACP booed him.

In fact here is some gay teabaggers basking in the freedom of being second class citizens:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_t6rV3U9ZEHM/TFa7fPefTSI/AAAAAAAA340/dsCLckqY69U/s1600/unitea-fabulous-post.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on July 18, 2012, 09:45:02 pm
Ai yai yai...

Stockholm Syndrome?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 18, 2012, 10:31:42 pm
In fact here is some gay teabaggers basking in the freedom of being second class citizens:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_t6rV3U9ZEHM/TFa7fPefTSI/AAAAAAAA340/dsCLckqY69U/s1600/unitea-fabulous-post.jpg)

You know, it’s folks like this that make me wonder why there aren’t more folks clamoring for viable third, fourth, fifth, etc. parties. I mean, can’t see how they could possibly look themselves in the mirror to vote for a party that is so heavily weighted against them just because they might agree with that party on a few, far more inconsequential issues.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on July 18, 2012, 11:39:09 pm
Indeed.  All logic and common sense would point to the US having at least several viable parties to choose from that stand a chance in hell.  Of course, like the saying goes: "Common sense ain't so common anymore".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 18, 2012, 11:40:19 pm
In fact here is some gay teabaggers basking in the freedom of being second class citizens:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_t6rV3U9ZEHM/TFa7fPefTSI/AAAAAAAA340/dsCLckqY69U/s1600/unitea-fabulous-post.jpg)

You know, it’s folks like this that make me wonder why there aren’t more folks clamoring for viable third, fourth, fifth, etc. parties. I mean, can’t see how they could possibly look themselves in the mirror to vote for a party that is so heavily weighted against them just because they might agree with that party on a few, far more inconsequential issues.

They suck up to their oppressors because they perceive the few crumbs they get from them is good enough. Plus most of these dudes are white and rich so they get to enjoy upholding those things.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on July 18, 2012, 11:44:45 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-31405-1292819164-4.jpg)

So do you want a cookie for that or something??  :-\

Is this sarcasm?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 19, 2012, 12:29:46 am
Yes, that was sarcasm.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on July 19, 2012, 12:31:41 am
(http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/89/5f/895f8bc08ca5b4527dff1777fe3ff3ed.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/tLVn5.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 19, 2012, 06:50:38 am
They suck up to their oppressors because they perceive the few crumbs they get from them is good enough. Plus most of these dudes are white and rich so they get to enjoy upholding those things.

Well, I just figure the crumbs shouldn’t be good enough. If they want to be part of a Rich Assholes Party, they should want to be part of a Gay-Friendly Rich Assholes Party, at the very least. But I guess that just goes to show that standards are as rare as so-called common sense.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 19, 2012, 12:39:45 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7eqduLFpj1ry69dzo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on July 19, 2012, 12:52:49 pm
It's impossible to abort a teenager, FYI.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on July 19, 2012, 01:43:34 pm
It's impossible to abort a teenager, FYI.
Much to the disappointment of many parents since the dawn of time.  ;)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on July 19, 2012, 01:46:20 pm
It's impossible to abort a teenager, FYI.

Not impossible, but it is generally frowned upon by society and doesn't often involve a doctor's office.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on July 19, 2012, 02:19:43 pm
Also, lengthy prison time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on July 19, 2012, 02:26:21 pm
Also, lengthy prison time.
With most teenagers you could probably wrangle a justifiable homicide out of it with a bit of work. Always figured that'd be what my parents would have used at any rate.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on July 19, 2012, 02:40:29 pm
Also, lengthy prison time.
With most teenagers you could probably wrangle a justifiable homicide out of it with a bit of work. Always figured that'd be what my parents would have used at any rate.

"Your honor, please understand - she wouldn't stop rolling her eyes and making that disgusted 'eugh!' sound at me.  I can't be held responsible for my actions.'
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on July 19, 2012, 02:42:21 pm
This is reminding me of that one Onion post where they euthanize a teenager because she could only roll her eyes and text.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on July 19, 2012, 05:10:26 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7eqduLFpj1ry69dzo1_500.jpg)

............my brain hurts.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on July 19, 2012, 07:36:01 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7eqduLFpj1ry69dzo1_500.jpg)
You mean "1/3 of what would have been this generation, since the 1990's when today's teens and young adults were born, have been aborted"?

Fuck it, this image makes absolutely no sense.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on July 20, 2012, 12:26:29 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7eqduLFpj1ry69dzo1_500.jpg)


Anyone else see the glaring flaw that she wasn't aborted?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on July 20, 2012, 12:37:00 pm
Anyone else see the glaring flaw that she wasn't aborted?

I think it's a computer-generated image.

I want to know where they got the stat that 1/3 of pregnancies end in voluntary abortion. (Not miscarriage.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on July 20, 2012, 03:46:53 pm
I think it's a computer-generated image.
I sincerely hope so, because otherwise I'd feel bad for finding someone that creepy... could just be some bad photo shopping that did it too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on July 20, 2012, 04:17:57 pm
Okay, had a talk with my friend and found out I wasn't 100% accurate with that.  The Masons are Mostly Christian, but they allow you if you believe in A creator God.  Specifically, they will allow jews, muslims and Hindus, in addition to christians. 

I can see how acceptance could equate to demonic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: N. De Plume on July 20, 2012, 07:05:11 pm
Okay, had a talk with my friend and found out I wasn't 100% accurate with that.  The Masons are Mostly Christian, but they allow you if you believe in A creator God.  Specifically, they will allow jews, muslims and Hindus, in addition to christians. 

Well, I did not know that. But now I do. Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on July 21, 2012, 12:24:09 am
Anyone else see the glaring flaw that she wasn't aborted?

I think it's a computer-generated image.

I want to know where they got the stat that 1/3 of pregnancies end in voluntary abortion. (Not miscarriage.)

Wikipedia.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: zupper on July 22, 2012, 06:49:26 pm
Anyone else see the glaring flaw that she wasn't aborted?

I think it's a computer-generated image.

I want to know where they got the stat that 1/3 of pregnancies end in voluntary abortion. (Not miscarriage.)

I checked it out. In 1994 there were 1,429,577 abortions in US according to CDC. In the same year there were 3 892 000 live births. So in the fantasyland where nobody got abortion there were 1 429 577 + 3 892 000 = 5 321 577 births which would give "loss rate of" 1429/5321 ~= 26%

Obviously this calculation has nothing to do with reality.

http://www.abortiontv.com/Misc/AbortionStatistics.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005067.html
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on July 23, 2012, 10:23:40 am
Then say 1/4
also with this particular stat you have to take 1/4 off the top due to miscarriages
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on July 23, 2012, 02:36:12 pm
Hold on.  Are you telling me a quarter of all pregnancies in the USA miscarry?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on July 23, 2012, 02:58:23 pm
Well, there is a reason why they recommend that you don't announce your pregnancy until the second trimester, because of the chance of spontaneous abortion. Don't know if the numbers are that high, though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on July 23, 2012, 04:56:22 pm
I've read that it's more common than you'd think.  Though most SA's occur very early on and look and act like a normal period.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on July 23, 2012, 05:22:51 pm
There was a University of Ottawa study which estimated that up to 50% of all pregnancies may end in spontaneous abortion, usually before the woman knows she's pregnant. Other studies have shown somewhere in the area of 25% miscarrying by the 6th week of gestation.

These seemingly high numbers aren't really that surprising when you take into account the wealth of factors that can cause a miscarriage, particularly in very early pregnancy. Couple that with abortion, stillbirths, etc., and yeah, a good chunk of the would-be generation ends up never being born. I'm not sure why that's any more disturbing than the number of pregnancies and would-be children which never come to be due to contraception, though, as well as all of the people who simply won't exist because the right sperm and egg never met.

Also, I wonder how the stats for these would-be people are affected when one factors in the children who reach adulthood due to lower infant and childhood mortality rates and advances in care for premature babies, not to mention all of the kids who had the opportunity to be born thanks to better care (including safe, reliable access to abortion) for their mothers.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on July 23, 2012, 07:29:18 pm
There was a University of Ottawa study which estimated that up to 50% of all pregnancies may end in spontaneous abortion, usually before the woman knows she's pregnant. Other studies have shown somewhere in the area of 25% miscarrying by the 6th week of gestation.

These seemingly high numbers aren't really that surprising when you take into account the wealth of factors that can cause a miscarriage, particularly in very early pregnancy. Couple that with abortion, stillbirths, etc., and yeah, a good chunk of the would-be generation ends up never being born. I'm not sure why that's any more disturbing than the number of pregnancies and would-be children which never come to be due to contraception, though, as well as all of the people who simply won't exist because the right sperm and egg never met.

Also, I wonder how the stats for these would-be people are affected when one factors in the children who reach adulthood due to lower infant and childhood mortality rates and advances in care for premature babies, not to mention all of the kids who had the opportunity to be born thanks to better care (including safe, reliable access to abortion) for their mothers.

Don't forget that an estimated 30-70% of embryos fail to implant at all.  That's a lot of "miscarriages" that the anti-abortion crowd refuses to account for, probably because failure to implant is so hard to detect and thus hard to get accurate statistics for.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on July 23, 2012, 07:55:19 pm
Spontaneous abortion?  Good song title.

Also, not at all surprising, considering that a zygote (and, later on, fetus) is basically a cancerous parasite that relies on chemical chicanery to fool the mother's body into not destroying it like it would any other invasive organism.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 23, 2012, 08:09:02 pm
Spontaneous abortion?  Good song title.

Also, not at all surprising, considering that a zygote (and, later on, fetus) is basically a cancerous parasite that relies on chemical chicanery to fool the mother's body into not destroying it like it would any other invasive organism.

And yet, because of that, our species has thrived on... probably to too much of an extent, really.  (So whether that's a positive or a negative is up to interpretation)

The funny thing is, if that trait (a woman's body being able to recognize a zygote as a parasite and terminating it) appeared in the human species (and I'm pretty sure that's a non-zero chance, which means it probably has happened at least once in human history) it would quickly be removed due to natural selection.

Namely, not being able to reproduce means that the trait wouldn't be passed on outside of test tubes.

...Was there a point to my post?  Absolutely none.  Just the speculations of a tired dragon who thinks he's smart.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on July 23, 2012, 09:08:19 pm
Spontaneous abortion?  Good song title.

Also, not at all surprising, considering that a zygote (and, later on, fetus) is basically a cancerous parasite that relies on chemical chicanery to fool the mother's body into not destroying it like it would any other invasive organism.

And yet, because of that, our species has thrived on... probably to too much of an extent, really.  (So whether that's a positive or a negative is up to interpretation)

The funny thing is, if that trait (a woman's body being able to recognize a zygote as a parasite and terminating it) appeared in the human species (and I'm pretty sure that's a non-zero chance, which means it probably has happened at least once in human history) it would quickly be removed due to natural selection.

Namely, not being able to reproduce means that the trait wouldn't be passed on outside of test tubes.

...Was there a point to my post?  Absolutely none.  Just the speculations of a tired dragon who thinks he's smart.

Oh, but it does. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemolytic_disease_of_the_newborn)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on July 23, 2012, 10:04:25 pm
I wouldn't liken a fetus to a cancer or a parasite.  It's just... reproduction.  It's not going to live on its own if it's not grown enough systems or a brain sophisticated enough to control them all.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 23, 2012, 10:54:00 pm
I wouldn't liken a fetus to a cancer or a parasite.  It's just... reproduction.  It's not going to live on its own if it's not grown enough systems or a brain sophisticated enough to control them all.

Technically, it kinda is a parasite by the definition of the word, but at the same time, outside of asexual reproduction, that's kinda how things go.  It's a parasite that benefits us by continuing our species, if that makes sense, which is an instinctual urge for most humans.

Of course, not like that's super-duper important right now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on July 24, 2012, 09:54:21 pm
I wouldn't liken a fetus to a cancer or a parasite.  It's just... reproduction.  It's not going to live on its own if it's not grown enough systems or a brain sophisticated enough to control them all.

Technically, once the digestive tract is in place, the other organs and systems tend to develop at roughly the same time.  It just takes 7-8 months for them to develop enough that a baby has even the slightest chance of surviving ex utero.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on July 25, 2012, 03:06:09 am
Well, I'm not into the reproductive science.  The stuff I'm into (zoology) glazed over reproduction, but I'll take anyone's word for it who knows more about the strange process of reproduction that is on our groovy planet.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on July 25, 2012, 09:17:32 am
I wouldn't liken a fetus to a cancer or a parasite.  It's just... reproduction.  It's not going to live on its own if it's not grown enough systems or a brain sophisticated enough to control them all.

Technically, it kinda is a parasite by the definition of the word, but at the same time, outside of asexual reproduction, that's kinda how things go.  It's a parasite that benefits us by continuing our species, if that makes sense, which is an instinctual urge for most humans.

Of course, not like that's super-duper important right now.

So... a symbiote?  Physically it is a parasite - we just like to anthropomorphize and consider a potential human being as something irrationally precious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on July 28, 2012, 07:05:20 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/284574_10150404924088065_1238142_n.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/284332_10150404923478065_744573064_10370826_3378736_n.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/267227_10150404924678065_4079290_n.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/267227_10150404924668065_1448372_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on July 28, 2012, 07:44:20 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/267227_10150404924668065_1448372_n.jpg)

In fairness, Palin coined that one. New Oxford American Dictionary named it "Word of the Year" back in 2010. We may have a "strategery" situation here, only with a gaffe instead of a comedy sketch.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on July 28, 2012, 07:46:27 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/267227_10150404924668065_1448372_n.jpg)


Wasilla Barbie said it- it must be a word!

Refudiate your violent construction of buildings! Building a mosque is terrorism!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 30, 2012, 11:28:33 am
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/488072_10151051371093211_898796316_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sleepy on July 30, 2012, 01:48:13 pm
Yes, because Obama is clearly guilty of murder, torture, and illegal arrest of hundreds of people. I'm sure he's also founded organizations that led to thousands of murders. Great comparison.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on July 30, 2012, 02:34:34 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/488072_10151051371093211_898796316_n.jpg)

remind me again..

Under which President did an American Seal Team kill Osama?

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on July 30, 2012, 03:54:28 pm
Here's (http://news.yahoo.com/obama-aurora-billboard-everyones-talking-203448772.html) a terrible one in the wake of the shootings.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 30, 2012, 06:14:01 pm
Here's (http://news.yahoo.com/obama-aurora-billboard-everyones-talking-203448772.html) a terrible one in the wake of the shootings.

To be honest it does have a point, is it in bad taste right after recent events, yeah, but it still has a point. Also I do find it funny in coming from a lollibertarian, who's probably in favor of letting the poor starve to death, because they probably don't want their tax dollars going to "lazy bums".

Yes, because Obama is clearly guilty of murder, torture, and illegal arrest of hundreds of people. I'm sure he's also founded organizations that led to thousands of murders. Great comparison.

I'm really sick of the Obama is a dictator bs too. I understand the line can get blurry sometimes, but the jackass you're probably supporting isn't better either so...so let's stop the dictator comparsions(both real life dictators and fictional dictators).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on July 30, 2012, 06:23:33 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/418754_10151051761534481_1166209292_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on July 30, 2012, 06:42:39 pm
What's the GDP per capita in Cuba?

Edit: actually, better one. There's no gun control in Mozambique. There's no 'government tyranny' in Somalia. So why are citizens of both fleeing to social democratic Canada?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 30, 2012, 08:02:37 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/396852_10151044914108211_1983360416_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 01, 2012, 07:24:55 pm
And we have a new champion

(http://i.imgur.com/UMqJu.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on August 01, 2012, 07:33:09 pm
I would hate be on the same road/highway as that person, that's just an accident waiting to happen.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on August 01, 2012, 07:49:08 pm
And we have a new champion

(click to show/hide)

Don't you love how he wrote "lives and is coming back" in a font that one would closely associate with a zombie flick?

But if I were to give the driver of that minivan a message, it would simply be "Matthew 6:5-7"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on August 01, 2012, 08:08:30 pm
If ever there was an excuse to have a bag full of crowbars to throw at a driver...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on August 02, 2012, 12:32:56 am
that guy must really want to get to heaven.  shame he'll take another guy with him  People for the love of lolita please keep stickers and such on your back windshield to a fucking min.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on August 02, 2012, 01:22:14 am
If he's not been pulled over by the cops, I'd be surprised.  1. There's not much rearward visibility, and 2. the car is a total distraction to everyone on the road.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 02, 2012, 06:01:48 am
And we have a new champion

(http://i.imgur.com/UMqJu.jpg)

Someone's gonna have difficulty selling that thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 02, 2012, 09:46:44 am
If he's not been pulled over by the cops, I'd be surprised.  1. There's not much rearward visibility, and 2. the car is a total distraction to everyone on the road.

At which point, he'd no doubt cry persecution.

Edit:

Another possible champion.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/zx5dep.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on August 02, 2012, 02:00:26 pm
If he's not been pulled over by the cops, I'd be surprised.  1. There's not much rearward visibility, and 2. the car is a total distraction to everyone on the road.

At which point, he'd no doubt cry persecution.

Edit:

Another possible champion.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/zx5dep.jpg)
Not as bad as the throws are not blocking
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on August 02, 2012, 02:11:28 pm
The decoration itself is still a bit distracting, but it's not looked upon as seriously as reduced or impaired visibility.

Laws?  What laws?  ONLY GOD'S LAWS!

God: What about that "Render unto Caesar" thing?  Not to mention the closet bit...
Oy vey, you humans...

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on August 02, 2012, 02:13:22 pm
The decoration itself is still a bit distracting, but it's not looked upon as seriously as reduced or impaired visibility.

Laws?  What laws?  ONLY GOD'S LAWS!

God: What about that "Render unto Caesar" thing?

...

I was thinking that whole line about praying in a dark room  instead of proclaiming how faithful you are on a  street corner like a hypocrite.

I mean this is literally ON a street corner.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on August 02, 2012, 09:21:27 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/527076_386489258073678_1249832782_n.jpg)

...

Yeah.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 02, 2012, 09:23:57 pm
Heterosexual Awareness Month.

Also known as "Every month of the year"

Even Homosexual Awareness Month.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 02, 2012, 09:52:36 pm
We should probably invent a few new months just to make sure that the poor, persecuted heterosexuals are getting their fair share of awareness.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on August 02, 2012, 09:58:23 pm
How about Asexuals - when do we get our month.   :o
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 02, 2012, 10:00:44 pm
How about Asexuals - when do we get our month.   :o

There's no such thing as asexuals, only people who haven't had a good fuck yet.

...

Excuse me, I need a new keyboard.  I'm going to have to burn this one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 03, 2012, 01:13:36 am
(http://i.imgur.com/9f9N6.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/29kPc.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/MhqIz.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/E6lMZ.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on August 03, 2012, 01:15:20 am
I suppose us bi/pan/omni-sexual people don't get anything either.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 03, 2012, 04:00:35 am
(http://i.imgur.com/9f9N6.jpg)

I. Not we.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 03, 2012, 04:08:27 am
That person's marbles seem to have rolled everywhere without him realizing it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on August 03, 2012, 04:10:39 am

(http://i.imgur.com/29kPc.jpg)


This one is my favorite.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 03, 2012, 05:57:48 am
That sign is adorable.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Igor on August 03, 2012, 08:29:38 am
I think my inner editor just died from reading those signs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 04, 2012, 05:50:35 am
The drawing of Obama looking like Batboy is what gets me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on August 04, 2012, 08:35:34 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/422209_465144086837244_2085967851_n.jpg)

Can anyone make any sense of this??
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 04, 2012, 08:41:48 pm
Beelzebub is the president of the United States via the evil demon-possessed Obama.

Go register and vote for God's forces.

Don't vote absentee, you have no excuse if you do.

Fox News and Glenn Beck are literally truth.

It scares me how well I can translate crazy sometimes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on August 04, 2012, 11:03:50 pm
Odd.  I was going to do that if Zachski or anyone else didn't.  I guess I speak Crazy as a second language.  Didn't even need one of those Rosetta Stone thingies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on August 05, 2012, 01:50:42 pm
What if you live in a state that has mail-only elections?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 05, 2012, 02:42:42 pm
What if you live in a state that has mail-only elections?

I SAID NO EXCUSSSESSSSSSS!!!

...Seriously, that's probably how they'd think.

...

Oh wait, I translated that wrong in the first place, my mistake.

It means that "You have absentee ballots, you have no excuse not to vote"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on August 05, 2012, 03:33:05 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8a0ewcF0g1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)

Some people fail at science.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: VirtualStranger on August 05, 2012, 07:22:06 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/527076_386489258073678_1249832782_n.jpg)

There is just something perfect about this. Specifically, the way that it displays a complete lack a self-awareness.

What are you raising awareness for? Heterosexuality? I'm pretty sure everyone is already perfectly aware.

The gratuitous and pretentious Latin at the bottom is a perfect touch. I can just picture in my mind an uneducated redneck trying to make himself seem "intellectual" by throwing "God hates fags" into Google Translate. (for those wondering, I believe that is supposed to say "God created man and woman")
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on August 05, 2012, 08:23:31 pm
not a protest sign, but a t-shirt
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/481975_4346235816179_1042449625_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MaybeNever on August 07, 2012, 03:09:39 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8a0ewcF0g1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)

Some people fail at science.

GOD CREATED IT ONE MAN, FORTY WOMEN FOR A REASON.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on August 08, 2012, 10:29:28 pm
just had 2 people I went to high school with 'share' this one on facebook...

Quote
This morning I went to sign my dogs up for welfare. At first the lady said, "Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare." So I explained to her that my dogs are mixed in color, unemployed, can't speak English and have no clue who their Daddies are. They expect me to feed them, provide them with housing and medical care. So she looked in her policy book to see what it takes to qualify.  My dogs get their first checks on Friday. Isn't this is a great country or what ???

When I advised it was good to know they equated the worth of poor people with domesticated animal - and would they also like them to be neutered and euthanized?  I got an answer from someone saying 'yes' they thought that was a good idea too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on August 08, 2012, 10:36:36 pm
YAY!! Welfare Myths...apparently they've never heard of  The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Responsibility_and_Work_Opportunity_Act), it's amazing how willfully ignorant people are, it's like 1996 never even happened.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 09, 2012, 01:49:28 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8esfx979I1qemsppo1_500.jpg)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hlkbWT7d1qbydido1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on August 09, 2012, 02:14:24 pm
I never understood why people feel the need to plaster their political beliefs all over their car. Especially when they're stupid as shit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 09, 2012, 02:42:36 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hlkbWT7d1qbydido1_500.jpg)

I'm guessing this has something to do with the Olympics.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on August 09, 2012, 03:08:49 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hlkbWT7d1qbydido1_500.jpg)

I'm guessing this has something to do with the Olympics.
I think it has to do with march madness as for the communist regards how the NCAA gives athetlic scholarships
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bender_Rodríguez on August 09, 2012, 03:15:10 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hlkbWT7d1qbydido1_500.jpg)

I'm guessing this has something to do with the Olympics.

I'm pretty sure this has to do with the Penn State sex abuse scandal.  The Penn State fans are accusing the NCAA of punishing the school unfairly.  It's really shameful because they still don't get why they're being punished. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on August 09, 2012, 05:55:28 pm
I'm pretty sure this has to do with the Penn State sex abuse scandal.  The Penn State fans are accusing the NCAA of punishing the school unfairly.  It's really shameful because they still don't get why they're being punished.

Well, the argument can be made that the people who are being impacted most by the punishment are the students whose play on the field actually won those championships. They played no role in the cover-up but their team is now no longer in the record books and it leaves a black mark on their tenure with the team.

That said, the person to be mad at would still be Joe Paterno and his bosses.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 10, 2012, 02:50:43 am
That's standard anyway. If a team member does something bad enough (uses drugs f'rinstance), the entire team would be punished. And rightly so.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on August 10, 2012, 03:06:21 am
Welcome, Bender!  *waves*.

Yeah... that was off topic but hell, I'm nice.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bender_Rodríguez on August 10, 2012, 04:59:15 am
Welcome, Bender!  *waves*.

Yeah... that was off topic but hell, I'm nice.

Thanks for the welcome.  When I saw that shirt it just set something off for me.  I've been visiting here since way back with the old system and have almost signed up multiple times.  That shirt was the final straw.  Those people don't even understand why they're being punished.  Football was so big at PSU that they covered up a serial child molester to maintain the "integrity" of their football team.  The administration allowed multiple young boys to be raped so their precious football team wouldn't be damaged.  Now it is.  That's the lesson.  That's why your football team was handed the punishments it received.  To show that the those kids should have been more important than a freaking sport.  Sorry for the rant, but the past few years are really killing the joys of college football for me.

PS  I agree with you about Mark Martin.  He's awesome.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on August 10, 2012, 01:30:28 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hlkbWT7d1qbydido1_500.jpg)

I'm guessing this has something to do with the Olympics.

I'm pretty sure this has to do with the Penn State sex abuse scandal.  The Penn State fans are accusing the NCAA of punishing the school unfairly.  It's really shameful because they still don't get why they're being punished.

I'm actually with the Penn State fans (although I am one myself, so I'm biased). To my knowledge, not a single current employee of Penn State was involved in the scandal. I don't believe that the school as a whole deserves to be punished, when they did not do anything wrong.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on August 10, 2012, 02:01:41 pm
I'm actually with the Penn State fans (although I am one myself, so I'm biased). To my knowledge, not a single current employee of Penn State was involved in the scandal. I don't believe that the school as a whole deserves to be punished, when they did not do anything wrong.

But the same thing happens any time the NCAA sanctions an athletic program - the innocent are punished. Yes, it sucks for the Penn State players through the years who knew nothing about Sandusky's abuse.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on August 10, 2012, 02:14:51 pm
I would like to know why they're going with the whole hammer and sickle communist theme, when they could of done a fascist symbol also, unless they're trying to say that the NCAA are "liberals" or something of the sort. I'm sorry, I'm just sickof the overdone "commie" stuff done with political statements over that last couple of years...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on August 10, 2012, 03:42:45 pm
I'm actually with the Penn State fans (although I am one myself, so I'm biased). To my knowledge, not a single current employee of Penn State was involved in the scandal. I don't believe that the school as a whole deserves to be punished, when they did not do anything wrong.

But the same thing happens any time the NCAA sanctions an athletic program - the innocent are punished. Yes, it sucks for the Penn State players through the years who knew nothing about Sandusky's abuse.

The difference here is that what happened wasn't directly part of the athletic program. This wasn't a scandal over illegal enhancements or paying athletes. It was a sexual abuse scandal that happened to involve people in the Penn State football program. As my mom said, if Jerry Sandusky had been an English professor, would the NCAA have even gotten involved?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 10, 2012, 04:58:59 pm
Well no because it wasn't related to sports.  What Paterno and company did though...was directly related to sports.

Ironbite-hence why the NCAA stepped in and leveled the punishment.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bender_Rodríguez on August 10, 2012, 05:15:47 pm
I'm actually with the Penn State fans (although I am one myself, so I'm biased). To my knowledge, not a single current employee of Penn State was involved in the scandal. I don't believe that the school as a whole deserves to be punished, when they did not do anything wrong.

But the same thing happens any time the NCAA sanctions an athletic program - the innocent are punished. Yes, it sucks for the Penn State players through the years who knew nothing about Sandusky's abuse.

The difference here is that what happened wasn't directly part of the athletic program. This wasn't a scandal over illegal enhancements or paying athletes. It was a sexual abuse scandal that happened to involve people in the Penn State football program. As my mom said, if Jerry Sandusky had been an English professor, would the NCAA have even gotten involved?

No the National Collegiate Athletics Association would not have gotten involved if he were an English teacher since the English dept has nothing to do with athletics.  However when a coach of the football team is molesting little boys,  I think that gives them every right to get involved.  Yes,  Sandusky was relieved of his coaching duties after they discovered it in 1999, but they still let him bring young boys on campus for years afterward.  Like I said before, the school covered this up to protect a football program.  Those little boys deserved better than Penn State gave them. 

Now did the NCAA overstep itself with this decision?  Maybe, but I can't say I disagree with it.  This situation is infinitely worse than the SMU situation and they got the death penalty.  I think that this is the definition of lack or loss of institutional control.  You had an administration not only covering up but allowing a pedophile to continue raping little boys for over a decade after the first reported incident.  I was 100% behind JoePa back when he was fired.  After the Freeh report, I'm just sickened that he let this happen.  I feel for the players because this really isn't their fault, but the message had to be sent.  The safety of those children should have been more important than the image of the football team.  By covering it up they've tainted the image of PSU so badly that it will take years to fix.  If theyu had turned Sandusky in after the first report in 1999, think of how much better PSU would look right now.  It would be forgotten and people would have moved on by now.  JoePa's legacy is ruined, the schools reputation has been ruined.  Was it worth it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on August 10, 2012, 06:05:24 pm
It would be forgotten and people would have moved on by now.  JoePa's legacy is ruined, the schools reputation has been ruined.  Was it worth it?
Institutional cover up, institutional punishment.


I think a shorter version of what some people are trying to say is this isn't about the kids who aren't going to be playing on the team. It's about sending a message to the organizations they play for that raping kids isn't ok, no matter how good someone may be at their job. Or really any criminal activities. If you don't punish the organization those who remain will simply assume it'll be fine so long as they cover it up long enough for everyone involved to get out of dodge. The same kind of institutional lack of responsibility we see in government, or corporations.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on August 10, 2012, 11:54:59 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m828vabyR91rch2ido1_500.jpg)

White... Genocide.... Project!

(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m81t80YUNH1r3zat8.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on August 11, 2012, 12:19:59 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/297364_399821786746866_93432771_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on August 11, 2012, 12:22:16 am
It would be forgotten and people would have moved on by now.  JoePa's legacy is ruined, the schools reputation has been ruined.  Was it worth it?
Institutional cover up, institutional punishment.


I think a shorter version of what some people are trying to say is this isn't about the kids who aren't going to be playing on the team. It's about sending a message to the organizations they play for that raping kids isn't ok, no matter how good someone may be at their job. Or really any criminal activities. If you don't punish the organization those who remain will simply assume it'll be fine so long as they cover it up long enough for everyone involved to get out of dodge. The same kind of institutional lack of responsibility we see in government, or corporations.

Ah, I see. I happen to think that the reputational damage to Penn State was severe enough that the rational response to a similar situation in the future would be to report it ASAP, but that's a matter of opinion. And I think we've deviated from the main topic long enough.

On topic:
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/297364_399821786746866_93432771_n.jpg)

Yes. Yes I do. I don't LIKE abortion, but that's another story altogether. When it comes to social politics, I am a strong liberal.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on August 11, 2012, 12:33:03 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m828vabyR91rch2ido1_500.jpg)
I would post the "Won't you think of the white people?" image, but I'm too fucking lazy.

Seriously, I don't know if this is a joke or real, but all I know is that it's just as bullshit as that Heterosexual Awareness poster and it reeks of persecution complex.

Also:
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/297364_399821786746866_93432771_n.jpg)
...Yes, I support marriage for homosexuals and abortion. You guys are saying that like it's a bad... oh, this sign is telling you to vote Republican and to abolish LGBT(Q) and reproductive rights. Never mind.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on August 11, 2012, 12:41:14 am
http://whitegenocideproject.com/eu-must-commit-gencode-of-whites-in-europe-un-chief/
It's real we've found a RSTDT (and seeing as they think Islam is taking over Europe FSTDT) gold mine
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on August 11, 2012, 02:04:24 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/297364_399821786746866_93432771_n.jpg)

-thinks for a second-  ...Yup, I do.  As for voting Republican?  If I want to get fucked, I'll go to my girlfriend.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on August 12, 2012, 02:03:59 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7lhos2qNM1qapkmyo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: VirtualStranger on August 12, 2012, 02:52:37 am
Is that a shirt for toddlers?

Because I'm pretty sure babies don't have the most informed opinions on religion and gun control.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on August 12, 2012, 03:02:11 am
Is that a shirt for toddlers?

Because I'm pretty sure babies don't have the most informed opinions on religion and gun control.

You're never too young to fiercely defend America from gun-hating Antichrists like 0bama. (fundie-wundie speak)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RinellaWasHere on August 12, 2012, 02:20:19 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/297364_399821786746866_93432771_n.jpg)

I feel like you're expecting me to say no.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on August 12, 2012, 10:23:09 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7lhos2qNM1qapkmyo1_500.jpg)


Somehow I don't think it's very safe to give your baby a gun.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on August 13, 2012, 04:08:05 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7lhos2qNM1qapkmyo1_500.jpg)


Somehow I don't think it's very safe to give your baby a gun.

It's just cleaning the gene pool a bit early, that's all... >:3
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: myusername on August 13, 2012, 07:15:21 am
I never understood why people feel the need to plaster their political beliefs all over their car. Especially when they're stupid as shit.

"I don't have any bumper stickers on my car, because I don't want the causes that I feel so strongly about to be associated with my driving" - Roy Zimmerman
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on August 13, 2012, 12:59:33 pm
I never understood why people feel the need to plaster their political beliefs all over their car. Especially when they're stupid as shit.

Dunning Kruger effect.

Stupid people are by the nature of their being stupid unable to recognize they are stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on August 13, 2012, 03:57:23 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7lhos2qNM1qapkmyo1_500.jpg)
I'm getting indoctrinating vibes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on August 13, 2012, 07:10:54 pm
I never understood why people feel the need to plaster their political beliefs all over their car. Especially when they're stupid as shit.

Dunning Kruger effect.

Stupid people are by the nature of their being stupid unable to recognize they are stupid.

There's this SUV that's always parked at my town's mall that's covered in shit like "GOOGLE RON PAUL" and "REPEAL THE 4TH AMENDMENT!"
If I see it again I'll have to take a picture and post it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on August 13, 2012, 09:55:35 pm
There's this SUV that's always parked at my town's mall that's covered in shit like "GOOGLE RON PAUL" and "REPEAL THE 4TH AMENDMENT!"
If I see it again I'll have to take a picture and post it.

...so...he doesn't want a guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure by the government? :o
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on August 13, 2012, 10:19:45 pm
Now there's another thing I should tell my mother about Ron Paul...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mechtaur on August 14, 2012, 02:04:24 am
There's this SUV that's always parked at my town's mall that's covered in shit like "GOOGLE RON PAUL" and "REPEAL THE 4TH AMENDMENT!"
If I see it again I'll have to take a picture and post it.

...so...he doesn't want a guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure by the government? :o


Not when it is used to protect them filthy darkies.  ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on August 14, 2012, 11:22:57 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/404038_473674959317709_241456370_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on August 14, 2012, 11:47:45 pm
I can't even begin.  :(
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on August 15, 2012, 12:01:13 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/404038_473674959317709_241456370_n.jpg)
You mean a society where homosexuals are actively persecuted to where they have no rest? Isn't that the society most conservatives desire? And ever since Obama announced that he openly supports homosexual rights, no, he is not turning this society into one like Uganda.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on August 15, 2012, 04:48:50 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/404038_473674959317709_241456370_n.jpg)

Obama signed a law that makes homosexuality grounds for the death penalty?  When did that happen?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on August 15, 2012, 11:08:25 am
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/208246_10151094095519726_1114590820_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on August 15, 2012, 03:01:29 pm
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/208246_10151094095519726_1114590820_n.jpg)


That is in poor taste, but not wrong. Of course, the threats I'm thinking of are the asshat politicians who want to put up walls and deny anyone not a straight white male rights and, well, you get the idea.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on August 15, 2012, 03:07:02 pm
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/208246_10151094095519726_1114590820_n.jpg)


That is in poor taste, but not wrong. Of course, the threats I'm thinking of are the asshat politicians who want to put up walls and deny anyone not a straight white male rights and, well, you get the idea.

I will say it seems remarkably poorly targeted. I haven't seen many liberal militias attempting to pose a military threat to the country...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 15, 2012, 03:18:15 pm
I like how it almost seems to imply "Shoot 'im", but is actually referring to voting.

It's like the Republicans are trolling us now, ever since the infamous Palin-Gunsight and Political-Shoot-Out debacle.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 15, 2012, 05:45:04 pm
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/208246_10151094095519726_1114590820_n.jpg)

All elite US soldiers hate Obama! You should too!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on August 15, 2012, 06:00:05 pm
Citation, plox.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on August 15, 2012, 07:59:18 pm
I like how it almost seems to imply "Shoot 'im", but is actually referring to voting.

It's like the Republicans are trolling us now, ever since the infamous Palin-Gunsight and Political-Shoot-Out debacle.

That's only because they can't say "shoot him".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on August 15, 2012, 09:03:15 pm
I like how it almost seems to imply "Shoot 'im", but is actually referring to voting.

It's like the Republicans are trolling us now, ever since the infamous Palin-Gunsight and Political-Shoot-Out debacle.

That's only because they can't say "shoot lynch him".

Fix'd :(
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on August 15, 2012, 10:06:29 pm
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/208246_10151094095519726_1114590820_n.jpg)

All elite US soldiers hate Obama! You should too!

umm

won't this just remind people who told the seal team to shoo that one guy?

Or am I over estimating their intelligence?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 16, 2012, 01:39:35 am
Why are we glorifying the Seals for this? Did bin Laden put up a fight at all?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on August 16, 2012, 02:27:41 am
If its a fair fight, you made a mistake.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 16, 2012, 02:32:04 am
If its a fair fight, you made a mistake.

Good on the CIA for doing that then. The guy who pulled the trigger on an unarmed man was perhaps the least important part of the process.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on August 16, 2012, 02:47:56 am
If its a fair fight, you made a mistake.

Good on the CIA for doing that then. The guy who pulled the trigger on an unarmed man was perhaps the least important part of the process.

I'm neither congratulating nor scolding them.  They were fighting a war, he was the enemy, he got his head blown off, 'nuff said.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on August 16, 2012, 03:09:03 am
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/208246_10151094095519726_1114590820_n.jpg)
Uh, yeah. Barack Obama is as much of a threat to the United States as a kid with a water gun. Osama bin Laden and his men were fucking relentless. They bombed an Embassy in Nairobi, sunk a battleship near Yemen, and then his greatest Moral Event Horizon: killing at least 3,000 people on American soil with four planes. Barack Obama... just isn't doing the things we desire him to do and the things he said he would do. Hasn't killed anyone (and no, fetuses does not count).

Also, grow up guys. If Obama wins, let him go through another round in peace (unless he does something stupid). Your desires to assassinate him will not help your image other than to show how smug you guys are (and that you might need some serious help too).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on August 16, 2012, 04:58:49 am
It kinda doesn't help that Obama got in his first six months or year what Bush got in all eight for death threats and attempted assassinations...

And the right wing says they're not racist...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on August 16, 2012, 03:19:14 pm
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/208246_10151094095519726_1114590820_n.jpg)
Uh, yeah. Barack Obama is as much of a threat to the United States as a kid with a water gun. Osama bin Laden and his men were fucking relentless. They bombed an Embassy in Nairobi, sunk a battleship near Yemen, and then his greatest Moral Event Horizon: killing at least 3,000 people on American soil with four planes. Barack Obama... just isn't doing the things we desire him to do and the things he said he would do. Hasn't killed anyone (and no, fetuses does not count).

Also, grow up guys. If Obama wins, let him go through another round in peace (unless he does something stupid). Your desires to assassinate him will not help your image other than to show how smug you guys are (and that you might need some serious help too).
If I wasn't a conspiracy theorist, I'd say the right wingers are in cahoots with Al-Qaeda.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Undecided on August 17, 2012, 12:50:23 am
If I wasn't a conspiracy theorist, I'd say the right wingers are in cahoots with Al-Qaeda.
Not to be too persnickety, but I read this sentence three times and got four different interpretations.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on August 17, 2012, 04:57:45 am
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/208246_10151094095519726_1114590820_n.jpg)

Okay, I won't vote for Romney.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on August 17, 2012, 09:48:35 pm
If I wasn't a conspiracy theorist, I'd say the right wingers are in cahoots with Al-Qaeda.
Not to be too persnickety, but I read this sentence three times and got four different interpretations.
Dare I ask what those interpretations are?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 22, 2012, 12:18:28 am
Not quite certain where to put this, but I guess it kind of fits here.

According to the person who took the picture, a small town high school decided to post this sign following exams:

(http://i50.tinypic.com/6r1rnt.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RinellaWasHere on August 22, 2012, 12:19:32 am
Well, that's not insanely dickish or anything.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on August 22, 2012, 12:21:54 am
Looks good to me, hell they seem to be doing better than the school district here.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on August 22, 2012, 01:15:30 am
I think they're trying to point out that racism and classism affects society. But it does come off as dickish.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on August 22, 2012, 01:58:45 am
I believe the overall point was supposed to be "BLACK PPL R STOOPID LOLOLOL," though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on August 22, 2012, 06:56:40 am
I believe the overall point was supposed to be "BLACK PPL R STOOPID LOLOLOL," though.
I really wish people would bother to research the pictures before they toss them online, because that's a rather rough conclusion when all the black kids pass math, while no other group manages it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 22, 2012, 08:22:23 am
I think the point is that whatever point it was trying to make, it's doing so poorly because no one knows what the point it's trying to make is.

In short, "Hey, why the fuck did you put this sign up?"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on August 22, 2012, 10:33:50 am
When I see signs that are just out of the blue like that, showing positive scores, and they're not overtly assholish, just... "?".  I go "...Yay?"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 22, 2012, 12:33:02 pm
I mostly posted it because I find it really weird that a school would post a sign separating the students' scores by race, regardless of their intentions in doing so.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 22, 2012, 04:34:59 pm
Well I think it's damn awesome that blacks are kicking everyone's asses at math.  But yeah...the fuck is the point?

Ironbite-seriously what is the point nameless high school?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mechtaur on August 22, 2012, 05:56:36 pm
I mostly posted it because I find it really weird that a school would post a sign separating the students' scores by race, regardless of their intentions in doing so.

They only separated it into two races (and economically disadvantaged, which only confused me further). I'm not sure if they were wanting to show that African-Americans are not as great at science as they had hoped or if it was meant to show how well the school was doing by showing that their scores were pretty good.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on August 22, 2012, 07:26:54 pm
It may have something to do with the fact that test scores are categorized all kinds of ways, such as race, gender, age/grade, and so on. They probably chose a few of these categories to show and picked the ones that looks bad without realizing it. At least that is what I hope is going on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on August 24, 2012, 04:12:55 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/553461_10151044995978211_1191679611_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on August 24, 2012, 06:25:38 pm
Ronnie would vomit at your policies
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 24, 2012, 07:10:13 pm
Ronnie wouldn't have understood your policies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auri-El on August 24, 2012, 09:36:36 pm
Who knows what Ronnnie would do? There's never been a President with that name.

(yes, I know they meant Reagan.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on August 26, 2012, 01:09:00 am
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/551978_394319243957346_1838129511_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 26, 2012, 01:20:07 am
Hmmm... Would homocracy mean a single-party system?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on August 26, 2012, 01:22:29 am
You would think that. But it was posted by this guy.

(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/599962_267809463328459_269138155_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on August 26, 2012, 01:24:51 am
... what's wrong with going shopping? Being thrifty and saving money has been a manly thing since the 1800's when banking really got started!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: VirtualStranger on August 26, 2012, 01:27:11 am
"White teeth = Gay"?

I... What?

(http://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/pokemon-blue-version/b/b2/Psyduck.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on August 26, 2012, 01:32:13 am
Is this group trolling/?  Maybe one member is a troll.  On the plus side these assholes have awful teeth
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on August 26, 2012, 01:36:39 am
This person is most likely a self-loathing closet gay.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 26, 2012, 02:40:42 am
I haven't seen anything that stupid since two minutes ago. :|
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on August 26, 2012, 09:53:45 am
"White teeth = Gay"?

I... What?

(http://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/pokemon-blue-version/b/b2/Psyduck.gif)

Sounds like that idiot who calls himself "Wotan's Krieger", who says that frequent baths/showers is "gay".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on August 26, 2012, 10:12:17 am
Wait, just shopping in general is "gay"? I get where a homophobe would consider a man who enjoys shopping for clothes to be gay, though that is still stupid, but there are traditionally acceptable items for men to enjoy shopping for - electronics, cars, etc.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on August 26, 2012, 12:58:51 pm
I like going to J C Penney's and finding decent T-shirts for $4-6 on sale, and a pair of jeans for $12 that'll fit my ass.  When I can spend $80 and walk out with two week's worth of new clothes, I'm not going to complain.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on August 26, 2012, 02:20:35 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s480x480/546730_515357038490948_1248825221_n.jpg)

LOL

I like going to J C Penney's and finding decent T-shirts for $4-6 on sale, and a pair of jeans for $12 that'll fit my ass.  When I can spend $80 and walk out with two week's worth of new clothes, I'm not going to complain.
If you go to the Poughkeepsie store, there's a good chance you'll get to meet me.  :D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on August 26, 2012, 02:36:56 pm
Nick:  May come down there to say hi if me and my roomie are in the area at some point then... but we usually hit the one in Kingston.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on August 26, 2012, 06:03:18 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s480x480/546730_515357038490948_1248825221_n.jpg)

LOL

1) The juxtaposition is hilarious.
2) I'm betting this person is of the opinion that accusations of racism perpetuate racism. Look, the civil rights acts passed and now we have black president, clearly the 298 (give or take)* years of discrimination against and oppression of African-Americans has been undone in the last 44 (give or take)** years. Right?

*From the founding of Charles Town, which Wikipedia cites as the time when slavery in the future USA took off, to the passing of the Fair Housing Act in 1968.
**From Fair Housing Act to today.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on August 26, 2012, 06:41:11 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s480x480/546730_515357038490948_1248825221_n.jpg)

LOL
* ...Except everyone is still concerned about his Birth-certificate, but I feel like this is intended solely to discredit Obama like that whole "OBAMA IS KENYAN" balderdash.
** ...Seeing that it's behind a blue background and the color of the Democratic Party.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on August 26, 2012, 06:49:48 pm
]I'm not sure if "Heartbeat" has anything to do with the Pro-life rhetoric that "a heartbeat starts in [whatever amount of days]", even if the heart is underdeveloped, or if that was the car dealership that the driver got his (possibly used) Chevy truck from. I could be missing the point, so take this with a pinch of salt.

Chevy used to use the slogan "Heartbeat of America," so it could just be a general reference to a Chevy truck, not to a particular dealership
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 26, 2012, 07:00:46 pm
I don't know what point the other sticker is trying to say, other than "Democrats fight racism*, so vote Republican." Well, I still don't know because it doesn't make very much since, like all these stupid consie bumper stickers.

It's trying to say "Fight racism by voting Republican" because of this meme going around that because the KKK were founded by democrats, that the democratic party is the party of racists.

(I wonder if anyone on the right has bothered to notice that the KKK is now run by Republicans, since we're pointing fingers and all)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on August 26, 2012, 07:16:39 pm
You can actually pinpoint when the switch in racist allegiances happened - 1964, when LBJ signed the civil rights act.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 26, 2012, 07:20:46 pm
Nah, it was well before that, despite Eisenhower. I once saw the split put sometime in the 20s.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on August 30, 2012, 10:38:37 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s480x480/561082_431246236916992_397782313_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 30, 2012, 10:41:13 pm
I see they're still using that particular lie.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 30, 2012, 11:52:20 pm
Borrowing money from Americans to spend money improving the lot of Americans is totally just like stealing it from those Americans.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on August 31, 2012, 03:02:06 am
Borrowing money from Americans to spend money improving the lot of Americans is totally just like stealing it from those Americans.

Tch tch tch.  (wags his finger)  Fred, that's logical, and therefore of the devil.  We can't very well use that evil, Satanic reason to actually make people's lives better, that would make Jesus cry more than when little Timmy waxes his monkey...and that makes poor Jesus resort to cutting, as we all know.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on August 31, 2012, 09:59:54 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9mmsaX1yr1qm9cf5o1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Undecided on August 31, 2012, 11:51:48 pm
I don't know what point the other sticker is trying to say, other than "Democrats fight racism*, so vote Republican." Well, I still don't know because it doesn't make very much since, like all these stupid consie bumper stickers.

It's trying to say "Fight racism by voting Republican" because of this meme going around that because the KKK were founded by democrats, that the democratic party is the party of racists.
I don't think it's trying to say that: that particular argument is almost always specifically tailored towards Blacks, and there is no evidence of that here. In fact, given the inferred hostility to African descent in the other bumper sticker, the audience is probably White. There are a few other possibilities that I think more likely.

I think it is most likely referring to the large amount of support among Black Americans for President Obama. The driver probably perceives this support as the result of an unsubstantiated racial preference among Black Americans, i.e., as the result of what he would call racism against White people.

It could also be a plug against affirmative action. In this case, the driver sees himself and his race as losing out against racial minorities in institutionalized racial preferences. He would call it reverse discrimination, and see it as racism against Whites.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on September 01, 2012, 12:13:12 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9mmsaX1yr1qm9cf5o1_500.jpg)
Well, yes. How the hell can you perform such a delicate operation with a gun?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on September 01, 2012, 12:16:50 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s480x480/546730_515357038490948_1248825221_n.jpg)

LOL
Cognitive...dissonance...overload...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 01, 2012, 12:18:25 am
But you forget, they don't look at it as an operation, they look at it as MURDERING BABIEZ...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on September 01, 2012, 12:22:05 am
But you forget, they don't look at it as an operation, they look at it as MURDERING BABIEZ...
Now that I think about it, how exactly would that go down anyway?

Abortion doctor: Why yes, ma'am, I can dissect a fetus at fifty paces.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on September 01, 2012, 12:40:15 am
But you forget, they don't look at it as an operation, they look at it as MURDERING BABIEZ...
Now that I think about it, how exactly would that go down anyway?

Abortion doctor: Why yes, ma'am, I can dissect a fetus at fifty paces.

You gotta use baby skull seeking seeking bullets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osgrd1MPb7I

Please no gun arguments as it usually devolves into the kind of stupid in the video. Though as a commentor said the quote, "Lets say a bunch of punks go out in the woods and strap a bullet proof vest to a grizzly bear. What a ya got? Invincible bear," has to be one of the most awesome things I've heard in a while. You know what's worse than invincible bears? Invincible moon bears...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjgIxuVdo4

What looked like a political themed comedy sketch in 2008 looks like political reality now (moon base, invade Iran).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on September 02, 2012, 04:17:52 am
Don't think this has been posted yet. It's from the English Defence League, who are massive racists. So their banner has a tipple whammy of hypocrisy, irony and logic that a retarded pre-schooler could tear apart.

(http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/648204300.jpg?key=960720&Expires=1346574693&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=iBiCM9p~rzkTdAvLbLOTqpJIHBxcdpqlNy1tZc0ktclJUu03vFzXahf4mWO8K4THUOmwFQxwb09c4T8uVrN8L85DappMNHGk15TvHe-2yBgiER0SW6tYykLUDlfgxWmpOussEYawQQRJEaTmiSQdQ23o9v8~KsOeM6NUW3efhL4_)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on September 02, 2012, 04:52:51 am
Your picture no worky :(
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on September 02, 2012, 08:30:11 am
Weird, coz it's working fine for me. No idea what's going on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 02, 2012, 11:00:33 am
It used to work for me and now it doesn't.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on September 02, 2012, 01:42:58 pm
It's still working for me. Anybody got any ideas as to what in Smeg's name is happening and how I can punch the problem in the face?

Eidt: I'll try posting it from a different source:

(http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/01/article-1346511632090-14C93DB8000005DC-642545_466x310.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on September 02, 2012, 02:36:05 pm
(http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/01/article-1346511632090-14C93DB8000005DC-642545_466x310.jpg)
Ahahahah. Obvious rhetoric fallacy to shame into silence is obvious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on September 02, 2012, 02:43:10 pm
Love the templar imagery.  They claim they only hate fundamentalist Islam yet they call themselves crusaders.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on September 02, 2012, 02:54:03 pm
Love the templar imagery.  They claim they only hate fundamentalist Islam yet they call themselves crusaders.
Anders Breivik would be proud.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on September 02, 2012, 04:46:11 pm
See Christian fundies like him are good.   ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on September 03, 2012, 03:47:04 am
Love the templar imagery.  They claim they only hate fundamentalist Islam yet they call themselves crusaders.

Also, weren't the Templars a largley French organisation? Or at least founded by a French man? The sort of people who join the EDL are not known for their love for the French.

Edit: Also worthy of note I feel is that their beloved St George, whose cross is so proudly displayed on that banner as it's the English flag, was from the middle east. He may have been Christian but that still has a certain amount of irony for a racist group who focus their racism on poeople from the middle east.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: myusername on September 03, 2012, 03:15:11 pm
Love the templar imagery.  They claim they only hate fundamentalist Islam yet they call themselves crusaders.
Anders Breivik would be proud.

Yep. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/01/far-right-support-anders-breivik)

Quote from: The Guardian
A number of rightwing British activists have publicly praised mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik – one describing him as a "role model" – since the Norwegian extremist was sentenced.

Members of the English Defence League (EDL) and the National Front have voiced support for the 33-year-old, who was declared sane and convicted by an Oslo court nine days ago after killing 77 people in two attacks last year.

Kickboxer Darren Clifft from Walsall tried to garner support for a petition to free Breivik last week. The 23-year-old National Front supporter, who posts as "Daz MarxistHunter", left a message on Facebook stating: "[Breivik] is truly inspirational. He sacrificed his life so Europe might be free again from the clutches of Islam and cultural Marxism, multiculturalism and political correctness. I see him as my role model, what every European man needs to be in order for Europe to survive."

Another Breivik admirer, Nick Greger – who, along with EDL founder member Paul Ray, runs Order 777, which claims to bring together Christian resistance movements – wrote on Facebook that the Norwegian deserved a medal "for the groundbreaking performance to blow up his Marxist traitor government building".

So yeah, some of them have basically admitted it now.

Breivik on the EDL: (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/20/anders-behring-breivik-edl-trial)

Quote from: The Guardian
[Breivik] told the court that the EDL was fundamentally different from the Knights Templar (KT), the anti-immigration network of "militant nationalists" to which he professes to belong. He said: "The EDL is an anti-violent organisation supporting democracy and [opposing] Sharia and Islamisation and they have nothing to do with KT at all. You cannot even compare them."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on September 03, 2012, 05:48:00 pm
^ God damn, these people remind me of those far-right cuntjobs from my ventures through much of last.fm.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 03, 2012, 06:41:58 pm
(http://markosun.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/barack1.jpg%3Fw%3D1000)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on September 03, 2012, 10:00:09 pm
(http://markosun.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/barack1.jpg%3Fw%3D1000)

Well, thank god our presidential candidates are not Muslim or baby murderers, then.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on September 04, 2012, 05:45:03 am
(http://markosun.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/barack1.jpg%3Fw%3D1000)
Ambiguous syntax ftw!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 06, 2012, 01:33:35 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/422609_4593048867197_1129327506_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on September 06, 2012, 01:41:32 pm
And remember, if you consider government to be the enemy you can be a prick without any problems. Why fix something when you can just hate it instead.

Not that any of the things in there are really a fix, so much as an impressive amount of white whine simultaneously complaining about paying taxes and taking credit for what's done with them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 06, 2012, 04:46:24 pm
*licks the sign*

*contemplatively smacks his lips*

Yep.  Tastes like bullshit.  Where's the Serious Toothpaste?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on September 06, 2012, 07:43:24 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/422609_4593048867197_1129327506_n.jpg)

Yep. The green isn't emotional at all.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on September 06, 2012, 11:23:10 pm
The fuck?  That statement is factually true, how can you make an emotional appeal against emotional appeals in a statement that isn't an emotional appeal!?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Smurfette Principle on September 08, 2012, 10:30:17 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9zphs1ZQW1rt8sgdo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on September 08, 2012, 10:38:32 pm
That isn't much of a choice if one leads to eternal damnation.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on September 08, 2012, 10:57:45 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9zphs1ZQW1rt8sgdo1_500.jpg)

Ah, an Either/Or Fallacy? Okie dokie.

(http://i48.tinypic.com/23jkf9u.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on September 09, 2012, 05:08:54 am
I hope a church didn't make those or someone's about to lose their tax exemption status.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on September 09, 2012, 11:06:21 am
It's still working for me. Anybody got any ideas as to what in Smeg's name is happening and how I can punch the problem in the face?

Eidt: I'll try posting it from a different source:

(http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/01/article-1346511632090-14C93DB8000005DC-642545_466x310.jpg)

Y'know, honestly, I can't disagree with their main statement: No to Sharia Law/Islamic Extremism.
If there were any chance in hell the Brits might find themselves being forced to adopt Sharia Law, the first one might be an issue.  But it's not.
As for the second one: Fundamentalist or Extremist religious doctrine of any kind of harmful and needs to be disposed of.  Muslim fundamentalists seem to be rich in crazy and violent, even compared to other religions' fundies.
Now if only those two points were their only message.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 09, 2012, 08:00:42 pm
It's still working for me. Anybody got any ideas as to what in Smeg's name is happening and how I can punch the problem in the face?

Eidt: I'll try posting it from a different source:

(http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/01/article-1346511632090-14C93DB8000005DC-642545_466x310.jpg)

Y'know, honestly, I can't disagree with their main statement: No to Sharia Law/Islamic Extremism.

Indeed, and if that was their actual stance, we wouldn't have a problem with this.

However, their policy to counter Sharia Law/Islamic Extremism is essentially "deport every single Muslim (and for that matter, anyone who's not a native Brit) ever back to Iran because they ALL want Sharia Law and they're ALL extremists."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MaybeNever on September 09, 2012, 08:35:40 pm
It's still working for me. Anybody got any ideas as to what in Smeg's name is happening and how I can punch the problem in the face?

Eidt: I'll try posting it from a different source:

(http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/01/article-1346511632090-14C93DB8000005DC-642545_466x310.jpg)

Y'know, honestly, I can't disagree with their main statement: No to Sharia Law/Islamic Extremism.

Indeed, and if that was their actual stance, we wouldn't have a problem with this.

However, their policy to counter Sharia Law/Islamic Extremism is essentially "deport every single Muslim (and for that matter, anyone who's not a native Brit) ever back to Iran because they ALL want Sharia Law and they're ALL extremists."

Also their policy to look like 11-year-olds by using "u" instead of "you". Way to win me over, guys!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on September 09, 2012, 08:44:36 pm
(http://ti.org/HealthCareBanner4.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 09, 2012, 08:47:53 pm
I've heard of people getting deathly ill, needing health care that their job provides them, getting fired from their job because of being deathly ill, and so being unable to get the health care.

Not to mention, most of everybody's lives are being entrusted to organizations (health insurance corporations) whose best interest is making sure you DON'T get covered for health care.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Patches on September 09, 2012, 09:30:25 pm
(http://ti.org/HealthCareBanner4.jpg)

Conservatism: I love my country but don't you DARE make me take care of it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on September 09, 2012, 09:38:41 pm
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/539122_4558299676752_422391221_n.jpg)

I can't even decide what I hate most about this one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Undecided on September 09, 2012, 09:47:51 pm
(http://ti.org/HealthCareBanner4.jpg)
I await the fanfic in which the Doctor brings the Framers a half century into the future and across the pond to warn them of the nefarious Socialist menace.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on September 09, 2012, 09:50:22 pm
Somehow, welfare got capitalised.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 09, 2012, 09:58:58 pm
Oh no, you guys!  People might get healthy!  And we all know how angry that makes God.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: VirtualStranger on September 09, 2012, 10:11:07 pm
Why do these people treat hard labor as the end-all, be-all, ultimate goal of life?

Work is merely a means to an end, not the end in itself. If it's possible to decrease the workload without affecting production output, why is that a bad thing? Instead, they seem completely opposed to the idea of reducing the workload on the average citizen because somehow, working your fucking ass off every moment of your life is considered "noble".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 09, 2012, 10:18:17 pm
(http://ti.org/HealthCareBanner4.jpg)

Art 1. Sec 8. Of US Constitution
Quote

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Oops.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on September 09, 2012, 10:20:54 pm
Why do these people treat hard labor as the end-all, be-all, ultimate goal of life?

Work is merely a means to an end, not the end in itself. If it's possible to decrease the workload without affecting production output, why is that a bad thing? Instead, they seem completely opposed to the idea of reducing the workload on the average citizen because somehow, working your fucking ass off every moment of your life is considered "noble".
I've noticed that.  Amongst a lot of people around here, it's almost like a badge of honor the more hours you have to work.  "Oh yeah, well *I* worked 80 hours this week.  Take that, pussy, with your 40 hours... pfft."

LOL at the use of the big bad scary word "SOCIALISM".

I know I'm probably a minority in America... particularly in predominantly Conservative areas, but I'd rather work to live; not live to work.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 09, 2012, 10:44:56 pm
It looks as if they don't understand the concept of welfare as a social safety net to be there in case you fall on your ass, after all falling down is a part of life. Fine, assholes like that don't deserve to have anything, I really wish we can just ship those fuckwits to some remote island or something.

Also as to the healthcare one, I don't think it's a right per say, but it is a fucking necessity nowadays, and I'm in support of a system like what they have in Germany.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 09, 2012, 11:08:49 pm
It looks as if they don't understand the concept of welfare as a social safety net to be there in case you fall on your ass, after all falling down is a part of life. Fine, assholes like that don't deserve to have anything, I really wish we can just ship those fuckwits to some remote island or something.

Why ship them when they're perfectly willing to go on their own?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2012/07/30/getting-around-big-government-the-seastead-revolution-begins-to-take-shape/
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: starseeker on September 10, 2012, 07:51:34 am
It looks as if they don't understand the concept of welfare as a social safety net to be there in case you fall on your ass, after all falling down is a part of life. Fine, assholes like that don't deserve to have anything, I really wish we can just ship those fuckwits to some remote island or something.

Why ship them when they're perfectly willing to go on their own?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2012/07/30/getting-around-big-government-the-seastead-revolution-begins-to-take-shape/
AKA let's re-enact Bioshock
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on September 10, 2012, 09:00:08 am
Doug Bandow is an asshole.  Yes let's reenact Rapture.  I can't wait to see all those rich fat imbeciles realize that you need grunts.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on September 10, 2012, 08:18:59 pm
It looks as if they don't understand the concept of welfare as a social safety net to be there in case you fall on your ass, after all falling down is a part of life. Fine, assholes like that don't deserve to have anything, I really wish we can just ship those fuckwits to some remote island or something.

Why ship them when they're perfectly willing to go on their own?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2012/07/30/getting-around-big-government-the-seastead-revolution-begins-to-take-shape/
AKA let's re-enact Bioshock

Ooh, does this mean I could have my own Big Daddy? :3
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 10, 2012, 09:08:44 pm
It looks as if they don't understand the concept of welfare as a social safety net to be there in case you fall on your ass, after all falling down is a part of life. Fine, assholes like that don't deserve to have anything, I really wish we can just ship those fuckwits to some remote island or something.

Why ship them when they're perfectly willing to go on their own?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2012/07/30/getting-around-big-government-the-seastead-revolution-begins-to-take-shape/
AKA let's re-enact Bioshock

Ooh, does this mean I could have my own Big Daddy? :3

No, you're too old. But here's some slug plasmid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on September 11, 2012, 10:57:47 am


I can't even decide what I hate most about this one.

Am I the only one who hates it when people use the phrase "I'm depressed" when they're just upset?

Also:
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma3m8rKDn11rt8sgdo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 11, 2012, 05:51:39 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/527202_418309328233993_1090474889_n.jpg)

LOL, the tea party is so full of shit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on September 13, 2012, 07:53:28 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma5mm9iYBe1rfbtioo1_500.jpg)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma5mm9iYBe1rfbtioo2_500.jpg)

From the Republican party of Eric County. For all those gay bitches voting for Romney.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 13, 2012, 07:58:01 pm
I am turned on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: davedan on September 13, 2012, 08:08:30 pm
Wow it's like they live in a completly perspex closet.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 13, 2012, 08:10:31 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma5mm9iYBe1rfbtioo1_500.jpg)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma5mm9iYBe1rfbtioo2_500.jpg)

From the Republican party of Eric County. For all those gay bitches voting for Romney.

Those guys know good gay black-and-whites when they seem 'em, don't they?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on September 14, 2012, 10:49:19 am
...Wow. That's actually pretty hot.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kain on September 14, 2012, 01:11:28 pm
...Wow. That's actually pretty hot.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 14, 2012, 02:13:50 pm
...Wow. That's actually pretty hot.

I'm sure the person who made that thinks so too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 16, 2012, 07:37:37 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/s480x480/222016_526150614078257_1958396685_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on September 16, 2012, 08:25:32 pm
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ABUXVq0NSVY/TUXB1VibN_I/AAAAAAAAB18/xr6R2DU7ShE/s400/Holy+Wall+of+Text.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigma on September 17, 2012, 06:02:51 am
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/s480x480/222016_526150614078257_1958396685_n.jpg)

"LOVE NOT HATE" indeed...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on September 17, 2012, 12:52:41 pm
Whatta buncha wargarble.

Quote from: Sigma
"LOVE NOT HATE" indeed...

Yeah I immediately thought the same thing when I came to that line too.   

Crazy.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on September 17, 2012, 09:02:38 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/s480x480/222016_526150614078257_1958396685_n.jpg)

June is National Satan Month too? Great! Next year I'm going to bow down to my sweet Satan... in a circle of colored candles.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on September 17, 2012, 09:52:50 pm
My aunt does that too.  June 6.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on September 18, 2012, 08:07:54 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mak66gCO6w1r0j6p2o1_400.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 18, 2012, 08:49:04 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mak66gCO6w1r0j6p2o1_400.png)

Now that's appropriation ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on September 19, 2012, 04:28:02 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mak66gCO6w1r0j6p2o1_400.png)

Now that's appropriation ;D

There's more appropriation where that came from.

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_makl5gH56O1qftw3wo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on September 19, 2012, 05:49:56 pm
I don't get it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 19, 2012, 05:53:54 pm
They're trying to be funny about a topic they claim is serious by being racist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on September 20, 2012, 02:20:46 am
I don't get it.

They're equating genocide of the natives and lynching of black people to abortion and blaming black and native people for the higher levels of abortion in their community.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on September 20, 2012, 02:36:40 am
Whatever it is, as a person with Cherokee ancestry it pisses me off.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 21, 2012, 01:08:07 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s480x480/483324_319192138179248_712725900_n.jpg)

Classy, real classy...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on September 21, 2012, 04:48:09 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s480x480/483324_319192138179248_712725900_n.jpg)

Classy, real classy...
Can't tell if trolling or really stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 21, 2012, 05:04:31 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/s480x480/262887_223916561069361_973771918_n.jpg)

Fine, ok, can we have Bernie Sanders or Jill Stein...something tells me, you'll be even more pissed, if they were in office.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 21, 2012, 07:21:28 pm
What's AFP?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on September 21, 2012, 07:25:02 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/s480x480/262887_223916561069361_973771918_n.jpg)

Fine, ok, can we have Bernie Sanders or Jill Stein...something tells me, you'll be even more pissed, if they were in office.

Of course they'd be pissed.

Jill Stein is a woman and Bernie Sanders is Jewish.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on September 21, 2012, 08:26:25 pm
What's AFP?

Might be these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Prosperity) guys.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 21, 2012, 08:26:58 pm
AFP is Americans for Prosperity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Prosperity), better know as a bunch of Koch sucking teabaggers.
 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on September 22, 2012, 07:18:35 pm
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/247748_285090501594826_457320050_n.jpg)
Identifying as a true Christian too - wow
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on September 22, 2012, 07:27:20 pm
"If I were there, I would punch that douchenozzle in the face. Repeatedly."
                                       -Me on the whole thread, but especially that last picture.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on September 22, 2012, 07:53:33 pm
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/247748_285090501594826_457320050_n.jpg)
Identifying as a true Christian too - wow


I can just tell that this guy must be really popular with the ladies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on September 22, 2012, 08:15:03 pm
-dumb pic snip-
Identifying as a true Christian too - wow


I can just tell that this guy must be really popular with the ladies.

...

*squints*

That's a guy?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 22, 2012, 08:26:53 pm
Logical elimination.

He's not in the kitchen, so by his own logic, he's a guy ;D

(Seriously, I had to look a few times myself)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on September 23, 2012, 12:14:41 am
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/247748_285090501594826_457320050_n.jpg)
Identifying as a true Christian too - wow
I bet the back of his sign says "I need women to be obedient little doormats or I'll never get one."

He had better get back home to his basement because if his mom finds out what he's been up to he's going to get a very stern lecture (worse then the one when she figured out how all the viruses on the computer and Vaseline on the mouse and keyboard were related) and no dessert for a week.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on September 23, 2012, 02:04:11 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/408338_10151063381749205_779527230_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 23, 2012, 02:18:52 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/408338_10151063381749205_779527230_n.jpg)

BAHAHAHAHA! XD
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on September 23, 2012, 02:58:38 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mapo1lsgwn1rt8sgdo1_500.jpg)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on September 23, 2012, 10:02:18 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LgANDy7HimY/TpuJXfqFXVI/AAAAAAAAAik/g65H1cQBYjc/s1600/we-are-the-53pct.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on September 23, 2012, 11:01:36 pm
I call bullshit on her actually paying income tax while in school.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on September 23, 2012, 11:05:14 pm
If she really is earning that much money, she's extremely lucky. Perhaps she could be happy about it, instead of complaining about poor people existing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mechtaur on September 23, 2012, 11:07:32 pm
I wouldn't be surprised if the three jobs she is referring to are either work studies or three little 2-3 hour shifts.

Of course, this is assuming she is telling the truth and not exaggerating.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on September 23, 2012, 11:52:05 pm
And good luck getting a job with a fine arts degree once you graduate.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on September 24, 2012, 12:01:52 am
Honours college and misuse of equivalence? Standards, they are slipping.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on September 24, 2012, 06:44:19 am
I call bullshit on her actually paying income tax while in school.

If she is working a job for pay, the employer is withholding taxes. Of course, if her income is low enough, she will get it all back as a tax refund. So she may think she is paying taxes, when in reality, she is not.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on September 24, 2012, 11:05:41 am
I call bullshit on her actually paying income tax while in school.

If she is working a job for pay, the employer is withholding taxes. Of course, if her income is low enough, she will get it all back as a tax refund. So she may think she is paying taxes, when in reality, she is not.

That's actually what I meant although it was based on the assumption that your tax code is actually progressive enough to offer tax breaks and credits to students.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on September 24, 2012, 11:11:23 am
I call bullshit on her actually paying income tax while in school.

If she is working a job for pay, the employer is withholding taxes. Of course, if her income is low enough, she will get it all back as a tax refund. So she may think she is paying taxes, when in reality, she is not.

Which is exactly why a good chunk of the 47% she is being an elitist about doesn't pay taxes either....
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on September 24, 2012, 11:12:18 am
That's actually what I meant although it was based on the assumption that your tax code is actually progressive enough to offer tax breaks and credits to students.
You get breaks on your college loan interest, that you paid.

I can't think of any others off the top of my head beyond the earned income credit which is rather recent. She could well be paying a higher tax percentage than Romney.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on September 24, 2012, 12:30:29 pm
That's actually what I meant although it was based on the assumption that your tax code is actually progressive enough to offer tax breaks and credits to students.
You get breaks on your college loan interest, that you paid.

I can't think of any others off the top of my head beyond the earned income credit which is rather recent. She could well be paying a higher tax percentage than Romney.
A hastily Googled link for comparison:some breaks for Canadian students (http://knolt.com/tax-tips-for-students/)

We also don't get taxed (federally) on the first $10500 we make.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on September 24, 2012, 07:51:29 pm
That's actually what I meant although it was based on the assumption that your tax code is actually progressive enough to offer tax breaks and credits to students.

There actually is a tax credit for students. I never got to take it because my income while in school amounted to about $12/year. IIRC, the credit is $3000 or $4000.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on September 26, 2012, 11:07:29 pm
Blaaaaaaaaaaah
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 26, 2012, 11:40:51 pm
I think the sign needs to be fixed a bit.

"It is wrong to tax a working person almost to the breaking point, and then give it to the person who makes all of his profit off of the working person without having to work himself."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on September 28, 2012, 01:11:00 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/p6OiJ.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mechtaur on September 28, 2012, 02:58:30 pm
(http://library.cqpress.com.proxy2.ulib.iupui.edu/cqresearcher/file.php?path=/images/CQ_Researcher/r20120921-cover.jpg)

Authentication needed?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on September 28, 2012, 03:12:50 pm
If you're asking if it's real--I found it in an article about the Affordable Care Act in the CQ Reseacher.  It was an anti-ACA protester outside of the Supreme Court building on the day that the SCOTUS handed down their ruling.

It's real.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: VirtualStranger on September 28, 2012, 03:18:25 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LgANDy7HimY/TpuJXfqFXVI/AAAAAAAAAik/g65H1cQBYjc/s1600/we-are-the-53pct.jpg)

"Yeah, fuck those retired seniors and military veterans and poor people working three jobs! How dare those lazy shits steal from the real hard-working Americans like me."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mechtaur on September 28, 2012, 03:20:40 pm
If you're asking if it's real--I found it in an article about the Affordable Care Act in the CQ Reseacher.  It was an anti-ACA protester outside of the Supreme Court building on the day that the SCOTUS handed down their ruling.

It's real.

No, I meant as in it keeps asking for authentication before I can enter.


EDIT: Aw, working now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on September 28, 2012, 03:21:34 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LgANDy7HimY/TpuJXfqFXVI/AAAAAAAAAik/g65H1cQBYjc/s1600/we-are-the-53pct.jpg)

"Yeah, fuck those retired seniors and military veterans and poor people working three jobs! How dare those lazy shits steal from the real hard-working Americans like me."

That 53% quote isn't even accurate. 81% of the country pays it's taxes.

edit to add relevant info graphic:

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_malw0h2V1G1qiin6uo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on September 28, 2012, 03:24:38 pm
If you're asking if it's real--I found it in an article about the Affordable Care Act in the CQ Reseacher.  It was an anti-ACA protester outside of the Supreme Court building on the day that the SCOTUS handed down their ruling.

It's real.

No, I meant as in it keeps asking for authentication before I can enter.

Ah, that's probably because I linked it directly from the CQ page, which requires a login.

I moved the image to imgur.  Is it working now?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 28, 2012, 06:23:46 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/305008_497012486976374_476958236_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MrsYoungie on September 28, 2012, 09:32:29 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LgANDy7HimY/TpuJXfqFXVI/AAAAAAAAAik/g65H1cQBYjc/s1600/we-are-the-53pct.jpg)

"Yeah, fuck those retired seniors and military veterans and poor people working three jobs! How dare those lazy shits steal from the real hard-working Americans like me."
And she's taking Fine Arts?  She'd better get ready to unemployed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on September 28, 2012, 10:50:41 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LgANDy7HimY/TpuJXfqFXVI/AAAAAAAAAik/g65H1cQBYjc/s1600/we-are-the-53pct.jpg)

"Yeah, fuck those retired seniors and military veterans and poor people working three jobs! How dare those lazy shits steal from the real hard-working Americans like me."
And she's taking Fine Arts?  She'd better get ready to unemployed.

Unless she's going for an MRS degree.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on September 29, 2012, 09:14:15 pm
What does MRS stand for?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on September 29, 2012, 10:39:04 pm
What does MRS stand for?

Mrs.

As in, she's only looking for a husband
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on September 30, 2012, 09:43:33 am
Nothing wrong with a fine arts degree.  Still an asshole though
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on September 30, 2012, 09:56:28 am
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/305008_497012486976374_476958236_n.jpg)

AMC was sold to the RED Chinese. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on September 30, 2012, 10:14:13 am
Also yes Romney invested in Toys r Us but also in KB Toys which closed down.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 30, 2012, 03:47:48 pm
So...Romney invested in already-established companies, and Obama took chances that ultimately didn't pan out.

Least Obama knows how to takes risks, and invests in something with a bit more use than fucking Burger King.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on September 30, 2012, 04:52:09 pm
So...Romney invested in already-established companies, and Obama took chances that ultimately didn't pan out.

Least Obama knows how to takes risks, and invests in something with a bit more use than fucking Burger King.
In romney's defense staples was having a lot of issues
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on September 30, 2012, 06:01:22 pm
Now it's my turn to explain why that image is stupid.

* I'm not sure what Bill Hicks would say about Barack Obama if he is still alive to this day, but what I do know is that the things he would say about Mitt Romney, his policies and Bain Capital would certainly not be very pretty.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on September 30, 2012, 08:38:26 pm
So...Romney invested in already-established companies, and Obama took chances that ultimately didn't pan out.

Least Obama knows how to takes risks, and invests in something with a bit more use than fucking Burger King.
In romney's defense staples was having a lot of issues

Bain nearly ran Domino's into the ground, until they brought the founder back to save it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on September 30, 2012, 08:45:47 pm
Did anyone ever say why Solyndra failed? Solyndra was a hedge against the conservative-predicted lack of promise in conventional solar power. The hedge failed: solar panels have halved in cost every year for the last ten. So their alternative model because commercially unviable.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on September 30, 2012, 09:18:19 pm
So...Romney invested in already-established companies, and Obama took chances that ultimately didn't pan out.

Least Obama knows how to takes risks, and invests in something with a bit more use than fucking Burger King.
In romney's defense staples was having a lot of issues

Bain nearly ran Domino's into the ground, until they brought the founder back to save it.
Wish they did (that was the Pizza my HS used)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MrsYoungie on October 01, 2012, 04:44:37 pm
Nothing wrong with a fine arts degree.  Still an asshole though
Agreed.  However, I know one person who turned a fine arts degree into big bucks.  Became an art appraiser for a major art dealer.
One.
Most fine arts students are not in it for the money.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on October 01, 2012, 09:57:47 pm
(http://www.zephoria.org/images/blog/2012/09/RacistSubwaySign.jpeg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 01, 2012, 10:28:49 pm
(http://www.zephoria.org/images/blog/2012/09/RacistSubwaySign.jpeg)

The savage?

The savage!?

Excuse me, allow me to call on what little Native American blood I have for my utter indignation.  Actually, no, better idea, allow me to call upon my basic human empathy which you seem to utterly lack you insignificant shite!

Who are you to decide who is "The Savage"?  Do you even have the slightest inkling of what is going on in this situation?

The only "savages" here are bigoted numbskulls like you!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on October 02, 2012, 02:05:34 am
Not this Islamophobic black and white morality balderdash again... *sigh*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: VirtualStranger on October 02, 2012, 02:14:15 am
http://www.zephoria.org/images/blog/2012/09/RacistSubwaySign.jpeg (http://www.zephoria.org/images/blog/2012/09/RacistSubwaySign.jpeg)

These ads are already getting defaced.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/25/903431/pam-geller-new-york-ads-racist/?mobile=nc
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/09/subway-ad-gets-a-make-over-revealing-its-true-character.html

Quote
For what it’s worth, Pam Geller’s group originally won the right to post 10 of the “savages” posters around New York City. As of this writing, all 10 have been torn, defaced or completely taken down.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on October 02, 2012, 02:27:06 am
http://www.zephoria.org/images/blog/2012/09/RacistSubwaySign.jpeg (http://www.zephoria.org/images/blog/2012/09/RacistSubwaySign.jpeg)

These ads are already getting defaced.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/25/903431/pam-geller-new-york-ads-racist/?mobile=nc
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/09/subway-ad-gets-a-make-over-revealing-its-true-character.html

Quote
For what it’s worth, Pam Geller’s group originally won the right to post 10 of the “savages” posters around New York City. As of this writing, all 10 have been torn, defaced or completely taken down.

I find this to be an interesting First Amendment study, really. On the one hand, it is the right of the douche bags to say stupid shit and thereby put up those posters. However, I also find the defacement (sans the tearing them down) to also be a matter of First Amendment rights. The Racist and Hate Speech stickers they're sticking on them strike me as responses to this stupidity. And while I think they have a right to spout their stupidity in the form of putting up these signs, I don't think they should be shielded from the consequences of their stupidity.

The right to free speech allows the douche bags to say what they want but it also allows everyone else to point and call them douche bags.

My take on this, anyway. Don't read much into it, I am very sleepy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 02, 2012, 04:24:00 am
Considering I consider the signs to be a defacement of basic human dignity, I think it's understandable that I consider the defacement of defacement to be perfectly fine.

...Nah, nothing as pretentious as that.  It's good ol' fashioned schadenfreude, and I shall enjoy every second of that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on October 02, 2012, 10:09:18 am

I find this to be an interesting First Amendment study, really. On the one hand, it is the right of the douche bags to say stupid shit and thereby put up those posters. However, I also find the defacement (sans the tearing them down) to also be a matter of First Amendment rights. The Racist and Hate Speech stickers they're sticking on them strike me as responses to this stupidity. And while I think they have a right to spout their stupidity in the form of putting up these signs, I don't think they should be shielded from the consequences of their stupidity.

The right to free speech allows the douche bags to say what they want but it also allows everyone else to point and call them douche bags.

My take on this, anyway. Don't read much into it, I am very sleepy.

It's a beautiful thing, isn't it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on October 02, 2012, 10:27:33 am
For clairification the racist stickers they say are bad cause they didnt get a permit
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on October 02, 2012, 03:59:00 pm
Is it just me, or is anyone else using Firefox getting a "THIS IS AN ATTACK PAGE" warning when they try to go to ThinkProgress?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sleepy on October 02, 2012, 04:03:52 pm
Is it just me, or is anyone else using Firefox getting a "THIS IS AN ATTACK PAGE" warning when they try to go to ThinkProgress?

I get the same thing. "Of the 3233 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 11 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on October 02, 2012, 07:50:19 pm
Ok, I didn't get a chance to take any pictures(I was on my way to work), but the Democratic nominee for the congressional district I live in held a press conference, and there were a few anti-choice idiots protesting. One sign read: Stop Obama's war on Catholicism.
Hey asshat, what about Catholicism's war on women?? Stop throwing a hissy fit over that your insurance companies have to provide birth control coverage for women who choose to use it. What part of it will prevent abortions don't you fucking understand?? Also what part does not everyone who uses birth control uses it for sex, some women have lady parts that don't function that well?? Don't cry about religious liberty, when you're not respecting the liberty of others in what they do in private, liberty is a two way street, honey. Yet another reason why religion has no fucking place in the medical field.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on October 02, 2012, 08:17:16 pm
Re the Savages poster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0vJkw4sfP4
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on October 03, 2012, 05:17:43 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbc3wlfjxS1qkrk1mo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on October 03, 2012, 07:33:00 pm
Alas, I'm not white.  I'm sort of a pale pinkishtanbeige color.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 03, 2012, 08:33:44 pm
I'm as pale as a vampire and I don't think I'm "white" enough for these people XD
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on October 07, 2012, 10:50:36 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/487602_443039439095467_207634684_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on October 08, 2012, 12:36:28 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbc3wlfjxS1qkrk1mo1_500.jpg)
Thing is, I already embrace my heritage. I just do it without being an ass.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on October 08, 2012, 12:52:06 am
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbc3wlfjxS1qkrk1mo1_500.jpg (http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbc3wlfjxS1qkrk1mo1_500.jpg)
Thing is, I already embrace my heritage. I just do it without being an ass.
Ditto.

And I should also mention that being part Cherokee... oh yeah. Of course I would be subject to No True Scotsman attacks by such people because I have one "Exotic" ethnicity in my heritage. Racist assholes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 08, 2012, 01:09:33 am
I wonder how many of those supremists have a truly white heritage.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on October 08, 2012, 01:25:20 am
And how many of them actually KNOW anything about their European heritage?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on October 08, 2012, 06:50:32 pm
I wonder how many of those supremists have a truly white heritage.

Especially considering that after 3 generations with no further race mixing, it becomes impossible to tell that one of your ancestors was of a different skin tone.  Even if they were jet-black and the rest of your family was lily-white.

That's right, racists, your great-great-grandma could be black and you'd never know.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on October 08, 2012, 08:20:47 pm
My great great grandma on my mother's side was an injun.  Hey ya hey ya hey. 

*Scalps the L*

*Opens a casino*

*Does other various stereotypical things*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on October 10, 2012, 04:33:11 am
(http://www.zephoria.org/images/blog/2012/09/RacistSubwaySign.jpeg)

As far as I'm concerned, they're all civilized, but they're also all stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on October 10, 2012, 09:14:01 pm
(http://www.zephoria.org/images/blog/2012/09/RacistSubwaySign.jpeg)

As far as I'm concerned, they're all civilized, but they're also all stupid.

And Ayn Rand-worshipping assholes can fuck all kinds of off.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on October 10, 2012, 09:32:10 pm
(http://www.zephoria.org/images/blog/2012/09/RacistSubwaySign.jpeg)

For instance, we should support the 'civilised' Germany against the 'savage' Hottentots?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on October 12, 2012, 09:26:16 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/430417_166838296788457_686273058_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on October 12, 2012, 09:43:19 pm
That better not be an official shirt
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on October 12, 2012, 11:12:14 pm
That better not be an official shirt
Why not? Makes it easier to tell who the racist supporters are.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on October 12, 2012, 11:33:57 pm
No i mean as in the romney campaign produced the shirt so they actively promote racism
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on October 13, 2012, 12:07:31 am
I think some random asshat made, and it's not official, but it still proves how much they can be douches.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on October 13, 2012, 12:12:57 am
No i mean as in the romney campaign produced the shirt so they actively promote racism
That's what I mean. Wouldn't surprise me at all.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on October 13, 2012, 01:09:30 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/430417_166838296788457_686273058_n.jpg)
Oh my, I was just about to post that. At the very least I hope Obama wins just to see the reaction of people like this.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 13, 2012, 03:29:42 pm
...wait, is that a Skinhead?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on October 13, 2012, 06:28:19 pm
...wait, is that a Skinhead?

Yeah, looks like the racist kind. From what I understand, you can tell apart the racist skinheads from the non-racist skinheads by their shoelaces and boot brands. I'm just basing this assessment off of the revolting nonsense on his shirt.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on October 16, 2012, 12:05:25 am
(http://www.dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Obama-sign-copy.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 16, 2012, 12:08:55 am
Your signature works far too well with that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on October 16, 2012, 12:31:27 am
Your signature works far too well with that.
It really does, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mechtaur on October 16, 2012, 01:48:41 am
Your signature works far too well with that.
It really does, doesn't it?

It pulled it all together for me.

At first, I didn't even noticed that is was your siggie.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RinellaWasHere on October 16, 2012, 01:11:22 pm
I don't know, I'm not sure the GIF works. To really dance "Romeny Style", you'd need to switch styles every time someone looked at you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: starseeker on October 16, 2012, 05:22:50 pm
I don't know, I'm not sure the GIF works. To really dance "Romeny Style", you'd need to switch styles every time someone looked at you.

So a quantum dance?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RinellaWasHere on October 16, 2012, 05:49:05 pm
If Romney is talking in the forest and no one is listening, does he still lie?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on October 16, 2012, 06:41:26 pm
(http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/Mathew_2010/NOM.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on October 16, 2012, 11:30:08 pm
....Anyone else notice that he took the time to draw the gay dudes making out?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on October 17, 2012, 10:43:45 am
....Anyone else notice that he took the time to draw the gay dudes making out?
And he seems to have put more effort into it than he spent on Adam and Eve.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on October 17, 2012, 11:12:37 am
You know you've drawn a quality cartoon when you have to write "turn over" with an arrow pointing to the edge of the page, like a note written by a 12 year old girl.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on October 21, 2012, 12:43:53 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/534483_358890014198574_1065779371_n.jpg)

This lovely bs came from my uncle's facebook page...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on October 21, 2012, 02:54:15 pm
Um Obama's sanctions are working as Iran is broke and I lost them already.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on October 21, 2012, 04:10:36 pm
....Anyone else notice that he took the time to draw the gay dudes making out?
And he seems to have put more effort into it than he spent on Adam and Eve.

So I'm not the only one to catch that!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on October 21, 2012, 04:52:33 pm
Um Obama's sanctions are working as Iran is broke and I lost them already.

I never got the whole "Obama is anti-Israel" bs, though the photo originally came  from a pro-Netanyahu page, so take from that what you will.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on October 21, 2012, 05:30:43 pm
That explains it Netanyahu does not want to give up anything
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on October 22, 2012, 10:53:12 pm
I never got the whole "Obama is anti-Israel" bs

Well, he's a Secret Muslim, so of course he's anti-Israel!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on October 23, 2012, 08:30:46 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/Or3Ag_zpscc73772e.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on October 23, 2012, 08:39:27 am
Well the only thing he can see is white out the back of his car. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on October 23, 2012, 10:53:31 am
He might as well have wrote, "I'm a racist bastard."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on October 23, 2012, 12:24:28 pm
He might as well have wrote, "I'm a racist bastard."
That's how I read it. My brain automatically translated those words in that order to mean "Dude's a racist fuckwad. Ignore now."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on October 23, 2012, 01:44:43 pm
There seem to be police stickers on that car.  This worries me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on October 23, 2012, 01:57:44 pm
There seem to be police stickers on that car.  This worries me.

I don't think so. Not sure what the multi-colored one is. The yellow circle may be something related to police, but most of those, you don't have to be a cop to have it. The blue and black is leather pride.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on October 23, 2012, 02:04:00 pm
I thought it was a flag in honor of police officers who were killed or wounded in the line of duty:  The police flag of courage (http://motorcyclestuff.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/police-flag-of-courage-thin-blue-line/).  Though, looking at it closer, the blue line seems to be a lot thicker in the one on the car.

(http://motorcyclestuff.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/sp4-thin-blue-line_sm.jpg?w=490)

The gold one looks like a Fraternal Order of Police sticker to me.  Can you get those without being a member?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sour Grapes on October 23, 2012, 08:58:11 pm
You get them for donating to their charity drive.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on October 24, 2012, 06:03:54 am
There seem to be police stickers on that car.  This worries me.

If it is, then it's probably the type of cop NWA rapped about.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 25, 2012, 11:38:10 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/69573_415498068506130_805073294_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on October 25, 2012, 12:02:14 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/69573_415498068506130_805073294_n.jpg)

Then what the fuck is the point of marriage, genius?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RinellaWasHere on October 25, 2012, 12:30:14 pm
See, that's willful ignorance of the issue. To say gay people have the same rights of marriage as anyone else, in that they can marry a member of the opposite sex, is the most obvious dodge ever. That's not the issue and I don't think for a second that right-wingers believe it is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on October 25, 2012, 12:42:41 pm
It's not, and they don't. But they do want to win the argument. So if they can change the framing, they think they stand a better chance. Remember when it used to be about religious freedom? And then everyone pointed out that as the laws were written, no church can be forced to, they had to change tact.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on October 25, 2012, 05:24:24 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/69573_415498068506130_805073294_n.jpg)

Then what the fuck is the point of marriage, genius?

To make babies. Ideally, 20 of 'em. [/fundie]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on October 25, 2012, 10:15:22 pm
What was that about the law's majesty and sleeping below bridges again?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 25, 2012, 10:43:55 pm
See, that's willful ignorance of the issue. To say gay people have the same rights of marriage as anyone else, in that they can marry a member of the opposite sex, is the most obvious dodge ever. That's not the issue and I don't think for a second that right-wingers believe it is.

Just like how both blacks and whites had the same rights to marry someone of the same race. It's not an "equal rights issue! SRSLY!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on October 25, 2012, 11:13:13 pm
Well, classically, marriage has been more about money than love, anyway.  I mean, there have been examples of marriage for love, there always will be, not tryin to say they ain't.

Considering half of all marriages end in divorce...I fail to see why its so "sacred."  Its another legal agreement, like a contract.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on October 26, 2012, 07:44:31 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/69573_415498068506130_805073294_n.jpg)

Then what the fuck is the point of marriage, genius?

To make babies. Ideally, 20 of 'em. [/fundie]

"All right but I want lots of kids."
"Me too. 500 of them."
"Yeah.  Babies everywhere!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on October 26, 2012, 08:18:35 pm
Then you need Powerthirst! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: VirtualStranger on October 26, 2012, 08:21:50 pm
By that logic, in Saudi Arabia, everybody hes equal religious freedom. Everyone is equally free to worship Allah.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on October 26, 2012, 09:04:07 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-9970-1350925275-8.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 26, 2012, 09:11:14 pm
I don't get that one. Did he win the Golden Apple Award?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 26, 2012, 09:12:21 pm
For "Eduction" apparently.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Undecided on October 26, 2012, 10:22:41 pm
For "Eduction" apparently.
Yes, I educed that from the photo.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 29, 2012, 11:30:47 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1114_186412648162216_437987067_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on October 29, 2012, 11:36:06 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1114_186412648162216_437987067_n.jpg)

But vote against marriage for certain people.  Makes sense.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 29, 2012, 04:59:31 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/404203_507184409292542_927323917_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on October 29, 2012, 11:02:13 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/404203_507184409292542_927323917_n.jpg)

...I love this.

*edit*

777th post. I am either very lucky or very holy. ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Atheissimo on October 30, 2012, 08:06:58 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1114_186412648162216_437987067_n.jpg)

Except just once when they make it impossible for a proportion of the population, amirite?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on October 31, 2012, 06:06:14 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1114_186412648162216_437987067_n.jpg)

Tastes like irony.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on October 31, 2012, 10:06:07 am
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/21438_515755358435235_1115688651_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on October 31, 2012, 11:44:19 am
FEEL THE CHRISTIAN LOVE YOU PIECE OF SHIT! FEEL IT! FEEL IT!

Also, are they seriously saying that this person is gay based on no real eviden- oh, right, fundie, of course they're not using any evidence.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on October 31, 2012, 01:21:29 pm
Evidence would imply a reasoned debate, not being a fundie.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 31, 2012, 06:03:25 pm
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/21438_515755358435235_1115688651_n.jpg)

Is it bad that this made me laugh from how pathetic this display of hostility is?

They took a joke symbol, snapped it in half, and genuinely seemed to think that this would somehow have any real impact.

I think some people forget that the FSM is a joke, lol... and none of them are the FSM's "worshipers"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 31, 2012, 06:21:25 pm
FEEL THE CHRISTIAN LOVE YOU PIECE OF SHIT! FEEL IT! FEEL IT!

Also, are they seriously saying that this person is gay based on no real eviden- oh, right, fundie, of course they're not using any evidence.

They're probably just using that as a neutral insult.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 02, 2012, 08:18:54 pm
Context: GOProud and LCR endorsed Mitt Romney

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 02, 2012, 08:47:42 pm
(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/29494878.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on November 02, 2012, 08:50:04 pm
That meme does not work that way!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on November 02, 2012, 09:43:57 pm
(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/29494878.jpg)
(http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/zoidberg-you-should-feel-bad.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 03, 2012, 02:27:19 am
AAAAAAAAAA

*dunks head in bucket of cold water*

Okay, feeling better now.

That misuse of a meme is most certainly a dumbest thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 03, 2012, 08:50:52 am
I'm sorry I thought it would work.  I'm a dumbass
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on November 03, 2012, 10:45:17 am
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/21438_515755358435235_1115688651_n.jpg)

Is it bad that this made me laugh from how pathetic this display of hostility is?

They took a joke symbol, snapped it in half, and genuinely seemed to think that this would somehow have any real impact.

I think some people forget that the FSM is a joke, lol... and none of them are the FSM's "worshipers"

I'm pretty sure they know it's a joke - but they see it as mockery of their Jesus Fish, which it is, and take massive personal offense because their God is an extension of their own ego.  So it pisses them off even more than the idea of people worshiping a different God.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 03, 2012, 04:48:46 pm
I'm sorry I thought it would work.  I'm a dumbass

Oh, that was yours?

Damn, now I feel really bad for being so harsh :(
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 03, 2012, 05:23:26 pm
it's fine should have photoshopped Scumbag steves hat on GOProud's symbol
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on November 03, 2012, 05:32:49 pm
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/21438_515755358435235_1115688651_n.jpg)

Is it bad that this made me laugh from how pathetic this display of hostility is?

They took a joke symbol, snapped it in half, and genuinely seemed to think that this would somehow have any real impact.

I think some people forget that the FSM is a joke, lol... and none of them are the FSM's "worshipers"

I'm pretty sure they know it's a joke - but they see it as mockery of their Jesus Fish, which it is, and take massive personal offense because their God is an extension of their own ego.  So it pisses them off even more than the idea of people worshiping a different God.

My (Catholic) dad is offended by all the various other fish that seem to be popping up. He sees it as insulting his religion. Fortunately, he's not that offended - he just drew the line at putting a Star Trek fish on his own car.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on November 05, 2012, 08:07:21 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/chETi.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 05, 2012, 08:20:42 am
Is that one legal?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: FirsthandTuna on November 05, 2012, 08:23:06 am
Is that one legal?

Technically, they're not endorsing any specific politician or bill. So it's legal.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 05, 2012, 11:20:06 am
So... vote for the Christian Candidate?  ;)
(click to show/hide)
Or is it one of those "Write in Jesus for President" loons?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on November 05, 2012, 12:26:12 pm
Or is it one of those "Write in Jesus for President" loons?

I dunno, man.  Jesus gave away free healthcare, told people to pay their taxes, was strongly anti-war and anti-death-penalty, and was strongly in favor of massive, albeit voluntary, redistribution of wealth.

So the Republicans would hate having Jesus as president.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on November 05, 2012, 11:14:38 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md1sci86aM1qatd49o1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 08, 2012, 11:07:46 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/63179_369058659844767_942180076_n.jpg)

(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/76291_359784234115988_209146343_n.png)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 08, 2012, 03:17:09 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/63179_369058659844767_942180076_n.jpg)

*squints* That looks like it was MSPaint'd.  The "Democrats for Mitt Romney" thing.

What is it covering up?  Nothing?

Quote
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/76291_359784234115988_209146343_n.png)

Oooh!  It's the semantics game again!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Atheissimo on November 08, 2012, 05:41:45 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/76291_359784234115988_209146343_n.png)

Is there anything that's not the fault of men somehow?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 08, 2012, 05:54:35 pm
^Pretty much everything since women are just as responsible for this generation.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: worlder on November 08, 2012, 06:07:08 pm
Some one please explain the patriarchy one.

I'm kind of lost at the message and why it is suppose to be asinine.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on November 08, 2012, 06:24:18 pm
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/536516_10151059096566887_230967676_n.jpg)

Probably a franchise and not a company-owned location.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on November 08, 2012, 06:41:36 pm
Some one please explain the patriarchy one.

I'm kind of lost at the message and why it is suppose to be asinine.
It's someone dismissing the bit where patriarchy benefits patriarchs at the cost of everyone else. Though admitedly men get it easier, we've got a shot at becoming a patriarch. Much like a genestealer. Only less claws.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 08, 2012, 09:03:02 pm
Re: Flag

There's this guy down the street known for having pretty much every Republican/Tea Party sign possible in his yard.

Since Obama has been elected, he has a flag upside down at half mast.

This is technically illegal since an SOS signal (which an upside down American flag is) when you're not in distress is, well, illegal.  Much like calling 911 as a prank.

However, I'm not going to be the one to report him.  He's an annoyance, but he isn't harming me, and turning someone in for spite is a pretty bad reason to turn someone in.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 08, 2012, 09:12:21 pm
Some one please explain the patriarchy one.

I'm kind of lost at the message and why it is suppose to be asinine.
It's someone dismissing the bit where patriarchy benefits patriarchs at the cost of everyone else. Though admitedly men get it easier, we've got a shot at becoming a patriarch. Much like a genestealer. Only less claws.

Everyone has a shot. Men might have an easier shot, but unless they were born into the wealthiest 1%, they have a very slim chance.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on November 08, 2012, 09:26:12 pm
The only way I can think of in which patriarchy hurts men is that it keeps them in a perpetual "spoiled brat" state. And that's only in blatant patriarchy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 08, 2012, 09:31:18 pm
The only way I can think of in which patriarchy hurts men is that it keeps them in a perpetual "spoiled brat" state. And that's only in blatant patriarchy.

I'll be sure to let all of the homosexual, metrosexual, and non-macho men know that they're actually benefitting from a patriarchy in which men are supposed to be straight, macho, and tough.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on November 08, 2012, 09:40:24 pm
The only way I can think of in which patriarchy hurts men is that it keeps them in a perpetual "spoiled brat" state. And that's only in blatant patriarchy.

Our culture has a fairly narrow definition of manliness. If, for any reason, you don't exactly fit that mold, especially when you're a kid...well, it isn't fun. I say this as a straight guy who had no aptitude for sports and enjoyed singing & reading while he was growing up. My favorite childhood insult is "I'd kick you ass, but my foot would get stuck because you take it so much". I didn't even get it at the time (I was ten...then again, so was the dude saying it to me) but in retrospect, it's fucking hilarious in its idiocy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on November 08, 2012, 09:43:04 pm
The only way I can think of in which patriarchy hurts men is that it keeps them in a perpetual "spoiled brat" state. And that's only in blatant patriarchy.

I'll be sure to let all of the homosexual, metrosexual, and non-macho men know that they're actually benefitting from a patriarchy in which men are supposed to be straight, macho, and tough.

(http://www.smtexas.net/faculty/jackson/CAPPS61011/CAPPS6T2I/Reddy/Webpage/Images/homer-doh-squaregreen.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 08, 2012, 10:12:34 pm
The only way I can think of in which patriarchy hurts men is that it keeps them in a perpetual "spoiled brat" state. And that's only in blatant patriarchy.

We don't live in blatant patriarchy.

The only way I can think of in which patriarchy hurts men is that it keeps them in a perpetual "spoiled brat" state. And that's only in blatant patriarchy.

I'll be sure to let all of the homosexual, metrosexual, and non-macho men know that they're actually benefitting from a patriarchy in which men are supposed to be straight, macho, and tough.

Men who are seen as tough are also seen as dangerous especially if they are black or latino
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: worlder on November 08, 2012, 10:17:35 pm
Then we are bringing race into the equation.

For such a thought experiment, I say we "observe" different degrees of patriarchy and all other things being equal.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on November 08, 2012, 10:20:52 pm
The only way I can think of in which patriarchy hurts men is that it keeps them in a perpetual "spoiled brat" state. And that's only in blatant patriarchy.

We don't live in blatant patriarchy.

Correct.

In blatant patriarchy, you'd be forgiven for thinking you've stepped into Stepford.

Of course, as Zachski pointed out, I somehow managed to forget about men who aren't "straight, macho, and tough", despite only being the first one of those, so I guess today may just be an off day for my brain.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 08, 2012, 11:14:35 pm
No ill feeling meant by the sarcasm, by the way :D

Hell, sometimes it slips past my mind.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on November 09, 2012, 09:01:13 am
There are also certain societal mores, like "being gentlemanly", that disfavor men. And let me bring up the child custody issue.
It is debatable whether these are an inherent aspect of patriarchy or a compensation element built into our society.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 09, 2012, 09:22:01 am
Patriarchal as those are an effect of gender roles assigned by men
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on November 10, 2012, 02:03:57 pm
Not sure if this one has been posted before since I haven't read through the entire thread, but enjoy:

(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a126/Arklier/TeaTard1.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on November 10, 2012, 03:07:58 pm
The King bumper sticker is amazing.

Ironbite-but he's not racist right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 10, 2012, 03:45:33 pm
I just realized the guy cant see out the back.  Stay away from him in parking lots
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: FirsthandTuna on November 10, 2012, 06:50:28 pm
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M5giqwTdLEI/UJ0DwGOru5I/AAAAAAAB95g/XKwEH3tVK8g/s400/assassin.jpg)

There isn't anything not wrong with this. Is this even ok to post here?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 10, 2012, 07:03:28 pm
Um I'm surprised teh secret service hadnt vistied that guy that's illegal
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on November 10, 2012, 07:22:38 pm
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M5giqwTdLEI/UJ0DwGOru5I/AAAAAAAB95g/XKwEH3tVK8g/s400/assassin.jpg)

There isn't anything not wrong with this. Is this even ok to post here?

This must be one of those Christians who follow Republican Jesus.

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw3lnpv7AL1r4hkgho1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on November 10, 2012, 11:13:56 pm
Shouldn't Republican Jesus go in the Best political cartoons?

There are also certain societal mores, like "being gentlemanly", that disfavor men. And let me bring up the child custody issue.
It is debatable whether these are an inherent aspect of patriarchy or a compensation element built into our society.

I dunno. Just basically anything associated with the patriarchy I despise. I'm straight gay, but even for those who somewhat conform to the roles laid out to the patriarchy suffer psychological damage and distance from their partners. It's really... just. Urgh.

I dunno, having to conform to gender roles laid out by a society that clearly has no idea what it was doing is just dumb.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on November 10, 2012, 11:23:28 pm
Shouldn't Republican Jesus go in the Best political cartoons?

I kind of waffled on whether I should link the Republican Jesus cartoon or not, but finally decided to put it here for illustration purposes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on November 11, 2012, 10:32:25 am
Shouldn't Republican Jesus go in the Best political cartoons?

I kind of waffled on whether I should link the Republican Jesus cartoon or not, but finally decided to put it here for illustration purposes.

Shouldn't the post about waffles go in Eat Anything Delicious Today?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DrFishcake on November 11, 2012, 01:39:45 pm
Um I'm surprised teh secret service hadnt vistied that guy that's illegal

Probably a backlog.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on November 12, 2012, 06:34:26 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/536389_491112997578072_1107245688_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on November 12, 2012, 07:04:52 pm
Gee, it's pretty hard to tell how this person feels about Obama.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 12, 2012, 08:36:46 pm
Is it bad that the most notable thing about that picture for me is that he actually kept his rear window mostly unblocked?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yumeji on November 13, 2012, 12:01:32 am
Wow... all those bumper stickers... just wow...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on November 13, 2012, 12:51:36 am
Is it bad that the most notable thing about that picture for me is that he actually kept his rear window mostly unblocked?

At least he's a douchebag who isn't breaking the rearview visibility law.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on November 13, 2012, 03:02:05 am
All that money spent on bumper-stickers could have been spent so much better. Now he has a constant reminder of Obama's victory.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 13, 2012, 04:29:59 am
All that money spent on bumper-stickers could have been spent so much better. Now he has a constant reminder of Obama's victory.

Which probably feeds into the martyr complex I can assume he has.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on November 13, 2012, 03:14:41 pm
Are you really so insecure in your beliefs that you need to plaster them all over your car?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on November 13, 2012, 03:15:33 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdducquoZO1r76j99o1_400.jpg)

Can someone explain this?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on November 13, 2012, 03:44:42 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdducquoZO1r76j99o1_400.jpg)

Can someone explain this?
That email address was established as a way for citizens to report "False" information about government programs and policies directly to the government, ideally as a way to counter death panel propaganda and the like. Naturally, the conspiracy theorists took it to mean that Obama has turned liberals into his personal informants, so men in black helis can swoop down and eliminate any dissenters.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on November 13, 2012, 04:01:27 pm
I thought it was something rational but a few conservatives on tumblr were going batshit over it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on November 13, 2012, 04:17:13 pm
I thought it was something rational but a few conservatives on tumblr were going batshit over it.

Obama could give candy to a baby, pet a kitten and hug a puppy and those people would go batshit over it being an evil plot.

I swear, I have never seen a less rational group of people. Was the right wing always this crazy, or does it just seem worse since 2000 due to the Internet giving everyone an audience?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on November 13, 2012, 05:16:48 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/263581_558998270792355_1571721876_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on November 13, 2012, 05:18:32 pm
I thought it was something rational but a few conservatives on tumblr were going batshit over it.

Obama could give candy to a baby, pet a kitten and hug a puppy and those people would go batshit over it being an evil plot.

I swear, I have never seen a less rational group of people. Was the right wing always this crazy, or does it just seem worse since 2000 due to the Internet giving everyone an audience?
It's probably the same socially isolated people who don't know anything but their way of life and are panicking over everything the rest of the world's done since the last time their ancestors went out of town.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 13, 2012, 07:48:27 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/263581_558998270792355_1571721876_n.jpg)

Made my day XD thanks, DiscoBerry!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on November 13, 2012, 07:55:23 pm
I didn't notice for a moment what was so funny. Fucking brain fixes a lot of grammar and spelling issues automatically anymore.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Quasirodent on November 13, 2012, 10:21:08 pm
My (Catholic) dad is offended by all the various other fish that seem to be popping up. He sees it as insulting his religion. Fortunately, he's not that offended - he just drew the line at putting a Star Trek fish on his own car.
My mom has one of those on the dash of her car.  She accidentally stuck it there because she didn't realize how strong the adhesive was, and put it there 'experimentally' after taking off the backing.  So it's stuck there slightly askew and I can't help but chuckle.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on November 16, 2012, 04:33:05 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbmx7l97yr1qzeucjo1_500.jpg)

What a lovely dose of hypocrisy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 16, 2012, 04:56:06 pm
Some people are only... what?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 16, 2012, 06:29:05 pm
Ummmm, "some people are only alive because they were not aborted before they became people?"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on November 16, 2012, 06:37:47 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbmx7l97yr1qzeucjo1_500.jpg)

What a lovely dose of hypocrisy.

I think it outlines the general idea of "pro-life" actually.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on November 17, 2012, 04:11:37 pm
The right wing's idea of what a divided US would be like:

(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q193/crinie123/secedeamerica3.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on November 17, 2012, 04:12:58 pm
Fuck yeah, Liberal Socialist States of America! LSSA! LSSA!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on November 17, 2012, 04:16:08 pm
Um, Florida, a red state, was known this time for having VERY LONG lines during the recent election, thanks in a big part to Governor Rick Scott (R).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 17, 2012, 04:32:14 pm
Whats up with Cali and the other states that had pieces split
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 17, 2012, 05:04:02 pm
Southern California is more conservative than the northern part, and I guess that's the case with the other states as well.

Ironic how they don't trust government but want "secure borders"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on November 17, 2012, 05:13:23 pm
Southern California is more conservative than the northern part, and I guess that's the case with the other states as well.

Ironic how they don't trust government but want "secure borders"

Wonder if that means they would secure the borders with the "socialist states" as well. That would be an enormous drain on resources right there.

Hope they like paying an arm and a leg for their produce after they kick out a bunch of the farm workers.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on November 17, 2012, 10:04:57 pm
Funny given that the "socialist states" are made up of "producer" states while the others are the "moocher" states.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on November 17, 2012, 10:29:22 pm
Funny given that the "socialist states" are made up of "producer" states while the others are the "moocher" states.
This is the thing I find funniest about red states wanting to secede.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 18, 2012, 08:41:45 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/21822_530475956980650_1105423236_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on November 18, 2012, 08:43:49 pm
Oh look folks....HYPOCRISY!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on November 18, 2012, 08:45:03 pm
Same ol' same ol' from O' Reilly.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on November 19, 2012, 08:56:58 pm
Here's one from our favorite racist Doombot from Where Morons Dwell:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Patriotic/OliveBranch.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on November 19, 2012, 09:10:41 pm
*Rolls eyes, facepalms*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on November 20, 2012, 07:32:12 pm
Here's one from our favorite racist Doombot from Where Morons Dwell:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Patriotic/OliveBranch.jpg)

I think you're looking for an Oak tree.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: worlder on November 20, 2012, 11:13:32 pm
Is the wood of an olive tree even good for a shank?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on November 21, 2012, 03:01:00 am
Is the wood of an olive tree even good for a shank?

I believe it's quite soft, but it's fire resistant. But seriously, if you're going to make a bat, get an oak. I've never heard of an Olive Bat.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on November 21, 2012, 08:47:53 am
Pretty sure that's a picture of a grape vine. Olive trees have small lanceolate leaves, not large palmately lobed and coarsely serrated ones.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dan on November 21, 2012, 01:43:59 pm
Pretty sure that's a picture of a grape vine. Olive trees have small lanceolate leaves, not large palmately lobed and coarsely serrated ones.
The bunches of grapes are also a clue.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DrFishcake on November 21, 2012, 03:05:17 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/21822_530475956980650_1105423236_n.jpg)

Oh I wouldn't say that it's going to get worse Bill...after all, Fox has been haemorrhaging viewers for about two years now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on November 21, 2012, 03:43:30 pm
Pretty sure that's a picture of a grape vine. Olive trees have small lanceolate leaves, not large palmately lobed and coarsely serrated ones.
The bunches of grapes are also a clue.

It's DoctorDoombot. The guy responsible for these pearls of wisdom:

 http://fstdt.net/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=87513
 http://fstdt.net/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=72603
 http://fstdt.net/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=83041
 http://fstdt.net/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=70696
 
 Do you really think he's smart enough to tell the difference?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on November 21, 2012, 05:59:05 pm
Pretty sure that's a picture of a grape vine. Olive trees have small lanceolate leaves, not large palmately lobed and coarsely serrated ones.
The bunches of grapes are also a clue.
In fairness, if you don't know how they grow on the plant, you could mistake them for unripe olives, and if you can't recognize the difference between an olive leaf from a grape leaf you probably don't have a clue about how the fruit hangs on them either.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dan on November 22, 2012, 01:28:37 pm
Pretty sure that's a picture of a grape vine. Olive trees have small lanceolate leaves, not large palmately lobed and coarsely serrated ones.
The bunches of grapes are also a clue.
In fairness, if you don't know how they grow on the plant, you could mistake them for unripe olives, and if you can't recognize the difference between an olive leaf from a grape leaf you probably don't have a clue about how the fruit hangs on them either.
Also, I didn't notice the grapes till you suggested it was a grape vine.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DrFishcake on November 22, 2012, 02:23:12 pm
Please tell me it's not just me that's had "Heard it Through the Grape Vine" stuck in my head since last night because of this thread.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on November 23, 2012, 08:26:17 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/484959_448541011859833_1139966126_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on November 24, 2012, 03:12:04 am
Texas or Arizona, that's the question...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dan on November 24, 2012, 04:05:58 am
Georgia.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: starseeker on November 24, 2012, 06:34:06 am
Georgia.

Don't think Georgia has a border patrol.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on November 24, 2012, 06:57:58 am
The entire establishment is stupid.

http://southcobb.patch.com/articles/activist-group-to-protest-controversial-restaurant-sign
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DrFishcake on November 24, 2012, 10:21:43 am
Texas or Arizona, that's the question...

I'm stereotyping of course, but until I read the article above, the "Border patrol eat free" sign had me leaning towards Texas. If it was Arizona, it'd be "Militia eat free".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on November 25, 2012, 01:41:30 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/obama3.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Saturn500 on November 25, 2012, 02:45:20 pm
Could someone please help me out here? I can't make out what that says...

Which might be the reason it's in this thread, but still.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: worlder on November 25, 2012, 02:56:54 pm
Could someone please help me out here? I can't make out what that says...

Which might be the reason it's in this thread, but still.

The guy says he will no longer be tipping restaurant workers and will instead give his money to the church.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SimSim on November 25, 2012, 02:57:07 pm
The quick version is that the person is a douchebag.

It says the service was great, but the person isn't leaving a tip. They aren't leaving a tip since Obama won and they are engaging in redistributing wealth. By giving to church and to wounded warriors. And that the server shouldn't be offended they didn't get a tip because the patron is redistributing their money how they see fit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on November 25, 2012, 04:06:10 pm
Could someone please help me out here? I can't make out what that says...

Which might be the reason it's in this thread, but still.

 Word for word, it says;

Quote
Crystal,

Your service was great. The reason for no tip - I am starting my own redistribution plan like Obama started 11/11/12 - I no longer tip or donate to charity. I give money to my church instead and Wounded Warriors. Thanks for understanding.

P.S. - Please don't be offended I will redistribute my own money as I see fit!

So yeah, provided it's real, it's basically an excuse for an asshole to be cheap.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on November 25, 2012, 04:16:41 pm
I hope that guy goes back so Crystal can give him an extra large helping of lung butter.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 25, 2012, 05:41:13 pm
Why do I have this very strong suspicion that Crystal is either black, hispanic or some other ethnicity who this fuck up assumes voted for Obama? Or maybe she's white, but wasn't wearing a cross or fish symbol necklace? Maybe she had piercings other than just the ears? With ankh earrings? Tattoos? Really, this fucker just needed an excuse to be a cheap bully.

As a manager, I would follow customers who stiff servers to aggressively but politely ask if the service was okay? Because, a "no grat" is considered reason to make a business decision about that server. And then they always say, "Oh the server was great, really I just didn't tip because of (w/e fucked up shit reason)". Then I tell them, "Okay, thanks. That helps me make my business decision to refuse service to you should you ever return here, and to award your server a 20% gratuity income replacement from our petty cash fund. Good day to you sir/madam!". And then I black list them on the lovely secret manager access-only comments section on OpenTable.com.......Fucker gets told by every restaurant he tries to book a table at that it is full-up, no res available LOL!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on November 25, 2012, 10:10:26 pm
What a cheap fucking asshole!! Does this this douche know that tips make up a good percentage of a servers wage more or less??
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on November 25, 2012, 10:15:57 pm
Why do I have this very strong suspicion that Crystal is either black, hispanic or some other ethnicity who this fuck up assumes voted for Obama? Or maybe she's white, but wasn't wearing a cross or fish symbol necklace? Maybe she had piercings other than just the ears? With ankh earrings? Tattoos? Really, this fucker just needed an excuse to be a cheap bully.


Well she's a woman and most women voted for Obama. I really don't think her being a minority played a part though. The note didn't seem passive-aggressive enough.
They guy seemed like kind of knew what he was doing was wrong (he knew deep deep deep down maybe). I think he would have been much less apologetic if he believed 100% what he was doing what was right.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 25, 2012, 11:20:35 pm
Why do I have this very strong suspicion that Crystal is either black, hispanic or some other ethnicity who this fuck up assumes voted for Obama? Or maybe she's white, but wasn't wearing a cross or fish symbol necklace? Maybe she had piercings other than just the ears? With ankh earrings? Tattoos? Really, this fucker just needed an excuse to be a cheap bully.


Well she's a woman and most women voted for Obama.


Although it's not a landslide amount. Abut 55% of women voted for Obama compared to over 70% of latinos and 90% of blacks.

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They guy seemed like kind of knew what he was doing was wrong (he knew deep deep deep down maybe). I think he would have been much less apologetic if he believed 100% what he was doing what was right.

Assuming that he actually went with it and this wasn't just staged. Although we know people do this thing like with that Christian pamphlet/gag dollar.

Overall, I think this person views a win/win situation if Crystal voted for Obama or Romney. If Crystal voted for  Romney the jackass would probably think she'll hate Obama more.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 26, 2012, 12:03:18 am
The apology didn't feel like a legitimate apology to me.

It sounded more like an excuse.  "Blame Obama, not me, it isn't my fault"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on November 26, 2012, 01:05:06 pm
Okay, I can see stiffing a waiter or waitress if they do a particularly shitty service job, but to actually realize that the service is good and yet deny a person a tip on the basis of politics is just fucking shitty.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on November 26, 2012, 02:50:39 pm
I always tip well unless the service sucks.  I tip EXTRA if the meal was particularly awesome.  I had a sandwich like that in the Pittsburgh airport, once.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on November 26, 2012, 04:32:18 pm
My boyfriends parents aren't exactly nice to waiters. They aren't at all like the guy that left the letter, but they still expect unreasonable things from their waiters. Once we went out to eat at a thai restaurant. I ordered fried tofu as an appetizer and they ordered some chicken thing. The restaurant was super busy since it was a Friday at dinner time, and all the waiters were power walking everywhere with dishes in their hands, so I expected to food to be a little late since they were so busy. They brought us a our food within 20 minutes, and the food was absolutely delicious and well done. It was probably the best asian food I've ever had. Plus the waiter was really nice even though he was clearly really busy.
I was really disappointed in my boyfriend's parents since they didn't seem impressed at all. They kept complaining that the food wasn't coming fast enough and didn't bother to even thank the waiter. They way they spoke to him was kind of rude, like I order like "I'd like a sandwich" or "Could I have this sandwich?", but they ordered like "Yeahh... uh bring me some of this stuff right here".
The bill was 50$ and they only tipped 7$ too... It wasn't like they thought the service was bad, they knew it was really good, they just didn't feel like tipping the waiter more. I put 8$ under my plate to make up for the tip, and give extra for the awesome service though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 27, 2012, 12:51:21 am
I don't fuckin get that, seriously.  Must just be because that's one of the things my parents taught me: if you're at a restaurant and you get decent service, you tip.  You always tip.  Also, be polite to everyone by default.  After all, ya never know what a polite gesture might get ya...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 27, 2012, 01:10:32 am
IMO tipping is mandatory no matter what involving waiters since otherwise they starve (that is why they make under min wage)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 27, 2012, 01:12:11 am
Feh.

Even real minimum wage is below the poverty level.  Which is not how it should be.

Hence why I make a habit of tipping even bad waiters.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on November 27, 2012, 11:52:15 am
I always tip well unless the service sucks.  I tip EXTRA if the meal was particularly awesome.  I had a sandwich like that in the Pittsburgh airport, once.

Tipping is always a good idea. If it's someplace you go a lot, tipping a lot is a good idea. I've worked in restaurants long enough to know servers remember two classes of people: those who tip big and those who don't tip.

Tipping extra because the food is awesome, I never understood that. Your waiter isn't cooking the food.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on November 27, 2012, 12:14:21 pm
IMO tipping is mandatory no matter what involving waiters since otherwise they starve (that is why they make under min wage)

1.  I do believe that if they don't get tipped enough that the employer is required to make up the difference so that it meets minimum wage.  Of course, if they're constantly getting shitty tips, then that may say something about how they're performing their job.

2.  If you're going to subscribe to this policy, you should at least keep in mind the level of service.

The other day I ate with my girlfriend at Perkins.  Other than getting our order, our waitress didn't check up on us a single time.  Hell, she didn't even have the courtesy to bring out the Tabasco sauce I requested.  She had to have someone else bring it.  It's not like the restaurant was packed and understaffed, either. There were at least a few waiters and the restaurant wasn't packed.  She was just a shitty waitress.

Edit:  Here's proof that even poorly tipped employees must meet minimum wage.  That is, if they still don't meet normal minimum wage requirements after tips, then the employer has to make up the difference.

http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm

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If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.

Of course, if they're consistently getting shitty tips, I do think it reflects on their performance.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RinellaWasHere on November 27, 2012, 12:30:29 pm
I always tip, regardless of the service. Then again, the only time I've seen truly abysmal service was when I wasn't paying, so his tip wasn't up to me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on November 27, 2012, 04:57:14 pm
Tipping is bullshit and should be banned. Pay your employees properly in the first damn place- one of the things I'm properly proud of my country about is a lack of bullshit dehumanizing tipping nonsense.

Plus, if I wanted to see that much cleavage, every-single-Vancouver-restaurant-waitress, I'd go to a strip joint.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on November 27, 2012, 06:17:23 pm
I always tip well unless the service sucks.  I tip EXTRA if the meal was particularly awesome.  I had a sandwich like that in the Pittsburgh airport, once.

Tipping is always a good idea. If it's someplace you go a lot, tipping a lot is a good idea. I've worked in restaurants long enough to know servers remember two classes of people: those who tip big and those who don't tip.

Tipping extra because the food is awesome, I never understood that. Your waiter isn't cooking the food.

The reason I tip for awesome food is because I automatically assume that the tips go into a pool and it's split between all of the employees.  I've been to enough eateries that do that that it's habit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on November 27, 2012, 06:32:45 pm
I always tip more (like 35% rather than 20%) because I like being polite.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 27, 2012, 07:00:06 pm
My brother worked at P.F. Chang's for a summer while I was in high school, and he said it was easily the shittiest job out there, and tips were a big part of that.  Ya see, they wouldn't let you keep the tips, you had to give them to your manager or be fired for "stealing." (How you steal something that was likely meant to be given specifically to you is beyond me, but there ya go.)  They'd divvy the tips up equally, after the management took about a third of it for themselves.

Honestly, that's not the point of tips.  If you're a good server, you should get better tips, you should keep your tips, and maybe log them with the place you're workin at, if such a thing is feasible.  Good employees deserve to be paid more than bad ones, skimming off the top of their hard-earned money, and then insulting your good waiters by paying them as much as the fuckholes who don't give two shits about customer service is pure, unadulterated bullshit.

Also, tips shouldn't excuse your employers from paying at least minimum wage, ever.  Minimum wage is minimum fucking wage, and it should be the absolute lowest you'll ever be paid, no matter the employer or industry you work for.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on November 27, 2012, 07:29:35 pm
My brother worked at P.F. Chang's for a summer while I was in high school, and he said it was easily the shittiest job out there, and tips were a big part of that.  Ya see, they wouldn't let you keep the tips, you had to give them to your manager or be fired for "stealing." (How you steal something that was likely meant to be given specifically to you is beyond me, but there ya go.)  They'd divvy the tips up equally, after the management took about a third of it for themselves.

Honestly, that's not the point of tips.  If you're a good server, you should get better tips, you should keep your tips, and maybe log them with the place you're workin at, if such a thing is feasible.  Good employees deserve to be paid more than bad ones, skimming off the top of their hard-earned money, and then insulting your good waiters by paying them as much as the fuckholes who don't give two shits about customer service is pure, unadulterated bullshit.

Also, tips shouldn't excuse your employers from paying at least minimum wage, ever.  Minimum wage is minimum fucking wage, and it should be the absolute lowest you'll ever be paid, no matter the employer or industry you work for.
Coldstone had us write down the tips we made so they could be taxed. Take a wild guess at how honest that setup is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 27, 2012, 07:42:17 pm
Coldstone had us write down the tips we made so they could be taxed. Take a wild guess at how honest that setup is.

HA!  Tis why I said, "if feasible."  I know people will always lie about that shit; either they'll record their tips as smaller than what they got to avoid taxes, or record em higher so their dick looks bigger...or somethin.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on November 27, 2012, 07:57:22 pm
Also, tips shouldn't excuse your employers from paying at least minimum wage, ever.  Minimum wage is minimum fucking wage, and it should be the absolute lowest you'll ever be paid, no matter the employer or industry you work for.

As I mentioned before, if an employee doesn't make enough in tips to meet minimum wage requirements, the employer is REQUIRED to make up the difference.  Although I do admit that any employer that has to make up this difference is likely to do what they can to fire an employee who's coming as soon as they can.  At the very least, they'll give the person a warning.


Edit:  Here's proof that even poorly tipped employees must meet minimum wage.  That is, if they still don't meet normal minimum wage requirements after tips, then the employer has to make up the difference.

http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm

Quote
If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.

Of course, if they're consistently getting shitty tips, I do think it reflects on their performance.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on November 27, 2012, 09:07:37 pm
I always tip well unless the service sucks.  I tip EXTRA if the meal was particularly awesome.  I had a sandwich like that in the Pittsburgh airport, once.

Tipping is always a good idea. If it's someplace you go a lot, tipping a lot is a good idea. I've worked in restaurants long enough to know servers remember two classes of people: those who tip big and those who don't tip.

Tipping extra because the food is awesome, I never understood that. Your waiter isn't cooking the food.

The reason I tip for awesome food is because I automatically assume that the tips go into a pool and it's split between all of the employees.  I've been to enough eateries that do that that it's habit.

I worked at a place that didn't.  Each individual server kept every tip that that server picked up.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on November 28, 2012, 10:29:26 am
Tipping is bullshit and should be banned. Pay your employees properly in the first damn place- one of the things I'm properly proud of my country about is a lack of bullshit dehumanizing tipping nonsense.

Plus, if I wanted to see that much cleavage, every-single-Vancouver-restaurant-waitress, I'd go to a strip joint.

Well then, quit bullshitting and become Supreme Benevolent Leader already.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on November 28, 2012, 02:38:07 pm
Tipping is bullshit and should be banned. Pay your employees properly in the first damn place- one of the things I'm properly proud of my country about is a lack of bullshit dehumanizing tipping nonsense.

Plus, if I wanted to see that much cleavage, every-single-Vancouver-restaurant-waitress, I'd go to a strip joint.

Well then, quit bullshitting and become Supreme Benevolent Leader already.

But he's not an hyper-intelligent immortal AI programmed with nothing but altruism.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on November 28, 2012, 03:56:36 pm

Well then, quit bullshitting and become Supreme Benevolent Leader already.

But he's not an hyper-intelligent immortal AI programmed with nothing but altruism.

No, but he does know better than us.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on November 28, 2012, 04:07:13 pm

Well then, quit bullshitting and become Supreme Benevolent Leader already.

But he's not an hyper-intelligent immortal AI programmed with nothing but altruism.

No, but he does know better than us.

But he's not immortal.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on November 28, 2012, 04:53:18 pm
We should test that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: davedan on November 28, 2012, 05:00:22 pm
Tipping is bullshit and should be banned. Pay your employees properly in the first damn place- one of the things I'm properly proud of my country about is a lack of bullshit dehumanizing tipping nonsense.

Plus, if I wanted to see that much cleavage, every-single-Vancouver-restaurant-waitress, I'd go to a strip joint.

Well then, quit bullshitting and become Supreme Benevolent Leader already.


No benevolent leader would reduce the amount of cleavage in the world.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on November 28, 2012, 05:21:58 pm
Tipping is bullshit and should be banned. Pay your employees properly in the first damn place- one of the things I'm properly proud of my country about is a lack of bullshit dehumanizing tipping nonsense.

Plus, if I wanted to see that much cleavage, every-single-Vancouver-restaurant-waitress, I'd go to a strip joint.

Well then, quit bullshitting and become Supreme Benevolent Leader already.


No benevolent leader would reduce the amount of cleavage in the world.

He's not going to reduce it. If you want boobies then go to Hooters or a strip club.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: davedan on November 28, 2012, 05:28:16 pm
Tipping is bullshit and should be banned. Pay your employees properly in the first damn place- one of the things I'm properly proud of my country about is a lack of bullshit dehumanizing tipping nonsense.

Plus, if I wanted to see that much cleavage, every-single-Vancouver-restaurant-waitress, I'd go to a strip joint.

Well then, quit bullshitting and become Supreme Benevolent Leader already.


No benevolent leader would reduce the amount of cleavage in the world.

He's not going to reduce it. If you want boobies then go to Hooters or a strip club.

No purely on a quantitative scale it will be reduced because it will be confined to certain locations which will be unable to accomodate the excess cleavage. Besides which I like some cleavage with my food, particularly if I am eating veal or dairy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on November 28, 2012, 07:24:14 pm
Not necessarily, Davedan. Just because the waitresses aren't going to be over the top isn't stopping the customers from exposing massive amounts of cleavage.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on November 28, 2012, 07:30:04 pm
Tipping is bullshit and should be banned. Pay your employees properly in the first damn place- one of the things I'm properly proud of my country about is a lack of bullshit dehumanizing tipping nonsense.

Plus, if I wanted to see that much cleavage, every-single-Vancouver-restaurant-waitress, I'd go to a strip joint.

Well then, quit bullshitting and become Supreme Benevolent Leader already.


No benevolent leader would reduce the amount of cleavage in the world.

He's not going to reduce it. If you want boobies then go to Hooters or a strip club.

No purely on a quantitative scale it will be reduced because it will be confined to certain locations which will be unable to accomodate the excess cleavage. Besides which I like some cleavage with my food, particularly if I am eating veal or dairy.

You mean that the surplus cleavage would overload those certain locations' boob capacity?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: davedan on November 28, 2012, 07:34:03 pm
Yes because cleavage isn't free standing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on November 28, 2012, 07:59:09 pm
Tipping creates an incentive to wear more revealing clothing. I don't think that uncontroversial statement is deserving of the abuse you've hurled at me for the last two pages, Rookie.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: davedan on November 28, 2012, 08:21:26 pm
Tipping creates an incentive to wear more revealing clothing. I don't think that uncontroversial statement is deserving of the abuse you've hurled at me for the last two pages, Rookie.

What abuse would that be? For someone who has always impressed as being willing to pull no punches, this strikes me as being more than a little sensitive.

I am pretty sure everyone's having a laugh.

I haven't seen anything other than good natured ribbing. I can't speak for everyone but certainly I have no malice when engaged in a discussion about tits.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on November 28, 2012, 08:32:03 pm
Shortly after the Revolutionary War, they tried to largely abolish tipping, as it was seen as patronizing and opposed to the notion that "all men are created equal" (since at the time, you didn't tip an equal; you tipped a servant).  Unfortunately, since they didn't pay the servers anymore, this quickly fell to the wayside.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on November 28, 2012, 11:11:28 pm
Tipping creates an incentive to wear more revealing clothing. I don't think that uncontroversial statement is deserving of the abuse you've hurled at me for the last two pages, Rookie.

Hey, my initial post in response to yours had nothing to do with cleavage. It was meant to poke fun at your extreme grasp of the irrelevant. Yes, it would be much better for everyone involved to pay people in the food service well enough that they wouldn't need to tip. But they don't. And it's been that way here way too long to be remedied overnight. You know that and posted it was more of you pissing in the wind, bemoaning all the things we do here you don't like. Or you didn't know that because you aren't really knowledgeable about who real Americans are, misinformed about our culture. And it's tough to tell sometimes.

Actually, it may be more of the latter. I'm going off of your statement about how tipping being an incentive to wear less clothes. Yes, in a simple way, that is true. But that's something you tend to see more of in bars than restaurants. Most restaurants have some sort of either uniform (as is the case in most big corporate places) or dress codes (like the smaller places).

Anyways, I wasn't picking on you because you because anything you said was controversial or not.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on November 28, 2012, 11:17:14 pm
I've personally never been in a restaurant or Sports bar where the men or the women dressed more skimpy than one another except at ones where that was a selling point (Like Hooters). Sometimes the girls wear their polos unbuttoned, but so do some of the the men. As a bisexual, I can't say those are really... arousing, or taking advantage of.

Though I have heard of women getting sexually harassment and then getting 50-100 dollar worth of tips by some customers, but anecdotal hearsay evidence is... shaky.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on November 28, 2012, 11:34:42 pm
It happens from time to time. And as soon as she wants to say something, management would bounce the offender out so fast it'd make your head spin.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on November 29, 2012, 06:28:30 am
Don't even know where they get their figures.

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/65323_123982741093493_255875230_n.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/604016_227890604010555_848643648_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 29, 2012, 08:25:28 am
Gives money to Hamas I wish.
Also we don't give aid to China or if so very minor. 
And the budget is being worked on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on November 29, 2012, 09:12:11 am
Maybe the 8 billion is from the figure of purchased goods from China? That's the only thing that makes sense, but then that's actually "Job Creators" in the capitalist Market, not Obama. I'm more content with just thinking they pulled money from their ass.

Obama does have an economic plan, one, expectedly, Republicans are blocking.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 29, 2012, 10:37:25 am
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mczz4yI6Qj1rnyewg.jpg)

Seriously? If you really were a feminist you wouldn't even need a women's center.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on November 29, 2012, 03:50:12 pm
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mczz4yI6Qj1rnyewg.jpg)

Seriously? If you really were a feminist you wouldn't even need a women's center.
I want to have a more serious problem with this, but it just bugs me, why "Come up to me 4 ask"? If you're gonna use a fucking number use 2, at least that sounds right when read. Or let me guess, another pointless meme.

/waves his cane at the kids on his lawn.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on November 29, 2012, 04:01:17 pm
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mczz4yI6Qj1rnyewg.jpg)

Seriously? If you really were a feminist you wouldn't even need a women's center.
I want to have a more serious problem with this, but it just bugs me, why "Come up to me 4 ask"? If you're gonna use a fucking number use 2, at least that sounds right when read. Or let me guess, another pointless meme.

/waves his cane at the kids on his lawn.

Uh, Distind?  I'm pretty sure that's a "+" sign.  You've never seen them made like that before?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on November 29, 2012, 04:06:49 pm
... a plus, that makes far more sense. Haven't seen one written like that in years, happens in engineering, we tend to make our symbols consistently to avoid confusion.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on November 29, 2012, 05:14:50 pm
I thought that was a form of "and" sign. I think they might have it upside down though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on November 29, 2012, 05:23:34 pm
Don't even know where they get their figures.

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/65323_123982741093493_255875230_n.jpg)

Because all problems can be solved in 3 weeks!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on November 29, 2012, 07:56:32 pm
* block everything Obama tries to do. Complain that he doesn't get anything done *

Republican logic
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 30, 2012, 12:46:44 am
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/598587_543797798981107_1903428474_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 30, 2012, 12:55:07 am
That's fine.

I just want insurance to pay for it.  Which you should know if you were paying any attention at all.

But, of course, you weren't.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on November 30, 2012, 01:10:41 am
Don't even know where they get their figures.
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/65323_123982741093493_255875230_n.jpg)

I'll like to know what "giving money to Hamas" really is??

(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/598587_543797798981107_1903428474_n.jpg)

Oh, who wants to bet this asshat probably bitches about "welfare", and "abortion"?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 30, 2012, 01:26:01 am
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/598587_543797798981107_1903428474_n.jpg)

I'll pay for your ammo in the hopes that you'll end up accidentally shooting yourself in the foot.  Again.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on November 30, 2012, 04:40:11 am
Why doesn't the text look native to the photo?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 30, 2012, 04:49:49 am
Photoshop, probably.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Patches on November 30, 2012, 06:53:35 am
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/598587_543797798981107_1903428474_n.jpg)
If we're comparing like-to-like here, then we already do.  Viagra is covered by most insurance plans, making sure you can shoot all you want.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on November 30, 2012, 05:04:53 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/598587_543797798981107_1903428474_n.jpg)
Very much looks like a photoshop.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on November 30, 2012, 06:06:23 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/479761_495813843796805_874297550_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on November 30, 2012, 06:15:45 pm
Your sig is very appropriate.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on November 30, 2012, 06:23:17 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/479761_495813843796805_874297550_n.jpg)

Which is why the Constitution specifically forbids religious tests as a requirement for holding public office, right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on November 30, 2012, 07:53:21 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/305984_563577347002250_180627353_n.jpg)
Sad, that those "Christmas trees" are really pagan in origin

(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/486242_10151159772616275_1043358435_n.jpg)
There's really no need to be a fucking douche about it...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mechtaur on November 30, 2012, 08:10:56 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/486242_10151159772616275_1043358435_n.jpg)
There's really no need to be a fucking douche about it...


What this person doesn't know is that the neighbor is a knife nut.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on November 30, 2012, 09:03:53 pm
Or a sword nut.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on November 30, 2012, 09:15:40 pm
Or a martial arts master. He does not need weapons. He IS a weapon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on November 30, 2012, 09:50:52 pm
Or a big dog and a Louisville slugger.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on November 30, 2012, 09:52:50 pm
A ninja with a katana who collects knives and breeds pitbulls and plays baseball?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on November 30, 2012, 09:55:26 pm
But believes in responsible gun ownership.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on November 30, 2012, 10:10:05 pm
He sounds like an awesome person.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on November 30, 2012, 10:21:36 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/486242_10151159772616275_1043358435_n.jpg)
There's really no need to be a fucking douche about it...

What this person doesn't know is that the neighbor is a knife nut.

Your quote and your sig go together suspiciously well...   ???
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 30, 2012, 10:41:04 pm
My sister had a teacher who's brother was good enough at martial arts that he needed a permit to fly
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: clockworkgirl21 on November 30, 2012, 11:16:29 pm
Gun nuts really need to stop ranting on about their 2nd amendment rights then in the same breath going on about how much they'd like people to die.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on November 30, 2012, 11:58:55 pm

(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/486242_10151159772616275_1043358435_n.jpg)
There's really no need to be a fucking douche about it...

That's funny, cause dad and I would do the exact opposite. Letting someone die because you sit by and do nothing makes for an evil person.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 01, 2012, 01:35:18 am
A lack of action speaks as much as any actions one might take; they can either show great wisdom, cowardice, or downright evil.

Guess which one that guy is?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Atheissimo on December 01, 2012, 08:53:18 am

(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/486242_10151159772616275_1043358435_n.jpg)
There's really no need to be a fucking douche about it...

So they're openly admitting that allowing anyone to possess a firearm makes it more likely that you yourself will be the victim of gun violence

Hooray for the paranoid arms race! it means I'm free! 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jodie on December 01, 2012, 04:24:30 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/486242_10151159772616275_1043358435_n.jpg)

Hey can that neighbour sue if someone actually tries to rob their house because of that sign?

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on December 02, 2012, 04:27:15 pm
They probably consider, "Ban all guns" to mean "ban all military-grade weapons," which is really how far most of the bans go.  Honestly, if you need an AK 47 or M 9 to defend your home, the government is the least of your problems.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on December 03, 2012, 08:31:26 am
They probably consider, "Ban all guns" to mean "ban all military-grade weapons," which is really how far most of the bans go.  Honestly, if you need an AK 47 or M 9 to defend your home, the government is the least of your problems.

In my opinion if aren't safe in their own homes unless they are armed then something is already horribly wrong and the guns are just a symptom. I am certainly not against honest, sane people owning guns (no matter what kind or how many) but just the fact that so many "pro-gun" people start by asserting that everyone in the community have their lives threatened by criminals and then simply claim that arming everyone is the solution just seems silly... You have to sleep sometimes and I myself would not put my family in such a danger if I truly believed it existed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on December 04, 2012, 10:55:13 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_meivyxdbh31rsopnqo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on December 04, 2012, 11:17:30 pm
Coulter? Hot??
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on December 05, 2012, 12:01:33 am
Palin?  Smart?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on December 05, 2012, 12:36:02 am
Hahahahaha.

Good joke.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: largeham on December 05, 2012, 01:10:52 am
Eh, I'll give Tantaros and Hasselback, and don't forget S.E. Cupp. I don't know about intelligence though. Also, who is that on the bottom right? Irelad?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on December 06, 2012, 07:43:28 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/486242_10151159772616275_1043358435_n.jpg)
There's really no need to be a fucking douche about it...
The opposite of that ^ would be this ...
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/73089_202273639897615_70501822_n.jpg)




and then there is this...
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/487111_500388186650553_489127015_n.jpg)
and yet it always seems to be Hetro-sex that leads to information leaks...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 06, 2012, 07:46:11 pm
These street preachers just keep getting crazier and crazier...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on December 06, 2012, 09:01:22 pm
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/487111_500388186650553_489127015_n.jpg)
and yet it always seems to be Hetro-sex that leads to information leaks...

Well, in theory, being closeted could open a person up to threats of blackmail and pose a security problem. Not that this is what the person holding the sign most likely means though, nor is it any more of a security risk than any other kind of intentionally hidden sexual activity.

There was also that time in 2002 when then New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, a deeply closeted homosexual, appointed his secret Israeli boyfriend as his homeland security adviser. Which was bad because the guy had no experience and couldn't get security clearance. It did lead to the awkwardly phrased admission "I am a gay American" when the scandal broke, so it has that going for it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on December 09, 2012, 01:47:05 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/137bc44c9c8ba57c3c25cba97078c7f8/tumblr_meq0fefiB91rt8sgdo2_1280.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on December 09, 2012, 01:50:25 pm
I don't think it's a good idea to have that many stickers on the back window.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 09, 2012, 02:01:41 pm
Is it bad that I read the "whacking babies" one as "whacking off babies"?

I lol'd at the "Abortion is Always the wrong choice". I mean, even the most crazy pro-lifers are OK with abortion if the woman will die if she doesn't have an abortion.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on December 09, 2012, 02:44:19 pm
Also note the "Whacking babies since 1973" sticker, ignoring the fact that abortion existed long before Roe v. Wade struck the court and made abortion a constitutional right.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on December 10, 2012, 12:45:33 am
But to fundies, Abortion only existed since Roe vs. Wade.

Ironbite-before that...you just didn't talk about it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on December 10, 2012, 10:19:40 am
Is it bad that I read the "whacking babies" one as "whacking off babies"?

I lol'd at the "Abortion is Always the wrong choice". I mean, even the most crazy pro-lifers are OK with abortion if the woman will die if she doesn't have an abortion.

You obviously haven't heard about the woman in Ireland who died recently because the doctors refused her an abortion. She was already in the middle of a miscarriage, and a medical abortion could have saved her life.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 10, 2012, 05:05:42 pm
Is it bad that I read the "whacking babies" one as "whacking off babies"?

I lol'd at the "Abortion is Always the wrong choice". I mean, even the most crazy pro-lifers are OK with abortion if the woman will die if she doesn't have an abortion.

You obviously haven't heard about the woman in Ireland who died recently because the doctors refused her an abortion. She was already in the middle of a miscarriage, and a medical abortion could have saved her life.

