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/r/pics/comments/7nzg61/projection_displayed_across_one_of_donald_trumps/ | [
"It looks like this post is about US Politics. Various methods of filtering out content relating to US Politics can be found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/wiki/v2/resources/filter/politics).\n\n*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/pics) if you have any questions or concerns.*",
"Isn't this shit like, illegal? Hilarious, though.",
"That’s the one in dc. ",
"What law is it breaking?\n\n* Not tresspassing because they are legally parked on the street.\n* Not graffiti because they are not defacing the building permanently.",
"Not this douchebag again",
"Ohhhh boy we got 'em now",
"Republicans: So what you're saying is...Trump is the bomb? That's like millennial lingo for awesome right? Fuck yeah! ",
"I wouldn't know. Not American.\nLove the idea of light graffiti like this. The hotel can't take any action, and the message is loud and clear. \n\nWhere I'm from \"they\" would've sent a few [goondas](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goonda?wprov=sfla1) and taken it down toot suite.\n",
"I wouldn't be surprised if he did. ",
"Wew",
"Wait. Indians have a different word for \"thug\" which is is a Hindi word?",
"Except that this is months old...",
"It's a bit more complicated than that. The word \"thug\" originated from the Sanskrit word for thief. Sanskrit is a dead language; it isn't used in normal, everyday speak. \nAlso, there's a ton of different languages in India, and they all have a ton of different dialects. But afaik, the word \"goonda\" is used by most people to describe a hired thug.\nI've heard that that's where the word \"goon\" came from, incidentally.",
"I don't get how this is productive. Seems pointless.",
"You are on reddit so please don't bring up productiveness.",
"Are there no laws about projecting stuff onto buildings? It’s not technically physical stuff, so I guess there could be some gray areas",
"If somebody has that kind of creative skill, the light-graffiti is a lame use of it. Reddit is more productive!",
"they got karma points for it?",
"Your moms a bomb threat\n\n~kip\n",
"edge lord level 999",
"How is it that \"is a bomb\" letters are floating in air?",
"I remember those Chevy Monzas. Damn they were fun little cars. There was a Buick-labeled one on the last production run too, wasn't there?",
"Mischief, causing a public disturbance, distracting the auto driver... they slap some charge on, process you, keep you 23 hours and cut you loose. If they *r e a l l y* want to.",
"I hated Trump in 2016 and reddit bitching for nearly two years has gotten me to the point where I really don't mind him that much anymore. People who spam the front page with this shit on non-political subs, you've effectively saturated outrage.\n\nIt's made me seriously reconsider what kind of people I was siding with before, and what type of people they are.",
"And here I was thinking he just misspelled [goomba/goombah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goombah) until I clicked the link. TIL.",
"They do look an awful lot like Pontiacs. Inherited mine from grandpa when it was falling apart, but would love to see one restored before I die!",
"same with net neutrality for me ",
"Guess it's not \"pointless\" if they get points, good point!",
"Productivity?",
"Pretty said if you let how other people act dictate your own beliefs and ideas. ",
"....",
"....",
"I'm confused, are your beliefs influenced by something *other than* the external world?",
"I'm not a progressive because conservatives I've interacted with have been jerks to me or something. I am a progressive because I earnestly believe in equality and bettering mankind.\n\nIf other people being annoying literally changes your views on social or political issues you are just spineless.",
"Movements and the people within them change and are in a constant flux. It is intolerant of you to condemn people leaving a movement because they became disgusted by actions and conduct of those within that movement. It is a *completely* legitimate action to judge a movement by the conduct and behavior of it's members and by NO means illustrates that person as being *spineless*. This sounds more like you attacking people for leaving a movement you are still a part of... which certainly isn't *bettering mankind*. ",
">It is intolerant of you to condemn people leaving a movement because they became disgusted by actions and conduct of those within that movement.\n\nYour own personal beliefs are not a \"movement.\" I don't belong to any \"movement.\"\n\n>It is a completely legitimate action to judge a movement by the conduct and behavior of it's members and by NO means illustrates that person as being spineless.\n\nWho is talking about movements? It's fine to judge an actual organization by it's members, but the actions or beliefs of claimed progressives have no impact on whether or not progressive ideology is actually good or not. \n\nEither you do or do not support national health care. Either you do or do not support equality in policing. And so on and so forth. If the actions of other people change whether or not you support those things then yeah you are spineless. ",
"God i'm so sick of this ridiculous hysteria. ",
