Immune to satire, Tea Party group posts Bioshock Infinite picture on Facebook

Because the idiots took it seriously
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Kotaku reports that a Tea Party group in Florida posted a picture from the game Bioshock Infinite on their Facebook page.

For those who aren’t familiar with it, Bioshock Infinite is a game that takes place in a 1912 in a flying city by the name of Columbia. It’s run by a man who is a cross between Bryan Fischer and Pat Buchanan. The place is a racist, sexist theocracy. When I played the game it seriously creeped me out.

So these Tea Partiers took an image from what is essentially a condemnation of their stance and posted it as a serious display of their beliefs.

These are really stupid people.

UPDATE at 12/16/13 11:37:02 am

Here’s a larger version of the image.

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172 comments
1 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:15:00am

Foreign Hordes?

2 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:15:13am

For people who like to say everything they get called out for is “SATIRE”, they certainly don’t seem to recognize it when it actually shows up.

3 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:15:15am

How many of the 50/60 plus year old TPers will be familiar with Bioshock?

I know older people play games, but I question how many in the TP demographic are avid gamers.

4 Ian G.  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:15:46am

Next step: play Nine Inch Nails’ “Year Zero” as a celebration of our heritage as a “Christian Nation”.

5 Mattand  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:16:39am

I remember seeing that graphic last year and thinking “I wonder how many people are going to misinterpret what that is.”

I think I have some FB trolling to do now.

6 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:17:35am

I have seen so much stupid shit in Teh Twitters, this does not surprise me in the least.

7 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:17:39am

OT: How to destroy your business in less than a week

1. Release an update to a popular paid for App of yours
2. Be deluged with angry complaints in the App store reviews because the update causes instant crashing for everyone running iOS 7 and up.
3. Let three days go by and do absolutely nothing to address the problem.
4. See your App store score tank to 1 star, thus killing your chances of many future downloads.

And the crappy thing about this is I quite liked the app beforehand.

8 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:18:54am

Well, I had a wonderful day yesterday. I spent several hours at the Shelter helping groups of the kids of Foreign Hordes shop (from donated) for gifts for their mothers. Guess what, all of them spoke English and were absolutely wonderful.

We all said Merry Christmas and drank punch like normal people!

The teenagers were amazing.

9 StephenMeansMe  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:19:25am

Sort of like a reverse Poe’s law situation: when an actual wingnut can’t tell the difference between his own ideology and satire of it.

10 Ian G.  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:19:34am

The Native American chief as part of the “foreign hordes” is a nice touch. Too bad it went over the heads of the teabaggers.

11 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:20:12am

Is one of the horde wearing a sombrero?

12 AlexRogan  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:21:52am
So these Tea Partiers took an image from what is essentially a condemnation of their stance and posted it as a serious display of their beliefs.

These are really stupid people.

And unoriginal bastards without a truly creative bone in their bodies, to boot.

They’re reduced to co-opting an image from/about a game that mocks just about everything that they stand for, but I seriously doubt that they’d care, even if they had a clue.

13 Varek Raith  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:22:33am

Would you kindly?

14 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:22:42am

re: #12 AlexRogan

And unoriginal bastards with not a truly creative bone in their bodies, to boot.

They’re reduced to co-opting an image from/about a game that mocks just about everything that they stand for, but I seriously doubt that they’d care, even if they had a clue.

Fake, but accurate.

15 CriticalDragon1177  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:24:19am

Romantic Heretic,

WOW! The Stupid It Burns!

16 AlexRogan  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:24:34am

re: #14 Kragar

Fake, but accurate.

Pretty much.

Bioshock just did their graphic design work for them.

17 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:25:11am

re: #16 AlexRogan

It’s not just the design, it’s the context.

18 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:25:50am

Reminds me of the wonderful parody of McNaughton’s drivel, “One Nation Under God”

The original:

Image: one_nation_under_God%281%29.jpg

And the far superior, improved version

Image: one_nation_under_chtulu.jpg

19 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:26:52am
20 Varek Raith  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:27:23am

They probably think Rapture is paradise.

21 AlexRogan  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:27:34am

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s not just the design, it’s the context.

Which makes this all the more delicious, because RWNJs love to style themselves as rugged, self-made individualists, while everyone else are mindless sheep.

Who are the fucking mindless sheep now, RWNJs?

22 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:27:36am

The resolution isn’t so good, can someone identify the “Foreign hordes”? I think I can see A Juice, A Native American, A Mexican, A Chinese, and An Irish.

23 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:27:45am

re: #19 Kragar

My surprise, etc.

24 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:29:08am

The League of the South. Fucking scumbag nutjobs.

25 Lidane  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:29:23am

re: #19 Kragar

Rebranding!

26 jaunte  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:29:25am

re: #22 Lord of the Pies

Man in a turban at near left, maybe Sikh.

27 Varek Raith  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:29:32am

re: #22 Lord of the Pies

The resolution isn’t so good, can someone identify the “Foreign hordes”? I think I can see A Juice, A Native American, A Mexican, A Chinese, and An Irish.