I did hear about that..... I said "most crazy pro-lifers", most of the "crazy"(No abortions even if it's incest, the baby has a serious deformity, or she was raped) ones I know are OK with abortions if it's to save the life of the mother.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on December 10, 2012, 05:15:43 pm
Well, technically, you said "even the most", which doesn't imply "large percentage of" but rather implies "includes the most extreme"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 10, 2012, 05:44:41 pm
Well, technically, you said "even the most", which doesn't imply "large percentage of" but rather implies "includes the most extreme"

Oh whoops. I sometimes don't read what I type........
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on December 11, 2012, 02:11:39 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/137bc44c9c8ba57c3c25cba97078c7f8/tumblr_meq0fefiB91rt8sgdo2_1280.jpg)

I really have to know.
What on earth causes religious people to do this to their cars. I live with someone who is extremely religious and he sticks religious bumper stickers on his car too. I look at all bumper stickers I have seen anywhere and they are almost exclusively religious. Is there something about religious that makes you loose all sense of taste with regards to how your car looks?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on December 11, 2012, 02:20:45 am
Extremism of any sort.  You'll see libertarians do the same thing, as well as conspiracy theorists.  They have IMPORTANT OPINIONS that EVERYONE MUST KNOW.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on December 11, 2012, 07:00:54 am
Yeah real pro life, considering the person could easily run someone over since s/he can't see out the #^%#@% window!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: worlder on December 11, 2012, 01:24:45 pm
If extremism of any ideology can cause such abuse to a car, then I would like to see some left wing examples.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on December 11, 2012, 02:12:06 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/f1dda4d444acd2aaa0cf985a0c460a16/tumblr_mervlzl7CG1r6mdnjo1_400.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on December 11, 2012, 02:14:30 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/f1dda4d444acd2aaa0cf985a0c460a16/tumblr_mervlzl7CG1r6mdnjo1_400.jpg)

Blood cries?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on December 11, 2012, 03:01:16 pm
If extremism of any ideology can cause such abuse to a car, then I would like to see some left wing examples.

There are plenty.  This first one looks like it might be photoshopped, but whatever.

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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on December 11, 2012, 03:30:47 pm
If extremism of any ideology can cause such abuse to a car, then I would like to see some left wing examples.

There are plenty.  This first one looks like it might be photoshopped, but whatever.

(click to show/hide)


I think this one shouldn't count so much as political extremism. It looks more like it was thought out and artistically put together, unlike other examples where people just throw whatever anti democrat/republican sticker they find on their car.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on December 11, 2012, 04:03:16 pm
Maybe, though the case could be made that the time and energy (and money, if the stickers weren't free) spent doing that marks a certain  degree of extreme belief in that candidate.  Either way, Worlder asked for examples of vehicular abuse through the overapplication of bumper stickers by liberals, and that picture definitely applies, arguably more than any other example we have seen, given that literally every inch of the car's body is covered.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on December 11, 2012, 04:22:01 pm
I will never understand why people feel the need to do shit like that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on December 11, 2012, 04:25:04 pm
what i find worse about it is unlike say a yard sign this endangers people since you can't see out your back.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on December 11, 2012, 06:34:47 pm
(http://www.gearfuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/hanger-choose-life.jpg)

I don't think I need to explain this.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 11, 2012, 07:29:48 pm
(http://www.gearfuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/hanger-choose-life.jpg)

I don't think I need to explain this.

The irony is that voting for more pro-life people that push anti-abortion laws causes more coat hanger style abortions.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on December 11, 2012, 08:15:45 pm
(http://www.gearfuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/hanger-choose-life.jpg)

I don't think I need to explain this.

The irony is that voting for more pro-life people that push anti-abortion laws causes more coat hanger style abortions.

They don't care unless their daughter or other close female relative is left dead due it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 11, 2012, 08:34:32 pm
(http://www.gearfuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/hanger-choose-life.jpg)

I don't think I need to explain this.

The irony is that voting for more pro-life people that push anti-abortion laws causes more coat hanger style abortions.

They don't care unless their daughter or other close female relative is left dead due it.

That's because daughters and friends of True Christians can't be whores, unlike every other human being with a vagina.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on December 11, 2012, 10:11:29 pm
Nah.  Hanger-makers are just trying to move product.

...What?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on December 11, 2012, 10:49:10 pm
Remind me to not do drycleaning there if I ever visit that region.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: syaoranvee on December 12, 2012, 06:57:53 am
Propaganda posters from extremist pro-life group Abolish Human Abortion (http://imgur.com/a/LMyxo)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on December 12, 2012, 07:06:00 am
Propaganda posters from extremist pro-life group Abolish Human Abortion (http://imgur.com/a/LMyxo)

They certainly made enough.

I think the most baffling one is the "rosaries on ovaries" one.  Huh?  What?  I've never heard of that one.  Maybe I just don't get it because I'm not Catholic.  Do people really say that?

Edit:  Holy shit, the Wiki Answers page on how late you can get abortions is cluttered with inconsistent garbage. >.<

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_latest_you_can_have_an_abortion

Seriously, that's a godawful mess of contradictions.  Oh, and of course all of the fuckers who decided to edit it can't cite any goddamn sources.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on December 12, 2012, 07:11:32 am
Propaganda posters from extremist pro-life group Abolish Human Abortion (http://imgur.com/a/LMyxo)

Ok, the picture with Savita pissed me the fuck off. her death has everything to do with abortion. When somebody is suffering a miscarriage and can't get that abortion because "It's a Catholic country" it has fucking everything to do with abortion and these shitbag jesus freaks.

Also, Obama's a tyrant? "Women's rights do not trump human rights"? Go choke on a lego.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on December 12, 2012, 07:28:21 am
She kept screaming I want an abortion
Also love the Godwining
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on December 12, 2012, 10:55:38 am
The "Women's rights are not more important than Human rights" one legitimately pissed me off. Women are humans you fucking asshats!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on December 12, 2012, 11:47:38 am
No they're not.  I thought everyon-*blows up*

Ironbite-*respawns*  K that was painful one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: myusername on December 12, 2012, 01:43:00 pm
Propaganda posters from extremist pro-life group Abolish Human Abortion (http://imgur.com/a/LMyxo)

Abortion protects pedophiles? WTF????
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on December 12, 2012, 02:05:58 pm
Propaganda posters from extremist pro-life group Abolish Human Abortion (http://imgur.com/a/LMyxo)

Abortion protects pedophiles? WTF????
They mean this Steve King idea where you take a girl you raped and have her abort to prevent her from telling. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on December 12, 2012, 04:13:12 pm
Propaganda posters from extremist pro-life group Abolish Human Abortion (http://imgur.com/a/LMyxo)

Abortion protects pedophiles? WTF????
They mean this Steve King idea where you take a girl you raped and have her abort to prevent her from telling.

No no no. That's not quite what he said. He said he voted against making dog fighting illegal because kidnapping a girl, raping her, driving her across state lines to force her to have an abortion, and then dropping her off where you stole her in the first place- "and that's not against the law in the United States of America" <---exact words.

Here's the clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKJ7oVy20eo

It goes on after that a bit about how he has dogs and has "broken up a couple of dog fights"... because as we all know the occasional squabble between pets is totally the same as what goes on in the dog-fighting world.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DrFishcake on December 12, 2012, 04:29:02 pm
Ah the old appeal to shock factor/gore trick that anti-choicers never tire of. Like I said before, knee surgery probably wouldn't be the most pleasant thing to watch but if you've got an injured knee, is that going to stop you? I'd hope not.

No. Difference. Whatsoever.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on December 12, 2012, 04:44:38 pm
Propaganda posters from extremist pro-life group Abolish Human Abortion (http://imgur.com/a/LMyxo)

Abortion protects pedophiles? WTF????
They mean this Steve King idea where you take a girl you raped and have her abort to prevent her from telling.

No no no. That's not quite what he said. He said he voted against making dog fighting illegal because kidnapping a girl, raping her, driving her across state lines to force her to have an abortion, and then dropping her off where you stole her in the first place- "and that's not against the law in the United States of America" <---exact words.

Here's the clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKJ7oVy20eo

It goes on after that a bit about how he has dogs and has "broken up a couple of dog fights"... because as we all know the occasional squabble between pets is totally the same as what goes on in the dog-fighting world.

Oh yeah.  We all know kidnapping and raping a minor (or hell, a full grown woman) is TOTALLY legal.  Better yet, I'm sure NOBODY will notice she's gone, either!

Also, abortion and dog fighting are two separate issues anyway.

Maybe Steve King is just assuming that mosts rapists are fathers, so they can manage to rape their daughter and haul them across fucking STATE LINES without anybody blinking an eyelid.  Once at the abortion doctor, the dad can then proceed to force his daughter to lie and say something like she "had sex with a classmate" when she goes in to get an abortion.  The rape is still y'know, fucking illegal, but that's about the only scenario regarding his statements that sounds halfway feasible.  Hell, even then, I'd bet a lot of the coercion techniques used to keep the girl quiet would be crimes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on December 12, 2012, 05:37:49 pm
Tobe fair he said no one he heard of got pregnant from Staturoy rape. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on December 13, 2012, 12:23:40 am
(http://i.imgur.com/MtQb5.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 13, 2012, 12:39:20 am
Ah the old appeal to shock factor/gore trick that anti-choicers never tire of. Like I said before, knee surgery probably wouldn't be the most pleasant thing to watch but if you've got an injured knee, is that going to stop you? I'd hope not.

No. Difference. Whatsoever.

Honestly...I've seen worse on Discovery Health.

That, and well...perusing Encyclopedia Dramatica for long enough will pretty much make you immune to the goriest pictures, nastiest fetishes, and most offensive pejoratives.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 13, 2012, 04:38:31 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/MtQb5.jpg)

Kills who? Fetuses? There shouldn't be a goddam fetus if someone's taking the Pill.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on December 13, 2012, 05:13:30 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/MtQb5.jpg)

Kills who? Fetuses? There shouldn't be a goddam fetus if someone's taking the Pill.

Supposedly the Pill kills women.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 13, 2012, 05:41:36 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/MtQb5.jpg)

Kills who? Fetuses? There shouldn't be a goddam fetus if someone's taking the Pill.

Supposedly the Pill kills women.

How????
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on December 13, 2012, 06:27:00 pm
overdosing they fear will happen if teenagers get Plan B or they could be saying a zygote is a person.  The first one is overdosing happens with all drugs
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 13, 2012, 08:02:53 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/MtQb5.jpg)

Kills who? Fetuses? There shouldn't be a goddam fetus if someone's taking the Pill.

Supposedly the Pill kills women.

How????

If your brain's starved enough of intelligence, you'd probably be stupid enough to eat a whole pack in a day, which likely would kill you.  Otherwise, aside from side effects which occur with any hormone-based drugs, they're perfectly safe.

That, or like Kefka said, they're going under the delusion that zygotes are people.  In which case, they're not only devoid of intelligence, but their brains are in danger of collapsing in on themselves.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on December 13, 2012, 08:05:45 pm
Apparently it's about the fact that the pill has side effects (http://thepillkills.com/pillkills.php), which are on occasion lethal. Y'know, like every other single medication ever.

Irony bonus: The website makes a huge deal about how Planned Parenthood says the pill is "Safe, effective, and convenient". But, in the very same page (http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/birth-control/birth-control-pill-4228.htm) they link to, PP also has a list of side effects and contraindications for the pill. The lying bastards, how dare they force us to read the whole page.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Enforcer on December 15, 2012, 12:03:34 am
I think the most baffling one is the "rosaries on ovaries" one.  Huh?  What?  I've never heard of that one.  Maybe I just don't get it because I'm not Catholic.  Do people really say that?

"Keep your rosaries off my ovaries" is a pro-choice slogan; it really means "keep your religious views out of my decisions about my reproductive health."

Obviously, the person who made the poster which mentions this slogan doesn't understand what it means, or that it is to be taken figuratively.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on December 15, 2012, 01:27:03 pm
Or, more likely, are being deliberately obtuse about it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on December 16, 2012, 02:50:23 pm
Not really a sign, but didn't know where else to post this:
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/60973_571039749589343_1713407922_n.jpg)

OH NOES!!! THE HORROR!!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 16, 2012, 03:19:16 pm
Not really a sign, but didn't know where else to post this:
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/60973_571039749589343_1713407922_n.jpg)

OH NOES!!! THE HORROR!!

Dogs are much more interesting than nativity scenes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on December 16, 2012, 03:28:12 pm
Not really a sign, but didn't know where else to post this:
*Fox News pic*

OH NOES!!! THE HORROR!!

Well fuck me running, that's just horrifying.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on December 16, 2012, 03:38:59 pm
....okay, Fox News. All of you show us every single Christmas card you've received AND given in the last five years and see how many of them spotlight something other than Jesus. Because anything other than an actual picture of Jesus spotlights something BESIDES Christmas. Snowmen? Not Christmas! Sleighs? Not Christmas! Santa? STILL NOT MOTHERFUCKING CHRISTMAS.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on December 16, 2012, 04:58:45 pm
Not really a sign, but didn't know where else to post this:
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/60973_571039749589343_1713407922_n.jpg)

OH NOES!!! THE HORROR!!
Ignoring the typical War on Christmas bullshit, apparently PSY (and Gangam Style) is one of our nation's biggest threats.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on December 16, 2012, 05:04:18 pm
Not really a sign, but didn't know where else to post this:
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/60973_571039749589343_1713407922_n.jpg)

OH NOES!!! THE HORROR!!
Only problem is that Bush sort of did the same thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwyYrlAx1aI
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on December 16, 2012, 07:51:45 pm
Not really a sign, but didn't know where else to post this:
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/60973_571039749589343_1713407922_n.jpg)

OH NOES!!! THE HORROR!!

This is the Obama "hamburger fiasco" all over again.  Fucking morons.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on December 17, 2012, 12:39:41 am
It's like they see controversy where there is none.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on December 17, 2012, 12:51:22 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/63fe3397b1fbc41582705771e08a5972/tumblr_mf5uslAasy1qdmofro1_400.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mechtaur on December 17, 2012, 01:08:24 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/63fe3397b1fbc41582705771e08a5972/tumblr_mf5uslAasy1qdmofro1_400.jpg)

There is something wrong here. I can't quite put my clothes hanger in it finger on it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on December 17, 2012, 03:01:01 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/63fe3397b1fbc41582705771e08a5972/tumblr_mf5uslAasy1qdmofro1_400.jpg)

There is something wrong here. I can't quite put my clothes hanger in it finger on it.

Pretty sure 8-week-old fetuses don't look like that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Julian on December 17, 2012, 04:09:37 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/63fe3397b1fbc41582705771e08a5972/tumblr_mf5uslAasy1qdmofro1_400.jpg)

There is something wrong here. I can't quite put my clothes hanger in it finger on it.

Pretty sure 8-week-old fetuses don't look like that.
Maybe if they show it at actual size... (assuming no one comes into this thread with a phone/tablet app.)
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b58/dappler/tumblr_mf5uslAasy1qdmofro1_40_zps0d90b88d.jpg)

Nope still not right... (The eyes don't open until week 26 for starters!)
http://www.babycenter.com/fetal-development-images-8-weeks (http://www.babycenter.com/fetal-development-images-8-weeks)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on December 17, 2012, 03:40:11 pm
Propaganda posters from extremist pro-life group Abolish Human Abortion (http://imgur.com/a/LMyxo)

The one that says "Women's Rights Do Not Trump Human Rights" sickens me.  Women, by definition, are human.  Therefore, the rights of women, by definition, are human rights.  Therefore, AHA's despicable propaganda implies that women don't deserve basic human rights.  Fuck you, AHA.  Fuck you.

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/63fe3397b1fbc41582705771e08a5972/tumblr_mf5uslAasy1qdmofro1_400.jpg)

There is something wrong here. I can't quite put my clothes hanger in it finger on it.

Still better than my middle-school fundie "health" textbook, which called that a 6-week embryo.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on December 18, 2012, 01:38:54 am

Still better than my middle-school fundie "health" textbook, which called that a 6-week embryo.

You're kidding me! Dude, I learned when I was nine what they looked like at the different stages of development (my mom wasn't too good at keeping her nursing books away from the kids).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 18, 2012, 02:26:11 am
I don't remember ever going over pregnancy too much in health class, or in sex ed.  It mostly boiled down to "these are the various horrifying diseases you can get from sex," "do not fuck," "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THAT'S HOLY, DO NOT FUCK!"

But, they didn't count on me reading encyclopedias like a god damned crazy person.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on December 18, 2012, 04:09:00 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/63fe3397b1fbc41582705771e08a5972/tumblr_mf5uslAasy1qdmofro1_400.jpg)

Well to be fair, the sperm cells and the eggs cells are human too. The difference is if the fetus is self aware or a person, not human.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on December 18, 2012, 04:14:16 am
I don't remember much from my high school sex ed classes. I do recall that they didn't go over any form of birth control, including abstinence, which was probably because it was a Jewish school. Judaism tends to use guilt instead of fear as a means of enforcing its religious laws. It goes "These are the rules. You are expected to follow them."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on December 18, 2012, 05:27:20 am
Sounds like the Catholics. That Catholic guilt shit is still screwing me up (though I regard myself as a Catheist).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 18, 2012, 10:28:12 am
Our sex ed was 90% anti-abortion stuff. The first 10 minutes was a brief intro to STD's, but the rest was about describing how bloody and painful abortions are. The lady even said "I know some of you disagree, but science shows that life begins at birth" and "Fetus does NOT mean "clump of cells", it means "little one". They also passed around toy fetuses from each week and month (I'm not sure how accurate they were), and talked about how great adoption was, and showed us this famous surgery where the fetus grabbed the surgeon's hand.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on December 18, 2012, 10:29:58 am
My sex ed did actually have condom lessons
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 18, 2012, 10:35:13 am
Just wondering, does anyone have an example of how big fetuses are per week/month?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on December 18, 2012, 11:12:15 am
(http://assets.babycenter.com/i/m/stages/popups/08/index.jpg) what 8 weeks really looks like
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 18, 2012, 11:22:58 am
Yeah... those fetus dolls were not accurate.
How early can a woman have an abortion?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on December 18, 2012, 11:24:37 am
Not sure.  Also at 8 weeks it's the size of a kidney bean
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on December 18, 2012, 11:33:57 am
Yeah... those fetus dolls were not accurate.
How early can a woman have an abortion?

Good question. She can be pregnant, very early, not know it, and get absolutely shitfaced drunk, and kill the fetus. And there's RU486, also called the Morning After Pill. But if you mean going to the doctor or clinic with the intent of ending a pregnancy, I am pretty sure it's as soon as she realizes it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 18, 2012, 11:52:03 am
Yeah... those fetus dolls were not accurate.
How early can a woman have an abortion?

Good question. She can be pregnant, very early, not know it, and get absolutely shitfaced drunk, and kill the fetus. And there's RU486, also called the Morning After Pill. But if you mean going to the doctor or clinic with the intent of ending a pregnancy, I am pretty sure it's as soon as she realizes it.

Where do you get morning after pills?

Side note, how do you(not just rookie, everyone in general) feel about abortion? I hear many hear talk about how it's not easy for a woman to get one, and most don't get them just for fun. In my opinion, I really don't care if a woman gets an abortion and doesn't care about the fetus at all (excluding really late abortions, when the fetus is practically a baby). Do the people that talk about how hard it is to have one prefer that women don't have as much emotional difficulty with it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on December 18, 2012, 12:57:53 pm
Personally? I don't like them. And Mrs. Rookie feels the same way. But that doesn't mean we're going to pressure, bully, guilt, or goad anyone else one way or the other. As far as other women, it's not something I've ever talked to anyone else about. Nor do I plan to. People can make their decisions.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on December 18, 2012, 01:44:51 pm
Not sure.  Also at 8 weeks it's the size of a kidney bean

Oh, they didn't lie to us about the sizes.  But the photos they used were deliberately mislabeled as being "younger" than they actually were.  What Wikipedia identifies as a photo (enlarged, of course) of a 7-week embryo is pretty much the exact same photo that my middle-school textbook (A Beka) and various Catholic "pro-life" pamphlets insisted was a 4-week embryo.

We were never lied to about how big embryos are, because that wasn't the part that tugs at your heartstrings.  "Tiny and helpless" is easy to use for emotional manipulation.  But the more they can convince you that a blastocyst looks like a newborn baby, the easier it is for them to convince you to ban all abortions ever.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 18, 2012, 01:57:18 pm
Not sure.  Also at 8 weeks it's the size of a kidney bean

Oh, they didn't lie to us about the sizes.  But the photos they used were deliberately mislabeled as being "younger" than they actually were.  What Wikipedia identifies as a photo (enlarged, of course) of a 7-week embryo is pretty much the exact same photo that my middle-school textbook (A Beka) and various Catholic "pro-life" pamphlets insisted was a 4-week embryo.

We were never lied to about how big embryos are, because that wasn't the part that tugs at your heartstrings.  "Tiny and helpless" is easy to use for emotional manipulation.  But the more they can convince you that a blastocyst looks like a newborn baby, the easier it is for them to convince you to ban all abortions ever.

When something is the size of a bug it's easier to see that it's not a living, feeling being.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on December 18, 2012, 02:00:51 pm
Should i put up all the sizes for a proper reference
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 18, 2012, 02:08:19 pm
Should i put up all the sizes for a proper reference

That would be nice. Thank you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on December 18, 2012, 06:06:53 pm

Where do you get morning after pills?

Side note, how do you(not just rookie, everyone in general) feel about abortion? I hear many hear talk about how it's not easy for a woman to get one, and most don't get them just for fun. In my opinion, I really don't care if a woman gets an abortion and doesn't care about the fetus at all (excluding really late abortions, when the fetus is practically a baby). Do the people that talk about how hard it is to have one prefer that women don't have as much emotional difficulty with it?

I don't particularly care either way if someone has one or not. And if by late-term you mean the point where most are viable, that's usually because something has gone horrifically wrong with the fetus in question. I remember reading about one where it had no intestines and the heart had developed outside the body. If it survived being born, it would die horribly soon after. Of course the pro-lifers never want you to hear about those things, since it makes them look heartless in comparison.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 18, 2012, 10:53:32 pm

Where do you get morning after pills?

Side note, how do you(not just rookie, everyone in general) feel about abortion? I hear many hear talk about how it's not easy for a woman to get one, and most don't get them just for fun. In my opinion, I really don't care if a woman gets an abortion and doesn't care about the fetus at all (excluding really late abortions, when the fetus is practically a baby). Do the people that talk about how hard it is to have one prefer that women don't have as much emotional difficulty with it?

I don't particularly care either way if someone has one or not. And if by late-term you mean the point where most are viable, that's usually because something has gone horrifically wrong with the fetus in question. I remember reading about one where it had no intestines and the heart had developed outside the body. If it survived being born, it would die horribly soon after. Of course the pro-lifers never want you to hear about those things, since it makes them look heartless in comparison.

Then, you got the kid born without a god damned brain.  No, I will not link to the video, find it yourself, its...too fucking depressing for me to even go looking for it.

Honestly, I don't really mind abortion.  It keeps you from making your life worse, and bringing a life into this world that may end up loathed and perhaps even hated, and that's not fair to the kid.  If it poses a significant health risk to the mother, all the more reason to get rid of it as soon as god damned possible.  That thing hasn't proven its ability to survive, for all you know it could die the moment its out of the mother, but the mother has.  Save her life...if she ends up hating you for it, at least you won't have a kid there serving as a reminder of the person you no longer have, the child living a life of being resented by its father for something it couldn't help.

It stops a lot of problems before they begin, and saves the lives of women that may have otherwise died because of complications during pregnancy.  Make it safe, make it legal, and make it accessible.  Also, if a kid comes in wanting one because they accidentally got knocked up, no parental permission need be required.  This is one instance where they do not get a fucking say, only the kid does, because she's the one that's pregnant, not them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 18, 2012, 10:55:56 pm

Where do you get morning after pills?

Side note, how do you(not just rookie, everyone in general) feel about abortion? I hear many hear talk about how it's not easy for a woman to get one, and most don't get them just for fun. In my opinion, I really don't care if a woman gets an abortion and doesn't care about the fetus at all (excluding really late abortions, when the fetus is practically a baby). Do the people that talk about how hard it is to have one prefer that women don't have as much emotional difficulty with it?

I don't particularly care either way if someone has one or not. And if by late-term you mean the point where most are viable, that's usually because something has gone horrifically wrong with the fetus in question. I remember reading about one where it had no intestines and the heart had developed outside the body. If it survived being born, it would die horribly soon after. Of course the pro-lifers never want you to hear about those things, since it makes them look heartless in comparison.

I guess I'm wondering how someone would feel if a woman got pregnant as much as possible, then had an abortion at 4 weeks after conception. I'm not sure why she would do this, but I'm wondering how other pro-choicers feel about this.
I personally wouldn't care at all, excluding the confusion of why she's having so many abortions, and the effect of it on her health.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 18, 2012, 11:01:27 pm

Where do you get morning after pills?

Side note, how do you(not just rookie, everyone in general) feel about abortion? I hear many hear talk about how it's not easy for a woman to get one, and most don't get them just for fun. In my opinion, I really don't care if a woman gets an abortion and doesn't care about the fetus at all (excluding really late abortions, when the fetus is practically a baby). Do the people that talk about how hard it is to have one prefer that women don't have as much emotional difficulty with it?

I don't particularly care either way if someone has one or not. And if by late-term you mean the point where most are viable, that's usually because something has gone horrifically wrong with the fetus in question. I remember reading about one where it had no intestines and the heart had developed outside the body. If it survived being born, it would die horribly soon after. Of course the pro-lifers never want you to hear about those things, since it makes them look heartless in comparison.

I guess I'm wondering how someone would feel if a woman got pregnant as much as possible, then had an abortion at 4 weeks after conception. I'm not sure why she would do this, but I'm wondering how other pro-choicers feel about this.
I personally wouldn't care at all, excluding the confusion of why she's having so many abortions, and the effect of it on her health.

Yeaaaaaah...at that point, I'd be questioning the lady's mental health, and not the legality of abortion.  Because only a fuckin scary-ass psycho bitch would pull that kinda shit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 18, 2012, 11:19:47 pm

Where do you get morning after pills?

Side note, how do you(not just rookie, everyone in general) feel about abortion? I hear many hear talk about how it's not easy for a woman to get one, and most don't get them just for fun. In my opinion, I really don't care if a woman gets an abortion and doesn't care about the fetus at all (excluding really late abortions, when the fetus is practically a baby). Do the people that talk about how hard it is to have one prefer that women don't have as much emotional difficulty with it?

I don't particularly care either way if someone has one or not. And if by late-term you mean the point where most are viable, that's usually because something has gone horrifically wrong with the fetus in question. I remember reading about one where it had no intestines and the heart had developed outside the body. If it survived being born, it would die horribly soon after. Of course the pro-lifers never want you to hear about those things, since it makes them look heartless in comparison.

I guess I'm wondering how someone would feel if a woman got pregnant as much as possible, then had an abortion at 4 weeks after conception. I'm not sure why she would do this, but I'm wondering how other pro-choicers feel about this.
I personally wouldn't care at all, excluding the confusion of why she's having so many abortions, and the effect of it on her health.

Yeaaaaaah...at that point, I'd be questioning the lady's mental health, and not the legality of abortion.  Because only a fuckin scary-ass psycho bitch would pull that kinda shit.

It's really hard to make a metaphor for this...
But do you see anything immoral about what she's doing to the fetuses? Not the fact that she's obviously coo-coo for cocoa puffs?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 18, 2012, 11:38:48 pm
It's really hard to make a metaphor for this...
But do you see anything immoral about what she's doing to the fetuses? Not the fact that she's obviously coo-coo for cocoa puffs?

Eeh, not really.  At 4 weeks, the thing barely looks human, anyway.  Even then, the act itself (abortion) is not evil, but in this case, the intent with which its done is.  Do not call an action evil simply because a few who have taken that action were evil.  As Daria put it, "Yeah, and Hitler ate sugar."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on December 19, 2012, 02:18:16 am
If someone intentionally got pregnant just to have abortions, I'd get the impression that they had an unhealthy addiction to surgery for some reason.

On that note, while I am also pro-choice, I also support making it so that women don't need abortions in the first place.  Birth control, sex education, family planning, and so forth.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on December 19, 2012, 08:32:53 am
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Not true and WTF?

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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Julian on December 19, 2012, 09:18:07 am
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Bloody hell. Most people would say that they then armed the kids to protect the teachers, and gave them two years compulsory military service in a geopolitical nightmare.

Also this.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/16/israeli-teachers-are-armed-and-other-stupid-right-wing-myths/ (http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/16/israeli-teachers-are-armed-and-other-stupid-right-wing-myths/)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on December 19, 2012, 09:32:02 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/480741_471892009523710_914407798_n_zps7557c371.jpg)

I truly hate this argument. I was very young when Reagen was shot, and I didn't learn of this fact til I was much older. It turns out he was surrounded by the Secret Service. Those guys are in the top ten in the world as far as bodyguards go. Yet he still got shot.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on December 19, 2012, 09:44:52 am
The whole arming teachers bs is nothing more than knee jerk reaction bs, and fail to see what the real problem is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on December 19, 2012, 09:48:12 am

Where do you get morning after pills?

Side note, how do you(not just rookie, everyone in general) feel about abortion? I hear many hear talk about how it's not easy for a woman to get one, and most don't get them just for fun. In my opinion, I really don't care if a woman gets an abortion and doesn't care about the fetus at all (excluding really late abortions, when the fetus is practically a baby). Do the people that talk about how hard it is to have one prefer that women don't have as much emotional difficulty with it?

I don't particularly care either way if someone has one or not. And if by late-term you mean the point where most are viable, that's usually because something has gone horrifically wrong with the fetus in question. I remember reading about one where it had no intestines and the heart had developed outside the body. If it survived being born, it would die horribly soon after. Of course the pro-lifers never want you to hear about those things, since it makes them look heartless in comparison.

Then, you got the kid born without a god damned brain.  No, I will not link to the video, find it yourself, its...too fucking depressing for me to even go looking for it.

Are we talking about the particular anencepalic child whose parents insisted on keeping it alive for a full year after birth, in pain but unaware of anything else*, just because "we don't believe in abortion so it would be wrong to put it out of its misery?"  Because...that was just all kinds of creepy.  I was raised in that degree of "pro-life," and I was deeply sickened by that video.  It was their choice to make, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

* You need a cerebrum to be consciously aware of the things your "five senses" process, or to make any conscious action, but you only really need pain receptors and a brainstem to feel pain.

Honestly, I don't really mind abortion.  It keeps you from making your life worse, and bringing a life into this world that may end up loathed and perhaps even hated, and that's not fair to the kid.  If it poses a significant health risk to the mother, all the more reason to get rid of it as soon as god damned possible.  That thing hasn't proven its ability to survive, for all you know it could die the moment its out of the mother, but the mother has.  Save her life...if she ends up hating you for it, at least you won't have a kid there serving as a reminder of the person you no longer have, the child living a life of being resented by its father for something it couldn't help.

It stops a lot of problems before they begin, and saves the lives of women that may have otherwise died because of complications during pregnancy.  Make it safe, make it legal, and make it accessible.  Also, if a kid comes in wanting one because they accidentally got knocked up, no parental permission need be required.  This is one instance where they do not get a fucking say, only the kid does, because she's the one that's pregnant, not them.

I don't like abortion.  At all.  But what "pro-life" types tend to forget is that sometimes your choice isn't a simple, cut-and-dried, Right Vs. Wrong choice.  Sometimes, you have to choose between Wrong and Wronger.  There are circumstances in which abortion is not a good idea.  But there are also circumstances in which abortion is by far the lesser evil.  It is not my place to decide when another person's reasons are Good Enough.

For example, the life/health of the mother.  The doctor never says, "You are definitely going to die if you have a baby now."  It's always a probability of death, at least at first.  A risk, not a certainty.  And different people have different ideas of what level of risk is worthwhile in order to have a baby.  The law, and other people in general, should not go up to a woman and tell her that her level of risk is too high to give birth when she wants to do so, or not high enough for an abortion if that's what she wants.

Some people don't even want a baby--and frankly, I think that the way doctors assume that we all want to make babies, even when the child-free among us say otherwise, is rather patronizing.  Some people want a baby, but aren't financially able to care for one yet.  Some people already have a child that they can just barely afford to feed.

The law should respect the choices of all of these people.  Abortion is never an easy choice to make; neither is giving birth.  Both have risks; both carry the possibility of regret; both are rather expensive; both can, if you're not married, carry quite a lot of nasty social stigmas.  But the law shouldn't make this choice any harder than it already is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on December 19, 2012, 10:46:02 am
In that case of being able to only know pain isn't that basically a zombie in a sense not having any intelligence but still moving?  Also there was a case where the parents wanted the kid but it would have died in 5 seconds after birth cause kidneys and bladder were not forming
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Julian on December 19, 2012, 11:15:04 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/480741_471892009523710_914407798_n_zps7557c371.jpg)

I truly hate this argument. I was very young when Reagen was shot, and I didn't learn of this fact til I was much older. It turns out he was surrounded by the Secret Service. Those guys are in the top ten in the world as far as bodyguards go. Yet he still got shot.
West Wing Season II, Episode I. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745640/quotes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745640/quotes)
C.J. Cregg: There were 36 homicides last night. 480 sexual assaults. 3411 robberies. 3685 aggravated assaults, all at gun point. And if anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if the victims themselves had been carrying guns, I only remind you that the President of the United States was shot last night while surrounded by the best-trained armed guards in the history of the world.


Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on December 19, 2012, 11:18:17 am
Also arming the teachers seems disruptive.  Not saying they will pull out their guns if the kids misbehave but having them creates this sense of dread in the room.   
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on December 19, 2012, 11:39:26 am
The argument is poor because of why the Israelies armed their teachers. It wasn't to protect attacks from people with mental health issues, it was to protect from people who know damn well what they're doing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on December 19, 2012, 11:40:22 am
West Wing Season II, Episode I. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745640/quotes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745640/quotes)
C.J. Cregg: There were 36 homicides last night. 480 sexual assaults. 3411 robberies. 3685 aggravated assaults, all at gun point. And if anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if the victims themselves had been carrying guns, I only remind you that the President of the United States was shot last night while surrounded by the best-trained armed guards in the history of the world.

But the President himself didn't have a gun! Maybe if he had...

Blah. I can definitely see why a gun is pretty much necessary in certain situations, but then there are so many others where it just simply isn't.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on December 19, 2012, 04:16:50 pm
The whole arming teachers bs is nothing more than knee jerk reaction bs, and fail to see what the real problem is.

Yeah, loaded firearms in a building full of little kids. What could possibly go wrong?

It's like those loons who argue 9-11 wouldn't have happened if passengers were allowed to carry guns on planes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on December 19, 2012, 04:49:21 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/480741_471892009523710_914407798_n_zps7557c371.jpg)
Bloody hell. Most people would say that they then armed the kids to protect the teachers, and gave them two years compulsory military service in a geopolitical nightmare.

Also this.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/16/israeli-teachers-are-armed-and-other-stupid-right-wing-myths/ (http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/16/israeli-teachers-are-armed-and-other-stupid-right-wing-myths/)

To clear up any confusion, both comments "not true" & "wtf" are referring to the second photo, because both statements are utter bullshit.   
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on December 19, 2012, 08:02:42 pm
I guess I'm wondering how someone would feel if a woman got pregnant as much as possible, then had an abortion at 4 weeks after conception. I'm not sure why she would do this, but I'm wondering how other pro-choicers feel about this.
I personally wouldn't care at all, excluding the confusion of why she's having so many abortions, and the effect of it on her health.
Barring the whole "why the fuck are you doing this to yourself" argument, a 4 week old foetus doesn't even have a brain. To say that it is wrong to abort it, at least more wrong than it is to kill an ant, is equivalent to arguing that either a) souls exist and the foetus is a person from conception or b) to prevent a person from coming into existence is ethically the same as killing one.

Actually b) is a complicated idea for me, but if it's true that means that a fertile woman not having sex is murder.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Atheissimo on December 21, 2012, 02:11:08 pm

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/480741_471892009523710_914407798_n_zps7557c371.jpg)

I think it's time to stop and admit you have a problem when you're getting your gun policies from a bona fide war zone.

Isn't the benefit of being a stable first world democracy that you don't have to be armed all the time in case of attack?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on December 24, 2012, 07:15:22 pm

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/480741_471892009523710_914407798_n_zps7557c371.jpg)

I think it's time to stop and admit you have a problem when you're getting your gun policies from a bona fide war zone.

Isn't the benefit of being a stable first world democracy that you don't have to be armed all the time in case of attack?

You may be on to something, maybe we're no longer a "stable 1st world democracy".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Julian on December 25, 2012, 03:20:56 pm
To clear up any confusion, both comments "not true" & "wtf" are referring to the second photo, because both statements are utter bullshit.
Absolutely. The thread title's a bit of a giveaway in that regard. It's a bit like the original fundie submission concept. Look at the pile of fail I found, followed by people jumping in on the stupid...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Julian on December 25, 2012, 03:26:11 pm
I think it's time to stop and admit you have a problem when you're getting your gun policies from a bona fide war zone.
Very true, but the scariest thing is the Israeli policies were far too moderate/reasoned and had to be massively sexed up / misrepresented to match the NRA rhetoric.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on December 25, 2012, 06:23:31 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/6377_510228038999901_711859771_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 25, 2012, 06:24:29 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/6377_510228038999901_711859771_n.jpg)

How the fuck can he drive?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on December 25, 2012, 07:13:10 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/6377_510228038999901_711859771_n.jpg)

How the fuck can he drive?

He can't, legally speaking.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 25, 2012, 07:24:57 pm
I also just noticed that the bride's dress is behind him, and the sizes confuse me. Either he's a midget or she's a giant.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on December 25, 2012, 07:59:31 pm
Or the dress is just shown hanging higher than the tux.

What disturbs me is that the clothes apparently contain only hangers. WIRE hangers.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on December 25, 2012, 08:08:04 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/6377_510228038999901_711859771_n.jpg)
Did you know that Jesus Christ actually hung out with homosexuals and other "sinners" and "wicked people" like they were his friends or family members? And that he has said nothing about homosexuals? And there are also LGBT people who are also Christian? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_Christians)

Thanks for choosing the path of the "Born-again Christian," where much of your life will be agonizing thanks to shame and regret of your past life just because of what some assholes who think in black and white led you to believe.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on December 25, 2012, 08:12:45 pm
Does that car belong to a Republican senator?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on December 25, 2012, 08:27:14 pm
Or the dress is just shown hanging higher than the tux.

What disturbs me is that the clothes apparently contain only hangers. WIRE hangers.

But look at it. If they are the same height, they coat look way too small.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RinellaWasHere on December 25, 2012, 09:12:56 pm
Okay, I'm putting my metrosexual hat on.

You do not, I repeat do not, hang a tux jacket on a wire hanger, especially with a shirt still under it. Also, I assume that's a button-down shirt, given that I don't see studs holding it together. Major faux-pas there. You also should never hang that jacket, and especially that dress, without a cloth cover bag. Hang those slacks under the jacket, folded properly, and take a brush to them when you take them out. Do not get me fucking started on the clearly clip-on bow tie. Lastly, you chose notched instead of peaked lapels for a wedding?

Gay or straight, sir, you fail at formalwear.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Igor on December 27, 2012, 12:02:27 am
Okay, I'm putting my metrosexual hat on.

You do not, I repeat do not, hang a tux jacket on a wire hanger, especially with a shirt still under it. Also, I assume that's a button-down shirt, given that I don't see studs holding it together. Major faux-pas there. You also should never hang that jacket, and especially that dress, without a cloth cover bag. Hang those slacks under the jacket, folded properly, and take a brush to them when you take them out. Do not get me fucking started on the clearly clip-on bow tie. Lastly, you chose notched instead of peaked lapels for a wedding?

Gay or straight, sir, you fail at formalwear.
Time to subvert a stereotype: I'm gay and I have absolutely no idea what you just said.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on December 27, 2012, 01:08:41 am
Okay, I'm putting my metrosexual hat on.

You do not, I repeat do not, hang a tux jacket on a wire hanger, especially with a shirt still under it. Also, I assume that's a button-down shirt, given that I don't see studs holding it together. Major faux-pas there. You also should never hang that jacket, and especially that dress, without a cloth cover bag. Hang those slacks under the jacket, folded properly, and take a brush to them when you take them out. Do not get me fucking started on the clearly clip-on bow tie. Lastly, you chose notched instead of peaked lapels for a wedding?

Gay or straight, sir, you fail at formalwear.
Time to subvert a stereotype: I'm gay and I have absolutely no idea what you just said.

Me neither.

apparently the man on man sex hasnt' made me as gay as I thought
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on December 27, 2012, 01:39:24 am
Okay, I'm putting my metrosexual hat on.

You do not, I repeat do not, hang a tux jacket on a wire hanger, especially with a shirt still under it. Also, I assume that's a button-down shirt, given that I don't see studs holding it together. Major faux-pas there. You also should never hang that jacket, and especially that dress, without a cloth cover bag. Hang those slacks under the jacket, folded properly, and take a brush to them when you take them out. Do not get me fucking started on the clearly clip-on bow tie. Lastly, you chose notched instead of peaked lapels for a wedding?

Gay or straight, sir, you fail at formalwear.
Time to subvert a stereotype: I'm gay and I have absolutely no idea what you just said.

Me neither.


Same.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: LeTipex on December 27, 2012, 04:25:51 am
Okay, I'm putting my metrosexual hat on.

You do not, I repeat do not, hang a tux jacket on a wire hanger, especially with a shirt still under it. Also, I assume that's a button-down shirt, given that I don't see studs holding it together. Major faux-pas there. You also should never hang that jacket, and especially that dress, without a cloth cover bag. Hang those slacks under the jacket, folded properly, and take a brush to them when you take them out. Do not get me fucking started on the clearly clip-on bow tie. Lastly, you chose notched instead of peaked lapels for a wedding?

Gay or straight, sir, you fail at formalwear.
Time to subvert a stereotype: I'm gay and I have absolutely no idea what you just said.

Me neither.


Same.
Huh. Well I'm (mostly) straight, and I get it.
Stereotype utterly busted.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on December 27, 2012, 10:16:54 am
Okay, I'm putting my metrosexual hat on.

You do not, I repeat do not, hang a tux jacket on a wire hanger, especially with a shirt still under it. Also, I assume that's a button-down shirt, given that I don't see studs holding it together. Major faux-pas there. You also should never hang that jacket, and especially that dress, without a cloth cover bag. Hang those slacks under the jacket, folded properly, and take a brush to them when you take them out. Do not get me fucking started on the clearly clip-on bow tie. Lastly, you chose notched instead of peaked lapels for a wedding?

Gay or straight, sir, you fail at formalwear.

Yeah, I know that because of how my dad hangs his suits and what happens when you do.

Though it looks like they are on stands with hanger tops sticking out of them to me, because you can clearly see there's something giving bulk to the suit and dress.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RinellaWasHere on December 27, 2012, 01:28:32 pm
Okay, I'm putting my metrosexual hat on.

You do not, I repeat do not, hang a tux jacket on a wire hanger, especially with a shirt still under it. Also, I assume that's a button-down shirt, given that I don't see studs holding it together. Major faux-pas there. You also should never hang that jacket, and especially that dress, without a cloth cover bag. Hang those slacks under the jacket, folded properly, and take a brush to them when you take them out. Do not get me fucking started on the clearly clip-on bow tie. Lastly, you chose notched instead of peaked lapels for a wedding?

Gay or straight, sir, you fail at formalwear.

Yeah, I know that because of how my dad hangs his suits and what happens when you do.

Though it looks like they are on stands with hanger tops sticking out of them to me, because you can clearly see there's something giving bulk to the suit and dress.

EVEN WORSE. If they're in molds, you're not letting the fabric restore its proper drape and hang, which means it's going to stretch around the mold instead. Unless it was made to your exact measurements, it's going to look awful when you put it back on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: zupper on December 27, 2012, 01:41:32 pm
Maybe the bride's dress looks larger because the hemline is designed to be dragged on the ground?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RinellaWasHere on December 27, 2012, 01:55:55 pm
Maybe the bride's dress looks larger because the hemline is designed to be dragged on the ground?

Could be, though at a certain train length the formality of the wedding changes and sartorial tradition dictates that the man should dress in full white tie instead of a tuxedo.

I mean, um, GUNS FOOTBALL TITTIES EXPLOSIONS BRO.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on December 27, 2012, 01:57:55 pm
See, this is why I only wear jeans and button shirts.  It's hard to get those wrong.  Sometimes I wear a sweatshirt, if it's cold.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on December 27, 2012, 06:18:16 pm
Oh my god IT'S A FUCKING DRAWING!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RinellaWasHere on December 27, 2012, 07:42:42 pm
Oh my god IT'S A FUCKING DRAWING!

I like clothes about as much as you like Kamen Rider.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on January 06, 2013, 05:19:55 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/8Z1Rs_zpsbb68b158.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on January 06, 2013, 05:24:32 pm
If you blur your eyes that looks like an awesome hippie van.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on January 06, 2013, 05:39:46 pm
Yeah, that fucking driving hazard...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on January 06, 2013, 08:05:25 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/8Z1Rs_zpsbb68b158.jpg)

Is that thing street legal?  :o
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on January 06, 2013, 08:40:48 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/8Z1Rs_zpsbb68b158.jpg)

Is that thing street legal?  :o
I really hope not, for the driver's own safety.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on January 06, 2013, 09:24:08 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/8Z1Rs_zpsbb68b158.jpg)

Is that thing street legal?  :o

You would be amazed at what people drive that isn't street legal.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on January 06, 2013, 09:43:26 pm
How can they even park that thing?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 06, 2013, 11:17:47 pm
There is so much shit on that that I can't even tell what it's trying to say.

Other than, you know, "LOOK AT ME I HAVE AN OPINION"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 07, 2013, 12:08:13 am
Looks like a parade float in a Tea Party parade.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on January 07, 2013, 08:00:38 am
Why do conservative bumper stickers look like powerpoint clipart?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on January 07, 2013, 09:49:01 am
I mean, honestly, even if he didn't have a fuck off level of rightness, that sticker placement would make this pretty dumb.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on January 07, 2013, 01:06:13 pm
So I don't have a picture right now, but I'm at work and there's people at the corner with a petition to impeach Obama with those Obama Hitler posters.

I'm not the biggest fan of him myself, but FUCK these people are ignorant.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on January 07, 2013, 03:20:05 pm
So I don't have a picture right now, but I'm at work and there's people at the corner with a petition to impeach Obama with those Obama Hitler posters.

I'm not the biggest fan of him myself, but FUCK these people are ignorant.

Go up to them and ask why they're comparing Obama to Charlie Chaplin.
Title: Re: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on January 07, 2013, 04:13:14 pm
So I don't have a picture right now, but I'm at work and there's people at the corner with a petition to impeach Obama with those Obama Hitler posters.

I'm not the biggest fan of him myself, but FUCK these people are ignorant.

Go up to them and ask why they're comparing Obama to Charlie Chaplin.

Hahahahaha! If I wasn't in a company shirt I would totally go do that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 08, 2013, 12:41:02 am
Better yet, ask them what crime are they impeaching him over.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 08, 2013, 01:46:26 am
Better yet, ask them what crime are they impeaching him over.

Come now, Ironbite, you already know that answer, hidden deep inside their rotten little hearts...because he's an uppity black man taking whitey's rightful place as head of the United States.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 08, 2013, 02:03:30 am
Yeah but last I checked that's not a crime.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 08, 2013, 02:54:19 am
If these troglodytes had their way, it likely would be.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on January 08, 2013, 06:13:02 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-20673-1357626454-20_zpsd0f335f7.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/S23RF_zps96cff255.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on January 08, 2013, 10:19:42 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/S23RF_zps96cff255.jpg)

Separated at birth?

(http://vwkombi.com/photos/vanfest-2005/Images/4.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Igor on January 08, 2013, 10:24:32 pm
As Scooby and the gang fell upon hard times, everyone was forced to make sacrifices. Scooby and Shaggy had to cut their Scooby Snack habit in half, and Fred was forced to sell off the Mystery Machine to a fundamentalist Christian.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on January 09, 2013, 12:02:50 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/481373_463708410360065_1290921300_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on January 09, 2013, 12:07:58 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/481373_463708410360065_1290921300_n.jpg)
I thought Mexicans took our jobs?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on January 09, 2013, 01:34:32 pm
They took our jerbs! Derka durrr!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on January 09, 2013, 01:53:59 pm
No, no, no.  It's the goddamned gametes (http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1171) taking jobs from good, hardworking folk.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on January 09, 2013, 04:52:37 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/481373_463708410360065_1290921300_n.jpg)

Where did this gem of a photo come from? 

And just for shits and grins...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768h3Tz4Qik
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on January 10, 2013, 12:17:56 am
I found it in my FB feed because a friend shared it, it's originally from  this reporter's FB page (https://www.facebook.com/jenisefernandezreporter). Turns out it's in Fort Walton Beach, FL, I can't say I'm shocked this is from FL.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on January 10, 2013, 12:19:17 am
DEY DERK ER DERBS!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on January 10, 2013, 11:24:52 am
I found it in my FB feed because a friend shared it, it's originally from  this reporter's FB page (https://www.facebook.com/jenisefernandezreporter). Turns out it's in Fort Walton Beach, FL, I can't say I'm shocked this is from FL.

I remember, growing up in South Florida, that we all thought that rude, jerky New York transplants were going to ruin the state. But, nope, it's the leakage from the immediate north....like abalama, miss-shitty, ga-ga, jerkasaw, takes-asss, loser-anus, etc. that has killed all hope here.

Oh, well, the weather is still pretty nice...sigh.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on January 10, 2013, 07:34:12 pm
Dude?  I'm originally from Alabama.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on January 10, 2013, 09:19:06 pm
Excuse you. I've lived in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Currently in GA.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on January 11, 2013, 02:14:36 am
You really coulda just said "The South". That whole region's kinda a cultural plague.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on January 11, 2013, 02:21:11 am
I found it in my FB feed because a friend shared it, it's originally from  this reporter's FB page (https://www.facebook.com/jenisefernandezreporter). Turns out it's in Fort Walton Beach, FL, I can't say I'm shocked this is from FL.

I remember, growing up in South Florida, that we all thought that rude, jerky New York transplants were going to ruin the state. But, nope, it's the leakage from the immediate north....like abalama, miss-shitty, ga-ga, jerkasaw, takes-asss, loser-anus, etc. that has killed all hope here.

Oh, well, the weather is still pretty nice...sigh.

You know, the South isn't the sole reason why we can't have nice things. It's true that there's a lot of fuckery down there, but arguably no more than there is in other parts of the country with a lot of Republican influence. For instance, Michele Bachmann is from Minnesota. Mitt Romney was raised in Michigan and was governor of Massachusetts during his better days. And Rick "Frothy" Santorum was actually a representative of the deep Southern state of Pennsylvania. And the state that passed a law to allow the killing of abortion doctors wasn't a Southern state either - you're thinking of South Dakota.

See? It's easy to focus on political problems without demonizing an entire region of the country.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 11, 2013, 02:57:43 am
Let's just say red states
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on January 11, 2013, 06:14:07 am
Please don't paint all southerners with the same brush.  For the record, I know plenty of perfectly decent people from Dixie.

(http://i.imgur.com/QOo6x.jpg)

Please learn the difference.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on January 11, 2013, 11:30:02 am
I say we just say backward areas, there's plenty parts of blue and even northern states that are full of backward asshats. Heck, the county I live in just went blue for the first time in years, and most of those who live in the suburbs and rural areas look down on the bigger cities(even through they're still somewhat small) and act as if everyone is "trash" that lives there. Now there are states like Florida, where it does seem that a good portion of the state is full of asshats that are busy huffing paint of some kind.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on January 11, 2013, 12:52:03 pm
I say we just say backward areas, there's plenty parts of blue and even northern states that are full of backward asshats. Heck, the county I live in just went blue for the first time in years, and most of those who live in the suburbs and rural areas look down on the bigger cities(even through they're still somewhat small) and act as if everyone is "trash" that lives there. Now there are states like Florida, where it does seem that a good portion of the state is full of asshats that are busy huffing paint of some kind.

Precisely. I am a born Southerner, my family going back all the way to 1690's Virginia. Mind you, when I posted a few weeks ago that I was a little offended when members snarkily dumped - for fun and giggles, to be sure - on the South and Southerners, I got called out on it. I did that same type of snarking myself this time, when my home state got singled out - understandably enough, considering how rich in news it always is here - and saw a similar reaction, but to the opposite side of the snark question.

Oh well.  The weather is still nice here in Florida, so much that I really don't miss north Georgia, where I lived for 29 years til moving back here to care for my mom. Even if freaks and wild pythons constantly pop up and spoil the scenery.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on January 11, 2013, 01:46:36 pm
I've lived in North and Central Florida, as well as in between.  It seems the farther north you go, the more you are in the stereotypical south.  I live right now in Jacksonville, and it seems like nearly everyone lives up to the stereotypes.  As an agnostic, independent, I feel like i'm in the minority when surrounded by fundamentalist, back-neck, black-hating, white-hating, liberal-hating, gun-toting morons. 

I'm starting to miss Orlando. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on January 11, 2013, 05:29:28 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvcNZ-KOEcg

I'll just leave this here*.



* Because Phil Ochs is awesome.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on January 22, 2013, 08:18:26 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/74999_10200424487080767_989729639_n.jpg)

On another note, it's nice to know my uncle is a birther, since he shared this photo on fb.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on January 22, 2013, 08:23:25 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/74999_10200424487080767_989729639_n.jpg)

On another note, it's nice to know my uncle is a birther, since he shared this photo on fb.

I'm not so sure that screams birther as it does "Goddamn Hispanics going for Obama!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on January 22, 2013, 08:37:56 pm
Either way it's nice to know my uncle is a racist douche, now. And the kicker is they think a fucking fence will solve the problem, after all it's not like people burrow under or anything (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/us/03tunnels.html).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on January 22, 2013, 09:50:00 pm
Please don't paint all southerners with the same brush.  For the record, I know plenty of perfectly decent people from Dixie.

(http://i.imgur.com/QOo6x.jpg)

Please learn the difference.

Being that I'm from Oklahoma, know a few rednecks and morons (http://forums.fstdt.net/flame-and-burn/an-hour-in-my-life/), and I'm a brony, I fucking love that picture so much.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on January 23, 2013, 05:55:26 am
Found this one one of the fishing boards I'm on. Unfortunately, a lot of people involved in the sport are neocons. The forum has a locked sub-board that's supposed to be specifically for politics, but somehow the leftist bashing Randian wingnut gun fapper stuff gets let loose all over the off-topic forum and stays there. I tend to avoid the off-topic forum just for that reason, but like a lot of boards it lists the subject of the latest post on the main page. I clicked through and came across this:

(http://www.crappie.com/crappie/attachments/off-topic-forum/113527d1358815200-enough-said-uploadfromtaptalk1358815195518.jpg)

The guy who posted it is from Mississippi. Is anyone surprised?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on January 23, 2013, 12:44:49 pm
This is why this nation will fail, there's just too many people with this us vs them attitude.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on January 23, 2013, 02:57:25 pm
Found this one one of the fishing boards I'm on. Unfortunately, a lot of people involved in the sport are neocons. The forum has a locked sub-board that's supposed to be specifically for politics, but somehow the leftist bashing Randian wingnut gun fapper stuff gets let loose all over the off-topic forum and stays there. I tend to avoid the off-topic forum just for that reason, but like a lot of boards it lists the subject of the latest post on the main page. I clicked through and came across this:

(http://www.crappie.com/crappie/attachments/off-topic-forum/113527d1358815200-enough-said-uploadfromtaptalk1358815195518.jpg)

The guy who posted it is from Mississippi. Is anyone surprised?
I wonder if I am supposed to make anything of the fact that everyone in the picture is black?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on January 23, 2013, 04:15:38 pm
This is why this nation will fail, there's just too many people with this us vs them attitude.

That's what bothered me about this past election.  You weren't allowed to think of things outside the Left or Right context.  Criticize something in Obama's speech and you're a racist Conservative.  Point out an error in Romney's economic plan and you're a sissy Liberal.  I made a comment that I once supported the Tea Party, but I became disappointed in what they've become.  I ended up being called a lying Liberal who sleeps with Rice.  I don't even know who Rice is!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on January 23, 2013, 04:22:03 pm
This is why this nation will fail, there's just too many people with this us vs them attitude.

That's what bothered me about this past election.  You weren't allowed to think of things outside the Left or Right context.  Criticize something in Obama's speech and you're a racist Conservative.  Point out an error in Romney's economic plan and you're a sissy Liberal.  I made a comment that I once supported the Tea Party, but I became disappointed in what they've become.  I ended up being called a lying Liberal who sleeps with Rice.  I don't even know who Rice is!

I think they meant Condoleezza Rice.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on January 23, 2013, 04:22:38 pm
This is why this nation will fail, there's just too many people with this us vs them attitude.

That's what bothered me about this past election.  You weren't allowed to think of things outside the Left or Right context.  Criticize something in Obama's speech and you're a racist Conservative.  Point out an error in Romney's economic plan and you're a sissy Liberal.  I made a comment that I once supported the Tea Party, but I became disappointed in what they've become.  I ended up being called a lying Liberal who sleeps with Rice.  I don't even know who Rice is!

I think they meant Condoleezza Rice.
Or maybe Susan Rice.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on January 23, 2013, 04:23:34 pm
This is why this nation will fail, there's just too many people with this us vs them attitude.

That's what bothered me about this past election.  You weren't allowed to think of things outside the Left or Right context.  Criticize something in Obama's speech and you're a racist Conservative.  Point out an error in Romney's economic plan and you're a sissy Liberal.  I made a comment that I once supported the Tea Party, but I became disappointed in what they've become.  I ended up being called a lying Liberal who sleeps with Rice.  I don't even know who Rice is!
Probably Condaleeza Rice. I doubt I spelled her name right, but that's the only guess I got.

Also, this is what happens when you manage to polarize everything into a "Two sides are equal, Us vs. Them" mentality. No room for a middle ground, or the side you "support" might actually be wrong, misinformed, or otherwise in need of a smack upside the head.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on January 23, 2013, 04:24:01 pm
maybe the person meant lice instead of rice???
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on January 23, 2013, 05:06:06 pm
maybe the person meant lice instead of rice???

Maybe they meant eating rice off a naked Condaleeza Rice with lice?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on January 23, 2013, 05:32:22 pm
Found this one one of the fishing boards I'm on. Unfortunately, a lot of people involved in the sport are neocons. The forum has a locked sub-board that's supposed to be specifically for politics, but somehow the leftist bashing Randian wingnut gun fapper stuff gets let loose all over the off-topic forum and stays there. I tend to avoid the off-topic forum just for that reason, but like a lot of boards it lists the subject of the latest post on the main page. I clicked through and came across this:

(http://www.crappie.com/crappie/attachments/off-topic-forum/113527d1358815200-enough-said-uploadfromtaptalk1358815195518.jpg)

The guy who posted it is from Mississippi. Is anyone surprised?
I wonder if I am supposed to make anything of the fact that everyone in the picture is black?

Also, female.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on January 23, 2013, 06:07:53 pm
Found this one one of the fishing boards I'm on. Unfortunately, a lot of people involved in the sport are neocons. The forum has a locked sub-board that's supposed to be specifically for politics, but somehow the leftist bashing Randian wingnut gun fapper stuff gets let loose all over the off-topic forum and stays there. I tend to avoid the off-topic forum just for that reason, but like a lot of boards it lists the subject of the latest post on the main page. I clicked through and came across this:

(http://www.crappie.com/crappie/attachments/off-topic-forum/113527d1358815200-enough-said-uploadfromtaptalk1358815195518.jpg)

The guy who posted it is from Mississippi. Is anyone surprised?
I wonder if I am supposed to make anything of the fact that everyone in the picture is black?

Also, female.

And I bet every woman in that picture works her ass off at some shit under-paying job to support her family, but noooooooo, they are the gib mees because they don't earn enough to owe income tax at the end of the year....not that they did not have to struggle to make ends meet that much harder since withholding sucked 15% + outta their shit paychecks. Okay, sry rant done  >:(
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on January 23, 2013, 07:33:39 pm
And I bet every woman in that picture works her ass off at some shit under-paying job to support her family, but noooooooo, they are the gib mees because they don't earn enough to owe income tax at the end of the year....not that they did not have to struggle to make ends meet that much harder since withholding sucked 15% + outta their shit paychecks. Okay, sry rant done  >:(

You don't have to be sorry, I'm sick of this "You don't matter, because you don't pay federal income taxes" bs. Personally I would like to see  taxes paid by the individual states to the federal gov't, rather than by individuals, with individuals paying taxes on the state level only(Yeah, I like to think outside the box).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on January 23, 2013, 08:03:18 pm
It's possible they're also trying to invoke the "welfare queen" stereotype.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on January 23, 2013, 08:38:32 pm
They're definitely also trying to invoke the "welfare queen" stereotype.

Fixed it for you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on January 23, 2013, 09:53:49 pm
The internet at this house is slow as a church lady on the high way, but I remember seeing a chart of welfare recipients in red states vs blue states. And that, overwhelmingly, the states who RECEIVED more in welfare benefits than it paid out, and usually significantly more, were the reddest of the red states; whereas the ones that paid out much, much more than it received in assistance were almost exclusively the bluest Democrat states.

Anyone remember that? I can't find it here but I'll look if I manage to get home tomorrow.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on January 23, 2013, 10:10:43 pm
The internet at this house is slow as a church lady on the high way, but I remember seeing a chart of welfare recipients in red states vs blue states. And that, overwhelmingly, the states who RECEIVED more in welfare benefits than it paid out, and usually significantly more, were the reddest of the red states; whereas the ones that paid out much, much more than it received in assistance were almost exclusively the bluest Democrat states.

Anyone remember that? I can't find it here but I'll look if I manage to get home tomorrow.

(http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll270/sweetchinmusical/Sarah%20Palin/welfare_states.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on January 26, 2013, 11:13:48 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/40952ffdd1aaa498af5f8ab3b313f0bf/tumblr_mh7b7aRawv1qgeixlo1_500.jpg)

The answer you're looking for is: Neville Longbottom. Thanks for playing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on January 26, 2013, 11:41:40 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/40952ffdd1aaa498af5f8ab3b313f0bf/tumblr_mh7b7aRawv1qgeixlo1_500.jpg)

The answer you're looking for is: Neville Longbottom. Thanks for playing.

Wait.  They're asking "What if a fictional character had an abortion?"  Damn, and here I thought reality and fantasy were two different things!

On that note, what if Voldemort's mom had aborted him, and what's the point of this line of reasoning?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on January 26, 2013, 11:52:24 pm
Is it wrong that I now want to troll a anti-choice gathering, with a sign that reads: "What if Palpatine's mother had an abortion??"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on January 27, 2013, 12:23:34 am
Is it wrong that I now want to troll a anti-choice gathering, with a sign that reads: "What if Palpatine's mother had an abortion??"

DO IT!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on January 27, 2013, 03:43:01 am
People have done the "What if Hitler had been aborted?" before.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 27, 2013, 03:56:32 am
People have done the "What if Hitler had been aborted?" before.

How about "What if Constantine I had been aborted?"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jodie on January 27, 2013, 08:05:59 am
What if Mary had an abortion? Who would start Christianity?

See? I can make hypotheticals about fictional characters too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SimSim on January 27, 2013, 08:18:32 am
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia used," What if Jesus was aborted?" in an episode.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on January 27, 2013, 01:55:48 pm
Just because something has the potential to do something great, doesn't mean that anyone who doesn't try to fulfill that potential for that person is stealing something from them. Like if threw a few million dollars at someone, there's a chance that they might go to MIT and cure cancer or some shit. If I refuse to throw the millions of dollars at that stranger, does that mean I stole that money from them and ruined the chance of curing cancer? If a woman refuses to care for a fetus does that mean she's stealing the cure of cancer from the world simply because that fetus had a slight chance of growing up and curing cancer?
It's putting the fetuses life over the woman's.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on January 28, 2013, 12:32:35 am
What if Obama's mother had had an abortion?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on January 28, 2013, 01:35:22 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/40952ffdd1aaa498af5f8ab3b313f0bf/tumblr_mh7b7aRawv1qgeixlo1_500.jpg)

The answer you're looking for is: Neville Longbottom. Thanks for playing.

And if Merope Gaunt had an abortion Voldermort wouldn't have existed to be defeted in the first place.

See, I can play this game too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on January 28, 2013, 04:45:25 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/40952ffdd1aaa498af5f8ab3b313f0bf/tumblr_mh7b7aRawv1qgeixlo1_500.jpg)

The answer you're looking for is: Neville Longbottom. Thanks for playing.

Please be satire.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on January 28, 2013, 06:38:33 pm
Please be satire.

The sticker/button on her jacket says "I'm worth waiting for". Which sounds like an abstinence slogan. Which would make this sign less likely to be satirical.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on January 29, 2013, 10:26:52 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/602731_10151269496139958_1245433674_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 30, 2013, 02:47:58 am
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/602731_10151269496139958_1245433674_n.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3303/3182221981_2fe0d43a8a.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on January 30, 2013, 11:15:31 am
Guess where I'm not buying horses from.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on January 30, 2013, 01:57:48 pm
People put flowers on Lee Harvey Oswald's grave?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on January 30, 2013, 04:57:19 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/GL3yB3h_zpsbbdcabb9.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on January 30, 2013, 04:59:49 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/GL3yB3h_zpsbbdcabb9.jpg)

I'm still trying to figure out why he spelled Muslim like "muslim" and then "muslem".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 30, 2013, 05:06:53 pm
I dunno whats worse the fact that he wants genocide against Muslims or thinks the genocide of native americans is better
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on January 30, 2013, 05:19:08 pm
Okay, but the cowboys have to use their traditional six-shooters and lever actions and the bad guy Muslims get their traditional AK-47's and RPG's.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on January 30, 2013, 07:24:16 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/GL3yB3h_zpsbbdcabb9.jpg)

I'm still trying to figure out why he spelled Muslim like "muslim" and then "muslem".

I am guessing he ran out of extras of the correct lettered stickers. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on February 01, 2013, 01:29:33 pm
Gross, PETA. Just... gross:

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on February 01, 2013, 02:51:38 pm
Gross, PETA. Just... gross:

(click to show/hide)

Don't pick flowers, you're tearing off the genitals of plants, or, Don't eat seeds, you're eating the babies of plants.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on February 01, 2013, 03:38:50 pm
These people obviously didn't grow up with friends like mine, we put that shit together ages ago.

Know what I call chicken basted in the juices of it's menstruation, breaded, and fried? TASTY AS HELL. Or perhaps just dinner, it is what I have planned.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on February 01, 2013, 03:57:42 pm
This is what they're resorting to now?

I am literally laughing at PETA right now XD
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on February 01, 2013, 04:06:34 pm
Human babies also come from an organism that menstruates. What, am I supposed to stop eating those too?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on February 01, 2013, 05:45:47 pm
*grooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaan*

That was the worst pun ever PETA.  Like TEN year olds make that joke!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on February 01, 2013, 10:35:57 pm
Gross, PETA. Just... gross:

(click to show/hide)

considering the number of friends who have admitted to red winging (red winging!  Hah!  Punny!), this ad may be counter productive

however that they would try a gross out isn't out of line for them.  they are vegans.  They naturally consider eating any animal part "gross".

The commonly held  aversion to horse meat or dog or cat is no less arbitrary. And yet people still freaked out about there being horse meat in a burger King burger (I mean I was more shocked that there was any kind of meat in a  burger king burger)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 02, 2013, 10:50:42 am
(http://i.imgur.com/woVlGDy.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 02, 2013, 11:22:20 am
So either some middle eastern city or the United States
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on February 02, 2013, 12:17:45 pm
So either some middle eastern city or the United States

That neighborhood actually looks like my exact neighborhood I used to live in, except the houses are a bit bigger.

Also, they could have found a better picture of a "black neighborhood". Those 2 guys look really friendly, plus the photo of the neighborhood makes me think of those neighborhoods where if any dark person walks in everyone shuts their doors and blinds and calls Neighborhood Watch.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on February 02, 2013, 03:28:03 pm
Well, the source is stormfront and to them the darker the skin, the more icky the person is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on February 02, 2013, 03:53:24 pm
Off topic:

Nicki, your signature is hypnotizing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on February 02, 2013, 04:16:58 pm
Thanks, it's from this week's episode of the Clone Wars.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on February 02, 2013, 04:28:55 pm
Thanks, it's from this week's episode of the Clone Wars.


I must admit, Clone Wars is a surprisingly well produced show.  What few episodes I've seen I have legitimately enjoyed.

Then again I enjoy the prequels, and find Little!Anakin to be fairly tolerable, and I even like Jar Jar Binks, so my opinions are nothing like the majority of the fan base.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on February 02, 2013, 04:35:55 pm
I love the show, plus I'm not a hater of the prequels. Now to me prequels is all about Palpatine and how he spins his little web, fooling everyone in the process.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on February 02, 2013, 05:18:10 pm
Honestly, I will say this --

The action is kinda better in the prequels.  The fight scenes feel more dramatic, and some of the sillier parts actually make sense because, well, it's basically high speed feinting and counter feinting.  Feinting is a useful tactic in sword fighting, especially when your swords are capable of cutting through flesh like a hot knife through better.

Though at the same time, the original trilogy's sword-fighting was more suspenseful, more thoughtful, and more like two samurai dueling.  So they both have their upsides and downsides really.

I hated it when Lucas decided to make the Dark Side less ambiguous, though.  The Dark Side is awesome and more overt, and negative emotions and energy isn't always a bad thing.  But no, anyone who uses the Dark Side is automatically evil, apparently.

Pity because the Grey Jedi sounded like they were interesting.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 02, 2013, 05:35:08 pm
Well, the source is stormfront and to them the darker the skin, the more icky the person is.

So, apparently, their ideal people would be albino.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on February 02, 2013, 06:08:09 pm
Less ambiguous? wasn't the Dark Side always the evil side, or was there some subtext in the original trilogy that flew over my head?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on February 02, 2013, 06:20:55 pm
Well, the source is stormfront and to them the darker the skin, the more icky the person is.

So, apparently, their ideal people would be albino.

I've always seen their "ideal" representative as a skinny 20 year old model with doe eyes. Usually she's got a tan, makeup, and bleached, straightened hair. I mean if you're trying to represent the master race, at least show how the master race doesn't need to be a super model with all that beauty product to be gorgeous.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on February 02, 2013, 07:55:13 pm
Less ambiguous? wasn't the Dark Side always the evil side, or was there some subtext in the original trilogy that flew over my head?

The Extended Universe that came out after the original trilogy introduced the concept of Grey Jedi -- Jedi who use both the Dark Side and the Light Side of the force, believing that maintaining balance was the best path.

Then Lucas and his company went "No" and decided to retcon them into being delusional.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on February 02, 2013, 08:29:26 pm
 Gray Jedi (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gray_Jedi)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on February 03, 2013, 12:20:57 am
I dunno if racists realize this, but Europe really sucked for most of history. People lived in filth, they were always fighting each other, and the whitest of the whites(the Vikings, etc) weren't exactly civilized beings...

Also the seem to forget how geography can affect culture. The reason China, the Middle East, and Europe were so advanced was because they're all "horizontal", to traveling is easier, since then you don't have to deal with dramatic changes in climate. Africa and the America's aren't horizontal, so there's less place to travel. They can't trade stuff as much and aren't exposed to others much.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on February 03, 2013, 01:28:30 am
On the Star Wars note... roomie and I caught some of Lego Star Wars on Cartoon Network today.  We giggled like little kids.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on February 03, 2013, 03:08:30 am
Honestly, I will say this --

The action is kinda better in the prequels.  The fight scenes feel more dramatic, and some of the sillier parts actually make sense because, well, it's basically high speed feinting and counter feinting.  Feinting is a useful tactic in sword fighting, especially when your swords are capable of cutting through flesh like a hot knife through better.

Though at the same time, the original trilogy's sword-fighting was more suspenseful, more thoughtful, and more like two samurai dueling.  So they both have their upsides and downsides really.

I hated it when Lucas decided to make the Dark Side less ambiguous, though.  The Dark Side is awesome and more overt, and negative emotions and energy isn't always a bad thing.  But no, anyone who uses the Dark Side is automatically evil, apparently.

Pity because the Grey Jedi sounded like they were interesting.

I have a grey jedi so... she definitely hates the idea she's evil because she uses light and dark.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 03, 2013, 08:50:13 am
I dunno if racists realize this, but Europe really sucked for most of history. People lived in filth, they were always fighting each other, and the whitest of the whites(the Vikings, etc) weren't exactly civilized beings...

Also the seem to forget how geography can affect culture. The reason China, the Middle East, and Europe were so advanced was because they're all "horizontal", to traveling is easier, since then you don't have to deal with dramatic changes in climate. Africa and the America's aren't horizontal, so there's less place to travel. They can't trade stuff as much and aren't exposed to others much.

That's not exactly true.  People in Europe were actually very hygienic until after the Black Death.  They were fighting one another, but so were the Muslims, Amerindians, etc.  And the Vikings weren't just brutes.  They were poets, merchants, and politicians.  Vikings had democracy, equal rights for women, and a vast network of trade routes.  Europe's people were not always better off than people in the rest of the world, but to say Europe was a shithole is a gross oversimplification.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on February 03, 2013, 09:52:25 am
I dunno if racists realize this, but Europe really sucked for most of history. People lived in filth, they were always fighting each other, and the whitest of the whites(the Vikings, etc) weren't exactly civilized beings...

Also the seem to forget how geography can affect culture. The reason China, the Middle East, and Europe were so advanced was because they're all "horizontal", to traveling is easier, since then you don't have to deal with dramatic changes in climate. Africa and the America's aren't horizontal, so there's less place to travel. They can't trade stuff as much and aren't exposed to others much.

That's not exactly true.  People in Europe were actually very hygienic until after the Black Death.  They were fighting one another, but so were the Muslims, Amerindians, etc.  And the Vikings weren't just brutes.  They were poets, merchants, and politicians.  Vikings had democracy, equal rights for women, and a vast network of trade routes.  Europe's people were not always better off than people in the rest of the world, but to say Europe was a shithole is a gross oversimplification.

I mean that's like any other society though. Racists treat Europe like everyone there is an angel, when they're really just as similar to any other culture.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Scotsgit on February 03, 2013, 10:31:41 am
I dunno if racists realize this, but Europe really sucked for most of history. People lived in filth, they were always fighting each other, and the whitest of the whites(the Vikings, etc) weren't exactly civilized beings...

Also the seem to forget how geography can affect culture. The reason China, the Middle East, and Europe were so advanced was because they're all "horizontal", to traveling is easier, since then you don't have to deal with dramatic changes in climate. Africa and the America's aren't horizontal, so there's less place to travel. They can't trade stuff as much and aren't exposed to others much.

That's not exactly true.  People in Europe were actually very hygienic until after the Black Death.  They were fighting one another, but so were the Muslims, Amerindians, etc.  And the Vikings weren't just brutes.  They were poets, merchants, and politicians.  Vikings had democracy, equal rights for women, and a vast network of trade routes.  Europe's people were not always better off than people in the rest of the world, but to say Europe was a shithole is a gross oversimplification.

Vikings also had an interesting belief system:  They believed that what people said about you after your death was more important than any ideas about where your soul went.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 03, 2013, 10:37:45 am
I dunno if racists realize this, but Europe really sucked for most of history. People lived in filth, they were always fighting each other, and the whitest of the whites(the Vikings, etc) weren't exactly civilized beings...

Also the seem to forget how geography can affect culture. The reason China, the Middle East, and Europe were so advanced was because they're all "horizontal", to traveling is easier, since then you don't have to deal with dramatic changes in climate. Africa and the America's aren't horizontal, so there's less place to travel. They can't trade stuff as much and aren't exposed to others much.

That's not exactly true.  People in Europe were actually very hygienic until after the Black Death.  They were fighting one another, but so were the Muslims, Amerindians, etc.  And the Vikings weren't just brutes.  They were poets, merchants, and politicians.  Vikings had democracy, equal rights for women, and a vast network of trade routes.  Europe's people were not always better off than people in the rest of the world, but to say Europe was a shithole is a gross oversimplification.

I mean that's like any other society though. Racists treat Europe like everyone there is an angel, when they're really just as similar to any other culture.

I agree, but I think you were exaggerating how bad Europe could be.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on February 03, 2013, 12:42:57 pm
I dunno if racists realize this, but Europe really sucked for most of history. People lived in filth, they were always fighting each other, and the whitest of the whites(the Vikings, etc) weren't exactly civilized beings...

Also the seem to forget how geography can affect culture. The reason China, the Middle East, and Europe were so advanced was because they're all "horizontal", to traveling is easier, since then you don't have to deal with dramatic changes in climate. Africa and the America's aren't horizontal, so there's less place to travel. They can't trade stuff as much and aren't exposed to others much.

That's not exactly true.  People in Europe were actually very hygienic until after the Black Death.  They were fighting one another, but so were the Muslims, Amerindians, etc.  And the Vikings weren't just brutes.  They were poets, merchants, and politicians.  Vikings had democracy, equal rights for women, and a vast network of trade routes.  Europe's people were not always better off than people in the rest of the world, but to say Europe was a shithole is a gross oversimplification.

I mean that's like any other society though. Racists treat Europe like everyone there is an angel, when they're really just as similar to any other culture.

I agree, but I think you were exaggerating how bad Europe could be.

I know, it's just really fun to troll racists like that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 03, 2013, 01:31:44 pm
I dunno if racists realize this, but Europe really sucked for most of history. People lived in filth, they were always fighting each other, and the whitest of the whites(the Vikings, etc) weren't exactly civilized beings...

Also the seem to forget how geography can affect culture. The reason China, the Middle East, and Europe were so advanced was because they're all "horizontal", to traveling is easier, since then you don't have to deal with dramatic changes in climate. Africa and the America's aren't horizontal, so there's less place to travel. They can't trade stuff as much and aren't exposed to others much.

That's not exactly true.  People in Europe were actually very hygienic until after the Black Death.  They were fighting one another, but so were the Muslims, Amerindians, etc.  And the Vikings weren't just brutes.  They were poets, merchants, and politicians.  Vikings had democracy, equal rights for women, and a vast network of trade routes.  Europe's people were not always better off than people in the rest of the world, but to say Europe was a shithole is a gross oversimplification.

I mean that's like any other society though. Racists treat Europe like everyone there is an angel, when they're really just as similar to any other culture.

I agree, but I think you were exaggerating how bad Europe could be.

I know, it's just really fun to troll racists like that.

You won't find any racists here.  But I agree, it IS fun to make fun of those asshats.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on February 03, 2013, 03:57:58 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/191717f3fdfef2e5a5661ff799b44bc8/tumblr_mhnuznldbo1rg6quvo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on February 03, 2013, 04:56:54 pm
Well, god can just suck it up.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 03, 2013, 04:58:17 pm
how old r those girl?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on February 03, 2013, 07:21:20 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/191717f3fdfef2e5a5661ff799b44bc8/tumblr_mhnuznldbo1rg6quvo1_500.jpg)

<grumpy cat> Good. </grumpy cat>
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on February 03, 2013, 07:27:00 pm
how old r those girl?

No older than 13/14 by my guess.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 03, 2013, 07:46:38 pm
Douchebags their parents are
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Scotsgit on February 04, 2013, 06:47:00 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/191717f3fdfef2e5a5661ff799b44bc8/tumblr_mhnuznldbo1rg6quvo1_500.jpg)

Which is why Mary and Joseph spent a large part of their marriage childless.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on February 04, 2013, 06:53:06 am
Douchebags their parents are

...What? Their parents are what?

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on February 04, 2013, 10:39:28 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/tCE8qlO_zpsd6752c05.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on February 04, 2013, 11:44:14 pm
I'm pretty certain Obama doesn't want people to worship him.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigma on February 05, 2013, 06:56:21 am
[citation needed]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on February 05, 2013, 02:08:14 pm
So either some middle eastern city or the United States

First picture is Chicago, and it was taken to represent joy in a bad neighborhood.  Funny part is, the area where that picture was taken is actually one of the nicer, more diverse areas now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on February 05, 2013, 02:10:49 pm
That picture has to be 20-30 years old looking at the cars. Either that or they had a classic car show in the supposedly run down area.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on February 05, 2013, 02:17:57 pm
That picture has to be 20-30 years old looking at the cars. Either that or they had a classic car show in the supposedly run down area.

Taken in the mid-70's as I recall.  Those 2 gentlemen are on their way to work
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on February 05, 2013, 06:15:30 pm
That picture has to be 20-30 years old looking at the cars. Either that or they had a classic car show in the supposedly run down area.

Taken in the mid-70's as I recall.  Those 2 gentlemen are on their way to work

But blacks never work! They just mooch off of our good, earned, american dollars!

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on February 06, 2013, 10:12:46 am
That picture has to be 20-30 years old looking at the cars. Either that or they had a classic car show in the supposedly run down area.

Taken in the mid-70's as I recall.  Those 2 gentlemen are on their way to work

But blacks never work! They just mooch off of our good, earned, american dollars!

I'll be honest, I can't find the original article about the picture, so I'm doing this from memory...

The photog was also black, as I recall.  But I may be mistaken there, it's been awhile since I saw it
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on February 07, 2013, 01:55:48 pm
Godwin!

(http://www.prlog.org/10385557-protesting-media-bias-and-obamas-racist-seditious-religion.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 07, 2013, 03:24:49 pm
Godwin!

(http://www.prlog.org/10385557-protesting-media-bias-and-obamas-racist-seditious-religion.jpg)

Why do these people think Obama is the next Robert Mugabe?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on February 07, 2013, 03:46:29 pm
Godwin!

(http://www.prlog.org/10385557-protesting-media-bias-and-obamas-racist-seditious-religion.jpg)

Why do these people think Obama is the next Robert Mugabe?
Because they're gullible idiots who exist solely in a right-wing echo chamber of constant bullshit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on February 08, 2013, 07:39:39 am
Is that picture of Hitler fist-pumping real?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 08, 2013, 08:01:22 am
They do know how Hitler viewed black people
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on February 08, 2013, 10:33:21 am
Is that picture of Hitler fist-pumping real?

Probably. Hitler was known for making wild gestures during his public speeches, so it's probably just him waving his fists.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on February 08, 2013, 12:53:42 pm
Is that picture of Hitler fist-pumping real?
(http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/4/42/Disko-hitler.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on February 08, 2013, 06:55:03 pm
Fishing for a fuck yeah rabbit? Cuz ya just gotz one!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on February 08, 2013, 07:07:25 pm
Fishing for a fuck yeah rabbit? Cuz ya just gotz one!
Thanks ;D

Also, it syncs up with Caramelldansen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHBUcnIW_Oc). Ya know, in case you were wondering.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: FirsthandTuna on February 08, 2013, 07:38:13 pm
Fishing for a fuck yeah rabbit? Cuz ya just gotz one!
Thanks ;D

Also, it syncs up with Caramelldansen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHBUcnIW_Oc). Ya know, in case you were wondering.

You sick fuck, I can't breathe!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on February 09, 2013, 07:31:18 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-27326-1271440650-2_zps0255d047.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-27346-1271440819-3_zpsd0866983.jpg)

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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on February 09, 2013, 07:32:10 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-27347-1271441515-6_zpsb3eeff69.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-27317-1271443209-8_zpsf01305d2.jpg)

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-27323-1271443731-6_zps23de2bfe.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on February 09, 2013, 07:38:24 pm
You can always find a good amount of dumb at teabagger rally.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on February 09, 2013, 07:38:55 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-27326-1271440650-2_zps0255d047.jpg)
Thanks for letting us know. Now I know to stay the hell away from your dumb asses.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on February 09, 2013, 07:49:37 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-27326-1271440650-2_zps0255d047.jpg)

So where were you during the previous administration?  Oh, that's right - this only applies when Democrats are in power.  Silly me for forgetting!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 09, 2013, 08:42:30 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-27347-1271441515-6_zpsb3eeff69.jpg)



You mean the woman who looks like a pit bull with lipstick, resigned because the media was making fun of her, and got kicked off of Fox News for being too stupid?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on February 09, 2013, 08:47:18 pm
Brains?  You mean the woman who decided a harmless question was attacking her?
Bravado?  You mean the woman who hunts moose... from a copter?
Beauty? ... Well, I can't actually think of anything disparaging to say because she doesn't actually look that bad.

(Ann Coulter, on the other hand... her face unnerves me.  It's like uncanny valley.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 09, 2013, 09:49:36 pm
There are theories about using plants to curb global warming but something tells me teabaggers probably won't approvve.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on February 09, 2013, 10:58:29 pm
Fishing for a fuck yeah rabbit? Cuz ya just gotz one!
Thanks ;D

Also, it syncs up with Caramelldansen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHBUcnIW_Oc). Ya know, in case you were wondering.

You sick fuck, I can't breathe!
(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/32254428.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on February 10, 2013, 02:46:36 pm
[...]

Beauty? ... Well, I can't actually think of anything disparaging to say because she doesn't actually look that bad.

One thing I will never understand is how there are people who think Sarah Palin is a "MILF." I think she looks like a fucking witch (yes, like Ann Coulter).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on February 10, 2013, 03:58:46 pm
[...]

Beauty? ... Well, I can't actually think of anything disparaging to say because she doesn't actually look that bad.

One thing I will never understand is how there are people who think Sarah Palin is a "MILF." I think she looks like a fucking witch (yes, like Ann Coulter).

I think she'd look better if her face wasn't so strained all the time...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on February 10, 2013, 08:34:25 pm

One thing I will never understand is how there are people who think Sarah Palin is a "MILF." I think she looks like a fucking witch (yes, like Ann Coulter).

I disagree. I don't think she bears any resemblance to Christine O'Donnell.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on February 10, 2013, 08:52:50 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-27347-1271441515-6_zpsb3eeff69.jpg)

Yeeeaaah, no. I'm sorry but no.  I'm all for strong female politicians, but Palin is FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR from being any of those things.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Scotsgit on February 10, 2013, 09:12:18 pm


(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/enhanced-buzz-27317-1271443209-8_zpsf01305d2.jpg)


The levels of fail reach a new low.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on February 10, 2013, 11:10:42 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/535928_10151268796165911_1690825499_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on February 11, 2013, 12:09:50 am
(http://wistv.images.worldnow.com/images/12940543_BG1.jpg)

This is at a Gas Station pump in South Carolina (http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12940543)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on February 11, 2013, 12:15:06 am
(http://wistv.images.worldnow.com/images/12940543_BG1.jpg)

This is at a Gas Station pump in South Carolina (http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12940543)
And if you don't like it, leave...without paying.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 11, 2013, 12:28:11 am
You can't steal gas anymore sadly.  I will leave OH CANADA
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on February 11, 2013, 12:34:40 am
You can't steal gas anymore sadly.
The hell I can't :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 11, 2013, 02:01:26 am
You can't steal gas anymore sadly.  I will leave OH CANADA

Clearly, you're not thinking with portals.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 14, 2013, 07:59:25 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/dQcCpoe.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 14, 2013, 08:03:05 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/dQcCpoe.jpg)

That has to either be a shoop or a troll.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on February 14, 2013, 08:04:54 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/dQcCpoe.jpg)

That has to either be a shoop or a troll.
No, this is when they were using the Teabagger label before they knew what it meant.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on February 17, 2013, 11:13:20 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/uX36olR_zps2a2fb98b.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 17, 2013, 11:33:45 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/uX36olR_zps2a2fb98b.jpg)

Then I guess Jesus will supply you with education, water, and police?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on February 17, 2013, 11:37:16 am
Whenever someone says "freedom is not free" I immediately think of Team America: World Police:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE8BgQzyktE
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on February 17, 2013, 03:16:13 pm
(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07PM9gs0Kje8J/610x.jpg)

Yes defund Planned Parenthood. So all those people living in poverty with no insurance can't get any STD and cancer screenings.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on February 17, 2013, 04:43:28 pm
(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07PM9gs0Kje8J/610x.jpg)

Yes defund Planned Parenthood. So all those people living in poverty with no insurance can't get any STD and cancer screenings.

It seriously does amaze me still that so many people don't realize that abortions is only a small FRACTION of everything encompassed by Planned Parenthood.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 17, 2013, 04:53:02 pm
(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07PM9gs0Kje8J/610x.jpg)

Yes defund Planned Parenthood. So all those people living in poverty with no insurance can't get any STD and cancer screenings.

It seriously does amaze me still that so many people don't realize that abortions is only a small FRACTION of everything encompassed by Planned Parenthood.

Blame FOX News
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 17, 2013, 05:15:35 pm
Bah STDs don't have sex ever as for cancer...your lifestyle gave you breast cancecr
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on February 17, 2013, 08:06:20 pm
(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07PM9gs0Kje8J/610x.jpg)

Yes defund Planned Parenthood. So all those people living in poverty with no insurance can't get any STD and cancer screenings.

It seriously does amaze me still that so many people don't realize that abortions is only a small FRACTION of everything encompassed by Planned Parenthood.

I believe it's like 3%, the worst part is most of what Planned Parenthood does is stuff that would prevent unplanned pregnancies from occurring in the first place, but these folks would rather shoot their own foot.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on February 17, 2013, 09:33:11 pm
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Patches on February 17, 2013, 10:27:13 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/524897_438013462947557_1939255432_n.jpg)

That would only be equivalent if AAA was advocating, "Because intoxication loosens the body, drunk drivers tend to survive accidents more often than their victims, who tense in the collision.  Therefore, to reduce driving deaths, we should eliminate drunk driving penalties and encourage more people to drive drunk."

"Stop the infringement of our 21st Amendment rights!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 17, 2013, 10:37:41 pm
Also AAA actively works in favor of DUI education
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on February 17, 2013, 11:01:08 pm
Also AAA actively works in favor of DUI education

And doesn't flip their shit at seat belt and road laws.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on February 18, 2013, 12:19:18 am
Do any of those retards up there realize that Planned Parenthood means PLANNING FOR YOUR EVENTUAL PARENTHOOD YOU FUCKING TRASH-BRAINED IDIOTS I FUCKING HATE YOU SO MUCH!

Ironbite-whoa...that escalated quickly
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 18, 2013, 12:54:08 am
Do any of those retards up there realize that Planned Parenthood means PLANNING FOR YOUR EVENTUAL PARENTHOOD YOU FUCKING TRASH-BRAINED IDIOTS I FUCKING HATE YOU SO MUCH!

Ironbite-whoa...that escalated quickly

Brother, you pinpointed it perfectly, already: they're retards, pinheads of the highest calibre whose single-digit IQs, when put together, wouldn't normally net them the intellect to so much as fucking chew, let alone know how to read or write.

As we all know, reading and writing are for them evil, god-hating queers, anyway.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on February 18, 2013, 04:38:07 am
Also AAA actively works in favor of DUI education

The sad thing is, the NRA used to mostly be about teaching people to use their rifles safely.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on February 18, 2013, 04:46:53 am
"But, but, Planned Parenthood works with Eugenics, google it!  Their founder also was in bed with Hitler!"

Um, I don't think Hitler cared much for those already born, which puts him more in with Pro-lifers.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on February 18, 2013, 04:53:17 am
Oh come now.  You guys are using logic!  That would ruin the protesters rhetoric!  We can't have that!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RinellaWasHere on February 18, 2013, 08:06:50 am
Do any of those retards up there realize that Planned Parenthood means PLANNING FOR YOUR EVENTUAL PARENTHOOD YOU FUCKING TRASH-BRAINED IDIOTS I FUCKING HATE YOU SO MUCH!

Brother, you pinpointed it perfectly, already: they're retards, pinheads of the highest calibre whose single-digit IQs, when put together, wouldn't normally net them the intellect to so much as fucking chew, let alone know how to read or write.

I know it's a dead horse, but please stop using that word.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 18, 2013, 08:45:29 am
Do any of those retards up there realize that Planned Parenthood means PLANNING FOR YOUR EVENTUAL PARENTHOOD YOU FUCKING TRASH-BRAINED IDIOTS I FUCKING HATE YOU SO MUCH!

Brother, you pinpointed it perfectly, already: they're retards, pinheads of the highest calibre whose single-digit IQs, when put together, wouldn't normally net them the intellect to so much as fucking chew, let alone know how to read or write.

I know it's a dead horse, but please stop using that word.

Agreed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on February 18, 2013, 06:16:42 pm
"Morons," "brainless busy-bodies," and "colossal cysts on the backside of humanity" are, however, still acceptable as far as I'm given to understand.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RinellaWasHere on February 18, 2013, 08:14:06 pm

"Morons," "brainless busy-bodies," and "colossal cysts on the backside of humanity" are, however, still acceptable as far as I'm given to understand.

Absolutely.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 19, 2013, 09:16:08 am
(http://i.imgur.com/PGKCtQ6.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 19, 2013, 09:17:10 am
sees the gay pride flag.  Great white lgbt activists (long story look at the Islamophobia on any pink news story
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on February 19, 2013, 09:25:34 am
I don't see no gay pride flag.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Scotsgit on February 19, 2013, 09:32:38 am
(http://i.imgur.com/PGKCtQ6.jpg)

Well, if he's volunteering to do it himself, I say let him go!  The Israelis and Palestinians like a laugh as much as anyone else!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 19, 2013, 09:37:50 am
There's a rainbow flag in the background
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on February 19, 2013, 09:51:14 am
There's a rainbow flag in the background

Nah, it's the French Flag+a flag I don't recongize the tricolor that is Red, green, and yellow.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 19, 2013, 10:00:14 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/481b46e257334301a684ed25a50531f0/tumblr_mih2yjcZoy1r6e2w7o1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on February 19, 2013, 10:04:09 am
There's a rainbow flag in the background

Nah, it's the French Flag+a flag I don't recongize the tricolor that is Red, green, and yellow.

Notice how one of the tri colors is lateral and the other is vertical?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Scotsgit on February 19, 2013, 11:48:17 am
To be fair, Israel is very progressive on the rights of the LGBT Community, their army (whatever else faults it may have) was allowing openly gay soldiers to serve since 1993 (I wonder what they'd make of that on Rapture Ready), including in Special Forces units.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 19, 2013, 11:50:36 am
I know but still sigh
Sorry I see pink news commentors a lot who are gay EDL members
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on February 20, 2013, 12:44:27 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ZmXO9Ok.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on February 20, 2013, 12:51:55 pm
If God hates Jews, then why was his son one?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on February 20, 2013, 12:53:11 pm
Because he didn't start hating them until they killed his son. Duh.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 20, 2013, 03:38:50 pm
Is that WBC or just an asshole
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on February 20, 2013, 03:54:55 pm
Is that WBC or just an asshole

The signs in that style, with the fugly florescent gradient background and the big block letters, are definitely WBC's trademark.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on February 20, 2013, 04:14:18 pm
I'm waiting for someone to hold up a sign that says, "God hates stupid signs!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on February 20, 2013, 07:51:32 pm
If God hates Jews, then why was his son one?

He might be referring to the religion rather than the ethnicity.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: davedan on February 20, 2013, 08:10:06 pm
Yeah but Jesus was jewish both by religion and ethnicity.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on February 25, 2013, 08:57:37 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/11646_543838228972215_1631676307_n.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on February 26, 2013, 06:08:19 am
You know, he's either awfully brave or awfully stupid to wear that shirt while riding a motorcycle. I know I'd be fighting the temptation to rear end him.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on February 26, 2013, 06:40:12 pm
You know, he's either awfully brave or awfully stupid to wear that shirt while riding a motorcycle. I know I'd be fighting the temptation to rear end him.

If you do, you would be faulted for the accident and it would be your insurance that goes up. And you'd have to pay his medical bills
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on February 26, 2013, 07:20:45 pm
Wouldn't he be found at fault for not wearing safety gear, though?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on February 26, 2013, 07:45:04 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/PGKCtQ6.jpg)

Well, if he's volunteering to do it himself, I say let him go!  The Israelis and Palestinians like a laugh as much as anyone else!

Anyone know where this pic was taken?  Because I have this funny feeling that the number of actual Jewish people in this demonstration is rather low. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on February 26, 2013, 08:46:13 pm
You know, he's either awfully brave or awfully stupid to wear that shirt while riding a motorcycle. I know I'd be fighting the temptation to rear end him.

If you do, you would be faulted for the accident and it would be your insurance that goes up. And you'd have to pay his medical bills

I know. Not saying I'd actually do it, but I'd be thinking about it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on February 26, 2013, 10:47:58 pm

If you do, you would be faulted for the accident and it would be your insurance that goes up. And you'd have to pay his medical bills

It takes an awful lot for the motorcyclist to catch the at fault. true, it does happen, but if there is any doubt at all, usually it goes to the car.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on February 26, 2013, 11:55:36 pm
Wouldn't he be found at fault for not wearing safety gear, though?

I'll let nature take it's course. I assume he's a rowdy type....he'll ride stupidly one day & crack his coconut on the pavement.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on February 27, 2013, 07:47:10 am
Wouldn't he be found at fault for not wearing safety gear, though?

Depends on the state. Not all states have helmet laws, and there is no requirement anywhere that I know of that requires any other gear. I've seen people on sport bikes wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and tennis shoes, going 80 mph (129 kpm).

Most states do have laws that reduce liability based on percentage of fault. In the case of the picture, if a fact-finder (judge or jury) decided the rider was 30% at fault because he was riding without protective gear, his award would be reduced by 30%. However, even if the fact-finder finds the biker was 99% at fault, the driver would still owe the biker 1% of medical bills. (There is no way to determine the biker is 100% at fault since the driver did rear-end the biker.) A few states have laws that say if the plaintiff is more than 50% at fault, they recover nothing, but not many.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on February 27, 2013, 12:09:24 pm
Wouldn't he be found at fault for not wearing safety gear, though?

Depends on the state. Not all states have helmet laws, and there is no requirement anywhere that I know of that requires any other gear. I've seen people on sport bikes wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and tennis shoes, going 80 mph (129 kpm).

Most states do have laws that reduce liability based on percentage of fault. In the case of the picture, if a fact-finder (judge or jury) decided the rider was 30% at fault because he was riding without protective gear, his award would be reduced by 30%. However, even if the fact-finder finds the biker was 99% at fault, the driver would still owe the biker 1% of medical bills. (There is no way to determine the biker is 100% at fault since the driver did rear-end the biker.) A few states have laws that say if the plaintiff is more than 50% at fault, they recover nothing, but not many.

Illinois requires eye protection, but not helmets.  This can be a pair of sunglasses (just something covering the eyes).  If a helmet is work, it must have a visor, or eyewear must be worn underneath
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 03, 2013, 02:07:30 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/563337_577104815642235_1574457527_n_zpsead7945e.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on March 03, 2013, 02:14:08 pm
Okay then, I'll just take my money elsewhere.  Bye.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Southern Comforter on March 03, 2013, 02:19:43 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/563337_577104815642235_1574457527_n_zpsead7945e.jpg)
>votes for a candidate who promises to take guns out of the hands of stupid & irresponsible people
>"hurp, ur too stewpid and errispons'bul to own a gun!"
>"Gun store clerk shoots and kills 5 infants, wounds 11 at maternity ward, screams, 'baby murder is legal, thanks Obama.' Continued on page 5A"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: worlder on March 03, 2013, 04:06:25 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/563337_577104815642235_1574457527_n_zpsead7945e.jpg)

And just how are these policies going to be enforced?

I doubt any purchase would require some proof of vote.

Anyone can just lie, get the receipt and merchandise, then admit the truth.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Southern Comforter on March 03, 2013, 04:25:05 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/563337_577104815642235_1574457527_n_zpsead7945e.jpg)

And just how are these policies going to be enforced?

I doubt any purchase would require some proof of vote.

Anyone can just lie, get the receipt and merchandise, then admit the truth.
It's been a while since I bought a gun (a very long while considering that all the ones I have were passed down to me), but I think in Texas (as well as some other states), voter registration is required to buy a gun because birth certificates, green cards, social security numbers, and drivers licenses aren't enough to prove you're a citizen. Although that may be something I just overheard from my one conservative friend.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on March 03, 2013, 04:27:24 pm
Thanks for making pro-gun people like me look bad, douche.

This is just proof that extremists from within a group cause more damage to its reputation than enemies from the outside.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on March 03, 2013, 04:33:37 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/563337_577104815642235_1574457527_n_zpsead7945e.jpg)

"How dare Obama try to infringe on the second amendment!  That's the job of private business owners!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Southern Comforter on March 03, 2013, 04:35:57 pm
UPDATE: Voter registration isn't required to purchase a long gun or hand gun in the state of Texas. You do need a valid state ID, though. There's also apparently no waiting period in Texas. That's kind of scary considering we're right next to Mexico and Cartel/Mafia violence is almost always on the rise.

Thanks for making pro-gun people like me look bad, douche.

This is just proof that extremists from within a group cause more damage to its reputation than enemies from the outside.
Depending on how you mean it, I'm pro-gun as well. I think those qualified to own weapons should be allowed to own them and carry them into public for self-defense. However, I think there should be restrictions as to what kind of weapons you can carry into public, how difficult it should be to obtain these weapons, and what kind of weapons you can own at home. That's what the constitution says. You can't keep a fucking cannon in your house, but handguns and long guns should be allowed. The second amendment is actually a big fat middle finger to both extremities.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on March 03, 2013, 04:50:34 pm
I feel about guns the same way I feel about keeping big scary creepy-crawly things (tarantulas, scorpions, giant cockroaches, etc...) for pets: I don't like them, they scare me, they make me uncomfortable, I certainly don't want any, and I don't want to live with someone or in a house that has them. I also know that, statistically speaking, I'm probably not going to get hurt by them and they're largely not as dangerous as they seem. Other people can have them if they really want 'em, but I don't have any desire to have anything to do with them and wouldn't feel bad if one day they all disappeared.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on March 03, 2013, 04:51:59 pm
I feel about guns the same way I feel about keeping big scary creepy-crawly things (tarantulas, scorpions, giant cockroaches, etc...) for pets: I don't like them, they scare me, they make me uncomfortable, I certainly don't want any, and I don't want to live with someone or in a house that has them. I also know that, statistically speaking, I'm probably not going to get hurt by them and they're largely not as dangerous as they seem. Other people can have them if they really want 'em, but I don't have any desire to have anything to do with them and wouldn't feel bad if one day they all disappeared.

It's okay to feel that way, as long as you don't try to infringe on my rights.  I don't judge.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on March 03, 2013, 04:55:25 pm
That's exactly what I said I DIDN'T want to do. You're free to own guns and creepy-crawlies. That's your right. Just a) be responsible with them, b) don't expect me to be totally comfortable to them because they really DO make me incredibly uncomfortable, and c) don't wave them in my face and scream about your right to own them when I express the fact that I don't like them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on March 03, 2013, 05:02:02 pm
That's exactly what I said I DIDN'T want to do. You're free to own guns and creepy-crawlies. That's your right. Just a) be responsible with them, b) don't expect me to be totally comfortable to them because they really DO make me incredibly uncomfortable, and c) don't wave them in my face and scream about your right to own them when I express the fact that I don't like them.

Exactly.  That's what I was agreeing with you on.

Still, I wonder what would happen if I refused to sell one of my guns to a Tea Partier.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on March 03, 2013, 05:12:19 pm
...yanno, I have no idea. I'm pretty sure it's illegal for businesses to discriminate based on political affiliation just like it's illegal to discriminate based on race, sex, sexual orientation, or religion, but do those same laws apply to private sales? You're not a business, after all (I'm assuming), so is it still illegal for you to refuse to sell to people because you disagree with their views? If I had guns (or anything more dangerous than, like, a rubber ducky) I definitely wouldn't wanna sell it to a Tea Partier.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on March 03, 2013, 06:37:42 pm
Apparently, it's not okay to refuse to sell anything to any sane, well behaved, mentally competent, sober, law abiding person in your store who is not violating any posted store rules (dress code, etc.) because it is defined as a business open to the public. Gun shows and flea markets count, too, since the independent vendors - whether owning a business license or not - are selling within the structure of a licensed business open to the public. If you sell in your home or at your yard sale on your private property, you could refuse a purchaser, but would be wide open to civil litigation if they can prove it was discrimination based on 14th Amendment rights; age, gender, race, religion or personal philosophy. That last bit pretty much covers political philosophy, too, unless you are provably or obviously an individual,, or a member of an organization, on the federal lists for terrorism and/or hate crimes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on March 03, 2013, 06:40:15 pm
...yanno, I have no idea. I'm pretty sure it's illegal for businesses to discriminate based on political affiliation just like it's illegal to discriminate based on race, sex, sexual orientation, or religion, but do those same laws apply to private sales? You're not a business, after all (I'm assuming), so is it still illegal for you to refuse to sell to people because you disagree with their views? If I had guns (or anything more dangerous than, like, a rubber ducky) I definitely wouldn't wanna sell it to a Tea Partier.

I've seen some restaurants put up signs that say something like "We can refuse service to you for any reason."  (https://www.legalzoom.com/us-law/equal-rights/right-refuse-service) Apparently this means that as long as the reason you are kicked out has nothing to do with being part of a "federally protected class," you really can be denied service. But to deny service, it has to be a legitimate reason. For example, a bar owner was allowed to deny service to a motorcycle gang because he wanted to avoid the possibility of other gangs recognizing their colors and causing a fight. However, a restaurant owner was not allowed to deny a gay couple seating in a semi-private "couples section" just because they were gay.

I'm pretty sure that if you explicitly denied a Tea Partier the right to purchase a gun even though he had all the papers and licensing he needed, that would be considered an illegitimate reason because the law isn't allowed to say which political beliefs (however ridiculous) are "legitimate grounds" for discrimination and which ones aren't.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on March 03, 2013, 06:40:49 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/563337_577104815642235_1574457527_n_zpsead7945e.jpg)

Hrm...

That's frustrating. For I support Gun Rights, but I agree on Obama for most every other reason so you seem to be stabbing your own allies in the back with this.

Good work sir, stay classy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on March 04, 2013, 01:02:04 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/691ZS9T.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on March 04, 2013, 01:54:59 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/691ZS9T.jpg)

Lanaguage?  Lanoguage?  Laneguage?  What?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 04, 2013, 05:35:43 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/JamilahNasheedfacebookpost-thumb-556x219_zps092fec60.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Material Defender on March 05, 2013, 10:49:47 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/JamilahNasheedfacebookpost-thumb-556x219_zps092fec60.jpg)

What did I just read?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 05, 2013, 11:46:14 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/JamilahNasheedfacebookpost-thumb-556x219_zps092fec60.jpg)

What did I just read?

She is a fundie NOI muslim alderman from Saint Louis, she is saying that black people who don't like the fact that the mayor is white should vote for a dark horse candidate, because in essence Lewis Reed (the strong challenger) acts too white. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on March 05, 2013, 11:54:55 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/JamilahNasheedfacebookpost-thumb-556x219_zps092fec60.jpg)

What did I just read?

She is a fundie NOI muslim alderman from Saint Louis, she is saying that black people who don't like the fact that the mayor is white should vote for a dark horse candidate, because in essence Lewis Reed (the strong challenger) acts too white.

Dark horse? An unfortunate turn of phrase you chose there lol.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on March 05, 2013, 12:15:04 pm
Dark horse? An unfortunate turn of phrase you chose there lol.

It's just a proverb.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 05, 2013, 12:17:29 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/JamilahNasheedfacebookpost-thumb-556x219_zps092fec60.jpg)

What did I just read?

She is a fundie NOI muslim alderman from Saint Louis, she is saying that black people who don't like the fact that the mayor is white should vote for a dark horse candidate, because in essence Lewis Reed (the strong challenger) acts too white.

Dark horse? An unfortunate turn of phrase you chose there lol.
Ensemble Darkhorse (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnsembleDarkhorse)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on March 05, 2013, 01:29:45 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/JamilahNasheedfacebookpost-thumb-556x219_zps092fec60.jpg)

What did I just read?

She is a fundie NOI muslim alderman from Saint Louis, she is saying that black people who don't like the fact that the mayor is white should vote for a dark horse candidate, because in essence Lewis Reed (the strong challenger) acts too white.

Dark horse? An unfortunate turn of phrase you chose there lol.
Ensemble Darkhorse (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnsembleDarkhorse)

Dark horse? An unfortunate turn of phrase you chose there lol.

It's just a proverb.

See, this is why I don't like talking to people and why I don't post here more often.

Yes I know it is a common expression and I know where the term comes from, I'm not completely fucking retarded thank you. I just thought it was vaguely amusing that he chose that particular expression considering the subject matter. I didn't think that pointing that out would somehow indicate I was ignorant of the expression or that I thought he was actually being racist or some shit. It was a JOKE, I thought that was pretty bloody obvious. You all know what a joke is right? Jesus fucking Christ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5rJ4g9EMUk
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 05, 2013, 02:13:19 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/JamilahNasheedfacebookpost-thumb-556x219_zps092fec60.jpg)

What did I just read?

She is a fundie NOI muslim alderman from Saint Louis, she is saying that black people who don't like the fact that the mayor is white should vote for a dark horse candidate, because in essence Lewis Reed (the strong challenger) acts too white.

Dark horse? An unfortunate turn of phrase you chose there lol.
Ensemble Darkhorse (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnsembleDarkhorse)

Dark horse? An unfortunate turn of phrase you chose there lol.

It's just a proverb.

See, this is why I don't like talking to people and why I don't post here more often.

Yes I know it is a common expression and I know where the term comes from, I'm not completely fucking retarded thank you. I just thought it was vaguely amusing that he chose that particular expression considering the subject matter. I didn't think that pointing that out would somehow indicate I was ignorant of the expression or that I thought he was actually being racist or some shit. It was a JOKE, I thought that was pretty bloody obvious. You all know what a joke is right? Jesus fucking Christ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5rJ4g9EMUk
Sorry on my part, I wasn't able to tell it was a joke.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on March 05, 2013, 03:01:35 pm
Katsuro:

My comment was not an attack against you. It was not an insult to your intellegence or anything. Sorry if I offended you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on March 06, 2013, 08:46:17 am
Yes I know it is a common expression and I know where the term comes from, I'm not completely fucking retarded thank you. I just thought it was vaguely amusing that he chose that particular expression considering the subject matter. I didn't think that pointing that out would somehow indicate I was ignorant of the expression or that I thought he was actually being racist or some shit. It was a JOKE, I thought that was pretty bloody obvious. You all know what a joke is right? Jesus fucking Christ.

....Please don't use the word "retarded" as an insult.  I have relatives with mental retardation and have worked with kids and teens who have Down Syndrome.  It feels like you're calling genuinely retarded people less than human or something.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 06, 2013, 10:11:23 am
ALLLLLRIIIGHT! BACK TO THE SUBJECT......

What does Lewis Reed have to do to satisfy this Nasheed person? Shuffle about in oversized pants that aren't pulled up, talk in thick ebonics & basically act like a ghetto-fabulous minstrel show?!

"Acting White" "Acting Black" "Straight Gay"...IT"S ALL STUPID STEREOTYPES!

I'm surprised Ms. Nasheed's pic doesn't show a reject from from a Maury episode with five tons of gold jewelry, a big pink-tipped weave hairstyle & makeup put on with a trowel!

One can still have a deep love & pride in their African-American heritage, history, arts & culture without acting like a character from Soul Plane.

I've never seen Nasheed, Slay, Matthews & Reed. Being a NOI member, she probably thinks Reed not being an ethnic bigot is "acting white".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: LeTipex on March 06, 2013, 10:41:35 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/JamilahNasheedfacebookpost-thumb-556x219_zps092fec60.jpg)

What did I just read?

She is a fundie NOI muslim alderman from Saint Louis, she is saying that black people who don't like the fact that the mayor is white should vote for a dark horse candidate, because in essence Lewis Reed (the strong challenger) acts too white.

Dark horse? An unfortunate turn of phrase you chose there lol.
Ensemble Darkhorse (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnsembleDarkhorse)

Dark horse? An unfortunate turn of phrase you chose there lol.

It's just a proverb.

See, this is why I don't like talking to people and why I don't post here more often.

Yes I know it is a common expression and I know where the term comes from, I'm not completely fucking retarded thank you. I just thought it was vaguely amusing that he chose that particular expression considering the subject matter. I didn't think that pointing that out would somehow indicate I was ignorant of the expression or that I thought he was actually being racist or some shit. It was a JOKE, I thought that was pretty bloody obvious. You all know what a joke is right? Jesus fucking Christ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5rJ4g9EMUk
Some people on the board do not speak english as their first language (I should know, I'm one of them) and they might not know about some colloquial expressions. It's hard to know sometimes who is genuinely asking for help because he isn't english, and who is making a joke. Don't jump on someone who was probably only trying to help.
kthxby
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 09, 2013, 04:16:56 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/602189_343214389113993_1635249302_n.jpg)

(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/72402_342571895844909_611181688_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on March 09, 2013, 04:30:31 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/72402_342571895844909_611181688_n.jpg)

I really want to add the words "gay" and "hay" there.

"Hay" mostly just to preserve the rhyme.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on March 09, 2013, 05:07:51 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/72402_342571895844909_611181688_n.jpg)

I really want to add the words "gay" and "hay" there.

"Hay" mostly just to preserve the rhyme.

To me it sounds like advice for toasting bread.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on March 09, 2013, 05:22:53 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/72402_342571895844909_611181688_n.jpg)

I really want to add the words "gay" and "hay" there.

"Hay" mostly just to preserve the rhyme.

To me it sounds like advice for toasting bread.

+1 for making me laugh
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on March 09, 2013, 05:24:05 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/72402_342571895844909_611181688_n.jpg)

I really want to add the words "gay" and "hay" there.

"Hay" mostly just to preserve the rhyme.

Gay or Hay?  Does that mean that like, you turn into a pony if you're not homosexual or something?  I don't get it.  Or does it mean you get a pony "waifu" if you're straight?

Haha.  I'm terrible.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on March 09, 2013, 05:27:15 pm
Maybe it's like "hit they hay".
It's a trend during sleepovers. Before going to bed, someone says "Gay or Hay", and if you aren't gay, you fall asleep and don't participate in the homosexual orgy that's happening around you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on March 09, 2013, 07:00:35 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/72402_342571895844909_611181688_n.jpg)

I really want to add the words "gay" and "hay" there.

"Hay" mostly just to preserve the rhyme.

Gay or Hay?  Does that mean that like, you turn into a pony if you're not homosexual or something?  I don't get it.  Or does it mean you get a pony "waifu" if you're straight?

Haha.  I'm terrible.

Maybe all that cocksucking makes them a little horse?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on March 09, 2013, 07:55:25 pm
Neigh!

Good gracious, Mint Bunny, why would you saddle yourself with such a bad pun? Are you just trying to stirrup a lot of eye-rolling?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on March 09, 2013, 08:10:04 pm
.......*rider kicks Cait in her boob*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on March 09, 2013, 08:14:47 pm
Hey! You cantle do that to me!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on March 09, 2013, 08:17:29 pm
.....*henshins to Kamen Rider Kuuga, cho-henshins to Ultimate Rising form, then Ultimate Mighty Kick's Cait in the boob*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on March 09, 2013, 08:20:31 pm
Neigh!

Good gracious, Mint Bunny, why would you saddle yourself with such a bad pun? Are you just trying to stirrup a lot of eye-rolling?

It behooves me to tell you that I am just foaling around.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on March 09, 2013, 08:23:14 pm
Well, thanks for fillying me in on the mane details!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on March 09, 2013, 08:23:27 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/dc3c965f9f6df427f6c7ce9908997303/tumblr_mjdgeezxpd1r0bfo1o1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on March 09, 2013, 10:13:33 pm
Mint, Cait and Ibby:  Thanks for the laugh.  You've made my day awesome :3

*goes back to playing with his pretty, pretty ponies*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on March 09, 2013, 10:19:03 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/dc3c965f9f6df427f6c7ce9908997303/tumblr_mjdgeezxpd1r0bfo1o1_500.jpg)
Shouldn't that be in the awesome protest signs?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on March 09, 2013, 10:50:54 pm
The sign on the left is anti birthcontrol
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on March 09, 2013, 10:56:05 pm
The sign on the left is anti birthcontrol

No it isn't.  It's asking why birth control isn't covered when Viagra is.  The only thing dumb about that sign is the four-hour erection joke.  There is nothing funny about those.

Maybe it's like "hit they hay".
It's a trend during sleepovers. Before going to bed, someone says "Gay or Hay", and if you aren't gay, you fall asleep and don't participate in the homosexual orgy that's happening around you.

Sleepovers have changed since I was a kid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on March 09, 2013, 11:00:41 pm
Maybe it's like "hit they hay".
It's a trend during sleepovers. Before going to bed, someone says "Gay or Hay", and if you aren't gay, you fall asleep and don't participate in the homosexual orgy that's happening around you.

Sleepovers have changed since I was a kid.

Seriously? What kind of sleepovers did YOU go to, eh? Every good little atheist has a sleepover orgy by the time they're eleven or twelve--otherwise you don't get your 'Satanic Sleepover' merit badge, which just makes the progression towards the coveted 'Eating Babies' merit badge that much harder.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on March 09, 2013, 11:03:19 pm
Maybe it's like "hit they hay".
It's a trend during sleepovers. Before going to bed, someone says "Gay or Hay", and if you aren't gay, you fall asleep and don't participate in the homosexual orgy that's happening around you.

Sleepovers have changed since I was a kid.

Seriously? What kind of sleepovers did YOU go to, eh? Every good little atheist has a sleepover orgy by the time they're eleven or twelve--otherwise you don't get your 'Satanic Sleepover' merit badge, which just makes the progression towards the coveted 'Eating Babies' merit badge that much harder.

We mostly played D&D.  Doesn't that earn the 'Satanic Sleepover' badge?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on March 09, 2013, 11:08:21 pm
Not unless you successfully summoned actual dragons to whom you sacrificed your virgin Christian schoolmates in a real dungeon. Bonus points if it was a sex dungeon. I'm sorry, the rules in the Atheist Scout's handbook are quite clear on the subject of the merit badges, especially ones as important as the 'Satanic Sleepover' merit badge.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on March 10, 2013, 12:30:50 am
The sign on the left is anti birthcontrol

No it isn't.  It's asking why birth control isn't covered when Viagra is.  The only thing dumb about that sign is the four-hour erection joke.  There is nothing funny about those.

That's one of the reasons why I posted it in this thread. That and the whole "regulating women's uterus's is akin to rape" thing. Abortion restrictions are bad, but they're not comparable to rape. The only abortion restriction that you can argue is akin to rape are transvaginal ultrasounds.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on March 10, 2013, 06:29:42 am


Quote
No it isn't.  It's asking why birth control isn't covered when Viagra is.  The only thing dumb about that sign is the four-hour erection joke.  There is nothing funny about those.

If the men making the plans can be hypocritical assholes, then the women can be bitches about it, as far as I'm concerned.  I also love how the GOP didn't say a word about Viagra being in Obamacare, but right after it was passed, they claimed Obama was catering to rapists.

*Edit.  Sorry I put the quotes in the wrong spot.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on March 10, 2013, 11:09:56 am
Nevermind you fixed it. thanks
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on March 10, 2013, 11:31:01 am
The sign on the left is anti birthcontrol

No it isn't.  It's asking why birth control isn't covered when Viagra is.  The only thing dumb about that sign is the four-hour erection joke.  There is nothing funny about those.

I think her train of thought on that was "If women don't have birth control, then they won't sleep with you, so you'll be stuck with a Viagra boner due to lack of sexual release". Though that's just a guess, and I'm 60% sure that this misunderstands how Viagra is supposed to work. Also, masturbation still exists.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 10, 2013, 01:13:09 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/38tLWWS_zps192769b3.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on March 10, 2013, 01:24:09 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/38tLWWS_zps192769b3.jpg)

It's totally your right to be this willfully ignorant, but you shouldn't be allowed to drive. Or cross the street by yourself. Or be given access to anything more potentially lethal than a rubber ducky.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on March 10, 2013, 01:26:46 pm
Though I know this person means it much differently than I would, I might have bought that top sticker when Shrub was in office.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on March 10, 2013, 01:28:08 pm
At least it's not on the back window.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 10, 2013, 02:22:04 pm
This goes nicely with the following photo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7ILHMkrVF0

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on March 10, 2013, 02:27:23 pm
I've become very jaded. My first reaction to reading that sign was, 'Well, at least it's all spelled correctly...'

Also, this guy should go see a doctor. It sounds like he's got a bit of a problem there if his larynx and vocal cords only work while he's 'exercising' his guns.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on March 10, 2013, 02:59:00 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/38tLWWS_zps192769b3.jpg)

Freedom isn't free. It costs a buck 'o five.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on March 10, 2013, 06:54:53 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/38tLWWS_zps192769b3.jpg)

I wonder how many social services this person have used in the past, like the EITC, and whatnot?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on March 10, 2013, 07:17:12 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/38tLWWS_zps192769b3.jpg)

Freedom isn't free. It costs a buck 'o five.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrXlA9FrsKM
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on March 11, 2013, 04:41:42 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/38tLWWS_zps192769b3.jpg)

I wonder how many social services this person have used in the past, like the EITC, and whatnot?

Does driving on a socially funded road count?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 15, 2013, 11:22:31 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/zyhh3PQ_zps2a4ee070.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on March 16, 2013, 08:32:33 pm
Didn't Homer mock global warming?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Itachirumon on March 16, 2013, 10:29:22 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/38tLWWS_zps192769b3.jpg)

Freedom isn't free. It costs a buck 'o five.

That's a pretty hefty fuckin' fee.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 26, 2013, 11:20:46 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/3673_491387260909075_523158184_n_zps063ac806.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 27, 2013, 03:46:28 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/3673_491387260909075_523158184_n_zps063ac806.jpg)
And what if the rapist is armed too?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on March 27, 2013, 03:56:50 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/3673_491387260909075_523158184_n_zps063ac806.jpg)
And what if the rapist is armed too?

Or grabs you from behind?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on March 27, 2013, 05:01:19 pm
Or the most common one, takes a drunk person upstairs
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Scotsgit on March 27, 2013, 06:54:35 pm
Or uses a date rape drug.  A gun would be really fucking useful there. ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 27, 2013, 11:24:01 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/3673_491387260909075_523158184_n_zps063ac806.jpg)
And what if the rapist is armed too?

Well if everyone was republican and armed we would have no crime?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 28, 2013, 05:01:05 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/482299_457874494294787_1148566465_n_zps3c4cc9b8.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on March 28, 2013, 06:27:12 pm
I'd say "citation needed" but I'm pretty sure there's already a ton of cited evidence saying that this is bullshit, so there's no need.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kristine on March 31, 2013, 05:18:37 am
(http://thefunnyplanet.com/pictures/12055.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on March 31, 2013, 07:03:01 am
(http://thefunnyplanet.com/pictures/12055.jpg)

And those thousands of starving children around the world aren't keeping you busy?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on March 31, 2013, 09:51:59 am
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/564535_632561443437173_393446124_n_zps9406a6c8.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on March 31, 2013, 12:14:11 pm
(http://thefunnyplanet.com/pictures/12055.jpg)

Again how much can we stress that people will still reproduce, and that abortion has been happening since the beginning of time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on March 31, 2013, 12:26:43 pm
(http://thefunnyplanet.com/pictures/12055.jpg)

Again how much can we stress that people will still reproduce, and that abortion has been happening since the beginning of time.

Also Santa doesn't even get paid, so how can he go out of business.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on March 31, 2013, 12:33:02 pm
(http://thefunnyplanet.com/pictures/12055.jpg)

Again how much can we stress that people will still reproduce, and that abortion has been happening since the beginning of time.

Also Santa doesn't even get paid, so how can he go out of business.

Exactly, Santa is a dirty rotten socialist, giving free toys out to kids.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on April 01, 2013, 02:16:58 pm
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/564535_632561443437173_393446124_n_zps9406a6c8.jpg)

This gives me an idea for a compromise.

Let's ban gay marridge and legalize gay marriage!  Everyone wins.

You're welcome, world.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on April 01, 2013, 03:07:05 pm
(http://thefunnyplanet.com/pictures/12055.jpg)

Again how much can we stress that people will still reproduce, and that abortion has been happening since the beginning of time.

Also Santa doesn't even get paid, so how can he go out of business.

Exactly, Santa is a dirty rotten socialist, giving free toys out to kids.

Santa probably loves abortion. If people had more abortions, he wouldn't have to climb down so many chimneys each year.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 08, 2013, 04:46:08 pm
Forgive me if this has already been posted:

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/44caf4b50482bf46bd3b8e43c3522371/tumblr_mk8xh1uxHD1qcd4g5o1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on April 08, 2013, 04:48:13 pm
Forgive me if this has already been posted:

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/44caf4b50482bf46bd3b8e43c3522371/tumblr_mk8xh1uxHD1qcd4g5o1_500.jpg)
Yes, because gay men only exist for the benefit of yaoi fangirls.  I'd say this is a textbook example of "right, for the wrong reasons".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on April 10, 2013, 04:46:45 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7OyJtfmW8k

The boy's father is the leader of this protest group. Apperantly he's (or rather his poor brainwashed kid is) protesting this particular church because they support marriage equality.

I don't even think this kid understands half the shit he's screeching about.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on April 10, 2013, 07:57:55 pm
Why am I not surprised that BOTH ratings and comments have been disabled on the video?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 10, 2013, 08:40:53 pm
(http://thefunnyplanet.com/pictures/12055.jpg)

Again how much can we stress that people will still reproduce, and that abortion has been happening since the beginning of time.

Also Santa doesn't even get paid, so how can he go out of business.

Exactly, Santa is a dirty rotten socialist, giving free toys out to kids.

Santa probably loves abortion. If people had more abortions, he wouldn't have to climb down so many chimneys each year.

I think Santa gets paid in cookies, which he uses as the standard of the North Pole Elven currency.

Hey, at least it's not bitcoin.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Igor on April 11, 2013, 12:20:55 am
Is it just me or is that the sorriest looking Santa ever?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 11, 2013, 12:22:27 am
Is it just me or is that the sorriest looking Santa ever?

Yeah, I definitely wouldn't let my kids sit on his lap.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 11, 2013, 12:22:41 am
Meh, I've seen worse.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 12, 2013, 01:32:55 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/6c98d68b7bb93d733317ee636aa03d7e/tumblr_ml3q2eJTdu1qijn6po1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on April 12, 2013, 01:33:45 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/6c98d68b7bb93d733317ee636aa03d7e/tumblr_ml3q2eJTdu1qijn6po1_500.jpg)
If you let a small child handle a gun, you should never have kids.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 12, 2013, 01:43:58 pm
Moms Demand Action is a bit over zealous in demanding increased gun control legislation, true, but in this context, the picture looks like an NRA campaign ad. Recently a number of local and state school authority boards have banned classic fairy tales like "Little Red Ridinghood" for being too violent. Sort of the P.C. version of fundie book burnin's.

Added later; The more I think about this sample of dumb protest sign, the more I am fascinated by it. A right wing gun nut will love it (if they don't know the organization that made it), and a left wing anti-gun nut will love it, too. It's a litmus test for extremes on each side of the issue of guns and kid's books. The extreme left hates Grimm's violent fairy tales and guns, the right hates fairy tales that aren't about jeebuz and thinks gun control is banning guns.

Brilliant of you to put this example in the thread, Shep!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 12, 2013, 01:45:22 pm
I'm against book bannings, but how would a fairy tale protect children?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on April 12, 2013, 01:59:15 pm
I'm against book bannings, but how would a fairy tale protect children?

No no, the item has been banned to protect the children. IE: Fairy tales are generally scary as shit, and a lot of the older ones get banned.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 12, 2013, 02:16:49 pm
Oh. I shouldn't have missed that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on April 12, 2013, 02:45:28 pm
It reminds me of the original version of Cinderella... now that's scary shit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 12, 2013, 02:46:47 pm
Moms Demand Action is a bit over zealous in demanding increased gun control legislation, true, but in this context, the picture looks like an NRA campaign ad. Recently a number of local and state school authority boards have banned classic fairy tales like "Little Red Ridinghood" for being too violent. Sort of the P.C. version of fundie book burnin's.

Added later; The more I think about this sample of dumb protest sign, the more I am fascinated by it. A right wing gun nut will love it (if they don't know the organization that made it), and a left wing anti-gun nut will love it, too. It's a litmus test for extremes on each side of the issue of guns and kid's books. The extreme left hates Grimm's violent fairy tales and guns, the right hates fairy tales that aren't about jeebuz and thinks gun control is banning guns.

Brilliant of you to put this example in the thread, Shep!

Sure thing. It popped up on my tumblr feed. Seemed perfect to put in here even tho I'm antsy about anything gun control wise anymore on the forums.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 12, 2013, 02:50:29 pm
It reminds me of the original version of Cinderella... now that's scary shit.

You mean Aschenputtel

"Turn and peep, turn and peep, there's blood within the shoe. The shoe it is too small for her, the true bride waits for you"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 12, 2013, 03:31:10 pm
Oh for the love of...

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/a0d5acb025457a923842f0d855b68877/tumblr_ml5pqfBUQO1qg4lyzo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 12, 2013, 03:31:58 pm
Oh for the love of...

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/a0d5acb025457a923842f0d855b68877/tumblr_ml5pqfBUQO1qg4lyzo1_500.jpg)

How the fuck do you give a gun to a fetus

Like... ow
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on April 12, 2013, 03:37:43 pm
Oh. I shouldn't have missed that.
Got to admit I kinda figured it was the otherway round at first, but then I run this place... so I'm never quite sure.

And yeah, that douche bag is certifiable. But yes, let's give babies guns, this can end well. Though no one's really aborting babies, but rather fetuses. But hey, if all the babies were armed, who'd abort them? No one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: FirsthandTuna on April 12, 2013, 03:41:48 pm
Oh for the love of...

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/a0d5acb025457a923842f0d855b68877/tumblr_ml5pqfBUQO1qg4lyzo1_500.jpg)

How the fuck do you give a gun to a fetus

Like... ow

It's a very tiny gun, injected into the uterus via syringe.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 12, 2013, 03:54:57 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/aef67fa85764146ce8ee105987205701/tumblr_ml3zf2dqMq1qzsrrpo1_500.jpg)

*sigh*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 12, 2013, 04:09:12 pm
A MAN CHOOSES!  A SLAVE OBEYS!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 12, 2013, 04:12:07 pm
Oh for the love of...

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/a0d5acb025457a923842f0d855b68877/tumblr_ml5pqfBUQO1qg4lyzo1_500.jpg)

That's dumber than Limbaugh's quote about using guns for abortions.

If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted because we don't abort babies, we abort fetuses and embryos.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on April 12, 2013, 05:35:58 pm
Oh for the love of...

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/a0d5acb025457a923842f0d855b68877/tumblr_ml5pqfBUQO1qg4lyzo1_500.jpg)
If apples had little propellers, they could fly.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 12, 2013, 05:36:54 pm
Oh for the love of...

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/a0d5acb025457a923842f0d855b68877/tumblr_ml5pqfBUQO1qg4lyzo1_500.jpg)
If apples had little propellers, they could fly.

That makes to much sense to compare it to the picture.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on April 12, 2013, 10:50:37 pm
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RTTXjudYag4/ToIShgfW4tI/AAAAAAAAAV0/LVSsTGVPIYo/s400/rite%2Baid)
(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/184/961/tumblr_lnvvueuSsj1qcj56b.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ShadowFan-X on April 13, 2013, 02:30:24 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/a0d5acb025457a923842f0d855b68877/tumblr_ml5pqfBUQO1qg4lyzo1_500.jpg)
How would a fetus having a gun prevent abortion anyways? By killing the mother? Then the fetus would be killing itself, too.

That of course ignores the fact that a fetus wouldn't even be physically or mentally capable of using a gun in the first place.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on April 13, 2013, 12:40:05 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/aef67fa85764146ce8ee105987205701/tumblr_ml3zf2dqMq1qzsrrpo1_500.jpg)

*sigh*

This is true.

Its what they used to put down slave uprisings.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 13, 2013, 12:42:06 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/aef67fa85764146ce8ee105987205701/tumblr_ml3zf2dqMq1qzsrrpo1_500.jpg)

*sigh*

This is true.

Its what they used to put down slave uprisings.

The slaves didn't get the choice in owning one, however.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on April 13, 2013, 12:58:22 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/6c98d68b7bb93d733317ee636aa03d7e/tumblr_ml3q2eJTdu1qijn6po1_500.jpg)

The great irony is that this could have ambiguous meaning, especially if you put quotations around protect.  Books are banned all the time to "protect" children.

Of course, this is assuming that congress has actually had the balls to ban the gun on the right.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 13, 2013, 01:05:55 pm
I think they mean slavery and can white assholes stop appropriating slavery and MLK?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on April 13, 2013, 01:08:45 pm
I think they mean slavery and can white assholes stop appropriating slavery and MLK?

First of all, this guy never referenced MLK.  Secondly, black people don't have a monopoly on slavedom.  Third, while this sticker is stupid, you're automatically assuming that it must be a white guy's vehicle.

Now, having said that, this guy might just be a gun owner with a persecution complex. ;)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 13, 2013, 01:34:27 pm
I meant in general. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on April 13, 2013, 04:04:00 pm
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RTTXjudYag4/ToIShgfW4tI/AAAAAAAAAV0/LVSsTGVPIYo/s400/rite%2Baid)
(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/184/961/tumblr_lnvvueuSsj1qcj56b.png)

I can never remember, is it libel or slander that's written lies? I'm pretty sure that fucker could get sued until his ass puckers.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on April 13, 2013, 04:26:39 pm
Libel is written defamation.

Slander is spoken defamation and usually also requires proof that some sort of tangible harm was done (eg loss of business).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 13, 2013, 04:39:31 pm
Anti Vaxers are insane...
Though it's not just how they view vaccines, it's how they usually group all their theories about "Big Pharma" and holistic medicine into this potentially dangerous clusterfuck. Like my mom used to deny me the meds I needed for my mental health (Depression and Bipolar/mild schizophrenia) because she read shit on those anti vax sites, which said mental health meds make you unhappier and that doctors only care about money.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on April 13, 2013, 05:34:28 pm
Not only is he accusing a store of baby murder, but he's standing in front of the wrong fucking store. Did he assume we all just operate under the umbrella of "Big Pharma" or something?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on April 13, 2013, 05:35:10 pm
I think they mean slavery and can white assholes stop appropriating slavery and MLK?
Third, while this sticker is stupid, you're automatically assuming that it must be a white guy's vehicle.
I'd be willing to bet money that it is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 13, 2013, 05:59:54 pm
I think they mean slavery and can white assholes stop appropriating slavery and MLK?

Because obviously at no point in history has a Caucasian been a slave. That's not even counting the workers in some industries as recent as the early 1900s that were slaves in almost all but name.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 13, 2013, 06:07:47 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/7b707c582803e2d78534074b1c33e3ba/tumblr_ml3sooH8Wq1rwx482o1_1280.jpg)

>implying that hating North Korea = hating the people
>implying that you're racist if you don't like North Korea
>implying that those photos aren't manipulated images sent out by the North Korean media to fool people themselves
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on April 13, 2013, 06:23:55 pm
"Awaken the mind"

You first, buddy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 13, 2013, 06:37:49 pm
I actually read someone's blog who thought that North Korea was provoked into war and had done nothing wrong.

To her credit, when she was informed of the facts of the matter, she withdrew her complaint, but she still doesn't like the excessive mockery of North Korea.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 13, 2013, 07:49:42 pm
I've reblogged that and the intent is more of an anti war one to be fair.  My guess those pics are real as Pyongyang is where all the money is
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on April 13, 2013, 07:53:44 pm
I've reblogged that and the intent is more of an anti war one to be fair.  My guess those pics are real as Pyongyang is where all the money is

Someone said that these were propaganda photos put out by North Korea themselves.  Does anyone know if that's true?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 13, 2013, 07:57:18 pm
I dunno TBH I was operating under the same principle I do with Iran where the only thing we see is negative.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 13, 2013, 10:04:44 pm
Pyongyang is also where all major members of the Party and high-ranking officials live, along with their families. They enjoy a much higher quality of life (relatively speaking) than the impoverished majority of the population.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 13, 2013, 10:16:14 pm
I know. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 13, 2013, 10:58:56 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/aef67fa85764146ce8ee105987205701/tumblr_ml3zf2dqMq1qzsrrpo1_500.jpg)

*sigh*

This is true.

Its what they used to put down slave uprisings.

The slaves didn't get the choice in owning one, however.

The quote was used to force former slaves to fight in the Civil War. It's appropriating something but my mind isn't coming up with the right term.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on April 14, 2013, 08:49:44 am
Found this one linked on Rapture Ready:

(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/TroyTrojansFan/homo-wedding-fools_zps5d94ba6f.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 14, 2013, 08:53:25 am
Found this one linked on Rapture Ready:

(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/TroyTrojansFan/homo-wedding-fools_zps5d94ba6f.jpg)

This is creepy as fuck. Are those neanderthal sculptures?
Also, why did they label the "groom" and "homo lust". I have a headache now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 14, 2013, 11:31:43 am
They are.....wait for it....HOMO ERECTUS....eeeeee!! huhr-huhr-huhr-huhr

Fundie dipshit who 'shopped that like a 5 year old must've pissed their pants laffing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 14, 2013, 11:34:05 am
They are.....wait for it....HOMO ERECTUS....eeeeee!! huhr-huhr-huhr-huhr

Fundie dipshit who 'shopped that like a 5 year old must've pissed their pants laffing.

I get it... yet somehow I'm more confused. Since... they don't like evolution and... that has nothing to do with gays... and fuck I'm going to stop before I have a stroke.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on April 14, 2013, 11:44:37 am
They are.....wait for it....HOMO ERECTUS....eeeeee!! huhr-huhr-huhr-huhr
Dammit you beat me to the punchline...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 14, 2013, 11:47:55 am
Here's the original Homo Erectus pic:
(click to show/hide)

My face was the same when I first saw the "homo lust" picture.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 14, 2013, 12:53:05 pm
Here's the original Homo Erectus pic:
(click to show/hide)

My face was the same when I first saw the "homo lust" picture.

OMG! He's clearly got a "Da fuq?!" look on his face. "These descendants...I no understand them!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on April 14, 2013, 12:59:10 pm
Here's the original Homo Erectus pic:
(click to show/hide)

My face was the same when I first saw the "homo lust" picture.

OMG! He's clearly got a "Da fuq?!" look on his face. "These descendants...I no understand them!"
Yeah, it's sad when cavemen are more socially advanced than you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on April 14, 2013, 01:08:50 pm
Here's the original Homo Erectus pic:
(click to show/hide)

My face was the same when I first saw the "homo lust" picture.

OMG! He's clearly got a "Da fuq?!" look on his face. "These descendants...I no understand them!"
Yeah, it's sad when cavemen are more socially advanced than you.

What do you expect from fundies?? Even single cell organisms are more socially advanced than them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 14, 2013, 03:35:04 pm
...I am legitimately offended by that picture from Rapture Ready.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 14, 2013, 03:50:25 pm
...I am legitimately offended by that picture from Rapture Ready.

(https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR4l-Hk5UqMggEJBhAPyt296aamj-zlTQCwcWUECoMhuUP5gG3vIg)

"Me too, great grandson to the power of all the stars in the sky. Old ancestor here curses the little snake heart men with awesome lightning juju whammy! OGGGGGGGG!!!!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 14, 2013, 04:03:41 pm
...I am legitimately offended by that picture from Rapture Ready.

As am I... Most homophobes at least understand that gays love their partners a bit more than just mutual butt fun. It's so stupid, that if I didn't know it was Rapture Ready, I would have assumed some 13 year old made it as a parody of homophobic people's political cartoon. It would be a terrible parody too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 14, 2013, 04:22:56 pm
It's almost a paradox of an unintended parody, it's so damn bad. How does it offend me? Let me count the ways...

1. The imagery chosen is to nod agreement with the most virulent and ignorant level of homophobia.

2. The over-all presentation is perfectly in line with the worst of racist hate cartoons of the past two centuries.

3. The degree of childish snideness triggers memories I have of hearing "DYKE!" screamed at me from the age of 8

onwards.

4. Even the abuse of a skilled forensic anthropologist sculptor's work is obscene to me. Though I confess I had to make

the homo erectus "talk" both to blow off steam and to acknowledge this accurate image of an actual individual

ancestor as having dignity that should not be effaced by a fundie shitwit.

5. But yeah, fundie shitwits deny their ancestry. And also deny that me and my gay brothers and sisters are human

beings with human dignity, too
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 14, 2013, 04:24:37 pm
It's almost a paradox of an unintended parody, it's so damn bad. How does it offend me? Let me count the ways...

1. The imagery chosen is to nod agreement with the most virulent and ignorant level of homophobia.

2. The over-all presentation is perfectly in line with the worst of racist hate cartoons of the past two centuries.

3. The degree of childish snideness triggers memories I have of hearing "DYKE!" screamed at me from the age of 8

onwards.

4. Even the abuse of a skilled forensic anthropologist sculptor's work is obscene to me. Though I confess I had to make

the homo erectus "talk" both to blow off steam and to acknowledge this accurate image of an actual individual

ancestor as having dignity that should not be effaced by a fundie shitwit.

5. But yeah, fundie shitwits deny their ancestry. And also deny that me and my gay brothers and sisters are human

beings with human dignity, too

You forgot the labels insulting your intelligence.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on April 14, 2013, 04:41:59 pm
Found this one linked on Rapture Ready:

(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/TroyTrojansFan/homo-wedding-fools_zps5d94ba6f.jpg)

This is creepy as fuck.

That is an understatement.  They're staring into my very soul.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 14, 2013, 05:09:44 pm
Found this one linked on Rapture Ready:

(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/TroyTrojansFan/homo-wedding-fools_zps5d94ba6f.jpg)

This is creepy as fuck.

That is an understatement.  They're staring into my very soul.

(https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR4l-Hk5UqMggEJBhAPyt296aamj-zlTQCwcWUECoMhuUP5gG3vIg)

"Your soul is pure, great grandson. I have hope back in my ancient heart, thanks to descendants like you. You make Og proud."

(because humor keeps me from having a brain aneurism over stupid fundie derpshit, and 'cuz Og is right. You're definitely one of the good 'uns, TGRwulf)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on April 14, 2013, 05:29:29 pm
Found this one linked on Rapture Ready:

(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/TroyTrojansFan/homo-wedding-fools_zps5d94ba6f.jpg)

To go along with all the sodomy that has been happening in heterosexual marriages for centuries.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 14, 2013, 06:03:05 pm
...I am legitimately offended by that picture from Rapture Ready.

As am I... Most homophobes at least understand that gays love their partners a bit more than just mutual butt fun. It's so stupid, that if I didn't know it was Rapture Ready, I would have assumed some 13 year old made it as a parody of homophobic people's political cartoon. It would be a terrible parody too.

You obviously know a different class of homophobes than I. I've yet to meet a single one who even acknowledges it's actual love as opposed to simple lust.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on April 14, 2013, 06:04:27 pm
Sodomy: So easy a caveman can do it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 15, 2013, 02:31:40 am
I don't get it.  I honestly don't get it.  Straights practice anal sex all the fucking time and yet when two men do it, it's suddenly a crime.

Ironbite-it's just....so stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on April 15, 2013, 07:47:49 am
I don't get it.  I honestly don't get it.  Straights practice anal sex all the fucking time and yet when two men do it, it's suddenly a crime.

Ironbite-it's just....so stupid.

1) Technically, oral counts as sodomy too.
2) The people who are categorically opposed to homosexuality for reasons of Jesus would probably look down on straight sodomy too.
3) A quick glance at the wikipedia entry for United States sodomy laws (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_States#State_laws_prior_to_2003) shows that many of states technically outlawed oral and anal sex between heterosexual couples, though a lot of them had exemptions for married folks. Of course, it was highly unlikely that straight people would end up prosecuted for it, but it was on the books.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 16, 2013, 02:12:19 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/f55ecacb6fd39fdca67da0da3b16d987/tumblr_mi1i9mzOon1s4g8xfo1_400.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 16, 2013, 02:33:41 pm
What.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Scotsgit on April 16, 2013, 03:06:10 pm
Some idiot who wants a fight....


**sigh**
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Scotsgit on April 16, 2013, 03:26:20 pm
Just defriended someone on FB, they'd posted a photo of the victims at the bombing in situ. It was accompanied by a rant about gun control.

I also told him he's a sick fuck.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on April 16, 2013, 03:52:10 pm
Just defriended someone on FB, they'd posted a photo of the victims at the bombing in situ. It was accompanied by a rant about gun control.

