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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
I used to find it absolutely hilarious how many ways Fox News could tie themselves into a pretzel to find some way to criticize Obama but recently I just find it sickening. Too many people I know buy it completely.
Oh really when?
HGW XX/7
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The mental gymnastics would be darkly hilarious.
Schild und Schwert der Partei
HGW XX/7
Marion Barry has died at the age of 78.
Barry served as Mayor of DC from 1979-91, before being convicted of a single count of possession after an FBI sting caught him smoking crack in a hotel with a prossie. He went on to win re-election after that.
Can't keep a good man down ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
Lost in Space
Marion Barry was Rob Ford before we had Rob Ford.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Why'd you take Norm MacDonald away? ['Cause he made too many jokes about O.J.] Was Lorne Michaels overruled? [Now don't be fooled, he and Marion Barry went to the same high school!]
edited 23rd Nov '14 7:06:38 AM by speedyboris
The Potato's Choice
Continuing with how the right wing of America reacts to the Bengzhai report:
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. - Douglas Adams
I read that in criminal justice, the more black a person looks, the more people will think they are guilty of a crime and the higher likelyhood of harser sentences.
You know, deeper brown skin tones, sterotypical facial features.
And I was thinking, Obama doesn't look very black. Probably not a coincidence.
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
He is biracial, but he certainly looks more black than white, which digs up a whole universe of cultural biases.
@Ogo: If you say so. I honestly don't think I would've ever noticed he was black if it wasn't constantly mentioned, myself.
But then I also think Asians and white people are barely distinguishable in appearance.
edited 23rd Nov '14 1:17:53 PM by CassidyTheDevil
More like giant cherries
I definitely don't think it's coincidence. Even among blacks, people are more comfortable with lighter skin tones.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play
Dark is psychologically associated with danger, even in cultures of dark-skinned people apparently. I've always wondered how that inpinged on racism especially during critical situations like during a shooting.
This may be more appropriate for the racism thread.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Raven Wilder
Though it can go around the other way.
"It takes an idiot to do cool things, that's why it's cool" - Haruhara Haruko
Lost in Space
That's just the Uncanny Valley effect. Strangeness is dangerous.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Never Trust
@Potatoes Rock: He is aware that it was a Republican chaired and majority committee, yes?
Trump delenda est
Cleric of Banjo
He is, but he doesn't expect his audience to be.
Edit, edit, edit, edit the wiki
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
It's a demonstration of the new Republican party: facts, no matter the source, have to conform to the party line, or they will be disregarded. If Republicans are saying things un-Republican, it doesn't matter how true they may be.
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
They're reality proof, their rhetoric and policies can't ever be disproven or fail, they can only be failed.
Oh really when?
Wandering Jew
Ira Hansen (R), the Nevada legislature’s Speaker-Elect, stepped down Sunday following an article in the Reno News and Review Thursday that detailed a slew of fringe racist and homophobic opinions.
Some of this shit is pretty out there. Like calling Romney pro-Palestine.
edited 23rd Nov '14 6:09:18 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
Yikes, that is pretty nuts. Even for today's GOP.
NOT THE BEES
Texas approves textbooks with Moses as an honorary Founding Father.
Because when I look at a book that details a series of Israelite Kingdoms, I think of democracy. And when I look at a bunch of recently-European Deists, I think of Moses. Also forget that whole 1797 Treaty of Tripoli business where Founding Father John Adams explicitly said the US is not founded on the Christian religion, this was read aloud in the Senate, and ratified unanimously, because that's all LIBERAL LIES.
Cleric of Banjo
I saw that among the edits was that Thomas Aquinas was mentioned- that actually does make some sense, as he sort of invented the idea of civil disobedience and natural law theory.
Moses though...
Edit, edit, edit, edit the wiki
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
Ten Commandments, forgetting that ancient near eastern law all borrowed from each other.
Resident Bollywood Nerd
Moses? Are there any other people honored as 'honorary founding fathers'? Or is it just this one Middle Eastern guy who lived 2000 years ago?
I don't get how you can enshrine the Ten Commandments as law when a number of laws directly disobey about five.
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The Potato's Choice
I wonder how places like Fox News would react to Obama being shot. They obviously can't come out and approve of what happened but it would be hard to attack him anymore without people getting the impression they wanted it to happen.