[789shadow]

What makes it worse is that this guy almost certainly doesn't believe the shit he says. No one on the verge of national office is that dumb. No, what makes this awful is that he's saying it only to appeal to a sizable amount of people who actually believe this shit.

FFS. So many people depend on that.

THEY JUST NEED TO EAT BOOTSTRAPS EVERYDAY.

[Dennis]

Not enough 'wat's in the world to adequately describe this.

[Funky Papa]

....

[Devolution]

So can people please stop with the claims of victimhood when people insult the Republican party? They get successful in the party by saying the stupidest shit imaginiable.

Gays are making strides it's time to go back to insulting the wimmenz.

[animlboogy]

So can people please stop with the claims of victimhood when people insult the Republican party? They get successful in the party by saying the stupidest shit imaginiable.

It doesn't help when comments like Oblivion's are the best they can follow up with.

When some guy says vile shit, why would you double down? And how are we supposed to take a comparison with a comedian seriously?

You're not being persecuted, Oblivion. You're being treated the way dumb people get treated.

[Funky Papa]

You know, Mumei, this is one of those threads were no lady would feel insulted for using the C word as descriptor.

Because Todd Akin is one blubbering vagina.

[Kunan]

"Committee assignments Committee on Science, Space and Technology" ....

How am I not surprised.

[Metrotab]

How do people even get such ideas? It's like they just make stuff up.

[marrec]

How am I not surprised.

This is the same party that made Paul Ryan Chairman of the House Budget Committee...

[SquiddyCracker]

Science committee dude: "A doctor told me that women have an in-built method of dealing with legitimate rape"

[TacticalFox88]

Good lord, Oblivion.

Masterful trolling.

[FyreWulff]

So where was liberal gaf when David Letterman joked about Willow Palin being raped? Exactly. CRICKETS.

Letterman's joke was bad but it was neither about rape or about Willow Palin.

RDF should sit this one out, as there's really nothing to grasp onto here.

[Suikoguy]

How do people even get such ideas? It's like they just make stuff up.

Yeah, they can later say it was "Not intended to be a factual statement".

[rvy]

“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Oh my God. Holy shit. This cannot be real.

[Devolution]

Science committee dude: "A doctor told me that women have an in-built method of dealing with legitimate rape"

It's called secretly getting an abortion.

[789shadow]

Oh my God. Holy shit. This cannot be real.

You best start believing in horror stories, you're in one.

[BigBoss]

How am I not surprised.

I think Michelle Bachman is on the Intelligence Committee...

Sometimes it feels like we live in a bizarro universe and somewhere in some distant parallel universe exists a reality that elects politicians that try to solve their problems with logic and reason. Its too bad our politicians are batshit insane sociopaths.

[surly]

If this guy was a UK politician his career would now be over.

[Kusagari]

I can't believe all the people that fell for Oblivion's troll.

[789shadow]

I can't believe all the people that fell for Oblivion's troll.

There is literally no difference between trolling and what some Republicans actually believe.

[marrec]

I can't believe all the people that fell for Oblivion's troll.

In a world where our elected officials say women have an anti Rape-semen laser in their vagina...

[animlboogy]

Good lord, Oblivion. Masterful trolling.

GODDAMN DID I JUST GET GOT

Pretty derpy, but let's face it, kind of indistinguishable from some of the false equivalencies we've been dealing with in certain threads lately.

[AnathemicOne]

Wtf is this shit? I've no words for this...

[NathanMcMahon]

So where was liberal gaf when David Letterman joked about Willow Palin being raped? Exactly. CRICKETS.

derp

edit:

ahh man, I was trolled

[IGSaint]

Somebody made a thread asking why GAF is so liberal. Maybe that's because any sane person would have a hard fucking time identifying himself with a party that accepts and even embraces such absolutely terrifying people.

This basically.

Social Conservatism and basically the extent of the republican party today is the reason why I don't take anyone serious who identifies them self as a republican.

[Rorschach]

I can't believe all the people that fell for Oblivion's troll.

Troll blends into reality these days. It's too hard to parody recent politics.

[Aizu_Itsuko]

So if someone gets raped and she gets pregnant it's not rape-rape, just the regular well intentioned rape, right?

[Incognito]

fwiw, Paul Ryan voted for Akin's bill re: forcible rape.

[The Anti-Monitor]

I love legitimate science.

[789shadow]

So if someone gets raped and she gets pregnant it's not rape-rape, just the regular well intentioned rape, right?

The rapist was just giving her a gift from god.

[animlboogy]

Troll blends into reality these days. It's too hard to parody recent politics.

Good parody requires subtlety, which seems to be nearly impossible these days. You can't nudge a joke into the insane category without notice, because too often you're just mimicking something someone said seriously the day before.