I also told him he's a sick fuck.

I don't understand people who are trying to turn this into a gun debate.  Guns weren't involved.  These were fucking bombs!  Whether we had a complete gun ban or complete unrestricted gun access wouldn't have made a difference in this situation.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Scotsgit on April 16, 2013, 04:14:25 pm
Just defriended someone on FB, they'd posted a photo of the victims at the bombing in situ. It was accompanied by a rant about gun control.

I also told him he's a sick fuck.

I don't understand people who are trying to turn this into a gun debate.  Guns weren't involved.  These were fucking bombs!  Whether we had a complete gun ban or complete unrestricted gun access wouldn't have made a difference in this situation.

That's not how they see it:  Apparently, had everyone there been carrying a gun, it wouldn't have happened.  Because someone setting a bomb and then legging it is....  Oh, I give up.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on April 16, 2013, 04:41:18 pm
Just defriended someone on FB, they'd posted a photo of the victims at the bombing in situ. It was accompanied by a rant about gun control.

I also told him he's a sick fuck.

I don't understand people who are trying to turn this into a gun debate.  Guns weren't involved.  These were fucking bombs!  Whether we had a complete gun ban or complete unrestricted gun access wouldn't have made a difference in this situation.

That's not how they see it:  Apparently, had everyone there been carrying a gun, it wouldn't have happened.  Because someone setting a bomb and then legging it is....  Oh, I give up.

Probably more of a 'Look bombs are more dangerous than guns' argument taken to an illogical extreme.

That said, it gun debate has no fucking place in this incident.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on April 16, 2013, 11:22:22 pm
Just defriended someone on FB, they'd posted a photo of the victims at the bombing in situ. It was accompanied by a rant about gun control.

I also told him he's a sick fuck.

I don't understand people who are trying to turn this into a gun debate.  Guns weren't involved.  These were fucking bombs!  Whether we had a complete gun ban or complete unrestricted gun access wouldn't have made a difference in this situation.

That's not how they see it:  Apparently, had everyone there been carrying a gun, it wouldn't have happened.  Because someone setting a bomb and then legging it is....  Oh, I give up.

I have no idea how that would make sense, but I suppose when you have some cause and believe in it strong enough facts and logic just don't matter anymore. So basically, some pro-gun folks are fundies plain and simple.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 17, 2013, 03:48:00 am
Interestingly, there are quite substantial restrictions (and rightly so) on bomb equipment like ammonium nitrate in Australia. Are there similar restrictions in the US?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on April 17, 2013, 06:45:21 am
Interestingly, there are quite substantial restrictions (and rightly so) on bomb equipment like ammonium nitrate in Australia. Are there similar restrictions in the US?
Farmers have to go through some serious pains in the ass to get fertilizer in bulk from what I know, so yeah. Unless you know a farmer who passed chemistry with a preference for craters.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 17, 2013, 07:00:01 am
Interestingly, there are quite substantial restrictions (and rightly so) on bomb equipment like ammonium nitrate in Australia. Are there similar restrictions in the US?
Farmers have to go through some serious pains in the ass to get fertilizer in bulk from what I know, so yeah. Unless you know a farmer who passed chemistry with a preference for craters.

Kinda ruins the gunners' argument, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 17, 2013, 07:09:12 am
If it was that easy to make the extremes of each side shut up...

Also it appears prior to the Boston marathon fundies were protesting it. I wonder if they feel bad about this one:

(http://i.imgur.com/zSBcLv9.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 17, 2013, 10:11:14 am
If it was that easy to make the extremes of each side shut up...

Also it appears prior to the Boston marathon fundies were protesting it. I wonder if they feel bad about this one:

(http://i.imgur.com/zSBcLv9.jpg)

Nope, not exceedingly bad. Zealot uber fundies like that will see it as the hand of gawd acting through the bomber. And a lot of other fundies will be screaming and pointing at "ay-rabs" even more if the evidence starts pointing to the bomber being, if not actually "one of them", at somebody within their general socio-political spectrum.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on April 17, 2013, 10:54:34 am
Interestingly, there are quite substantial restrictions (and rightly so) on bomb equipment like ammonium nitrate in Australia. Are there similar restrictions in the US?
Farmers have to go through some serious pains in the ass to get fertilizer in bulk from what I know, so yeah. Unless you know a farmer who passed chemistry with a preference for craters.

Kinda ruins the gunners' argument, doesn't it?

Most don't seem to know this and fewer seem to care.

Same problem when they make the car deaths vs gun deaths arguments. Besides the cherry picking, cars have had regulations to make them safer, we register them and yet there are more cars today then ever.

That's something somebody should know just by being alive.

Sigh.. this shit just bugs the crap out of me.  This really has nothing do with guns except maybe that:

They may pass laws to make such a thing harder to do hopefully and yet no one will be screaming about a "pressure cooker ban"

If it turns out ot be a right winger attacking the "government" (and there's no proof right now that it is), it becomes a problem for the gun nuts hat say we need military capable weapons to protect us from the government.

Found this one linked on Rapture Ready:

(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/TroyTrojansFan/homo-wedding-fools_zps5d94ba6f.jpg)

To go along with all the sodomy that has been happening in heterosexual marriages for centuries.

Do fundies really think that gay people or anyone for that matter, are unable to have sex until the state gives them a license?

Pretty sure if marriage was about sex, gay people wouldn't be going to the bother.

Gawds some people I just want to slap with a fish.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on April 17, 2013, 11:00:33 am
Kinda ruins the gunners' argument, doesn't it?

Most don't seem to know this and fewer seem to care.

Same problem when they make the car deaths vs gun deaths arguments. Besides the cherry picking, cars have had regulations to make them safer, we register them and yet there are more cars today then ever.

That's something somebody should know just by being alive.
There's also the point that the amount restrictions are largely intended to prevent things like the old WTC bombing where someone filled a UHaul with a massive ferilizer bomb rather than smaller scale explosions. Though I don't remember just how effective such bombs are on a smaller scale. Though it's not really relevant here as the explosions appear to be black powder, which is rather easy to make from it's base ingredients, just so old most people never consider it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 17, 2013, 06:14:40 pm
The bomb site must have smelt dreadful, like rotten eggs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on April 17, 2013, 09:47:15 pm
The bomb site must have smelt dreadful, like rotten eggs.

And, y'know, burnt flesh and blood. I'm thinking that people were more focused on the horrible human tragedy than the stank.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on April 17, 2013, 10:24:14 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/68517_506099549455862_772068137_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 17, 2013, 10:29:30 pm
The bomb site must have smelt dreadful, like rotten eggs.

If you mean the sulfur smell of burnt gunpowder, then I wouldn't call the smell dreadful. I quite like the smell of freshly lit fireworks. I also like the smell of gasoline, but, of course, not the effects of prolonged inhalation of the fumes.

Before you ask, yes, I do have all my arm hair and eyebrows.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on April 17, 2013, 10:32:33 pm
The bomb site must have smelt dreadful, like rotten eggs.

If you mean the sulfur smell of burnt gunpowder, then I wouldn't call the smell dreadful. I quite like the smell of freshly lit fireworks. I also like the smell of gasoline, but, of course, not the effects of prolonged inhalation of the fumes.

Before you ask, yes, I do have all my arm hair and eyebrows.

My Mom likes the smell of gasoline.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 18, 2013, 07:58:54 am
The bomb site must have smelt dreadful, like rotten eggs.

If you mean the sulfur smell of burnt gunpowder, then I wouldn't call the smell dreadful. I quite like the smell of freshly lit fireworks. I also like the smell of gasoline, but, of course, not the effects of prolonged inhalation of the fumes.

Before you ask, yes, I do have all my arm hair and eyebrows.

I like the smell of it in low doses.

Let's just say after trying to be in a low area where everyone and their grandmother was lighting off fireworks and it settled in the valley you kinda like to only smell it at a distance.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 18, 2013, 08:48:32 am
Blackpowder does not smell like gunpower. It has substantially more sulphor, I think, and so it's a lot stronger.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: starseeker on April 18, 2013, 03:02:47 pm
Blackpowder does not smell like gunpower. It has substantially more sulphor, I think, and so it's a lot stronger.

I thought they were the same thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on April 18, 2013, 03:06:44 pm
Blackpowder does not smell like gunpower. It has substantially more sulphor, I think, and so it's a lot stronger.

I thought they were the same thing.
Modern gunpowered is a descendant of it, but better was figured out about the mid 1800s. I think the first major advancement was smokeless powder that lived up to it's name and packed a bit more explosive force for it's size.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on April 18, 2013, 04:49:07 pm
It reminds me of the original version of Cinderella... now that's scary shit.

You mean Aschenputtel

"Turn and peep, turn and peep, there's blood within the shoe. The shoe it is too small for her, the true bride waits for you"

And so the evil stepsisters were forced to go blind all the rest of their lives.

Now if you want trippy Grimm tales, look up "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on April 18, 2013, 04:52:00 pm
It reminds me of the original version of Cinderella... now that's scary shit.

You mean Aschenputtel

"Turn and peep, turn and peep, there's blood within the shoe. The shoe it is too small for her, the true bride waits for you"

And so the evil stepsisters were forced to go blind all the rest of their lives.

Now if you want trippy Grimm tales, look up "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes."

Ursula Vernon's site has Annotated Fairy Tales, they're pretty hilarious even without her commentary.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 18, 2013, 04:59:16 pm
(http://images.whereilive.com.au/images/uploads/2012/08/21/2c5d83c92b669698b997986698475cd9_resized.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on April 18, 2013, 08:07:04 pm
(http://images.whereilive.com.au/images/uploads/2012/08/21/2c5d83c92b669698b997986698475cd9_resized.jpg)

Actually, this is not far from the truth. Women can be abusers, and they can be abusive of men.

Do they make up half of abusers? There really isn't a way to tell, since domestic violence is an underreported crime (especially when men are victims). Probably not half, but the number is not tiny.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on April 18, 2013, 08:14:46 pm
(http://images.whereilive.com.au/images/uploads/2012/08/21/2c5d83c92b669698b997986698475cd9_resized.jpg)

Actually, this is not far from the truth. Women can be abusers, and they can be abusive of men.

Do they make up half of abusers? There really isn't a way to tell, since domestic violence is an underreported crime (especially when men are victims). Probably not half, but the number is not tiny.

Yeah, my gut reaction was anger, then thought of the same thing you did.  The question, though, is how many of the MRAs reading this will draw the same reasonable conclusion you did as opposed to walking away with, "Yeah, women should stop being so annoying and quit nagging."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 18, 2013, 08:26:12 pm
(http://images.whereilive.com.au/images/uploads/2012/08/21/2c5d83c92b669698b997986698475cd9_resized.jpg)

Actually, this is not far from the truth. Women can be abusers, and they can be abusive of men.

Do they make up half of abusers? There really isn't a way to tell, since domestic violence is an underreported crime (especially when men are victims). Probably not half, but the number is not tiny.

Yeah, my gut reaction was anger, then thought of the same thing you did.  The question, though, is how many of the MRAs reading this will draw the same reasonable conclusion you did as opposed to walking away with, "Yeah, women should stop being so annoying and quit nagging."

The reason I picked it was because it wasn't well thought out at all. It sounds like they're implying that women are "asking to get hit" so it's half their fault.
Also the family law sign is just... what?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 18, 2013, 08:51:00 pm
I think they are MRA's look at the subtitle
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 18, 2013, 08:54:29 pm
I think they are MRA's look at the subtitle

They are.
They aren't even trying to help those abused men, sadly. If you ever debate them, sometimes they will say abusing women is "true equality" since men are abused too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 18, 2013, 10:44:50 pm
If you guys are truly that conflicted take a look at the site... Jesus fucking Christ. Not only poorly designed but the articles and shit are horrible.

I'm really hoping it isn't a true effort. Like some sort of Poe. I just... trying to read anything on the site hurts.

EDIT: Found this write-up on the site (http://stfuconservatives.tumblr.com/post/48318379017) (despite it being on stfueverything the original author is Manboobz)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 18, 2013, 11:07:32 pm
I'll try to find it again, but a few months ago, I came across a site with some stats and thoughtful, non-inflammatory articles

about spousal abuse of men. It was not MRA shite. It was believable, and sad. The gist being, many men will not report that

their women abuse them out of shame, fear of losing child custody rights, and because they often end up going to jail when

their partners hit them and call the cops to have them hauled out. Like, just mean ass women, not the typical thing we all

take for granted as being the case.


The husbands/partners are ones that Never hit women, because they were raised right, but find themselves in situations

where their woman is; mentally ill, emotionally disturbed, severe bi-polar, violent drug/alcohol addicted or has borderline

personality disorder.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on April 18, 2013, 11:19:45 pm
I hate it when people say, "Wishing rape isn't the same as threatening, so it's not a big deal," or "So what if they said they wanted to kill/rape them?  They're just internet punks blowing hot air.  It's not like any of them would actually do it."  It basically condones the most demeaning and stressful online harassment since either 'nobody technically made a threat' or 'they're not actually causing you physical harm, so deal with it.'

I'll try to find it again, but a few months ago, I came across a site with some stats and thoughtful, non-inflammatory articles

about spousal abuse of men. It was not MRA shite. It was believable, and sad. The gist being, many men will not report that

their women abuse them out of shame, fear of losing child custody rights, and because they often end up going to jail when

their partners hit them and call the cops to have them hauled out. Like, just mean ass women, not the typical thing we all

take for granted as being the case.


The husbands/partners are ones that Never hit women, because they were raised right, but find themselves in situations

where their woman is; mentally ill, emotionally disturbed, severe bi-polar, violent drug/alcohol addicted or has borderline

personality disorder.

That reminds me of a post I once read about a collection of stories of guys who've had cops called on them for being 'pedophiles' simply because they were alone in public with their child or younger sibling without a woman present.  It didn't come off as hateful or blaming women as a whole for the problem (as far as I can remember, anyway, though I believe quite a few of the accusers were women).  Instead, it was there to inform people that this does happen and it's a problem.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 19, 2013, 12:31:29 am
I'll try to find it again, but a few months ago, I came across a site with some stats and thoughtful, non-inflammatory articles

about spousal abuse of men. It was not MRA shite. It was believable, and sad. The gist being, many men will not report that

their women abuse them out of shame, fear of losing child custody rights, and because they often end up going to jail when

their partners hit them and call the cops to have them hauled out. Like, just mean ass women, not the typical thing we all

take for granted as being the case.


The husbands/partners are ones that Never hit women, because they were raised right, but find themselves in situations

where their woman is; mentally ill, emotionally disturbed, severe bi-polar, violent drug/alcohol addicted or has borderline

personality disorder.

My ex was emotionally abusive and had BPD. Sometimes I still think it was my fault and I do still see people say, not directly to me, that I'd caused it or that it wasn't real.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on April 19, 2013, 12:56:47 am

That reminds me of a post I once read about a collection of stories of guys who've had cops called on them for being 'pedophiles' simply because they were alone in public with their child or younger sibling without a woman present.  It didn't come off as hateful or blaming women as a whole for the problem (as far as I can remember, anyway, though I believe quite a few of the accusers were women).  Instead, it was there to inform people that this does happen and it's a problem.

That's what happens when people think it's a woman's job only to raise the kids... men who take part can either get the hero of the year treatment (for doing something that apparently is beyond the abilities of most men), or accusations of pedophilia (why do they want to be around the kids? That's not what men do...).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on April 19, 2013, 05:35:15 pm
I took this when I was visiting a  friend in New York during their Pride Parade.  Had thought I had lost this but found it again.

Take a good look at the sign held by the guy all the way to the left..

(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/297899_451805984904932_264228675_n.jpg)

Maybe my grammar is just off but is he saying what I think he's saying?

This is either very stupid or an utterly brilliant POE
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on April 19, 2013, 05:47:06 pm
I'm going to say brilliant POE given that I've wanted to do similar shit to the anti-choice crowd.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on April 19, 2013, 05:58:47 pm
I took this when I was visiting a  friend in New York during their Pride Parade.  Had thought I had lost this but found it again.

Take a good look at the sign held by the guy all the way to the left..

(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/297899_451805984904932_264228675_n.jpg)

Maybe my grammar is just off but is he saying what I think he's saying?

This is either very stupid or an utterly brilliant POE

Considering he's dressed like a priest, I'm gonna say POE.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 19, 2013, 06:20:23 pm
Brilliant trolling. Let's sic him on WBC :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 19, 2013, 09:11:10 pm
Brilliant trolling. Let's sic him on WBC :P

Dress "Fr. Poe" in a grey wig, track suit & cowboy hat and send him off! Faboo!

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 22, 2013, 06:06:56 pm
I can't even tell which thread to put this in, it can go in so many:

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/8a9074d825084de14275e4498262c0b4/tumblr_mlcye4AziO1qd03s5o1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 22, 2013, 08:44:33 pm
Is that actually true? It sounds like either a lie (more likely) or an OUTRAGEOUS coincidence.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 22, 2013, 08:46:47 pm
Is that actually true? It sounds like either a lie (more likely) or an OUTRAGEOUS coincidence.

I know, at least, that the story about terror drills at the Boston Marathon is a complete lie. It was taken from a tiny local news site from one extremely suspicious and uncorroborated testimony.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 22, 2013, 08:49:19 pm
As far as I'm aware, none of it is true. They do drills. They did them near the time of 9/11. But they aren't drills turned into the real thing as is being claimed.

It's like saying Pearl Harbor was a drill enacted by the Japanese and they just happened to use real ammo in the December 7th run.

...well not exactly but I'm tired and have had pain meds.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 22, 2013, 09:40:03 pm
I remember it being said by some government guy on some 9/11 documentary I saw that their was either a drill done for a scenario almost exactly like what happened, or the guy who thinks up ideas that terrorist might try so we can find ways to stop it happening proposed that terrorists might try something like 9/11, but they said it was unlikely, and it's not a threat to worry about too much. I forgot which it was, but the gist of it was that the government had at some point been aware that a 9/11 type scenario could theoretically happen. That said, being aware that something is possible doesn't mean a whole lot when it's buried in a mountain of other possible things terrorists might do, and there's no way to prepare for all of those possibilities.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 22, 2013, 09:45:14 pm
I saw some nut claim that there were bomb dogs and cops at the finish line of the Boston Marathon and therefore CONSPIRACY. Of course there were bomb dogs at the Boston Marathon, and we can see why. I'd actually be more suspicious if there was no security there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 22, 2013, 10:22:45 pm
Yup, and now they've learned that bomb dogs will need to be patrolling at random all during and right after big, vulnerable

public gatherings, and not just do a pre-event check.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 22, 2013, 10:38:34 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/e3a8b5f9f6bf81f097c2b73d0a320ca2/tumblr_mlmnxdRNpa1qagbzzo1_500.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on April 22, 2013, 10:43:33 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/e3a8b5f9f6bf81f097c2b73d0a320ca2/tumblr_mlmnxdRNpa1qagbzzo1_500.png)

well now, isn't that just vulture-like? i swear, some people have no respect.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 22, 2013, 10:59:27 pm
Yup, and now they've learned that bomb dogs will need to be patrolling at random all during and right after big, vulnerable

public gatherings, and not just do a pre-event check.

The dogs did check the area during the event. I think they even checked that area shortly before the bomb was planted.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Scotsgit on April 23, 2013, 12:19:26 am
Is that actually true? It sounds like either a lie (more likely) or an OUTRAGEOUS coincidence.

There was a drill during the 7/7 attacks, but they were taking place at a seperate station:  It's immaterial because the bombs in the Underground went off while the trains were in the tunnels.  What it did mean was that the emergency services were slower to respond because they had to withdraw from the exercise to get to the real emergency.

Can't speak for all the others, but the 9/11 is complete bullshit:  There were firefighters in the vicinity of the towers, but they were inspecting hydrants (something that's part of their job), the Oslo attacks is 100% bullshit:  Anders let off two or three bombs in the city centre (which tied up the emergency services) and then moved onto the Island.

Basically, it's the usual tactics of the conspiratards:  Mix in some actual facts with total bullshit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on April 23, 2013, 12:55:14 am
The bit with the Marathon comes from a misunderstanding of a detonation that took place an hour after the bombs went off.  It was a controlled det that they did because they were worried it was another bomb set by the same people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 23, 2013, 03:09:31 am
The bit with the Marathon comes from a misunderstanding of a detonation that took place an hour after the bombs went off.  It was a controlled det that they did because they were worried it was another bomb set by the same people.

Yes, but that's too logical and not a sexy conspiracy with aliens and and giant, malformed chickens that Japanese people use as mounts, instead of an incredible food supply.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on April 23, 2013, 08:06:30 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/e3a8b5f9f6bf81f097c2b73d0a320ca2/tumblr_mlmnxdRNpa1qagbzzo1_500.png)
Andrew Carnegie was an immigrant too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 23, 2013, 08:50:08 am
Carneigie was also willing to use extreme violence to achieve his ends.

Note: I thought he used bombings of competition railways and so on for economic purposes, but I may be mixing him up with someone else.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 23, 2013, 08:53:24 am
Vanderbilt was railroads.  Carnegie was the guy who's subordinate hired mercs to kill strikers
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auri-El on April 23, 2013, 10:32:04 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/e3a8b5f9f6bf81f097c2b73d0a320ca2/tumblr_mlmnxdRNpa1qagbzzo1_500.png)

I saw this response to that on Facebook.
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/540694_240729912718654_438945557_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 23, 2013, 11:26:50 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/e3a8b5f9f6bf81f097c2b73d0a320ca2/tumblr_mlmnxdRNpa1qagbzzo1_500.png)

I saw this response to that on Facebook.
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/540694_240729912718654_438945557_n.jpg)

ZING!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 23, 2013, 04:12:31 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/ac39056342f4b324f06891fe42c956ff/tumblr_mhty6gZ9hG1rvinnwo1_500.jpg)

I’d agree with you if it wasn’t that the Germans had surrendered before the Atomic Bomb was even completely ready. And even then they didn’t really know what would happen with the Atomic Bomb.

Date of German surrender: May 7th, 1945
Date of Japanese surrender: September 2nd, 1945
Date of the drop of the Atomic Bomb: August 6th, 1945

Racism was not the reason behind the atom bomb. Japan could have surrendered after there was a threat of massive force (the atom bomb). It wasn't like the US just dropped the bomb without warning and that Japan was already preparing to surrender.

The atomic bomb was already in development to be used against Germany. They had to switch gears when Germany surrendered.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 23, 2013, 05:49:00 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/ac39056342f4b324f06891fe42c956ff/tumblr_mhty6gZ9hG1rvinnwo1_500.jpg)

I’d agree with you if it wasn’t that the Germans had surrendered before the Atomic Bomb was even completely ready. And even then they didn’t really know what would happen with the Atomic Bomb.

Date of German surrender: May 7th, 1945
Date of Japanese surrender: September 2nd, 1945
Date of the drop of the Atomic Bomb: August 6th, 1945

Racism was not the reason behind the atom bomb. Japan could have surrendered after there was a threat of massive force (the atom bomb). It wasn't like the US just dropped the bomb without warning and that Japan was already preparing to surrender.

The atomic bomb was already in development to be used against Germany. They had to switch gears when Germany surrendered.

As I remember the atomic bomb was intended for use on the European front, while the bat bomb was planned for use in Japan because of the high number of wooden buildings(as opposed to brick, stone, concrete, steel, etc.). Once the nuke was completed, and Japan hadn't surrendered, it was decided to use the nuke and cancel the bat bomb, which was still in the prototype phase.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 23, 2013, 07:18:25 pm
That bat bomb thing is the single most idiotic concept I've ever seen for a weapon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 23, 2013, 07:48:19 pm
They were originally doing firebombing runs on Japan which did a lot more damage and killed more people. If I recall.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on April 23, 2013, 07:52:17 pm
The irony was that Hitler considered the Japanese "honorary Aryans".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 23, 2013, 08:43:51 pm
That bat bomb thing is the single most idiotic concept I've ever seen for a weapon.

You obviously haven't seen it's cousin, pigeon missile, or the entirely ineffective cat-based anti-ship bomb, which was supposed to be guided by the cat wanting to land on the ship, not the water. The cat bomb never got past the scientist dropping a cat into a pool to see how it reacted. I imagine it was canceled as soon as the higher ups walked by and saw what stupidity was going on. The pigeon missile apparently worked somewhat.

Then there was the iceberg aircraft carrier that almost got built. There's a long list of cool but impractical stuff Germany tried in WWII, like the P. 1500 Monster, a tank that would use a gun identical to the Dora and Gustav railway guns for it's main cannon. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 23, 2013, 08:48:43 pm
You are taking the piss. There is no way that someone wanted to make a cat-based missile tracking system.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on April 23, 2013, 08:52:07 pm
Bat bomb, you say?

(http://wagthemovie.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/batman66bomb.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on April 23, 2013, 08:56:14 pm
Some days you can't get rid of a bomb.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on April 23, 2013, 09:12:23 pm
You are taking the piss. There is no way that someone wanted to make a cat-based missile tracking system.
He isn't, I've seen the same material he's refering to. "Are you shitting me" was a solid refrain for most of it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on April 23, 2013, 09:19:03 pm
You are taking the piss. There is no way that someone wanted to make a cat-based missile tracking system.
He isn't, I've seen the same material he's refering to. "Are you shitting me" was a solid refrain for most of it.
It takes all kinds... including morons.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on April 23, 2013, 09:23:14 pm
You are taking the piss. There is no way that someone wanted to make a cat-based missile tracking system.
He isn't, I've seen the same material he's refering to. "Are you shitting me" was a solid refrain for most of it.
It takes all kinds... including morons.
Worse than that is why the cat guildance system didn't work. The harness tended to break their spines due to G-forces exerted. I think about 30 seconds of thought would have brought up the fact that humans can't surive those kinds for forces and house cats are more fragile thna we are, instead, well, military budgeting being what it is.... that the damn thing got to the drawing board was galling enough. They actually tested them. Surprised anon isn't working on a time machine to resolve the issue.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 23, 2013, 09:32:27 pm
Can I have a link to this?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on April 23, 2013, 09:43:08 pm
Best I can find is from the History Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zyt5NNmMdU
Cat bomb starts at roughly 6m20s
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 23, 2013, 10:15:23 pm
Spectacular.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 23, 2013, 10:52:55 pm
Pigeon missile:
(Also silly mustaches)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbZB6rNLZ4
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 24, 2013, 09:21:44 am
The irony was that Hitler considered the Japanese "honorary Aryans".

Oh do me a favor and talk to people who believe in a December 7th conspiracy. They have things from there were Germans in the cockpits of the bombers, to they had submarines landing all over the coast of California.

The only thing they really get right is that a female translated a piece of correspondence that mentioned the bombing and telling Japanese spies and the like to flee and destroy their machines. As well as those in Washington. But the people in Washington ignored the translation cause it was by a female. It got re-translated by a male but by then it was too late.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 24, 2013, 11:42:48 am
I thought the cat bomb got canceled fairly quickly after the project director dropped his cat off a platform into a pool and found the cat didn't react to the model ship in the pool and he acquired several new scars.

On a semi related note, my friend has to dissect a cat as a mandatory part of one of his highschool classes. This is after earlier having to dissect pig fetuses. My science teacher has a dead, skinned cat he keeps in a freezer to use to show muscles.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on April 24, 2013, 01:33:25 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/p99Zy97.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 24, 2013, 01:45:57 pm
Er, hello technicolor world O_o
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on April 25, 2013, 04:11:40 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/DIuwe3b.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on April 25, 2013, 05:20:44 pm
Wasn't it a woman who invented kevlar?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auggziliary on April 25, 2013, 05:36:27 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/DIuwe3b.jpg)

-Joan of Arc. Ching Shih.
-Harriet Tubman.
-Florence Nightingale pretty much created modern nursing. Also Marie Curie.
-Kazuyo Sejima. Anna Keichline created the fireproof brick.
-Sally Ride? Amelia Earhart? I don't feel like typing a ton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_explorers_and_travelers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_explorers_and_travelers)
-http://blog.corbis.com/2010/the-women-of-yemens-special-counter-terrorism-unit/ (http://blog.corbis.com/2010/the-women-of-yemens-special-counter-terrorism-unit/)
-If NASA goes to the moon again, they will probably pick Eileen Collins to go. There have only been 12 men on it anyways. You could use the same argument for black people, since there has been no black person on the moon yet.
-Many nurses have risked their lives on the battlefield. IE: Annie Fox was the first woman to get a Purple Heart. It's also pretty hard to risk your life for another soldier if you aren't allowed in combat.

These took like a minute of googling or were off the top of my head. Pathetic dude.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dan on April 26, 2013, 03:05:19 pm
Florence Nightingale invented the pie chart.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on April 26, 2013, 07:37:30 pm
The pie chart was invented as early as 1801.  Florence Nightingale was born 1820.  She was a relatively early adopter, and can likely claim a fair amount of credit for popularizing it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on April 26, 2013, 11:31:05 pm
If this was true, ever consider how little opportunities women have had to do great things
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on April 27, 2013, 02:15:53 pm
And some of them still managed regardless.  Because they were awesome like that.

It's criminal to keep half the potential contributors locked out of human achievement.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 28, 2013, 01:26:12 am
The issue with women and inventing things is more of an old sex role stereotype dying out too slowly.

Drafting and designing a prototype is great, but you really need to know how to use tools to develop an invention

 - even if you plan to hire out the prototype build, or produce a 3D model on a rapid prototype machine -

because you have to understand what is possible and what is not in the manufacturing process.


Many more parents are now willing to teach their little girls how to use basic tools, and their little boys how to use a

vacuum or sew a hem, but the old meme of "tools are for men/tool use makes you look butch" thing for women remains

kinda prevalent, and many girls still never learn how to use tools. I hate that. I have used tools since I was six, building toys

and eventually, a crossbow that my dad deemed "good enough" for safekeeping in his rifle display case. 

Yeah, the thing was a bit deadly for a ten year old, unsupervised.

 

I'm recording videos as I build out a tricycle vending cart...you know, so people won't think I'm a liar when I tell them I built

my own cart? The clips are mostly intended to be primers for newbies on tool use, structural concepts,

alternative energy devices, and for anyone who likes my cart and wants to build one like it.


It's got a solar panel that runs the 12 volt ice cream freezer. I'm building a solar evacuated tube oven for baking fresh

cookies, and using more of the same tubes for a solar coffee brewer. It will have LED lighting effects and signals, a 60

volt/1000watt electric hub motor for the tricycle, a 3G hotspot,  etc.





Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on April 28, 2013, 03:36:32 pm
I'm recording videos as I build out a tricycle vending cart...you know, so people won't think I'm a liar when I tell them I built

my own cart? The clips are mostly intended to be primers for newbies on tool use, structural concepts,

alternative energy devices, and for anyone who likes my cart and wants to build one like it.


It's got a solar panel that runs the 12 volt ice cream freezer. I'm building a solar evacuated tube oven for baking fresh

cookies, and using more of the same tubes for a solar coffee brewer. It will have LED lighting effects and signals, a 60

volt/1000watt electric hub motor for the tricycle, a 3G hotspot,  etc.

Swoon. <3
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 28, 2013, 06:10:00 pm
I'm not sure why women should get the blame for millennia of oppression by men. Nor why men as a gender should get credit for fixing in part the crimes we created as a gender.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on April 28, 2013, 06:21:06 pm
From Facebook:
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/248164_4552140536156_1397496996_n_zps2f2c9d73.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 28, 2013, 06:23:54 pm
From Facebook:
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad220/mrtraffic97/248164_4552140536156_1397496996_n_zps2f2c9d73.jpg)

GIRL TO BUSH, "Get yer filthy lips off me you damn dirty ape!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 28, 2013, 06:29:33 pm
Remember the other sign from Moms Deman Action about fairytales and the rifles?

Well... 2x the stupid in this one. Guess why:

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 28, 2013, 06:41:27 pm
I wonder, did the kids get to read the ad copy before the photo shoot? 'Cause that would explain why the girl has that "thousand yard stare" thing going on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 28, 2013, 06:44:09 pm
Remember the other sign from Moms Deman Action about fairytales and the rifles?

Well... 2x the stupid in this one. Guess why:

(click to show/hide)

I always assumed the point of those graphics was that they're willing to ban books & that chocolate egg thing but not ban automatic weapons....I thought it was a good point. Perhaps I interpreted it wrong.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 28, 2013, 06:57:12 pm
Neither are banned. Same with the fairy tales and the rifle in the other ad I posted.

Also the girl has no trigger discipline.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 28, 2013, 07:04:53 pm
Neither are banned. Same with the fairy tales and the rifle in the other ad I posted.

Also the girl has no trigger discipline.

Damn!

I've actually re-blogged stuff on Facebook & Tumblr that was doorknob stupid because I misinterpreted it to mean the opposite. I must learn to comprehend better.

I re-blogged on Facebook the "Fairy Tale/Gun" graphic because I assumed the message was "We ban books but we don't ban assault weapons, our priorities are all wrong".

Likewise, I re-blogged the "Pics of North Korean People" on Tumblr because I assumed it was saying, "If we end up at war with North Korea, let's not vilify or make light of the suffering of the citizens like we did with the Iraqis".

If there's anyone else guilty of this I'd LOOOOVE to know.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on April 28, 2013, 08:46:01 pm
Neither are banned. Same with the fairy tales and the rifle in the other ad I posted.

Also the girl has no trigger discipline.

This.  Kinder Surprise eggs were never banned.  Distributors pulled them because a few small kids choked on the plastic container that the "prize" is in.

Considering the size of those little prize pellets, there are actually some pretty cool things inside Kinder Surprise eggs.  But stateside, you can only really get them in places that specialize in Euro-candies.  I had one yesterday.  There were teeny little stickers inside with "magic" moving pictures of sports cars. :D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Undecided on April 28, 2013, 09:34:24 pm
Neither are banned. Same with the fairy tales and the rifle in the other ad I posted.

Also the girl has no trigger discipline.

This.  Kinder Surprise eggs were never banned.  Distributors pulled them because a few small kids choked on the plastic container that the "prize" is in.

Considering the size of those little prize pellets, there are actually some pretty cool things inside Kinder Surprise eggs.  But stateside, you can only really get them in places that specialize in Euro-candies.  I had one yesterday.  There were teeny little stickers inside with "magic" moving pictures of sports cars. :D
Are you certain? The FDA (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_107.html) thinks otherwise.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 28, 2013, 09:41:58 pm
American Kinder Surprise anyone? (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/americanized-kinder-surprise-chocolate-egg-approved-fda-article-1.1290804)

Also, I think you can specially import the European ones.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on April 28, 2013, 09:51:22 pm
American Kinder Surprise anyone? (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/americanized-kinder-surprise-chocolate-egg-approved-fda-article-1.1290804)

Also, I think you can specially import the European ones.

Yeah, I was going to say, I've seen those in dollar stores.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on April 28, 2013, 10:51:48 pm
I'm not sure if billboards belong here, but . . . .

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9szxoXF7m1r037glo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on April 28, 2013, 11:14:01 pm
I'm not sure if billboards belong here, but . . . .

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9szxoXF7m1r037glo1_500.jpg)

Yes, I do.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on April 28, 2013, 11:28:35 pm
I'm not sure if billboards belong here, but . . . .

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9szxoXF7m1r037glo1_500.jpg)

It would be easy to miss the "Vote Republican" part, and I bet more than one person has read that as a pro-Obama billboard.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on April 29, 2013, 12:17:20 am
I'm not sure if billboards belong here, but . . . .

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9szxoXF7m1r037glo1_500.jpg)

It would be easy to miss the "Vote Republican" part, and I bet more than one person has read that as a pro-Obama billboard.

Oh god, the people who bought this billboard are silly.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 29, 2013, 12:27:17 am
I love how they try to imply that the two issues are somehow linked. Yes, people who support one are likely to support the other, but that's correlation, not causation. I'm personally ambivalent about abortion-on-demand, but I understand the necessity until we can come up with a foolproof method of birth control, such that it will be literally impossible for a woman to get pregnant unless she's trying.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on April 29, 2013, 06:26:31 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/LVahK8O.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 29, 2013, 07:01:21 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/LVahK8O.jpg)

"But we're not racist! Really!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 30, 2013, 08:10:08 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/2df24a7d184bf0196e0b6682f2591551/tumblr_mm3er1v9Ib1s4iddoo1_500.png)

-sighs-
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auri-El on April 30, 2013, 08:27:57 pm
I actually agree with that, sort of, but not their intended meaning of "you should be vegetarian." More like, the line between animals that are pets and animals that are food is arbitrary and pointless. As long as the specific animal you eat was not someone's pet (like stealing a dog for your dinner), more power to you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on April 30, 2013, 08:48:07 pm
"Animals" is an arbitrary choice of reference class, anyway. Vegetarians pick and choose which living beings they are OK with eating, so I do believe I am allowed to do the same. It just so happens that I exclude some animals and they exclude all.

Also, if it came to it, I'd anything, up to and including humans. It's just terribly unlikely that I'll find myself in such a situation.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 30, 2013, 09:07:13 pm
I actually agree with that, sort of, but not their intended meaning of "you should be vegetarian." More like, the line between animals that are pets and animals that are food is arbitrary and pointless. As long as the specific animal you eat was not someone's pet (like stealing a dog for your dinner), more power to you.

Yeah. And dogs are eaten in some parts of the world but the sign reeks of a plea to emotion.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 30, 2013, 09:08:43 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/2df24a7d184bf0196e0b6682f2591551/tumblr_mm3er1v9Ib1s4iddoo1_500.png)

-sighs-

They're usually cooked first.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on April 30, 2013, 09:19:16 pm
I actually agree with that, sort of, but not their intended meaning of "you should be vegetarian." More like, the line between animals that are pets and animals that are food is arbitrary and pointless. As long as the specific animal you eat was not someone's pet (like stealing a dog for your dinner), more power to you.

Yeah. And dogs are eaten in some parts of the world but the sign reeks of a plea to emotion.

You mean like sea-kittens?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on April 30, 2013, 10:40:04 pm
I actually agree with that, sort of, but not their intended meaning of "you should be vegetarian." More like, the line between animals that are pets and animals that are food is arbitrary and pointless. As long as the specific animal you eat was not someone's pet (like stealing a dog for your dinner), more power to you.

Yeah. And dogs are eaten in some parts of the world but the sign reeks of a plea to emotion.

You mean like sea-kittens?

I had to google it and oh my goddess my IQ dropped about five points.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on May 01, 2013, 12:26:52 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/2df24a7d184bf0196e0b6682f2591551/tumblr_mm3er1v9Ib1s4iddoo1_500.png)

-sighs-

Is that a CKCS? If so, eating it might be pretty damn merciful.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 01, 2013, 01:11:29 am
I have no idea.

Have more stupid:
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 01, 2013, 03:23:22 am
I have no idea.

Have more stupid:
(click to show/hide)

...What.  The.  Fuck.

(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu273/RH-00/i-got-nothin.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: LeTipex on May 01, 2013, 04:25:24 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/2df24a7d184bf0196e0b6682f2591551/tumblr_mm3er1v9Ib1s4iddoo1_500.png)

-sighs-
Heh, I've eaten dog. It's not that bad, actually. Tastes a bit like pig.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on May 01, 2013, 06:41:58 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/2df24a7d184bf0196e0b6682f2591551/tumblr_mm3er1v9Ib1s4iddoo1_500.png)

-sighs-
Heh, I've eaten dog. It's not that bad, actually. Tastes a bit like pig.

I wouldn't eat a dog. Not because I think it's morally wrong, I just don't like dogs and find the idea of eating one repulsive.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 01, 2013, 06:53:21 am
I will admit that I find eating certain types of animals to be arbitrarily wrong regardless of their status as pets.

On the other hand, I find it morally wrong to cook anyone's pet.  Whether it's a pet chicken, a pet pig... if someone's laid claim to it as a pet then my attitude towards eating it is the same as towards eating a stray/pet dog or a stray/pet cat.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on May 01, 2013, 08:29:43 am
I have no idea.

Have more stupid:
(click to show/hide)

They do realize that would be a fetus at around 30 weeks if it were real, right? At 8 weeks mine is barely bigger than an m&m.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on May 01, 2013, 08:48:41 am
I have no idea.

Have more stupid:
(click to show/hide)

They do realize that would be a fetus at around 30 weeks if it were real, right? At 8 weeks mine is barely bigger than an m&m.

[Fundie]Don't try to confuse the issue with your facts![/Fundie]

Sadly, I have had people say those exact words to me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on May 01, 2013, 09:06:26 am
I have no idea.

Have more stupid:
(click to show/hide)

They do realize that would be a fetus at around 30 weeks if it were real, right? At 8 weeks mine is barely bigger than an m&m.

[Fundie]Don't try to confuse the issue with your facts![/Fundie]

Sadly, I have had people say those exact words to me.

I just want to know why the "fetus" was left at a train station?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on May 01, 2013, 10:26:32 am
Because he was in train station in the books and movie. I'm calling poe.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 01, 2013, 10:39:06 am
Because he was in train station in the books and movie. I'm calling poe.
I second the Poe nomination. The composition of the wording is over the <snarky> top. Bitterly hilarious, when seen in that light.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 01, 2013, 01:05:08 pm
A Harry Potter-themed satire of Anti-Abortion drivel? Clever.

Also the "Fetus Who Shall Not Be Named" looks like he/it's been tossed in a deep-fryer & doused with chicken wing sauce! Only thing that's missing is the bleu cheese with celery & carrot sticks....

....and a nice Loganberry drink...yum, Loganberry!

Next up, Lord Of The Rings Sauron in the form of a beef-on-weck sandwich!

What can I say? I grew up near Buffalo.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 01, 2013, 04:29:15 pm
Because he was in train station in the books and movie. I'm calling poe.
I second the Poe nomination. The composition of the wording is over the <snarky> top. Bitterly hilarious, when seen in that light.

True. But the fact that 25K people agreed on some manner means it is a very good POE for those who don't know their HP. Taking a look at the notes would show exactly who agreed and who said it was false.

Also this isn't the first time Harry Potter has been used for anti-abortion arguments. I already posted the one about what if Lily Potter had aborted Harry.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on May 02, 2013, 11:40:55 am
(http://i.imgur.com/RZLhYpL.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 02, 2013, 11:45:05 am
(http://i.imgur.com/RZLhYpL.jpg)

Uh...Mr./Ms. truck-owner-person, I highly doubt the Bible says anything about Democrats.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on May 02, 2013, 12:38:13 pm
Machens Auto is in Columbia, MO so it's a safe bet athat this truck is from or near there.  That said, don't try your "facts" and "logic"!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on May 02, 2013, 01:36:12 pm
...hey, Bez, you feel like getting together and slashing some tires this weekend?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 02, 2013, 02:16:54 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/KFWjTFT.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on May 02, 2013, 03:47:19 pm
...hey, Bez, you feel like getting together and slashing some tires this weekend?

I'm not actually near there (thankfully), but I'd be down for a Cait road trip!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on May 02, 2013, 03:53:16 pm
Well, I live in Baltimore County now so we could totally go on a day trip this weekend. Just a few hours in the car and we can hit this great Greek restaurant I know on the way home.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on May 02, 2013, 04:36:20 pm
Well, I live in Baltimore County now so we could totally go on a day trip this weekend. Just a few hours in the car and we can hit this great Greek restaurant I know on the way home.

Wrong Columbia, this one is Missouri...unless you are closer to me now that I thought :) (http://www.machens.com/)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 02, 2013, 04:37:10 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/KFWjTFT.jpg)
...What the hell?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on May 02, 2013, 05:02:33 pm
Terrible photoshop.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 02, 2013, 05:15:40 pm
That poor man has a hand and extra set of fingers growing out of his glass... and middle finger.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 02, 2013, 05:19:02 pm
-image snipped-
Does anyone have any clue what point this is supposed to be making? If any?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 02, 2013, 05:45:57 pm
Honestly it just seems to me to be the internet equivalent of drawing cheezy moustaches on things.

Only with one exaggerated racial stereotype and one... American Walrus?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 02, 2013, 06:38:24 pm
Seems that way to me too, but its inclusion in the "protest signs" thread led me to believe it was actually making a point for or against something. Possibly walruses, Judaism or women's shelters.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 02, 2013, 06:39:21 pm
...Israel... abuses... the US's... kindness?

Something?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 02, 2013, 08:55:12 pm
Regardless of what it's trying to say, it belongs here precisely because no one can figure it out.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 02, 2013, 10:22:33 pm
Chronicles 17:2 why is 19 there i have no idea 
Quote
He placed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had captured.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on May 02, 2013, 11:40:01 pm
That has to be the shittiest excuse for Photoshop I've ever seen, quick get this person David Dee's number.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on May 03, 2013, 12:47:19 am
Chronicles 17:2 why is 19 there i have no idea 
Quote
He placed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had captured.

Actually, I think he means 2 Chronicles 19:2, which says:

Quote from: 2 Chronicles 19:2 (NASB)
Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord and so bring wrath on yourself from the Lord?

(click to show/hide)

The truck guy interprets this as "Voting for Democrats is a sin."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 03, 2013, 01:05:17 am
I interpret it  as      Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord and so bring wrath on yourself from the Lord?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 03, 2013, 01:42:21 am
-image snipped-
Does anyone have any clue what point this is supposed to be making? If any?

I think it's saying that Israel abuses America... Somehow. But seeing how it's just the men in the picture and not their partners, it doesn't make any sense (it's also very poorly photoshopped_.
I also find the original picture:
(http://thereflector.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/News1.jpeg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 03, 2013, 08:16:10 am
(http://i.imgur.com/OHJ7I8Q.jpg)

No, God will judge you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Distind on May 03, 2013, 09:36:26 am
Got to wonder if they're condeming sex addicts, mormons, or only the combination of the two. Can't say I've ever met a practicing sex addicted mormon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 03, 2013, 11:18:02 am
(http://i.imgur.com/KFWjTFT.jpg)
...What the hell?

I think this dork is saying that Jews & Walrus/Bear/Things beat their significant others.

I don't get what that walrus/bear/thing is either.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 03, 2013, 12:32:34 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/OHJ7I8Q.jpg)

No, God will judge you.


Why is the m another size from the ormons?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 03, 2013, 12:36:18 pm
Love the marijuana leaf thrown in there for decoration.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on May 03, 2013, 04:30:20 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/KFWjTFT.jpg)
...What the hell?

I think this dork is saying that Jews & Walrus/Bear/Things beat their significant others.

I don't get what that walrus/bear/thing is either.

I think the Walrus Bear thing is a metaphor for America or something.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on May 03, 2013, 09:10:38 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/KFWjTFT.jpg)
...What the hell?

I think this dork is saying that Jews & Walrus/Bear/Things beat their significant others.

I don't get what that walrus/bear/thing is either.

I think the Walrus Bear thing is a metaphor for America or something.

I thought it was a badly drawn pedobear at first. I'm still not sure it isn't.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: LeTipex on May 04, 2013, 04:09:07 am
(http://i.imgur.com/KFWjTFT.jpg)
...What the hell?

I think this dork is saying that Jews & Walrus/Bear/Things beat their significant others.

I don't get what that walrus/bear/thing is either.

I think the Walrus Bear thing is a metaphor for America or something.

I thought it was a badly drawn pedobear at first. I'm still not sure it isn't.
It is and it isn't. (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spurdo-sparde)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 04, 2013, 09:58:16 am
I thought it was a badly drawn pedobear at first. I'm still not sure it isn't.
It is and it isn't. (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spurdo-sparde)
Now it makes even less sense. I didn't think it was possible.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on May 04, 2013, 10:05:39 am
I thought it was a badly drawn pedobear at first. I'm still not sure it isn't.
It is and it isn't. (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spurdo-sparde)
Now it makes even less sense. I didn't think it was possible.

So it's like the unofficial mascot of the Finnish internet world.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 04, 2013, 10:27:32 am
http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/liberal-logic-101-397.jpg
http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/liberal-logic-101-388.jpg
The second one is if nothing else TLDR
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on May 04, 2013, 11:28:08 am
Both those links are blocked, but if they lead to the pics I think, has ANYONE ever heard of a U.S. soldier being court-martialled for displaying a Christian faith?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on May 04, 2013, 11:41:45 am
Both those links are blocked, but if they lead to the pics I think, has ANYONE ever heard of a U.S. soldier being court-martialled for displaying a Christian faith?

I've never heard of that, but neither of them lead to such a pic.

(If you click the links, then go to the address bar and hit enter, you'll see the images.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on May 04, 2013, 12:14:18 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/77k6myo.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on May 04, 2013, 12:55:12 pm
*points up* that up there? that's just wharrgarble.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on May 04, 2013, 01:06:57 pm
A Communist coward with a large vagina...

(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu273/RH-00/i-got-nothin.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on May 04, 2013, 01:43:47 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/77k6myo.jpg)

(http://s14.postimg.org/ydos2dedt/demotivational_posters_quadruple_facepalm.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 04, 2013, 03:09:10 pm
Both those links are blocked, but if they lead to the pics I think, has ANYONE ever heard of a U.S. soldier being court-martialled for displaying a Christian faith?

I've never heard of that, but neither of them lead to such a pic.

(If you click the links, then go to the address bar and hit enter, you'll see the images.)

Awesome tip! Now we'll know how to get to a blocked site! THANKS! That's awesome!

Hey guys, try it!




(http://i.imgur.com/77k6myo.jpg)

"Large vagina"? Is Barack a transsexual or is Michelle the president?

All that wargarrbl about Benagazi, large vaginas & being a "sissy". This TEAhadi shlub is a sissy for thinking that not being a super-hawk & being female is being a "sissy" or weak.


Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 04, 2013, 06:50:05 pm
I just look at that and feel sad. Such a pathetic, dirt poor redneck display of impotent rage and ignorance. And he's disabled (or his wife is) by the tag symbol. Also, I hate to see so much perfectly good duct tape being used so wastefully!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on May 04, 2013, 08:39:37 pm
http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/liberal-logic-101-397.jpg
http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/liberal-logic-101-388.jpg
The second one is if nothing else TLDR

Sorry dude.  You can't hotlink.  Those are just giving 403 errors.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on May 04, 2013, 08:53:10 pm
http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/liberal-logic-101-397.jpg
http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/liberal-logic-101-388.jpg
The second one is if nothing else TLDR

Sorry dude.  You can't hotlink.  Those are just giving 403 errors.

As I noted above, click the link, then go to the address bar and hit enter. The image should show up.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 04, 2013, 11:36:30 pm
...I just had to click and it showed up. Weird.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 04, 2013, 11:41:21 pm
The NRA one has no idea how campaign finance works.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 05, 2013, 04:00:44 am
A Communist coward with a large vagina...

(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu273/RH-00/i-got-nothin.png)

Is it bad I damn near squeed when you used that pic?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on May 05, 2013, 12:26:46 pm
A Communist coward with a large vagina...

(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu273/RH-00/i-got-nothin.png)

Is it bad I damn near squeed when you used that pic?
No :)

Also:
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/121031045741-obama-teaparty-c1-main.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on May 05, 2013, 12:33:10 pm
(http://llwproductions.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/tea-party-say-no-to-bo-save-the-whites.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2733/4468906733_1f57b37f60.jpg)

(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j186/DonaldDouglas/Americaneocon/4936250518_982acde7e8_b-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on May 05, 2013, 12:44:43 pm
Also:
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/121031045741-obama-teaparty-c1-main.jpg)
[/quote]

Sigh...I would like to point out to any non-Americans on this site, we are NOT all this stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 05, 2013, 01:30:23 pm
I'm not racist I have one black "friend" standing between me and my other racist pal!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on May 05, 2013, 03:07:47 pm
(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j186/DonaldDouglas/Americaneocon/4936250518_982acde7e8_b-1.jpg)

Lol.  I like how they think not being racist will somehow make their positions more sane.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on May 05, 2013, 04:52:26 pm
(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j186/DonaldDouglas/Americaneocon/4936250518_982acde7e8_b-1.jpg)

Lol.  I like how they think not being racist will somehow make their positions more sane.

I like how they think the "I have a black friend" defense makes them not racist
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on May 05, 2013, 05:00:00 pm
Wait a second.  Does that one dude have an "I fap to Reagan" shirt?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on May 05, 2013, 05:08:06 pm
Why, it's almost as if you pulled some random black guy out of a crowd and made him take a picture with you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on May 05, 2013, 05:17:52 pm
Wait a second.  Does that one dude have an "I fap to Reagan" shirt?

He has an "Old school conservative" shirt with Reagan's face on it.

So yeah, pretty much.

Why, it's almost as if you pulled some random black guy out of a crowd and made him take a picture with you.

The poor guy definitely does not look enthused to be there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on May 05, 2013, 05:31:16 pm
You shouldn't have to literally walk around with a sign proclaiming you're not racist any more than you should have to walk around with a sign proclaiming you're a nice person, or smart, or anything else. People should be able to tell that by the way you act and speak. If you have to tell people, then you probably aren't what you say you are.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 05, 2013, 05:36:51 pm
You shouldn't have to literally walk around with a sign proclaiming you're not racist any more than you should have to walk around with a sign proclaiming you're a nice person, or smart, or anything else. People should be able to tell that by the way you act and speak. If you have to tell people, then you probably aren't what you say you are.
Indeed. I don't know if they are racist, but few things look more racist than insisting you're not because you're touching a black person.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on May 05, 2013, 07:40:27 pm
Racist or not, they're still arrogant and irrational douchebags that won't be seeing any respect from me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 06, 2013, 08:23:25 am
(http://llwproductions.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/tea-party-say-no-to-bo-save-the-whites.jpg)
Bo Diddley? Bo Jackson? Body Odor?
Okay, I'll fight "B.O.", starting with you, Cletus.... *SPRAYS A WHOLE CAN OF RIGHT GUARD AT HIM*.
"Save The Whites!"...Why? We're not an endangered species you meatball-head!


(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2733/4468906733_1f57b37f60.jpg)
Uh, The Founding Fathers were Deists, Agnostics, Atheists, Unitarians & nominal, sane Christians who believed in the principles of the Enlightenment. Our President is fully American, born in Hawaii, anything BUT a socialist & politically Centrist! If anything, I WISH he was more Lefty & Socialist! Also, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH SOCIALISM! Countries work best when Socialism & Capitalism are equal & cancel-out the pitfalls of both. Because of the nature & varied moral-alignments or humanity, it's best to be balanced.


(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j186/DonaldDouglas/Americaneocon/4936250518_982acde7e8_b-1.jpg)
Riiiiiggght....You two just grabbed that random black guy from somewhere and forced him to pose for you. Either that or he's a friend of yours who's a total Fetchit!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 06, 2013, 12:02:38 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/6TLl1hN.jpg)
Yes, because getting free healthcare is exactly like having your business nationalized.   ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 06, 2013, 12:35:08 pm
It is a well-known fact that national healthcare is exclusively found in Latin American countries, like England or Canada.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 06, 2013, 03:07:02 pm
How long ago was that rally she was at? Chavez is dead, Castro resigned a good while ago.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 06, 2013, 03:37:27 pm
2009, according to this. (http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-50-best-protest-signs-of-2009/) Number 37 on the list.

Which is still after Fidel Castro's resignation, incidentally.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on May 06, 2013, 04:04:35 pm
You know even if you're aren't "racist", the thing is that the Tea Party has become all about poor shaming, racism and classism do seem to go hand in hand. Especially where a good majority of the minority population belong to the lower classes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 07, 2013, 11:03:53 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/46a1ee78f9e3c222eb28123f59acad18/tumblr_mmd4fuHvmf1rw5dlyo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 07, 2013, 11:31:15 am

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/46a1ee78f9e3c222eb28123f59acad18/tumblr_mmd4fuHvmf1rw5dlyo1_500.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/InIxgXs.jpg)

Assumes dress and hairstyle = hated political views.

Seriously, some of the evangelical anti-vax  Biblical life living peeps out there are totally fucking hippies in everything except beliefs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on May 07, 2013, 01:11:36 pm

.....

Assumes dress and hairstyle = hated political views.

Seriously, some of the evangelical anti-vax  Biblical life living peeps out there are totally fucking hippies in everything except beliefs.

what's funny/ironic to me is that the guy I see most of these from on FB is a friend who's a black conservative and hates how (he thinks) liberals pigeon hole him because of how he looks.

But hey, you can't make a good straw man if you stick to reality, now can you?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on May 07, 2013, 03:54:42 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/46a1ee78f9e3c222eb28123f59acad18/tumblr_mmd4fuHvmf1rw5dlyo1_500.jpg)
Am I the only one who thinks she's pretty hot?

/missing the point
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 07, 2013, 04:26:53 pm
The apple one has a point in that apple is worse then most other ones in how they exploit people but I dont think the guy was going for that
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on May 07, 2013, 04:46:37 pm
The apple one has a point in that apple is worse then most other ones in how they exploit people but I dont think the guy was going for that

Yeah, I think he was just saying liberals are hypocrites. Because, you know, conservatives who preach morality and rail against "elitists" are never hypocritical. Ever. And if you call a conservative a hypocrite, it means you're a socialist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on May 07, 2013, 05:13:30 pm
Ahh, the College Liberal meme, created by butt hurt conservatives to make themselves feel better...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 07, 2013, 06:02:39 pm
Am I the only one who thinks she's pretty hot?

/missing the point

She looks like my manipulative "best" friend from when I was a fundie.

My male manipulative best friend.  Though to be fair he had a very androgynous chin and face, which is what I'm basing this off of.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on May 07, 2013, 06:05:00 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/46a1ee78f9e3c222eb28123f59acad18/tumblr_mmd4fuHvmf1rw5dlyo1_500.jpg)
Am I the only one who thinks she's pretty hot?

/missing the point

I thought that person was a guy at first...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 07, 2013, 06:19:39 pm
I actually like the meme.  Left-wingers can be jerks and hypocrites too.  I hate the extreme left just as much as I hate the extreme right.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on May 07, 2013, 07:30:48 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/46a1ee78f9e3c222eb28123f59acad18/tumblr_mmd4fuHvmf1rw5dlyo1_500.jpg)
Am I the only one who thinks she's pretty hot?

/missing the point

I thought that person was a guy at first...
I'm actually not 100% sure. Doesn't matter though. Still hot.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on May 07, 2013, 07:39:25 pm
I actually like the meme.  Left-wingers can be jerks and hypocrites too.  I hate the extreme left just as much as I hate the extreme right.

I'm not a huge fan of "College Liberals" or "Hollywood Leftists" either, but that's because most of them just seem to be hopping on a bandwagon trying to be cool than because they actually believe in progressive causes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 07, 2013, 07:51:33 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/whQXfW1.jpg)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on May 08, 2013, 01:04:04 am
And you'll still be born again gay.

Ironbite-choosing a religion does not change who you are.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 08, 2013, 12:43:58 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/7H8BBOk.jpg)

...Where do I even begin?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 08, 2013, 04:08:15 pm
Either that picture is old, or the protesters are still using that bit of barfgarbl to this day.

Either is likely.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on May 08, 2013, 05:03:30 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/7H8BBOk.jpg)

...Where do I even begin?

(http://www.demotivationalposters.org/image/demotivational-poster/0902/ber-fail-bomb-fork-lift-forklift-uber-ber-fail-demotivational-poster-1234304230.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on May 08, 2013, 07:37:23 pm
Either that picture is old, or the protesters are still using that bit of barfgarbl to this day.

Either is likely.

They still do, I hear it every now and then, but not like they used to.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 08, 2013, 09:14:47 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ekOzUM0.jpg)

Apparently, he didn't know that Leviticus also says tattoos are a sin.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on May 08, 2013, 09:27:51 pm
A man so unsecure in his sexuality that he needs a permanent reminder to not sleep with men?

That's what I get from this anyway.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on May 08, 2013, 11:00:31 pm
That tattoo pic is STILL making the rounds on the internet?  Man, hope that guy feels like an idiot now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 09, 2013, 07:59:51 am
(http://i.imgur.com/7H8BBOk.jpg)

Step 1: arbitrarily label X "bad thing".
Step 2: complain about having too many "bad things".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on May 09, 2013, 06:36:40 pm
(http://static1.firedoglake.com/48/files/2013/05/jasontebow-300x300.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 09, 2013, 07:03:24 pm
That tattoo pic is STILL making the rounds on the internet?  Man, hope that guy feels like an idiot now.

I'd LOVE to see a follow-up on that guy! Judging by the other tats, I get the sneaking suspicion he's in a gang. He's probably either dead or in prison. Good riddance!

I see a Channel 7 logo. It's a screencap! Anyone got the original video? Maybe I can find & post it.

NEVER MIND! Found it! It concerns a brutal hate crime with actiual footage of it. The moron shows up near the end. I hope he and his pals have fun with Bubba!
http://youtu.be/dF5M9v1ydh0


(http://static1.firedoglake.com/48/files/2013/05/jasontebow-300x300.jpg)

Uh, no....

Bashed for being a fundy prayer-showboater & crappy football player/bench-warmer (Really! They talk about this guy like he's the next Joe Montana).

Praised for coming out as Gay (Don't know how his basketball skills are but he could probably run circles around Tim Tea-butt)


FIXED!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on May 10, 2013, 12:49:42 am
He's actually a middle-of-the-road journeyman who's looking at the twilight of his career coming pretty fast.

Ironbite-dude doesn't really do much for a team cept be there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 10, 2013, 04:41:57 am
Neither did Tebow. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 10, 2013, 12:13:40 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ENAf6Lr.jpg)

God judges everybody, you assholes.  And I don't think he'll be very lenient towards you...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 10, 2013, 12:16:15 pm
He's actually a middle-of-the-road journeyman who's looking at the twilight of his career coming pretty fast.

Ironbite-dude doesn't really do much for a team cept be there.

Gay Basketball guy or Fundie Football guy?


(http://i.imgur.com/ENAf6Lr.jpg)

God judges everybody, you assholes.  And I don't think he'll be very lenient towards you...

Soooooo.....according to this guy, God's going to damn the entire human population.
I think I recognize this weirdo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHAQyKklQKI
It's the stupid hat, y'know. Doughy middle-aged guy with the stupid golf hat.
However, he appears a tad older & isn't wearing his dorky, lederhosen-like, trademark suspenders.
Either another guy with similar taste in headgear or the video's from years ago.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 10, 2013, 12:17:21 pm
"God Will (lies) Judge You!"
- fixed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 10, 2013, 12:44:33 pm
On his sign, he has "So-called Christians", in other words, good people who actually listen to Jesus & not crazy like him.

He's got several against women (Lewd Women, Dykes on Bikes, Rebellious Women, All Non-Homemakers) & he hates sports (Sports Nuts).

So it's okay to hate sports nuts but it's not okay to be a "Pencil-Necked Weak Kneed Gutless Man". You can't prove your "machismo" with sports but being a fat guy who commits random acts of violence is fine.

There's only a few that I agree with, "Two-Faced People", "Money Lovers", "Thieves" & "Racists". Unfortunately they don't get wacky names like "Backstabbing scumbags", "Greedy, Mammon-Hoarding Misers", "Slimy Racist Bigots" or "Nefarious Stuff-Pilfering Thieveing Thieves".

He has "Homos" & "Dykes On Bikes", from The Department Of Redundancy Dept.

"Drunkards", because having a legitimate alcohol addiction is evil. Apparently Schizophrenia, The Ebola Virus, The Common Cold & Warts are sinful, too!

"Ankle Biters?!" So, being a small child is evil. Is this guy Ms. Trunchbull? I guess we're all going to Hell for daring to be born not fully grown! He not only denies basic decency or a kind, loving Supreme Deity, he also denies basic human biology!

And finally.....

POT SMOKING DEVILS!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on May 10, 2013, 02:19:32 pm

"Ankle Biters?!" So, being a small child is evil.


Of course not, but being a Pomeranian is!  ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 10, 2013, 08:42:09 pm

"Ankle Biters?!" So, being a small child is evil.


Of course not, but being a Pomeranian is!  ;D
Or a Chihuahua, or a Yorkie, or any dog that can be unironically named "Muffin".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on May 10, 2013, 11:05:40 pm
It's the stupid hat, y'know. Doughy middle-aged guy with the stupid golf hat.

Hey, cabbies are cool. This guy is douche, but he doesn't represent all of us who wear cabbies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on May 11, 2013, 12:02:30 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/jmaHXMO.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on May 11, 2013, 12:11:08 pm
Do you ever wonder what these people think when they see people snickering and taking pictures of their vehicles?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 11, 2013, 12:41:14 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/jmaHXMO.jpg?1)

My advice, please reduce the size of your photos before you post them (if they are HUGE).

That said, I second what wrightway said. They may as well put a huge neon sign on their vehicle that says, "LOOK AT ME! I'M A BIG FAT LAUGHINGSTOCK! A TOTAL LOSER! AN ABSOLUTE IDIOT! A ROYAL MAROON! LAUGH AT ME! I'M PATHETIC!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 12, 2013, 01:19:07 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/VPF0gI2.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 12, 2013, 03:07:48 pm
I can't tell is he saying Israel's awful immigration policies are good or bad
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on May 12, 2013, 03:10:03 pm
I can't tell is he saying Israel's awful immigration policies are good or bad

Have you run into the people who point out the high rate of immigration from 3rd world (usually non-white) countries and call it proof that Jews are trying to end the white race?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 12, 2013, 03:10:27 pm
What he's implying is that the Jews are hypocrites who want immigration into Europe but not into Israel, because racial minorities will destroy a country.  It's racist and anti-Semitic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 12, 2013, 10:15:53 pm
Hard to say since honestly I think Israel is way too closed.  Like they have done horrid things to African Jewish refugees
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 13, 2013, 08:54:52 am
(http://i.imgur.com/vd9RrVn.jpg)
For fuck's sake!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 13, 2013, 09:31:18 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525423_544229055628160_636467262_n.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on May 13, 2013, 09:36:07 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525423_544229055628160_636467262_n.png)

LOL, just posted that in Worst Political Cartoons like 5 minutes ago.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 13, 2013, 09:38:45 am
*snip*
LOL, just posted that in Worst Political Cartoons like 5 minutes ago.
I think it can fit in either one.

Anyway, have more racism.

(http://i.imgur.com/9cyIiKG.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on May 13, 2013, 11:47:59 am
(http://i.imgur.com/bq0U22F.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 13, 2013, 05:57:27 pm
Quote
(http://i.imgur.com/bq0U22F.jpg)
The proper term is "Liberians".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on May 13, 2013, 08:09:32 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525423_544229055628160_636467262_n.png)

The federal government no longer hangs people sentenced to death. Lethal injection is the method used.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 13, 2013, 08:17:32 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525423_544229055628160_636467262_n.png)

The federal government no longer hangs people sentenced to death. Lethal injection is the method used.

Wish the 'shopper had just followed the advice or learned about whatever the first lady was showing on the original placard. She's a nice gal. I like her. Fuck this vile POS who made that thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on May 13, 2013, 08:29:54 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525423_544229055628160_636467262_n.png)

The federal government no longer hangs people sentenced to death. Lethal injection is the method used.

I'm sure hanging is still an option in some places, if only because politicians like to waste time with pointless stuff as opposed to someone grabbing the filing cabinet full of old ass laws and seeing which ones we can go ahead and throw out. (Like that one law banning the sale of peanuts after after sundown on Wednesday in Lee county, Alabama)

 "Okay guys, first one here is the ban on the carrying of ice cream in the back pocket. Anyone remember why we have this? Anyone know of a reason we still need this?"

 "No, can't think of anything."

 "Okay then, well throw that one in the trash pile. Our next one up is the requirement that cars be tethered outside of public buildings... "

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: agentCDE on May 13, 2013, 10:40:08 pm
Quote
ban on carrying icecream in the back pocket

Well, frankly, I'd vote that one stay on the books. I mean, it's just one of those common sense things, like buckling your seatbelt or not jaywalking. No need to really enforce it, even, it's victimless and self-punishing.

"This is a perfect spot to sit and enjoy my icecream!"
Splat.
"Oh, no."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on May 13, 2013, 10:46:38 pm
The price you pay for a "Free Palestine" sticker in Arizona. 
(http://i.imgur.com/13jhyob.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 13, 2013, 10:51:30 pm
What would Jesus do?  Take the spray can outta your fuckin hand and beat you with it, I'd imagine.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 13, 2013, 11:13:31 pm
Oh, I think he'd go ahead and empty it up their ass.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 13, 2013, 11:43:11 pm
I like his free palestine bumpersticker
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 14, 2013, 08:30:50 am
The price you pay for a "Free Palestine" sticker in Arizona. 
(http://i.imgur.com/13jhyob.jpg?1)

I hope he will not be silenced & not be intimidated by these inbred subhumans.

If you live in a red-state, WEAR YOUR PROGRESSIVE STICKERS & SIGNS LOUD AND PROUD! DON'T GIVE A SCAT ABOUT HARASSMENT!

This is where we Progressives are superior....if we see these dorks with their Far-Right silliness, we just laugh & comment on it. The Regressives, however, have a toddler-baby-waa waa-temper tantrum & commit vandalism.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 14, 2013, 05:35:54 pm
I think he makes a good point: would Jesus gradually force people out of their homes?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 14, 2013, 06:25:37 pm
Yeah, the person who damaged this guys truck with spray paint was trying to slap him for his free Palestine sticker, and the others...but Jesus is different things to different people, and the one I was taught about would be for peaceful cohabitation and respect between people, not what we see in the M.E. now, and would've done a temple-money-changers-rampage on the vandal.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on May 15, 2013, 07:53:22 am
Quote from: eritheblue
The federal government no longer hangs people sentenced to death. Lethal injection is the method used.

I'm sure hanging is still an option in some places,

New Hampshire and Washington (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/methods-execution) are the only states that still have hanging as a method of execution. In both states, lethal injection is the primary method. In NH, hanging can only be used if a lethal injection cannot be given. In Washington, the inmate has to request hanging; otherwise, they get a lethal injection.

As an aside, it seems I was wrong that the federal government only uses lethal injection. That is actually the US military. The federal government uses the "manner [of execution] prescribed by the law of the State in which the sentence is imposed. If the law of the State does not provide for implementation of a sentence of death, the court shall designate another State, the law of which does provide for the implementation of a sentence of death, and the sentence shall be implemented in the latter State in the manner prescribed by such law." 18 USC 3596(a).

So I guess if they got sentenced for treason in NH or WA, they could get hung.

Although this is the legal definition of treason...

Quote
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
18 USC 2381

Anyone want to explain to me what the Obamas have done to be guilty of that?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on May 15, 2013, 07:59:15 am
Anyone want to explain to me what the Obamas have done to be guilty of that?

He's a democrat, with black skin, and he goes to church with scary people. Probably a muslim, socialist, and Kenyan too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 15, 2013, 09:14:01 am
(http://i.imgur.com/luZq0N4.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on May 15, 2013, 10:30:56 am
(http://i.imgur.com/luZq0N4.jpg)

???
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 15, 2013, 12:52:29 pm
Could someone with a bible handy post the verses cited in that poster? I dunno what to think of it quite yet, except that is kind of a WBC way to lambast people, not preach or win over believers. Maybe it's anti-Christian?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on May 15, 2013, 01:17:04 pm
Could someone with a bible handy post the verses cited in that poster? I dunno what to think of it quite yet, except that is kind of a WBC way to lambast people, not preach or win over believers. Maybe it's anti-Christian?

I'm going to assume they're going for the KJV, so...

Rev. 21:8, "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."

Isa. 14:9, "Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations."

1Cor, 6:9, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,"

Mtt. 23:33, "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 15, 2013, 03:04:20 pm
Fire and Brimstone Gospel:

Because you don't want new converts, you want your existing converts to be scared shitless.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 15, 2013, 03:09:26 pm
dpareja - Thank you so much for that. Could not find my late mom's bible anywhere in the house  :-\.

So, just another harsh whargarble "gays is ebil and so is dere frens, an' all u hippies n hucksters n hip hoppers".

The building in the background is so familiar to me, I will go ahead and say I think it is the old federal bank building on Marietta Street at Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta , Georgia. If the camera was at a slightly different angle, there would be a visible Wachovia bank branch sign at the bldg entrance.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 16, 2013, 04:57:32 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/A9uQjrP.jpg)
I am, of course, referring to the pink signs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on May 16, 2013, 09:35:25 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/942098_518370051562145_242748126_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 16, 2013, 09:52:07 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/313e115cbe5ab746724e3bda4bbf8e00/tumblr_mmwugs2jyJ1rd10xoo2_500.jpg)

Literally nobody is asking you to be with a girl. That's the point of sexuality.

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/8795eb30ba2de69188d0381bfc667019/tumblr_mmwugs2jyJ1rd10xoo4_500.jpg)

Sure you can. You just don't want to. Cause ew icky homosexuals.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on May 16, 2013, 10:36:26 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/A9uQjrP.jpg)
I am, of course, referring to the pink signs.

You want to know one anti-gay marriage argument that pisses me off the most? That marriage "should not only be between a man and a woman, but also for procreation." It's not only homophobic, it's also sexist, on the ground that the purpose of women "are for procreation." And Christ forbid there are marriages where there are adopted children, because there are plenty of children shipped off the foster-care after many forced pregnancies, parental abandonment and orphanage, these kids want parents and don't give a fuck how many mommies and daddies they have.

In short, fuck that argument and fuck you mentally insipid bastards too.

/berserk button
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 16, 2013, 10:50:43 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/d14bdb47b4c4c34468252d174c4c3bc8/tumblr_mmx8t6TG4U1qe2ig0o2_500.jpg)

You can shut up now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 16, 2013, 11:32:30 pm
Could someone with a bible handy post the verses cited in that poster? I dunno what to think of it quite yet, except that is kind of a WBC way to lambast people, not preach or win over believers. Maybe it's anti-Christian?

I find the wording of that sign puzzling, too. Totally bypassing the "salvation" part. It's not "Jesus has a wonderful plan for your life, to save you from Hell" it's just "Jesus sends you to Hell, period...Don't pass GO...don't collect $200.00...YOU'RE DOOMED!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 17, 2013, 02:41:49 am
Could someone with a bible handy post the verses cited in that poster? I dunno what to think of it quite yet, except that is kind of a WBC way to lambast people, not preach or win over believers. Maybe it's anti-Christian?

I find the wording of that sign puzzling, too. Totally bypassing the "salvation" part. It's not "Jesus has a wonderful plan for your life, to save you from Hell" it's just "Jesus sends you to Hell, period...Don't pass GO...don't collect $200.00...YOU'RE DOOMED!"

Ya know, I'm okay with being doomed.  I don't want to have to share a heaven with pricks like that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on May 17, 2013, 02:49:44 am
Could someone with a bible handy post the verses cited in that poster? I dunno what to think of it quite yet, except that is kind of a WBC way to lambast people, not preach or win over believers. Maybe it's anti-Christian?

I find the wording of that sign puzzling, too. Totally bypassing the "salvation" part. It's not "Jesus has a wonderful plan for your life, to save you from Hell" it's just "Jesus sends you to Hell, period...Don't pass GO...don't collect $200.00...YOU'RE DOOMED!"

Ya know, I'm okay with being doomed.  I don't want to have to share a heaven with pricks like that.

What's the line? 'Heaven for the climate, hell for the company'?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on May 17, 2013, 02:52:57 am
Could someone with a bible handy post the verses cited in that poster? I dunno what to think of it quite yet, except that is kind of a WBC way to lambast people, not preach or win over believers. Maybe it's anti-Christian?

I find the wording of that sign puzzling, too. Totally bypassing the "salvation" part. It's not "Jesus has a wonderful plan for your life, to save you from Hell" it's just "Jesus sends you to Hell, period...Don't pass GO...don't collect $200.00...YOU'RE DOOMED!"

Maybe he's a Calvinist?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 17, 2013, 09:02:57 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/61932_503960619668735_1006463407_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 17, 2013, 11:57:21 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/61932_503960619668735_1006463407_n.jpg)

THIS WAS POSTED IN "DUMBEST POLITICAL CARTOONS"!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on May 17, 2013, 12:04:05 pm
You can turn off the caps lock any time, Spuki...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 17, 2013, 12:05:20 pm
It can fit either way.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 17, 2013, 12:06:55 pm
(http://irregulartimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gaymarriagenoosepicture.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 17, 2013, 01:40:43 pm
(http://irregulartimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gaymarriagenoosepicture.jpg)

When they reach the bottom of the barrel, they just yank out the planks on the bottom and continue digging! At any rate, they end up in the earth's core!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 17, 2013, 01:55:18 pm
(https://images.encyclopediadramatica.se/e/ee/Mexicans.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 17, 2013, 02:37:05 pm
I bring you more stupid signs defending 'traditional marriage'!

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/cc3cc7f007f737bc7b2fc7c13e0af9f3/tumblr_mmy6gfZroj1qz581wo8_500.jpg)

hashtag yolo. It's the cool thing to do.

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/3f90f7a814e5b492de0b8a1908558ac1/tumblr_mmy6gfZroj1qz581wo6_500.jpg)

Yeah, okay. So's everyone's clothes.

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/b9d5463a43c833c7cce5bd2450e078ad/tumblr_mmy6gfZroj1qz581wo4_500.jpg)

I think she lost her train of thought 1/3 of the way thru.

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/467aa4c8d140722d793678b9e4f2f836/tumblr_mmy6gfZroj1qz581wo2_500.jpg)

...What?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 17, 2013, 02:59:49 pm
(http://irregulartimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gaymarriagenoosepicture.jpg)

<Tweety Bird, snarking>
Awww iddent dat cute! He wanna go wynch faggies, too, just wike da Kwu Kwux Kwan. He a goooodd kwistian, iddent he?
</Tweety, honing his widdle axe>

This is why, even though rich mega churches grow bigger, Christianity as a whole is in decline in America. The mainstream churches either need to start showing some intestinal fortitude, countering these freaks in public and online, or sink. I'm an atheist, but I am saddened and alarmed that the decent, kind, and community proactive churches are all but invisible these days. They need to get out there and counter protest.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 17, 2013, 04:55:12 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/71604512da09d00cb33d6492fe3f116b/tumblr_mmxuo9as881qb1ubqo1_r1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on May 17, 2013, 05:00:18 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/71604512da09d00cb33d6492fe3f116b/tumblr_mmxuo9as881qb1ubqo1_r1_500.jpg)

I got the giggles from that. Mostly because I was trying to figure out what "cuni" was.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 17, 2013, 06:07:01 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/71604512da09d00cb33d6492fe3f116b/tumblr_mmxuo9as881qb1ubqo1_r1_500.jpg)

I got the giggles from that. Mostly because I was trying to figure out what "cuni" was.

"Cuni" is a variation of cunt, but a polite one. Forget which country/language it's from. Anyway, I lol'ed at this - pathetically telling about the MRAist who tagged it. He's going to be so surprised when he gets copies of, "Menopause Means Better Sex!", "Raising Boys; A Lesbian Parenting Guide" and "Herbal Vaginal Rinse Recipes" in his mailbox, courtesy of The Women's Library.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 17, 2013, 07:47:01 pm
(http://irregulartimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gaymarriagenoosepicture.jpg)

<Tweety Bird, snarking>
Awww iddent dat cute! He wanna go wynch faggies, too, just wike da Kwu Kwux Kwan. He a goooodd kwistian, iddent he?
</Tweety, honing his widdle axe>

This is why, even though rich mega churches grow bigger, Christianity as a whole is in decline in America. The mainstream churches either need to start showing some intestinal fortitude, countering these freaks in public and online, or sink. I'm an atheist, but I am saddened and alarmed that the decent, kind, and community proactive churches are all but invisible these days. They need to get out there and counter protest.

I agree. I don't get what's de-fanging Progressives. Where's the drive? Where's the FIRE? It's like a weird cosmic force of inertia & ineptitude has overtaken the minds & actions of Progressives everywhere. What frustrates me is that those in charge of Progressive causes never study or learn from the Regressives playbook. We know what to do, we know what's up but we RARELY ACT ON IT!

I just want to know, if we're more educated, numerous & worldly....WHY AREN'T WE (metaphorically of course) KICKING BUTT & TAKING NAMES? WHY ARE WE WIMPS?! WAKE UP, DUMMIES!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on May 17, 2013, 08:04:57 pm
I bring you more stupid signs defending 'traditional marriage'!

-snip-

...What?

Saw these when they first appeared on tumblr.  There was quite a bit of "you're trying to silence/belittle their opinion!" whining in response to the criticism the pictures were recieving.

-snip-

I got the giggles from that. Mostly because I was trying to figure out what "cuni" was.

"Cuni" is a variation of cunt, but a polite one. Forget which country/language it's from. Anyway, I lol'ed at this - pathetically telling about the MRAist who tagged it. He's going to be so surprised when he gets copies of, "Menopause Means Better Sex!", "Raising Boys; A Lesbian Parenting Guide" and "Herbal Vaginal Rinse Recipes" in his mailbox, courtesy of The Women's Library.

Any chance he would end up fapping to those books instead?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on May 18, 2013, 12:00:30 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/uOmc8ta.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 18, 2013, 12:38:07 pm
(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/506/951/514.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Manic Puma on May 18, 2013, 02:00:33 pm
(http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/548454_453305078094968_1237257139_n.jpg)

Yeah, this was shared recently on a Brony Facebook paged I liked a long while ago. I'm just hoping the admin was just ignorant and not actually being an asshole.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 18, 2013, 07:59:52 pm
(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/506/951/514.png)

GOOD GAWD!

GIMMIE A FRACKIN' BREAK!

I HATE HOLOCAUST REVISIONISTS!

On top of that, the guys in the first pic are just as malnourished, pitiful & miserable as the crowd of in the second pic.

Notice how the first photo's kind of over-exposed to take the edge off the true horror of the standing gentleman's horrifyingly emaciated state?

Notice how the idiot who made this pretends that the many photos & movies of vast PILES of dead bodies don't exist?

If there was a pool, it was for the Nazis. The Jews didn't visit or enjoy the brothels, they we're SEX SLAVES IN the brothels! Those "showers" were GAS CHAMBERS!

No doubt the people imprisoned by the Soviets also greatly suffered but to use them to deny the suffering of the over 12 million in the Nazi death camps is sick & exploitative. May the ghost of a Gulag victim go all "Freddy Kreuger-ish", haunt your dreams & stomp on your astral dream-face!
Yeah, I know, he's implying the guys in the Soviet camp are his beloved goose-steppers. While I certainly don't condone whatever suffering & horror they may have gone through (this is Stalin's USSR after all), I would certainly, to a degree, say "They had it coming, the schmucks".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 18, 2013, 08:23:58 pm
Believe me, there's plenty more of that garbage where that came from.

For example:
(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/486/444/16d.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 18, 2013, 09:47:33 pm
Believe me, there's plenty more of that garbage where that came from.

For example:
(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/486/444/16d.jpg)
So much stupid....
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 18, 2013, 09:51:07 pm
You think that's stupid?  Check this out:

(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/393/094/56f.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 18, 2013, 11:07:08 pm
why do i get the feeling he hates muslims too
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 18, 2013, 11:07:56 pm
why do i get the feeling he hates muslims too
Wouldn't be surprised, but I'm willing to bet he views them as the lesser of two evils.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 19, 2013, 01:35:39 pm
(http://leftwingnutjob.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Islamophobic-and-proud-of-it.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 19, 2013, 01:42:40 pm
(http://leftwingnutjob.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Islamophobic-and-proud-of-it.jpg)
What an asshole.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on May 19, 2013, 03:00:43 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/uOmc8ta.jpg)

Somehow, I don't conservatives would give two shits about the Drone Killings if Obama was a Republican. Anyone who is blasting Obama for that after defending Bush policies is a hypocrite that deserves to be ignored entirely.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 19, 2013, 04:11:48 pm
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/487/252/c12.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 19, 2013, 04:19:08 pm
You think that's stupid?  Check this out:

(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/393/094/56f.png)
Holy shit... the fail is strong with this one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 19, 2013, 04:29:20 pm
Whoever made that was thick as pig shit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 19, 2013, 04:41:30 pm
(http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/wp-content/images2009/IMG_8567.JPG)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 19, 2013, 04:47:13 pm
(http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/wp-content/images2009/IMG_8567.JPG)
Love their shirts though. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 19, 2013, 04:48:07 pm
Yeah, they do have nice shirts.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 19, 2013, 05:18:18 pm
(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/425/459/c52.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 19, 2013, 06:21:28 pm
Is it bad that I find the Nazi Coke ad simply amusing?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 19, 2013, 08:56:15 pm
It's amusing in that the point is drowned out simply because we do know some Jews betrayed their fellow Jew. Are we supposed to be aghast?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 20, 2013, 02:53:49 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/f83874f177f953af49a10e0bda7de326/tumblr_mmtmwf2uRd1rg6quvo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 20, 2013, 02:59:24 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/f83874f177f953af49a10e0bda7de326/tumblr_mmtmwf2uRd1rg6quvo1_500.jpg)
I assume you are not one of the families
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on May 20, 2013, 03:05:21 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/f83874f177f953af49a10e0bda7de326/tumblr_mmtmwf2uRd1rg6quvo1_500.jpg)
I assume you are not one of the families

Why can't one of those families adopt a child that has already been born and needs parents?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 20, 2013, 03:28:25 pm
Can they even "reserve" a fetus for adoption, other than as in contracting with a surrogate? The sign says, "...adopt TODAY". Huh. So, where are those prospective adoptive parents and their licensed adoption attorneys? Is the sign holder going to phone them and they will drive over ASAP to start this process? And are they going to cover the prenatal and delivery medical expenses and lost wages due to carrying the pregnancy to term>?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on May 20, 2013, 03:39:25 pm
Can they even "reserve" a fetus for adoption, other than as in contracting with a surrogate? The sign says, "...adopt TODAY". Huh. So, where are those prospective adoptive parents and their licensed adoption attorneys? Is the sign holder going to phone them and they will drive over ASAP to start this process? And are they going to cover the prenatal and delivery medical expenses and lost wages due to carrying the pregnancy to term>?

I think you can set up an adoption before birth. Don't know about the rest. It would probably be handled in the contract.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on May 20, 2013, 03:46:17 pm
Can they even "reserve" a fetus for adoption, other than as in contracting with a surrogate? The sign says, "...adopt TODAY". Huh. So, where are those prospective adoptive parents and their licensed adoption attorneys? Is the sign holder going to phone them and they will drive over ASAP to start this process? And are they going to cover the prenatal and delivery medical expenses and lost wages due to carrying the pregnancy to term>?

I think you can set up an adoption before birth. Don't know about the rest. It would probably be handled in the contract.

Yeah, I think pregnant women in some instances have the option to personally look over candidates and hand pick who they want to give the baby to.  I know it's shown up in multiple forms of media.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: worlder on May 20, 2013, 04:56:15 pm
Can they even "reserve" a fetus for adoption, other than as in contracting with a surrogate? The sign says, "...adopt TODAY". Huh. So, where are those prospective adoptive parents and their licensed adoption attorneys? Is the sign holder going to phone them and they will drive over ASAP to start this process? And are they going to cover the prenatal and delivery medical expenses and lost wages due to carrying the pregnancy to term>?

I think you can set up an adoption before birth. Don't know about the rest. It would probably be handled in the contract.

Yeah, I think pregnant women in some instances have the option to personally look over candidates and hand pick who they want to give the baby to.  I know it's shown up in multiple forms of media.

Hmm, this seems to be a compelling alternative to having an abortion.

But there has to be some catch to it. Perhaps finding suitable adopters.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on May 20, 2013, 05:15:16 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/f83874f177f953af49a10e0bda7de326/tumblr_mmtmwf2uRd1rg6quvo1_500.jpg)
I assume you are not one of the families

Why can't one of those families adopt a child that has already been born and needs parents?

Because most of the children in foster care are old and ugly, and they want cute little stupid babies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 20, 2013, 06:12:30 pm
(http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/wp-content/images2009/IMG_8567.JPG)

Yeah, I guess you could find some Jews who also happen to be terrorists. Not sure that's what you meant though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 20, 2013, 06:59:51 pm
Can they even "reserve" a fetus for adoption, other than as in contracting with a surrogate? The sign says, "...adopt TODAY". Huh. So, where are those prospective adoptive parents and their licensed adoption attorneys? Is the sign holder going to phone them and they will drive over ASAP to start this process? And are they going to cover the prenatal and delivery medical expenses and lost wages due to carrying the pregnancy to term>?

I think you can set up an adoption before birth. Don't know about the rest. It would probably be handled in the contract.

Yeah, I think pregnant women in some instances have the option to personally look over candidates and hand pick who they want to give the baby to.  I know it's shown up in multiple forms of media.

Since this actually hits very close to home for me let me explain:

Not everyone can find a family for their baby before it's even born. You have to do a lot of paperwork. Some people think it's like being a late-blooming surrogate but it isn't. If you know you have to give up your child but you don't want to abort, or you were going to keep it then suddenly your economic status changed you can talk to various agencies in your area.

My parents got me when I was 3 days old. 3 days. They knew about me before I was even born. They had picked me out to take home while I was still in the womb. When I was born they drove like 6 hours thru a blizzard. They had to wait for a certain time to let me be adopted out.

Something similar happened with my sister and her husband. Except it was very close to a surrogate story. They tracked this young mother's progress months before it was time to deliver.

Neither of these instances are typical for adopting, but they are possible. I hope I helped.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on May 20, 2013, 07:13:03 pm
Hmm, this seems to be a compelling alternative to having an abortion.

But there has to be some catch to it. Perhaps finding suitable adopters.

And the whole "carrying a child for nine months" bit. Though I *think* it is legal to have the adoptive parents pay your medical expenses, but that might cross in to "selling children".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: erictheblue on May 20, 2013, 07:57:41 pm
And the whole "carrying a child for nine months" bit. Though I *think* it is legal to have the adoptive parents pay your medical expenses, but that might cross in to "selling children".

IIRC (can't get to my family law notes at the moment), adoptive parents can pay medical expenses.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 20, 2013, 08:50:45 pm
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6q-f-zD4xPY/SfAe4NriJkI/AAAAAAAANio/v3CLtCZXY6U/s400/AbortionsJudging.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 20, 2013, 09:02:04 pm
Yeah I'm so very shocked and appalled by a bunch of ignorant, sloppy middle aged to elderly white guys who think blah-blah-Obama-blah-blah-Clinton and blah-blah WTF? George W. Bush what? supported socialism? WTF? Do they think Halliburton Inc. is a communist plot?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 20, 2013, 09:08:28 pm
(http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/item-20100823-protestsign11.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 20, 2013, 10:04:06 pm
Yeah I'm so very shocked and appalled by a bunch of ignorant, sloppy middle aged to elderly white guys who think blah-blah-Obama-blah-blah-Clinton and blah-blah WTF? George W. Bush what? supported socialism? WTF? Do they think Halliburton Inc. is a communist plot?

Wait I thought they liked W. I'm confused.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 20, 2013, 10:21:42 pm
Yeah I'm so very shocked and appalled by a bunch of ignorant, sloppy middle aged to elderly white guys who think blah-blah-Obama-blah-blah-Clinton and blah-blah WTF? George W. Bush what? supported socialism? WTF? Do they think Halliburton Inc. is a communist plot?

Wait I thought they liked W. I'm confused.
This is a conspiranoid nut, judging by the "New World Order" sign. Their political affiliations can be all over the place.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 21, 2013, 12:15:58 am
Yeah I'm so very shocked and appalled by a bunch of ignorant, sloppy middle aged to elderly white guys who think blah-blah-Obama-blah-blah-Clinton and blah-blah WTF? George W. Bush what? supported socialism? WTF? Do they think Halliburton Inc. is a communist plot?

Wait I thought they liked W. I'm confused.
This is a conspiranoid nut, judging by the "New World Order" sign. Their political affiliations can be all over the place.

Makes more sense to me, then. Fair enough.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 21, 2013, 12:30:34 am
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6q-f-zD4xPY/SfAe4NriJkI/AAAAAAAANio/v3CLtCZXY6U/s400/AbortionsJudging.jpg)

Yes, God is judging America for abortion and not for Slavery or the Native American genocide.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 21, 2013, 12:31:38 am
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6q-f-zD4xPY/SfAe4NriJkI/AAAAAAAANio/v3CLtCZXY6U/s400/AbortionsJudging.jpg)

Yes, God is judging America for abortion and not for Slavery or the Native American genocide.

Pfft, those were all adults or...young children that were forced into labour and/or killed.  PROTECT THE FETUS!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on May 21, 2013, 01:37:27 am
(http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/item-20100823-protestsign11.jpg)

Why the fuck are there two S's shaped like the letters from KISS?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 21, 2013, 01:44:51 am
I think they're trying to for the SS.  Or something.

I think it's supposed to be Godwinning.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Tolpuddle Martyr on May 21, 2013, 07:23:48 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/f83874f177f953af49a10e0bda7de326/tumblr_mmtmwf2uRd1rg6quvo1_500.jpg)

That'll work if you wanted to reinforce a woman's decision to abort!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 21, 2013, 08:37:57 am
Yeah I'm so very shocked and appalled by a bunch of ignorant, sloppy middle aged to elderly white guys who think blah-blah-Obama-blah-blah-Clinton and blah-blah WTF? George W. Bush what? supported socialism? WTF? Do they think Halliburton Inc. is a communist plot?

Wait I thought they liked W. I'm confused.

Now that everyone hates him, he becomes our fault.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 21, 2013, 09:06:30 am
I think they're trying to for the SS.  Or something.

I think it's supposed to be Godwinning.

Indeed those are the SS s's, not the KISS S's. There's a tiny difference.

(I can't remember if that's grammatically correct.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 22, 2013, 01:33:44 pm
(http://www.fourwinds10.net/resources/uploads/image/38798-6.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on May 22, 2013, 06:33:14 pm
The price you pay for a "Free Palestine" sticker in Arizona. 
(http://i.imgur.com/13jhyob.jpg?1)

I'm pretty sure Jesus wouldn't vandalize random strangers' cars.

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/f83874f177f953af49a10e0bda7de326/tumblr_mmtmwf2uRd1rg6quvo1_500.jpg)

Um...all ten of them?  Adopting one baby?  I'm not sure that's going to work.  After all, Solomon tried that with two mothers, and we all know what happened then.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Tolpuddle Martyr on May 23, 2013, 09:16:20 am
(http://skepchick.org/wp-content/uploads/privileges.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: agentCDE on May 23, 2013, 09:58:38 am
I can't help but think that one's a just a little bit sarcastic. That said, I'm also completely willing to believe there really are guys that full of shit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on May 23, 2013, 12:35:51 pm

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/f83874f177f953af49a10e0bda7de326/tumblr_mmtmwf2uRd1rg6quvo1_500.jpg)

Um...all ten of them?  Adopting one baby?  I'm not sure that's going to work.  After all, Solomon tried that with two mothers, and we all know what happened then.

I've known some of these people.

I dont' think some of them should even be allowed to have their own children.

It's all about building the cult.

Besides which, if they really felt that strongly, why can't they pay the medical costs to any woman who carries to term?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 23, 2013, 02:08:19 pm
(http://skepchick.org/wp-content/uploads/privileges.jpg)
Depends on the poster in the background
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on May 23, 2013, 02:30:15 pm
(http://skepchick.org/wp-content/uploads/privileges.jpg)
Depends on the poster in the background

I'm pretty sure this is satire.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 23, 2013, 04:01:07 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 23, 2013, 04:21:03 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n.jpg)
I think that was crossposted.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on May 23, 2013, 04:21:38 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n.jpg)

That broke so many irony meters that I can't even find a funny jpg image to post in response to it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 23, 2013, 04:22:38 pm
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n.jpg)
I think that was crossposted.
It can fit either one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 23, 2013, 07:02:18 pm
I should re-edit this one!

I also promised I would mess with bigoted Tealiban cartoons as well.

Gotta get to work!

UPDATE: Made this re-edit! Waddaya think?
(http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx200/BarbarellaSteele1975/Much-Used%20FSTDT%20Stock%20Images/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n_zps7de18659.jpg) (http://s755.photobucket.com/user/BarbarellaSteele1975/media/Much-Used%20FSTDT%20Stock%20Images/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n_zps7de18659.jpg.html)
No need to change the girl, she looks stupid, enough.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 23, 2013, 07:41:38 pm
I should re-edit this one!

I also promised I would mess with bigoted Tealiban cartoons as well.

Gotta get to work!

UPDATE: Made this re-edit! Waddaya think?
(http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx200/BarbarellaSteele1975/Much-Used%20FSTDT%20Stock%20Images/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n_zps7de18659.jpg) (http://s755.photobucket.com/user/BarbarellaSteele1975/media/Much-Used%20FSTDT%20Stock%20Images/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n_zps7de18659.jpg.html)
No need to change the girl, she looks stupid, enough.
Good Job!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 23, 2013, 09:09:58 pm
I should re-edit this one!

I also promised I would mess with bigoted Tealiban cartoons as well.

Gotta get to work!

UPDATE: Made this re-edit! Waddaya think?
(http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx200/BarbarellaSteele1975/Much-Used%20FSTDT%20Stock%20Images/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n_zps7de18659.jpg) (http://s755.photobucket.com/user/BarbarellaSteele1975/media/Much-Used%20FSTDT%20Stock%20Images/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n_zps7de18659.jpg.html)
No need to change the girl, she looks stupid, enough.
Good Job!
Yeah!  Keep up the excellent work.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 23, 2013, 09:10:51 pm
Can you do more, Spuki?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 24, 2013, 12:28:46 am
I should re-edit this one!

I also promised I would mess with bigoted Tealiban cartoons as well.

Gotta get to work!

UPDATE: Made this re-edit! Waddaya think?
(http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx200/BarbarellaSteele1975/Much-Used%20FSTDT%20Stock%20Images/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n_zps7de18659.jpg) (http://s755.photobucket.com/user/BarbarellaSteele1975/media/Much-Used%20FSTDT%20Stock%20Images/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n_zps7de18659.jpg.html)
No need to change the girl, she looks stupid, enough.
Good Job!

Can you do more, Spuki?

I should re-edit this one!

I also promised I would mess with bigoted Tealiban cartoons as well.

Gotta get to work!

UPDATE: Made this re-edit! Waddaya think?
(http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx200/BarbarellaSteele1975/Much-Used%20FSTDT%20Stock%20Images/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n_zps7de18659.jpg) (http://s755.photobucket.com/user/BarbarellaSteele1975/media/Much-Used%20FSTDT%20Stock%20Images/935456_10151495743268005_700257206_n_zps7de18659.jpg.html)
No need to change the girl, she looks stupid, enough.
Good Job!
Yeah!  Keep up the excellent work.



Thanks! Check out my new thread! I made a bunch!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 24, 2013, 11:04:01 am
(http://www.a-human-right.com/s_racist.jpg)

It may have been racist back then, but is it racist now?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 24, 2013, 11:22:46 am
(http://www.a-human-right.com/s_racist.jpg)

It may have been racist back then, but is it racist now?
I'm pro-gun, and I think this is stupid.  Do you really have to play the race card?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Reality Warper on May 24, 2013, 01:14:49 pm
(http://moonbattery.com/obama-rules-of-engagement.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on May 24, 2013, 01:16:49 pm
(http://www.a-human-right.com/s_racist.jpg)
No, no it wasn't.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on May 24, 2013, 02:42:58 pm
(http://moonbattery.com/obama-rules-of-engagement.jpg)

Since it's from Moonbattery, I'll bet this guy is just mad that Obama isn't harsh and aggressive enough in fighting the war on terror, even though he's been just as aggressive as, if not more so, than Bush. Have you noticed that things that should be blatantly obvious are completely ignored by bottom dwelling wingnuts?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on May 24, 2013, 05:40:15 pm
(http://www.a-human-right.com/s_racist.jpg)

It may have been racist back then, but is it racist now?

Nice try. But no.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on May 24, 2013, 09:15:35 pm
I wish these people had much less time to spare.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on May 25, 2013, 08:14:07 pm
(http://moonbattery.com/obama-rules-of-engagement.jpg)

Didn't that "sissy ass liberal" kill Bin Ladin?


(http://www.a-human-right.com/s_racist.jpg)

It may have been racist back then, but is it racist now?

I think it fails for different reasons.

First, if we want to bring up racism and guns....  this reminds many that one fo the purposes for the militia and why citizens were expected to have guns was so they could put down insurrections.

Like SLAVE insurrections.

So gun control is as "racist" as the 2nd amendment.

Second, there was a group I an think of that advocated black people being armed to protect their civil rights.  They were called the Black Panthers.  Ironically if you want to find gun control the NRA supported..

and third, black people tend t favor gun control (possibly because the homicide rate among african americans is so high) so this is saying many black people are morally the same as the Klan.
Not sure if that last one is a "Hitler ate sugar" fallacy but certainly it ignores WHY people today may want gun control to make a rather stupid comparison.


Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on May 27, 2013, 05:55:38 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/26814184e1c488aa7d197aeb5d51bcfc/tumblr_mneuy1oglW1rhnrmko1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 27, 2013, 08:45:02 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/26814184e1c488aa7d197aeb5d51bcfc/tumblr_mneuy1oglW1rhnrmko1_500.jpg)

Oh. So the anti vaxxers and the anti gmo's got together and had a spit baby....Gmo Autism. Congrats on that 10 pound, 1 ounce bouncing baby ball of bullshit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on May 27, 2013, 11:12:10 pm
labelling is good medicine replacements ewwwwwwwwww
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on May 27, 2013, 11:36:23 pm
(http://moonbattery.com/obama-rules-of-engagement.jpg)

They seem to be forgetting that Bush Jr did a lot of partying in his college days too (and in his adult years).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 27, 2013, 11:43:05 pm
(http://moonbattery.com/obama-rules-of-engagement.jpg)

They seem to be forgetting that Bush Jr did a lot of partying in his college days too (and in his adult years).

And that damn near everybody did stupid shit in school.  Hell, I expect myself to do at least one stupid thing by the time I graduate from college.  Maybe not get baked or crash a car, but somethin dumb.  College is pretty much the last semi-acceptable chance for young folks to do stupid shit, after that, it'll pretty much fuck you right in the arse.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on May 28, 2013, 09:47:35 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/26814184e1c488aa7d197aeb5d51bcfc/tumblr_mneuy1oglW1rhnrmko1_500.jpg)

Oh. So the anti vaxxers and the anti gmo's got together and had a spit baby....Gmo Autism. Congrats on that 10 pound, 1 ounce bouncing baby ball of bullshit.

There's some good reasons to oppose the sheer volume of herbicides and pesticides used to sustain our monoculture crop regions and to demand accurate food labeling. 'GMO Autism' is not one of them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on May 28, 2013, 11:45:24 pm
(http://moonbattery.com/obama-rules-of-engagement.jpg)

They seem to be forgetting that Bush Jr did a lot of partying in his college days too (and in his adult years).

And that damn near everybody did stupid shit in school.  Hell, I expect myself to do at least one stupid thing by the time I graduate from college.  Maybe not get baked or crash a car, but somethin dumb.  College is pretty much the last semi-acceptable chance for young folks to do stupid shit, after that, it'll pretty much fuck you right in the arse.

You're forgetting that right wing loonies were born old and uptight.

On the upside, I did get a laugh out of that image because it reminded me of this:

(https://sites.google.com/site/top25calvinandhobbesstrips/_/rsrc/1276131752271/home/ch871110.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on May 29, 2013, 12:55:13 am
I would rather trust a man whos laid back and smokes some pot from time to time than a man who snorted coke and had a drinking problem (George W Bush.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 29, 2013, 01:13:02 am
I would rather trust a man whos laid back and smokes some pot from time to time than a man who snorted coke and had a drinking problem (George W Bush.)

Couldn't have said it better myself!

 8) ;D IRIE OBAMA! GRAZIN' IN THE GRASS IS A GAAAAS BABY CAN YOU DIG IT?! EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED! YEAH! ;D 8)

The Tealiban can eat my shorts!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 29, 2013, 01:39:37 am
I would rather trust a man whos laid back and smokes some pot from time to time than a man who snorted coke and had a drinking problem (George W Bush.)

I may have my own misgivings about drug use to...enhance one's life, whether they feel it adequate without them or not, but if the choice came down between trusting a pothead and trusting coke fiend, I'll take the stoner any day of the week.  The worst they do is listen to shitty music, buy fractal artwork, and eat.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on May 29, 2013, 01:43:53 am
I would rather trust a man whos laid back and smokes some pot from time to time than a man who snorted coke and had a drinking problem (George W Bush.)

I may have my own misgivings about drug use to...enhance one's life, whether they feel it adequate without them or not, but if the choice came down between trusting a pothead and trusting coke fiend, I'll take the stoner any day of the week.  The worst they do is listen to shitty music, buy fractal artwork, and eat.

And use too much air freshener.  :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Tolpuddle Martyr on May 29, 2013, 03:15:33 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/26814184e1c488aa7d197aeb5d51bcfc/tumblr_mneuy1oglW1rhnrmko1_500.jpg)

Let's hope the lad never contracts an actual disease, or that Children's services takes him to an actual doctor who'll give him something stronger than an organic orange!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Emperor Maximilian on June 02, 2013, 04:28:16 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/3lVcc0D.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on June 02, 2013, 06:05:06 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/3lVcc0D.jpg?1)

Damn

I was just about to transform into a werewolf so i could levitate to Burning man this halloween.

Well as long as the Bible still says it's ok to hate gays/jews/woman and own slaves, I guess it's not so bad being morally upright.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on June 02, 2013, 06:24:09 pm
Chick tract?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on June 02, 2013, 06:28:33 pm
I love how LOTR is on the "Satanic" list. Does he not know that JRR Tolkein was a devout Catholic?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on June 02, 2013, 06:28:48 pm
Marihuana.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on June 02, 2013, 07:11:26 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/3lVcc0D.jpg?1)

Geez! Why don't they just ban breathing?!

And VEGETARIANISM? What does someone's eating habits have to do with anything?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on June 02, 2013, 07:14:31 pm
I love how LOTR is on the "Satanic" list. Does he not know that JRR Tolkein was a devout Catholic?

That's probably part of why it's on the list.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on June 02, 2013, 07:41:10 pm
I like how it specifies Twilight films. I guess those abominations to literature are acceptable!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on June 02, 2013, 08:02:12 pm
>video games
>Harry Potter
>Dungeons & Dragons

They might as well put "Fun" on that list too.

Also, WTF is wrong with "cyberpunk culture?"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: agentCDE on June 02, 2013, 08:04:34 pm
Cyberpunk culture?

Pink mohawks are a key part of Satan's Spiritual Structure(tm). Who knew?

...and, y'know, "Church of Satan" should be right at the top, shouldn't it? I mean really.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on June 02, 2013, 08:14:07 pm
I have a better one that I saw going around the net a few years back, supposedly from a church.

Quote
* This was handed out to parents by a church *

Is Your Child a Goth? Presented by St. Mary’s Church

Listed below are some warning signs to indicate if your child may have gone astray from the Lord. Gothic (or goth) is a very obscure and often dangerous culture that
young teenagers are prone to participating in. The gothic culture leads young, susceptible minds into an imagined world of evil, darkness, and violence. Please seek immediate attention through counselling, prayer,
and parental guidance to rid your child of Satan’s temptations if five or more of the following are applicable to your child.

1. -Frequently wears black clothing.

2. -Wears band and/or rock t-shirts.

3. -Wears excessive black eye makeup,lipstick or nail polish.

4. -Wears any odd silver jewelry or symbols.

5.-Shows an interest in piercings or tattoos.

6. -Listens to gothic or any other anti-social genres of music. (Marilyn Manson claims to be the anti-Christ, and publicly speaks against the Lord. Please discard any such albums IMMEDIATELY.)

7. -Associates with other people that dress, act or speak eccentrically.

8. -Shows a declining interest in wholesome activities, such as: the Bible, prayer, church or sports.

9. -Shows an increasing interest in death, vampires, magic, the occult, witchcraft or anything else that involves Satan.

10. -Takes drugs.

11. -Drinks alcohol.

12.  -Is suicidal and/or depressed.

13. -Cuts, burns or partakes in any other method of self-mutilation.(This is a Satanic ritual that uses pain to detract from the light of God and His love. Please seek immediate attention for this at your local mental health center.)

14. -Complains of boredom.

15. -Sleeps too excessively or too little.

16. -Is excessively awake during the night.

17. -Demands an unusual amount of privacy.

18. -Spends large amounts of time alone.

19. -Requests time alone and quietness. (This is so that your chid may speak to evil sprits through meditation.)

20. -Insists on spending time with friends while unaccompanied by an adult.

21. -Disregards authority figures; teachers, priests, nuns and elders are but a few examples of this.

22. -Misbehaves at school.

23. -Misbehaves at home.

24. -Eats excessively or too little

25. -Eats goth-related foods. Count Dracula cereal is an example of this.

26. -Drinks blood or expresses an interest in drinking blood. (Vampires believe this is how to attain Satan. This act is very dangerous and should be stopped immediately.)

27. -Watches cable television or any other corrupted media sources. (Ask your local church for proper programs that your child may watch.)

28. -Plays videos games that contains violence or role-playing nature.

29. -Uses the internet excessively and frequently makes time for the computer.

30. -Makes Satanic symbols and/or violently shakes head to music.

31. -Dances to music in a provocative or sexual manner.

32. -Expresses an interest in sex.

33. -Masturbates.

34. -Is homosexual and/or bisexual.

35. -Pursues dangerous cult religions. Such include: Satanism,
Scientology, Philosophy, Paganism, Wicca, Hinduism and Buddhism.

36. -Wears pins, stickers or anything else that contains these various phrases: “I’m so gothic, I’m dead”, “woe is me”, “I’m a goth”.

37. -Claims to be a goth.

If five or more of these apply to your child, please intervene immediately. The gothic culture is dangerous and Satan thrives within it. If any of these problems persist, enlist your child into your local mental health center.

~St. Mary’s Catholic Church

I added numbers to it so I can easily run down the list as I answer each one.

1. Yep, I wear black clothing.

2. If I could find some in my size I would totally wear band shirts.

3. I'm a guy, so I don't wear make-up, but I would consider doing to dress up for a concert, festival, or to fuck with fundies.

4. Ugh, it's stainless steel actually, but I'm sure my pentacle necklace from GI Jewelry counts. I'd love to have more pentacles, occult symbols, ect. jewelry, but I've not got around to buying it.

5. I can't say I particularly want a tattoo or piercing, but I do think some are cool and laugh at bad ones posted online.

6. Of course, I even have the mentioned artist Marilyn Manson on my Iphone's MP3 player, but it's his cover of Rammstein's song "Sonne".

7. *Looks around forum at all our odd, eccentric members. Also notes his being a brony* Oh that's a hell fucking yeah!

8. I have no "positive" interest in the former three and I'm not really interested in all the normal sports. I do like paintball, airsoft, and some other things that aren't normally the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of sports.

9. If zombies and skull emblems count, only the old school kind of vampires, yes, yes, and yes, respectively.

10. No.

11. No.

12. Depressed but I take medication and normally feel fine.

13. If burns and missing hair from a flame thrower prototype experiment counts, yeah. (See: Zippo and can of butane. Yes the kind I want to make is legal, it's a butane lighter on steroids, essentially.)

14. I'm bored at times but I don't normally complain, I just whip out my Iphone and play either Nazi Zombies or Robot Unicorn Attack 2.

15. I sleep odd hours and sometime take mid-day naps, yes.

16. Yep, I'm pretty nocturnal.

17. I don't think the amount of privacy I prefer is unusual. I mean seriously, do they expect me to leave the bathroom door open when taking a piss?

18. Yes and no. I don't spend all my time with my parents, but they're busy most of the day, my little brother is usually just playing on the computer. I don't hang out with other people in person except for weekends usually because my friends don't live very close to me. I do play on Xbox Live with my friends and I go to this sites chat some times. I not usually alone other than in the sense that there isn't someone in the room physically.

19. If I'm doing something that's hard I might ask people to be quiet for a minute, but my house is usually not very loud to begin with.

20. Of course me and my friends hang out alone. We all got our driver's licenses in the last couple years and we've all just recently graduated high school and have turned 18. That said we don't do most of the normal stupid teen stuff. In fact when one of my friend's stoner friends asked if we could take his car somewhere so he could smoke his weed the rest of gave him a "Hell no!". We went to a cigar shop but that's about it. We do do things like build flamethrowers and mess with fireworks, but I do that at home and my parents just tell us not to hurt ourselves.

21. Yes if the teacher doesn't know what they are talking about, yes, yes, and maybe depending on the circumstances, respectively.

22. Not usually, grabbed a guy by the collar and slammed him in to a wall once and threatened to do worse to him, but that was after he had grabbed my crotch. I also once told a the star football player, who was being an arrogant jackass and hated me, to go fuck himself loudly in the middle of class. I was sent to the principal, who didn't have any real problem with what I did and only made me come in 10 minutes early for detention the next day.

23. Nope, no reason to.

24. Yep, like most guys my age.

25. First, dafuq? Second, You mean Count Chocula, and I don't think they've made that in years. Three, no I don't.

26. Funny story, once, after my friend had nicked his finger with his pocket knife or something and was sucking the blood off it I made the comment that it'd be kind of cool if they made a blood flavored drink. He and another guy who were there both agreed that it'd be pretty cool, and it could totally sell because of the vampire craze Twilight started.

27. *Clicks back to page from looking at Pornhub.com* What's that now?

28. I think the least violent game I regularly play currently is Minecraft, and that still involves slashing zombies.

29. I spend almost all the time I have when I'm at my house either on the computer or on my xbox, because there's not much else to do around here.

30. Violent headbanging usually gives me a headache, but I do often nod my head to the beat of the music. Fun Fact: The "Devil Horns" hand sign came from Ronnie James Dio's very catholic mother, who said it had something to do with warding off evil back in the middle ages or something.

31. I don't dance at all really, so no. I dislike the concept that dry humping is dancing.

32. Is that really a question that needs to be asked?

33. Again, do you really need to ask that or is it rhetorical?

34. I'm neither of those, but I'm sure being a brony is close enough for these people.

35. Yes, no, yes, yes, yes, no, no, to each religion mentioned respectively. I'm interpreting "pursue" as "learn about", not necessarily following said religion. Also philosophy isn't a religion, and I'm surprised the didn't include atheism and "evolutionism" in there.

36. There are several patches I've found online that are either atheism or occult in nature that I would love to have.

37. Nope, I don't.

Now to tally it up. There are 19 hard yeses*, and a further 8 maybes** for a total of 27 out of 37. They said if 5 or more apply then the devil is inside me. What do I win?

* 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 20, 21, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35
**2, 3, 13, 14, 18, 22, 26, 36
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on June 02, 2013, 08:35:31 pm
I thought that was a Poe. The "Count Chocula" cereal bit seemed like the dealbreaker to me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on June 02, 2013, 08:37:22 pm
"Cuts, burns or partakes in any other method of self-mutilation.(This is a Satanic ritual that uses pain to detract from the light of God and His love. Please seek immediate attention for this at your local mental health center.)" Fuck you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on June 02, 2013, 08:39:49 pm
I thought that was a Poe. The "Count Chocula" cereal bit seemed like the dealbreaker to me.

Remember, these are the same people that think Harry Potter casts "genuine wiccan spells" and that he turned into a snake and bites innocent people.

I will say that the cutting thing... well, if you're cutting yourself, it isn't a satanic ritual, but it does mean you need help (not in an insulting sense, but you need someone to help you through your issues) and I'm glad they at least said "local mental health center" instead of "local church"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SkyTrekTower on June 02, 2013, 08:41:59 pm
I thought that was a Poe. The "Count Chocula" cereal bit seemed like the dealbreaker to me.

That, in addition, the fact that it is attributed to a Catholic church.  Unless that card was from several decades ago, the Catholic Church hasn't been big on Satanism being linked to everyday activities.  Current Catholic nuttiness seems to be centered around women and sex.

There are still nutty catholics, but I've never heard of an individual Catholic church engaging in the type of nonsense from that handout.

While I don't have a picture of it, when I was in Boston on Memorial Day, I saw some RV and trailer covered in signs claiming we are all born with the Spirit of Satan, need Jesus, and of course, the obligatory fundie statements decrying "lose women".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on June 02, 2013, 08:42:17 pm
Also, I got a 22 on the Goth scale. What do I win?

And most of these things sound like things almost every teenager goes through at some point or another, such as sleep disturbances.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on June 02, 2013, 08:49:22 pm
I thought that was a Poe. The "Count Chocula" cereal bit seemed like the dealbreaker to me.

Remember, these are the same people that think Harry Potter casts "genuine wiccan spells" and that he turned into a snake and bites innocent people.

I will say that the cutting thing... well, if you're cutting yourself, it isn't a satanic ritual, but it does mean you need help (not in an insulting sense, but you need someone to help you through your issues) and I'm glad they at least said "local mental health center" instead of "local church"

That's because, to whoever wrote this, the two are synonymous.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 02, 2013, 11:33:56 pm
I thought we moved past this "mental illness = possession" bullshit in the Western world, like...a century ago.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on June 02, 2013, 11:42:54 pm
11. Drinks alcohol.

So I guess the Holy Eucharist is Satanic due to the communion wine, then.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on June 03, 2013, 12:07:05 am
11. Drinks alcohol.

So I guess the Holy Eucharist is Satanic due to the communion wine, then.

A lot of fundies who push the anti-alcohol thing insist that whenever it mentioned wine in the context of Jesus, it really means grape juice.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 03, 2013, 01:03:34 am
11. Drinks alcohol.

So I guess the Holy Eucharist is Satanic due to the communion wine, then.

A lot of fundies who push the anti-alcohol thing insist that whenever it mentioned wine in the context of Jesus, it really means grape juice.

Well, they're half right, wine is grape juice...just fermented grape juice, more or less.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on June 03, 2013, 01:24:48 am
11. Drinks alcohol.

So I guess the Holy Eucharist is Satanic due to the communion wine, then.

Isn't the "alcohol is evil" thing a fundamentalist evangelical Protestant thing? The Catholic Church has never been opposed to alcohol to my knowledge...in fact, Catholics were staunch opponents of Prohibition in the 1920s.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on June 03, 2013, 01:42:29 am
11. Drinks alcohol.

So I guess the Holy Eucharist is Satanic due to the communion wine, then.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they probably meant drinking stupid amounts of alcohol until you're drunk. Also, wine is usually considered to be different from other alcoholic beverages because people usually don't drink wine with the intent of getting totally shit-faced.

Then again, it's a bit hard to try to imagine the writers of that had that much sense. The more likely option is that they're just being hypocritical, which is not at all new for churches.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on June 03, 2013, 03:12:56 am
(http://i.imgur.com/3lVcc0D.jpg?1)

Remote viewing, huh? I can view my desktop on my smartphone while I'm away from home. Guess that means I'm going to hell.

Seriously, if this list didn't have "Twilight films" I would have thought it came from the 80s.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on June 03, 2013, 04:58:40 am
(http://i.imgur.com/3lVcc0D.jpg?1)

Dungeons and Dragons is evil, but God is okay with Call of Cthulhu RPG
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on June 03, 2013, 06:18:09 am
'Remote Viewing' is, from what I've heard, a conspiracy theory about government mind-jamming.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on June 03, 2013, 09:24:21 am
I thought that was a Poe. The "Count Chocula" cereal bit seemed like the dealbreaker to me.

That, in addition, the fact that it is attributed to a Catholic church.  Unless that card was from several decades ago, the Catholic Church hasn't been big on Satanism being linked to everyday activities.  Current Catholic nuttiness seems to be centered around women and sex.

There are still nutty catholics, but I've never heard of an individual Catholic church engaging in the type of nonsense from that handout.

While I don't have a picture of it, when I was in Boston on Memorial Day, I saw some RV and trailer covered in signs claiming we are all born with the Spirit of Satan, need Jesus, and of course, the obligatory fundie statements decrying "lose women".

I'm thinking Poe or Hoax...unless this is one of those ultra-fundy, super-traditionalist, Mel Gibson-type splinter churches.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on June 03, 2013, 09:45:13 am
'Remote Viewing' is, from what I've heard, a conspiracy theory about government mind-jamming.

I thought it was a form of astral projection?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on June 03, 2013, 10:46:45 am
'Remote Viewing' is, from what I've heard, a conspiracy theory about government mind-jamming.

I thought it was a form of astral projection?

"Remote viewing" is a catch-all term for any form of divination where the person performing it is supposedly able to watch events as they happen in real time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: worlder on June 03, 2013, 12:55:01 pm
'Remote Viewing' is, from what I've heard, a conspiracy theory about government mind-jamming.

I thought it was a form of astral projection?

"Remote viewing" is a catch-all term for any form of divination where the person performing it is supposedly able to watch events as they happen in real time.

So we should smash all the TVs?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on June 03, 2013, 01:29:10 pm
I've come from an Evangelical background where, yes, they do in fact believe that drinking any alcohol is a sin, and that what Jesus drank wasn't alcoholic.

Because the Jews in the Roman era totally had a way to prevent fruit or fruit juice from fermenting.  Yep...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on June 03, 2013, 01:33:07 pm
I think I have reached my limit with the conspiratadic shit I get from this woman I know. 

(http://i.imgur.com/pnvhskB.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on June 03, 2013, 02:15:34 pm
I think I have reached my limit with the conspiratadic shit I get from this woman I know. 

(http://i.imgur.com/pnvhskB.jpg)

The funny thing is that atheists are very under-represented in prison. Most prisoners read bibles because they are already religious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on June 03, 2013, 03:39:30 pm
I think I have reached my limit with the conspiratadic shit I get from this woman I know. 

(http://i.imgur.com/pnvhskB.jpg)

When I was in school back in the 90s, the Bible was available for checkout at the school library along with many other religious texts.
Students were free to check them out, bring their own Bibles and even have Bible study groups on school property. The ONLY thing that's prohibited is the staff cannot lead or encourage students or show preference to any one specific religion. I doubt things have changed much since then.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on June 03, 2013, 04:08:06 pm
I think I have reached my limit with the conspiratadic shit I get from this woman I know. 

(http://i.imgur.com/pnvhskB.jpg)

When I was in school back in the 90s, the Bible was available for checkout at the school library along with many other religious texts.
Students were free to check them out, bring their own Bibles and even have Bible study groups on school property. The ONLY thing that's prohibited is the staff cannot lead or encourage students or show preference to any one specific religion. I doubt things have changed much since then.

It ok to have a bible study class in a public school. The school I went to, before I moved to the one I recently graduated from and posted about in F&B, had a bible study class. The thing was that it had to be treated in an impartial manner or something. They read it in the same way you would read a novel, and couldn't endorse it as a religious text.

Now, whether the teacher actually did that, I don't know.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on June 03, 2013, 04:32:53 pm
I think I have reached my limit with the conspiratadic shit I get from this woman I know. 

(http://i.imgur.com/pnvhskB.jpg)

When I was in school back in the 90s, the Bible was available for checkout at the school library along with many other religious texts.
Students were free to check them out, bring their own Bibles and even have Bible study groups on school property. The ONLY thing that's prohibited is the staff cannot lead or encourage students or show preference to any one specific religion. I doubt things have changed much since then.

It ok to have a bible study class in a public school. The school I went to, before I moved to the one I recently graduated from and posted about in F&B, had a bible study class. The thing was that it had to be treated in an impartial manner or something. They read it in the same way you would read a novel, and couldn't endorse it as a religious text.

Now, whether the teacher actually did that, I don't know.

We had an assembly once where a Christian group came to our school and showed us this propagandery video about reformed drug addicts and criminials who became Christians. They left a load of free bibles for everyone as well afterwards.

Looking back i'm surprised my school had them there, because it wasn't religious at all. Apart from that one weird assembly there was no bias either for or against Christianity.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on June 03, 2013, 05:08:35 pm
Wingnut's "dream map" of the Middle East:

(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk219/WhisperFan/NewMap.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: worlder on June 03, 2013, 05:41:14 pm
Well according to that map we now have to built the more expensive oil rigs compared to land based wells to get at the petroleum.

That is assuming there is still petroleum in that crater. If not, congratulations you want a future where we used perfectly good uranium to destroy perfectly good oil just because you maker of this dream map are a hateful hateful person.

Also you might have doom all life on the planet because of all the dust kicked up into the atmosphere.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on June 03, 2013, 05:56:53 pm
Watch this shit end up on the "cover" of Inspire....

Way to go there, wingnut, you heinous, toxic piece of inhuman shite.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on June 03, 2013, 06:20:15 pm
Well according to that map we now have to built the more expensive oil rigs compared to land based wells to get at the petroleum.

That is assuming there is still petroleum in that crater. If not, congratulations you want a future where we used perfectly good uranium to destroy perfectly good oil just because you maker of this dream map are a hateful hateful person.

Also you might have doom all life on the planet because of all the dust kicked up into the atmosphere.

I'd say pretty much all life on Earth would be completely fucked. The Chicxulub crater left by the meteor that killed the dinosaurs is only about 110 miles across. Anything that could make a crater of this size would make it look like a pop gun going off.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on June 03, 2013, 06:35:48 pm
Wingnut's "dream map" of the Middle East:

(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk219/WhisperFan/NewMap.jpg)

So....why are we nuking the entire middle east for?

Ironbite-other then "BROWN PEOPLE LIVE THERE!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on June 03, 2013, 07:15:50 pm

So....why are we nuking the entire middle east for?

Ironbite-other then "BROWN PEOPLE LIVE THERE!"

Prolly because they're all Muzzie terrorists in the wingnut mindset or something.

The thing that gets me is the people who fantasize about this type of shit never stop to think about the foreign civilians who are in the Middle East for any number of legitimate reasons. For an attack like this to work, it would have to come as a surprise, which means the government couldn't warn people in advance. That would mean a whole bunch foreign non-combatants (Americans included) would die.

The wingnuts go apeshit because some Americans got killed by terrorists, but they want to turn around and kill thousands of Americans who would happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on June 03, 2013, 09:59:10 pm
Or the fact that upon detecting the incoming missiles, Israel would fire its own nuclear arsenal at the US.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on June 03, 2013, 10:36:19 pm
Or the fact that upon detecting the incoming missiles, Israel would fire its own nuclear arsenal at the US.

No, it's okay, look at the picture. Israel is magically unharmed, since bombs obviously just stop at the border of the explosion and do no excess damage.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on June 03, 2013, 11:21:58 pm
Well according to that map we now have to built the more expensive oil rigs compared to land based wells to get at the petroleum.

That is assuming there is still petroleum in that crater. If not, congratulations you want a future where we used perfectly good uranium to destroy perfectly good oil just because you maker of this dream map are a hateful hateful person.

Also you might have doom all life on the planet because of all the dust kicked up into the atmosphere.

I'd say pretty much all life on Earth would be completely fucked. The Chicxulub crater left by the meteor that killed the dinosaurs is only about 110 miles across. Anything that could make a crater of this size would make it look like a pop gun going off.

Does humanity even have a bomb that can make a crater that big?  I know the tsar bomb is enormous, but would even that be large enough and have enough force to make a crater that big?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on June 03, 2013, 11:40:33 pm
I think we have enough nuclear power to wipeout most animal life
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on June 03, 2013, 11:59:42 pm
Well according to that map we now have to built the more expensive oil rigs compared to land based wells to get at the petroleum.

That is assuming there is still petroleum in that crater. If not, congratulations you want a future where we used perfectly good uranium to destroy perfectly good oil just because you maker of this dream map are a hateful hateful person.

Also you might have doom all life on the planet because of all the dust kicked up into the atmosphere.

I'd say pretty much all life on Earth would be completely fucked. The Chicxulub crater left by the meteor that killed the dinosaurs is only about 110 miles across. Anything that could make a crater of this size would make it look like a pop gun going off.

Does humanity even have a bomb that can make a crater that big?  I know the tsar bomb is enormous, but would even that be large enough and have enough force to make a crater that big?

A crater that big would have been caused by an explosion that wiped out all human life on Earth. I mean if it was done with a nuke then the radiation would have been spread all over the planet, causing additional damage and even with a conventional bomb the smoke and debris would have blotted out the sun causing another ice-age. In fact the explosion might have thrown some debris out of the orbit considering how huge that crater is.

Then there is the possibility that it would have been caused by a meteorite, which would be more believable, but it would still have wiped out most of the life on Earth if it caused a crater that huge. I mean the meteorite that took out most of the dinosaurs was MUCH smaller.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on June 04, 2013, 06:42:14 am
No, no nuke is powerful enough to make this. The only way humanity could achieve this to go catch a large asteroid (a really large one, maybe even a dwarf planet) and throw it. An impact event that big would sterilise the Earth and strip the oceans and atmosphere at the very least. We're about halfway to Alderaan with this.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on June 04, 2013, 07:04:42 am
No, no nuke is powerful enough to make this. The only way humanity could achieve this to go catch a large asteroid (a really large one, maybe even a dwarf planet) and throw it. An impact event that big would sterilise the Earth and strip the oceans and atmosphere at the very least. We're about halfway to Alderaan with this.
I am always bothered when some work of fiction has a planet-killer weapon that actually blows up the planet, because usually* it is overkill. Really, all it takes to wipe out most of the life on the planet would be to destroy the surface and the atmosphere, why bother using up energy to destroy the WHOLE planet?

*Apart from those situations where the thing you want to kill is either REALLY deep underneath the surface or the thing you need to destroy actually is the planet! (Living planet, planet constructs etc.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on June 04, 2013, 11:24:56 am
I think I have reached my limit with the conspiratadic shit I get from this woman I know. 

(http://i.imgur.com/pnvhskB.jpg)

When I was in school back in the 90s, the Bible was available for checkout at the school library along with many other religious texts.
Students were free to check them out, bring their own Bibles and even have Bible study groups on school property. The ONLY thing that's prohibited is the staff cannot lead or encourage students or show preference to any one specific religion. I doubt things have changed much since then.


Our freshman year, first semester english class was the bible as in literature.  We even had a test over various creation texts, Christian, Navajo, Hindu, and this was in 1994.   
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dynamic Dragon on June 08, 2013, 02:57:53 pm
(http://www.strangemilitary.com/images/content/115670.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Potenatae Argyros on June 10, 2013, 12:45:15 pm
(http://www.strangemilitary.com/images/content/115670.jpg)

Yeah, go ahead and give our wingnuts, the ELD & BNP, and you average Anders Breivik more ammunition to attack Muslims. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on June 10, 2013, 08:13:10 pm
I think I have reached my limit with the conspiratadic shit I get from this woman I know. 

(http://i.imgur.com/pnvhskB.jpg)

When I was in school back in the 90s, the Bible was available for checkout at the school library along with many other religious texts.
Students were free to check them out, bring their own Bibles and even have Bible study groups on school property. The ONLY thing that's prohibited is the staff cannot lead or encourage students or show preference to any one specific religion. I doubt things have changed much since then.


Our freshman year, first semester english class was the bible as in literature.  We even had a test over various creation texts, Christian, Navajo, Hindu, and this was in 1994.   

2005-2006 we had prayer circles during lunch. We went to the doors away from everyone during lunch. This was when I was still figuring out my religion and had been invited so I figured why not.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on July 03, 2013, 12:23:01 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/kqcuu9I.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on July 03, 2013, 12:38:24 pm

Clueless, defined.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 03, 2013, 12:45:51 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/kqcuu9I.jpg)
Perhaps he's a FTM transsexual?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on July 03, 2013, 04:22:41 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/kqcuu9I.jpg)
Perhaps he's a FTM transsexual?

Or he pressured a woman to have one?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on July 03, 2013, 04:49:29 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/kqcuu9I.jpg)

You are a medical mystery then sir.

Ironbite-please submit yourself to science so we can find out how you got pregnant in the first place.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on July 03, 2013, 05:25:57 pm
Wingnut's "dream map" of the Middle East:

(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk219/WhisperFan/NewMap.jpg)

So....why are we nuking the entire middle east for?

Ironbite-other then "BROWN PEOPLE LIVE THERE!"

They defended themselves a bit. That was annoying. YOU MUST DIE.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 03, 2013, 05:49:34 pm
Wingnut's "dream map" of the Middle East:

(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk219/WhisperFan/NewMap.jpg)

So....why are we nuking the entire middle east for?

Ironbite-other then "BROWN PEOPLE LIVE THERE!"

They defended themselves a bit. That was annoying. YOU MUST DIE.
I must admit, I find it highly amusing that they wipe out Israel, too, but not Egypt. It's like they don't even remember which side they support there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on July 03, 2013, 06:28:46 pm
Somehow actually if you look closely israel survives
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: LeTipex on July 03, 2013, 06:44:01 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/kqcuu9I.jpg)
I...
WHAT.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on July 03, 2013, 07:06:53 pm
Check out the fetus picture on his shirt. Maybe it's a man-bear-pig. Looks like it's gotta snout, in any case.

So, he regrets pressuring her to abort that precious little miracle/nightmare of Science/Satan?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadmanJohnson on July 03, 2013, 07:36:07 pm
Demon baby! Kill it! Kill it now! Rip it's undead flesh to pieces!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on July 03, 2013, 09:29:57 pm
Something I've always wanted to ask rabid pro-lifers is if they would abort if they found out they were pregnant with the Antichrist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 03, 2013, 09:38:50 pm
Somehow actually if you look closely israel survives
Huh. So it does. Well, it becomes a radioactive wasteland, but yeah.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on July 03, 2013, 09:42:48 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/kqcuu9I.jpg)

In absolute fairness, it is entirely possible that he was at one time part of a couple that decided abortion was their best option and now regrets it. That would make it "his" abortion in so much as he was part of the decision. "I regret our abortion" would be a more apt phrasing in that case, but there's probably not enough call for them to mass produce those and "I regret her abortion" would send the wrong message.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on July 03, 2013, 09:55:56 pm
Something I've always wanted to ask rabid pro-lifers is if they would abort if they found out they were pregnant with the Antichrist.

They would say the child has freewill.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 03, 2013, 10:54:51 pm
Something I've always wanted to ask rabid pro-lifers is if they would abort if they found out they were pregnant with the Antichrist.

They would say the child has freewill.
Which is funny, because they always say that the person that they think is the Antichrist this moment needs to die.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on July 03, 2013, 10:59:35 pm
Something I've always wanted to ask rabid pro-lifers is if they would abort if they found out they were pregnant with the Antichrist.

They would say the child has freewill.
Which is funny, because they always say that the person that they think is the Antichrist this moment needs to die.

They also get super pissy if you remind them that the Antichrist is preordained per their flavor of Christianity. He has no choice as he was a vessel prechosen by god for a divine purpose much the same as Jesus. Thus negating the child's freewill.

No, I've never had this argument before. (*s)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 03, 2013, 11:05:39 pm
Something I've always wanted to ask rabid pro-lifers is if they would abort if they found out they were pregnant with the Antichrist.

They would say the child has freewill.
Which is funny, because they always say that the person that they think is the Antichrist this moment needs to die.

They also get super pissy if you remind them that the Antichrist is preordained per their flavor of Christianity. He has no choice as he was a vessel prechosen by god for a divine purpose much the same as Jesus. Thus negating the child's freewill.

No, I've never had this argument before. (*s)
They get even pissier when you remind them they keep begging for Jesus to come, but forget that for Armageddon to come, the Antichrist must be here. No Antichrist = No Rapture or Armageddon (and I've been so avoiding using the much more swear-filled Manson song title in place of Armageddon).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on July 03, 2013, 11:13:07 pm
Something I've always wanted to ask rabid pro-lifers is if they would abort if they found out they were pregnant with the Antichrist.

They would say the child has freewill.
Which is funny, because they always say that the person that they think is the Antichrist this moment needs to die.

They also get super pissy if you remind them that the Antichrist is preordained per their flavor of Christianity. He has no choice as he was a vessel prechosen by god for a divine purpose much the same as Jesus. Thus negating the child's freewill.

No, I've never had this argument before. (*s)
They get even pissier when you remind them they keep begging for Jesus to come, but forget that for Armageddon to come, the Antichrist must be here. No Antichrist = No Rapture or Armageddon (and I've been so avoiding using the much more swear-filled Manson song title in place of Armageddon).

You realize most of them do want Armageddon. Some have even said stuff like, "Imagine how beautiful it will be to see all the heathens burn!*"

*I'm pretty sure I've seen something to that effect on the main page multiple times.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 03, 2013, 11:23:15 pm
Something I've always wanted to ask rabid pro-lifers is if they would abort if they found out they were pregnant with the Antichrist.

They would say the child has freewill.
Which is funny, because they always say that the person that they think is the Antichrist this moment needs to die.

They also get super pissy if you remind them that the Antichrist is preordained per their flavor of Christianity. He has no choice as he was a vessel prechosen by god for a divine purpose much the same as Jesus. Thus negating the child's freewill.

No, I've never had this argument before. (*s)
They get even pissier when you remind them they keep begging for Jesus to come, but forget that for Armageddon to come, the Antichrist must be here. No Antichrist = No Rapture or Armageddon (and I've been so avoiding using the much more swear-filled Manson song title in place of Armageddon).

You realize most of them do want Armageddon. Some have even said stuff like, "Imagine how beautiful it will be to see all the heathens burn!*"

*I'm pretty sure I've seen something to that effect on the main page multiple times.
That's my point. They keep freaking out that so-and-so is the Antichrist (like, Obama or Marilyn Manson), yet logically, they should be trying to warn people and trying to defeat them, they should be so friggin happy. If they beat the Antichrist or kill him, Apocalypse goes the way of Firefly.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on July 03, 2013, 11:28:39 pm
Something I've always wanted to ask rabid pro-lifers is if they would abort if they found out they were pregnant with the Antichrist.

They would say the child has freewill.
Which is funny, because they always say that the person that they think is the Antichrist this moment needs to die.

They also get super pissy if you remind them that the Antichrist is preordained per their flavor of Christianity. He has no choice as he was a vessel prechosen by god for a divine purpose much the same as Jesus. Thus negating the child's freewill.

No, I've never had this argument before. (*s)
They get even pissier when you remind them they keep begging for Jesus to come, but forget that for Armageddon to come, the Antichrist must be here. No Antichrist = No Rapture or Armageddon (and I've been so avoiding using the much more swear-filled Manson song title in place of Armageddon).

You realize most of them do want Armageddon. Some have even said stuff like, "Imagine how beautiful it will be to see all the heathens burn!*"

*I'm pretty sure I've seen something to that effect on the main page multiple times.
That's my point. They keep freaking out that so-and-so is the Antichrist (like, Obama or Marilyn Manson), yet logically, they should be trying to warn people and trying to defeat them, they should be so friggin happy. If they beat the Antichrist or kill him, Apocalypse goes the way of Firefly.

This a thousand times. If they want to shout "come lord Jesus" shouldn't they be trying to encourage the "downfall of morality?"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 03, 2013, 11:39:36 pm
Something I've always wanted to ask rabid pro-lifers is if they would abort if they found out they were pregnant with the Antichrist.

They would say the child has freewill.
Which is funny, because they always say that the person that they think is the Antichrist this moment needs to die.

They also get super pissy if you remind them that the Antichrist is preordained per their flavor of Christianity. He has no choice as he was a vessel prechosen by god for a divine purpose much the same as Jesus. Thus negating the child's freewill.

No, I've never had this argument before. (*s)
They get even pissier when you remind them they keep begging for Jesus to come, but forget that for Armageddon to come, the Antichrist must be here. No Antichrist = No Rapture or Armageddon (and I've been so avoiding using the much more swear-filled Manson song title in place of Armageddon).

You realize most of them do want Armageddon. Some have even said stuff like, "Imagine how beautiful it will be to see all the heathens burn!*"

*I'm pretty sure I've seen something to that effect on the main page multiple times.
That's my point. They keep freaking out that so-and-so is the Antichrist (like, Obama or Marilyn Manson), yet logically, they should be trying to warn people and trying to defeat them, they should be so friggin happy. If they beat the Antichrist or kill him, Apocalypse goes the way of Firefly.

This a thousand times. If they want to shout "come lord Jesus" shouldn't they be trying to encourage the "downfall of morality?"
Well, no, but they shouldn't complain. If they encourage it, they are a part of it and also damned in their eyes. But if they don't give a fuck, then things progress the way they need.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on July 04, 2013, 07:01:09 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/b0b5091a8b5bdfb247cc69dc5adff209/tumblr_mpbiknjvyN1qhh1jlo1_1280.jpg)

Someone responded to the poster with this:

Quote
This is something I feel compelled to talk about as a white person.

In very, very few situations have I been a minority. I went to a racially diverse high school and now a racially diverse college and I can still, at any given moment, count on turning my head and seeing someone that looks like me. I would say that GSU’s racial make-up ensures a similar experience for students of most othet backgrounds, which is a glorious thing.

I think it’s awesome that so many culturally and racially infused clubs exist at GSU. It’s nice that the university holds to its promise to support diversity.

Recently, a white student union was chartered and it troubles me deeply. The club itself is a problem, but the language presented on this flyer is what ultimately inspired me to write this.

This club was chartered not in an effort to promote community amongst a group of people but as a retaliation against other groups joining together to promote community. The flyer indicates that blatantly.

As far as I’m concerned, the last time a group of white people banded together as a retaliation against minority cultural unity, they called it the KKK.

White students do not need a club to find each other on campus. They don’t need a safe space to discuss the consequences of being a racial minority. The university system in general is a white student union.

Cultural and racial community groups should not be started in an effort to make a point. They should be created as an open space for educated dialogue about history, customs, issues, and progress. The topic of discussion should never be “Ha, we did it."

And that’s all I have to say about that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on July 04, 2013, 07:28:33 pm
Sums it up better than a million angry screeds.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on July 04, 2013, 08:27:59 pm
The person responding to the poster put it a lot better than I ever could have.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on July 05, 2013, 09:28:28 am
And to add: at college you have a bunch of frats and sororities, too. That are ultra-white. So a white "club" isn't needed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on July 06, 2013, 10:06:32 pm
Schizophrenia is sad, and mildly entertaining. 
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on July 06, 2013, 10:12:18 pm
Honestly that guy is o messed up I dont hold it against him
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 06, 2013, 10:26:20 pm
Schizophrenia is sad, and mildly entertaining. 
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The most disturbing thing is that it's, according to his house, in Lake County, Ohio. I used to live in Lake County, Florida, and we had a dude down the road with a truck we called the Obamunism mobile, because it had tons of stuff like that on it, with Obamunism on the side.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Mister Argent! on July 07, 2013, 11:49:58 am
Somehow i'm reminded of the Toynbee Tiles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on July 08, 2013, 02:14:13 pm
WTF is a blue n*****? And what's up with the little hearts in place of hyphens?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 08, 2013, 02:18:10 pm
WTF is a blue n*****? And what's up with the little hearts in place of hyphens?
Which picture are you speaking of?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on July 08, 2013, 02:20:32 pm
This one:

(click to show/hide)

Probably should have quoted the original message.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on July 08, 2013, 02:24:46 pm
WTF is a blue n*****? And what's up with the little hearts in place of hyphens?

Urban Dictionary claims it's Amish who can't function outside the Amish community.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on July 08, 2013, 02:25:30 pm
This one:

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Probably should have quoted the original message.

Now that's a whole lot of Wharrgarbl.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 08, 2013, 02:36:17 pm
WTF is a blue n*****? And what's up with the little hearts in place of hyphens?

I guess "blue" refers to the Democratic Party (as in 'Blue State'). The rest is self explanatory. The hearts seem to be around the word, "America".

This guy has a major case of bonkers. He could benefit from a good, progressive health care/mental health system reform.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on July 12, 2013, 10:53:54 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/3e3e0f3e8229666da5351c2333b111b2/tumblr_mpt17koJsS1rtjquoo5_500.jpg)

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/cd4f256f77502f9217861df0d6fa1264/tumblr_mpt17koJsS1rtjquoo3_400.jpg)

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/3d2f1ed2e4b04db56657e9912e5b81e4/tumblr_mpt17koJsS1rtjquoo4_400.jpg)
The fuck does the last one mean?

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/1bc2a45ca0051714b46766668b3ac9c2/tumblr_mpt17koJsS1rtjquoo2_500.jpg)

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/dffa6b2f383e8e6ec685af0eef75c667/tumblr_mpt17koJsS1rtjquoo7_400.jpg)

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/b8d06680ed7c7018761fe65e7a13dda0/tumblr_mpt17koJsS1rtjquoo9_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on July 12, 2013, 11:21:37 am
I don't understand how anyone could describe the women in that "After Feminism" photo as hideous.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on July 12, 2013, 01:53:10 pm
I don't understand how anyone could describe the women in that "After Feminism" photo as hideous.

Probably because they aren't wearing tiny scraps of cloth that barely cover their breasts.

