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Tea in tiny jars and paper cones
Look! I maed a tumblr.
Without intentionally being a sad sack over their good intentions, the poor don’t need the well-off starving themselves for a few days to show their support. They need their incomes raised so they have enough to feed themselves.
The reason people go hungry is because benefits were slashed by this Government to pay for tax cuts to the wealthy.
Literally people whose jobs are to weigh in on this sort of thing have actually done it. Read it.
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An anti-choice graphic.
Because pro-life and guns go SO WELL TOGETHER.
And also religion and the state. BFFs, amirite?
(Source: antichoicescreencaps)
Tea in tiny jars and paper cones: mr-cappadocia: uglyorangecouch: My Grandpa wanted Romney to win...
My Grandpa wanted Romney to win because Obama’s going to ruin the economy. Even though that’s clearly not true. What is with conservatives and not believing facts?
I’m also wondering if I should remind him that he has two granddaughters with uteri, one…
“Didn’t cost me a cent”.
Quick question, who did pay for it?
Taxpayers. At that point I was still a student and students pay hardly any tax, and get most of that back in tax returns once April rolls around.
Now that I have a full-time job, I’m happy to pay my taxes which support my health care as well as everyone else’s. A universal health care system costs everyone less than paying for their own insurance would. My taxes also go to lots of other awesome things like building roads and paying teachers, which our society couldn’t function without.
I’m not saying it’s perfect, and there are definitely some things I wish my taxes didn’t pay for (like the military), but being a citizen in a diverse country is about compromise, and despite the mistakes my government makes, I’m still happy I live in Canada, and I have no problem paying taxes. Because I’m not an immature douchecanoe.
So, someone else paid for it. Someone else, who did not have the option. Did not have the choice. Could not opt out short of death or renunciation of citizenry.
Yeah, you sound real pro choice to me.
Hahahaha wow. You have no understanding of how the world works. At all.
Okay, choice about paying taxes or not is not even remotely the same as bodily autonomy. I shouldn’t have to explain this, but I will, because I feel sorry for you.
Take a look at your money. It probably has some sort of government name on it. Why? Because that money does not belong to you. As part of a country, you earned that money with the help of every other person in that same country. Without roads to transport things or teachers to educate you or doctors to keep you healthy (if you live in one of those ~evil socialist countries~). You are required to give back to those same people. It makes sense for people to pay for things like basic education because having a country of people who are all educated benefits everyone. Clearly your county requires more funding for that.
Now take a look at your body. Did it come with a government seal on it? No, it didn’t. Because it doesn’t belong to anyone but you. Therefore the government cannot demand that you give up any part of it for anyone else for any length of time.
So it’s your argument that my work, and the income I earn from that work… is really just work I borrowed from the government? That if I bust my ass in a coal mine 12 hours a day, six days a week, risking life and limb so your ass can play on the internet… that I’m really just working for the government?
Reading comprehension is not your strong point, is it?
Who built the roads that transport the coal away from the spot where you dug it up to the spot where people pay you for it?
The government did. With tax money. Other people were required to pay taxes in order for you to earn money. THAT’S HOW SOCIETY FUNCTIONS. THAT’S MY GODDAMN POINT HERE.
Also I love how I’m “playing on the internet” and you’re, what? DOING THE EXACT FUCKING SAME THING.
We can all use roads. Tell me again how I can use food that you put into your mouth, especially when you’re taking that food directly out of mine?
Though i like how your defense of the state is that it took money from people to do stuff, often did a terrible job at it, and had a monopoly doing so… and that’s your justification for why it needs more money.
You’re like those fucking teachers that demand more money even though we’re at historic lows on SAT scores.
WE CAN ALL USE ROADS BECAUSE WE ALL PAID FOR THEM.
Do you even hear yourself?
Also, when teachers go on strike they’re often not asking for higher salaries, they’re asking for more funding for the schools. They don’t want more money for themselves, they want more supplies etc. so they can teach better and do better for the kids. Try research sometime.
Tea in tiny jars and paper cones: mr-cappadocia: uglyorangecouch: My Grandpa wanted Romney to win...
My Grandpa wanted Romney to win because Obama’s going to ruin the economy. Even though that’s clearly not true. What is with conservatives and not believing facts?
I’m also wondering if I should remind him that he has two granddaughters with uteri, one…
“Didn’t cost me a cent”.
Quick question, who did pay for it?
Taxpayers. At that point I was still a student and students pay hardly any tax, and get most of that back in tax returns once April rolls around.