Image: infinite-bioshock-for-god-and-country-hd-340872.jpg

28 Stoatly  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:30:55am

re: #1 FemNaziBitch

Foreign Hordes?

Worse kind of Hordes, the Foreign Hordes

And hard to get parts…

Reliable though…

29 makeitstop  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:31:18am

re: #27 Varek Raith

Image: infinite-bioshock-for-god-and-country-hd-340872.jpg

One of the ‘foreign hordes’ appears to be a Native American. Derp.

SO much fail

30 erik_t  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:31:18am

re: #27 Varek Raith

Image: infinite-bioshock-for-god-and-country-hd-340872.jpg

Hoooooly mackerel.

31 Gus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:33:02am

Add the image to this post.

32 Lidane  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:33:20am

re: #22 Lord of the Pies

The resolution isn’t so good, can someone identify the “Foreign hordes”? I think I can see A Juice, A Native American, A Mexican, A Chinese, and An Irish.

The “Foreign Hordes” are every racist stereotype you can think of. Africans, Arabs, Jews, Mexicans, Native Americans, the Irish, the Chinese, etc.

33 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:33:26am

Let’s play ‘count the stereotypes’!

34 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:33:47am

re: #32 Lidane

6 seconds. :P

35 Ian G.  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:35:45am

re: #18 Kragar

Yeah, I was going to say that maybe the teabaggers thought it was another McNaughton painting. It’s not that different, except that McNaughton is apparently serious.

36 Gus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:35:48am

Holy crap. That’s some racist imagery.

37 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:36:21am

re: #36 Gus

Hence why the TPers are all over it.

38 Lidane  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:36:36am

re: #29 makeitstop

One of the ‘foreign hordes’ appears to be a Native American. Derp.

SO much fail

That’s the whole point, though. The people in Columbia in Bioshock Infinite have taken to fetishizing America. The Founders are gods, everything that isn’t good and pure and white is bad, etc.

The fact that the teabaggers posted this without irony says a lot.

39 nines09  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:36:45am

A snap shot of the mess that goes on in Tea Party heads.

40 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:37:05am

I’m seeing a Sikh but not a Muslim. What are the two figures on the far left, the woman and child? African? Also what is the figure that appears right above the word “Duty” to the left of the Native American?

41 Ian G.  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:37:15am

re: #36 Gus

Holy crap. That’s some racist imagery.

And apparently, nobody in the teabagger group that posted it said, “hey, wait a minute, this is so over the top, maybe it’s satire?”

No, they went with it. Because they agree with it.

42 CriticalDragon1177  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:37:19am

re: #18 Kragar

Reminds me of the wonderful parody of McNaughton’s drivel, “One Nation Under God”

The original:

Image: one_nation_under_God%281%29.jpg

And the far superior, improved version

Image: one_nation_under_chtulu.jpg

LOL!

43 Gus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:37:45am

re: #40 Lord of the Pies

I’m seeing a Sikh but not a Muslim. What are the two figures on the far left, the woman and child? African? Also what is the figure that appears right above the word “Duty” to the left of the Native American?

Sikh = Muslim for wingnuts.

44 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:38:12am

It does look very McNaughton-esque. Except that McNaughton is, you know, not ironic and hip.

45 CriticalDragon1177  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:38:18am

re: #36 Gus

Holy crap. That’s some racist imagery.

So much for the “Tea Party” not being racist.

46 jaunte  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:39:00am

A supporter weighs in:

47 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:39:12am

Is to possible to engage in “Auto-Trolling”? I think that TP Group has managed to do it. In one bold and decisive stroke they managed to mock themselves and hold themselves up for ridicule. What’s it say when your own posts fulfill Poe’s Law?

The comments at the FB site are a scream. Problem is, based on other stuff on their page, this probably does approximate their vision for ‘Merica.

RBS

48 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:39:19am

re: #45 CriticalDragon1177

So much for the “Tea Party” not being racist.

But they have black friends!

49 Targetpractice  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:39:44am

re: #38 Lidane

That’s the whole point, though. The people in Columbia in Bioshock Infinite have taken to fetishizing America. The Founders are gods, everything that isn’t good and pure and white is bad, etc.

The fact that the teabaggers posted this without irony says a lot.

Columbia’s created much in the same way Rapture was, as a living embodiment of all that was wrong with a particular philosophy, in this case it could be either “American Exceptionalism” or jingoism. If you can think of anything that was wrong with America at the time, Columbia not only has it, it’s probably ramped up to 11. Like the company town that Fink operates, where the bosses pretty much tell the workers (all either foreigners or minorities) that they’re there only because they serve a useful purpose and can never expect to be accepted as a citizen of Columbia.

50 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:39:49am

re: #42 CriticalDragon1177

LOL!

See, Jesus Is To White!!!!!

RBS

51 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:40:25am

Toni Hector-Zepeda has a Mexicanish name. HURR HURR NOT MURICAN!!!!

52 aagcobb  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:40:32am
Bioshock Infinite is a game that takes place in a 1912 in a flying city by the name of Columbia. It’s run by a man who is a cross between Bryan Fischer and Pat Buchanan. The place is a racist, sexist theocracy.

I’m not surprised they like the logo; Columbia sounds like Tea Party paradise, and I am not being sarcastic.

