You know the feeling. You get into an argument with someone, the two of you are going at each other back and forth, and they get you so riled up that you suddenly can't think of a good comeback until long after the fight is over.
There's actually a French term for this called l'esprit de l'escalier. It describes the feeling you get when you come up with the perfect reply after the fact.
We've all been there. It's devastating.
So let's take a moment and pay our respects to and celebrate the really good comebacks—the ultimate expressions of wit and cleverness. Taken from the appropriately titled subreddit r/MurderedByWords, here are some of the best ways people have ended their disagreements.
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A Very Important Point
Another good comeback I've read somewhere: I don't see girls in sexy outfits being harassed or assaulted by lesbians, somehow the can restrain themselves
"Girls shouldn't dress provocative" comes form the same men who say "Women better dress sexy if they want my attention". Yeah. Wonder why....
I work out a lot. Anytime there is free time in my day. It helps my severe anxiety and ptsd. Biking, walking, yoga... I'll do it anywhere. I wear leggings or yoga shorts and tank tops or hoodies 90% of the time for this reason. I've been hit on so much its insane. Followed. Grabbed. Looked at nastily by older women and if they're with a man, they pull them closer. I'm not seeking attention. It's comfortable to me. Why can't people just let others live?? Very frustrating. Just bc my pants are tight or my arms are exposed, I'm not interested in you. Same goes for everyone else. I promise. We'll let you know if we're interested.
never give up on your freedom because the minute you cover yourself not because you want to but because of them - they won... my bf is from secular yet kinda conservative country (muslim) but I would never give up my way of clothing when I visit - shorts and tank tops when outside is like 40 degrees... it has nothing to do with respecting their culture - lots of native girls dress the same as me, especially in big cities... so if someone is staring at me (mostly women though, men mostly don't care) I am wearing it as a badge of honor, like saying yeah, that's right, I can wear whateverthefuck I want and it doesn't mean you can harass me or that I am a prostitute... deal with it!
Load More Replies...Don't be silly! You cannot damage something you never had :)
Load More Replies...If a man is walking around with his top off is he 'asking for it' as in sexual attention from a man?
People that try put fault on the victim confuse me. I mean yes, there are certain measures you take in life to be safe. Like do not try hand feed a shark, chances are it might not end well. But this is not one of those things. It is clothing. Tons of men walk around with no shirt in at all, and you never hear this type of talk. When people state women are "asking for it" they are pretty much admitting they are supporting rape.
That's because there are differences between male and female sexual arousal, Anita. Society taught women that unless they show a lot of their skin, they are unattractive, plain, boring, even useless and so many women will oblige, the fashion industry took advantage of that.
Load More Replies...Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism
Is it that really hard to understand? We have experienced what happens when Germany becomes very patriotic. That did not turn out very well for most of the world, Germany included. To me it makes very good sense that Germans are very carefull with patriotism these days and instead focuses on the coorporation with the rest of EU. National patriostism and egoism is very dangerous for a multicultural society in a globalished world.
So let's pay attention to history so as not to repeat it, eh? Let's see... where else in the world is patriotism getting out of hand... Let me think...
Load More Replies...This. Patriotism is about caring, effort, and standards. A flag is a piece of cloth. Waving it doesn't make you anything but a person waving a piece of cloth. Patriotism is about helping all in your nation, not only those you like and know personally and agree with politically. ----- child of miltiary family and two veterans.
I think in Europe in general a lot of countries are more aware that "patriotism" can leads to "nationalism" which led, in Europese's case, to most westerns European countries starting colonies ("we'll save those poor, bewildered souls with our greatness by enslaving them. Rightfully so, because of our greatness"), which led to an arms race, which led to the first world War, which led to extreme punishment on Germany by other nations, which led to more nationalism and another world War. I think a lot of Europeans are more aware that feeling proud of your country is great, but also dangerous when it leads to the premiss that you're THE best country. Best case scenario, you stop learning from others (US now), which is horrible for yourself. Worst case, you start feeling entitled and like taking from others, which is horrible for everybody. Rant over, sorry everyone, thanks for coming to me TED talk.
*claps in America* hear hear!! (I would love to go to the UK, I hear Brighton is beautiful, and get out of America)
Load More Replies...The hard right is rising again in Germany, and in many other countries too. There is a disease that is creeping across the earth and we must be careful.
Yes indeed. It's only a small group now, but Covid is not helping. Some people do not even know they are contributing to the rise of them. It is frightening
Load More Replies...@Jihana, American here, and when I hear that somebody is proud to be American, I honestly do not think 'patriot'. I think 'trump supporter' because all the non-trump supporters I know are too ashamed of America's troubled history to celebrate this nation just yet.
Being patriotic is not limited to Trump, supporters, and that’s a really harmful narrative that I’d beg you not to feed into. Republicans are trying to monopolize patriotism and claim that they are the only ones who are proud to be Americans in order to disparage Democrats and paint us as traitorous, which could not be further from the truth.
Load More Replies...Germans are cool. And their language is super cool and the long ass phrase words are super cool.
All people need education. Don't limit it to America just because idiots are loud.
Load More Replies...Love it ! Please also remind it to French right-wing morons who believe Germany's success is all about anti-social policies. Thanks.
"Educate Your Self"
Say it louder for the ones in the back. Not that they listen to sense.
I’d be using something large and heavy to emphasise the facts, along with saying it louder!
Load More Replies...And what gives you the impression that your education outweighs my knowledge that I acquired on shady websites, fakebook, instagram, conspiracy theorist forums and the e-books written by Kerry Rivera that I downloaded?
As a parent of autistic children, anti-vaxers are not just poorly informed they are incredibly harmful. An entire group of people who would prefer dead children to children like mine
I am autistic. I'm also highly intelligent and creative, as well as happy. Not everyone is like me, but same could be said for any group of people. Go ahead and search for great people from the past who might have been on the autism spectrum. I am in agreement with the above post.
Load More Replies...It still baffles me that a study of 12 children 23 years ago is still causing the death of children. My eldest was due for the mmr when this all started, but I got him jabbed and all 3 of his siblings. No side effects. Why are people still afraid? The report was debunked almost instantly as a study of 12 kid will not give a proper result. Added to that, most children on the autistic spectrum won't be diagnosed until at least 2 years old. Luckily I live in the UK where this all started 20+ years ago and our kids get flu vaccinated as standard
The medical researcher admitted to skewing the data to get a headline-grabbing result, because what he wanted was FUNDING for the future. Publish-or-perish is a real problem in the US, at least, to get funding. Lived that a long time. It's a nightmare, b/c a legit study will be overlooked (not gonna rouse the public), and that crap gets published and then on the news and.... people like me and mine end up without funding that could prevent children's deaths. B/c, y'know, our analytics and all weren't sexy enough.
Load More Replies...It pisses me off knowing people think this IT'S A F*****G MEDICAL CONDITION GENETICALLY INHERITED YOU CAN'T CURE IT IT'S STUCK THERE DIPSHITS
That’s A Stupid Reason To Ban Transgender People
What does being transgender have to do with trust. Makes no sense to me.
I agree, I'm always suspicious of someone who has such a keen interest in other people's body parts. Creepy as.
Load More Replies...This made me laugh more than the gorilla punting a pineapple at someone's head 😂😂😂😂
In the midst of battle, I really don’t think any bigot is going to refuse to let a transgender person save their life. Or any other LGBTQ person. Or a POC. Or a woman. I mean, they could, but then they’d die. A Hobson’s Choice.
This entire assumption that gender, sexual orientation or other private, personal traits negatively affect everyone and everything around the "different duck" is one of the stupidest and most-backwards concepts that haters have created and nurtured over the past 50+ years. The complete lack of common sense it must take for someone to even begin to find truth in the concept is mind boggling. And if people lack the common sense to correctly assess something so obvious, the world really is becoming more scary by the minute.
My concern is that people who are transgender are at a much higher risk of suicide, and sending them into combat may be the worst idea ever, as adding a high risk for PTSD on top of that would send the rates soaring even higher than they are, in my opinion. However, if a trans person wishes to serve in the military, I salute them.
What I wouldn't give to see some of these trans-haters forced into a good hour of introspection to find out why they're actually so determined to hate people that have found happiness in who they really are...
what does being trans have to do with trust, while I'm at it what does your gender have to deal with trust?!