I've never understood the sci-fi convention of having everyone wear bathing suits as casual wear.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on July 12, 2013, 03:12:50 pm
Because...FUTURE!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on July 12, 2013, 03:17:43 pm
Also, I kinda want the deranged she-beast t-shirt.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on July 12, 2013, 04:05:43 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/3d2f1ed2e4b04db56657e9912e5b81e4/tumblr_mpt17koJsS1rtjquoo4_400.jpg)
The fuck does the last one mean?

I think it means that women went from existing to compliment the men, to women realizing they're fully functional people individually, making them people who are opposite in sex, rather than just "beings who are meant to be complimentary to men."

In other words, before - existed for men, after - existed for themselves.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on July 12, 2013, 04:25:40 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/3d2f1ed2e4b04db56657e9912e5b81e4/tumblr_mpt17koJsS1rtjquoo4_400.jpg)
The fuck does the last one mean?

I think it means that women went from existing to compliment the men, to women realizing they're fully functional people individually, making them people who are opposite in sex, rather than just "beings who are meant to be complimentary to men."

In other words, before - existed for men, after - existed for themselves.

I'm amused that the list "willful" as one of the positive qualities of "before feminism". I thought they hated willful women?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 12, 2013, 04:54:53 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/3e3e0f3e8229666da5351c2333b111b2/tumblr_mpt17koJsS1rtjquoo5_500.jpg)
Reminds me of this:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Marilyn_Manson_eight_studio_album_logo.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on July 12, 2013, 05:06:09 pm
Does the M stand for "Male" in that picture?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 12, 2013, 05:21:03 pm
Does the M stand for "Male" in that picture?
Nope. It's one of Marilyn Manson's recent symbols (he also has it tattooed on his chest).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on July 12, 2013, 05:28:22 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/3d2f1ed2e4b04db56657e9912e5b81e4/tumblr_mpt17koJsS1rtjquoo4_400.jpg)
The fuck does the last one mean?

I think it means that women went from existing to compliment the men, to women realizing they're fully functional people individually, making them people who are opposite in sex, rather than just "beings who are meant to be complimentary to men."

In other words, before - existed for men, after - existed for themselves.

Ahh that makes sense. Thanks.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on July 12, 2013, 07:07:56 pm
At the risk of engaging in Tumblr-style label semantics, when I think about it, neither term is really that great. "Complimentary" implies just what you said, but "opposite" implies opposition, enemies.

Quote
I'm amused that the list "willful" as one of the positive qualities of "before feminism". I thought they hated willful women?

Opposite to it is "ignorant." But the person wrote "half a brain" up above as a good quality of women pre-feminism (vs. no brain). So, apparently, they wrote themselves into a corner. They were smart enough not to contradict themselves, but too stubborn to take an item off of the list. So they just threw down some shit that made no sense. They'd probably define "willful" as "knowing what's good for them," or something.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 12, 2013, 07:45:57 pm
I think the word he was searching for was complementary, judging by context.

Not necessarily better, mind.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on July 12, 2013, 10:42:51 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/3d2f1ed2e4b04db56657e9912e5b81e4/tumblr_mpt17koJsS1rtjquoo4_400.jpg)
The fuck does the last one mean?

I think it means that women went from existing to compliment the men, to women realizing they're fully functional people individually, making them people who are opposite in sex, rather than just "beings who are meant to be complimentary to men."

In other words, before - existed for men, after - existed for themselves.

Ahh that makes sense. Thanks.

Surprised no one has mentioned lopsided yet. Does feminism make one boob grow bigger than the other or something?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on July 12, 2013, 10:58:54 pm
No, but it causes them to appear that way due to camera angles & a raised arm. Feminism is tricksy like that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on July 13, 2013, 12:28:35 am
At the risk of engaging in Tumblr-style label semantics, when I think about it, neither term is really that great. "Complimentary" implies just what you said, but "opposite" implies opposition, enemies.

Opposite doesn't necessarily imply "enemy", but rather, well, oppositeness. Like saying short is the opposite of tall doesn't imply short people are the enemies of tall people.

Semantics fight! Woo!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on July 17, 2013, 02:51:57 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/3e550b977c462718a912482219ab0360/tumblr_mpwaa4BMtS1syitgfo1_500.jpg)

Go away.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on July 17, 2013, 03:57:51 am
At the risk of engaging in Tumblr-style label semantics, when I think about it, neither term is really that great. "Complimentary" implies just what you said, but "opposite" implies opposition, enemies.

Opposite doesn't necessarily imply "enemy", but rather, well, oppositeness. Like saying short is the opposite of tall doesn't imply short people are the enemies of tall people.

Semantics fight! Woo!

Kinda pointless, since I know what it's supposed to imply, but I think we'd be kidding ourselves if we claimed that this "oppositeness" wasn't used to promote adversarial behavior, like the wage gap, & the justifications thereof.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on July 17, 2013, 05:02:22 am
At the risk of engaging in Tumblr-style label semantics, when I think about it, neither term is really that great. "Complimentary" implies just what you said, but "opposite" implies opposition, enemies.

Opposite doesn't necessarily imply "enemy", but rather, well, oppositeness. Like saying short is the opposite of tall doesn't imply short people are the enemies of tall people.

Semantics fight! Woo!

If we really go into semantics, then this isn't technically a fight. Debate or discussion maybe.

...It's not a fight untill someone brings out a knife.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 17, 2013, 08:57:25 am
At the risk of engaging in Tumblr-style label semantics, when I think about it, neither term is really that great. "Complimentary" implies just what you said, but "opposite" implies opposition, enemies.

Opposite doesn't necessarily imply "enemy", but rather, well, oppositeness. Like saying short is the opposite of tall doesn't imply short people are the enemies of tall people.

Semantics fight! Woo!

If we really go into semantics, then this isn't technically a fight. Debate or discussion maybe.

...It's not a fight untill someone brings out a knife.
What if they bring out guns? Or planes? Or attack elephants?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on July 17, 2013, 10:03:58 am
At the risk of engaging in Tumblr-style label semantics, when I think about it, neither term is really that great. "Complimentary" implies just what you said, but "opposite" implies opposition, enemies.

Opposite doesn't necessarily imply "enemy", but rather, well, oppositeness. Like saying short is the opposite of tall doesn't imply short people are the enemies of tall people.

Semantics fight! Woo!

If we really go into semantics, then this isn't technically a fight. Debate or discussion maybe.

...It's not a fight untill someone brings out a knife.
What if they bring out guns? Or planes? Or attack elephants?
Guns are specifically covered in the gunfight/shootout subsection. Planes and attack elephants might take it up to "conflict and/or battle" levels.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on July 17, 2013, 10:15:33 am
Could I bring in my battalion of trained battle kittens?

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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on July 17, 2013, 10:34:20 am
Could I bring in my battalion of trained battle kittens?

(click to show/hide)

Only if I can have sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on July 17, 2013, 11:13:35 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/3d2f1ed2e4b04db56657e9912e5b81e4/tumblr_mpt17koJsS1rtjquoo4_400.jpg)
The fuck does the last one mean?

I think it means that women went from existing to compliment the men, to women realizing they're fully functional people individually, making them people who are opposite in sex, rather than just "beings who are meant to be complimentary to men."

In other words, before - existed for men, after - existed for themselves.

Ahh that makes sense. Thanks.

Surprised no one has mentioned lopsided yet. Does feminism make one boob grow bigger than the other or something?

I'm still trying ot figure out why before feminism, women came from outer space.   I mean who wears a silver bikini with a matching cape and cowl?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on July 17, 2013, 11:21:10 am
At the risk of engaging in Tumblr-style label semantics, when I think about it, neither term is really that great. "Complimentary" implies just what you said, but "opposite" implies opposition, enemies.

Opposite doesn't necessarily imply "enemy", but rather, well, oppositeness. Like saying short is the opposite of tall doesn't imply short people are the enemies of tall people.

Semantics fight! Woo!

If we really go into semantics, then this isn't technically a fight. Debate or discussion maybe.

...It's not a fight untill someone brings out a knife.

I have a knife out constantly. Not to mention The Destroyer.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on July 17, 2013, 07:03:24 pm
Behold, Darth Octopus!

(http://i565.photobucket.com/albums/ss95/animalswithlightsabers/saberpus.jpg)

Also: http://animalswithlightsabers.tumblr.com
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 17, 2013, 07:24:43 pm
I was gonna ask if that was off topic then I remembered what was currently being discussed.

Carry on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on July 18, 2013, 12:39:58 am
I was gonna ask if that was off topic then I remembered what was currently being discussed.

Carry on.
It is moments like these that remind me that I love this forum and everyone on it.

...Well almost everyone.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 18, 2013, 11:05:48 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/3e550b977c462718a912482219ab0360/tumblr_mpwaa4BMtS1syitgfo1_500.jpg)

Go away.

It just floors me...the Stockholm Syndrome.....
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 18, 2013, 01:29:54 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/3e550b977c462718a912482219ab0360/tumblr_mpwaa4BMtS1syitgfo1_500.jpg)

Go away.

It just floors me...the Stockholm Syndrome.....
The doublethink, too. You can't slut-shame when you're fake as a wedding cake. Plucked eyebrows, eyeliner, eyeshadow, mascara, bleached hair, nail polish, and chances are, more when she's not just lounging around her room.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on July 18, 2013, 02:05:09 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/3e550b977c462718a912482219ab0360/tumblr_mpwaa4BMtS1syitgfo1_500.jpg)

Go away.

It just floors me...the Stockholm Syndrome.....
The doublethink, too. You can't slut-shame when you're fake as a wedding cake. Plucked eyebrows, eyeliner, eyeshadow, mascara, bleached hair, nail polish, and chances are, more when she's not just lounging around her room.
That's parody. She doesn't like feminism and made that poster because she thinks that's how the average feminist operates.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 18, 2013, 02:48:12 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/3e550b977c462718a912482219ab0360/tumblr_mpwaa4BMtS1syitgfo1_500.jpg)

Go away.

It just floors me...the Stockholm Syndrome.....
The doublethink, too. You can't slut-shame when you're fake as a wedding cake. Plucked eyebrows, eyeliner, eyeshadow, mascara, bleached hair, nail polish, and chances are, more when she's not just lounging around her room.
That's parody. She doesn't like feminism and made that poster because she thinks that's how the average feminist operates.
I know the poster is parody. My point is, she's slut-shaming, yet I doubt she bleached her hair (that's not a short-term thing), plucked her eyebrows and did up her makeup for the parody. You're giving fundies far too much credit. Chances are, she always looks like that, which is ironic, because she'd likely go and call anyone else who did that sluts.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on July 21, 2013, 11:47:49 am
(http://i.imgur.com/V73D3oM.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 21, 2013, 12:44:41 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/V73D3oM.jpg)

"RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR ALL!"

*Cue that Montoya quote*

This person might also be a Quiverfull...look at those cute like stick figure/family decals...tons of critters, too! That's a big family!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 21, 2013, 01:04:17 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/V73D3oM.jpg)

"RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR ALL!"

*Cue that Montoya quote*

This person might also be a Quiverfull...look at those cute like stick figure/family decals...tons of critters, too! That's a big family!
Three dogs, four cats, eleven kids, mom and dad. Every sperm is sacred!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 21, 2013, 01:12:35 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/V73D3oM.jpg)

"RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR ALL!"

*Cue that Montoya quote*

This person might also be a Quiverfull...look at those cute like stick figure/family decals...tons of critters, too! That's a big family!
Three dogs, four cats, eleven kids, mom and dad. Every sperm is sacred!

It's like a day-care & kennel all in one!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: worlder on July 21, 2013, 03:40:00 pm
That is not street legal!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on July 21, 2013, 03:45:52 pm
Am I the only one who thinks this person probably wants all religions other than Christianity and possibly Judaism outlawed?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 21, 2013, 03:51:07 pm
Am I the only one who thinks this person probably wants all religions other than Christianity and possibly Judaism outlawed?
Nope. There's no such thing as an anti-Obama "religious freedom" supporter that supports religious freedom.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on July 21, 2013, 05:00:36 pm
Am I the only one who thinks this person probably wants all religions other than Christianity and possibly Judaism outlawed?

I thought that the moment I began reading that shit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 21, 2013, 07:59:42 pm
I thought that 5 minutes before I even clicked on this topic.

Quantum states are weird.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on July 22, 2013, 03:48:28 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/5312f644759f6bd7f0ff8c5f6d2cf86a/tumblr_mq7qqlf1UE1reuhd3o1_500.jpg)

I was gonna put this as awesome because of the pun but decided to put it in dumbest cause of the message.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on July 22, 2013, 05:13:36 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/5312f644759f6bd7f0ff8c5f6d2cf86a/tumblr_mq7qqlf1UE1reuhd3o1_500.jpg)

I was gonna put this as awesome because of the pun but decided to put it in dumbest cause of the message.

Don't read about other fictional characters!  Our fictional character is more real because he said so!

*rolls eyes*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on July 22, 2013, 06:27:55 am
Am I the only one who thinks this person probably wants all religions other than Christianity and possibly Judaism outlawed?
Nope. There's no such thing as an anti-Obama "religious freedom" supporter that supports religious freedom.
Oh, I'm sure there is. Not all fundies are fundie about everything.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadmanJohnson on July 22, 2013, 07:03:17 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/5312f644759f6bd7f0ff8c5f6d2cf86a/tumblr_mq7qqlf1UE1reuhd3o1_500.jpg)

I was gonna put this as awesome because of the pun but decided to put it in dumbest cause of the message.

Don't read about other fictional characters!  Our fictional character is more real because he said so!

*rolls eyes*
/History Nitpick There was really a Jesus of Nazareth. Just pointing that out.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on July 22, 2013, 07:33:50 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/5312f644759f6bd7f0ff8c5f6d2cf86a/tumblr_mq7qqlf1UE1reuhd3o1_500.jpg)

I was gonna put this as awesome because of the pun but decided to put it in dumbest cause of the message.

Don't read about other fictional characters!  Our fictional character is more real because he said so!

*rolls eyes*
/History Nitpick There was really a Jesus of Nazareth. Just pointing that out.

I thought there were a bunch of guys at the time who were gunning for the "Jewish Messiah" position, and that Jesus was just cobbled together during the Dark Ages using one of their names (Yeshua, but went with "Jesus" because "Josh" wasn't too mystical-sounding) and a bunch of different accounts, many of whom I'm not too uncertain aren't made up after the fact to fill pews and collection plates.

Either way, there are still fictional characters based off real people, storytellers have been doing that since stories have been told.  Doesn't make the character any less a fiction than The Punisher or Namor.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on July 22, 2013, 10:51:20 am
Jesus is just the Greek version of the name Joshua.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 22, 2013, 11:57:43 am
History nitpick: No, there really, really wasn't. The only records of him outside the church's stuff have been proven to almost certainly have been altered. Additionally, we have the criminal records from the time period, and not one "Yeshua", "Joshua" or "Jesus" was sentenced to crucifixion in the area anywhere near the Biblical Jesus' time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 22, 2013, 02:17:18 pm
And the thing about Romans?

They kept METICULOUS track of this stuff.  The empire did, in fact, love their damn lists.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 22, 2013, 02:54:10 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/5312f644759f6bd7f0ff8c5f6d2cf86a/tumblr_mq7qqlf1UE1reuhd3o1_500.jpg)

I was gonna put this as awesome because of the pun but decided to put it in dumbest cause of the message.

FUNDIE - Fantasy, Fun & Imagination is evil! EEEEEVILLLL!

COMIC FANS - Hey, Fundie! Get bent!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 22, 2013, 04:14:22 pm
And the thing about Romans?

They kept METICULOUS track of this stuff.  The empire did, in fact, love their damn lists.
Exactly. If a street preacher got nailed to a dead tree, we'd know it. Their lists don't have any of those names getting that treatment anywhere close to where Jesus was supposed to be, or anything like that. In fact, the Bible's timeline for Jesus combined with other events is so fucked up, it'd require reality warpers, plural, to make it work.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on July 22, 2013, 05:14:44 pm
*whistles while he walks nonchalantly away*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on July 22, 2013, 07:33:00 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/5312f644759f6bd7f0ff8c5f6d2cf86a/tumblr_mq7qqlf1UE1reuhd3o1_500.jpg)

I was gonna put this as awesome because of the pun but decided to put it in dumbest cause of the message.

But of course.  Fundies hate anything that can be regarded as fun.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Igor on July 22, 2013, 09:15:10 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/5312f644759f6bd7f0ff8c5f6d2cf86a/tumblr_mq7qqlf1UE1reuhd3o1_500.jpg)

I was gonna put this as awesome because of the pun but decided to put it in dumbest cause of the message.

But of course.  Fundies hate anything that can be regarded as fun.
Well of course, it's right in the word: fun-die. Clearly they want to kill all fun.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Valerius on July 23, 2013, 12:16:46 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/5312f644759f6bd7f0ff8c5f6d2cf86a/tumblr_mq7qqlf1UE1reuhd3o1_500.jpg)

I was gonna put this as awesome because of the pun but decided to put it in dumbest cause of the message.

Apparently believing in Jesus and attending comic cons are mutually exclusive now...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on July 23, 2013, 12:05:34 pm
Counter protesters at a Trayvon Martin march.   

(http://i.imgur.com/WK4TWhs.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/0yvt9HP.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/ly2fuC1.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 23, 2013, 12:23:51 pm
Counter protesters at a Trayvon Martin march.   

(http://i.imgur.com/WK4TWhs.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/0yvt9HP.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/ly2fuC1.jpg)


FIRST PIC: Zimmerman's Hispanic....yes...we know...Hispanics & Blacks often hate each other, too...Whites don't have a monopoly on hate....YEESH!

SECOND PIC: ...and I'M proud to say that YOU ARE A DUMBASS!

THIRD PIC: A rather motley bunch. A weird guy with a mandolin & tie dye shirt, like some Bizzaro-Hippie/Hipster...'cept he's rooting for Zimmerman....a guy with an orange mohawk...someone almost don't look the part of "Wingnut". Goes to show you can't trust stereotypes....wisdom these guys should have applied when dealing with Trayvon & his hoodie.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on July 23, 2013, 03:20:47 pm
Counter protesters at a Trayvon Martin march.   


(http://i.imgur.com/0yvt9HP.jpg)



According to Brandon Darby, of Breitbart.com this pic is a troll. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEjAza-Z8Y4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEjAza-Z8Y4)  Video won't embed
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on July 23, 2013, 04:14:46 pm
Counter protesters at a Trayvon Martin march.   


(http://i.imgur.com/0yvt9HP.jpg)



According to Brandon Darby, of Breitbart.com this pic is a troll. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEjAza-Z8Y4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEjAza-Z8Y4)  Video won't embed

And a brilliant example it is. I know I bought it until I watched the video.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on July 23, 2013, 04:19:50 pm
In the first picture: "If the head is split you must Acouit." Really? Really?

Why why do conservatives have trouble spelling on their signs? Do they wonder why we don't take them seriously?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on July 23, 2013, 04:36:50 pm
In the first picture: "If the head is split you must Acouit." Really? Really?

Why why do conservatives have trouble spelling on their signs? Do they wonder why we don't take them seriously?

It's most likely because they were home-schooled because their parents didn't wanted their kids "to mingle with eclectics and non-believers" or because the schools they attended sucked.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 23, 2013, 06:19:24 pm
Sadly I've seen high school graduates with spelling that bad :/
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on July 23, 2013, 08:47:40 pm
In the first picture: "If the head is split you must Acouit." Really? Really?

Why why do conservatives have trouble spelling on their signs? Do they wonder why we don't take them seriously?

It's most likely because they were home-schooled because their parents didn't wanted their kids "to mingle with eclectics and non-believers" or because the schools they attended sucked.
Sadly I've seen high school graduates with spelling that bad :/
My senior English teacher in high school took an entire period to give a lesson on basic sentence structure after reading the first draft of my class' first assignment, then said I was rude and out of line for saying that anyone who actually needed to hear this should go back to the first grade and quit wasting my time. That's exactly how this shit happens.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on July 24, 2013, 02:45:46 am
I had to put on my glasses, but I think I can see Q.

So they are Literate, but still morons.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on July 24, 2013, 12:17:41 pm
Yeah that Q is very poorly endowed in the dangly thing department...
Is the letter Q = O's husband? Or, just a koamoji emoti eye monocle? Always wondered about that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 24, 2013, 03:14:33 pm
I always thought it was female, actually.

Q.  The letter.

I thought that the letter Q was conceited, too, but I liked it.

I assigned gender and personality to my numbers and letters as a kid... 9 always struck me as an acne-ridden bully.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 24, 2013, 04:04:33 pm
I always thought it was female, actually.

Q.  The letter.

I thought that the letter Q was conceited, too, but I liked it.

I assigned gender and personality to my numbers and letters as a kid... 9 always struck me as an acne-ridden bully.
Oh, hey, a synesthete (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia). Didn't see that coming today. My girlfriend is a sound/color one (she sees sound in a way that is best described as the Windows Audio Player's visualizations on acid, and has painted Manson's "The Fight Song" and "Coma White").
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 24, 2013, 04:14:00 pm
Uh, not really, I mean that was my opinion of those letters and numbers.  Since kids have overactive imaginations.  They tend to anthropomorphize objects and abstract ideas.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on July 24, 2013, 05:59:06 pm
9 always struck me as an acne-ridden bully.

7's the real jerk. Seven ate nine.



Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on July 25, 2013, 05:10:01 am
I always thought it was female, actually.

Q.  The letter.

I thought that the letter Q was conceited, too, but I liked it.

I assigned gender and personality to my numbers and letters as a kid... 9 always struck me as an acne-ridden bully.
Q is green. The alphabet puzzle I got as a two-year had each letter colored; I don't think Q will be ever anything other than green to me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on July 25, 2013, 09:40:32 am
I always think of Indiana as pink for the same reason.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on July 25, 2013, 02:40:15 pm
I always thought it was female, actually.

Q.  The letter.

I thought that the letter Q was conceited, too, but I liked it.

I assigned gender and personality to my numbers and letters as a kid... 9 always struck me as an acne-ridden bully.
Oh, hey, a synesthete (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia). Didn't see that coming today. My girlfriend is a sound/color one (she sees sound in a way that is best described as the Windows Audio Player's visualizations on acid, and has painted Manson's "The Fight Song" and "Coma White").

I'd love to see some of those paintings. Hell, I think bands should just hire synesthete artists for their album covers.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 26, 2013, 11:00:03 pm
I always thought it was female, actually.

Q.  The letter.

I thought that the letter Q was conceited, too, but I liked it.

I assigned gender and personality to my numbers and letters as a kid... 9 always struck me as an acne-ridden bully.
Oh, hey, a synesthete (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia). Didn't see that coming today. My girlfriend is a sound/color one (she sees sound in a way that is best described as the Windows Audio Player's visualizations on acid, and has painted Manson's "The Fight Song" and "Coma White").

I'd love to see some of those paintings. Hell, I think bands should just hire synesthete artists for their album covers.
(click to show/hide)

(click to show/hide)

I can't find Coma White, sadly.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DiscoBerry on July 28, 2013, 01:15:02 am
(http://i.imgur.com/wxQzn7o.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on July 28, 2013, 01:15:49 am
(http://i.imgur.com/wxQzn7o.jpg)
Da frequently asked questions?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on July 28, 2013, 01:24:53 am
Yeah man, what kind of loser drives a Chevy?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on July 28, 2013, 01:53:58 am
(http://i.imgur.com/wxQzn7o.jpg)
I can't help but get this nagging feeling that these two stickers negate each other in some way...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on July 28, 2013, 02:18:05 am
(http://i.imgur.com/wxQzn7o.jpg)
I can't help but get this nagging feeling that these two stickers negate each other in some way...

Negate each other? The one on the right negates itself.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on July 28, 2013, 02:14:06 pm
My oxymoron meter just blew up :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ThunderWulf on July 28, 2013, 04:12:34 pm
Seriously, the level of stupid in those stickers is jaw dropping.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on July 28, 2013, 11:12:40 pm
He means the non existent phenomenon of reverse racism.  He's against things like AA because he thinks they are not needed anymore. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on July 28, 2013, 11:27:43 pm
He means the non existent phenomenon of reverse racism.  He's against things like AA because he thinks they are not needed anymore. 

But didn't you hear?  They're not needed anymore!  That's why they changed the voting laws, because the south doesn't have the same racist atmosphere!  Racism is over!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on July 28, 2013, 11:39:15 pm
Racism is both over and the exclusive province of the inferior black. It is the fault of the inferior black that he cannot find a job and affirmative action is terrible policy which we should undermine at every turn. I will not employ a person who will not take personal responsibility for my unwillingness to employ that person. To call a person a racist is worse than spitting in their face. Obama, Holder and the rest are all racists.

Double think is conservatism.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on July 31, 2013, 01:48:55 am
In honour of the late Dr Morgentaler

(http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/cms/binary/8450936.jpg?size=620x400s)

And some yellow peril

(http://i.imgur.com/02T4V.jpg)

And because there isn't a dumbest political ad thread,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMNQR0udprQ
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Diamandahagan on July 31, 2013, 08:11:41 am
That video is wonderful. A classic example of where earnest bigotry meets parody of that bigotry, made by the those they hate. If I didnt know where it came from I really couldnt tell it wasnt a pisstake.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 31, 2013, 03:28:36 pm
*Sees that ad*

Because only women can be nurturing and caring about their children.

Right.

*gags*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on July 31, 2013, 06:02:15 pm
Am I the only one who thinks the ad's refusal to show the gay couple's faces and the child's rather bleak and hopeless expression are supposed to imply sexual abuse?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on July 31, 2013, 06:31:24 pm
You know, that anti-same-sex marriage ad could also be taken as an endorsement of same-sex marriage for women.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on July 31, 2013, 06:43:45 pm
You know, that anti-same-sex marriage ad could also be taken as an endorsement of same-sex marriage for women.

Yeah, but that's fine because lesbians are hawt.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on July 31, 2013, 06:48:25 pm
I'm not sure where people are getting the "this could be parody" vibe. Other than unintentional humor, nothing about this is funny.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Diamandahagan on July 31, 2013, 07:53:43 pm
Parody as in a video made to show the anti-equal marriage ones as insane. 'See! This is the sort of crazy shit they believe because their stupid bigots! LOL!'
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on July 31, 2013, 08:44:48 pm
Parody as in a video made to show the anti-equal marriage ones as insane. 'See! This is the sort of crazy shit they believe because their stupid bigots! LOL!'

Not seeing anything that would even hint at that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Valerius on July 31, 2013, 11:03:36 pm
And some yellow peril

(http://i.imgur.com/02T4V.jpg)

No, no, that's not Canada, that's just Vancouver :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 01, 2013, 02:04:05 am
(http://i43.tinypic.com/2mmst8j.jpg)

I think you've got that backwards.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on August 01, 2013, 02:16:51 am
I call poe. This one just seems TOO out there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on August 01, 2013, 02:22:39 am
This one:

(click to show/hide)

Probably should have quoted the original message.

You gotta love it when people who no-doubt cheered Bush on when he passed laws claiming he had the authority to arrest American citizens indefinitely without trial are suddenly MORALLY OUTRAGED AND SHOCKED when Obama does the exact same thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 01, 2013, 02:35:58 am
I call poe. This one just seems TOO out there.

Could be. The person who posted it seemed to share the sentiment, though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on August 01, 2013, 02:37:05 am
I'm not sure where people are getting the "this could be parody" vibe. Other than unintentional humor, nothing about this is funny.

Seeing as how it was in the comedy category, I'm leaning towards poorly done satire.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 01, 2013, 02:48:20 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/8b9289c9eca513086d0f87c86689173e/tumblr_mqao1wksD81rvr9uro1_500.jpg)

Dude, feminism is hardcore.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 01, 2013, 02:50:01 am
And I'll bet they probably wear leather jackets while they do it, too. Badass.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 01, 2013, 03:04:21 am
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/8b9289c9eca513086d0f87c86689173e/tumblr_mqao1wksD81rvr9uro1_500.jpg)

Dude, feminism is hardcore.

If it didn't say Pat on there I would have assumed it was a tongue-in-cheek kinda thing. Like the lesbianism and witchcraft quote.

Also is 'capitalism' having a seizure?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 01, 2013, 04:08:51 am
The letters are trying to escape from the poster out of shame.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on August 01, 2013, 09:09:01 am
Capitalism: "Look, for the last fucking time, stop saying I'm your friend!  Fuck off, you zealots!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on August 01, 2013, 09:42:42 am
Yet he has no problem with transgender people
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 01, 2013, 09:59:25 am
Alright ladies.  Time for you all to become lesbians.

Ironbite-hop to it
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on August 01, 2013, 01:58:55 pm
Onision being an idiot.
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/ef1dda8695e1a7d06ce030b64d627c85/tumblr_mpuvcjRwP61ro9ieeo1_500.png)

(http://31.media.tumblr.com/626f739c3326f9f0dcd07a34ec7277d1/tumblr_mpp1e3Itb71ro9ieeo1_500.png)




And now for his "comedy."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ANHtjKO9z8
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: solar. on August 01, 2013, 02:13:09 pm
Onision is a scumbag.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 01, 2013, 02:27:07 pm
Onision being an idiot.
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/ef1dda8695e1a7d06ce030b64d627c85/tumblr_mpuvcjRwP61ro9ieeo1_500.png)

(http://31.media.tumblr.com/626f739c3326f9f0dcd07a34ec7277d1/tumblr_mpp1e3Itb71ro9ieeo1_500.png)
May Onision get bitten by a Brown Recluse on the genitals.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jodie on August 01, 2013, 02:30:45 pm
I must live a sheltered life. I have no flipping clue who Onision is. Never heard of him before Jebus's post.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 01, 2013, 02:57:13 pm
I must live a sheltered life. I have no flipping clue who Onision is. Never heard of him before Jebus's post.
Same. But just seeing those makes me want Onision to be bitten on the genitals by a Brown Recluse.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 01, 2013, 03:51:35 pm
Why would you want a poor spider to do something like that?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on August 01, 2013, 04:11:23 pm
Onision has always been a twit. He's practically the poster child for snobby vegans.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on August 01, 2013, 04:16:27 pm
Onision has always been a twit. He's practically the poster child for snobby vegans.

He's also a sociopath who exploits his girlfriend for financial gain on YouTube.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on August 01, 2013, 04:26:39 pm
Onision has always been a twit. He's practically the poster child for snobby vegans.

He's also a sociopath who exploits his girlfriend for financial gain on YouTube.

I didn't know about that. But I did hear about how he tried to start some vegan cult once, and how he and his girlfriend once made a fake video where she woke up with amnesia to protest psychiatry or something.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on August 01, 2013, 07:34:11 pm
Onision has always been a twit. He's practically the poster child for snobby vegans.

He's also a sociopath who exploits his girlfriend for financial gain on YouTube.

I didn't know about that. But I did hear about how he tried to start some vegan cult once, and how he and his girlfriend once made a fake video where she woke up with amnesia to protest psychiatry or something.

I think Onision reads Natural News too much.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on August 01, 2013, 07:47:04 pm
Onision has always been a twit. He's practically the poster child for snobby vegans.

He's also a sociopath who exploits his girlfriend for financial gain on YouTube.

I didn't know about that. But I did hear about how he tried to start some vegan cult once, and how he and his girlfriend once made a fake video where she woke up with amnesia to protest psychiatry or something.

I think Onision reads Natural News too much.

I think Onision exists too much.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on August 02, 2013, 12:48:00 am
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpnZt7E49Fo/UfppkWTvHnI/AAAAAAAChWE/Tm7C46G8Aes/s400/Kessler.jpg)

This guy is a sheriff.  (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpnZt7E49Fo/UfppkWTvHnI/AAAAAAAChWE/Tm7C46G8Aes/s400/Kessler.jpg) Sounds to me like he isn't to far remove from those policemen who'd sexually assault women and gay men simply because they think they have the authority to do so.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 02, 2013, 12:54:23 am
My response to that Sheriff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bv7WIygitU
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on August 02, 2013, 02:36:26 am
I call poe. This one just seems TOO out there.

Have we all forgotten that the point of Poe's Law is that we can't tell the difference between really scary beliefs and trolling? Yeah it seems out there, but there are people who believe it genuinely.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on August 02, 2013, 08:45:10 am
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpnZt7E49Fo/UfppkWTvHnI/AAAAAAAChWE/Tm7C46G8Aes/s400/Kessler.jpg)

This guy is a sheriff.  (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpnZt7E49Fo/UfppkWTvHnI/AAAAAAAChWE/Tm7C46G8Aes/s400/Kessler.jpg) Sounds to me like he isn't to far remove from those policemen who'd sexually assault women and gay men simply because they think they have the authority to do so.

I would reply to him, snarkishly, "Why would you consider that an insult, Mr. Bigoted Sherriff-person? A lot of folks of all orientations enjoy anal sex! Comeback when you can come up with something genuinely revolting & unethical, like murder-cannibalism or something. NOOB!".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Prophet Mohammed (PBUM) on August 02, 2013, 01:38:07 pm
Been a while since we had any Welsh nationalists.

(http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/5327/g36z.jpg)
(http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/7403/io4h.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/856/wcem.jpg)
(http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/2729/w3i9.jpg)
(http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/9783/9mrr.jpg)
(http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/742/ixcb.jpg)
(http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/595/k4xr.jpg)
(http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/396/rerm.jpg)
(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8302/3oy0.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on August 02, 2013, 02:00:30 pm
What the fuck did I just read in all that MS Paint/PowerPoint shittiness?

Those signs are dumb simply for being so motherfucking ugly.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 02, 2013, 02:07:00 pm
After a morning of doing photoshop, my eyes are now bleeding from those monstrosities. And I'm not even that great of a pic editor.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jodie on August 02, 2013, 04:40:27 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpnZt7E49Fo/UfppkWTvHnI/AAAAAAAChWE/Tm7C46G8Aes/s400/Kessler.jpg)

This guy is a sheriff.  (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpnZt7E49Fo/UfppkWTvHnI/AAAAAAAChWE/Tm7C46G8Aes/s400/Kessler.jpg) Sounds to me like he isn't to far remove from those policemen who'd sexually assault women and gay men simply because they think they have the authority to do so.

I would reply to him, snarkishly, "Why would you consider that an insult, Mr. Bigoted Sherriff-person? A lot of folks of all orientations enjoy anal sex! Comeback when you can come up with something genuinely revolting & unethical, like murder-cannibalism or something. NOOB!".

The Young Turks have a great video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb5jk7x1x5k) showing how much of an idiot that sheriff is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on August 02, 2013, 05:17:28 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpnZt7E49Fo/UfppkWTvHnI/AAAAAAAChWE/Tm7C46G8Aes/s400/Kessler.jpg)

This guy is a sheriff.  (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpnZt7E49Fo/UfppkWTvHnI/AAAAAAAChWE/Tm7C46G8Aes/s400/Kessler.jpg) Sounds to me like he isn't to far remove from those policemen who'd sexually assault women and gay men simply because they think they have the authority to do so.

I would reply to him, snarkishly, "Why would you consider that an insult, Mr. Bigoted Sherriff-person? A lot of folks of all orientations enjoy anal sex! Comeback when you can come up with something genuinely revolting & unethical, like murder-cannibalism or something. NOOB!".

The Young Turks have a great video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb5jk7x1x5k) showing how much of an idiot that sheriff is.

Saw the video, what a major doofus! LOL! I'll bet everyone in Pennsylvania looks at this moronic excuse for a police chief (he's a police chief, a tad different from a sheriff) & shake their heads.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on August 02, 2013, 07:26:09 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpnZt7E49Fo/UfppkWTvHnI/AAAAAAAChWE/Tm7C46G8Aes/s400/Kessler.jpg)

This guy is a sheriff.  (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpnZt7E49Fo/UfppkWTvHnI/AAAAAAAChWE/Tm7C46G8Aes/s400/Kessler.jpg) Sounds to me like he isn't to far remove from those policemen who'd sexually assault women and gay men simply because they think they have the authority to do so.

I would reply to him, snarkishly, "Why would you consider that an insult, Mr. Bigoted Sherriff-person? A lot of folks of all orientations enjoy anal sex! Comeback when you can come up with something genuinely revolting & unethical, like murder-cannibalism or something. NOOB!".

The Young Turks have a great video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb5jk7x1x5k) showing how much of an idiot that sheriff is.

Saw the video, what a major doofus! LOL! I'll bet everyone in Pennsylvania looks at this moronic excuse for a police chief (he's a police chief, a tad different from a sheriff) & shake their heads.

Just as much as they shake their heads wondering how in the hell Rick Santorum was one their Senators for 12 years.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on August 02, 2013, 10:52:40 pm
My last post was supposed to be in the "Things people say on the internet" thread, so here is something on topic to make up for it:

(http://projectilepluralism.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/bumper-sticker-det.jpg?w=580)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on August 02, 2013, 11:21:05 pm
My last post was supposed to be in the "Things people say on the internet" thread, so here is something on topic to make up for it:

(http://projectilepluralism.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/bumper-sticker-det.jpg?w=580)

I feel this picture somewhat conveys the my reaction towards this:
(http://www.reactionface.info/sites/default/files/imagecache/Node_Page/images/1350275778260_0.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 02, 2013, 11:27:49 pm
I feel dumber for having read that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on August 03, 2013, 08:16:20 am

(http://projectilepluralism.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/bumper-sticker-det.jpg?w=580)

Obama writes musicals? All the more reason to love him.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on August 03, 2013, 03:44:16 pm
My last post was supposed to be in the "Things people say on the internet" thread, so here is something on topic to make up for it:

(http://projectilepluralism.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/bumper-sticker-det.jpg?w=580)

That's kind of funny for some reason. Not because it's clever, mind you, but because it's so lame that it would embarrass a fifth-grader.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on August 04, 2013, 12:01:25 am
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpnZt7E49Fo/UfppkWTvHnI/AAAAAAAChWE/Tm7C46G8Aes/s400/Kessler.jpg)

This guy is a sheriff.  (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpnZt7E49Fo/UfppkWTvHnI/AAAAAAAChWE/Tm7C46G8Aes/s400/Kessler.jpg) Sounds to me like he isn't to far remove from those policemen who'd sexually assault women and gay men simply because they think they have the authority to do so.

I would reply to him, snarkishly, "Why would you consider that an insult, Mr. Bigoted Sherriff-person? A lot of folks of all orientations enjoy anal sex! Comeback when you can come up with something genuinely revolting & unethical, like murder-cannibalism or something. NOOB!".

The Young Turks have a great video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb5jk7x1x5k) showing how much of an idiot that sheriff is.

Saw the video, what a major doofus! LOL! I'll bet everyone in Pennsylvania looks at this moronic excuse for a police chief (he's a police chief, a tad different from a sheriff) & shake their heads.

I kinda goofed & accidentally removed one of my posts.

Anyway....

UPDATE: Found another article about this little Pensylvania town. As silly as we have found this guy, he's nonetheless pretty scary. The town is literally held hostage by this pansy & his wimpy, no-dick gun nuts!

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/03/armed-militia-holding-pennsylvania-town-hostage/

Time to call the National Guard to put these little boys in their proper place, in utter submission!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on August 04, 2013, 12:02:12 pm
I loved finding out that he shot off his own finger tip during a bar room brawl. Makes his flipping off Libtards so much more <irony meter explodes>
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 04, 2013, 01:28:19 pm
I advocate drones. It would be funny.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 04, 2013, 02:05:12 pm
CSF, Constitution Security Force. And their behaviour breaks how many parts of the constitution?

I mean, the whole purpose of a constitution is to protect citizens from tyranny... And these guys claim to defend it by setting up a tyranny of their own...

Why haven't their heads exploded already? Why hasn't the state of federal goverment or whatever authorities USA has done anything yet? There was one comment where it is mentioned that a person who posts a facebook threat to the president has police knocking on his door almost immediately but no one has sent the national guard to disarm the militant group that took over a town...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on August 04, 2013, 04:31:00 pm
Don't you know? Any time a conservative belongs to a group with the word "Constitution" in the name, they either only mean it ironically or only mean the parts they like.

As for why they haven't sent in the troops yet...you know that no matter how much the Right tries to distance themselves from this nutbag (I haven't read any conservative comments about this particular case, but it would be pretty much par the course), any attempt to rein him in is going to have them screaming "FASCISM!!!!!" all the way to Capitol Hill.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on August 06, 2013, 12:03:45 am
COOL! A petition has been written to get the National Guard to get these goons off the town's back!

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/05/we-the-people-petition-calls-for-the-national-guard-to-disarm-pennsylvania-police-chief-kessler/

Let's hope it works! This is ridiculous!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 06, 2013, 12:22:02 am
Why do they even need that petition? Doesn't their blockade at the councill meeting already warrant a police investigation? I'd like to believe that even in USA that was illegal.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on August 06, 2013, 12:36:06 am
Why do they even need that petition? Doesn't their blockade at the councill meeting already warrant a police investigation? I'd like to believe that even in USA that was illegal.

The problem is that the militia INCLUDES many members of the police and is led by the chief of police. Of course they aren't going to do anything about it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 06, 2013, 12:58:41 am
Why do they even need that petition? Doesn't their blockade at the councill meeting already warrant a police investigation? I'd like to believe that even in USA that was illegal.

The problem is that the militia INCLUDES many members of the police and is led by the chief of police. Of course they aren't going to do anything about it.

Ok. So ignore the local police. USA has like 50 different law enforcement organisations. I'm pretty sure that the other 49 should be doing something right now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 06, 2013, 01:32:27 am
National Guard is somewhat a police organization. Or, it has been used as such throughout American history. Used during riots and the like.

Unless you want the DEA, SWAT, FBI, or whatever else to go in.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on August 06, 2013, 01:49:00 am
Plus, this is exactly the sort of thing the National Guard is for. They're sort of the "citizen's army" and they should get sent in whenever there's a problem plaguing the citizen that's to big for the police to handle.

Or in this case, when the police ARE the problem.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 06, 2013, 03:36:37 am
Why do they even need that petition? Doesn't their blockade at the councill meeting already warrant a police investigation? I'd like to believe that even in USA that was illegal.

The problem is that the militia INCLUDES many members of the police and is led by the chief of police. Of course they aren't going to do anything about it.

Ok. So ignore the local police. USA has like 50 different law enforcement organisations. I'm pretty sure that the other 49 should be doing something right now.

There's this thing called "jurisdiction." As Booker & Gibbon have pointed out, there are other organizations for this sort of thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 06, 2013, 04:00:22 am
I am aware of the jurisdiction problem but I thought that since USA does have some agencies that can operate across the states at least some of them could intervene into this. (From what little I know I would have assumed that FBI would be the ones to intervene.)

But I guess National guard is a logical choice.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 06, 2013, 05:15:48 am
Yeah the organization you're thinking of is the National Guard.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on August 09, 2013, 01:56:00 am
(http://m5.paperblog.com/i/42/420188/photo-cowboys-and-muslims-dumbest-bumper-stic-L-lO_bUW.jpeg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 09, 2013, 04:10:51 am
(http://m5.paperblog.com/i/42/420188/photo-cowboys-and-muslims-dumbest-bumper-stic-L-lO_bUW.jpeg)

Gross.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on August 09, 2013, 08:08:03 am
Okay, he/she spells it as both "Muslims" and "Muslems", doesn't capitalize "Indians" or "Muslims/Muslems", yet capitalizes the letter after a comma.

Is he/she trying to look like an idiot?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 09, 2013, 08:22:37 am
Not to mention straight up genocidal.

Now, that'd normally be a Godwin, but he's literally calling for mass murder.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 09, 2013, 11:43:04 am
Not to mention straight up genocidal.

Now, that'd normally be a Godwin, but he's literally calling for mass murder.

I'm not sure how this is a Godwin considering that genocide and mass murder weren't patented by the Nazis :P

But I get what you're saying.  I actually think that bumper stickers that call for the obvious murder of people should be treated with the same severity as someone standing on a pulpit literally telling people to kill people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on August 09, 2013, 06:26:10 pm
I'm not sure how this is a Godwin considering that genocide and mass murder weren't patented by the Nazis :P

Actually, the word "genocide" was coined to describe what the Nazis were doing, so they kind of did.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 10, 2013, 05:19:27 pm
I'm not sure how this is a Godwin considering that genocide and mass murder weren't patented by the Nazis :P

Actually, the word "genocide" was coined to describe what the Nazis were doing, so they kind of did.

Oh.

Well, carry on then.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on August 12, 2013, 05:53:59 pm
Well I was on Deviant Art and found a group dedicated to old school propaganda posters. I was hoping to find those funny fake ones done for thinks like Star Wars and whatever. Well there were a few of those, but the majority of it was real stuff, both good, bad, and somewhere in between. I'm gonna post the worst I found here for your view dis-pleasure. Link: http://propagandacenter.deviantart.com/ (http://propagandacenter.deviantart.com/)

(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/157/e/0/not_all_terrorists_by_gabrielzuai-d681fza.jpg)

(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/088/5/8/unequaled___not_my_equal_by_alexander_slavros-d5znkzm.png)

(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/088/b/2/unequaled___nature_by_alexander_slavros-d5znkzk.png)

(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/088/0/0/unequaled___superiority_by_alexander_slavros-d5znkzi.png)

(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/088/b/3/unequaled___equals_by_alexander_slavros-d5znkzq.png)

(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/067/9/c/ironmarch_radio___music_for_the_day_of_the_rope__by_alexander_slavros-d5xd63o.png)

That last one is a banner for an internet radio station. Here's a link to the original page with their wonderful description: http://alexander-slavros.deviantart.com/art/IronMarch-Radio-Music-for-the-Day-of-the-Rope-358372644

Quote
An upbeat, energetic, fun 24/7 internet radio that plays:

-Hateful, intolerant, racist, sexist, homophobic music?
-Classic, nationalist, fascist, folk music?
-Themed clips from movies?
-Bits from audio-books?
-Speeches of fascist and nationalist figures?

CAN HAVE! IronMarch Radio - where we play music for the Day of the Rope! TUNE IN NOW http://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://media.spacial.com/player/sam-vibe/index.html?sid=9701 (http://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://media.spacial.com/player/sam-vibe/index.html?sid=9701)

There seemed to be a disturbing amount of pro-fascist posters in the gallery, of which I looked through up to the current page 25.

Now, off to post the good stuff in the other thread.

Edit: Forgot this one. Says something we've all heard before and does it in the laziest, MS paint-iest way possible.

(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/343/f/0/the_dangers_of_atheism_by_seek_jesus_christ-d5nhyxw.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Silhouette on August 13, 2013, 01:18:15 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/5965c02f4fad719f4562e699ac450042/tumblr_mplfa2gg2h1sq79wio1_500.jpg)

(http://31.media.tumblr.com/6fbe2a774d299b9ce03251f42f372718/tumblr_mq905o3ITh1sq79wio1_500.jpg)

(http://31.media.tumblr.com/53159237b241623249b60a774d8fdb4e/tumblr_mqcs6og2hP1sq79wio1_500.jpg) Original message here (http://fqa.digibase.ca/index.php?topic=18.msg8234#msg8234)

More here (http://trivium-247.tumblr.com)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 13, 2013, 01:21:02 am
I remember what that last picture said originally and now I want to find whoever photoshopped it and dump him into a trashcan.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Valerius on August 13, 2013, 01:28:46 am
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/088/b/2/unequaled___nature_by_alexander_slavros-d5znkzk.png)

Other things that are "the law of nature":
-disease
-parasites
-getting eaten by predators

Things that are not "the law of nature":
-farming
-vaccines
-computers

These things people that love "Natural Law" and abhor anything "unnatural" need to GTFO of contemporary society and leave the rest of the sane people alone.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 13, 2013, 01:40:45 am
I remember what that last picture said originally and now I want to find whoever photoshopped it and dump him into a trashcan.

Yeah. It's a bold, obvious, & shitty lie. This is clearly the kind of person who would make any excuse imaginable for rape.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on August 13, 2013, 02:01:46 am
Spoilered for being probably very triggering for some posters here.

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on August 13, 2013, 02:05:01 am
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/53159237b241623249b60a774d8fdb4e/tumblr_mqcs6og2hP1sq79wio1_500.jpg)

I have no words for this. I am so angry right now I think my face is going to melt off.

Seriously. No god damn words to describe my anger at this.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on August 13, 2013, 05:23:01 am

Quote
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/5965c02f4fad719f4562e699ac450042/tumblr_mplfa2gg2h1sq79wio1_500.jpg)

I'm pretty sure people here think condemning kids for having anything resembling a gun is stupid, so I don't see how that's a 'liberal' view.

The rest is just mind-numbingly stupid.


Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 13, 2013, 08:01:45 am
Proof that Liberal Logic 101 doesn't deal with real liberals, it deals with straw liberals.

...And paranoid authority figures.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 13, 2013, 08:38:35 am
On the dude that was linked to a few posts ago: Yeah, about half of his things are unbelievably asshole. The other half are actually pretty funny, which somehow just makes it worse.

On "Liberal" Logic: It's also a mixed metaphor in several ways, which make it pretty much useless as a comparison, whether you agree about the permissibility banaguns, bananacocks, or neither. Imaginary guns don't promote gun safety because the whole object of the game is to "shoot" people, a banana wouldn't make a very good gun analogue anyway, they are not banned "because kids think guns are safe," but I notice the logic of teaching safety has been curiously replaced with "training" in the genital example, & finally bananacocks are sometimes done in classroom demonstrations while bananaguns are just something that kids sometimes do, & so it would be like comparing a classroom lecture with an argument in the hallway.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on August 13, 2013, 10:09:52 am
Don't Republicans like zero tolerance
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on August 13, 2013, 10:53:09 am
Don't Republicans like zero tolerance

Only when it comes to drugs and sex. When it comes to guns, their philosophy is "too much is never enough."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 13, 2013, 10:44:57 pm
Don't Republicans like zero tolerance

Only when it comes to drugs and sex. When it comes to guns, their philosophy is "too much is never enough."
Well, sex, drugs and rock n roll.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on August 13, 2013, 11:53:54 pm
I've seen kids get suspended for lego weapns but real ones are okay (true in Utah State really nerf guns are worse then real ones
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 14, 2013, 01:06:15 am
Wait really?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 14, 2013, 01:10:07 am
I really want to hear the reasoning behind that.

Seriously, there better be 15 pages of logical well written justifications for concidering toy guns to be worse than real firearms.

Otherwise, it'll be cluebat time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on August 14, 2013, 08:50:53 pm
I really want to hear the reasoning behind that.

Seriously, there better be 15 pages of logical well written justifications for concidering toy guns to be worse than real firearms.

Otherwise, it'll be cluebat time.
Well it starts with '2nd amendment' and ends with 'suck it bitch.' Most of the remainder of the 15 pages is just filler where they concede that you can't touch guns even if you want to so you have to ignore the 500lbs rabid gorilla in the room. At least this way kids will know that if they do see a gun in school it's not a toy and they should probably run like hell or dive for cover.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on August 15, 2013, 06:19:10 am
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/53159237b241623249b60a774d8fdb4e/tumblr_mqcs6og2hP1sq79wio1_500.jpg)

I have no words for this. I am so angry right now I think my face is going to melt off.

Seriously. No god damn words to describe my anger at this.

Whoever did this needs to lose their balls.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 15, 2013, 06:14:10 pm
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/53159237b241623249b60a774d8fdb4e/tumblr_mqcs6og2hP1sq79wio1_500.jpg)

I have no words for this. I am so angry right now I think my face is going to melt off.

Seriously. No god damn words to describe my anger at this.

Whoever did this needs to lose their balls.

The original picture is heartbreaking...

(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/475/113/495.jpg)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on August 15, 2013, 08:15:06 pm

Quote
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/5965c02f4fad719f4562e699ac450042/tumblr_mplfa2gg2h1sq79wio1_500.jpg)

I'm pretty sure people here think condemning kids for having anything resembling a gun is stupid, so I don't see how that's a 'liberal' view.

The rest is just mind-numbingly stupid.

Remember, the people running that site have absolutely no idea what liberal ideology is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on August 15, 2013, 08:27:35 pm

(http://31.media.tumblr.com/53159237b241623249b60a774d8fdb4e/tumblr_mqcs6og2hP1sq79wio1_500.jpg)

Okay. There is so much evidence that homosexuality is genetic that continuing to argue that there is no evidence for it makes YOU look fucking ignorant, not your strawman version of liberals.

Earth will come to a halt if we are "not allowed to control peoples lives." Oh, like not giving women the control of her own reproductive organs? Like banning gays from getting married simply because you disapprove of them?

"We will continue to believe that black people cannot accomplish anything without the immediate and constant help of white people."

He did not just...GOD DAMN IT! You listen to me, you arrogant, shit-brained, ignorant, inbred fucktard! You can have your own opinions, you can believe whatever you want to believe, but if you want to criticize liberal beliefs, AT LEAST FUCKING LEARN WHAT LIBERALS ACTUALLY FUCKING BELIEVE BEFORE FUCKING CRITICIZE THEM. No liberal--absolutely no liberal--believes that. You just THINK liberals believe that because you're a complete fucking moron who doesn't get his information from anywhere except right-wing blogs, Fox News, talk radio, your own asshole, and whatever obscenely retarded drivel is getting spewed from the Breitbart websites this week. You actually criticize liberals for not listening to facts. This is some SERIOUS psychological projection. I mean, it borders on clinical mental illness.

I'm sorry if that sounded harsh, but Jesus Christ is the guy who runs that piece of shit website a completely ignorant cunt.



Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 15, 2013, 08:39:50 pm
I'm assuming that rant was meant for a different picture.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 16, 2013, 12:40:57 am
I'm assuming that rant was meant for a different picture.
Yeah, it seems to fit the Liberal logic image that was above that one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 16, 2013, 02:34:14 pm
Yeah seriously.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 16, 2013, 02:48:46 pm
I'm making a post to agree with someone else who made a post.

Teehee.

</Mort>
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on August 16, 2013, 05:24:59 pm
To the person who shopped that photo with the protest girl, I say to them.......

...Please kindly take a permanent vacation to this destination.......
(http://i41.tinypic.com/so79tk.jpg)
......You're gonna need plenty of sunscreen, thank you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 17, 2013, 01:26:56 am
Protest guy, actually.

He's FTM, according to a couple reports from the rally.

I'm assuming that rant was meant for a different picture.
Yeah, it seems to fit the Liberal logic image that was above that one.

It was my gentle way of pointing out the post should probably be fixed. Doesn't have to be, of course.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 18, 2013, 02:46:48 am
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/6364ac9894f67e2bf7cbffcfe4c7d5c7/tumblr_mrpq1joeor1r35q8fo1_400.jpg)

I'm sure this asshole has all kinds of BS arguments for why this isn't racist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on August 18, 2013, 10:32:09 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/6364ac9894f67e2bf7cbffcfe4c7d5c7/tumblr_mrpq1joeor1r35q8fo1_400.jpg)

I'm sure this asshole has all kinds of BS arguments for why this isn't racist.

HIM!!! *froths*

Seriously, though, if it's the guy from the Romney rally that was held in Lancaster Ohio he justified it as expressing his first amendment rights.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 18, 2013, 11:56:45 pm
You have a right to act like a contemptible, if relatively harmless piece of shit, but why would you?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on August 19, 2013, 12:39:00 pm
A surprising amount of people think free speech means 'free from criticism', rather than 'free from criminalization'.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on August 19, 2013, 08:11:47 pm
These teenagers traveled all the way to a Holocaust museum in Albuquerque to hold up signs comparing the town to Auschwitz and demand that an exhibit on abortion be added to the museum as well. (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/09/teens-bused-to-albuquerque-to-protest-abortion-holocaust-outside-actual-holocaust-museum/) Little shits.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 20, 2013, 01:19:23 am
Can we get a time machine and abort them? I had hopes it was going to be in Israel until Albuquerque was said, and then was even more disappointed when it was about abortion, so not only are they assholes, but they crushed my hopes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 20, 2013, 02:25:24 am
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4sAPngLcQjA/UhGYnqTK3vI/AAAAAAACifY/SPxDU3N50eU/s1600/3some.jpg)
And if you are a hindu or from other polytheistic religions... Oh boy, does the bedroom get crowded.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: starseeker on August 20, 2013, 06:49:07 am
These teenagers traveled all the way to a Holocaust museum in Albuquerque to hold up signs comparing the town to Auschwitz and demand that an exhibit on abortion be added to the museum as well. (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/09/teens-bused-to-albuquerque-to-protest-abortion-holocaust-outside-actual-holocaust-museum/) Little shits.

The comment section at least shows some hope, there's one nutter that the rest of the commenters are trying to talk sense into.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on August 20, 2013, 09:53:37 am
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4sAPngLcQjA/UhGYnqTK3vI/AAAAAAACifY/SPxDU3N50eU/s1600/3some.jpg)
And if you are a hindu or from other polytheistic religions... Oh boy, does the bedroom get crowded.

I thought 3-way marriages were illegal in the U.S.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 20, 2013, 10:05:07 am
[picture]
And if you are a hindu or from other polytheistic religions... Oh boy, does the bedroom get crowded.

I thought 3-way marriages were illegal in the U.S.

Which means that all the christian marriages are now illegal and must be revoked. In fact by extension the only marriages that are legal and proper are those of atheist couples, heathens and gay marriages. (Because even if they claim to be christian no fundie is going to accept that and I think I've specficically heard of gay marriages being described as Godless.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 20, 2013, 03:26:41 pm
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/60a6494f927d438b90ccaf1749c76d36/tumblr_mrntwqHuqE1s4wrvho1_500.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on August 20, 2013, 03:29:17 pm
"I ate a bagel once.  NOW I'M GAY."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on August 20, 2013, 03:32:38 pm
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/60a6494f927d438b90ccaf1749c76d36/tumblr_mrntwqHuqE1s4wrvho1_500.png)

Surely that must be parody, right?

...right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on August 20, 2013, 03:32:50 pm
That looks like a parody to me. :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 20, 2013, 04:06:36 pm
Oh, it's not, I've seen it.

Basically, the guy got addicted to drugs to the point where he was giving guys blowjobs so he could get more drugs.  Or something like that.

Apparently, when a woman does it, she becomes a prostitute.  When a guy does it, he becomes gay.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 20, 2013, 04:14:25 pm
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/60a6494f927d438b90ccaf1749c76d36/tumblr_mrntwqHuqE1s4wrvho1_500.png)

......so everything just became red for a second and I'm down another housepet.

Ironbite-and I have blood in my teeth.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on August 20, 2013, 04:16:05 pm
Christians for Michele Bachmann is a well-known parody page

(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1004845_523189537730422_1171556163_n.jpg)

(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1098080_523156454400397_427889124_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 20, 2013, 04:25:52 pm
Christians for Michele Bachmann is a well-known parody page


Perhaps so, but I've seen the ad before.

Someone could've easily just slapped the Michelle Bachmann thing in the lower left to point out that it's so bad that the only parody needed is to point at it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on August 20, 2013, 07:39:35 pm
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/60a6494f927d438b90ccaf1749c76d36/tumblr_mrntwqHuqE1s4wrvho1_500.png)

"I went to church my whole life. NOW I'M GAY!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on August 20, 2013, 08:28:35 pm
I sooo wish this was a parody, because this is just so absurd.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 20, 2013, 10:41:29 pm
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/e178f6a8e64159569d333fb1f44f9c74/tumblr_mrsrg4iTZC1r4ot8eo1_500.png)

While the image on the left is definitely not worthy of this, the one on the right is. Even if it's edited it belongs here.

This is what racism looks like.

Post-racism society looks great, right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on August 20, 2013, 10:45:17 pm
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/60a6494f927d438b90ccaf1749c76d36/tumblr_mrntwqHuqE1s4wrvho1_500.png)

"I went to church my whole life. NOW I'M GAY!"
You didn't know that's how it works? Marijuana injections are dangerous, dude. One minute you're smoking grass; the next minute, you're smoking pole.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on August 20, 2013, 11:19:34 pm
Post-racism society looks great, right?

This is what I've been saying since Obama has been elected, it seems like it was more or less a dog whistle to all the racists to come out of the woodwork. If were really post-racial as some claim we are, why are we still seeing this type of shit??
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on August 20, 2013, 11:30:11 pm
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/e178f6a8e64159569d333fb1f44f9c74/tumblr_mrsrg4iTZC1r4ot8eo1_500.png)

While the image on the left is definitely not worthy of this, the one on the right is. Even if it's edited it belongs here.

This is what racism looks like.

Post-racism society looks great, right?

The thing is, even if she did have 13 sons and some interesting ideas about how English spelling works, that wouldn't make her message any less correct.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 21, 2013, 02:05:01 am
I really have to wonder how anyone can spend more than five minutes on the internet and not notice that overt, unabashed racism is still alive and well.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Her3tiK on August 21, 2013, 02:50:54 am
I really have to wonder how anyone can spend more than five minutes on the internet and not notice that overt, unabashed racism is still alive and well.
Can't find any reflective surfaces.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 21, 2013, 08:22:01 am
Live in denial like most people, I assume.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on August 22, 2013, 07:49:28 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/994898_647869185226252_1095256877_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on August 22, 2013, 07:52:52 pm
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/994898_647869185226252_1095256877_n.jpg)

@Pic Author:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAgRBq2jnz4
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 22, 2013, 08:26:16 pm
That sure is a large, empty space.

You know, I almost thought that doesn't fit, but on the other hand, what's with radfems who can't handle the fact that other women don't agree with them?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 22, 2013, 08:34:15 pm
No, radfems, it wasn't you that fought to end the porn industry, it was white, conservative males.

And them trying to do so was considered a Bad Thing by actual feminists.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 22, 2013, 08:42:08 pm
The Sex Wars never happened?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 23, 2013, 12:07:38 am
This reminds me:
(http://sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/2013-08-20.gif)

I used to really love Sinfest, but for a long time now the "feminism" thingy in it has annoyed me. Really preachy and taking over the plot, it's starting to look like Ayn Rands work with a different ideology.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 23, 2013, 01:52:54 am
I don't know what to think about Sinfest. I was never into it, but hearing everyone talk about it, I took a look. Half of the feminism strips I don't understand (like that one--is Sinner Friendly Hell good, & by extension female-friendly porn good or bad?), the other half I don't care about one way or the other. I have no idea what else is going on in the comic, so I can definitely see the "take over the plot" thing, then again, the other half of the plot was fairly inconceivable when I tried to read it from the beginning.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on August 23, 2013, 02:44:02 am
I'm assuming that "sinner-friendly hell" is supposed to be bad, given the "classy, intimate torture" inscription on the sign. The message seems to be that feminist-friendly porn is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Of course, the comic would be stupid either way.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 23, 2013, 02:53:09 am
Ah. I thought it might be a BDSM thing, & gave preference to the "classy & intimate" part. Yes, I pictured dominatrixes with tophats & monocles.

Oh, that "blank space" is now displaying.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 23, 2013, 03:38:11 am
Yeah, I  interpreted it like Mlle. Squigley is shown going to hell because "watching porn is bad" and the "sinner friendly hell" is supposed to imply that it's just a name and doesn't really mean that hell is any nicer. So the comic basically implies that "female friendly porn" is just a fake attempt to make porn seem nicer, while it's still bad.

But seriously. Even characters that were nice are being made worse for the sole purpose of having "Xanthe the feminist trike girl" beat them up or otherwise emasculate them.

Ah. I thought it might be a BDSM thing, & gave preference to the "classy & intimate" part. Yes, I pictured dominatrixes with tophats & monocles.

Dominatrixes with tophats & monocles actually sounds cool. It could also be a band name.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 23, 2013, 03:48:05 am
Yeah, I definitely thought of both interpretations. Just, I guess my mind goes to strange places.

Either way, I just don't see it as being more than a minor annoyance. I have to say, though, it doesn't look like he's (she's? It looks like a male name to me) going to stop any time soon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 23, 2013, 05:46:11 am
Well my problem with it is just that I used to really love the comic but don't like the new direction. There still are strips that I like in it but this preachy thingy is taking more and more of the comic.

Still... It's not MY comic and I can read it for free on the net and I'm not entitled to have the artist obey my every whim while making the comic. So on one hand I don't like the situation on the other hand I feel that complaining about it is really childish. And it's not like I don't like feminism itself. I just disagree on some particulars.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 23, 2013, 05:48:05 am
I don't have a problem with complaining. And if something pisses me off enough, then I'll just stop reading it. And still complain about it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on August 23, 2013, 01:50:07 pm
I hate Sinfest because Tatsuya Ishida has an ego the size of fucking New York and insists that anyone that dislikes his work doesn't understand his genius.

And his art hasn't changed on Sinfest since it started.  Even Calvin and Hobbes noticeably improved over the years.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on August 23, 2013, 09:12:56 pm
I used to read Sinfest all the time and often I would laugh myself sick. And after a while I took a long ass break from webcomics because they were keeping me up all night. When I came back and took another look at Sinfest, I found it had veered off into SJW territory and it was ham-handed feminazi/man-hating. And seriously, has Monique done anything but mope around for the last year?

Maybe I'm just a woman-hating misogynist for not laughing or wanting to read it anymore, but I can't bring myself to keep looking at something that feels like it's just existing to browbeat the reader.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on August 26, 2013, 09:19:56 am
I hate Sinfest because Tatsuya Ishida has an ego the size of fucking New York and insists that anyone that dislikes his work doesn't understand his genius.

And his art hasn't changed on Sinfest since it started.  Even Calvin and Hobbes noticeably improved over the years.

In defense of the art style, it has improved a bit.  And the way it looks now is pretty cute.  A lot of comic artists play with a style until they find what they like, then stick with it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 26, 2013, 10:22:59 am
I hate Sinfest because Tatsuya Ishida has an ego the size of fucking New York and insists that anyone that dislikes his work doesn't understand his genius.

And his art hasn't changed on Sinfest since it started.  Even Calvin and Hobbes noticeably improved over the years.

In defense of the art style, it has improved a bit.  And the way it looks now is pretty cute.  A lot of comic artists play with a style until they find what they like, then stick with it.
Yeah, even his regular style has gotten a bit better than the first strips and when he changes styles, such as during the "reality zone" strips, you can see that he can draw really well when he wants to. It's just that the comic has developed a certain style over the years so most of the strips are more simplistic than what he is capable of doing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Knight of Liberty on August 26, 2013, 03:17:55 pm
Well I was on Deviant Art and found a group dedicated to old school propaganda posters. I was hoping to find those funny fake ones done for thinks like Star Wars and whatever. Well there were a few of those, but the majority of it was real stuff, both good, bad, and somewhere in between. I'm gonna post the worst I found here for your view dis-pleasure. Link: http://propagandacenter.deviantart.com/ (http://propagandacenter.deviantart.com/)

(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/157/e/0/not_all_terrorists_by_gabrielzuai-d681fza.jpg)

I actually had a chance to look through that gallery; there's actually a lot of good stuff in there (poasterchild, in particular, has made plenty of good pro-leftist propaganda).  Anyway, what's so bad about the anti-Anonymous cartoon?  I actually do feel that Anonymous do more harm than good and are generally a bunch of man-children that need a good, swift kick to their hindquarters from reality before they really hurt somebody.  I don't agree that they're the most dangerous terrorists out there, but they are terrorists by any sensible definition of the word.  Even if you don't agree with the cartoon's message, this is pretty tame stuff compared to some of the things I've seen on this thread (and, sadly, cannot unsee).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on August 26, 2013, 03:42:42 pm
What exactly has Anonymous done that qualifies as terrorism?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 26, 2013, 04:40:20 pm
Everything actually.

Ironbite-cept they're not a group like Al Qada so....
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Knight of Liberty on August 26, 2013, 06:00:56 pm
What exactly has Anonymous done that qualifies as terrorism?

Politically-motivated DDoS attacks count as cyberterrorism by any meaningful definition of the word (I have no time for you if you're one of those maniacs who think DDoS should be recognized as a legitimate form of protest).  Generaly, though, I've decided that Anonymous are completely untrustworthy; in particular, their show of solidarity with Chris Dorner was reprehensible and snuffed out whatever sympathy I may have had for them.  The trouble with the whole Anonymous structure is that it makes deflection of accountability all too easy, as anyone who does something regrettable can be dismissed as a rogue operative, while successes always represent the real group.  This has the effect of making the whole of Anonymous untrustworthy, thus undermining any good they may have hoped to achieve, to say nothin of how their attacks give authoritarians factory the justification for even more surveillance that they were looking for.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on August 26, 2013, 08:14:28 pm
What exactly has Anonymous done that qualifies as terrorism?

Politically-motivated DDoS attacks count as cyberterrorism by any meaningful definition of the word (I have no time for you if you're one of those maniacs who think DDoS should be recognized as a legitimate form of protest).

Have you ever heard of the fallacy of the excluded middle?

Most meaningful definitions of terrorism include the use of terror to coerce people. DDoS attacks do not in general qualify (they are much closer to vandalism). That doesn't mean I approve of them as a form of protest; I don't. But political strategies are not divided into 'legitimate' and 'terrorism'.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Undecided on August 26, 2013, 09:01:23 pm
What exactly has Anonymous done that qualifies as fascism?

Politically-motivated DDoS attacks count as cyberfascism by any meaningful definition of the word (I have no time for you if you're one of those maniacs who think DDoS should be recognized as a legitimate form of protest).

Have you ever heard of the fallacy of the excluded middle?

Most meaningful definitions of fascism include some sort of form of totalitarian nationalism. DDoS attacks do not in general qualify (they are much closer to vandalism). That doesn't mean I approve of them as a form of protest; I don't. But political strategies are not divided into 'legitimate' and 'fascism'.
"Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come."—George Orwell
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 26, 2013, 11:52:41 pm
Anonymous gets shit done. I feel a little suspicious of any anti-anonymous person, because it feels like they're trying to undermine any success.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 27, 2013, 12:02:28 am
Anonymous gets shit done. I feel a little suspicious of any anti-anonymous person, because it feels like they're trying to undermine any success.

i'm not for or against anonymous. to quote dan abnett, i feel they're a like a club. unwieldy to aim, but deadly. they are unpredictable, and for every good act they do, they do another that is either morally reprehensible, or just plain petty. this kind of force could save the world, yet their basic structure prevents them from seeing the big picture. you could say i wish they'd get some real direction. they're a hate-machine come vigilante group with no finality. that's why they're dangerous, their lack of a long-term goal could be their undoing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 27, 2013, 12:16:28 am
I'd say they do have a long-term goal: freedom. I think of them like I do Punisher or Batman: vigilantes and criminals, but the good guys all the same.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 27, 2013, 03:02:26 am
Anonymous are a bunch of shitheads on computers. As such, they will save kitties, protest unconstitutional bills, & then hack the FBI. They cannot be idealized one way or the other, not really.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 27, 2013, 03:06:27 am
So, three good things? How's that make them look bad?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 27, 2013, 03:12:08 am
Hacking the FBI is blatantly criminal, & they can kind of steal important information. Maybe you would prefer it if I used the example of when they hacked Sony & jeopardized its' customers' information.

Or maybe you just want to cling to this inane Batman myth, like Anonymous isn't 4Chan, & therefore likely cut from the same cloth as as the trolls who harass suicide victims' families.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 27, 2013, 03:15:08 am
Hacking the FBI is blatantly criminal, & they can kind of steal important information. Maybe you would prefer it if I used the example of when they hacked Sony & jeopardized its' customers' information.

Or maybe you just want to cling to this inane Batman myth, like Anonymous isn't 4Chan, & therefore likely cut from the same cloth as as the trolls who harass suicide victims' families.
That was actually Lulzsec, not Anonymous. That said, they used to be, but it's been a long time since then. Anonymous gets results, unlike standing around holding signs or signing petitions. Remember Steubenville?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 27, 2013, 03:42:09 am
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That was actually Lulzsec, not Anonymous.

Unsurprisingly, LulzSec was formed from Anonymous members, frequently collaborates with Anonymous, shares members with its parent group, & is effectively just a branch ofAnonymous. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)#LulzSec)

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Anonymous gets results, unlike standing around holding signs or signing petitions. Remember Steubenville?

...Are you deliberately ignoring the point?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 27, 2013, 03:50:02 am
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That was actually Lulzsec, not Anonymous.

Unsurprisingly, LulzSec was formed from Anonymous members, frequently collaborates with Anonymous, shares members with its parent group, & is effectively just a branch ofAnonymous. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)#LulzSec)

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Anonymous gets results, unlike standing around holding signs or signing petitions. Remember Steubenville?

...Are you deliberately ignoring the point?
They might be related, but it is not the same. Additionally, the blame lies on Sony for not protecting their customers. It was inevitable that someone, whether a group or person, would try it. And, no, I'm not. My point is, all groups have their bad actions and bad members. If you want to say that since LulzSec is just a branch of Anonymous, it's still their fault, then you have to agree with the Republicans that since radical Islam is a part of Islam, all Islamic terrorists are the fault of all of Islam. Of course, you won't agree with that, even though it's the same logic. Anonymous does more good than bad, and that makes them good.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on August 27, 2013, 04:20:12 am
Additionally, the blame lies on Sony for not protecting their customers. It was inevitable that someone, whether a group or person, would try it.
BS. If someone breaks into your house and your lock was rusty, the burglar is still guilty. "It was so easy to do it!" is not a valid defense.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 27, 2013, 04:31:57 am
Additionally, the blame lies on Sony for not protecting their customers. It was inevitable that someone, whether a group or person, would try it.
BS. If someone breaks into your house and your lock was rusty, the burglar is still guilty. "It was so easy to do it!" is not a valid defense.
This is different. If a burglar robbed a bank and got all your personal details because the bank just left them out in the open, you'd flip shit at the bank, too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 27, 2013, 06:10:29 am
Additionally, the blame lies on Sony for not protecting their customers. It was inevitable that someone, whether a group or person, would try it.
BS. If someone breaks into your house and your lock was rusty, the burglar is still guilty. "It was so easy to do it!" is not a valid defense.
This is different. If a burglar robbed a bank and got all your personal details because the bank just left them out in the open, you'd flip shit at the bank, too.

Yeah, but I'd still flip my shit worse at the burglar for stealing them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on August 27, 2013, 06:41:57 am
Additionally, the blame lies on Sony for not protecting their customers. It was inevitable that someone, whether a group or person, would try it.
BS. If someone breaks into your house and your lock was rusty, the burglar is still guilty. "It was so easy to do it!" is not a valid defense.
This is different. If a burglar robbed a bank and got all your personal details because the bank just left them out in the open, you'd flip shit at the bank, too.

Yeah, but I'd still flip my shit worse at the burglar for stealing them.
I'd be madder at the bank for failing to protect it. They should have known someone would try. They have that stuff. Everyone knows it. Someone trying to steal it is as likely as a hurricane hitting Florida.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on August 27, 2013, 12:03:39 pm
You're like one sentence away from blaming the victims for having their personal information stolen.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 27, 2013, 12:39:46 pm
Well, they shouldn't have dressed like that. / Well, they should have taken more safety precautions. / Well, they shouldn't have been there.

Just because the theft was easier to do due to (ok, that sounded silly) poor safety precautions does not mean that the hackers aren't 100% responsible of their own actions.

Granted that I do believe that the victim being careless is also stupid. Doesn't mean that they were "asking for it" just that they were stupid.

And since we are talking about victim blamin I might as well put this out as well. Victim blaming and rape cases: Even though the rapist is still 100% guilty of rape, which is not reduced simply by the victim placing himself/herself into a position where the rape is easier, in some cases the victim really has been a dumbass. Here's the thing though, this is not some mathematical equation where the victim bearing some responsibility of his/her becoming a victim would also mean that the rapist is less than 100% guilty of his/her own actions.

Now the ones who claim that "someone deserved to get raped because of X" on the other hand can go eat a bag of cocks. No one deserves that.

I guess I'm not good at explaining my point here. It's just that in the whole "victim blaming issue" I don't think either of the extremes is right. Nothing the victim did can give the rapist a right to rape that person, so no they didn't "deserve that." No clothing or reckless behaviour is a justification for rape. But on the other hand, in the other extreme are people who get furious over any criticism of the victims behaviour. Sometimes the victim really has been stupid. No, still not a "justification" for rape* but for some people ANY criticism of the victims actions is taboo.


*And if I hadn't seen so much evidence for it I would not believe that there are people who want rapists to be released from charges just because of the victim somehow "deserving to be raped." Like for example the comments from Steubenville case. Getting so drunk that you pass out? Stupid. Does that mean that the people who took advantage of her are somehow not rapists? No. No one forced their hands, no one made them do it, they themselves were responsible for what they did.

So no, I'm not saying there should be a reduced sentence for cases where the victim was dumb.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 27, 2013, 01:58:49 pm
Additionally, the blame lies on Sony for not protecting their customers. It was inevitable that someone, whether a group or person, would try it.
BS. If someone breaks into your house and your lock was rusty, the burglar is still guilty. "It was so easy to do it!" is not a valid defense.
This is different. If a burglar robbed a bank and got all your personal details because the bank just left them out in the open, you'd flip shit at the bank, too.

Yeah, but I'd still flip my shit worse at the burglar for stealing them.
I'd be madder at the bank for failing to protect it. They should have known someone would try. They have that stuff. Everyone knows it. Someone trying to steal it is as likely as a hurricane hitting Florida.

...Everything you just said is so wrong that I can't even begin to tackle it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on August 27, 2013, 03:12:33 pm
Anonymous gets shit done. I feel a little suspicious of any anti-anonymous person, because it feels like they're trying to undermine any success.

Anonymous is a bunch of assholes who are occasionally assholes against the right person.

Still not terrorists, though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on August 27, 2013, 07:31:24 pm
Anonymous attacks whomever it wants, because Anonymous doesn't give a shit, so long as its entertaining to them.  Sometimes, they attack bad people and they, occasionally, attack regular dicks like us.  Like everyone else, they do good, and they do bad...its just that they tend to take it to extremes no matter which direction they go.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Jack Mann on August 27, 2013, 09:57:38 pm
Anonymous isn't an ideology beyond "We want to do some shit without people knowing it's us."  Sometimes you have politically-minded Anons going after the FBI or the Church of Scientology, sometimes you have cash-hungry Anons stealing people's credit card information to get their money, and sometimes you have bored anons who try to trigger epileptic fits because hurting others is hilarious.

Anonymous is less of a group and more of a tactic.  It has no overarching ideals, aside from a desire to do what they want without consequences.  Sometimes they do good things.  Sometimes they do absolutely terrible things.  There are many groups within Anonymous, because it isn't a consolidated group.  It's just a bunch of different people who all took up the same idea of keeping up anonymity to let them act with relative freedom.

And no, even when Anons hack the FBI or make obscene phone calls to a teenager, they're still not engaging in terrorism.  That's regular old criminal activity and being a douchebag.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 27, 2013, 10:42:26 pm
Fuck, I'm Anonymous precisely because I claimed so.  That's literally all you have to do to be part of that "club".

Being Anonymous is meaningless, and I'd venture to say most people are Anonymous because it lets them take credit for good/funny things that other Anonymous do.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 27, 2013, 10:52:24 pm
Anonymous isn't an ideology beyond "We want to do some shit without people knowing it's us."  Sometimes you have politically-minded Anons going after the FBI or the Church of Scientology, sometimes you have cash-hungry Anons stealing people's credit card information to get their money, and sometimes you have bored anons who try to trigger epileptic fits because hurting others is hilarious.

Anonymous is less of a group and more of a tactic.  It has no overarching ideals, aside from a desire to do what they want without consequences.  Sometimes they do good things.  Sometimes they do absolutely terrible things.  There are many groups within Anonymous, because it isn't a consolidated group.  It's just a bunch of different people who all took up the same idea of keeping up anonymity to let them act with relative freedom.

And no, even when Anons hack the FBI or make obscene phone calls to a teenager, they're still not engaging in terrorism.  That's regular old criminal activity and being a douchebag.

tl;dr: anonymous is chaotic neutral [/dnd]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lithp on August 29, 2013, 11:26:15 pm
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They might be related, but it is not the same.

Read the link. There is no dividing line between LulzSec & Anonymous. What you have is that Anonymous itself was divided on whether or not to do the hack, which they usually are. If that's a disqualifying factor, then they can't claim credit for Steubenville, either.

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Additionally, the blame lies on Sony for not protecting their customers. It was inevitable that someone, whether a group or person, would try it.

It is inevitable that someone would eventually succeed, no matter how careful Sony was. We make the job 200 times easier if we sit here & pretend the hackers don't actually do anything wrong. Sony then investigated the matter, improved their security, & mandated a password change. What did Anonymous do? According to me, they hacked the fucking website in the first place, according to you, nothing. Neither is particularly heroic.

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And, no, I'm not.

Then you really don't understand something as simple as "Anonymous is no more heroic or villainous than any other group of dickheads with computers"?

Actually, now that I think about it, Anonymous identifies around being hackers, which you would probably ordinarily say makes them bad.

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My point is, all groups have their bad actions and bad members.

I said that Anonymous does both good & bad, they are not idealistic in any way. You said they were fucking superheroes.

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If you want to say that since LulzSec is just a branch of Anonymous, it's still their fault, then you have to agree with the Republicans that since radical Islam is a part of Islam, all Islamic terrorists are the fault of all of Islam.

It's more like if Mosque A had a bunch of people so it split off to form Mosque B, then it helped Mosque B with practically every bombing it ever performed, made easier by the fact that many of the patrons & leaders were patrons & leaders of both mosques, then both mosques would be part of the same terrorist organization. Only not even that, because these situations aren't even remotely similar.

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Of course, you won't agree with that, even though it's the same logic.

I won't agree to it because it's not the same logic, it's a retarded strawman.

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Anonymous does more good than bad,

Your claim.

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and that makes them good.

Also your claim.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 01, 2013, 04:31:16 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1185153_357062697759028_944625504_n.jpg)

yeah, schools should teach this stuff, but if you don't know the basis of complex mathematics, you're probably going to be too poor to pay income tax let alone buy a house or car. Also, you kind of need to know math in order to understand taxes in the first place.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 01, 2013, 04:46:13 pm
They don't teach you how to vote or what taxes are in American schools? Huh. I'm pretty sure it came up in my civics classes.


As for why you're taught the Pythagorean theorem, well, you're not likely to find that out independently and if you intend to go into a STEM field, it's kinda important. And you can't know that you don't want to go into a maths-intensive field unless you, y'know, actually learn some maths first.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on September 01, 2013, 04:52:26 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1185153_357062697759028_944625504_n.jpg)

yeah, schools should teach this stuff, but if you don't know the basis of complex mathematics, you're probably going to be too poor to pay income tax let alone buy a house or car. Also, you kind of need to know math in order to understand taxes in the first place.

I don't understand why "How to vote" is on that list.

It couldn't be simpler. All you have to do is go into a booth and put a cross next to the person you want to vote for.

If you can't work that out for yourself, you've got no chance when it comes to taxes, banking and car/house buying.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SimSim on September 01, 2013, 05:07:08 pm
I learned how to do my taxes in high school. We learned it in a math class.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on September 01, 2013, 05:35:28 pm
I learned how to vote in elementary school.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auri-El on September 01, 2013, 06:23:32 pm
Maybe it should be "how to vote intelligently"? Sure, the actual voting process is simple and straightforward, but being educated on things like why it matters, how to research candidates/issues, etc., would be beneficial.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on September 01, 2013, 06:39:34 pm
The shirt has a point. Chances are, if you enjoyed math beforehand, you'd already want to go into math classes. For people like me, who think math is about as enjoyable as getting shot in the nuts, always have, and always will, I could have done without the shit taught in high school, outside of financial mathematics (which is why I'm taking it this year, my senior year), and taken courses that I would actually apply to my life and use to expand my knowledge. Guess what I don't remember any of? Did you guess "Algebra or Geometry"? You're completely correct! It's being able to regurgitate it long enough to pass, not learning.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 01, 2013, 07:21:43 pm
The shirt has a point. Chances are, if you enjoyed math beforehand, you'd already want to go into math classes. For people like me, who think math is about as enjoyable as getting shot in the nuts, always have, and always will, I could have done without the shit taught in high school, outside of financial mathematics (which is why I'm taking it this year, my senior year), and taken courses that I would actually apply to my life and use to expand my knowledge. Guess what I don't remember any of? Did you guess "Algebra or Geometry"? You're completely correct! It's being able to regurgitate it long enough to pass, not learning.

Without at least some maths classes, you can't actually know whether you'll like maths or not. Most maths-liking people (e.g. me) don't actually know that we are until we, y'know, go to school and learn some maths beyond basic arithmetic. For example, Pythagoras' Theorem (which is actually useful in general beyond going into a maths-intensive field, but I digress).

I would also make the (weaker) argument that learning maths teaches fundamental reasoning skills that can be applied in general outside the specific domain. Most fields have some use for abstract logical thinking, but mathematics is made of it, which makes it ideally suited for teaching it

And, finally: statistics. It can come up in nearly everything, it is frequently misunderstood, and it takes some mathematical reasoning beyond basic arithmetic to use it at the 'bare competence' level. It is as fundamental to an informed populace as history or civics, and schools have just as much of a duty to prepare students to deal with it.


To acknowledge my biases here: I'm a mathy person, and I tend to think in mathematical terms, which can lead me to underestimate the difficulty of learning maths and overestimate its importance. Which is why I qualify as weak the 'abstract reasoning' argument.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on September 01, 2013, 07:37:02 pm
Maybe it should be "how to vote intelligently"? Sure, the actual voting process is simple and straightforward, but being educated on things like why it matters, how to research candidates/issues, etc., would be beneficial.

About a month ago I saw a post on tumblr explaining how voting in Australia works, and how apparently some people there honestly don't fully understand how to vote effectively because it's not taught, creating a problem.  Of course, I don't live in Australia, so I don't how big of a problem it is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on September 01, 2013, 09:39:43 pm
The shirt has a point. Chances are, if you enjoyed math beforehand, you'd already want to go into math classes. For people like me, who think math is about as enjoyable as getting shot in the nuts, always have, and always will, I could have done without the shit taught in high school, outside of financial mathematics (which is why I'm taking it this year, my senior year), and taken courses that I would actually apply to my life and use to expand my knowledge. Guess what I don't remember any of? Did you guess "Algebra or Geometry"? You're completely correct! It's being able to regurgitate it long enough to pass, not learning.

Without at least some maths classes, you can't actually know whether you'll like maths or not. Most maths-liking people (e.g. me) don't actually know that we are until we, y'know, go to school and learn some maths beyond basic arithmetic. For example, Pythagoras' Theorem (which is actually useful in general beyond going into a maths-intensive field, but I digress).

I would also make the (weaker) argument that learning maths teaches fundamental reasoning skills that can be applied in general outside the specific domain. Most fields have some use for abstract logical thinking, but mathematics is made of it, which makes it ideally suited for teaching it

And, finally: statistics. It can come up in nearly everything, it is frequently misunderstood, and it takes some mathematical reasoning beyond basic arithmetic to use it at the 'bare competence' level. It is as fundamental to an informed populace as history or civics, and schools have just as much of a duty to prepare students to deal with it.


To acknowledge my biases here: I'm a mathy person, and I tend to think in mathematical terms, which can lead me to underestimate the difficulty of learning maths and overestimate its importance. Which is why I qualify as weak the 'abstract reasoning' argument.
As a completely non-mathy person, who generally needs technology to aid in anything more than the basics, I can say, it's a lot more difficult than you might think, and I generally find that nothing I ever do ever needs much more than the basics. That said, I will agree, statistic is important, but if they had a statistics and financial math option, I'd just do that. Those two are actually useful, while the rest, for many fields, is not. I'd suggest less math being required, because by the time you get into high school, a majority of people know whether or not they suck balls at math, and it would be better to allow students to take classes that interest them, so they have a better shot at finding a career that suits them. For my senior year, I have one space for an elective. That is it. While I selected from multiple options for most of my required classes (which means I have three to four AP classes, I need to get one more out-of-school, online-only one set up on the first day), I have pretty much nothing that really raises my interest. This is, in my opinion, a huge issue. It causes burnout when people are not doing anything they massively enjoy (at least I like the AP US Govt and Economics and AP Lit), which is rather bad considering burnout is not good for education, and certainly not for someone who already suffers from high anxiety and depression, which let me tell you, describes most high schoolers these days. I don't know more than a few people that don't self harm, and it's a small (400ish) people school where I know just about everyone.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 01, 2013, 10:29:52 pm
PHH, do you enjoy working with your hands - building things, art, playing an instrument, cooking, etc? Everybody should have some source of physical creativity in their lives. I think it just grounds you, gives you a break from the mental-only activity typical of a school life, and it damn sure reinforces and builds self esteem. I would have lost my freaking mind in high school if I hadn't played tennis, guitar, and making stuff with tools in the garage. I made scary mini Medieval weapons on those bad days  :o .And bamboo water bongs on the good 'uns  :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on September 01, 2013, 10:35:50 pm
PHH, do you enjoy working with your hands - building things, art, playing an instrument, cooking, etc? Everybody should have some source of physical creativity in their lives. I think it just grounds you, gives you a break from the mental-only activity typical of a school life, and it damn sure reinforces and builds self esteem. I would have lost my freaking mind in high school if I hadn't played tennis, guitar, and making stuff with tools in the garage. I made scary mini Medieval weapons on those bad days  :o .And bamboo water bongs on the good 'uns  :P
I write when I have time, and if I had the money (family's poor), I'd buy a guitar and learn to play. I'm not a sports person, and my artistic skills are somewhere between cat and mentally disabled toddler.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 01, 2013, 10:42:55 pm
I have no idea how the American high-school system works with electives and all that, so I can't really comment on it. I wouldn't doubt that it can use a fair bit of rewriting, though.

My point is that removing relatively basic stuff* from the curriculum will have negative side effects. And I'm sure it's annoying to have to learn maths when it looks like you'll never use it; I've had roughly similar experiences with most things I learnt in my last couple of years of secondary school. Quite a lot of which I've forgotten by now. But I also think that there should be a fair amount of the school curriculum that's there just for the purpose of getting exposed to new fields you didn't know before, and you might actually be interested in. I knew I'd go into science several years before finishing secondary, but I know a lot of people who changed their minds on what to study on their last years of secondary (or later). If they had determined too much of their final years' material beforehand, they would have never been exposed to the things they later decided interested them.


*and Pythagoras' theorem is pretty fucking basic, in terms of maths that isn't just arithmetic. I actually find the idea of learning it in high school rather troubling; it should be learnt at primary school level, whatever it is you call that in America.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on September 01, 2013, 10:49:29 pm
I have no idea how the American high-school system works with electives and all that, so I can't really comment on it. I wouldn't doubt that it can use a fair bit of rewriting, though.

My point is that removing relatively basic stuff* from the curriculum will have negative side effects. And I'm sure it's annoying to have to learn maths when it looks like you'll never use it; I've had roughly similar experiences with most things I learnt in my last couple of years of secondary school. Quite a lot of which I've forgotten by now. But I also think that there should be a fair amount of the school curriculum that's there just for the purpose of getting exposed to new fields you didn't know before, and you might actually be interested in. I knew I'd go into science several years before finishing secondary, but I know a lot of people who changed their minds on what to study on their last years of secondary (or later). If they had determined too much of their final years' material beforehand, they would have never been exposed to the things they later decided interested them.


*and Pythagoras' theorem is pretty fucking basic, in terms of maths that isn't just arithmetic. I actually find the idea of learning it in high school rather troubling; it should be learnt at primary school level, whatever it is you call that in America.
That's the issue with the American high school system. It is counterproductive to exposing you to fields. It gets the bare essentials and a few electives. What I'm calling for is less things everyone has to take and more room for various electives.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 01, 2013, 11:05:23 pm
I have no idea how the American high-school system works with electives and all that, so I can't really comment on it. I wouldn't doubt that it can use a fair bit of rewriting, though.

My point is that removing relatively basic stuff* from the curriculum will have negative side effects. And I'm sure it's annoying to have to learn maths when it looks like you'll never use it; I've had roughly similar experiences with most things I learnt in my last couple of years of secondary school. Quite a lot of which I've forgotten by now. But I also think that there should be a fair amount of the school curriculum that's there just for the purpose of getting exposed to new fields you didn't know before, and you might actually be interested in. I knew I'd go into science several years before finishing secondary, but I know a lot of people who changed their minds on what to study on their last years of secondary (or later). If they had determined too much of their final years' material beforehand, they would have never been exposed to the things they later decided interested them.


*and Pythagoras' theorem is pretty fucking basic, in terms of maths that isn't just arithmetic. I actually find the idea of learning it in high school rather troubling; it should be learnt at primary school level, whatever it is you call that in America.
That's the issue with the American high school system. It is counterproductive to exposing you to fields. It gets the bare essentials and a few electives. What I'm calling for is less things everyone has to take and more room for various electives.

If you wanna go that way, then 'nix the required English courses.  Seriously, if you don't know how to read, write, and speak proper fucking English, or a close facsimile, after 9 or so years of having it taught to you, then you're not gonna fucking learn it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on September 01, 2013, 11:21:32 pm
I have no idea how the American high-school system works with electives and all that, so I can't really comment on it. I wouldn't doubt that it can use a fair bit of rewriting, though.

My point is that removing relatively basic stuff* from the curriculum will have negative side effects. And I'm sure it's annoying to have to learn maths when it looks like you'll never use it; I've had roughly similar experiences with most things I learnt in my last couple of years of secondary school. Quite a lot of which I've forgotten by now. But I also think that there should be a fair amount of the school curriculum that's there just for the purpose of getting exposed to new fields you didn't know before, and you might actually be interested in. I knew I'd go into science several years before finishing secondary, but I know a lot of people who changed their minds on what to study on their last years of secondary (or later). If they had determined too much of their final years' material beforehand, they would have never been exposed to the things they later decided interested them.


*and Pythagoras' theorem is pretty fucking basic, in terms of maths that isn't just arithmetic. I actually find the idea of learning it in high school rather troubling; it should be learnt at primary school level, whatever it is you call that in America.
That's the issue with the American high school system. It is counterproductive to exposing you to fields. It gets the bare essentials and a few electives. What I'm calling for is less things everyone has to take and more room for various electives.

If you wanna go that way, then 'nix the required English courses.  Seriously, if you don't know how to read, write, and speak proper fucking English, or a close facsimile, after 9 or so years of having it taught to you, then you're not gonna fucking learn it.
I'm not sure if I agree or not. On one hand, it seems overly cynical, even to me. On the other hand, it does seem to be the trend.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on September 02, 2013, 12:30:34 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1185153_357062697759028_944625504_n.jpg)

That image looks sooo shopped. But damn it, whoever made this image, I learned how to vote way before I was high school.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SCarpelan on September 02, 2013, 12:35:06 am
My father who has done manual labor all of his life once told me that Pythagoras' theorem is in his opinion one of the most important things he ever learned at primary school. Knowing how to improvise a tool to measure an accurate right angle has been immensely useful to him in many situations.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on September 02, 2013, 02:19:34 am
My father who has done manual labor all of his life once told me that Pythagoras' theorem is in his opinion one of the most important things he ever learned at primary school. Knowing how to improvise a tool to measure an accurate right angle has been immensely useful to him in many situations.
Again, it depends on the field. For a large portion of human beings, it's as important as knowing not to wear white after Labor Day (which reminds me, I should get white pants so I can wear them with a white shirt soon).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on September 02, 2013, 02:31:33 am
The shirt has a point. Chances are, if you enjoyed math beforehand, you'd already want to go into math classes. For people like me, who think math is about as enjoyable as getting shot in the nuts, always have, and always will, I could have done without the shit taught in high school, outside of financial mathematics (which is why I'm taking it this year, my senior year), and taken courses that I would actually apply to my life and use to expand my knowledge. Guess what I don't remember any of? Did you guess "Algebra or Geometry"? You're completely correct! It's being able to regurgitate it long enough to pass, not learning.

Without at least some maths classes, you can't actually know whether you'll like maths or not. Most maths-liking people (e.g. me) don't actually know that we are until we, y'know, go to school and learn some maths beyond basic arithmetic. For example, Pythagoras' Theorem (which is actually useful in general beyond going into a maths-intensive field, but I digress).

I would also make the (weaker) argument that learning maths teaches fundamental reasoning skills that can be applied in general outside the specific domain. Most fields have some use for abstract logical thinking, but mathematics is made of it, which makes it ideally suited for teaching it

And, finally: statistics. It can come up in nearly everything, it is frequently misunderstood, and it takes some mathematical reasoning beyond basic arithmetic to use it at the 'bare competence' level. It is as fundamental to an informed populace as history or civics, and schools have just as much of a duty to prepare students to deal with it.


To acknowledge my biases here: I'm a mathy person, and I tend to think in mathematical terms, which can lead me to underestimate the difficulty of learning maths and overestimate its importance. Which is why I qualify as weak the 'abstract reasoning' argument.

As a non-mathy person (in that I can generally grasp the concepts, but usually find them boring as fuck*), I tend to agree with you. Particularly the bolded part.

* There are rare exceptions, usually in areas that overlap with physics and other sciences.

ETA: If I recall correctly, we first learned Pythagoras' theorem in junior high. We made some use of it in high school, but I'm pretty sure I remember learning about it in either grade 8 or 9. Mind you, I'm in Canada, so it's possible things are different in the States.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SCarpelan on September 02, 2013, 03:50:21 am
My father who has done manual labor all of his life once told me that Pythagoras' theorem is in his opinion one of the most important things he ever learned at primary school. Knowing how to improvise a tool to measure an accurate right angle has been immensely useful to him in many situations.
Again, it depends on the field. For a large portion of human beings, it's as important as knowing not to wear white after Labor Day (which reminds me, I should get white pants so I can wear them with a white shirt soon).
No. Knowing how to make a straight angle can be important or at least very helpful for example if you make items or constructions either in your workplace or in your spare time. Just like knowing how to calculate areas and volumes it's something anyone might need. It's a basic and simple concept and has enough practical applications that teaching it to everyone is beneficial.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Igor on September 02, 2013, 05:15:32 am
ETA: If I recall correctly, we first learned Pythagoras' theorem in junior high. We made some use of it in high school, but I'm pretty sure I remember learning about it in either grade 8 or 9. Mind you, I'm in Canada, so it's possible things are different in the States.
We did the Pythagorean theorem in grade.. 7 or 8, I believe here (Ontario), and we started algebra in grade... 6, I think. I'm infamously bad at math but those are two things I managed to actually understand and somewhat remember. And my elementary school was shitty.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on September 02, 2013, 06:10:30 am
I don't share dissing Pythagoras (calculating distances in a coordinate system!), but the shirt has a point in that the points on the list are rather essential. Some said that they did learn it in school, but if the shirt's author didn't, it was a clear failing of the school (or the author was a lazy careless shit in class, but it's still not exactly a point of pride for the teacher.)
I too had a civics-equivalent class. I can vote (and I'm not sure whether I was taught it in there. My predominant memory is how the history teacher spent one class distributing anonymized party manifestos and having the students compare and identify them), but 'how to do taxes' is definitely not among my learned skills.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 02, 2013, 07:31:01 am
I'd be a lot more sympathetic towards the shirt if getting high school kids to learn didn't involve twisting their arms and explaining basic concepts over and over and over to them again only to have them immediately dump everything they learned out the window because "hey I'm not in school anymore I don't need to know this stuff anymore"

See: EVERYONE WHO SPEAKS AOLESE PAST 14 YEARS OF AGE!

You want to be taught how to do stuff at an adult level?  Prove that you can do the stuff you're asked to do at a teenage.  Then we'll talk.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: starseeker on September 02, 2013, 07:45:30 am
I could've sworn we did Pythagoras in Year 4 or so at Primary school (age 9-10) in the UK, it's there with the times tables for basic maths. The government's now suggesting that people who fail the maths GCSE (exam at 16) should study more maths until they pass it. This is along with the leaving age being raised to 18.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on September 02, 2013, 07:51:13 am
I could've sworn we did Pythagoras in Year 4 or so at Primary school (age 9-10) in the UK, it's there with the times tables for basic maths. The government's now suggesting that people who fail the maths GCSE (exam at 16) should study more maths until they pass it. This is along with the leaving age being raised to 18.

I didn't study Pythagoras till high school, but my Primary school was rubbish.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on September 02, 2013, 12:05:20 pm
I'm certain we studied it in 8th grade here...but 8th grade is a fuzzy year for me.(What with that being the year I got punched in the face eight times and all.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on September 02, 2013, 01:59:31 pm
Yeah, it wasn't until high school here, and honestly, when it comes to math, it's all ancient Sumerian to me, because even Greek would be easier. I can memorize with ease anything history, government, politics or English related. Mathematics related stuff? Nope.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 02, 2013, 05:41:45 pm
Basic math and multiplication tables had to be mastered to graduate 6th grade, algebra level one was mandatory during grade 7, and had to be passed with at least a C- to enter grade eight. That was back in the '70's in Coral Gables FL, a wealthy town, so probably not universal to FL as a whole. Students got held back a year all the time back then. You just had to pass basic milestones, period. It wasn't a completely horrible embarrassment to get held back, not like you were suddenly riding the short bus to school, but it was a plenty scary motivation to just suck it up and learn that shit whether you liked it or not.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on September 03, 2013, 12:55:33 am
Here, Algebra 1 is normally 9th grade, and a passing grade is 65 or higher.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 03, 2013, 02:19:24 am
That's a problem, if that is common across the country now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: starseeker on September 03, 2013, 06:22:22 am
Here, Algebra 1 is normally 9th grade, and a passing grade is 65 or higher.

What sort of things were in Algebra 1? Just so I can get a handle on it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on September 03, 2013, 06:32:28 am
Here, Algebra 1 is normally 9th grade, and a passing grade is 65 or higher.

What sort of things were in Algebra 1? Just so I can get a handle on it.
Umm, well, despite passing the Regents (state test) with an 80something, that's kinda one of the issues with the school system. We learn for the tests, and then lose it. People tend to be like that for any subject they don't care for. All I can remember is percents and the Pythagorean Theorem. At the same time, I still remember a lot of both global and US history (for global, got a 100 on the Regents, for US History, I got a 90something with a 4 or 5 (out of 5) on the AP test, only reason I'm uncertain is one of the two I did last year was a 4, the other a 5, and both are my best two subjects).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 03, 2013, 10:29:34 am
Algebra I, at least in my old state (AR), consisted mostly of learning how to work various kinds of equations.  It wasn't until Algebra II that we got into things like the Pythagorean Theorem.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on September 03, 2013, 05:52:07 pm
The problem with a lot of public schools (which most people go to) is that now they simply train kids how to take tests and then that's basically it. And a lot of time if you do have a kid who is actually interested in a subject they're stunted and prevented from doing extra things that interest them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on September 03, 2013, 11:14:25 pm
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qbxcacTxDVo/UiXcVXPZyNI/AAAAAAACji4/maqz88B6Hio/s1600/mrs.jpg)

So we can play "Spot the douchebag"!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on September 03, 2013, 11:15:53 pm
I....how would they think the average non crazy would understand what that means?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: LeTipex on September 04, 2013, 12:47:27 am
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qbxcacTxDVo/UiXcVXPZyNI/AAAAAAACji4/maqz88B6Hio/s1600/mrs.jpg)

So we can play "Spot the douchebag"!
At last, a sticker that shows I think of gays as subhumans!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 04, 2013, 01:24:57 am
Wait...

How is that subtle? And how does a =/= sign somehow "counter" the claims of pro same-sex marriage advocates?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 04, 2013, 01:29:52 am
Wait...

How is that subtle? And how does a =/= sign somehow "counter" the claims of pro same-sex marriage advocates?

Because if you say something often enough and loud enough, you'll get people agreeing with you even if you're spouting nonsense.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on September 04, 2013, 02:48:13 am
I've actually seen that sticker, though with different color schemes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: PosthumanHeresy on September 04, 2013, 06:21:11 am
The problem with a lot of public schools (which most people go to) is that now they simply train kids how to take tests and then that's basically it. And a lot of time if you do have a kid who is actually interested in a subject they're stunted and prevented from doing extra things that interest them.
Yeah, we're trained for tests in normal classes with Regents, but the teachers let students go above and beyond, and if there's no Regents or it's an AP class, they're damn good. Let's put it this way: my English teacher is a bit right leaning, Christian, and me and her get along great and talk a lot about stuff. We disagree on some things, sure, but she's actually an awesome person. Oh, and we have a rent-a-teacher thing at the end of the year. I rented her and had her dress up as John 5. It was awesome. /tangent
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on September 04, 2013, 07:03:54 am
I've actually seen that sticker, though with different color schemes.
I've seen it as a hexagon
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 04, 2013, 07:53:34 am
I've actually seen that sticker, though with different color schemes.
I've seen it as a hexagon
Well it is rather obvious choice to oppose a movement that uses = as their symbol.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on September 04, 2013, 09:15:33 am
They don't teach you how to vote or what taxes are in American schools? Huh. I'm pretty sure it came up in my civics classes.


As for why you're taught the Pythagorean theorem, well, you're not likely to find that out independently and if you intend to go into a STEM field, it's kinda important. And you can't know that you don't want to go into a maths-intensive field unless you, y'know, actually learn some maths first.

Civics classes aren't really taught anymore.  After all, they aren't on standardized tests, which are what really matters.  (Common Core can't come fast enough.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 04, 2013, 02:18:26 pm
They don't teach you how to vote or what taxes are in American schools? Huh. I'm pretty sure it came up in my civics classes.


As for why you're taught the Pythagorean theorem, well, you're not likely to find that out independently and if you intend to go into a STEM field, it's kinda important. And you can't know that you don't want to go into a maths-intensive field unless you, y'know, actually learn some maths first.

Civics classes aren't really taught anymore.  After all, they aren't on standardized tests, which are what really matters.  (Common Core can't come fast enough.)

This is so chilling and depressing, but after I thought a bit how the political climate has changed, how ALEC legislators pass crazy (anti)education bills...it suddenly seemed obvious; a competent voter is their enemy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 05, 2013, 12:27:34 pm
(https://sphotos-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1239656_343945109075040_1312083374_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on September 05, 2013, 12:32:41 pm
.....no they're not.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: solar. on September 05, 2013, 12:37:31 pm
What the fuck is this bullshit?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 05, 2013, 01:02:19 pm
What the fuck is this bullshit?

Complete and utter egotistical lame-brained fuckstained bullshit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 05, 2013, 04:07:00 pm
Not only is "everyone is born straight" patently false*, but it also strikes me as entirely irrelevant. In a parallel universe where everyone starts out straight and then some become not-straight through whatever process, everyone still deserves equal rights. Because, why the fuck not.



*Or at best, meaningless. The argument could be made that it makes no sense to speak of the sexuality of a newborn. Still, since there's clear evidence that the factors that result in someone having same-sex attractions are firmly set by the time of birth, "born gay" seems a perfectly adequate phrasing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on September 09, 2013, 11:22:40 pm
Anti-gay hate group in Illinois
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HdmSjfvUkaA/Ui40Xg5YngI/AAAAAAACj8A/XmLSFs0dbWM/s1600/IFIbillboard.jpg)
He made them male and female? Are you saying Adam and Eve was actually one person with both female and male traits, like Ometeotl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ometecuhtli)?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on September 09, 2013, 11:52:44 pm
He made them Intersex.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on September 10, 2013, 01:33:30 pm
Well, it's not a protest sign, but I guess this is the best place to put it without starting a new thread.

So a few minutes ago I was sitting in the McDonalds of Okmulgee, Oklahoma eating lunch between my college classes, and I heard some guys talking about some pretty damn stupid politics.

After I sat down the first I heard of their conversation was one of the swaying how there's supposed to be a big information dump on the 11th of stuff about Benghazi. I rolled my eyes at the stupid, but it's typical stuff you hear. Next he goes on to say how he doesn't think it's Obama really pulling the strings, but he's actually controlled by international banking (guess that's the classy way of saying "JEWS!"). He said something about Kerry, and I expected it to continue on to be them taking the TYT "lizard man Kerry" video seriously, but no they just mentioned something he said as sounding like there were people in the shadows pulling the world strings. I don't remember what they said he said unfortunately, something about how "if Syria doesn't get rid of their chemical weapons...  ...and it happened". The next part naturally was "why are we giving weapons to Al Quada, again!" At this point I had finished rushing through eating and promptly left, glad to be gone from the stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 12, 2013, 11:37:09 am
Well, it's not a protest sign, but I guess this is the best place to put it without starting a new thread.

So a few minutes ago I was sitting in the McDonalds of Okmulgee, Oklahoma eating lunch between my college classes, and I heard some guys talking about some pretty damn stupid politics.

After I sat down the first I heard of their conversation was one of the swaying how there's supposed to be a big information dump on the 11th of stuff about Benghazi. I rolled my eyes at the stupid, but it's typical stuff you hear. Next he goes on to say how he doesn't think it's Obama really pulling the strings, but he's actually controlled by international banking (guess that's the classy way of saying "JEWS!"). He said something about Kerry, and I expected it to continue on to be them taking the TYT "lizard man Kerry" video seriously, but no they just mentioned something he said as sounding like there were people in the shadows pulling the world strings. I don't remember what they said he said unfortunately, something about how "if Syria doesn't get rid of their chemical weapons...  ...and it happened". The next part naturally was "why are we giving weapons to Al Quada, again!" At this point I had finished rushing through eating and promptly left, glad to be gone from the stupid.

Wow. That's a lot of stupid harshing your lunch.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on September 18, 2013, 12:21:31 am
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SWQE0wYhOP8/Ujh9fQCd-MI/AAAAAAACkpE/ZzxyjWtONR8/s1600/sexsign.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on September 18, 2013, 01:42:24 am
I think churches and organizations that put up signs like that have to issue public apologies, like "Sorry but that last sign was complete bullshit"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 18, 2013, 09:26:23 am
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SWQE0wYhOP8/Ujh9fQCd-MI/AAAAAAACkpE/ZzxyjWtONR8/s1600/sexsign.jpg)

You say that like its a bad thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on September 18, 2013, 09:37:28 am
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SWQE0wYhOP8/Ujh9fQCd-MI/AAAAAAACkpE/ZzxyjWtONR8/s1600/sexsign.jpg)


Sex before marriage is man's greatest treasure.

...Fuck, it doesn't rhyme.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Raymond Dullaghy on September 18, 2013, 09:45:29 am
My church sign had a real doozy for a few weeks. One side of it said "What have you done for Jesus' sake?". The issue is that it's a Lutheran church, which is very firm about "grace and faith, not works". I thought it was kind of misleading about our teachings. Or was I too anal-retentive about it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on September 18, 2013, 09:56:44 am
Probably but a good form of anal-retentive.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 18, 2013, 01:02:14 pm
My church sign had a real doozy for a few weeks. One side of it said "What have you done for Jesus' sake?". The issue is that it's a Lutheran church, which is very firm about "grace and faith, not works". I thought it was kind of misleading about our teachings. Or was I too anal-retentive about it?

No that's a pretty fair thing to get frustrated over.

A lot of churches claim to be "grace and faith" but in the end they're "oh, and works, too", even though they'll adamantly deny it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on September 18, 2013, 02:01:50 pm
My church sign had a real doozy for a few weeks. One side of it said "What have you done for Jesus' sake?". The issue is that it's a Lutheran church, which is very firm about "grace and faith, not works". I thought it was kind of misleading about our teachings. Or was I too anal-retentive about it?

No that's a pretty fair thing to get frustrated over.

A lot of churches claim to be "grace and faith" but in the end they're "oh, and works, too", even though they'll adamantly deny it.
at least the Catholic church is consistent in that aspect
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on September 19, 2013, 12:58:37 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/6041d27a36292a3a5afd804b2bcd0315/tumblr_mtdtoyvZHy1r0fpqdo1_500.jpg)

Not really a sign, but y'know... couldn't find another place.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Raymond Dullaghy on September 19, 2013, 01:21:45 pm
It looks like an air-dropped propaganda leaflet. Were there any planes passing overhead when you got it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 19, 2013, 02:35:40 pm
What's it even supposed to be saying?  It's like "Here's a list of things I hate with no context except some guy's face that you can barely make out.  Go fuck yourself."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on September 19, 2013, 02:36:05 pm
Not my picture. Someone I follow on tumblr found it. They said it's not the first she's seen, and it won't be the last. The fundies have been dropping them off around the city for a while.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on September 19, 2013, 05:16:53 pm
I recognize it as coming from a Chick Tract - and I have to say, without the context it had in the tract it makes no sense.

Which is why it's in here.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on September 19, 2013, 06:45:25 pm
I recognize it as coming from a Chick Tract - and I have to say, without the context it had in the tract it makes no sense.

Which is why it's in here.

Do any Chick tracts make any sense?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 19, 2013, 07:45:32 pm
Somewhat. The things they say are incredibly stupid, but it is usually clear which stupid things they are saying.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 19, 2013, 10:29:55 pm
I think its saying that the "I didn't know about the 'Good News'" defense doesn't cut it, because you're still a horrible sinning person who enjoys the occasional fuck and may or may not be a homosexual.  Kinda like how ignorance of the law isn't an excuse, except far more idiotic, not legally binding, and generally much more abhorrent.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on September 20, 2013, 01:39:27 am
Heh, I got my first Chick Tract a few weeks ago.  Someone left them in the shopping carts of a wal mart, I got one about how the Catholic Church created and secretly controls Islam, Communism, Nazism, and the freemasons.  Also they killed Lincoln and JFK.  Also for some reason it started with a Pinky and the Brain reference.

Speaking of Nazis

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BR5o_isCMAAiZwY.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on September 21, 2013, 10:01:40 pm
(https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/1234133_531580140263697_1536689515_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on September 22, 2013, 03:06:13 am
Yes the national socialist party was in cahoots with socialism that's why the nazis and the communists got along so well together in world war 2. (sarcasm)

The problem with low information republican voters is that they think democrats are as dumb as they are.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 22, 2013, 03:44:52 pm
It's a practical definition of ignorance that the ignorant believe they are superior.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 22, 2013, 05:34:44 pm
It's a practical definition of ignorance that the ignorant believe they are superior.

The problem is that they believe that's what we are - the ignorant believing we are superior.

And no amount of arguing will get it through their heads, either.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 24, 2013, 09:44:02 pm
(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/971282_199747056858827_2134908871_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 24, 2013, 11:05:17 pm
Ya know, if you took the "gay" out of there, it'd actually be pretty cool.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 25, 2013, 02:10:35 am
(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/971282_199747056858827_2134908871_n.jpg)

...

Yeah go to hell, whoever wrote that thing.

No, actually, don't go to hell.  Go to heaven.  That's a worse fate.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 25, 2013, 03:51:12 am
(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/971282_199747056858827_2134908871_n.jpg)

...

Yeah go to hell, whoever wrote that thing.

No, actually, don't go to hell.  Go to heaven.  That's a worse fate.

I hope not. I'd rather not spend my eternity with homophobes like that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 25, 2013, 05:46:50 am
(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/971282_199747056858827_2134908871_n.jpg)

...

Yeah go to hell, whoever wrote that thing.

No, actually, don't go to hell.  Go to heaven.  That's a worse fate.

I hope not. I'd rather not spend my eternity with homophobes like that.

Not sure what's so appealing about heaven anymore.  I used to know, but I lost that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on September 25, 2013, 08:17:12 am
Not sure if this is made by a homophobe or someone with a gay  child and a martyr complex
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on September 25, 2013, 11:14:19 am
(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/971282_199747056858827_2134908871_n.jpg)

...

Yeah go to hell, whoever wrote that thing.

No, actually, don't go to hell.  Go to heaven.  That's a worse fate.

I hope not. I'd rather not spend my eternity with homophobes like that.

Not sure what's so appealing about heaven anymore.  I used to know, but I lost that.

Summerland is more appealing. Endless summer compared to clouds and gold? Yeah. I'll take Summerland.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on September 25, 2013, 02:28:56 pm
Caught this on a friend's FB page. Anyone have better context for it?

(https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1377245_582708258453328_1016156805_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 25, 2013, 03:14:33 pm
Yay! Snopes busted it.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/feinstein.asp (http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/feinstein.asp)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on September 25, 2013, 08:00:55 pm
(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/971282_199747056858827_2134908871_n.jpg)

...

Yeah go to hell, whoever wrote that thing.

No, actually, don't go to hell.  Go to heaven.  That's a worse fate.

I hope not. I'd rather not spend my eternity with homophobes like that.

Not sure what's so appealing about heaven anymore.  I used to know, but I lost that.

Summerland is more appealing. Endless summer compared to clouds and gold? Yeah. I'll take Summerland.

Assuming I bite it before you do, I'll notify them you're en route, as it were.

... Considering my luck, I probably WILL bite it before you do.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on September 26, 2013, 05:56:20 am
Don't say that. ;p But... Much appreciated. I hope to find a nice spot to sit under a tree.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on September 26, 2013, 02:08:16 pm
(http://cdn2.holytaco.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2009/ProtestSign.jpg)
Well this is a lovely piece of badly-shopped nonsense. I couldn't find the original but I'm sure it's out there...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on September 26, 2013, 03:49:31 pm
(http://cdn2.holytaco.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2009/ProtestSign.jpg)
Well this is a lovely piece of badly-shopped nonsense. I couldn't find the original but I'm sure it's out there...

This (http://www.brightandearlyblog.com/wp-images/dd_300x306.jpg), perhaps?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 26, 2013, 05:07:14 pm
That looks photoshopped too, though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 26, 2013, 05:34:34 pm
Someone once uploaded a blank version of that sign as a template for generic protest sign pics (http://www.txt2pic.com/shop/Denver-Protest.htm). Expect to see multiple of versions of it around the 'tubes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 26, 2013, 10:19:28 pm
(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/971282_199747056858827_2134908871_n.jpg)

...

Yeah go to hell, whoever wrote that thing.

No, actually, don't go to hell.  Go to heaven.  That's a worse fate.

I hope not. I'd rather not spend my eternity with homophobes like that.

Not sure what's so appealing about heaven anymore.  I used to know, but I lost that.

Summerland is more appealing. Endless summer compared to clouds and gold? Yeah. I'll take Summerland.

Assuming I bite it before you do, I'll notify them you're en route, as it were.

... Considering my luck, I probably WILL bite it before you do.

I'll join you. SUMMERLAND-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 27, 2013, 01:03:53 am
I'll see you in Shavarath, where I'll be beating Suulomades into submission with my bare hands.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on September 29, 2013, 01:46:24 pm
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5yFixKosvRo/Ug2PFS5NKoI/AAAAAAACiTo/gnyqCka_j2w/s1600/HateMap1.jpg)

Notice how it's "the people" when marriage equality was voted against, but it's "citizens" when marriage equality is voted for. Apparently these people don't think they're citizens of this country.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 29, 2013, 01:58:45 pm
Notice how it's "the people" when marriage equality was voted against, but it's "citizens" when marriage equality is voted for. Apparently these people don't think they're citizens of this country.
It could be that they just like the word "people" since it reminds them of the phrase "we the people." I've seen some libertards in particular refer to themselves as we the people whenever they get the chance.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on September 29, 2013, 02:12:13 pm
"Alliance Defending Freedom"? Yeah, right. Freedom. That's a good one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on September 29, 2013, 03:50:56 pm
Remember it's only freedom if the damn dirty gays aren't getting any legal recognization for their filthy, homo, lust.

Ironbite-because love is only for men and women and that's the way God made it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on September 29, 2013, 05:59:08 pm
"Alliance Defending Freedom"? Yeah, right. Freedom. That's a good one.

Why is it that organizations with more patriotic names are less likely to actually uphold freedom?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 29, 2013, 06:04:54 pm
"Alliance Defending Freedom"? Yeah, right. Freedom. That's a good one.

Why is it that organizations with more patriotic names are less likely to actually uphold freedom?

Because Christianity is patriotic
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on September 29, 2013, 06:08:50 pm
And don't you forget it!

Ironbite-*salutes the American Flag while running Magus over in a monster truck*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 29, 2013, 08:14:19 pm
*stands back up*

Necromancer, bitch.  Killing me just makes me stronger.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 29, 2013, 08:56:42 pm
The  Freedom the Alliance is Defending is supposed to be religious freedom, which apparently means forcing everyone to follow the rules of a specific religion.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 29, 2013, 10:39:42 pm
The  Freedom the Alliance is Defending is supposed to be religious freedom, which apparently means forcing everyone to follow the rules of a specific religion.

The dimension of dominionists: where up is blue, down is triangle, and right is buffalo.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 29, 2013, 11:58:35 pm
Notice how it's "the people" when marriage equality was voted against, but it's "citizens" when marriage equality is voted for. Apparently these people don't think they're citizens of this country.
It could be that they just like the word "people" since it reminds them of the phrase "we the people." I've seen some libertards in particular refer to themselves as we the people whenever they get the chance.

Both people and citizens have positive connotations, citizens relates to the government, so they are probably trying to get a "big government" vibe.

"How dare big government approve of relationships that I don't!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 30, 2013, 12:17:59 am
The  Freedom the Alliance is Defending is supposed to be religious freedom, which apparently means forcing everyone to follow the rules of a specific religion.

The dimension of dominionists: where up is blue, down is triangle, and right is buffalo.

Actually it's more like "Up is God, Down is Satan, Right is God, Left is Satan"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 30, 2013, 12:56:18 pm
The  Freedom the Alliance is Defending is supposed to be religious freedom, which apparently means forcing everyone to follow the rules of a specific religion.

The dimension of dominionists: where up is blue, down is triangle, and right is buffalo.

Actually it's more like "Up is God, Down is Satan, Right is God, Left is Satan"

Assuming you can get two of em, even of the same denomination, to agree that up or down actually exists, let alone what their definitions might be.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 30, 2013, 07:09:28 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/1383961_10151874832202777_1314437974_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on September 30, 2013, 07:17:01 pm
[-snip-]
(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/274/872/d95.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on September 30, 2013, 08:02:34 pm
Notice how it's "the people" when marriage equality was voted against, but it's "citizens" when marriage equality is voted for. Apparently these people don't think they're citizens of this country.
It could be that they just like the word "people" since it reminds them of the phrase "we the people." I've seen some libertards in particular refer to themselves as we the people whenever they get the chance.

Both people and citizens have positive connotations, citizens relates to the government, so they are probably trying to get a "big government" vibe.

"How dare big government approve of relationships that I don't!"

That, and I think saying "the people" makes it sound like it's either a) the majority opinion, or b) automatically the right thing.  Saying "the people don't want this" makes the government sound tyrannical while remaining vague enough to not rely on details.  What "people?"  Where, specifically?  Does "the people" consist of the majority in your work place/town/county/state, so you're under the impression that it's the majority everywhere? 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on September 30, 2013, 09:14:37 pm
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Receding hairlines are good?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: agentCDE on September 30, 2013, 10:00:04 pm
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So I guess hailstorms and monsoons are just God's idea of a prank?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kit Walker on September 30, 2013, 11:19:56 pm
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Receding hairlines are good?

Well, better than your hair slowly advancing down your forehead and conquering your face (imagine having to try to shave your eyelids or nose). That said...none of those things have a scientifically plausible method for coming about (the "sneezing out" one is about as sensical as saying "it was smart of God to make poop go out of your butt instead of in", an advancing hairline wouldn't really provide anything not already provided by facial hair, etc).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on October 01, 2013, 06:38:01 am
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Receding hairlines are good?

Well, better than your hair slowly advancing down your forehead and conquering your face (imagine having to try to shave your eyelids or nose). That said...none of those things have a scientifically plausible method for coming about (the "sneezing out" one is about as sensical as saying "it was smart of God to make poop go out of your butt instead of in", an advancing hairline wouldn't really provide anything not already provided by facial hair, etc).

Well yes, receding hair is better than it going down your face, but creating the first stages of going bald is hardly something for god to brag about.

Anyway, I just find it bizarre that they had such a hard time coming up with good examples, when there are so many truly amazing things about the world/human body, that they could have went with.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on October 01, 2013, 10:16:19 am
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(http://25.media.tumblr.com/321cdf54d3a713208cd5b90adc6aab67/tumblr_mpq3asSp4K1qdl4w6o1_400.jpg)

I want to believe it's sarcasm.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 01, 2013, 11:41:40 am
It's not. (http://www.amazon.com/Wasnt-Smart-God-ebook/dp/B007MEUVRE)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on October 01, 2013, 11:55:43 am
I figure it's not. I said I want to. It's better that way.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 02, 2013, 11:33:40 pm
(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1374048_529911683758238_462469010_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on October 03, 2013, 08:23:01 pm
(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1374048_529911683758238_462469010_n.jpg)

That's the worst shop-job I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on October 03, 2013, 09:17:05 pm
(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1374048_529911683758238_462469010_n.jpg)

That's the worst shop-job I've ever seen.

It wasn't 'shopped, it was painted.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on October 03, 2013, 10:15:30 pm
As in MS Paint? Or the bumper sticker is a 2 dimensional rectangular singularity...no light can escape! It reflects naught! Satan!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on October 04, 2013, 11:26:02 am
Photoshop isn't the only image modification software available anyways.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on October 04, 2013, 02:11:07 pm
Maybe someone should use a more universal term for using digital art programs to edit, retouch & distort stuff. "Cyber-Retouching", maybe? Heck, just call it "retouching". Who cares HOW it's done?

Likewise, instead of "Googling" something, refer to it as "Webbing" something, since not everyone has or likes Google.

GUY #1 - "Hey? Can you tell me about the Battle of Hastings?"

GUY #2 - "Web it, man!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on October 04, 2013, 03:07:25 pm
Quote
Likewise, instead of "Googling" something, refer to it as "Webbing" something, since not everyone has or likes Google.

GUY #1 - "Hey? Can you tell me about the Battle of Hastings?"

GUY #2 - "Web it, man!"


I refuse to tolerate this blasphemy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on October 04, 2013, 03:19:45 pm
Or how about we go back to the actual descriptive term and call it "searching"?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on October 04, 2013, 08:49:09 pm
Because googling refers to a specific kind of searching for information and thus there are contexts in which it's useful to have a different word for it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on October 06, 2013, 06:38:45 pm
Scour the net for your information, knave!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 06, 2013, 06:42:47 pm
Scour the net for your information, knave!

You hast not the right to call me knave.  For you art the knave!

(Or is it "ye"?)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on October 06, 2013, 06:54:47 pm
At least we can agree that no one uses Bing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on October 06, 2013, 07:30:43 pm
Scour the net for your information, knave!

You hast not the right to call me knave.  For you art the knave!

(Or is it "ye"?)

Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on October 06, 2013, 08:02:26 pm
Scour the net for your information, knave!

You hast not the right to call me knave.  For you art the knave!

(Or is it "ye"?)

http://alt-usage-english.org/pronoun_paradigms.html
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on October 06, 2013, 08:16:37 pm
Scour the net for your information, knave!

You hast not the right to call me knave.  For you art the knave!

(Or is it "ye"?)

Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?

ARE YOU DISRESPECTING THE HOUSE OF COOPER!?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on October 06, 2013, 08:37:55 pm
Scour the net for your information, knave!

You hast not the right to call me knave.  For you art the knave!

(Or is it "ye"?)

Thou.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 06, 2013, 08:43:11 pm
Scour the net for your information, knave!

You hast not the right to call me knave.  For you art the knave!

(Or is it "ye"?)

http://alt-usage-english.org/pronoun_paradigms.html

I thank thee for thine aid, good sir.  Thou hast a good heart.

(I seriously wish that we could bring these back into common vernacular.  They provide less ambiguity which is always nice.)

I shall now rephrase my previous statement:

Thou hast not the right to call me knave.  For thou art the knave!  And thy mother sucketh ... sucketh...

...Sorry I cannot finish that statement because I am giggling at "sucketh".

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on October 06, 2013, 09:35:13 pm
Scour the net for your information, knave!

You hast not the right to call me knave.  For you art the knave!

(Or is it "ye"?)

http://alt-usage-english.org/pronoun_paradigms.html

I thank thee for thine aid, good sir.  Thou hast a good heart.

(I seriously wish that we could bring these back into common vernacular.  They provide less ambiguity which is always nice.)

I shall now rephrase my previous statement:

Thou hast not the right to call me knave.  For thou art the knave!  And thy mother sucketh ... sucketh...

...Sorry I cannot finish that statement because I am giggling at "sucketh".

I used to say 'thou sucketh' for a time when I was younger...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on October 06, 2013, 09:46:29 pm
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASieRve459g/UlGRFaCJY9I/AAAAAAACmOY/omZCZLFp3-o/s400/CAGopConvention.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on October 06, 2013, 10:50:06 pm
Well at least it's kind of clever.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on October 06, 2013, 11:35:16 pm
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASieRve459g/UlGRFaCJY9I/AAAAAAACmOY/omZCZLFp3-o/s400/CAGopConvention.jpg)
Slogans like the first one piss me off to such a degree that I immediately visualize causing great harm to the speaker's genitals. If you dislike/disagree with Mrs. Clinton, fine, but saying she's an ugly hag/her thighs are too big/her boobs are too small/etc is all-too-believeably sexist. During any campaign, almost nobody points out that the republican candidates almost always look like cranky babies or that one creepy uncle that hugs you for too long. But put any woman in a position where she might have political power, and suddenly her wardrobe is tabloid fodder while her political opinions are mocked and ignored. For anyone who thinks we live in a post-sexist/post-femenist society, go read the comments under any news article about any female politician.
/rant
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on October 07, 2013, 05:27:47 pm
Besides, everyone knows that thigh meat is the best meat on the chicken and where you get all the flavor.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on October 07, 2013, 09:03:44 pm
I prefer drumsticks and wings myself.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 07, 2013, 11:19:50 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/644095_643992375646053_605355354_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on October 08, 2013, 12:45:58 am
First of all, that might have been the definition of a CHRISTIAN marriage for a long time but there are other religions and cultures with different definitions and even the christian view of marriage has changed along the years, the latest change being that some christian groups now consider samesex marriages perfectly ok. So if you are trying to force people to obey YOUR definition of things then you are hateful bigot that does not respect other peoples opinions, ideologies or religions. #FACT.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on October 08, 2013, 11:47:54 pm
Yes, offering alternatives is prejudiced. Like offering ketchup and ranch dressing is oppressing ketchup.




I don't know why my analogies always involve food.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on October 09, 2013, 01:19:02 pm
Yes, offering alternatives is prejudiced. Like offering ketchup and ranch dressing is oppressing ketchup.




I don't know why my analogies always involve food.
Are you always hungry, by chance?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on October 09, 2013, 01:38:57 pm
Scour the net for your information, knave!

You hast not the right to call me knave.  For you art the knave!

(Or is it "ye"?)

http://alt-usage-english.org/pronoun_paradigms.html

I thank thee for thine aid, good sir.  Thou hast a good heart.

(I seriously wish that we could bring these back into common vernacular.  They provide less ambiguity which is always nice.)

I shall now rephrase my previous statement:

Thou hast not the right to call me knave.  For thou art the knave!  And thy mother sucketh ... sucketh...

...Sorry I cannot finish that statement because I am giggling at "sucketh".



Thou shan't speak to me like that!  I shalt see thee on the List Field, and we shalt see which is sharper: thy tongue, or thy blade.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on October 11, 2013, 12:22:49 pm
Yes, offering alternatives is prejudiced. Like offering ketchup and ranch dressing is oppressing ketchup.




I don't know why my analogies always involve food.
Are you always hungry, by chance?

I'm not sure about Beezy, but now I'm craving chicken nuggets.  With sweet chili sauce.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on October 12, 2013, 02:21:14 am
(http://www.navygentleman.com/political/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/anti-barack-obama-democrat-billboard.jpg)

This is just so distasteful.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on October 12, 2013, 02:32:44 am
(http://www.navygentleman.com/political/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/anti-barack-obama-democrat-billboard.jpg)

This is just so distasteful.


My interpretations of this message:

...The terrorists attacked WTC to stop people from voting Democrats?

...The Republicans are threatening to cause another 9/11 if people don't vote for them?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 12, 2013, 03:31:11 am
(http://www.navygentleman.com/political/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/anti-barack-obama-democrat-billboard.jpg)

This is just so distasteful.



Desperate, aren't they?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on October 12, 2013, 03:56:32 am
I'm not even sure how to interpret that one. Honestly, I'm tempted to call IRL troll, but I know better than to hope for that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SimSim on October 12, 2013, 09:31:01 am
It's an old billboard, pretty sure it was put up during 06 midterm election. I do remember the logic behind it.

The guy who put it up argued that the 9/11 attacks were Bill Clinton's fault, and that's why people shouldn't vote for Democrats. In 1998 al-Qaeda bombed two US embassies, one in Tanzania and Kenya. President Clinton ordered that bin-Laden be either captured and tried, or killed. Later that year the US did a cruise missile attack against al-Qaeda, but as we all know bin-Laden wasn't killed in the attack, nor was he captured. Since he got away, and later planed the 9/11 attacks, it's Clinton's fault 9/11 happened since he didn't do enough to stop bin-Laden.

Of course this ignores the Bush administration overlooking a document with a title like al-Qaeda determined to strike in the US, or something similar.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on October 12, 2013, 09:36:29 am
That argument also fails since bin Ladin Was killed while a Democrat was in office and said Democrat ordered the kill.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on October 12, 2013, 10:07:11 am
I swear to gawd, if I'd known as a teen just how stupid this country was going to get, I'd have gone to live with my dad in Costa Rica.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 13, 2013, 04:20:07 pm
(https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1374152_475335939231965_13301401_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on October 13, 2013, 04:54:06 pm
(https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1374152_475335939231965_13301401_n.jpg)
Why is this in Dumbest Protest Signs? That's awesome.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on October 13, 2013, 05:19:35 pm
(https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1374152_475335939231965_13301401_n.jpg)
Why is this in Dumbest Protest Signs? That's awesome.
Half half I guess.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on October 13, 2013, 07:05:37 pm
Well, the T-shit (misspelling intended) is the dumb protest sign, not the comment posted about it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on October 14, 2013, 09:19:59 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/dc0a21bd34acb017a7c15cd05ced60c2/tumblr_muoqsmJKvP1qmt0gvo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 14, 2013, 09:26:54 pm
(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/007/423/untitle.JPG)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on October 14, 2013, 10:05:14 pm
I saw that poster and damn I'm aborting babies out of spite
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on October 14, 2013, 10:13:47 pm
Twenty bucks says that person is one of the dumb ass newcomers who just discovered memes in the last year or so and calls them me-mes. If you've ever met someone like that you'll know what I'm talking about when I say I have to resist the urge to slap them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on October 15, 2013, 11:06:48 pm
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/3b3922b4da13f669c5bde92e05b7fdca/tumblr_munwhm1zKX1rufxh4o1_500.jpg)

Apparently this was published in the newspaper Hamodia, a popular paper among some Orthodox Jews.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on October 15, 2013, 11:20:57 pm
Thats the paper that doesn't show pics of women must have been awkward when Israel had a female PM
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on October 15, 2013, 11:37:30 pm
Thats the paper that doesn't show pics of women must have been awkward when Israel had a female PM

Most ultra-Orthodox papers don't show women because they think it is immodest and will tempt men to sin. Even if she's a young girl in a photograph of Jews being threatened by Nazis. (Yes, there was an incident a while back Instead, they either photoshop the women out of the picture or blur their faces and bodies so that no distinguishable features can be seen.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on October 16, 2013, 01:49:59 pm
Women are to Haredis like crosses are to classic vampires & Kryptonite to Superman.

Very pathetic.
(http://i39.tinypic.com/1z3bgn7.jpg)
Tell me about it, Klytus!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 18, 2013, 02:25:36 pm
(https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1395142_744114352281881_1731535014_n.jpg)

Quote
American taxpayers have once again been trampled by establishment Republicans – a thundering herd of chicken-hearted Republicans in Name Only (RINOs) galloping to the Left.

The debt ceiling deal struck between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is a victory for President Obama and Democrats.

ObamaCare is still the law of the land. The government is still spending money it does not have. And thousands of government workers just got a two-week vacation courtesy of the taxpayers.

I’m sure we will hear establishment apologists calling the events of recent days a compromise. But seeing how the president refused to compromise, it’s more likely the Grand Old Party was the only one bending.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/16/todd-starnes-american-taxpayers-betrayed-by-chicken-hearted-rinos/
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on October 18, 2013, 03:30:10 pm
(https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1395142_744114352281881_1731535014_n.jpg)

Quote
American taxpayers have once again been trampled by establishment Republicans – a thundering herd of chicken-hearted Republicans in Name Only (RINOs) galloping to the Left.

The debt ceiling deal struck between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is a victory for President Obama and Democrats.

ObamaCare is still the law of the land. The government is still spending money it does not have. And thousands of government workers just got a two-week vacation courtesy of the taxpayers.

I’m sure we will hear establishment apologists calling the events of recent days a compromise. But seeing how the president refused to compromise, it’s more likely the Grand Old Party was the only one bending.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/16/todd-starnes-american-taxpayers-betrayed-by-chicken-hearted-rinos/

About that dork at FOX, I can only say:
(http://i40.tinypic.com/2drwhzr.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on October 18, 2013, 04:01:01 pm
I think I saw this comment somewhere in the depths of facebook but it bears repeating.

The morons calling anyone RINO is like a teenager screaming that their parents don't know anything.

Ironbite-they have no fucking clue what it takes to govern and this is just proof.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on October 18, 2013, 04:02:03 pm
Besides, Rhinos are awesome. As are dinosaurs.


Why do traitors get such cool names?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on October 18, 2013, 04:39:57 pm
Frankly, I personally refer to much of the tea-brained GOP as "RINOs", myself. They're about as much for a Republic as Joseph Stalin!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on October 18, 2013, 05:47:53 pm
Retire the Elephant.
Non-radical GOP pols should just own the RINO tag,
and adopt the Rhino as their new symbol for
the Grand Old Party;   

(http://i.imgur.com/by5CdTZ.jpg)



The Tea Party need a more appropriate symbol, as well;

(http://i.imgur.com/aO0ES4p.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on October 21, 2013, 11:30:15 am
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/7317272e25def6b0f8c04b09376c32e5/tumblr_muzh0rXzxK1s5zyrgo5_500.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 21, 2013, 11:26:55 pm
Here's a visual

(http://i.imgur.com/JPUYtgy.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on October 22, 2013, 07:08:08 am
They should make a sequel to A Bugs Life/Antz with Antchrist Obama as the villain/hero.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on October 24, 2013, 08:47:23 pm
Here's a visual

(http://i.imgur.com/JPUYtgy.jpg)

That so RULES!  ;D ::)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 27, 2013, 04:29:28 pm
(https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1394115_534575429961885_1139372029_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on October 27, 2013, 04:42:37 pm
Let's see, a theory is proven wrong, scientists change said theory.

Something in religion is proven wrong, and we have holy wars.

Yeah the argument sounds legit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on October 27, 2013, 04:46:19 pm

But that doesn't even disprove anything. Coelechants are still alive and though scientists were stunned to discover it, that didn't mean that the fossils were fake. It was just that the species had been alive for a pretty long time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 27, 2013, 04:47:34 pm

But that doesn't even disprove anything. Coelechants are still alive and though scientists were stunned to discover it, that didn't mean that the fossils were fake. It was just that the order had been alive for a pretty long time.

fix'd
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on October 27, 2013, 06:00:27 pm
Let's just blame it all on cyanobacteria. 3 billion years back in the fossil record. And still existing today. Changed the entire Earth's biomass' future by making oxygen abundant. Led to life as we know it today. Including oxygen dependent fundie fuckwits with a link to a photo hosting site with meme maker app. All because 3 billion years of cyanobacteria existing. Seems legit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on October 27, 2013, 07:17:25 pm

But that doesn't even disprove anything. Coelechants are still alive and though scientists were stunned to discover it, that didn't mean that the fossils were fake. It was just that the order had been alive for a pretty long time.

fix'd

I've definitely been reading too much Harry Potter, because when I saw "order", my first thought was "What has the Order of the Phoenix got to do with fossils?"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on October 28, 2013, 01:51:34 am
(http://www.navygentleman.com/political/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/anti-barack-obama-democrat-billboard.jpg)

This is just so distasteful.


My interpretations of this message:

...The terrorists attacked WTC to stop people from voting Democrats?

...The Republicans are threatening to cause another 9/11 if people don't vote for them?

We will provide more of these if you elect us. Remember how much fun the last one was?

It's an old billboard, pretty sure it was put up during 06 midterm election. I do remember the logic behind it.

The guy who put it up argued that the 9/11 attacks were Bill Clinton's fault, and that's why people shouldn't vote for Democrats. In 1998 al-Qaeda bombed two US embassies, one in Tanzania and Kenya. President Clinton ordered that bin-Laden be either captured and tried, or killed. Later that year the US did a cruise missile attack against al-Qaeda, but as we all know bin-Laden wasn't killed in the attack, nor was he captured. Since he got away, and later planed the 9/11 attacks, it's Clinton's fault 9/11 happened since he didn't do enough to stop bin-Laden.

Of course this ignores the Bush administration overlooking a document with a title like al-Qaeda determined to strike in the US, or something similar.

The argument also ignores (deliberately) the fact that Bush massively reduced counter-terrorism operations against Al Qaeda even after 9/11, that Republicans criticised Clinton even for doing the stuff he did do, that Clinton's counter-terror operations would have worked if a responsible government had listened to them and that Al Qaeda is more than one person. Basically you're traitor if you criticise us for screwing up, but we're allowed to blame you for our mistakes as much as we like.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on October 28, 2013, 11:40:42 am
Yes 9/11 which happened under Republican leadership and is really not the fault of any political party is all the democrats fault.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on November 03, 2013, 09:38:51 pm
apologies if anyone has posted these before...

(https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1454714_10151959457122726_2051321743_n.png)
Ok do these guys not know what the Cato Institute is and who founded it?

(http://danieljmitchell.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/libertarian-jesus.jpg)

And had a really long and "interesting conversation about this.  Apparently Jesus said it was ok to screw the poor if you didn't personally decide where the specific portion of taxes you gave goes.

My libertarian friends must have read different bibles then I did as a child.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 03, 2013, 10:31:10 pm
Seeing as a libertard was the swing vote in giving corporations unlimited campaign finances...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on November 07, 2013, 02:19:19 am
"Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." -Matt 22:21

He's basically saying that you should give your money to Caesar (the government) but give yourself to God. Well, that's how I interpret it anyway.

There's also this:
"Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God and those which exist are established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves."-Romans 13:1

Hell, that entire chapter is just "quit your whining and pay your taxes you little shits"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 07, 2013, 02:27:11 am
Some fundies and non-fundies interpret it as "Everything belongs to God, so nothing belongs to Caesar"

To be fair, the interpretation can go either way with just as much validity.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on November 07, 2013, 04:22:29 pm
Some fundies and non-fundies interpret it as "Everything belongs to God, so nothing belongs to Caesar"

To be fair, the interpretation can go either way with just as much validity.

Surely if Jesus wanted to say "Everything belongs to God, so render nothing unto Caesar", he would've said "No, don't pay the imperial tax", rather than go through all that trouble about asking whose face and inscription is on the coin.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 07, 2013, 06:15:06 pm
Some fundies and non-fundies interpret it as "Everything belongs to God, so nothing belongs to Caesar"

To be fair, the interpretation can go either way with just as much validity.

Surely if Jesus wanted to say "Everything belongs to God, so render nothing unto Caesar", he would've said "No, don't pay the imperial tax", rather than go through all that trouble about asking whose face and inscription is on the coin.

The fundie (and non-fundie) response to that is that Jesus was saying one sentence that had two meanings to appease both his followers who hated taxes and the roman officials (who obviously enjoyed getting taxes) that were watching him with eagle eyes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 07, 2013, 07:51:37 pm
Part of the issue was the Roman tax system at the time was the taxmen didn't get a salary it was take the min and anything else above teh quota you keep
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on November 07, 2013, 09:25:25 pm

The fundie (and non-fundie) response to that is that Jesus was saying one sentence that had two meanings to appease both his followers who hated taxes and the roman officials (who obviously enjoyed getting taxes) that were watching him with eagle eyes.

Huh. That actually makes some measure of sense.

Not a lot of sense. Leaving part of your teachings ambiguous in such a way that guarantees they will be misunderstood in the future, just to appease the people you already know are going to kill you anyway, is not the best of plans. But that's par for the course in the Bible.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 07, 2013, 11:35:54 pm
To be fair, all of the self-proclaimed prophets of the time (which I'm sure that Jesus is an amalgamation of) believed that the end times were now, that YHWH was going to establish heaven on earth, all that jazz.  They didn't consider a future in the slightest.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on November 08, 2013, 03:46:51 am
The Glibertarian argument that bug me most of all is the pretence that they believe taxation is theft. They don't, except the anarchists of course. So what do they mean? They mean taxation is theft except if it does things I want. Or rather, taxation is theft when it needs to be and stops being theft when it no longer needs to be. The concept of pooled resources and majority decision making is ignored as inconvenient.

