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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100911/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_sept11
It's an article reporting Obama's speech. That's fine. The comments, however, make me want to violently vomit.
"We are having to "tolerate" a federal government that will not do its job. Who's next on the list to be sued by the feds? Arizona and Sheriff Joe are being sued because they want a lawful America. We're supposed to "tolerate" 9-ll, millions of illegals, gangs, drug cartels. When will the feds. listen to the people of this country?"
"What else would you expect of a Muslim? He has to protect his people.
Muslims go first. They fired the first shot."
"Smoking weed has kept me from going on a libtard muzzler killing spree"
"Christians can't pray in school ~ Muslims are allowed to have a whole school day off for Eid
WE can't have days of silence for all the aborted babies ~ Gays can have a day of silence for those who are stuck in the closet.
People burn Bibles all the time ~ One church threatens to burn Qu-rans and it's the end of the world.
Pepsi took out in God we trust because it may offend some people.
So we should tolerate those who don't tolerate us? I don't think so." (One or two fair points in that one, but still shockingly lacks perspective and view of the bigger picture)
"Has this idiot lost his frigging mind. We should never let our guard down again and we should never let it down with regards to Islam. There are a lot of good muslim people, but how can we tell the differance between the good and bad? The could good muslim people need to start cleaning there house of the bad ones. And until then we should suspect everyone! Politican correctness is only going to get many more killed because of these fanatic's" (LOL WOW JUST WOW)
"I am so sick of being told we have to tolerate/accept and respect other religions. Here's a novel idea: When I am respected, tolerated and appreciated for MY beliefs, I'll give YOURS a chance. No matter how narrow minded I might be, you HAVE TO accept me! Those are the "rules", right?
You go first and I'll wait for my turn. Screw Obama and his drivel."
"Tolerance???
We are too tolerant today. I wonder how tolerant we were of American nazis during WWII.
If we aren't careful tolerance and diversity will kill us."
And that's all just on the first page.
Kekekekekekkee.
Humanity has cast retardation on PH.
It's super effective!
PH's faith in humanity has been reduced to zero.
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Humans also made the computer you wrote that post on.
Be careful of overgeneralizing from the dumbest but loudest (lulz) that you hear.
I should have said "Americans," but that might not be true. Well, Americans made the forum you're posting on...
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Please note, it is news.yahoo.com
I think you expected to much.
I'm actually surprised that the people who use yahoo.com were actually able to find the comment button.
EDIT: A lot of the comments are pretty good. Did you even read them OP? -.-
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why not "lose faith in humanity" about stuff that you can personally change or handle? you seem to be taking other people's opinions about the way the country is ran way to personally. you don't think everyone is going to agree with your opinions 100% of the time do you? if they don't share your opinion, it makes them wrong?
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The really funny thing that people fail to understand is that Obamas problem is that he is still far to corporate and not really liberal enough.
There is far more to being "progressive" than just handing out a bunch of money. He is still far to responsive to business interests and does nothing to protect our economy from being raped by the few in the private sector.
These people make me laugh. Liberal? Obama? Libtard? You have got to be kidding me.
I agree with you about this country. People need to turn off their TV's and realize that is garbage.
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everyone's a little racist.
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United States24775 Posts
People often intentionally say extreme things in places like that.
Comments are almost never the place to go for reasonable opinions.
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as much as i appreciate the left-wing circlejerk one must realize that there are idiots in all political affiliations. It's just that some are more in the public spotlight than others.
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On September 12 2010 04:40 synapse wrote:
I blame FOX news.
but its fair & balanced!
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to be too tolerant isn't a good thing though.. americans are hated all over the world no wonder they have such "racist" reflexes. just like the israelis sometimes.. time will heal the wounds, i guess. after WWII nobody trusted a german fellow.
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On September 12 2010 04:26 LSB wrote:
Please note, it is news.yahoo.com
I think you expected to much.
I'm actually surprised that the people who use yahoo.com were actually able to find the comment button.
EDIT: A lot of the comments are pretty good. Did you even read them OP? -.-
I didn't go past the first page. Couldn't stomach it. There was one reasonable comment on the first page. Then I stopped.
