The Current Events Thread

[The Idiotic Oracle]

who else lives in arizona?

you might've heard about how someone has been turning flashlights into small bombs and leaving them places and donating them to stores like Goodwill

well now im miffed because someone on tumblr thought a picture of the phoenix news talking about a suspicious flashlight was hilarious and 20,000 people who didnt do research agreed

http://ironicorgasm.tumblr.com/post/261 ... ooks-funny

mad at tumblr

[BeatBoxingBoo]

That is hilarious and really sad at the same time. I feel bad for the people who think it is just an innocent flashlight.

[Brekkjern]

So you are mad at people, who have no connection to the events, think that a picture taken out of context is funny? How would anyone seeing only that picture come to the conclusion that it could just possibly be a bomb.

To be quite frank, I find the picture funny even after seeing the context.

[Exeres]

Yeah, the headline is hilarious. You can't get mad at people for not bothering to follow up after seeing it. I just assumed it was fake anyway.

[Komodoensis]

It can be a serious thing, yes. But just, the fact that it is flashlights, is amusing. This reminds me of the Boston Bomb Scare, where people thought the Lite-Brites with that alien from ATHF. It is a serious matter, but the whole concept of it is amusing. It'd be like, oh, I dunno, a nudist who sets fire to people's houses. The idea of a Nudist Arson, or Flashlight Bombs, is silly. Serious, but with a silly appearance.

[Sammich Monster]

Speaking of that healthcare reform, how do all the Amerifags here think about it? From what I've read, the internet has a unanimous positive position about it.
Then I hear my crazy-booty Fox-obsessed family ranting about it, saying it's going to screw up my generation and we'd have to pay for all of it and that forcing people to have insurance is crazy and wrong and evil.
As for me I'm on the fence about it, probably about to fall off into the supporters' side.

[Riku]

I think the people who are against it are concerned that it will basically give the government the ability to decide who gets life-saving care and who doesn't. Whether that fear is founded or not is the question. Otherwise, it's basically just an extension of the first time they imposed an income tax. People will bitch at first, but after a little while, no one will think anything of it, financially.

[Zink]

Long story short: they don't like it because they are Republicans and Obama is President and ARE FREEDUMS.

Basically they just have this unnatural worship of the rich and hatred of the poor, because obviously we live in a completely just world and everyone who is poor deserves to be poor and vice versa. If they have a pre-existing condition that is their fault because fuck other people amiright?

It's a completely irrational thing to hate, especially considering bodaciously every other developed Western country has something like it. If anything, it doesn't go far enough.

Sadly, the right is -really- good at propaganda and thus many people believe things about it that are a bit off or outright false.

[Kalekemo]

I'll just, uh, put this here


And people thing global warming is fake...

[Ersatz]

Long story short: they don't like it because they are Republicans and Obama is President and ARE FREEDUMS.

This. The funniest thing is that Obama's reform is modeled after a reform Mitt Romney made in 2006 in Massachusetts. It was good when it was done by a republican governor, but once a democrat does the same it becomes part of the liberals' communist agenda.

[[Citation Needed]]

Weather map: It was 102 earlier (sun is low, now, at 8:00). My sister in Seattle was joyous because it was SO HOT at 75 that she could wear a skirt.

[BeatBoxingBoo]

I'll just, uh, put this here
[img]HOT[/img]

And people thing global warming is fake...

Now I've updated my list of places to never go. Thanks Kale.

[Kalekemo]

In other words, Washington state is still a climate friendly place I guess?

[Tales]

is that obamacare thing basically an american version of the NHS?

[Kalekemo]

LOLNO

As if any American President would allow free healthcare