Funny (political, religious) pictures
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figmentPez
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If it's about pizza delivery folks, why is the line made up of that cardboard plate delivery company?
Conservatives. "Haha, Let's Go Brandon, it's our code word to say Fuck Joe Biden. Also, the media is the enemy of the people."
Biden to reporter. "You stupid son of a bitch."
Conservatives. "GASP! How rude!"
Biden to reporter. "You stupid son of a bitch."
Conservatives. "GASP! How rude!"
Well the "convoy" has reached the capital. The expected 50.,000 trucks did not appear to have made the journey. 17 tractors with trailers, 104 tractors and 400 Karens in cars.
But it did cause an unintended effect. All the regular truckers in an effort to avoid getting lumped into this silliness, formed a giant convoy of hundreds of trucks fleeing Toronto ahead of the convoy of Karens.
And there are solid rumours that the truckers in the convoy, are smarter than the average bear, they are dropping off loads in Ottawa and double dipping into the pay from the Karen mobiles.
Top Canadian defence officials condemn protesters dancing on Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
One video on Twitter showed an individual jumping on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial, yelling, "Freedom."
--Patrick
figmentPez
Staff member
Please tell me they didn't really ban "Maus" from schools.
Idiots
Hey now, some of them are not idiots. Some of them are intelligent, anti-Semitic assholes
"The world keeps getting dumber, insensitivity is standard, and faith is being fancied over reason"
NOFX, 2003
Unfortunately, the people who would do that don't have kids that could benefit from being exposed to it.
I mean, how clever are they if they tip their hand so obviously?
GasBandit
Staff member
What is anybody doing about it? What need to keep your hand covered if your plan is to be loud and threatening so everybody else folds?
No, that's because the voting rules weren't clear enough on making sure only the right people would vote. It's being remedied.
I'm not sure this is true, sadly. Seems like there were a LOT of people just waiting for the slightest sign that their beliefs weren't going to get them punched in the face to come crawling out into the sun.
I would say blindsided opportunists
GasBandit
Staff member
Thanks to the internet now, it's never been easier to set up and find existing echo chambers for any given political opinion or antisocial malignancy.
I know I make this "joke" a lot but...
Being a fuckhead in 1985: "I want to fuck a toaster" "Dude wtf get some psychological help" - Everybody in RL around person A
Being a fuckhead in 2015: "I want to fuck a toaster" "Here's 154,437 links, the top 5 of which are communities dedicated to sex with household appliances" - Google
Now just swap out toaster-fucking with nazi-being.
Of course, it cuts the other way, too. We're just as much an echo chamber here, and it reinforces the perception of certain worldviews being default/majority that may not necessarily be reflected in reality. That's why it's always so jarring for people like me to go outside and discover that, yes, 50% of the people in my geographic area are die hard trumpers. I mean, how could they be! Have they not been READING any of these political threads?!!
I know I make this "joke" a lot but...
Being a fuckhead in 1985: "I want to fuck a toaster" "Dude wtf get some psychological help" - Everybody in RL around person A
Being a fuckhead in 2015: "I want to fuck a toaster" "Here's 154,437 links, the top 5 of which are communities dedicated to sex with household appliances" - Google
Now just swap out toaster-fucking with nazi-being.
Of course, it cuts the other way, too. We're just as much an echo chamber here, and it reinforces the perception of certain worldviews being default/majority that may not necessarily be reflected in reality. That's why it's always so jarring for people like me to go outside and discover that, yes, 50% of the people in my geographic area are die hard trumpers. I mean, how could they be! Have they not been READING any of these political threads?!!
I don't think calling this an echo chamber is really fair. Yes, the majority of us are on the left side of the line, some more than others, but most of us are also typically willing to point out BS when we see it or opine when we think someone is wrong or counter to our own thoughts.
Now, I don't have the time right now, but I'll see if I can edit in some communist propaganda here later on.
GasBandit
Staff member
If your chamber is echoing reasonable, logical viewpoints and devoid of batshit crazy racists, it's still an echo chamber that is not representative of the demographic.
That's not what an echo chamber is though, an echo chamber only reinforces your already held beliefs and doesn't try to challenge or entertain other viewpoints. Now, if you want to say we as a collective are not representative of people as a whole, sure, people as a whole are fucked and we're just along for the ride.
GasBandit
Staff member
I can tell you right now I can think of at least 4 people who would definitely say that this community absolutely punishes dissenting political opinion. But I don't want to call them out because we're all just trying to keep the peace here.
God forbid (ha ha!) anybody ever have anything less-than-vociferously-damning to say about religion, landlords, or capitalism.
This forum absolutely is an insular echo chamber with its own approved narrative. It just happens to be the one everyone here thinks is the correct narrative. So they don't think it's an echo chamber, but simply a small eddy of sanity in an insane world.
Which is exactly what the people at stormfront think about their website, too.
Ehhh, I think it's a hell of a stretch to compare Halforums to extremist websites. Some people definitely dog-pile on differing thought regarding religion and other hot button topics, but that's not the whole forum, and not letting people get away with saying terrible things and holding them accountable for it isn't an echo chamber, it's being a responsible community.
And ignoring evidence isn't something most of us here let slide, no matter which persuasion of the political spectrum someone is on.
There are people within this community whose opinions and political standings do veer right rather than left. Yet they're still a part of the community. They can voice their opinions and I'll voice mine, but they get voiced all the same. Just because there's a consensus doesn't make it an echo chamber, otherwise literally everything in the world would be an echo chamber.
I'm the one that posited that being a landlord is morally wrong. I realize this is going to be, to some, an extreme view, and one that won't be shared by everyone. I know I'm still able to share that opinion, and others will disagree. I'm an atheist, others are religious or even acting clergy, and yet here we are. Just because someone says an unpopular opinion and gets pushback from people that disagree doesn't make it an echo chamber. If everyone all agreed and we just all jerked each other off, reinforcing bad opinions while ignoring the rest, -that- is an echo chamber.
In other words, if we were an echo chamber I wouldn't be telling you how I think your definition of echo chamber is way too loose.