53 Lidane  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:40:36am

re: #36 Gus

Holy crap. That’s some racist imagery.

Because Columbia in Bioshock Infinite is incredibly racist. IIRC an interracial couple gets publicly stoned to death, John Wilkes Booth is considered a hero, and people there throw baseballs at black people for sport. It’s an over-the-top hyperpatriotic cult.

Maybe the teabaggers saw kindred spirits in Columbia.

54 Ian G.  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:40:49am

re: #43 Gus

Sikh = Muslim for wingnuts.

This. It’s probably a deliberate satire of the knuckedraggers’ inability to tell Muslims and Sikhs apart.

Another nice touch. The more I look at it, the more impressed I am with it. I also imagine the resemblance to John McNaughton “art” was an intentional spoof of his dreck.

55 Dr. Matt  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:41:13am

re: #46 jaunte

The Hector-Zepeda family fought in the Revolutionary war? Sounds plausible.

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56 Varek Raith  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:41:52am

re: #52 aagcobb

I’m not surprised they like the logo; Columbia sounds like Tea Party paradise, and I am not being sarcastic.

In the first Bioshock game, Rapture was a libertarian paradise with lots of references to Ayn Rand.
It was an awesome take down of that entire system.

57 Gus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:42:02am

re: #53 Lidane

Because Columbia in Bioshock Infinite is incredibly racist. IIRC an interracial couple gets publicly stoned to death, John Wilkes Booth is considered a hero, and people there throw baseballs at black people for sport. It’s an over-the-top hyperpatriotic cult.

Maybe the teabaggers saw kindred spirits in Columbia.

Exactly.

58 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:42:03am

re: #55 Dr. Matt

The Hector-Zepeda family fought in the Revolutionary war? Sounds plausible.

They were the ones who defeated the Texans at the Alamo.

59 Dr. Matt  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:42:13am

re: #48 Eclectic Cyborg

But they have black friends!

Correction: “But they have black bestie friends!”

61 Targetpractice  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:43:58am

re: #56 Varek Raith

In the first Bioshock game, Rapture was a libertarian paradise with lots of references to Ayn Rand.
It was an awesome take down of that entire system.

Indeed, any time I want to reference the flaws in individualism, I just point to Bioshock and Rapture. The big flaw in the city Ryan built is that the philosophy that everybody has the same chance to make it big clashes with the reality that there has to be somebody to do the dirty work.

62 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:44:14am

bbl

63 Charles Johnson  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:44:16am

re: #53 Lidane

Because Columbia in Bioshock Infinite is incredibly racist. IIRC an interracial couple gets publicly stoned to death, John Wilkes Booth is considered a hero, and people there throw baseballs at black people for sport. It’s an over-the-top hyperpatriotic cult.

Maybe the teabaggers saw kindred spirits in Columbia.

Most people see that world as a nightmare when they play the game. The Tea Partiers apparently saw Utopia.

64 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:44:17am

re: #60 Charles Johnson

I sincerely hope the feature is time limited.

65 jaunte  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:44:29am

National Liberty Federation:

66 Dr. Matt  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:46:17am

re: #60 Charles Johnson

Exclusive: Twitter Working on “Edit” Feature for Tweets | the Desk

I’ve wondered for years why this doesn’t exist.

67 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:46:17am

Because giving people with pre-existing conditions access to affordable health care is just the same as the genocide of millions.

WTFF.

68 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:46:56am

re: #67 Lord of the Pies

Because giving people with pre-existing conditions access to affordable health care is just the same as the genocide of millions.

WTFF.

It’s the “Death Panels” view again.

69 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:47:00am

Here’s a proud citizen of Columbia:

70 aagcobb  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:47:50am

re: #65 jaunte

National Liberty Federation:
[Embedded image]

Is it a surprise that the Heritage Foundation and Mitt Romney are stealing ideas from Hitler?//

71 GlutenFreeJesus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:48:31am

Next thing you know, they will be touting The Hunger Games as a model for paradise.

72 Charles Johnson  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:49:44am

Just took a look around their Facebook page, and my goodness. My my my.

These people are completely out of their fucking minds.

73 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:50:00am

HURR HURR

74 theheat  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:50:21am

They glom on to anything artsy, because their own digital works look too much like this:

Stevie Wonder could ‘shop better than these twits.

75 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:51:31am

re: #71 GlutenFreeJesus

Next thing you know, they will be touting The Hunger Games as a model for paradise.

I honestly think a lot of them would love this. Get a group of poor people together and have them fight each other to the death for food. Winner take all. Population control and entertainment all in one.

76 jaunte  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:52:12am

re: #74 theheat

The top one has a real Fascism Comes to America feel.

77 CriticalDragon1177  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:53:42am

re: #63 Charles Johnson

Most people see that world as a nightmare when they play the game. The Tea Partiers apparently saw Utopia.

That of course assumes they even played game.

78 Targetpractice  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:54:33am

re: #77 CriticalDragon1177

That of course assumes they even played game.

My guess is one of them ran across the concept art, decided “Damn, that’s just what I like!,” and posted it without the least interest in where it actually came from.

