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36. Some ROFL posts around this site this week

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 11:08 AM

Feb 2014

Not here, of course - if I donated to a site that censors political speech I would give you all hearts - but around the front page. Though I have not been around, I do check in at LBN - still one of the fastest news feeds I know (there are others but they have too much I'm not interested in, like celebrities). Checking in LBN means I see what's on the front page, and am occasionally tempted to scan a thread or two.

My recent favorites:

a post exhorting everyone to vote D no matter what to prevent more people from starving. Eh, wot? Roosevelt rose from the grave and I somehow missed it?

a post lecturing us that the US narrowly missed a "catastrophe" by raising the debt limit. Shades of "THANK GOD IT PASSED." Said poster obviously does not know what a catastrophe is. The obliteration of pollinators is a catastrophe. The poisoning of the ocean is a catastrophe. Climate chaos will be catastrophic. The utterly illusory paper transactions that make up our economy are .... nothing.

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