The fact that you don't trust trans people is your problem and not trans people's
Anti Vaxxer Pretends To Be Educated
And polio, measles, pneumonia, diptheria, influenza? Oh and that pesky Bubonic Plague. A healthy gut sure worked there.
Don't forget typhoid. Mary Mallon may have had a strong enough immune system to not ever have symptoms, but she killed enough people to earn the title "Typhoid Mary".
Load More Replies...How do these dipshits still not get it? How did education fail to teach them the basic fact that vaccines are exercise for our immune systems?? It’s like war games. It’s training! It makes the immune system stronger! THATS HOW IT F*****G WORKS, people!
Jup only studies show these vaccins are less effective in people with auto immune diseases. I'm really curious about that. My immune system is allways in overdrive.
Load More Replies...How do vaccines "lower your immune system"? That's like saying working out at the gym lowers your muscular system; It makes no sense.
They say that because with the vaccine they insert to you an inactive part of the virus! I really don't understand how they manage to read only one thing of how a vaccine works and they mess so much the rest.... makes no sense! But i guess there is no logic in stupidity!
Load More Replies...Commenter #1 started out with some great advice. But they just couldn’t stop while they were ahead, and had to round out their statement with total unfounded, untreated sewage-quality bullshit. Commenter #2 totally slayed them with verified historical fact. Kudos to Commenter #2.
Medicine and medical knowledge is something that has lowered the mortality rate massively in the last 100 years. Simple.
Vaccines literally boost your immune system. That is the entire point. They create antibodies without actually having the disease.
To be fair, not everyone died of smallpox. If that was the case, we would not be here today. However everybody had the potential of dying of smallpox, and we have reduced that risc profoundly by vacines.
The people who survived often had some pretty horrible effects for the rest of their lives. Ever seen a smallpox vaccination scar on the upper arm of an older person? (I have one!) Imagine hundreds of those scars covering the entire body and face. Imagine someone being blind because the same pustules that caused the skin scars have erupted on their eyeballs. That was smallpox.
Load More Replies...Baby boomers were vaccinated for polio at school. We lined up like troops going to war. No one in their right mind would have told the doctors not to vaccinate their kids.
Just Try Not Being Straight For Awhile
I remember this from a few weeks ago! After all, ii did say I wanted to, given its a brilliant comeback :D
Oh, is this recent? I assumed it was a newspaper clipping from the 90s.
Load More Replies...Did anyone notice she "forgot his birthday for the past three years..."!!! Gay, straight - does not matter - that mom sucks!
But she has “a busy work schedule,” so that makes it ok, right? I mean, he’s just her son. Her job is IMPORTANT!
Load More Replies...If your church makes fun of you because your son is gay...you're going to the wrong church.💁
Does no one care how she forgot his birthday for the past THREE YEARS!?
Three years. This idiot forgot his/her own child's birthday for three. whole. years. From age 14 on.
I love the answer, perfect comeback. I would also love to have seen mom's reaction to this
Link to original article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ask-amy-parent-pressures-gay-son-to-change/2013/11/12/a46984d0-4815-11e3-bf0c-cebf37c6f484_story.html
Load More Replies...The Best Putdowns Come From The Truth
That’s because they have to deal with people like you on a daily basis.
You know what makes this so much better?! That this was a mans response! Like, i'm quite an independent woman who can stand up for herself pretty well, but it's always nice to know that there are some men out there who agree with us and realise that some mens BS needs called out!
This Comeback Belongs In The Hall Of Fame
Seems like for some people the concept of consent is a pretty hard one to grasp...
Sure, because if the other person says "no" then they don't get what they want. They've never been taught how to deal with that situation.
Load More Replies...We all use consent every day, simply going into a shop and paying for something is consent, why is it so hard to grasp?
I just f*****g applauded this IRL. Colleagues thinks I'm really please with my end of week report.
the best thing on consent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8
Nowadays whenever someone uses the tongue out laugh, they are saying something stupid and are trying to cover for it.
In The Interests Of Public Safety
The abbreviation for White Christian Conservative Male is GOP.
Load More Replies...I just can't fathom why people say those things. The issue should never be about what the person wears but a person's actions. If boys can't control themselves then they are the problem.
In the most used lines, but the best line: Don’t teach the girls what to wear, teach the boys not to stare.
Load More Replies...Can we just teach boys to respect women? Basically men are taught at a young age they’re weak and can’t control themselves
I once had an argument with a man who was angry that a gay teacher was teaching in his son’s school. His reckoning was that he (the teacher) would be overcome with temptation being surrounded by teenage boys and give into it. I asked him if his daughter had any male teachers. He said yes. So how come he didn’t have the same to reservations against a straight male teacher teaching his daughter as he had about a gay teacher teaching his son as his backward logic worked the same in both scenarios. I had to explain to him that just because you’re gay DOES NOT mean you’re a peadophile.
These people simultaneously think males are too weak-willed to control themselves when they see a shoulder blade and they are the gender rational and responsible enough to be the leaders of the world. Make it make sense.
Maybe instead of forcing teenage girls to cover up we teach teenage boys NOT TO SEXUALIZE THEIR CLASSMATES. This double standard bullshit will never not piss me off.
By that logic, shouldn't males be chaste too? Don't show off any skin. What if it lead upstanding young women into temptation?
As a male student myself, I can say that if I see a single girl with her shoulders showing, I pass out. /s
Load More Replies...I'd Expect No Less At Dollar General
Actually, shitting themselves would be a rare but possible side effect of you spreading COVID, you asshole!
Actually, there are other benefits to mask wearing--if you see someone you don't like, you can pretend you didn't recognize them.
Bye Bye Trash!!
He himself is both a boob and an ass. If he can find a like minded friend they'd make an interesting pair 😂
100% THIS. Plus also access to birth control, feminine hygiene products and to feel safe. Just to name a few.
I wonder if he knows she just told him that he should have been aborted lmao
I saw a sex toy that was boobs ass and vajeen all in one lump and it was kinda terrifying.
I can’t believe there are still people who think of women as objects.
You can't believe it, Angelica? Where do you live? What country?
Load More Replies...Waddaya Say, Then?
Quite a few women turn on the one guy. He makes out with all of them, chooses one, takes her home to separate from her again a week later. In short: a waste of life.
Load More Replies...When I took a glance at the photos, I actually thought they were the same guy!
They are extremely cheap to produce, and some people will watch any kind of trash, so cheap shows make a lot of money.
Honestly, You're Not Important Enough To Be Microchipped
I ask again...why would they give us FREE microchips with our vaccinations? If they wanted to microchip us you'd better believe they're going to make us pay for it too.
Like maybe in a device most people carry with them at all times that can track their location, spending habits, who they connect and what they look at online...posted from iPhone
Load More Replies...This has been my new favorite Arguement. “Aren’t you worried they are putting microchips in you?” “Do you have a cell phone?” 6 word debunker right there.
This is one of the dumbest conspiracy theories I have ever heard. 1) Why would anyone want to do this? 2) How would they be able to personalize the chip in every vaccine so they knew who they were tracking. 3) This technology doesn't even exist and if it did it would be way too expensive to use. People are morons.
Every time I hear some very uneducated person go on about how the vaccines have tracking devices in them I look at their cell phone and wonder if they understand that no one needs a vaccine to know what you are doing every minute of the day.
Just how do these people think microchips work? When you get your pet microchipped, you can't track it from a distance if it gets out and becomes lost. You have to hope that someone will take it into a vet clinic and ask if they'll scan for a chip with a hand-held device from about 2cm away.
How do they know which chip goes into which person? And how do they stop all of them going into one person? (there are more than one dose per bottle after all)
Oh... you and your logic! I think the fact you’re so smart just proves that you have a microchip in you!
Load More Replies...Actually it's likely they unlocked it with their face, which is even creepier.
"I Don’t Understand Marches"
How does Tomi still have a job? I feel like I could write a bloody book about the moronic things I've seen from her on this website alone...Did she just never learn how to think...or at the very least google...before she speaks/posts?
This IS her job. Her job isn't to be correct, it's to stoke the outrage and misinformation machine. She keeps the right wing angry and hating the libs. That is her ENTIRE contribution to the world and they love her for it.
