In the Right

thorinmyside:

in-the-right:

inkplink:

in-the-right:

americas-liberty:

STFU, Conservatives: Wow. A new low.

thedailyfiona:

absolutetruth15:

inkplink:

your-bloodless-light:

So for those of you who didn’t see the post, yesterday there was a long debacle involving a burst pipe in my building that left us with no running water most of the day (and stinky water full of rust flakes for the rest of the day), a ground floor…

Why? You guys voted for this.

You think the Government is bad at giving you housing?  Wait until they give you healthcare!  You get get you vote for.  Enjoy your brown water.

“Elections have consequences…”

But government hand-outs are worth it, right?

Gold star for each of you, you’ve successfully acted like assholes on a post about people having to live in housing that is physically unsafe! Do you feel better about yourselves now? 

Because mocking poor people for living in government mandated housing (which ~shocker~ existed before Barack Obama was elected) that has unsafe conditions totally makes you a super cool and radical individual.

I’m so glad you’re all satisfied with yourselves. 

You get get you vote for.  Enjoy your brown water.

Yes, because people who may or may not have voted for someone you don’t like deserve to get sick from having no clean drinking water, right? 

But government hand-outs are worth it, right?

Yeah, living in a bulding that has fecal matter flooding the apartments is totes worth it! Did you enjoy your snide jab at people below the poverty line?

Why? You guys voted for this.

Yeah, I totally voted for this. I totally cast my ballot thinking to myself “wouldn’t it be amazing if the President told the apartment manager, who was this way before the elections, to treat her residents like complete dirt, and go on a massive power trip ending in unsafe conditions for the people living in the apartment complex”. You got me. I totally voted for this.

Being poor does not absolve one of voting stupidly.

except that they never brought up anything to do with voting? nor do you know who they voted for

Nor does it protect you from being called-out for such.

so being forced to live in human fecal matter deserves a “call out?”

congrats on being a disgusting human being

We’re simply telling you we told you so; I think we’ve earned that right.

the right to mock someone for being poor???? do you hear yourself?????

We didn’t want this kind of thing to happen.

you made this post about you how fucking butthurt you are about how mitt romney lost

like noone gives a shit about you

go crawl into a ditch

and never come out

That’s why we strive for small government. So when you smugly shoot yourself in the foot like this, it’s hard to have much sympathy.

wow yeah you’re a piece of shit

no matter who anyone voted for noone deserves to live in such conditions you’re a vile and disgusting human being

fall off the face of the earth kthxs

Oh look, another classy individual who has most definitely taken the moral high road and possesses immense reading comprehension. It was truly a joy to have met someone with your caliber of logic and decency.

stalincertifiedaccount:

douchegeoisie:

in-the-right:

1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.

2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.

3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.

4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.

5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.

6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.

Who is this person and why are they so dumb

did you even try

Wow, nevermind my original post—the two of you have changed my mind with your logical rebuttals.

pendarkspoliticalpage:

Leavin’ on a jet plane: Obama supporters vow exodus from US if Romney wins

BYEEEEEEE!

Ahaha, some of these are PRICELESS. But to be honest, I’ve considered moving to Australia if Obama screws up America too much for me to stand. Not that it’s currently freer or more conservative, but at least it knows how to deal with money. Plus, Obama is terrifying, and I feel he has big plans. Australia might soon become a less dangerous place. And it’s just depressing to see a once-great nation that I believed in becoming such a pile of manure.

krazykitsune:

in-the-right:

krazykitsune:

Redistribution of wealth entails the government taking money from me, and then giving it to someone who has less money than me for the simple reason that they have less money than me. 

However, making sure everyone has an equal opportunity at education (and not sending rural areas back a hundred years) is kind of the whole reason why taxes exist.

This is something that the Founding Father’s believed in, big time, because the only way that you can have a nation of free thinking citizens with the ability to vote and participate in the world around them is if you educate them. 

Would you stop building roads in rural areas just because there are fewer people there? Or would you possibly invest in highways that allow economies to flourish due to better access to the surrounding areas?

Do you not see how the government, by educating it’s population, is investing in them to become productive and knowledgeable member of society? That maybe the reason why we have had such a leap in technology the past hundred years is because everyone is now receiving a primary education? 

If you ONLY invest in people that already have access to something, how on God’s green earth are you ever going do anything but stagnate? 

Personally? I’d like to reduce the importance of standardized tests and make teaching a more lucrative/competitive position. But keep in mind, that curriculum is not set by the federal government, they simply oversee funding. So if change needs to be made, it must be made on the state level, not the federal one. 

This is something that the Founding Father’s believed in, big time, because the only way that you can have a nation of free thinking citizens with the ability to vote and participate in the world around them is if you educate them. 

You all seem to think I’m against education itself, despite that I’ve spoken to the contrary several times. I know education and being informed is important. I just have different ideas regarding how to go about it. One of my primary concerns is too much government control over the shaping of young minds…meaning propaganda. How do we minimize this?

Yes, I realize. The problem with taking away government “control” is that you’re also taking away any sort of standard. 

I also think you’re REALLY overstating the influence the government has over current schooling. 

Like I said, states are the one’s who set basic curriculum and regulate that curriculum through standardized tests. For example, in my state at least, basic curriculum is  ”Okay you get to start learning basic biology in 4th grade, here is the test you take at the end of the year to make sure you know this stuff“ 

That’s it. Everything else is done by a locally elected school board. That includes the hiring of teachers and the choosing of books. 

This whole talk of propaganda, do you actually have any proof that the government has done anything (in recent years mind you) besides try to protect their (and by extension our) investment into our children’s education?

And I’m not talking about controversies like ‘should evolution be taught in schools’ because that’s not the government, that’s certain people’s religious views differing from scientific fact. Believe it or not, the government did not actually invent science, nor does it have control over scientific law.

This is my biggest problem with you’re plan: You are willing to dismantle an entire system just because of fear. Just because you are afraid the government may try to kinda sorta influence kids. And you would risk SO much and invite SO many problems just because of this fear.

And honestly? I am not willing to risk that many children’s chance at education just because of fear.

This is the part where I give up on you because you are too brainwashed to even recognize that claiming something is fact does not make it so. Because they taught you in school that evolution is fact does not make it true. Because they once taught the world was flat does not make it so, despite how people violently proclaimed it to be fact. What if, say, a religious sect had majority rule and opinion over the interpretation of scientific tests and outcomes and variables and the way they were ignored or the reports were phrased just right? What if, based on their biased conclusions, they “proved” creationism to be fact and forced all schools to teach it because it’s fact, and you can’t teach lies? What if you wanted schools to at least teach different possibilities because you don’t see enough evidence for creationism to be absolute fact, and you see problems with the way scientists are abusing the tool called science and going about pretending there’s more conclusive evidence than there actually is, so you want the government to have less control over what is obligatorily taught, but then I came on here and told you your concerns don’t even count because creationism is fact, and the government should enforce facts to be taught? Your kind are such blind hypocrites. Bye.