>> ^Sagemind:

I'd call it funny. It's a Sarcastic face slap to Todd Akin's Rape Comments.
http://videosift.com/video/Todd-Akins-Rape-Comments-Represe
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Get ready - there are a bunch of videos that are on their way dealing with this issue and Todd Akin is the punchline at the end of every joke.
>> ^PostalBlowfish:
its a little heavy handed to be labeled a joke, and im not sure where the punchline is.



I get that, I just didn't laugh. It was too obvious the whole way through. I guess it doesn't help that I don't find the situation funny. I'm too busy being worried about rich jerkovs buying elections for batshit loons like this.

Yep, I'd say I missed your tone completely. Usually, it seem that when someone gets started talking about "superheros" (as opposed to "comic books"), they're a fan of the genre, and hold that superheros are a good thing. I (and apparently you) tend to disagree with that stance. LOL>> ^Trancecoach:

uh, that's what I'm saying. I think you missed my tone, which is difficult to convey online.
If you took pretty much any straight-up "super hero" and put them in a real world context, not only would they appear to be a weird-o in a lycra jumpsuit, but they'd be considered fascist in their unilateral form of "crime-fighting" which places them in the position of policeman, judge, jury, and executioner...>> ^Stormsinger:
>> ^Trancecoach:
and this is different from a superhero..... how?>> ^Stormsinger:
Best case, he's a fucking loon. If he's not, he's far worse... Vigilantes are scum, bypassing all due process, proclaiming themselves judge, jury and executioner without anyone's consent.


The difference is pretty simple. Superheros exist only in comic books dealing with fictional people...this guy is in the real world dealing with real people.
I accept a lot of premises and actions in fiction that I would never accept in real life.

uh, that's what I'm saying. I think you missed my tone, which is difficult to convey online.

If you took pretty much any straight-up "super hero" and put them in a real world context, not only would they appear to be a weird-o in a lycra jumpsuit, but they'd be considered fascist in their unilateral form of "crime-fighting" which places them in the position of policeman, judge, jury, and executioner...>> ^Stormsinger:

>> ^Trancecoach:
and this is different from a superhero..... how?>> ^Stormsinger:
Best case, he's a fucking loon. If he's not, he's far worse... Vigilantes are scum, bypassing all due process, proclaiming themselves judge, jury and executioner without anyone's consent.


The difference is pretty simple. Superheros exist only in comic books dealing with fictional people...this guy is in the real world dealing with real people.
I accept a lot of premises and actions in fiction that I would never accept in real life.

>> ^Trancecoach:

and this is different from a superhero..... how?>> ^Stormsinger:
Best case, he's a fucking loon. If he's not, he's far worse... Vigilantes are scum, bypassing all due process, proclaiming themselves judge, jury and executioner without anyone's consent.



The difference is pretty simple. Superheros exist only in comic books dealing with fictional people...this guy is in the real world dealing with real people.

I accept a lot of premises and actions in fiction that I would never accept in real life.

and this is different from a superhero..... how?>> ^Stormsinger:

Best case, he's a fucking loon. If he's not, he's far worse... Vigilantes are scum, bypassing all due process, proclaiming themselves judge, jury and executioner without anyone's consent.

Best case, he's a fucking loon. If he's not, he's far worse... Vigilantes are scum, bypassing all due process, proclaiming themselves judge, jury and executioner without anyone's consent.

>> ^Quboid:

>> ^rebuilder:
@ GenjiKilpatrick:
It's not weird at all. It's exactly what you'd expect him to say. Gingrich is out of the race, so now Romney needs his supporters to vote for him if he's to become POTUS. To that end, he ends the hostilities as if nothing happened, without making any statements relevant to actual policy issues. Romney supporters are happy Romney's bid for the presidency is now stronger, and Gingrich supporters need appeasing.

I don't think anyone doubts this, but in any other walk of life spending months and a considerable fortune criticising someone in every way imaginable, and a few unimaginable, you don't then go "yep, he's a good pal that one". That's weird, creepy and detached from reality.
I imagine Shep Smith won't be too popular at Fox for pointing out how messed up this is.

Nah, Shep's not in any danger...he's their token non-loon, after all. This kind of thing is precisely why they keep him around.

Yes, of course. I ever so much prefer to get revenge for being poisoned, rather than prevent the poisoning beforehand. Your solutions make the former the only possible approach. Not a world -I- care to live in... The oligarchs have repeatedly proven they are more than willing to inflict any amount of damage on us, if it'll make them a buck or two. Dead people can't sue, you see.

This is why I use the term lunacy to describe libertarianism. The loons ignore all of history and claim that replacing law with civil suits would make everything grand. I suppose I could be more generous and call it naivete, but the result is the same. You ignore history and human nature...just like all utopians, be they capitalist, libertarian, communist or whatever. Utopias only work if human nature changes.

I think the cops were happy they didn't have to deal with some Occupy looking loon and end up getting piss on them.

Republican is apparently a behavioral issue too. All of those guys give me the creeps. You know something is wrong, but everyone else in the video audience is a little teary eyed and just clapping as fast as their little hands will go. Psychopath/Sociopath/Loon must not translate well through camera lenses.

I think it's a fine example of how he wants the country to work...pay lip service to the public view of the rules (since they're only backed by a toothless government anyway), and then once you're out of sight, twist them any way you want. The true face of the libertarian loon; ethics mean nothing (they have no dollar value).

From one loon to another.

>> ^alcom:

This is a case of one group of alarmists calling out another group of alarmists.

Nope, there's no "alarmists". Man made climate change is real. Outside of a bunch of morons (fox, qm and the like) who don't understand the science, there's no debate. The rest of us have accepted the facts of the science and are trying to figure out what to do about it.

It's the same as the evolution/creationism "debate". There isn't one. There is only the accepted science and a manufactured controversy by right wing loons.

>> ^alcom:

If the scientists a correct and our consumption is putting us on a path of accelerating climate change on a scale never before seen in the history of our planet, they life on this planet will end. I would tend to err on the side of caution for this one.

Emphasis mine. Actually, it won't. Life will adapt and evole. Humans, OTOH, are fucked.

Fuck people like this just love the sound of their own voice don't they? He's an idiot who loves to jump to the most insane conspiracy theories... he jumped up and down about the supposedly 'faked' Obama birth certificate, with an 'expert' on his show... after taking ZERO time to look into how documents are made by the PDF scanning process.

He'll take any issue, find some ranting loon angle to go at it on, and go nuts... And then paints himself as a 'hero'. He's a dick, he's a twit, he's a simpleton who thinks he's deep.

Moron.

Also... I just kept hearing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyBlOe2cT1Y

Yeeees, that would kind of be the point of the joke...

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Holy crap cakes!! That would have freaked me the F#%K OUT! I would have paddled like a little loon going "please don't eat me, please don't eat me", and the fact that I know full well they only eat plankton would have been SOD ALL HELP because it's freaking HUGE AND UNDER WATER AND OBVIOUSLY OUT TO GET ME!!!



get some education, no reason for it to harm you or even that it would