Now that I have a full-time job, I’m happy to pay my taxes which support my health care as well as everyone else’s. A universal health care system costs everyone less than paying for their own insurance would. My taxes also go to lots of other awesome things like building roads and paying teachers, which our society couldn’t function without.
I’m not saying it’s perfect, and there are definitely some things I wish my taxes didn’t pay for (like the military), but being a citizen in a diverse country is about compromise, and despite the mistakes my government makes, I’m still happy I live in Canada, and I have no problem paying taxes. Because I’m not an immature douchecanoe.
So, someone else paid for it. Someone else, who did not have the option. Did not have the choice. Could not opt out short of death or renunciation of citizenry.
Yeah, you sound real pro choice to me.
Hahahaha wow. You have no understanding of how the world works. At all.
Okay, choice about paying taxes or not is not even remotely the same as bodily autonomy. I shouldn’t have to explain this, but I will, because I feel sorry for you.
Take a look at your money. It probably has some sort of government name on it. Why? Because that money does not belong to you. As part of a country, you earned that money with the help of every other person in that same country. Without roads to transport things or teachers to educate you or doctors to keep you healthy (if you live in one of those ~evil socialist countries~). You are required to give back to those same people. It makes sense for people to pay for things like basic education because having a country of people who are all educated benefits everyone. Clearly your county requires more funding for that.
Now take a look at your body. Did it come with a government seal on it? No, it didn’t. Because it doesn’t belong to anyone but you. Therefore the government cannot demand that you give up any part of it for anyone else for any length of time.
So it’s your argument that my work, and the income I earn from that work… is really just work I borrowed from the government? That if I bust my ass in a coal mine 12 hours a day, six days a week, risking life and limb so your ass can play on the internet… that I’m really just working for the government?
Reading comprehension is not your strong point, is it?
Who built the roads that transport the coal away from the spot where you dug it up to the spot where people pay you for it?
The government did. With tax money. Other people were required to pay taxes in order for you to earn money. THAT’S HOW SOCIETY FUNCTIONS. THAT’S MY GODDAMN POINT HERE.
Also I love how I’m “playing on the internet” and you’re, what? DOING THE EXACT FUCKING SAME THING.
Tea in tiny jars and paper cones: mr-cappadocia: uglyorangecouch: My Grandpa wanted Romney to win...
My Grandpa wanted Romney to win because Obama’s going to ruin the economy. Even though that’s clearly not true. What is with conservatives and not believing facts?
I’m also wondering if I should remind him that he has two granddaughters with uteri, one…
“Didn’t cost me a cent”.
Quick question, who did pay for it?
Taxpayers. At that point I was still a student and students pay hardly any tax, and get most of that back in tax returns once April rolls around.
Now that I have a full-time job, I’m happy to pay my taxes which support my health care as well as everyone else’s. A universal health care system costs everyone less than paying for their own insurance would. My taxes also go to lots of other awesome things like building roads and paying teachers, which our society couldn’t function without.
I’m not saying it’s perfect, and there are definitely some things I wish my taxes didn’t pay for (like the military), but being a citizen in a diverse country is about compromise, and despite the mistakes my government makes, I’m still happy I live in Canada, and I have no problem paying taxes. Because I’m not an immature douchecanoe.
So, someone else paid for it. Someone else, who did not have the option. Did not have the choice. Could not opt out short of death or renunciation of citizenry.
Yeah, you sound real pro choice to me.
Hahahaha wow. You have no understanding of how the world works. At all.
Okay, choice about paying taxes or not is not even remotely the same as bodily autonomy. I shouldn’t have to explain this, but I will, because I feel sorry for you.
Take a look at your money. It probably has some sort of government name on it. Why? Because that money does not belong to you. As part of a country, you earned that money with the help of every other person in that same country. Without roads to transport things or teachers to educate you or doctors to keep you healthy (if you live in one of those ~evil socialist countries~). You are required to give back to those same people. It makes sense for people to pay for things like basic education because having a country of people who are all educated benefits everyone. Clearly your county requires more funding for that.
Now take a look at your body. Did it come with a government seal on it? No, it didn’t. Because it doesn’t belong to anyone but you. Therefore the government cannot demand that you give up any part of it for anyone else for any length of time.
Tea in tiny jars and paper cones: mr-cappadocia: uglyorangecouch: My Grandpa wanted Romney to win...
My Grandpa wanted Romney to win because Obama’s going to ruin the economy. Even though that’s clearly not true. What is with conservatives and not believing facts?
