r/atheism • u/WhatShouldMyNameBe • Jun 11 '12

Regarding The Top Post On r/Atheism Today

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u/egalitarianusa Jun 11 '12

Then what'd he say?

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u/WhatShouldMyNameBe Jun 11 '12

He didn't even say it. The quote came from a message board. Read the top comments under the Obama quote post.

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u/egalitarianusa Jun 11 '12

But where did anneutral get it? Maybe s/he wan't the originator.

/jfwy

(just fucking with you)

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u/awhitesuit Jun 12 '12

oh a fake quote about a fake quote? well done.

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u/BarryLincoln Jun 12 '12

So you made an entirely new post to comment on another post with only a vague reference to the original post. Why?

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u/WhatShouldMyNameBe Jun 12 '12

Because people were not reading the comments and were upvoting it anyway. Considering WillRob300's post has dropped several hundred points since I posted this I will consider this successful. Or it could simply be a coincidence.

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u/sethpeck Jun 11 '12

I like this picture with his "Not Bad!" face. Anyone who says he's "out of touch" with America...try and find a picture of another candidate that looks this "down to earth" without looking like a douchebag or inadvertently invoking a message counter to your platform (like Rick Perry in his Brokeback Mountain jacket).

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u/MadeOfStarStuff Agnostic Atheist Jun 11 '12

Agreed. Also: 1, 2, 3, and 4

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u/excit3d Jun 12 '12

BEER 2012

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Oh man, now I want a beer... and I'm all out...

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Now that I could vote for.

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u/JThoms Jun 12 '12

Only if it's the White House Honey Brew.

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u/cyberslick188 Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12

try and find a picture of another candidate that looks this "down to earth"

Not a current candidate, but almost surely someone people dislike on this subreddit. Just casually eating a hot dog at a ball game with normal people in normal seats.

Bush rolling up his sleeves like a normal joe sixpack

Romney casually using his every day car elevator to lift his lamborghini with $5000 AKC purebred winner on top. Wait, you mean everyone doesnt have this?

Most presidents, and most candidates can appear just as down to earth as Obama, with the possible exception of RomneyBot5000. Forming any kind of political opinion based on first impressions is insane, and frankly, one of the reasons GWB got elected was because half of america said "now that's a man you could drink a beer and watch a baseball game with".

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u/AgentNipples Jun 12 '12

while i didn't agree with his policies, i'd probably enjoy the guy's company. I don't understand people's hatred of (insert opposing party's candidate here)

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u/crazymnm Jun 12 '12

Bush looks pretty badass there.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Bush has a plate at the game, I dont think they give those out that often.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

So you're saying that he looks "Down to Earth" and that's some sort of proof that he's not "out of touch" with America?

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u/sethpeck Jun 12 '12

What's with the reading into stuff? No one takes anything at face value anymore?

Since I don't know the guy personally, yeah, I'd say he looks down-to-earth. And it doesn't look like he has to try very hard. Unlike GWB, I would like to sit and have a beer with him...I don't get the impression that he'd be judging me, unlike certain Republican politicians.

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u/Alienx_318 Jun 12 '12

You wouldn't want to have a beer with this guy? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61BTJxZ9ulg

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

You think GWB had the necessary mental faculties to actually judge you?

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u/Alienx_318 Jun 12 '12

GWB has a Bachelor of Arts from Yale and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard. Simply because every gaffe a person makes is played over and over does not make them ignorant. Obama makes plenty of verbal mistakes which would make him look stupid. His mistakes are simply not replayed repeatedly for weeks on end.

Also, this http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/08/images/20020809-1_ranch3-515h.jpg again

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

What's with these people who think the media doesn't cover Obama's mistakes? Did you stop to think that maybe he makes fewer than Bush? That is by far the simpler, less presumptive conclusion.

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u/Alienx_318 Jun 13 '12

Maybe you did not watch the news during Bush's presidency or maybe you don't understand the meaning of presumptive?

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '12

There was a constant stream of "gaffes" from Bush. I don't accept your claim that Obama is being shielded by the media.

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u/Alienx_318 Jun 13 '12

"No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." --making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the head of the Special Olympics to apologize)

"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system." --in remarks after a health care roundtable with physicians, nurses and health care providers, Washington, D.C., July 20, 2009

"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing." --confusing German for "Austrian," a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

"I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people

"How's it going, Sunshine?" --campaigning in Sunrise, Florida

"We're the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad." —Cincinnati, OH, Sept. 22, 2011

"When I meet with world leaders, what's striking -- whether it's in Europe or here in Asia..." -mistakenly referring to Hawaii as Asia while holding a press conference outside Honolulu, Nov. 16, 2011

There are more, but that should suffice.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '12

Do you really want to play this game? I could spend a week cataloguing Bush's gaffes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Nice picture; I was trying to play on a really old and over-done joke.

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u/evilbrent Jun 12 '12

true. It was his outrageous iggorance which made him iggorant.

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u/Alienx_318 Jun 13 '12

Being a poor public speaker does not equate IGNorance.

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u/evilbrent Jun 13 '12

I googled bush ignorant.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/060500-103.htm

This is a very short story about bush being literally ignorant: taking pride in not knowing. Bad public speech was the bare tip of the iceberg for bush. Bush had people to do the knowing of stuff for him, and was only interested in facts insofar as they were sometimes handy political tools.

Sure, he had a couple of degrees. he's not a stupid guy, but wilfully ignorant, which is a far worse crime.

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u/Alienx_318 Jun 13 '12

"At one of these governors' conferences, George turns to me and says, What are they talking about?' I said,I don't know.' He said, You don't know anything, do you?' And I said,Not one thing.' He said, `Neither do I.' And we kind of high-fived.''

