StrangeSox

Also LOL Romney "Corporations are people, too" yesterday

The Empathy Ceiling: The Rich Are Different — And Not In a Good Way, Studies Suggest

Good people can do bad things and vice versa. Also I don't think I buy the "they cheated on their spouse, so they've no qualms in screwing everyone else over" idea

http://metrotimes.com/columns/what-we-should-fear-1.1186598

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 11, 2011 -> 09:10 AM) The writer of that OP article is more than a BIT bitter. Jesus...not the most optimistic dude in the world. Makes Fathom and I seem like Richard Simmons or Tony Robbins. Well, maybe I shouldn't go THAT far. He's just a dumb extremist British politician using this as an excuse to tar policies he's railed against for decades with s***ty arguments. The riots are going to result in using this authoritarian crack-downs in the UK. they're already talking about limiting social networking sites. Pretty hilarious given how vital of a role they played in the Arab Spring and how their ability to thwart oppressive governments' attempts to block communication was widely cheered in the West.

post more about how little you care, that'll show me.

I'm laughing at you, not whining.

I know. They're pretty hilarious and reflect on the character of someone such as yourself, but that's no surprise given right-wingers and their moral ineptitude. I've met your kind before, I know all about you. I would explain more, but you are beneath me.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Aug 10, 2011 -> 08:59 PM) Hilarious, but typical of someone like yourself. You should make more posts that have lines like these.

Noam Chomsky is morally equivalent to OBL, lol

The article in the OP is pretty dumb (oh my, where have the manners gone?!) but this is accurate: QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Aug 10, 2011 -> 05:42 PM) Yeah, those Asian dudes running the Western Union shop that got destroyed totally looked like rich oppressors of the poor

Mission Hill

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 10, 2011 -> 01:19 PM)

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 9, 2011 -> 05:13 PM) Have you even watched it? His soulmate was Marge. It was cute. "Take that, Space Coyote!" Good choice, and featured Johnny Cash as the space coyote.

Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law

Disenfranchisement is A-OK with me!

They've got no skin in the game; they don't deserve to vote.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 8, 2011 -> 01:33 PM) Kinda like all those black congresscritters who claimed they were spat upon and called names. Not one bit of proof, despite the abundance of video cameras there and the massive reward offered for proof. Not really for two reasons. first, at least there you're dealing with the first-hand claim of "I was spit on," so you're calling the Congressman a liar in that case. That's different from telling ss2k5 that there's not a lot to support "people spit on soldiers and called them baby killers." In the later, ss2k5 isn't being called a liar. Second, there's video from the even that shows the Congressman clearly reacting to something and wiping his jacket and his face. I'm more inclined to believe it was spittle from someone angrily shouting than deliberate spit, though.

More realistic portrayal Some-guy-on-internet #1: Soldiers were spit on when they returned from Vietnam by anti-war hippies. Liberal #1: There's little evidence that this ever actually happened and, if it did, the "baby-killer spitters" meme is still likely an exaggeration of a real event since there's so little actual evidence or even first-hand "this happened to me personally" stories.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 8, 2011 -> 12:11 PM) Soldier #1: I was spit on when I returned from Vietnam. Liberal #1: No you weren't you imagined it or exaggerated it. Nope, looks to me like they are being called liars. Where are the soldiers making these claims? How much more clear can that be made? There's no one here saying "no, you are making that up" to individual soldiers' claims. What is being challenged is the idea that this sort of thing was even somewhat common and what's been shown is that there's little support, even anecdotally, for it. That doesn't mean it never happened or that the handful of incidents that were reported on at the time are being called lies or exaggerations.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 8, 2011 -> 11:06 AM) How is using "they" for "soldiers who were abused when they returned home from Vietnam" mysterious? It is pretty clear who I meant. Who are these real, actual people making these claims that are now being called liars?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 8, 2011 -> 11:02 AM) Of course not. Saying it didn't really happen is telling me that you think they were telling the truth. Who are these mysterious "they"? That's the whole point.

No one is calling soldiers liars because there's a distinct lack of actual soldiers that make this claim, certainly not enough to support it being a widespread phenomenon.