79 GlutenFreeJesus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:55:11am

re: #32 Lidane

The “Foreign Hordes” are every racist stereotype you can think of. Africans, Arabs, Jews, Mexicans, Native Americans, the Irish, the Chinese, etc.

Don’t forget the evil Swedes known as the Borg.

80 Dr. Matt  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:55:36am

re: #74 theheat

They want “America” to bring back Jesus? For fuck sakes, the Pope is currently preaching the word of Christ and they are calling him a Marxist. If Jesus were actually to return, the teabaggers would be nailing Him back on the cross.

81 jaunte  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:55:48am

re: #74 theheat

More from the same guy:

82 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:55:48am

re: #74 theheat

They glom on to anything artsy, because their own digital works look too much like this:
[Embedded image]

[Embedded image]

Stevie Wonder could ‘shop better than these twits.

There is one thing that has always bugged me about the “Crown of Thorns.”

In Christian paintings, the “Crown of Thorns” is so sharp that it causes the blood to run down Jesus’s face.

So HOW DID THE ROMANS MAKE IT? Did they have heavy leather “thorn craft” gloves? And wouldn’t wearing protective gloves kind of prevent them from braiding it so meticulously?

83 GlutenFreeJesus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:56:16am

re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg

I honestly think a lot of them would love this. Get a group of poor people together and have them fight each other to the death for food. Winner take all. Population control and entertainment all in one.

They want it so bad.

84 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:56:19am

re: #78 Targetpractice

My guess is one of them ran across the concept art, decided “Damn, that’s just what I like!,” and posted it without the least interest in where it actually came from.

Or the least concern about stealing someone else’s property.

85 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:56:24am

re: #80 Dr. Matt

They want “America” to bring back Jesus? For fuck sakes, the Pope is currently preaching the word of Christ and they are calling him a Marxist. If Jesus were actually to return, the teabaggers would be nailing Him back on the cross.

Actually I believe they would be trying to deport him.

86 Ian G.  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:56:27am

re: #74 theheat

The white stripe in that bottom one with Jesus’ nose creates the unfortunate impression that Jesus has a really bad cold.

87 Dr. Matt  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:56:51am

re: #81 jaunte

White Jesus….with blue eyes.

88 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:56:58am

re: #81 jaunte

More from the same guy:
[Embedded image]

Who is that dirty hippie? He looks like the guy that hung out in back of my high school and sold weed.

89 jaunte  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:57:15am

re: #87 Dr. Matt

MegynFact: Confirmed!

90 theheat  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:57:36am

re: #81 jaunte

He walked on water but can’t figure out how to get into a school?//

91 Ian G.  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:58:18am

re: #81 jaunte

I too would like to have Geezer Butler back in school.

92 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:58:23am
93 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:58:32am

re: #87 Dr. Matt

White Jesus….with blue eyes.

No one knows what it’s like to be the bad man, behind blue eyes…

94 Lidane  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:58:58am

As long as we’re talking about incompetent people and foreign hordes:


Heh.

95 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:59:21am

re: #81 jaunte

More from the same guy:
[Embedded image]

“But that damn restraining order says 500yds”

From the artist’s personal journals

96 jaunte  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:59:28am

re: #90 theheat

He walked on water but can’t figure out how to get into a school?//

Yeah, that’s pretty weak.

97 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:59:37am

re: #94 Lidane

And I had forgotten about that movie.

98 Dr. Matt  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 11:59:48am

re: #93 GeneJockey

No one knows what it’s like to be the bad man, behind blue eyes…

I love Limp Bizkit.

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99 Joanne  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:00:40pm

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

OT: How to destroy your business in less than a week

1. Release an update to a popular paid for App of yours
2. Be deluged with angry complaints in the App store reviews because the update causes instant crashing for everyone running iOS 7 and up.
3. Let three days go by and do absolutely nothing to address the problem.
4. See your App store score tank to 1 star, thus killing your chances of many future downloads.

And the crappy thing about this is I quite liked the app beforehand.

What app is this?

100 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:00:55pm

re: #98 Dr. Matt

I love Limp Bizkit.
>
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You will die a peasant’s death!
/

101 makeitstop  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:02:06pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

Just took a look around their Facebook page, and my goodness. My my my.

These people are completely out of their fucking minds.

Oy. Two of my Facebook Wingnuts actually like that page.

102 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:02:07pm

HURR HURR

103 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:03:31pm

re: #90 theheat

He walked on water but can’t figure out how to get into a school?//

As The Hulk says to Loki after slamming him into the floor repeatedly, “Puny god!”
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Seriously, though - apparently it requires a teacher leading prayer for anyone to pray in schools. Individual children praying won’t do it. So, just as clearly, it’s not about “not letting God in school’, it’s about not forcing Protestant Christianity on school children.

I saw Gretchen Carlson talking about having to explain a Festivus pole to her children, when they were ‘driving around looking for Nativity scenes’ (?). Talk about the height of privilege, to bitch about having to explain other beliefs to your children, while expecting everyone who believes differently from you to suck it up and explain YOUR superstitions to their children.