I’m also wondering if I should remind him that he has two granddaughters with uteri, one…
“Didn’t cost me a cent”.
Quick question, who did pay for it?
Taxpayers. At that point I was still a student and students pay hardly any tax, and get most of that back in tax returns once April rolls around.
Now that I have a full-time job, I’m happy to pay my taxes which support my health care as well as everyone else’s. A universal health care system costs everyone less than paying for their own insurance would. My taxes also go to lots of other awesome things like building roads and paying teachers, which our society couldn’t function without.
I’m not saying it’s perfect, and there are definitely some things I wish my taxes didn’t pay for (like the military), but being a citizen in a diverse country is about compromise, and despite the mistakes my government makes, I’m still happy I live in Canada, and I have no problem paying taxes. Because I’m not an immature douchecanoe.
My Grandpa wanted Romney to win because Obama’s going to ruin the economy. Even though that’s clearly not true. What is with conservatives and not believing facts?
I’m also wondering if I should remind him that he has two granddaughters with uteri, one of whom is bisexual, and it’s about time he started caring about something other than his bank account.
That might turn out badly. I’m just very frustrated with him right now.
You live in a land of such wealth and plenty… that you really don’t grasp what others have endured to put you there.
I wonder what government programs you’d sign up for at the drop of a hat.
I checked out this guy’s blog… MRA WARNING holy shit.
I live in Canada. What the hell makes you think I don’t appreciate that fact every single goddamn day?
I know who fought for my rights and the life I enjoy.
I can get an abortion if I want, and yes, tax dollars pay for it, but I still have to fight for access and to keep that right.
My partner got laid off a few months ago and he’s been on employment insurance, which is an awesome government program that helps people stay on their feet when bad circumstances come by. Everyone who has a full-time job pays into it.
I’m glad I live in a country where I know I won’t go bankrupt if I break my leg or get cancer or have a giant cyst on my fallopian tube like I did last year (I say “did” because I got it removed and it didn’t cost me a cent), because guess what, I don’t have insurance (which means I do have to pay for my own birth control because the government doesn’t cover prescription drugs… yet).
After I graduated I was looking for a job for about three months before I found one, and if I was still unemployed you can bet your ass I’d be trying to get on welfare.
Nobody is capable of economic success on their own, and the people who have that need to recognise all the people that helped them get there.
Your entire argument is based on the idea that government programs are bad. Try again when you actually have something to back yourself up.
Bill Maher is overall a problematic figure but OH MY GOD THIS.
(Source: anapproachableatheist, via stfuconservatives)
I’m going to eliminate every non-essential, expensive program I can find, that includes Obamacare,
Republican presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY, essentially telling 30 million Americans without health insurance that they’re “non-essential.”
Good job, Mitt.
So he’s going to be cutting the military budget, I take it? That is the most expensive thing the US government spends money on, and cutting it could lower taxes significantly…
(Source: inothernews, via stfuconservatives)
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Here it is, folks… The 2012 Republican Party Platform: Fascism Anyone?
Fascism Anyone?
by Lawrence W. Britt
“For the purpose of this perspective, I will consider the following regimes: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia. To be sure, they constitute a mixed bag of national identities, cultures, developmental levels, and history. But they all followed the fascist or protofascist model in obtaining, expanding, and maintaining power. Further, all these regimes have been overthrown, so a more or less complete picture of their basic characteristics and abuses is possible.
Analysis of these seven regimes reveals fourteen common threads that link them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power. These [14] basic characteristics are more prevalent and intense in some regimes than in others, but they all share at least some level of similarity.”
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
This isn’t the Republicans, people. It’s the Canadian Conservatives.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m64ovai5761qinrtgo1_500.jpg)
Here it is, folks… The 2012 Republican Party Platform: Fascism Anyone?
by Lawrence W. Britt
“For the purpose of this perspective, I will consider the following regimes: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia. To be sure, they constitute a mixed bag of national identities, cultures, developmental levels, and history. But they all followed the fascist or protofascist model in obtaining, expanding, and maintaining power. Further, all these regimes have been overthrown, so a more or less complete picture of their basic characteristics and abuses is possible.
Analysis of these seven regimes reveals fourteen common threads that link them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power. These [14] basic characteristics are more prevalent and intense in some regimes than in others, but they all share at least some level of similarity.”
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
This isn’t the Republicans, people. It’s the Canadian Conservatives.
(Source: phroyd, via stfuconservatives)
