The Hofoid House of Absurd & Ignorant Posts VII

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Did we even need a new one?

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I thought threads were locked at 100 pages, not by post number. Makes sense. Carry on. Consider it naming it for Cora.

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Name it for Cora. Seriously.

If you think Coraxion needs to be banned then a good 75% of the forum could be banned.

75% of the forum has not come out in favor of blowing up school buses full of children last time I checked.

People who say they oppose the deaths of their political opponents are lying.

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Cora is on a roll.

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A white Southern Baptist could care less about Christians getting killed or persecuted in Nigeria or Iraq. Those Christians aren't "their people" (Western white people) so it doesn't bother them.

The Elliot Rogers fanboy.

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I got really nervous since I thought the brunt would hit the Miami area at first. I am more relieved now because it looks as though it will roast the west coast instead. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to see people and stuff destroyed, but if it is inevitable, I would rather have it hit a red area than a blue area. As people correctly pointed out about LA post Katrina, maybe a reverse of that will happened in Florida, which could really help out in 2018 and 2020.

Emphasis mine

It actually makes me angry to read stuff like this. Jesus...

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I wouldn't buy alcohol in Aldi anyway. It's for poor people.

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It's funny how the people who say that political views shouldn't be a factor in one's opinion of a person are the same people who hate me because of my political views.

Anti-Semitism is not a "political view", it's just disgusting

Racism is also disgusting. So why does everyone suck Santander's and Sanchez's dicks?

Active loathing of white Americans Republicans (to put it lightly) is disgusting.  Is it racism?  If not, why is it justified?

FTFY

In the end of the day, don't you think it's better to respect opposing points of view rather than have contempt for your political adversaries?  Hating your enemies doesn't do you (or anyone else) any good, so what is there to lose by having a more understanding view toward those whose views you see as execrable?  I say this as someone who finds a lot of the moral views of progressives personally troubling - especially on abortion - but I think it's better to respect people even if we have different viewpoints on very consequential issues.  

I know we have some pretty big disagreements, but I think you care about others and are fundamentally a decent person.  I think it'd be best for your sake to try to open your mind a bit to different perspectives, as tough as it can be at times. 

Republicans, including you are horrible "people".

Rfayette attempts to appeal to Coraxion's sense of decency and humanity. Coraxion proves that he possesses neither.

Neither does MasterJedi for that matter.

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She's basically a moderate if you put her in European politics. America's Political discourse has moved so far to the right however.

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MUH SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION!

Mark Hatfield
Tom McCall
John Kitzhaber
Victor Atiyeh (first arab-american governor)
Neil Goldschmidt
Ron Wyden
Jeff Merkley

You know Neil Goldschmidt systematically sexually abused a young girl over a number of years?

Yes, but I don't really care.

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This why Congress should introduce legislation banning tackle football.

I wish I could say this is the worst post this year, but I'm afraid it may not even be in the 5 worst sports related ones given some of the things I have come across.

I mean, it really should be for the sense of entitlement and moral decay, but I think the former is moreso why.

If alcohol were to completely go away, 90% of society's problems would be instantly cured.  In an ideal world, alcohol should be illegal, but I think that we would have had to do that in the 1700s or 1800s and that the negative externalities of doing that today would outweigh the benefits.

Came here to post this ... glad I don't have these types of friends, LOL.

Isn't this guy like 15 or something? It's a natural view for some kid who hasn't had his first beer yet.

He's in his early to mid twenties, I think.

The natural reaction of a kid who hasn't had his first beer should be "man, I wanna have some of that beer."

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Evangelical Christianity is the mouthpiece of and ideological medium for the transmission of elitist controlled values and beliefs. It primarily serves to assuage natural human negative reactions to inhumane social conditions and organize people behind a policy agenda that serves particular interests. Critical thought is discouraged, while human capital and energy is directed towards bigotry, nationalism, rallying around capitalism, and directing your frustrations towards non-constructive actions, such as prayer. Meanwhile, megachurch pastors get filthy rich and right-wing special interests are promoted while also cultivating a uniform voting base that works against their own self-interest and focuses on distraction issues.