104 Gus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:03:31pm

re: #102 Lord of the Pies

HURR HURR

[Embedded content]

The NSA doesn’t make law.

105 jaunte  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:03:34pm

re: #94 Lidane

11) The Aliens of Signs
…nothing matches the ignorance of coming to a planet that is 70% water, attacking beings that are 60% water, and being vulnerable to water.

I was amazed this movie ever got made.

106 freetoken  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:04:11pm

re: #47 RealityBasedSteve

Is to possible to engage in “Auto-Trolling”?

I’m wondering if it was intentional “auto-trolling”, so later the owner could spring the “you can’t even tell when we’re kidding” bit.

Or, perhaps the tea partiers really are this stupid.

107 freetoken  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:05:07pm

Last minute shopping on Amazon… and they offer me yet again an Amazon Prime trial so I decided to go for it. Yeah, I’ll drop it on the 29th day, probably.

108 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:05:33pm

re: #105 jaunte

I was amazed this movie ever got made.

It was when M. Night Shyamalan was riding high, before everyone figured out his schtick. He managed to get as far as making ‘The Lady In The Water’, for cripes sake!

109 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:05:41pm

Meet ‘wacko bird’ Greg Brannon, the tea party’s secession-backing, public school-hating hopeful

The extremely conservative Brannon opposes public education, which he says is Marxist and dehumanizes students, and doesn’t believe states must follow Supreme Court decisions.

Brannon cosponsored and spoke at a rally in October supporting nullification - the idea that states can invalidate any federal laws they wish - that was also sponsored by the secessionist League of the South group that is seeking “a free and independent Southern republic.”

The group complains on its website that the federal government has since 1861 - the start of the Civil War — attempted to strip states of their individual sovereignty and compromised individual religious expression and freedom of association.

“We envision the States peacefully and lawfully exercising their Right of self-determination and withdrawing from the present union dominated by an aggressive, centralized federal government; only then can a true constitutional republic, founded upon the Bible and the original constitution, once again exist in America,” the group states among its goals.

Brannon, an obstetrician and gynecologist who refuses to advise his patients on contraception or abortions, said the Supreme Court has claimed powers it doesn’t have.

“Just because nine people in black robes, seven of them voted that abortion is in the Constitution, it does not make that law,” Brannon said.

110 theheat  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:05:49pm

And another one to file under “let’s take her Photoshop and all her shitty fonts away.” This has Unborn + Heartland + The Troops™. A wingnut’s home run.


111 Joanne  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:06:20pm

re: #107 freetoken

Last minute shopping on Amazon… and they offer me yet again an Amazon Prime trial so I decided to go for it. Yeah, I’ll drop it on the 29th day, probably.

Try it, you might like it. Free shipping on most items. Free videos. Free Kindle book loans.

I have had it since its inception and I save on shipping charges that surpass the cost every year.

112 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:06:39pm

re: #94 Lidane

As long as we’re talking about incompetent people and foreign hordes:

[Embedded content]


Heh.

“While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME, I was being trained to rule GALAXIES!!”

113 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:06:58pm

re: #22 Lord of the Pies

The resolution isn’t so good, can someone identify the “Foreign hordes”? I think I can see A Juice, A Native American, A Mexican, A Chinese, and An Irish.

From the game, Solving The Irish Problem.

Youtube Video

114 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:06:59pm

re: #107 freetoken

Last minute shopping on Amazon… and they offer me yet again an Amazon Prime trial so I decided to go for it. Yeah, I’ll drop it on the 29th day, probably.

KEEP IT.

Amazon Prime is TEH AWESOME.

115 GlutenFreeJesus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:07:14pm

re: #80 Dr. Matt

re: #108 GeneJockey

It was when M. Night Shyamalan was riding high, before everyone figured out his schtick. He managed to get as far as making ‘The Lady In The Water’, for cripes sake!

He’s got a water fetish.

116 Targetpractice  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:07:23pm

re: #105 jaunte

I was amazed this movie ever got made.

Gotta remember that, when that film was made, people were still hailing M. Night as the next Spielberg. A decade later and M. Night has been reduced to doing grunt work trying to make Will Smith’s kid into a movie star.

117 Charles Johnson  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:07:25pm
118 Stoatly  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:08:04pm

re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg

And I had forgotten about that movie.

Sometimes the brain does what it can to protect itself…

119 Targetpractice  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:08:28pm

re: #112 GeneJockey

“While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME, I was being trained to rule GALAXIES!!”

More ham than a pig farm. I think Travolta’s still picking bits of the scenery out of his teeth to this day.

120 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:08:33pm

re: #109 Kragar

Meet ‘wacko bird’ Greg Brannon, the tea party’s secession-backing, public school-hating hopeful

“Just because nine people in black robes, seven of them voted that abortion is in the Constitution, it does not make that law,” Brannon said.

Yeah, actually, it does.

121 GlutenFreeJesus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:09:21pm

re: #102 Lord of the Pies

HURR HURR

[Embedded content]

Wow. Our government actually works with it’s checks and balances?

122 Ace-o-aces  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:09:27pm

re: #105 jaunte

11) The Aliens of Signs
…nothing matches the ignorance of coming to a planet that is 70% water, attacking beings that are 60% water, and being vulnerable to water.

