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rennyn_alerothi ([info]rennyn_alerothi) wrote in [info]unfunnybusiness,
@ 2008-06-18 14:52:00
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Current mood:OMGWTF
Entry tags:gonna be a looong campaign

If this is real, then I've just lost a little bit more faith in humanity.
JUST NO.

Sitck A Pin In It.

Or as one commenter put it, "RACISM? IN MY TEXAS GOP?"

I think I'm going to be sick.


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[info]the__ivorytower
2008-06-18 09:02 pm UTC (link)
No, it's called the White House because you had to white wash it after we burnt it down. Need us to do it again?

That being said, is there a weight LARGE enough for me to drop on the person who made that pin? Or a distance large enough so they can fall onto something pointy?

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[info]mary_mac
2008-06-19 12:28 am UTC (link)
Get them high enough, what they land on doesn't need to be pointy...

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[info]hangingfire
2008-06-18 09:09 pm UTC (link)
...so tired to having to explain to people that not everyone in Texas is a Moron-American.

These assholes aren't helping.

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[info]sithwitch13
2008-06-18 10:30 pm UTC (link)
Ditto. Last time I thought I was making headway, some idiots the next town over from me threw a shitfit and fired a principal for giving a presentation on how Muslims are people too after a kid got his ass beat for being Muslim.

I feel like I've said "Fuck this shit" too many times this year in regards to retarded-assed politics. And yet it shows no sign of letting up.

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[info]hangingfire
2008-06-18 10:57 pm UTC (link)
On a happier note -- [info]rennyn_alerothi, that Elric icon made my very cranky afternoon much better.

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2008-06-19 10:44 pm UTC (link)
:D I'm glad something did.

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2008-06-19 10:45 pm UTC (link)
Same here. It's not a great time to be from Texas right now. D:

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[info]hangingfire
2008-06-19 10:49 pm UTC (link)
Hasn't really been for the last eight years, but I have a feeling it's going to be worse, not better, before the Shrub finally gets put out to pasture.

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iwanttobeasleep
2008-06-18 09:26 pm UTC (link)
For a moment there I thought it might be an interesting LOLedgy comment on how the White House has always had white presidents. Because as a racist joke it doesn't make a shit load of sense.

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[info]watersword
2008-06-18 09:33 pm UTC (link)
::vomits::

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[info]hallidae
2008-06-18 09:44 pm UTC (link)
I think the Liberals are showing their true colors right here. What happened to the party of tolerance and love? I'm reading a lot of hate.

Yes, because clearly if we object to a racist button, we're just as horribly intolerant as the people who made it. Fuck you, bub.

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[info]dez_chan
2008-06-19 01:52 am UTC (link)
You know what? Fuck it. I've got no problem being intolerant of people that are this ignorant. But then again, I might be a bad liberal but I've a feeling I'd be a worse conservative.

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[info]kittikattie
2008-06-19 04:50 am UTC (link)
I love how tolerate has come to mean "you have to put up with what I do no matter how offensive."

I don't have to tolerate BULLSHIT.

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[info]kijikun
2008-06-18 10:20 pm UTC (link)
Can my State fail any harder?

I mean really. Gah.

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[info]madam_marozi
2008-06-19 05:06 am UTC (link)
As a resident of the Monkey T-Shirt state, please allow me to commiserate.

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2008-06-19 10:46 pm UTC (link)
I keep telling people that the Bushes really aren't from here (one of the chants we employed at antiwar rallies here in Dallas was, "BUSH IS FROM CONNETICUT!")

It's going to take us a lot time to redeem ourselves.

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[info]ceteramisto
2008-06-21 02:10 am UTC (link)
As someone form Connecticut, I have to say that Texas and Florida have the Bushes now. We've washed our hands of them. Besides we still have another four years worth of Joe Lieberman.

Though I was so proud of our Republican governor, Jodi Rell, for sending the Lieutenant Governor to the Coast Guard Academy when Shrub was speaking at the graduations. She felt that a previously scheduled meeting with governor of Massachusetts to discuss regional issues was more important.

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[info]microclimate
2008-06-18 11:05 pm UTC (link)
And it's only June!

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[info]kylenne
2008-06-19 10:14 am UTC (link)
...I'm gonna go lie down until like, December.

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[info]microclimate
2008-06-19 10:56 am UTC (link)
I wish I could do that, but the new James Bond movie comes out the same week as the General Election. ;_;

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[info]sgaana
2008-06-18 11:12 pm UTC (link)
I suppose we could look at it as the fuckwits clearly labeling themselves so that we can spot them more easily. Takes the guesswork right out of it. "You're from the state of , but I know that there are reasonable and unreasonable people all over, so... oh, wait, I didn't notice your button. So you're one of the fuckwits, then. Right. No need to waste time on you."

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[info]hitchhiker42
2008-06-18 11:52 pm UTC (link)
Apparently the dude only sold four of those pins, and has been banned from any further Texas GOP events. State party leadership donated the $1,500 he paid for his booth to flood victims, and recommended that he be banned from selling at the national convention.