Load More Replies...Without marches, she'd be unable to even have a bank account of her own.
I totally agreed with Tomi's first 5 words. She does NOT get the point- of anything
Your Bigotry Is Showing
Stuff like this also shows how mentally stuck in the past conservatives are. They honestly think scenes like this will actually scare people as much it scares them.
Thing is, if something bad happened on that subway, I would feel safer with the people in the picture than I ever would with a bunch of backward-looking evangelicals. The people in the picture are used to dealing with other people’s bullshit, and would be more resourceful than evangelicals who would just try to pray their way out of danger.
Load More Replies...All I see are two people with obviously very different beliefs and lifestyles, sitting side by side in peace and harmony. Something we should all aspire to.
That's exactly the world I want to live in YES! Everybody living their own life without being in danger, judged or hated, no matter their gender, religion or colour.
I genuinely feel sad for those that are threatened by this picture. Neither of these people look like this because they want to harm anyone else, they are just expressing who they are. All this can lead to is other people feeling freer to be themselves? I don't know.
What is so damn scary aboutpeople being *free to express themselves*? Isn't the USA sorta based on that idea? Or did my Constitution lie to me?
Conservatives use it as a distraction... don’t pay attention to how we are setting policies that make rich people richer, while shrinking the middle class and putting people more people in poverty! The real threat is that the liberals want to turn your kids into nonwhite, nonChristian, gender fluid losers who are too weak to hold a gun or wave a flag!
Load More Replies...Different people peacefully coexisting, oh noes, think of the children
They seem to be getting on fine, going about their business, and not bothering anyone.
Load More Replies...I see a lovely woman in a niqab and a drag queen that is absolutely SLAYING IT
"the spread" is somehow not as annoying when done in a sequined bodycon dress
People with self worth, and confidence to be themselves? nO wAy! tHaT's WiErD AnD GrOsS!
Do conservatives ever travel? Airports are the most diverse places in the world. No one cares about the Orthodox Jew standing next to them or the Sikh behind them. They just care about getting to their gate and destination on time.
You have to be white if you think this is how the airport is for brown / Muslim or Sikh people.
Load More Replies...America, F**k Yeah!
It's sad that someone let alone a child needs to do this. This is a government and school funding issue.
You can't spend your money twice, you know. When we just set aside $790 billion for the military, it's obvious we have to cut on some budgets. Yours sincerely, US government.
Load More Replies...In my country children have free school lunches. I really don't understand why America is even considered such a great country...
For the past 50 years they have been slowly becoming a third world country.
Load More Replies...Good on the kid, shame on the school/government that made his actions necessary.
Shame the corporations in the area for asking for tax cuts just for setting up in town. Blame the top earners who get Republicans elected so they don't have to pay the taxes that would feed those kids.
Load More Replies...What we should be doing here is being disgusted by the fact that they force children to go hungry
Another gem in the series of dystopic events re-packaged as feel-good-stories.
Short answer, a lot. There's a lot wrong with this country.
Load More Replies...Babies Are Not A Plaything
Regardless of context, I think the reply was justified. As someone who can't have kids, I am sick to the back teeth of people asking me when and why we don't have kids. Mind your own business.
Yep, I just turned 40 and wife is 37 and we never wanted kids but she is still asked about a lot more than I am, we have our dogs and cats we volunteer at rescue shelters, have disposable income and choice to sleep in whenever we want, don't worry about what we're doing.
Load More Replies...I ve been called a very selfish person for saying that I see huge responsibility in parenting.
Well, is it because you are a woman and are expected to want babies. How dare you even give a second thought to that! And don't you even speak the truth - that yoir children are a responsibility to you until you die. The sarcasm is there built from 20 years of having people ask me why I dont have kids
Load More Replies...#1 on the list of stupidest things ever said to me: "How can you know you don't want kids if you don't try it?" My response was, "Chr!st - we're not talking about shoes! It's not like I can take it back if it turns out I don't "like" it." Mind you - that was said by a man married to a stay-at-home mom who was happy being a 1950's housewife making sure he never had to do anything with his kids at all. Hey - it works for them - great. :) Not for me, thanks.
I honestly hate it when my classmates tell me I have to have a baby if I want to be married when I grow up! I have the right to do whatever I want in my life.
I see someone who is going to potentially kill me to give it life, never let me sleep, have me elbow deep in diapers, treat me like an ATM and a taxi while constantly complaining about how I ruined their life. No thanks.
Exactly! Imagine putting your own life at risk for such stress.
Load More Replies...Lol, i would much rather NOT contribute to the world's overpopulation.
Years back, one of my in-laws kept nagging me to have children. The day she raised her voice about it was the the day I snapped, "I don't think the human race will die out if I don't contribute!" She shut up after that.
Load More Replies...My mother had 7 children of which I was the second. She raised us until we were toddlers then systematically got rid of us. Two of us were adopted by grandparents, one was shaken but survived and wss adopted, two we can't locate and the last two she dropped off at an orphanage in their preteens. I met her before she died and she spoke & acted as if I was 2-- the age at which she abandoned me.
I'm sorry you and your siblings went through that. Your mother had no business having kids especially 7! I know that's your mother so please forgive me if I offend you in any way but I see this a lot. After the first kid or at least the second I don't understand how people don't realize what they got into and why they just keep popping out more if they cannot or don't want to take care of them!
Load More Replies...I would just like to highlight that babies are cute BECAUSE there's a responsible adult that takes care of them, sometimes even at their own expense. (The poor abused children are cute too, sure, but in this instance, "cute" means happy, smiling, healthy and playful.)
Yes ! Too many girls think they just pop out and are all around all the time adorable beings. No. I mean yes I do still think my kids are adorable even when they're being little buttheads because I love them. They're still adorable but how they're acting isn't at that time, but people have kids not realizing that your baby's going to cry for what it wants and needs and if you don't take care of them well, you don't get a smiley happy baby. Even well cared for kids are not happy all the time, s**t nobody is happy ALL the time. I just get so frustrated when people have babies to treat them like dolls then realize they're nothing like a doll baby and then become a s**t parent in turn raising a poorly adjusted child who will probably become another s**t adult!
Load More Replies...Girls Have Ankles Too
Now do it every 30 minutes or so, day and night, for 5-7 days, while pretending you're just fine.
I have in fact rolled my ankle like this and yes, my period cramps are worse
1. Yes. 2. Yes, my period hurt worse. B/c, unlike the ankle, it comes back every friggin' month. The ankle just healed.
Imagine rolling both ankles like that whilst experiencing period pain. I also had a throat infection so literally had head to toe pain
Your comment made water propel out of my mouth & scare my Rottie. Brilliant .😂
Load More Replies...I have rolled my ankle. Yes it hurt. I have also endometriosis which means if I menstruate, I literally bleed internally, between my organs. And yes it hurts more.
I am sorry. Endo sucks really bad. Healthy people will never understand how deeply chronic illneses can ruin your life. Not only for the intensity of the pain (my endo pain has been the highest I evet experienced and I had several painful accidents) but also for the duration (my endo pain is most of the time moderate (6-7/10) but it is there 24/7 which can be maddening).
Load More Replies...And all day and night for five straight days in a row? I think he needs to see an orthopedic surgeon, becuse that is one messed up ankle.
Load More Replies...My ankles hate me. I can wear flat shoes with good support but noooo. And then you walk around with cramps and you're not concentrating and the ankles are like "Aah, an opportunity =)"
Load More Replies...I have rolled my ankle like this and believe me I'd rather do it again than have period pain.
Tomi Lahren
I love and have a lot of respect for Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D). She is educated and she is very compassionate unlike that moron Tomi.
Thanks! I didn't understando what AOC meant, I googled it and only got electronics XD
Load More Replies...Why do they always go after the fact that she worked as a bartender? Is it somehow taboo to be employed?
Always hilarious. The republican party, 1% billionaires, 99% welfare.
Load More Replies...After all the s**t she posted, how was that woman not taken off the platform and/or arrested? What gives? Please explain it to me.
