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But Seriously...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Juice, Jun 19, 2015.

  1. xrayvision

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    The one thing I will say where the "both sides" thing is applicable is the fact that there are people on both sides being publicly indecent to people of the other side. And at the moment, its a huge race to see who the bigger hypocrites are.

    I will say that in my opinion, between both ideologies, I feel the people on the left have the moral high-ground with regard to why they are so pissed right now. Between the child jails, and the families ripped apart, the relative GOP silence about it, and the democrats saying stuff critical about it, but generally doing dick to help, people are getting more and more pissed. They signed an executive order to "fix" it in bad faith. Sarah Sanders goes on TV roughly once a week at this point and lies to all of our faces and blames democrats for all of Trump's behavior. Trump is shitposting daily. And people are wondering if anything at all will be done. If the only response to people protesting the shittiness being done to humanity is to criticize the people who are rightfully upset about it, for their uncivil displays, and not their message, it might be time to rethink your position. Yes, they will hopefully get out and vote in November, but thats 4ish months away and people are being treated terribly right now.

    And yes, I know things weren't great under past presidents either, but the whataboutism tactic isn't a valid response to solving the current problems.
     
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    It's one huge race to the bottom unless everyone gets their heads out of their asses.
     
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    Biden wanted him to host a campaign event:

    "Chris McMurray had just opened his bakery, Crumb and Get It, Wednesday morning when he received a visit from Biden’s advance team asking if he’d host the vice president for a media event on the way to his scheduled speech at Virginia Tech."

    Sanders wanted to have dinner with her family.

    Not exactly the same thing.
     
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    Any guesses on which side turned it into a literal shit fight?

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    Why you gotta call me like that?
     
  6. Revengeofthenerds

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    They didn’t say how much poop.

    Also, if it was chicken shit, I’d fire hose that crap off too if I could. It smells like death.
     
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    Says a lot they went to the trouble of procuring shit from the animal the place is named after. Figured the type to fling actual shit at a business would be much more likely to go an easier route.
     
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    Lexington, VA is pretty rural. Unless they just decided to pinch a loaf right there on the sidewalk, I doubt they had to venture any further to procure chicken shit than they would've needed to go for any other variety.
     
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    I could pick up 10 lbs of dog shit on a single walk around my neighborhood. But laying your own steamer seems like something an internet troll would do in real life.
     
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    I read somewhere that this is just a phase known as “Fun With Feces”. They’ll grow out of it soon.
     
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    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tsa-screeners-win-immunity-flier-abuse-claims-u-150740124.html

    This is some bullshit. This is unbelievably bad. I could understand to a small degree if they were effective, well-trained people that thwarted terrorism but that couldn't be further from the truth. They are nothing more than a sad joke. It is with Congress now to fix, which they have to do. You cannot allow safety to trump freedom and reasonable decorum.
     
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    That’s the job perverts take to legally feel people up. It’s like giving immunity to Gary Glitter, Jesus fucking Christ that’s stupid.
     
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    More like TSA employs people no one else will hire. And god forbid you question their authority. I always choose to get felt up because I believe that is a lesser of the two evils. Not to mention that we have had so much stuff stolen from our bags. As in, individual items. Not like the whole bag was lost. TSA bag handlers evidently gets to go shopping each of their shifts. When you are stationed or live overseas you don't really have a choice on how you're getting back.
    Lawmakers and courts keep acting like these modern necessities are simply modern conveniences. You know, things like the internet and traveling by airplane. Yes, you can opt out. You can also live under a bridge but that's not a reasonable choice.
     
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    I know I'm going to be in the minority on this, but I'm actually ok with the ruling. Nothing annoys me more than people getting truckloads of cash over trivial bullshit. I don't care if you were unnecessarily detained for 45 minutes. That doesn't entitle you to a 7 figure payout.
     
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    They were locked up for 18 hours. Not exactly your "minorly inconvenienced in line" situation.
     
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    Being forced to stand there and watch as your wife or daughter gets felt up by some sociopathic clown is not trivial. Hire better people, do a better job. You certainly won’t see a single soul fucking around in Israel airports.
     
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    Yeah I wasn't referring to her specifically, but the article makes it sound like she was an idiot who flipped out over being searched. I don't care whether it's right or wrong, if you go to the airport and are going to flip out over being searched, then you're fucking stupid and I can't feel bad for you. Sure, you can argue that it's wrong, but it is a reality of flying.

    Then again, I don't know all the details and maybe the TSA agents were just assholes. She sounds a bit nutty though.

    Yeah, they pretty much just rape them en masse.

    Edit: I'm probably being unclear with what my actual issue is though. It's not that I want people to be treated like shit, of course I don't. It's just that I don't think because something bad happened to you you therefore deserve an ass load of money to compensate you. The real recourse should be firing/prosecuting the people involved. At least that's how I feel about it in most cases.
     
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    I think a lot of those huge lawsuit demands are less about people thinking they deserve 7 figure payouts for minor inconveniences and more that it's a way to try to force companies/organizations to fix their shit because actual regulatory fines are just chump change to them. If I thought suing the TSA for $50,000,000 dollars for acting like assholes to me was the only way to convince the TSA to make their agents act like professionals I'd probably do it even if I didn't see a single cent of it if I thought I had a snowball's chance in hell of winning
     
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    Train them like police and pay them like police. Also, SCREEN them like police. Some gum-snapping, nasally fat bitch stinking of A&W and causing great pain to her uniform is a joke, not security.