I was amazed this movie ever got made.

Almost all alien invaders in Hollywood movies show extreme incompetence. I like to imagine that somewhere on their homeworld an alien Donald Rumsfeld is being call to task;

We couldn’t predict the humans would throw water on us. It was an unknown unknown!

123 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:10:07pm

WTFITS I just can’t even.

124 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:10:30pm

re: #119 Targetpractice

More ham than a pig farm. I think Travolta’s still picking bits of the scenery out of his teeth to this day.

My kids watched that and LOVED IT, because it was SO BAD! They still quote lines randomly…

“A friendly BARTENDER!!!”

125 Gus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:10:41pm

Are these people that stupid? The NSA is following what congress and the executive tells them what to do. They’re following the Patriot Act and the FISA amendments and the FISA courts. The NSA didn’t just make this stuff up. If congress and the White House told the NSA to stop “X” they’d stop tomorrow. They’re not some rogue agency.

126 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:11:34pm

re: #94 Lidane

As long as we’re talking about incompetent people and foreign hordes:

[Embedded content]

Heh.

So the Wicked Witch of the West got pregnant and traveled to a Maternity Home For Unwed Witches in another galaxy and left her kids there?

127 Joanne  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:11:40pm

re: #120 GeneJockey

There is an extreme lack of understanding of how law works. Democracy for that matter. Just because they don’t like it doesn’t mean it is (illegal, immoral, fascist, fill in your favorite).

Where is School House Rock when you need it?

128 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:13:30pm

re: #127 Joanne

There is an extreme lack of understanding of how law works. Democracy for that matter. Just because they don’t like it doesn’t mean it is (illegal, immoral, fascist, fill in your favorite).

Where is School House Rock when you need it?

Is it a big rock? Can we hit them with it?
///

129 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:13:34pm

re: #106 freetoken

I’m wondering if it was intentional “auto-trolling”, so later the owner could spring the “you can’t even tell when we’re kidding” bit.

Or, perhaps the tea partiers really are this stupid.

I think in this case, they really and truly ARE that stupid. They had nothing but links to other extreme RW sites and organizations. I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t a “Meganpology” but it’s purely a case of walking out of the locker room without your pants, and then pretending it’s a joke, not perving.

RBS
BTW. Most Incompetent Alien Invader, Marvin the Martian by a landslide.

130 Targetpractice  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:14:43pm

re: #124 GeneJockey

My kids watched that and LOVED IT, because it was SO BAD! They still quote lines randomly…

“A friendly BARTENDER!!!”

I admit, the movie’s a guilty pleasure to watch, like Judge Dredd or Mars Attacks. What has been interesting is what I’ve learned in watching critics savage the film, like how it actually got sold to studios (part of a package deal) and how the director of the action scenes had never done any work besides music videos.

131 Ian G.  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:14:51pm

re: #123 Lord of the Pies

Chile’s flag is much closer to Texas’ than Israel’s. Then again, I doubt the people who just returned Michelle Bachelet to the Presidency want any help from loons from Texas, thankyouverymuch.

132 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:15:19pm

re: #129 RealityBasedSteve

I think in this case, they really and truly ARE that stupid. They had nothing but links to other extreme RW sites and organizations. I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t a “Meganpology” but it’s purely a case of walking out of the locker room without your pants, and then pretending it’s a joke, not perving.

RBS
BTW. Most Incompetent Alien Invader, Marvin the Martian by a landslide.

What about the aliens in Independence Day whose computer systems could be hacked by a ‘90’s era Mac trojan.

133 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:15:36pm

re: #129 RealityBasedSteve

I think in this case, they really and truly ARE that stupid. They had nothing but links to other extreme RW sites and organizations. I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t a “Meganpology” but it’s purely a case of walking out of the locker room without your pants, and then pretending it’s a joke, not perving.

RBS
BTW. Most Incompetent Alien Invader, Marvin the Martian by a landslide.

Feh. Invader Zim could out fuck-up Marvin any day of the week. Marvin needs Bugs Bunny to screw up his plans, whereas Zim’s plans are inherently doomed* to failure.

*”Im going to sing the Doom Song!”

134 Charles Johnson  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:15:57pm

re: #125 Gus

Are these people that stupid? The NSA is following what congress and the executive tells them what to do. They’re following the Patriot Act and the FISA amendments and the FISA courts. The NSA didn’t just make this stuff up. If congress and the White House told the NSA to stop “X” they’d stop tomorrow. They’re not some rogue agency.

This is something Greenwald is good at: reductionism. He fires up his dudebro supporters with simplistic demonization.

135 GlutenFreeJesus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:16:52pm

re: #130 Targetpractice

I admit, the movie’s a guilty pleasure to watch, like Judge Dredd or Mars Attacks. What has been interesting is what I’ve learned in watching critics savage the film, like how it actually got sold to studios (part of a package deal) and how the director of the action scenes had never done any work besides music videos.

You should watch the new Dredd. :)

136 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:17:14pm

re: #2 Kragar

For people who like to say everything they get called out for is “SATIRE”, they certainly don’t seem to recognize it when it actually shows up.