I think you're misunderstanding both "that woman" and the platform. The woman's job is to stoke outrage, fear, and ridicule. She does this extremely well. Facts do not matter when the job is to stoke outrage, fear, and ridicule. The right-wing position these days ignores most basic facts (see: climate change science, covid medical knowledge, voter fraud evidence, etc). They pay MANY people to stoke outrage, fear, and ridicule (see most of the Fox "News" line-up - an organization which is registered as an entertainment channel and who literally use the defence, when sued, that "no one reasonable would believe the things we say"). So she's doing her job. The platform also benefits from all the likes and clicks and comments so they love the outrage machine. They will only remove very extreme cases that might threaten their ability to do business in the future, say, if a government was actually overthrown violently which would be very bad for business.
Load More Replies...And the reason she got fired from one is because she’s pro-choice for abortion which is against conservative beliefs. So I guess conservatives cherry pick the Bible and cherry pick what topics they follow
Apparently the basic difference between socialism and communism eludes their understanding of life
Load More Replies...$10 To Clean The Bathroom?!
7 out of ten dollars? Smh is that really what they think? I pay around 19-21% and get a lot of it back in tax credits. Do you think it's the 'ism' that makes ppl think socialism is communism? We could always try calling it socialocracy
The propaganda the media likes to show is everything socialism isn’t. Most Americans can’t accurately define socialism because we are so warped from a bias viewpoint of what it actually is. The same happens with corporations like Amazon who use the same tactics to prevent workers from unionizing
Load More Replies...Teach your child about socialism: He cleans the bathroom. He gets five bucks. His sibling cleans the bathroom. His sibling gets five bucks. Each child is "taxed" two of their five dollars, leading to four dollasr to spend on ice cream enjoyed by BOTH children. ----- how my mom explained it
"Socialism" has been used as a scare word in America for at least a century. And no, they don't know what it means. Plus for decades now one of the core right-wing tactics is to blame the left for everything they're doing. Voter fraud? Yeah, on the right. Child sex abuse? Yeah, on the right. Unfair business practices? Yeah, capitalism. It goes on. But they keep their people afraid and angry at phantoms while they gouge them and make their lives worse. Many right-wingers will literally and consciously make choices that make their own lives worse, as long as they can make "the libs" suffer along with them. It's not patriotic, it's not smart; it's just pathetic.
Well, I know, but dang, it's so bizarre to hear what most of my fellow citizens think.
Load More Replies...So many people don't seem to understand how socialism works. Especially in the US, they have been brainwashed into thinking socialism bad, capitalism good even though socialism has far more benefits for individuals and society.
I think you should start using the term social market economy, that's how it's called in Europe and it combines the best of capitalism and socialism. To me as a German the term Socialism always sounds wrong cause it was the System of the DDR and you don't want to have a system with complete state directed economy. We need free markets and a good social system combined.
Load More Replies...How about get paid £10, give £2 of it back to mum, who then spends that £2 on all the schooling, public services, armed forces and healthcare that you need for a functioning society, with about 20p of that going to your sibling who can't work to ensure they don't become homeless/starve/both.
Ironically, America's most socialist policies (such as social security) are the most popular. It's too bad no Republicans know anything about socialism. For a fun experiment, Google happiest countries, safest countries, and healthiest countries. Socialist countries will be in the top 10 for all three ... America will be like 39th.
I really don't understand why people in the USA think we Europeans pay so much tax. My salary is £38,000, (approx $53,000) my income tax and national insurance payments are £8500, ($11,800) that is 22% of my income. The tax a US citizen pays on a similar income would be about $7400. Which may seem like a lot less, but that extra $4400 is still considerably less than the average US citizen spends on health care each year, which is around $12,000. Last year my healthcare costs came to £0.00 and I expect it to be the same next year, and the year after that. That actually makes our higher tax rates look like a bit of a bargain to me.
Yeah I have always paid around 20% in several European countries. And what did I get? Free lunches through school, free University up to Masters, free health care including surgeries, medicine etc, excellent public transportation, safe environment without guns, a great work-life balance, 5-6 weeks of paid holiday per year, unemployment benefits if life kicks me, 3 years of maternity leave, automatic pension even if I don't save up... I could go on :).
Load More Replies...From observation over a period of several decades, people with such simplistic views of how taxes work, do not pay taxes.
And with those 7$ provide them with health care, education, clean water, infrastructure such as public transit , roads, electricity and sewers. Provide supports for housing and food when needed. Oh and daycare too. Their 3$ will then be what they need.
Also if you follow the example of europe at worst he would be taken 5€ not 7. A normal perosn pays between 21 and 35%.
Load More Replies...Let's Blame Children's Knees For Making Men Uncomfortable
Do they not filter out the weirdos who apply to be teachers? Or are they just good at hiding it?
Male teachers that have pedo tendencies will go only so far, then quit before being fired so it doesn't go on their record. Then on to the next teaching job. They literally have a system.
Load More Replies...Sure. Let’s restrict the potential victims of these pedophiles, and not the pedophiles themselves. Because it’s just the knees, you know, and not the fact that they’re children who could be groomed and abused. By those same pedophiles the school is trying to shield.
Ok I'm going to defend this, those school desks don't cover as you think. If a girl is sitting in the front couple rows and stretches out while wearing a skirt that comes above the knee I can see right up the skirt. It's not voluntary, it's not something you can bring up with the girls without being accused of being a pedo. I'm a woman and I find it an awkward situation to be in. These girls have the right to wear what they want, I'll defend that till the day I die but these men aren't pedos for finding these situations uncomfortable.
Can't the schools change the design of the desks then? Make a "wall" on the front side so no one can see, and everyone can stretch as they please :)
Load More Replies...Oh god. This is why I hate school uniforms. A lot of women and girls are scared to wear dresses and skirts because of those weirdos.
God Is A White Man
Funny, I've read the Bible many times, and have yet to come across the chapter and verse where God mandates that white men be in the majority. Anyone?
Makes it even better that Jesus was absolutely not white.
Load More Replies...I mean, we could take a look around the world and how minorities are treated in countries without "white supremacy". It's still bad, sure and needs a lot of improvement - but being the lesser evil is a good start (my opinion). The overall aggressive discussion from everybody really doesn't help to improve the situation at all
Hey Jarrod...how are the native Americans these days. Doing great
Load More Replies...Someone inform this “Christian” that the people of the Bible won’t white.
Fear of Extinction. What these idiots don’t realize is that white males are already a minority. A fast-dwindling minority, that is also quickly losing their power, which they’ve been abusing for millennia, while f*****g up the world with their deadly pissing contests. And they’re terrified because of it. Because Karma.
Did these folks never learn that they were always outnumbered, globally? I mean, seriously....
It's funny because 'becoming a minority in their own country' is exactly what happened to the indigenous people of 'your own country'
Well said!! The arrogance of these people. They’re always so quick to scream about it being their country but isn’t it the current minorities country as well?
Load More Replies...White males are only 31% of the U.S. population. I hate to tell you, Bubba, but you ARE a minority.
Who has more than 31%? White women maybe. I doubt if white men mind that. White men aren’t minorities. Minority doesn’t mean “less than 50%”
Load More Replies...America Was Not Started By Protestors!
Or the entire list of complaints in the Declaration of Rights?
Load More Replies...They also boycotted British goods and stores who sold British goods. So, cancel culture.
What do they think the American Revolution was a peaceful turntable face-off between us and the British?
Me at the Boston Tea party: ...Ok, hear me out. So, instead of throwing the tea in the harbour... we just... say we did! I mean, people worked hard to get this. Why waste it? The King is literally on the other side of an ocean, he'll never know. We'll get painters to come-up with this whole scene, think of some clever speech, it'll be grand!
Who Knows What They Put In "Food" Anyway?
I heard he apparently was breathing air in those two weeks, so hold ur breath and I'll get back to u asap....
That's not all! I heard a rumor that he may have been wearing clothes right up to the moment he died! That' can't be a coincidence!
Load More Replies...He was 99 years old. At that age there is no unexpected death, you know your time is running out soon-ish.
Yeah, it's more like "unexpectedly still alive" at that age.
Load More Replies...Beware of the water! He was made up of about 70% water when he died plus he had been drinking it!
And he was also 99 when he died (a couple months shy of 100 years old). So be careful of numbers—-the really big ones will kill you.
