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#107976: Jan 4th 2016 at 12:54:17 PM

@ ironballs: More the Thirty Years' War.

Keep Rolling On
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#107977: Jan 4th 2016 at 12:54:56 PM

Re Trump ad video: Let me guess, a rant about Muslims being evil?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#107978: Jan 4th 2016 at 12:54:58 PM

Oh god Trump really is doubling down on the keeping America white thing isn't he?

Oh really when?
3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#107979: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:05:58 PM

...Dunno, I just watched the entire 30 sec with the vague feeling that this was a parody Ad.

"You can reply to this Message!"
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#107980: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:09:01 PM

@Jack O Lantern

He was a Christian, engineering class had nothing to do with it (it was an elective course anyways). I live in Marianna, Florida, and at the time I went to school in Chipley (which is a very harshly conservative place). Hardly anyone else there was anything other than Christian, and I initially identified as one until that incident (and some others) made me convert to agnosticism. I only ever met one atheist there, and she didn't actually become an atheist until after people bullied her for believing in evolution and more or less being, as they put it, a "freak" (it was because I took sympathy on her that we became close friends). Hell, I had to tell all my friends to keep my agnosticism a secret because I was worried people would harass me and try to lynch me. Even my friends, despite most of them being open Christians, hated how stuck up everyone was.

I'm not even kidding, the city of Chipley is like looking at a weird parody of conservative politics, except it's all real. I had to deal with homophobia (which got pretty bad when I realized I was bisexual), I had to deal with racism, I had to deal with people being holier-than-thou hypocrites who rubbed in how "Christian" they were (as if that's even a thing Christ preached about, seeing as how he taught the exact opposite moral in the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector), and I had to deal with being laughed at and harassed for being an open liberal (after I while I fell out of favor with liberal politics and now consider myself center aligned, but I still empathize more with the left than the right). It was like a fucking cult of personality there. They even had a Bible study group, which if memory serves well is kind of illegal to do.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#107981: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:10:08 PM

Oh man you're in Florida?

At least I'm in North Carolina. I'm so sorry.

Oh really when?
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#107982: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:10:23 PM

I'm wondering why Trump doesn't just use "Attack on Trump" as his ad.

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Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#107983: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:11:59 PM

[up][up]

I'd hardly count the Florida Panhandle as Florida. It's more like another part of Alabama, which is just as bad when it comes to racism and homophobia.

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ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#107984: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:12:50 PM

[up]

Eesh, sounds like a real-life version of Moralton.

[down][down]

Group Member: Are you really going to burn The Bible?

Ms. Censordoll: Only the Jewish parts.

edited 4th Jan '16 1:19:30 PM by ironballs16

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#107985: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:16:38 PM

[up]That show was a documentary.

Inter arma enim silent leges
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#107986: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:16:56 PM

I have a lot of problems when it comes to the South, especially when it comes to politics, but Chipley is worse than any other place I've visited. I mean, in my home city (Marianna), the people are conservative, but most of them dislike Trump and react with disgust at harsh actions towards Muslims and homosexuals. In Chipley, it's a goddamn cult where the Baptist Church reigns supreme. I don't even know how anyone who isn't Christian can survive there. My sophomore English teacher was Jewish, and one student flat out said she was going to hell because she wasn't Christian (never mind that Jesus was Jewish). I mean, at least my Aunt's ex-husband has the excuse of being a drug abusing hippie in the 60s for his insane religious ramblings, these guys are just fucking idiotic.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#107987: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:27:03 PM

OK, can someone summarise the Trump Ad so I don't need to feel my brain starting to liquify?

"Yup. That tasted purple."
FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#107988: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:27:26 PM

your fault for living in the place where all the nuts roll down to

edited 4th Jan '16 1:28:17 PM by FieldMarshalFry

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#107989: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:31:07 PM

[up][up]Just him reiterating that he'll ban all Muslim travel and force Mexico to build that wall.

Oh really when?
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#107990: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:33:03 PM

I mean how can someone think someone else mentioning god in a yearbook quote is stupid. That asshat might have believed it was satanic or unAmerican or bullshit like that, but stupid? I'm not criticizing you Adric De Psycho4th, just trying to figure out how people can think like that guy. Oh, and I am so sorry you had to live in that shithole.

[up] And with the male version of the classic add voice. Honestly can we have a troupe for that. That and the female voice appear in like 90 percent of all US campaign adds, for both parties. Whomever does them must make a killing.

edited 4th Jan '16 1:34:10 PM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#107991: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:34:13 PM

No no Jack, someone didn't mention God. They mentioned Allah.

Oh really when?
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#107992: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:36:29 PM

Apparently the footage of "Mexicans" crossing the border was actually Moroccans trying to get into Melilla.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#107993: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:38:25 PM

Meh, Moroccans, Mexicans. Neither of them are white, what's the difference?

Oh really when?
FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#107994: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:40:58 PM

to Trump and his ilk, there is none, bloody fascists...

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#107995: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:45:24 PM

[up][up][up][up] Which is literally god but in another language. You can argue that he is a different god from the Christian one, and I don't have enough expertise to argue ether way, but what is the actual difference between that and Conservative Christians talking about god in their quotes. I'm being a bit facetious, trying to talk about logic in such an illogical situation.

[up][up] The fact they are trying to get into Spain not the US?

edited 4th Jan '16 1:45:46 PM by JackOLantern1337

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FalseDichotomy from Your mind :o Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#107996: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:46:39 PM

You know what's really, really scary? If Trump becomes president, he'll be able to deport immigrants/Muslims before they even realize they've been deported.

Za Waru!

I probably shouldn't kid though, even if he doesn't have a snowball's chance on the sun of winning he's still a straight up monster.

edited 4th Jan '16 1:49:55 PM by FalseDichotomy

Know-age Since: May, 2010
#107997: Jan 4th 2016 at 1:59:04 PM

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13614051810A34580700&page=382#9549

Am I remembering wrong, or is the old "had my penis out and fell into her vagina" excuse lifted right out of an old Muslim parable?

Edit: I was totally misremembering, was thinking of this guy

edited 4th Jan '16 2:09:27 PM by Know-age

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AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#108000: Jan 4th 2016 at 2:18:50 PM

@Jack O Lantern

I forgot to mention, according to this asshat, Allah isn't a "real God". That's what he got pissed about, and I was told by some people on a site me and Fry over here frequent that Allah literally means God in Arabic, so the guy was basically being an idiot.

Let me also reiterate that Chipley, Florida is an anti-science wasteland. They don't believe in evolution or that the world was created several billion years ago, and they are waiting for the Rapture to come because they "know" they'll be going to heaven (as if one can know with all certainty where they'll end up in the afterlife). The place is fucking idiotic.

Also, Field Marshall Fry, at least our President had sexual relations with a human and not a damn pig.

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