That Trump received such a large percentage of the Evangelical vote and such a warm welcome should be absolutely unsurprising.

This is a good post dude.

There was a gem here and there in it, but the broader point wins a place in this thread.

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Hard to pick 10 favorites and even harder to put them in order, so I'll just name the first ten that came to my head ... SUPER subject to change:

Livin' On a Prayer by Bon Jovi
Coast of Carolina by Jimmy Buffett
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes by Jimmy Buffett
Summer of '69 by Jimmy Buffett
Frenchman For the Night by Jimmy Buffett
The Load Out/Stay by Jackson Browne
December 1963 by Four Seasons
Maggie May by Rod Stewart
I've Got a Rock 'N' Roll Heart by Eric Clapton
Let Me Take You Home Tonight by Boston

Oh my God.

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The Nasotollah is proof that the GOP was even worse before Trump when it comes to....these kinda things.

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“This glib proposal to outlaw the Communist Party would be quickly recognized everywhere as an abject surrender by the great United States to the methods of totalitarianism." - Thomas Dewey

When we talk about free speech, I want everyone to understand this: free speech for all mankind, respect freely given where it is not deserved, this is a truly radical idea.

Implying that communism is morally eauivalent to neo-nazism.

Totalitarian communism is a genocidal philosophy. The original post was great - the government should have no role in the United States in outlawing political philosophies, no matter how repugnant.

Jesus f**k

Yeah because ethnic minorities fare so well in North Korea

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Welp, PublicUnofficial has gone off the deep end. Sad. I like him.

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Guys, stop harassing Republicans here, we did not like it when it happened to us, so let's not be nearly as low. Be gracious and thankful. For all Republican non trolls on here (which is like 85% of all Republicans here) I apologize for this behavior, it is not in the true spirit of the democratic party, neither are the alt-leftie/y "purists".

Yeah, the Trumpists only gave it to you guys 1% as bad as we got it when Obama got reelected. Absurd indeed!

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Abstaining on account of innocent until proven guilty

The fact that you put such a reasonable and commonplace claim in here shows the overreach of this whole thing. Senator Moore is happening dude, whether we like it or not. Your America's chickens have come home to roost.

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Abstaining on account of innocent until proven guilty

The fact that you put such a reasonable and commonplace claim in here shows the overreach of this whole thing. Senator Moore is happening dude, whether we like it or not. Your America's chickens have come home to roost.

I agree, of course, that Senator Roy Moore is indeed an inevitability. The absurdity displayed here is the insinuation that there was any reasonable justification for labelling someone as absurdly despicable as Roy Moore as anything other than an HP of the highest order, especially since the last person in the quote change is a self-described "libertarian".

Regardless, the idea that one should not personally believe transparently true allegations without the 'christening' of said charges by the American criminal justice system, the least credible institution in the country, is ridiculous.

No. You're ridiculous - there are plenty of things that are "transparently true" that effectively get ignored by a partisan and corporate controlled media, with an equal amount of stories that are transparently false that get blown up into larger stories.

Take a look at the media's coverage of the Rand Paul attack, which was "just a minor dispute" between neighbors until the actual witnesses came forward to dispute that accounts of the "minor dispute." Then there was Charlottesville, in which a few purple haired pansexual college pond scum types decided to literally in unison declare their account of events as the absolute truth, and the media was quick to follow up by parroting these lies. Of course, the hysterical reaction of many of Atlas's bottom barrel posters to Donna Brazille coming forward about the confirmed collusion between our intelligence services and the Clinton campaign to undermine Trump and Bernie's anti-globalist revolt also shows the empire of lies that America has become.

It's quite funny seeing a group of corporate directed "centrists"/"liberals"/"common sense conservatives" all attempting to suppress dissenting opinions, through literal violence at times, calling Trump a "fascist." 

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Good Lord.

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To add on to the previous post...

And the liberal media is bad - Why? Because they can't have slaves. Is it pure coincidence that the biggest supporters of slavery were these Evangelical Southern ex-Confederate White guys.

This is dumb analysis.

You don't have the intelligence to comment about dumbness, you barely have the intelligence to be a rational poster. Now quit stalking me by making idiotic posts after every thread of mine when you have nothing to say but irrelevant opinions.

