An amusing bit of afternoon insanity

[thistlechaser]

Drive by post! I spotted a link to this guy from daltontrix's LJ, and it's too amusing not to share.

Starting early this morning, I am going to un-friend every single individual on Facebook who voted for Obama, or I even suspect may have Democrat leanings...

Luckily, if you're on my friends list, it's nearly certain he thinks you're a "communist pig" and would refuse to speak to you (though will spit in your general direction!).

There are way too many great lines to quote, but a few I especially liked:

"Only Nazis support Seat Belt laws!" Yes, because the Nazis were known for caring about people and not wanting them to get killed during accidents?

When I'm at the Wal-mart or grocery story I typically pay with my debit card. On the pad it comes up, "EBT, Debit, Credit, Cash." I make it a point to say loudly to the check-out clerk, "EBT, what is that for?" She inevitably says, "it's government assistance." I respond, "Oh, you mean welfare? Great. I work for a living. I'm paying for my food with my own hard-earned dollars. And other people get their food for free." And I look around with disgust, making sure others in line have heard me.

Sir, could you be a bigger ass if you tried?

Comments

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Sir, could you be a bigger ass if you tried?

Don't ask that, because the answer is invariably 'yes'. :P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm certain you're right...

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

"Only Nazis support Seat Belt laws!" Yes, because the Nazis were known for caring about people and not wanting them to get killed during accidents?

Now, now, they'd certainly care if the person in question was an ideal Aryan. Can't propagate the race if they're dead or maimed!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Heh, point!

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

So being a total cock at Wal-Mart somehow makes this dude the hero of the day?

Gawd.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I'm not any kind of assistance, but if someone did that in the line ahead of me? Ugh. I'd probably chuck a can of peas at the back of his head. (Or at least daydream about it.)

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

He is a dick-weed.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

He so seriously is.

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

Reading the comments, this guy goes completely off the rails. A choice quote:

"THE COUNTRY ENDED YESTERDAY. IT IS OVER!!! THERE IS NO MORE FUTURE FOR AMERICA. WE NO LONGER HAVE ANY FREEDOM. WE ARE NOW LIVING IN NAZY GERMANY 1933/34."

Wow.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I just... I can't wrap my head around these people. NOW we lost freedom? Not if Romney had gotten elected and women-- Oh wait, there's my error. Women don't need rights, other than the right to get in the kitchen and make their husband a pie.

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

My mother-in-law, at the last political conversation I observed between her, my wife, my sister-in-law (a Taoist psychiatrist) and my father-in-law, said the following:
"Obama is attacking our civil rights. He is attacking our freedom of religion."

I could never wrap my head around this claim. From what I could gather, it had something to do with the Catholic Hospital's employee insurance program paying for birth control. I couldn't figure out the path of thought from there to "no more 1st amendment!" I tried, and I usually can - skewed logic is still followable usually. Not this. When I asked her "Wait, how are YOUR freedoms being infringed? You don't work for that hospital." She just glared at me like I'm stupid.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Gah. That must have given you a headache!

From what I could gather, it had something to do with the Catholic Hospital's employee insurance program paying for birth control.

The "logic" behind that makes me so angry. If everyone involved was just a little more mature, this wouldn't be an issue.

Don't like birth control? Don't use it! But you don't get to decide for everyone else.

Don't like abortion? Don't have one! (Or don't get a woman pregnant!) But you don't get to decide for everyone else.

Don't like gay marriage? Then don't marry someone of the same gender! Etc.

I just can't wrap my head around these people, so sanctimonious.

[evilgrayson.livejournal.com]

And yet they eat bacon and shellfish, and wear polycotton clothing. They'll sit in a chair that a menstruating woman has sat in, and they'll preach hatred and bigotry in the name of the chap who said 'Love thy neighbour' and 'Turn the other cheek'.

It's not even 'don't do anything I wouldn't do', because believing in the sanctity of marriage seems to lead to a lot of divorces.

To quote Warhammer 40K's Sisters of Battle: 'Thou Shalt Not. I Shall.'

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes. To all that.

I just do not understand how they can't be seeing this themselves.

...though maybe it's my fault, looking for logic in religious folks.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Just be careful when you say "religious folks," because that's a lot like saying "black people." Or "gay people." Or things like that. There's a lot of different points in the spectrum of people who participate in some form of organized religion.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, good point! I do that a lot, I have to watch that. Sorry!

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) I very much appreciate that.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

I wish I could find the Ozy and Millie strip that had the people holding up anti-gay marriage protest signs, and Llwellyn counters with one about seafood, causing the protesters to go "But... but I like shellfish."

I really do sometimes want to stand up in church and go "What part of 'love they neighbor' are we not getting here?" I mean, I know I'm not perfect, and I have prejudices, and I get annoyed at things I really shouldn't, but I'd like to think that I try.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I've heard a few stories about this (news reports and such). Seems like it's an American twist on religion: People here feel they can pick and choose what part of the religion they want to follow, and feel it's just as valid of an approach as someone who lives by it all.

So not selling their daughters into slavery and eating seafood are fine, all the while thinking they should be burning gay people in a bonfire.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Some rules like not eating pork and seafood and avoiding sitting where women who had been menstruating were sitting made sense for the times they were created, given hygiene and food cleaning standards. But over time, things have changed, and those rules don't really need to apply.

The same may be true of other rules today, I think.

Also, pretty much no modern-day religion of which I am aware follows every single Biblical rule. People have written books about trying to live exactly as the Bible prescribes in modern-day times, and it sounds pretty complicated.

I'd like to see those reports because I'm kind of thinking that it's not just in the U.S. Can you send me some links? Or if you come across some in the future, send me the links?

And hey, Jesus was Jewish, and even he didn't follow all the rules of his relgion! ;)

[evilgrayson.livejournal.com]

It's not just in the US, but most of the devout Christians I know are just as confused by the fundamentalists as everyone else. It helps that over here in the UK, Evolution is generally held as 'well, duh' and anyone who believes the world was created a few thousand years ago is considered more than slightly cuckoo - and a lot of the other Fundamentalist doctrines are similarly viewed.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Sure thing! It was a while back on NPR, but if I run across it again, I'll make note for you.

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks!