I know the less attention these hatemongers get the better, but the WBC have gone beyond the realm of finding new and more ridiculous things God hates and slingshot right back around to becoming a parody of themselves as they plan to picket Twitter for some damn reason. While Tweeting about it. From the picket line.
Does not compute.
How does one picket Twitter in the first place, certainly since most people don’t know where Twitter headquarters are? Especially if you’re using it while you’re doing it. I swear those people are real life Onion fodder.
The World Boxing Council doesn’t do much to upset me.
I haven’t the faintest idea, nothing about this protest makes a lick of sense. They’re flying all the way to San Fran to picket a microblogging site for a scant 30 minutes while using that very same service to talk about it during the picket. What’s more, not even they seem to have a clear notion of what it is they’re picketing them for, just some vague nonsense about Twitter being morally obligated to use all of their revenue in the service of God or some damn thing, which could frankly be used as a reason to picket every business in the world.
From the linked article.
That’s over 140 characters. 
Wow. Some people just amaze me.
I guess they can’t boycott it if they’re using it… so I guess picketing is the next best thing.
They’re doing that so that threads like this exist.
Hang on, are they defending or attacking Twitter? The quote about Obama seems to indicate they want Twitter to remain as it is.
Tou people do realize that this is the Westboro Babtist Church right? Fred Phelps? That family (and it is just one crazy fucking family… with about 30 followers) protest everything. They blamed the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami on Swedish gay marriage laws. Where I come from we have an expression for that:
“Dip him in a lake, and you’ll be skimming off crazy for three days”
Boy, does their god have bad aim… Do they worship a Storm Trooper?
Only on camera.
AOFTP: Ack! 60 second delay between posts.
I can’t really tell. On the one hand they’re claiming Obama will take away their freedom to tweet for his own eeeeeevil ends, but on the other there’s that bunk about Twitter using their profits in the service of God … and the fact that they’re picketing Twitter. I don’t get it.
I know they’re stark raving hatstand, the whole lot of them, but usually their protests are about a well-worn tenet of their crazy-ass belief system, and it usually comes down to either gays or the military or gays in the military or evil democrats. I haven’t really noticed them protesting some random service for some random spin-the-wheel-of-hate reason that apparently got stuck right in the middle of two nebulous choices – and they’re using the service they’re protesting while they’re protesting it.
Not that I expect or even want to understand what’s going on here; crazy needs no reason to exist. Still, you have to wonder if they aren’t running out of things to hate on.
Deducting their religious protest expenses makes for affordable mid-winter vacations away from Buttfuck, Kansas.
A rather horrifying thought just occured to me.
Can you imagine being stuck on that flight with them?
See, now that makes sense. Tax-deductible vacation with a 30-minute token picket for no particularly discernable reason, and then it’s off to some Bay-area fun.
shudder I’d ask to be moved to the luggage compartment.
For the duration of the flight, I would put aside my being a straight male, and spend the flight shamelessly flirting with their men.
Now why should we move? Clearly (and I say this very very rarely usually) they (the WBC morons) are the lower form of life.
Yes, and lower life forms tend to be too stupid to realize they’re lower life forms and can become aggressive if you make any sudden moves or threatening gestures. Then you’d have the dominant members of the pack all dropping trou and flinging poo at you. Even if you won and got them to move, you’re not going to have a very nice trip after that. Better for all concerned I think if you just make the concession and leave them to groom each other undisturbed.
It’s taking 21+ years to fix the Bay Bridge, but hopefully SF can take this opportunity to accomplish something that needs accomplishing.
You people just don’t get Fred Phelps. You’re squares. Marks. Rubes. It’s just so obvious. Andy Kaufman faked his own death, and then he created the Phelps character as his epic masterwork of confrontational performance.