Holy Damn Shit is that for real??
But as this guy, who wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on the function of humor, points out, it’s much more serious than that.
[QUOTE=Jason Steed]
You’re never “just joking.” Nobody is ever “just joking.” Humor is a social act that performs a social function (always).
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He goes on to say (in an essay written across 23 tweets) that jokes like this (and racist or sexist jokes) are used to define “in” and “out” groups. The in group understands what’s being said and agrees; when anyone from the out group protests, the response is, “It’s just a joke.”
It’s an insidious way of expressing despicable ideas and then shaming those who are the targets, or who side with them, as having no sense of humor or being too sensitive.
But you haven’t voted in the actual pool I started here.
I hadn’t noticed that thread until now, so I just voted “Election day (Trump Loses)”. I don’t mind but am slightly ashamed to admit that had I seen the thread in late 2015, my vote would have been for Super Tuesday, and I stated as much at the time in other threads. I’m somewhat agog at how long this farce has run.
I wrote in that thread that my vote would have been for New Hampshire.
Considering his bull dog like efforts on the birth certificate thing, he’ll be objecting to the election result for months afterward.
"Uh, you know if you don’t want to own a slave, don’t. But don’t tell other people they can’t.”
To be fair, the article says that party officials are unhappy with him, but this is evidently what appeals to the GOP electorate.
Ok, this is sly: the stupid part of the story is the shoving one’s head in the sand and playing the role of the orifice thereby displayed.
Lamar Smith (AH-TX) was/is sponsoring a measure to fund solar power and electricity storage research. Odd, that, an AssHole from Texas doing good, and pissing off the Democrats in the process?
Turns out the funded “research” is restricted to studying stuff and may not involve actually developing any stuff. Just when we thought the stupid was easy, now they are becoming strategically stupid.
Wow, that guy is a serious POS. Does the party proud.
He has a decent chance of being elected. It’s the same district that sent Michele Bachman to Congress.
So Gerrymandered that the most extreme candidate wins. Lovely.
The party of Lincoln, right there.
[QUOTE=Tony Sinclair]
"Uh, you know if you don’t want to own a slave, don’t. But don’t tell other people they can’t.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/unel…-in-minnesota/
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Meanwhile, in a debate about gay marriage… 
He’s wrong, too. Slavery does affect the people who don’t want to own slaves, just like companies who outsource their factories overseas where children are paid 10 cents a day to toil in unsanitary or dangerous conditions affect the ones that don’t want to do that in the same field - namely, through unfair competition. Unregulated, the invisible hand implicitly selects for utter cunts.
It also affects the slaves. Negatively, one would assume.
Nonsense. Sean Hannity tells me how well fed they were. And they had a place to sleep too.
That was Bill O’Reilly, I think.
Different bot, same program.
It wasn’t even about slavery. He was slamming gay marriage. Funny how the homophobia gets ignored and the racism gets invented.
Currently, there is no legal framework to support the literal ownership of servants. If you and your “slave(s)” voluntarily maintain a master/slave relationship, you could claim to “own” them. Buying and selling slaves would have to be a sort of underground black market thing with like-minded conspirators. But the minute the slaves want to be free, you would not be in a position to prevent them from leaving: retaining servants against their will is equivalent to kidnapping, which is a tad illegal.
Gay marriage, on the other hand, does have a valid legal framework.
The Daily Beast thought it appropriate to out a bunch of Olympic athletes, including those from countries with onerous laws concerning gay people.
The current version of the article has been re-written, but Wonkette gives us highlights of the original post:
Given my orientation, I obviously sympathize with the victims of this douchebag, but how is it a Republican stupid idea? The Daily Beast isn’t generally considered right-wing media and the douchebag “reporter” is British.