They also said he was having issues with is heart, were 99 yrs old (some months until turning 100) and had lived a long and full life. Rip Prince Philip <3
So Cold It Burns
Duh, women can only do 3 things! 1: Shoot Gordon Freeman. 2: Eat hot chip. 3: Lie. /s
Load More Replies...That hideous facial expression alone shows how full of himself he is. He really shouldn’t be.
Load More Replies...If owning a generator proves masculinity, then wow, my hubby is in for a shock that I'm a guy...
I had a friend in texas who didn’t have a generator because most Texans won’t prepared or expecting a freeze like they had. I don’t understand how idiots like this think ideas are a man thing
Jeepers Creepers
This, right? Taking strangers pics is not very subtle! Especially this well framed, poor dude. Now I wonder about genders reversed: guy taking picture of young woman with such inference? Well if I find that creepy (which I do), then by all logic this is equally as creepy (which it is)
I swear, for a minute, I thought it was one of those Sprouse boys, the twins?
Ugh, this is one of my worst nightmares. I would hate to have my photo taken or video done and put online. There really should be a law against this.
Looks like he's desperately trying to pretend the creepy chick taking pictures of him, isn't there.
Definitely. He knows what she's doing and is understandably annoyed.
Load More Replies...It is creepy to take a photo of a stranger but it is more creepier to post it online. It is a totally different thing than to just share it private with a friend. And I'm not even sure if that would be a proper thing to do either.
And then a site like Bored Panda shares his image even further...
Load More Replies...I don't understand why some people are so comfortable taking pictures of complete strangers. Even when I accidentally filmed someone when I'm photographing other things, I'll feel awkward. And doesn't it violate someone's right of being portraited.
There's No Vaccination For That
What's sad is that her children have to suffer for her to be proven an idiot.
Not vaccinating your kids should be co sidered child abuse. They are risking their lives out of stupidity. Thise kids should be taken to better families that would protect them from harm.
Load More Replies...i'm not a parent, but I assume pretending you know it all when your children are only 8 months old is a bit presumptuous.
And I think commenting on something you know nothing about is extremely pretentious.
Load More Replies...I wish people would learn that reading your also nutjob antivaxx's lies on facebook does not count as "scientific research"
So when her poor babies die of measles, whooping cough, polio, or mumps, what will be her excuse then? Or worse, one becomes ill and dies, leaving the other baby handicapped for the rest of its life?
Yeah well my father in law didn’t believe in vaccinations for his kids either. Result: scarlet fever for one leading to kidney failure ,a kidney transplant and a lifetime of suppressing his immune system and other side effects ie skin cancer and heart problems from the drugs he has to take to stay alive. My husband. He did vaccinate his cattle though.
You cannot respect a country in which parents can let their children die in the name of "liberty" because they only believe in prayer, crystals, omepathy or other sorts of bullshit.
I'll Bet They Do, At Least The Senior Ncos
No. The military lives in camouflage Lollipop-lane. Food, weapons and equipment grow on the trees there.
57% of the U.S. budget is spent on the military. Your tax dollars at work.
Sometimes I think people should have to take a test of basic understanding of their country's political system before being allowed to vote.
So if there are no taxes to pay for the military, then only people who want a strong military presence will pay for it voluntarily? Does that mean that the $0.58 of every goddamned dollar I pay in taxes can now go to thing I support like healthcare, infrastructure, education, climate change and ecological conservation, firemen, national parks, mass transit, clean energy, counseling centers, homeless tiny home villages with services, elder care, child care, and things that generally promote, you know, good things for people?
Gas Pump (Doesn't) Go Brrrrr
When I was a kid working at a gas station, if the power failed, you cranked it by hand. Lot of years ago, mind
there are other vehicles that are cranked by the human body with no need for fuel or electricity- they are called bicycles
Load More Replies...I'm assuming this comment was made during the freeze in February. Same group of dumbasses who blamed wind power when turbines - when properly winterized - can work in the Arctic, and it was actually natural gas pipelines that froze. People are determined to be absolute ignorant dumbasses if it fits their agenda, and to deny all inconvenient facts.
All pumps and fans require electricity. You may have solar, gas, oil, or propane for your heat, but without that electric fan to blow the hot air around your house, you’re going to be pretty f*****g cold.
Oh, look, it's solar power that goes into deep cell batteries! No wonder my EV is running just fine!
The new F150 EV has an optional upgrade that allows you to power your house from the trucks battery -3 days at full usage and up to 10 days with conservation on one charge. Seems like Texans should line up for this.
Given that the roads were largely impassable for most of the storm, kind of a moot point either way.
Something About Bootstraps
Just saw an article today about the Chamber of Commerce wanting to kill the extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits for exactly that reason. "We won't encourage companies to pay their people more; we'll just kill the extra benefits so they will have no choice but to return to a sh*tty job with a sh*tty wage." What a time to be alive.
It's an absolute wonder to me that conservatives and trumpers think that 300$ in unemployment is enough to live on and that making less than 300$ a week at your 38hr a week job is so much better bc ya know they won't give you 40hrs or they'll have to give you benefits too. Hurry up and go work at McDonald's so I can berate your for working a s**t job but I still need you to work there.
I didn't hear these folks squawking when the previous administration was handing out $600 per week in addition to the check they got from their states.
Unemployment benefits (such as they are) can be calculated online and you can find out you are NOT EVEN ELIGIBLE FOR THEM B/C YOU DID NOT EARN ENOUGH. E.g., earn $2,400 US per month and in mys tate, you're not even eligible to get any unemlpoyment benefits, despite having worked full-time at minimum wage.
Right? And you're also mystified why "nobody wants to work these jobs" ?
Minimum wage is paid for unskilled labor. Get some skills, get some education (doesn't have to be college) and make yourself worth more. Skilled labor earn more than minimum wage. Minimum wage is a starting point, not a landing spot.
Not Sure You Are Doing It Right
Yeah, because there's no such thing as a dangerous virus, surgery teams work in the nude.
Load More Replies...I get more and more frustrated with Jacinda every week, but I will never not enjoy the fact that our covid response could be considered malicious compliance with anti maskers. We had one of the strictest lockdowns in the world, all people entering the country (except those coming from Australia) have to isolate in a guarded hotel for two weeks, everyone who has covid gets put in a quarantine hotel and if we have even a small number of community cases, especially if there’s no known link to the border, people in the affected city/region have to go back into lockdown...but we only have to wear masks on planes and on Auckland public transport. :)
As a non Kiwi, may I ask, why do you get more and more frustrated with Jacinda every week? In international news most of what we hear about is her reaction to covid and other major events, so curious to know what locals think about her tenure outside of that
Load More Replies...The only things that masks are toxic to is wildlife, that is going to be the next massive load of s**t for them to deal with.
Exercise By Jumping Into Conclusion
Wow who knew exercise would cause a paraplegic to miraculously walk again!
I'd love to use the stairs. Hell I'd run up them if I could, but I'm in a wheelchair because my legs don't work. I'm also a medically retired teacher, who when teaching could only work in certain schools that were accessible
You lazy people with disabilities get out of your chairs and excersise! It's a choice to require a wheelchair! 🙄 🤦♀️
my school's on the 3rd floor of a building. being allowed to use the elevator would be a DREAM.
They surpassed "let them eat cake"... which her late majety (may she rest in peace) never said, by the way.
I don't how these posts are formatted but can't this person see the kid in a wheelchair?
Well, by 2026 we could have flying wheelchairs... I have a few friends that would love that!
My school has an elevator. My english teacher once told me a story about a young boy she had as a pupil. He had muscular dystrophy, and back then there were no elevators in our school yet. He dragged himself up the stairs every day.
“We Follow Biblical Rules”
The word “homosexual” wasn’t added into the Bible until 1942. Can we not hide behind religion to excuse our homophobia, thank you.
Not true. The word has never been in the Bible.
Load More Replies...and go to bed with your father to give him male children if his wife is dead
And if your wife doesn't give you children, put her aside and marry her sister.
Load More Replies...Also as in the words of Jesus himself “Love One Another As I Have Loved You ❤️🙏🏻
The bible is a made up book of magic spells and talking snakes, pretty much every species of animal in nature has been shown to enjoy a bit of gay love, I will believe nature over some guy on a cloud, and anyway, if god is real, surely he made gay people just as he made everyone else.
People like the second person bring a bad name to religion because they use it to excuse their behavior. I don't like people like that.
