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Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Wed April 20, 2016 5:51 pm
by Simple Torture
doug rr wrote:do those people think ben franklin was a president?
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Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Wed April 20, 2016 5:55 pm
by Self
Yes. Yes, they do.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Wed April 20, 2016 5:59 pm
by Simple Torture
doug rr wrote:do those people think ben franklin was a president?
When someone else in the comments pointed this out, 100% of those people--without exception--"clarified" that they meant "founding fathers" (without considering that Lincoln was born 20 years after the Constitution was ratified).

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Wed April 20, 2016 6:06 pm
by LoathedVermin72
It blows my mind that anyone could get legitimately upset about something as ultimately trivial as this. White American men have nothing to care about.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Wed April 20, 2016 6:08 pm
by Simple Torture
Lots of those comments (especially about Tubman's appearance, and the one about "OUR money") were from older white women.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Wed April 20, 2016 6:09 pm
by Kaius
LoathedVermin72 wrote:It blows my mind that anyone could get legitimately upset about something as ultimately trivial as this. White American men Rednecks have nothing to care about.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Wed April 20, 2016 6:10 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Simple Torture wrote:Lots of those comments (especially about Tubman's appearance, and the one about "OUR money") were from older white women.
Well, they have stuff to care about, though not all of them do.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Wed April 20, 2016 6:11 pm
by Kaius
Simple Torture wrote:Lots of those comments (especially about Tubman's appearance, and the one about "OUR money") were from older white women.
Being from the armpit of America, I can confirm that most boneheaded, mental trash comments I see are from middle-aged white people who live in suburbs or rural areas.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Wed April 20, 2016 6:14 pm
by Kaius
Kaius wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:Lots of those comments (especially about Tubman's appearance, and the one about "OUR money") were from older white women.
Being from the armpit of America, I can confirm that most boneheaded, mental trash comments I see are from middle-aged white people who live in suburbs or rural areas.
I'm willing to expand this into the few silent gen's that actually Facebook.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Thu April 21, 2016 12:16 am
by Dscans
Now I can't say pockets of them dead presidents anymore
He's got a pretty solid case here.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Thu April 21, 2016 12:26 am
by BurtReynolds
doug rr wrote:do those people think ben franklin was a president?
woah for a second I thought they were replacing Franklin. Replace the others IDGAF, but if you replace the Benjamin I will bomb a federal building. You don't fuck with Ben muthafuckin Franklin.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Thu April 21, 2016 12:44 am
by Simple Torture
BurtReynolds wrote:
doug rr wrote:do those people think ben franklin was a president?
woah for a second I thought they were replacing Franklin. Replace the others IDGAF, but if you replace the Benjamin I will bomb a federal building. You don't fuck with Ben muthafuckin Franklin.
All the undercover FBI agents on RM love this post.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Thu April 21, 2016 12:56 am
by Green Habit
BurtReynolds wrote:
doug rr wrote:do those people think ben franklin was a president?
woah for a second I thought they were replacing Franklin. Replace the others IDGAF, but if you replace the Benjamin I will bomb a federal building. You don't fuck with Ben muthafuckin Franklin.
A former Treasury secretary wants to do away with the Benjamin altogether.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... -100-bill/

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Thu April 21, 2016 1:04 am
by BurtReynolds
Green Habit wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
doug rr wrote:do those people think ben franklin was a president?
woah for a second I thought they were replacing Franklin. Replace the others IDGAF, but if you replace the Benjamin I will bomb a federal building. You don't fuck with Ben muthafuckin Franklin.
A former Treasury secretary wants to do away with the Benjamin altogether.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... -100-bill/
yeah fuck that guy

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Thu April 21, 2016 1:51 pm
by Brett
doug rr wrote:do those people think ben franklin was a president?
Alexander Hamilton, too, apparently. Admittedly, he's not as well known as Franklin, but still.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Fri April 22, 2016 6:09 am
by simple schoolboy
BurtReynolds wrote:
Green Habit wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
doug rr wrote:do those people think ben franklin was a president?
woah for a second I thought they were replacing Franklin. Replace the others IDGAF, but if you replace the Benjamin I will bomb a federal building. You don't fuck with Ben muthafuckin Franklin.
A former Treasury secretary wants to do away with the Benjamin altogether.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... -100-bill/
yeah fuck that guy
Hes a persona non grata because of sexism unless he proposes ways to increase tax revenue, in which case he's a serious academic.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Wed April 27, 2016 3:54 pm
by McParadigm
I was punched in the face because I look like Shia LaBeouf

http://nypost.com/2016/04/26/i-was-punc ... a-labeouf/

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Wed April 27, 2016 11:18 pm
by Green Habit
Paging Bammer:

http://www.ktvb.com/sports/univ-of-wash ... /156325012

Univ. of Wash. pulls cheerleader tryout advice after backlash
Spoiler: show
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Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Wed April 27, 2016 11:22 pm
by BurtReynolds
McParadigm wrote:I was punched in the face because I look like Shia LaBeouf

http://nypost.com/2016/04/26/i-was-punc ... a-labeouf/
deserved it.

Re: Not worthy of a thread News

Posted: Sat April 30, 2016 1:00 am
by LoathedVermin72