Nobody should have to pee into a cup/give up their civil liberties because someone with the power to withhold money or opportunities wants them to. It's just dehumanising for all.
I ended up responding to the post with a variation on the above and it didn't take long for sister's friends to swarm in and 'like' it. Luckily 'welfare people are bad' is not a theme often visited by people in my timeline. There's the Prince impersonator classmate who's a little too InfoWars on occasion but his friends are going to get him off the ceiling eventually.
― higgs' besom (suzy), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
i actually agree w/ argument that it's unfair welfare recipients don't get drug tested while employed ppl sometimes do, but from the other side where i think no one should be drug tested, including employed ppl, and that drugs should more or less be decriminalized. what's it called when u agree w/ argument but disagree w/ conclusion?
― Mordy, Friday, 10 August 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
life
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/24755299.jpg
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
mh - two beers and I'm an fb political activist of the highest order and then I hate myself for days and days
― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Friday, 10 August 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ "your body can go on forever"
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 August 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
gurl, ur body can go on foreeeeever
― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 10 August 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
well that one's true
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 10 August 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
hey girl, is your ass a Moebius strip, because it just goes on forever! wait, what are you OW
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
wow its the dude from Big Fan
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Friday, 10 August 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
fyi guys due to some weird run-ins on tumblr i now know that fascists have their own whole genre of these things. lol tumblr.
― goole, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
like, actual fascists?
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
i'm now imagining the "hang in there, kid!" poster reimagined with Mussolini hanging from a tree limb
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
yes, actual fascists.
dan i'm afraid you are a modern subject with a functioning center of irony, you may be immune to the power of a good ezra pound jpg
― goole, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
I am reeeeeeeeeally curious as how you managed to have a run-in with livejournal fascists
also curious to see the pics, are they like pictures of unicorns dancing over rainbows with Nietzsche quotes on them
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
i wrote about john derbyshire getting fired months ago and i guess some enterprising white patriot did a search and started a re-blog frenzy.
honestly i'd rather not cos the "good" ones are pretty gross
― goole, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
haha 'nuff said
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
here's a representative non-text one:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m847p3as0D1qij63ao1_500.jpg
makes you think huh
― goole, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
O_O
yeah, it makes me think "HI DERE PSYCHO, I RUN THE OTHER WAY NOW"
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
someone should put a Katy Perry quote on that immediately
pretty hate mishima:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8024sakrE1rb9hw8o1_400.jpg
anyway, that's it. they're not hard to find if you really want to!
― goole, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1EsZF.png
followed by three other friends commenting "yup" "yup" and "you know it, girl!"
i typed up a really long thing about how glorifying simplification is total bullshit and that-- unless you want to give up facebook and your iphone and go live on a farm alone-- that the world you're stuck in is actually really super fucking complicated but that's also what makes it SO FUCKING AWESOME a lot of the time: all the complicated things that have to work together to make a life beautiful and rewarding and worth living and if you ignore all of that stuff you're really doing yourself a disservice, but i deleted it before i posted it.
― ○ (gr8080), Friday, 10 August 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
really pleased to have evidence-based medicine and the internet alongside all the simple things tbh
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
i got mad on facebook after someone posted this.
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/404058_4489590278235_1416723971_n.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 10 August 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
the world does not owe you anything, teenager! now go out there and end war and sickness!!
― scott seward, Friday, 10 August 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
this waa a nice liberal person i know who posted this. who is apparently secretly rush limbaugh. or secretly 90 years old.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 August 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
i tried to find the origin of this quote via google and everywhere it is posted has the same non-specific story. i think the principal dude made it up. but the principal is real. he's in new zealand.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 August 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
i keep seeing those phony-sounding stories on facebook. like about the woman who didn't want to sit next to a black guy on an airplane. and i can't believe any of them are real. faux-inpiration.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 August 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
But aren't you INSPIRED, Scott?
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
It doesn't matter if the story is real as long as the inspiration is!
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
no. they piss me off.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 August 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
my father-in-law posted that this morning!
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
everybody is so mean these days.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 August 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
Grow up, stop being a crybaby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone, not a wishbone, Scott.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
this person who posted this used the young people who hang out on main street here in town all day doing nothing as an example of kids who needed to do something. but what i had to point out to them was that most of the kids who hang out on main street all day here in town are really fucked up! and have fucked up families and no money and neglect/abuse/addiction/malnutrition/etc in their history. they are not just gonna take on the world and help end war any time soon! there is no empathy though and everyone just hates them because they are dirty and poor and fucked up! maybe mitt romney will win this election...
i also had to point out that some of the young people on main street were actually very environmentally aware citizens because some of them live in the woods in tents behind the friggin' cumberland farms convenience store and not in actual homes!
― scott seward, Friday, 10 August 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
it really is like posting an old ed anger column from the national enquirer on your facebook and taking it really seriously.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 August 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
forgive me, guys. i missed out on all the fun last month
http://i.imgur.com/JdK0x.jpg
― ○ (gr8080), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
You know, Hitler has a point.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/268787_501264106555265_1106266285_n.jpg
ARE YOU INSPIRED YET
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
brb off to knife a hobo
― kmfdotm (ledge), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
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― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Friday, 10 August 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
that's where my man reposted the judge thing from, although it doesn't look like he Liked that page.
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Friday, 10 August 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
ah, discernment a trustworthy sign then
― j., Friday, 10 August 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus save us from homeschooling religious people and their strategically monetized simple living blogs.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Friday, 10 August 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
so the airline story goes back to the 90's:
http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/obnoxious.asp
the one going around on facebook includes a picture of people on an airplane taking pictures of something with their cell-phones.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 August 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
can i ask a dumb question? how do you actually make these?
http://www.mememaker.net/create or maybe lolcatmaker
― Je55e, Saturday, 11 August 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.mememaker.net/static/images/memes/570026.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 August 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
From that Snopes page
I once was on a plane where I was served by an obviously homosexual male flight attendant. At one point, he bounced over to where I was sitting and announced, "The Captain has asked me to announce that he will be landing the big scary plane shortly, so if you could just put up your trays <nobr>— that</nobr> would be great."<br><br>I did as he had instructed, but the woman sitting next to me did not. A few moments later, our flight attendant came back and said to her, "Ma'am, perhaps you couldn't hear me over the big scary engine, but I asked you to please put up your tray so that the captain can land the plane."<br><br>She still wouldn't comply. Now the attendant was getting rather angry and asked her again to put up the tray. She then calmly turned to him and said, "In my country, I am called a princess. I take orders from no one."<br><br>Our flight attendant replied, "Oh yeah? Well in MY country, I'm called a queen, and I outrank you, bitch! So put the tray up!"
― Je55e, Saturday, 11 August 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
You can tell a homo b/c they're all like <girlfriend> this and <nobr> that.
― Je55e, Saturday, 11 August 2012 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
<nobromo>
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Saturday, 11 August 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link