I'm agnostic and not prone to quoting the bible. That being said, I do have one that is at the core of my personal life principles and it definitely applies here. It's something along the lines of 'don't concern yourself with the splinter in your neighbor's eye until you remove the plank from your own.' In other words, you aren't perfect either lady, so worry about your own shortcomings before you start pointing fingers and the supposed shortcomings of others.
The bible was written by men. In fact, most of the new testament was written by unknown authors. Mark's writings differ wildly from that of the other three. There were countless translations, by monks and men who did not and could not accurately translate the "originial" words of the unknown authors, and, naturally, countless errors. Despite all of this, folks are willing to pin their entire approach to life and to their fellow humans based on one centuries-old game of telephone. I won't even get into the clear and obvious manipulation of this book in order to belittle and suppress the "other."
Very true, and some translations may have been correct but went against the desires/beliefs of the ruling monarchy or the head of the church at the time, so 'adjustments' were made. As I said in an earlier comment, the bible is purely man's interpretation of the ancient writings of men. Could be the Dead Sea scrolls were someone's collection of best seller fiction of the times, lol
Load More Replies...Nope. The word “homosexual” has never been mentioned in the Bible. Ever. Unless you’re reading one that has been “translated” to somehow reflect modern day homophobia.
And This Is The Truth
Why did they have kids when they think viruses are needed for pop control? Control your own f*cking population and stop breeding!
Actually the smart people don't let their children die, they just don't have them in the first place; and then let disease take other peoples children in the name of population control.
The ONLY possible logical reason to oppose vaccinations is that without them, diseases would help curb population growth which would reduce climate change, plastic pollution, and environmental degradation. I'm not saying it's a good reason, but it is a logical reason. But vaccines don't cause superbugs.
But the ethical solution for that is to promote antinatalism not to kill babies with diseases.
Load More Replies...With the COVID, there's been s decrease in resources. Population control must be strictly enforced. I wonder which of her kids she'd like to volunteer to put down?
People like that 1st poster always assume the worse will happen to other people but not to them or their families.
Scarlet fever, smallpox, diphtheria, polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox ........ Not work? You have NO IDEA what you are talking about.
That's how nature works. We heedlessly overpopulate, some other force of nature takes a bunch of us out, and some balance is restored. Disease, just like famine and war and natural disasters, are forces of nature that take advantage of the vast supply of human bodies to live their best lives. Nobody has to let to their kids die. Just have fewer or none.
That'll Show Them!
"If I am completely off-grid except for posting on insta and twitter...." Yeah, you ain't off-grid. You living in a very fancy, expensive vanity project.
They love liber-ty but hate the liber-als. Wait till they find out radical liberals fought to liberate the colonists from wealthy white conservatives in England...and that conservatives of the time wanted to keep the colonies under British rule.
Yes i wish that i could have a plot of land and money enough to be selfsuficient. A big farm with vegetables, fruit trees, chickens and sheep. Solar panels, rain water pit etc
Load More Replies...It's not a commune if it's only a family living there. Becomes a commune if it's multiple families or a group of mostly unrelated people.
it looks fab and it's a great diea, because if you are totally selfreliant on a patch of lnad, you can't overuse the eraths ressources. Just don't come crying to the nearest hospital if you get sick.
No Second Chances For Her!
She's an asshole yes. But refrain from misogynist language. Geez
Load More Replies...Brilliant, well done dude who wrote this, wherever you are. Women can be just as toxic as men, as this female human has displayed here. Her courtship ritual is rejected by the male, as he can see the parasitic brain tic attached to her neck
Both of these people are obnoxious. The guy might (or might not) look hot, but that line would turn me off immediately, regardless of looks.
Is "sorry, I'm not interested" not enough, why must you start attacking people?
She sounds like the type who is fine with attention from a hot guy, but if he's not hot, she'll prob say the same attention is sexual harassment.
Why does a woman have to tolerate comments like this? She must be polite to someone who degrades her? Grow up.
The pickup line was very bad but it wasnt degrading. She was openly rude
Load More Replies...At first, i was like, this sucks, because i thought that the woman's comment was the burn
Can't Say Much, Can We?
And actually according to the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development): The U.S. ranks 14th in the world in the percentage of 25-34 year-olds with higher education (42%). have an upper secondary education are just 29% -- one of the lowest levels among OECD countries. So in reality that number is WAAAAAY lower. Our education system is awful and the fact that we're SUPPOSED to be one of the most powerful (and wealthy) countries and education is put so low on our priority list is just sad.
Maybe they're still not educated enough to make a difference between number 1 and 7, which in handwriting for beginners can be pretty similar.
America can’t be rated in educational terms. Can’t even get kids into the damned buildings to “educate” them. They keep getting shot at.
I think the only thing the USA are Nr 1 in is military expenditure and the gas&electricity usage per person.
Why Even Publish This Story?
Yeah great! Are we supposed to clap that at least she is not going to accumulate student debt and can start working right away? Minimum wage of course, because she won't have a college degree... But hey, sometime in the future, her kid can sacrifice their college savings to prevent her from being evicted or unable to pay for medical bills or whatever. But of course some people still think people like her stay poor, because they are "lazy"! Yeah right...
This wasn't presented as a "feel-good' story" - maybe someone assumed that because she smiled for the photo? The original story is promoting her GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tuition-for-fgli-hispanic-student?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unknown&utm_campaign=comms_2qkz+tuition-for-fgli-hispanic-student
That's so sad and infuriating. She shouldn't have to give up her education to keep the roof over her mom's head. A more civilized country would have a safety net for this type of crisis.
Nice Try
Thanks for stigmatising mental illness. Mentally ill people are more likely to be victims of abuse than perpetrators of it.
Complete Slam Dunk From This Dude
I was thinking ☀️ since a cloud isn't heavier than a whale
Load More Replies...completely off topic, but does anyone know the answer
No UK Amazon warehouses are unionised, but by law, workers could set one up. Amazon said it respected its employees' right to "join, form or not to join a labour union" of their choice. Unite's call comes after workers in Alabama in the US voted against forming that country's first unionised Amazon warehouse
That Went Over Like A Lead Balloon
"Christians Against Science"... I don't think scientific data is going to change this person's mind
"change my mind" yoi don't have one if you think heart is 4k years old
And how do you know that the half-life of uranium-238 is 4.5 billion years? The earth doesn't even exist for so long. /S
Are they actually part of a group that's called Christians against science?
That’s A Lotta Damage
Wtf SWATting is so much worse than publicly coming out as gay, jfc. (It’s when basically people call the police the report some extreme crime that would typically require SWAT, like a hostage situation, active shooter, bomb. So it wastes the time of law enforcement and terrifies the people getting swatted while also potentially putting their lives in danger.)
Wait, what? So she came out, like for being gay? Then someone called law enforcement to falsely report a serious crime? I though she was spanked, like for punishment, when I read 'swatted' lo
Load More Replies...Inconvenient At Worst
Wait until they find the truth about the nation wide conspiracy you call Santa Claus
"looked into the science". Just casual scientific journal reading in my free time. SUREEEEE.
My Dad Hasn’t Paid Child Support In Years And Posted This. I Had To Respond
More young people need to stand up and ask dad (or mom) why they are not important enough to receive the basic necessities of life from their own parent. Delinquent parents should be shamed.
Lmao that sounds just like my own father. We got like thirty-five cents of child support from him one year.
My mom got none and the odd time he would take us for the weekend he tried to charge her for babysitting us. He is the definition of sperm donor/deadbeat dad.
Load More Replies...Murdered By Logic, As Well
When it's cold it's coz the big ball in the sky is angered! If we harass our enemies perhaps it shall return! I think we angered it with the panels! *sob*
Perhaps ritualistic human sacrifice, shall appease that big ball in the sky?
Load More Replies...How old is this person, five? I teach that age group, and I understand when they don't get it can be cold and sunny at the same time. When they talk this way, it's a source of amusement --- with this idiot, who is supposedly beyond "the age of reason", all I can do is pray he/she doesn't reproduce.
Anti-Vax Logic
What do you expect from a porn star? Too bad her snatch is bigger then her brain.
Please Stop Calling People You Disagree With That
What is it with Canadians and farting? I'm asking you, Terrance and Phillip
Your uncle was a very very brave man and it’s people like him made the free world we live in today.
