The Small Rants Thread, Continued...

[X-Codes]

I'm torn as to whether I should watch the State of the Union tonight or not.  On the one hand, it's the President saying stuff that's supposed to be important.  On the other hand, he's a politician, so doing what he's supposed to do is not at all assured.

[Sinfire Titan]

Dear DeviantArt,

I understand that you have had technical difficulties lately, and that you have at least attempted to fix those issues over the past three weeks. And you have recently announced that the major issues were fixed. Why is it that shit like this is still on page 1 on the Popular section whenever I log in?

Sincerely,
A very disgruntled Kris.


Ps: If this shit keeps up, I may well switch over to Danbooru completely.

[Kuroimaken]

Dear DeviantArt,

I understand that you have had technical difficulties lately, and that you have at least attempted to fix those issues over the past three weeks. And you have recently announced that the major issues were fixed. Why is it that shit like this is still on page 1 on the Popular section whenever I log in?

Sincerely,
A very disgruntled Kris.


Ps: If this shit keeps up, I may well switch over to Danbooru completely.

*barfs at picture*

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That picture is fucking hilarious.

I saw a headline in the newspaper today about Republicans bashing the State of the Union address yesterday... you know, that speech about to be given tonight?  I was curious about what they were talking about, so I decided to go online and read it (I only saw the headline on a newspaper, I didn't actually read it at that time).  When I got to the comments section, there was a guy there that made a very well-informed point that "Saint Ronald" was the first president to start this out-of-control spending that has resulted, today, in a massive federal debt.  Now, instead of some sort of intelligent discourse, the next three comments went about as follows:

1) I hope you believe in gay or abortion, because you need to not spread your seed.

2) How can you bash "Saint Ronald" when your Drunken Sailor of a president ran up the debt more than any President in history?

3) Nuh UH!

All paraphrased, but I attempted to confer as much of the inanity and bile as I could without making me want to kill myself.

[bhu]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/23/409443/arkansas-democratic-campaign-manager-comes-home-to-find-childs-cat-murdered-liberal-written-on-dead-body/?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150407338797395_19147079_10150407724597395&mobile=nc

ok things like this just piss me off...

[Bozwevial]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/23/409443/arkansas-democratic-campaign-manager-comes-home-to-find-childs-cat-murdered-liberal-written-on-dead-body/?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150407338797395_19147079_10150407724597395&mobile=nc

ok things like this just piss me off...

Remind me never to live in Arkansas.

[X-Codes]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/23/409443/arkansas-democratic-campaign-manager-comes-home-to-find-childs-cat-murdered-liberal-written-on-dead-body/?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150407338797395_19147079_10150407724597395&mobile=nc

ok things like this just piss me off...

Remind me never to live in Arkansas.

Never remind me that Arkansas is a state...

[Sinfire Titan]

Someone needs to be castrated for that.

[Kuroimaken]

Someone needs to be castrated for that.

Castration isn't enough. We should have someone in his family drink gasoline and set the pee on fire, AS HE DRINKS IT. Preferrably his mother.

[Amechra]

Nah, still too good for that kind of scum.

I suggest massive reconstructive surgery, removing his limbs and face, leaving a breathing/feeding hole.

[sirpercival]

Nah, still too good for that kind of scum.

I suggest massive reconstructive surgery, removing his limbs and face, leaving a breathing/feeding hole.

To the pain?

[littha]

This is getting towards stories about the Dark Eldar from 40k... not a good direction.

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

I just can't stand politics at all, in any form or fashion.  Seriously, thinking about it too much makes me physically ill.  I don't understand why people can't just be tolerant and nice to each other.  Maybe it's the company I keep (I intentionally surround myself with intelligent people), but deliberately ignorant, close-minded and irrational behavior and thinking really piss me off.

Amen. Not exclusive to politics though.

Maybe not, but politics is the most public and advertised forum for stupidity and deliberate ignorance I've ever experienced.  I try to wash my hands of it as often as I can, and simply live my life the way I think I should.

I do get taken advantage of from time to time because of it, but it's a small price to pay for peace of mind.

Call me paranoid but I don't believe in many cases that it's either stupidity, ignorance, or irrational.   These guys had to curry a lot of favor and bullshit a lot of people to get where they are, so they aren't stupid, it's just necessary for them to occasionally appear that way to deflect from what they're really doing.  After all if they're caught with their hands in something they can claim ignorance because people have thought of them that way all along.  It's to their benefit to appear slightly incompetent because it causes people to underestimate them and not pay close attention.  It's about money, pure and simple.  They have enough money and privilege  that they can avoid living with the consequences of the rules they make, and they don't give a damn about the people those rules screw over.  Those people aren't paying them.  Oh sure taxpayers may pay their salary in congress, but that isn't where the vast majority of their funds come from.

bhu is on the mark

Except prohibition was the little people against the powerful and rich while SOPA/PIPA is for the rich against the little people

[Sinfire Titan]

Hey, I know it's a heated time for many people, but can we keep the political talk restricted to more appropriate threads? The last thing we need is for someone in the military to read this and label Kuro as a terrorist.

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

Sorry. I try not to bring it up, but I like replying to thingsese

[Halinn]

Hey, I know it's a heated time for many people, but can we keep the political talk restricted to more appropriate threads? The last thing we need is for someone in the military to read this and label Kuro as a terrorist.

You're right. It wouldn't be fair on the military.

[Amechra]

I'm now getting a vision of Kuro in the place of the Saint of Killers...

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Sorry I could only find that in Spanish, but keep in mind that he just got hit by a direct strike from a nuclear weapon.

[Agita]

I'm now getting a vision of Kuro in the place of the Saint of Killers...

(click to show/hide)

Sorry I could only find that in Spanish, but keep in mind that he just got hit by a direct strike from a nuclear weapon.

For the benefit of the non-fluent, he's saying "Your guns aren't enough."/"You don't have enough guns."

[zugschef]

killing 24 civilists (10 women and children amongst them) earns you a maximum of 3 months in jail.

[bhu]

System Has Recovered from a Serious Error