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[Reelya]

You know what was also an Obama era thing? Brushing your teeth. Stop the brush, righties.

this incident reminds me of the time where when Obama condemned the senseless violence of the holocaust, the National Review published an editorial, claiming that the holocaust was actually entirely a sensible policy.

[RedKing]

In older news (that is at least news)...

The White House noted the call was an Obama administration practice.
"The Trump Administration looks forward to creating its own traditions to observe the High Holidays and other important days in the Jewish faith," an unnamed White House official said in a statement to the BBC.

("We don't care. It was an Obama thing anyway... Good riddance.")

"We're just gonna lump them all into one and call it Jewsday Tuesday. I know, catchy, right? More efficient that way. I mean, you seen how many holidays these guys have? It's ridiculous! It's ridiculous. Just like the fake news who predicted I wouldn't win. I had over 300 electoral votes, you know that? They said I wouldn't get 240, much less 270...."

[Neonivek]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4820904/ACLU-hammered-tweeting-white-supremacist-photo.html

Just remember kids. Being White is racist!

Just so you know this is a picture of a toddler wearing a shirt that says "Free speech" on it waving an American Flag. I should state that the child is white and blonde.

This is, apperantly, incredibly racist White Nationalist Nazi Propaganda... Welcome to the new America!

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I am finally caught up to the news so I can post actual stuff more frequently. I just had to wade through a LOT of garbage!

I can finally deal with the criticisms sent towards me.

[RedKing]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4820904/ACLU-hammered-tweeting-white-supremacist-photo.html

Just remember kids. Being White is racist!

Just so you know this is a picture of a toddler wearing a shirt that says "Free speech" on it waving an American Flag. I should state that the child is white and blonde.

This is, apperantly, incredibly racist White Nationalist Nazi Propaganda... Welcome to the new America!

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I am finally caught up to the news so I can post actual stuff more frequently. I just had to wade through a LOT of garbage!

Which I probably wouldn't normally, but the major criticism is that I strawman and don't post sources!

All this shows is that people on Twitter are, by and large, idiots.

I could tweet (if I used that abomination) "I like pie." and I'd probably have a dozen or more responses calling me a cake-raper.

[Neonivek]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/24/aclu-admits-to-white-supremacy-after-tweeting-phot/

Unfortunately trickle down stupidity is involved here.

Edit: fixed it up to be less seemingly antagonistic towards RedKing

[smjjames]

No surprise that right-wing news media would take the bait to hit ACLU or otherwise mock it after it screws up, and yeah, it was the internet just being the internet and then ACLU made the situation worse.

[Neonivek]

No surprise that right-wing news media would take the bait to hit ACLU or otherwise mock it after it screws up, and yeah, it was the internet just being the internet and then ACLU made the situation worse.

You mixed up your wings

But the ACLU, to my knowledge, never admitted to being White Supremists.

[Trekkin]

No, smjjames is right: both the Daily Mail and the Washington Times (as distinct from the Post) are known for being right-wing.

[Neonivek]

No, smjjames is right: both the Daily Mail and the Washington Times (as distinct from the Post) are known for being right-wing.

Ahhh

Mixed it up because the other news sites do a different spin.

[smjjames]

Yeah, it's the NYTimes and Washington Post that are left-wing (more center left, but they both do have their conservative journalists and op-eds) and the NYPost and Washington Times that are right-wing. Though NYPost is more gossip/tabloid.

[Strife26]

Yeah, it's the NYTimes and Washington Post that are left-wing (more center left, but they both do have their conservative journalists and op-eds) and the NYPost and Washington Times that are right-wing. Though NYPost is more gossip/tabloid.

Calling the NYT center left, even in a parenthetical, is a pretty far stretch.

[sluissa]

Yeah, it's the NYTimes and Washington Post that are left-wing (more center left, but they both do have their conservative journalists and op-eds) and the NYPost and Washington Times that are right-wing. Though NYPost is more gossip/tabloid.

Calling the NYT center left, even in a parenthetical, is a pretty far stretch.

Calling WaPo center at all is just flat out ignorance.

[smjjames]

Yeah, it's the NYTimes and Washington Post that are left-wing (more center left, but they both do have their conservative journalists and op-eds) and the NYPost and Washington Times that are right-wing. Though NYPost is more gossip/tabloid.

Calling the NYT center left, even in a parenthetical, is a pretty far stretch.

Calling WaPo center at all is just flat out ignorance.

Or maybe I just want to believe that they're center-left

[Folly]

I could tweet (if I used that abomination) "I like pie." and I'd probably have a dozen or more responses calling me a cake-raper.

How would pie-affinity equate to cake-rape? If anything, it makes you a cake-bigot.
Not that is really matters, as everyone knows that cookies are the only superior pastry.

[sluissa]

Sheeit mang, draining doesn't really help a lot of these places. Water just comes back, 'cause they're coming from up north or underground. You gotta' fill 'em, and then hope some time in the future your junk doesn't fall over and sink, possibly after catching fire.

Suppose it's conceptually possible, but you wouldn't have to drain the swamp, you'd have to empty the aquifer, burn out the caverns, and turn much of the area between here and the Appalachians into dessicated deadlands. Then probably knock most of said range mountain down, to keep things from rolling back down it. Possibly empty the atlantic and/or solve global warming to keep the storms from trying to ramp up.

South Florida was actually doing a pretty good job of accidentally doing that to the Everglades. They diverted enough water for agriculture that the Everglades and Okeechobee were drying up. They seem to have slowed that a bit and avg rainfall over the past few years has been better so I think they're recovering. But it IS possible to drain a swamp. I mean... consider Disney World. It was built on a former swamp.