It is always amusing how dumbfu**ks without much intelligence feel can insinuate that others are dumb & feel proud about it. Shadows, I know you are seeing this but I hope if you are born again, your combined IQ in 2 lifetimes will exceed mine. I have great education qualifications, I earn a lot of money & I hold a good/high management position in possibly the most iconic organizations in the world whose office you should go & visit in your state (& wave from a distance). And I have only just started.

Maybe someday, I will buy whatever company you work for & make you work under me.

Ahh, the sound of two utter and complete assholes whistling hot air to one another.

Jokes on you. Last post was a parody of a real quote by another poster.

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I probably shouldn't say this, but I do have a VERY unpopular opinion...
Viewing child porn should not be illegal, however obviously making or distributing it should be highly illegal as it already is.

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I would also state that the idea that kids are sent to such programs just because they are "LGBT" is a canard and a copout. 

Parents are responsible for their childrens' sexual behavior.  What that means, quite honestly, is that teenagers under 18 aren't supposed to be having sex.  Any kind of sex.  Period.  Parents are responsible to control the sexual acting out of their teenagers, period. 

This may come as a shock to millenials, but that's the way it is.  Parents are responsible to curb their childrens' sexual activity.  I will say this:  If a teen is acting out sexually, and the only way to get that teen to stop is to sent him to a facility such as what is talked about in these articles, and the parents have the means to do so, then consider that what it is. 

Is the cure worse than the disease here?  Lots of folks complain about what they went through with medical procedures.  They didn't like the doctor or the hospital or the side effects of the meds, etc.  That they say they'd have been better off without the treatment is not necessarily so.

My daughter-in-law lives with the son I'm talking about, with us, and with our son, who was HER son that we adopted when their lives went sideways.  One of the conditions of her living with us is that she comply with her meds, which she's always bitching about.  Yes, her meds have side effects, but so does smoking spice, and Cannabis Psychosis is a real thing.  Yes, a psychotropic med may have contributed to seizures she suffers from, but what about the secret cocaine use that my son disclosed was a part of her life in past years?  (Shhhhhhhh.)  Her lot in life is not pleasant, but what she hates has kept her alive and kept her from not attempting suicide. 

Life, and its events, occur in a context.

I don't condone this sort of thing, but I will assure you that much of this stuff (whose legality is dubious) is a desperate measure taken (quite often) by desperate parents.

I have been a parent of a "troubled teen" (drugs, alcohol, and crime).  Aside from my concern for his life (he would have died of liver failure at 15 from drinking "shroom juice"), parents in our position have real concerns.  One is the concern for the civil liability we face for the actions of out-of-control teens.  We're on the hook for every stupid thing they do until they turn 18.  The other is concern for the rest of the family, especially when there are other kids at home; we are responsible for the harm the out-of-control sibling inflcts on other kids in the house.

Out of curiosity (sorry to hear about such  a non-ideal situation w/ your son) how was that resolved? Did you have him go to a troubled teen center?

No, I did not.  My wife and I didn't have that kind of money.  I would have been open to something like these programs if money were no object.

Our son was addicted to drugs, non-compliant with counseling, acting out in school to where I had him drop out before he was expelled, and outside of our control to where we were not able to stop him from his worst behaviors (and we tried), but still liable for his foolish actions while he was under 18.  And, yes, we went after him when he went out, got in between him and his criminal friends, worked with the school (knowing their whole goal was to kick him out) and even trying to get him into residential treatment. 

Here's the little kicker:  Unless your teenager is either (A) ordered by juvenile probation to a residential program, or (B) involuntarily committed by a court order to a mental health/substance abuse facility, a teenager, even one who is appropriate for treatment can give the middle finger to all concerned and refuse to enter treatment.  This is true even of Juvenile Probation programs; they can violate your kid, but the havoc between the violation report and actually re-taking the teenager can be limitless.  The law heaps responsibility on parents, but it provides them with amazingly few means to deal with situations gone sideways, and gives teens unbelievable "rights" to refuse interventions.