Also: glibertarianism is authoritarian. Totalitarian, in fact, because it is an absolutist philosophy. That makes it firstly unworkable, but also forces it to make absurd requirements on the views of others. Ultimately, the solution is, as in Chile, torture, mass murder, ect. Just as Hayek called for, repeatedly.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on November 11, 2013, 12:31:38 am
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wjoFcBWWbs4/Un_arB8q2-I/AAAAAAACpcY/Zm5MML57niw/s400/RevII.JPG)

Aw, aren't the babies cute when they whine. . . ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on November 11, 2013, 12:50:43 am
(http://maxrocketmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/sexual_church_signs_maxrocketmusicdotcom_191.jpg)

(http://cdnl.complex.com/mp/620/400/80/0/bb/1/ffffff/85568b592f6fa8abca4be3ced1527672/images_/assets/CHANNEL_IMAGES/ART/2012/12/25-inappropriate-christmas-church-signs/church12_408297.jpg)

(http://cdnl.complex.com/mp/620/400/80/0/bb/1/ffffff/6411939b7c2f4029967a5d8f031086f2/images_/assets/CHANNEL_IMAGES/ART/2012/12/25-inappropriate-christmas-church-signs/church9_408297.jpg)

(http://cdnl.complex.com/mp/620/400/80/0/bb/1/ffffff/61b549245eb0bd9709d0668a4903a44d/images_/assets/CHANNEL_IMAGES/ART/2012/12/25-inappropriate-christmas-church-signs/church19_408297.jpg)

"Jesus wept" because he looked into the future and saw these signs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on November 11, 2013, 01:00:14 am
(http://maxrocketmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/sexual_church_signs_maxrocketmusicdotcom_191.jpg)

Lutherans, fuck yeah!

At least their joke isn't meant to offend atheists or other religions.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 11, 2013, 01:06:36 am
Or even other denominations.

One thing I remember from being in a fundie church is that fundie christians hate other denomination fundie christians (and ESPECIALLY non-fundie Christians) as much as they hate non-christians.

To the point where you almost can't categorize Christianity as a single religion.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on November 11, 2013, 02:04:37 am
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wjoFcBWWbs4/Un_arB8q2-I/AAAAAAACpcY/Zm5MML57niw/s400/RevII.JPG)

Aw, aren't the babies cute when they whine. . . ::)

I saw a tumblr post that explained at length why people in the US who clamour for "revolution" don't know what they're talking about, and how our history has painted an unsafe view of revolution in general that doesn't exist as the norm; i.e. they think revolution is a glorious event that has a good chance of succeeding by 'the will of the people', when in reality the majority of revolutions fail or, if they do succeed, end up with something just as bad or worse.  They also explained that the US succeeded due to special circumstances, such as being instigated while England was more worried about France, as well as France deciding to aid to the colonists.

Even after our successful revolution, there was about a decade or so where we were run under the Articles of Confederation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation) instead of the Constitution, which people seem to forget about.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on November 11, 2013, 02:24:46 am
(http://cdnl.complex.com/mp/620/400/80/0/bb/1/ffffff/85568b592f6fa8abca4be3ced1527672/images_/assets/CHANNEL_IMAGES/ART/2012/12/25-inappropriate-christmas-church-signs/church12_408297.jpg)

Sounds like a holiday porno.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on November 11, 2013, 01:34:28 pm
Is that because they didn't want to write Nut? Or maybe they ran out of Ts'?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 11, 2013, 01:36:27 pm
Or it's an inspirational sermon story about a little redneck girl who ran away to join a convent?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 12, 2013, 12:35:58 am
(https://scontent-b-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1467333_1477451842479231_747231857_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on November 12, 2013, 01:04:26 am
Honestly, I'd like to know how they (or anyone else) intend to discern the sexual orientation of an inanimate object.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on November 12, 2013, 01:08:01 am
(https://scontent-b-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1467333_1477451842479231_747231857_n.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/eBsVprD.gif?1?7949)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on November 12, 2013, 04:47:41 pm
Honestly, I'd like to know how they (or anyone else) intend to discern the sexual orientation of an inanimate object.

Maybe they're thinking of rainbow cake.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 12, 2013, 05:00:22 pm
Or maybe they mean a cake for a gay wedding.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Bezron on November 12, 2013, 05:23:43 pm
(https://scontent-b-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1467333_1477451842479231_747231857_n.jpg)

Any idea where this is from (i.e. business name or at least city/state)?

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on November 12, 2013, 05:24:25 pm
Or maybe they mean a cake for a gay wedding.

Well who wouldn't want a gay wedding? Isn't everyone supposed to be happy at a wedding?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on November 12, 2013, 06:45:18 pm
Or maybe they mean a cake for a gay wedding.

Oh, come on, that's just absurd!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 12, 2013, 09:00:59 pm
I know, I know, it was just an out there hypothesis ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 12, 2013, 11:18:20 pm
(https://scontent-b-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1451497_645860375445520_1554049054_n.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on November 13, 2013, 03:50:17 pm
(https://scontent-b-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1451497_645860375445520_1554049054_n.png)

Does that even happen?

It's not like bullying can't happen in separate toilets anyway.

Like those weirdo bitch girls that would think it was funny to try and spy on your while you were peeing...

Hmm. This photo is bringing back all sorts of repressed primary school toilet memories.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on November 13, 2013, 03:58:21 pm
(https://scontent-b-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1451497_645860375445520_1554049054_n.png)

Does that even happen?

It's not like bullying can't happen in separate toilets anyway.

Like those weirdo bitch girls that would think it was funny to try and spy on your while you were peeing...

Hmm. This photo is bringing back all sorts of repressed primary school toilet memories.
I think it is about allowing trans-women in womens bathrooms or trans-men in mens bathrooms (though the latter is rarely a problem for some reason.)

I could be wrong though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on November 13, 2013, 05:39:55 pm
Because it's more socially acceptable to be seen as masculine than as feminine?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on November 13, 2013, 07:06:43 pm
There's also the assumption that men are perverts who will claim to be trans just to be allowed to enter women's bathrooms.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 13, 2013, 09:12:43 pm
Also massive orgies in unisex bathrooms
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 14, 2013, 09:51:43 pm
Also massive orgies in unisex bathrooms

Pretty much.  Most of what I've heard boils down to even grade school bathrooms, if turned unisex, would turn to massive, sordid orgies within minutes of their creation.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 14, 2013, 11:08:50 pm
O the derpies have such dirty, dirty minds. Bunch of pedos for jeebus, huh?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ScrappyB on November 15, 2013, 12:02:07 am
Also massive orgies in unisex bathrooms

Pretty much.  Most of what I've heard boils down to even grade school bathrooms, if turned unisex, would turn to massive, sordid orgies within minutes of their creation.

Aren't there unisex public restrooms in a lot of foreign countries?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 15, 2013, 12:45:40 am
Also massive orgies in unisex bathrooms

Pretty much.  Most of what I've heard boils down to even grade school bathrooms, if turned unisex, would turn to massive, sordid orgies within minutes of their creation.

Aren't there unisex public restrooms in a lot of foreign countries?

Consider what the average White Anglo-Saxon Protestant American thinks about other countries.

They probably view unisex bathrooms as a symptom of their godlessness.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on November 16, 2013, 12:24:38 am
Also massive orgies in unisex bathrooms

Pretty much.  Most of what I've heard boils down to even grade school bathrooms, if turned unisex, would turn to massive, sordid orgies within minutes of their creation.

Aren't there unisex public restrooms in a lot of foreign countries?

Consider what the average White Anglo-Saxon Protestant American thinks about other countries.

They probably view unisex bathrooms as a symptom of their godlessness.

Many of my fellow citizens are dipwads that way. :P
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 16, 2013, 12:42:24 pm
Dunno if y'all have experienced this, but back in Atlanta, I used to go out to live music venue bars all the time, and just for the simple sake of expediency, the crowds were chill enough to share both bathrooms unisex style. No biggie. And these were alcohol drinking, drug taking adults. No rapes. And the women knew to look the other way when passing by the urinals to the stalls.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on November 24, 2013, 01:12:47 am
From the World Net Daily and Judicial Watch sponsored Second American Revolution where "millions to occupy Washington D.C." until Obama resigned or was forced out by a military coup. All of which happened on Tuesday.

(http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/Klayman2.png)
(http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/Klayman3.png)

Yes Obama will simultaneously have abortion, adultery, and homosexuality AND Sharia Law which bans abortion, adultery, homosexuality, Brilliant!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on November 24, 2013, 03:03:30 am
I think the last picture has a sign in it saying "The Constitution: Read It, Know What's In It."

In other news, my irony meter just went up in a mushroom cloud.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 24, 2013, 03:43:24 am
It's not really a protest sign but...

Earlier I saw on a board (on government property no less) the words "A successful family is a playground with a fence around it."

Now, by itself, it's fairly harmless... if a bit evocative of disturbing mental imagery (kids locked in a playground instead of danger locked out)

But googling it led me to several conservative Christian websites basically using it to mean "protect your kids from things that aren't godly".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on November 24, 2013, 08:57:36 am
(https://scontent-b-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1451497_645860375445520_1554049054_n.png)

I really, REALLY wish Dobson could have seen the public toilets of ancient Rome.  They were really, really public.  No walls, no stalls.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 24, 2013, 10:21:23 am
Probably considers the Ancient Romans to be servants of the devil, considering its the Romans who killed Jesus and all.  Knowing how they treat puppets of their "prophecies," he'll like them as much as he does Judas.

I am now reminded of the church sign in Moral Orel that read: "Latin, and why its the Devil's Language."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on November 24, 2013, 11:32:17 am
Probably considers the Ancient Romans to be servants of the devil, considering its the Romans who killed Jesus and all.  Knowing how they treat puppets of their "prophecies," he'll like them as much as he does Judas.

I am now reminded of the church sign in Moral Orel that read: "Latin, and why its the Devil's Language."

With that in mind, I'm amazed that Pogroms & The Holocaust didn't target Italians alongside Jews.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 24, 2013, 07:03:21 pm
Probably considers the Ancient Romans to be servants of the devil, considering its the Romans who killed Jesus and all.  Knowing how they treat puppets of their "prophecies," he'll like them as much as he does Judas.

I am now reminded of the church sign in Moral Orel that read: "Latin, and why its the Devil's Language."

With that in mind, I'm amazed that Pogroms & The Holocaust didn't target Italians alongside Jews.

Most radical Christians have the attention span of a mosquito and can't focus on more than one thing at a time without their feeble brains overheating, causing their heads to catch fire, leading to their imminent demise.  For them, reason is the antithesis of survival.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on November 25, 2013, 05:00:31 am
Probably considers the Ancient Romans to be servants of the devil, considering its the Romans who killed Jesus and all.  Knowing how they treat puppets of their "prophecies," he'll like them as much as he does Judas.

I am now reminded of the church sign in Moral Orel that read: "Latin, and why its the Devil's Language."

With that in mind, I'm amazed that Pogroms & The Holocaust didn't target Italians alongside Jews.

Most radical Christians have the attention span of a mosquito and can't focus on more than one thing at a time without their feeble brains overheating, causing their heads to catch fire, leading to their imminent demise.  For them, reason is the antithesis of survival.
The Holocaust was not justifed by radical Christianity. Your reasoning is flawed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 25, 2013, 12:52:59 pm
Probably considers the Ancient Romans to be servants of the devil, considering its the Romans who killed Jesus and all.  Knowing how they treat puppets of their "prophecies," he'll like them as much as he does Judas.

I am now reminded of the church sign in Moral Orel that read: "Latin, and why its the Devil's Language."

With that in mind, I'm amazed that Pogroms & The Holocaust didn't target Italians alongside Jews.

Most radical Christians have the attention span of a mosquito and can't focus on more than one thing at a time without their feeble brains overheating, causing their heads to catch fire, leading to their imminent demise.  For them, reason is the antithesis of survival.
The Holocaust was not justifed by radical Christianity. Your reasoning is flawed.

...Hitler was a Catholic, and last I checked, Catholicism is still a branch of Christianity.  Maybe not by the whole of radical Christianity, but as we've seen with people like him, it only takes one bad apple to fuck over a tonne of people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on November 25, 2013, 01:18:11 pm
Didn't Hitler say that wiping out the jews was his duty as a christian? Or am I misremembering?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on November 25, 2013, 01:27:41 pm
I do know that there was that "German christians" group that did stuff like getting rid of the old testament because it was written by the jews in order to have a "pure" christian religion without any influence from the untermensch.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 25, 2013, 02:04:15 pm
Didn't Hitler say that wiping out the jews was his duty as a christian? Or am I misremembering?

Not in the slightest.  At worst, its a paraphrasing of what he said, but that's the essence of what he meant.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on November 25, 2013, 02:40:26 pm
Hitler was inconsistent on Christianity. At times he tried to invoke it, at other times he denigrated it. Personally, I doubt his ego left room for any religion in which he wasn't a major figure.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 25, 2013, 03:37:15 pm
i think him and mucilini wanted a god free future eventually but needed the church.  Incidentally Mucie was why vatican city is independet
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on November 25, 2013, 06:04:12 pm
The Holocaust was not a stand-alone event in the history of anti-Semitism in Europe. A lot of European anti-Semitism was derived from previous Christian fundamentalist tropes, such as that the Jews killed Jesus or that they killed Christian children and drank their blood for the evulz. What made the Holocaust different from many previous anti-Semitic atrocities was that it was also partially "justified" through racist anthropological explanations of why Jews were supposedly evil and/or inferior. So both religious fundamentalist and pseudoscientific justifications had equal parts in the Holocaust.

Again, the jury is still out on Adolf Hitler's religious views. I highly doubt that he was an atheist, as many fundies claim, but I doubt his religious claims were anything more than political pandering either. He faced some opposition from German churches because of his policies that forced kids to join Hitler Youth (which was conveniently scheduled so as to intrude upon other church holidays) and because of the Nazis' relative tolerance of extramarital relations (as long as they resulted in more "Aryan" children to die for the Reich).

I don't believe, however, that European anti-Semitism is solely the result of Christianity. IIRC, Christianity never targeted Rroma the same way they targeted Jews, but bigotry against them persists regardless.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 25, 2013, 08:02:54 pm
Basically even among "white" jews they were discriminated against since they lent money
As for Roma there is a large racism deriving from the fact that they are ironically Aryan
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on November 28, 2013, 10:42:23 am
i think him and mucilini wanted a god free future eventually but needed the church.  Incidentally Mucie was why vatican city is independet

Mussolini.  I think mucilini is a kind of pasta?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 28, 2013, 10:46:15 am
Or a multigrain high fiber breakfast pasta? I'd eat it :P.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on November 28, 2013, 05:21:54 pm
sigh  not again
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on December 04, 2013, 09:49:47 pm
The "Liberty Van"

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4014/4619709148_2380344e59_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on December 04, 2013, 09:50:31 pm
...that thing can't be street legal.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on December 04, 2013, 09:53:37 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/woman-drives-from-kentucky-to-new-jersey-to-fight-ticket--wins-144214490.html
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on December 04, 2013, 10:03:08 pm
And, again, we have an idiot who doesn't understand what freedom of speech means. She thinks being ticketed was a breach of her free speech, completely ignoring that no one gives a shit what she believes, just that the mind blowing amount of bumper stickers makes it a hazard.

Not to mention that while she is allowed to believe whatever the hell she wants to believe, it doesn't change the fact she is not protected from consequences of her opinions and believes, just from being prevented from having them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on December 04, 2013, 11:01:56 pm
From the comments:

Quote
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Oh, America. You're just full of awesome people.

I want to buy some old P.O.S. minivan and plaster Atheism stickers alllllllllll over it. Just because.

That's sounds like what an Atheist would do. Spreading their ignorance.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 04, 2013, 11:21:10 pm
From the comments:

Quote
Quote
Oh, America. You're just full of awesome people.

I want to buy some old P.O.S. minivan and plaster Atheism stickers alllllllllll over it. Just because.

That's sounds like what an Atheist would do. Spreading their ignorance.

There ain't a mirror shiny enough for you, my friend.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on December 06, 2013, 05:04:13 pm
(https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1461333_10152087948490485_287505277_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on December 06, 2013, 06:27:42 pm
The "Liberty Van"

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4014/4619709148_2380344e59_z.jpg)
...that thing can't be street legal.

Hmmm...   Well...  It depends on if she can see out the back glass, her tail lights aren't obscured, her license plate and license plate lights aren't obscured, and... the widely varying laws state by state on what constitutes a "vehicular distraction" (IE: Some states or counties don't allow those under-car lights or other LED customizations, as well as odd-sounding horns among some other things).

The front looks drivable, assuming she can remove that cardboard from her inside windshield.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on December 07, 2013, 12:10:30 pm
The "Liberty Van"

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4014/4619709148_2380344e59_z.jpg)

*EGADS!* I'll bet you can see that thing from space!

MEANWHILE, ON THE ISS...
COSMONAUT: What is that?!
ASTRONAUT: *sigh* It's a Teabagger. Pathetic, isn't it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on December 07, 2013, 12:25:38 pm
(https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1461333_10152087948490485_287505277_n.jpg)
Oh, okay. Now that would be an actual example of a war on Christmas. If the sign is not 'shopped, the tree seller is violating the 14th Amendment.

The "Liberty Van"

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4014/4619709148_2380344e59_z.jpg)

*EGADS!* I'll bet you can see that thing from space!

MEANWHILE, ON THE ISS...
COSMONAUT: What is that?!
ASTRONAUT: *sigh* It's a Teabagger. Pathetic, isn't it?


Yeah, she's an idiot, but she has the right to be one. Remember hippy vans? They were covered in bright art work or political stickers and flowers and shit, too. The right to be loud and proud that you have no fuckin' life is protected by the 1st Amendment, as long as you can safely operate the vehicle.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on December 07, 2013, 12:29:26 pm
The "Liberty Van"

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4014/4619709148_2380344e59_z.jpg)

*EGADS!* I'll bet you can see that thing from space!

MEANWHILE, ON THE ISS...
COSMONAUT: What is that?!
ASTRONAUT: *sigh* It's a Teabagger. Pathetic, isn't it?


Huh, well that person strangely also seems to be pro marijuana legalization, as evidenced by the "vote prohibitionists out" bumper. They also seem to be anti seat belt or something. God knows what the "My Dogs Vote & Shop" poster is supposed to represent. Is this person a weird hybrid of Tea Party and Hippie?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on December 07, 2013, 12:34:02 pm
The "Liberty Van"

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4014/4619709148_2380344e59_z.jpg)

*EGADS!* I'll bet you can see that thing from space!

MEANWHILE, ON THE ISS...
COSMONAUT: What is that?!
ASTRONAUT: *sigh* It's a Teabagger. Pathetic, isn't it?


Huh, well that person strangely also seems to be pro marijuana legalization, as evidenced by the "vote prohibitionists out" bumper. They also seem to be anti seat belt or something. God knows what the "My Dogs Vote & Shop" poster is supposed to represent. Is this person a weird hybrid of Tea Party and Hippie?

A lolbertarian?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on December 07, 2013, 12:53:49 pm
(https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1461333_10152087948490485_287505277_n.jpg)
Oh, okay. Now that would be an actual example of a war on Christmas. If the sign is not 'shopped, the tree seller is violating the 14th Amendment.

The "Liberty Van"

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4014/4619709148_2380344e59_z.jpg)

*EGADS!* I'll bet you can see that thing from space!

MEANWHILE, ON THE ISS...
COSMONAUT: What is that?!
ASTRONAUT: *sigh* It's a Teabagger. Pathetic, isn't it?


Yeah, she's an idiot, but she has the right to be one. Remember hippy vans? They were covered in bright art work or political stickers and flowers and shit, too. The right to be loud and proud that you have no fuckin' life is protected by the 1st Amendment, as long as you can safely operate the vehicle.

Actually, I agree with you a bit on both.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on December 07, 2013, 01:40:04 pm
The "Liberty Van"

(click to show/hide)

Huh, well that person strangely also seems to be pro marijuana legalization, as evidenced by the "vote prohibitionists out" bumper. They also seem to be anti seat belt or something. God knows what the "My Dogs Vote & Shop" poster is supposed to represent. Is this person a weird hybrid of Tea Party and Hippie?

Based on the other pro-tobacco-smoking stuff, I assume she means prohibitionists as in smoking bans, not marijuana bans.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on December 07, 2013, 05:37:58 pm
Yeah, she's an idiot, but she has the right to be one. Remember hippy vans? They were covered in bright art work or political stickers and flowers and shit, too. The right to be loud and proud that you have no fuckin' life is protected by the 1st Amendment, as long as you can safely operate the vehicle.

The other beauty of free speech is that we have the right to make fun of her. :)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on December 07, 2013, 05:42:18 pm
Yeah, she's an idiot, but she has the right to be one. Remember hippy vans? They were covered in bright art work or political stickers and flowers and shit, too. The right to be loud and proud that you have no fuckin' life is protected by the 1st Amendment, as long as you can safely operate the vehicle.

The other beauty of free speech is that we have the right to make fun of her. :)

But then you're OPPRESSING HER!!!!11!!!1!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on December 07, 2013, 08:55:51 pm
The "Liberty Van"

(click to show/hide)

Huh, well that person strangely also seems to be pro marijuana legalization, as evidenced by the "vote prohibitionists out" bumper. They also seem to be anti seat belt or something. God knows what the "My Dogs Vote & Shop" poster is supposed to represent. Is this person a weird hybrid of Tea Party and Hippie?

Based on the other pro-tobacco-smoking stuff, I assume she means prohibitionists as in smoking bans, not marijuana bans.

She's also against government healthcare. But I bet she's still going to apply for Medicare once she finally gives herself lung cancer.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on January 05, 2014, 03:57:35 pm
Sent to a mixed race family:

(http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sons_of_liberty.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 05, 2014, 04:40:40 pm
Seriously!?

Has this always been going on, or has there just been a resurgence since Obama got in office?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on January 05, 2014, 04:57:25 pm
It's always been going on to some extent, but I think the Obama presidency at least made them more vocal, even if they didn't actually manage to recruit a lot more.

Then again, considering the casual racism rampant in conservative circles, it wouldn't surprise me if Obama's election either A) brought more closet racists out of the woodwork, or B) made a lot of people realize they WERE racist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 05, 2014, 04:57:32 pm
"God is with us."

Suuuuuuuuuure he is, buddy.  Cthulhu doesn't even recognize you as life, ant.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on January 05, 2014, 11:18:28 pm
It's always been going on to some extent, but I think the Obama presidency at least made them more vocal, even if they didn't actually manage to recruit a lot more.

Then again, considering the casual racism rampant in conservative circles, it wouldn't surprise me if Obama's election either A) brought more closet racists out of the woodwork, or B) made a lot of people realize they WERE racist.

That reminds me.  I think it says a lot about a person if they think that someone voted for Obama to show that they're "not racist" as opposed to just genuinely liking him enough (at least over his opponent) to vote for him.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 06, 2014, 12:34:37 am
"God is with us."

Suuuuuuuuuure he is, buddy.  Cthulhu doesn't even recognize you as life, ant.
I dunno Lovecraft would love those guys
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on January 06, 2014, 02:53:18 am
"God is with us."

Suuuuuuuuuure he is, buddy.  Cthulhu doesn't even recognize you as life, ant.
I dunno Lovecraft would love those guys

While it's true that Lovecraft was extremely racist in his early years, his views softened after he had lived in New York and actually been exposed to people other than WASPs. He would still have been considered racist by our standards, but by the end of his life, he was a lot more tolerant.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 06, 2014, 09:59:45 am
That, and I wasn't referring to Lovecraft, I was referring to Cthulhu.  One can talk about the Avatar as a character without implying that they're also speaking about Richard Garriott.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on January 06, 2014, 12:35:57 pm
I wonder if they even know who the real Sons of Liberty were...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Murdin on January 06, 2014, 04:35:40 pm
"God is with us."

Suuuuuuuuuure he is, buddy.  Cthulhu doesn't even recognize you as life, ant.

Alternatively:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/GOTT_MIT_UNS_Koppel.JPG) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/GOTT_MIT_UNS_Koppel.JPG)

God(win)'s law indeed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on January 06, 2014, 05:02:39 pm
Seriously!?

Has this always been going on, or has there just been a resurgence since Obama got in office?

Hell, sometimes it's not even this civil.  Wasn't there a case a couple of years ago where a militia group broke into a family's home and executed the family because they thought they were "illegals", when in reality they were all registered American citizens?  I remember because the first one they killed was the 9 year old daughter, who answered the door.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 06, 2014, 05:14:53 pm
I... I don't remember that.

Maybe I put it out of my head.

Damn these people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on January 06, 2014, 07:49:35 pm
(https://scontent-a-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1488805_10151955753718473_1358949076_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on January 06, 2014, 07:53:57 pm
(https://scontent-a-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1488805_10151955753718473_1358949076_n.jpg)

Actually, The Republican would steal all the cows or do what the Communist does.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on January 06, 2014, 07:56:05 pm
No, more like:

Republican - You have 2 cows.  You feed them their own crap and make them drink from the lake you dumped your waste in (which you own).  You then buy the farm where you got the cows (and treat them the same) and buy the church so they can blame everything on the people with different-colored eyes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on January 06, 2014, 08:23:51 pm
(https://scontent-a-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1488805_10151955753718473_1358949076_n.jpg)

Republican's neighbour: wasn't born in a cow owner family, has no cows, starves to death.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on January 06, 2014, 09:15:48 pm
(https://scontent-a-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1488805_10151955753718473_1358949076_n.jpg)

Republican's neighbour: wasn't born in a cow owner family, has no cows, starves to death.

This really does distill the essence of why the far right can collectively go fuck their hats.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on January 06, 2014, 09:43:06 pm
Republicans: The rich own all of the cows, and keep you from earning enough money to buy one for yourself, then they call you lazy for not being able to afford one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 07, 2014, 10:50:49 am
Republicans: The rich own all of the cows, and keep you from earning enough money to buy one for yourself, then they call you lazy for not being able to afford one.
Not all Republicans are like that.  Some are, certainly, but to say that all of them are is just plain offensive.

In any case, however, that poster is unbelievably stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on January 07, 2014, 11:18:50 am
^You could say that about every thing that was posted thus far including from the poster.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 07, 2014, 02:06:32 pm
We know that not all Republicans are like that.  The ones who aren't like that, however, are not the ones in control of the party.  They're more likely to be moderates who count as part of the swing votes.

Republicans can be fine people.  The Republican party, however, is being run by Randian dominionists who want to make sure Rich Straight White Male Christian Privilege is still in full force.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on January 07, 2014, 02:09:26 pm
Republicans: The rich own all of the cows, and keep you from earning enough money to buy one for yourself, then they call you lazy for not being able to afford one.
Not all Republicans are like that.  Some are, certainly, but to say that all of them are is just plain offensive.

In any case, however, that poster is unbelievably stupid.

Any cow-based analysis of a political philosophy is bound to include some oversimplification.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on January 07, 2014, 02:17:20 pm
Republicans: The rich own all of the cows, and keep you from earning enough money to buy one for yourself, then they call you lazy for not being able to afford one.
Not all Republicans are like that.  Some are, certainly, but to say that all of them are is just plain offensive.

In any case, however, that poster is unbelievably stupid.

Any cow-based analysis of a political philosophy is bound to include some oversimplification.

I wish we still had the drama system at moments like these, cause you earned a "fuck yeah!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on January 08, 2014, 02:00:15 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/1526182_278145798999395_554850255_n.png)

Someone is going to accept that challenge.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on January 08, 2014, 02:02:56 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/1526182_278145798999395_554850255_n.png)

Someone is going to accept that challenge.

Well extending health care to the poor worked out pretty good for several countries.  I hopefully don't need to explain the advantages of having a fit, healthy populace.

I'll gloss over the obvious logical fallicy in that sign.  Someone else could probably tackle it better than me anyway.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on January 08, 2014, 02:06:21 pm
He's gonna have to Welsh on that bet, take the sign down, or go live in a cardboard box if anyone can actually convince him he's wrong...over, and over, and over.....
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 08, 2014, 06:52:19 pm
(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/522/167/9f5.gif)
Yeah, because Torquemada was such a nice guy...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 08, 2014, 06:56:33 pm
Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 08, 2014, 06:57:49 pm
Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
...That's going a little too far in the opposite direction.  Religion has also done a lot of good in the world.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 08, 2014, 07:02:58 pm
Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
...That's going a little too far in the opposite direction.  Religion has also done a lot of good in the world.

I don't remember saying all religion is evil, but quite a lot of bloodshed has been committed in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.  That doesn't mean I don't think they are capable of good, but when they try to demonize atheism, paganism, and satanism well..

"Remove the plank from your own eye" is a fitting Bible verse that springs to mind.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on January 08, 2014, 07:16:42 pm
Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
...That's going a little too far in the opposite direction.  Religion has also done a lot of good in the world.

Dynamic Dragon? Is that you? (http://fqa.digibase.ca/index.php?topic=3987.0)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on January 08, 2014, 07:18:48 pm
Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
...That's going a little too far in the opposite direction.  Religion has also done a lot of good in the world.

I don't remember saying all religion is evil, but quite a lot of bloodshed has been committed in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.  That doesn't mean I don't think they are capable of good, but when they try to demonize atheism, paganism, and satanism well..

I'd just like to say, there's some pretty horrible "morals" in the Bible.  Parts of it do kind of teach some pretty nasty stuff.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on January 08, 2014, 07:19:17 pm
Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
...That's going a little too far in the opposite direction.  Religion has also done a lot of good in the world.

Dynamic Dragon? Is that you? (http://fqa.digibase.ca/index.php?topic=3987.0)

Heh, I thought the same thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 08, 2014, 07:31:20 pm
Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
...That's going a little too far in the opposite direction.  Religion has also done a lot of good in the world.

I don't remember saying all religion is evil, but quite a lot of bloodshed has been committed in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.  That doesn't mean I don't think they are capable of good, but when they try to demonize atheism, paganism, and satanism well..

"Remove the plank from your own eye" is a fitting Bible verse that springs to mind.
Okay.  Glad to see we're on the same page.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 08, 2014, 07:42:50 pm
Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
...That's going a little too far in the opposite direction.  Religion has also done a lot of good in the world.

I don't remember saying all religion is evil, but quite a lot of bloodshed has been committed in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.  That doesn't mean I don't think they are capable of good, but when they try to demonize atheism, paganism, and satanism well..

I'd just like to say, there's some pretty horrible "morals" in the Bible.  Parts of it do kind of teach some pretty nasty stuff.

I agree, but there's still a difference between saying "Christianity is evil" and "Christians are evil".  And "Religion is evil", for that matter.

Kinda like the difference between saying "Veal is evil", "Veal eaters are evil," and "Meat is evil"

Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
...That's going a little too far in the opposite direction.  Religion has also done a lot of good in the world.

I don't remember saying all religion is evil, but quite a lot of bloodshed has been committed in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.  That doesn't mean I don't think they are capable of good, but when they try to demonize atheism, paganism, and satanism well..

"Remove the plank from your own eye" is a fitting Bible verse that springs to mind.
Okay.  Glad to see we're on the same page.

Not entirely sure we are, yet, but I'm okay with not being on the same page.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 08, 2014, 07:43:42 pm
We're also on the same page as to who you are.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 08, 2014, 07:47:58 pm
We're also on the same page as to who you are.

No we're not?  It's a vague coincidence at best.  At worst, it's a witch hunt.

Quite a few people have expressed the mindset that Ultimate Paragon has expressed in this topic.  They've even been on this forum.  Chances of this being a coincidence are fairly staggering.

I'm not saying beyond a shadow of a doubt that he ISN'T Dynamic Dragon... but that if that's all the evidence you're basing this on, it's flimsy as fuck.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 08, 2014, 07:49:12 pm
We're also on the same page as to who you are.

No we're not?  It's a vague coincidence at best.  At worst, it's a witch hunt.

Quite a few people have expressed the mindset that Ultimate Paragon has expressed in this topic.  They've even been on this forum.  Chances of this being a coincidence are fairly staggering.

I'm not saying beyond a shadow of a doubt that he ISN'T Dynamic Dragon... but that if that's all the evidence you're basing this on, it's flimsy as fuck.
Okay, now you've got me curious.  Who exactly is this "Dynamic Dragon"?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 08, 2014, 07:51:43 pm
Someone who was obnoxious about whitewashing (is that the correct term?) religion, I suppose would be the best summary.  To be honest, I don't remember him too well anymore.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 08, 2014, 08:02:14 pm
Someone who was obnoxious about whitewashing (is that the correct term?) religion, I suppose would be the best summary.  To be honest, I don't remember him too well anymore.
Okay, that answers my question.

Anyway...

(http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/New-Orleans-anti-Obama-sign2.jpg)
Why do these morons think Soros, of all people, is some kind of puppetmaster?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 08, 2014, 08:06:59 pm
If I had to guess, it's because he's Jewish?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Indikins on January 08, 2014, 08:14:00 pm
Someone who was obnoxious about whitewashing (is that the correct term?) religion, I suppose would be the best summary.  To be honest, I don't remember him too well anymore.
Okay, that answers my question.

Anyway...

(http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/New-Orleans-anti-Obama-sign2.jpg)
Why do these morons think Soros, of all people, is some kind of puppetmaster?

Obama is an economy?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 08, 2014, 08:20:27 pm
Someone who was obnoxious about whitewashing (is that the correct term?) religion, I suppose would be the best summary.  To be honest, I don't remember him too well anymore.
Okay, that answers my question.

Anyway...

(http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/New-Orleans-anti-Obama-sign2.jpg)
Why do these morons think Soros, of all people, is some kind of puppetmaster?

Obama is an economy?
I think they mean "economy wrecker"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on January 08, 2014, 08:31:41 pm
What amuses me is Dynamic Dragon also asked who Dynamic Dragon was when people questioned him. lmfao

Regardless, the whole 'atheism kills' thing is so very, very old. Stalin didn't kill people because he was an atheist. He killed them because he was a mass murdering fucktard just like his buddy Hitler.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 08, 2014, 08:49:52 pm
Regardless, the whole 'atheism kills' thing is so very, very old. Stalin didn't kill people because he was an atheist. He killed them because he was a mass murdering fucktard just like his buddy Hitler.
Speaking of Hitler, I find it amusing that there's this whole controversy about whether he was a Christian or an Atheist.  1. What does it matter?  Hitler was a vegetarian, but that doesn't mean vegetarianism is automatically evil.  2. The truth is, he was neither.  He worshipped himself and had a raging god complex.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 08, 2014, 09:06:55 pm
*quirks an eyebrow*

Actually, I'm pretty sure he was a fairly devout Christian who believed he was doing God's work.  He even had the Pope's blessings.

(Boy that has to be embarrassing for the Catholic Church... though that assumes the leaders are capable of shame)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 08, 2014, 09:10:31 pm
*quirks an eyebrow*

Actually, I'm pretty sure he was a fairly devout Christian who believed he was doing God's work.  He even had the Pope's blessings.

(Boy that has to be embarrassing for the Catholic Church... though that assumes the leaders are capable of shame)
In public, he was.  It was a different matter in private, however.  Hitler had plans to destroy all religions and replace them with a new one centered around worshipping him.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 08, 2014, 09:12:01 pm
Would you mind telling me where you learned this?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 08, 2014, 09:20:02 pm
Would you mind telling me where you learned this?
On The Straight Dope.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 08, 2014, 09:34:10 pm
Okay, I just read the article you're talking about, and it in no way states that this is the actual truth.

Rather, it seems to be a collection of a whole lot of people saying a whole lot of contradictory things about Hitler.

That being said, The Straight Dope feels more like The Onion than anything.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 08, 2014, 09:35:00 pm
Okay, I just read the article you're talking about, and it in no way states that this is the actual truth.

Rather, it seems to be a collection of a whole lot of people saying a whole lot of contradictory things about Hitler.

That being said, The Straight Dope feels more like The Onion than anything.
Maybe I'm misremembering.  I'll get back to you on this.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Commissar Kaz on January 08, 2014, 10:00:26 pm
Well, according to this Cracked article (http://www.cracked.com/article_19840_5-nazi-plans-that-prove-they-were-dumber-than-you-think.html) he wanted to kill the Pope, so make of that what you will. It also has a link to a Wikipedia page about him wanting to set up a cult around himself.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on January 08, 2014, 10:16:51 pm
I thought that was Himmler that was all culty-weird like that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on January 09, 2014, 12:08:26 am
Don't forget the "German Christians."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Christians
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Deutsche_Christen_Flagge.svg/220px-Deutsche_Christen_Flagge.svg.png)
The Nazi party was allied with a religious group that took the Nazi ideology and anti-semitism to heart. They even removed much of the old testament for being "too jewish" and preached hatred against jews for killing Jesus.

So even if Hitler and other Nazis concidered themselves christians, they might have had a bit different view of christianity than most today's churches have.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 09, 2014, 02:07:46 am
in the end its actually irrelevant to the theist debate since fashism ultimately views god the same way Comstock uses it a way to further the policies of the leader
To clear the air (https://24.media.tumblr.com/5ece2f021b7d56003a35457976cbce5c/tumblr_mymwv98Fxv1qzre7ko1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on January 09, 2014, 04:08:07 am
Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
...That's going a little too far in the opposite direction.  Religion has also done a lot of good in the world.

I don't remember saying all religion is evil, but quite a lot of bloodshed has been committed in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.  That doesn't mean I don't think they are capable of good, but when they try to demonize atheism, paganism, and satanism well..

I'd just like to say, there's some pretty horrible "morals" in the Bible.  Parts of it do kind of teach some pretty nasty stuff.

I agree, but there's still a difference between saying "Christianity is evil" and "Christians are evil".  And "Religion is evil", for that matter.

Kinda like the difference between saying "Veal is evil", "Veal eaters are evil," and "Meat is evil"

Fair enough.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 09, 2014, 03:53:20 pm
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xFLleVLTHu0/UsWFU9IOflI/AAAAAAAA8fM/nCON9njrQp8/s1600/1513267_570724129679593_2012473770_n.jpg)
Seriously?  You're comparing those asshats to the fucking apostles?  I don't think they appreciate the comparison.  By the way, I'm sure there are some Christians out there who would consider that blasphemy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 09, 2014, 05:31:20 pm
Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
...That's going a little too far in the opposite direction.  Religion has also done a lot of good in the world.

I don't remember saying all religion is evil, but quite a lot of bloodshed has been committed in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.  That doesn't mean I don't think they are capable of good, but when they try to demonize atheism, paganism, and satanism well..

I'd just like to say, there's some pretty horrible "morals" in the Bible.  Parts of it do kind of teach some pretty nasty stuff.

"Pretty" horrible?  That's putting it lightly.  Genocide is okay, so long as a deity gives the go-ahead first.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 09, 2014, 05:33:34 pm
Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
...That's going a little too far in the opposite direction.  Religion has also done a lot of good in the world.

I don't remember saying all religion is evil, but quite a lot of bloodshed has been committed in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.  That doesn't mean I don't think they are capable of good, but when they try to demonize atheism, paganism, and satanism well..

I'd just like to say, there's some pretty horrible "morals" in the Bible.  Parts of it do kind of teach some pretty nasty stuff.

"Pretty" horrible?  That's putting it lightly.  Genocide is okay, so long as a deity gives the go-ahead first.
It should be noted that this was in a time and place when genocide was considered normal.  If anything, the Hebrews were lenient by the standards of the setting.  Of course, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be criticized, but it's best to keep this in perspective.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 09, 2014, 05:43:24 pm
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, alias "Mother Teresa" may have helped many people, but she was still a cold-hearted bitch who happily took money-gifts from people who stole the retirements of hundreds of old folks, rubbed shoulders with the Duvalier family, and whose "Home for the Dying" was more a house of suffering because she wanted the people to be "enlightened," because she believed that suffering brought one closer to Christ.

"Keeping things in perspective" almost always seems to be code for "don't make them out to be the complete dickheads they really are."  The Ancient Jews, or at the very least their leadership, were complete dickheads who thought genocide was okay because their collective hallucination told them so.  Genocide is not okay.  Anti-semitism was normal in Hitler's time, too, but he's the modern personification of evil for very good reasons, one of them notably being fucking attempted genocide.  No one, no matter what gender, creed, time, age, or culture is ever exempt from the "genocide is not fucking okay" rule, and those that embark upon and/or order it should be treated as the living abominations they are and/or were.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 09, 2014, 05:44:31 pm
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, alias "Mother Teresa" may have helped many people, but she was still a cold-hearted bitch who happily took money-gifts from people who stole the retirements of hundreds of old folks, rubbed shoulders with the Duvalier family, and whose "Home for the Dying" was more a house of suffering because she wanted the people to be "enlightened," because she believed that suffering brought one closer to Christ.

"Keeping things in perspective" almost always seems to be code for "don't make them out to be the complete dickheads they really are."  The Ancient Jews, or at the very least their leadership, were complete dickheads who thought genocide was okay because their collective hallucination told them so.  Genocide is not okay.  Anti-semitism was normal in Hitler's time, too, but he's the modern personification of evil for very good reasons, one of them notably being fucking attempted genocide.  No one, no matter what gender, creed, time, age, or culture is ever exempt from the "genocide is not fucking okay" rule, and those that embark upon and/or order it should be treated as the living abominations they are and/or were.
Personally, I suspect Mother Theresa's misdeeds were exaggerated, but that's neither here nor there.

But back on topic.  I never said that genocide was okay.  Stop putting words in my mouth.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 09, 2014, 05:47:14 pm
If that's how you read it, I apologize, that was not my intent.  I just have a severe dislike for what I see as apologetics for any kind of horrifying crime, and its not the first time I've heard the "keep things in perspective" line used as a kind of excuse for the horrid actions of others.  If that was not your intent, I apologize for that as well, but I stand by what I said in regards to the genocide supposedly committed by the Jews in their holy book.  Its the biggest reason I left Christianity, I just couldn't reconcile the desire to do good with worshiping a god that is okay with murder, rape, and genocide.  Didn't help that I discovered that it, in all likelihood, doesn't exist in the first place.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 09, 2014, 05:47:52 pm
If that's how you read it, I apologize, that was not my intent.  I just have a severe dislike for what I see as apologetics for any kind of horrifying crime, and its not the first time I've heard the "keep things in perspective" line used as a kind of excuse for the horrid actions of others.  If that was not your intent, I apologize for that as well, but I stand by what I said in regards to the genocide supposedly committed by the Jews in their holy book.
It's okay.  I forgive you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on January 09, 2014, 06:16:22 pm
Gotta say, even if you attribute the innocents they slaughtered to atheism and not more accurately to their powermongering, Christianity still wins the body count by a landslide.

...And if you factor in all the Abrahamic religions, there's no contest.
...That's going a little too far in the opposite direction.  Religion has also done a lot of good in the world.

I don't remember saying all religion is evil, but quite a lot of bloodshed has been committed in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.  That doesn't mean I don't think they are capable of good, but when they try to demonize atheism, paganism, and satanism well..

I'd just like to say, there's some pretty horrible "morals" in the Bible.  Parts of it do kind of teach some pretty nasty stuff.

"Pretty" horrible?  That's putting it lightly.  Genocide is okay, so long as a deity gives the go-ahead first.
It should be noted that this was in a time and place when genocide was considered normal.  If anything, the Hebrews were lenient by the standards of the setting.  Of course, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be criticized, but it's best to keep this in perspective.

Yeah, but the Bible is supposedly, acording to a hell of a lot of people, where we should draw our moral code from.  And I don't think "that's just how people were back then" is any kind of mitigating cirumstance for GOD ordering genocide and rape, seeing as how he's supposed to be the source of morality with his 10 commanments and all, one of which is particularly hypocritical.

Anyone who tells people to use the Bible as their mroal compass in the modern world can quite frankly fuck right off.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 09, 2014, 06:19:32 pm
what gets me is sunday schools that use Jerecho to show faith in god accomplishes many things
maybe not use the story where they murder all the men and kids and take the women as sex slaves
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 09, 2014, 10:04:04 pm
Read "Jericho," immediately thought you were referencing the post-apocalyptic American TV drama, which would be odd to mention in Sunday school...

"And lo, did Mayor Johnston Greene make an edict enforcing the rationing of food, and the Lord saw that it was good!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 09, 2014, 10:59:29 pm
Truthfully a lot of youth religious crap is really poorly worded like I used to volunteer at bible school and one time in 2004 olympics were on so we used gospel games and followed paul's trip to rome
i sure hope they don't find out what happens when he got there
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 10, 2014, 10:23:30 pm
(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/542/175/cb8.jpg)
Yeah, 'cause that's sure to get people on your side.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 11, 2014, 12:41:07 am
you must be new here
Die cis scum is actually an in joke
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 11, 2014, 12:44:32 am
you must be new here
Die cis scum is actually an in joke
If it is, it's a stupid in-joke.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on January 11, 2014, 02:19:12 am
you must be new here
Die cis scum is actually an in joke
If it is, it's a stupid in-joke.
The way I've seen it used it sometimes doesn't look like a joke.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: QueenofHearts on January 11, 2014, 08:17:02 am
Stories like this (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/parker-marie-molloy/charges-dropped-islan-nettles-murder_b_4309549.html) are why I don't take "Die cis scum" (and those who get offended by it) seriously.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on January 11, 2014, 05:11:37 pm
(https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1511676_759253984103193_986137776_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on January 11, 2014, 05:20:22 pm
Is that shit still going around? really?

And I thought Titus was one of the Apocrypha...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kain on January 11, 2014, 05:39:14 pm
(https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1511676_759253984103193_986137776_n.jpg)

He must be all the rage at parties.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 11, 2014, 06:40:47 pm
I bet he's got a dozen girlfriends.

They're probably all Canadian, too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on January 11, 2014, 07:43:38 pm
Does anyone else find it hilarious that the vast majority of these "a woman's place" guys are fat and ugly? Just like the majority of anti-abortion protesters are people you wouldn't want to fuck anyway.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 11, 2014, 07:59:52 pm
Does anyone else find it hilarious that the vast majority of these "a woman's place" guys are fat and ugly? Just like the majority of anti-abortion protesters are people you wouldn't want to fuck anyway.
Reminds me of how it seems like a lot of people on nude beaches are people you wouldn't want to see nude.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on January 11, 2014, 08:32:18 pm
I wonder if he's an "incel"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on January 11, 2014, 09:45:50 pm
As far as I know, 1 Timothy (and 2 Timothy, for that matter), Titus, and the various non-Pauline letters (including 1 Peter) were written during the doctrinal disputes in the early days of the Church by various sides, with the ones written by the side that eventually won being put into the Bible.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on January 12, 2014, 11:31:01 am
you must be new here
Die cis scum is actually an in joke
If it is, it's a stupid in-joke.
The way I've seen it used it sometimes doesn't look like a joke.

That can apply to a lot of in-jokes, though.

However, die cis scum isn't meant to be taken entirely seriously. And those who get offended by it are usually those who actually are cis scum. It's a nice way of weeding out who is who. Now, if it said 'kill all cis people' or 'die cisgenders!' then yeah. I can see why there'd be offense taken. But with the addition of 'scum' it's harmless. While yes you can bring up 'gross generalizations' it's still only applying to a subset, rather than the entire cis population. Die cis scum is also a lot less concerning than 'kill all ___'

It's like getting angry at someone complaining about a few fundies and acting like the complaints were applied to all theists (or atheists, or whatever depending on what type of fundies we're talking about).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on January 12, 2014, 03:40:01 pm
Thing is, people who don't know that "scum" is meant to clarify "cis", rather than amplify it, may well read it as the second, especially given the sentiment expressed by "die"; hence what may be intended as "death to those cissexuals who are scum" is instead received as "all cissexuals are scum and should die".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on January 12, 2014, 06:27:46 pm
you must be new here
Die cis scum is actually an in joke
If it is, it's a stupid in-joke.
The way I've seen it used it sometimes doesn't look like a joke.

I find that most of the people like that are internet tough guys who nobody takes seriously anyway.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Alehksunos on January 12, 2014, 07:58:56 pm
(https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1511676_759253984103193_986137776_n.jpg)

"A true Christian."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on January 12, 2014, 09:57:24 pm
Thing is, people who don't know that "scum" is meant to clarify "cis", rather than amplify it, may well read it as the second, especially given the sentiment expressed by "die"; hence what may be intended as "death to those cissexuals who are scum" is instead received as "all cissexuals are scum and should die".


Except the whole point of adding scum is to differentiate between the -phobic and otherwise cispeople and those who aren't. But, I can't change how someone sees a phrase.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on January 12, 2014, 10:56:30 pm
Thing is, people who don't know that "scum" is meant to clarify "cis", rather than amplify it, may well read it as the second, especially given the sentiment expressed by "die"; hence what may be intended as "death to those cissexuals who are scum" is instead received as "all cissexuals are scum and should die".


Except the whole point of adding scum is to differentiate between the -phobic and otherwise cispeople and those who aren't. But, I can't change how someone sees a phrase.

I know that now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on January 12, 2014, 11:04:33 pm
Thing is, people who don't know that "scum" is meant to clarify "cis", rather than amplify it, may well read it as the second, especially given the sentiment expressed by "die"; hence what may be intended as "death to those cissexuals who are scum" is instead received as "all cissexuals are scum and should die".


Except the whole point of adding scum is to differentiate between the -phobic and otherwise cispeople and those who aren't. But, I can't change how someone sees a phrase.

That may be what it is intended to say, but that's not what it comes off as. Let's do what someone said earlier and substitute in other groups of people and see how it sounds.

Die black scum
Die gay scum
Die retarded scum
Die Mexican scum
Die Jew scum

That first one there, if you heard someone say it, do you immediately assume that they only mean the bad ones? Because I've heard plenty of people say "I don't hate black people, I just hate niggers."

This post probably sounds a lot more pissed and confrontational that I intended it to be. This is probably the effect of reading something posted in another thread and getting rather mad.  (Link (http://fqa.digibase.ca/index.php?topic=5329.0)) This was typed not long after. Not trying to attack you or anyone else Shep.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on January 12, 2014, 11:42:22 pm
In any other context I've ever heard, a phrase like "Die X scum," means that the speaker hates all X and wants them to die (although the phrase may be used in jest). And based on what I've seen (thanks to this forum) of its use in the SJW crowd, that's what it means to a lot of them too. The assertion that it only refers to transphobes and that the addition of the word "scum" makes it "harmless," seems like backpedaling to me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on January 13, 2014, 06:57:29 am
Back in either October or November I asked a slacktivist if they were using "die cis scum" ironically. They told me they were dreaming of the day the government enacted the purge, just like in the movie, so they could "even the score*." I was going to ask them if they would kill cis identifying children but, given the general whackadoo they were spouting, I decided against it. I was pretty sure I couldn't handle the answer.

So, yeah, I'm pretty sure some of the nutters mixed in amongst the group are serious.




*Talk about an extreme case of comedically missing the point.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on January 13, 2014, 06:28:24 pm
Or you fell for Poe's law. But as Queen Pointed out, with 270 hate crime murders of trans women last year, I find it very hard to take die cis scum seriously.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 13, 2014, 07:00:37 pm
Okay, why don't we continue this discussion elsewhere, like The Doctor suggested?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on January 13, 2014, 09:40:23 pm
Okay, why don't we continue this discussion elsewhere, like The Doctor suggested?
That would be splendid if you all would, thanks. :)

Back on track please, folks.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on January 14, 2014, 11:23:59 pm
Yes, BACK ON TRACK.

Moar stupid political cartoons/graphics, please. Thankies!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 16, 2014, 10:24:43 am
Have some more Social Justice nonsense!

(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/423/421/97c.png)

(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/423/405/bb2.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Igor on January 16, 2014, 10:34:04 am
I'm fairly certain neither of those are serious. If you look at the numbers, neither makes any sense whatsoever.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on January 16, 2014, 10:40:17 am
I'm fairly certain neither of those are serious. If you look at the numbers, neither makes any sense whatsoever.

Yeah, and I doubt a serious social justice warrior would use the word retarded.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on January 16, 2014, 10:44:17 am
Why are the Jews considered more privileged than the white/Christians? I thought they were the whipping boys of the western world.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on January 16, 2014, 11:17:15 am
Why are the Jews considered more privileged than the white/Christians? I thought they were the whipping boys of the western world.

Unless you buy into conspiracy theories about them being universally rich and secretly controlling the world.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on January 16, 2014, 02:27:26 pm
Why are the Jews considered more privileged than the white/Christians? I thought they were the whipping boys of the western world.

Unless you buy into conspiracy theories about them being universally rich and secretly controlling the world.

I didn't think there was any crossover between the social justice warriors and the conspiracy theorist camps.

Besides, wouldn't that put the lizard men/Free Masons on top?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 16, 2014, 02:34:20 pm
Well, liberals can be anti-Semites too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on January 16, 2014, 10:22:13 pm
I hope you don't mean that being critical of Israel's policies on many matters of great import and impact qualifies as anti-Semitism? Because quite  lot of liberal Jews do that, too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 16, 2014, 10:23:23 pm
I hope you don't mean that being critical of Israel's policies on many matters of great import and impact qualifies as anti-Semitism? Because quite  lot of liberal Jews do that, too.
No, I mean stuff like saying Israel doesn't have the right to exist or supporting Hamas.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 17, 2014, 12:55:04 am
depends on support as like i recognize they are the legit government of gaza
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 17, 2014, 12:59:20 am
depends on support as like i recognize they are the legit government of gaza
Was the Taliban the legitimate government of Afghanistan?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 17, 2014, 01:39:16 am
The main difference was Hamas won in a fair election
Also them winning caused the blockade starving the city
Real democratic
Look ask eva I can't answer this I'm having wishing i had a vagina issues.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Auri-El on January 17, 2014, 07:32:04 am
Israel does have the right to exist. What they don't have the right to do is to destroy the homes of the current occupants of the land they think should be theirs, or to kill them and treat them like second-class citizens. So...yeah. That's not anti-semitic, that's pro-human.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 17, 2014, 08:20:15 am
Israel does have the right to exist. What they don't have the right to do is to destroy the homes of the current occupants of the land they think should be theirs, or to kill them and treat them like second-class citizens. So...yeah. That's not anti-semitic, that's pro-human.
I agree, Israel shouldn't harm innocent Palestinians.  I never said Israel had the right to do that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 19, 2014, 11:50:43 am
(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRk7eGNhkS4C7zoJm2JhRjyarc88Xa1JXrP2CRIvbCGvO7oXNPD)
There are a lot of legitimate reasons to criticize Obama.  Speaking off a teleprompter is not one of them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on January 19, 2014, 03:58:58 pm
What president or politician doesn't give speeches off of teleprompters?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on January 19, 2014, 04:14:18 pm
Might as well make fun of him for wearing shoes too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on January 19, 2014, 05:04:14 pm
Might as well make fun of him for wearing shoes too.

He wears SHOES? What about all those starving Kenyan children he refuses to provide shoes for!?!?!? [/conservatard]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on January 19, 2014, 06:43:37 pm
(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRk7eGNhkS4C7zoJm2JhRjyarc88Xa1JXrP2CRIvbCGvO7oXNPD)
There are a lot of legitimate reasons to criticize Obama.  Speaking off a teleprompter is not one of them.

When crackshipping meets politics...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on January 19, 2014, 10:57:45 pm
I'm sure W Bush used a teleprompter. If he didn't, he might've benefited from doing so so he wouldn't have sounded like a fucking dumb ass.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on January 20, 2014, 06:02:30 am
They've been going on about teleprompters before he was even elected :(
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 20, 2014, 10:32:45 am
(http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/superior_lol_by_themodsquad-d2ygdyt.jpg?w=888&h=1044)

What shameless, blatant, naked misogyny.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on January 20, 2014, 11:46:20 am
I bet he's an incel.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 20, 2014, 11:48:39 am
I bet he's an incel.
Wouldn't be surprised.  Anyway, here's its sequel:

(http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/women_are_attention_seekers_by_themodsquad-d2zpcke.jpg?w=888&h=1044)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on January 20, 2014, 11:59:46 am
What is he even trying to say in that last paragraph. Maybe it's just blown my tiny female mind, but i've re-read it about five times and have no idea what he is trying to say.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on January 20, 2014, 12:00:20 pm
(http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/superior_lol_by_themodsquad-d2ygdyt.jpg?w=888&h=1044)

What shameless, blatant, naked misogyny.

Never forced to die in a war?  What?  Women die in wars all the time you stupid fuck.  Women have never ruled the world because they lack the physical strength and intelligence to lead an army and they can't make difficult decisions?  Ok, ask Argentina how going to war against Maggie Thatcher worked out for them, or ask the SAS men who were instructed in person by Thatcher to kill every perpetrator of the London Iranian Embassy seige if they think she was a weak person who couldn't make difficult decisions.  Also, there's this http://listverse.com/2013/11/11/10-amazing-women-who-led-rebellions/  Abnd as for being physically weak, have you seen some female atheletes?  Some of them could benchpress me like I was filled with helium.

Women have never inventing anything worth mentioning?  How about circular saws, dishwashers, fire escapes, electric hot water heaters, syringes, rotary engines, windscreen wipers, and kevlar (vital to your precious male soldiers).  For comparison, I'm a man and do you know what I invented?  Fucking nothing.

These arguments are so easily torn apart by 5 seconds on Google and is so disgustingly bitter and pathetic it must be a poe, surely?

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 20, 2014, 12:10:04 pm
I can understand why you might be confused.  However, I always assume something is serious, no matter how outlandish.  There are a few exceptions, of course, like if it's done by a known parodist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on January 20, 2014, 12:11:55 pm
It just seems too over the top to me.  But it wouldn't be the first time I've thought that about something and then found out nope, the person was absolutley serious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on January 20, 2014, 12:26:46 pm
It just seems too over the top to me.  But it wouldn't be the first time I've thought that about something and then found out nope, the person was absolutley serious.
It sounds like sombodys mom told them to put down the x-box controller and clean up their room to me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: LeTipex on January 20, 2014, 01:38:19 pm
It just seems too over the top to me.  But it wouldn't be the first time I've thought that about something and then found out nope, the person was absolutley serious.
I read that as "absurdly serious" at first. It does fit!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on January 20, 2014, 03:23:56 pm
The final line really tips it over into Poe territory for me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 20, 2014, 04:06:08 pm
(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSAuOzbzPmxG1Y5LLdt64cfIATaAwGD8mcwoBluJN_u5hYJ36DkNA)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on January 20, 2014, 04:19:03 pm
It just seems too over the top to me.  But it wouldn't be the first time I've thought that about something and then found out nope, the person was absolutley serious.
I read that as "absurdly serious" at first. It does fit!

Heh yeah, it still works lol.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 20, 2014, 04:34:25 pm
(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSAuOzbzPmxG1Y5LLdt64cfIATaAwGD8mcwoBluJN_u5hYJ36DkNA)

I hate that our local supermarket sells that shit.

Not as much as I hate the fact that almost every single aisle outside of (but sometimes including) groceries has something related to Duck Dynasty.

Fuck, even the fucking lens store/eye clinic has fucking Duck Dynasty shit.

Sometimes it sucks living in a hunter-heavy area.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on January 20, 2014, 04:43:15 pm
(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSAuOzbzPmxG1Y5LLdt64cfIATaAwGD8mcwoBluJN_u5hYJ36DkNA)

I hate that our local supermarket sells that shit.

Not as much as I hate the fact that almost every single aisle outside of (but sometimes including) groceries has something related to Duck Dynasty.

Fuck, even the fucking lens store/eye clinic has fucking Duck Dynasty shit.

Sometimes it sucks living in a hunter-heavy area.

You know the best part? I've heard from a few different people who are avid hunters that the Duck Commander duck calls aren't even all that good and are way overpriced.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on January 20, 2014, 04:50:08 pm
The funny thing is, I've walked around the hunting section and I haven't even SEEN the Duck Commander duck calls.

It's like, literally, the only piece of Duck Dynasty merchandise they don't seem to carry.

That's kinda hilarious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on January 20, 2014, 05:24:06 pm
Actual duck hunters don't buy Duck Commander calls much, if the customer comments I've read on Cabella's site mean anything...which they do, since they are customers who actually hunt ducks.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 20, 2014, 05:36:42 pm
You told me they are not waterproof
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Shane for Wax on January 20, 2014, 05:44:51 pm
(http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/superior_lol_by_themodsquad-d2ygdyt.jpg?w=888&h=1044)

What shameless, blatant, naked misogyny.

I don't have the energy to rebut every single thing on there but the gist of it is-- MRAs complaining about things that are the fault of men.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on January 20, 2014, 09:58:38 pm
The girl in the drawing looks like she's about to kick the dork writing that in the nuts. I say, "You go girl"!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 22, 2014, 03:07:21 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BQ0M149CAAImFbT.jpg)

That's not even close to how demographics work in the real world.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 22, 2014, 03:51:47 pm
That's also not how eugenics or population growth works either.

Ironbite-AND RELIGION IS NOT INHERITED GENETICALLY YOU FUCKING MORONS!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on January 22, 2014, 03:56:34 pm
I wonder how their minds would cope if I was to tell them that when I worked for a letting agent in Belfast one of our tennants was a mulsim...who was white British.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 22, 2014, 06:32:43 pm
Yeah there are a lot of converts mostly women
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on January 23, 2014, 07:52:24 am
Funny you should say that 'coz the tennant in question happened to be a woman.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 23, 2014, 09:42:59 am
I wonder how their minds would cope if I was to tell them that when I worked for a letting agent in Belfast one of our tennants was a mulsim...who was white British.

They'd label him a race traitor and likely view him as something to be exterminated, as well.  Some people need to stop taking tips from the Dalek playbook.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 23, 2014, 10:02:05 am
I'm reminded of this case with Dogma who said Islam is conquering Britain and when I pointed out that actually they make up 4/60 million he was like well its still growing
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 23, 2014, 10:04:08 am
I'm reminded of this case with Dogma who said Islam is conquering Britain and when I pointed out that actually they make up 4/60 million he was like well its still growing

Yeaaaaaah...my cock grows when I get a boner, but I don't scream that its trying to take over my pants.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 24, 2014, 03:42:32 pm
(http://thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/cairo-protest3-e1314505252945.jpg)
It reads: “There is no god but Allah, Zionism is the enemy of Allah and so are the Americans.”
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on January 24, 2014, 03:45:32 pm
(http://thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/cairo-protest3-e1314505252945.jpg)
It reads: “There is no god but Allah, Zionism is the enemy of Allah and so are the Americans.”

That picture must obviously be fake.  Everyone knows Obama's a Muslim! /sarcasm
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 27, 2014, 05:29:05 pm
(http://itmakessenseblog.com/files/2012/05/Stop-the-invasion.jpg)

For goodness' sake, immigrants are not the enemy!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 27, 2014, 05:59:08 pm
yes they are muslims are coming into europe to hide out and bomb everyone
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 27, 2014, 06:04:57 pm
I really hope you didn't hit your head and go stupid on us Kef.

Ironbite-I really don't.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on January 27, 2014, 06:41:27 pm
Considering that it's Kef, I think he's joking/being sarcastic. Although it'd be nice if there was some way to convey sarcasm on the internet without having to tag <sarcasm> or overuse italics.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 27, 2014, 06:55:15 pm
I was beig sarcastic mostly echoing the daily hail/dogma esque people.  They exist here like people talk about Islamists in mexico
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 27, 2014, 07:38:14 pm
Considering that it's Kef, I think he's joking/being sarcastic. Although it'd be nice if there was some way to convey sarcasm on the internet without having to tag <sarcasm> or overuse italics.
I agree.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: wrightway on January 27, 2014, 08:12:14 pm
Considering that it's Kef, I think he's joking/being sarcastic. Although it'd be nice if there was some way to convey sarcasm on the internet without having to tag <sarcasm> or overuse italics.

They're starting to use (s*) on livejournal and tumblr to convey it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Igor on January 27, 2014, 08:33:05 pm
I think I remember people here using comic sans for sarcasm.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on January 27, 2014, 08:50:22 pm
I'm still trying to get the idea of a backwards leaning italic to catch on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on January 28, 2014, 10:11:24 am
I saw the sarcasm right away.

Me, I'll use *sarcasm* or the goofy eyeroll guy ( ::) ).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 29, 2014, 10:36:16 am
I'm still trying to get the idea of a backwards leaning italic to catch on.
Sounds like a good idea.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 30, 2014, 05:37:12 pm
(http://api.ning.com/files/mrMXxvGZGzSvqt6-NiCmbN5kJ146IRMLDvACwweGG8KaeJyq8gwcHg-NC*vdLhqniYPhWydnBBIqLB-CL1RrgISdlQJabRkv/ObamacareNO.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 31, 2014, 11:24:18 pm
(http://www.myfellowamerican.tv/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Trending-Topic-Prejudice-Twylah.com_.jpg)
Islamaphobes do not care to learn anymore about islam than what republicans tell them.
A Good Shirt.

(https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ1WIMZ8CCyT3CZOH2lgExYYTQtoIl8Va19T1gAB2PP_hKFpVR1)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on January 31, 2014, 11:36:50 pm
Question if you shoot a guy with a jihog bullet does it count as a hate crime if the guy was arab or south asian
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 31, 2014, 11:45:32 pm
Question if you shoot a guy with a jihog bullet does it count as a hate crime if the guy was arab or south asian
I think so.  If not, then it should.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 01, 2014, 09:32:42 am
I woudl say if the guy was SE Asian for Bosnian but most americans dont associate those skin tones with Islam
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on February 01, 2014, 11:55:48 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t31/1490840_664096023632740_96166915_o.jpg)

(https://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/960144_546452528730424_1552237331_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Commissar Kaz on February 01, 2014, 12:02:30 pm
Didn't they know the earth was round in ancient Greece? I don't think any scientist have denied the world as being round in a looooong time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 01, 2014, 08:49:34 pm
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DqMxR2bLK2E/So1TS5bWj9I/AAAAAAAAAEk/TaJC3O_tGqY/s400/peta-save-the-whales.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on February 01, 2014, 09:49:42 pm
Didn't they know the earth was round in ancient Greece? I don't think any scientist have denied the world as being round in a looooong time.

yes. Yes they did.  They even knew the circumference of the earth.

Guy in Egypt heard from a friend how when the sun was at it's height it shone directly down the village well.
Guy went "Wait, it doesn't do that here.  What's going on?"

and so figured out the Earth had to be a sphere.

In short, science tested for evidence and then based it's views on that evidence.
Not something religion is well known for.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on February 02, 2014, 03:10:52 am
Didn't they know the earth was round in ancient Greece? I don't think any scientist have denied the world as being round in a looooong time.

yes. Yes they did.  They even knew the circumference of the earth.

Guy in Egypt heard from a friend how when the sun was at it's height it shone directly down the village well.
Guy went "Wait, it doesn't do that here.  What's going on?"

and so figured out the Earth had to be a sphere.

In short, science tested for evidence and then based it's views on that evidence.
Not something religion is well known for.

I remember hearing that story! I even want to say it was on an episode of Bill Nye.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: LeTipex on February 02, 2014, 04:33:42 am
Didn't they know the earth was round in ancient Greece? I don't think any scientist have denied the world as being round in a looooong time.

yes. Yes they did.  They even knew the circumference of the earth.

Guy in Egypt heard from a friend how when the sun was at it's height it shone directly down the village well.
Guy went "Wait, it doesn't do that here.  What's going on?"

and so figured out the Earth had to be a sphere.

In short, science tested for evidence and then based it's views on that evidence.
Not something religion is well known for.
Guy in Greece, actually. It was Eratosthenes around 240 B.C..
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 02, 2014, 10:16:59 am
The things you learn while watching Cosmos, part XXVI.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on February 02, 2014, 10:07:18 pm
Didn't they know the earth was round in ancient Greece? I don't think any scientist have denied the world as being round in a looooong time.

yes. Yes they did.  They even knew the circumference of the earth.

Guy in Egypt heard from a friend how when the sun was at it's height it shone directly down the village well.
Guy went "Wait, it doesn't do that here.  What's going on?"

and so figured out the Earth had to be a sphere.

In short, science tested for evidence and then based it's views on that evidence.
Not something religion is well known for.
Guy in Greece, actually. It was Eratosthenes around 240 B.C..

You're both right! Eratosthenes was a Greek, but he lived in Egypt.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on February 03, 2014, 01:17:25 am
Didn't they know the earth was round in ancient Greece? I don't think any scientist have denied the world as being round in a looooong time.

yes. Yes they did.  They even knew the circumference of the earth.

Guy in Egypt heard from a friend how when the sun was at it's height it shone directly down the village well.
Guy went "Wait, it doesn't do that here.  What's going on?"

and so figured out the Earth had to be a sphere.

In short, science tested for evidence and then based it's views on that evidence.
Not something religion is well known for.
Guy in Greece, actually. It was Eratosthenes around 240 B.C..

You're both right! Eratosthenes was a Greek, but he lived in Egypt.

I figured because I know one of the places involved was alexandria and the rest of the story is he paid a guy to walk from his city to where his friend lived, counting all the steps he took. 

Thats how they learned how big the earth was.

Walking from greece to egypt might have been a bit impractical.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 05, 2014, 12:28:03 pm
(http://shariaunveiled.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/muslim-rape.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 05, 2014, 01:02:56 pm
already posted still not any smarter
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 05, 2014, 04:34:36 pm
(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-02/enhanced/webdr05/5/0/enhanced-28374-1391576852-17.jpg)

You don't understand either of those theories, do you?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: JohnE on February 05, 2014, 06:13:55 pm
Anyone else have the urge to smack the smug look off his face with remedial science textbook?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on February 05, 2014, 06:47:55 pm
Anyone else have the urge to smack the smug look off his face with remedial science textbook?

After slugging him with a dictionary.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on February 05, 2014, 06:49:08 pm
Anyone else have the urge to smack the smug look off his face with remedial science textbook?
Kinda, but it'd be better to ask him about the other laws of thermodynamics and snicker at the deer-in-the-headlights reaction.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on February 05, 2014, 07:21:15 pm
Anyone else have the urge to smack the smug look off his face with remedial science textbook?
Kinda, but it'd be better to ask him about the other laws of thermodynamics and snicker at the deer-in-the-headlights reaction.

Hell, ask him about the second and he won't tell you much either beyond perhaps stating it, if he has Wikipedia handy.

Quick experiment: Every time a creationist brings up the second law of thermodynamics, ask them to explain the equivalence between Kelvin's and Clausius' postulates*. If they cannot, demand to know how the Hell they think they are qualified to say what thermodynamics has to say about evolution.


*If you've never heard of that, look it up. The proof is really quite elegant and doesn't require much in terms of background physics knowledge.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Raymond Dullaghy on February 05, 2014, 08:14:19 pm
(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-02/enhanced/webdr05/5/0/enhanced-28374-1391576852-17.jpg)

You don't understand either of those theories, do you?
"Does not the..."
There is something wrong with English vernacular when using proper grammar comes off as smug. That guy's smirk and phrasing make me want to give him a wedgie something fierce.

It isn't just the message, it's the presentation.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 05, 2014, 09:42:50 pm
(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-02/enhanced/webdr05/5/0/enhanced-28374-1391576852-17.jpg)

You don't understand either of those theories, do you?

Presentation of actual facts: F-
Overall Message: F-
Professional Delivery: F-
Penmanship: F-

Overall Grade: F-

Note: See me after class.  We need to talk about your lack of progress in Remedial Science.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on February 05, 2014, 11:21:51 pm
Yeah, here ya go, smug little fuck nugget.
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/flowing-from-hot-to-cold-the-second-law-of-thermod.html (http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/flowing-from-hot-to-cold-the-second-law-of-thermod.html)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on February 05, 2014, 11:22:58 pm
Hey. Be fair. His penmanship rates no worse than a C.  ;)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kain on February 06, 2014, 02:50:46 am
Well, I haven't seen a face I've wanted to punch so badly in a long time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 06, 2014, 10:48:34 am
Hey. Be fair. His penmanship rates no worse than a C.  ;)

Yeah, but if I'd have given him a C on that, he'd have probably merited a D- on average.  Far more than what he's worth.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 09, 2014, 12:55:27 pm
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/646/436/0f7.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 09, 2014, 12:57:23 pm
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/646/436/0f7.jpg)

To the author of that drivel, may you eat a cactus whole and have to shit out the spines.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on February 09, 2014, 01:47:18 pm
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/646/436/0f7.jpg)

Because we all know that there's not a single religious person in prison. Oh, wait...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on February 09, 2014, 02:51:19 pm
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/646/436/0f7.jpg)

<inigo montoya you keep using that word i don't think that word means what you think it means>/meme
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on February 09, 2014, 10:53:40 pm
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/646/436/0f7.jpg)

Christianity: The belief that you will have eternal paradise regardless of how much of a horrible human being you were in life as long as you apologize to an invisible bearded man in the sky.

I seriously fail to comprehend the belief that atheists are all awful people who are just one step away from doing horrible things, but Christians have their "ultimate moral authority" that keeps them in line, despite the fact that their belief system has their "ultimate moral authority" not giving a shit as long as they apologize to him.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on February 09, 2014, 10:57:05 pm
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/646/436/0f7.jpg)

Strawman: Designing a ridiculous, easy-to-debunk position to attack instead of focusing on the arguments that have actually been put forth.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on February 10, 2014, 03:59:41 am
How many times have we heard "if I wasn't a Christian I would..." followed by a list of items that Stalin might take exception too?

Atheists: we play by the rules because we believe it the right thing to do.
Christians: we play by the rules because we're afraid somebody is watching over our shoulder we're going to burn in hell.

So who is it that has strength of character and morality?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on February 10, 2014, 07:37:57 am
of course, that argument about 'atheistic morality' then gets used by fundies to say "then where did the concept of doing the right thing come from, ultimately?"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on February 10, 2014, 08:29:32 am
"then where did the concept of doing the right thing come from, ultimately?"

The mind boggles at why natural selection would favour altruism and the desire for order in a species that relies on a complex social structure to survive.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 10, 2014, 08:31:04 am
Plus, studies have shown that rats are altruistic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 10, 2014, 10:32:49 am
If I weren't an atheist, I'd probably still hate myself for believing I'm the cause of all the bullying I suffered in school.  A door opens both ways, you sacks of monkey excrement.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on February 10, 2014, 05:33:37 pm
Plus, studies have shown that rats are altruistic.
Hell, robots have shown altruism. I'm pretty sure humans can pull it off.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on February 10, 2014, 05:40:54 pm
of course, that argument about 'atheistic morality' then gets used by fundies to say "then where did the concept of doing the right thing come from, ultimately?"

"Empathy, you amoral puss bucket."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on February 10, 2014, 06:01:04 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t31/1606286_702520509792803_1961110988_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on February 10, 2014, 06:20:40 pm
Except he can, you know, prove it's not a lie.

Also, what is with certain Americans and putting your politcal and religious opinions on your car?  I don't think I've seen that anywhere else (although obviousy I haven't been to every single place on Earth).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on February 10, 2014, 08:47:56 pm
HOW DARE YOU INSULT BILL NYE. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. THAT MAN IS AMAZING AND GOT SO MANY PEOPLE INTERESTED IN SCIENCE------

-----wait, is this how fundies feel when atheists insult their holy figures like Jesus or Mohammed??
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on February 10, 2014, 08:58:42 pm
Plus, studies have shown that rats are altruistic.
Hell, robots have shown altruism. I'm pretty sure humans can pull it off.

I'd stomp on your face for a bag of peanuts.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on February 10, 2014, 10:00:48 pm
HOW DARE YOU INSULT BILL NYE. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. THAT MAN IS AMAZING AND GOT SO MANY PEOPLE INTERESTED IN SCIENCE------

-----wait, is this how fundies feel when atheists insult their holy figures like Jesus or Mohammed??
Basically, except nobody gets beheaded/stoned/hanged/burned at the stake.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on February 11, 2014, 03:45:43 am
Plus, studies have shown that rats are altruistic.
Hell, robots have shown altruism. I'm pretty sure humans can pull it off.

I'd stomp on your face for a bag of peanuts.
Pfft. I'd stomp on your face to clean dog shit off my shoes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 11, 2014, 08:35:46 am
We have a strong sense of camaraderie here at FQA.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on February 11, 2014, 01:53:04 pm
Face stomping; it's like saying "Hello" to atheists.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on February 11, 2014, 01:55:56 pm
Face stomping; it's like saying "Hello" to atheists.

It is in fact how we kiss.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Indikins on February 11, 2014, 09:12:11 pm
Face stomping; it's like saying "Hello" to atheists.

Be sure to politely new mothers with an offer to eat their baby.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MrsYoungie on February 12, 2014, 03:39:23 pm
Except he can, you know, prove it's not a lie.

Also, what is with certain Americans and putting your politcal and religious opinions on your car?  I don't think I've seen that anywhere else (although obviousy I haven't been to every single place on Earth).
I don't mind this trend.  It lets me know just where the real idiots are so I can avoid them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on February 14, 2014, 12:48:15 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1891257_755147024497840_1157828487_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on February 14, 2014, 01:30:10 pm
I can agree with that picture for the most part...

...but what the fuck does being pro-life have to do with anything,lady?  Seems like something out of left field.  "We can fuck, but I'm just a convenient body for sex if you don't get me pregnant!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on February 14, 2014, 02:00:02 pm
I can agree with that picture for the most part...

...but what the fuck does being pro-life have to do with anything,lady?  Seems like something out of left field.  "We can fuck, but I'm just a convenient body for sex if you don't get me pregnant!"

I'm guessing it's supposed to mean "Don't use me for sex and abort the consequences."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on February 14, 2014, 02:45:58 pm
It more or less means "Liberals just want women to be used for sex, they don't want us to experience the magic of childbirth and the wonder of motherhood that we are really here for."

The lack of self-awareness in that thought is staggering.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sleepy on February 14, 2014, 06:19:14 pm
So we're not just convenient warm bodies for sex, but we're convenient warm incubators once we're pregnant. Right-o.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on February 14, 2014, 08:53:32 pm
Damn skippy you are Sleepy.  So I've got some chicken eggs to hatch.  Where's the latch?

Ironbite-hurry, they're freshly laid too!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 15, 2014, 03:11:26 pm
*slaps Ironbite*  Bad use of rhyme, bad!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 17, 2014, 03:53:48 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/JKquLn8.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/BcGFbqg.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SpaceProg on February 17, 2014, 04:19:57 pm
I'm sure if you picked the worst possible pictures of the ones on the bottom instead of the top, the opposite 'point' could be made. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 17, 2014, 05:25:13 pm
Also, since when the hell is "Bo" a female name?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on February 17, 2014, 05:47:08 pm
When the hell is "Bo" a name?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 17, 2014, 05:52:40 pm
When the hell is "Bo" a name?
I don't know, ask him:

(http://pragmaticobotsunite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/bo-jackson-nike11.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on February 17, 2014, 06:12:28 pm
When the hell is "Bo" a name?

since I had a family friend named Bo growing up, and this was back in the 80's...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Patches on February 17, 2014, 08:37:15 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/JKquLn8.jpg)
Singer/Producer, White House Press Correspondent, Secretary of State, Businesswoman, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Writer, Speaker of the House, Lawyer/Professor

Quote
(http://i.imgur.com/BcGFbqg.jpg)
Actress, Actress, Wife, Talking Head, Talking Head, Talking Head, Talking Head, Talking Head, Talking Head

... I'm not really sure what point they're trying to make here.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on February 17, 2014, 08:42:06 pm
Someone should do an answer version with the best of the Dem gals & the worst of the Bag gals.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Patches on February 17, 2014, 09:28:14 pm
Someone should do an answer version with the best of the Dem gals & the worst of the Bag gals.

That was the point of my post.  The Democrat poster already showcases the best of the Dem "gals", as they're all highly accomplished people who have risen to very important positions of power.  Those on the Republican poster are almost all glorified gossipers.  That's why I said I'm not really sure what point they're trying to make when they point out, "You've got two Secretaries of State, an Attorney General, and a Speaker of the House, but WE'VE got a bunch of radio and TV personalities!  Beat that!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on February 17, 2014, 09:35:31 pm
And again women are judged based on how attractive they are instead of on their abilities and accomplishments.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on February 17, 2014, 11:37:09 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/JKquLn8.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/BcGFbqg.jpg)

Republicans definitely aren't sexist assholes. Nope. No way.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on February 18, 2014, 12:02:34 pm
It fits great since REpublicans view women as scum
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on February 18, 2014, 12:20:29 pm
I would hardly consider Ann Coulter's horse face attractive.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 18, 2014, 12:31:38 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ESS2m7Q.jpg)

And "negro" used to be a politically correct term.  The English language changes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on February 18, 2014, 04:00:04 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ESS2m7Q.jpg)

And "negro" used to be a politically correct term.  The English language changes.

Kinda reminds me of the "Lincoln was a republican!" arguments just a bit.

...actually, this photograph is given without context.  It looks like a bunch of male protestors from all walks of life protesting...something.  Of course there can be male feminists, but...the lack of context bothers me.

Edit:  Did some research, and came up with this (http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/short_takes/protest_agudah).  Apparently in 2009 there was a rift in the Jewish community over child sexual abuse and a bill that would lift the statute of limitations on said abuse cases.  Not...sure what it has to do with feminism, perse.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on February 18, 2014, 08:13:35 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1/1780752_10202166781345328_1235051877_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on February 18, 2014, 08:54:30 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1/1780752_10202166781345328_1235051877_n.jpg)

Right, it's the person using the gun who opts to kill people -- which is precisely why we need reasonable measures to prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands. Like, say, some kind of gun control.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on February 19, 2014, 02:07:54 am
In a similar way, HIV doesn't kill people. People kill people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on February 19, 2014, 02:15:52 am
Now suppose some kid had picked up the loaded shotgun while it was sitting on the guy's porch and accidentally shot himself with it. What would the guy do then, I wonder?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on February 19, 2014, 10:02:29 am
Blamed the kid of course.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on February 19, 2014, 10:41:03 am
I blindfolded myself and walked down the street. I'm still alive.

This proves that it's a completely safe activity.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Flying Mint Bunny! on February 19, 2014, 03:55:38 pm
I blindfolded myself and walked down the street. I'm still alive.

This proves that it's a completely safe activity.

Did you hire professional stunt drivers?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 22, 2014, 07:45:25 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/lTAzGWm.jpg)
Yes, because all twenty-somethings are as talented as Orson Welles.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on February 22, 2014, 10:47:03 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/1947978_395312337272245_188319865_n.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on February 22, 2014, 11:10:39 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/lTAzGWm.jpg)
Yes, because all twenty-somethings are as talented as Orson Welles.

Pajama Boy is adorkable & I wanna snuggle him so THERE! *PBBBBHT!*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 23, 2014, 02:53:53 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/1947978_395312337272245_188319865_n.png)

Now, get that little group's name to reflect (rough) reality: One third of one percent supporting traditional marriage.

Its adorable that they think they'll achieve anything with such pitiful numbers.  Get to at least 1% of the population of the country first and we'll talk.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on February 23, 2014, 04:21:11 am
Ugh. While I guess that cartoon is TECHNICALLY correct about Sodom and Gomorrah, as far as I know homosexuality wasn't the main reason. Leaving aside the fact that it was FORCED homosexuality, they were guilty of numerous sins. I personally think that their very Ayn Rand-esque ban on charity probably ranked near or at the top.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on February 23, 2014, 04:22:46 am
(http://shariaunveiled.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/muslim-rape.png)

Good, but you can simply accept them into are lives!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on February 23, 2014, 05:56:51 am
(http://shariaunveiled.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/muslim-rape.png)

I'm not willing to let Jews steal my money just to prove how tolerant I am, ect. The only other choice is mass murder, of course.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on February 23, 2014, 12:00:18 pm

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/1947978_395312337272245_188319865_n.png)

has anyone mentioned this yet?

Quote
Now this was the sin of Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. —Ezekiel 16:49-50

Is it me or is the cartoon misrepresenting what Jesus actually is supposed to have said about why Sodom was destroyed?

I dont' see much about gay marriage there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on February 23, 2014, 02:38:48 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/1947978_395312337272245_188319865_n.png)

Didn't Sodom and Gomorrah's story involved the hero throwing his daughters to the crowds in order to save an apparently useless angel? Traditional marriage: bad parenting and making girls expendable. 1000000 people seemingly support that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on February 23, 2014, 02:57:32 pm
Didn't Sodom and Gomorrah's story involved the hero throwing his daughters to the crowds in order to save an apparently useless angel? Traditional marriage: bad parenting and making girls expendable. 1000000 people seemingly support that.

If I remember the point of it correctly, the angels were Lot's guests and they were, by tradition, under his protection. So the fact that Lot was willing to give his daughters to the crowd was a way of showing how far he was ready to go to keep his word. (No word on the opinions of his daughters about being given to some random angry mob for a gangbang/rape...)

And when the crowd went beyond demands and tried to break the doors the angels did act and blind them all. So it's not like the angels were useless, they just didn't act untill things got violent and they did save Lot's family.

But I do agree 100% that in that scene girls seemed to be concidered expendable.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 23, 2014, 03:10:17 pm
Didn't Sodom and Gomorrah's story involved the hero throwing his daughters to the crowds in order to save an apparently useless angel? Traditional marriage: bad parenting and making girls expendable. 1000000 people seemingly support that.

If I remember the point of it correctly, the angels were Lot's guests and they were, by tradition, under his protection. So the fact that Lot was willing to give his daughters to the crowd was a way of showing how far he was ready to go to keep his word. (No word on the opinions of his daughters about being given to some random angry mob for a gangbang/rape...)

And when the crowd went beyond demands and tried to break the doors the angels did act and blind them all. So it's not like the angels were useless, they just didn't act untill things got violent and they did save Lot's family.

But I do agree 100% that in that scene girls seemed to be concidered expendable.
I think the point of the story is to show that Lot was a flawed man.  The Bible doesn't sugarcoat that kind of thing.

Was Lot righteous in his own merit, or just relatively good?  The text here doesn't seem to argue for the former; if Lot was more righteous than the other residents of Sodom (evidenced by the fact that he was saved), that doesn't actually mean he was virtuous.  The bar there was pretty low if the town's response to visitors was to initiate gang-rape.

So what kind of a man offers his daughters for rape?  A man with low enough moral standards that, given the choice of the whole region after his separation from Abraham, he nonetheless chose to live in Sodom, a wicked city.  A truly righteous person would do neither of these, but nonetheless Lot was apparently "good enough" to merit rescue.  Either that, or being Abraham's nephew counted for something.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on February 23, 2014, 04:38:00 pm
Didn't Sodom and Gomorrah's story involved the hero throwing his daughters to the crowds in order to save an apparently useless angel? Traditional marriage: bad parenting and making girls expendable. 1000000 people seemingly support that.

If I remember the point of it correctly, the angels were Lot's guests and they were, by tradition, under his protection. So the fact that Lot was willing to give his daughters to the crowd was a way of showing how far he was ready to go to keep his word. (No word on the opinions of his daughters about being given to some random angry mob for a gangbang/rape...)

And when the crowd went beyond demands and tried to break the doors the angels did act and blind them all. So it's not like the angels were useless, they just didn't act untill things got violent and they did save Lot's family.

But I do agree 100% that in that scene girls seemed to be concidered expendable.
I think the point of the story is to show that Lot was a flawed man.  The Bible doesn't sugarcoat that kind of thing.

Was Lot righteous in his own merit, or just relatively good?  The text here doesn't seem to argue for the former; if Lot was more righteous than the other residents of Sodom (evidenced by the fact that he was saved), that doesn't actually mean he was virtuous.  The bar there was pretty low if the town's response to visitors was to initiate gang-rape.

So what kind of a man offers his daughters for rape?  A man with low enough moral standards that, given the choice of the whole region after his separation from Abraham, he nonetheless chose to live in Sodom, a wicked city.  A truly righteous person would do neither of these, but nonetheless Lot was apparently "good enough" to merit rescue.  Either that, or being Abraham's nephew counted for something.

That's some pretty questionable logic.  Also, there's an unfortunate implication that "God plays favorites" with people based solely on the family they were born into, or because they're "better" in some fashion.

Sorry, Ultimate Paragon.  I know you're trying to defend the Bible and all, but those arguments aren't really that compelling.  If anything, the implications of your defense are more disturbing than the idea that Lot was a totally righteous man.

At it's best it points to any god that does exist as a potentially fallible being, I'd think.  At it's worst it points to a malicious/arbitrary being who people must always defend.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 23, 2014, 04:46:22 pm
Well, the Lord works in mysterious ways.  Maybe He saw a glimmer of goodness in Lot and thought he would improve.  Maybe He wanted the sordid tale of Sodom and Gomorrah to get out.  Or maybe there's something else I'm missing.

Anyway, I found this bit of inanity.

(http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/08/120822_SCI_Anti-GayProtestE.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large.jpg)

Yes, I get the two mixed up all the time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on February 23, 2014, 05:18:41 pm
So what kind of a man offers his daughters for rape?  A man with low enough moral standards that, given the choice of the whole region after his separation from Abraham, he nonetheless chose to live in Sodom, a wicked city.  A truly righteous person would do neither of these, but nonetheless Lot was apparently "good enough" to merit rescue.  Either that, or being Abraham's nephew counted for something.

According to this vid, Lot wasn't being serious in offering his daughters for rape, but was actaully insulting them, by saying they should rape a less honorable target.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbBHj2WF7u0
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 23, 2014, 05:20:30 pm
So what kind of a man offers his daughters for rape?  A man with low enough moral standards that, given the choice of the whole region after his separation from Abraham, he nonetheless chose to live in Sodom, a wicked city.  A truly righteous person would do neither of these, but nonetheless Lot was apparently "good enough" to merit rescue.  Either that, or being Abraham's nephew counted for something.

According to this vid, Lot wasn't being serious in offering his daughters for rape, but was actaully insulting them, by saying they should rape a less honorable target.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbBHj2WF7u0
I hadn't heard that interpretation before, but it seems to make sense.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on February 23, 2014, 09:55:10 pm
It's a good example of yet another reason for not taking the bible as factual truth, word for word, especially from the context of a modern person's mind, much less even the minds of 8th century Europeans (council of Nicea).

It's why Revelations doesn't make any sense, even by biblical standards. Many Hebrew scholars are almost sure it was ethnic folklore, catch phrases and metaphors used as a secret code to keep far flung protochristian Jewish conclaves informed about early church business, and any threats from within or from Roman officials acting against them. It would not be decipherable to outsiders if they intercepted any of these letters of correspondence. Too bad so much of old Hebrew culture and early Christian idioms are lost in time, or we could figure out what the messages hidden in Revelations were actually about.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on February 23, 2014, 10:04:18 pm
It's a good example of yet another reason for not taking the bible as factual truth, word for word, especially from the context of a modern person's mind, much less even the minds of 8th century Europeans (council of Nicea).

4th century, actually. The Council of Nicea was in 325 AD.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on February 23, 2014, 10:11:37 pm
Thanks. I did feel iffy about that date.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on February 24, 2014, 09:47:57 am
The amazing thing is, they're honestly stumped how traditional marriage is harmed by simply allowing alternatives. You'd think they'd have expected that question.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 24, 2014, 01:01:28 pm
When you spend your entire life accepting crap blindly, you begin to think that's how all people operate.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 01, 2014, 06:03:41 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/t1/1911676_232541906933138_1155251413_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on March 01, 2014, 06:40:00 pm
Lets see, a cake made for personal use vs. A sign made to attack others.

Totally the same thing.
 

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on March 01, 2014, 08:50:56 pm
.....my head hurts.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on March 01, 2014, 10:19:28 pm
.....my head hurts.

mine too...

... and that IS infuriating!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 01, 2014, 10:46:20 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/t1/1911676_232541906933138_1155251413_n.jpg)

Oh look, some pathetic wankers being pathetic wankers.  HOLD THE PRESSES, WE GOT A REAL NEWS STORY HERE!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 02, 2014, 11:39:20 am
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AuXPgwx7jO4/UH8XT-PDhmI/AAAAAAABBtk/I8Tw3jZ3R5E/s1600/racist-barack-obama-kenya.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on March 02, 2014, 06:39:04 pm
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It's easy to be a Christian fundamentalist when you don't think of anything at all.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 02, 2014, 06:59:08 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ib004Iu.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 02, 2014, 08:25:46 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/1891210_298625406951434_691962330_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: gyeonghwa on March 02, 2014, 08:54:18 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ib004Iu.jpg)

Mexican is a race now? I bet this guy doesn't know that Mexico has people ranging from blond and blue eyes to black. And let me guess, the United States is a white Nation because there is no such thing as Native Americans?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on March 02, 2014, 09:29:32 pm
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It's easy to be a Christian fundamentalist when you don't think of anything at all.

I find it amusing that they give one of the top questions that Christians are unable to answer as evidence that atheists don't think.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on March 02, 2014, 09:50:13 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ib004Iu.jpg)

So people should stick to their ethnic homelands, Africans should return to Africa, Asians to Asia, etc. Ok.

Therefore, all white people should leave non-white areas (including America, that goes back to the Native Americans) and return to Europe, right?

No? Then kindly STFU.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on March 02, 2014, 10:44:25 pm
So people should stick to their ethnic homelands, Africans should return to Africa, Asians to Asia, etc. Ok.

Therefore, all white people should leave non-white areas (including America, that goes back to the Native Americans) and return to Europe, right?

No? Then kindly STFU.

Everyone would have to return to East Africa. Anything else is an arbitrary distinction of what counts as "homeland" or "emigration".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on March 02, 2014, 11:16:19 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/1891210_298625406951434_691962330_n.jpg)

[persecution complex intensifies]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 02, 2014, 11:20:25 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/1891210_298625406951434_691962330_n.jpg)
-pickets funerals
-kills gay people
-holds back progress by centuries
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on March 03, 2014, 02:34:26 am
(https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1/1975194_426637037467194_1559208742_n.jpg)

Granted, I'm a little fuzzy on how Socialism ACTUALLY works but I'm pretty sure that isn't it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 03, 2014, 05:52:28 pm
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It's easy to be a Christian fundamentalist when you don't think of anything at all.

Atheist: I don't know where everything came from, so I'll try to figure out using science and facts.

Christian: I don't know where everything came from, therefore God.

(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t31/1899274_611772778905461_1406564130_o.png)


(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/1978797_10202269114782106_1505821549_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 03, 2014, 08:58:35 pm
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It's easy to be a Christian fundamentalist when you don't think of anything at all.

Atheist: I don't know where everything came from, so I'll try to figure out using science and facts.

Christian: I don't know where everything came from, therefore God.

(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t31/1899274_611772778905461_1406564130_o.png)


(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/1978797_10202269114782106_1505821549_n.jpg)
Did the Conservative even bother trying to include the NSA and drones?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 03, 2014, 09:21:00 pm
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It's easy to be a Christian fundamentalist when you don't think of anything at all.

Atheist: I don't know where everything came from, so I'll try to figure out using science and facts.

Christian: I don't know where everything came from, therefore God.

(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t31/1899274_611772778905461_1406564130_o.png)


(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/1978797_10202269114782106_1505821549_n.jpg)
Did the Conservative even bother trying to include the NSA and drones?
I'm sure they're fine with the military complex and such, least most of them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 04, 2014, 10:15:05 am
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It's easy to be a Christian fundamentalist when you don't think of anything at all.

Atheist: I don't know where everything came from, so I'll try to figure out using science and facts.

Christian: I don't know where everything came from, therefore God.

(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t31/1899274_611772778905461_1406564130_o.png)


(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/1978797_10202269114782106_1505821549_n.jpg)

You are a GOD!
(http://i41.tinypic.com/wweul5.jpg)(http://i44.tinypic.com/207aq1h.jpg)

You get a bazillion each of.....

(http://i41.tinypic.com/4t3cyt.jpg)

and....

(http://i40.tinypic.com/wm1rsx.jpg)

ENJOY YOU SWEET NOM-NOMS & FUZZ-SNUGGLES, MY FRIEND. ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 04, 2014, 11:49:53 am
(http://i.imgur.com/m6xD0OJ.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 04, 2014, 02:57:42 pm
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/liberal-logic-101-461.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 04, 2014, 03:14:27 pm
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/liberal-logic-101-461.jpg)
I wouldn't be surprised if Trayvon had white friends too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on March 04, 2014, 05:16:45 pm
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/liberal-logic-101-461.jpg)
I wouldn't be surprised if Trayvon had white friends too.

Given that the neighborhood he was shot in was one he'd visited frequently, was well-to-do and had a racially-mixed population, it's pretty likely he was at least acquainted with a fair number of wealthy white people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 04, 2014, 06:06:29 pm
"Trayvon wasn't a respectable black man!  He wore a hoddie, and that makes him look like another nigger hoodlum!"

The above is likely what goes in in LiberalLogic101's head when thinking about the contrast between Trayvon Martin and Barack Obama.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 04, 2014, 08:49:52 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1911670_707601045938119_1258759512_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on March 04, 2014, 09:01:20 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1911670_707601045938119_1258759512_n.jpg)

Even though the "housing" is usually in buildings that are either controlled by drug gangs or in such bad shape that they should be condemned, if not both, food stamps rarely provide enough to actually maintain a healthy diet and a cell phone is a virtual necessity for living in modern America.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 05, 2014, 04:47:37 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1/1779858_708083425889881_1500231103_n.jpg)

Still clinging to Benghazi.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on March 05, 2014, 11:29:15 pm
Actually, that's kind of funny.  I mean, not for the reason that the person who made it was probably going for, but it's still funny.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 06, 2014, 07:36:22 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/1623687_708858019145755_1390679680_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on March 06, 2014, 07:42:29 pm
Say that in a battered womens shelter
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 06, 2014, 07:45:59 pm
Say that in a battered womens shelter
That's not exactly relevant.  Unfortunately, most domestic violence victims don't have the self-esteem to stand up for themselves, let alone kill their abusers.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: kefkaownsall on March 06, 2014, 07:48:36 pm
I meant say that as in the poster since I am guessing a lot of battered women came from abuse diretly or indirectly caused by LEGAL guns
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: LeTipex on March 06, 2014, 09:51:36 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/1623687_708858019145755_1390679680_n.jpg)
Aren't most school shootings in the US done with legally owned and bought guns? True, occasionnaly borrowed from the parent of the shooter, but still...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 07, 2014, 12:01:09 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1069138_709110585787165_2133684072_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 07, 2014, 12:13:57 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1069138_709110585787165_2133684072_n.jpg)
And I'm guessing it was only used by the wealthy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 07, 2014, 12:39:34 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1069138_709110585787165_2133684072_n.jpg)
And I'm guessing it was only used by the wealthy.
Well, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_Air_Rifle), this was used in the Lewis and Clark expedition, and maybe a war.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 07, 2014, 12:43:03 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1069138_709110585787165_2133684072_n.jpg)
And I'm guessing it was only used by the wealthy.
Well, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_Air_Rifle), this was used in the Lewis and Clark expedition, and maybe a war.
Never mind then.

But I still have my doubts that that thing could is equivalent a 5.56 ar-15 with laser scope and grip.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 07, 2014, 12:46:40 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1069138_709110585787165_2133684072_n.jpg)
And I'm guessing it was only used by the wealthy.
Well, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_Air_Rifle), this was used in the Lewis and Clark expedition, and maybe a war.
Never mind then.

But I still have my doubts that that thing could is equivalent a 5.56 ar-15 with laser scope and grip.
Another thing Wikipedia mentions is that since it is air powered, you need to bring along special pumps for the gun and that maintenance required lots of training.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 07, 2014, 12:53:11 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1069138_709110585787165_2133684072_n.jpg)
And I'm guessing it was only used by the wealthy.
Well, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_Air_Rifle), this was used in the Lewis and Clark expedition, and maybe a war.
Never mind then.

But I still have my doubts that that thing could is equivalent a 5.56 ar-15 with laser scope and grip.
Another thing Wikipedia mentions is that since it is air powered, you need to bring along special pumps for the gun and that maintenance required lots of training.
So it was basically a glorified BB gun?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on March 07, 2014, 03:25:06 am
So it was basically a glorified BB gun?

Don't look down your nose at it; it can push a .46 caliber round into the area of 535 fps and be able to put a hole in an inch of pine from between 100 and 150 yards. That glorified BB gun will kill you from over a football field away and would actually be banned in quite a number of countries.

To put that in perspective, a .45 caliber 1911 can fire a round at 830 fps and has a maximum effective range of just 55 yards.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on March 07, 2014, 09:57:33 am
So it was basically a glorified BB gun?

Don't look down your nose at it; it can push a .46 caliber round into the area of 535 fps and be able to put a hole in an inch of pine from between 100 and 150 yards. That glorified BB gun will kill you from over a football field away and would actually be banned in quite a number of countries.

To put that in perspective, a .45 caliber 1911 can fire a round at 830 fps and has a maximum effective range of just 55 yards.
Have you seen some of the modern modern equivalents?  .357 (http://www.pyramydair.com/a/BB_guns_and_pellet_guns/1116/calibers_0_357) .45 (http://www.pyramydair.com/a/BB_guns_and_pellet_guns/1116/calibers_0_45) .50 (http://www.pyramydair.com/a/BB_guns_and_pellet_guns/1116/calibers_0_5) The Girandoni holds up amazingly well in comparison despite its age.

Now, to take issue with the poster, there were about 1500 Girandoni rifles in the world. In America they were so rare that researchers were actually able to find and identify the one that Lewis and Clarke used with a very high degree of certainty. At the time  there was one air gunsmith/shop, Isaiah Lukens, who apparently managed to get hold of one (perhaps for a little 'design inspiration'  ;)), and the number of guns like this that he produced was vanishingly small because there just wasn't any demand for them.

I guess nobody needed a high capacity magazine. ;D

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on March 07, 2014, 11:20:46 am
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/1623687_708858019145755_1390679680_n.jpg)
Aren't most school shootings in the US done with legally owned and bought guns? True, occasionnaly borrowed from the parent of the shooter, but still...

I'm pretty sure the Sandy hook guy used his mom's guns to shoot up that school. Which I'm sure were legally obtained.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on March 07, 2014, 12:08:56 pm
They were legally obtained by his mother, but you could easily argue that he stole them from her.  That one's kind of a gray area, and you could really count it either way.

Oh, but the image is very stupid.  There are plenty of statistics on that.

(http://assets.motherjones.com/interactives/projects/2012/12/updated-mass-shootings/final_illegal2.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 07, 2014, 07:17:45 pm
So it was basically a glorified BB gun?

Don't look down your nose at it; it can push a .46 caliber round into the area of 535 fps and be able to put a hole in an inch of pine from between 100 and 150 yards. That glorified BB gun will kill you from over a football field away and would actually be banned in quite a number of countries.

To put that in perspective, a .45 caliber 1911 can fire a round at 830 fps and has a maximum effective range of just 55 yards.
Have you seen some of the modern modern equivalents?  .357 (http://www.pyramydair.com/a/BB_guns_and_pellet_guns/1116/calibers_0_357) .45 (http://www.pyramydair.com/a/BB_guns_and_pellet_guns/1116/calibers_0_45) .50 (http://www.pyramydair.com/a/BB_guns_and_pellet_guns/1116/calibers_0_5) The Girandoni holds up amazingly well in comparison despite its age.

Now, to take issue with the poster, there were about 1500 Girandoni rifles in the world. In America they were so rare that researchers were actually able to find and identify the one that Lewis and Clarke used with a very high degree of certainty. At the time  there was one air gunsmith/shop, Isaiah Lukens, who apparently managed to get hold of one (perhaps for a little 'design inspiration'  ;)), and the number of guns like this that he produced was vanishingly small because there just wasn't any demand for them.

I guess nobody needed a high capacity magazine. ;D
I'd still like to own a replica, they seem pretty kick-ass.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 07, 2014, 08:56:09 pm
(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/667/103/6e4.jpg)

A fedora is just a symbol of a stereotype.  They don't mock the fedora itself.

And half of those aren't even fedoras.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on March 07, 2014, 09:35:18 pm
I guess nobody needed a high capacity magazine. ;D

I think it has less to do with needing of a magazine and more to do with the required 1,500 pumps that was required to get it up to max pressure.

I'd still like to own a replica, they seem pretty kick-ass.

Fire it often enough and you'll be walking around with an arm like a fiddler crab.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 07, 2014, 11:07:18 pm
I guess nobody needed a high capacity magazine. ;D

I think it has less to do with needing of a magazine and more to do with the required 1,500 pumps that was required to get it up to max pressure.

I'd still like to own a replica, they seem pretty kick-ass.

Fire it often enough and you'll be walking around with an arm like a fiddler crab.
I could hack it.
(Plus it would mainly just look cool)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on March 08, 2014, 08:04:08 am
Slightly late, but... Yeesh.
(http://mikeduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ken-Ham-Bill-Nye.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on March 08, 2014, 08:44:41 am
I guess nobody needed a high capacity magazine. ;D

I think it has less to do with needing of a magazine and more to do with the required 1,500 pumps that was required to get it up to max pressure.

I'd still like to own a replica, they seem pretty kick-ass.

Fire it often enough and you'll be walking around with an arm like a fiddler crab.
They actually anticipated the demand for air and created a support wagon with a wheeled pump and a lot of extra pre-filled tanks. The real problem was that these guns were actually delicate hunting weapons that required a ton of maintenance and very well trained soldiers to use effectively. They were pretty much the complete opposite of the standard operating procedures of the day. Their forte was stealth and sniping high value targets (officers) which clashed with the whole notion that wars were supposed to be sporting so they probably weren't utilized very effectively which would have hastened their demise as a military weapon. One air gun and its expensive support vs. ten flintlocks was probably a no-brainer to a bean counter if you are going to use them the same way.

This guy (http://www.beemans.net/images/Austrian%20airguns.htm) has a bit of information on them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 08, 2014, 09:45:17 am
Slightly late, but... Yeesh.
(http://mikeduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ken-Ham-Bill-Nye.jpg)


Yet, the man of god got his arse handed to him by a clown.  The fool is not always the one who dresses in the jester's suit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 08, 2014, 11:49:23 am
Slightly late, but... Yeesh.
(http://mikeduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ken-Ham-Bill-Nye.jpg)
You can almost feel the impotent rage.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on March 08, 2014, 12:07:20 pm
There's a difference between Bill Nye, and Beakman from Beakman's world.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 08, 2014, 12:12:39 pm
There's a difference between Bill Nye, and Beakman from Beakman's world.

All scientists look alike to me!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on March 08, 2014, 12:48:00 pm
There's a difference between Bill Nye, and Beakman from Beakman's world.

All scientists look alike to me!

One of the differences is that Nye is actually a scientist, Beakman only played one. Still more of scientist than Ken Ham, though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on March 08, 2014, 12:48:53 pm
Slightly late, but... Yeesh.
(http://mikeduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ken-Ham-Bill-Nye.jpg)

And yet you still lost...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 08, 2014, 02:27:31 pm
Silly frummies! Beakman & Bill Nye are two different people.

But what would you expect from frummies? They're either behind the times or have no knowledge of any pop culture.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 08, 2014, 03:02:46 pm
Slightly late, but... Yeesh.
(http://mikeduran.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ken-Ham-Bill-Nye.jpg)


I agree with the last sentence, albeit for different reasons.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 08, 2014, 06:09:59 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1/1798717_300530613427580_535633166_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on March 08, 2014, 08:31:14 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1/1798717_300530613427580_535633166_n.jpg)

If Saint Ronnie were running the country they'd be complaining that he's too far left.

Also, I find it amusing that while it was the Republican Party who pushed for term limits on the President, they've been bit more by it than the Democratic Party has: Eisenhower and Reagan (and Bush Jr., but could he have won a third term?) both couldn't run for a third term because of that amendment, while for the Democratic Party only Clinton ran up against it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 09, 2014, 12:17:23 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1/1798717_300530613427580_535633166_n.jpg)

If Saint Ronnie were running the country they'd be complaining that he's too far left.

Also, I find it amusing that while it was the Republican Party who pushed for term limits on the President, they've been bit more by it than the Democratic Party has: Eisenhower and Reagan (and Bush Jr., but could he have won a third term?) both couldn't run for a third term because of that amendment, while for the Democratic Party only Clinton ran up against it.

Neither Eisenhower nor Reagan would have won a second term. Kennedy was much too popular for Eisenhower, and Reagan was widely reviled by the end of his term.

I am still shocked by how incredible gullible the American people were in the 1980s. How did anyone believe a word he said?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 09, 2014, 12:19:40 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1/1798717_300530613427580_535633166_n.jpg)

If Saint Ronnie were running the country they'd be complaining that he's too far left.

Also, I find it amusing that while it was the Republican Party who pushed for term limits on the President, they've been bit more by it than the Democratic Party has: Eisenhower and Reagan (and Bush Jr., but could he have won a third term?) both couldn't run for a third term because of that amendment, while for the Democratic Party only Clinton ran up against it.

Neither Eisenhower nor Reagan would have won a second term. Kennedy was much too popular for Eisenhower, and Reagan was widely reviled by the end of his term.

I am still shocked by how incredible gullible the American people were in the 1980s. How did anyone believe a word he said?
u a comme?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 09, 2014, 12:21:23 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/1891210_298625406951434_691962330_n.jpg)

Muslim: better spend literally billions of dollars chucking him in prison for no reason.

Christian: better elect him to Congress.

(click to show/hide)
I actually agree with this.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 09, 2014, 12:33:44 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/1891210_298625406951434_691962330_n.jpg)

Muslim: better spend literally billions of dollars chucking him in prison for no reason.

Christian: better elect him to Congress.

(click to show/hide)
I actually agree with this.
It's not the fedora on their head, it's the fedora on their heart.

(People generally mean trilby anyway)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 09, 2014, 12:51:58 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/1891210_298625406951434_691962330_n.jpg)

Muslim: better spend literally billions of dollars chucking him in prison for no reason.

Christian: better elect him to Congress.

(click to show/hide)
I actually agree with this.
It's not the fedora on their head, it's the fedora on their heart.

(People generally mean trilby anyway)

Nor is Justin Bieber's stupid low-pants be-sneakered inability to dress himself. Low-pants dress style is probably the second crappiest fashion, short slightly of hipster. It is interesting that a moderately violent, thug-life uber-entitled talentless fuckwit has been able to avoid widespread dismissal by virtue of the hue of his skin, however. Bieber is one of the few people who could improve the world by leaving it.

Also, the trilby/fedora thing annoys me to no end. Goddamnit, not fucking hard. Mistaking a bowler hat for a fedora is particularly stupid, however. Also, too; assholes wear them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on March 09, 2014, 12:57:57 am
Neither Eisenhower nor Reagan would have won a second term. Kennedy was much too popular for Eisenhower, and Reagan was widely reviled by the end of his term.

I am still shocked by how incredible gullible the American people were in the 1980s. How did anyone believe a word he said?

Eisenhower could probably have defeated Kennedy in 1960.  JFK only beat Nixon by 100,000 votes, and Eisenhower was way more popular than Nixon was.  I actually kind of doubt that Kennedy would even have entered the race if Eisenhower was seeking reelection.  Nobody who really wants to be President challenges a sitting President with an approval rating above 60, especially not when that President is credited with winning World War II.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on March 09, 2014, 01:13:33 am
We could clone Ike and put him back in office somehow and have the most "liberal" president since Carter. He actually hated and warned about the military industrial complex. He's a commie librul by today's standards.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 09, 2014, 01:34:34 am
We could clone Ike and put him back in office somehow and have the most "liberal" president since Carter. He actually hated and warned about the military industrial complex. He's a commie librul by today's standards.

Carter, the racist Southern governor of Georgia? Eisenhower would be way more progressive than he.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on March 09, 2014, 05:18:09 am
I try to be a student of history, and I'm curious (as a what if scenario) what would happen to the country if we had an Eisenhower or a Kennedy nowadays.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 09, 2014, 05:46:40 am
I try to be a student of history, and I'm curious (as a what if scenario) what would happen to the country if we had an Eisenhower or a Kennedy nowadays.

We have a Kennedy. I'm not sure Eisenhower could exist today. Patreus, except intelligent and not an asshole?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on March 09, 2014, 06:18:02 am
I try to be a student of history, and I'm curious (as a what if scenario) what would happen to the country if we had an Eisenhower or a Kennedy nowadays.

We have a Kennedy. I'm not sure Eisenhower could exist today. Patreus, except intelligent and not an asshole?

You realize that'd mean going back to those tax rates, and he'd be killed for suggesting such a thing with the Tea Party types that abound today, yes? because heaven forbid we have taxes...

*goes back to grumbling about the 17 potholes in the road doing further damage to the underside of his car and his suspension in the kilometre of road between his house and the local grocery store*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Caitshidhe on March 09, 2014, 06:22:19 am
I live in Baltimore. Before this I lived in New York. Got used to potholes the size of an Olympic swimming pool. Pretty sure the road budgets just end up going to hookers and cocaine for the mayors.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 09, 2014, 06:27:08 am
I live in Baltimore. Before this I lived in New York. Got used to potholes the size of an Olympic swimming pool. Pretty sure the road budgets just end up going to hookers and cocaine for the mayors.

And McNulty's bar tab, of course.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on March 09, 2014, 07:22:30 am
I live in Baltimore. Before this I lived in New York. Got used to potholes the size of an Olympic swimming pool. Pretty sure the road budgets just end up going to hookers and cocaine for the mayors.

This is Saugerties, 3 hours north of the city and an hour south of Albany.  Run over a road sign in the winter? you'll be LUCKY if it gets replaced by summer, even on I-87 (I can think of one hit and crushed by a semi between Saugerties and Kingston that still hasn't been replaced, for example)...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 09, 2014, 07:24:44 pm
(https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1/10014546_300879173392724_1881753492_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on March 09, 2014, 08:33:02 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1/1798717_300530613427580_535633166_n.jpg)

If Saint Ronnie were running the country they'd be complaining that he's too far left.

Also, I find it amusing that while it was the Republican Party who pushed for term limits on the President, they've been bit more by it than the Democratic Party has: Eisenhower and Reagan (and Bush Jr., but could he have won a third term?) both couldn't run for a third term because of that amendment, while for the Democratic Party only Clinton ran up against it.

Neither Eisenhower nor Reagan would have won a second term. Kennedy was much too popular for Eisenhower, and Reagan was widely reviled by the end of his term.

I am still shocked by how incredible gullible the American people were in the 1980s. How did anyone believe a word he said?

Funny about you saying Reagan would have never won a second term when I think you meant third.  As he was President from 1981-1989.

Ironbite-funny how math works.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 09, 2014, 08:41:27 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1/1798717_300530613427580_535633166_n.jpg)

If Saint Ronnie were running the country they'd be complaining that he's too far left.

Also, I find it amusing that while it was the Republican Party who pushed for term limits on the President, they've been bit more by it than the Democratic Party has: Eisenhower and Reagan (and Bush Jr., but could he have won a third term?) both couldn't run for a third term because of that amendment, while for the Democratic Party only Clinton ran up against it.

Neither Eisenhower nor Reagan would have won a second term. Kennedy was much too popular for Eisenhower, and Reagan was widely reviled by the end of his term.

I am still shocked by how incredible gullible the American people were in the 1980s. How did anyone believe a word he said?

Funny about you saying Reagan would have never won a second term when I think you meant third.  As he was President from 1981-1989.

Ironbite-funny how math works.

Yeah, third.



Inflation is always too high! Wheee!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on March 09, 2014, 09:11:43 pm
We could clone Ike and put him back in office somehow and have the most "liberal" president since Carter. He actually hated and warned about the military industrial complex. He's a commie librul by today's standards.

Carter, the racist Southern governor of Georgia? Eisenhower would be way more progressive than he.
President Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Prize winner who started Habitat for Humanity? He was a Governor of Georgia, but very moderate and pro-civil rights. He was a Southern version of Kennedy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter)

I think you may have confused him with George Wallace, who was Gov. of Alabama, and ran for president, but did not win party nomination.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on March 09, 2014, 09:36:25 pm
How about Jimmy Carter, the guy who started the whole shitstorm that made Afghanistan what it is today.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 14, 2014, 08:30:05 pm
(http://www.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/minimum-wage-INFOGRAPHIC-5-374x1024.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on March 14, 2014, 09:03:14 pm
BROKEN!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 15, 2014, 01:51:11 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/1959915_837178176297901_300315722_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on March 15, 2014, 06:15:52 pm
(https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1/10014546_300879173392724_1881753492_n.jpg)

"destroys the next generation"

As if these people give a shit about the next generation.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on March 15, 2014, 08:25:29 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/1959915_837178176297901_300315722_n.jpg)

Instead of success story we say YOU MADE WALKER TEXAS RANGER!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 15, 2014, 09:25:19 pm
There needs to be a satire of those now-outmoded & hyped-to-death "Chuck Norris Facts" that point out his zealotry & frumminess.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on March 15, 2014, 09:27:21 pm
There needs to be a satire of those now-outmoded & hyped-to-death "Chuck Norris Facts" that point out his zealotry & frumminess.

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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 15, 2014, 10:52:08 pm
There needs to be a satire of those now-outmoded & hyped-to-death "Chuck Norris Facts" that point out his zealotry & frumminess.
Why are there so many Chuck Norris jokes but no Bruce Lee ones? Because Bruce Lee is no joke.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 16, 2014, 01:22:48 am
There needs to be a satire of those now-outmoded & hyped-to-death "Chuck Norris Facts" that point out his zealotry & frumminess.
Why are there so many Chuck Norris jokes but no Bruce Lee ones? Because Bruce Lee is no joke.

Yeah!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on March 16, 2014, 01:38:24 am
Chuck Norris expresses his deeply-held faith in a loving and merciful god by using a cross to beat you into unconsciousness instead of to death.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 16, 2014, 08:34:02 am
Chuck Norris stole his "facts" from Mr. T, anyway.  Once again, mighty whitey stole somethin from a hard workin black man.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on March 16, 2014, 10:38:57 am
Chuck Norris is afraid to die because he knows that when he does, Bruce Lee will be waiting for him.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 16, 2014, 12:04:21 pm
He'll certainly have some 'splainin to do, that's for sure.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on March 16, 2014, 02:15:18 pm
Chuck Norris is the only man to build a career out of being beaten up by Bruce Lee.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 16, 2014, 03:04:04 pm
Instead of the mythical "White Jesus" on a throne, toting an M-15, it'll be BRUCE LEE!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 16, 2014, 11:51:15 pm
(http://mtracy9.tripod.com/cheney_9-11.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 17, 2014, 07:09:19 am
Jan Egeland could beat the shit out of both of them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on March 17, 2014, 10:12:16 am
Van Damme!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 17, 2014, 08:55:58 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1901327_715705995127624_1701601280_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on March 18, 2014, 11:39:47 am
Yeah I'm sure Bill Cosby would be saying that about Obama.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 18, 2014, 12:16:59 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1901327_715705995127624_1701601280_n.jpg)
It's not like there was any party obstructing every thing he did for no reason than because *cough*blackman*cough*.
Also, nice use of a minority to mouth your stupid views!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on March 18, 2014, 03:19:54 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1901327_715705995127624_1701601280_n.jpg)
It's not like there was any party obstructing every thing he did for no reason than because *cough*blackman*cough*.
Also, nice use of a minority to mouth your stupid views!

I notice it was made by someone calling himself the "Republican Thinker." Much like the website American Thinker, they seem to have a very loose definition of what "thinking" means.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on March 18, 2014, 03:49:40 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1901327_715705995127624_1701601280_n.jpg)
It's not like there was any party obstructing every thing he did for no reason than because *cough*blackman*cough*.
Also, nice use of a minority to mouth your stupid views!

I notice it was made by someone calling himself the "Republican Thinker." Much like the website American Thinker, they seem to have a very loose definition of what "thinking" means.

Obviously, if Cosby saw that meme, it would royally piss him off. I went looking for a general update about Cosby, since he does strongly support Obama and yet is openly, controversially critical of some segments of the Black community, where he's seen as a something of an Uncle Rumpus. Was looking to glean a recent quote, and found a specific blog post about Cosby's stated views. The commentary starts out pretty interesting as to tone and topic. Go take a look, maybe.
http://hollowverse.com/bill-cosby/ (http://hollowverse.com/bill-cosby/)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 18, 2014, 05:14:10 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/1525727_716176231747267_351095479_n.png)

Does that include healthcare?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 18, 2014, 05:54:38 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/1525727_716176231747267_351095479_n.png)

Does that include healthcare?

I think she means the right to not know the difference between her arse and a hole in the ground.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on March 18, 2014, 05:55:37 pm
-stupid-
Does that include healthcare?
No, of course not! That's evil big government interfering with hard-working god-fearing Real 'Murricans! 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 18, 2014, 06:05:50 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/1525727_716176231747267_351095479_n.png)

Does that include healthcare?

Even with abortion women can't be free in a sexist society like ours.
A Good Cartoon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on March 18, 2014, 06:19:02 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/1525727_716176231747267_351095479_n.png)

Does that include healthcare?

"Yeah, what about my rights?  Don't you know I'm still under threat of getting aborted every day?"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on March 18, 2014, 08:45:43 pm
....YOU CAN'T SUPPORT AN ABORTION YOU FUCKING STUPID CUNT!

Ironbite-jesus christ how stupid are some people?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 18, 2014, 08:53:42 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/1922450_716202905077933_528697208_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on March 18, 2014, 08:54:40 pm
....YOU CAN'T SUPPORT AN ABORTION YOU FUCKING STUPID CUNT!

Ironbite-jesus christ how stupid are some people?

Don't you mean survive an abortion?

Apparently she survived a saline abortion. Which doesn't make her less of a stupid cunt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianna_Jessen
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on March 18, 2014, 09:18:07 pm
Sorry I was enraged.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/1922450_716202905077933_528697208_n.jpg)

Not sure what's so dumb about this.  I have to agree with what's being said there.

Ironbite-we send these kids off to war then don't give shit 1 about them when they get back.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on March 18, 2014, 09:32:41 pm
....YOU CAN'T SUPPORT AN ABORTION YOU FUCKING STUPID CUNT!

Ironbite-jesus christ how stupid are some people?

Don't you mean survive an abortion?

Apparently she survived a saline abortion. Which doesn't make her less of a stupid cunt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianna_Jessen

If someone is born when their parents have sex before marriage, can they call themselves an abstinence survivor and get a job speaking out against not having premarital sex?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 18, 2014, 09:32:54 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/1922450_716202905077933_528697208_n.jpg)

That second part is fine, but the first part is not! Infant American citizens should not have access to "tax funded services" like the police force if they're the wrong colour or have the wrong parents.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 18, 2014, 10:38:26 pm
(http://dealeyintimidation.tripod.com/cheney_9-11.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on March 18, 2014, 11:29:29 pm
Not sure what's so dumb about this.  I have to agree with what's being said there.

There's a strong implication that it's "disgraceful" for undocumented Americans to benefit from any public services and those services should be denied them. If you agree with that, you are overlooking some severe ramifications of denying basic services to entire demographics -- public health and the spread of disease being the most obvious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 18, 2014, 11:30:36 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/60VSlj1.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on March 19, 2014, 12:17:43 am
(http://i.imgur.com/60VSlj1.jpg)

THE FUCK? As someone who wants Cheney tried for war crimes, that is incredibly horrid. His administration might have been incompetent, but they did not DO 9/11.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 19, 2014, 08:11:11 pm
....YOU CAN'T SUPPORT AN ABORTION YOU FUCKING STUPID CUNT!

Ironbite-jesus christ how stupid are some people?

Don't you mean survive an abortion?

Apparently she survived a saline abortion. Which doesn't make her less of a stupid cunt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianna_Jessen

The article says that she was adopted by another woman. The adopted mom claimed Jensen was a result of a failed abortion.

I have a funny feeling that Adopted Mom may have been using this girl as an anti-choice pawn. It might not even be true that she was aborted. I could be wrong but Wingnuts have a bit of a track record.

Gianna Jensen could just have Cerebral Palsy for non-abortion reasons and her whole life has been a lie, she an unwitting pawn of Frum-Mom.

Now, it's possible that Gianna was indeed aborted but survived but for me, Poe's Law is in effect.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on March 19, 2014, 10:08:01 pm
I'm (im)patiently waiting for the day when everything about Jessen's twagic Origin Story is proven to be complete and utter bullroar.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on March 20, 2014, 01:34:49 am
Not sure what's so dumb about this.  I have to agree with what's being said there.

There's a strong implication that it's "disgraceful" for undocumented Americans to benefit from any public services and those services should be denied them. If you agree with that, you are overlooking some severe ramifications of denying basic services to entire demographics -- public health and the spread of disease being the most obvious.

Odd, the implication I got was that it's disgraceful to be quicker to approve benefits for illegal immigrants than to approve benefits to returning service members. But that's just me. *shrugs*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on March 20, 2014, 02:07:42 am
(http://i.imgur.com/60VSlj1.jpg)

THE FUCK? As someone who wants Cheney tried for war crimes, that is incredibly horrid. His administration might have been incompetent, but they did not DO 9/11.

I don't buy the whole "9/11 was an inside job" thing, but I do think there's a reasonable possibility that the Cheney/Bush administration knew about the attacks beforehand and let them go ahead. Still somewhat of a conspiracy theory, but it takes much fewer moving parts than saying it was an inside job, and it's a documented fact both that Bush responded, "Okay, you've covered your ass now" to a report entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Within U.S.", which included the possibility of planes being used as missiles, and that several of the nineteen hijackers had been flagged by various alphabet soup agencies, but that those flags led to nothing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on March 20, 2014, 02:20:32 am
Oh believe me, it wouldn't surprise me if they knew something was coming, but I just find the accusation that they actually DID 9/11 too  much.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 20, 2014, 07:14:46 am
I'm with you, R.U. Sirius & lord gibbon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 20, 2014, 07:54:59 am
....YOU CAN'T SUPPORT AN ABORTION YOU FUCKING STUPID CUNT!

Ironbite-jesus christ how stupid are some people?

Don't you mean survive an abortion?

Apparently she survived a saline abortion. Which doesn't make her less of a stupid cunt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianna_Jessen

The article says that she was adopted by another woman. The adopted mom claimed Jensen was a result of a failed abortion.

I have a funny feeling that Adopted Mom may have been using this girl as an anti-choice pawn. It might not even be true that she was aborted. I could be wrong but Wingnuts have a bit of a track record.

Gianna Jensen could just have Cerebral Palsy for non-abortion reasons and her whole life has been a lie, she an unwitting pawn of Frum-Mom.

Now, it's possible that Gianna was indeed aborted but survived but for me, Poe's Law is in effect.


All I want is for the asshole to change her first name.  I am not happy that her first name is the surname of one of my favourite web comic characters, Jyrras Gianna.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on March 20, 2014, 09:04:54 am
All I want is for the asshole to change her first name.  I am not happy that her first name is the surname of one of my favourite web comic characters, Jyrras Gianna.

...I think DMFA was one of the first webcomics that I started reading, first four or five at least. And from those it is the only one I still read consistently (others either having ended or I just stopped reading them.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 20, 2014, 09:51:24 am
All I want is for the asshole to change her first name.  I am not happy that her first name is the surname of one of my favourite web comic characters, Jyrras Gianna.

...I think DMFA was one of the first webcomics that I started reading, first four or five at least. And from those it is the only one I still read consistently (others either having ended or I just stopped reading them.)

Another DMFA fan?  Hells yeah!  The only other one I consistently read is Dragon Ball Multiverse.  I used to read VG Cats, and it in fact was my first semi-regular web comic read, but the infrequent updates kinda grate after a while.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on March 20, 2014, 03:42:43 pm
I can't remember the exact order but  I started with Dragon tails (ended) and Penny arcade (still read occasionally), then Lethal doses (ended and gone) Machall (Ended but they have a new webcomic) 8-Bit theather (ended) and DMFA (the artist behind Dragon Tails and Amber drew some art about each others characters and I found DMFA that way.) in some random order.

In some of those it has been fascinating following how the artists evolve and in retrospect some of the comics I favourite used to be horribly drawn but I have always been more interested in the story than the art.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 20, 2014, 06:32:05 pm
Aye, though, good art does help, and Amber is quite the artist, lol.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on March 20, 2014, 09:15:37 pm
All I want is for the asshole to change her first name.  I am not happy that her first name is the surname of one of my favourite web comic characters, Jyrras Gianna.

...I think DMFA was one of the first webcomics that I started reading, first four or five at least. And from those it is the only one I still read consistently (others either having ended or I just stopped reading them.)

Another DMFA fan?  Hells yeah!  The only other one I consistently read is Dragon Ball Multiverse.  I used to read VG Cats, and it in fact was my first semi-regular web comic read, but the infrequent updates kinda grate after a while.

I'm actually personal friends with Miss Mab herself.  I get hugs every time I see her at Anthrocon :3

You may now commence being jealous.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 20, 2014, 10:26:22 pm
All I want is for the asshole to change her first name.  I am not happy that her first name is the surname of one of my favourite web comic characters, Jyrras Gianna.

...I think DMFA was one of the first webcomics that I started reading, first four or five at least. And from those it is the only one I still read consistently (others either having ended or I just stopped reading them.)

Another DMFA fan?  Hells yeah!  The only other one I consistently read is Dragon Ball Multiverse.  I used to read VG Cats, and it in fact was my first semi-regular web comic read, but the infrequent updates kinda grate after a while.

I'm actually personal friends with Miss Mab herself.  I get hugs every time I see her at Anthrocon :3

You may now commence being jealous.

Pssh, I got a much prettier girl to hug on a daily basis, so I got ya beat!  (Not to say that Mrs. Williams is ugly, mind ya.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 21, 2014, 04:50:32 pm
(https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/1964861_717707881594102_18488596_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 22, 2014, 12:41:56 am
Cause only black people dress like idiots, as we know.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on March 22, 2014, 01:08:49 am
When I was a freshman in high school, there was a white boy in my history class who wore low sagging pants.  He sat in front of me.  He had a pair of underwear that featured Ernie & rubber duckies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 22, 2014, 07:42:37 am
(http://i.imgur.com/25rdqf6.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on March 22, 2014, 09:12:14 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/25rdqf6.jpg)

2edgy4me
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on March 22, 2014, 11:23:51 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/25rdqf6.jpg)

I'm pretty sure I saw this sign elsewhere before and the guy said that he was carrying it to Tea Party rallies as satire.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 23, 2014, 04:23:05 pm
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lppu31olcm1r0l18xo1_400.jpg)

Pervert ≠ Misogynist, and vice versa.  And Hef is a feminist.  Case in point:

(http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/5/9/7/250597_v1.jpg)

A lot of people don't realize that Hefner was a very early spokesman for of lot of unpopular subjects in the 50s/60s such as sexual liberation, abortion rights, gay rights, access to contraception and so on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 23, 2014, 06:06:44 pm
But, the content of his magazine is sexual, and that's all people care about.  Because a lot of people are fucking morons, unfortunately, and can't be arsed to look a few basic things up with Google and a spare 5 minutes or so.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on March 23, 2014, 08:20:29 pm
Yeah, there's this sort of instinctive "Porn = Misogyny" connection being made by a lot of people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 23, 2014, 08:45:51 pm
Yeah, there's this sort of instinctive "Porn = Misogyny" connection being made by a lot of people.

Heaven forbid anyone see a hard cock and/or penetration before they first fuck.  They might get the wrong idea and think sex is fun.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 23, 2014, 08:54:12 pm
To me, hating on adult entertainment for feminist reasons is stupid. Now, granted; I personally think that the subject matter and/or presentation of porno can be sexist & stupid. However, I don't think that porn/stripping/erotica/etc. should be banned. That would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

To me, sex-positive feminism is the best feminism. Nothing's more feminist that a woman proudly displaying & flaunting her sexuality! Sex-negative feminists rightfully argue against Patriarchy yet they internalize Patriarchy's attitudes about covering-up female sexuality.

If humanity embraced the full beauty of sexuality & eschewed violence, we would be a much better world.

We need an open, loving & sexual society. Oddly enough, in a sexually liberal society, the more unsavory & gruesome of paraphilias is almost non-existent. Sex becomes healthy & responsible. I remember a site that showed the top porn searches for each country. The porn searches for the really repressed & super-conservative societies was disturbing. Top porn searches in places like the Mid-East, Africa & parts of Asia revealed top key words like "Rape", "Scat", "Incest", or worse.





Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 23, 2014, 08:59:52 pm
To me, hating on adult entertainment for feminist reasons is stupid. Now, granted; I personally think that the subject matter and/or presentation of porno can be sexist & stupid. However, I don't think that porn/stripping/erotica/etc. should be banned. That would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

To me, sex-positive feminism is the best feminism. Nothing's more feminist that a woman proudly displaying & flaunting her sexuality! Sex-negative feminists rightfully argue against Patriarchy yet they internalize Patriarchy's attitudes about covering-up female sexuality.

If humanity embraced the full beauty of sexuality & eschewed violence, we would be a much better world.

In a perfect world, the only spirituality would be a Liberal Eclectic NeoPaganism. Organized Religion would be dead, just a planet of free, kind, and open NeoPagans, Atheists, Agnostics, Deists & Pantheists. NO MORE RELIGION.

Heck, I've even just ditched my ShaktaPaganism for straight-up NeoPaganism.

We need an open, loving & sexual society. Oddly enough, in a sexually liberal society, the more unsavory & gruesome of paraphilias is almost non-existent. Sex becomes healthy & responsible. I remember a site that showed the top porn searches for each country. The porn searches for the really repressed & super-conservative societies was disturbing. Top porn searches in places like the Mid-East, Africa & parts of Asia revealed top key words like "Rape", "Scat", "Incest", or worse.

No more religion. NO MORE! Non-organized spirituality is fine buy full-blown institutional stuff is stupid.
Calm down.  We don't need an end to organized religion, we just need organized religions with more healthy and realistic attitudes towards sex.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on March 23, 2014, 09:10:27 pm
To me, hating on adult entertainment for feminist reasons is stupid. Now, granted; I personally think that the subject matter and/or presentation of porno can be sexist & stupid. However, I don't think that porn/stripping/erotica/etc. should be banned. That would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

To me, sex-positive feminism is the best feminism. Nothing's more feminist that a woman proudly displaying & flaunting her sexuality! Sex-negative feminists rightfully argue against Patriarchy yet they internalize Patriarchy's attitudes about covering-up female sexuality.

If humanity embraced the full beauty of sexuality & eschewed violence, we would be a much better world.

In a perfect world, the only spirituality would be a Liberal Eclectic NeoPaganism. Organized Religion would be dead, just a planet of free, kind, and open NeoPagans, Atheists, Agnostics, Deists & Pantheists. NO MORE RELIGION.

Heck, I've even just ditched my ShaktaPaganism for straight-up NeoPaganism.

We need an open, loving & sexual society. Oddly enough, in a sexually liberal society, the more unsavory & gruesome of paraphilias is almost non-existent. Sex becomes healthy & responsible. I remember a site that showed the top porn searches for each country. The porn searches for the really repressed & super-conservative societies was disturbing. Top porn searches in places like the Mid-East, Africa & parts of Asia revealed top key words like "Rape", "Scat", "Incest", or worse.

No more religion. NO MORE! Non-organized spirituality is fine buy full-blown institutional stuff is stupid.
Calm down.  We don't need an end to organized religion, we just need organized religions with more healthy and realistic attitudes towards sex.

The problem is that this would conflict with the goal of any organization, which is to exert influence over its members, if not outright control them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 23, 2014, 11:28:43 pm
I dunno. I realize I was a dork and will remove a few posts & re-edit my feminism one. :P

Also, I think all faiths need a re-boot. A periodic re-boot is good for a lot of things. There's a lot of good, beautiful & true stuff in the world's faiths & scriptures but it's mixed in with a lot of crap.

I know for many here, it's moot but for spiritual people like myself, it makes sense.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 24, 2014, 08:40:56 am
I dunno. I realize I was a dork and will remove a few posts & re-edit my feminism one. :P

Also, I think all faiths need a re-boot. A periodic re-boot is good for a lot of things. There's a lot of good, beautiful & true stuff in the world's faiths & scriptures but it's mixed in with a lot of crap.

I know for many here, it's moot but for spiritual people like myself, it makes sense.

It would be nice if more religions took a more...rational approach to the complete bullshit in their dogma and holy books.

Unfortunately, one of the main tenants of quite a few religions is that you accept and obey; honest introspection and improvement is viewed as anathema to this goal, because such a thing is seen as a threat to their power.  Alas, this leads to the religion stagnating and they slowly lose membership, eventually leading to massive hemorrhages as the world moves on, but the faith itself remains mired in the garbage of previous generations.  This leads to a perceived Catch-22 scenario: if they update, they lose members, and if they don't update, they lose members.  Laziness leads them to pursuing the latter since that's the one that's simplest to enact for their leadership.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 24, 2014, 10:59:07 am
I dunno. I realize I was a dork and will remove a few posts & re-edit my feminism one. :P

Also, I think all faiths need a re-boot. A periodic re-boot is good for a lot of things. There's a lot of good, beautiful & true stuff in the world's faiths & scriptures but it's mixed in with a lot of crap.

I know for many here, it's moot but for spiritual people like myself, it makes sense.

It would be nice if more religions took a more...rational approach to the complete bullshit in their dogma and holy books.

Unfortunately, one of the main tenants of quite a few religions is that you accept and obey; honest introspection and improvement is viewed as anathema to this goal, because such a thing is seen as a threat to their power.  Alas, this leads to the religion stagnating and they slowly lose membership, eventually leading to massive hemorrhages as the world moves on, but the faith itself remains mired in the garbage of previous generations.  This leads to a perceived Catch-22 scenario: if they update, they lose members, and if they don't update, they lose members.  Laziness leads them to pursuing the latter since that's the one that's simplest to enact for their leadership.

There's a reason there's a difference between Religion & Spirituality. Sure, the two may overlap but religion is based on dogma & structure whereas pure spirituality is something more sublime & personal.

This is why I'm a spiritual NeoPagan (not even one based on any set pantheon, I just believe in a pantheistic higher power that & envision as an archetypical Lady & Lord, who both make up a singular Higher Power).

I'm not even a ShaktaPagan or a ChristoPagan (or a weird combo of both), anymore. Certain things about Hinduism were confusing me & I realized that it's best to have a spirituality where both genders are 100% equal.

There's bits and pieces of truth in the various scriptures but personal gnosis is best. You can't put the ultimate in a book. If others find peace & fulfillment in religion, that's their right. I still think that Jesus was pure awesome. I can still like certain characters & teachings without adhering to the religion in question.

Now....ON TO THE NEXT STUPID PROTEST SIGN! 8)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 24, 2014, 11:11:27 am
(http://i.imgur.com/4HS4ezq.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 24, 2014, 06:08:36 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/4HS4ezq.jpg)

Functionally no less stupid than Huntingdon's moronic "Clash of Civilisations" model.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 25, 2014, 06:39:52 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/10156071_305792446234730_1527520229_n.jpg)

I can't help but feel these sorts of people have an unhealthy obsession.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on March 25, 2014, 07:26:50 pm
My immediate thinking is that the despicable excuse for a human who created that lie ought to be thrown in prison for a long time. Then I obviously realise freedom of speech, ect, but I still think it should be shunned by its neighbours and denied service at nice restaurants, to avoid stinking up the place. It should also be regularly told to fuck off and die by family members and progeny.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on March 25, 2014, 07:29:44 pm
I'm thinking they ran out of things to criticize Michelle Obama for and resorted to a fat joke.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1.0-9/1970703_719519334746290_623693417_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on March 26, 2014, 02:33:17 am
(http://i.imgur.com/4HS4ezq.jpg)
...Why is "Turkish" so important that it is in the name but Russia isn't? Or India?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 26, 2014, 08:40:29 am
Maybe some people still think the Ottoman Empire is still a thing...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on March 26, 2014, 02:34:49 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/4HS4ezq.jpg)

Functionally no less stupid than Huntingdon's moronic "Clash of Civilisations" model.

Turns out this map was made for innocuous reasons. It shows a worldwide membership location "saturation"-style map of a moderate, Islamic clerical organization that started out as a local group in Germany back in the eighties. The map is a little dramatic, but no doubt was appealing to the group's members, yet it is no more indicative of "menace" or "domination" than a saturation-style map showing the service areas covered by a mobile phone company or the International Red Crescent Society. There are many ethnic Turkish Germans and immigrants, they make up the vast majority of Muslims in Germany, hence the emphasis of Turkish in the groups name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish-Islamic_Union_for_Religious_Affairs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish-Islamic_Union_for_Religious_Affairs)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 26, 2014, 03:30:32 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/4HS4ezq.jpg)

Functionally no less stupid than Huntingdon's moronic "Clash of Civilisations" model.

Turns out this map was made for innocuous reasons. It shows a worldwide membership location "saturation"-style map of a moderate, Islamic clerical organization that started out as a local group in Germany back in the eighties. The map is a little dramatic, but no doubt was appealing to the group's members, yet it is no more indicative of "menace" or "domination" than a saturation-style map showing the service areas covered by a mobile phone company or the International Red Crescent Society. There are many ethnic Turkish Germans and immigrants, they make up the vast majority of Muslims in Germany, hence the emphasis of Turkish in the groups name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish-Islamic_Union_for_Religious_Affairs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish-Islamic_Union_for_Religious_Affairs)
Oh.  When I saw it, I assumed it was either some Islamic extremist's vision or the nightmare of a paranoid Islamophobe.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on March 26, 2014, 09:51:34 pm
Yeah, me too. So I did an image search and read the wiki.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Tolpuddle Martyr on April 02, 2014, 06:21:50 am
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2013/9/17/1379419983624/Planet-Oz-blog--Climate-d-006.jpg)

A protester marches during a no carbon tax rally in Sydney on July 1, 2012.  (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/mar/27/climate-science-denial-funding-criminally-negligent-philosopher-hate-campaign?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 02, 2014, 08:26:55 am
(http://i.imgur.com/cMquECA.jpg)

I'm guessing the guy who made this is some kind of anti-Semite conspiracy theorist who thinks Alex Jones is misleading people about the "true nature" of the NWO.  It reminds me of this one conspiracy theorist who claimed that the Protocols of Zion were true... except for the part about the Jews being behind it.  She claimed that it was really a masonic plot and the Jews were being scapegoated.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 02, 2014, 01:36:02 pm
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2013/9/17/1379419983624/Planet-Oz-blog--Climate-d-006.jpg)

A protester marches during a no carbon tax rally in Sydney on July 1, 2012.  (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/mar/27/climate-science-denial-funding-criminally-negligent-philosopher-hate-campaign?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487)

The Wingnut hat makes him look like a demented Mickey Mouse.


(http://i.imgur.com/cMquECA.jpg)

I'm guessing the guy who made this is some kind of anti-Semite conspiracy theorist who thinks Alex Jones is misleading people about the "true nature" of the NWO.  It reminds me of this one conspiracy theorist who claimed that the Protocols of Zion were true... except for the part about the Jews being behind it.  She claimed that it was really a masonic plot and the Jews were being scapegoated.


IMHO, this is THE REAL NWO:
(http://i59.tinypic.com/1zv60pu.jpg)
*cough cough* I'm choking on the SMUG......
If there is an NWO, it's architects are not not Jewish Cabals, Freemasons or Reptilian weirdos from outer space, it's THESE GUYS & THEIR WEB OF DOOM!

