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[Darvi]

*golfclap*

*that is, not hitting you with a golf club. Actual clapping*

[Mego]

And I see a grand total of one item. Which is admittedly a good guy thing, but still.

He posted another one on Facebook. I'm not sure why it's not on the tumblr yet. He's probably churning out a bunch more.

Spoiler: Other One (I do not endorse this) (click to show/hide)

[Darvi]

I'm not even sure what that one's supposed to mean. Is Romney gonna steal your furniture (general consensus is yes)?

[palsch]

To be fair to Romney, he was an active and senior member of his church. That means doing ministry. Sitting with the sick and dying, informal counselling, all that stuff.

He hasn't really been using it because anything related to the Mormon church is tainted with the electorate, but it's likely he has a lot of do-gooder stories if people cared to dig. I seem to remember seeing one article elsewhere but can't find it now.

[Nadaka]

Even Hitler was very fond of dogs, and a vegetarian.

[RedKing]

I know that wasn't a real Godwin, but...

Yeah, I'm not saying Romney is an asshole, it's just....okay, I'm totally saying he's an asshole.

[scriver]

You can be an asshole and still he a really nice and true guy at Tue same time. It's the magic of monkey spheres.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

To be fair to Romney, he was an active and senior member of his church. That means doing ministry. Sitting with the sick and dying, informal counselling, all that stuff.

Oh please. Corrupt church officials were old in the 1300's.

Even Hitler was very fond of dogs, and a vegetarian.

Hitler wasn't a vegetarian. That's an urban legend.

You can be an asshole and still he a really nice and true guy at Tue same time. It's the magic of monkey spheres.

That's true, but there is a general trend. All humans are limited by Dunbar's Number, but there's still a difference between, for example, Fred Rogers and Rupert Murdoch.

[Nadaka]

I was looking at my sample ballot and I noticed something odd about the order of the candidates. For every race there is only one consistent aspect. Republican candidates are always listed first.

[Lord Shonus]

A lot of times they cluster them like that to make it harder to vote for the wrong party by accident, especially in local races where a given party may have multiple candidates. We've been a Democratic stronghold for decades, and the Republicans are usually listed first on ballots here.


I'm really confused about the Ohio senate race. We're a purple state (meaning that there's no guaranteed statewide party affiliation), yet the Republican candidate is running such a poor campaign, it's almost as if he's trying to lose.

[Owlbread]

To be fair to Romney, he was an active and senior member of his church. That means doing ministry. Sitting with the sick and dying, informal counselling, all that stuff.

Oh please. Corrupt church officials were old in the 1300's.

Even Hitler was very fond of dogs, and a vegetarian.

Hitler wasn't a vegetarian. That's an urban legend.

You can be an asshole and still he a really nice and true guy at Tue same time. It's the magic of monkey spheres.

That's true, but there is a general trend. All humans are limited by Dunbar's Number, but there's still a difference between, for example, Fred Rogers and Rupert Murdoch.

I know this is meant to be a thread for the election, but:

"In a diary entry dated April 26, 1942, Joseph Goebbels described Hitler as a committed vegetarian, writing,

    An extended chapter of our talk was devoted by the Führer to the vegetarian question. He believes more than ever that meat-eating is harmful to humanity. Of course he knows that during the war we cannot completely upset our food system. After the war, however, he intends to tackle this problem also. Maybe he is right. Certainly the arguments that he adduces in favor of his standpoint are very compelling."

Hitler is believed to have been a vegetarian or at least reduced the amount of meat in his diet.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

While that is true, it is well known that Hitler particularly liked sausage, as most Germans did. Hitler did a lot of hypocritical things. That happens when you are as mentally unbalanced as he was.

[scriver]

The theory that Hitler was gay is completely unfounded, MSH, and I don't see what that has to do with his vegetarianness.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Oh, come on! He even had all of his people's uniforms be black leather! What more proof do you need that Hitler was the Gay Antichrist?

[mainiac]

"In a diary entry dated April 26, 1942, Joseph Goebbels described Hitler as a committed vegetarian [...]

Have you read Jefferson's first draft of the declaration of independence?  The part where he says that slavery is evil and one of the goals of the revolution will be abolition of slavery?  This came from a man who owned a slave plantation until the day he died.

History is full of hypocrites and Hitler saying vegetarianism is good while eating meat doesn't even rise to the level of hypocrisy.  Vegetarianism being good for your health, soul and environment was a very broadly held view in the later 19th and early 20th century.  From a propaganda standpoint it would look good.  But that didn't make Hitler a vegetarian any more then Obama's public policy goal of reducing smoking makes Obama a non-smoker.  How often do you see Obama smoking?