On September 12 2010 04:27 Urnhardt wrote:
why not "lose faith in humanity" about stuff that you can personally change or handle? you seem to be taking other people's opinions about the way the country is ran way to personally. you don't think everyone is going to agree with your opinions 100% of the time do you? if they don't share your opinion, it makes them wrong?
Wrong views are wrong. My views are my views. I doubt they're all 'right', but sorry...calling our president (regardless of who it is) a sellout making our country vulnerable and calling muslims untrustworthy is retarded. It doesn't matter if it clashes with my views, that's just pure idiocy.
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Toleration of idiots and the right to free speech, no matter how ignorant or ridiculous, are two signs of a country in relative security.
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On September 12 2010 04:51 seRapH wrote:but its fair & balanced!
nahh its OP!!! omgsh im so tired of these threads though. Too many dumb Americans --
Myself included lol...
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thedeadhaji
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There are really no absolute truths - but the converse is true as well. Even these extreme comments have a sliver of "truth" in them.
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most are a bunch of dumb trolls that have nothing better to do on a saturday afternoon
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On September 12 2010 04:40 synapse wrote:
I blame FOX news.
This.
Along with the fact that it's the extremists who are the loudest... they're the ones who make you instantly facepalm -.-'
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In 2008, we elected a center-left corporate apologist for president. The thing is, he was black, which gave the right wing all the excuses they needed to completely lose their minds for the next 4-8 years.
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On September 12 2010 06:01 thedeadhaji wrote:
There are really no absolute truths - but the converse is true as well. Even these extreme comments have a sliver of "truth" in them.
+ Show Spoiler +
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On September 12 2010 04:23 BottleAbuser wrote:
Humans also made the computer you wrote that post on.
Be careful of overgeneralizing from the dumbest but loudest (lulz) that you hear.
I should have said "Americans," but that might not be true. Well, Americans made the forum you're posting on...
our founders meat and nazgul are both dutch, and the super admin mani is Canadian.
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"We are having to "tolerate" a federal government that will not do its job. Who's next on the list to be sued by the feds? Arizona and Sheriff Joe are being sued because they want a lawful America. We're supposed to "tolerate" 9-ll, millions of illegals, gangs, drug cartels. When will the feds. listen to the people of this country?"
You know, this is actually a reasonable comment.
Yah, some of that is retarded extremist gibberish but it's the internet I bet half are trolls who don't believe it anyways. But, you can't dismiss things like the above quote simply because he's not "liberal" minded.
People really need to stop ranting about "corporate this" and "racism that" when people are simply expressing concern over Obama's (largely failing) policies.
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"Smoking weed has kept me from going on a libtard muzzler killing spree"
That made me LOL. Literally.
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On September 12 2010 04:49 Caller wrote:
as much as i appreciate the left-wing circlejerk one must realize that there are idiots in all political affiliations. It's just that some are more in the public spotlight than others.
this is very true. i defintely lean to the left and i wanted to punch most democrats in the face after bush won his first time around before he even did anything retarded.....
Seriously, ever talk to a 9/11 truther?? those people can fuck offfff
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why get so worked up over anonymous internet comments
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United States22883 Posts
Because they're becoming not-so-anonymous real life comments. I'm sure eventually it will die out as idealogues and populists usually do, but for the time being it's disconcerting that flocks of people are being led by uneducated entertainers. It's equally troubling (arguably moreso) that the left has tried to play catchup in the game of folksie sayings and aw shucks attitudes. I was well aware that Obama was a pragmatic centrist when I worked for him, but the level of compromise that he and Congress are making right now is disillusioning to me. I never drank the Kool-aid, but now it tastes like hemlock.
They're too fearful of being seen as defiant liberals by the other 45% that they've disappointed the 53% that put them in power. It goes not just for Obama, but the weak Democrat congress as well. Perhaps my standards have been set too high by President Bartlett, but it's shameful to think that in my country, official's education has become a liability rather than an asset. People are so insecure that they've chosen their leaders to be people that are like them, rather than people that are better than them. We lower the level of public discourse rather than raise it, and both public and private political debate has been ground down into a series of catchphrases written by PR directors, rather than informed debate, discussion and reasoning set by policy experts.
It's a depressing time to be a political science or public policy person.
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