Time to put the Koch Kooks out to pasture! The jerks.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 02, 2014, 02:31:34 pm
Agreed.  We need more media freedom.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 04, 2014, 06:37:24 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1465398_209606089248771_871642647_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 04, 2014, 08:47:13 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1465398_209606089248771_871642647_n.jpg)
Most liberals don't want to restrict free speech, Rushed Limburger.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 04, 2014, 08:49:55 pm
"Rushed Limburger."  I like that one, lol.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 04, 2014, 08:52:38 pm
Sorry, liberals aren't the ones who start banal king there eyes out whenever someone tells them to stop screaming about how dem fags gonna kill r chilrun.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on April 04, 2014, 09:59:38 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1465398_209606089248771_871642647_n.jpg)
Money =/= free speech.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 04, 2014, 10:25:15 pm
Am I the only one unable to see that pic?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 05, 2014, 02:53:34 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1465398_209606089248771_871642647_n.jpg)

Which is why your lengthy syndicated show includes so many different views and such a diverse range of voices.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 05, 2014, 03:21:50 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1465398_209606089248771_871642647_n.jpg)

Which is why your lengthy syndicated show includes so many different views and such a diverse range of voices.
I'll get the ice.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on April 05, 2014, 03:57:15 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/165979_626317697403457_2083606760_n.jpg)

(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/t1.0-9/10154528_612036292224750_161303902_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 05, 2014, 10:03:25 am
False equivalence, very unfair, and shoring up a lot of pointless homophobia. I'm so sorry that his friend got dicked over like that. It's disgraceful how many vets get left by the wayside, and even end up homeless. Fort Hood incidents did not come out of a vacuum.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 05, 2014, 10:50:29 am
False equivalence, very unfair, and shoring up a lot of pointless homophobia. I'm so sorry that his friend got dicked over like that. It's disgraceful how many vets get left by the wayside, and even end up homeless. Fort Hood incidents did not come out of a vacuum.

I was going to say what you were going to say.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 05, 2014, 08:01:52 pm
Also it's not up to the President when benefits get cut.  Blame that on a Congress who's hell bent in sending young people off to get ground up into hamburger and not giving a shit about them once they get home.

Ironbite-they're the true villains here.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on April 05, 2014, 10:44:11 pm
It appears congress is always the true villian. When ever a republican family member of mine gets upset about something Obama did it was usually congress that caused the problem in the first place.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on April 05, 2014, 11:21:09 pm
Also it's not up to the President when benefits get cut.  Blame that on a Congress who's hell bent in sending young people off to get ground up into hamburger and not giving a shit about them once they get home.

Sounds a heck of a lot like why Labour won the 1945 general election in the UK.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on April 06, 2014, 04:21:14 pm
It appears congress is always the true villian. When ever a republican family member of mine gets upset about something Obama did it was usually congress that caused the problem in the first place.

Obviously Congress is the antichrist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sixth Monarchist on April 07, 2014, 05:08:15 pm
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2013/9/17/1379419983624/Planet-Oz-blog--Climate-d-006.jpg)

A protester marches during a no carbon tax rally in Sydney on July 1, 2012.  (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/mar/27/climate-science-denial-funding-criminally-negligent-philosopher-hate-campaign?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487)
The Wingnut hat makes him look like a demented Mickey Mouse.

Or a stand-in for Galactus. Unable to eat a whole planet, he just orders the largest bucket KFC offers and eats that. Then the Fantastic Four show up, the Thing cuffs him about the head, and then Reed Richards yells something about empty calories before they leave.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 07, 2014, 07:19:04 pm
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2013/9/17/1379419983624/Planet-Oz-blog--Climate-d-006.jpg)

A protester marches during a no carbon tax rally in Sydney on July 1, 2012.  (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/mar/27/climate-science-denial-funding-criminally-negligent-philosopher-hate-campaign?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487)
The Wingnut hat makes him look like a demented Mickey Mouse.

Or a stand-in for Galactus. Unable to eat a whole planet, he just orders the largest bucket KFC offers and eats that. Then the Fantastic Four show up, the Thing cuffs him about the head, and then Reed Richards yells something about empty calories before they leave.

LOL!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on April 09, 2014, 04:19:24 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/1959283_726539540710936_5779433298255106521_n.jpg)

Following statement: Okay, it gives the president power to introduce bills, but not the power to make laws all by himself...

Getting a little vague there to be honest, but I'm guessing it's the usual anti-Obama position.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 09, 2014, 04:26:58 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/1959283_726539540710936_5779433298255106521_n.jpg)

Following statement: Okay, it gives the president power to introduce bills, but not the power to make laws all by himself...

Getting a little vague there to be honest, but I'm guessing it's the usual anti-Obama position.

I'm betting this person was completely silent at all the executive orders and signing statements the Cheney/Bush Administration wrote, effectively making up new laws or exempting themselves from the ones Congress passed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 09, 2014, 04:32:31 pm
They just never paid attention to all the presidential executive orders under Republican presidents. Now that a black man and a Democrat is in office, they suddenly hear or care about executive orders, and think Obama is issuing papal bulls or royal decrees or some such bullshit.

Executive orders are generally about implementing federal government work or action policy decisions or strategic military operations, nearly always for immediacy's sake, often to stem crises, and yes, in quite a few past cases, there were very shady directives that benefitted whichever president issued them, but all of those orders involve only federal employees at their jobs. So, you know...it's mostly just about an executive, executing executive prerogatives, just like an executive does in a corporation. Obama has issued far fewer executive orders than any modern era president, but ya know, scary black commie Muslim Demoncrat.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on April 09, 2014, 10:00:15 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/1976952_726637054034518_5904225794575147588_n.jpg)

I guess someone didn't take the time to read the rules.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on April 09, 2014, 11:15:36 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/1959283_726539540710936_5779433298255106521_n.jpg)

Following statement: Okay, it gives the president power to introduce bills, but not the power to make laws all by himself...

Getting a little vague there to be honest, but I'm guessing it's the usual anti-Obama position.

Hey, let's count the ways that he's wrong!

1. The president cannot introduce bills, only members of Congress can do that.

2.  The Constitution gives the President the power to veto bills, which strongly implies that he (or she) must be consulted in the writing process.

3.  Congress has the constitutional authority to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying out their constitutional duties.  Since it is not possible for Congress to directly manage every function of government, they have passed laws delegating authority to the bureaucracy that exists in the executive branch, headed by the President.  This often gives the POTUS the authority to change how laws work by changing how they are enforced.

Did I miss anything?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Yla on April 10, 2014, 04:45:55 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/1976952_726637054034518_5904225794575147588_n.jpg)
That's... the most blatant case of making reality fit ideology that I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 10, 2014, 09:45:41 am
Facts get in the way of their gun law feels. So badly, in fact (ha), that they made a cartoon implying that Fort Hood - a US Army base - is a gun free zone. The reality is that if you are not on duty for MP patrol or maneuvers or drills, you cannot carry a weapon around on base. For obvious reasons. Because of the previous Fort Hood shooting, and because that has been base policy at all US military installations that are not in an active war zone since motherfucking forever. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 10, 2014, 11:22:19 am
Shhhhh....if only Obama let everyone carry a side arm this wouldn't happen.

Ironbite-cause if the mentally unstable are carrying guns, the stable people will shoo them before they can draw.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 10, 2014, 11:36:20 am
Facts get in the way of their gun law feels. So badly, in fact (ha), that they made a cartoon implying that Fort Hood - a US Army base - is a gun free zone. The reality is that if you are not on duty for MP patrol or maneuvers or drills, you cannot carry a weapon around on base. For obvious reasons. Because of the previous Fort Hood shooting, and because that has been base policy at all US military installations that are not in an active war zone since motherfucking forever.

You have said what I was going to say! Cool!

Stuff like Fort Hood should put the kibosh on the "If everybody had guns we could take down crazy mass-shooters" chestnut....unfortunately, we're dealing with the human embodiments of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 10, 2014, 11:41:13 am
"And when that don't work, use more gun."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 11, 2014, 08:07:16 pm
(http://tomfernandez28.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/screen-shot-2013-11-07-at-4-04-43-pm.png?w=326)

Why should I take credit for something somebody else did just because he happens to share my race?  I think white guilt is stupid, but this is its equally bad polar opposite.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 11, 2014, 08:32:13 pm
(http://tomfernandez28.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/screen-shot-2013-11-07-at-4-04-43-pm.png?w=326)

Why should I take credit for something somebody else did just because he happens to share my race?  I think white guilt is stupid, but this is its equally bad polar opposite.

Or for that matter a black guy. Since Charles R Drew is in large part responsible for modern transfusion technology.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 11, 2014, 08:38:20 pm
Wow I facepalmed so hard I think I left a bruise.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on April 12, 2014, 04:13:58 pm
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/liberal-logic-101-740.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 12, 2014, 04:26:01 pm
How does the dude who does LiberalLogic 101 even manage to tie his own shoes?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 12, 2014, 04:27:32 pm
I didn't know hate was a family value.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 12, 2014, 04:31:51 pm
How does the dude who does LiberalLogic 101 even manage to tie his own shoes?

You're assuming he doesn't have his mommy do it.  Or that he doesn't just use slip-ons or those shoes with velcro straps.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 12, 2014, 06:51:58 pm
Hey now, don't diss shoes with velcro straps by associating them with those dead-brain doofuses.

All shoes should follow that model anyways.  It's basically the same convenience as self tying shoelaces.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 12, 2014, 08:56:13 pm
How does the dude who does LiberalLogic 101 even manage to tie his own shoes?

Better question.  How does he remember to breath?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on April 12, 2014, 10:30:11 pm
How does the dude who does LiberalLogic 101 even manage to tie his own shoes?

Better question.  How does he remember to breath?

That autonomic nervous system's a bitch sometimes, ain't it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 12, 2014, 11:30:39 pm
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/liberal-logic-101-740.jpg)
Don't they have some klan stuff they need to be attending to?

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on April 13, 2014, 12:26:44 am
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/liberal-logic-101-740.jpg)

Wow, failure at language and math. Here's a tip: when people say "pro-family is anti-gay", they mean "pro-family is the way anti-gay people like to frame themselves to make their position look more socially acceptable". And I'm pretty sure " is a euphemism for" is an antisymmetric relation.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 13, 2014, 01:31:17 am
I've never heard ANYONE say "pro family is anti-gay"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on April 13, 2014, 07:22:11 am
I've never heard ANYONE say "pro family is anti-gay"
Let me help: you've never heard anyone SAY "pro family is anti-gay", but it's not a coincidence that almost every time some right-wing-nut talks about a bill or law that hurts LGBT+ folks it's in the name of "family values".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 13, 2014, 08:31:29 am
I'm "anti-family?"  Does that mean I no longer have to tolerate squealing little shits in the stores and restaurants I visit?  If so, then sign me the fuck up!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 13, 2014, 09:00:50 am
I love families. I smile and get all warm and fuzzy inside when I see a young hetero couple in love. Kids are precious, and I love seeing them play and run around, and it makes my day when they say hi to me and come play with my two dogs when we're out on walks. I also live within a neighborhood where the people would not bat an eyelash if they haven't already figured out that I'm a lesbian. Two of the most admired people in my immediate neighborhood are a male couple, who have adopted their frail, elderly next door neighbor, since her children live in another state. They take her shopping, they nursed her night and day when she got the flu, they do her gardening for her, they take her to church services (Episcopalian) and sit with her. Unfortunately, this state of normalcy is still the exception to the rule in too many places around the world.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Patches on April 13, 2014, 10:19:11 am
Wow, failure at language and math. Here's a tip: when people say "pro-family is anti-gay", they mean "pro-family is the way anti-gay people like to frame themselves to make their position look more socially acceptable". And I'm pretty sure " is a euphemism for" is an antisymmetric relation.

Yeah, it's kind of hard to take the "pro-family" label literally when their singular purpose is to prevent certain people from having families.  Same with "pro-life" people who don't give a damn about the life and health of a baby or mother after birth and would happily execute both if they committed a crime.  "Fair and Balanced", "Taxed Enough Already", "Men's Rights Activist", "Sovereign Citizen"... there's dozens of labels people give themselves to make "I am a selfish asshole" look like a morally superior position.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on April 13, 2014, 06:24:59 pm
If all alligators are carnivores, then all carnivores are alligators.

Just using the same logic here.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 13, 2014, 08:37:53 pm
"Bleach is mostly water.  We're mostly water.  Therefore, we are bleach."  -- Nathan Explosion
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on April 13, 2014, 11:21:57 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/1488660_617108955050817_6463313510807817569_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on April 13, 2014, 11:24:44 pm
Maybe I'm horrible but I actually found that hilarious. Stupid, but hilarious. ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on April 14, 2014, 09:07:54 am
...I don't get it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 14, 2014, 09:23:41 am
...I don't get it.

This rancher (Bundy) and his rancher business associates have been grazing their herds on public lands, federal govt lands, for 20 years without paying their (incredibly cheap) grazing fees to the land management bureau. The bureau uses the grazing fees (which all the other area cattle ranchers pay and don't complain about it) to maintain the plant cover by reseeding if needed, and clean up any hoof damage that causes erosion during the occasional heavy rains, which would otherwise cause problems with dirt roadways and gullies flooding out and making a mess. Bundy and his associates are cheap, shitty, irresponsible people who feel they are especially entitled to graze for free because their rancher ancestors didn't have to pay back in the 1800's. It's a bunch of shit. So, anyway, the federal government had had enough, and rounded up all of Bundy and Co.'s cattle and impounded them on the public lands, demanding back grazing fees, which now add up to about a million dollars, including late fees. That sounds like a lot until you realize that 80 percent or more of the cost of producing beef is fodder, and these fucks are mooching it for free. They can afford the fees. They are a bunch of whining parasites, not proper ranchers, and they are all TEA party-ish and militia-ish and Rawr! R Gunz! and Randian and are getting publicity they do not deserve. The federal land bureau agents backed off of a confrontation where the "ranchers" demanded their cattle back, and since everyone was armed, the federal LEO's figured it wasn't worth inevitable bloodshed, and stood down.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on April 14, 2014, 10:27:20 am
(http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/funny-22-300x270.png)
I couldn't explain everything wrong with this mindset of "prices will skyrocket if we pay people a living wage!!!!!1!" mentality if I had a week and and a degree in economics.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on April 14, 2014, 10:30:45 am
/k/ on 4Chan is having a libertarian-hardon over the Bundy farm thingy.

They see it as some sort of triggering event to start a rebellion against USA or something and there are anons constantly complaining about how the "fed" stole the land from those farmers and how the police are now going to start slaughtering people any moment.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 14, 2014, 10:39:01 am
(http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/funny-22-300x270.png)
I couldn't explain everything wrong with this mindset of "prices will skyrocket if we pay people a living wage!!!!!1!" mentality if I had a week and and a degree in economics.
Raising the middle wage will make us all rich via trickle up economics.
A good cartoon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on April 14, 2014, 11:15:25 am
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I couldn't explain everything wrong with this mindset of "prices will skyrocket if we pay people a living wage!!!!!1!" mentality if I had a week and and a degree in economics.
Raising the middle wage will make us all rich via trickle up economics.
A good cartoon.
Liz, you're my favorite troll. (Don't tell Ironbite I said that.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on April 14, 2014, 11:44:04 am
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I couldn't explain everything wrong with this mindset of "prices will skyrocket if we pay people a living wage!!!!!1!" mentality if I had a week and and a degree in economics.

Anyone who is against paying someone a decent wage simply because they want their shitty Macdonald's food to stay cheap is a definitely some sort of cunt.  A special sort.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 14, 2014, 12:08:36 pm
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I couldn't explain everything wrong with this mindset of "prices will skyrocket if we pay people a living wage!!!!!1!" mentality if I had a week and and a degree in economics.
You know, these people would probably order food from McDonald's.  Any profit losses incurred from having to pay their employees more would be more than made up for by the fact that they have new customers.

You know, that's something that bugs me.  A rising tide lifts all boats.  Henry Ford understood that.  Why can't modern industry captains wrap their heads around that concept?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 14, 2014, 12:44:52 pm
Because they are too self centered, to the point of it being a form of sociopathy. We live in an age where corporate executives hop from firm to firm, with negotiated salary and perk contracts that boggle the mind, then get a golden parachute bonus severance when they hop off to the next victim firm. And the stupid fucking boards think it's all great that these guys "save" the company gazillions of dollars on labor costs and other negative bullshit, just to demand and rake in most of those savings for their own pockets before flitting off to the next gig. The employees and even the shareholders are cheated with glee.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 14, 2014, 12:47:29 pm
Because they are too self centered, to the point of it being a form of sociopathy. We live in an age where corporate executives hop from firm to firm, with negotiated salary and perk contracts that boggle the mind, then get a golden parachute bonus severance when they hop off to the next victim firm. And the stupid fucking boards think it's all great that these guys "save" the company gazillions of dollars on labor costs and other negative bullshit, just to demand and rake in most of those savings for their own pockets before flitting off to the next gig. The employees and even the shareholders are cheated with glee.
Yeah, even Gordon Gekko would frown on these people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 14, 2014, 02:03:55 pm
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I couldn't explain everything wrong with this mindset of "prices will skyrocket if we pay people a living wage!!!!!1!" mentality if I had a week and and a degree in economics.

Anyone who is against paying someone a decent wage simply because they want their shitty Macdonald's food to stay cheap is a definitely some sort of cunt.  A special sort.

Don't call them cunts. They lack the depth and warmth.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on April 14, 2014, 02:13:53 pm
(http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/funny-22-300x270.png)
I couldn't explain everything wrong with this mindset of "prices will skyrocket if we pay people a living wage!!!!!1!" mentality if I had a week and and a degree in economics.

Anyone who is against paying someone a decent wage simply because they want their shitty Macdonald's food to stay cheap is a definitely some sort of cunt.  A special sort.

Don't call them cunts. They lack the depth and warmth.

...You are a gentleman and a poet. A true wordsmith.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on April 14, 2014, 02:44:30 pm
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I couldn't explain everything wrong with this mindset of "prices will skyrocket if we pay people a living wage!!!!!1!" mentality if I had a week and and a degree in economics.

Anyone who is against paying someone a decent wage simply because they want their shitty Macdonald's food to stay cheap is a definitely some sort of cunt.  A special sort.

Don't call them cunts. They lack the depth and warmth.

*slow clap*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 14, 2014, 06:36:49 pm
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I couldn't explain everything wrong with this mindset of "prices will skyrocket if we pay people a living wage!!!!!1!" mentality if I had a week and and a degree in economics.

Anyone who is against paying someone a decent wage simply because they want their shitty Macdonald's food to stay cheap is a definitely some sort of cunt.  A special sort.

There are three moving parts in a sale. You've got wages + profits = price. Right? That's how it goes.

Now, since 1970, Wages have gone down precipitously, particularly at the bottom level. This has literally impoverished millions of people; that young woman will likely receive more than one type of welfare because her employer refuses to pay her properly. As a result, profits have gone up spectacularly, massively increasing both inequality and overall system risk. A system based largely on profits is far riskier than a system based largely on work. One good thing has been that rich people have been able to steal all your money, which they deserve, so Ayn Rand is quite happy - and who cares if a few scum starve to death? Of course, the fiction industry has suffered, but Rand's already popular so no skin off her back.

(http://www.budget.gov.au/2010-11/content/bp1/image/bp1_bst4-14.gif)
Anyway. If you increase wages, one of two things happens. Either 1) prices increase. Or 2) profits decrease. Those are the only two things that can happen; it will not increase unemployment. There is some debate here, but it's possible that in a recession it may actually improve employment.

So, when you point this out to conservatives, they seem to be very sure they know will happen. No company ever took a hit to their profit line, they say. Firstly, that's simply not true; the wage/profit ratio changes every year. It isn't set in concrete. So that's just wrong. Another point: if a raise in wages doesn't threaten profits, why is McDonalds running a huge campaign against it?

This is why virtually all serious economists agree with an increase in the minimum wage.

In fact, this dishonesty has been a problem since time immemorial. For instance:

"Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people."

Who said that, do you reckon?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on April 14, 2014, 07:52:34 pm
Free-Market hero Adam Smith?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on April 14, 2014, 08:55:35 pm
Shakespeare? Thomas Paine?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 14, 2014, 09:05:36 pm
(http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/funny-22-300x270.png)
I couldn't explain everything wrong with this mindset of "prices will skyrocket if we pay people a living wage!!!!!1!" mentality if I had a week and and a degree in economics.
Raising the middle wage will make us all rich via trickle up economics.
A good cartoon.
Liz, you're my favorite troll. (Don't tell Ironbite I said that.)

You know I can read right?

Ironbite-*drops a colony on Fishes head*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 15, 2014, 04:53:22 am
Free-Market hero Adam Smith?

Give the man an invisible hand!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 15, 2014, 01:41:33 pm
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 15, 2014, 01:50:22 pm
Yeah, that's nice honey. Good to know why you won't pay taxes. Now, go re-pave the street out front, process our sewage, and stand guard all night in front of the house.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 15, 2014, 06:23:49 pm
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Quote
“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."

If you're going to be an insane anarchist, first move to France and second learn to write properly.

We should also note that, by her logic, nobody should ever pay for anything. At least Proudhon recognised this - that all consistent anarchists must also be socialists. If you think all force is illegitimate, that means ALL force, not just the governments'.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 15, 2014, 06:45:54 pm
Quote
“To be GOVERNED a North Korean is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED North Korean is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is North Korean government; that is its justice; that is its morality."

fixed
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on April 15, 2014, 07:11:54 pm
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 15, 2014, 07:15:25 pm
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/liberal-logic-101-742.jpg)

Mainly because you aren't.

Also, I've met only a few atheists who think all religious beliefs should be taboo for discussion; most just don't want laws based on religion.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on April 15, 2014, 07:20:37 pm
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/liberal-logic-101-742.jpg)

Mainly because you aren't.

Also, I've met only a few atheists who think all religious beliefs should be taboo for discussion; most just don't want laws based on religion.
Link to facebook post (https://www.facebook.com/LiberalLogic101/posts/729537373744486)

Some faith in humanity restored with the top comments, especially those who are more sensible Republicans.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 16, 2014, 11:52:34 am
Correct me if my memory is faulty, but are we witnessing de-evolution in action by the change of font in "Liberal Logic101" meme post titles? Has it really been that cockeyed, slanty cartoonish style since the beginning?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 16, 2014, 02:41:36 pm
I think they've used a variety of fonts from the beginning, but I may be wrong.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 16, 2014, 05:53:08 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/1604870_693955680663887_289364441843007249_n.jpg)

If there's a puppy or seal in my utereus, it's definitely going to get aborted.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 16, 2014, 06:16:42 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/1604870_693955680663887_289364441843007249_n.jpg)

If there's a puppy or seal in my utereus, it's definitely going to get aborted.

What a way to destroy an otherwise adorable photo!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on April 16, 2014, 06:34:25 pm
Further proof that conservative asshats are extremely selectively blind.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 16, 2014, 06:40:36 pm
Further proof that conservative asshats are extremely selectively blind.

....and killjoys who ruin photos of cuteness.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on April 16, 2014, 07:00:55 pm
I can't remember the last time I heard an outcry about puppies or seals being aborted.  Unless of course, they're actually talking about those already born.  In which case, what part of already born do these idiots not understand?  No, I don't give a shit if pro-lifers think they're the same thing; they know pro-choicers don't see it that way, so they keep asking a question they already know the answer to, and rather than try to argue why that answer might be wrong, they keep throwing shit like this around instead, like it's some unarguable truth that pro-choicers have no explanation for.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 16, 2014, 07:10:19 pm
I can't remember the last time I heard an outcry about puppies or seals being aborted.  Unless of course, they're actually talking about those already born.  In which case, what part of already born do these idiots not understand?  No, I don't give a shit if pro-lifers think they're the same thing; they know pro-choicers don't see it that way, so they keep asking a question they already know the answer to, and rather than try to argue why that answer might be wrong, they keep throwing shit like this around instead, like it's some unarguable truth that pro-choicers have no explanation for.

And you hit the nail right on the head, there. The kinds of people who make captions like these DON'T realize that not everyone sees the world the way they do. They think their beliefs are entirely self-evident, so anyone who disagrees is either stupid or evil.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 16, 2014, 07:22:10 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/1604870_693955680663887_289364441843007249_n.jpg)

If there's a puppy or seal in my utereus, it's definitely going to get aborted.
That sound you just heard going over your head OP?
That's the point.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 17, 2014, 03:35:59 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/1604870_693955680663887_289364441843007249_n.jpg)

If there's a puppy or seal in my utereus, it's definitely going to get aborted.

A living animal has more rights that the potential for human life.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Patches on April 17, 2014, 07:07:43 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/1604870_693955680663887_289364441843007249_n.jpg)

If there's a puppy or seal in my utereus, it's definitely going to get aborted.

A living animal has more rights that the potential for human life.

It follows the same lack of understanding of the concept of "consent" that drives a lot of their policies.

"Pro-choice" is literally that: The belief that a person has the final authority over what happens to their body.  We don't advocate one choice or the other, only that the choice be available.  We don't fight anti-abortion legislation because we necessarily want people to abort, but because we want whether they abort or not to be up to them and not the state.

It's the same reason "pro-lifers" can't fathom how you can both be pro-choice and support criminal penalties for forcing a person to miscarry, or double-homicide penalties for murdering a pregnant woman.  Did the person consent to the miscarriage?  No.  Did the person consent to the murder?  No.

The problem is that the two sides aren't fighting for the same type of goal.  Pro-lifers are fighting for a specific outcome, while pro-choicers are fighting for a specific methodology.  However, pro-lifers are quick to conflate their opposition as simply fighting for the opposite outcome rather than for a completely different principle.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on April 18, 2014, 08:39:08 pm
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/liberal-logic-101-531.jpg)

I think someone is panicking.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 18, 2014, 08:41:57 pm
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/liberal-logic-101-531.jpg)

I think someone is panicking.
Don't want to be blamed for the shutdown?
Don't start the shutdown.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 18, 2014, 08:55:37 pm
Wow, they don't even care about convincing moderates to become conservative anymore, do they?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 18, 2014, 10:46:37 pm
Took the blame without taking the blame. That is special. Musta painted the shiny mirror over with silly string.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on April 18, 2014, 11:46:41 pm
Wow, they don't even care about convincing moderates to become conservative anymore, do they?
Googling about what moderates thought who caused the shutdown, I instead find that conservatives are blaming moderates for the shutdown.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 19, 2014, 10:49:22 am
Yeah, being patiently and politely silent while awaiting the outcome or for more information to come to light makes you too tempting a target for blame assignment monkey shit slinging.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on April 19, 2014, 01:12:39 pm
I........ I just can't believe how stupid that strip is........ I think I need to go lie down.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 19, 2014, 09:04:03 pm
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/liberal-logic-101-531.jpg)

So two thirds of the citizens of the US are liberals?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 19, 2014, 09:48:35 pm
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/liberal-logic-101-531.jpg)

So two thirds of the citizens of the US are liberals?
I think the message they're trying to get across is that America is divided into three exactly equal camps. Liberals are evil and stupid, moderates are just stupid and conservatives have intelligent, well-reasoned positions that the media spins to make them look divided. So liberals and conservatives both saying that Republicans are responsible for the shutdown (for different reasons) plus moderates being stupid equals two-thirds of the country blaming Republicans for dirty politics.

My head hurts from trying to dissect this strip's "logic".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 20, 2014, 12:19:15 am
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/liberal-logic-101-531.jpg)

So two thirds of the citizens of the US are liberals?
I think the message they're trying to get across is that America is divided into three exactly equal camps. Liberals are evil and stupid, moderates are just stupid and conservatives have intelligent, well-reasoned positions that the media spins to make them look divided. So liberals and conservatives both saying that Republicans are responsible for the shutdown (for different reasons) plus moderates being stupid equals two-thirds of the country blaming Republicans for dirty politics.

My head hurts from trying to dissect this strip's "logic".

Right.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 20, 2014, 08:24:10 am
Remember when conservatives actually tried to reach out to people?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kain on April 20, 2014, 08:26:16 am
Uhhh, not really, no. At least, not in the manner you seem to imply.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 20, 2014, 09:08:17 am
Remember when conservatives actually tried to reach out to people?

Under Eisenhower, maybe and even then...

To be fair to them, they've had a run of bad Presidents. At the State and Local level, conservatism relies far less on tribal hatred of the other. There have even been the occasional good Republican governor, though the alternative is also common*. This may perhaps be because it is more difficult to convince people that, for instance, their streets are not clean due to the damn hippies than it is to trick them into thinking Iraq was a good idea ruined by a few anti-war protesters, which has been done.

* Also true of liberals.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 20, 2014, 09:10:35 am
Uhhh, not really, no. At least, not in the manner you seem to imply.
You're probably a 90s kid then, at least.  I'm a child of the 80s.  "Reagan Democrats", anyone?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 20, 2014, 09:16:22 am
Uhhh, not really, no. At least, not in the manner you seem to imply.
You're probably a 90s kid then, at least.  I'm a child of the 80s.  "Reagan Democrats", anyone?

And how did Reagan appeal to his alleged "Reagan Democrats"? Race hatred dressed up as a lunatic crime policy, hyper-aggressive and incredibly juvenile foreign policy, school-yard insults and the occasional joke. Oh, and the lies of course. A crucial part of any criminal's arsenal.

Eg:

#Invalid YouTube Link#

Easily one of the least honest speeches made by any president at any time ever. Of course, even Republicans had abandoned him by 1987, so it was in vain.

Not exactly a broad audience, is what I'm saying.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on April 20, 2014, 09:48:23 am
Uhhh, not really, no. At least, not in the manner you seem to imply.
You're probably a 90s kid then, at least.  I'm a child of the 80s.  "Reagan Democrats", anyone?

And how did Reagan appeal to his alleged "Reagan Democrats"? Race hatred dressed up as a lunatic crime policy, hyper-aggressive and incredibly juvenile foreign policy, school-yard insults and the occasional joke. Oh, and the lies of course. A crucial part of any criminal's arsenal.

Eg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pa4_NBlYK8

Easily one of the least honest speeches made by any president at any time ever. Of course, even Republicans had abandoned him by 1987, so it was in vain.

Not exactly a broad audience, is what I'm saying.
Fixed that for ya.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 20, 2014, 09:59:10 am
(http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/files/2009/09/Picture-133.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 20, 2014, 10:04:50 am
(http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/files/2009/09/Picture-133.png)

That girl (the one in the middle) looks like a younger version of my mom...whoever shooped that photo can eat the fattest, hairiest, most AIDS-ridden dick on the planet.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 20, 2014, 10:32:48 am
(http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/files/2009/09/Picture-133.png)

That girl (the one in the middle) looks like a younger version of my mom...whoever shooped that photo can eat the fattest, hairiest, most AIDS-ridden dick on the planet.

The girl on the right's sign is shopped, too.

Disgusting fat-shamers. That girl is adorable & pretty and if I was a boy, I'd date her.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 20, 2014, 02:35:25 pm
(http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/files/2009/09/Picture-133.png)
There we go, an anti-feminist justifying the reason we need feminism.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on April 20, 2014, 04:09:42 pm
(http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/files/2009/09/Picture-133.png)
There we go, an anti-feminist justifying the reason we need feminism.
Isn't it amusing how much that happens?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on April 20, 2014, 06:59:19 pm
(http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/files/2009/09/Picture-133.png)
There we go, an anti-feminist justifying the reason we need feminism.
Isn't it amusing how much that happens?
(http://feministphilosophers.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/lewis.png?w=529&h=311)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 20, 2014, 07:02:29 pm
Uhhh, not really, no. At least, not in the manner you seem to imply.
You're probably a 90s kid then, at least.  I'm a child of the 80s.  "Reagan Democrats", anyone?

And how did Reagan appeal to his alleged "Reagan Democrats"? Race hatred dressed up as a lunatic crime policy, hyper-aggressive and incredibly juvenile foreign policy, school-yard insults and the occasional joke. Oh, and the lies of course. A crucial part of any criminal's arsenal.

Eg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pa4_NBlYK8

Easily one of the least honest speeches made by any president at any time ever. Of course, even Republicans had abandoned him by 1987, so it was in vain.

Not exactly a broad audience, is what I'm saying.
Fixed that for ya.

What'd I do wrong?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 20, 2014, 07:12:09 pm
The original YouTube link you posted for Reagan's speech still had the "s" after http etc. etc. and was invalid/broken.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 20, 2014, 07:16:16 pm
Uhhh, not really, no. At least, not in the manner you seem to imply.
You're probably a 90s kid then, at least.  I'm a child of the 80s.  "Reagan Democrats", anyone?

And how did Reagan appeal to his alleged "Reagan Democrats"? Race hatred dressed up as a lunatic crime policy, hyper-aggressive and incredibly juvenile foreign policy, school-yard insults and the occasional joke. Oh, and the lies of course. A crucial part of any criminal's arsenal.

Eg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pa4_NBlYK8

Easily one of the least honest speeches made by any president at any time ever. Of course, even Republicans had abandoned him by 1987, so it was in vain.

Not exactly a broad audience, is what I'm saying.
Fixed that for ya.

What'd I do wrong?
Remove the "s" after the http.

Also, your viewpoint is not entirely accurate.

"Racist crime policy"?  Well, I have to give you credit here, you're half right.  It's true that the "tough on crime" policies discriminated against black people, but it wasn't for the reasons you seem to think.  Back then, it was common rhetoric among African-Americans that the government was willing to let them kill each other off.  After all, most crime committed by black people is against other blacks.  That's just the rule of demographics.  This was intended to put black criminals away in order to help African-American communities.  I agree that these policies are outdated and should be reexamined, but they weren't intended to keep the black man down.

"Terrible foreign policy"?  Yeah, because Carter's was so great.  I don't agree with everything Reagan did, but his foreign policy played a large part in ending the Cold War.

"Insults and jokes"?  What politician doesn't do that?

I also have to concede your point on Iran-Contra.  Even if he wasn't involved, it was still partly his fault for not keeping track of his own house.  However, the same could be said about Obama.

Reagan was not perfect by any means.  He had flaws, he made mistakes, and a number of the things he did had negative long-term consequences.  However, he was far from the President Evil you seem to think he was.

Anyway, back on topic:

(http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/item-20100823-protestsign14.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 20, 2014, 07:31:07 pm
Wow, so my entire 20's was just a hallucination, UP? Cuz dat ain't da Ronnie I remember...and I actually voted for him in 1980...foolishly naïve in falling for the hype, at first. He's only less evil in hindsight because the GOP has been taken over by rabid pod people since then.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on April 20, 2014, 07:33:36 pm
Words

New thread?

http://fqa.digibase.ca/index.php?topic=5670.0
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 20, 2014, 07:34:21 pm
Words

New thread?

http://fqa.digibase.ca/index.php?topic=5670.0
Yes, please.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on April 20, 2014, 09:00:53 pm
In regards to that protest picture, what's wrong with Turkish goods?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 20, 2014, 09:43:39 pm
In regards to that protest picture, what's wrong with Turkish goods?
They're from SPOOOKY islamofacist nazis.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on April 20, 2014, 10:54:43 pm
Don't forget Commie Hollywood lovers that want to force you to gay marry your dog.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Feral Dog on April 21, 2014, 02:20:24 am
Don't forget Commie Hollywood lovers that want to force you to gay marry your dog.

That is a bold-faced lie. We want to force you to gay marry your cat.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 22, 2014, 11:00:40 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/acr52e.jpg)

Admit it, you wanted to say "black or white".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 23, 2014, 12:24:59 am
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/acr52e.jpg)

Admit it, you wanted to say "black or white".
It took me a second to realize she was carrying the degenerate negro children.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 23, 2014, 01:48:55 am
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/acr52e.jpg)

Admit it, you wanted to say "black or white".
It took me a second to realize she was carrying the degenerate negro children.

Of course. Nobody ever became poor white trash from marrying another white person, after all!

Excuse me while I go dunk my brain in bleach.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 23, 2014, 03:47:06 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/I5AAS.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on April 23, 2014, 06:28:51 pm
Ignorance vs. intelligence -- some people are just too dumb to know the difference.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on April 23, 2014, 08:33:06 pm
Or they know the difference and choose to ignore it which I figure is probably the more common.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 24, 2014, 08:26:01 pm
And to prove their joke of a "point", they use a photo of the Zulu Warriors rather than, say, a photo of George Washington Carver or Nelson Mandela.

However, it kind of backfires due to those Zulu Warriors looking cool & noble and the fact that the Zulus were actually quite sophisticated & gave the Boers a run for their money. That takes strategy & BRAINS!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 24, 2014, 09:37:18 pm
(http://adam4d.com/comics/2012-11-25-pro-choicers.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 24, 2014, 09:44:16 pm
(http://oi57.tinypic.com/hrlow1.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on April 24, 2014, 10:00:10 pm
It is a well-known fact that diversity can only possibly refer to race and nothing else. Anyone who tells you different is probably working for Big Brother.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 26, 2014, 09:55:08 am
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/344a6nc.jpg)

(http://oi57.tinypic.com/2z9gr2u.jpg)

(http://oi62.tinypic.com/29z1n3t.jpg)

Um, no.  The Carnegie Institute proved this wrong in the 1950s.

(http://oi62.tinypic.com/2ui937m.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 26, 2014, 11:50:39 am
Am I the only one exasperated that even the anti-racism article uses an illustration that makes the mulatto woman look like a full-on caveman, complete with beard?

Also, isn't that "flush your heritage" propaganda basically saying that "white" genes are weaker (i.e. inferior) to the genes of other races?

Edited to correct a mistype.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 26, 2014, 12:38:07 pm
Am I the only one exasperated that even the anti-racism article uses an illustration that makes the mulatto woman look like a full-on caveman, complete with beard?

Also, isn't that "flush your heritage" propaganda basically saying that "white" genes are weaker (i.e. inferior) to the genes of other races?

Edited to correct a mistype.

Also, hair color doesn't determine skin color or ethnicity. A blond white + black pairing isn't going to result in a person whose lighter than a brunette white + black pairing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 26, 2014, 12:44:06 pm
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FairForItsDay (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FairForItsDay)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 27, 2014, 11:26:46 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/2pqnwnn.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 28, 2014, 12:01:30 am
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/2pqnwnn.jpg)
Dufuq?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on April 28, 2014, 11:44:46 am
Looks evil to me and I'm white.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 28, 2014, 11:57:26 am
If you remove the stupid "Aryan Knuckleheads" logo & the message, it looks like rather amateur, homemade NeoPagan photo-art or a very homemade homage to the movie Frozen.

I could counter this with a photo of a beautiful, warm, African savannah-at-sunset photo with a gorgeous black woman's head floating above.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 28, 2014, 12:30:44 pm
If you remove the stupid "Aryan Knuckleheads" logo & the message, it looks like rather amateur, homemade NeoPagan photo-art or a very homemade homage to the movie Frozen.

I could counter this with a photo of a beautiful, warm, African savannah-at-sunset photo with a gorgeous black woman's head floating above.
Go ahead.  Do it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 28, 2014, 01:14:50 pm
I could counter this with a photo of a beautiful, warm, African savannah-at-sunset photo with a gorgeous black woman's head floating above.

Although this might just feed into the race realist's mind that races should be kept pure and separate.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 28, 2014, 01:34:00 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/2pqnwnn.jpg)

Looks like they Photoshopped Luna Lovegood over a snowy forest and added some incoherent savage-speak masquerading as English.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 28, 2014, 08:47:48 pm
I could counter this with a photo of a beautiful, warm, African savannah-at-sunset photo with a gorgeous black woman's head floating above.

Although this might just feed into the race realist's mind that races should be kept pure and separate.

I'll add a faux logo lampooning those bigot dorks & the message, "Africa's got beautiful women, too & she & 'Aryan Snow Maiden' regularly have 'Girl's Night' at the club".

I remember doing re-edits of bigot/Tealiban cartoons to reflect non-bigotry. Anyone remember this?
(http://i59.tinypic.com/2ns2cy0.jpg)
I took one of A Wyatt Mann's abominations & made it something about a weird geek who writes weird stories.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 28, 2014, 08:49:52 pm
I could counter this with a photo of a beautiful, warm, African savannah-at-sunset photo with a gorgeous black woman's head floating above.

Although this might just feed into the race realist's mind that races should be kept pure and separate.

I'll add a faux logo lampooning those bigot dorks & the message, "Africa's got beautiful women, too & she & 'Aryan Snow Maiden' regularly have 'Girl's Night' at the club".
That's some damn good trolling, right there.  Thank God you use your talents for good.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 28, 2014, 08:55:20 pm
I could counter this with a photo of a beautiful, warm, African savannah-at-sunset photo with a gorgeous black woman's head floating above.

Although this might just feed into the race realist's mind that races should be kept pure and separate.

I'll add a faux logo lampooning those bigot dorks & the message, "Africa's got beautiful women, too & she & 'Aryan Snow Maiden' regularly have 'Girl's Night' at the club".
That's some damn good trolling, right there.  Thank God you use your talents for good.

Yeah! I'll do what the bigots do. Y'know how many will take a cartoon from a sane person & re-edit it to reflect their insanity? Well, I'll take their insanity & re-edit it to reflect reality!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 28, 2014, 08:57:45 pm
I could counter this with a photo of a beautiful, warm, African savannah-at-sunset photo with a gorgeous black woman's head floating above.

Although this might just feed into the race realist's mind that races should be kept pure and separate.

I'll add a faux logo lampooning those bigot dorks & the message, "Africa's got beautiful women, too & she & 'Aryan Snow Maiden' regularly have 'Girl's Night' at the club".
That's some damn good trolling, right there.  Thank God you use your talents for good.

Yeah! I'll do what the bigot's do. Y'know how many will take a cartoon from a sane person & re-edit it to reflect their insanity? Well, I'll take their insanity & re-edit it to reflect reality!
I didn't know they did that.  So they're not just hateful, they're lazy too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 28, 2014, 09:00:15 pm
I could counter this with a photo of a beautiful, warm, African savannah-at-sunset photo with a gorgeous black woman's head floating above.

Although this might just feed into the race realist's mind that races should be kept pure and separate.

I'll add a faux logo lampooning those bigot dorks & the message, "Africa's got beautiful women, too & she & 'Aryan Snow Maiden' regularly have 'Girl's Night' at the club".
That's some damn good trolling, right there.  Thank God you use your talents for good.

Yeah! I'll do what the bigot's do. Y'know how many will take a cartoon from a sane person & re-edit it to reflect their insanity? Well, I'll take their insanity & re-edit it to reflect reality!
I didn't know they did that.  So they're not just hateful, they're lazy too.

There's been a few examples on this board. I can't bring up one, off-hand but I'm sure others can vouch for this.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 28, 2014, 09:14:08 pm
I'm going to work on that African Lady thing, now. Be back in a while....

EDIT: Alllllllllll-righty, then! I made it! Waddaya think, guys?

(http://i59.tinypic.com/2hf0z83.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on April 29, 2014, 09:31:57 pm
(http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/liberal-logic-101-540.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on May 01, 2014, 07:16:12 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1.0-9/1959841_10152152500150914_1372557428_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on May 02, 2014, 03:49:08 am
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/10268449_10152217763285914_4886291417028052437_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 02, 2014, 01:45:45 pm
That meme is far too dignified to be making such stupid statements.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on May 03, 2014, 05:33:08 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/10294484_318549978292310_7454330449011467072_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 03, 2014, 05:37:07 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/10294484_318549978292310_7454330449011467072_n.jpg)
I'd be in favor of Voter ID laws if identification was easier to get.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 03, 2014, 09:19:10 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/10294484_318549978292310_7454330449011467072_n.jpg)

Most of those don't require the type of ID that Republicans demand - one that proves three times over you are who you say you are, and that a typo made 20-60 years ago can totally ruin.

My mother's birth certificate, which she used to JOIN THE FREAKING NAVY, wasn't valid for one of these specialized IDs.

Thankfully, Wisconsin doesn't need them anymore... until Republicans try to get it back in again.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 03, 2014, 09:44:07 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/10294484_318549978292310_7454330449011467072_n.jpg)

Most of those don't require the type of ID that Republicans demand - one that proves three times over you are who you say you are, and that a typo made 20-60 years ago can totally ruin.

My mother's birth certificate, which she used to JOIN THE FREAKING NAVY, wasn't valid for one of these specialized IDs.

Thankfully, Wisconsin doesn't need them anymore... until Republicans try to get it back in again.

At that point, the people should rise up, kill the lot of them, and emphatically tell the legislature to pick again.

(For the humour impaired, the above is a little thing known as a "joke."  Its typical purpose is to evoke amusement.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on May 03, 2014, 11:29:34 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/10294484_318549978292310_7454330449011467072_n.jpg)

Most of those don't require the type of ID that Republicans demand - one that proves three times over you are who you say you are, and that a typo made 20-60 years ago can totally ruin.

My mother's birth certificate, which she used to JOIN THE FREAKING NAVY, wasn't valid for one of these specialized IDs.

Thankfully, Wisconsin doesn't need them anymore... until Republicans try to get it back in again.

At that point, the people should rise up, kill the lot of them, and emphatically tell the legislature to pick again.

(For the humour impaired, the above is a little thing known as a "joke."  Its typical purpose is to evoke amusement.)
i am ofended by this Bcus I am stupid DURRRRRR
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on May 03, 2014, 11:41:31 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/10294484_318549978292310_7454330449011467072_n.jpg)

If it were truly easy for the disadvantaged [more likely to vote not-Republican] to get state identification in the United States, state legislatures wouldn't be bombarded with these bills and Republicans would try another suppression tactic. It doesn't have to be difficult to get an ID, mind. Just little loopholes here and there -- sorry, your married name doesn't match your ID -- oh, you want to get an ID and vote on the same day? No such luck. Good luck figuring that out before election day; many states are severely curtailing early voting.

It's obvious that the intent behind these voter ID laws is to suppress just enough voters to tilt elections in the Republicans' favor.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 04, 2014, 03:50:16 pm
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/2hi5rg6.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on May 04, 2014, 04:17:31 pm
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/2hi5rg6.jpg)

A pure democratic process that involves an unelected religious council culling a list of over a thousand prospective candidates to around five or six before the public can vote.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 04, 2014, 04:41:06 pm
And then, in some cases, disregarding the vote and claiming that <x> won the majority vote.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 04, 2014, 04:48:00 pm
Maybe they meant "pureed Democracy"? Farsi farce.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on May 04, 2014, 07:17:46 pm
To be fair, the U.S. and the UK overthrew Iran's democratically elected leader in 1953 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat) and they installed a Shah. Cries of "Zionism!" aside, Iran's theocratic baggage is not entirely its fault.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 04, 2014, 10:46:54 pm
To be fair, the U.S. and the UK overthrew Iran's democratically elected leader in 1953 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat) and they installed a Shah. Cries of "Zionism!" aside, Iran's theocratic baggage is not entirely its fault.
Except the Shah, as corrupt and lazy as he was, could have been overthrown for something else than a crazed theocracy, but the high clerics have always been politically and financially powerful and vain fellows, so they channeled the perfectly correct hatred and frustration of the people into a blaze for Allah and Country. Jingoism and Fanaticism combined are powerful propaganda tools when people are hungry, over worked and scared of the police. See Germany, early 20th.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on May 09, 2014, 04:27:05 pm
(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/10294285_727002847355203_5874799105901851735_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 09, 2014, 05:05:03 pm
(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/631/383/009.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on May 10, 2014, 02:31:53 pm
Dumb protest sign and rebuttal

(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10255494_540480722728681_5770691170557192089_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 10, 2014, 02:34:38 pm
Dumb protest sign and rebuttal

(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10255494_540480722728681_5770691170557192089_n.jpg)

Holy shit that's some edumacation right there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on May 10, 2014, 03:58:30 pm
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 10, 2014, 06:41:01 pm
To be fair, the U.S. and the UK overthrew Iran's democratically elected leader in 1953 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat) and they installed a Shah. Cries of "Zionism!" aside, Iran's theocratic baggage is not entirely its fault.
Except the Shah, as corrupt and lazy as he was, could have been overthrown for something else than a crazed theocracy, but the high clerics have always been politically and financially powerful and vain fellows, so they channeled the perfectly correct hatred and frustration of the people into a blaze for Allah and Country. Jingoism and Fanaticism combined are powerful propaganda tools when people are hungry, over worked and scared of the police. See Germany, early 20th.

Indeed. Much to most of the Iranian revolutionaries were socialists.

(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/631/383/009.jpg)

Understanding things is quite a bit beyond the little conservative brain.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on May 10, 2014, 07:19:38 pm
To be fair, the U.S. and the UK overthrew Iran's democratically elected leader in 1953 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat) and they installed a Shah. Cries of "Zionism!" aside, Iran's theocratic baggage is not entirely its fault.
Except the Shah, as corrupt and lazy as he was, could have been overthrown for something else than a crazed theocracy, but the high clerics have always been politically and financially powerful and vain fellows, so they channeled the perfectly correct hatred and frustration of the people into a blaze for Allah and Country. Jingoism and Fanaticism combined are powerful propaganda tools when people are hungry, over worked and scared of the police. See Germany, early 20th.
I will point out the guy they replaced the shaw with was an improvement in the same way replacing the bully who beats you and give you a swirly with one who just gives you a wedgie and insults you is an improvement.

Also, Iran's people seem to start to be feeling annoyed by there current government.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 10, 2014, 08:43:13 pm
(http://oi60.tinypic.com/258xe94.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on May 10, 2014, 09:05:38 pm
I never quite got the whole White Genocide movement if whites are supposed to be the so called "Superior Race™" shouldn't they be made of sturdier stuff. Plus you know the whole no such thing as race.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on May 10, 2014, 09:44:56 pm
(http://oi60.tinypic.com/258xe94.jpg)
Good riddance!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 10, 2014, 11:14:11 pm
I never quite got the whole White Genocide movement if whites are supposed to be the so called "Superior Race™" shouldn't they be made of sturdier stuff. Plus you know the whole no such thing as race.

It depends on the breed of racist you're dealing with. Some seem to have this idea that it's all orchestrated by the Jews for some reason or another, which kinda implies they are the Double-Superior Race. Some blame white liberals, who have all the power of their whiteness but are foolishly using it to help the inferior races. I wouldn't be surprised if there were people who blamed reptilians, communists, satanists, terrorists, the Illuminati or climate scientists.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on May 10, 2014, 11:56:47 pm
I never quite got the whole White Genocide movement if whites are supposed to be the so called "Superior Race™" shouldn't they be made of sturdier stuff. Plus you know the whole no such thing as race.

It depends on the breed of racist you're dealing with. Some seem to have this idea that it's all orchestrated by the Jews for some reason or another, which kinda implies they are the Double-Superior Race. Some blame white liberals, who have all the power of their whiteness but are foolishly using it to help the inferior races. I wouldn't be surprised if there were people who blamed reptilians, communists, satanists, terrorists, the Illuminati or climate scientists.
I am a Jewish reptilian liberal Jewish terrorist satanist who works for the illuminati and I can confirm this is true.

The climate scientists are mainly used to fake global warming, bury fossils for archeologists to "discover", and pee in every 50th bottle of sprite.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 11, 2014, 12:53:50 am
I would've thought a reptilian reptile would be redundant.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on May 11, 2014, 12:56:51 am
I would've thought a reptilian reptile would be redundant.
I see you've swallowed are lies to, you kikes are so easy to control.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on May 11, 2014, 01:50:43 am
I never quite got the whole White Genocide movement if whites are supposed to be the so called "Superior Race™" shouldn't they be made of sturdier stuff. Plus you know the whole no such thing as race.

It depends on the breed of racist you're dealing with. Some seem to have this idea that it's all orchestrated by the Jews for some reason or another, which kinda implies they are the Double-Superior Race. Some blame white liberals, who have all the power of their whiteness but are foolishly using it to help the inferior races. I wouldn't be surprised if there were people who blamed reptilians, communists, satanists, terrorists, the Illuminati or climate scientists.

Don't forget aliens, feminists, and Satan.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 11, 2014, 03:11:59 am
We should do a survey of people. Halfway through a series of innocuous political questions, we ask "do you believe a white genocide  that is, the mass extermination or assimilation of Caucasians - is happening in modern society?" If the answer is yes, they lose citizenship.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on May 11, 2014, 08:35:17 am
That or get hit with a giant stick with the words logic on it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on May 11, 2014, 01:01:41 pm
We should do a survey of people. Halfway through a series of innocuous political questions, we ask "do you believe a white genocide  that is, the mass extermination or assimilation of Caucasians - is happening in modern society?" If the answer is yes, they lose citizenship.

What's with you and surveys that lead to harsh punishments?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 11, 2014, 01:05:32 pm
Frustration, I would imagine.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 11, 2014, 04:05:04 pm
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/6zv49t.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 11, 2014, 07:27:38 pm
^People legitimately believe that people believe that.

That mildly scares me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 13, 2014, 04:20:17 pm
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/23ssynk.jpg)
Yes, because those two situations are exactly the same.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on May 13, 2014, 05:13:36 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/1907628_393745984099679_8420129312133724479_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on May 13, 2014, 05:15:59 pm
That's a good point, as far as I can tell, Obama is pretty convinced that he's Obama.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 13, 2014, 07:29:46 pm
I like how Obama's all "please, get the hell off my desk."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 13, 2014, 09:15:46 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/1907628_393745984099679_8420129312133724479_n.jpg)

I also don't think I'm Obama! I guess technically that makes me God?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on May 14, 2014, 03:42:24 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10273875_744554292242794_7000752467120112241_n.jpg)

I searched for the source of the image, and it provides no statistics or sources to back it up.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on May 14, 2014, 09:09:09 pm
On that note, I've done some research lately.  The economy of the country as a whole is better than before the '08 crash.  Yep.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on May 14, 2014, 11:59:22 pm
On that note, I've done some research lately.  The economy of the country as a whole is better than before the '08 crash.  Yep.
Of course, it could be better, but for the most part, it's bad news for the GOP (even if they complain it should be better).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on May 15, 2014, 12:28:19 am
On that note, I've done some research lately.  The economy of the country as a whole is better than before the '08 crash.  Yep.

Better for the wealthy, perhaps. The rest of us are worse off than before the crash.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 15, 2014, 12:34:44 pm
Don't reply to Ironchew. He's a TROLL.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on May 15, 2014, 01:54:26 pm
He's not wrong, though.

Some economic indicators, most notably GDP and stock prices, have recovered beyond their pre-recession levels, while others (such as unemployment and wages*), haven't.  Rich people earn their income largely from capital gains, everyone else gets it from wages and salaries, so with the recovery being so uneven, you really could make a pretty solid case that people outside of the top of the economic distribution really aren't as well of as they were before the crash.

*It's been a few months since I looked at the data for wages.  They might have returned to pre-recession levels in the meantime, but I doubt it and I don't care enough to find out.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 16, 2014, 07:57:33 pm
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/2j61vcw.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on May 17, 2014, 12:35:52 am
See who isn't in that crowd? You. That's who isn't. Good riddance.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on May 17, 2014, 01:07:00 am
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/2j61vcw.jpg)
Hate will only only be eliminated when white people are gone.
Eh Good Cartoon.
Sourry
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on May 19, 2014, 07:59:19 pm
This was posted on a conservative Facebook page: (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=323768641103777&set=a.256493451164630.1073741827.256490414498267&type=1)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/t1.0-9/10371954_323768641103777_2416202209046000586_n.jpg)

Not sure if this is a sign or something.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 19, 2014, 10:05:45 pm
Was it posted by a conservative?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on May 19, 2014, 10:07:43 pm
I like Obama's Dilbert tie ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 19, 2014, 10:37:17 pm
I choose to assume the rainbow+unicorn combination means they are trying to imply Obama is a gay virgin.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on May 19, 2014, 11:28:10 pm
Was it posted by a conservative?
Yes it was, if you checked the link.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on May 19, 2014, 11:50:04 pm
This was posted on a conservative Facebook page: (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=323768641103777&set=a.256493451164630.1073741827.256490414498267&type=1)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/t1.0-9/10371954_323768641103777_2416202209046000586_n.jpg)

Not sure if this is a sign or something.
Ah, I know this reference. Allow me to explain:

Remeber when during the elections Obama was debating Romney about military budget? Romney complained that the US military has less ships or carriers than it had X years ago. Obama replied by saying that it "also has less horses and bayonets than 100 years ago" but that this did not mean that the military is now weaker than it was 100 years ago. This particular line got pretty popular in some circles. (The Mechwarrior Online closed beta forum in particular was flooded with horses and bayonets memes.)

In fact, this is the pic that was most commonly used to flood the threads:
(http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcf424DaYt1qbmvypo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 20, 2014, 12:03:24 am
Was it posted by a conservative?
Yes it was, if you checked the link.

I absolutely detest clicking on facebook links.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on May 23, 2014, 02:57:53 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/10336853_10152398677578189_667344826027131989_n.jpg)

Maybe that's why there's so much police incidents with the Occupy Movement, not many armed people the police would be afraid of.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on May 23, 2014, 04:35:29 pm
...why is that in "Dumbest Protest Signs"? ???
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on May 23, 2014, 05:05:11 pm
...why is that in "Dumbest Protest Signs"? ???

Some context on the image (for instance, on what site/page it was seen) would be helpful, but it could be read either as "I'm not going to arrest people for peacefully associating" or "I'm not going to arrest people for carrying guns openly"--and I'm stopping there since just about everyone on this forum has said their piece about the gun issue.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on May 23, 2014, 05:11:13 pm
I guess that's my own fault, this came from a friend's like on a right wing Facebook page. I apologize if it doesn't belong here.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on May 23, 2014, 09:08:06 pm
What scares me about that image is that a police officer, someone with the right to carry and use lethal weaponry and enforce the law, subscribes to as black and white a viewpoint as "bad guys". The world is not that simple.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 23, 2014, 09:21:22 pm
The story's likely bullshit anyways.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 23, 2014, 09:30:06 pm
Apparently not. There's video of the event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1G1IscWi58

(yes, I know, video could be staged, but it's not that weird an event that you need to postulate that as an explanation)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MrsYoungie on May 24, 2014, 03:28:20 pm
So would a group of young black men receive the same hand shake welcome if they were standing around with weapons for no particular reason?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 24, 2014, 04:29:38 pm
So would a group of young black men receive the same hand shake welcome if they were standing around with weapons for no particular reason?
Unless this was in some hick town or New York City, I think so.  If they were Latino or Middle Eastern, on the other hand...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on May 25, 2014, 12:52:47 am
Black teens would.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on May 27, 2014, 08:28:13 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t1.0-9/s851x315/10390227_682616005120613_6212426475875055329_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on May 27, 2014, 08:29:27 pm
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t1.0-9/s851x315/10390227_682616005120613_6212426475875055329_n.jpg)
To be honest it was one of the few cases where gun control wouldn't have prevented the massacre.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on May 28, 2014, 02:00:16 am
Ironically, that meme is the first time I've heard anyone say anything about it being a gun issue.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on May 28, 2014, 03:01:56 am
In the related thread we agreed, on the first page I think, that it was pointless to discuss for those reasons in the picture. Of course for it came back up in a broader sense of proper storage of a gun in a safe or at least with a lock on it, so that children wouldn't have access to it. Not really applicable to a supposed adult though. Supposed because the fuckwit acted like an entitled little brat.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on May 28, 2014, 03:54:12 am
My point was actually that everyone (save the people who automatically jump to the defense of their guns at every shooting) can agree that, for once, gun rights isn't the issue at hand here considering the 137 page manifesto that shows that the issue is purely a feminist one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on May 28, 2014, 02:00:47 pm
(https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t1.0-9/10300960_840402882654570_8167703826845400462_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on May 28, 2014, 04:17:46 pm
What's so wrong with that one?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 28, 2014, 05:49:57 pm
Its applying the "better safe than sorry" adage to roughly half the human population.  Its basically saying "stay away from ALL men, because SOME of them are arseholes."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 28, 2014, 05:51:19 pm
Uh... no it's not.

It's saying "This is why women are cautious around men they don't know."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 28, 2014, 05:54:18 pm
Really?  That's not the message I got.  Then again, I'm biased against pics that use shitty analogies instead of just saying what they mean.  "Women avoid men they don't know because some dudes are arseholes" is NOT a complicated message, it doesn't need simplification.  You don't need a Classic Trek-style dumbing-down of a message if the message is so incredibly simple, a four year-old could understand it.

If you absolutely have to make it into some kind of metaphor, then a better one would've been "You avoid strange animals because they might be dangerous.  Now, you know how women feel about strange men."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on May 28, 2014, 06:17:23 pm
Not all men.


Okay, snark aside, 1 in 3 woman will experience some form of domestic abuse, and 1 in 6 will be subjected to sexual assault or potential sexual assault. 
So yeah, while only a small minority of men are rapists and abusers women still absurdly likely to be assaulted. So no, a woman would not be unjust in being concerned when she's around men.

And yes, the poster is badly worded.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 28, 2014, 06:30:05 pm
Really?  That's not the message I got.  Then again, I'm biased against pics that use shitty analogies instead of just saying what they mean.  "Women avoid men they don't know because some dudes are arseholes" is NOT a complicated message, it doesn't need simplification.  You don't need a Classic Trek-style dumbing-down of a message if the message is so incredibly simple, a four year-old could understand it.

If you absolutely have to make it into some kind of metaphor, then a better one would've been "You avoid strange animals because they might be dangerous.  Now, you know how women feel about strange men."

Or how about reading the quote in its original context:

http://thefrogman.me/post/86871780653/the-mras-are-outraged-not-because-a-violent

And have a follow up:

http://thefrogman.me/post/86945639873/the-aftermath
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on May 28, 2014, 06:40:35 pm
The message I got out of it was an explanation of the pointlessness of pointing out that "not all men" are assholes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 28, 2014, 07:09:55 pm
The message I got out of it was an explanation of the pointlessness of pointing out that "not all men" as assholes.

Exactly
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 28, 2014, 07:37:03 pm
Truth be told, I have an inherent bias against overly-simplistic analogies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on May 28, 2014, 07:38:14 pm
Truth be told, I have an inherent bias against overly-simplistic analogies.

Analogies have to be overly simplistic or else the people targeted generally won't understand them.

I'm fairly certain analogies aren't exactly meant to be an exact science.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on May 29, 2014, 08:41:00 pm
I think they could have phrased it better, sure we may get it but most of the internet isn't to bright.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on June 01, 2014, 03:07:55 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

What the hell is wrong with cyberpunk?


Lycanthropy? Necromancy? Vampirisim? Levitation? THE FUCK???? You know those aren't real, right?

And seperately, I like my Cyberpunk stuff, LOTR, Video Games, Harry Potter, D&D, Fornication (depending on how you decide to define it), Rock Music, and Heavy Metal. So fuck off.

And I know this is kinda old to be responding to, but I couldn't help it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on June 01, 2014, 03:28:14 pm
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79gy8qKuK1qee5cto1_500.jpg)

What the hell is wrong with cyberpunk?


Lycanthropy? Necromancy? Vampirisim? Levitation? THE FUCK???? You know those aren't real, right?

And seperately, I like my Cyberpunk stuff, LOTR, Video Games, Harry Potter, D&D, Fornication (depending on how you decide to define it), Rock Music, and Heavy Metal. So fuck off.

And I know this is kinda old to be responding to, but I couldn't help it.
While this one is old, it's still just as batshit Nuts.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 01, 2014, 03:29:10 pm
Especially with what appears to be a pic of massive cleavage right above it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KZN02 on June 06, 2014, 03:08:54 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/q71/s720x720/10428076_782631681767682_3110454040808210420_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on June 06, 2014, 03:13:40 pm
*squints*

too long, too small, can't read.

I'm guessing it's summed up as "HOW DARE YOU WHARGARBL" though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on June 06, 2014, 03:38:15 pm
Well, parts of the whargarble actually seem good.

He points out that even though he believes the "NOT ONE MORE" crowd have their hearts in the right place it is not likely to succeed and that there are way more people dying daily to gun/knife violence but these sorts of movements seem to ignore most of them. And that despite 75% of shooting victims being black they for some reason only pick white poster girls to represent the victims.

But he also calls them cowards AND he claims that he knows that the girls weren't interested in the shooter because he was obviously gay (writer says the he has a pretty good gaydar.)

...Although, in that case you would think he wouldn't have been bothered by not getting attention from women.

He also points out the old cliches of "what about knives?" and "guns don't kill people, people kill people" and even though I agree with both of those points he really comes off as a douchebag.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on June 06, 2014, 03:46:31 pm
*squinting as well*

I don't think it's so much "whargarbl" as it is "You are a fuckhead and here's why..."

The over-all I'm getting is:

First paragraph is full of snark. Second is pointing out that millions own both guns and knives and that anonymously sending postcards is little more than a masturbatory self-congratulating way to feel like you're doing something without actually doing anything. Third paragraph is telling that he'd done research on the girl in question, she sounds awesome and that he has a 19-year old daughter who's a freshman in college so he can relate to her parents. Fourth paragraph is a backhanded compliment and points out that guns and knives and the makers of them aren't going away and that the sender's efforts would be better spent in going after the wielders of the weapons rather than the weapons themselves.

*edit*

Got ninja'd by askold.

Actually, askold, in this case it isn't a cliche of "what about knives" because the picture on the post card is of one of the victims of the rampage killings that happened in Santa Barbara where three of the six victims in that case were knifed to death. I think in this context bringing up knives is appropriate.

Though he still comes off pretty douchey in places.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on June 07, 2014, 01:31:16 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/4B8BN6S.jpg)
Okay, I hate Tumblr people like this but, could someone tone it the fuck down?
And what's the First world problems are the only problems suppose to mean?
What is this?
Could they have been less anvilicious?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on June 07, 2014, 02:39:32 pm
Should've been put in best protest signs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on June 07, 2014, 02:43:07 pm
Should've been put in best protest signs.
Not this again, chinese knockoff. Despite me having a special hatred for Tumblr SJWs, do you really have to stir the shit this much?

Also, I await those sacrifices.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 07, 2014, 02:50:19 pm
Its got something of a point, at least.  Tumblr is far, FAR too hung up on "privilege," be it real or imagined.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on June 07, 2014, 05:11:11 pm
Its got something of a point, at least.  Tumblr is far, FAR too hung up on "privilege," be it real or imagined.
I know that, but this is still pretty tasteless, and the "First worlders" part seems a bit stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on June 08, 2014, 12:36:49 am
Its got something of a point, at least.  Tumblr is far, FAR too hung up on "privilege," be it real or imagined.
I know that, but this is still pretty tasteless, and the "First worlders" part seems a bit stupid.

Actually, the first worlder bit is the whole point of that picture. Most of the "privileges" are thrown around at first world people and used to complain about who non/less-privileged people are treated in first world countries. That picture has the same insults being thrown at a impoverished kid in a third world country who obviously isn't benefitting much from any of those.

In fact, from what I've seen apart from the Kony thing and about the Boko Haram kidnapping Tumblr Social justice folks have been concentrating on first world problems. Complaining about how LGBT* face discrimination in USA while not saying a word about how LGBT* are treated in Somalia for example.

This is not to say that there wouldn't be things that need to be fixed in the first world countries as well but the picture does have a point in that when those "male privileges" for example are brought out it is more likely to be about the glass ceiling or female wage rather than about how women are still bought and sold in some countries of the world...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on June 08, 2014, 12:59:52 am
The "you don't have it as bad as these people" irks me. Sure, people here don't have half the problems that others have, but that doesn't magically invalidate their problems.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on June 08, 2014, 01:02:49 am
The "you don't have it as bad as these people" irks me. Sure, people here don't have half the problems that others have, but that doesn't magically invalidate their problems.

This.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on June 08, 2014, 01:05:20 am
Its got something of a point, at least.  Tumblr is far, FAR too hung up on "privilege," be it real or imagined.
I know that, but this is still pretty tasteless, and the "First worlders" part seems a bit stupid.

Actually, the first worlder bit is the whole point of that picture. Most of the "privileges" are thrown around at first world people and used to complain about who non/less-privileged people are treated in first world countries. That picture has the same insults being thrown at a impoverished kid in a third world country who obviously isn't benefitting much from any of those.

In fact, from what I've seen apart from the Kony thing and about the Boko Haram kidnapping Tumblr Social justice folks have been concentrating on first world problems. Complaining about how LGBT* face discrimination in USA while not saying a word about how LGBT* are treated in Somalia for example.

This is not to say that there wouldn't be things that need to be fixed in the first world countries as well but the picture does have a point in that when those "male privileges" for example are brought out it is more likely to be about the glass ceiling or female wage rather than about how women are still bought and sold in some countries of the world...
Ah, true.
Again, the point is fine, the delivery is... Something...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on June 08, 2014, 02:03:19 am
The "you don't have it as bad as these people" irks me. Sure, people here don't have half the problems that others have, but that doesn't magically invalidate their problems.

This.

Fucking drinking to this...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on June 08, 2014, 05:12:00 am
The "you don't have it as bad as these people" irks me. Sure, people here don't have half the problems that others have, but that doesn't magically invalidate their problems.

This.

Fucking drinking to this...

Agreed. I didn't mean to imply that people aren't experiencing discrimination in first world countries or that those problems should be ignored until the bigger ones are handled. It is just that occasionally one should look at the big picture and particularly for the people who complain about representation it should be important to remember those who have it even worse and who are not getting enough attention or help.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on June 09, 2014, 07:29:56 pm
(https://24.media.tumblr.com/dc79b3bd774db44a9f6b27f86ea6f6e7/tumblr_n5j7uyhnqP1trfdz1o1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on June 09, 2014, 07:46:41 pm
(https://24.media.tumblr.com/dc79b3bd774db44a9f6b27f86ea6f6e7/tumblr_n5j7uyhnqP1trfdz1o1_500.jpg)

Just rice then.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on June 09, 2014, 09:07:05 pm
(https://24.media.tumblr.com/dc79b3bd774db44a9f6b27f86ea6f6e7/tumblr_n5j7uyhnqP1trfdz1o1_500.jpg)
About 80% of "toilets" didn't exist 100 years ago.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on June 09, 2014, 09:08:30 pm
(https://24.media.tumblr.com/dc79b3bd774db44a9f6b27f86ea6f6e7/tumblr_n5j7uyhnqP1trfdz1o1_500.jpg)

Just rice then.

Because natural things are so affordable. Yep. Not way more expensive than artificial things.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 10, 2014, 07:58:23 am
If they fortified plastic with proper nutrition and made it taste like bacon, I'd eat that fucking plastic.

Also, assholes, Ludd was a terrorist and you're a bunch of throwbacks.  You wanna live in a cave and eat your own shit?  Go right ahead, I'll not stop you.  Just don't bring any of that narsty technology with you.  Leave it with me.  I'll use it to get better shit for myself.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on June 18, 2014, 06:03:52 pm
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/6gde8h.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on June 18, 2014, 10:15:54 pm
Heinous, but ultimately meaningless, in that racists who fap to that kind of shit don't really have any power to stop social progress.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on June 18, 2014, 10:58:01 pm
Still makes me want to punch one in the face.

I know, I know, martyr complex and all... they'll always find some reason to feed it, though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on June 21, 2014, 01:50:50 pm
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/6gde8h.jpg)

Along with the obvious boatload of bigoted stupid I hope they didn't use an actual crime scene photo for the second pic.

Maybe they just got one of their bigoted gal-pals & had her muss up her hair, smear fake blood on her face & lie on the ground.

If White-Supremacists think dating or marrying a black guy is an instant death sentence, I'd love to point out the tons of "Black Guy/White Girl" paring that don't result in mayhem.

Notice how it's always a blonde girl? It's never a redhead or brunette. Always a very pale, blond girl & a really black guy.

I'd also like to bonk bigots with a dictionary!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on June 25, 2014, 08:03:27 am
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/2md5afq.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on June 25, 2014, 11:41:41 am
Weak argument from whining paranoids.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 04, 2014, 11:53:10 am
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/ji264i.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on July 04, 2014, 04:18:48 pm
Am I the only one who finds it just a bit humorous that their URL looks suspiciously like "notall"? As in #notallwhitepeople?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on July 04, 2014, 04:19:22 pm
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/ji264i.jpg)

Take back your country?  It's only "your" country because a bunch of white people effectively stole the land from the non-white natives, you stupid fucking cunt bucket.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on July 04, 2014, 08:10:49 pm
Aah, but Katsuro, before Might Whitey came along, the natives were living a life of indolence, nakedness, and barbarity.  They lived without the Divine Light of Christ and dared fight back when the Almighty himself decreed that we take this land.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on July 05, 2014, 01:59:34 pm
"Trusting personality"

Thinking that there's a concentrated effort targeting people with the same skin pigmentation as you doesn't sound very trusting to me....
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 07, 2014, 05:07:05 pm
(http://oi60.tinypic.com/2jax3so.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on July 07, 2014, 08:03:58 pm
What the fuck?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on July 07, 2014, 09:36:40 pm
What the fuck?

From the people who brought you "Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white" and "White people for white nations, black people can go live in their own nation", comes a completely fucktarded comparison of human rights to Nazis!

Godwin, ho!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on July 08, 2014, 02:23:02 am
Nazi's Godwin now?

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/p526x296/602005_237670556392942_2105379919_n.png)

From an anarchist group on facebook.

To be fair it got some negative comments, but it got a few hundred likes and the person who made it seems to have been serious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on July 08, 2014, 07:44:43 am
Eeh, with their childish ideology, one can't expect much from anarchists.  They're the only ones who are stupid enough to believe that taking away the rules would somehow magically make the world a better place thru rainbows and unicorn shit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 10, 2014, 07:55:07 am
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/15eaa2w.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 16, 2014, 02:11:30 pm
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/25je9v6.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on July 16, 2014, 09:55:05 pm
I'm not sure how racial diversity causes a family to die out. Surely the worst it can do is make it so your descendants are a different race than you? Unless your family refuses to reproduce unless some percentage of society is white or some such, which is really your problem.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: LeTipex on July 16, 2014, 10:07:15 pm
I'm not sure how racial diversity causes a family to die out. Surely the worst it can do is make it so your descendants are a different race than you? Unless your family refuses to reproduce unless some percentage of society is white or some such, which is really your problem.
Judging from the drawing, I think he expects his family to be killed once they are a sufficiently small minority. The two last members do appear to be hanged or something of the sort.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on July 17, 2014, 11:13:20 am
Ah, thanks. Apparently I continue to underestimate the stupidity of racist logic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on July 18, 2014, 05:02:44 am
I just want to go up to them and yell "Just because there's a smaller percentage of something doesn't mean there's less of it you morons!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on July 19, 2014, 07:23:38 am
I doubt most of these morons made it past 6th grade before their parents pulled them out for teaching them that thar Satanic algebra.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on July 19, 2014, 07:30:17 am
I doubt most of these morons made it past 6th grade before their parents pulled them out for teaching them that thar Satanic algebra.

even worse than satanic, algebra is arabic. hell, it breaks down into "al-jabr" meaning roughly "the restoration/ the mending of broken parts". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra#Etymology)

and don't even think of reminding those knuckle-draggers that our numbers are arabic, else they'll go through "i, i-i, i-i-i, iv, vee..."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 20, 2014, 11:52:33 am
(http://firstlightforum.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/angry_340d5e_1814347.jpg?w=590)

The only way this isn't horribly offensive is if this is some kind of innuendo.  And somehow, I doubt it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on July 20, 2014, 12:08:50 pm
(http://firstlightforum.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/angry_340d5e_1814347.jpg?w=590)

The only way this isn't horribly offensive is if this is some kind of innuendo.  And somehow, I doubt it.

banana -> "chimp"-> slang for black man-> black-man has disproportionnate trouser titan. virginity -> prison rape. total innuendo makes it way more racist than before.

racism and rape humor, what's missing for the trifecta?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on July 20, 2014, 08:25:51 pm
The /pol/ is strong with this one..l
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 20, 2014, 11:01:04 pm
(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/48464282.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 21, 2014, 08:41:20 pm
(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/48464282.jpg)

Bigots fail at humor. At least TRY to be clever, man!

And that catchphrase drives me nuts. Why do they keep repeating it when everyone knows is bullcrap?

YOU CAN STILL LOVE OTHER ETHNICITIES AND STILL LIKE WHITE PEOPLE! THERE'S NO EITHER-OR! ANTI-RACIST IS A CODEWORD FOR ANTI-RACIST!!!

We need to troll these bigots with "Anti-Racist Is A Codeword For Pro-Humanity" & "Pro-White Does Not Mean Pro-Racist", then regurgitate that on bigoted web boards like broken records until their inbred pinheads explode!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on July 21, 2014, 10:46:30 pm
Bigots fail at humor. At least TRY to be clever, man!

And that catchphrase drives me nuts. Why do they keep repeating it when everyone knows is bullcrap?

(http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-if-you-tell-a-lie-big-enough-and-keep-repeating-it-people-will-eventually-come-to-believe-it-joseph-goebbels-383851.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on July 21, 2014, 11:18:50 pm
(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/48464282.jpg)
I think this is some really lame and idiotic troll attempt.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Katsuro on July 22, 2014, 05:47:55 pm
(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/48464282.jpg)
I think this is some really lame and idiotic troll attempt.

Hopefully, because I'd hate to think that anyone would need it pointed out to them that white people only have much of the land they do in America because it was taken from "brown people" in the first place.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 22, 2014, 10:41:19 pm
That so-called "mantra" that the WS's (white supremacists) conjured up drives me bonkers. Yes, I'm aware of Goebbels' "Big Lie". But DANG! They repeat it to the point that it's ANNOYING AS HELL!

In order for "The Big Lie" to be effective, there still has to be some vague "plausibility" & "finesse" to it. This phrase, however, is annoyingly nonsensical to the core!

It's like "2 + 5 = TURNIP", it's stupid!

It's like scratching a chalkboard! I want to punch something!

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on July 27, 2014, 02:44:53 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/siotgAZ.jpg)
Oddly the title was "Fits like a fedora on a neck beard"

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 31, 2014, 08:44:55 am
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/svgmxf.jpg)

Yes, there is.  It's somebody who believes in a global conspiracy to commit "white genocide".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on July 31, 2014, 10:00:11 am
But there is a global conspiracy to commit white genocide. I'm one of the ringleaders, actually. We're not doing a very good job.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 31, 2014, 08:27:06 pm
But there is a global conspiracy to commit white genocide. I'm one of the ringleaders, actually. We're not doing a very good job.

(http://i60.tinypic.com/ix5f5v.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on July 31, 2014, 09:13:22 pm
(https://31.media.tumblr.com/d9ca3dacab907be6d9c4612d432b5e64/tumblr_n9jrigNcFH1shivooo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on August 01, 2014, 07:36:59 am
(https://31.media.tumblr.com/d9ca3dacab907be6d9c4612d432b5e64/tumblr_n9jrigNcFH1shivooo1_500.jpg)

Such trendy.  Much cool.  Wow hip.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 04, 2014, 10:33:26 am
(http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/images/item/item-20100823-protestsign11.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 04, 2014, 01:26:36 pm
[islamophobe]That's not dumb, that's a perfectly reasonable point.  Islamists should shove shariah law up their asses![/islamophobe]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on August 04, 2014, 02:38:18 pm
I know, here in America we won't tolerate having militant religious assholes impose nonsensical laws based on there personal morality!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on August 06, 2014, 08:33:12 am
some MRA memes:
(http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/avfmkillsleep.jpg?w=604)
(http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/avfmgoodladies.jpg?w=604)
(http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/avfmtransphobia.png?w=600&h=936)
(http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/avfmawesome.jpg?w=600&h=400)
(http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/avfmindustrev.jpg?w=600&h=498)
(http://manboobz.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/avfmmothersdayyy.jpg?w=600&h=449)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 06, 2014, 08:48:58 am
that's wrong on so many levels... especially the part about "gender=social construct=it's your fault"... it's not quite victim-blaming, but it is a logical fallacy. i'd say it's a self-fulfilling prophecy (in that life is hard for women because machos make it hard for women so fighting against machoism is hard), but someone please correct me if there is another fallacy more à propos.

the first one is a strawman, the second is an appeal to emotion (and patently false, unless indeed your mother hates you, in which case, i'd like you to meet a certain doctor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud)), the third i've covered, the fourth is nonsensical since feminists don't want all that to be awesome (and that's kind of the point of feminism: equality), the fifth requires a massive [citation needed], especially as how the industrial revolution is... not exactly the most female-friendly economic evolution in the history of mankind, and the last is a false equivalence.

honestly, seeing those memes try to decredibilize feminism does more harm to the mra cause methinks. but hey, if you preach to your church, you're bound to get support, no matter how badly thought-out your sermon is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on August 06, 2014, 09:02:14 am
They're from A Voice For Men, so they could just say "Feminists r gay, lol" and the cult would enjoy it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 09, 2014, 08:24:39 pm
(http://oi62.tinypic.com/v7rx8n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 09, 2014, 09:15:09 pm
I'm starting to wonder if madness is the source of talent.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 18, 2014, 03:57:21 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bu94FL6CQAAqlse.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on August 18, 2014, 10:06:19 pm
Look, if you don't even know how a comparison works, there's no point talking to you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on August 18, 2014, 11:00:55 pm
All I can think is "You're the same people who think that interracial marriage isn't legal either, so why should we even listen to you?"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Tolpuddle Martyr on August 22, 2014, 03:54:25 am
This cartoon (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/21/is-missouri-newspapers-provocative-cartoon-kind-of-racist-yup-its-pretty-darn-racist/)

(http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mccoy_toon.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on August 22, 2014, 05:14:34 am
This cartoon (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/21/is-missouri-newspapers-provocative-cartoon-kind-of-racist-yup-its-pretty-darn-racist/)

(http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mccoy_toon.jpg)
(http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/images/2S/razor-blades-470b-0908.jpg)
(http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120113180913/zombie/images/0/00/Basic_Knife.jpg)
(http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/126226/126226,1281933847,6/stock-photo-sharp-glass-59108497.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on August 26, 2014, 02:55:03 am
I got this as a recommended post on Tumblr, something about the trans agenda.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on August 26, 2014, 03:44:58 am
Is that a battery flexing in the middle?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 26, 2014, 04:20:48 am
It is an axe in a bundle of sticks. I think it was the symbol of Mussolini's fascists although it is an older symbol as well (Like swastika.)

I think it stood for justice or something like that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on August 26, 2014, 05:37:41 am
Indeed, that is the fasces, an ancient Roman symbol and namesake of fascism. It was traditionally carried by the consuls, and consisted of a bundle of reeds, representing strength in unity, and an axe, representing war. Mussolini often used Roman imagery in his propaganda.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on August 26, 2014, 02:47:54 pm
So what's the one on the right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 26, 2014, 05:35:58 pm
The trans pride flag, I believe.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on August 26, 2014, 06:02:00 pm
So trans pride is totalitarian? Does not compute!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on August 26, 2014, 06:10:38 pm
It is an axe in a bundle of sticks. I think it was the symbol of Mussolini's fascists although it is an older symbol as well (Like swastika.)

I think it stood for justice or something like that.

Correctamundo, Asky!

In Ancient Rome, the fasces was the symbol of a lictor. Lictors served as bodyguards to magistrates, who held imperium. Imperium was represented by the fasces, among other symbols.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on August 26, 2014, 07:44:11 pm
So trans pride is totalitarian? Does not compute!

Hence why it's in "Dumbest" ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 01, 2014, 12:31:58 pm
(http://en.metapedia.org/m/images/thumb/e/e1/Interspecies_mixing.jpg/454px-Interspecies_mixing.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on September 01, 2014, 12:59:24 pm
...I really truly wish these idiots would learn that races are not different species.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 01, 2014, 01:03:20 pm
...I really truly wish these idiots would learn that races are not different species.
Your average White Nationalist has the IQ of a baked potato.  I wouldn't hold my breath.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dan on September 01, 2014, 03:07:55 pm
...I really truly wish these idiots would learn that races are not different species.
Your average White Nationalist has the IQ of a baked potato.  I wouldn't hold my breath.
You can tell by the spelling. "Negriod"?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cerim Treascair on September 01, 2014, 05:27:56 pm
And, of course, they're also pointedly ignoring all the interspecies breeding that can happen that result in infertile offspring.  Mules, for example.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on September 02, 2014, 01:19:08 pm
Actually, the wholphin there managed to be fertile.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on September 05, 2014, 02:58:54 pm
Cow-bison hybrids (cattalo, beefalo) are also fertile.

Those are actually different genera as well (Bos taurus x Bison bison), not just species. As is the case with the wholphin (Pseudorca crassidens x Tursiops truncatus), which is why I believe the textbook definition of "species" is bullshit and needs to be dropped or at least revised.

Different human "races" are not different species, however, and in fact there is a lot more genetic diversity within different African populations than there is between African and non-African populations for one. While non-African populations do have tiny amounts of Neanderthal DNA mixed in due to interbreeding, there isn't anywhere enough to warrant a separate classification even at the subspecies level.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on September 05, 2014, 03:38:14 pm
Those are actually different genera as well (Bos taurus x Bison bison), not just species. As is the case with the wholphin (Pseudorca crassidens x Tursiops truncatus), which is why I believe the textbook definition of "species" is bullshit and needs to be dropped or at least revised.

There is always some probability that hybrids will be fertile, but as population genetics become more distinct between subspecies, that probability becomes lower and lower until the species are effectively isolated; while individual fertile hybrids may spring up from time to time, the odds that they will persist as a population is vanishingly tiny.

You could say the species is actually the best-defined taxonomic ranking in modern biology. The higher ones (genera, class, etc) are arbitrary holdovers from our Linnaean understanding of the field.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on September 09, 2014, 10:28:06 pm
This isn't really a protest sign, but it fits this thread the best. It's a comment sting I found on youtube.

(http://i.imgur.com/BIbZKIU.png)

And what video spawned this spouting of delusional persecution complex?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JbnDXw-0pM

Can anyone explain to me what the hell friction welding has in common with "white genocide"? I certainly can't find what it is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on September 09, 2014, 11:29:59 pm

Can anyone explain to me what the hell friction welding has in common with "white genocide"? I certainly can't find what it is.

That's because you've been brainwashed by the jewluminati
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on September 10, 2014, 06:09:39 pm
And what video spawned this spouting of delusional persecution complex?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JbnDXw-0pM

Can anyone explain to me what the hell friction welding has in common with "white genocide"? I certainly can't find what it is.
Well you see REAL welding (the kind practiced by men wearing glorified oven mitts and wielding somewhat phallicly shaped tools) uses an electric arc which produce an intense WHITE light. This new age friction welding bullshit doesn't and it threatens to destroy real welding.

OR

It's a shitty metaphor for how bringing two things together causes friction that fails to take into account the fact that the end result creates something greater than the sum of its parts.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on September 11, 2014, 10:38:49 am
It's Youtube. Shit like that breaks out over anything.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on September 11, 2014, 10:46:36 am
It's Youtube. Shit like that breaks out over anything.
Hitler did nothing wrong.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 11, 2014, 10:51:06 am
It's a shitty metaphor for how bringing two things together causes friction that fails to take into account the fact that the end result creates something greater than the sum of its parts.

It is a very good metaphor for bringing two things together because at first there is friction and unless it is done carefully both might be ruined but if things go well the end result creates something greater than the sum of its parts.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 13, 2014, 11:03:13 pm
(https://images.encyclopediadramatica.es/9/9b/Jew%27s_funny_perspective.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on September 14, 2014, 12:42:14 am
To the maker of the sign: and what were they kicked out for? Answer: being different. In every conflict since the founding of Christianity (I won't comment on those before it, especially since many of those recorded in the Torah may not have happened), the Jews have been the receivers, rather than the givers, of brutality. That Judaism exists at all in Europe is nothing short of impressive.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 14, 2014, 12:46:28 am
Except for the part where they've quarantined the Palestinians while forbidding medical supplies and food being delivered to them after driving them out of their houses to bulldoze them and build Israeli-only homes over them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 14, 2014, 08:55:48 am
I love how all these anti-Semites don't understand why the Jews have been scapegoats for so long.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 15, 2014, 05:27:10 pm
...I really truly wish these idiots would learn that races are not different species.
Your average White Nationalist has the IQ of a baked potato.  I wouldn't hold my breath.

A new idea for for an anti-bigot nickname, Mr./Ms. Potato Heads!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 21, 2014, 08:02:46 pm
Spoiled for size:

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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 21, 2014, 10:26:29 pm
I'm not up-to-date on the latest conspiracy theories, is that trying to make a point about racial inclusiveness in Disney being a Jewish plot?

Presumably an evil Jewish plot, though the only people that are going to care are the racists that already agree with them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 21, 2014, 10:55:15 pm
I'm not up-to-date on the latest conspiracy theories, is that trying to make a point about racial inclusiveness in Disney being a Jewish plot?

Presumably an evil Jewish plot, though the only people that are going to care are the racists that already agree with them.

I think so.  And that presumably goes for other forms of "degeneracy".

By the way, they repeat the myth that Walt Disney was an anti-Semite... and say it was a good thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 22, 2014, 12:39:50 am
I'm not up-to-date on the latest conspiracy theories, is that trying to make a point about racial inclusiveness in Disney being a Jewish plot?

Presumably an evil Jewish plot, though the only people that are going to care are the racists that already agree with them.

I think so.  And that presumably goes for other forms of "degeneracy".

By the way, they repeat the myth that Walt Disney was an anti-Semite... and say it was a good thing.

These people believe that anything that promotes non-whites is evil or worse ...Interracial relationships... Is eeeeevil. (showing happy middle eastern couple in Aladdin? EVIL! Movie set in China or South America? Those have non-white cast! EVIL!)

Although I wonder what is wrong with Beauty and the beast. I admit, that I haven't seen the Disney version but isn't he just a regular white dude who was cursed? Are these White-supremacists also against transhumanism/curses/werewolves or something?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on September 22, 2014, 01:43:41 am
They probably see the fact that he was an "animal" when she fell for him as a promotion of interracial marriage. Because we all know that race=species, amIright?

Excuse me. I need to go bleach my brain now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 22, 2014, 04:03:27 am
I think it's safe to say that despite having a human form, ALL of the promotional material and pretty much 90% of the fanart depicts him as the Beast, shows us who everyone really appreciates.

Because the Beast is the character that all of us Disney fans grew to love, not the uncanny valley blond dude that appears in the last few minutes of the film.

Also those guys can go fuck themselves.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheUnknown on September 22, 2014, 05:00:08 am
Can't help but notice that Lion King is absent from that post.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 22, 2014, 05:11:00 am
All Disney films with animal main cast are absent.

Like Lady and the tramp (I actually had to check that one's name in English since I've only seen it as a kid with the Finnish name and dubbing.) Bernard and Bianca and Dumbo.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on September 22, 2014, 07:05:33 am
Pretty sure Lady and the Tramp is up there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 22, 2014, 07:39:22 am
Pretty sure Lady and the Tramp is up there.
Dammit, missed it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on September 22, 2014, 02:02:07 pm
Also, Tarzan was white; he was just raised by gorillas.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 22, 2014, 02:10:12 pm
Also, Tarzan was white; he was just raised by gorillas.

B-b-b-but DREADS.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 22, 2014, 02:25:34 pm
I think they were trying to imply that Beauty and the Beast promotes bestiality.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 22, 2014, 07:13:00 pm

Spoiled for size:

(click to show/hide)

Shrunk it for ya, *sigh* again.
(http://i58.tinypic.com/3021l5z.jpg)


I think they were trying to imply that Beauty and the Beast promotes bestiality.

Or feminism, concerning the whole Gaston thing.

In other words, according to the "Strombutt" crowd (As I'll call them from now on), Belle should dump the hairball-turned-prettyboy prince & her love of reading and go with the hulking sexist jerk.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on September 22, 2014, 08:03:06 pm
SOmething I missed...how is Meg from "Hercules" bad? She's pretty much their definition of an ideal woman...shapely and willing to do anything for her man.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on September 22, 2014, 08:16:28 pm
SOmething I missed...how is Meg from "Hercules" bad? She's pretty much their definition of an ideal woman...shapely and willing to do anything for her man.

BECAUSE DIZNEY EBIL JOOZ RAWRG WHARGARBL
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on September 22, 2014, 08:18:50 pm
Do white supremacist dislike Greeks? That's the only thing I can see them coming at her for other than that I have no idea.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on September 22, 2014, 08:36:06 pm
Honestly, I think it's just that she has skin that is not incredibly pale, and that she's not submissive and obedient.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 22, 2014, 08:39:53 pm
I thought it was because she's a little too sensual for them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 22, 2014, 09:55:25 pm
Perhaps it's the "Hercules is Pagan" jib jab.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 22, 2014, 10:21:40 pm
Which is weird, because Disney Hercules is a pretty blatant desecration of the pagan myths. It's like having a version of the Bible where Jesus isn't the son of Mary and Satan is a pretty cool guy, and claiming it as a promotion of Christianity.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on September 22, 2014, 10:22:43 pm
Perhaps it's the "Hercules is Pagan" jib jab.

Except that a lot of white supremacists A) self-identify as pagan and B) believe the Greeks were blond-and-blue until they mixed with "lesser races."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on September 22, 2014, 10:45:47 pm
Which is weird, because Disney Hercules is a pretty blatant desecration of the pagan myths. It's like having a version of the Bible where Jesus isn't the son of Mary and Satan is a pretty cool guy, and claiming it as a promotion of Christianity.

I've read that Greece refused to allow the movie to air in theaters because they were so insulted by its depiction of Greek mythology.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 22, 2014, 11:35:46 pm
SOmething I missed...how is Meg from "Hercules" bad? She's pretty much their definition of an ideal woman...shapely and willing to do anything for her man.

BECAUSE DIZNEY EBIL JOOZ RAWRG WHARGARBL


She lied to Hercules, consorted with Hades and it was implied that she had been working with Hades before. She starts out as a very basic femme fatale even is she does redeem herself in the end.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 27, 2014, 05:21:25 pm
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/2zh1t85.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on September 27, 2014, 05:32:42 pm
Che, seriously?

I mean, yeah he did execute some people, but sadly, that happens in war, and I'd still give him an overall positive grade. He doesn't belong with Stalin and Khomeini.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on September 27, 2014, 10:59:49 pm
Che, seriously?

I mean, yeah he did execute some people, but sadly, that happens in war, and I'd still give him an overall positive grade. He doesn't belong with Stalin and Khomeini.

"But he was a SOSHULIST!!!!11one111!!!!!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on October 03, 2014, 01:48:15 am
Found some kind of weird MRA circlejerk or something on tumblr.
To be fair, one or two of these guys are annoying.

Nothing special, just felt like sharing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on October 03, 2014, 04:09:22 am
What I find most annoying about that is the assumption at the very end. I'm not polite to women because I want them to sleep with me, I'm polite to women because I see them as fellow people. Why do MRA's assume all men have the same attitude toward women as portable sex-machines that they have?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on October 03, 2014, 04:22:58 am
What I find most annoying about that is the assumption at the very end. I'm not polite to women because I want them to sleep with me, I'm polite to women because I see them as fellow people. Why do MRA's assume all men have the same attitude toward women as portable sex-machines that they have?
Pro-ject-IIIOOOONN, PROJECTION!

PROJECTION!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on October 03, 2014, 11:21:07 am
Che, seriously?

I mean, yeah he did execute some people, but sadly, that happens in war, and I'd still give him an overall positive grade. He doesn't belong with Stalin and Khomeini.

The people of Cuba absolutely hate him though, for helping bring communism over with Castro.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on October 03, 2014, 12:10:28 pm
Some people of Cuba, probably, but not all. I had a family friend who was a distant relative of Che who travelled to Cuba. By his account, everyone was delighted to hear his surname.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 03, 2014, 12:17:39 pm
Che was a brute, a racist, and a mass murderer.  He may not have killed as many people as Stalin or Khomeini, but he was hardly heroic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on October 03, 2014, 01:12:20 pm
Some people of Cuba, probably, but not all. I had a family friend who was a distant relative of Che who travelled to Cuba. By his account, everyone was delighted to hear his surname.

Maybe actually Cubans feel that way, I know a Cuban refugee family who hate him.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on October 03, 2014, 04:26:32 pm
Found some kind of weird MRA circlejerk or something on tumblr.
To be fair, one or two of these guys are annoying.

Nothing special, just felt like sharing.

Not going to comment on the rest of them, people have already said things that I would have said. I will just mention that Tatsuya Ishida did turn a popular, very funny comic into a thousand pages of unfunny feminist diatribe, and Sinfest just became boring as a result. Hell, it's barely even about the devil anymore.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on October 03, 2014, 05:42:41 pm
Some people of Cuba, probably, but not all. I had a family friend who was a distant relative of Che who travelled to Cuba. By his account, everyone was delighted to hear his surname.

Maybe actually Cubans feel that way, I know a Cuban refugee family who hate him.
Well, the refugees are a rather biased source. They are the people who didn't like the sort of policies he brought.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on October 03, 2014, 08:34:23 pm
Che was a brute, a racist, and a mass murderer.  He may not have killed as many people as Stalin or Khomeini, but he was hardly heroic.

Mass murderer? Did he even execute prisoners of war? He's as much a mass murderer as General Grant.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 03, 2014, 09:14:59 pm
Che was a brute, a racist, and a mass murderer.  He may not have killed as many people as Stalin or Khomeini, but he was hardly heroic.

Mass murderer? Did he even execute prisoners of war? He's as much a mass murderer as General Grant.

I don't know if he executed POWs, but it's a demonstrable fact that he gloried in murder.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thor-halvorssen/an-open-letter-to-urban-o_b_1895353.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thor-halvorssen/an-open-letter-to-urban-o_b_1895353.html)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on October 03, 2014, 10:13:06 pm
Che was a brute, a racist, and a mass murderer.  He may not have killed as many people as Stalin or Khomeini, but he was hardly heroic.

Mass murderer? Did he even execute prisoners of war? He's as much a mass murderer as General Grant.

I don't know if he executed POWs, but it's a demonstrable fact that he gloried in murder.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thor-halvorssen/an-open-letter-to-urban-o_b_1895353.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thor-halvorssen/an-open-letter-to-urban-o_b_1895353.html)

The article discusses the "murder" of Eutimio Guerra. This is ludicrously hypocritical. Guerra had committed a very serious military offence - he had sold out his unit, giving their position away to the Cuban air force for money. A British or American soldier would probably have been executed for the same offence at the time. Calling that murder is idiotic and calling the person who carried it out a butcher is a lie. Indeed, Guevara himself was executed. Are the CIA mass murdering butchers?

The article also talks about Guevara's alleged terrorist plot to blow up a railway station in the US, a plot he's supposed to have made in 1962. This attack would have presumably been a reaction to the actual American bombings that did take place inside Cuba and killed hundreds of Cuban civilians. Unlike the CIA, Guevara thought better of his terrorist campaign.

Look, I don't want to whitewash this. Guevara killed people. Guevara killed innocent people, probably. He killed political opponents, people who helped the fascist government of Cuba during the Revolution. Note that your article overestimated the death toll at La Cabana by ten times. He shot both outright war criminals and collaborators after brief, dodgy trials with loose rules of evidence (because no other sort of court was possible). So did virtually every liberator in history, from Washington to Eisenhower. We can condemn all those for their identical and mostly unavoidable crimes together, and stop this silly pretence that Guevara and Guevara alone was some Stalinist butcher. On the other hand, and unlike those other two great generals, he educated and fed millions, so there's that.

Now, the Cuban government has since collapsed into dictatorship - because absolute power corrupts ect, and also because Fidel was always a bit of a tyrant - but for a few years Cuba was actually a shining light of liberation.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on October 03, 2014, 10:16:09 pm
(http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/popcorn_stephen_colbert.gif)

Oh, boy!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on October 03, 2014, 10:53:14 pm
Gotta go with Fred on this one. Condemn Guevara, and you must condemn Washington, Bolivar, Tecumseh, Mandela, and just about every other revolutionary in history.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on October 04, 2014, 12:14:31 am
Washington was a hypocritical slave owner.  He should get more condemnation then he currently does.  Mandela was involved with terrorism when he was younger, but rejected violence when it counted and didn't commit mass murder or help create an authoritarian state after he won.  I don't know enough about the other two to comment.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on October 04, 2014, 04:02:13 am
Guess what: People aren't perfect saints (except Mother Teresa, maybe). And they're all products of their time. Of course Washington was a slave owner. He was a rich man living in Virginia. In slave times. We've evolved as a society quite a bit since then, pretty much universally for the better, but condemning George Washington for being a slaver is stupid unless you can prove that he was exceptionally bad for his time.

Besides, there's so much better stuff to condemn him for. Like his military incompetency. I wish I could elaborate on just how Washington was a terrible general, but I don't know all the facts myself: I rely on the word of a good friend of mine with a degree in military history.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on October 04, 2014, 04:31:10 am
Guess what: People aren't perfect saints (except Mother Teresa, maybe). And they're all products of their time. Of course Washington was a slave owner. He was a rich man living in Virginia. In slave times. We've evolved as a society quite a bit since then, pretty much universally for the better, but condemning George Washington for being a slaver is stupid unless you can prove that he was exceptionally bad for his time.

Besides, there's so much better stuff to condemn him for. Like his military incompetency. I wish I could elaborate on just how Washington was a terrible general, but I don't know all the facts myself: I rely on the word of a good friend of mine with a degree in military history.
And ironically, Teresa is an example of a terrible person. The closest thing to a genuine saint I can think of is Gandhi, and even he was flawed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 04, 2014, 08:38:13 am
(http://aattp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/racist-save-white-america.png)

Funny, I didn't know it was in danger.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on October 04, 2014, 08:39:27 am
Yeaaaah...Mother T was a crazy old Catholic bitch with a massive suffering kink.  Gandhi was a damn sight better, but he was definitely a product of his times.  If you want a perfect saint, if you want the avatar of kindness and love, if you want the closest thing we've got to the idealized version of Christ, you need look no further than this man:

(http://www.wiredforbooks.org/images/FredRogers4.jpg)

(Fred Rogers)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Veras on October 04, 2014, 10:08:30 am
(http://aattp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/racist-save-white-america.png)

Funny, I didn't know it was in danger.

I really hope that the number on the sign is for a phone sex hotline or something like that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on October 04, 2014, 10:29:20 am
That would be so easy to 'shop a number in on that pic. Make sure it's a gay BDSM phone sex hotline.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 04, 2014, 10:30:43 am
That would be so easy to 'shop a number in on that pic. Make sure it's a gay BDSM phone sex hotline.

Maybe I could send a PM to Spuki?  I'd do it myself, but I don't know how to use image editing software.  Maybe I should learn.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on October 04, 2014, 10:36:25 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10685488_292357547555272_3241293403058440731_n.jpg?oh=69f8be9f6b2755c2a4647b1bbadea14f&oe=54C169CF&__gda__=1417846547_fd4974a210246908e5ac51a37881017c)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on October 04, 2014, 11:01:06 am
Rage inducing religious troll meme. I watched both my mom and my aunt die painful and/or dehumanizing, slow deaths, because euthanasia was not an option. I would actually strangle the person who made that meme if they were in the room with me at this moment.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on October 04, 2014, 12:03:40 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10685488_292357547555272_3241293403058440731_n.jpg?oh=69f8be9f6b2755c2a4647b1bbadea14f&oe=54C169CF&__gda__=1417846547_fd4974a210246908e5ac51a37881017c)

Wow, you found something out of Mother T's porn stash.  Clever bastard, I thought the Vatican would have that locked up tight.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 04, 2014, 01:19:10 pm
Yeaaaah...Mother T was a crazy old Catholic bitch with a massive suffering kink.  Gandhi was a damn sight better, but he was definitely a product of his times.  If you want a perfect saint, if you want the avatar of kindness and love, if you want the closest thing we've got to the idealized version of Christ, you need look no further than this man:

(http://www.wiredforbooks.org/images/FredRogers4.jpg)

(Fred Rogers)

I'll raise a glass to that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on October 04, 2014, 02:21:15 pm
Yeaaaah...Mother T was a crazy old Catholic bitch with a massive suffering kink.  Gandhi was a damn sight better, but he was definitely a product of his times.  If you want a perfect saint, if you want the avatar of kindness and love, if you want the closest thing we've got to the idealized version of Christ, you need look no further than this man:

(http://www.wiredforbooks.org/images/FredRogers4.jpg)

(Fred Rogers)
"Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image... that's exactly what you find there, too. He's exactly what he appears to be."
     -Randall Munroe
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on October 04, 2014, 02:24:47 pm
Yeaaaah...Mother T was a crazy old Catholic bitch with a massive suffering kink.  Gandhi was a damn sight better, but he was definitely a product of his times.  If you want a perfect saint, if you want the avatar of kindness and love, if you want the closest thing we've got to the idealized version of Christ, you need look no further than this man:

(http://www.wiredforbooks.org/images/FredRogers4.jpg)

(Fred Rogers)
"Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image... that's exactly what you find there, too. He's exactly what he appears to be."
     -Randall Munroe

In addition, he's someone that even the seediest recesses of the internet won't let you talk shit about. Mr. Rogers was the shit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 04, 2014, 02:27:29 pm
Indeed he was.  Shall I make a thread where we can celebrate him?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on October 04, 2014, 03:17:11 pm
Sure!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on October 05, 2014, 11:47:35 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10685488_292357547555272_3241293403058440731_n.jpg?oh=69f8be9f6b2755c2a4647b1bbadea14f&oe=54C169CF&__gda__=1417846547_fd4974a210246908e5ac51a37881017c)
So BSDM is holy?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 05, 2014, 11:49:24 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10685488_292357547555272_3241293403058440731_n.jpg?oh=69f8be9f6b2755c2a4647b1bbadea14f&oe=54C169CF&__gda__=1417846547_fd4974a210246908e5ac51a37881017c)
So BSDM is holy?

I wouldn't be surprised if somebody believed that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on October 05, 2014, 06:09:58 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10685488_292357547555272_3241293403058440731_n.jpg?oh=69f8be9f6b2755c2a4647b1bbadea14f&oe=54C169CF&__gda__=1417846547_fd4974a210246908e5ac51a37881017c)

It's also an opportunity to SPLIT INFINITIVES. ARGH
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on October 05, 2014, 07:26:21 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10685488_292357547555272_3241293403058440731_n.jpg?oh=69f8be9f6b2755c2a4647b1bbadea14f&oe=54C169CF&__gda__=1417846547_fd4974a210246908e5ac51a37881017c)

It's also an opportunity to SPLIT INFINITIVES. ARGH

1. Where in that text is there a split infinitive?

2. You can split infinitives in a Germanic language, which is what English is. You can't split infinitives in a Romance language, because infinitives in those languages are a single word. Half of English's vocabulary comes from Romance languages, sure, but that doesn't make it a Romance language and it certainly doesn't give it a Romance grammar. English still has a Germanic grammar, so splitting infinitives is just fine.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on October 05, 2014, 07:30:37 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10685488_292357547555272_3241293403058440731_n.jpg?oh=69f8be9f6b2755c2a4647b1bbadea14f&oe=54C169CF&__gda__=1417846547_fd4974a210246908e5ac51a37881017c)

It's also an opportunity to SPLIT INFINITIVES. ARGH

1. Where in that text is there a split infinitive?

2. You can split infinitives in a Germanic language, which is what English is. You can't split infinitives in a Romance language, because infinitives in those languages are a single word. Half of English's vocabulary comes from Romance languages, sure, but that doesn't make it a Romance language and it certainly doesn't give it a Romance grammar. English still has a Germanic grammar, so splitting infinitives is just fine.

Actually, my error. I apparently cannot read. I thought that first sentence was split - it's just regular ugly writing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 05, 2014, 07:51:36 pm
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/2ilix4y.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on October 06, 2014, 12:58:12 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10685488_292357547555272_3241293403058440731_n.jpg?oh=69f8be9f6b2755c2a4647b1bbadea14f&oe=54C169CF&__gda__=1417846547_fd4974a210246908e5ac51a37881017c)
So BSDM is holy?

I wouldn't be surprised if somebody believed that.
Petition to grant T.E. Lawrence Sainthood.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on October 08, 2014, 10:14:59 am
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/2ilix4y.jpg)
Oh, shut up, Strombutts!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on October 10, 2014, 01:35:25 pm
(http://creationsafaris.com/images/BM-Darwine.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on October 10, 2014, 01:49:23 pm
Oh, isn't that cute! They had to look up all those big words and get a grownup to check their grammar...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on October 10, 2014, 07:05:36 pm
Wow. just wow. Psychological projection and lack of self-awareness of that magnitude really should be considered a mental illness.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 14, 2014, 06:19:42 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/5niqlj.jpg]http://oi59.tinypic.com/5niqlj.jpg)

I hate to admit it, but this makes a good point.  While Holocaust denial is loathsome, it shouldn't be a criminal act.

That said, there are mountains upon mountains of evidence for the Holocaust, so...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on October 14, 2014, 06:38:12 pm
While Holocaust denial is loathsome, it shouldn't be a criminal act.

Why not?

It seemed to work just fine for us. (Although the Supreme court did eventually rule that it wasn't a criminal act)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on October 14, 2014, 07:37:54 pm
While Holocaust denial is loathsome, it shouldn't be a criminal act.

Why not?

It seemed to work just fine for us. (Although the Supreme court did eventually rule that it wasn't a criminal act)

You'll have to persuade us why it should be illegal. For speech to be a criminal act, that would have to be some extraordinary persuasion.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on October 14, 2014, 11:30:24 pm
While Holocaust denial is loathsome, it shouldn't be a criminal act.

Why not?

It seemed to work just fine for us. (Although the Supreme court did eventually rule that it wasn't a criminal act)

As long as I can tell someone who's denying the Holocaust that they're an offensive idiotic asshole, they can deny it all they want.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on October 15, 2014, 04:05:47 am
While Holocaust denial is loathsome, it shouldn't be a criminal act.

Why not?

It seemed to work just fine for us. (Although the Supreme court did eventually rule that it wasn't a criminal act)

You'll have to persuade us why it should be illegal. For speech to be a criminal act, that would have to be some extraordinary persuasion.
Are you familiar with Ernst Zundel? He is the guy who published that pamphlet here in Canada and was convicted for it. Eventually it was overturned by the supreme court but he was initially convicted for incitement of hatred thru the spreading of false news and that conviction survived an initial appeal.

Canada has never been a nation of absolutes; we will curb behavior that is determined to be detrimental to the stability of the country. Hell, we even have a 'fuck what the constitution and the court says' clause written in the constitution. In responsible hands it has served us reasonably well. But it is a very different mindset than the U.S.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 20, 2014, 11:41:16 am
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/d6da9688fe41e9629332499cbc6d7d1b/tumblr_n9c0emlYoC1s1vn29o1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on October 20, 2014, 12:31:29 pm
Not witchcraft! Anything but that!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on October 20, 2014, 10:25:41 pm
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/d6da9688fe41e9629332499cbc6d7d1b/tumblr_n9c0emlYoC1s1vn29o1_500.jpg)

PSYCHOLOGY?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on October 20, 2014, 10:50:54 pm
That one looks shopped to me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on October 20, 2014, 10:52:08 pm
Yeah, the original just said derp=derp-derp.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on October 23, 2014, 12:14:45 am
So, our school has a politics board. Here's the republican side.

(click to show/hide)

Now here's the democrat side.
(click to show/hide)

I sense bias..
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on October 23, 2014, 01:47:11 am
Why don't you post your own bit?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on October 23, 2014, 01:54:10 am
We've had that "Conservatives are X good thing, Liberals are Y bad thing" thing posted before. It was mind numbingly stupid then, it's mind numbingly stupid now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on October 23, 2014, 02:38:38 am
Why don't you post your own bit?

Students have a limited amount of times they can print before they are charged. Because of that, I only print things when I absolutely have too.

Furthermore, I'm not exactly sure if it's something anyone can post on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on October 23, 2014, 03:27:39 am
We've had that "Conservatives are X good thing, Liberals are Y bad thing" thing posted before. It was mind numbingly stupid then, it's mind numbingly stupid now.
"If a liberal doesn't like guns, he asks people not to carry loaded assault rifles at the grocery store.
If a conservative doesn't like guns, he nevertheless cozies up to the NRA so he can stay in office.

If a liberal is a vegitarian, he pushes for community gardens.
If a conservative is a vegitarian, he tries to start an E. Coli scandal and blame it on Obama.

If a liberal is homosexual, he fights against legalized bigotry and supports programs that make the lives of LGBT youth safer and happier.
If a conservative is homosexual, he rants about the evils of 'the gay agenda' before getting caught in a compromising position with another man.

If a liberal is down-and-out, he uses community and/or government aid programs until he can get back on his feet.
If a conservative is down-and-out he blames Obama, illegals, black people, etc while voting to slash aid programs.

If a liberal doesn't like a talk show host, he can explain why without resorting to personal attacks.
A conservative accuses him of being a '[blank]ing liberal media [slur] who [redacted] their mom'.

If a liberal is a non-believer he fights against church-state violations.
A conservative is, in this moment, euphoric and has been enlightened by his own intelligence.

When a liberal needs health care, he doesn't want to get booted off his health insurance program for having a broadly-defined pre-existing condition or have his wife pay more for the same program.
A conservative claims Obamacare will kill us all."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 25, 2014, 09:57:37 pm
(http://oi57.tinypic.com/2zod6af.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on October 26, 2014, 12:25:24 am
That's.... a lot of whargable in one image.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on October 26, 2014, 01:29:49 am
I always knew the jews were responsible for islam....wait.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on October 26, 2014, 01:32:25 am
Well, Islam DID evolve partially from Judaism...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on October 26, 2014, 08:58:51 am
There's a reason Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all known as Abrahamic faiths.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 28, 2014, 02:05:52 pm
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/9i5jex.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on October 28, 2014, 03:24:03 pm
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/9i5jex.jpg)

As we all know, demonizing a group of people will in no way be used by the extremists in said group of people's culture as a way of radicalizing more of said people.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on October 28, 2014, 03:48:08 pm
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/9i5jex.jpg)
As we all know, referring to a group of people from a different part of the world as "animals" can't possibly be racist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on October 28, 2014, 07:31:19 pm
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/9i5jex.jpg)
As we all know, referring to a group of people from a different part of the world as "animals" can't possibly be racist.

The maker of this is making my inner zoologist rage.
For one thing, there have been no confirmed deaths from spider bites in Australia since nineteen seventy-three.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on October 28, 2014, 08:12:40 pm
I'm re-editing this!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 28, 2014, 08:13:51 pm
I'm re-editing this!

Let me guess, the "Europe" section will have far-right wingnuts?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on October 28, 2014, 08:27:05 pm
I'm re-editing this!

Let me guess, the "Europe" section will have far-right wingnuts?

Yeah! What would be a good group for me to use? The BNP? The UKIP guys? Those Greek Nazi weirdos? I can't think of anybody with a huge political influence. I'm a dumb American! HELP!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on October 28, 2014, 10:26:25 pm
Might I suggest the woman in charge of France's Front Nationale? She's considered the de-facto leader of the European right-wing uprising.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on October 28, 2014, 10:37:57 pm
Might I suggest the woman in charge of France's Front Nationale? She's considered the de-facto leader of the European right-wing uprising.

Marine Le Pen, heiress to the Le Pen clan of douchebaggery. Seriously, the entire family is basically into politics in some way, and the far right kind  that is xenophobic and isolationist... Joy...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on October 28, 2014, 11:11:16 pm
I'm re-editing this!

Let me guess, the "Europe" section will have far-right wingnuts?

Yeah! What would be a good group for me to use? The BNP? The UKIP guys? Those Greek Nazi weirdos? I can't think of anybody with a huge political influence. I'm a dumb American! HELP!

I'd suggest editing in far-righties from America and Australia as well, in place of the innocent animals they show.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on October 29, 2014, 01:24:10 am
I'm re-editing this!

Yeah, the Australia section doesn't include even half of the things that can and want to kill you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on October 29, 2014, 02:18:25 am
I'm re-editing this!

Yeah, the Australia section doesn't include even half of the things that can and want to kill you.
Yes, it didn't mention cones snails,koalas, box jellyfish, the huntsman, or kangaroos!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on October 29, 2014, 08:44:55 am
Really you might as well put an entire picture of the whole country and call it a day.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on October 29, 2014, 12:23:25 pm
Maybe I should just do a full remake.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on October 29, 2014, 02:36:11 pm
Really you might as well put an entire picture of the whole country and call it a day.

(http://joyellen.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/life_in_australia_is_dangerous_map.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on October 29, 2014, 04:56:03 pm
Really you might as well put an entire picture of the whole country and call it a day.

(http://joyellen.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/life_in_australia_is_dangerous_map.jpg)

Please note: that nothing will kill you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 01, 2014, 01:11:08 am
(http://oi57.tinypic.com/2hic6l2.jpg)

Homophobia aside, what exactly does this guy mean by "reinforced"?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on November 01, 2014, 01:37:25 am
Add rebars to every marriage. That should help.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on November 01, 2014, 01:39:04 am
Rebar seems a bit overkill for marriage... Actually, on second thought, with the divorce rate, rebar might not be enough.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on November 01, 2014, 04:16:19 pm
Possibly he means by enforcing laws that state one man and one woman only for marriage?

Ironbite-or am I not seeing something.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 01, 2014, 07:35:41 pm
Make it really hard to get a divorce at all? That's just mean...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on November 02, 2014, 04:50:21 pm
(https://www.facebook.com/OfficialRightWingNews/photos/a.401034789956656.90394.389658314427637/866871220039675/?type=1&theater)

I can think of a few things wrong with this. First off, there are a few different definitions of "nation". The one I learned is a community of people with similar characteristics, be it cultural or civic. A bit broad, I admit. Culturally, there never was a single American nation. Second off, when did we get rid of our laws? Are you whining that there's a Democrat in office again? For that matter, nations do not need to be defined by borders. A nation state, yes, but not necessarily a nation.

EDIT: Not sure how to link Facebook photos, but this was from Right Wing News's Facebook page.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 02, 2014, 10:15:37 pm
(https://www.facebook.com/OfficialRightWingNews/photos/a.401034789956656.90394.389658314427637/866871220039675/?type=1&theater)

I can think of a few things wrong with this. First off, there are a few different definitions of "nation". The one I learned is a community of people with similar characteristics, be it cultural or civic. A bit broad, I admit. Culturally, there never was a single American nation. Second off, when did we get rid of our laws? Are you whining that there's a Democrat in office again? For that matter, nations do not need to be defined by borders. A nation state, yes, but not necessarily a nation.

EDIT: Not sure how to link Facebook photos, but this was from Right Wing News's Facebook page.

Have you tried saving it to an image storage website?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SCarpelan on November 02, 2014, 11:35:24 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10302094_866871220039675_8048859176379949628_n.jpg?oh=ef39ba9773b694d8486b38702ce0f5be&oe=54ECC0DE&__gda__=1424696151_1fb26a594595dac11dd82c3d0e057791)
Here you go. You have to use the URL of the actual image, not that of the Facebook page.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 02, 2014, 11:46:32 pm
(click to show/hide)

(http://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Oh-Wait-Your-Serious-Let-Me-Laugh-Even-Harder-On-Futurama.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on November 04, 2014, 11:43:26 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10155481_877009309025866_3154453249686475606_n.jpg?oh=723fd8d3287ed004ea8573cafaa11aa0&oe=54F326C0&__gda__=1425514097_f053427f2214a68fa41260b684315945)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10501906_877009965692467_533821405560450071_n.jpg?oh=f30b7ca590a35e5d19ebd021d11c0023&oe=54EFE654&__gda__=1420458601_89c29272157e3dc566f839c9c1098d3d)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on November 05, 2014, 11:51:52 pm
Or perhaps it's a wealthy country with a number of serious flaws?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 06, 2014, 12:20:55 am
Or perhaps it's a wealthy country with a number of serious flaws?

Whoa whoa whoa, that's way too many factors for the average conservative mind to consider.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on November 12, 2014, 11:07:21 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/s526x296/10300328_884441524949311_5013401261486002205_n.jpg?oh=37290cc360c65ee8b021544984354e25&oe=54EB9658&__gda__=1423385022_ba7a18d86e70388c8180ff8d6ca64299)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on November 12, 2014, 04:10:30 pm
Damn, does Obama really look like a corpse or did they put some photoshop action on his face?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Witchyjoshy on November 12, 2014, 04:16:17 pm
You'd look like that too if you were President with a whole party out to stonewall everything you do.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sleepy on November 12, 2014, 06:20:16 pm
Most presidents come out of the office looking like death. That's what happens when you've gotta deal with drama throughout your own country and the entire world.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 12, 2014, 06:36:54 pm
Most presidents come out of the office looking like death. That's what happens when you've gotta deal with drama throughout your own country and the entire world.

Yeah, just look at "before" and "after" pictures of Abraham Lincoln.

(http://i.imgur.com/cqHTjTv.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on November 16, 2014, 12:19:47 am
Most presidents come out of the office looking like death. That's what happens when you've gotta deal with drama throughout your own country and the entire world.

(http://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/onion-obama.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on November 16, 2014, 04:42:59 pm
(http://img-9gag-ftw.9cache.com/photo/apo3W65_700b.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on November 16, 2014, 06:57:47 pm
Amusingly enough, that image is an excellent representation of the people who are scared of common core.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on November 16, 2014, 07:09:47 pm
"God will survive your rejection. You won't."

-A church sign near where I work. Because threatening people with death is justified as long as it's for JAYZUS!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on November 16, 2014, 07:36:22 pm
"God will survive your rejection. You won't."

-A church sign near where I work. Because threatening people with death is justified as long as it's for JAYZUS!

Empirically, this is just not true. I rejected God many years ago and I'm still alive, so clearly I have survived rejecting him. God, on the other side, has given no signs of life since that point. If anyone's survival is in question, it's his.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on November 16, 2014, 09:41:33 pm
"God will survive your rejection. You won't."

-A church sign near where I work. Because threatening people with death is justified as long as it's for JAYZUS!

Empirically, this is just not true. I rejected God many years ago and I'm still alive, so clearly I have survived rejecting him. God, on the other side, has given no signs of life since that point. If anyone's survival is in question, it's his.
God is mad at getting freindzoned.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on November 17, 2014, 03:02:58 am
God is mad at getting freindzoned.
If god is mad at getting friendzoned, then why are so many douchebag MRAs and PUAs euphoric, not because of any phony god's blessing, but because they're enlightened by their own intelligence? Checkmate, atheists!

That was way funnier in my head. Sorry for inflicting my half-baked unfunny jokes on the forum.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 17, 2014, 10:07:47 am
God is mad at getting freindzoned.
If god is mad at getting friendzoned, then why are so many douchebag MRAs and PUAs euphoric, not because of any phony god's blessing, but because they're enlightened by their own intelligence? Checkmate, atheists!

That was way funnier in my head. Sorry for inflicting my half-baked unfunny jokes on the forum.

I thought it was kinda funny.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 19, 2014, 03:24:39 pm
(http://oi62.tinypic.com/25jwgwl.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on November 21, 2014, 10:12:58 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/bjiuU.jpeg)

HAWT
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 21, 2014, 10:21:02 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/bjiuU.jpeg)

HAWT

The difference is that animals can't consent to sex.  But then again, do I really expect a homophobe to understand that?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: solar. on November 21, 2014, 10:26:45 pm
Homophobes deserve to die.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on November 21, 2014, 11:04:29 pm
Can I just say that if I ever saw a grasshopper that big that, "Gee I should totally make out with this thing!" would not be on my top list of things to do with said giant grasshopper, also do these people know what consent is. Although given most of their track records with rape I'll say no.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on November 21, 2014, 11:08:30 pm
Why would gay marriage lead to animals kissing each other? Is this supposed to be funny, or am I missing something here?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on November 21, 2014, 11:17:33 pm
Can I just say that if I ever saw a grasshopper that big that, "Gee I should totally make out with this thing!" would not be on my top list of things to do with said giant grasshopper, also do these people know what consent is. Although given most of their track records with rape I'll say no.

That's because gay marriage isn't legal in all fifty states yet.  Once it is BAM everyone becomes insectosexuals.

Also I love how much detail they put in those drawings, hinting at secret desires maybe?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 23, 2014, 12:03:31 am
Warning: NSFW

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Image removed by admin
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on November 23, 2014, 01:14:21 am
Um...wow. That goes WAY past typical NSFW, UP. Given the problems we've had with such things in the past, I'm not even sure it should be posted, even behind a spoiler.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on November 23, 2014, 02:44:26 pm
Yeah, that was straight up porn.

Consider this as a reminder that we have rules against posting pornographic material.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 23, 2014, 07:06:07 pm
Yeah, that was straight up porn.

Consider this as a reminder that we have rules against posting pornographic material.

Okay.  Sorry.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 24, 2014, 11:32:50 am
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/35jf8rt.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on November 24, 2014, 11:52:08 am
Is there any bottom to how ridiculous the "OMFG TEH EVUL JEWZ CONTROL DA WURLD AND R BRAINWASHING OUR YOUTHS" people can get?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 24, 2014, 01:05:58 pm
To be fair, the "in this sign, you shall conquer" bullcrap started by Constantine was completely fucked up.  Not a Jewish conspiracy, but completely, totally fucked up.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on November 24, 2014, 01:32:21 pm
To be fair, the "in this sign, you shall conquer" bullcrap started by Constantine was completely fucked up.  Not a Jewish conspiracy, but completely, totally fucked up.

Well it seemed to work.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 24, 2014, 02:17:43 pm
To be fair, the "in this sign, you shall conquer" bullcrap started by Constantine was completely fucked up.  Not a Jewish conspiracy, but completely, totally fucked up.

Well it seemed to work.

For anyone that happened to be a Roman Christian, it worked marvelously.  For everybody else, it either meant losing a huge part of your culture or a bloodbath.  Sometimes both.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on November 24, 2014, 06:36:05 pm
Also, I'm pretty sure the Jews were too scattered to have some conspiracy to convert Constantine. And if they did, it was horribly thought out, considering what Christian Europe did to them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 25, 2014, 07:58:56 am
Also, I'm pretty sure the Jews were too scattered to have some conspiracy to convert Constantine. And if they did, it was horribly thought out, considering what Christian Europe did to them.

Aye.  In any case, it was probably just Constantine's excuse for his growing megalomania, it just happened to be convenient enough for others to use as an excuse for their abhorrent, atrocious behaviour.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 27, 2014, 03:35:28 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/avgdu1.jpg)

And now for some great African architecture:

http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/01/02/11-of-the-most-eye-catching-architectural-wonders-of-africa/ (http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/01/02/11-of-the-most-eye-catching-architectural-wonders-of-africa/)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on November 27, 2014, 04:57:05 pm
Something seems off about playing the "ancient architecture" card against the continent that gave us the Great Pyramid of Giza. Y'know, 4,500 years old, only surviving wonder of the ancient world, tallest building in the world for thousands of years
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 27, 2014, 04:59:18 pm
Something seems off about playing the "ancient architecture" card against the continent that gave us the Great Pyramid of Giza. Y'know, 4,500 years old, only surviving wonder of the ancient world, tallest building in the world for thousands of years

In fairness, they might mean sub-Saharan Africa.  But even so, there's plenty of magnificent ancient architecture down there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on November 27, 2014, 11:12:39 pm
Something seems off about playing the "ancient architecture" card against the continent that gave us the Great Pyramid of Giza. Y'know, 4,500 years old, only surviving wonder of the ancient world, tallest building in the world for thousands of years
The Argument, I find, is that Egyptians weren't REALLY African, so they were able to build massive cities and monuments. The Argument basically boils down to "The Egyptians built a civilization, so they can't have been African, because Africans are inferior!"

Wonder what they'd say of Great Zimbabwe...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on November 28, 2014, 12:28:14 am
I think the Ethiopian civilization would present just as much of a problem for white supremacists. Ethiopians are unmistakably black, and any attempt at explaining the giant obelisks and the rock churches as built by someone else would be difficult to accept.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 28, 2014, 10:09:34 am
I think the Ethiopian civilization would present just as much of a problem for white supremacists. Ethiopians are unmistakably black, and any attempt at explaining the giant obelisks and the rock churches as built by someone else would be difficult to accept.

You know these racists, they can find a way to rationalize anything.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on December 03, 2014, 03:18:52 pm
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/2aj7r5u.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on December 03, 2014, 03:35:37 pm
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/2aj7r5u.jpg)

It'd be funny if her heritage was mixed by mutiple races.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on December 03, 2014, 03:40:50 pm
Well, it's established fact that there were black people in Roman Britain, so that's not exactly unlikely.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on December 04, 2014, 04:42:17 am
Well most archeological and genetic evidence points towards whites being quite new on the scene all things considered. If anything whites were a bit of an anomaly that seemed to catch on. One theory is that the lighter skin was seen as exotic and hence desirable leading to a high sexual success with the sexually dominant members of the tribes, leading to a rapid spread of the genes.

But I dont really have any sources for any of that so take it all with a large grain of salt.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on December 04, 2014, 11:48:09 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/s526x395/10805802_907285805998216_7913076183125276136_n.jpg?oh=724f117ef347c22dc7b906196bbcad2f&oe=54FD88F0&__gda__=1426204608_6f710a3aa7d3caabaf86e77e39fcbad3)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on December 04, 2014, 02:21:10 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/s526x395/10805802_907285805998216_7913076183125276136_n.jpg?oh=724f117ef347c22dc7b906196bbcad2f&oe=54FD88F0&__gda__=1426204608_6f710a3aa7d3caabaf86e77e39fcbad3)

Dumb, but depressingly accurate. I used to work at a McDonald's; when a Hispanic man was promoted to the store manager, almost everyone got their hours cut. The only ones who didn't? The other Hispanics on the crew.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on December 04, 2014, 03:12:55 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1503919_640359796024153_1698178141_n.jpg?oh=57a9d6ccf9d0c64847888a5bcf176c6c&oe=551DBC9F&__gda__=1423016827_09b7397200bcc65572366e5e70953b55)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on December 04, 2014, 03:22:47 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1503919_640359796024153_1698178141_n.jpg?oh=57a9d6ccf9d0c64847888a5bcf176c6c&oe=551DBC9F&__gda__=1423016827_09b7397200bcc65572366e5e70953b55)
I know, I said "merry Christmas", Jewluminati sent me to the "reeducation" camp within an hour.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on December 04, 2014, 07:53:30 pm
What the hell does "largest Christian nation" even mean, and why is it a relevant statistic?

Sure, the US has the largest Christian population, but that's just because, well, it has a lot of people. By proportion, the US is about 75% Christian, meaning that about one in every four random people you say "Merry Christmas" to are not Christians.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on December 05, 2014, 10:03:20 am
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/11rvk1d.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on December 05, 2014, 10:39:09 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1503919_640359796024153_1698178141_n.jpg?oh=57a9d6ccf9d0c64847888a5bcf176c6c&oe=551DBC9F&__gda__=1423016827_09b7397200bcc65572366e5e70953b55)

...you just did.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on December 08, 2014, 11:17:23 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10801652_912141592179304_3801665921206187912_n.png?oh=fdbde68b85edbb92cbcc902536938cdb&oe=54FE398D&__gda__=1427008593_9a52121749836df089400badc4ea83e2)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on December 08, 2014, 11:31:48 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10801652_912141592179304_3801665921206187912_n.png?oh=fdbde68b85edbb92cbcc902536938cdb&oe=54FE398D&__gda__=1427008593_9a52121749836df089400badc4ea83e2)
I thought the only reason poeple were unemployed was because they're lazy...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on December 09, 2014, 07:16:56 pm
(http://oi62.tinypic.com/15rxy08.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on December 10, 2014, 01:32:24 pm
The fact that Christians were and Muslims are more than willing to be use violence to enforce religious uniformity within their communities obviously had nothing to do with it. Nope, must be them eeeeeeeeeevil Jews. I've personally known two Jews in my life, neither of whom strike me as the all powerful puppetmasters that Internet morons seem to think they are. Actually, I kinda laugh at that label being applied to one of them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on December 10, 2014, 02:21:56 pm
The fact that Christians were and Muslims are more than willing to be use violence to enforce religious uniformity within their communities obviously had nothing to do with it. Nope, must be them eeeeeeeeeevil Jews. I've personally known two Jews in my life, neither of whom strike me as the all powerful puppetmasters that Internet morons seem to think they are. Actually, I kinda laugh at that label being applied to one of them.

That's just what we want you to think...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on December 10, 2014, 11:26:16 pm
Oy, ya shmuck! Who died and made you king? This Jew'll speak from himself, thank you!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on December 11, 2014, 12:12:07 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdQeSFhCAAASi5z.jpg)



http://www.republicanoperative.com/forums/f10/conservative-women-vs-liberal-wymyn-43534/ (http://www.republicanoperative.com/forums/f10/conservative-women-vs-liberal-wymyn-43534/)
Can't post this because mobile.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on December 11, 2014, 12:18:00 am
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/56/aa/d5/56aad5cee5b6c33be08959d66564c2e9.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on December 11, 2014, 07:19:04 pm
(http://oi62.tinypic.com/15rxy08.jpg)

Does this mean the shaving trick still works for non-jews?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on December 13, 2014, 04:03:08 pm
(http://oi62.tinypic.com/15rxy08.jpg)

Does this mean the shaving trick still works for non-jews?

It did for a while, until Sir Isaac Newton introduced ridging.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on December 14, 2014, 12:35:02 pm
 (https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1525386_640359619357504_763792479_n.jpg?oh=75bdf39e7cad5655ec4fc44d752c85f5&oe=550AEC24&__gda__=1430766423_197d9aa07a5e94812a6f59c1aa0692ea)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/1470413_638436096216523_751010597_n.jpg?oh=92e12eaa4c867f1de597f935cfdccd83&oe=54F96A9D&__gda__=1426242684_71ca5e42b443d8d7b33fb0b8988203e2)

(https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/1512695_640910879302378_73157923_n.jpg?oh=251708bab9539ea8bb7b1b145f0feb58&oe=55053400)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/1528662_641568415903291_394302900_n.jpg?oh=6c3171f696161b759d6a8fd88c4ebff3&oe=55068E41&__gda__=1426360002_9b9e2a558c71b893b15638e9de75d7ea)

Yes I'm sure every other news organization is wrong except for your own *cough* fox news *cough*

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10441042_919144151479048_9071036636307822621_n.jpg?oh=b577105a4402f157fa460d5670690e17&oe=550CDC44&__gda__=1425911292_d85497da4fd13ea1ece6db37e0106467)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on December 14, 2014, 01:25:59 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10441042_919144151479048_9071036636307822621_n.jpg?oh=b577105a4402f157fa460d5670690e17&oe=550CDC44&__gda__=1425911292_d85497da4fd13ea1ece6db37e0106467)

Have you tried looking up your ass?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on December 14, 2014, 01:29:18 pm
Your white privledge is somewhere next to getting to carry an ar-15 into Walmart without being gunned down by cops.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on December 14, 2014, 10:55:34 pm
 (https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1525386_640359619357504_763792479_n.jpg?oh=75bdf39e7cad5655ec4fc44d752c85f5&oe=550AEC24&__gda__=1430766423_197d9aa07a5e94812a6f59c1aa0692ea)

Ben Carson is a pretty fascinating person. I'm not sure whether he's a cynic, or just a moron.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on December 14, 2014, 11:45:47 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1525386_640359619357504_763792479_n.jpg?oh=75bdf39e7cad5655ec4fc44d752c85f5&oe=550AEC24&__gda__=1430766423_197d9aa07a5e94812a6f59c1aa0692ea)

Ben Carson is a pretty fascinating person. I'm not sure whether he's a cynic, or just a moron.

Who is this moron and why should I care?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on December 15, 2014, 12:09:37 am
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/ben-carson
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on December 15, 2014, 02:51:04 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/2vcjeqg.jpg)

Looks like there are Holocaust deniers on the far left as well.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on December 15, 2014, 03:09:48 pm
Or it could be a troll.

I am not 100% certain but I have not seen any other holocaust deniers in the SJW crowd and the types of people who are usually holocaust deniers seem to be the biggest complainers about SJW movement.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: starseeker on December 15, 2014, 03:59:22 pm
They do love to ignore there were 2 Auschwitz camps, the concentration camp and the extermination camp.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on December 15, 2014, 04:05:59 pm
...They love to ignore quite a lot of things about the holocaust.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: starseeker on December 15, 2014, 04:49:20 pm
The fact that non-Jews were killed at Auschwitz is another one, I know one of my gran's uncles died there and he was a local Polish Catholic teenager at the time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on December 25, 2014, 10:55:44 pm
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/t5nfi8.jpg)

Seriously?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on December 25, 2014, 11:00:09 pm
Or it could be a troll.

I am not 100% certain but I have not seen any other holocaust deniers in the SJW crowd and the types of people who are usually holocaust deniers seem to be the biggest complainers about SJW movement.
It's definitely a troll.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on December 26, 2014, 06:21:57 am
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/t5nfi8.jpg)

Seriously?

why? just why?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on December 26, 2014, 11:06:14 am
Stalin got media silence? Had a good guy image? Sean Bryson must've been home skooled. By a delirious alcoholic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on December 26, 2014, 11:14:14 am
Stalin got media silence? Had a good guy image? Sean Bryson must've been home skooled. By a delirious alcoholic.

I think he might've during World War II, but don't quote me on that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on December 26, 2014, 11:29:13 am
Stalin got media silence? Had a good guy image? Sean Bryson must've been home skooled. By a delirious alcoholic.

I think he might've during World War II, but don't quote me on that.
He definitely had those in USSR. It wasn't until his death that people dared to say the truth about him and even after that occasionally historical revisionism has been done to make him look like a perfect saint...

I remember reading a communist forum where Lenin got the blame for the purges Stalin did 20 years after Lenin's death...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on December 26, 2014, 05:42:27 pm
Well you could argue that Lennin put the idea of the purges in Stalin's brain at an early age.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on December 27, 2014, 02:16:07 am
What I wanna know is what Mandela did to get this guy to compare him to fucking Stalin.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on December 27, 2014, 04:57:38 am
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/files/2014/05/bradleedeanracism.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on December 27, 2014, 10:22:53 am
Ok, I'm pretty sure that's made up. Trotsky wasn't well known for his expertise on race relations. And while I will admit that the race card is played a little too willingly, that doesn't change the fact that I have directly heard many racial slurs from my own family.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on December 29, 2014, 02:30:25 pm
(https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10896955_934521439941319_6441528080698064723_n.jpg?oh=5cea1497e203b45f6db4c027099f2f57&oe=5500BA26)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on December 29, 2014, 02:37:16 pm
I can name quite a few people who were far, far worse about that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 29, 2014, 07:04:48 pm
Stalin got media silence? Had a good guy image? Sean Bryson must've been home skooled. By a delirious alcoholic.

I think he might've during World War II, but don't quote me on that.

You mean until he died and Nikita Krushchev started dismantling his cult of personality.

His wartime leadership was conversely *less* deranged, the summer and autumn of 1941 notwithstanding, than the terrifying bullshit either side. 

I mean, when you have a media apparatus that can cover up ten million excess deaths caused by your insane collectivist agricultural policy, you know you're doing your PR right.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on December 29, 2014, 07:47:24 pm
I don't know if the original meme meant to exclude Soviet media, but I presume the snark is against US media commie Demon-crat librul media being "silent" about Stalin. It's hard to guess what goes on in the mind of idiot wing nut meme makers.

And as to Soviet propaganda skill level? Pure genius, especially at the start. Fuck, they basically invented modern advertising with their methods, and were consulted by western marketing execs for tips and tricks!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on December 30, 2014, 11:38:31 am
(https://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10888568_935383763188420_7207974169345364964_n.jpg?oh=e1abc3b54a15f67459b2240c55d3ea8f&oe=552F0821)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on December 30, 2014, 11:39:48 am
Wrong on both counts, Mr. Miller.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on December 30, 2014, 12:32:49 pm
Remember, to conservatards, disagreeing with them is being "nasty" and saying things like "we have the financial ability to make sure everyone has a home and access to health care" is being "arrogant."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on December 30, 2014, 07:58:14 pm
Considering the number of drone strikes he's ordered i wouldn't say he's nice to poeple we dislike either.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on December 30, 2014, 11:39:47 pm
Theodore Roosevelt once said "speak softly and carry a big stick". President Obama has a version of that. Speak of peace and cooperation and swing your chainsaw round 'n' round.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on December 31, 2014, 12:52:31 am
Theodore Roosevelt once said "speak softly and carry a big stick". President Obama has a version of that. Speak of peace and cooperation and swing your chainsaw round 'n' round.

I guess that's better than the standard GOP gambit. You know, shriek crassly and carry a big chip (on their shoulders).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 01, 2015, 02:26:05 am
Quote
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KQIh9vz3qdY/UYPce8PcgUI/AAAAAAAAtEI/yK8avqcQA-g/s1600/TRANSGENDER+INDIA.png)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3DrkbGYEjg4/UoGIkDX2PKI/AAAAAAAA6Zc/UG1G7-XVONo/s1600/liberalism-liberalism-is-a-mental-disorder-political-poster-1285010887.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on January 01, 2015, 02:53:47 am
Good for them. 300k is just a drop in the bucket, tho...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 03, 2015, 06:42:14 pm
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on January 03, 2015, 07:05:29 pm
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there are so many things wrong with this thing that i'm a teenage girl about it. i litterally can't even.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on January 03, 2015, 08:10:34 pm
Who in the hell spends their time making these complex graphic designs for a such idiotic choice of beliefs? Sure, Assfly being a electrician is understandable as they are sorta weird (See: Electric Universe) in the head. But this? 

Wow, such wasted opportunity. Much sarcastic applause. Many whats.

Also, my thousandth post had a Doge reference. I should most likely undergo forum penance or something.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 03, 2015, 08:40:52 pm
Who in the hell spends their time making these complex graphic designs for a such idiotic choice of beliefs? Sure, Assfly being a electrician is understandable as they are sorta weird (See: Electric Universe) in the head. But this? 

Wow, such wasted opportunity. Much sarcastic applause. Many whats.

Also, my thousandth post had a Doge reference. I should most likely undergo forum penance or something.

I've read that it's sometimes easier for smart people to convince themselves into holding stupid beliefs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 03, 2015, 09:49:59 pm
Who in the hell spends their time making these complex graphic designs for a such idiotic choice of beliefs? Sure, Assfly being a electrician is understandable as they are sorta weird (See: Electric Universe) in the head. But this? 

Wow, such wasted opportunity. Much sarcastic applause. Many whats.

Also, my thousandth post had a Doge reference. I should most likely undergo forum penance or something.

I've read that it's sometimes easier for smart people to convince themselves into holding stupid beliefs.

And harder to convince them that they're wrong.

(Not a jab, merely an observation.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: booley on January 04, 2015, 02:02:10 pm
(https://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10888568_935383763188420_7207974169345364964_n.jpg?oh=e1abc3b54a15f67459b2240c55d3ea8f&oe=552F0821)
https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10896955_934521439941319_6441528080698064723_n.jpg?oh=5cea1497e203b45f6db4c027099f2f57&oe=5500BA26

Does anyone else see these and wonder if the people who write these are looking in a mirror and thinking "Who's that?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 06, 2015, 07:57:48 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/YHlcOtC.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on January 06, 2015, 08:02:16 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/YHlcOtC.png)

don't they know that two wrongs don't make a right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 06, 2015, 08:08:25 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/YHlcOtC.png)

don't they know that two wrongs don't make a right?
I was more focused on the "If you don't like CIA TORTURE then you must want the TERRORISTS to win" aspect.
Terrorists can huck kittens into volcanoes and it still doesn't make torture legal or productive.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on January 06, 2015, 08:13:32 pm
"They kill people. We just nearly drown people, stuff them in small wooden boxes, keep them from sleeping for a week, andfeed them through their assholes. We're not doing anything bad"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on January 06, 2015, 08:23:33 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/YHlcOtC.png)
They would have made their (abhorrent) point better if they said "... We keep them awake and pour water on their heads". It's like they're not even trying to disguise how much they'd like to be supervillains.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 06, 2015, 08:27:09 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/YHlcOtC.png)

don't they know that two wrongs don't make a right?
I was more focused on the "If you don't like CIA TORTURE then you must want the TERRORISTS to win" aspect.
Terrorists can huck kittens into volcanoes and it still doesn't make torture legal or productive.

Indeed.  And the language these people use makes them sound like Bond villains or something.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on January 06, 2015, 08:58:27 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/YHlcOtC.png)

I'm not sure what to call this fallacy. Conservation of evil, maybe? If the people on one side do a lot of evil, there must be none left for the other?

Or straightforward black and white thinking: the other guy is clearly evil, and America is against them, ergo America is good?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 06, 2015, 09:00:47 pm
In the words of Kakihara from Ichi the Killer: "What?  Its just a little torture."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on January 06, 2015, 09:46:13 pm
"They kill people. We just nearly drown people, stuff them in small wooden boxes, keep them from sleeping for a week, andfeed them through their assholes. We're not doing anything bad"

"Besides, don't you know it's healthier to eat through your ass?" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hot_Catholic_Love)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on January 07, 2015, 12:00:30 pm
Its the second one, Sigma. They see the CIA as like Clint Eastwood in a bad spaghetti western. Sure, he's doing the exact same things as the bad guys. But he's doing it to protect the townsfolk who hired him. So because he's on the side of angels, he must be one too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 07, 2015, 01:32:15 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/YHlcOtC.png)

I'm not sure what to call this fallacy. Conservation of evil, maybe? If the people on one side do a lot of evil, there must be none left for the other?