It’s not really satire as far as they’re concerned: Some of those Floridians would actually be happy serving as the fictional Zachary Comstock’s enforcers. To some people, serving a leader who claims to know everything is attractive, and the so is the prospect of getting to visit violence upon ‘the other’.

137 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:17:23pm

re: #132 Lord of the Pies

What about the aliens in Independence Day whose computer systems could be hacked by a ‘90’s era Mac trojan.

Hey, at least they didn’t send Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum to the Mother Ship with a couple shoeboxes full of COBOL.

138 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:18:18pm

re: #132 Lord of the Pies

What about the aliens in Independence Day whose computer systems could be hacked by a ‘90’s era Mac trojan.

Cracked had something on that. There were some deleted scenes where Jeff Goldblums character explained that they had a crashed UFO (Roswell?) that they got the computer info from. But, yea, I had a major ‘Eye-Roll’ at that scene too.

RBS

139 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:18:23pm

re: #133 GeneJockey

Feh. Invader Zim could out fuck-up Marvin any day of the week. Marvin needs Bugs Bunny to screw up his plans, whereas Zim’s plans are inherently doomed* to failure.

*”Im going to sing the Doom Song!”

“We are sending you to the room… WITH A MOOSE!”

140 Targetpractice  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:18:26pm

re: #135 GlutenFreeJesus

You should watch the new Dredd. :)

I have, and Karl Urban is Dredd. They could not have picked a better actor for the part.

141 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:19:27pm

re: #139 Kragar

“We are sending you to the room… WITH A MOOSE!”

“GIR! Bring me co-o-o-owww!!!”

142 theheat  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:19:37pm

re: #137 GeneJockey

No, it was a Perl script from Matt’s Script Archive.//

143 Lidane  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:20:01pm

re: #135 GlutenFreeJesus

You should watch the new Dredd. :)

The new version of Dredd erases the gold codpiece fail of the first one.

144 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:20:27pm

re: #141 GeneJockey

“GIR! Bring me co-o-o-owww!!!”

“Why is there bacon in the soap?”
“I MADE IT MYSELF!”

145 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:20:32pm

re: #140 Targetpractice

I have, and Karl Urban >is Dredd. They could not have picked a better actor for the part.

You mean you can understand what he says when he shouts “I AM THE LAW!”, not, “IYAMTH’LAWWW!”?

146 blueraven  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:20:55pm

re: #125 Gus

Are these people that stupid? The NSA is following what congress and the executive tells them what to do. They’re following the Patriot Act and the FISA amendments and the FISA courts. The NSA didn’t just make this stuff up. If congress and the White House told the NSA to stop “X” they’d stop tomorrow. They’re not some rogue agency.

It doesn’t help when members of congress claim they are shocked, SHOCKED! about the NSA revelations.

CYA

147 Targetpractice  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:21:48pm

re: #145 GeneJockey

You mean you can understand what he says when he shouts “I AM THE LAW!”, not, “IYAMTH’LAWWW!”?

That’s just it, he never shouts. He growled more than Christian Bale’s Batman and yet made it utterly cool.

148 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:22:07pm

re: #145 GeneJockey

You mean you can understand what he says when he shouts “I AM THE LAW!”, not, “IYAMTH’LAWWW!”?

He actually never shouts it. Its used once when he tells the villain he’s coming for her, as part of his announcement over the megablock’s PA system.

149 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:22:09pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

This is something Greenwald is good at: reductionism. He fires up his dudebro supporters with simplistic demonization.

Moreover, the dudebros use the demonization of the NSA to avoid seeming to be entirely anti-American. If Greenwald brought up the political support for the NSA and drone strikes within the Congress and the intellectual elite, he’d have to go whole-hog and call America “EVIL!!1”, which would cost him and his most loyal followers support. They don’t fool the Lizard Army, but it does fool some less-informed people.

150 GeneJockey  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:23:05pm

re: #144 Kragar

“Why is there bacon in the soap?”
“I MADE IT MYSELF!”

“But if the ‘splodey goes fast, won’t it be all bad?”

151 Lidane  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:23:26pm

re: #139 Kragar

“We are sending you to the room… WITH A MOOSE!”

“There’s waffle in ‘em!”

Youtube Video

152 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:24:17pm

re: #94 Lidane

As long as we’re talking about incompetent people and foreign hordes:

[Embedded content]


Heh.

Heh….the Invaders from Urusei Yatsura. I love it.

Lum is quite possibly, the cutest extraterrestrial would-be conqueror, ever.

Image: ku-xlarge.jpg

153 dog philosopher  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:24:45pm

These are really stupid people

trying hard to surpass all of our competitors, america will never relent in its quest to develop the stupidest people on the face of the earth

154 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:24:46pm

re: #140 Targetpractice

I have, and Karl Urban >is Dredd. They could not have picked a better actor for the part.

I agree. Karl Urban was damned near perfect as Dredd.

155 Targetpractice  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:26:02pm

re: #152 Dr Lizardo

Heh….the Invaders from Urusei Yatsura. I love it.