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[info]microclimate
2008-06-19 12:04 am UTC (link)
pwn'd!

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[info]lady_ganesh
2008-06-19 01:47 am UTC (link)
Yay! Now can we make the sock monkey people go away?

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[info]nam_jai
2008-06-19 02:52 am UTC (link)
Oh yes. Did you see their extended whine about how the mean bloggers were ZOMG, OPPRESSING THEM!

free enterprise has been censored, and TheSockObama politically plush toy has been discriminated against in the marketplace of the United States of America.

Unsurprisingly, they're of that lot that thinks that "free enterprise" and "free speech" only applies to them, not to customers who might freely choose not to buy their racist product, or to critics who might freely point out how racist it is.

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[info]hitchhiker42
2008-06-19 02:57 am UTC (link)
That's sockpuppet, actually. And being a conservative in a comm full of liberals doesn't make me a sockpuppet, it just makes me right the unholy spawn of Ronald Reagan and Ann Coulter, created to destroy all you hold dear.

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[info]hitchhiker42
2008-06-19 03:04 am UTC (link)
Herm... *notes comment that wasn't there before* You mean you weren't referring to me? But I had such a good head of righteous indignation worked up! Not to mention unwarranted whining about being oppressed. Whatever do you expect me to do know?


*Slinks off to wherever the Harmonians are hanging out now*

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[info]khym_chanur
2008-06-19 06:19 am UTC (link)
*pokes you with an opresshun stick*

Does that help?

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[info]aerobot
2008-06-19 05:08 am UTC (link)
OWNED! Ah, faith in humanity gains a point or two.

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[info]midnight_hawk
2008-06-19 08:17 am UTC (link)
That's reassuring. I'm not American, so its really hard to see all this kind of stuff in the media and not start thinking of Americans in terms of stereotypes, which just makes the whole problem worse, which is stupid because xenophobia exists everwhere, we (humans) ought to know that by now.

Nice to see this stuff is not tolerated, even if it can't be bitch-slapped entirely.

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[info]blue_penguin
2008-06-19 06:34 pm UTC (link)
That makes me feel so much better about humanity.

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2008-06-19 10:47 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that does make me feel better. At least there are people in the GOP willing to put the smack down on stuff like that.

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[info]shinga
2008-06-19 12:10 am UTC (link)
I'm not terribly offended so much by the racism of the pin... but goddamn am I offended by people that think it's funny. That joke sucks. Anyone who laughs at it deserves a smack upside the head.

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[info]midnight_hawk
2008-06-19 12:45 am UTC (link)
I remember an episode of the Muppet show where Miss Piggy made it into "The Pinkhouse". I'm just going to choose to think about that instead, it's got sparkles and stuff.

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[info]microclimate
2008-06-19 12:55 am UTC (link)
You mean the Casa Rosada?

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[info]kijikun
2008-06-19 09:28 pm UTC (link)
But the Pinkhouse is fabulous!

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tree
2008-06-19 01:05 am UTC (link)
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

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[info]photosinensis
2008-06-19 01:15 am UTC (link)
Only 4 were sold.

That said, 4 were sold. I have half a mind to track down these morons and beat them with the fail stick. Since the convention is ongoing and in Houston, they haven't gone far.

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[info]annaham
2008-06-19 01:40 am UTC (link)
Fail: This button is made of it.

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[info]aerobot
2008-06-19 05:11 am UTC (link)
And god, it's only June. I bet a million dollars there's going to be jokes about the 'blackhouse' or Obama living in the new 'hood' or ... urgh, I can't even keep going.

This isn't even my election and it's painful.

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[info]gardnerhill
2008-06-19 06:58 am UTC (link)
Ah, the logic of the Internet: If you dare to point at something clearly racist, and label it as clearly racist, YOU'RE the REAL racist for noticing it, and mentioning it.

And once again white male bigoted pigdicks are the Most Oppwessed Minowity in the United States and Evwybuddy's Picking On Us, Waaaaaaaahhhhhh...

I made the mistake, a few years ago, of noticing the racism in the Disney Pirates films, and saying so. Very enlightening, the responses.

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[info]jaythenerdkid
2008-06-19 08:11 am UTC (link)
Gah! I don't want to feel bad for supporting conservative candidates, dammit!

(Not my election, of course, but still.)

I wish the bigots would GTFO of my side of the political spectrum.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2008-06-20 03:07 am UTC (link)
Uh, commenter guy? How, exactly, is that as bad as "Hot Women Vote for Obama"?

I'm not going to have to track you down and punch you, too, am I? *adds to list*

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[info]chibikaijuu
2008-06-20 03:08 am UTC (link)
Er, in the sense of it being much, much worse. Because, wtf.

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[info]lilychan
2008-06-20 06:32 am UTC (link)
-facepalm- Oh, Texas...

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[info]dez_chan
2008-06-20 07:27 am UTC (link)
The asshole who made these pins makes a whole lot more sexist ones.

Honestly I've got nothing coherent to say about this kind of bullshit.

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