While I am skeptical of many of the treatment methods described in this articles, I also believe that many of the former inpatients of these programs aren't pure victims; they were teenagers who became beyond the control of their parents and who posed real problems for their parents.  Some of these teenagers acted in ways to where there was NEVER any kind of real peace in the home.  I know what that's about.  I remember the arguments I had with my wife where I would have to tell her to stop kidding herself.  Indeed,  my son didn't get any kind of recovery until, after being arrested as an adult, I persuaded the Court to require him to complete an inpatient program.  Once there, I insisted he go out of state to a long-term re-entry facility (which he hated at the time; he hooked up with some relapse-bound female in intensive treatment). 

I never seem to see these folks who have been sent, involuntarily, to these facilities, express any remorse for their behaviors that kept their homes in turmoil.  They paint a picture of parents who didn't care about them, magnified their misdeeds, were only interested in themselves, and presided over family dysfunction, and that may be true, but their own behavior was, very often, either the root of the dysfunction, or the catalyst that kept it going and intensifying.  Kids die in these programs, that's true, but kids die because they persuaded their parents to give them another chance to avoid a residential setting, and they spend the chance overdosing on drugs, driving drunk, etc.  Parents get most of the blame for what these kids do, and it's true that parents are responsible for kids until their 18, but teenagers are autonomous human beings that make decisions and act on them.  They have wills of their own and can carry their will out to varying extents. 

Parents are under a real gun to control their teenagers' behaviors, but many lack the effective resources to do so.  That rich parents have those resources and go to these extremes, I'm not going to criticize.  And I WOULD like to see some teen product of such a program actually voice some remorse for the damage THEY inflicted on their family, instead of whining about how their parents "threw them away", etc.  Not taking responsibility for one's own actions is a habit that can sometimes last a lifetime, if enabled enough.

This man should not be a parent.

At least he'll have the opportunity to, well you know, actually love and be loved enough to produce a child . Can't say that about you nor can I?

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You know what my thoughts on Kate Steinle's murder are, seeing as TG closed the original thread? I say "no justice, no peace."

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You know what my thoughts on Kate Steinle's murder are, seeing as TG closed the original thread? I say "no justice, no peace."

Yes, and thankfully national Democrats are smart enough to avoid omegascarlet's name calling and call out this abomination for what it is.

You pretty clearly don't see immigrants as human in the way that you view "Americans".

*illegals.

These are probably the least severe at of all the sexual harassment claims we've seen. Asked her if she had a boyfriend? Put his hand on her thigh? Bad, creepy, but really not resignation worthy.

No Representative from this district has ever been re-elected.

Yeah, brand new swingy seats can do that. Anyway,  this is not resignation/step-down worthy

Come on lol I mean hand on thigh is bad but asking a woman out on a date when it is 'unwanted' is harassment now? Seriously?

Like how the hell is he supposed to know it is unwanted.

Anyway I don't think he should resign unless there was serious unwanted physical contact (kind of hard to parse from this report but it sounds like not).

And no, this is not the least serious allegation. That would be the disgusting victim-blaming from both sides that caused Barton to resign. But this is nearly there.

Come on lol I mean hand on thigh is bad but asking a woman out on a date when it is 'unwanted' is harassment now? Seriously?

It is if Kihuen's behavior was a repeat offense. In cases like these, the victim has almost always pleaded with their harasser to stop.

She said he asked her out on dates twice.

I mean come on, even if she said 'no and I'm never going out with you' I wouldn't call one additional request for a date harassment. He didn't stalk her, he didn't repeatedly undermine or belittle her, he didn't fire her or threaten her job.

You're presuming there's something here when there's no evidence of anything. Yes obviously if he did something beyond what's reported here that is harassment then he harasse her, but the facts of the case as stated are just clearly and obviously not.

Jesus the hot takes in this thread. It's like yall have never been to a bar or something

This is getting ridiculous the bar is so low these days for 'sexual harassment', next we will be calling on folks to resign over complimenting a chicks dress.

These f**kers are defending a 35 year old man repeatedly creeping on a 25 year old woman (even groping her) to the point where she quit her job as no big deal.

Oh noez! A ten year age gap between two mature consenting adults! Next thing you know he'll be molesting infants!