Or straightforward black and white thinking: the other guy is clearly evil, and America is against them, ergo America is good?
"They steal our recources, supply violent goverments around us with weapons, overthrow our leaders, and manipulate our territories for personal gain
We knock down a few buildings and cut a few heads off and Americans call the Taliban and ISIS evil."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 12, 2015, 08:06:50 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/L5Uyz7M.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: solar. on January 12, 2015, 08:11:21 pm
Was this made by His4Life?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 12, 2015, 08:12:24 pm
....the fuck?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on January 12, 2015, 08:20:06 pm
I like that apparently all REAL black men are republicans, which is about 10% of the black community if you're being generous.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on January 12, 2015, 08:28:31 pm
[pic snipped]

I think it's rather telling that their idea of a responsible, educated black man is someone with a GED and a McJob who is paying two women child support. Apparently that was as far as their imagination could go; a black person with a college degree or a good job was just too ridiculous to bear mentioning.

The other stuff is just weird. Since when is atheism a common stereotype of thugs?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 12, 2015, 08:46:32 pm
...Is this idiot completely detached from reality?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on January 12, 2015, 08:48:38 pm
Do these morons think all blacks are thugs? I'm the furthest thing from a fucking thug hell I took Karate for 7 years and can barely fight.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on January 12, 2015, 08:57:52 pm
I can't help thinking this is satire, but then, the point of good satire is how closely it matches the real thing...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 12, 2015, 09:00:04 pm
Probably.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on January 12, 2015, 09:15:57 pm
Wow, even the "positive" side there is horribly racist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on January 12, 2015, 09:44:50 pm
Every single statement made me sigh. That's a record.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 14, 2015, 08:23:00 pm
https://m.imgur.com/a/Zp38k (https://m.imgur.com/a/Zp38k)
Bunch of wing nut bullshit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on January 14, 2015, 08:53:33 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/N5zQSHG.png)

I dunno...how much was George W. Bush involved in?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 14, 2015, 08:56:57 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/5otURag.png)

All that means is that some Muslims are violent shitheads.  You can find those in just about any demographic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 14, 2015, 09:02:45 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/N5zQSHG.png)

I dunno...how much was George W. Bush involved in?

Hey here's a great question.  What crimes has the President done?

Ironbite-cause as despicable as his actions have been...THEY HAVEN'T BEEN CRIMES YOU FUCKTARDS THANKS TO BUSH!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on January 15, 2015, 02:20:47 am
Hey here's a great question.  What crimes has the President done?

Ironbite-cause as despicable as his actions have been...THEY HAVEN'T BEEN CRIMES YOU FUCKTARDS THANKS TO BUSH!

Personally ordering the assassination of U.S. citizens counts as an impeachable offense in my book. Too bad the establishment loves that power so much that they would never dare take it away from any president.

EDIT: And that's besides the things the Obama administration is up to that we don't know about. If you don't think the NSA and CIA are up to their eyeballs in shady shit right now then just wait until it's all declassified. Too bad that stuff gets declassified after the perpetrators are long dead.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on January 15, 2015, 10:24:26 am
But Obama has committed numerous crimes. Like personally ordering the nuking of Benghazi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And surrendering to "the bad guys"! And being a Muslim who eats pork in the daylight during Ramadan! And refusing to ever bomb or remotely hurt any terrorists, which is totally the case!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on January 15, 2015, 03:33:13 pm
When wingnuts ramble on about "Obama's Many Heinous Crimes", it likely means......

* Being President in the White House while Black!

* Flying Air Force One while Black!

* Making speeches while Black!

* Wearing a nice suit while Black!

* Buying a dog while Black!

* Eating while Black!

* Sleeping while Black!

* Going to the bathroom while Black!......

.....and so on.

It doesn't matter if he's half-white, he's darker-than-usual as far as Presidents go, therefore he's Yog Sothoth or something.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on January 15, 2015, 04:00:38 pm

It doesn't matter if he's half-white, he's darker-than-usual as far as Presidents go, therefore he's Yog Sothoth or something.



Which is silly. I mean, clearly he's Nyarlathotep.

Nyarlathotep is one of the few Mythos gods that seems to actually care about what humans do rather than being a cosmic horror who crushes them as collateral damage. Also, he has a number of human avatars, usually dark-skinned, because Lovecraft.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on January 16, 2015, 02:28:32 am
I think the saddest thing of all, is that Both him and his predecessor have committed significant war crimes, but they will never see any kind of court for that. Its all the other bullshit that they get stuck on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on January 16, 2015, 11:23:50 am
Or when you mention something good that he did to show that because he's a black president he doesn't do bad things they mention well he's half white so him being black doesn't count.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on January 20, 2015, 10:00:36 pm
Meh. They said the same thing about Clinton. Obama's crime isn't that he's black. True, that doesn't help, but that's not his biggest crime. His biggest crime is he's a liberal.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on January 20, 2015, 10:19:57 pm
Meh. They said the same thing about Clinton. Obama's crime isn't that he's black. True, that doesn't help, but that's not his biggest crime. His biggest crime is he's a liberal.

And he's not even that. His biggest crime is that he's more liberal than they are.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: jackdaw on January 21, 2015, 04:30:13 am
(http://ct.perceptionvsfact.com/ol/pf/se/i54/5/4/22/frabz-ProLife-What-society-thinks-I-do-What-proabortion-lobbyists-thin-26b15c.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Tolpuddle Martyr on January 21, 2015, 07:28:12 am
Spent all night on Conservapedia.

RESEARCH!!!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 21, 2015, 10:43:50 am
They are aware people can look at them during an abortion protest and see what they do right?

Ironbite-right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on January 21, 2015, 11:31:44 am
But those top three things are pretty much what they do.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on January 22, 2015, 01:59:29 am
For context, this content is from a Imageboard run by a Wizard called Smiley, who you may recognize from (Sadly enough I can't find a nickname that isn't H8chan, and that seems too dull) 8chan's Fringe board.

Oh, I forgot something. Smiley isn't at all a wizard in the MRA sense, though he may be far-right enough. He actually thinks he's a wizard in the conventional sense, in this really odd Gnostic Immaterium-esque belief system and shit. I can't really describe it.
 
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on January 22, 2015, 08:15:02 am
For context, this content is from a Imageboard run by a Wizard called Smiley, who you may recognize from (Sadly enough I can't find a nickname that isn't H8chan, and that seems too dull) 8chan's Fringe board.

Oh, I forgot something. Smiley isn't at all a wizard in the MRA sense, though he may be far-right enough. He actually thinks he's a wizard in the conventional sense, in this really odd Gnostic Immaterium-esque belief system and shit. I can't really describe it.
 
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I can describe it in two words: MOTHERFUCKING SCHIZOPHRENIA.  Sumbitch is nuttier than the combined shit of a billion squirrels.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 22, 2015, 11:33:15 am
For context, this content is from a Imageboard run by a Wizard called Smiley, who you may recognize from (Sadly enough I can't find a nickname that isn't H8chan, and that seems too dull) 8chan's Fringe board.

Oh, I forgot something. Smiley isn't at all a wizard in the MRA sense, though he may be far-right enough. He actually thinks he's a wizard in the conventional sense, in this really odd Gnostic Immaterium-esque belief system and shit. I can't really describe it.
 
(click to show/hide)
He's not crazy, his cat said so!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on January 22, 2015, 09:25:48 pm
For context, this content is from a Imageboard run by a Wizard called Smiley, who you may recognize from (Sadly enough I can't find a nickname that isn't H8chan, and that seems too dull) 8chan's Fringe board.

Oh, I forgot something. Smiley isn't at all a wizard in the MRA sense, though he may be far-right enough. He actually thinks he's a wizard in the conventional sense, in this really odd Gnostic Immaterium-esque belief system and shit. I can't really describe it.
 
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I'm not even sure how "green pill" works in the context of the pill metaphor. If the red pill is the desire to see the world as it really is, and the blue pill is a rejection of a scary truth in favour of a comforting lie, then what is the green pill? Psychedelics?

Also, I've never seen a Discordian conspiracy theorist before. (yes, Illuminatus! was all about conspiracy theories, but it was a parody)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on January 22, 2015, 11:09:33 pm
For context, this content is from a Imageboard run by a Wizard called Smiley, who you may recognize from (Sadly enough I can't find a nickname that isn't H8chan, and that seems too dull) 8chan's Fringe board.

Oh, I forgot something. Smiley isn't at all a wizard in the MRA sense, though he may be far-right enough. He actually thinks he's a wizard in the conventional sense, in this really odd Gnostic Immaterium-esque belief system and shit. I can't really describe it.
 
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I'm not even sure how "green pill" works in the context of the pill metaphor. If the red pill is the desire to see the world as it really is, and the blue pill is a rejection of a scary truth in favour of a comforting lie, then what is the green pill? Psychedelics?

Also, I've never seen a Discordian conspiracy theorist before. (yes, Illuminatus! was all about conspiracy theories, but it was a parody)

Perhaps, green pill is ritual magic?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Beezlebub on January 28, 2015, 02:07:34 am
I'm pretty sure this is going to lead into a suicide cult.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on January 28, 2015, 02:27:09 am
I'm pretty sure this is going to lead into a suicide cult.

Only if by "cult" you mean that he is going to commit suicide alone because he hasn't found anyone willing to join his "super special club of greenpills."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: jackdaw on January 29, 2015, 11:12:30 pm
(http://d2ws0xxnnorfdo.cloudfront.net/meme/367277)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 30, 2015, 12:33:07 am
1. The Moab would only take out a few blocks of a city.
2. Everything else in that picture.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on January 30, 2015, 03:06:27 am
Fun thing to do: Replace every instance of the word "Muslim" with "Jew" and "Islam" with "Judaism".* If you sound like a Nazi, you might have a problem.

*: This substitution is legitimate because Israel is a bunch of goddamn terrorists. Sponsored by us.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on January 30, 2015, 09:38:01 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/m1KHpX6.jpg?1)

SIX INCH REPUBLICAN FOX DICKS.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 30, 2015, 09:39:18 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/m1KHpX6.jpg?1)

SIX INCH REPUBLICAN FOX DICKS.

Is this guy somehow related to Jay Naylor?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 31, 2015, 12:02:42 am
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on January 31, 2015, 12:04:44 am
(http://i.imgur.com/m1KHpX6.jpg?1)

SIX INCH REPUBLICAN FOX DICKS.

More like six millimeters. Six inches isn't bad as a penis size.

Plus the art is crappy. I could draw better anthros than this clown!


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The first one makes no sense and the girls in the last pics may as well be holding up signs saying "I'M A FEMBOT FROM STEPFORD, CONNECTICUT!".


Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on January 31, 2015, 01:05:02 am
I like how the top pic is of a guy who doesn't need feminism. He doesn't need feminism and I don't need tampons. But I will say personally I'm glad for feminism. I like that my wife is a strong woman with her own hopes and fears and, well, is a complete woman. Makes me feel more like she's with me because she wants to be, rather than because she needs a man to do man things in her life.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on January 31, 2015, 01:51:06 am
I'd love to know what's the deal with the girls going "I don't need Feminism". Heck, I don't get "Stepfords" (as I call gals like them), period!

I especially don't get Stepfords who are in positions of power, authority & feminine independence. If it wasn't for Feminism, they wouldn't be Governor of Arizona or Alaska or political pundits or heads of organizations.

"Stockholm Syndrome" only explains so much. Weird people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 31, 2015, 10:32:52 am
To be fair, I think that things are more complicated than that.  A large number of anti-feminists might be operating on a misunderstanding of what feminism actually is.  Sadly, feminism has something of an image problem, which certainly isn't helped by the fact that bigots and fanatics tend to scream the loudest.  Hell, I identify as a feminist, and I get frustrated with aspects of the movement sometimes.

But most of the women pictured are definitely Stepfords.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on January 31, 2015, 11:49:46 am
To be fair, I think that things are more complicated than that.  A large number of anti-feminists might be operating on a misunderstanding of what feminism actually is.  Sadly, feminism has something of an image problem, which certainly isn't helped by the fact that bigots and fanatics tend to scream the loudest.  Hell, I identify as a feminist, and I get frustrated with aspects of the movement sometimes.

But most of the women pictured are definitely Stepfords.

That probably explains a lot. Many assume all Feminists are Valarie Solanas.

The gals in those photos also make me think of that weird YouTube girl who says that if your boyfriend/spouse clobbers you, it means he loves you (She's likely trolling but with Poe's Law, it's hard to tell). Those girls are all these incredibly vapid bimbo-hot-young-buxom-babes making stupid anti-woman statements.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on January 31, 2015, 11:52:32 am
I'd love to know what's the deal with the girls going "I don't need Feminism". Heck, I don't get "Stepfords" (as I call gals like them), period!
But most of the women pictured are definitely Stepfords.

I thought part of the point of feminism was that women can do whatever they want, including not be feminists?

Like, yes, I think their criticism of feminism is wrong. But maybe the best way to express this disagreement is not by implying they are brainwashed or robots. It defeats the point.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on January 31, 2015, 11:54:19 am
I'd love to know what's the deal with the girls going "I don't need Feminism". Heck, I don't get "Stepfords" (as I call gals like them), period!
But most of the women pictured are definitely Stepfords.

I thought part of the point of feminism was that women can do whatever they want, including not be feminists?

Like, yes, I think their criticism of feminism is wrong. But maybe the best way to express this disagreement is not by implying they are brainwashed or robots. It defeats the point.

That's fine. My problem is when they push it out into legislation & public acceptance.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on January 31, 2015, 12:11:51 pm
...how is holding a sign pushing it into legislation?

Public acceptance, maybe, but "you are allowed to believe anything you like, as long as you don't try to convince anyone else" doesn't really work.

And either way, the gendered insults don't help.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on January 31, 2015, 12:51:33 pm
As I was saying with a friend...

[9:24:00 AM] Zach: Kill all men to end the patriarchy? Weekly male castration sessions? "If women led the world, there would be no war, poverty, or religion"?
[9:24:09 AM] Paru-sea: That's...
[9:24:12 AM] Paru-sea: Not feminism, you know
[9:24:13 AM] Paru-sea: ^^;;
[9:24:24 AM] Zach: Tumblr seems to think it is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on January 31, 2015, 01:28:24 pm
...how is holding a sign pushing it into legislation?

Public acceptance, maybe, but "you are allowed to believe anything you like, as long as you don't try to convince anyone else" doesn't really work.

And either way, the gendered insults don't help.
Agreed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on January 31, 2015, 02:41:24 pm
Like how pro choice means it's just as cool to keep the kid?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on January 31, 2015, 05:37:11 pm
(https://creationsciencestudy.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/0875ebd3bdbcd25f5f358e1727c89caf-you-cant-hold-hands-with-god-if-you-are-mastrubating.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on January 31, 2015, 05:39:14 pm
(https://creationsciencestudy.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/0875ebd3bdbcd25f5f358e1727c89caf-you-cant-hold-hands-with-god-if-you-are-mastrubating.jpg)
Because you're too busy working for the Dark Brotherhood?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on January 31, 2015, 05:46:40 pm
As I was saying with a friend...

[9:24:00 AM] Zach: Kill all men to end the patriarchy? Weekly male castration sessions? "If women led the world, there would be no war, poverty, or religion"?
[9:24:09 AM] Paru-sea: That's...
[9:24:12 AM] Paru-sea: Not feminism, you know
[9:24:13 AM] Paru-sea: ^^;;
[9:24:24 AM] Zach: Tumblr seems to think it is.

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!

Ironbite-Tumblr has really given us a generation of great people and idiots.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on January 31, 2015, 06:13:58 pm
(https://creationsciencestudy.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/0875ebd3bdbcd25f5f358e1727c89caf-you-cant-hold-hands-with-god-if-you-are-mastrubating.jpg)

Well, I guess you can't hold his hand...

Quote
Quote# 62318

No, God's Penis is not a biological organ. I never said God's Penis was the same as man's penis. Obviously it wouldn't be. That is why I pointed out God has a Holy, Righteous Penis. That is to say, it's not the same as man's corrupted, fleshy one.

As I said when this subject first came up, once again: Penises are not just for sex & peeing. It is only because man is evil that he thinks of penises exclusively in those terms.

Man is made in the image of God the Father. That is the primary reason why man has a penis.

You cannot insert your evil prejudicial ideas of man's penis onto God - which is exactly what you are doing. God's Penis is not equal to man's penis. It's really not hard to understand.

Navaros, IMDB

http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=62318 (http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=62318)

This is actually the first time I've visited FSTDT since the split. This one of those top quotes that I just love to whip out when I get the chance.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on January 31, 2015, 06:22:25 pm
Of course not. When I masturbate, I'm holding God IN my hand.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on January 31, 2015, 06:46:29 pm
(https://creationsciencestudy.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/0875ebd3bdbcd25f5f358e1727c89caf-you-cant-hold-hands-with-god-if-you-are-mastrubating.jpg)
Sure I can...

up until the point where I need to reach for a tissue.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on January 31, 2015, 08:08:09 pm
Of course not. When I masturbate, I'm holding God IN my hand.

I state the same for myself.......
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/Spiritual%20and%20Religious/Kamakhya_aiya_zps4ca11524.jpg) (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/Spiritual%20and%20Religious/Kamakhya_aiya_zps4ca11524.jpg.html)
......Heck, in some spiritual paths, the vulva is a representation of The Divine!  ;D

Also, about that hand in that billboard, is the new saying "Stop or your palms will burst into flames"?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: LeTipex on January 31, 2015, 08:35:35 pm
Also, about that hand in that billboard, is the new saying "Stop or your palms will burst into flames"?
Well, I guess if you do it really fast...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on January 31, 2015, 08:45:45 pm
What I wanna know is what's on the sign behind. "Christians For" and then a girl in front of a flag?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on January 31, 2015, 08:48:24 pm
What I wanna know is what's on the sign behind. "Christians For" and then a girl in front of a flag?

It's cut off in that image, but it's "Christians for Michele Bachmann".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on January 31, 2015, 08:49:05 pm
(https://creationsciencestudy.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/0875ebd3bdbcd25f5f358e1727c89caf-you-cant-hold-hands-with-god-if-you-are-mastrubating.jpg)
Good!! I dont want some thousands of years old mass murderer anywhere near my hands when I'm trying to rub one out!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on January 31, 2015, 09:32:28 pm
What I wanna know is what's on the sign behind. "Christians For" and then a girl in front of a flag?

It's cut off in that image, but it's "Christians for Michele Bachmann".

Sorry to say, that's a Poe.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on January 31, 2015, 09:54:14 pm
What I wanna know is what's on the sign behind. "Christians For" and then a girl in front of a flag?

It's cut off in that image, but it's "Christians for Michele Bachmann".

Sorry to say, that's a Poe.

It's still funny.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 19, 2015, 11:57:15 am
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/dcef4x.jpg)

Wait, I thought the Jews wanted to corrupt people with porn.  If you're going to spew hate, at least make sure your story is consistent!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on February 22, 2015, 11:29:02 am
.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on February 22, 2015, 04:00:16 pm
.

The person who made that graphic about that guy clobbered by fanatics for that street art.......
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/General%20Reactions/missingthepoint_zps56abe210.jpeg) (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/General%20Reactions/missingthepoint_zps56abe210.jpeg.html)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on February 22, 2015, 04:04:12 pm
(https://scontent-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/v/t1.0-9/1396042_645986065452787_1032256938_n.jpg?oh=7947b83cda5c5b0a6da599c823246893&oe=5596463E)

A friend of mine from high school posted this on Facebook. Another friend debunked it in reply, pointing out that it's just a gold curtain that other presidents have had.
(https://scontent-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10470253_10152756485811028_5334866670376577172_n.jpg?oh=0fa05e5d8e3de77a74876bdd3efca0a4&oe=5593A269)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on February 22, 2015, 07:42:25 pm
Is a "prayer curtain" even a thing? I've never heard of one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 22, 2015, 08:24:00 pm
Is a "prayer curtain" even a thing? I've never heard of one.

I've heard of prayer rugs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on February 22, 2015, 10:27:11 pm
Just doing a little housewifely chore here. Somebody dropped this on the floor in the wrong thread.

(http://i.imgur.com/IblNcUo.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on February 22, 2015, 10:38:49 pm
I see someone's going their own way!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 23, 2015, 10:11:19 am
Just doing a little housewifely chore here. Somebody dropped this on the floor in the wrong thread.

(http://i.imgur.com/IblNcUo.jpg)

(https://tribwpmt.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/shots-fired.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on February 23, 2015, 10:48:26 pm
https://m.imgur.com/a/4aiAa (https://m.imgur.com/a/4aiAa)
JFC, just say "Niggers", we all know that's what you mean!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on February 24, 2015, 11:19:01 pm
Another doozy from my aunt on Facebook.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10993412_992902374103225_8665145341620209051_n.jpg?oh=032888f1ec32ed2c19d4ebdbfcb76a8b&oe=555218D7&__gda__=1431516861_ad401921c0056818ffffc584ac396011)

Here are some of the comments on the link:

"Because he's a gay loving black Muslim and needs to be sent back to the country that he came from he legit is the WORST president ever and he needs to be eliminated."

"Queen Obama is NOT, NEVER HAS BEEN AND NEVER WILL BE, above the Law!"

"So, Why is Congress So Afraid of Him?? Why hasn't he been Removed from office for Treason Alone?? He breaks the law almost daily! How is he getting away with this??"

"Sure he is. If he was white he would be held accountable. He's a traitor to all americans. Only reason he hasn't been impeached is he's black."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on February 25, 2015, 12:50:40 am
Another doozy from my aunt on Facebook.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10993412_992902374103225_8665145341620209051_n.jpg?oh=032888f1ec32ed2c19d4ebdbfcb76a8b&oe=555218D7&__gda__=1431516861_ad401921c0056818ffffc584ac396011)

Here are some of the comments on the link:

"Because he's a gay loving black Muslim and needs to be sent back to the country that he came from he legit is the WORST president ever and he needs to be eliminated."

"Queen Obama is NOT, NEVER HAS BEEN AND NEVER WILL BE, above the Law!"

"So, Why is Congress So Afraid of Him?? Why hasn't he been Removed from office for Treason Alone?? He breaks the law almost daily! How is he getting away with this??"

"Sure he is. If he was white he would be held accountable. He's a traitor to all americans. Only reason he hasn't been impeached is he's black."


Your aunt is a nut! I feel bad for you. Was she always like this or was she a normal person turned cuckoo via watching FAUX Noise?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on February 25, 2015, 08:43:13 am
Even on /tg/ more people said that this was a goddamn stupid claim than approved it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on February 25, 2015, 10:13:57 am
Rabbits are actually highly competitive, males fight for dominance, they form colony clans, defend their territory from outsider rabbit clans, post sentries to alert for predators, etc. Poor choice for an analogy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on February 25, 2015, 10:24:10 am
Rabbits are actually highly competitive, males fight for dominance, they form colony clans, defend their territory from outsider rabbit clans, post sentries to alert for predators, etc. Poor choice for an analogy.

Eeyup! Bunnies are some seriously FIERCE FUZZ!

The bunnies! They're taking over the woooooorrrrrdddd! It's the cutest apocalypse ever! ALL HAIL OUR BUNNY OVERLORDS!!!!!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lady Evil on February 25, 2015, 05:34:42 pm
.

Waaaaait a minute, isn't "karma" a concept in Eastern religion?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on February 25, 2015, 06:30:26 pm
Even on /tg/ more people said that this was a goddamn stupid claim than approved it.

Interestingly enough, the evidence runs exactly counter to his argument. From U.S. Presidential Elections and the Spatial Pattern of the American “Second Demographic Transition” (http://sdt.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/online/SDT-US-Vote2008_RL_ND.pdf) [PDF]

Quote
In other words, it should not come as a surprise that areas with more unconventional forms of family formation, such as cohabitation, children born to cohabitors, postponement of partnership, marriage and parenthood to much later ages, and acceptance of interference with fertility through abortion and efficient contraception, are voting for Democrats. Conversely, those that retain classic forms of family formation (early marriage and parenthood) and more conventional gender roles should display a preference for Republicans.

Also, look, a map of fertility rates by state:

(http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/fashion/daily/2012/11/19/19-fertility-rates3.w529.h352.2x.jpg)

Higher birth rates and offspring at earlier age are properties of conservatives, not liberals.

Of course, r/K selection strategies don't really apply to political orientation anyway, since it is not (entirely) hereditary. Your equation* would need a term for people switching political parties from their parents, which is arguably what the liberal strategy emphasises.

*the terms r and K come from a differential equation model of population growth, r stands in for growth rate and K for carrying capacity.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: starseeker on February 28, 2015, 07:30:56 am
Rabbits are actually highly competitive, males fight for dominance, they form colony clans, defend their territory from outsider rabbit clans, post sentries to alert for predators, etc. Poor choice for an analogy.

Eeyup! Bunnies are some seriously FIERCE FUZZ!

The bunnies! They're taking over the woooooorrrrrdddd! It's the cutest apocalypse ever! ALL HAIL OUR BUNNY OVERLORDS!!!!!

It's like they never read Watership Down, or even watched the film.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on February 28, 2015, 09:57:29 am
Well, the whole thing was just yanked outta his ass on the fly...as these things always are, cuz that is where their heads are located.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 03, 2015, 07:44:27 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/OzlrDEV.jpg)
In what universe is this not creepy?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on March 03, 2015, 08:12:06 pm
Or grounds for immediate arrest?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on March 03, 2015, 08:22:58 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/OzlrDEV.jpg)
In what universe is this not creepy?

William Morris twitter handle is "the more laws there are the more corrupt the government is."

Except for laws against abortion, gay rights, and christian supremacy, of course. Oh, and he's came down on the side of the law when an unarmed black man was shot in Fergusson, but everyone knows that only white male heterosexual protestant conservatives are human beings that deserve rights and liberty.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 04, 2015, 11:31:47 am
On top of that hypocrisy, these goobers don't get that "Big Government" isn't a bad thing. They rail against everything being regulated. They rail against Unions. They literally assume that it somehow infringes on their rights and life somehow. OOOOHHH LIKE BREATHING CLEAN AIR, GETTING GOOD WAGES & DECENT WORKING CONDITIONS AND WEARING SEAT BELTS IS SUCH OPPRESSION ON PAR WITH STALIN, PINOCHET, POL POT & THE KIMS!

Also, having cameras everywhere...IN PUBLIC...does not automatically mean "OMG! WE'RE IN OCEANA!"

*SHEESH!* Many an otherwise unsolvable crime case has been cracked because of surveillance cameras. Murders solved. Kidnappings solved. Some kidnap victims who survived owe their lives to those cameras!

Personally, If I was going on a plane, I would rather step in a booth for two seconds and have a weird X-Ray taken than have some goon grope me like a pervert!

.....Of course, put cameras & "bugs" in folk's homes, hotel/motel rooms & restrooms, then we'll have a right to worry.

I swear! People get fearful of everything!

Wingnuts are weirdos! I don't hate the otherwise average person who's a tea-head, I pity them and feel bad that such otherwise average Joe/Jane could be so manipulated & deceived. They're not bad or evil, just ignorant.

It's the ammosexual maniacs, hate-group members & the leaders of the whole Tealiban that are worthy of scorn.

Obese granny in a scooter, Farmer Brown or Factory Bob doesn't deserve our scorn.

Mr. Shooty Trigger MacBoom, Megachurch Pastor, Flashy The Televangelist, Senator/Representative/Justice/Governor/President Stupid & their corrupted CEO Robber Baron/Military-Industrial Complex Masters do.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 04, 2015, 07:30:42 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/OzlrDEV.jpg)
In what universe is this not creepy?

William Morris twitter handle is "the more laws there are the more corrupt the government is."

Except for laws against abortion, gay rights, and christian supremacy, of course. Oh, and he's came down on the side of the law when an unarmed black man was shot in Fergusson, but everyone knows that only white male heterosexual protestant conservatives are human beings that deserve rights and liberty.
"I'm a rich white guy who doesn't like paying income tax." Just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on March 04, 2015, 08:03:45 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/OzlrDEV.jpg)
In what universe is this not creepy?

"Red Nation Rising", eh? My old man was right, the commies are everywhere!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on March 06, 2015, 10:56:55 am
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10574377_806027259457405_2890392825532158502_n.jpg?oh=cec3c13d1be7a547963ac2abd14fb3d6&oe=5592FD1E)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on March 06, 2015, 12:36:22 pm
You stoned again grandpa?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on March 07, 2015, 02:54:13 pm
Thankfully, this was posted on Facebook by someone who disagreed.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/s480x480/11060963_917049731672403_931128650345774022_n.png?oh=2cbbf5d13145e99f3de003c6720ca6ae&oe=558E3989&__gda__=1434242574_54b479451d7b3971a33453167ac8b6c0)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 07, 2015, 07:44:21 pm
Why does the dude on the right have to be wearing a Nightwish shirt?  Damn it, couldn't be wearing a MCR shirt...bah.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on March 08, 2015, 03:28:47 am
Why does the dude on the right have to be wearing a Nightwish shirt?  Damn it, couldn't be wearing a MCR shirt...bah.
Because Nightwish invited Dawkins to their album and Christians all over Finland are burning the records of the band in protest?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Thejebusfire on March 08, 2015, 04:26:43 am
My sister stopped listening to Nightwish for a while after she heard the kinslayer.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on March 08, 2015, 04:33:08 am
I love that song.

I play it while RPing out mecha battles on a RP forum I frequent.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on March 08, 2015, 09:40:04 am
Why does the dude on the right have to be wearing a Nightwish shirt?  Damn it, couldn't be wearing a MCR shirt...bah.
Because Nightwish invited Dawkins to their album and Christians all over Finland are burning the records of the band in protest?

HAHAHAHAHA.  Aah, that's funny.  I swear, people like that don't get that old media is pretty much pointless, nowadays.  Burning a record?  Woooooooooo, its not like I could go on to, say, iTunes and download their songs to my MP3 player...if I happened to have a single Apple product in my house, which I do not.  Hell, if all else fails, I'm all but certain that copies of their new stuff will be on The Pirate Bay within minutes of their release in about sixteen different audio formats.

Seriously, the day the net started going at speeds faster than dial-up was the day shit like that and book burnings became little more than a sideshow.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on March 08, 2015, 10:00:45 am
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10574377_806027259457405_2890392825532158502_n.jpg?oh=cec3c13d1be7a547963ac2abd14fb3d6&oe=5592FD1E)

Isn't it weird that
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on March 08, 2015, 10:02:52 am
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10574377_806027259457405_2890392825532158502_n.jpg?oh=cec3c13d1be7a547963ac2abd14fb3d6&oe=5592FD1E)

Isn't it weird that NO ONE is offended by the flag, but they are pissed at dumb fucks who make these stupid claims?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on March 08, 2015, 11:49:21 am
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10574377_806027259457405_2890392825532158502_n.jpg?oh=cec3c13d1be7a547963ac2abd14fb3d6&oe=5592FD1E)
No, it's not weird that happens in all those places in the world where that flag has heralded the arrival of death, destruction, and despotism.

The naivety that the mighty U.S. is alone amongst the nations of the word in welcoming immigrants to your shores is pretty fucking funny too, and that is to say nothing of the laughable state of your 'benefits' compared to those of other first world nations.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on March 08, 2015, 01:04:29 pm
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10574377_806027259457405_2890392825532158502_n.jpg?oh=cec3c13d1be7a547963ac2abd14fb3d6&oe=5592FD1E)
No, it's not weird that happens in all those places in the world where that flag has heralded the arrival of death, destruction, and despotism.

The naivety that the mighty U.S. is alone amongst the nations of the word in welcoming immigrants to your shores is pretty fucking funny too, and that is to say nothing of the laughable state of your 'benefits' compared to those of other first world nations.

It's the "my country right or wrong" mentality taken to the extreme of "my country is always right".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on March 08, 2015, 06:08:03 pm
Why does the dude on the right have to be wearing a Nightwish shirt?  Damn it, couldn't be wearing a MCR shirt...bah.
Because Nightwish invited Dawkins to their album and Christians all over Finland are burning the records of the band in protest?

HAHAHAHAHA.  Aah, that's funny.  I swear, people like that don't get that old media is pretty much pointless, nowadays.  Burning a record?  Woooooooooo, its not like I could go on to, say, iTunes and download their songs to my MP3 player...if I happened to have a single Apple product in my house, which I do not.  Hell, if all else fails, I'm all but certain that copies of their new stuff will be on The Pirate Bay within minutes of their release in about sixteen different audio formats.

Seriously, the day the net started going at speeds faster than dial-up was the day shit like that and book burnings became little more than a sideshow.

Book (et al) burnings have been more symbolic than anything for a while now. Arguably since the printing press.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on March 08, 2015, 07:08:21 pm
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10574377_806027259457405_2890392825532158502_n.jpg?oh=cec3c13d1be7a547963ac2abd14fb3d6&oe=5592FD1E)
No, it's not weird that happens in all those places in the world where that flag has heralded the arrival of death, destruction, and despotism.

The naivety that the mighty U.S. is alone amongst the nations of the word in welcoming immigrants to your shores is pretty fucking funny too, and that is to say nothing of the laughable state of your 'benefits' compared to those of other first world nations.

It's the "my country right or wrong" mentality taken to the extreme of "my country is always right".

The extreme? That's always been the meaning I took away from people who spouted that sort of nonsense.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on March 08, 2015, 07:13:37 pm
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10574377_806027259457405_2890392825532158502_n.jpg?oh=cec3c13d1be7a547963ac2abd14fb3d6&oe=5592FD1E)
No, it's not weird that happens in all those places in the world where that flag has heralded the arrival of death, destruction, and despotism.

The naivety that the mighty U.S. is alone amongst the nations of the word in welcoming immigrants to your shores is pretty fucking funny too, and that is to say nothing of the laughable state of your 'benefits' compared to those of other first world nations.

It's the "my country right or wrong" mentality taken to the extreme of "my country is always right".

The extreme? That's always been the meaning I took away from people who spouted that sort of nonsense.

I've tended to understand the phrase "my country right or wrong" in the context of this bit from South Park:

Quote
No, dude. America may have some problems, but it's our home. Our team. And if you don't wanna root for your team, then you should get the hell out of the stadium.

A lot of people take that a lot farther, but I don't think the phrase automatically extends.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on March 08, 2015, 08:55:33 pm
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10574377_806027259457405_2890392825532158502_n.jpg?oh=cec3c13d1be7a547963ac2abd14fb3d6&oe=5592FD1E)
No, it's not weird that happens in all those places in the world where that flag has heralded the arrival of death, destruction, and despotism.

The naivety that the mighty U.S. is alone amongst the nations of the word in welcoming immigrants to your shores is pretty fucking funny too, and that is to say nothing of the laughable state of your 'benefits' compared to those of other first world nations.

It's the "my country right or wrong" mentality taken to the extreme of "my country is always right".

The extreme? That's always been the meaning I took away from people who spouted that sort of nonsense.

I've tended to understand the phrase "my country right or wrong" in the context of this bit from South Park:

Quote
No, dude. America may have some problems, but it's our home. Our team. And if you don't wanna root for your team, then you should get the hell out of the stadium.

A lot of people take that a lot farther, but I don't think the phrase automatically extends.

I feel like this is an opportune time to point out that the full quote is "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 08, 2015, 09:57:18 pm
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10574377_806027259457405_2890392825532158502_n.jpg?oh=cec3c13d1be7a547963ac2abd14fb3d6&oe=5592FD1E)
No, it's not weird that happens in all those places in the world where that flag has heralded the arrival of death, destruction, and despotism.

The naivety that the mighty U.S. is alone amongst the nations of the word in welcoming immigrants to your shores is pretty fucking funny too, and that is to say nothing of the laughable state of your 'benefits' compared to those of other first world nations.

It's the "my country right or wrong" mentality taken to the extreme of "my country is always right".

The extreme? That's always been the meaning I took away from people who spouted that sort of nonsense.

I've tended to understand the phrase "my country right or wrong" in the context of this bit from South Park:

Quote
No, dude. America may have some problems, but it's our home. Our team. And if you don't wanna root for your team, then you should get the hell out of the stadium.

A lot of people take that a lot farther, but I don't think the phrase automatically extends.

I feel like this is an opportune time to point out that the full quote is "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."

Sounds like a good credo to live by.  Remember: patriotism is a virtue, jingoism is a vice.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on March 08, 2015, 10:46:49 pm
I feel like this is an opportune time to point out that the full quote is "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."

That's a twist on the phrase, not the original quote. A better version, to be sure.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 08, 2015, 11:45:59 pm
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZpdHSK5cIFg/ThBYSWIURkI/AAAAAAAADvo/1o-efEu_sKQ/s400/church%252Bsigns%252Bmake%252Bgood%252Bpoints%252Bmy%252Bfriend%252Bsent%252Bthis%252Bto_6570f6_1946556.jpg)
I hear about them dropping them Quite often.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on March 09, 2015, 08:09:43 am
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZpdHSK5cIFg/ThBYSWIURkI/AAAAAAAADvo/1o-efEu_sKQ/s400/church%252Bsigns%252Bmake%252Bgood%252Bpoints%252Bmy%252Bfriend%252Bsent%252Bthis%252Bto_6570f6_1946556.jpg)
I hear about them dropping them Quite often.

April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on March 09, 2015, 08:14:32 am
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10574377_806027259457405_2890392825532158502_n.jpg?oh=cec3c13d1be7a547963ac2abd14fb3d6&oe=5592FD1E)
No, it's not weird that happens in all those places in the world where that flag has heralded the arrival of death, destruction, and despotism.

The naivety that the mighty U.S. is alone amongst the nations of the word in welcoming immigrants to your shores is pretty fucking funny too, and that is to say nothing of the laughable state of your 'benefits' compared to those of other first world nations.

It's the "my country right or wrong" mentality taken to the extreme of "my country is always right".

The extreme? That's always been the meaning I took away from people who spouted that sort of nonsense.

I've tended to understand the phrase "my country right or wrong" in the context of this bit from South Park:

Quote
No, dude. America may have some problems, but it's our home. Our team. And if you don't wanna root for your team, then you should get the hell out of the stadium.

A lot of people take that a lot farther, but I don't think the phrase automatically extends.

I feel like this is an opportune time to point out that the full quote is "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."

Sounds like a good credo to live by.  Remember: patriotism is a virtue, jingoism is a vice.

I think it should be noted that the guy who said the full-quote, Carl Schurz, was a German immigrant.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 09, 2015, 09:47:54 am
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10574377_806027259457405_2890392825532158502_n.jpg?oh=cec3c13d1be7a547963ac2abd14fb3d6&oe=5592FD1E)
No, it's not weird that happens in all those places in the world where that flag has heralded the arrival of death, destruction, and despotism.

The naivety that the mighty U.S. is alone amongst the nations of the word in welcoming immigrants to your shores is pretty fucking funny too, and that is to say nothing of the laughable state of your 'benefits' compared to those of other first world nations.

It's the "my country right or wrong" mentality taken to the extreme of "my country is always right".

The extreme? That's always been the meaning I took away from people who spouted that sort of nonsense.

I've tended to understand the phrase "my country right or wrong" in the context of this bit from South Park:

Quote
No, dude. America may have some problems, but it's our home. Our team. And if you don't wanna root for your team, then you should get the hell out of the stadium.

A lot of people take that a lot farther, but I don't think the phrase automatically extends.

I feel like this is an opportune time to point out that the full quote is "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."

Sounds like a good credo to live by.  Remember: patriotism is a virtue, jingoism is a vice.


Agreed! 8)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 09, 2015, 11:15:18 am
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/i3ulnn.jpg)

Comparing black people to shit.  And they have the nerve to claim they're not racists.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 09, 2015, 11:42:40 am
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/i3ulnn.jpg)

Comparing black people to shit.  And they have the nerve to claim they're not racists.

Replace the poop with a lump of yummy chocolate and it would be in the "Best Protest Signs/Political Cartoons" section.

I should remake this and change "Yesterday's Fully-Digested Lunch" into "Theobroma Cacao".

I'll post it in a short while.


EDIT: I made it!....
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/General%20Reactions/Diversity_zps1zuvzaot.jpg) (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/General%20Reactions/Diversity_zps1zuvzaot.jpg.html)
Waddaya think? And how do you like my new spin on that annoying bigot catchphrase?

ANTI-RACISM IS A CODE WORD FOR PRO-HUMANITY!
......This saying should go memetic!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on March 10, 2015, 06:16:09 pm
(http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/200H/f/2011/096/a/4/two_party_fascism_by_blamethe1st-d3ddo7u.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 10, 2015, 10:18:47 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/Vh7wB1C.jpg)
(http://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/a866a95/2147483647/resize/652x%3E/quality/85/?url=%2Fcmsmedia%2F84%2Ff6773d0f5d87e71c87186d74f72e4f%2F4295FE_DA_080405flag.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on March 11, 2015, 02:12:15 am
(http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/200H/f/2011/096/a/4/two_party_fascism_by_blamethe1st-d3ddo7u.png)

You know, in a way, the message has a nugget of truth behind it, but the execution is completely wrong. Probably the most egregious part is likening the democrats to the comunists and the republicans to the nazis. I think a better image would be a strange push-me-pull-you type animal with an elephant head on one side, and a donkey head on the other.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lady Evil on March 11, 2015, 05:15:04 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/Vh7wB1C.jpg)
(http://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/a866a95/2147483647/resize/652x%3E/quality/85/?url=%2Fcmsmedia%2F84%2Ff6773d0f5d87e71c87186d74f72e4f%2F4295FE_DA_080405flag.jpg)

You'd think the fact that one of the black men pictured is President of the United Freaking States would be change enough.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 11, 2015, 05:23:44 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/Vh7wB1C.jpg)
(http://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/a866a95/2147483647/resize/652x%3E/quality/85/?url=%2Fcmsmedia%2F84%2Ff6773d0f5d87e71c87186d74f72e4f%2F4295FE_DA_080405flag.jpg)

You'd think the fact that one of the black men pictured is President of the United Freaking States would be change enough.

A sane person would go in that direction.  This was not made by a sane person.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 11, 2015, 11:22:31 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/Vh7wB1C.jpg)
(http://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/a866a95/2147483647/resize/652x%3E/quality/85/?url=%2Fcmsmedia%2F84%2Ff6773d0f5d87e71c87186d74f72e4f%2F4295FE_DA_080405flag.jpg)

You'd think the fact that one of the black men pictured is President of the United Freaking States would be change enough.

A sane person would go in that direction.  This was not made by a sane person.


Yeah, wingnuts fetishize "Ol' Glory" as much as they fetishize guns. I can picture some dope named Clem having a threesome with an M16 & an American Flag.......

......now I need brain bleach.....
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/The%20Pink%20Floyd%20Boys/Syddy/8b8f2373-a202-49fc-b6b4-5fddbe359898_zpssfj8xn5a.jpg) (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/The%20Pink%20Floyd%20Boys/Syddy/8b8f2373-a202-49fc-b6b4-5fddbe359898_zpssfj8xn5a.jpg.html)
(Pictured: Brain Bleach)
......ahhhhhh....That's good bleach......

That last photo with the black guy about to get skewered with the flag......*shudder*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 16, 2015, 12:35:41 pm
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/2s7e784.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on March 16, 2015, 01:10:38 pm
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/2s7e784.jpg)

    One of these things is not like the others,
    One of these things just doesn't belong,
    Can you tell which thing is not like the others
    By the time I finish my song?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 22, 2015, 05:43:55 pm
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/eae8562c2e6ecf5f94de43340e8c0d02/tumblr_nitrruH3X81r7pphso1_500.png)
Why does Martin Luther King Jr. keep saying blacks will always be victimized!? IS HE THE REAL racist!?!?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 22, 2015, 05:49:48 pm
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/eae8562c2e6ecf5f94de43340e8c0d02/tumblr_nitrruH3X81r7pphso1_500.png)
Why does Martin Luther King Jr. keep saying blacks will always be victimized!? IS HE THE REAL racist!?!?

Actually, she has a point.  What are "safe spaces" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dakota Bob on March 22, 2015, 06:00:23 pm
Wait, is her last name really "Kitchens", could she be an MRA sleeper agent designed to lure women back into the kitchen?! WAKE UP SHEEPLE ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 22, 2015, 06:39:26 pm
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/eae8562c2e6ecf5f94de43340e8c0d02/tumblr_nitrruH3X81r7pphso1_500.png)
Why does Martin Luther King Jr. keep saying blacks will always be victimized!? IS HE THE REAL racist!?!?

Actually, she has a point.  What are "safe spaces" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?
What are "domestic violence shelters" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 22, 2015, 06:41:50 pm
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/eae8562c2e6ecf5f94de43340e8c0d02/tumblr_nitrruH3X81r7pphso1_500.png)
Why does Martin Luther King Jr. keep saying blacks will always be victimized!? IS HE THE REAL racist!?!?

Actually, she has a point.  What are "safe spaces" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?
What are "domestic violence shelters" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?

False equivalence.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 22, 2015, 06:45:58 pm
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/eae8562c2e6ecf5f94de43340e8c0d02/tumblr_nitrruH3X81r7pphso1_500.png)
Why does Martin Luther King Jr. keep saying blacks will always be victimized!? IS HE THE REAL racist!?!?

Actually, she has a point.  What are "safe spaces" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?
What are "domestic violence shelters" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?

False equivalence.
How? Safe spaces are meant to be an area for LGBT/Woman/disabled people to go to avoid bullying or harrasment as well as talk to people with similar experiences.
While it's true the problems faced by people in them aren't always as severe as domestic abuse surivors people in them are still often victims of bullying (phycological or physical).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 22, 2015, 06:48:24 pm
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/eae8562c2e6ecf5f94de43340e8c0d02/tumblr_nitrruH3X81r7pphso1_500.png)
Why does Martin Luther King Jr. keep saying blacks will always be victimized!? IS HE THE REAL racist!?!?

Actually, she has a point.  What are "safe spaces" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?
What are "domestic violence shelters" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?

False equivalence.
How? Safe spaces are meant to be an area for LGBT/Woman/disabled people to go to avoid bullying or harrasment as well as talk to people with similar experiences.
While it's true the problems faced by people in them aren't always as severe as domestic abuse surivors people in them are still often victims of bullying (phycological or physical).

I was referring to "safe spaces" in the radflake sense.  Sorry I wasn't clearer.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 22, 2015, 06:50:27 pm
Oh.
This is awkward...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on March 22, 2015, 06:52:24 pm
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/eae8562c2e6ecf5f94de43340e8c0d02/tumblr_nitrruH3X81r7pphso1_500.png)
Why does Martin Luther King Jr. keep saying blacks will always be victimized!? IS HE THE REAL racist!?!?

Actually, she has a point.  What are "safe spaces" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?
What are "domestic violence shelters" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?

False equivalence.
How? Safe spaces are meant to be an area for LGBT/Woman/disabled people to go to avoid bullying or harrasment as well as talk to people with similar experiences.
While it's true the problems faced by people in them aren't always as severe as domestic abuse surivors people in them are still often victims of bullying (phycological or physical).

Well, this turned into a shitstorm fast.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on March 22, 2015, 06:52:59 pm
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/eae8562c2e6ecf5f94de43340e8c0d02/tumblr_nitrruH3X81r7pphso1_500.png)
Why does Martin Luther King Jr. keep saying blacks will always be victimized!? IS HE THE REAL racist!?!?

Actually, she has a point.  What are "safe spaces" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?
What are "domestic violence shelters" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?

False equivalence.
How? Safe spaces are meant to be an area for LGBT/Woman/disabled people to go to avoid bullying or harrasment as well as talk to people with similar experiences.
While it's true the problems faced by people in them aren't always as severe as domestic abuse surivors people in them are still often victims of bullying (phycological or physical).

Well, this turned into a shitstorm fast.

Relax, it seems to have blown over.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on March 22, 2015, 07:11:10 pm
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/eae8562c2e6ecf5f94de43340e8c0d02/tumblr_nitrruH3X81r7pphso1_500.png)
Why does Martin Luther King Jr. keep saying blacks will always be victimized!? IS HE THE REAL racist!?!?

Actually, she has a point.  What are "safe spaces" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?

I prefer the term "hugbox". A place where criticism is howled at and the hugs come thick and fast.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on March 22, 2015, 07:46:08 pm
Actually, she has a point.  What are "safe spaces" if not an admission that you can't handle criticism?

An admission that there are certain situations in which you don't want to deal with criticism?

I cannot speak for everyone who has ever used the phrase "safe space", but in my experience when people use it they mean that some places are safe for specific things and others are not. Which sounds like a pretty reasonable idea.

I'm all for engaging with criticism and being open to various points of view, but only when people have the will and mental energy to do so. If someone just wants to vent about something or talk to people they already know are on the same page, they should have a chance for that, too. Hence, safe spaces.

There are infinitely many debates you can have about what places should be safe, whether being safe for X necessarily excludes being safe for Y, etc. But the bare notion of safe spaces doesn't seem that controversial to me.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on March 22, 2015, 08:19:14 pm
There are infinitely many debates you can have about what places should be safe, whether being safe for X necessarily excludes being safe for Y, etc. But the bare notion of safe spaces doesn't seem that controversial to me.

Safe spaces have a lot of inbuilt armor against criticism, which is fine and well for a place to escape but it can turn ugly fast when the moderators of that safe space become abusive or manipulative. The damage is compounded by convincing victims that their only safe outlet is the one with the abusive members.

It's a real problem with some sites and I don't think the concept of a safe space has an effective check on that dysfunction.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on March 23, 2015, 10:28:34 pm
As a general rule, safe spaces are meant to have harsh social norms against abuse. Obviously that can backfire if you have designated moderators that are the ones perpetrating the abuse and you can't remove them, but "authorities abuse their power" is a general failure mode of basically every human community, it's not exclusive to safe spaces.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on March 23, 2015, 10:33:50 pm
As a general rule, safe spaces are meant to have harsh social norms against abuse. Obviously that can backfire if you have designated moderators that are the ones perpetrating the abuse and you can't remove them, but "authorities abuse their power" is a general failure mode of basically every human community, it's not exclusive to safe spaces.
"Abuse of power comes as no surprise."
~Saddam Hussein
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on March 23, 2015, 10:48:03 pm
As a general rule, safe spaces are meant to have harsh social norms against abuse. Obviously that can backfire if you have designated moderators that are the ones perpetrating the abuse and you can't remove them, but "authorities abuse their power" is a general failure mode of basically every human community, it's not exclusive to safe spaces.

Safe spaces harbor victims of abuse. I consider it a uniquely vile offense when the heads of those communities manipulate the trust an already vulnerable segment of the population places in them.

At least other forums can throw shit around and fragment. Dysfunctional safe spaces make their members feel more worthless and outcast than they felt without any community support.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on March 23, 2015, 11:58:07 pm
Well, I would say that Ironchew is right in this case here, if only with (as he himself has noted) specific examples of so-called Safe Spaces. Judging from places like Shakesville, often survivors may flock to places with rather toxic power cultures- often ones with cultish power cultures.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on March 24, 2015, 07:26:28 pm
As a general rule, safe spaces are meant to have harsh social norms against abuse. Obviously that can backfire if you have designated moderators that are the ones perpetrating the abuse and you can't remove them, but "authorities abuse their power" is a general failure mode of basically every human community, it's not exclusive to safe spaces.

Safe spaces harbor victims of abuse. I consider it a uniquely vile offense when the heads of those communities manipulate the trust an already vulnerable segment of the population places in them.

At least other forums can throw shit around and fragment. Dysfunctional safe spaces make their members feel more worthless and outcast than they felt without any community support.

Not sure what point you're trying to make here that is unique to safe spaces. All communities with victims of abuse have a risk of authorities being abusive, which yes, is horrible.

Is your point that the community norms of safe spaces make this a greater risk, or remove options for dealing with it if that happens?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on March 24, 2015, 08:59:50 pm
As a general rule, safe spaces are meant to have harsh social norms against abuse. Obviously that can backfire if you have designated moderators that are the ones perpetrating the abuse and you can't remove them, but "authorities abuse their power" is a general failure mode of basically every human community, it's not exclusive to safe spaces.

Safe spaces harbor victims of abuse. I consider it a uniquely vile offense when the heads of those communities manipulate the trust an already vulnerable segment of the population places in them.

At least other forums can throw shit around and fragment. Dysfunctional safe spaces make their members feel more worthless and outcast than they felt without any community support.

Not sure what point you're trying to make here that is unique to safe spaces. All communities with victims of abuse have a risk of authorities being abusive, which yes, is horrible.

Is your point that the community norms of safe spaces make this a greater risk, or remove options for dealing with it if that happens?

I don't think there's a greater risk of mod abuse, but in specific examples like Shakesville the safe space mentality removes options for dealing with the abuse because everyone else is trying not to rock the boat.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 02, 2015, 11:15:42 am
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 02, 2015, 11:20:54 am
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There needs to be a communist equivalent to Godwin's law.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on April 02, 2015, 11:34:52 am
[-snip-]

There needs to be a communist equivalent to Godwin's law.
McCarthy's Law, maybe?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 02, 2015, 12:48:18 pm
Or, just call it a GRANDMA. "Oh, look, Ted Cruz just GRANDMA'ed all over that tweet."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on April 02, 2015, 03:17:08 pm
McCarthy's Law: The longer a political discussion lasts, the greater likelihood that a participant will compare another argument to communism.  That works.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 02, 2015, 04:00:42 pm
I think a better rule would be anyone who shows opinions to the left of ultra-conservative will be accused of being a communist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on April 03, 2015, 09:52:56 am
Nah. They're fascist like Hitler.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 06, 2015, 12:53:10 am
https://think69.com/this-generations-tech-addiction-posters-by-ajit-johnson/

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 06, 2015, 10:29:47 am
https://think69.com/this-generations-tech-addiction-posters-by-ajit-johnson/



But...tech and gaming addiction are totally things!  Just ask my pastor!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on April 06, 2015, 04:47:10 pm
https://think69.com/this-generations-tech-addiction-posters-by-ajit-johnson/



But...tech and gaming addiction are totally things!  Just ask my pastor!

Well, I can certainly testify that they are, having been to bloody rehab for them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 07, 2015, 08:09:00 am
https://think69.com/this-generations-tech-addiction-posters-by-ajit-johnson/



But...tech and gaming addiction are totally things!  Just ask my pastor!

Well, I can certainly testify that they are, having been to bloody rehab for them.

Not to be insensitive, but I'm gonna have to see some actual proof that they (the addictions, that is) exist.  You can make a rehab clinic for anything.  They have what could be called rehab clinics for being gay, sooooooooooo...I'm going to have to say that just because something has a rehab clinic doesn't necessarily mean that they're treating an addiction in the medical sense.  Psychological attachment, mayhaps, but not an addiction.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 07, 2015, 11:35:48 am
Regardless, it's not as if are generation just invented things like being introverted, addiction, or any of that other bullshit by exposure to Jew propaganda and mix-breeding with savage non-whites.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on April 07, 2015, 02:15:23 pm
https://think69.com/this-generations-tech-addiction-posters-by-ajit-johnson/



But...tech and gaming addiction are totally things!  Just ask my pastor!

Well, I can certainly testify that they are, having been to bloody rehab for them.

Not to be insensitive, but I'm gonna have to see some actual proof that they (the addictions, that is) exist.  You can make a rehab clinic for anything.  They have what could be called rehab clinics for being gay, sooooooooooo...I'm going to have to say that just because something has a rehab clinic doesn't necessarily mean that they're treating an addiction in the medical sense.  Psychological attachment, mayhaps, but not an addiction.

What would constitute proof of an addiction?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 07, 2015, 04:48:54 pm
https://think69.com/this-generations-tech-addiction-posters-by-ajit-johnson/



But...tech and gaming addiction are totally things!  Just ask my pastor!

Well, I can certainly testify that they are, having been to bloody rehab for them.

Not to be insensitive, but I'm gonna have to see some actual proof that they (the addictions, that is) exist.  You can make a rehab clinic for anything.  They have what could be called rehab clinics for being gay, sooooooooooo...I'm going to have to say that just because something has a rehab clinic doesn't necessarily mean that they're treating an addiction in the medical sense.  Psychological attachment, mayhaps, but not an addiction.

What would constitute proof of an addiction?

What constitutes proof of any addiction: a combination of physical (ie: chemical) and psychological dependency that, when broken, results in withdrawal symptoms.  As far as I'm aware, the physical half of the addiction simply does not exist for things that are colloquially deemed addictive like gaming, technology, or pornography.  Without the physical aspect, you don't, to my knowledge, have an addiction in the medical sense, but a strong, perhaps even malignant, dependence on something.

Again, I'm not trying to be a dick, just being skeptical of a claim that I find...odd, is a good term, I suppose.  If there's adequate evidence that gaming can be medically addictive, then I'll happily accept it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on April 07, 2015, 05:15:39 pm
Actually the physical addiction can be caused by the psychological addiction.

Simply, when a person is addicted on something like videogames it affects their brain and they get the physical symptoms of addiction as well.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 07, 2015, 05:50:00 pm
https://think69.com/this-generations-tech-addiction-posters-by-ajit-johnson/



But...tech and gaming addiction are totally things!  Just ask my pastor!

Well, I can certainly testify that they are, having been to bloody rehab for them.

Not to be insensitive, but I'm gonna have to see some actual proof that they (the addictions, that is) exist.  You can make a rehab clinic for anything.  They have what could be called rehab clinics for being gay, sooooooooooo...I'm going to have to say that just because something has a rehab clinic doesn't necessarily mean that they're treating an addiction in the medical sense.  Psychological attachment, mayhaps, but not an addiction.

What would constitute proof of an addiction?

What constitutes proof of any addiction: a combination of physical (ie: chemical) and psychological dependency that, when broken, results in withdrawal symptoms.  As far as I'm aware, the physical half of the addiction simply does not exist for things that are colloquially deemed addictive like gaming, technology, or pornography.  Without the physical aspect, you don't, to my knowledge, have an addiction in the medical sense, but a strong, perhaps even malignant, dependence on something.

Again, I'm not trying to be a dick, just being skeptical of a claim that I find...odd, is a good term, I suppose.  If there's adequate evidence that gaming can be medically addictive, then I'll happily accept it.

I'm not an expert on this, but I think the the two things are separate types of addiction, and don't necessarily have to both be present. Keep in mind that I'm not a psychologist, that I have no personal experience with addiction, and that I might be wording much of what follows wrong.

Physical addiction is the type of addiction most people know about and think of when hearing the word "addiction". It's the body actually needing something to continue functioning. This is what most drug addiction is as far as I know (with it overlapping into psychological most of the time).

Psychological addiction is the type of addiction that exists entirely in your mind. You think you need something, have a strong desire for it, or have problems when you don't have access to it. This is what most non-drug addictions are. My understanding is weed doesn't have any chemical in it that would cause a physical addiction, but a psychological addiction can still happen.

My understanding is that both have withdrawal symptoms. Physical addiction causes withdrawal symptoms that manifest in a manner like physical illness would. This is why sometimes drug rehab includes something that mimics the drug and the amount taken is slowly lowered. Psychological addiction withdrawal symptoms manifest like symptoms of mental illness. I think anxiety and depression are two of the most common withdrawal symptoms, but I might be wrong.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Meshakhad on April 07, 2015, 06:39:11 pm
https://think69.com/this-generations-tech-addiction-posters-by-ajit-johnson/



But...tech and gaming addiction are totally things!  Just ask my pastor!

Well, I can certainly testify that they are, having been to bloody rehab for them.

Not to be insensitive, but I'm gonna have to see some actual proof that they (the addictions, that is) exist.  You can make a rehab clinic for anything.  They have what could be called rehab clinics for being gay, sooooooooooo...I'm going to have to say that just because something has a rehab clinic doesn't necessarily mean that they're treating an addiction in the medical sense.  Psychological attachment, mayhaps, but not an addiction.

What would constitute proof of an addiction?

What constitutes proof of any addiction: a combination of physical (ie: chemical) and psychological dependency that, when broken, results in withdrawal symptoms.  As far as I'm aware, the physical half of the addiction simply does not exist for things that are colloquially deemed addictive like gaming, technology, or pornography.  Without the physical aspect, you don't, to my knowledge, have an addiction in the medical sense, but a strong, perhaps even malignant, dependence on something.

Again, I'm not trying to be a dick, just being skeptical of a claim that I find...odd, is a good term, I suppose.  If there's adequate evidence that gaming can be medically addictive, then I'll happily accept it.

I'm not an expert on this, but I think the the two things are separate types of addiction, and don't necessarily have to both be present. Keep in mind that I'm not a psychologist, that I have no personal experience with addiction, and that I might be wording much of what follows wrong.

Physical addiction is the type of addiction most people know about and think of when hearing the word "addiction". It's the body actually needing something to continue functioning. This is what most drug addiction is as far as I know (with it overlapping into psychological most of the time).

Psychological addiction is the type of addiction that exists entirely in your mind. You think you need something, have a strong desire for it, or have problems when you don't have access to it. This is what most non-drug addictions are. My understanding is weed doesn't have any chemical in it that would cause a physical addiction, but a psychological addiction can still happen.

My understanding is that both have withdrawal symptoms. Physical addiction causes withdrawal symptoms that manifest in a manner like physical illness would. This is why sometimes drug rehab includes something that mimics the drug and the amount taken is slowly lowered. Psychological addiction withdrawal symptoms manifest like symptoms of mental illness. I think anxiety and depression are two of the most common withdrawal symptoms, but I might be wrong.



Good synopsis. In my community, we distinguish between "substance addiction" (alcohol and drugs) and "process addiction". Other examples of addictive processes include sex and gambling. Many of my peers have reported withdrawal symptoms related to gaming, although I seem to have missed that one. Process addictions do alter brain functions, but on a subtler level. The good news is that the effects are reversible. According to my therapist, it should take about two years for my brain to "rewire itself", which means a minimum of two years before I can even consider a return to gaming.

I'm going to create a new thread (http://fqa.digibase.ca/index.php?topic=6404.0) for this topic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 07, 2015, 08:54:11 pm
Apparently the creator of the images is more pissy about the images than the Zen pencils guy.

http://jellygod.tumblr.com/post/115799285559/nickwolfart-erisnoteros-in-response-to

Edit: here's the response posters
http://loudyetmute.tumblr.com/post/115808646396/erisnoteros-as-requested-im-posting-my
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 09, 2015, 10:40:48 am
http://m.imgur.com/b14sYiO
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 09, 2015, 11:02:45 am
BECAUSE IT'S NOT TRUE YOU FUCKTARDS!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 09, 2015, 11:57:57 am
Lazy 'shop job is lazy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 12, 2015, 01:05:54 am
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Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 12, 2015, 10:28:16 am
Well, here's an article on history that's sure to make a neo-Confederate's head explode.  Written by a conservative Southerner, no less.

http://www.commonwealthtimes.org/2014/10/12/bitter-truths-of-the-confederacy/ (http://www.commonwealthtimes.org/2014/10/12/bitter-truths-of-the-confederacy/)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 12, 2015, 06:15:09 pm
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I shrank your photo.......

(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/PICS%20for%20Web%20Forums/qEzayHg_zpsoiz4m1la.jpg) (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/PICS%20for%20Web%20Forums/qEzayHg_zpsoiz4m1la.jpg.html)



Well, here's an article on history that's sure to make a neo-Confederate's head explode.  Written by a conservative Southerner, no less.

http://www.commonwealthtimes.org/2014/10/12/bitter-truths-of-the-confederacy/ (http://www.commonwealthtimes.org/2014/10/12/bitter-truths-of-the-confederacy/)

Pure awesomesauce!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 14, 2015, 12:38:09 am
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Actually yes...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on April 14, 2015, 01:05:50 am
Well, I agree that Germany was in large part radicalized by a poor economy, brought on by not only the Great Depression but by the harsh conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. That said, I'm not sure I understand the point of that last sign.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 14, 2015, 11:20:40 am
Well, I agree that Germany was in large part radicalized by a poor economy, brought on by not only the Great Depression but by the harsh conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. That said, I'm not sure I understand the point of that last sign.
Obummer said that we wouldn't have ISIS if the Iraqis had jobs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on April 15, 2015, 11:24:49 pm
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/s480x480/10401520_301370826717879_1810681914717258075_n.png?oh=a71d76b86d2765dd6fca66ff75bf2aa5&oe=55DB9DC2)
A friend from high school posted this on Facebook. I am happy to say that she wasn't a close friend or anything, I'm just the sort of person who adds anyone if I know them, especially when I started on Facebook back in high school.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 15, 2015, 11:42:46 pm
Italian food tastse good
~Hillary Clinton

Italian food is good
~Adolf Hitler
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on April 16, 2015, 05:00:46 am
People could reverse this.  Just post all the beliefs the fundie muslims hold (against women, for religious control over starving illiterates) and post a comparison to GOP policies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on April 16, 2015, 10:39:05 pm
It is a well-known fact that Hitler wore pants.

#BanPants2015
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on April 16, 2015, 10:51:37 pm
Hitler had hair.

You know who else has hair? Everyone who isn't bald. Therefore, people who aren't bald are tiny little Brazilian Hitler clones created by Joseph Mengele.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 16, 2015, 11:11:25 pm
Hitler had hair.

You know who else has hair? Everyone who isn't bald. Therefore, people who aren't bald are tiny little Brazilian Hitler clones created by Joseph Mengele.
(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8yk0r_vj6qo/sddefault.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on April 17, 2015, 10:31:39 am
A textbook case of the Hitler Ate Sugar (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlerAteSugar) fallacy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 18, 2015, 10:08:12 pm
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 18, 2015, 11:52:57 pm
Wow. That was one big bucketful of ignorance, there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 19, 2015, 12:25:32 am
Why's that one guy in the bottom-right picture wearing a wedding dress?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on April 19, 2015, 12:40:15 am
I like how one of the Jews is actually facepalming. He's going "Oh god, another kvetching idiot blaming the Jews for everything? We truly are the world's shlamels."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 19, 2015, 10:24:55 am
(click to show/hide)

I had to shrink it just a little bit. I understand that a huge size brings out the smaller print but in most cases, things can get too huge......
(click to show/hide)

Since the cute Asian girls are in the "Lawful Good", this might be an Asian Supremacist we're dealing with, here.



Why's that one guy in the bottom-right picture wearing a wedding dress?

By Jove, he is (or at least a lacy top)! Either clothing was scarce, this person's a very masculine woman or they just don't give a crap.
That said, we have no idea who these people are or the context of the photo.


I like how one of the Jews is actually facepalming. He's going "Oh god, another kvetching idiot blaming the Jews for everything? We truly are the world's shlamels."

I'm thinking the same.  ;D
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 19, 2015, 04:14:06 pm
That's...a lot of racism.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 19, 2015, 04:31:58 pm
@Barb

Nah, they're probably not an Asian supremacists, they most likely just figure "hey, if we say we consider some minorities human we aren't actually racist!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 19, 2015, 05:29:51 pm
@Barb

Nah, they're probably not an Asian supremacists, they most likely just figure "hey, if we say we consider some minorities human we aren't actually racist!

Yeah, I guess.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 21, 2015, 11:26:03 am
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/149xbv4.jpg)

I don't like Alex Jones either, but calling him a "Jewish lackey" is just plain ridiculous!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on April 21, 2015, 11:33:46 am
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/149xbv4.jpg)

I don't like Alex Jones either, but calling him a "Jewish lackey" is just plain ridiculous!

Are we seeing Ouroboros in action?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 21, 2015, 06:22:22 pm
Yep, we are. That meme is frankly hilarious. It conspiritarded the conspiritard.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 25, 2015, 01:31:19 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/PKxi2Z5.jpg)
https://www.reddit.com/r/killthosewhodisagree/
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 26, 2015, 09:02:56 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/PlP2v8Y.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 26, 2015, 09:03:41 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/PlP2v8Y.jpg)

Ben Stein?  Is that you?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 26, 2015, 10:06:00 pm
How soon before that bumper gets rear ended? Like, really hard?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on April 27, 2015, 01:00:53 am
How soon before that bumper gets rear ended? Like, really hard?

Probably have to wait a while, because most people are content to let delusional Godwin-droppers be. Now, if someone had a sticker that said, "I learned everything I needed to know about Christianity from the Crusades," that would be a whole other story.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 27, 2015, 10:15:48 am
How soon before that bumper gets rear ended? Like, really hard?

Probably have to wait a while, because most people are content to let delusional Godwin-droppers be. Now, if someone had a sticker that said, "I learned everything I needed to know about Christianity from the Crusades," that would be a whole other story.

Might as well set up an account at CaféPress.com and load that line up. Choose the all items option; coffee cups, t-shirts, bumper stickers...Because I bet that's exactly the site where the OP bumper sticker was first put up for sale. Consider it an appropriate retort. Do two opposing offensive things cancel each other? Maybe, or not, but it would be satisfying to do, nevertheless.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 27, 2015, 10:22:28 am
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/x4f3vb.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on April 27, 2015, 11:10:27 am
Look at the bright side. At least the racist pseudointellectuals are starting to acknowledge the people of East Asia as equals. You can slow progress down, but you can't stop it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on April 27, 2015, 11:20:00 am
...sure, that's what progress looks like.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 27, 2015, 11:59:51 am
That's pretty much exactly what the nineteenth century discussions and assumptions on race "qualities" were. Zero progress. 100% regurgitation of old ideas.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on April 27, 2015, 06:05:27 pm
...this is still a thing I thought it was scientifically proven that race isn't really a thing...like at all.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on April 27, 2015, 06:46:45 pm
You honestly expect idiots like that to not cling to their outdated beliefs?

Ironbite-you're so adorable I wanna pinch your cheeks.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on April 28, 2015, 01:40:13 am
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/223/7/7/feministfrequency_in_a_nutshell_by_nokapiplz-d5arlja.jpg)
"Hurr, I'm retarded and wear a dirty diaper"
~person I don't like
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on April 28, 2015, 02:03:19 am
Got through the first column of that wharrgarble. I love how anti-feminists will jump to the conclusion that criticizing sexism in a work means that feminists think the work is 100% irredeemably sexist and that people who enjoy it are sexist. It's such a fucking conclusion jump that they'd probably make it across the Grand Canyon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on April 28, 2015, 09:30:15 am
I'm no fan of this brand of feminism, but there's a right way and a wrong way to criticize it.  Can you tell which one this is?

Got through the first column of that wharrgarble. I love how anti-feminists will jump to the conclusion that criticizing sexism in a work means that feminists think the work is 100% irredeemably sexist and that people who enjoy it are sexist. It's such a fucking conclusion jump that they'd probably make it across the Grand Canyon.

In fairness, there are some feminists who think like that.  But claiming that all of us do is like saying all socialists are tankies.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on April 29, 2015, 10:40:21 am
(https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11011105_1065266890200106_8774343083835098259_n.jpg?oh=6ffb1f76e5782fe9fc616f38bf2d6d2f&oe=55E134A3)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on April 30, 2015, 04:04:34 am
...sure, that's what progress looks like.

That "East African" guy is kinda hot.  ;)

The bigot who made that stupid diagram, is not.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on May 01, 2015, 12:21:20 am
(http://i.imgur.com/2WZhPKS.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 01, 2015, 12:29:14 am
(http://i.imgur.com/2WZhPKS.jpg)

Because lawbreakers don't have human rights.  /s
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 01, 2015, 01:00:08 am
Nothing makes me hurl more than using Willie Wonka to express bigoted, regressive, dumbass ideas.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on May 01, 2015, 04:35:02 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/2WZhPKS.jpg)

Well yeah but they still busted my head open.

Ironbite-maybe I'll try not being black next time.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on May 13, 2015, 09:53:47 am
So, this one is from a friend in college. And when I say "friend", I genuinely mean it this time. He seems to have a mixture of right wing and left wing views, for what its worth, which is why I am somewhat saddened to see him posting something so ignorant.

(https://scontent-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11163200_10204047572530162_2156654355556893813_n.jpg?oh=a948346c96b1b9f60c9e4e332c079faa&oe=5609C05A)

Because Texas vs. Johnson and United States vs. Eichman never happened, right? The worst part is that the description of the picture talks about how the guy hopes people get arrested for protest pictures of them trampling the flag.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on May 13, 2015, 11:14:27 am
Ok. I'm a veteran of two wars. Ok fine. One war and a NATO peacekeeping mission. Anyways, if you feel you need to burn a flag in protest of what the U.S. is doing or not doing, go right ahead. I won't like it but you have that right.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 13, 2015, 06:11:53 pm
(http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/961/842/ead.jpg)

Cultural context?  What's that?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on May 13, 2015, 06:56:25 pm
Well from a few quick google searches I managed to find these pieces of Japanese  art.

1784 I found this
(click to show/hide)
1790(by the way it was super hard finding non porn art from this period.)
(click to show/hide)
1796
(click to show/hide)
1787
(click to show/hide)
1788
(click to show/hide)
and lastly 1794
(click to show/hide)

So this thin's point is moot (also it apparently comes up in the image results when you do a google search for Japanese art from 1794.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SCarpelan on May 15, 2015, 09:23:49 am
There are also examples of famous and respected works of European art such as these:

(click to show/hide)

(click to show/hide)

On the other hand, bigots like that one often think styles like expressionism and cubism are signs of cultural decay and the pre-modern art styles are "real" art.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on May 15, 2015, 11:00:27 am
Three signs from the same guy, the owner of a failed furniture store in Lawrence Kansas.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/11/1384100/-Failed-Kansas-Business-Owner-Mocks-Democrats-While-Displaying-61-Star-Flag (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/11/1384100/-Failed-Kansas-Business-Owner-Mocks-Democrats-While-Displaying-61-Star-Flag)

Every time I hear a right-winger complain about how the media portrays them as bigoted and ignorant, I want to hold up the biggest mirror in the universe to show them why that is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on May 15, 2015, 12:58:09 pm
I move out of that area of Kansas and now fun things happen? Goddamn it.

Somehow I think I know why their furniture store failed. You disrespect your customers that much, they're generally not going to want to shop at your store.

Of course, the fact that an IKEA (AKA, one of the most LGBT-friendly companies operating in the US) opened about 45 minutes away from that store sure as hell doesn't help.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on May 15, 2015, 03:35:47 pm
Quote
1784 I found this
(click to show/hide)

Doge? Is that you?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on May 15, 2015, 09:53:04 pm
such ninja
wow
very kimono
much samurai
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 15, 2015, 09:56:28 pm
Also, I did some research and found out that Ukiyo-e influenced Vincent van Gogh.

And I think it's worth noting that while Europe was producing this:

(http://www.classical-homeschooling.org/images/abbot1.jpg)

China was producing this:

(http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20101130/001ec94a1ea10e5e98275e.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on May 16, 2015, 03:15:46 am
Also, I did some research and found out that Ukiyo-e influenced Vincent van Gogh.

And I think it's worth noting that while Europe was producing this:

(http://www.classical-homeschooling.org/images/abbot1.jpg)

China was producing this:

(http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20101130/001ec94a1ea10e5e98275e.jpg)

That second picture really needs a caption like "Like a Boss".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on May 16, 2015, 03:34:02 am
Considering that's Tai-Tsung, founder of the Tang and magnificent bastard, I'd agree.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on May 16, 2015, 06:13:57 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/IkPnOTk.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/K8rBJhI.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on May 16, 2015, 06:15:56 pm
(http://imgur.com/gallery/IkPnOTk)

(http://imgur.com/gallery/K8rBJhI/new)

(http://i.imgur.com/IkPnOTk.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/K8rBJhI.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on May 17, 2015, 01:46:38 am
Well from a few quick google searches I managed to find these pieces of Japanese  art.

1784 I found this
(click to show/hide)
1790(by the way it was super hard finding non porn art from this period.)
(click to show/hide)
1796
(click to show/hide)
1787
(click to show/hide)
1788
(click to show/hide)
and lastly 1794
(click to show/hide)

So this thin's point is moot (also it apparently comes up in the image results when you do a google search for Japanese art from 1794.)


I tried commenting but that "timed-out" glitch kept preventing me.

So here I go, again.....

I love the first link. I never thought that 18th century art would make me die from cuteness.

But there is....PUPPEEEEZZZ! *snorgles*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on May 17, 2015, 04:21:34 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10929553_958891614170968_4162344120309384341_n.jpg?oh=3f43f63727eb9cad332b2fdb51239bc7&oe=55CB13DB&__gda__=1439708266_f9a87634b1451731574ab6f9e8e1a8bd)

(https://scontent-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/t31.0-8/11257200_1083933855000076_3192726441083932266_o.jpg)

(https://scontent-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/10624991_276166072586908_628044303535452803_n.jpg?oh=e3c8cc1fdd8b0a292fe690d1c691b18f&oe=55BFAB9C)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lady Evil on May 17, 2015, 05:00:39 pm
Well from a few quick google searches I managed to find these pieces of Japanese  art.

1784 I found this
(click to show/hide)
1790(by the way it was super hard finding non porn art from this period.)
(click to show/hide)
1796
(click to show/hide)
1787
(click to show/hide)
1788
(click to show/hide)
and lastly 1794
(click to show/hide)

So this thin's point is moot (also it apparently comes up in the image results when you do a google search for Japanese art from 1794.)


I tried commenting but that "timed-out" glitch kept preventing me.

So here I go, again.....

I love the first link. I never thought that 18th century art would make me die from cuteness.

But there is....PUPPEEEEZZZ! *snorgles*

Same here.

SO KAWAII!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on May 18, 2015, 12:23:28 am

(https://scontent-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/10624991_276166072586908_628044303535452803_n.jpg?oh=e3c8cc1fdd8b0a292fe690d1c691b18f&oe=55BFAB9C)

Sigh. I could get the photos of several other presidents (Reagan, Clinton, both Bushes) also being under an umbrella held by a marine, but I'm sure the knuckle-draggers would yell at me for using photoshop and call me a "lib" or an "obot" or something.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on May 18, 2015, 10:23:32 am
I actually got a little chuckle out of the picture of Obama with the umbrella. Not a partisan chuckle, just a small chuckle.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on May 18, 2015, 01:44:50 pm

(https://scontent-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/10624991_276166072586908_628044303535452803_n.jpg?oh=e3c8cc1fdd8b0a292fe690d1c691b18f&oe=55BFAB9C)

Sigh. I could get the photos of several other presidents (Reagan, Clinton, both Bushes) also being under an umbrella held by a marine, but I'm sure the knuckle-draggers would yell at me for using photoshop and call me a "lib" or an "obot" or something.

But it's not an honor detail if you have to do it for someone beneath your station.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on May 19, 2015, 11:05:51 am
(https://scontent-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/1920239_10151951482258458_1208970342_n.jpg?oh=574ef591c15e89810bc20e60af095128&oe=55C13D18)

I get most of these from my mother in law on facebook.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on May 19, 2015, 09:23:23 pm
(http://atruthsoldier.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/3d-holographic-sky.jpg?w=392&h=294)

I think this goes here, if anywhere?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on May 20, 2015, 02:50:18 am

(https://scontent-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/10624991_276166072586908_628044303535452803_n.jpg?oh=e3c8cc1fdd8b0a292fe690d1c691b18f&oe=55BFAB9C)

Sigh. I could get the photos of several other presidents (Reagan, Clinton, both Bushes) also being under an umbrella held by a marine, but I'm sure the knuckle-draggers would yell at me for using photoshop and call me a "lib" or an "obot" or something.

But it's not an honor detail if you have to do it for someone beneath your station.

OR it could be that she is the queen of England, possibly the soggiest place in the world. I mean, its one thing for a marine to hold an umbrella when it rains, but in the UK, that would be a full time job.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on May 20, 2015, 03:01:34 am
The thing is that no one can stop the queen from doing whatever she wants. She grew up a spoiled brat and even if she isn't nearly as bad as she could be she is stubborn and if she wants to hold her own umbrella then she damn well holds her own umbrella.


...Slightly more seriously, if you pay close attention you might notice that Obama is holding a speech while the queen is just walking. I think there are plenty of pictures of Obama holding his own umbrella while he ISN'T trying to make sure his papers aren't getting wet from the rain and gesturing as he talks.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on May 20, 2015, 11:24:16 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9L4sOPHFE
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lady Evil on May 20, 2015, 05:11:23 pm
The thing is that no one can stop the queen from doing whatever she wants. She grew up a spoiled brat and even if she isn't nearly as bad as she could be she is stubborn and if she wants to hold her own umbrella then she damn well holds her own umbrella.


...Slightly more seriously, if you pay close attention you might notice that Obama is holding a speech while the queen is just walking. I think there are plenty of pictures of Obama holding his own umbrella while he ISN'T trying to make sure his papers aren't getting wet from the rain and gesturing as he talks.

Yeah, and if he has microphones nearby (looks like they could've been cropped out) it could be a safety thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on May 29, 2015, 12:29:43 pm
(http://thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Political_Quiz_a.jpg)
[img}http://thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Political_Quiz_a.jpg[/img]http://(http://thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Political_Quiz_b.jpg)
(http://thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Political_Quiz_c.jpg)

No I fucking shoot him.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Damen on May 29, 2015, 01:05:58 pm
I saw this a few years ago and my reply to it is "If someone threatens me or those I care about they will either run away or assume room temp. After that I will go and vote for whoever I think will fuck up the country the least (hint: they usually have a D after their name because I still haven't been able to vote for an I). And also; fuck that .40 Short & Wimpy."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on May 29, 2015, 02:14:57 pm
i don't shoot because i don't like guns. i stab instead. and in the case of a knife-wielder, i stab, take their knife, stab them with it, and go my merry way with their knife. somebody who assaults with a knife doesn't deserve to carry one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 29, 2015, 06:18:36 pm
(http://oi60.tinypic.com/lv68j.jpg)

Yeah, let's just ignore the inconvenient fact that Australia never evolved a founder crop.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on May 29, 2015, 07:21:10 pm
Im not really sure what that sign is supposed to be saying? That developing a boomerang took 40 thousand years. But the British developed an empire in 350 years? What's the correlation?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 29, 2015, 07:35:08 pm
That the British developed an entire empire in less than a tenth of the time it took Aborigines to develop a piece of curved wood.  Completely ignoring the whole road of bullshit Britain went thru to even get to that stage in the first place.  Well, that and implying that the Australian natives are a bunch of savages unworthy of respect.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on May 29, 2015, 09:32:54 pm
I don't consider a nations ability to enslave and murder millions for profit to be a noble quality for a group.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 29, 2015, 11:58:39 pm
Aah, but they were bringing civilization to the savage peoples of the world.  What does it matter if it was at the point of a sword?

[That was actually painful to type.]
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on May 30, 2015, 01:10:17 pm
(http://oi62.tinypic.com/2mxisdh.jpg)

(http://awesomegifs.com/wp-content/uploads/you-are-so-dumb.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lady Evil on May 31, 2015, 04:05:37 pm
(http://oi60.tinypic.com/lv68j.jpg)

Yeah, let's just ignore the inconvenient fact that Australia never evolved a founder crop.

And how long did it take them to lose more than half those colonies?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on June 11, 2015, 11:46:59 pm
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10171135_10152364977115827_353377653898425319_n.jpg?oh=e876bd1602bdb7369bf56686c3d82dd4&oe=562D058D)

Same aunt as before. Same Facebook page as before. It's a very old meme that's been long discredited, but I'll do my rant here since scholodomizing* a family member would be..... unwise in my situation.

- What does the ACLU have to do with anything here, other than right wing American masturbation fantasy?
- While the straw professor's argument doesn't work against he existence of some higher power, it certainly works against the sort of higher power who has a desperate need to be worshipped, and the god worshipped by the sort of people who create these memes qualifies.
- Does the Marine even realize how impotent he makes his god look? He's not making any sort of intellectual point here; he's being a thug.
- What does the U.S. military have to do with anything here, other than right wing American masturbation fantasy?
- While I'm certain there are many backwards people in the world, I doubt any of those in the countries we are currently involved in represent any sort of direct threat to Americans. Humans living in those countries, yes. Americans, no.
- Any evidence for the assertion that the U.S. military is being protected by a deity instead of by superior technology, science, and troops entering cities knowing that Jesus will NOT be there to bail them out if they Leeroy Jenkins it? No? Didn't think so.

*Scholodomize - term coined by Youtuber TheLivingDinosaur; portmanteau of scholarly and sodomy; the most effective method of educating creationists; The Living Dinosaur bent Carl Gallups over the table of reason and viciously scholodomized him for hours.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on June 12, 2015, 12:07:58 am
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10171135_10152364977115827_353377653898425319_n.jpg?oh=e876bd1602bdb7369bf56686c3d82dd4&oe=562D058D)

Same aunt as before. Same Facebook page as before. It's a very old meme that's been long discredited, but I'll do my rant here since scholodomizing* a family member would be..... unwise in my situation.

- What does the ACLU have to do with anything here, other than right wing American masturbation fantasy?
- While the straw professor's argument doesn't work against he existence of some higher power, it certainly works against the sort of higher power who has a desperate need to be worshipped, and the god worshipped by the sort of people who create these memes qualifies.
- Does the Marine even realize how impotent he makes his god look? He's not making any sort of intellectual point here; he's being a thug.
- What does the U.S. military have to do with anything here, other than right wing American masturbation fantasy?
- While I'm certain there are many backwards people in the world, I doubt any of those in the countries we are currently involved in represent any sort of direct threat to Americans. Humans living in those countries, yes. Americans, no.
- Any evidence for the assertion that the U.S. military is being protected by a deity instead of by superior technology, science, and troops entering cities knowing that Jesus will NOT be there to bail them out if they Leeroy Jenkins it? No? Didn't think so.

And nothing about the Marine getting arrested for assault.

How fitting that, in this fantasy, the Marine doesn't bother to debate or make a reasoned argument, he just slugs the guy and the story has a photo of some meathead's lumpy, tat-covered arm. It's a celebration over thuggish brawn over enlightened brains. Why argue and debate like a civilized real man when you can just clobber someone like a subhuman inferior male?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on June 12, 2015, 12:28:36 am
”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater than Jesus Christ!”
At this moment, a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock.
”How old is this rock, pinhead?”
The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and smugly replied “4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian”
”Wrong. It’s been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real… then it should be an animal now”
The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the “poor” (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, DeShawn Washington, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, but he himself had petitioned against them!
The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named “Small Government” flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and God himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.
The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the gay plague AIDS and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.


That students name?
Chris Kyle
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on June 12, 2015, 07:31:36 am
”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater than Jesus Christ!”
At this moment, a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock.
”How old is this rock, pinhead?”
The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and smugly replied “4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian”
”Wrong. It’s been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real… then it should be an animal now”
The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the “poor” (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, DeShawn Washington, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, but he himself had petitioned against them!
The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named “Small Government” flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and God himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.
The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the gay plague AIDS and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.


That students name?
Chris Kyle

You forgot Albert Einstein and a gift of $100.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on June 12, 2015, 11:08:15 am
I am Lizard that was hilarious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on June 12, 2015, 11:31:34 am
I am Lizard that was hilarious.
I didn't make it, sadly. The original was from a copypasta on 4chan.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on June 12, 2015, 12:19:20 pm
I would love to do a satire like that!

I'll be lazy, take the original bit with "Punchy The Marine Guy" and then, do this......

.....the students were stunned at the display of violence and the police were called and the Marine....who wasn't really a Marine....but some dumb militia hick named Bubba Jim-Bob Yokel, was arrested by the cops (after getting tased because Bubba thought he could 'take' them) and charged and convicted for assault. He was sued by the Professor for a busted eyeball, who won a hefty sum. It was later found that Bubba was part of a plot to blow up the local Planned Parenthood and he ended up in the can for even longer.

THE LESSON: DON'T BE A VIOLENT MEATHEAD!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on June 12, 2015, 02:47:12 pm
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10171135_10152364977115827_353377653898425319_n.jpg?oh=e876bd1602bdb7369bf56686c3d82dd4&oe=562D058D)

A liberal Muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx, known atheist

 "Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater than Jesus Christ!“

 At this moment, a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock.

 "How old is this rock, pinhead?”

 The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and smugly replied “4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian”

 "Wrong. It’s been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real… then it should be an animal now"

 The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the “poor” (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, DeShawn Washington, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, but he himself had petitioned against them!

 The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named “Small Government” flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and God himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.

 The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the gay plague AIDS and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.

Semper Fi.

p.s. close the borders

p.p.s. Drill, baby, drill
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on June 14, 2015, 12:45:04 am
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/2v80lmq.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on June 15, 2015, 03:36:05 pm
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/oqy7iw.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 15, 2015, 07:01:16 pm
Eeh, I kinda have to agree with that pic, just not with the obviously racist part.  When compared to...pretty much every other god out there, Jesus is kind of a pussy.  Other than a few minor parlor tricks, his only notable accomplishments are being born and being nailed to a wooden beam by a bunch of Italians; he just don't compare to the likes of Thor.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on June 15, 2015, 10:28:33 pm
And yet all those gods are dead (in terms of follower numbers).

As it turns out, giving your god an impressive list of accomplishments makes for good storytelling but not necessarily good evangelism.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 15, 2015, 10:38:13 pm
I think its more that those religions, for the most part, didn't really care about evangelism.  If memory serves they were more of the school of "if you're not of our faith, then we'll treat you like a foreigner, but not try to convert you."  The Abrahamic faiths are the only ones I can really think of where conversion is a thing one does to another, as opposed to just simply happening for the person themselves as a matter of choice.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on June 15, 2015, 10:56:18 pm
(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/ayn737y_700b_v2.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on June 15, 2015, 11:09:52 pm
I think its more that those religions, for the most part, didn't really care about evangelism.  If memory serves they were more of the school of "if you're not of our faith, then we'll treat you like a foreigner, but not try to convert you."  The Abrahamic faiths are the only ones I can really think of where conversion is a thing one does to another, as opposed to just simply happening for the person themselves as a matter of choice.

True enough. And not even all the Abrahamic faiths, Christianity and Islam are evangelical but Judaism isn't (which is also reflected in their numbers). I dunno about other religions though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on June 15, 2015, 11:10:12 pm
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/11049474_10152934016746700_5078613812582549690_n.jpg?oh=b71ffd0f457d773346d6793102067e29&oe=5629AD7B)

At least it wasn't a family member this time. Just somebody from high school who I probably wouldn't recognize if I met them irl but am too polite to delete from Facebook.

As for the photo, who, aside from the right, associates Al Gore with the science behind climate change? All Al Gore did was give a Power Point presentation that he turned into a movie and made money off of. I'm pretty sure most scientists who study climate change hate him.

And speaking of irrelevant figures, what's the deal with the right always bringing Al Sharpton into debates? I wasn't even aware of any statements he made about Baltimore, but I sure heard my relatives ranting about him. I'm pretty sure the residents of Baltimore would not have acted even remotely differently had Sharpton vanished from existence.

The transphobia isn't even worth commenting on.

Quote
True enough. And not even all the Abrahamic faiths, Christianity and Islam are evangelical but Judaism isn't (which is also reflected in their numbers). I dunno about other religions though.
I suspect it has to do with the belief in Hell, not merely for someone's actions, but simply as punishment for being born. The belief in Heaven and Hell based on beliefs is a powerful driving factor behind evangelism.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on June 16, 2015, 03:59:00 am
According to the right Sharpton is a Race Baiter and the real reason that racism continues to exist in America today. He fans the flames of hate and convinces his people that whitie still owes them for past injustices even though America has been racism free since the civil rights act. Any animosity brought towards black people is brought on by them by themselves.

It's a members only board where I get to read this stuff otherwise I could show you guys some amazing bullshit and double think.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on June 16, 2015, 07:49:37 am
According to the right Sharpton is a Race Baiter and the real reason that racism continues to exist in America today. He fans the flames of hate and convinces his people that whitie still owes them for past injustices even though America has been racism free since the civil rights act. Any animosity brought towards black people is brought on by them by themselves.

It's a members only board where I get to read this stuff otherwise I could show you guys some amazing bullshit and double think.

There are legitimate reasons to criticize Al Sharpton, but calling him the main reason racism still exists in America is just stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on June 16, 2015, 01:10:49 pm
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/oqy7iw.jpg)

These guys never consider the Father of said Jewish Hippie. He's just as fiery as those other guys.

I think the "Jewish Hippie" is a nice change of pace. I admire a guy who's more brains than brawn and who gets things done via pure guile.

Also, according to the story, he came back to life as an immortal super-dude.

Conquering death...Now that's badass!

That said, they all have their worth.

The guys who made that image....not so much.

Although their choice of religion makes more sense (considering their bigotry), they're a bane to Pagans everywhere.

Bigots get both Christianity & Paganism wrong!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on June 16, 2015, 03:38:29 pm
(http://oi62.tinypic.com/2mxisdh.jpg)

Nonviolence
Is ineffective
Is racist
Is statist
Is patri[arcial]

And I can't read the rest. The answer is still:

Huh?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on June 16, 2015, 05:44:11 pm
Non-violence is Patriarchal?!!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on June 16, 2015, 10:08:36 pm
I think the idea is something like "the patriarchy wants you to be nonviolent so you don't really challenge the status quo". Standard "revolution or nothing!" rhetoric.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on June 16, 2015, 10:12:15 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUfpEnPCQAAv_Ok.jpg)

This is Brother Dean, allegedly the man behind the Philosophy Of Rape.

I find this funny because the typo makes it sound like he's saying "women belong in the kitten" 

Unless Kit Hen's are a thing
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on June 16, 2015, 11:00:08 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUfpEnPCQAAv_Ok.jpg)

This is Brother Dean, allegedly the man behind the Philosophy Of Rape.

I find this funny because the typo makes it sound like he's saying "women belong in the kitten" 

Unless Kit Hen's are a thing

Do I want to know what "Philosophy of Rape" is?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on June 16, 2015, 11:10:06 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUfpEnPCQAAv_Ok.jpg)

This is Brother Dean, allegedly the man behind the Philosophy Of Rape.

I find this funny because the typo makes it sound like he's saying "women belong in the kitten" 

Unless Kit Hen's are a thing

Do I want to know what "Philosophy of Rape" is?

Depends.  How morbidly curious are you?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on June 16, 2015, 11:28:02 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUfpEnPCQAAv_Ok.jpg)

This is Brother Dean, allegedly the man behind the Philosophy Of Rape.

I find this funny because the typo makes it sound like he's saying "women belong in the kitten" 

Unless Kit Hen's are a thing

Do I want to know what "Philosophy of Rape" is?

Depends.  How morbidly curious are you?

very.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on June 16, 2015, 11:29:25 pm
Do I want to know what "Philosophy of Rape" is?

No, you don't.

http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=103938

http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=109504&Page=1

http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=109620
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on June 16, 2015, 11:41:19 pm
Do I want to know what "Philosophy of Rape" is?

No, you don't.

http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=103938

http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=109504&Page=1

http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=109620

anybody called the fbi on this douchecanoe? this kind of advocacy is illegal (at least in france). i mean, raping people is horrible in its own right. but raping 6 year olds?!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on June 17, 2015, 01:12:58 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUfpEnPCQAAv_Ok.jpg)

This is Brother Dean, allegedly the man behind the Philosophy Of Rape.

I find this funny because the typo makes it sound like he's saying "women belong in the kitten" 

Unless Kit Hen's are a thing

Do I want to know what "Philosophy of Rape" is?

Depends.  How morbidly curious are you?

I marathoned the original Nick Bate thread on KiwiFarms.

(http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mefreaR5nh1rpzw77.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on June 17, 2015, 07:45:11 am
I think the idea is something like "the patriarchy wants you to be nonviolent so you don't really challenge the status quo". Standard "revolution or nothing!" rhetoric.

Ah, I see. I kinda was thinking that but had to make sure.

I was puzzled at first because the usual mindset is "Men & Patriarchy are brutal & warlike...therefore Male = Bad".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on June 17, 2015, 12:22:30 pm
(https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1616822932)

Here's the thing: I don't care if you're gay or straight at all. The reason people attack you is that whereas "gay pride", silly as it can sometimes get, is about an unpopular group, albeit one making major strides at the moment, refusing to be ashamed of existing, given the people I've seen post this image, "straight pride" is about shaming the gays. At least, it can be perceived that way.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SCarpelan on June 17, 2015, 05:14:00 pm
Um... That image url refers to a Facebook profile, not to any particular image.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on June 17, 2015, 09:25:18 pm
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/fjdvuq.jpg)

Because those are totally the same thing.

And stop misgendering Caitlyn.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on June 18, 2015, 12:37:29 am
Jackson had a medical condition that took the melanin from his skin. By the time he was painting his skin he was mostly white and it was less of a bother than painting himself black...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 18, 2015, 09:17:08 am
Makes you wonder how much happier and sane MJ would've been if he hadn't have had that condition...I can't imagine how jarring it would be to suddenly go from pasty cracker to being blacker than Uncle Ruckus from The Boondocks.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on June 19, 2015, 12:20:24 am
Still those nose jobs though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 19, 2015, 09:04:01 am
Weren't those a result of a botched Pepsi commercial that nearly killed him?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on June 19, 2015, 09:08:02 am
Makes you wonder how much happier and sane MJ would've been if he hadn't have had that condition...I can't imagine how jarring it would be to suddenly go from pasty cracker to being blacker than Uncle Ruckus from The Boondocks.

Not really, not until you brought it up. However since you did, my guess would be a little but not much.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on June 19, 2015, 05:23:27 pm
Weren't those a result of a botched Pepsi commercial that nearly killed him?

No, that was just his hair pomade catching on fire. He was injured with burns to
his scalp.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 19, 2015, 07:34:11 pm
Weren't those a result of a botched Pepsi commercial that nearly killed him?

No, that was just his hair pomade catching on fire. He was injured with burns to
his scalp.

Aaah, that's right.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on June 20, 2015, 01:13:55 am
(https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/11350699_430218957159111_7694104296394950029_n.jpg?oh=05693b2babfc2c990d1a533b74a2b20b&oe=55E9A614)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on June 20, 2015, 01:25:31 am
Is that serious? It seems like it's riffing on the whole "racism is prejudice plus power" bit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on June 20, 2015, 01:52:18 am
Is that serious? It seems like it's riffing on the whole "racism is prejudice plus power" bit.

Kinda hard to be certain what with the Poe's law and all. I can definitely believe that some people would say that and be serious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on June 20, 2015, 02:35:19 am
Is that serious? It seems like it's riffing on the whole "racism is prejudice plus power" bit.

There are many people on Tumblr who say things like this and believe it. Almost all of them are white straight women who refuse to admit it, instead calling themselves "polytransracial starsnarlgender requieslithsexual" or whatever.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on June 20, 2015, 09:15:26 am
Do these people realize they're going to have to make their easy in the big wide world one day? And that in this big wide world there are already definitions for words and that nobody really cares about their feelings or pronouns?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on June 20, 2015, 04:43:34 pm
(http://oi57.tinypic.com/mwd2c6.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nm5jl7aM08
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on June 20, 2015, 06:18:34 pm
We spread compassion and civilization to 100,000 Hereros and Namaquas, 28,000 boer civilians, 20,000 or more Kenyans, and potentially 10 million Congolese.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on June 20, 2015, 06:26:10 pm
Whites spread compassion and civilization to 100,000 Hereros and Namaquas, 28,000 boer civilians, 20,000 or more Kenyans, and potentially 10 million Congolese.

Boers are white, but everything else is spot on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on June 20, 2015, 08:49:17 pm
Do these people realize they're going to have to make their easy in the big wide world one day? And that in this big wide world there are already definitions for words and that nobody really cares about their feelings or pronouns?

I think these kinds of people actually believe that if they shout check your privilege enough, people will HAVE to care about their pronouns or "they'll be seen as a shitlord".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on June 20, 2015, 11:14:37 pm
Is that serious? It seems like it's riffing on the whole "racism is prejudice plus power" bit.

There are many people on Tumblr who say things like this and believe it. Almost all of them are white straight women who refuse to admit it, instead calling themselves "polytransracial starsnarlgender requieslithsexual" or whatever.

People on Tumblr say a lot of stupid shit, but I have trouble believing there's a non-insignificant number of people who would actually agree with that poster. It's almost certainly a troll.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on June 21, 2015, 12:49:16 am
Is that serious? It seems like it's riffing on the whole "racism is prejudice plus power" bit.

There are many people on Tumblr who say things like this and believe it. Almost all of them are white straight women who refuse to admit it, instead calling themselves "polytransracial starsnarlgender requieslithsexual" or whatever.

People on Tumblr say a lot of stupid shit, but I have trouble believing there's a non-insignificant number of people who would actually agree with that poster. It's almost certainly a troll.

I've seen it before and it's a troll.  It was made by 4chaners trying to pass it of as having been made by feminists to make them look bad.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on June 21, 2015, 12:43:30 pm
Is that serious? It seems like it's riffing on the whole "racism is prejudice plus power" bit.

There are many people on Tumblr who say things like this and believe it. Almost all of them are white straight women who refuse to admit it, instead calling themselves "polytransracial starsnarlgender requieslithsexual" or whatever.

People on Tumblr say a lot of stupid shit, but I have trouble believing there's a non-insignificant number of people who would actually agree with that poster. It's almost certainly a troll.

I've seen it before and it's a troll.  It was made by 4chaners trying to pass it of as having been made by feminists to make them look bad.

Is it trolling or a bunch of douche bags using a proxy to speak their beliefs?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on June 21, 2015, 02:23:14 pm
The implication being that there are SJ people who believe this, and know it sounds awful to everyone else, and then spread it and blame it on 4chan in case it backfires?

Occam's Razor. We know trolls exist. We know that specifically trolls who pretend to have insane SJ positions exist. We know almost no SJ person would ever dare say anything denying a woman's rape*. I can't imagine why "this is what SJ people ACTUALLY BELIEVE" would win as a hypothesis against "troll troll troll troll troll".

Apologies if that is not what you mean.


*A man's rape is a whole other thing entirely, unfortunately...


ETA: Actually, let's make this empirical. Anyone who thinks the poster is legit, can you find me one actual SJ person posting it and agreeing with it? I've looked before and found nothing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on June 21, 2015, 06:11:46 pm
No apologies necessary, I wasn't being very clear.

What I actually meant to imply is that perhaps (some of) the fine upstanding citizens of 4chan believe this and rather than simply just trolling are voicing their beliefs but letting others take the heat for them.

Granted, the out-and-out MRA's generally don't seem to think women of any color deserve much in the way of rights.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on June 21, 2015, 10:40:03 pm
It's not the sort of belief that I would associate with 4chan. I mean, I guess it's possible, but odds are low.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on June 22, 2015, 05:06:12 pm
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/1441309_629473860446080_2033365780_n.jpg?oh=a10eb303642fc8680166586b4b2f08b4&oe=55F1BEE9)

Alright if you want to get rid of government assistance then lets raise taxes on the wealthy and lower them for the not well off. Oh you don't want to do that?
Ok then lets raise the minimum wage to a living wage. Oh, you don't want to do that either.
Ok then lets make College classes cheaper and more affordable so people can get better paying jobs. No? You don't want to do that as well?
Then I guess we need government assistance.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on June 22, 2015, 05:21:08 pm
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Alright if you want to get rid of government assistance then lets raise taxes on the wealthy and lower them for the not well off. Oh you don't want to do that?
Ok then lets raise the minimum wage to a living wage. Oh, you don't want to do that either.
Ok then lets make College classes cheaper and more affordable so people can get better paying jobs. No? You don't want to do that as well?
Then I guess we need government assistance.



But what if I just want to bully poor people? Your solutions would actually solve most of their problems and it would no longer be fun to act all high and mighty around them.

What a drag.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on June 22, 2015, 07:32:13 pm
People love to bitch in ways that make them feel superior. They're called "pet" peeves for a reason.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on June 24, 2015, 01:11:30 am
(click to show/hide)
Edit:just realized this isn't really a protest sighn.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on June 24, 2015, 02:38:32 am
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That actually reads like a "college level" African American studies textbook.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on June 24, 2015, 09:10:07 am
That was good, Lizard. Thank you for that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on June 24, 2015, 08:43:38 pm
That was good, Lizard. Thank you for that.
Please don't tell me you agree with that cartoons sentiment.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on June 25, 2015, 09:45:46 am
No. It was funny, made me chuckle. And that was good.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on June 26, 2015, 12:57:07 am
(http://i.imgur.com/YdIko5r.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on June 26, 2015, 01:48:49 am
(http://i.imgur.com/YdIko5r.jpg)

What's with misogynists and their hatred of cats?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on June 26, 2015, 02:43:48 am
Not all misogynists hate cats. Radical Islamists by and large love cats, partly at least because it's in their holy book to do so.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on June 26, 2015, 02:46:34 am
(http://i.imgur.com/YdIko5r.jpg)

What's with misogynists and their hatred of cats?

To be fair, we don't like them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on June 26, 2015, 03:39:06 am
What's with misogynists and their hatred of cats?
They don't necessarily hate cats. It's just that "crazy cat lady" is one of the stereotypes for feminists.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 26, 2015, 11:53:40 am
Not all misogynists hate cats. Radical Islamists by and large love cats, partly at least because it's in their holy book to do so.

Wait...Islam says to love cats?  Well, fuck, if I weren't an avowed apatheist, that'd sell me on being a Muslim.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on June 26, 2015, 02:37:38 pm
Not all misogynists hate cats. Radical Islamists by and large love cats, partly at least because it's in their holy book to do so.

Wait...Islam says to love cats?  Well, fuck, if I weren't an avowed apatheist, that'd sell me on being a Muslim.

Here's a Wikipedia article on the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_cats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_cats)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on June 26, 2015, 06:04:27 pm
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Edit:just realized this isn't really a protest sighn.

That guy has obviously never actually watched the Jetsons.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on June 27, 2015, 10:37:34 am
Not all misogynists hate cats. Radical Islamists by and large love cats, partly at least because it's in their holy book to do so.

Wait...Islam says to love cats?  Well, fuck, if I weren't an avowed apatheist, that'd sell me on being a Muslim.

Oh yes. Most Muslims know how wonderfully tasty cats are.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 27, 2015, 11:05:25 am
Not all misogynists hate cats. Radical Islamists by and large love cats, partly at least because it's in their holy book to do so.

Wait...Islam says to love cats?  Well, fuck, if I weren't an avowed apatheist, that'd sell me on being a Muslim.

Oh yes. Most Muslims know how wonderfully tasty cats are.

I thought that was Southeast Asians.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on June 27, 2015, 11:06:10 am
Not all misogynists hate cats. Radical Islamists by and large love cats, partly at least because it's in their holy book to do so.

Wait...Islam says to love cats?  Well, fuck, if I weren't an avowed apatheist, that'd sell me on being a Muslim.

Oh yes. Most Muslims know how wonderfully tasty cats are.

I thought that was Southeast Asians.

Well, some of them are Muslims.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on June 30, 2015, 11:16:35 pm
(http://www.firebreathingchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/RoofPlannedParenthood650pw.jpg)

(http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lilrb6qNpi1qdlkgg.gif)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on July 02, 2015, 12:18:00 am
(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/10154334_482257398544367_696335161203871416_n.jpg?oh=580680200e574952ba7c395a793c11ab&oe=56288C0C)

You know, this might be a good point.... IF THIS EVER FUCKING HAPPENED.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on July 02, 2015, 04:42:14 am
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You know, this might be a good point.... IF THIS EVER FUCKING HAPPENED.

I have come across a number of people who gleefully choose begging over working for their money (simply because begging is both easier and generates more money for them). However, even for them they are still not getting tax money.

In a way I agree with the sign.
It is wrong to tax working people to breaking point and then give it all to those rich laid back bastards running mega corporations.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sleepy on July 02, 2015, 04:49:21 pm
^ Unfortunately, most people aren't going to read it that way and will instead think of the "welfare queens" everyone loves to bitch about.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on July 04, 2015, 11:07:24 pm
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/10501746_10207418035317471_4908084254158033570_n.jpg?oh=22acc385a5f22ae8a827228b8725407e&oe=561C2F9B)

What is with everyone ranting about how some people wear their pants? It's stupid, yeah, but hardly worth more than an eye roll.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 06, 2015, 09:31:10 am
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/30w4650.jpg)

The hangman, but it's your ilk who'll be at the end of the rope.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on July 06, 2015, 09:42:00 am
I presume you're referring to this:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on July 06, 2015, 08:24:35 pm
(http://oi58.tinypic.com/30w4650.jpg)

The hangman, but it's your ilk who'll be at the end of the rope.

I was looking at that and wondering who the hell hates both cultural marxists and free market capitalists so much. And then I scrolled down and, of course...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMTxBggP5j4
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on July 07, 2015, 09:25:04 pm
(https://odinia.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/1-a-uwifhwe.jpg)

Okay aside from the fact that marxism has existed for less then 200 years, Christianity and marxism are completely different things.

(http://cs412126.vk.me/v412126346/a08e/Eg9rekQYQ3g.jpg)

Sure, you just keep telling yourself that.

https://twitter.com/genophilia/status/618435148296491013/photo/1

I couldn't get that one to work as an image, but it's an idiot on twitter calling Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush communists because they support immigration reform.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on July 07, 2015, 09:45:31 pm
It's worth noting that "cultural Marxism" is not the same as actual Marxism.

Cultural Marxism is a term used primarily by right-wingers to refer to progressive approaches to culture, particularly anything that suggests that culture is a fundamental cause of inequality. The relevance to Marxism implied in the name is part conspiracy theory and part slur; basically the claim that such ideas are fundamentally derived from Marxist ideology (and therefore the well is poisoned or something). It's generally identified with the Frankfurt School (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Conspiracy_theory) when they bother to actually mention any real academic tradition rather than just throw the phrase around

Nobody actually calls themselves a cultural Marxist, as far as I know. It's more of an accusation to use against people you dislike than an ideology.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 08, 2015, 12:13:40 am
(http://oi57.tinypic.com/29c6j2a.jpg)

It's hilarious when loathsome people get into a pissing match.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on July 08, 2015, 12:45:04 am
(http://oi57.tinypic.com/29c6j2a.jpg)

It's hilarious when loathsome people get into a pissing match.
Is hilarious the new word for pitiful?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on July 08, 2015, 12:00:10 pm
(http://oi57.tinypic.com/29c6j2a.jpg)

It's hilarious when loathsome people get into a pissing match.
Is hilarious the new word for pitiful?

The two aren't mutually exclusive, thankfully.  They're hilariously pitiful.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 08, 2015, 11:08:40 pm
(http://oi57.tinypic.com/29c6j2a.jpg)

It's hilarious when loathsome people get into a pissing match.
Is hilarious the new word for pitiful?

The two aren't mutually exclusive, thankfully.  They're hilariously pitiful.

....like that Snidely Whiplash Jewish caricature they always use.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on July 09, 2015, 08:07:43 am
(http://oi57.tinypic.com/29c6j2a.jpg)

It's hilarious when loathsome people get into a pissing match.
Is hilarious the new word for pitiful?

The two aren't mutually exclusive, thankfully.  They're hilariously pitiful.

....like that Snidely Whiplash Jewish caricature they always use.



Snidely Whipstein?  Sorry, couldn't resist, lol.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 09, 2015, 04:11:13 pm
(http://oi57.tinypic.com/29c6j2a.jpg)

It's hilarious when loathsome people get into a pissing match.
Is hilarious the new word for pitiful?

The two aren't mutually exclusive, thankfully.  They're hilariously pitiful.

....like that Snidely Whiplash Jewish caricature they always use.



Snidely Whipstein?  Sorry, couldn't resist, lol.

Yeah! Let's nickname it that!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 16, 2015, 06:51:58 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/2ytrawx.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 17, 2015, 01:24:40 am
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/2ytrawx.jpg)

Little does the cartoonist know that the "American White Guy" mask on Snidley Whipstein on the right is actually an Asian Japanese Guy from a Bara Yaoi Porno Manga.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuso_Miso_Technique
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yaranaika-%E3%82%84%E3%82%89%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E3%81%8B
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on July 17, 2015, 10:41:36 am
(http://i.imgur.com/xpqQ8rh.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on July 17, 2015, 11:39:22 am
Only one of those terms is an insult. They could have named those weapons and vehicles after African tribes but still object to a team called "niggers" without it being hypocritical.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on July 17, 2015, 12:47:48 pm
Plus all those things are awesome and last I checked the Washington Redskins was a rather sub-par team to began with.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on July 17, 2015, 12:59:32 pm
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Ironbite-sub-par....you're such a kidder.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on July 17, 2015, 01:26:47 pm
I'm not sure if that's sarcasm I really don't care since I don't give two craps about American football at all so I wouldn't know league ratings.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on July 17, 2015, 02:22:12 pm
They're not just sub-par. They're generally pretty shit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on July 17, 2015, 03:48:05 pm
Part of that is our owner.  Since he took over we've gone through 7 head coaches.  7.  That's more then any other team in the league.

Ironbite-and all because the owner wants a Super Bowel and wants it now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on July 17, 2015, 04:57:18 pm
Well, collectively the team has been a super bowel movement, so close enough.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on July 18, 2015, 01:55:10 am
(http://i.imgur.com/BO167pR.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on July 18, 2015, 11:55:35 am
Don't they have that back asswards.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 18, 2015, 12:25:21 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/BO167pR.png)

In fairness, that seems to be Salon's take on the matter:

(http://oi61.tinypic.com/jzdzwj.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on July 18, 2015, 01:12:21 pm
Neither of them should be seen as examples of their whole race. Instead they should be seen as terrorists or examples of extremism.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on July 18, 2015, 03:28:36 pm
Neither of them should be seen as examples of their whole race. Instead they should be seen as terrorists or examples of extremism.
*rings bell* we have a winner folks!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 18, 2015, 03:36:23 pm
Neither of them should be seen as examples of their whole race. Instead they should be seen as terrorists or examples of extremism.
*rings bell* we have a winner folks!

Agreed!

Also, is that beardie on the right that Tsarnaev kid now?

HEY, "'FREE JAHAR' FANGIRLS"! YOUR TOSSLED-HAIRED/LIGHT FACE-FUZZ PRETTYBOY HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A SHORN-HAIRED BEARDIE! YA STILL THINK HE'S A CUTIE AND WANT HIM FREE?!!

*Huh-boy* ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on July 18, 2015, 07:13:42 pm
No he's the guy who shot up that military recruitment center a few days ago.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 18, 2015, 08:47:48 pm
No he's the guy who shot up that military recruitment center a few days ago.

Ah! Thanks. I haven't been paying too much attention to some news stuff lately and I haven't been paying attention to that recruitment center shooting. You kind of get sick of all these mass-shooting stories and you're like "Ya know what? Forget it!" Being American, I wish Obama would just make an Executive Order for gun safety laws and to tell the NRA where to stick it! All these extremists, disgruntled workers & whiny young guys shooting up places.....you just get a huge case of "Dude, I'm getting too old for this." and you change the channel or pop a fun DVD in.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on July 19, 2015, 08:36:24 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/fO1ktVA.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on July 19, 2015, 11:51:28 pm
Is there any truth to that drivel?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 19, 2015, 11:53:12 pm
Is there any truth to that drivel?

"It's true to me!"/wingnut
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on July 20, 2015, 07:49:23 am
Got to love the, "with what money?"  Well let's see, we're paying millions to fund wars overseas and giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy.  But apparently, we don't have the money to help those in need.  Makes sense.

Everything else is crap, especially the, 'democratic socialist' = 'commie' comment that I see all the time.  He's not trying to turn us into Russian; he's trying to turn us into Scandinavia, whom I've read are doing pretty well in economics, education, health, etc.

but the fact that they are beginning to post B.S. like this means they're starting to take him seriously.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 20, 2015, 09:18:21 am
Or we could stop buying the military stuff it neither wants nor needs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on July 20, 2015, 11:22:25 am
How is closing tax loopholes for large corporations that ship jobs over seas going to force corporations to ship jobs over seas?

Also what is the NHS disaster?
And I haven't been paying much attention to the 15 dollars an hour minimum wage in Seattle, so I have no idea how that's going.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on July 20, 2015, 04:47:03 pm
Some of those problems are made up. If I remember my Daily show correctly, the NHS disaster was the fact that all the people using the Obamacare website made it crash. GOP ran with it and tried to make it look like the entire thing was a huge failure because of it. (though I might be confusing it with a different made up disaster.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on July 21, 2015, 06:57:06 am
How is closing tax loopholes for large corporations that ship jobs over seas going to force corporations to ship jobs over seas?

I find the idea that increasing taxes on the wealthy will somehow ship the money overseas.
I mean its not like their money int already overseas locked up in massive tax havens.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on July 21, 2015, 09:06:29 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/zbGzfFj.jpg)

Long, but worth a read if only to tear the methodology and faulty logic to shreds. Seriously, who knew horny teenage boys could be manipulated by female attention?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on July 21, 2015, 09:34:16 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/37g47ou.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 22, 2015, 05:00:15 pm
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/d1a679b75f0177ed3465aba822d8d23e/tumblr_mngw1hZb9F1rljueeo1_500.jpg)

You tell me: do you think this was made by a militant vegan, or a rabid anti-Semite?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on July 22, 2015, 08:09:21 pm
Yes
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on July 22, 2015, 09:08:23 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/zbGzfFj.jpg)

Long, but worth a read if only to tear the methodology and faulty logic to shreds. Seriously, who knew horny teenage boys could be manipulated by female attention?

I immediately tune out whenever someone starts ranting about the "feminization" of society or something or other, especially on the internet. Most of the time, the following content of the rant is just a long stream-of-consciousness wharrgarbl.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on July 22, 2015, 11:38:47 pm
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11028020_1014159868596990_4897090970118147672_n.jpg?oh=e7079a02791051f85460cf0caff77e1f&oe=564E2CB6)
A classmate of mine from highschool posted this picture along with the right wing copy pasta "Joe Legal and Jose Illegal".

As for that "article" about "feminized societies", the ending point about how the women drove polygamy rather than the men is downright hilarious. In order for it to be comparable to that classroom experiment, and that's being generous and assuming that not only did such an experiment happen, but that it happened as the "teacher" insisted it did, but anyway....

In order for polygamy in the Ancient Near East to be comparable to that experiment, polygamy would have had to have been established by women who all wanted the same man so much that they were willing to share him. But that's not even remotely what it looked like, and even a casual glimpse at the Torah (which is genuinely useful as a historical document even if the stories are entirely mythical) will reveal that marriages at the time were "property" exchanges between men, and the women had little say in the matter. And that was in the progressive households.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 23, 2015, 02:41:10 pm
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/d1a679b75f0177ed3465aba822d8d23e/tumblr_mngw1hZb9F1rljueeo1_500.jpg)

You tell me: do you think this was made by a militant vegan, or a rabid anti-Semite?

I was guessing the former. PETA does that junk on a regular basis.

(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11028020_1014159868596990_4897090970118147672_n.jpg?oh=e7079a02791051f85460cf0caff77e1f&oe=564E2CB6)
A classmate of mine from highschool posted this picture along with the right wing copy pasta "Joe Legal and Jose Illegal".

As for that "article" about "feminized societies", the ending point about how the women drove polygamy rather than the men is downright hilarious. In order for it to be comparable to that classroom experiment, and that's being generous and assuming that not only did such an experiment happen, but that it happened as the "teacher" insisted it did, but anyway....

In order for polygamy in the Ancient Near East to be comparable to that experiment, polygamy would have had to have been established by women who all wanted the same man so much that they were willing to share him. But that's not even remotely what it looked like, and even a casual glimpse at the Torah (which is genuinely useful as a historical document even if the stories are entirely mythical) will reveal that marriages at the time were "property" exchanges between men, and the women had little say in the matter. And that was in the progressive households.

Divorced from the bigoted anti-Mexican context, those two guys look like the sort who'd write that "Feminization" screed.

"*Hurr hurr*...we'll drink beer and make yucky gestures an' stuff!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 25, 2015, 12:00:10 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/2ibony0.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 25, 2015, 12:12:30 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/2ibony0.jpg)



Oh yes, those ugly "colored" women.....
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/lovelylady2_zpsugvj5kh2.png) (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/lovelylady2_zpsugvj5kh2.png.html)(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/lovelylady_zpsr91kj8l3.png) (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/lovelylady_zpsr91kj8l3.png.html)
.....Boy! Real dawgs, I tell ya! Look like those Golgothans from Dogma! Eeyup.
(That's sarcasm, guys)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on July 26, 2015, 02:12:44 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/2ibony0.jpg)

Oh no! That would be horrible! Because...well...er...um...trust us, it'll be horrible!

Worrying about things like this makes as much sense as worrying about the Earth depopulating because of gay marriage.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on July 28, 2015, 11:07:33 pm
http://www.donotlink.com/g56b

Dank white nationalist maymays
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on July 28, 2015, 11:25:07 pm
http://www.donotlink.com/g56b

Dank white nationalist maymays

ouch...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on July 29, 2015, 10:43:55 am
The link 404's. Bluehost maybe took it down. Can you describe it without getting a brain cramp?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on July 29, 2015, 11:15:43 am
The link 404's. Bluehost maybe took it down. Can you describe it without getting a brain cramp?
It was lots of Stormfront copypasta in meme form,
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on July 29, 2015, 07:01:27 pm
If you really want to look at it (why??), the internet archive is your friend (https://web.archive.org/web/20150427204655/http://nationalyouthfront.com/memes/).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on July 31, 2015, 10:50:38 am
If you really want to look at it (why??), the internet archive is your friend (https://web.archive.org/web/20150427204655/http://nationalyouthfront.com/memes/).

Ah! I see!

*BLAUGH!*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on August 03, 2015, 02:30:21 am
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0D3WJQ7kqI8/Vb5mx0-pGbI/AAAAAAAAF5Y/Stt983YloWY/w530-h353-p-rw/15%2B-%2B1)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 03, 2015, 07:09:38 pm
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0D3WJQ7kqI8/Vb5mx0-pGbI/AAAAAAAAF5Y/Stt983YloWY/w530-h353-p-rw/15%2B-%2B1)

I can't see anything
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 04, 2015, 09:20:22 am
didn't know where to put this.

(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a1Z2PpG_700b_v1.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on August 04, 2015, 09:38:22 am
Did she really just... what!?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 04, 2015, 09:39:09 am
didn't know where to put this.

(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a1Z2PpG_700b_v1.jpg)

Is that legit?  Because if so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcjIestFVOc
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Igor on August 04, 2015, 09:41:36 am
There's no way that's real... right? Right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on August 04, 2015, 10:45:34 am
Probably fake, can't find any legitimate source for it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 04, 2015, 11:10:51 am
Probably parody about the "wind turbines use up the wind" comment by another US politician.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lady Evil on August 04, 2015, 03:23:31 pm
I want to say "No one is that stupid." but....
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 04, 2015, 04:49:30 pm
Holy hell that's so dumb it's actually plausible.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on August 04, 2015, 10:26:13 pm
Michelle Bachmann lives in the Mike Tyson Zone. You could say its her new district right now.

You could say she said that demons live on the moon and it would be plausible.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 05, 2015, 01:04:22 am
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/b4ahbb.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 05, 2015, 07:13:14 am
snip

israel didn't exist until 1948...

the rest is wrong, but i'll just say this:"naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 05, 2015, 08:44:11 am
snip

israel didn't exist until 1948...

the rest is wrong, but i'll just say this:"naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And if all the Jews in Europe would have been sent to Madagascar (or to death camps) then there would have not been any need to create Israel, which is the point they are trying to make.

...On the other hand, are there any people on Madagascar? Would they have been pushed out by the new immigrants just like how it happened to Palestinians when Israelis arrived?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 05, 2015, 09:01:04 am
snip

israel didn't exist until 1948...

the rest is wrong, but i'll just say this:"naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And if all the Jews in Europe would have been sent to Madagascar (or to death camps) then there would have not been any need to create Israel, which is the point they are trying to make.

...On the other hand, are there any people on Madagascar? Would they have been pushed out by the new immigrants just like how it happened to Palestinians when Israelis arrived?

The Madagascar Plan would have been tantamount to a death sentence.  There was pre-existing infrastructure in Mandatory Palestine.   By the time of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, you already had almost thirty years of Jewish infrastructure development.  Nothing of the sort existed in Madagascar.  Millions would have succumbed to hunger and tropical diseases, and the survivors would've been subject to abuse and murder at the hands of the SS.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 05, 2015, 10:22:47 am
snip

israel didn't exist until 1948...

the rest is wrong, but i'll just say this:"naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And if all the Jews in Europe would have been sent to Madagascar (or to death camps) then there would have not been any need to create Israel, which is the point they are trying to make.

...On the other hand, are there any people on Madagascar? Would they have been pushed out by the new immigrants just like how it happened to Palestinians when Israelis arrived?

The Madagascar Plan would have been tantamount to a death sentence.  There was pre-existing infrastructure in Mandatory Palestine.   By the time of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, you already had almost thirty years of Jewish infrastructure development.  Nothing of the sort existed in Madagascar.  Millions would have succumbed to hunger and tropical diseases, and the survivors would've been subject to abuse and murder at the hands of the SS.

In other words: Win-Win situation for the nazis. Any deaths would have been seen as a sign of the inferiority of the Jewish race. "We sent them to a tropical paradise and when they had to make a living for themselves they were incapable of surviving on their own. SEE HOW THE JUDEN PARASITES CANNOT LIVE UNLESS THEY SUCK THE WEALTH AND LIFE FROM OTHERS!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on August 05, 2015, 04:55:46 pm
snip

israel didn't exist until 1948...

the rest is wrong, but i'll just say this:"naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And if all the Jews in Europe would have been sent to Madagascar (or to death camps) then there would have not been any need to create Israel, which is the point they are trying to make.

...On the other hand, are there any people on Madagascar? Would they have been pushed out by the new immigrants just like how it happened to Palestinians when Israelis arrived?

The Madagascar Plan would have been tantamount to a death sentence.  There was pre-existing infrastructure in Mandatory Palestine.   By the time of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, you already had almost thirty years of Jewish infrastructure development.  Nothing of the sort existed in Madagascar.  Millions would have succumbed to hunger and tropical diseases, and the survivors would've been subject to abuse and murder at the hands of the SS.
Sort of like what they did in the Nambian genocide, send the undesirables to somewhere with little food or water then abuse and murder the ones that don't die fast enough.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 05, 2015, 05:12:58 pm
snip

israel didn't exist until 1948...

the rest is wrong, but i'll just say this:"naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And if all the Jews in Europe would have been sent to Madagascar (or to death camps) then there would have not been any need to create Israel, which is the point they are trying to make.

...On the other hand, are there any people on Madagascar? Would they have been pushed out by the new immigrants just like how it happened to Palestinians when Israelis arrived?

The Madagascar Plan would have been tantamount to a death sentence.  There was pre-existing infrastructure in Mandatory Palestine.   By the time of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, you already had almost thirty years of Jewish infrastructure development.  Nothing of the sort existed in Madagascar.  Millions would have succumbed to hunger and tropical diseases, and the survivors would've been subject to abuse and murder at the hands of the SS.
Sort of like what they did in the Nambian genocide, send the undesirables to somewhere with little food or water then abuse and murder the ones that don't die fast enough.

Same basic principle, yeah.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 07, 2015, 12:07:42 am
(http://oi61.tinypic.com/2r2xf81.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Igor on August 08, 2015, 08:41:44 pm
seen on Facebook:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11822546_495061147285592_3470719201263462128_n.jpg?oh=aa2df0f54d61133034e26a1482214086&oe=56840413)
You can support legalization or whatever and that's great, but don't fucking lie about it like that. It's not a magical wonder cure. Assholes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 08, 2015, 08:51:30 pm
They're...not.

Ironbite-like at all.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Igor on August 08, 2015, 08:53:23 pm
I think it's a hell of a stretch to say there'd be NO cancer/PTSD/what-have-you. There have been studies showing it can help with those things, but I've never seen anything suggesting it's an outright cure.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 08, 2015, 11:00:35 pm
seen on Facebook:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11822546_495061147285592_3470719201263462128_n.jpg?oh=aa2df0f54d61133034e26a1482214086&oe=56840413)
You can support legalization or whatever and that's great, but don't fucking lie about it like that. It's not a magical wonder cure. Assholes.

The most ridiculous thing about banning weed - what's the alternative pain relief drug, the 'more safe' one? HEROIN, LOL.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 08, 2015, 11:20:16 pm
seen on Facebook:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11822546_495061147285592_3470719201263462128_n.jpg?oh=aa2df0f54d61133034e26a1482214086&oe=56840413)
You can support legalization or whatever and that's great, but don't fucking lie about it like that. It's not a magical wonder cure. Assholes.

The most ridiculous thing about banning weed - what's the alternative pain relief drug, the 'more safe' one? HEROIN, LOL.

i'm screwed, then. i'm intolerant to both thc and opiates.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 08, 2015, 11:58:06 pm
seen on Facebook:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11822546_495061147285592_3470719201263462128_n.jpg?oh=aa2df0f54d61133034e26a1482214086&oe=56840413)
You can support legalization or whatever and that's great, but don't fucking lie about it like that. It's not a magical wonder cure. Assholes.

The most ridiculous thing about banning weed - what's the alternative pain relief drug, the 'more safe' one? HEROIN, LOL.

i'm screwed, then. i'm intolerant to both thc and opiates.

Yep, pretty much. Paracetamol too?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 09, 2015, 10:06:15 am
seen on Facebook:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11822546_495061147285592_3470719201263462128_n.jpg?oh=aa2df0f54d61133034e26a1482214086&oe=56840413)
You can support legalization or whatever and that's great, but don't fucking lie about it like that. It's not a magical wonder cure. Assholes.

The most ridiculous thing about banning weed - what's the alternative pain relief drug, the 'more safe' one? HEROIN, LOL.

i'm screwed, then. i'm intolerant to both thc and opiates.

Yep, pretty much. Paracetamol too?

nope, nor aspirin. i've got light painkillers on my side, but anything more serious and doctors have to put me under or else. way to go, brain, way to go...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on August 10, 2015, 04:18:39 pm
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/v/t1.0-9/562661_10151312166576222_1080473438_n.jpg?oh=82bc674d8b76e679ddc3a78a7a6b101a&oe=56826C56)

Ignoring that most Illegals aren't eligible for welfare, North Korea and Afghanistan are such beacons to lookup to, right guize?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on August 10, 2015, 04:47:54 pm
I know, I've been wanting to take my vacation in scenic Pyongyang for years now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on August 10, 2015, 05:45:05 pm
I know, I've been wanting to take my vacation in scenic Pyongyang for years now.

There's even a hotel for you!

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/01/article-2209420-153A8B86000005DC-497_634x425.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on August 11, 2015, 12:18:26 pm
I know, I've been wanting to take my vacation in scenic Pyongyang for years now.

There's even a hotel for you!

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/01/article-2209420-153A8B86000005DC-497_634x425.jpg)

With Wall-To-Wall....and Floor-To-Ceiling! And don't forget...B.Y.O.B.B (Bring Your Own Bed & Blankets)!
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/ryugyong-hotel-interior-7_zpsneiij1tf.jpg) (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/ryugyong-hotel-interior-7_zpsneiij1tf.jpg.html)
....You're gonna need it!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on August 11, 2015, 01:11:24 pm
seen on Facebook:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11822546_495061147285592_3470719201263462128_n.jpg?oh=aa2df0f54d61133034e26a1482214086&oe=56840413)
You can support legalization or whatever and that's great, but don't fucking lie about it like that. It's not a magical wonder cure. Assholes.

So, inhaling burning plant matter containing tons of highly oxidising radicals and benzopyrene is now a magical cancer cure?

Oh I get it, today must be opposites day!

Let's spend our way out of debt while we're at it!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 11, 2015, 01:28:55 pm
seen on Facebook:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11822546_495061147285592_3470719201263462128_n.jpg?oh=aa2df0f54d61133034e26a1482214086&oe=56840413)
You can support legalization or whatever and that's great, but don't fucking lie about it like that. It's not a magical wonder cure. Assholes.

So, inhaling burning plant matter containing tons of highly oxidising radicals and benzopyrene is now a magical cancer cure?

Oh I get it, today must be opposites day!

Let's spend our way out of debt while we're at it!

either you vape it (so as to avoid combustion), or you extract the oil and eat it. also, it's not a magical cancer cure, but it does help manage the pain. and some cannabinoids are being studied to combat malignant cells in a synthesized and overdriven state.

but yeah, reading it like you did is basically how anybody would react if you told them to hit a blunt to get rid of lung cancer.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on August 11, 2015, 01:40:58 pm
I have to say, if I weren't on a bunch of Rx drugs and wanted to try weed, I'd probably prefer eating pot brownies over putting a burning bundle of leaves in my mouth.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 11, 2015, 05:09:27 pm
seen on Facebook:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11822546_495061147285592_3470719201263462128_n.jpg?oh=aa2df0f54d61133034e26a1482214086&oe=56840413)
You can support legalization or whatever and that's great, but don't fucking lie about it like that. It's not a magical wonder cure. Assholes.

Derp!

So, inhaling burning plant matter containing tons of highly oxidising radicals and benzopyrene is now a magical cancer cure?

Oh I get it, today must be opposites day!

Let's spend our way out of debt while we're at it!


Yes, you can make anything look ridiculous by reductio.

"You're really going to cure cancer by blasting yourself with radiation - which causes it!!!!!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on August 12, 2015, 10:19:28 am
I have to say, if I weren't on a bunch of Rx drugs and wanted to try weed, I'd probably prefer eating pot brownies over putting a burning bundle of leaves in my mouth.

I concur! Brownies in general are AWESOME!

I'd either have "Funny Brownies" or vape the green stuff.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on August 13, 2015, 02:36:17 am
seen on Facebook:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11822546_495061147285592_3470719201263462128_n.jpg?oh=aa2df0f54d61133034e26a1482214086&oe=56840413)
You can support legalization or whatever and that's great, but don't fucking lie about it like that. It's not a magical wonder cure. Assholes.

Derp!

So, inhaling burning plant matter containing tons of highly oxidising radicals and benzopyrene is now a magical cancer cure?

Oh I get it, today must be opposites day!

Let's spend our way out of debt while we're at it!


Yes, you can make anything look ridiculous by reductio.

"You're really going to cure cancer by blasting yourself with radiation - which causes it!!!!!"

Which is why radiotherapy is TARGETED at the tumour itself, they don't just stick someone in a chamber and bombard them with x-rays.

Oh I forgot, hippies think weed has magical properties including HOMING IN ON TUMOURS.

Fuck's sake.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 13, 2015, 02:53:00 am
seen on Facebook:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11822546_495061147285592_3470719201263462128_n.jpg?oh=aa2df0f54d61133034e26a1482214086&oe=56840413)
You can support legalization or whatever and that's great, but don't fucking lie about it like that. It's not a magical wonder cure. Assholes.

Derp!

So, inhaling burning plant matter containing tons of highly oxidising radicals and benzopyrene is now a magical cancer cure?

Oh I get it, today must be opposites day!

Let's spend our way out of debt while we're at it!


Yes, you can make anything look ridiculous by reductio.

"You're really going to cure cancer by blasting yourself with radiation - which causes it!!!!!"

Which is why radiotherapy is TARGETED at the tumour itself, they don't just stick someone in a chamber and bombard them with x-rays.

Oh I forgot, hippies think weed has magical properties including HOMING IN ON TUMOURS.

Fuck's sake.

Oh yeah, that's clearly not true. But weed obviously does have some medicinal uses - pain and whatnot.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 13, 2015, 02:59:29 am
seen on Facebook:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11822546_495061147285592_3470719201263462128_n.jpg?oh=aa2df0f54d61133034e26a1482214086&oe=56840413)
You can support legalization or whatever and that's great, but don't fucking lie about it like that. It's not a magical wonder cure. Assholes.

Derp!

So, inhaling burning plant matter containing tons of highly oxidising radicals and benzopyrene is now a magical cancer cure?

Oh I get it, today must be opposites day!

Let's spend our way out of debt while we're at it!


Yes, you can make anything look ridiculous by reductio.

"You're really going to cure cancer by blasting yourself with radiation - which causes it!!!!!"

Which is why radiotherapy is TARGETED at the tumour itself, they don't just stick someone in a chamber and bombard them with x-rays.

Oh I forgot, hippies think weed has magical properties including HOMING IN ON TUMOURS.

Fuck's sake.

Oh yeah, that's clearly not true. But weed obviously does have some medicinal uses - pain and whatnot.

True but the image obviously claimed that it can actually cure cancer and PTSD. (If either of those was true those diseases would already be gone since cannabis is so easily available.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on August 13, 2015, 04:49:03 am
seen on Facebook:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11822546_495061147285592_3470719201263462128_n.jpg?oh=aa2df0f54d61133034e26a1482214086&oe=56840413)
You can support legalization or whatever and that's great, but don't fucking lie about it like that. It's not a magical wonder cure. Assholes.

Derp!

So, inhaling burning plant matter containing tons of highly oxidising radicals and benzopyrene is now a magical cancer cure?

Oh I get it, today must be opposites day!

Let's spend our way out of debt while we're at it!


Yes, you can make anything look ridiculous by reductio.

"You're really going to cure cancer by blasting yourself with radiation - which causes it!!!!!"

Which is why radiotherapy is TARGETED at the tumour itself, they don't just stick someone in a chamber and bombard them with x-rays.

Oh I forgot, hippies think weed has magical properties including HOMING IN ON TUMOURS.

Fuck's sake.

Oh yeah, that's clearly not true. But weed obviously does have some medicinal uses - pain and whatnot.

True but the image obviously claimed that it can actually cure cancer and PTSD. (If either of those was true those diseases would already be gone since cannabis is so easily available.)

Oh yeah, no doubt. Contrarian's still an idiot.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 21, 2015, 10:00:49 am
(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a2qK0pE_460s.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on August 21, 2015, 10:43:02 am
My piss-taking sense is tingling...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 21, 2015, 10:53:00 am
Especially as Jacob would've been 6 by the this time so I'm pretty sure inventing a new type of popcorn would've had to wait for awhile.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on August 21, 2015, 11:32:10 am
Meet Jacob, He left America and Joined ISIS, and smuggled a dirty bomb back into america and killed two thousand people. If he was aborted this would never have happened.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on August 21, 2015, 05:18:23 pm
My piss-taking sense is tingling...

Yup. See that orange spiral-ish circle in the lower right? That's the Clickhole (http://www.clickhole.com/) logo. It's a comedy website.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 21, 2015, 05:59:28 pm
My piss-taking sense is tingling...

Yup. See that orange spiral-ish circle in the lower right? That's the Clickhole (http://www.clickhole.com/) logo. It's a comedy website.

if i got fooled, chances are some pro-lifers took it at face value too. poe's law in full effect.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on August 22, 2015, 02:28:28 pm
That Poe is a tricky stinker!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on August 22, 2015, 08:20:00 pm
(http://www.trustchristorgotohell.org/wp-content/uploads/TIM-TEBOW-vs-BRUCE-TRANNY-JENNER.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 22, 2015, 08:31:36 pm
(http://www.trustchristorgotohell.org/wp-content/uploads/TIM-TEBOW-vs-BRUCE-TRANNY-JENNER.jpg)

I'm pretty sure most people are angry that Tebow makes a big production out of his religion.  Hell, I'm a Christian and I find it annoying.

And her name is Caitlyn, you transphobic shitheads!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on August 22, 2015, 09:01:30 pm
The point will be valid that day people who come out as christians fear being murdered by transgender people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on August 22, 2015, 09:18:02 pm
(http://www.trustchristorgotohell.org/wp-content/uploads/TIM-TEBOW-vs-BRUCE-TRANNY-JENNER.jpg)

I'm pretty sure most people are angry that Tebow makes a big production out of his religion.  Hell, I'm a Christian and I find it annoying.

And her name is Caitlyn, you transphobic shitheads!

That and as a quarterback, Tebow was lackluster at best.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on August 22, 2015, 09:18:55 pm
My piss-taking sense is tingling...

Yup. See that orange spiral-ish circle in the lower right? That's the Clickhole (http://www.clickhole.com/) logo. It's a comedy website.

if i got fooled, chances are some pro-lifers took it at face value too. poe's law in full effect.

Good save.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on August 22, 2015, 10:13:56 pm
That and as a quarterback, Tebow was lackluster at best.

In the NFL. You don't win a Heisman and two national titles by being lackluster.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on August 22, 2015, 10:22:45 pm
I recall he tackled his mother in an anti-abortion ad.

That made me giggle like a school boy.

Hello, Oedipus.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on August 22, 2015, 10:25:04 pm
Is it bad the any mention of Oedipus reminds me of the most brutal forum smackdown I ever read, and makes me laugh uncontrollably?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 22, 2015, 10:48:38 pm
That and as a quarterback, Tebow was lackluster at best.

In the NFL. You don't win a Heisman and two national titles by being lackluster.


Yeah NFL is all that matters in this country.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 23, 2015, 02:53:52 pm
(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/axGyN8W_700b.jpg)

@art: duh, i'm good at saving my own ass.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on August 23, 2015, 10:07:23 pm
Jesus fucking Christ. Leaving entirely aside the problem of using children to express political sentiments they cannot properly understand, that's a really creepy thing to have your child say.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on August 23, 2015, 10:23:45 pm
That kid looks like "Uhm, mom...I think this is kinda stupid."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on August 24, 2015, 11:33:32 am
The kid looks young enough to not really fully understand what is going on.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on August 24, 2015, 11:36:22 am
I bet that mom screams whenever "liberals" use their kids to make political points.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on August 29, 2015, 06:00:20 pm
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11947439_704981016299396_3126628550928105721_n.jpg?oh=17082789fde21acdbd0c44d954ede955&oe=566E6CE8)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on August 29, 2015, 10:14:42 pm
Yes, black people. Be civilized as the police officers who have sworn to protect you shoot you and then get protected and coddled by the system. Be civilized when the police show up to your peaceful protests with fucking tear gas and riot gear while white mass murderers get brought in alive. Be civilized when black kids get shot over toy guns while white kids can flaunt their guns in fucking public.

It's moments like this that make me want to just give up and gorge myself with sugar while lying down in bed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 29, 2015, 10:17:46 pm
You're gonna fit in just fine
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on August 29, 2015, 10:33:17 pm
Validation for whining about right-wing assholes? I'm home!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 29, 2015, 10:52:48 pm
And let's not forget that implying black people are uncivilized is... questionable at best.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on August 29, 2015, 10:58:42 pm
Yup, that too.

but when white people burn cars over sports teams it's just quaint amirite
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 31, 2015, 05:24:48 am
(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/avLWVXq_460s.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on August 31, 2015, 06:02:45 am
No, they blamed George Lucas surrounding himself with yes-men.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: davedan on August 31, 2015, 06:20:42 am
Have you ever tried to kill someone with a sword...it takes fucking effort and you get tired after half a dozen

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vypernight on August 31, 2015, 06:24:10 am
(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/avLWVXq_460s.jpg)

I'm pretty sure they had regulations for non-Jedi using lightsabers.  Heck, they're probably even more lax with gun laws than the Republic was with lightsaber ones.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on August 31, 2015, 12:19:14 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/DAtQSwY.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/3ADNIgl.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 31, 2015, 12:23:39 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/DAtQSwY.jpg)

Because all black people riot when they get angry, amirite?

(http://i.imgur.com/3ADNIgl.jpg)

There's so much spin in this image, it might as well be a tilt-a-whirl.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on August 31, 2015, 02:43:36 pm
why is hillary a criminal again?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on August 31, 2015, 02:45:43 pm
why is hillary a criminal again?

I'm guessing either Benghazi or the e-mail kerfuffle.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on August 31, 2015, 04:12:34 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/DAtQSwY.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/3ADNIgl.jpg)

Fiorina, the "one woman", was a CEO and board member of major international corporations for thirty plus years. These fools can't even do their blow-hard right.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 31, 2015, 05:06:43 pm
why is hillary a criminal again?

In the minds of the right wing, she's a criminal.  She's never come close to a court.

And Fiorina got ousted from HP after nearly running it into the ground and claims she was sacked because she was "too pretty"

Ironbite-also Bernie is a crazy socialist who wants us to be like successful Scandinavian countries, oooh scary!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on September 01, 2015, 11:11:55 am
(http://i.imgur.com/7bnl0QH.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 01, 2015, 11:18:25 am
*snip*

Ahem... If I recall correctly they didn't sell their land for shiny beads. They were a bunch of drunks sitting on an island that belonged to the neighboring tribe and some foreigners showed up saying that they wish to buy the island. Naturally the drunks played along with them and took the shiny beads.