Okay, that genuinely made me snigger, I love when people are getting annoyed and still manage to be funny.
Probably Not Even The Full 30 Minutes
And she got it from the leaflet that was enclosed with the order of essential oils and scented candles.
Load More Replies...What I don't understand is...aren't most antivaxxers vaccinated themselves? Were vaccines not mandatory during their school years? I ask because my mother is dipping her toes in the antivaxx movement even though she herself was vaccinated as a child and is fine...even though my siblings and I were all vaccinated as children and are all fine! What goes on in their heads?
Same with my vaccinated daughter who vaccinated her own children then turned 180° into an antivaxxer. On top of that, she survived Covid and still insists vaccines are a hoax. I just smh.
Load More Replies...There is not some secret anti-vax database where they reveal secret poisonous ingredients that only look into people know about. It is misunderstanding scary chemical names. It really is pathetic.
My sisters boyfriend is like that. He truly believes that just because it’s on Google it’s right and every doctor in the world is wrong.
Xena Slays Hercules! (Lucy Lawless vs. Kevin Sorbo)
I keep laughing to myself about the poor goose-stepping white supremist Trump-loving schmucks who followed his urging to attempt to overthrow the U.S. government and then their own people are showing photos of them labeling them as liberal leftists.
And they can't even publicly say "Hey, no, I'm not a leftist!" because they might get arrested if they do such dumb things. Let's make them say it...
Load More Replies...People with a history of supporting Trump AND mental illness. Trump voters in a nutshell.
I'm confused...his tweet says they DON'T look like patriots to him?!
He was implying that they didn't look like patriots, therefore they must be "leftists" pretending to be Trumpets.
Load More Replies...I guess we never knew in the 1990's what a d**k bag Kevin Sorbo really was. Interesting because Xena and Hercules did cross episodes where they had sex a few times. I wonder if Lucy Lawless hated him that bad back then....
How is this arguing with Lucy lawless they are agreeing with each other.
Why Are People Still On The Side Of The Billionaires?
Yep and then go to the phone booth with a pocket full of nickels to make your calls. Ask for Mabel to connect you, such as, "that's Klondike 413 Mabel." Then take the tram to the employer, and be sure to wear your niftiest hat. Leave your raccoon coat at the door, mind you. And try not to be distracted by the flapper girls in the office typewriter pool.
Load More Replies...Still don't get why Americans are so obsessed with what other people earn. It isn't any of your business if the girl on the cashregister makes 50K per year or that IT-guy pockets 10K per month. You have no saying in it and it doesn't affect you or your life.
"Lots of jobs pay more than minimum wage, just look at the Sunday paper." Ignoring the MYRIAD other problems with this argument for a second - people are doing this, and not taking minimum-wage jobs, and other people just like the poster in red are losing their tiny minds over it.
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Personally Replies To A Hater
Thank you! Lol I love Jacinda, she reacts as any other person, repeat that again person, would. Ppl pigeonhole her by gender can go shove themselves, as they bounce off her like water off a duck's back. Great role model for young women :)
Seriously, I wanna move to New Zealand, they seem like they really have their s**t together
There are very real criticisms to make about her (her wage freeze for public sector employees, which includes freakin’ healthcare workers and border workers who kept everyone safe from covid, her backing away from calling what’s happening to the Uyghurs a “genocide”, etc.) but that person was arguing in bad faith.
Yeah im embarassed that we arent standing up to china, like aussie is. I'm pretty sure we were warned by them about our decision to close borders last year, basically veiled threats. I want our country to stand strong, despite our trade dependence on China. There has to be a better way
Load More Replies...Peon's Don't Deserve Dignity
Meanwhile Jeff Bezos makes $2,489 per second while his warehouse workers rely on food stamps.
Tax payers make up the difference when high school juniors can't pay to feed themselves?
Tinder Convo. Murdered By Two Letters. New Record? Likely Can't Ever Be Beaten
Twitter Used Guillotine! It’s A One Hit Ko!
He’s Definitely Not Making Into Smash Now
Sorry, that argument doesn't wash. The reason words are oppressive is because of the meaning the culture gives it. It's complicated, pretending otherwise is naive.
Load More Replies...Words are powerful, otherwise, perjury wouldn't be illegal, verbal abuse wouldn't cause trauma, cult indoctrination wouldn't work, "spin doctors" couldn't ply their trade, and compassionate honesty wouldn't be so highly valued.
Amazing Observation
Ah, Ben Shapiro. Another lying asshole stoking the outrage machine, always and every day.
Ben Shapiro is just a failed fast talking door to door salesman who can "win" debates from young kids by twisting logic and semantics. He ran out of the studio when a British conservative left him speechless and bewildered in about 5 minutes.
It was so funny hahaha. He showed how Americans aren't angry or something like that, can't remember
Load More Replies...How can you go to Harvard and still be this stupid? Honest question. The other day I saw people in Quora saying he must be smart because he went to Harvard, but everything I've seen him writing or saying is stupid, like here. I'm genuinely confused
Anti-Masker vs. A Hedge
To be fair to the tweeter, in the UK (don't know about other countries) you do not have to wear a mask outside. Walking in the countryside less so. I've had a jogger almost fall into a ditch trying to avoid me on a country lane, and this was after I'd moved right to the side to allow him to pass. Some people just like extremes I guess.
Nah it's not about extremes. I've been strictly shielding for over a year now because selfish people don't understand the concept of social distancing. I have no immune system and it pisses me off no end that people judge me for not wanting to be near them and risking my LIFE
Load More Replies...BP be like: *censors s**t* *doesn't censor twat* *censors Scunthorpe, a town in England*
The censors on this site are a real ass-(bleep).
Load More Replies...They Have To, It's The Law
I’m gonna get downvoted into oblivion but i think that decriminalizing ALL drugs is a terrible idea.
Why? I think that all drugs should be legal, because then they can be controlled. Alcohol was huge problem during prohibition, now you have AA, you have nearly no methanol poisonings, mobs are not killing each other over alcohol (or at least not that much), quality can be controlled by goverment agency and so. Not to mention the amazing taxes income. But yes, I know that most of what I just said can be applied also to various poisons and guns.
Load More Replies...Uhm..let's see. Taking the drug would be legal...all that other sh**...let me see...YEP...Still illegal!!
This is the funniest thing I have read on this entire page! looooooooools
Don't know why you're getting downvoted, it's true -- years ago, people were being let free because they were "too drunk to know what they were doing" until people like MADD helped change the laws to hold people responsible for getting drunk and then driving in the first place.
Load More Replies...I Use Capital Letters To Sound Smarter
"One rule for me, another for thee." The mantra of the modern Republican Party. Runner-up: "I will only care about something if it affects me personally."
I believe it is the mantra of Congress, GOP and Dem. They exempted themselves from social security contributions when that started, they exempted themselves from Obamacare, clearly they believe the social distancing and mask requirements don't apply to them, and God knows what else.
Load More Replies...The US police force obviously is quite arbitrary when it comes to protect and serve and uphold the law.
If this virus were as deadly as Marburg, none of this back and forth bickering would be taking place. Either that, or the millions of anti-maskers alive today would've been dead a long time ago
The Difference Between Appropriation And Appreciation
I love this come-back. Because there are private, sacred customs that must be respected as being private and then there are the "come on, everybody join in" customs. You just need to find the ones that you can join in on (and there are more than you think).
Wearing your own service medals you earned personally (because of your military service) on the left side of your chest allows "appreciation" of your service/sacrifices by others. Someone else wearing your medals on the left side of their chest and saying yes these are my medals don't they look cool is "appropriation"
When Did They Start Calling Us Doomers?
But antimaskers and antivaxxers don't believe in math or science because they flunked it in school.
Nike Tried To Disown The Shoes Funnily Enough
Pick Me, Pick Me!
People picked on me for things. I also play violent video games. Somehow, I have managed to not murder a bunch of innocent people on a racist rampage.
Same. I've been bullied. I have played Doom Eternal. However, I am not killing 50 people due to their race.
Load More Replies...Violent videogames do not create murderous xenophobic white supremacists. Right wing propaganda inciting misogyny, xenophobia and unfounded convictions of white superpowers and entitlement do.
