Does that mean that in Canada, independance day is not celebrated by blowing stuff up all night, but by just throwing some bureaucratic papers around?
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but a Twitter
Imagine how upset they’d be if NPR included the deleted passage about slavery. You know, the one that southern states demanded be removed before they would sign it.
Well, who doesn’t love fireworks? Our national rhetoric (and anthem lyrics) are relatively free of references to battles and such, is all. The theme is more “we’ll vigilantly protect” than “look at all that stuff get blowed up!”
And while we also cite freedom, our use a tiny bit less ironical.
That, or a bunch of rich White men who didn’t want to pay their taxes. 
Latest survey: nearly one in four Americans think the First Amendment goes too far.
The good news is that this figure is down from a few years ago, when about a third of those polled took issue with First Amendment freedoms.
For what it’s worth…
Apparently they have READ the document every year for the past 29 years, but this is the first year they tweeted it
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NPR is drawing Trump supporters? Seriously?
Trump supporters listening to what NPR has to say? Why would they take the time to do that?
Did NPR verify that the responding tweets actually came from actual Trump voters/supporters? I’m guessing that HuffPo wouldn’t have made the effort to actually verify who the responders were.
To satisfy their ravaging appetite for information? To exercise the open mindedness which is a character trait that defines them? Because they can’t figure out how the dial works to change the channel?
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Uh, i’d say thats your normal fair number of anything idiots or trolls that hang out on twitter
And highly doubtful is any real measure of any persons constituents regardless of whom.
Hahahaha. Maybe it’s because they don’t think/act/vote as many Democrats want them to? Just because NPR is important to you, that doesn’t make important to everyone else. If NPR were actually popular, they wouldn’t need government assistance to stay on the air.
yeah really, you can never be sure with responders like LadyJJ (@Deplorable_JJ), LoverunandPray, or the “horsechit” responder (among the first tweets I deigned to check out).
Exactly - maybe go more for the Fox model to drum up those $$$$$!!!
That’ll get’em all good’n popular.
This being The Pit, standards of proof are, well, virtually non-existent, so:
I am certain that the vast majority of people claiming that NPR was advocating revolution, biased, and should be defunded are in fact Trump supporters. I will acknowledge, as a person with formal training in Teh Sciences that this is an opinion
HOWEVER: If someone wants to propose a method of determining this factually, to which both Doorhinge and I can agree, then I will happily bet $1,000 to be donated to the charity of the winner’s choice that the “substantial majority of those complaining about NPR tweeting the DoI are (or were at voting time) Trump supporters” with “substantial majority” meaning 70%
I realize that the above statement will require some effort to determine in a factual manner (and I am both too busy and lazy to do the work myself) but I am serious as a heart attack about the offer to bet.
Anyone care to propose a methodology? Doorhinge, are you willing to put your money where your mouth is?
It is quite typical for right wingers, when their stupid knee jerk reactions prove embarrassing, to claim that they must have been liberal trolls pretending to be conservatives.
Why? Because conservatives troll. They’re also the biggest projectors in the universe, consistently accusing their adversaries of their own failings and flaws.
I’m an (occasional) NPR listener, a frequent PBS viewer, and a pretty consistent left-wing democratic voter, but I’ll play devil’s advocate. We’re talkin tweets right? Tweets without any context except for the highly volatile times in which we live? I might be wrong but they tweeted without prefacing what the tweets were about, right?
I admit in advance I might not have all the facts but the way it’s been reported, it just comes across as another “Haha! Look how effing stupid these backward conservatives are!”…which is not what we need.
They didn’t even recognize when someone was attributing Obama’s first hundred days to Trump and that was recent political history. And of course all of the actions were pure evil.
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You can’t even spell my nom de plume correctly. The chances of you providing any proof of your claim/opinion is slim.
Because this is volatile and can possibly be interpreted as fomenting revolution against Trump?
*The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Do you want a trigger warning next time?
Why do you think that they were listening to NPR? The tweets were not on the radio broadcast, so your idea that they got it from listening to the radio broadcast does not make any sense at all. If they had been listening to the radio broadcast, in fact, they would have probably gotten it in context, and not been quite as knee-jerk reactionary.
Twitter, on the other hand, is a different matter. You don’t need to listen to NPR to see their tweets. All it takes is one of your conservative reactionaries to see a tweet coming from them, and then retweet it and complain about how NPR is planning a revolution, then those tweets start being passed around the dumbass right community.
This is the same way that trump supporters hear about all their news about some obscure blogger or even has-been celeb that said or did something that they can get themselves all worked up and offended about. People I’ve never heard of are touted as representing the libruls by the your group. You have a bunch of people looking for something at which to take offense, and they want to share their finds with all their friends, it makes them feel special.
So, you made the accusation, with no proof or reasoning behind it that these people were librul trolls, do you have any way of backing that up, or is that just your attempt at deflecting what terrible company you keep?