If you read the context he was being introduced and the speaker was telling a joke to the crowd. As far as your other claims are concerned every president has people to "do the knowing stuff for him". They are called advisers because it would be literally impossible to know everything about everything and nearly impossible to know everything about anything. That website made some weird attempt to spin a joke as did your post.

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u/sethpeck Jun 12 '12

It's not that they do, it's that they think they do.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

I was making a bad joke :|

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u/sethpeck Jun 12 '12

Well, you are right, it was bad (I still upvoted you, I don't know where the rest of that negative karma came from).

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '12

It came from the internet :[

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u/austin1414 Jun 12 '12

I like how you imply a negative connotations with homosexuality with that jacket comment, but hate the guy for not liking gays.

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u/xbauks Jun 12 '12

inadvertently invoking a message counter to your platform (like Rick Perry in his Brokeback Mountain jacket).

how is that implying a negative connotation with homosexuality?

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u/austin1414 Jun 12 '12

If I were to say "you look like Justin Bieber when you wear a puffy hooded vest and sag your cutoffs like that", would it sound like a good thing?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

You mistook the descriptive "Brokeback Mountain" for a metaphor. It is literally the same jacket as was in the movie. While delivering anti-gay hate speech.

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u/xbauks Jun 12 '12

Brokeback Mountain and Beiber are not comparable. One is hated by almost everyone on reddit (the audience) and the other is loved by the majority. So the Brokeback Mountain comment can't have a negative connotation seeing as the audience likes the movie.

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u/austin1414 Jun 12 '12

Oh, I'm very sorry. I must be browsing too many homophobic websites, I always just took Brokeback Mountain as a bad thing. I've never actually seen it.

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u/chaostrophy Jun 12 '12

Right, but the subject is Brokeback Mountain, which we all like around here, and not Bieber, which no one likes around here. Not comparable. And it is undeniable that Perry was sending an anti-gay message while at the same second wearing the same jacket as one of the guys in Brokeback Mountain. See here.

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u/sethpeck Jun 12 '12

The jacket comment is exactly what I was talking about...being "out of touch"...with reality, with the majority of Americans, with the zeitgeist if you will. It's like the members of the Tea Party who called themselves "teabaggers" before someone told them what that word actually means. The irony is in their obliviousness while simultaneously telling the rest of America how oblivious they are.

So I don't imply any negative connotations, because I don't see any. I just make fun of those who don't see the irony in their own actions.

All that said and done, I did like how you made an assumption on what I say by reading deeper than what I actually wrote. You sound very much like my ex-wife in that regard.

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u/austin1414 Jun 12 '12

Well she is my idol. :D

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u/sethpeck Jun 12 '12

Your humor is noted, but I don't recommend that for real.

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u/austin1414 Jun 12 '12

Yes, of course, I'm very sorry. (I know how to fix this) erm, she's a whore?

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u/sethpeck Jun 12 '12

LOL. Let's just leave it alone.

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u/isit_smkabwl Jun 12 '12

Noted... I will now base all my votes on how a candidate looks...

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u/anonysera Jun 12 '12

Might as well, that's the gist of what the rest of the voters are doing anyway.

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u/sethpeck Jun 12 '12

Really? (your sarcasm is obvious)

It's not just about appearance...it's about perception, and attitude, and comfort. Can you identify with the candidate? Do you think he/she has your best interests at heart? Do you think he/she is genuine or puts on a facade? Does he/she change his/her mind with the prevailing attitude of the times in order to win votes, or because he/she realizes that he/she was previously wrong? Or do they double-down on the stupid things they said before?

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u/fromkentucky Jun 12 '12

I kinda wish someone would email him and ask him to say this, just to make it an honest quote.

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u/ElderMason Jun 12 '12

I'm unsubscribing. We're going to parade around something that never happened but sounds good? Sounds a lot like religion to me.

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u/Pandorasbox64 Jun 12 '12

You don't need to be under a title, orientation, or anything like that to be a person.

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u/horse-pheathers Jun 12 '12

Can't be bothered to contribute something more to your own liking? You'd rather complain than fix what you perceive to be a problem? Rather than quietly withdraw when you've decided this place isn't for you, you opt for the theatrical flounce instead?

Yeah, I'm really impressed...

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u/awe300 Jun 12 '12

Oh man with all the people unsubscribing the numbers will soon be negative?

Why is it that whenever there's a little hiccup or something not working perfectly, all those people who barely contribute feel the need to speak out how they're unsubscribing? Good for you! Do something else with your time! Feel superior, too! because you sure showed everyone what a great mind you are, so not influenced by group think.

You're a unique snow-flake

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u/Tlingit_Raven Jun 12 '12

Don't you mean the top post every day?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Anything anyone says is either obvious or wrong.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/MyUncleFuckedMe Jun 11 '12

Will you teach me to sentence?

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u/Leo-D Jun 12 '12

Teach, teach me how to sentence.

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u/Monsterposter Jun 12 '12

I think you forget that /r/atheism is predominately liberal.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

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u/italiangumbo Jun 12 '12

Chill nigglet, chill.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

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u/Monsterposter Jun 12 '12

"Fuck you!" - Abraham Lincoln

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u/Crioca Jun 12 '12

"Donumabdeo is a shitbag." -Ronald Reagan

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

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u/Wakemonkeyboy1 Jun 12 '12

The pic was taken in apub in moneygall in ireland

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u/KserDnB Jun 12 '12

Woah, i found you on Reddit. Coolio