What, the "it is because of video games" theory again ? How old are they? 80?
My bully tried to stab me, called me all kinds of names and made many "friends" leave me. And yes, I played many games. I wonder how long it takes Havest Moon, Sims, Stardew Valley and Pokemon to turn me into a rascist murderer. I'll be waiting.
Oh no! I've beat the Icon Of Sin in DOOM! I suddenly have an urge to commit hate crimes!
Not enough to murder that many people in cold blood at two mosques tho. Nothing is close to enough. Poor diddums was sad so he f****d up a bunch of lives and took a bunch more 😡
Load More Replies...Well, if you want to, you can read it as "Stop bullying others - they might not be stable enough to withstand the s**t-talk and hate-speech on the internet where they will hide because your bullying made them afraid of real human contact" But it is also blame-shifting, so I'm not completely serious here. Still - don't bully!
Space Ned Flanders Responds To A Comment On A Post About A Plaque On The Moon.
Orbit??! But, but that implies spherical! Stop talking madness you crazy dude
I Used My Argument To Destroy My Argument
Omg!!! Not a bad idea at all! A logic test, of which they clearly lack!
I'm calling for voters pass for years. I want democracy, not ochlocracy as we have now. And my rules are not that hard to achieve. You must have citizenship, you must have high school, you have to pass history test and you have to pass logic test. That is all. I would like to add some more, e.g. you have to pay taxes, but I think we can start with something easy.
Load More Replies...In the US, literacy tests were part of the Jim Crow laws the Civil Rights Movements fought to erradicate...
I think people should have to pass the citizenship test to be able to vote, and you’d have to retake the test every 10 or 15 years. A logistical nightmare, but wouldn’t it be great if the people voting knew even a tiny bit about how the government actually works??? It wouldn’t be like a few decades ago where they’d make black people prove they could read by giving them hard passages and then being like “actually it says ‘from the’ not ‘from’, you aren’t literate after all.”
Did Not Know That About The First Computer Virus
Brandy Is Not Having It
I like Brandy the drink, Brandy the singer and now Brandy the sassy store owner
Maybe so much that you have to pay more taxes? I really have no clue but if someone does_ please let us know!
Load More Replies...Why Is Tucker Carlson?
You should watch the interview he had with Dutch historian Ruter Bregman, which was never aired. It's very funny, Tucker is no match for Bregman. You can find it on YT.
Load More Replies...Tucker Carlson's lawyers claimed in court that no one in his right mind will ever believe anything that he says. Fox-lawyer...6a326a.jpg
Fox stated in court that their "news" is entertainment, not journalism. And they have been blocked in several countries because they are such an obvious toxic propaganda machine.
Tucker Carlson's way of "thinking for himself", means that he just presents a lot of homebrewed conspiracies. He states his theories as questions, showing that he did not even want to do the work to actually find the answers and the data to back them up (probably because data wouldn't back them up). By doing this he cannot be held responsible for what he is saying. E.g. by starting with: "could it be that...." he does not explicit say that "it is the case that [insert bizarre statement here (like Hillory belive in child sacrifice)]" Instead he just implants a lot of misbelieves in peoples minds to reach a given agenda, or reference other peoples obscure theories . Fox is not "the last big news organisation", as what it presents is not news, but political statements. News should be more fact focused and scrupped of political opinions, unless they are stated by a politician being interviewed. When you are from a nation with proper objective news channels it is really easy to see through
Oligarchs!! I thought my country was the only one plagued with idiots missusing that word on daily bases. I can see now that the problem has gone global.
It's because you're so sensationalist you don't even count as trivia.
"You were born in the wrong family, so everything you say is wrong!"
Wine Is Thicker Than Blood
Being in a bad place yourself is no excuse to hurt others, especially those who depend on you. If you're a parent falling into a toxic spiral, don't be afraid to get help for yourself & your kids before it's too late. Neither of you deserve to be in pain & there are people out there who want to help.
Frustrated and Toxic are not remotely the same thing.
Load More Replies...I don’t think that’s the point of the first poster. Seems like the mothers who are indeed toxic, are defended here, because they have become toxic because of external factors.
Load More Replies...If it were so easy to just get therapy, a lot more people would do it. Except if we're talking upper-class-toxic mothers solely, here. But a lot of issues come from never learning it better, because their parents were already messed up, and they give their issues to their kids even if they don't want to. If you don't KNOW the damage you're doing, you are unlikely to seek help. How many times have I read on the net that "I sure deserved to get the belt for how I behaved. didn't do me any lasting damage at all" and feel like a magnet, from all the irony. Because if you don't think that hitting a child with a belt for being a dumb sh it is completely okay, CLEARLY there was lasting damage. (while at the same time, kids get taught to "never hit someone weaker than you"... Do as I say, don't do as I do?)
"When your mother hits you, it is because of your father, because all males are always inherently responsible for all the bad things that happen in the world."
They are BOTH to blame, but the parent who the child lives with is ultimatelly responsible for the child's welfare. Don't make it about you, little boy. Stop being a triggered pretend victim, like Im sure you call others you disagree with. For a man you have quite a sore püssy. Try vagisil.
Load More Replies...A single mother who’s stressed out from handling everything alone will find time exactly when to go to therapy? This one is really gross. Some people ARE toxic because they’re stressed out from a bad situation. Some won’t admit they need help. And like if my mom was one of them, she had barely enough money to buy us clothes or food sometimes, and worked during the day. How would she afford therapy and when would she go?
"In His Samarra Hometown, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Was Known As The Local Cleric. To The FBI, He's The Militant Leader Who Was An Iraqi Terrorist And Headed Isis."
And wearing that is clearly a way to toughen up an already weak weak self image. These people man.
Load More Replies...Seriously, Read Or Be Read.
I Can't Make Titles
There should be less money spend on military (700 billions? wow) and more put into education and health care.
As a teacher of my favorite quotes, by the inimitable Robert Fulghum was: "It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber."
I love NASA but there's some truth here. It is wasteful and rife with mismanagement and numerous duplicative programs. Purdue published a rather sobering study on it years ago. It's not pretty. Financial management at NASA is terrible. Under scheduling due to poor planning, poor cost estimations (chronic problem), suffocatingly bureaucratic processes. It's tough to get funding when you have such a poor track record of properly managing funds.
It's That Simple
The working title, before it was complete, was "The Last Man in Europe".
I'm sure Donnie Trump would retweet Sean Davis. But he can't.... :)
Much Ado About Something
Jesus is nice, but some of the people who pray to him aren't.
Load More Replies...And I bet his kids will do what they want, anyway. Maybe not at home, though... (I also don't understand what that's all about, with the shoes? What's the big deal?)
[insert Mildly Interesting Title]
Presumably, since obesity is higher amongst poor people and poverty is higher amongst black people, black people are more prone to obesity. Not that that makes it racist, but I'm assuming that's the 'logic'.
Load More Replies...I am obese and it is generally not a slur, it is a description and medical term. But it does also depend on HOW it is said. If the actual intent is to ridicule then yes it can be considered a slur but if it is just an observation then it's a factual description.
"Obese" is a medical word. It's not a slur, violent or de-humanising. It's definitely not anti-black. But when you use mental gymnastics to make yourself perpetually offended, everything is problematic.
Obese is the correct term for someone who clearly weighs too much and can't function normally because of that weight. It's not violent, insulting, dehumanizing or anti-black. But I guess soon we're not allowed to call water wet, because the word wet is too sexual.
There was legit people trying to ban the word “moist” for that exact reason.
Load More Replies..."Racism" is not a magical spell that makes you able to win every argument without any effort.
I prefer the term "whale", because I love whales. Swim around and eat all day, be majestic.
There's a reason I can't wear a black and white one-piece, though - I might get rolled back into the sea!
Load More Replies...Poor Washed-Up Has-Been Whining About Back In The Day
Glenn is a d**k, he made some good music once but now, he just needs to shhh.
Maybe if Glenn wasn't 5'1" he wouldn't be trying to be such a hard ass. Little man syndrome. The Misfits broke up because he was a dickhead.
Cancel culture and wokeness is bullshit though. At least he got that right
Bored Panda has enough material to make a whole post on Tomi Lahren's ramblings
Bored Panda has enough material to make a whole post on Tomi Lahren's ramblings