This is the equivalent of buying the San Fransisco bridge from some bums that were boozing below the bridge. (And then showing up with ships and tanks and fighting off the defending army since everything was perfectly legal and you have a signed contract from "I.C. Wiener" which states that you have bought the bridge.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 01, 2015, 11:31:30 am
That's the best written counter I've seen yet to the bullshit version still taught to school kids here today. Kudos, askold.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on September 01, 2015, 11:41:59 am
...So you're telling me that I didn't in fact buy the entire Western Hemisphere from Mike Hunt? Fuck, I traded an entire pocketful of lint for it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 01, 2015, 11:42:18 am
That's the best written counter I've seen yet to the bullshit version still taught to school kids here today. Kudos, askold.

Same here.

On top of that, the island of Manna-hata (as the Lenape Nation called it) is not "The whole freakin' continent".

I'm going to edit that Trumpy thing and remove the bottom part.

Hold on a sec......

THERE!
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/All%20My%20Political%20Stuff/7bnl0QH_zpsbrfsgpl0.png) (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/All%20My%20Political%20Stuff/7bnl0QH_zpsbrfsgpl0.png.html)
I even made a new spoof-web address.

I found that photo with that Indigamerican gentleman (Russell Means) without the writing. I'm going to do another altered version but with the last caption replaced.


OKAY! I MADE IT BETTER!
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/All%20My%20Political%20Stuff/7bnl0QH_zpsqpenogcd.png) (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/All%20My%20Political%20Stuff/7bnl0QH_zpsqpenogcd.png.html)
Am I incredible or what?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 01, 2015, 01:29:21 pm
Yay!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on September 01, 2015, 04:23:24 pm
Loving it, Barbarella!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on September 01, 2015, 07:26:14 pm
...So you're telling me that I didn't in fact buy the entire Western Hemisphere from Mike Hunt? Fuck, I traded an entire pocketful of lint for it.

Gonna tell you you got the raw end of the deal on that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 02, 2015, 07:22:12 pm
Loving it, Barbarella!

Thanx!  :D

...and thank askold, too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on September 03, 2015, 11:59:17 pm
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11866432_10153580507991983_1673303725293092211_n.jpg?oh=a5459b75a2422c18f92f0bbcbc5d0057&oe=56763399)

Way to completely miss the point. Nobody is saying that wearing nice clothes is brave. Openly living as a member of the gender that doesn't match your body at birth in a society full of people who will despise you, trash you as a "freak", accuse you of wanting to rape kids, and endorse you being tortured in Hell is brave.

Anybody want to take a guess as to who posted this on Facebook?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 04, 2015, 09:34:03 am
Old one, but still bad:

(http://oi62.tinypic.com/dwyy9v.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 04, 2015, 10:12:46 am
a) The artwork is horrible.

b) "Busing?" Abusing? Traveling on a bus? What are they complaining about specifically?

c) Since they mention communists is this by some racist AND red-scare group (can't really assume that this is nazis or other right-wing groups in particular since "communists are bad" was and apparently still is so common belief in USA.) or are they simply using communists as a scare tactic since that is more acceptable than blaming black people for everything?

d) Did they recycle some older hate poster for this? the image and "niggerise america" thingy make it look like this is against race-mixing but the bus and "busing" seem to be an afterthought. Why would riding a bus somehow make racists angry? I mean I could get that anti-communists are furious at Americans NOT riding and owning their very own cars at every possible moment and using public transportation is (in the minds of madmen) kinda like communism since anything "public" is badwrongcommunist while owning your very own car that has been specifically made to have a poor mileage is patriotic... But what do black people have to do with that? GODDAMNIT! This is what I hate the most in the anti-communist tendencies that Yankees have, they have no idea what communism and socialism are.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on September 04, 2015, 11:02:43 am
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/11222015_432260796974734_7736622693581460789_n.jpg?oh=69ff3e6d97db24860e71c0e17681a5ab&oe=567D11E8)

How none of these guys can see through Ray's self shilling is beyond me, but these are the same people who so easily think Donald Trump is on their side.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on September 04, 2015, 11:10:40 am
....*piledrives the world into the sun*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on September 04, 2015, 11:43:28 am
Askold, it might mean what my dad was talking about once from back in the day. Bussing was when at some point in the early 60s they took a bunch of inner city ghetto kids and had them go to school out in the suburbs. They'd literally bus them in. I guess there was a huge culture clash. Living in a city (not just within city limits but really in the city) is a completely different way of life than it in the burbs. I'm not sure if that's what they mean, but that's the only time I've heard the term and it kind of relates to the picture.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 04, 2015, 12:00:44 pm
And there was opposition to busing.  Some thought it was an overextension of government power.  Others thought it was an ineffective solution to poverty in the inner cities.  And still others, like whoever made this, were just straight up racists.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on September 04, 2015, 02:50:43 pm
Askold, it might mean what my dad was talking about once from back in the day. Bussing was when at some point in the early 60s they took a bunch of inner city ghetto kids and had them go to school out in the suburbs. They'd literally bus them in. I guess there was a huge culture clash. Living in a city (not just within city limits but really in the city) is a completely different way of life than it in the burbs. I'm not sure if that's what they mean, but that's the only time I've heard the term and it kind of relates to the picture.

More importantly, busing was done at all because, due to white flight, the suburbs were mainly white, whereas urban areas were mainly black.  That in and of itself caused a LOT of backlash, because America is terrible.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 04, 2015, 03:10:35 pm
Askold, it might mean what my dad was talking about once from back in the day. Bussing was when at some point in the early 60s they took a bunch of inner city ghetto kids and had them go to school out in the suburbs. They'd literally bus them in. I guess there was a huge culture clash. Living in a city (not just within city limits but really in the city) is a completely different way of life than it in the burbs. I'm not sure if that's what they mean, but that's the only time I've heard the term and it kind of relates to the picture.

More importantly, busing was done at all because, due to white flight, the suburbs were mainly white, whereas urban areas were mainly black.  That in and of itself caused a LOT of backlash, because America is terrible.

To be fair, both whites and blacks were mostly against desegregation busing.  And evidence suggests that, for the most part, this wasn't because of racism, but because of beliefs that it hurt neighborhood schools and caused more discipline problems.

On the other hand, there definitely were those motivated by racism, as demonstrated by that flyer.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 04, 2015, 07:54:02 pm
I'm so ancient, that I was amongst the first generation of kids to be bused for school desegregation. It was a two way street. Black kids got bused to white schools, white kids got bused to black schools. At least, that's how they did it in Miami, and the idea was to not only get black and white kids together to learn and grow up with each other, but to improve the quality of the black schools. It worked, but there was a huge upswing in white private school enrollment the first few years. Then things settled down a lot.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 06, 2015, 11:42:40 am
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/r10u43.jpg)

Ryan White?  Who's that?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on September 06, 2015, 11:51:56 am
Tangent:

- In Finland, men who have sex with men can't donate blood, probably because of ZOMG HIV.
- In Europe, there's only a 2.2% difference between straight HIV-positives and gay HIV-positives (http://www.avert.org/european-hiv-aids-statistics.htm).
- Considering how the blood's screened anyway, this is some dank bullshit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 06, 2015, 01:16:28 pm
Another tangent: Specifically their rules state Finnish men can only donate blood to Red cross if they have not had sex with another man in the last 12 months.

So gay men with a serious case of blue balls can donate blood.


...Yeah, it is still an overreaction considering that the blood gets tested and there should not be a risk of HIV spreading to other people in the clinic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on September 06, 2015, 01:25:03 pm
Yeah, thanks for the clarification, comrade of the northern wastes  :)

Also, there's like 2900 HIV-positives in Finland, which is less than a promille anyway, and one of the other questions is "have you or a sex partner or someone living with you ever had hepatitis or HIV" which kinda makes the "gay question" obsolete, and the "gay question" is worded "have you ever had sex with a man" instead of "have you had sex with a man in the last year", so yeah, it strikes me as pretty sus.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 06, 2015, 02:55:45 pm
That's fairly universal, actually. Last time I donated blood I had to check that I had not had sex with a man.

(this was about a month before the first time I had sex with a guy, curiously enough.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on September 06, 2015, 02:57:22 pm
And here I was, hoping that this particular brand of asinine would be restricted to Finland...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on September 06, 2015, 05:34:23 pm
You can thank the good ol' USA for that particular rule btw.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on September 06, 2015, 05:52:05 pm
Of all the things to ape from the USA, we ape that... fucking A.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 06, 2015, 09:44:01 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/33nu7ih.jpg)

While the "Crucified Canadian" was a myth, that doesn't mean the Germans didn't commit real atrocities.  And calling it "Jewish propaganda" is ridiculous.

Let's not forget that the German Army shot soldiers as punishment too.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on September 06, 2015, 10:11:06 pm
Another tangent: Specifically their rules state Finnish men can only donate blood to Red cross if they have not had sex with another man in the last 12 months.

So gay men with a serious case of blue balls can donate blood.


...Yeah, it is still an overreaction considering that the blood gets tested and there should not be a risk of HIV spreading to other people in the clinic.

Same rule here in the US, actually.

Hey, since the risk of HIV infection is higher if you sleep with men, regardless of sex, does that mean that I should just divorce my husband and join a lesbian commune?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on September 06, 2015, 10:24:10 pm
........yes.

Ironbite-wait.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Nemo on September 07, 2015, 09:51:53 am
Good news, everyone! It wasn't my relatives this time!
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11144926_1224653447594782_4779013321831677560_n.jpg?oh=8280a16f8d63d4bbb0f4db0f5361ee23&oe=565E4E00)

1. Humans are not at risk of going extinct at any point in the foreseeable future, especially not due to abortion or homosexuality.
2. Homosexuals are a small fraction of the population. Their effect on the breeding pool would be minimal at best. And nobody is suggesting that the 95% of straight people who have attractions to the opposite gender suddenly be made to turn gay.
3. I don't think anybody is suggesting that anybody should be made to abort every child they ever have.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 07, 2015, 10:05:17 am
Good news, everyone! It wasn't my relatives this time!
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11144926_1224653447594782_4779013321831677560_n.jpg?oh=8280a16f8d63d4bbb0f4db0f5361ee23&oe=565E4E00)

1. Humans are not at risk of going extinct at any point in the foreseeable future, especially not due to abortion or homosexuality.
2. Homosexuals are a small fraction of the population. Their effect on the breeding pool would be minimal at best. And nobody is suggesting that the 95% of straight people who have attractions to the opposite gender suddenly be made to turn gay.
3. I don't think anybody is suggesting that anybody should be made to abort every child they ever have.


Gorblat & Pinfob of Planet Kazork would be far too intelligent for that nonsense!

Is Gorblat smoking a pipe?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 07, 2015, 10:07:37 am
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/33nu7ih.jpg)

While the "Crucified Canadian" was a myth, that doesn't mean the Germans didn't commit real atrocities.  And calling it "Jewish propaganda" is ridiculous.

Let's not forget that the German Army shot soldiers as punishment too.

So, the original poster is claiming that an American World War I propaganda poster's depiction of a battlefield war crime (whether sensationalized fiction or not) was perpetuated by time traveling, mind-controlling Jews to set the stage for a smearing of the Wermacht's reputation 20 years before the start of World War II?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 07, 2015, 10:15:51 am
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/33nu7ih.jpg)

While the "Crucified Canadian" was a myth, that doesn't mean the Germans didn't commit real atrocities.  And calling it "Jewish propaganda" is ridiculous.

Let's not forget that the German Army shot soldiers as punishment too.

So, the original poster is claiming that an American World War I propaganda poster's depiction of a battlefield war crime (whether sensationalized fiction or not) was perpetuated by time traveling, mind-controlling Jews to set the stage for a smearing of the Wermacht's reputation 20 years before the start of World War II?


It's the same "logic" these nuts use to claim that a guy born in Hawaii was born in Kenya.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 07, 2015, 10:41:53 am
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/33nu7ih.jpg)

While the "Crucified Canadian" was a myth, that doesn't mean the Germans didn't commit real atrocities.  And calling it "Jewish propaganda" is ridiculous.

Let's not forget that the German Army shot soldiers as punishment too.

So, the original poster is claiming that an American World War I propaganda poster's depiction of a battlefield war crime (whether sensationalized fiction or not) was perpetuated by time traveling, mind-controlling Jews to set the stage for a smearing of the Wermacht's reputation 20 years before the start of World War II?

Actually, I think they're saying the myth of the Crucified Canadian was used by Teh Evol JoosTM to smear the Imperial German army, not the Wehrmacht.  Still stupid, but not quite so mind-boggling as that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 08, 2015, 05:09:43 pm
(http://oi62.tinypic.com/2drcp03.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 08, 2015, 11:17:28 pm
(http://oi62.tinypic.com/2drcp03.jpg)

Either someone's trying to discount what Kant said or someone's saying that Hitler was just swell.

If it's the later, it's extra-stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 09, 2015, 02:08:00 am
Either someone's trying to discount what Kant said or someone's saying that Hitler was just swell.

If it's the later, it's extra-stupid.

It's just a joke.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on September 09, 2015, 06:35:34 am
hitler ate sugar. and was a vegetarian.

check.mate.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 09, 2015, 09:00:52 am
What's that trope called?  Oh yeah, Even Evil Has Loved Ones.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on September 09, 2015, 09:02:03 am
There's literally a trope called Hitler Ate Sugar.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on September 09, 2015, 09:09:32 am
There's literally a trope called Hitler Ate Sugar.

that's what i was referencing, but i didn't feel like potholing to it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sleepy on September 09, 2015, 09:29:00 am
On the flip side, it's pretty safe to assume someone is an asshole if they treat animals poorly.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 09, 2015, 09:39:42 am
On the flip side, it's pretty safe to assume someone is an asshole if they treat animals poorly.

Yeah.  A lot of serial killers got their start torturing animals.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 09, 2015, 03:43:23 pm
On the flip side, it's pretty safe to assume someone is an asshole if they treat animals poorly.

Yeah.  A lot of serial killers got their start torturing animals.

Not all of the people who mistreat animals for fun are serial killers but they are assholes.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on September 09, 2015, 03:59:23 pm
(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/ajnOyeq_460s.jpg)

disclaimer: taken at face value.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lady Evil on September 09, 2015, 05:29:39 pm
Where's jain and just how terrible is it to rot there?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 10, 2015, 11:26:11 am
(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/ajnOyeq_460s.jpg)

disclaimer: taken at face value.

Getting mad at Hillary for having an email account is the dumbest act of desperation ever!

"How dare she have an email account like everyone else! Real politicians are hermits or something!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on September 10, 2015, 11:30:15 am
Yes a private email server that is unmonitored by any government official that has classified data on it is something every politician has.

Ironbite-I'm not actually being sarcastic, every single one of these fuckers does the same damn thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on September 10, 2015, 12:32:07 pm
Ironbite, not all of them were SecState. Not all of them plan on running for president. Now I don't believe there was anything on those emails that would harm national security nor do I think there was anything that may have harmed foreign relations. But I bet there was information about donors to the Clinton Foundation. I'd be willing to believe there may have been emails about campaign strategy. And I bet this month's mortgage check THAT'S what the GOP was after. That's all showbispeculation though.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on September 10, 2015, 12:39:45 pm
Who's the dude in the center?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on September 10, 2015, 12:44:04 pm
Who's the dude in the center?

I think that's Snowden.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on September 10, 2015, 01:09:56 pm
Who's the dude in the center?

I think that's Snowden.

Yeah, pretty sure it is.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 12, 2015, 05:22:15 pm
(http://oi57.tinypic.com/219yu01.jpg)

You know the Fed was created almost 50 years after Lincoln died, right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SCarpelan on September 12, 2015, 06:56:09 pm
A friend linked the same picture a while ago and I was going to point out the same fact to him. Before doing I checked that my memory was correct and found out that there was a US central bank during two different periods before the current Federal Reserve was established. The "fact" about Lincoln is still bullshit, though. There was no central bank during his presidency and he apparently even supported establishing one.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on September 13, 2015, 11:47:02 am
(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aepZq5b_460s.jpg)

didn't know whether to put it here or in the jokes thread. because it's really funny.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on September 13, 2015, 11:54:00 am
I think it's a satire. I've never met someone who really held those views who even knew what the clitoris was, male or female.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 13, 2015, 12:10:59 pm
Rhyming soul with hole XD. That graphic would make a great refrigerator magnet, coffee mug and T shirt.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 13, 2015, 12:11:31 pm
Seriously, the only good thing about the whole Hillary e-mail shit o'rama, is seeing her poll numbers drop, other than that it's bs and stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on September 13, 2015, 01:00:58 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/wr57y9Z.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 13, 2015, 01:14:52 pm
Another T-shirt! Joy!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 14, 2015, 01:15:05 pm
Why are these idiots so unaware that Nazis KILLED gays?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on September 14, 2015, 01:29:31 pm
Because it messes with their warped world view and if it messes with that then it's obviously not true and just propaganda spread by the "Gay Agenda!!!1!!!1"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 14, 2015, 03:20:43 pm
The meme may well be a parody, I'm almost sure. The meaning is "Christian Holocaust" in that gay marriage is Satan attacking Christianity & Chritians, and so they are suffering as martyrs-in-spirit in a holocaust against Christian values. Big whiny load of drama queen bullshit, as usual. And why I find the meme so hilarious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on September 14, 2015, 09:48:50 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/K8120G9.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 14, 2015, 10:18:08 pm
1. Bernie is more of a Social Democrat(but to be fair Social Democrats and Democratic Socialists overlap in a lot of areas, to the point that the distinction is murky at best).
2. Democratic Socialism is LEFT WING, and Hitler and the rest of his goon squad co-opted the term socialist to fit his fascist agenda.
3. A good chunk of Bernie's family on his father's side were killed in the Holocaust, so way to classy there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on September 15, 2015, 12:40:49 am
Um I'm pretty sure the Nazis were Fascists.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on September 15, 2015, 01:06:55 am
Ah but see they were called the National Socialist Party so they were socialist (despite the fact that the Nazi's were so far from socialist that Stalin would be a better one than them.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 15, 2015, 01:28:30 am
You guys are so old fashioned with your silly claims about Nazis.

...Don't you know that these days all the cool kids are saying that the Nazis were simply pawns of the Jews?

Yeah, apparently the Jews were masterminds behind the Nazis rise to power and engineered the Holocaust simply so that the Jews could use it as the justification for the creation of Israel. ...And all those people who died in the Holocaust (and WW2 as well) were merely used as a sacrifice.

If you point out that a lot of Jews died in the Holocaust the "Cool kids" will point out that they were "wrong kind" of Jews.

If you point out that this is a highly unlikely plan and way too complicated they will point out that you are probably a Jew or some kind of homosexual and no one should listen to you.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 15, 2015, 09:02:43 am
You guys are so old fashioned with your silly claims about Nazis.

...Don't you know that these days all the cool kids are saying that the Nazis were simply pawns of the Jews?

Yeah, apparently the Jews were masterminds behind the Nazis rise to power and engineered the Holocaust simply so that the Jews could use it as the justification for the creation of Israel. ...And all those people who died in the Holocaust (and WW2 as well) were merely used as a sacrifice.

If you point out that a lot of Jews died in the Holocaust the "Cool kids" will point out that they were "wrong kind" of Jews.

If you point out that this is a highly unlikely plan and way too complicated they will point out that you are probably a Jew or some kind of homosexual and no one should listen to you.


Renynold's Wrap's stock would plummet if those so-called "Cool Kids" turned sane.

And turning a Jewish guy who's family died in the Holocaust into one of the goons who was responsible for that mess is really wrong on so many levels.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 15, 2015, 02:03:00 pm

And turning a Jewish guy who's family died in the Holocaust into one of the goons who was responsible for that mess is really wrong on so many levels.

bonus asshole points given they used a SS-Totenkopfverbande(see the Death's Head on the hat) as part of the photoshop, who were the one's in charge of the concentration camps.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on September 15, 2015, 11:51:24 pm
(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/12011302_10153518681571163_396093821870696158_n.jpg?oh=a4472e1ffd92a7478077b5dbacdafc50&oe=56A3E64C)

I guess they missed "Raise Taxes on the 1%" and "Stop Endless Military Spending"

Also funny how they highlight "End the War on Drugs" when that is costing use a lot of money.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 16, 2015, 12:08:04 am
We could afford to do it now, if we stop blowing money on stupid shit, like drunken sailor at a whorehouse. This is why it annoys me to no end when people act as if we can't have social democracy in this country. We're the fucking US, and we're one of te richest countries on this planet, shit there are countries that are way poorer than us, but still have social democracy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on September 16, 2015, 02:12:19 am
Honestly, we could easily fund all kinds of things if we just cut our military budget in half. But nobody wants to touch that because we need to SUPPORT OUR TROOPS and doing otherwise would be LETTING THE TERRORISTS WIN.

...also, that would piss off all the contractors who exist solely to sell weapons to the military and keep politicians from getting money from them, but let's not talk about that.

Also, regarding Nazis and socialism, the "Socialist" part of the official party name comes from when the party was first founded. Originally, the National Socialist Workers' Party was exactly what it sounded like. It was later hijacked by Hitler and his cronies, turned into the exact opposite of what it was, and purged of everyone who still believed in the original goals, but they still kept the name to appeal to the people.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on September 16, 2015, 11:40:06 am
Yet they don't bat an eye to Donald Trumps 800 billion dollar plan to find and deport 11 million undocumented workers.
And how he plans to lower taxes during his presidency.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 16, 2015, 12:33:20 pm
Yet they don't bat an eye to Donald Trumps 800 billion dollar plan to find and deport 11 million undocumented workers.
And how he plans to lower taxes during his presidency.

You forgot the bs solution of building a Wall/fence. That's because they're nativist douches that hate anyone with skin tone darker than their own.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on September 16, 2015, 03:36:53 pm
This might just be the stupidest protest sign I've ever seen. If you're going to post a short list, and then point out what it's missing, AT LEAST MAKE SURE IT'S NOT THERE!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 16, 2015, 03:45:28 pm
The thing is that raising taxes on those poor widdle 1%ers is bad thing, because taxes are theft or whatever, except for when it fucks the poor then it's ok.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on September 16, 2015, 04:00:32 pm
The thing is that raising taxes on those poor widdle 1%ers is bad thing, because taxes are theft or whatever, except for when it fucks the poor then it's ok.

It's not a question of what they support. It's a question of whether the OP reads what they're cut-pasting.

I admit, though, I'm curious if the highlight is in the original, or if it's only in the protest sign. I'm curious if this guy thinks shutting down the war on drugs would cost money.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 16, 2015, 04:27:47 pm
I've see the original, and the highlighted is only in the protest sign. As to the whole War on Drugs thing, I'm willing to bet it's probably some sort of teabilly that thinks that drug users are evil horrible people who should be punished, and being oblivious to that the Drug War is costing us. More or  less the same type that complains about bureaucracy and "big gov't", but at the same time cheers at the news of drug testing and /or setting up a shit ton of huddles for welfare recipients, not knowing that they've just help make gov't bigger because they get a jolly out of poor shaming. Or as I like to refer to them as, "A Special Kind Of Stupid".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on September 18, 2015, 05:06:35 am
(http://i.imgur.com/M0WqTTl.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 18, 2015, 09:01:28 am
The pop tart "gun" incident caused a social and main stream media shit storm, too. And no, the DHS watch list claim about the kid's family is bullshit. Twitter also was not nearly as ubiquitously used back during the Poptart Era. In looking back to the Finger Era - or was it the French Fry Era? - Twitter had barely launched into the public consciousness. There is a progressive, evolving correlation between the technological sophistication of kid's fake toy guns and Twitter outrage. The stupidity of school admins remains stagnant throughout.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 18, 2015, 09:07:08 am
Even though both is bs, the kid with pop tart gun was just a kid being kid, and really doesn't deserve a phone call from the president. While the kid with the homemade clock showed scientific creativity. Not to mention since kid was Muslim, that's some downright stereotyping going on, willing bet if the kid with the clock was white, they would never have had been arrested in the first place.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 18, 2015, 09:26:35 am
Just like those retards who thought I was programming a virus when I was writing random snippets during computer lab off-time.  Unfortunately for us, most school admins have an IQ in the single digits, if that.  Actually, their IQ might be in the negatives.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 18, 2015, 09:44:46 am
There's an inverse proportion factor between their IQ's and their level of paranoia.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on September 18, 2015, 10:18:26 am
Ahh yes the 5 year old who was able to create a working gun with his teeth and a pastry sure deser why am I even doing this when beating fools over the head with a space shuttle would be quicker and easier?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 18, 2015, 10:26:55 am
Ahh yes the 5 year old who was able to create a working gun with his teeth and a pastry sure deser why am I even doing this when beating fools over the head with a space shuttle would be quicker and easier?

Coping mechanism?  Unless that kid's played by Richard Dean Anderson, he's no threat.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on September 18, 2015, 10:31:34 am
Don't beat people with space shuttles. They're priceless historical artifacts, of which there are only 3 left in existence.

Would you consider using a Boeing 747 instead? They're quite a bit bigger and they're not exactly in short supply.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 19, 2015, 08:37:40 pm
(http://oi60.tinypic.com/v4cnxt.jpg)

Even if the Solutrean hypothesis is true, nobody deserves to suffer for the crimes of their ancestors.  You might as well say the Congolese have the right to murder Belgians.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 19, 2015, 09:19:24 pm
Also, the idea of 'payback' for a crime none of the people involved think happened is meaningless. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 20, 2015, 11:15:31 am
(http://oi62.tinypic.com/bj7doo.jpg)

Using animals as a metaphor?  Let's just say you're no George Orwell.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 20, 2015, 11:47:22 am
(http://oi62.tinypic.com/bj7doo.jpg)

Using animals as a metaphor?  Let's just say you're no George Orwell.

Mules are hard-workers....thus, the bigot's analogy is invalid!

Plus, that's one of the stupider things I've seen today.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on September 20, 2015, 11:48:37 am
Mules are quite a bit more intelligent than horses. It's that genius donkey blood, see?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on September 20, 2015, 12:27:20 pm
"haven't earned"

Ah yes, because every single person in your home country has a degree they've worked for. No freeloaders in your home country, ever. And everyone knows those filthy sand monkeys can't have work skills or gain degrees. Absofuckinglutely.

/sarcasm because I don't know how to make the blue
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 20, 2015, 12:31:23 pm
Both mules and thoroughbred horses were specifically bred to used for work. The only difference between them was that the work was different and the mules (usually) are sterile.

a) There is no evil conspiracy to make horses go extinct by breeding them with donkeys to produce mules.

b) Even if there was such a plan the mules (or donkeys) would not be the ones behind the plan.

c) Horses don't actually ask for a chance to work at a farm or horse races. If you asked them they would probably want to live free and not carry humans on their back or pull heavy carts and plows.

...

Actually, is that parody? The picture better be parody because it is wrong on so many levels.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 22, 2015, 04:15:26 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/zofjmt.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on September 22, 2015, 04:35:26 pm
Wow, I didn't know that the Koreans were all Jewish!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on September 22, 2015, 06:11:17 pm
See this is because you're a woman who's been hypnotized by the Zionist conspiracy.

Ironbite-through the medium of dill pickle hiding.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 28, 2015, 08:09:23 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/243qc2g.jpg)

1.  It's called "Realpolitik".  The Nazis were perfectly willing to fill their military's ranks with non-whites to make up for losses.  As for the alliance with Muslims, they had mutual enemies in the Jews and the British.

2.  Some of these soldiers were forced to fight for Germany.

3.  Most important, the Nazis didn't consider these groups an actual threat.  Why?  Because they were exceedingly rare in Europe.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on September 29, 2015, 01:04:06 am
Hitler wasn't racist, he had black colored friends!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on September 29, 2015, 02:06:31 am
(click to show/hide)

1.  It's called "Realpolitik".  The Nazis were perfectly willing to fill their military's ranks with non-whites to make up for losses.  As for the alliance with Muslims, they had mutual enemies in the Jews and the British.

2.  Some of these soldiers were forced to fight for Germany.

3.  Most important, the Nazis didn't consider these groups an actual threat.  Why?  Because they were exceedingly rare in Europe.

Yeah nothing like sending groups you hate to the front lines as cannon fodder so they can both achieve your military goals and die at the same time to show that you tolerate, respect and accept them. Of course its also logistically and tactically sound to use locals from the region you are fighting in as your soldiers as they know the environment and situation best, but no, Hitler totally loved people of colour and wanted to have tons of gay sex with them especially if they were Jews.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 29, 2015, 06:01:02 pm
Hitler wasn't racist, he had black colored friends!

There's a post going around tumblr (http://thetransintransgenic.tumblr.com/post/129951856700/badjewess-tikkunolamorgtfo) about how Hitler declared in his deathbed that the reason he was fighting was to protect black people from Jews. Because black people are the true chosen of God and the Jews are trying to hide this.

The worst part is you all the people going "yup, seems legit, Hitler wasn't such a bad guy after all".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on September 29, 2015, 06:20:41 pm
His....deathbed.  Yeah I'm sure there was a bed in that bunker.

Ironbite-had to have some place to bang right?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on September 29, 2015, 07:28:00 pm
Yeah. But then, "Hitler in his deathbed" is the least of the historical problems with that story.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on September 29, 2015, 08:11:43 pm
They could've fucked on the floor
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 29, 2015, 08:50:01 pm
Hitler was a freaky sumbitch.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on September 30, 2015, 11:58:27 am
"Deathbed"? More like "Death-Spot-Where-He-Shot-Himself". Do these idiots deny Hitler's suicide, too?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on September 30, 2015, 12:49:13 pm
(http://i57.tinypic.com/250jcbl.jpg)

Because the conquest of the New World and refugees migrating to Britain are totally the same thing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on September 30, 2015, 01:24:35 pm
(http://i57.tinypic.com/250jcbl.jpg)

Because the conquest of the New World and refugees migrating to Britain are totally the same thing.


Of course! Don't you know anything about... history?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on October 01, 2015, 11:34:15 am
(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aEzXo0K_700b_v1.jpg)

have fun tearing this one apart. i give up.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on October 01, 2015, 12:14:37 pm
It's the same old "if you're talking about issue A, then you are literally incapable of talking about issues B-Z" bullshit again.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on October 01, 2015, 01:57:59 pm
Is it wrong that I read it in a way that the media is focusing on something pointless, instead of the real issues. When put in that perspective it's not that dumb, I mean, this just what media has been doing the whole election on the Democratic side at least.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on October 01, 2015, 02:14:30 pm
GOP side too.  Which is why it surprises them when an actual moderate candidate is able to take the bull by the horns and shoot so far up in the polls.

Ironbite-looking at Sanders.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on October 01, 2015, 09:49:05 pm
(http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aEzXo0K_700b_v1.jpg)

have fun tearing this one apart. i give up.

And the person who made this poster is talking about Hillary talking about pumpkin spice lattes, which is an even more insignificant issue.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on October 01, 2015, 11:39:10 pm
It's the same old "if you're talking about issue A, then you are literally incapable of talking about issues B-Z" bullshit again.
Why are you typing when children are being murdered in dafur?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on October 02, 2015, 04:50:22 am
Why are you talking about children being murdered in Dafur when children are being murdered AND tortured in <some other location>?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on October 02, 2015, 08:46:09 am
Y  U typing bout childn whn babbies r been abortion1!?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on October 02, 2015, 09:39:46 am
Y  U typing bout childn whn babbies r been abortion1!?
You win.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on October 04, 2015, 09:20:46 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/483MwVO.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on October 04, 2015, 10:52:53 pm
In reactionary land, jury-rigged electronics look like bombs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Barbarella on October 05, 2015, 01:26:16 am
(http://i.imgur.com/483MwVO.jpg)

This....is dumb.

Breathing is pollution? Halitosis?

I did chuckle at the pic with Klinger (the guy in the upper left with the dress)....He was always an amusing character on M.A.S.H.....especially when he tried to go AWOL with a homemade hang glider.

However, he was much more a soldier than those backwoods wingnut "militia" dorks will ever be!

I'll bet that guy attacking that other person in that photo isn't even Michael Brown. Whenever a black kid was shot & killed by a bad cop, the weirdos would smear the kid's memory by pretend a photo of some other gangsta punk was them.

We find Rachel Dolzal pretty ridiculous as well, along with the pop-tart debacle.

We know not all cops are bad but said occupation has been attracting bullying nuts and the bad cops are hardly punished even if they clearly committed murder.

We're aware Zimmerman is half-Peruvian. We just want him to be punished for murder. He could be a purple Klingon with tentacles, for all I care! He stalked and killed a kid! He deserves prison!

Caitlyn is a woman despite being born physically male. She was an anatomically female brain inside an anatomically male body. That dashing young man winning gold in the 1976 Olympics was a woman with a man's body. She has every right to live as a woman. The brain is the seat of the mind, the soul, the person-hood....the brain overrules the body.

No, weird old tea-party grannies aren't terrorists, crazy psychopathic, mass-shooting ammosexuals are. Granny's harmless.

We don't all worship Ernesto "Che" Guevara. He was a brutal nut and only an extreme moonbat would find him heroic (many of us who are young and stupid just think he looks good on a t-shirt). A guy asking a woman out isn't rape. Who the heck cares concerning Warren. That kid made a clock and the authorities KNEW it and rioting and trashing stuff is dumb and most decent Progressives prefer marches.

Mine is out of order but if someone else can do a better take-down of each of these, be my guest.

As of this writing, I have to go to bed. Goodnight.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on October 05, 2015, 01:34:26 am
In reactionary land, jury-rigged electronics look like bombs.

Here's the thing though, it wasn't jury rigged. It was literally an off the shelf clock with the case removed and the guts shoved in the most stereotypical "bomb" looking case on hand. I don't mean he made it out of ready made sub-components or anything, I mean literally unscrewed the plastic of an old alarm clock and mounted the internals in a suitcase. There's a big difference in a clock someone made themselves and a store bought clock completely unmodified shoved in a case in a manner that renders it useless as a clock (The lid covers the display).

As I recall the kid was not arrested for having a bomb, he was arrested for having a hoax bomb. I recall nothing about a bomb squad being called or a building being evacuated as would been done had an actual bomb been present.

I haven't researched the story much, but the thing I keep hearing is that the kids dad was some kind of politician or activist. Speculation is that the dad made the thing and had his kid take it to school knowing what would happen. Apparently the kid actually showed it to multiple teachers and the all said it was cool but that he should probably put it up for obvious reasons, and it wasn't until an alarm on the clock went off that he got in trouble.

As I said, I'm not sure of the two previous paragraphs. Did the kid really just assemble the thing as an incredibly early attempt at doing anything with electronics or was there some ulterior motive? I don't know. He certainly didn't invent the clock as is claimed by so many people. I don't know if he himself ever used the word "invented" but if so it was either poor wording or dishonesty. The whole thing sounds like a bit like a combo of "balloon boy" and lawsuit baiting. That's why I'm taking the story with a big grain of salt.

Don't get me wrong, I have severe issue with people mistaking anything with a circuit board as bomb. Remember the Aqua Teen Hunger Force signs a few years back? When an official cited the presence of wires, circuits, and batteries as "suspicious"? That was utterly ridiculous. Do you know how hard it is to buy any substance with even a slightly complicated name? I do all kinds of DIY projects and some I plan to do involve slightly hazardous chemicals. The thing is, there only hazardous to idiots and people intentionally trying to hurt someone. For example, anodizing aluminum requires a powerful acid bath, and the acid is almost impossible to buy for individuals in high concentrations. Luckily the concentration in battery acid is just a little higher than needed, so it's perfect. The presumption that various hobbyists are up to no good, particularly electrical and chemical related thing, is something that drives me nuts. However I really think there's more to this story than a kid built a clock.

Here's an youtuber I watch who's and electrical engineer showing off a clock he made way back in the day. Best comment was by a guy named "Redneck Billy" saying, "Sir, that clearly looks like a thermonucular warhand. Judging by the cable colors, it has the energy of 50 megabytes of TNT. Unfortunately I haven't been able to decode the Arabic hieroglyphs you wrote on the sheet of paper, but my team is working on it. You will pay for your crimes!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kGhoRuhlxM

Are the teacher and cops involved stupid? Likely. Are zero tolerance rules stupid? Yes. Are uneducated idiots paranoid and not have a single clue what things are actually dangerous? Absolutely. 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 13, 2015, 05:10:07 pm
This was shared on Michele Bauchman's Facebook page.

(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/p720x720/11215847_10153154556697361_1563451428252675503_n.jpg?oh=5fb6ab663b1fec2cf24fb96422ce58d0&oe=5686CC61)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on October 14, 2015, 04:55:27 pm
Whoa whoa whoa whoa, where are they getting this bullshit about giving our guns to the Iranians?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on October 14, 2015, 05:06:56 pm
The same place they get everything, Id: from the diseased, rotting mass of cancer that the right-wingers call their minds.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on October 14, 2015, 09:40:58 pm
Which are located in their asses, apparently.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 14, 2015, 10:10:58 pm
Which are located in their asses, apparently.

Since many wingnuts have shit for brains, I wouldn't be surprised.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on October 15, 2015, 12:44:19 am
I'm willing to bet they flip their shit when you mention Iran-Contra under their god Reagan.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on October 15, 2015, 02:58:12 pm
(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv5/Nickiecole/12074648_10153572786756163_5725457014415731882_n_zpsw6himvfr.jpg?t=1444848659)

Yeah, having diversity doesn't give you a free pass when it comes bad ideas.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on October 15, 2015, 03:02:07 pm
Let me rephrase:

GOP Frontrunners: Crazy business people who think politics is just like business

Dem Frontrunners: People who actually know how politics works
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lady Evil on October 15, 2015, 06:33:33 pm
(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv5/Nickiecole/12074648_10153572786756163_5725457014415731882_n_zpsw6himvfr.jpg?t=1444848659)

Yeah, having diversity doesn't give you a free pass when it comes bad ideas.

How old was Saint Ronald again?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on October 15, 2015, 06:36:43 pm
He was 69 when elected, turned 70 less than a month into his presidency.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lady Evil on October 15, 2015, 06:40:52 pm
I thought it was something like that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on October 15, 2015, 06:45:08 pm
It's really funny when they say the "Bernie is too old" shit, isn't it??
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 15, 2015, 06:52:13 pm
It's really funny when they say the "Bernie is too old" shit, isn't it??

Kind of like how Gingrich attacked Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky, while he was himself having an extramarital affair.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 17, 2015, 03:48:57 pm
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/12122404_10208002572051012_6366975978272033367_n.jpg?oh=516227db08587ef5c22df8e96c5b5aea&oe=56CB2B75)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mythbuster43 on October 17, 2015, 04:44:18 pm
(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv5/Nickiecole/12074648_10153572786756163_5725457014415731882_n_zpsw6himvfr.jpg?t=1444848659)

Yeah, having diversity doesn't give you a free pass when it comes bad ideas.

Has Steven Crowder even done or said anything that was even remotely funny or clever? Like ever? It's staggering how someone so unfunny has a fanbase.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on October 18, 2015, 05:27:59 pm
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on October 18, 2015, 05:34:28 pm
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nevermind that most people forego obamacare anyway and try and find the cheapest doctor... i'm sure that being on a budget has nothing to do with sleazeballs, no sir.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on October 18, 2015, 08:48:02 pm
Not to mention they limited themselves to a military rifle, when most gun deaths in America are from shotguns and especially handguns.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on October 25, 2015, 10:43:25 pm
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/12038491_730637273733770_550480108167250689_n.jpg?oh=ad918b645455ad21c8c5bce6b8c711b6&oe=56BA840E)

Even if Obama was white he hasn't committed an impeachable offense.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 25, 2015, 10:50:34 pm
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/12038491_730637273733770_550480108167250689_n.jpg?oh=ad918b645455ad21c8c5bce6b8c711b6&oe=56BA840E)

Even if Obama was white he hasn't committed an impeachable offense.

But what about Benghazi?!!1!!!1!!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lt. Fred on October 25, 2015, 10:52:38 pm
Not to mention they limited themselves to a military rifle, when most gun deaths in America are from shotguns and especially handguns.

.22s are the biggest killers aren't they? It never made sense to me going after assault rifles.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on October 25, 2015, 11:13:02 pm
Even if Obama was white he hasn't committed an impeachable offense.

One that comes to mind is our drone program involving extrajudicial assassination of U.S. citizens. The problem for the establishment is that sets a precedent for curbing executive authority; would a Republican president want his feet held to the fire if he did the same thing?

Now, if you meant impeachable offenses that future presidents and the military-industrial complex that supports them wouldn't also like to be doing, I agree that they have nothing substantial.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on October 25, 2015, 11:31:03 pm
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/12038491_730637273733770_550480108167250689_n.jpg?oh=ad918b645455ad21c8c5bce6b8c711b6&oe=56BA840E)

Even if Obama was white he hasn't committed an impeachable offense.

But what about Benghazi?!!1!!!1!!
Never4get
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on October 26, 2015, 01:02:53 am
Even if Obama was white he hasn't committed an impeachable offense.

One that comes to mind is our drone program involving extrajudicial assassination of U.S. citizens. The problem for the establishment is that sets a precedent for curbing executive authority; would a Republican president want his feet held to the fire if he did the same thing?

Now, if you meant impeachable offenses that future presidents and the military-industrial complex that supports them wouldn't also like to be doing, I agree that they have nothing substantial.

That is all pretty sketchy and it's hard to tell if some of those deaths were assassinations or collateral damage. I think Anwar al-Awlaki was intended though.
I guarantee you that if a Republican president did it Fox news would be spinning a completely different story. Like Kamal Derwish who was killed under W Bush's presidency who nobody gave a shit about when that happened. Funny how all of these drone strikes seem to happen in Yemen.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ironchew on October 26, 2015, 01:49:33 am
Even if Obama was white he hasn't committed an impeachable offense.

One that comes to mind is our drone program involving extrajudicial assassination of U.S. citizens. The problem for the establishment is that sets a precedent for curbing executive authority; would a Republican president want his feet held to the fire if he did the same thing?

Now, if you meant impeachable offenses that future presidents and the military-industrial complex that supports them wouldn't also like to be doing, I agree that they have nothing substantial.

That is all pretty sketchy and it's hard to tell if some of those deaths were assassinations or collateral damage. I think Anwar al-Awlaki was intended though.
I guarantee you that if a Republican president did it Fox news would be spinning a completely different story. Like Kamal Derwish who was killed under W Bush's presidency who nobody gave a shit about when that happened. Funny how all of these drone strikes seem to happen in Yemen.

I don't try to defend the indefensible. All I'm saying is that the move to impeach can only be done by Congress, but our congresscritters are too beholden to the military-industrial complex to want to hold the executive branch accountable for breaking the law. Some may not be, but there aren't enough of them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 26, 2015, 05:59:00 pm
(http://oi59.tinypic.com/29beiwj.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on October 27, 2015, 03:24:25 am
You know, if you cut out the tired old "lizard Jews run everything" crap from this, it would be a good and pithy picture about how propaganda can mislead people into war.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on October 27, 2015, 03:40:51 am
You know, if you cut out the tired old "lizard Jews run everything" crap from this, it would be a good and pithy picture about how propaganda can mislead people into war.

And if you replace "Filthy Lizard Jews" with the famous conspiracy theorists who spout this crap some of their followers might actually start thinking and question WHY the chief loonies want them to hate Jews of the reptilian kind.

(Or you could use it to point out that the politicians who try to incite hate against minorities and immigrants often do it to direct attention away from the real problems the nation has and to distract people from noticing that rather than the refugees it is the politicians and their corporate sponsors who are taking the money.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 27, 2015, 02:54:36 pm
You know what's really dumb about that picture?  I think it's using screenshots from a movie about the Crusades, when Jews suffered horribly.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: LeTipex on October 27, 2015, 03:23:13 pm
Specifically, Kingdom of Heaven.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on October 29, 2015, 05:23:34 pm
You know what's really dumb about that picture?  I think it's using screenshots from a movie about the Crusades, when Jews suffered horribly.

One first-hand account of the Crusades stuck with me because it described dismembered "Saracen" and Jewish bodies, and knights riding through the Temple in Jerusalem where the blood was high enough to touch the horses' bridles.  And then, the (Christian) author gives thanks to God for allowing them to commit such butchery.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on October 29, 2015, 06:41:05 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ma%27arra

I'll just leave this here.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on October 29, 2015, 07:02:56 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ma%27arra

I'll just leave this here.

i fail to see the problem by skimming the article. mind giving me a heads-up? it's basically about crusaders delving into cannibalism of saracens. or am i missing something?

i mean, sure it's tasteless (pun intended), but it's a wikipedia article. what's wrong with it (apart from the usual caveats of wikipedia)?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 29, 2015, 07:05:01 pm
You know what's really dumb about that picture?  I think it's using screenshots from a movie about the Crusades, when Jews suffered horribly.

One first-hand account of the Crusades stuck with me because it described dismembered "Saracen" and Jewish bodies, and knights riding through the Temple in Jerusalem where the blood was high enough to touch the horses' bridles.  And then, the (Christian) author gives thanks to God for allowing them to commit such butchery.

Yeah.  The popular image of Crusaders was as noble, pious heroes who fought in defense of their faith.  But in reality, many of them were depraved brutes who just wanted an excuse to kill.  In fact, one reason the First Crusade began was because Pope Urban II was sick of his flock being killed by bloodthirsty marauders.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on October 29, 2015, 07:11:34 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ma%27arra

I'll just leave this here.

i fail to see the problem by skimming the article. mind giving me a heads-up? it's basically about crusaders delving into cannibalism of saracens. or am i missing something?

i mean, sure it's tasteless (pun intended), but it's a wikipedia article. what's wrong with it (apart from the usual caveats of wikipedia)?
The fact that the crusaders literally ate babies?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 29, 2015, 07:19:30 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ma%27arra

I'll just leave this here.

i fail to see the problem by skimming the article. mind giving me a heads-up? it's basically about crusaders delving into cannibalism of saracens. or am i missing something?

i mean, sure it's tasteless (pun intended), but it's a wikipedia article. what's wrong with it (apart from the usual caveats of wikipedia)?
The fact that the crusaders literally ate babies?

To be fair, they didn't have much choice.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Random Gal on October 29, 2015, 08:06:55 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ma%27arra

I'll just leave this here.

i fail to see the problem by skimming the article. mind giving me a heads-up? it's basically about crusaders delving into cannibalism of saracens. or am i missing something?

i mean, sure it's tasteless (pun intended), but it's a wikipedia article. what's wrong with it (apart from the usual caveats of wikipedia)?
The fact that the crusaders literally ate babies?

To be fair, they didn't have much choice.

...wait, are you seriously trying to defend EATING BABIES?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: davedan on October 29, 2015, 08:11:09 pm
Well the babies on the spits were already dead (because the crusaders killed them)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on October 29, 2015, 08:20:09 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ma%27arra

I'll just leave this here.

i fail to see the problem by skimming the article. mind giving me a heads-up? it's basically about crusaders delving into cannibalism of saracens. or am i missing something?

i mean, sure it's tasteless (pun intended), but it's a wikipedia article. what's wrong with it (apart from the usual caveats of wikipedia)?
The fact that the crusaders literally ate babies?

To be fair, they didn't have much choice.

...wait, are you seriously trying to defend EATING BABIES?

.........well that's my night made!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on October 29, 2015, 08:33:51 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ma%27arra

I'll just leave this here.

i fail to see the problem by skimming the article. mind giving me a heads-up? it's basically about crusaders delving into cannibalism of saracens. or am i missing something?

i mean, sure it's tasteless (pun intended), but it's a wikipedia article. what's wrong with it (apart from the usual caveats of wikipedia)?
The fact that the crusaders literally ate babies?

To be fair, they didn't have much choice.

...wait, are you seriously trying to defend EATING BABIES?

Well, they are irresistibly delicious.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on October 29, 2015, 08:50:43 pm
Don't all you atheists do that anyways?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on October 29, 2015, 09:09:57 pm
Only on special occasions.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on October 29, 2015, 09:12:40 pm
That's why it's so disgusting! They just stuck them in a fire for a bit and that's all! Damn Christians don't know the first thing about a properly cooked baby!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: davedan on October 29, 2015, 09:28:07 pm
Yeah you can't eat the dead baby without rubbing it first with garlic and rosemary.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on October 29, 2015, 09:28:51 pm
Glaze it with a little honey and shove an apple in its mouth, and you've got some fine eats, right there!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on October 29, 2015, 09:30:19 pm
ok guys. stick out your hands, it's time for your daily dose of grain of salt. one: the crusades are a very tough time to understand objectively. two: both sides have conflicting accounts. three: most histories of the crusades were written well after the respective crusade. four: one of the quotes on the wiki article is said to have been written nine years after the fact. five: political mudslinging could be the explanation just as well as hyperbole. remember that there were not two warring factions, but chieftains loosely allied under a common name that warred against each other as much as against the other team. six: ... i mean, should we be shocked somebody is accused of eating babies?

it could be a dumbest protest signs XIth century edition, if it was not classic chronicle hyperbole. i've seen this before, and my teachers warned me about this. take from it that times were grim. look at albert of aix's quote: it was more moraly ok to eat a saracen than a dog according to christians. (keep in mind that with few exceptions, chroniclers were ecclesiarchs one way or another.) so yeah, at best, objectively we can say that the crusaders went hungry. nothing more. just because it's written down it's not to be taken as sacrosanct fact.

(for once that my degree gets a use around here...)

@ravy and dave, i'm partial to oven-roasted in mustard, myself.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on October 29, 2015, 09:48:54 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ma%27arra

I'll just leave this here.

i fail to see the problem by skimming the article. mind giving me a heads-up? it's basically about crusaders delving into cannibalism of saracens. or am i missing something?

i mean, sure it's tasteless (pun intended), but it's a wikipedia article. what's wrong with it (apart from the usual caveats of wikipedia)?
The fact that the crusaders literally ate babies?

To be fair, they didn't have much choice.

...wait, are you seriously trying to defend EATING BABIES?

I'm not trying to justify it, merely explain it.  The Crusaders were described as "starving."  This wasn't the first time desperate people turned to cannibalism, and it wouldn't be the last.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on October 29, 2015, 10:49:49 pm
Are all of our threads about cannibalism now? Because I'm totally down with that.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ma%27arra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ma%27arra)

I'll just leave this here.

i fail to see the problem by skimming the article. mind giving me a heads-up? it's basically about crusaders delving into cannibalism of saracens. or am i missing something?

i mean, sure it's tasteless (pun intended), but it's a wikipedia article. what's wrong with it (apart from the usual caveats of wikipedia)?
The fact that the crusaders literally ate babies?

To be fair, they didn't have much choice.

...wait, are you seriously trying to defend EATING BABIES?

I'm not trying to justify it, merely explain it.  The Crusaders were described as "starving."  This wasn't the first time desperate people turned to cannibalism, and it wouldn't be the last.


Sooo... No party like a Donner party?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The_Queen on October 29, 2015, 11:06:14 pm
Well the babies on the spits were already dead (because the crusaders killed them)

Baby jerky. It's the other, other white meat.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on October 30, 2015, 12:42:48 pm
Well the babies on the spits were already dead (because the crusaders killed them)

Baby jerky. It's the other, other white meat.

So then...I'm a rancher?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on October 30, 2015, 02:57:03 pm
Only if you have a proper branding iron.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on November 01, 2015, 09:45:24 pm
(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/12122898_504827506347396_7710089167607410539_n.jpg?oh=51c571814d8dd4374162ec4f9f667467&oe=56B554EF)

Yeah, sorry but non compliance is not a vaild reason to beat or kill someone, especially if they're unarmed
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 02, 2015, 10:35:34 am
I really object to the abuse of Visio to "draw" that POS cartoon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on November 02, 2015, 11:40:20 am
The "you don't stop" pic seems to be about someone assaulting a police officer and not just refusing to stop. I am much more likely to understand using force against an attacker than a person who is walking away from a police officer... If you want to make an argument why not make it without dickery, deceit and hidden implications? You could have just said that police might shoot you if you attack them... Except then you would have to explain the cases where they shoot people who weren't violent or resisting. By making the comic imply that anyone who doesn't immediately comply is on the same line as someone who tries to assault/kill cops you don't have to care about the other incidents.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dr. Weird on November 02, 2015, 03:24:55 pm
The "you don't stop" pic seems to be about someone assaulting a police officer and not just refusing to stop. I am much more likely to understand using force against an attacker than a person who is walking away from a police officer... If you want to make an argument why not make it without dickery, deceit and hidden implications? You could have just said that police might shoot you if you attack them... Except then you would have to explain the cases where they shoot people who weren't violent or resisting. By making the comic imply that anyone who doesn't immediately comply is on the same line as someone who tries to assault/kill cops you don't have to care about the other incidents.

I thought it was probably about this:

    
Police officer throws student across room for texting in class (http://fqa.digibase.ca/index.php?topic=6845.0)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 02, 2015, 03:49:42 pm
I thought he was fondling the cop...seriously, that figure looks like he's about five seconds away from stripping that cop's pants off and start goin down on him.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 02, 2015, 04:05:19 pm
I was gonna say he looks like a leg humpin' dog XD.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on November 02, 2015, 04:06:38 pm
I thought he was fondling the cop...seriously, that figure looks like he's about five seconds away from stripping that cop's pants off and start goin down on him.

...A rapist?

Cop: "MY BODY IS MY TEMPLE!" *BANG BANG BANG*
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on November 02, 2015, 05:02:54 pm
I'd actually be on board for that being justification.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on November 03, 2015, 12:30:52 am
Sorry about the lack of context, it was taken off a right wing fb page that was talking just general non compliance, and not just someone attacking  a police officer. That being said now I present some real stupidity
(https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12187852_1070402873018070_7941323768062554977_n.jpg?oh=7048d24181378c536e5e4b720639b918&oe=56CF6AAF)
See the Department Of Energy issued a Halloween fact sheet (http://energy.gov/articles/turn-your-halloween-pumpkins-power) about what happens when pumpkins decompose, and made the suggestion that instead of wasting away in a landfill, they could be turned into bio fuel. Or in teabagger speak: OBAMA IS COMING FOR OUR PUMPKINS/JACK O' LANTERNS!!!!!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on November 03, 2015, 01:11:30 am
Whenever I see the phrase "like if you agree", I just want to punch whoever wrote it in the face.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on November 03, 2015, 02:34:30 am
Whenever I see the phrase "like if you agree", I just want to punch whoever wrote it in the face.
Even worse is "like if you read." I go out of my way to not like/unlike posts that have that on them. It's pointless attention whoring.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on November 03, 2015, 11:53:14 am
Whenever I see the phrase "like if you agree", I just want to punch whoever wrote it in the face.

Oh no, dude! Likes do so many wonderful things. Likes stop child labor and animal abuse and spread Christinity and cure diseases and change governments. Likes can and do change the world on a regular basis. Liking something is the single most important thing a person on Facebook can do to make their community a better place.
At least that's what I understand from looking at people's pages.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on November 03, 2015, 08:32:24 pm
Whenever I see the phrase "like if you agree", I just want to punch whoever wrote it in the face.
"Like and share if you wouldn't rape and murder a starving orphan."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 03, 2015, 08:52:49 pm
Whenever I see the phrase "like if you agree", I just want to punch whoever wrote it in the face.
"Like and share if you wouldn't rape and murder a starving orphan."

Does it count if I put them in starved orphan cage matches and sell the results on pay-per-view?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on November 03, 2015, 10:59:53 pm
Whenever I see the phrase "like if you agree", I just want to punch whoever wrote it in the face.
"Like and share if you wouldn't rape and murder a starving orphan."

Does it count if I put them in starved orphan cage matches and sell the results on pay-per-view?
as long as you donate 1.5% percent of proceeds to charity.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on November 04, 2015, 12:41:11 am
Whenever I see the phrase "like if you agree", I just want to punch whoever wrote it in the face.
"Like and share if you wouldn't rape and murder a starving orphan."

Does it count if I put them in starved orphan cage matches and sell the results on pay-per-view?


Well, you didn't rape them, so no.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 04, 2015, 10:24:34 am
Whenever I see the phrase "like if you agree", I just want to punch whoever wrote it in the face.
"Like and share if you wouldn't rape and murder a starving orphan."

Does it count if I put them in starved orphan cage matches and sell the results on pay-per-view?
as long as you donate 1.5% percent of proceeds to charity.

I'll do ya one better and donate a whole 2% and write it off on my taxes while keeping most of the proceeds in an offshore tax haven account where it can accrue ridiculous levels of interest.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 04, 2015, 11:13:56 am
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlf1/v/t1.0-9/12191085_10207008719552616_7524197295785740066_n.jpg?oh=197fe3e67ceae1c5a772a33f20ff760e&oe=56B02892)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sleepy on November 04, 2015, 11:25:35 am
Ugh, I've seen that image floating around on facebook. People suck.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on November 04, 2015, 11:32:53 am
Remember, parents, if your kid gets tossed across a room into a desk for not leaving a classroom when prompted, that's your fault! Also, apparently beating up your child is a valid form of discipline now.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on November 04, 2015, 12:09:24 pm
Remember, parents, if your kid gets tossed across a room into a desk for not leaving a classroom when prompted, that's your fault! Also, apparently beating up your child is a valid form of discipline now again.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on November 04, 2015, 01:24:31 pm
See this image here?

Had someone not whipped this child's ass taught him that authority does not automatically have to equal violence, that image above would not even exist.

BUT THAT'S NONE OF MY BUSINESS...

...oh wait, it is my business because since he's a cop he can pretty much wield that authority over us with impunity whenever he feels like.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on November 09, 2015, 10:43:45 am
(http://i.imgur.com/J32ax7l.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 09, 2015, 08:21:09 pm
Ohhh, cute puke...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on November 09, 2015, 10:45:17 pm
(https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12187782_10153191322317011_6189940973891334240_n.jpg?oh=797e0875ebec821902358bd883dd77c0&oe=56F18622)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on November 10, 2015, 01:05:26 am
"Let's insult, denigrate and dehumanize the people we're speaking to! That's sure to make them respect fear us!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on November 10, 2015, 02:52:30 am
(click to show/hide)

Yeah except for the quite staggering degree of medically recorded chromosome disorders.
While it would be nice to live in some kind of binary world there is no single definitive biological definition of male and female.
But sure, go ahead and threaten me over the internet. Chances are you would try chatting me up if we ever met.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 10, 2015, 08:42:57 pm
(http://oi67.tinypic.com/yf9q9.jpg)

Ever notice how MGTOW always seem to be obsessed with the women they claim they don't need?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 10, 2015, 08:45:40 pm
Oh my fucking gawd! 'Shop it with a painted or line drawing effect, and post it in Funny/Stupid Pictures.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on November 10, 2015, 08:49:16 pm
well, he's telling the truth. ok, ok, his shirt is:

"caution, not glamorous"

also, can anyone tell me what the message is supposed to mean?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on November 10, 2015, 09:21:56 pm
I just wish the "men going their own way" would just leave already instead of afflicting the rest of us with their asinine drama.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on November 11, 2015, 01:34:49 am
(http://i.imgur.com/ujmAhDk.jpg)
This is why the horseshoe theory is dangerous as anything other than a fun observation, it can result in people believing this crap.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on November 11, 2015, 01:41:25 am
What the hell is the "fascism" symbol supposed to be?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on November 11, 2015, 01:44:11 am
That's the fasces, an ancient Roman symbol. It's a bundle of reed, representing strength through unity, and an axe representing war. It was carried by the consuls as a symbol of their power. Mussolini used it as a symbol in his promise to restore "the glory of Rome."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: davedan on November 11, 2015, 01:46:20 am
The 'Fasces' which where a bundle of rods tied together carried by Lictors in Ancient Rome. Varying numbers of Lictors accompanied the different Roman Magistracies. The rods signalled the Magistrates power to order corporal punishment. Outside of the sacred boundary of Rome the Lictors carried axes in their fasces symbolising the power of the Magistrate to issue the death penalty. The removal of the axes within the city was a recognition that a Roman Citizen could not be executed without trial.
 
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ghoti on November 11, 2015, 01:46:52 am
Cool, I learned something new today. Thanks guys!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on November 11, 2015, 01:54:32 am
Nazism is really just Fascism with a good dose of German nationalism thrown in. Also, anarchy and communism are polar opposites (incidentally, if you'd called it libertarianism instead of anarchy, most people would put it on the right).

If anything it goes to show that the left/right dichotomy is nigh-on worthless for comparing any more than two ideas.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 11, 2015, 08:25:09 am
I think maybe it'd have been better if they'd been labeled "most/kinda/most likely to fuck you over."  At least, in their pure forms.  Mixed with the others, however, you'd have the happy medium that would at least ensure that the smallest amount of people possible end up getting screwed.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on November 11, 2015, 09:48:44 am
how is anarchism linked to slavery? it's like the polar opposite!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on November 11, 2015, 10:04:42 am
Yeah that one was particularly stupid.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on November 11, 2015, 11:14:39 am
(http://i.imgur.com/ujmAhDk.jpg)
This is why the horseshoe theory is dangerous as anything other than a fun observation, it can result in people believing this crap.

Decidedly mediocre, not dumbest. The only real howler is putting anarchism as the slave-making left-wing, when slavery is the polar opposite of anarchy.

Just use a system with more than one dimension; the political compass, for example.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on November 12, 2015, 06:40:29 am
how is anarchism linked to slavery? it's like the polar opposite!
Under anarchy, you can do whatever the fuck you want, including enslaving anyone weaker than you. Come to think of it, anarchy would almost certainly turn into a totalitarian hellhole within a matter of weeks, if not sooner.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on November 12, 2015, 07:51:19 am
how is anarchism linked to slavery? it's like the polar opposite!
Under anarchy, you can do whatever the fuck you want, including enslaving anyone weaker than you. Come to think of it, anarchy would almost certainly turn into a totalitarian hellhole within a matter of weeks, if not sooner.

pulled to its logical extreme? a la mad max? i see your point. still, this leaves you the opportunity to rebel. why do i hear states' rights activists furiously masturbating?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on November 12, 2015, 09:39:10 am
how is anarchism linked to slavery? it's like the polar opposite!
Under anarchy, you can do whatever the fuck you want, including enslaving anyone weaker than you. Come to think of it, anarchy would almost certainly turn into a totalitarian hellhole within a matter of weeks, if not sooner.

pulled to its logical extreme? a la mad max? i see your point. still, this leaves you the opportunity to rebel. why do i hear states' rights activists furiously masturbating?

I wouldn't even say its an extreme example, just a likely outcome.  Humans crave order.  Eventually, one voice is going to win out over the others and take over, even if just locally.  At that point, the local government stops being an anarchic one and shifts into despotic totalitarianism.  Its kinda like what happened to Somalia: the central, country-wide government ceased to be and its basically now run by a bunch of warlords.  Pure anarchy doesn't work...human nature and all that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on November 25, 2015, 05:13:20 pm
(http://oi64.tinypic.com/2444mqp.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on December 06, 2015, 12:59:57 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/CxcRU1M.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on December 07, 2015, 02:20:20 am
Okay I won't worry.  The guy on the left looks more high then threatening (probably just picture quality) and the woman on the right looks completely normal.  The only way she could be scary is if headscarves automatically give you panic attacks.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: lord gibbon on December 07, 2015, 02:25:45 am
Unfortunately, those specific two ARE threatening. They're the San Bernardino shooters.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 07, 2015, 06:39:53 am
Okay I won't worry.  The guy on the left looks more high then threatening (probably just picture quality) and the woman on the right looks completely normal.  The only way she could be scary is if headscarves automatically give you panic attacks.

The guns they're carrying are pretty scary.

Or are violent gun-toting lunatics only a worry if they're carrying a 19th century battleflag at the time?

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on December 07, 2015, 10:48:30 am
The guns they're carrying are pretty scary.

What guns? The picture just shows their heads.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 07, 2015, 10:51:02 am
The guns they're carrying are pretty scary.

What guns? The picture just shows their heads.

Stop tarding.

Unfortunately, those specific two ARE threatening. They're the San Bernardino shooters.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on December 07, 2015, 10:57:08 am
The guns they're carrying are pretty scary.

What guns? The picture just shows their heads.

Stop tarding.

Unfortunately, those specific two ARE threatening. They're the San Bernardino shooters.

Well, yes, we know that now, but you're acting like Skybison should have automatically known just by looking at the picture.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 07, 2015, 10:58:55 am
The guns they're carrying are pretty scary.

What guns? The picture just shows their heads.

Stop tarding.

Unfortunately, those specific two ARE threatening. They're the San Bernardino shooters.

Well, yes, we know that now, but you're acting like Skybison should have automatically known just by looking at the picture.

There's this little thing called reading the news.

Although if one is a progressive, one probably gets one's news from MSNBC or the Young Turks who'll go out of their way to avoid reporting things like this because facts don't fit the narrative.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on December 07, 2015, 11:09:54 am
There's this little thing called reading the news.
Gave up years ago. Screaming at the TV gets old after awhile. At least here I get a little interactivity.

Although if one is a progressive, one probably gets one's news from MSNBC or the Young Turks who'll go out of their way to avoid reporting things like this because facts don't fit the narrative.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=MSNBC+San+Bernardino
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=young+turks+San+Bernardino
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on December 07, 2015, 11:54:30 am
Eh, personally, I would define progressives as more pragmatic a group than the hippie crystal woo left. Unfortunately, quite a few hippie crystal woo types don't know the meaning of the generic word progressive, and are dumb enough to apply it to themselves. When in fact they are more likely to be Luddites, and not very sociologically or politically pragmatic.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on December 07, 2015, 01:57:06 pm
I knew about the shooting, I just didn't know that was the couple.

Media reports showing the faces and names of mass shooters encourages other potential killers so I'd counter it's a good thing if MSNBC and the young turks don't show their pictures. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303309504579181702252120052

And I get my news from Trevor Noah, Colbert and John Oliver, and other serious fact based journalism.  And it's sad that's not a joke.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on December 07, 2015, 03:32:36 pm
The guns they're carrying are pretty scary.

What guns? The picture just shows their heads.

Stop tarding.

Unfortunately, those specific two ARE threatening. They're the San Bernardino shooters.

Well, yes, we know that now, but you're acting like Skybison should have automatically known just by looking at the picture.

There's this little thing called reading the news.

Although if one is a progressive, one probably gets one's news from MSNBC or the Young Turks who'll go out of their way to avoid reporting things like this because facts don't fit the narrative.

Or, you heard about the shooting, but didn't see photos of the perps.  I didn't until just now.  Don't be an asshole for people not recognizing a criminal from an unlabeled picture.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 07, 2015, 06:29:39 pm
The guns they're carrying are pretty scary.

What guns? The picture just shows their heads.

Stop tarding.

Unfortunately, those specific two ARE threatening. They're the San Bernardino shooters.

Well, yes, we know that now, but you're acting like Skybison should have automatically known just by looking at the picture.

There's this little thing called reading the news.

Although if one is a progressive, one probably gets one's news from MSNBC or the Young Turks who'll go out of their way to avoid reporting things like this because facts don't fit the narrative.

Or, you heard about the shooting, but didn't see photos of the perps.  I didn't until just now.  Don't be an asshole for people not recognizing a criminal from an unlabeled picture.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/context

A mass shooting, widely reported.  Perpetrators reported as a muslim man and woman.  During a debate about the vetting of a potential flood of refugees from a warzone infested with a muslim terrorist group.

If you can't use the above clues to grasp the intent of the graphic as presented you likely have trouble with both "remembering to breathe" and "tying shoelaces unaided".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on December 08, 2015, 01:59:44 am
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/context

A mass shooting, widely reported.  Perpetrators reported as a muslim man and woman.  During a debate about the vetting of a potential flood of refugees from a warzone infested with a muslim terrorist group.

If you can't use the above clues to grasp the intent of the graphic as presented you likely have trouble with both "remembering to breathe" and "tying shoelaces unaided".

Ahem: You assume that any picture of a man and woman who look middle eastern (note, you can't make the claim that based on their appearance they must be Muslims. Ethnicity is not enough because there are a other religions as well in the region and the women wear veils, burghas and other head dresses because of the local traditions.) are automatically those terrorists. ...Besides, I thought there were three shooters?

This is like saying that if I show you a black and white picture of a man and talk about Kennedy you will automatically assume that the picture is about Lee Harvey Oswald.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on December 08, 2015, 09:19:15 am
There were few images of the San Bernardino couple in the US media for the first few days after the shooting. Conty would not know that, since he lives in Torry Olde England, the motherland of screaming photo tabloid journalism.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on December 08, 2015, 10:54:12 am
(http://i.imgur.com/BgS3Tsa.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on December 08, 2015, 11:18:51 am
haha, look at those young people, wanting things.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on December 08, 2015, 11:46:00 am
Wanting things is only okay when you want the current generation to not want things.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on December 08, 2015, 12:10:16 pm
Fun fact: Did you know that many of the people fighting in WWII were, shockers, drafted? As in not willingly serving at all?

Did you know that, just like in the 60s, there were a lot, and I mean a lot of conscientious objectors to WWII?

EDIT: Basically, what I'm saying is "greatest generation my ass".
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on December 08, 2015, 12:15:00 pm
Three words: The New Deal (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal).

(I know he technically said 1941, but that's only three years after the New Deal program ended!)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on December 08, 2015, 01:56:51 pm
Fun fact: Did you know that many of the people fighting in WWII were, shockers, drafted? As in not willingly serving at all?

Did you know that, just like in the 60s, there were a lot, and I mean a lot of conscientious objectors to WWII?

EDIT: Basically, what I'm saying is "greatest generation my ass".

There were even cartoons about draft-dodging back then.  I saw them on TV 40+ years later!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on December 08, 2015, 04:24:32 pm
Fuck on a stick. The G.I Bill put millions of WWII vets through college, guaranteed home mortgage loans, VA healthcare, etc., et-fucking-cetera, and post war economy enjoyed the greatest growth period in US history. Both my Dad and uncle would stand up and applaud the idea of free university, as WWII vets, even though both were Republicans. The GOP was not insanely stupid back then.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 09, 2015, 08:11:04 am
Yeah but think of who is actually holding up those signs.  Giving a few hundred thousand liberal arts and gender studies majors free tuition is not something that is going to pay for itself through future income taxes.

There are only so many spaces in liberal newspapers for feminist columns complaining about how inanimate objects are sexist.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 09, 2015, 09:12:10 am
Ey, not everyone can be software developers or engineers.  The world needs janitors and Starbucks barristas as much as it needs STEM majors.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on December 09, 2015, 09:15:54 am
Yeah but think of who is actually holding up those signs.  Giving a few hundred thousand liberal arts and gender studies majors free tuition is not something that is going to pay for itself through future income taxes.

There are only so many spaces in liberal newspapers for feminist columns complaining about how inanimate objects are sexist.

uh, actually it can. just because great britain has semi-costly tuition doesn't mean it's mandatory. in france, universities are "free", as in if you're well-off, you'll pay a fee of roughly 400€ for the year. if you're under a certain payroll, you'll get a scholarship that makes the tuition cost vanish. the state pays for it. granted, we pay more income tax, but hey. that's the point of a welfare-state. i wish i could speak for scandinavia, but i don't know any details about it, but they're the most welfare-state of them all, and everything seems to be working out for them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 09, 2015, 09:36:39 am
Ey, not everyone can be software developers or engineers.  The world needs janitors and Starbucks barristas as much as it needs STEM majors.

That was kind of my point.  If you get hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of government paid tuition that qualifies you for nothing more than a minimum wage job, the government has basically thrown that money away.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on December 09, 2015, 08:55:50 pm
Yeah but think of who is actually holding up those signs.  Giving a few hundred thousand liberal arts and gender studies majors free tuition is not something that is going to pay for itself through future income taxes.

There are only so many spaces in liberal newspapers for feminist columns complaining about how inanimate objects are sexist.

I don't necessarily agree with their demands, but literally the only argument the pic makes is "Look at people nowadays, wanting things! This sort of thing didn't happen before!". It's a) false and b) a fully general counter-argument to any political position at all.

(in the interest of full disclosure, I am the beneficiary of a free university system. Not a gender studies major, pretty sure there's no such thing at UBA)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on December 09, 2015, 09:19:03 pm
Free or nearly free tuition does not equal a loss. Education is a primary capital investment for a nation. The graduates who choose fields of study that aren't in demand in the job market will still get other jobs, and still pay taxes. The cost of tuition, related expenses and student loan debt for university here has gone up five fold in thirty years; it's complete and utter bullshit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on December 09, 2015, 09:58:44 pm
Free or nearly free tuition does not equal a loss. Education is a primary capital investment for a nation. The graduates who choose fields of study that aren't in demand in the job market will still get other jobs, and still pay taxes. The cost of tuition, related expenses and student loan debt for university here has gone up five fold in thirty years; it's complete and utter bullshit.

I don't actually follow you. The argument is "if the point of government-funded education is a trained workplace, then there's no point in funding education if the student ends up getting exactly the same job they would've gotten without." How is that a counterargument?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 09, 2015, 11:41:46 pm
Because they still end up paying taxes, just that those with better jobs end up paying more.  That, and education is basically a country's chief principal investment, as Mellen stated.  Being cheap about it would be like skimping on the quality of concrete used for the foundation of your home.  Sure, you could use gravel, and it might even be cheaper, but your house is going to fucking collapse, eventually.  Invest in a quality foundation, and your house doesn't sink into the hungry, yawning chasm of economic ruination.  I think my metaphor or whatever got fucked.  Don't know, don't care, too tired.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on December 09, 2015, 11:49:03 pm
You have me confused, Pyro. The argument is that why should we fund education if SOME people are going to "waste" it. STEM is great. We also need non-STEM, like writers and actors and artists and lawyers and teachers and CPA's. The percentage of graduates overall who never get a job in their field, or a decent paying job in another area, is actually pretty low. Conty's snide and empty post is tossing the baby out with the bath water. The reason college education costs have gone up over 500% and much more (at top private universities) is because Congress and State Legislatures have aggressively defunded higher education since the Reagan era. And now the US is second rate because of it. It's bullshit. It's about the one percent who own our politicians, to whom college tuition is pocket change not wanting to give anything back.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 10, 2015, 06:04:35 am
Free or nearly free tuition does not equal a loss. Education is a primary capital investment for a nation. The graduates who choose fields of study that aren't in demand in the job market will still get other jobs, and still pay taxes. The cost of tuition, related expenses and student loan debt for university here has gone up five fold in thirty years; it's complete and utter bullshit.

So if the government is paying or at least subsidising the tuition it magically stops costing a ridiculous sum?

Bull.

Unless you want the government to dictate to universities how much they're going to pay for the service.  Authoritarian bullshit by any other name.

In reality, the government underwriting the cost of expensive tuition fees just ends up including a requirement that candidates get qualified in fields that will actually stand a chance of earning enough through taxes to pay back the initial outlay.

If you want to squander my taxes getting a degree in "Professional victimhood studies with a minor in needlework" just to enter the plebby end of the workforce with no hope of ever paying me back then you can just piss off.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on December 10, 2015, 06:30:12 am
Free or nearly free tuition does not equal a loss. Education is a primary capital investment for a nation. The graduates who choose fields of study that aren't in demand in the job market will still get other jobs, and still pay taxes. The cost of tuition, related expenses and student loan debt for university here has gone up five fold in thirty years; it's complete and utter bullshit.

So if the government is paying or at least subsidising the tuition it magically stops costing a ridiculous sum?

Bull.

Unless you want the government to dictate to universities how much they're going to pay for the service.  Authoritarian bullshit by any other name.

In reality, the government underwriting the cost of expensive tuition fees just ends up including a requirement that candidates get qualified in fields that will actually stand a chance of earning enough through taxes to pay back the initial outlay.

If you want to squander my taxes getting a degree in "Professional victimhood studies with a minor in needlework" just to enter the plebby end of the workforce with no hope of ever paying me back then you can just piss off.

um, turns out that tuition need not cost so much. american and england aside, where i know that tuition can go from anywhere between the low 10k's to nearly 60k a year, most universities are way lower. a madrid law degree will set you back 900€ a year for a bachelor's, and 1500 for a master's. and we're talking in a field where you are paid ungodly amounts of money. hell, even working part-time, it's totally doable, and if you're savings-savvy, you can just work for the summer and use those savings all year-round.

you did raise an interesting point, though. that is the place the government has in schools. i know my university semi-privatized itself in order to lower tuition costs while renovation of the campus is being done. now, there are a couple of sponsored courses. not cool. buuuuut, our tuition comes to around maximum 500€ a year. so, multiply that by 20 to 30 thousand students, and you still get quite a bit of funding. add to that research grants, scholarships, and annual budgets, and you get a very high level of education for a sum that anyone can fork over.

now, sure, my uni is specialized in social sciences (linguistics, psychology, history, geography...), so we're not talking stem or whatever. there is a need for paper-pushers and teachers, and psychologists, and linguists...

you can be against paying for someone else's degree. that's your opinion. but know that means that someone else has the obligation to pay for yours. it goes both ways. and you know what? i don't mind having higher taxes if it means some kid gets a scholarship. education is the best weapon of them all.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on December 10, 2015, 09:57:25 am
Conty. Economies are like a circulatory system. It's not like the govt. sets your tax money on fire - it sends it back out into the economy in myriad purchases of goods and services from the private sector, and govt. employees are also consumers in the market, and they pay income tax, too.

Your pre-occupation with a small percentage of students is disingenuous. That, or you should "stop tarding".

A taxpayer has an average adult earning lifetime of 30 to 45 years to pay income taxes, besides all the unavoidable consumer taxes. Even sad gits who work off the grid cleaning houses, buskering, begging, selling drugs, selling art for cash pay all the tax other than income tax in VAT, retail, tolls, vehicle tags, etc. The money that went toward a wasted education does in fact get recouped over time. And with normal folk, the return is very much faster.

Would you also do away with free schooling for ages 5 through 18? Are we to turn back the clock and assure the return of feudal culture? That would save your precious posh fucks a bit of money, but I hope they enjoy living in a fortress and hiring a team of body guards to avoid all the starving, the desperate, and the savage uneducated and disenfranchised hordes. Oh, yes, that already happens in all the places that have no middle class and a bought government. Some of the few good job sectors in those places include manufacturing bullet proof cars, piloting private helicopters, building hidden safe room enclosures in mansions and training attack dogs.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 10, 2015, 10:37:57 am
Conty. Economies are like a circulatory system. It's not like the govt. sets your tax money on fire - it sends it back out into the economy in myriad purchases of goods and services from the private sector, and govt. employees are also consumers in the market, and they pay income tax, too.

Your pre-occupation with a small percentage of students is disingenuous. That, or you should "stop tarding".

I am of the opinion that the government should seek to get the best return possible from whatever it invests taxpayers money into.  I mean, government programs where they provide scholarships for specific qualifications leading to occupations where we have an identified shortfall would be fantastic.

On the other hand, paying for someone to take a course that teaches you how to hold a placard, parrot left-wing buzzwords and blog isn't going to lead anywhere except you getting a job you could have got just as easily by leaving school at 16 and entering the workforce.

If the net outcome of 5 years and thousands of pounds/dollars/local equivalent is exactly the same as doing fuck all then it's a simple waste of money.

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Would you also do away with free schooling for ages 5 through 18? Are we to turn back the clock and assure the return of feudal culture? That would save your precious posh fucks a bit of money, but I hope they enjoy living in a fortress and hiring a team of body guards to avoid all the starving, the desperate, and the savage uneducated and disenfranchised hordes. Oh, yes, that already happens in all the places that have no middle class and a bought government. Some of the few good job sectors in those places include manufacturing bullet proof cars, piloting private helicopters, building hidden safe room enclosures in mansions and training attack dogs.

Well that certainly came out of left-field.  So not wanting to foot the bill for hippies to take bullshit nonsense degrees that don't lead anywhere is the same as wanting to get rid of public education altogether?  That's a bit of a stretch...

As long as the government mandates that all kids have to remain in education to 18, it's only right that they underwrite the cost of it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: R. U. Sirius on December 10, 2015, 10:51:12 am
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/08/the_most_entitled_generation_isnt_millennials_its_baby_boomers_125184.html (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/08/the_most_entitled_generation_isnt_millennials_its_baby_boomers_125184.html)

I'll just leave this here.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on December 10, 2015, 11:16:17 am
Actually I have heard a very good proposal for government "burning" tax money. The idea was that any money that is paid in taxes is gone, destroyed, taken out of circulation. Meanwhile any money the government needs is created because that is already something governments can do by printing money.

This would make several things easier and since most of the money used is actually just digital it would not cause much problems, at least in technical sense.

And at least it was a novel idea.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 10, 2015, 11:23:09 am
Actually I have heard a very good proposal for government "burning" tax money. The idea was that any money that is paid in taxes is gone, destroyed, taken out of circulation. Meanwhile any money the government needs is created because that is already something governments can do by printing money.

This would make several things easier and since most of the money used is actually just digital it would not cause much problems, at least in technical sense.

And at least it was a novel idea.

Venezuela called, they want their fiscal policy back.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: rookie on December 10, 2015, 11:37:49 am
So out of curiosity, Contrarian, what percentage of degrees being awarded do you see being professional victimhood? Do you think that nobody will want to be doctors or lawyers or architects or teachers once they find out they can be a Transgender Studies major?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 10, 2015, 12:26:39 pm
I think he's of the mind that non STEM degrees are effectively worthless.  I...can't say I disagree with that notion, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve an education like the rest of us with real degrees.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on December 10, 2015, 12:43:16 pm
I think he's of the mind that non STEM degrees are effectively worthless.  I...can't say I disagree with that notion, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve an education like the rest of us with real degrees.
Languages aren't included in STEM are they? What about history? Psychology?

I think there are plenty of studies that that do not fall within the STEM category but without which a society will greatly suffer. Culture is important as well.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on December 10, 2015, 01:31:43 pm
And business, banking, insurance, communications, law, design, entertainment and all the other fields that make civilization organized and enjoyable, as well as structurally and systemically functional.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 10, 2015, 01:44:08 pm
And business, banking, insurance, communications, law, design, entertainment and all the other fields that make civilization organized and enjoyable, as well as structurally and systemically functional.

I like how you just listed a bunch of useful subjects but sneakily added useless wank like "communications" and "entertainment" as if no one would notice.

My masters in bagpipe management should come in handy at interview XD

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Eiki-mun on December 10, 2015, 02:38:49 pm
And business, banking, insurance, communications, law, design, entertainment and all the other fields that make civilization organized and enjoyable, as well as structurally and systemically functional.

I like how you just listed a bunch of useful subjects but sneakily added useless wank like "communications" and "entertainment" as if no one would notice.

My masters in bagpipe management should come in handy at interview XD

On the other hand, that bachelors in communications or entertainment would come in really handy at an interview, say, at a newspaper, or a TV station... or do journalism and entertainment not exist in Britain?

Then again, given the Daily Mail, maybe there really is no such thing as journalism there...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on December 10, 2015, 02:48:03 pm
And business, banking, insurance, communications, law, design, entertainment and all the other fields that make civilization organized and enjoyable, as well as structurally and systemically functional.

I like how you just listed a bunch of useful subjects but sneakily added useless wank like "communications" and "entertainment" as if no one would notice.

My masters in bagpipe management should come in handy at interview XD

On the other hand, that bachelors in communications or entertainment would come in really handy at an interview, say, at a newspaper, or a TV station... or do journalism and entertainment not exist in Britain?

Then again, given the Daily Mail, maybe there really is no such thing as journalism there...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on December 10, 2015, 03:46:28 pm
And business, banking, insurance, communications, law, design, entertainment and all the other fields that make civilization organized and enjoyable, as well as structurally and systemically functional.

I like how you just listed a bunch of useful subjects but sneakily added useless wank like "communications" and "entertainment" as if no one would notice.

My masters in bagpipe management should come in handy at interview XD

Who is going to produce, write, record, act in and distribute your favorite films and tv shows, Conty? An astrophysicist? A mathematician?

Who is going to produce, crew manage, research, present, record and distribute your thrice daily or continuous news programs? A geologist? A biochemist?

Who is going to compose the wording, edit and choose photos and layout and produce video presentations to promote business enterprises, Conty? Material scientists? Civil engineers?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on December 10, 2015, 04:24:43 pm
I think he's of the mind that non STEM degrees are effectively worthless.  I...can't say I disagree with that notion, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve an education like the rest of us with real degrees.

Go back to Reddit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 10, 2015, 05:03:38 pm
I think he's of the mind that non STEM degrees are effectively worthless.  I...can't say I disagree with that notion, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve an education like the rest of us with real degrees.
Languages aren't included in STEM are they? What about history? Psychology?

I think there are plenty of studies that that do not fall within the STEM category but without which a society will greatly suffer. Culture is important as well.

Languages, history, and especially psychology fall into the Science category, so yes, they are part of the STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics) field.
I think he's of the mind that non STEM degrees are effectively worthless.  I...can't say I disagree with that notion, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve an education like the rest of us with real degrees.

Go back to Reddit.

I was being facetious with the "real degree" quip, so bite me.  I'm not an elitist, cracker.

STEM majors simply have the widest appeal because they're more widely applicable in the modern world.  There's a reason computer science majors are commanding such high median salaries.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on December 10, 2015, 05:17:50 pm
I think he's of the mind that non STEM degrees are effectively worthless.  I...can't say I disagree with that notion, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve an education like the rest of us with real degrees.
Languages aren't included in STEM are they? What about history? Psychology?

I think there are plenty of studies that that do not fall within the STEM category but without which a society will greatly suffer. Culture is important as well.

Languages, history, and especially psychology fall into the Science category, so yes, they are part of the STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics) field.

I think he's of the mind that non STEM degrees are effectively worthless.  I...can't say I disagree with that notion, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve an education like the rest of us with real degrees.

Go back to Reddit.

I was being facetious with the "real degree" quip, so bite me.  I'm not an elitist, cracker.

STEM majors simply have the widest appeal because they're more widely applicable in the modern world.  There's a reason computer science majors are commanding such high median salaries.

I was kidding.  Wish there was a way to communicate that through text.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on December 10, 2015, 05:33:38 pm
I think he's of the mind that non STEM degrees are effectively worthless.  I...can't say I disagree with that notion, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve an education like the rest of us with real degrees.
Languages aren't included in STEM are they? What about history? Psychology?

I think there are plenty of studies that that do not fall within the STEM category but without which a society will greatly suffer. Culture is important as well.

Languages, history, and especially psychology fall into the Science category, so yes, they are part of the STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics) field.
I think he's of the mind that non STEM degrees are effectively worthless.  I...can't say I disagree with that notion, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve an education like the rest of us with real degrees.



wait, there's no difference between social and hard sciences in the usa?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on December 10, 2015, 05:54:34 pm
That would make a degree in French a STEM degree, not Liberal Arts. Obviously, nearly all fields involve data recording, analysis and interpretation to different extents, and the skills needed to perform those actions are  basic in STEM disciplines, but they are not STEM intensive. Conjugating verbs is a way of organizing and recording communication data in the purest sense of the word. But I don't think it makes one a scientist, a medical doctor, an engineer or mathematician.

* corrected "subjugating" to "conjugating" verbs, because had I a senior moment and JUSTICE!!1!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on December 10, 2015, 06:58:28 pm
That would make a degree in French a STEM degree, not Liberal Arts. Obviously, nearly all fields involve data recording, analysis and interpretation to different extents, and the skills needed to perform those actions are  basic in STEM disciplines, but they are not STEM intensive. Subjugating verbs is a way of organizing and recording communication data in the purest sense of the word. But I don't think it makes one a scientist, a medical doctor, an engineer or mathematician.

huh, for us, it's either hard sciences (math, physics, biology, engineering...) or the humanities (social sciences, arts and litterature). we totally don't have that distinction here, although hard sciences are of course more prestigious than most humanities (politics and law notwithstanding).
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 10, 2015, 07:18:02 pm
I think he's of the mind that non STEM degrees are effectively worthless.  I...can't say I disagree with that notion, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve an education like the rest of us with real degrees.
Languages aren't included in STEM are they? What about history? Psychology?

I think there are plenty of studies that that do not fall within the STEM category but without which a society will greatly suffer. Culture is important as well.

Languages, history, and especially psychology fall into the Science category, so yes, they are part of the STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics) field.

I think he's of the mind that non STEM degrees are effectively worthless.  I...can't say I disagree with that notion, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve an education like the rest of us with real degrees.

Go back to Reddit.

I was being facetious with the "real degree" quip, so bite me.  I'm not an elitist, cracker.

STEM majors simply have the widest appeal because they're more widely applicable in the modern world.  There's a reason computer science majors are commanding such high median salaries.

I was kidding.  Wish there was a way to communicate that through text.
Aah, no hard feelings, then.

Also, I view languages as science since you're breaking down and understanding how the language in question works so you can use it effectively.  Kinda like learning a programming language.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 10, 2015, 07:57:06 pm
Subjugating verbs is a way of organizing and recording communication data in the purest sense of the word

Subjugating verbs.

That's just brilliant.

CHECK YOUR NOUN PRIVILEGE!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: The_Queen on December 10, 2015, 09:38:51 pm
Subjugating verbs is a way of organizing and recording communication data in the purest sense of the word

Subjugating verbs.

That's just brilliant.

CHECK YOUR NOUN PRIVILEGE!

Check your patient-physician privilege!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on December 10, 2015, 10:41:01 pm
At least at one American university, there's a distinction between quantitative science, social science, and humanities.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 11, 2015, 06:43:57 am
At least at one American university, there's a distinction between quantitative science, social science, and humanities.

Basically the same as the difference between observational science and historical science.

"Expanding definitions of a term to include your nonsense because butthurt"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on December 11, 2015, 08:45:06 am
At least at one American university, there's a distinction between quantitative science, social science, and humanities.

Basically the same as the difference between observational science and historical science.

"Expanding definitions of a term to include your nonsense because butthurt"

not quite. one is quantifiable science obeying the laws of science (you know, like repeatability and empiricism), the other follows the scientific method, but can't replicate the results. like sociology, or geography.

you try doing demographics to predict the next epidemic. humans have a tendency to throw math, and logic out the window.

one thing i am butthurt over, though, is that economics are considered a hard science. seriously, economists have the same success-rate as astrologers when it comes to predicting trends!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on December 11, 2015, 12:02:21 pm
Basically the same as the difference between observational science and historical science.

"Expanding definitions of a term to include your nonsense because butthurt"

Are you saying that there is no meaningful distinction between them? Or that there is?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on December 11, 2015, 01:51:32 pm
At least at one American university, there's a distinction between quantitative science, social science, and humanities.

Basically the same as the difference between observational science and historical science.

"Expanding definitions of a term to include your nonsense because butthurt"

If I'm reading you right, you think real science is "observational science" and "historical science" is nonsense being included in the term to give it prestige by association? Or is your point something different?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on December 11, 2015, 07:17:48 pm
Ey, not everyone can be software developers or engineers.  The world needs janitors and Starbucks barristas as much as it needs STEM majors.

That was kind of my point.  If you get hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of government paid tuition that qualifies you for nothing more than a minimum wage job, the government has basically thrown that money away.

Money spent on learning is NEVER "thrown away."  I would argue that knowing about more things is a form of self-improvement, even if it doesn't change your job prospects one iota.

Naturally, I'm one of them thar hippies in favor of free tuition as a result, but come ON--without the arts, our lives would be much more bland.  Our culture is richer for the arts, and to pretend that liberal-arts degrees are worthless just because there's no liberal-arts career path at the moment is to decry all the benefits of creative, out-of-the-box thinking.

As for why US tuitions are so fucking high nowadays, a good bit of the increase appears to be because universities have suddenly hired a bunch of administrative staff, and they're getting paid ridiculous salaries.  I don't care WHAT you do for the university, you do NOT deserve a seven-figure salary.  Ever.  At all.

Plus, some things have a value beyond the dollar amount.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on December 11, 2015, 07:28:25 pm
I'm reminded of that scene in Dead Poets Society where Robin Williams explains to the boys about poetry.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: guizonde on December 11, 2015, 09:51:29 pm
Ey, not everyone can be software developers or engineers.  The world needs janitors and Starbucks barristas as much as it needs STEM majors.

That was kind of my point.  If you get hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of government paid tuition that qualifies you for nothing more than a minimum wage job, the government has basically thrown that money away.

Money spent on learning is NEVER "thrown away."  I would argue that knowing about more things is a form of self-improvement, even if it doesn't change your job prospects one iota.

Naturally, I'm one of them thar hippies in favor of free tuition as a result, but come ON--without the arts, our lives would be much more bland.  Our culture is richer for the arts, and to pretend that liberal-arts degrees are worthless just because there's no liberal-arts career path at the moment is to decry all the benefits of creative, out-of-the-box thinking.

As for why US tuitions are so fucking high nowadays, a good bit of the increase appears to be because universities have suddenly hired a bunch of administrative staff, and they're getting paid ridiculous salaries.  I don't care WHAT you do for the university, you do NOT deserve a seven-figure salary.  Ever.  At all.

Plus, some things have a value beyond the dollar amount.

don't mind me, qft...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 08, 2016, 05:02:39 pm
(http://oi64.tinypic.com/2cx9qv8.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: MadCatTLX on January 08, 2016, 08:22:22 pm
And business, banking, insurance, communications, law, design, entertainment and all the other fields that make civilization organized and enjoyable, as well as structurally and systemically functional.

I like how you just listed a bunch of useful subjects but sneakily added useless wank like "communications" and "entertainment" as if no one would notice.

My masters in bagpipe management should come in handy at interview XD

Who is going to produce, write, record, act in and distribute your favorite films and tv shows, Conty? An astrophysicist? A mathematician?

Who is going to produce, crew manage, research, present, record and distribute your thrice daily or continuous news programs? A geologist? A biochemist?

Who is going to compose the wording, edit and choose photos and layout and produce video presentations to promote business enterprises, Conty? Material scientists? Civil engineers?

The last two sound like great ideas actually... Truth and accuracy in news and advertising would be nice for once.

Ey, not everyone can be software developers or engineers.  The world needs janitors and Starbucks barristas as much as it needs STEM majors.

That was kind of my point.  If you get hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of government paid tuition that qualifies you for nothing more than a minimum wage job, the government has basically thrown that money away.

Money spent on learning is NEVER "thrown away."  I would argue that knowing about more things is a form of self-improvement, even if it doesn't change your job prospects one iota.

Naturally, I'm one of them thar hippies in favor of free tuition as a result, but come ON--without the arts, our lives would be much more bland.  Our culture is richer for the arts, and to pretend that liberal-arts degrees are worthless just because there's no liberal-arts career path at the moment is to decry all the benefits of creative, out-of-the-box thinking.

As for why US tuitions are so fucking high nowadays, a good bit of the increase appears to be because universities have suddenly hired a bunch of administrative staff, and they're getting paid ridiculous salaries.  I don't care WHAT you do for the university, you do NOT deserve a seven-figure salary.  Ever.  At all.

Plus, some things have a value beyond the dollar amount.

The highest paid government employee in the state of Oklahoma is the Bob Stoops, college football coach, being paid $5.25 million a year. Hear a list of all states (http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/the-highest-paid-public-employee-in-every-state/ar-AAehW7S#image=AAebyli|42), in slideshow format, showing the highest paid government employee of every state. Guess what by far the most common job to hold the spot is? Football coach, which seems to be followed by basketball coach.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sylvana on January 14, 2016, 04:04:22 am
Who is going to produce, write, record, act in and distribute your favorite films and tv shows, Conty? An astrophysicist? A mathematician?

Who is going to produce, crew manage, research, present, record and distribute your thrice daily or continuous news programs? A geologist? A biochemist?

Who is going to compose the wording, edit and choose photos and layout and produce video presentations to promote business enterprises, Conty? Material scientists? Civil engineers?

The last two sound like great ideas actually... Truth and accuracy in news and advertising would be nice for once.

While I agree it would be nice to have people who actually understand the field present the information. I can also say from experience that that is a terrible idea. Your good engineers and biochemists are happiest in a lab doing what they are passionate about. Asking them to present something and make it pretty is quite often far outside of their comfort zone and most often contrary to their own desires. In some cases you are lucky, and you have a creative engineer and such, but that is not to norm. It often helps to have someone who is creative to act as a buffer between different groups of individuals to facilitate communication and make it enjoyable for all parties involved.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on January 31, 2016, 06:31:30 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwnXEZFIEAAXj-d.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on February 03, 2016, 02:39:31 am
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iW6d8SxU3oM/hqdefault.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on February 03, 2016, 08:35:06 pm
The wall that China spent thousands of years building. In four years at most.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on February 07, 2016, 02:01:22 pm
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-0/q73/p75x225/12654480_10102776674259491_917818711983760317_n.jpg?oh=a3e141ec2235838dee1537f7eda5d111&oe=57673E4A)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on February 07, 2016, 02:25:29 pm
Don't like coat hanger abortions? Subject yourself to nine months of restricted mobility, substance intake and physical activity!

Pro-life: because we think of you only as baby receptables and your experiences and emotions are worthless to us.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on February 08, 2016, 03:37:24 pm
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-0/q73/p75x225/12654480_10102776674259491_917818711983760317_n.jpg?oh=a3e141ec2235838dee1537f7eda5d111&oe=57673E4A)

"Women can save themselves from dying."

ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES, YOU DIPSHITS.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: nickiknack on February 08, 2016, 04:32:19 pm
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iW6d8SxU3oM/hqdefault.jpg)

Yes, because a retarded wall(which won't keep out illegals) is such a better investment then publicly funded healthcare that would actually save more(even with a tax increases) than what we currently spend on it, in the for profit system .
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on February 14, 2016, 02:43:52 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/43NMOib.png)
I prefer just using the town bleeder.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on February 14, 2016, 03:15:59 pm
Using physical violence as a method of dealing with ADHD children is an archaic approach, and medicine and therapy have made leaps and bounds since then. A good cartoon.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on February 14, 2016, 03:21:43 pm
That's the problem; the caption doesn't tell us whether the poster thinks it's a good treatment or not.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on February 14, 2016, 03:28:07 pm
The quote marks would suggest some derision of the notion of beating the ADHD out of children.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on February 14, 2016, 03:55:20 pm
The quote marks would suggest some derision of the notion of beating the ADHD out of children.
Or derision at ADHD being a legitimate condition.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on February 14, 2016, 07:40:14 pm
The quote marks would suggest some derision of the notion of beating the ADHD out of children.
Or derision at ADHD being a legitimate condition.
It's a communist Islamic lie to allow Obama to enact martial law.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on February 20, 2016, 02:58:53 pm
I'm not even bothering to put up all of these here: http://imgur.com/gallery/uunTl

Mostly the pictures represent lies, exaggeration and trying to find as unflattering picture of Hillary as possible.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: I am lizard on February 21, 2016, 12:36:39 am
(https://i.imgur.com/N9v3crc.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on February 21, 2016, 01:13:25 am
...So I guess this means that taxation is theft and the government should not get any money from people. Something tells me that this type of capitalism doesn't work.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SCarpelan on February 21, 2016, 09:30:16 am
So, if Bob is employed by someone else to do something he cares about he deserves to decide what is done with the value of his labor? You fucking Marxist commie!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on February 21, 2016, 10:18:15 am
(https://i.imgur.com/N9v3crc.jpg)


I really don't get this fantasy that humans are solitary actors that 'produce value' as a fact independent from the societal context they live in. Almost all the value produced in a capitalist society is possible because of societal-level collaboration allowed by having, y'know, governments. If Bob can choose to say "sorry, no, don't want to contribute to the government" and yet still live in the society that government allows, then he's a free-rider.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 21, 2016, 10:23:08 am
"free-rider"

"Free Rider"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  YOU FOOL, YOU'VE KILLED US ALL!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on February 21, 2016, 08:20:46 pm
"free-rider"

"Free Rider"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  YOU FOOL, YOU'VE KILLED US ALL!

?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on February 21, 2016, 10:34:32 pm
"free-rider"

"Free Rider"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  YOU FOOL, YOU'VE KILLED US ALL!

?

Reference to Sonic Free Riders, or more specifically, Angry Joe's review of said abomination game.  It was so bad, he actually went to Gamestop and got a refund for it, even though the game was technically working.  (As in, it started and you could do things, just not enjoyable things.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on February 21, 2016, 11:59:23 pm
Well, that's what you get for naming your game after economics concepts. Sonic Supply Curves didn't get very good reviews either, I hear.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on February 22, 2016, 12:06:49 am
Not necessarily, Sonic Leakage was a roaring success. Though given the state of the Sonic fandom, that's entirely to be expected.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on February 26, 2016, 04:47:12 pm
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfl1/v/t1.0-9/12794511_10103124199626085_5148585647590643198_n.jpg?oh=1c773ce7552a0882b807befd55f0b4bc&oe=574E319F)

wut?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on February 26, 2016, 07:31:17 pm
The fuck?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on February 26, 2016, 10:27:52 pm
What kind of mental gymnastics do you have to do to convince yourself a fascist candidate is somehow a liberal?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on February 26, 2016, 10:45:30 pm
Well, Hitler was a fascist, and that's bad. Liberals are bad, so therefor they're fascists.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on February 26, 2016, 10:51:18 pm
What kind of mental gymnastics do you have to do to convince yourself a fascist candidate is somehow a liberal?

To be fair, the Donald did claim to support some liberal positions in the past:

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/trump-vs.-trump--a-look-at-donald-trumps-evolving-positions-over-the-years-482986563581 (http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/trump-vs.-trump--a-look-at-donald-trumps-evolving-positions-over-the-years-482986563581)

Suffice to say, he's flip-flopped more than a pancake.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on March 08, 2016, 04:18:31 pm
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlt1/v/t1.0-9/12798854_971954049560927_7264516201367427034_n.jpg?oh=f177aebd923717346abe846599503a99&oe=5764D25D)

The Republican version should say. "I couldn't afford a sign because your rich neighbors are hording all of the money."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on March 08, 2016, 04:28:54 pm
Republicans don't understand how tax-funded public services work. Fitting, considering how most rich Republicans probably tax-evade like there's no tomorrow.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on March 09, 2016, 01:18:04 pm
[image snipped]

I really don't get this fantasy that humans are solitary actors that 'produce value' as a fact independent from the societal context they live in. Almost all the value produced in a capitalist society is possible because of societal-level collaboration allowed by having, y'know, governments. If Bob can choose to say "sorry, no, don't want to contribute to the government" and yet still live in the society that government allows, then he's a free-rider.
Quote
Nowadays, in the present state of industry, when everything is interdependent, when each branch of production is knit up with all the rest, the attempt to claim an Individualist origin for the products of industry is absolutely untenable. The astonishing perfection attained by the textile or mining industries in civilized countries is due to the simultaneous development of a thousand other industries, great and small, to the extension of the railroad system, to inter-oceanic navigation, to the manual skill of thousands of workers, to a certain standard of culture reached by the working classes as a whole, to the labours, in short, of men in every corner of the globe.

Oh hey, responding to an ancap with an ancom. Nice.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on March 21, 2016, 11:17:03 am
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xal1/v/t1.0-9/3885_1287631101251532_1720742156853729568_n.jpg?oh=02be352e7216aa5a3661fcfe3336b46d&oe=578E2170)

Are you fucking kidding me? Now its Obama's fault for their own fucking candidates? You're not happy with it? Go fuck yourself!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on March 21, 2016, 11:25:33 am
Yeah, I'm wondering who is this omnipotent, world-ruling Bond villain with the same name as the 44th president. Obviously, I need to familiarize myself with this very trendy fan fiction. So, when is the shitty movie coming out?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on March 29, 2016, 12:09:02 pm
(http://clashdaily.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/qmeme_1447853754067_971.jpg)

Rattlesnakes actually aren't as dangerous as they are made out to be.  Just like Syrian refugees.  A good cartoon.

http://www.memes.com/meme/775374

"Thinks Americans that reject Syrian refugees are cowards

Enjoys the freedoms and safety our military provides her"

Huh?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cataclysm on April 06, 2016, 10:48:18 pm
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/10399977_727829047353904_5092150818436813217_n.jpg?oh=1f31de7457b57f4bd87e6dea7a2ad566&oe=57BA624A)

Subtle
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: mellenORL on April 06, 2016, 11:40:15 pm
"These are not families."




(http://i.imgur.com/n8XSWS3.jpg)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on June 29, 2016, 02:02:55 pm
(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13516721_10154125456466488_2123131381918205431_n.jpg?oh=c76be974cf8fa6db447ba56b2747f03c&oe=58357198)

Except Winston Churchill never said that, and I have no idea why they're attributing it to the left wing.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on June 29, 2016, 04:26:29 pm
And I wouldn't take anything he said with regards to that seriously, considering the blood-hungry fucker wanted to kick off WWIII before the corpses of the last one had even had time to cool.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on June 29, 2016, 04:45:01 pm
And I wouldn't take anything he said with regards to that seriously, considering the blood-hungry fucker wanted to kick off WWIII before the corpses of the last one had even had time to cool.

No, he had "just in case" contingency plans drawn up.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on July 01, 2016, 07:18:50 pm
(https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13516709_1362367840440857_846907081139623412_n.png?oh=78c324cc2ba1d7f073a0782f9af02bc7&oe=57EDBD0D)

This is where I draw the line on SJWs. If the wrong people get involved they eventually become the thing they hate. White people don't get to decide what is racist? I'm all for understanding the oppression and racism that Black people and other races have been dealt over the centuries, I understand that minorities have it tougher than a Caucasian male in this country. They're all fair points to make and things that need to be addressed. But to say that a white person has no say in what is racist or that a white person faces no racism is ridiculous. Every person of any sort of group faces some sort of prejudice from some other group of people out there, at some point or another.
No, what's moving backwards is using your anger to suppress other people's opinions, when it should be used to figure out how we can all get along.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Even Then on July 02, 2016, 07:49:57 am
Yeah, that's how I read it too. Some people (and let's be real, these people are mostly members of more socially privileged groups) love to say things to the effect of "I can't be homophobic, I'm not literally killing LGBT preschoolers right now as we speak", so they can still say shit like "gay people shouldn't be allowed to adopt because <bullshit reasoning>"  while also patting themselves on the back for not being like those Strawmen of Pure Hatecrime on the other side of the fence.

This applies to all privileged groups.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 02, 2016, 05:32:17 pm
Apparently, this idiot doesn't realize that you can be racist against white people.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheL on July 28, 2016, 12:49:21 pm
Yes, UP, but since racism is the combination of power + prejudice, you can't commit racism against white folks in the US, which is where you hear this rhetoric a lot.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on July 28, 2016, 12:51:30 pm
Yes, UP, but since racism is the combination of power + prejudice, you can't commit racism against white folks in the US, which is where you hear this rhetoric a lot.

UP got banned permanently a while ago. We had a thread for it and all.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on August 01, 2016, 04:41:34 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/U27PLGh.jpg)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on August 01, 2016, 05:24:07 pm
To the person who made that poster; so then that entire sentence is apparently pro-Nazi just because Hitler said it.

Does that mean then that I cannot like dogs because Hitler was vocal about how much he loved dogs?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Tolpuddle Martyr on August 01, 2016, 05:28:03 pm
And I like how they really have to start digging to get anything approaching a godwin for Clinton, while ignorinh Trumps army of open white supremacists and online anime Nazis.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on August 01, 2016, 05:59:38 pm
And I like how they really have to start digging to get anything approaching a godwin for Clinton, while ignorinh Trumps army of open white supremacists and online anime Nazis.

Obviously. Hillary Clinton is the devil in human form and also the reincarnation of Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Nero and Lenin.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Cloud3514 on August 01, 2016, 07:05:09 pm
And I like how they really have to start digging to get anything approaching a godwin for Clinton, while ignorinh Trumps army of open white supremacists and online anime Nazis.

One of the speakers at the RNC literally seig heiled Trump on stage. And yet Clinton is the fascist?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on August 01, 2016, 07:33:11 pm
And I like how they really have to start digging to get anything approaching a godwin for Clinton, while ignorinh Trumps army of open white supremacists and online anime Nazis.

One of the speakers at the RNC literally seig heiled Trump on stage. And yet Clinton is the fascist?

Wait, seriously? I wish I could say I was shocked.  Who was it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on August 01, 2016, 07:47:14 pm
Laura Ingraham

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn2XsXgUkAAU2z2.jpg:large)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: davedan on August 01, 2016, 08:49:37 pm
She corrected it pretty quickly but it was not a great look.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SCarpelan on August 01, 2016, 09:17:41 pm
Yeah, she immediately realized what she was doing and changed the gesture into awkwardly waving at the audience. It would be really fascinating to know what went through her mind there.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 01, 2016, 11:46:58 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/U27PLGh.jpg)



Hmm... I seem to remember someone else having said something similar.

(https://cdn.meme.am/instances/67379551.jpg)

OH NOOOO!

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02046/Trek_2046557c.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on August 02, 2016, 12:26:09 am
He wasn't the only one

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f0/03/53/f00353ae1b9802429a23b45e39a237e6.jpg)

ZOMG JFK Was Spock and Hitlery Clinton!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Zygarde on August 02, 2016, 12:36:25 am
Isn't it like an evolutionary thing that we as a species think of the group as a whole?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on August 02, 2016, 12:47:37 pm
But evilution is an atheist fairytale Zygarde, don't you know any better?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on August 27, 2016, 01:24:11 am
(http://i2.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/beast600.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 27, 2016, 03:31:55 am
Reserving the name "Manocide" for death metal band. Preferably all female band.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on August 27, 2016, 08:26:54 pm
Too slow: https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/768586439374155776/photo/1
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on August 28, 2016, 01:28:47 am
Too slow: https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/768586439374155776/photo/1
DANG YOU STEVE SILBERMAN! DANG YOU TO HECK!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on August 28, 2016, 01:31:57 am
(https://dakiniland.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/14067483_10102020648890678_8180727108914901215_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on September 09, 2016, 04:36:35 pm
(http://66.media.tumblr.com/37e4d6fdb9c4181a444ab7581b3128da/tumblr_nxi6t9HvSi1rzxsfjo1_500.jpg)

Actually this should read:

Over incarcerate people even for the smallest crimes
Make America white again
Persecute transgendered people
Force women to have children.
Let cops get away with killing minorities
Create a Christian persecution complex
Create fear of an entire race of people by the actions of a few.
Cut taxes for the extremely wealthy
Blame the poor

This is what republicans want to do in America. But we're butt hurt cause were losing the culture war.

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on September 09, 2016, 04:46:09 pm
It's not "force women to have children," it's "punish women for having sex."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on September 10, 2016, 09:07:24 pm
(https://scontent-mia1-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13606891_10209119139671942_753508818084391279_n.jpg?oh=b2314bec022163a0acf1485abd1b7b97&oe=58414D2A)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 10, 2016, 10:07:41 pm
Well that picture isn't exactly wrong, but those entitled brats make up a sizeable proportion of the police and that's the problem with the police in USA (and several other countries as well.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on September 11, 2016, 11:22:05 am
Yeah, but it totally overlooks police brutality towards minorities simply for the fact that they're minorities, not entitled brats.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on September 11, 2016, 12:43:56 pm
Yeah, but it totally overlooks police brutality towards minorities simply for the fact that they're minorities, not entitled brats.

All minorities are entitled brats who should just be glad they're allowed to live in 'Murica!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 11, 2016, 12:57:16 pm
Yeah, but it totally overlooks police brutality towards minorities simply for the fact that they're minorities, not entitled brats.

What's that? I need to put more power into my sarcasm generator?

"Oh dear, it is a shame about the police violence and those entitled brats who think that the rules don't apply to them."

"I know, as soon as they get a badge and a uniform they think they can beat up whoever they want and then cry when they are told that it's against the rules!"

"DO HOHOHOHOHOHO!"

(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/statlerWaldorf_3872.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on September 12, 2016, 08:07:25 pm
(http://wp.production.patheos.com/blogs/mercynotsacrifice/files/2016/09/satan-sign.png)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on September 12, 2016, 08:39:18 pm
This Satan guy is sounding better every day.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 25, 2016, 03:07:00 pm
Funny thing, but a friends of mine and I were talking about the Night of the long knives and apparently some of the older Nazis and SA really had a plan of taking power from Hitler because he wasn't Socialist enough for them.

Well, whatever socialism the Nazi party had in the early days after that purge it was NATIONAL socialist afterwards...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on October 02, 2016, 09:14:47 pm
I bet this person thinks Donald Trump is a billionaire, never mind a millionaire.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Wurdulac on October 02, 2016, 10:19:40 pm
(https://i.redd.it/ygvk827gf3px.jpg)

...well then why am I not a millionaire?  Is it because I don't set goals?  Tell me it's not because I don't set goals.

....

It's because I don't set goals, isn't it?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on October 03, 2016, 01:35:13 am
This is one of those times I wish we had a WTF button here, because I don't know what to say other than that...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on October 03, 2016, 09:25:58 am
Hey folks it's time for another round of America's favorite game show! BLAME THE VICTIM!!!!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on October 04, 2016, 12:22:38 am
(https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14522916_10207373705882615_7420772283595075996_n.jpg?oh=67e119ade9bd3ba3f8b5815e4a37ed4d&oe=5873DCE1)

No citations, no mentions of what country or countries these numbers come from, no explanation for why feminism is considered the reason for ALL those suicides...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: pyro on October 04, 2016, 12:57:54 am
And no apparent attempt to adjust for population growth.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on October 04, 2016, 01:11:22 am
Suicide rates are driven by a lot of complicated factors that I won't claim to understand, but a quick google search shows that several countries noted for high levels of feminism like Sweden have seen suicide rates fall

(http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/original-size/images/print-edition/20160430_USC246_0.png)

Men aren't really more likely to attempt suicide then women anyway, men are just more likely to succeed because they choose violent methods like shooting themselves.  Which is why gun control likely would reduce male suicides.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on October 04, 2016, 03:12:03 am
Which is why gun control likely would reduce male suicides.

Blasphemy! It's the feminazis!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on October 04, 2016, 08:57:56 am
Men aren't really more likely to attempt suicide then women anyway, men are just more likely to succeed because they choose violent methods like shooting themselves.  Which is why gun control likely would reduce male suicides.

Eeh, no.  They'd just choose other effective methods.  You don't make a person with suicidal aspirations not suicidal by taking away certain tools, you do it by actually treating the problem.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on October 04, 2016, 09:26:23 am
...Except that the methods that a suicidal person is likely to use do matter.

Nothing is stopping women from driving their car into a lorry but they are less likely to attempt that than men. Nothing is preventing men from trying to overdose on medical drugs (which is easier for the ambulance crew to fix than a bullet to the head) but men are still less likely to try that than women are.

If the population has less guns then they are also less likely to try to use them to commit suicide.

Is this the most effective suicide prevention method? Certainly not, but it would likely have a noticeable effect.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on October 05, 2016, 09:03:28 pm
Men aren't really more likely to attempt suicide then women anyway, men are just more likely to succeed because they choose violent methods like shooting themselves.  Which is why gun control likely would reduce male suicides.

Eeh, no.  They'd just choose other effective methods.  You don't make a person with suicidal aspirations not suicidal by taking away certain tools, you do it by actually treating the problem.

Higher gun ownership rates are correlated with higher suicide rates in the US (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/guns-and-suicide/). Though apparently not worldwide (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-new-brain/201607/fact-check-gun-control-and-suicide)?

I haven't looked at it thoroughly but it doesn't seem clear-cut.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Canadian Mojo on October 08, 2016, 07:03:58 pm
Men aren't really more likely to attempt suicide then women anyway, men are just more likely to succeed because they choose violent methods like shooting themselves.  Which is why gun control likely would reduce male suicides.

Eeh, no.  They'd just choose other effective methods.  You don't make a person with suicidal aspirations not suicidal by taking away certain tools, you do it by actually treating the problem.

Higher gun ownership rates are correlated with higher suicide rates in the US (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/guns-and-suicide/). Though apparently not worldwide (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-new-brain/201607/fact-check-gun-control-and-suicide)?

I haven't looked at it thoroughly but it doesn't seem clear-cut.

To the most of the world a gun is a tool. In America it is an answer.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on October 09, 2016, 02:40:26 am
Like I said, it's complicated.  A lot of different factors go into what drive suicide rates and I won't claim to understand them.  But having an easy quick way to kill yourself on hand is one of them.  Most suicides are impulsive acts with little forethought and the victim will in most cases reconsider if the are delayed long enough to think about it.  For examples simple fences on bridges greatly reduces the number of suicides because climbing over them gives you enough time to look down and decided that maybe you don't want to jump after all.  And there does seem to be strong evidence supporting that being to case with handguns:  if the suicidal person can't just pull a gun out of a drawer and shoot themselves but have to drive to a gun range, fill out paperwork, wait a few days etc they will change their mind.

It wouldn't fix the problem by itself, and isn't a replacement for professional help, but gun control would likely help.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on October 09, 2016, 03:57:34 am
I've read that the first attempt often fails because the suicidal person gets last second regrets as they try to go through with it. If they tried to poison themselves or something like that they may still have time to call 999/911/112 and rescue may come in time. If they shot themselves in the head there is less chance of that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on December 18, 2016, 09:40:03 pm
This was from my hometown
(https://i.cbc.ca/1.3886910.1481204418!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_220/make-canada-great-again-mcgill.jpg)

I say Canada assemble a deportation force to send all Pepe fans back where they came from.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Tolpuddle Martyr on December 18, 2016, 10:29:31 pm
This was from my hometown
(https://i.cbc.ca/1.3886910.1481204418!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_220/make-canada-great-again-mcgill.jpg)

I say Canada assemble a deportation force to send all Pepe fans back where they came from.

Would not take long.

(http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/174/cache/bathroom-toilet_17475_600x450.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lana Reverse on December 19, 2016, 12:47:12 pm
This was from my hometown
(https://i.cbc.ca/1.3886910.1481204418!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_220/make-canada-great-again-mcgill.jpg)

I say Canada assemble a deportation force to send all Pepe fans back where they came from.

All of them? Including the ones who don't use him hatefully (http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/hate-on-display/c/pepe-the-frog.html)?/pedantic

But in all seriousness, "deplorables" is right on the money.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: TheContrarian on December 21, 2016, 03:07:07 am
I've read that the first attempt often fails because the suicidal person gets last second regrets as they try to go through with it. If they tried to poison themselves or something like that they may still have time to call 999/911/112 and rescue may come in time. If they shot themselves in the head there is less chance of that.

Ah it's a good morning for Chris Morris material from the 90s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEacGiMO3K0
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on December 22, 2016, 11:48:27 pm
(http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/large/public/story_images/ayn_rand_21_zpsdfb59104.jpg)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on December 23, 2016, 09:08:25 am
If I had a time machine, I wouldn't go back and kill Hitler.  I'd kill Ayn Rand before she wrote her first piece of shit book.  Yes, I'm implying that Ayn Rand has done more overall damage than Hitler.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: ironbite on December 23, 2016, 10:23:18 am
She actually has.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on April 20, 2017, 04:15:14 am
ARISE THREAD! ARISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!

(https://i.redditmedia.com/Bj6siCGDhnSM6OV_U7VvqZ7c1W-wX_FblVDDKLwaW9c.jpg?w=576&s=0c716153972bbef7ee2a1af31cae06ee)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on April 20, 2017, 07:10:17 pm
@that shopper protester:

-most likely talks about white supremacism-

-unaware of own tremendous gut and jowls-

behold, the supreme white man is muscular like Matthew Heimbach, tall like Andrew Anglin, and handsome like Steve Bannon! /s
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on May 23, 2017, 08:50:58 am
(https://i.redditmedia.com/xvFGNdySCM21h_klbfjmsTelAdyZpwouGksH65SIuUk.jpg?w=1024&s=4490080c56ce2fa8b879b7fd39e6ee87)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on May 23, 2017, 09:54:10 am
That guy must be just an absolute joy to be around.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on May 23, 2017, 10:39:48 am
Ah yes, that would be the Super Important Opinions school of exterior design.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 23, 2017, 02:02:40 pm
Exhibit A in the series: "How to Spot Schizophrenia."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SomeApe on May 24, 2017, 07:10:58 am
DEMON MONKEY APES (QUEER)!!!!!!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on May 24, 2017, 10:24:58 am
(http://i.imgur.com/ZHO1XIt.jpg)

"First these women wanted the right to vote and NOW they dare to became candidates?! THIS IS BAD!" -Some artist apparently.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on June 12, 2017, 03:00:26 am
Okay Sheeple it's time for your Daily Dees, I think one of his greatest masterpieces of concentrated WTF yet.

(http://ddees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Gotham.jpg)

If anyone has the faintest clue what he's talking about (Batman nuked zombies during the 2003 blackout?  ???), please feel free the WAKE UP the rest of us.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on June 12, 2017, 03:30:15 am
It's quite simple, really. In 2017, New York and what looks like a large chunk of north-eastern US and south-east Canada will lose their electrical grids due to zombies and nuclear explosions. Naturally, the only person who can bring about an end to this crisis is Batman, who resides in the Empire State Building. Which of course, is just behind the world famous 666 building.

See? Simple.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on December 20, 2017, 03:22:38 am
AGAIN WITH THE NECROMANCY!

(https://i.redditmedia.com/PHVClcI5wpJtrGbMY2ZGWGYGB5reyC5gmwt0OehEejI.jpg?w=630&s=d680b4d8f3f6515f3986262bf4c386b9)

...Or you could just open the cabinet, but sure. ...Break the glass and get shards into your hand causing heavy bleeding and then you can call for an ambulance, be bankrupt by the high medical bills and force tax payers to pay for your bills when you die anyway.

That'll teach 'em.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on December 20, 2017, 03:29:36 am
Okay Sheeple it's time for your Daily Dees, I think one of his greatest masterpieces of concentrated WTF yet.

(http://ddees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Gotham.jpg)

If anyone has the faintest clue what he's talking about (Batman nuked zombies during the 2003 blackout?  ???), please feel free the WAKE UP the rest of us.

What a glorious madman.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Tolpuddle Martyr on December 20, 2017, 03:38:36 am
Batman nukes the joker, saves the day-zombie muties eat everything!

Oops?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dappler on December 26, 2017, 09:58:43 am
(https://i.redditmedia.com/xvFGNdySCM21h_klbfjmsTelAdyZpwouGksH65SIuUk.jpg?w=1024&s=4490080c56ce2fa8b879b7fd39e6ee87)
This one reminds me of the sliding doors cross over episode where Badger and Pinkman were cooking in the van and Badger wanted to do the stuff and Jesse said no.

That's what happened when Jesse said, sure, one test, can't hurt. What's the worst that could happen?

They parked the van, tuned in to Alex Jones and worked the way through their supply...

(Ignoring that meth doesn't turn you into a racist douchebag)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on December 28, 2017, 03:39:25 am
AGAIN WITH THE NECROMANCY!

(https://i.redditmedia.com/PHVClcI5wpJtrGbMY2ZGWGYGB5reyC5gmwt0OehEejI.jpg?w=630&s=d680b4d8f3f6515f3986262bf4c386b9)

...Or you could just open the cabinet, but sure. ...Break the glass and get shards into your hand causing heavy bleeding and then you can call for an ambulance, be bankrupt by the high medical bills and force tax payers to pay for your bills when you die anyway.

That'll teach 'em.

Oh yes, thats a smart image to create. Totally won't get anyone who supports its message a check-in with friendly men in dark-coloured suits or anything of that sort. No siree.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Art Vandelay on December 28, 2017, 04:34:48 am
I'll bet Trump is feeling very secure knowing that his career is protected by one guy with fifteen or so hunting rifles and/or shotguns. Yep, surely he's not going anywhere with that kind of protection.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Dappler on December 28, 2017, 11:27:40 am
Oh yes, thats a smart image to create. Totally won't get anyone who supports its message a check-in with friendly men in dark-coloured suits or anything of that sort. No siree.
Not to mention "any action to remove President Trump", includes voting Democrat (or Independent or write-in) in 2020.

In case of (an outbreak of functional) democracy, break glass!
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(And to quote Jesus from the Big Lebowski - shove it up your [own] ass and pull the trigger until it goes click)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Lana Reverse on May 31, 2018, 06:00:28 pm
(https://i.redd.it/ktn7zr7fzkt01.jpg)

Am I reading his megaphone right? Because it looks like it says "America bless God."
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 02, 2018, 06:10:15 am
(https://i.redditmedia.com/TD9F3lwm42BzP2iXJlyr6YQCB9Kc8CQYayDHSppo8lI.jpg?fit=crop&crop=faces%2Centropy&arh=2&w=960&s=eac188159469cdc805c71c1dc98f668a)

...


...That car...


...I would understand if it was all religious symbols and texts. I really would.

...I would have been less surprised if it was political stuff, like a car covered in Trump 2020 posters.

...But to have all those *things* to promote tobacco?



And the more you look the worse it looks. "IF MOM AIN'T HAPPY NOBODY IS! *gibberish* WE DON'T EAT WHERE MOM CAN'T SMOKE!" Really?!!?!!?!?!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: SCarpelan on September 02, 2018, 06:46:13 am
#freedomvan

www.libertyvan.com

Those are actually political statements. It's just a libertarian or libertarians having a pet peeve / addiction and whining about regulation.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 02, 2018, 09:14:01 am
Even their website is the webpage equivalent of someone vomiting after drinking 5 litres of eight different colours of paint.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on September 03, 2018, 04:42:43 am
It's as though lung cancer metastasized into one single van.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 03, 2018, 10:04:17 am
I don't see anything out of the ordinary, here.  Looks like any other soccer mom's people carrier.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Svata on September 03, 2018, 01:30:59 pm
"Smokers are boycotting all smoking ban cities and states" oh no. Please. Stop. Don't go.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on September 03, 2018, 03:39:07 pm
...Didn't we have someone here who absolutely insisted on not being "smoking shamed" or something?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: KingOfRhye on September 03, 2018, 04:42:37 pm
I've been a smoker for 20+ years and smoking bans never upset me that much.  So I might have to go outside, big frickin' deal.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on September 03, 2018, 06:06:46 pm
I've been a smoker for 20+ years and smoking bans never upset me that much.  So I might have to go outside, big frickin' deal.

In my province IIRC you have to be three metres from any door, window, or air intake to smoke legally. My city expanded that ban to six metres. Most smokers ignore it since in a lot of places (particularly commercial areas) it basically means standing in the middle of the street.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on September 03, 2018, 06:20:00 pm
I think it was some guy named IronChew, actually.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 03, 2018, 08:25:47 pm
Did he get banned or did he fuck off?  I forget which...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on September 03, 2018, 10:41:02 pm
He just stopped appearing.

There might have been behind the scenes drama considering his abrasive personality but I can't say for sure because I don't know.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on September 04, 2018, 03:02:35 am
I legitimately thought smokershaming was something some troll-blog on tumblr invented as a joke, I never realized anybody would be insecure enough about their smoking habits to take it seriously though,
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: niam2023 on September 04, 2018, 03:09:33 am
He was a very insecure man in general.

Of all the things ICE does and did at the time, he seemed to think their worst crime was...intellectual property stuff.

He also had this weird thing for one model of computer or another. Fuck if I can remember minutae like that.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on September 04, 2018, 09:08:20 am
I think 'Chew was a hardcore Linux fanboy or some shit.  If you use Linux, whatever, its a tool like any other, but don't let your use of it define you.  Its like letting your choice of Stanley multitools over Leatherman actually impact your personality.  Its just sad.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on September 04, 2018, 09:48:11 am
I thought he was just trolling some other user by pretending to be a Stallman fan? (Richard Stallman, the man behind GNU, is a weirdo. He wanted to avoid being a sellout and as a result dressed like a hobo and lived only marginally better and also is more than a little paranoid about keeping his web browsing history completely anonymous.

He mostly did that whenever Linux was mentioned because Stallman wanted to take credit for Linux because it was originally built on top of his GNU.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on December 17, 2018, 01:24:33 am
(https://i.redd.it/6wttka0nwo421.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DarkPhoenix on December 18, 2018, 10:20:57 pm
(https://i.redditmedia.com/TD9F3lwm42BzP2iXJlyr6YQCB9Kc8CQYayDHSppo8lI.jpg?fit=crop&crop=faces%2Centropy&arh=2&w=960&s=eac188159469cdc805c71c1dc98f668a)

...


...That car...


...I would understand if it was all religious symbols and texts. I really would.

...I would have been less surprised if it was political stuff, like a car covered in Trump 2020 posters.

...But to have all those *things* to promote tobacco?



And the more you look the worse it looks. "IF MOM AIN'T HAPPY NOBODY IS! *gibberish* WE DON'T EAT WHERE MOM CAN'T SMOKE!" Really?!!?!!?!?!

The best part of this is once you get to the lower layer of protest messages, and realize that this guy, while trying to promote tobacco and smoking, is also protesting against DRUG COMPANIES AND THE EVIL DRUGS THEY PUSH ON PEOPLE THAT WILL KILL THEM...

And Obamacare.  Of course.  Clearly this guy is a Death Panel believer.

Can you be pro-tobacco and anti-prescription-drugs without reality somehow imploding in on itself from the concentrated stupidity?

He mostly did that whenever Linux was mentioned because Stallman wanted to take credit for Linux because it was originally built on top of his GNU.

It's a bit more complex than that.  Linux is just a kernel; it won't run without the rest of the bits of the standard operating system built around it.  GNU was supposed to have its own kernel (the Hurd), but it's the one part of GNU that never seemed to have any decent work done on it.  Linux happened to fill that void perfectly.  So technically Stallman has a point when he complains that calling the OS "Linux" is incorrect.  It's just that he's so ANAL about the whole thing that people choose to ignore him like the creepy uncle ranting in the corner rather than take him seriously anymore.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on December 23, 2018, 11:30:30 pm
Can you be pro-tobacco and anti-prescription-drugs without reality somehow imploding in on itself from the concentrated stupidity?

Tobacco = natural; medicine = nasty chemicals.  Basically the same process as any conspiracy thinking.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on December 28, 2018, 04:30:18 am
Can you be pro-tobacco and anti-prescription-drugs without reality somehow imploding in on itself from the concentrated stupidity?

Tobacco = natural; medicine = nasty chemicals.  Basically the same process as any conspiracy thinking.

everything is chemicals silly conspiracy theorists!

(Also don't forget the fact that theres all kinds of nasty shit in cigs that isn't tobacco. But I guess that doesn't cound because evil liberal liars believe that, according to these truth tellers who totally aren't big tobacco shills or anything.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Chaos Undivided on April 03, 2019, 12:18:57 pm
(https://i.redd.it/zvqotb88xno21.jpg)

Because Jews - sorry, "Zionists" - and Islamists are such close allies, aren't they?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on April 03, 2019, 01:41:56 pm
They forgot the Catholics.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 03, 2019, 05:17:34 pm
Why does Sikh Wolfman have a Hitler stache?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on April 03, 2019, 05:29:28 pm
Obviously all evil Muslim Zionist Communist Jews are Nazis.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on April 04, 2019, 03:11:16 am
Shouldn't whoever made that poster love slavery? I mean it is a states rights issue after all, not that those godless JewNazi Communists of the democratic party would understand.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on April 04, 2019, 03:13:59 am
Shouldn't whoever made that poster love slavery? I mean it is a states rights issue after all, not that those godless JewNazi Communists of the democratic party would understand.

No, because (((they))) want to enslave you to Da Gubmint!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on April 14, 2019, 12:41:55 am
(https://preview.redd.it/wf40xltvfqr21.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0b531d43e199cf590487762f6ba98862927edc84)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DarkPhoenix on April 14, 2019, 04:31:47 am
They're really desperate to blame EVERYTHING except for the only person who should be blamed for a school shooting, using the only TOOL that should be blamed for a school shooting, aren't they?

So, just to make sure I've got it right, school shootings are the fault of video games, rock & roll, trenchcoats, the Internet, single mothers, fathers not being macho enough, kids with too much imagination, there not being any guns in the schools, lack of metal detectors in the schools, lack of God/Jesus/Christianity in schools...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on April 14, 2019, 06:50:03 am
Remember, whenever there's a school shooting, it means there was at least one more gun in (or near) the school than there should have been.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on April 14, 2019, 10:36:59 am
For a case study, the worst school shooter in Canada was Marc Lepine.  He was raised by a single mom.  The reason was because his dad was an abusive fuck who beat him and his mother Monique so badly that Marc later had panic attacks around adult men.  And when Monique finally left him, Marc's dad engaged in financial abuse that left her in poverty til she had to leave Marc and his sister in the care of babysitters five days a week because she had to work long hours to make ends meet.

So clearly it's his Mom's fault he turned out rotten  ::)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on April 14, 2019, 12:50:59 pm
So clearly it's his Mom's fault he turned out rotten  ::)

Obviously. She should have found a Nice Christian Man and gotten married again and let him be the breadwinner so she could stay at home and raise her children.

<vomit>
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Chaos Undivided on April 14, 2019, 03:23:28 pm
Being raised by a single mom has adverse effects on kids, but that's no reason to demonize single mothers. I'd ask why this guy isn't suggesting we help the single mothers' kids, but I think I already know the answer.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DarkPhoenix on April 14, 2019, 09:09:50 pm
Being raised by a single mom has adverse effects on kids, but that's no reason to demonize single mothers. I'd ask why this guy isn't suggesting we help the single mothers' kids, but I think I already know the answer.

Because it's another desperate attempt to deflect away from blaming GUNS?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Chaos Undivided on April 14, 2019, 10:42:51 pm
Being raised by a single mom has adverse effects on kids, but that's no reason to demonize single mothers. I'd ask why this guy isn't suggesting we help the single mothers' kids, but I think I already know the answer.

Because it's another desperate attempt to deflect away from blaming GUNS?

Given where it was posted, I was going to say it's because he's just a misogynist who wants an excuse to attack women.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on April 15, 2019, 02:37:09 am
Guns are all macho manly. Of course a he-man woman hater has a gun fetish and would thus want to find any reason to ignore that as a potential factor.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on April 30, 2020, 04:22:21 am
(https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2020/04/germcar.jpg?resize=865,452&quality=65)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on April 30, 2020, 06:18:25 am
How do these people not realize that if you open up the economy then more people get sick resulting in jobs and businesses shutting down again resulting in shutting down the economy except now you have more dead people and way more sick people?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on April 30, 2020, 09:36:44 am
(https://i.imgflip.com/3z8v44.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on April 30, 2020, 09:46:49 am
Pretty much.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on April 30, 2020, 10:43:38 am
I feel like conservatives have this disconnect in their logic in not being able to realize that what they do effects other people.
I feel they tell themselves, I want to go back to work and I don't care if I get sick I need to support myself and my family the economy is important. But they don't think hey if I get sick I could get my family sick, or my co workers or random people in public sick. This could really hurt the economy.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DarkPhoenix on April 30, 2020, 11:17:01 am
I feel like conservatives have this disconnect in their logic in not being able to realize that what they do effects other people.
I feel they tell themselves, I want to go back to work and I don't care if I get sick I need to support myself and my family the economy is important. But they don't think hey if I get sick I could get my family sick, or my co workers or random people in public sick. This could really hurt the economy.

Libertarianism says you have the right to do whatever you want as long as you're strong enough to do it.  From their viewpoint, the government telling them they CAN'T do something is oppressing their freedom.  From a libertarian viewpoint, other people getting sick and dying isn't their problem; the sick and dying simply weren't strong enough to fight it off, and thus deserved to die.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on April 30, 2020, 02:04:54 pm
Which is a twisted version of libertarianism, liberalism and conservatism, because the principle I've generally heard expressed is that everyone has the maximum possible freedom that does not impinge on the freedom of others.

(For instance, go on YouTube and watch potholer54's two-part video on "A Conservative Solution to Global Warming". He basically starts off with that principle and the example that this means you can't dump toxic waste into the water on your beachfront property since it would mean that others who own beachfront property nearby would no longer be at liberty to enjoy their property. For another example, look up Churchill's infamous "some sort of Gestapo" speech from the 1945 UK election and Attlee's response, in which he articulates and agrees with the aforementioned principle.)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on April 30, 2020, 02:39:28 pm
Libertarianism, even ideally, is kind of bad at dealing with things where if everyone ignores quarantine then millions of people die, but most quarantine violations don't actually do anything (most people are not infected yet! most two-person interactions between strangers don't hurt anyone) and you can't actually tell for the most part who is uninfected and who is an asymptomatic carrier.

It's not a coincidence that government got a whole lot more authoritarian during a complicated collective action problem.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on April 30, 2020, 04:17:28 pm
Here's a libertarian writer discussing the current governmental actions...

https://reason.com/2020/03/16/can-the-government-just-close-my-favorite-bar/
https://reason.com/2020/03/16/can-you-be-a-libertarian-in-a-pandemic/?itm_source=parsely-api
https://reason.com/2020/03/17/stop-it-with-the-coronavirus-curfews-already/
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DarkPhoenix on April 30, 2020, 08:13:05 pm
Here's a libertarian writer discussing the current governmental actions...

https://reason.com/2020/03/16/can-the-government-just-close-my-favorite-bar/
https://reason.com/2020/03/16/can-you-be-a-libertarian-in-a-pandemic/?itm_source=parsely-api
https://reason.com/2020/03/17/stop-it-with-the-coronavirus-curfews-already/

But that's not the libertarianism of the current Republican Party (and the Mont Pelerin Society, where most of this shit started), because that form of libertarianism says that ANY government intervention is bad, no matter what, because it should be up to individuals to do what they need to do.  If they can't do it by themselves, then the FREE MARKET should handle it via unrestrained capitalism...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 04, 2020, 09:06:54 pm
Here's a libertarian writer discussing the current governmental actions...

https://reason.com/2020/03/16/can-the-government-just-close-my-favorite-bar/
https://reason.com/2020/03/16/can-you-be-a-libertarian-in-a-pandemic/?itm_source=parsely-api
https://reason.com/2020/03/17/stop-it-with-the-coronavirus-curfews-already/

But that's not the libertarianism of the current Republican Party (and the Mont Pelerin Society, where most of this shit started), because that form of libertarianism says that ANY government intervention is bad, no matter what, because it should be up to individuals to do what they need to do.  If they can't do it by themselves, then the FREE MARKET should handle it via unrestrained capitalism...

The current Republican party is a lot more pro-government intervention than libertarians, they just think that intervention should look like banning same-sex marriage, or abortion, or recreational drug use, or immigration, or...

The Republican party is many things, but ancaps is not one of them.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on May 05, 2020, 12:39:59 am
At least the anti lockdown protesters can't get worse right?

(https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2020/05/03/17/screen-shot-2020-05-03-at-11.14.49-am.png?w768)

BTW the JB is the initials of Illinois, who is jewish.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on May 05, 2020, 01:34:50 am
This is basically the next Tea Party: a protest by people with legitimate grievances against government being hijacked and co-opted by rich right-wingers to support policies that are against the best interests of the protesters.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on May 05, 2020, 04:41:45 am
I don't think it's the next tea party. I think it is the tea party. These are the same people who came out to protest the B̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶P̶r̶e̶s̶i̶d̶e̶n̶t̶ higher taxes that Fox News told them would be forced upon them by Obama that never happened.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 05, 2020, 08:54:37 am
I don't think it's the next tea party. I think if is the tea party. These are the same people who came out to protest a B̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶P̶r̶e̶s̶i̶d̶e̶n̶t̶ higher taxes that Fox News told them would be forced upon them by Obama that never happened.

Yup.  The Tea Party never left, they just got absorbed into the larger entity that is the far right.  Names may be different, but its the same ol' shit.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vanto on May 07, 2020, 05:18:22 pm
At least the anti lockdown protesters can't get worse right?

(https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2020/05/03/17/screen-shot-2020-05-03-at-11.14.49-am.png?w768)

BTW the JB is the initials of Illinois, who is jewish.

When has being a member of a group the Nazis targeted ever stopped Godwin's Law?

I do have some sympathies with critics of the lockdown. A lot of them have livelihoods at stake, and I think there are legitimate concerns about economic damage and creeping authoritarianism.

But you can make your point without pulling a Godwin.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on May 07, 2020, 08:00:48 pm
"Creeping" authoritarianism? Have you seen Hungary recently? Or, for that matter, Canada, where the Liberals tried to get the power to tax, spend and borrow without Parliament's approval until the end of next year.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 10, 2020, 10:56:49 am
At least the anti lockdown protesters can't get worse right?

(https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2020/05/03/17/screen-shot-2020-05-03-at-11.14.49-am.png?w768)

BTW the JB is the initials of Illinois, who is jewish.

When has being a member of a group the Nazis targeted ever stopped Godwin's Law?

I do have some sympathies with critics of the lockdown. A lot of them have livelihoods at stake, and I think there are legitimate concerns about economic damage and creeping authoritarianism.

But you can make your point without pulling a Godwin.

See, I think calling it a Godwin is too generous. That would imply they are putting the words "arbeit macht frei" in his mouth to call him a nazi. But the sign is clearly addressed to him, and they want the lockdown to end: they want people to go back to work. I think they are reclaiming the nazi slogan.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Skybison on May 10, 2020, 12:48:06 pm
I could see it as a full on threat to kill jews given some other people at these protests.
(https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2020/04/plague_rat.jpg)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Vanto on May 10, 2020, 05:29:52 pm
"Creeping" authoritarianism? Have you seen Hungary recently? Or, for that matter, Canada, where the Liberals tried to get the power to tax, spend and borrow without Parliament's approval until the end of next year.

I was talking about the situation in America, but you're not wrong.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: dpareja on May 10, 2020, 09:44:29 pm
And then there's Turkmenistan where it's illegal to mention the virus.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Tolpuddle Martyr on May 12, 2020, 05:59:36 pm
That's all of 'em, Karen.

(https://scontent.fmel5-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s960x960/97252981_10157445702818590_3773851728496033792_o.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_sid=ca434c&_nc_ohc=8JdjQvJaxUwAX-PVkVt&_nc_ht=scontent.fmel5-1.fna&_nc_tp=7&oh=2e94dcc7d24aa27e2bd0778de2896378&oe=5EE1A6ED)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on May 12, 2020, 08:33:50 pm
Is that his conspiracy theory checklist?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DarkPhoenix on May 14, 2020, 12:47:27 am
"I believe in ALL THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES!  YES, ALL OF THEM!  I'M SO MUCH MORE WOKE THAN YOU!"
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on May 14, 2020, 08:40:13 am
That's a conspiracy bingo card.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on May 14, 2020, 01:41:08 pm
Believe it or not this is the Q anon map that ties every conspiracy theory together in some kind of convoluted wargarble.

(https://rationalwiki.org/w/images/thumb/b/b9/Qanon-map.jpg/450px-Qanon-map.jpg)

Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: RavynousHunter on May 14, 2020, 08:29:41 pm
I see a turret from Portal!
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: DarkPhoenix on May 15, 2020, 11:41:16 pm
Believe it or not this is the Q anon map that ties every conspiracy theory together in some kind of convoluted wargarble.

(https://rationalwiki.org/w/images/thumb/b/b9/Qanon-map.jpg/450px-Qanon-map.jpg)

Did anyone tell this idiots that the larger a conspiracy, the less likely it is to exist?  Because more people = more chances for someone to blab and give the game away...
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Askold on May 17, 2020, 01:13:57 pm
...I am not going to zoom into that picture because whether it is parody gibberish or serious conspiracy theorist gibberish it is not going to give me anything of value for the time spent analyzing it.
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on May 18, 2020, 07:01:38 pm
The A D R E N O C H R O M E shit is batty even by Qeirdo standards. They think celebrities get high off of it and harvest their supplies of the compound by satanically torturing kids like in the "frazzledrip video".
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/liz-crokin-claims-celebrities-are-getting-coronavirus-from-tainted-adrenochrome-supply/
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Id82 on May 18, 2020, 07:57:30 pm
Wasn't adrenochrome that fake drug that Hunter S Thompson made up in fear and loathing in Las Vegas?
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: Kanzenkankaku on May 21, 2020, 02:04:55 am
It's a real chemical compound but the harvesting conspiracy theories was literally out of a TV show called Lewis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenochrome

edit: and the thing in Fear & Loathing indeed is a fictional thing that shares the same name (as per the linked wikipedia article)
Title: Re: Dumbest Protest Signs
Post by: chad sexington on May 26, 2020, 10:50:52 pm
Did anyone tell this idiots that the larger a conspiracy, the less likely it is to exist?  Because more people = more chances for someone to blab and give the game away...

That's just what THEY would say!  *narrows eyes suspiciously*