Lum is quite possibly, the cutest extraterrestrial would-be conqueror, ever.

Image: ku-xlarge.jpg

At least until “Darling” goes girl hunting again.

156 Kragar  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:26:03pm

re: #151 Lidane

“There’s waffle in ‘em!”

[Embedded content]

“I love the little tacos. I love ‘em goooood.”

G.I.R. is my copilot.

157 Gus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:26:36pm
158 Gus  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:27:54pm
159 S'latch  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:30:22pm

This little character caught my eye. The art could be straight out of Der Stürmer.

Nice one, Tea Party.

160 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:30:34pm

re: #157 Gus

[Embedded content]

I hope it’s soon, I shiver with antici… … … … … … … … … … . . pation

No, actually that just because the heat’s not working in this room, my bad.

RBS

161 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:30:35pm

re: #155 Targetpractice

At least until “Darling” goes girl hunting again.

Heh. Lum…..the ultimate jealous girlfriend.

Image: lam-e-ataru_zoom.jpg

Image: tumblr_lvryvd1DZO1r3n3ugo1_r2_500.gif

162 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:31:57pm

re: #159 S’latch

This little character caught my eye. The art could be straight out of Der Stürmer.[Embedded image]

Nice one, Tea Party.

Is that “NosferatJuice”?

RBS

163 Lidane  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:32:22pm

re: #156 Kragar

“I love the little tacos. I love ‘em goooood.”

G.I.R. is my copilot.

Youtube Video

164 S'latch  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:41:21pm

The new picture-in-the-comment feature is cool. I hope this isn’t abusing it.

165 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:42:08pm

Another installment of The Walmart Follies:

Walmart employee shoots co-worker’s car over Employee of the Month award

A South Florida Walmart employee was arrested earlier this month after shooting a co-worker’s car over the Employee of the Month award.

After learning he was not selected for the award, Willie Mitchell told the woman who won Employee of the Month, “I’m gonna’ show you.” Mitchell drove up to the unidentified co-worker’s vehicle in the Deerfield Beach Walmart parking lot and fired one round into the unoccupied car, Fox News reports.

166 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 12:59:17pm

re: #99 Joanne

What app is this?

It’s a specialized browser app I’ve been using.

167 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 1:09:01pm

re: #165 Dark_Falcon

Another installment of The Walmart Follies:

Walmart employee shoots co-worker’s car over Employee of the Month award

My local Walmart is the only place I’ve ever seen where “PJ Bottoms and a tank top” are considered ‘dressing up’. When the hell did pajamas become acceptable for anything other than a 2 am run to get baby medicine?

ARRGH

RBS

168 theheat  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 1:21:34pm

re: #158 Gus

The Good Country Folk™ on Facebook are all over this. One company I was going to purchase a $330 item from was proud to announce after the fallout, they sponsored Tuffy The Clown. (Being red-blooded Americans that can’t stand that Kenyan Muslim Communist in the WH.)

Well, that’s now $330 I’d rather wipe my ass with, or light on fire, than buy their overpriced shit. If the dumbfucks had kept their mouths shut I’d be none the wiser, but they had to open their gaping maws to gloat.

169 CriticalDragon1177  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 1:22:12pm

re: #67 Lord of the Pies

Because giving people with pre-existing conditions access to affordable health care is just the same as the genocide of millions.

WTFF.

Hitler himself probably face palmed when they made that comparison, while he roasted in Hell.

170 theliel  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 1:24:48pm

re: #161 Dr Lizardo

Laina as Lum in a live action series?

171 CriticalDragon1177  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 1:26:16pm

re: #94 Lidane

As long as we’re talking about incompetent people and foreign hordes:

Heh.

ha, I’d bet most of them would slaughter the tea party folks, even with their second amendment protected guns!

172 otoc  Mon, Dec 16, 2013 3:32:20pm

The pic got taken down. I don’t suppose Irrational objected to Facebook for copyright ownership, lol. From an idiot position, using something critical of their views as a rally flag, to being schooled on ownership. My only complaint is all the comments are now wiped too. So much entertainment.

Yes, I’m assuming it wasn’t voluntary because of embarrassment. I’ll have to ask the next time I run into the developers over drinks. What a great game, btw.

Edit: OMG, a comment from them to explain why they took it down:

To all the publications and visitors to our site who wrote about our post of December 14th, regarding the “BioShock Infinite” Propaganda.

We have a zero tolerance policy on racism and have removed the post, as it has done its job. We are not the “Red Cross” and firmly believe that the Constitution and the future of America is at stake. The reality is our voice is rarely heard in the media let alone in DC. Thus we are and will remain unapologetically Constitutionalists.

We want to let you know you brought us the best site advertisement we’ve had all year… We were litterally flooded with new people not only laughing at us, which we expected, but also congratulating us on seeing things differently and having the guts to post it…

We invite all the media to visit us whenever you need a good story and hopefully all the hordes of people will follow you as well… It’s time they heard the other side of DC politics and if our plan works, we should be gaining many new readers now that they know we’re here.

One more thing MSNBC, we are the National Liberty Federation, not the National Liberation Foundation… Get it right next time!!!

In Liberty,
The Team at NL


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