[marrec]

fwiw, Paul Ryan voted for Akin's bill re: forcible rape.

I didn't need another reason to dislike Paul Ryan.

But thanks, regardless.

[Devolution]

So if someone gets raped and she gets pregnant it's not rape-rape, just the regular well intentioned rape, right?

Well see it's like when they used to have witch trials. Rocks and stuff were tied to women's ankles, if you were innocent you died and if you were guilty of being a witch you lived.

[CHEEZMO™]

[Solideliquid]

Is this real life or a part of "The Campaign" that was cut?

[KHarvey16]

You know, the complete and utter ignorance of the human reproductive system really pales in comparison to the implication that any woman who becomes pregnant after being raped wanted it to happen.

[Mr_Zombie]

Guys, why does GAF lean so much to the left in politics? Guys? Guys?!

Seriously, reading crap like this coming from conservatives (unfortunately, it's not limited to America, we have our own share of right-wing crazies) makes me wonder, whether those people really believe in what they're saying. Because I can't believe an intelligent person capable of empathy would ever said something stupid and offensive towards women like that. He is literally accusing women, who got pregnant due to rape, of either lying or enjoying the rape (i.e. it wasn't a "legitimate rape").

[SquiddyCracker]

It's funny cos it's true.


:(

[Kai Dracon]

So can people please stop with the claims of victimhood when people insult the Republican party? They get successful in the party by saying the stupidest shit imaginiable.

Arguments between the people who are calling themselves conservatives right now and, basically everyone else, boil down to this:

Batshit Insane Dominionist-Pandering Racist Misogynistic Neocon goes and says something completely whacked out. Advocates abandoning science, living in the dark ages, mass oppression, etc

Everybody Else In the Fucking World turns and goes "what in the literal fuck, this cannot be real."

Defenders of Batshit Neocons rush out and start pointing fingers at everyone, crying "How dare all you hypocrites say anything bad about our people I once heard you smoked in the bathroom in highschool and kicked a poodle at a little girl's birthday!"

And the problem is that the longer this shit goes on, the more and more literally accurate this becomes. It is escalating to the point of absurdity where you almost cannot mock it anymore.

In finger pointing contests, all positions are not created equal. You don't get to stand over a body with a smoking gun, pointing at a child who is yelling for the police, and say the boy is a hypocrite because he currently has his hand in a cookie jar therefore how dare he say anyone else is doing a bad thing.

This always comes up in GAF for threads about the Daily Show. Jon Stewart mocks something on Fox News, conservative member weighs with with "Pah, Stewart is merely a liberal cronie, of course he would say that". When Stewart is a comedian, who also merrily reads off material mocking democrats and liberals when they actually say stupid shit. Meanwhile, the people being mocked are, generally, actually saying the crazy stuff in deadly earnest, promoting it as unvarnished reality and calls to action.

But it seems false equivalency is a popular fallacy for people to employee.

[789shadow]

This is not an exaggeration.

Seriously.

[Devolution]

You know, the complete and utter ignorance of the human reproductive system really pales in comparison to the implication that any woman who becomes pregnant after being raped wanted it to happen.

Guys, why does GAF lean so much to the left in politics? Guys? Guys?! Seriously, reading crap like this coming from conservatives (unfortunately, it's not limited to America, we have our own share of right-wing crazies) makes me wonder, whether those people really believe in what they're saying.

Well think about it this way, if one of your only exemptions for abortion is rape, and you try to claim that pregnancy can't be a result of rape, then you're one step closer to getting rid of it entirely.

[Kusagari]

Troll blends into reality these days. It's too hard to parody recent politics.

Sadly that is very true.

[Phoenician_Viking]

WTF! You know, i wish more republicans say that. The more they go to extremes the more their popularity should shrink. Because honestly i shudder to think some batshit crazies to be in a authoritarian position.

[Majine]

This is not an exaggeration. Seriously.

They call in the army?

;)

[789shadow]

They call in the army? ;)

I wouldn't put it past them.

[commedieu]

Does he mean pregnant-pregnant?

Damn you for being second. But post of the century.. :D

[Parallax]

So where was liberal gaf when David Letterman joked about Willow Palin being raped? Exactly. CRICKETS.

I didn't think so many people would take a bite of this, but you wrangled in quite a few.

Good show.

[TacticalFox88]

http://thinkprogress.org/election/20...he-black-vote/

I honestly don't know which is worse.

[Devolution]

What bothers me most is dudes like these are married and have families. Doesn't stop them from being complete and utter sociopaths though.

[Dead Man]

It's funny because it's true. It's sadder because it's true.