"Then we are back to the original question, if the external world does not influence your beliefs, then what does? We're you born with all your beliefs already ingrained?",
"The merits of an idea determine if I support it, not the actions or words of other supporters of the idea. Some progressives are assholes. Some conservatives are nice people. That has no bearing on whether or not I think conservatism or progressive thought is more useful. \n\nEdit: What the OP said is the equivalent of saying \"I use to believe in evolution but then an evolutionary scientist said something mean to me so now I'm a creationist.\"",
"No, that is a very disingenuous interpretation of the OPs position. What the OP essentially said is: \"*I was on board with the ideas of a group, but then, upon recognizing the manipulative and disgusting actions of that group, I left*.\" Simple as that... no need to attack people for following their own personal judgement. You make it seem like the only was to achieve *betterment for mankind* is through the *progressive* movement. That's not true at all and your insinuation of that makes me think your entirely too wrapped up in your us-vs-them ideology.",
">You make it seem like the only was to achieve betterment for mankind is through the progressive movement\n\nNot at all. The point is he preumsably had some idea of what the best way to solve certain problems is. And then other people who had the same ideas said some mean things on the internet to him and he changed his mind.\n\nThat's stupid and spineless, any way you slice it. I use to be a libertarian but I stopped being a libertarian because I read more about poverty, about libertarianism, and about progressive idealogy and changed my mind. I didn't change my mind because some libertarians were meanie do-do heads. \n\nHe didn't say he had some great epiphany or did some reading on new ideas or deeper readings about his own ideas. He literally said he let other people decide his opinion for him. That is the definition of spinelessness. ",
"The thousands of people Obama bombed during his tenure, did they feel like Obama was a bomb threat?",
"The law of quantum physics ",
"The OP did not say **anywhere** that they turned their back because people said a few *mean things* to them or acted like *dodo heads*. Such a statement is a petty and mean-spirited tactic to belittle and demean the OP over their legitimate concerns about the corruption of ideals and actions. You are clearly too consumed by the hate and resentment your ideology fills you with to have a rational and reasonable discussion on this topic. I hope you have a good day.",
">The OP did not say anywhere that they turned their back because people said a few mean things to them or acted like dodo heads. \n\nYeah they did. \n\n>I hated Trump in 2016 and reddit bitching for nearly two years has gotten me to the point where I really don't mind him that much anymore.\n\n\"I had my own opinion about Trump but other people saying stuff about him changed my opinion despite no additional information being presented to me.\"",
"My god, this is ridiculous. Get a life man.",
"Thanks for trying to explain it to him man, you were dead-on with everything and he has just been strawmanning the whole time.",
"It's a decision I made on my own accord. \n\nYour comment here is a weak strawman, as is is your position in the whole ensuing discussion thread. I don't humor dishonesty. Unless you're willing to be honest, waste someone else's time.",
"> It's a decision I made on my own accord.\n\nThat's not what you said but alright. ",
"Okay troll.",
"No problem. That guy was bending over backwards to try to vilify you for making a personal decision to move away from *his* ideology. Nothing is sadder to me than someone trying to demonize and dehumanize those who think differently than them.",
"Tweets will not start a nuclear war ffs!",
"cant tell if it's an insult or a compliment...",
"Just type p___ss if you feel you must, just don't spell the whole thing out. "
] | 54 | pics | Projection displayed across one of Donald Trump’s Hotels - September 24th, 2017 |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzhae/my_son_thinks_im_immature_i_think_its_an/ | [
"Apple's next great invention - the iBoobs.",
"Do you drive a Volvo ",
"Beat me to iBoobs",
"Yes, a 2004 XC70, with iboobs miles!!",
"Some people just are that way\n\nHe probably also thinks your tank is half-empty =)\n",
"My dad had a 2004 XC90 so i was like, \"oh those dials kind of look familiar\""
] | 6 | pics | My son thinks I’m immature. I think it’s an accomplishment! |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzhmt/the_milky_way_above_mont_blanc/ | [
"If this is OC, post it to [r/woahdude](https://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/?st=JBZUT5BN&sh=40d556fa). You’ll get a ton of upvotes, and possibly Gold. ",
"No original post is from r/space, I can't remember who the photographer is now I need to find the post as I saved this a little while back. ",
"Any chance of a higher res version?\n"
] | 3 | pics | The Milky Way above Mont Blanc |
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http://i.imgur.com/VhQFQAV.jpg | /r/pics/comments/7nzhtv/nature_has_tighter_looking_fractals_than_a/ | [
"Computer generated fractals aren’t delicious roasted with garlic and olive oil, either.",
"Well done",
"Those taste like broccoli but have the texture of cauliflower.",
"The whole fucking planet’s on a cob! Go go go!",
"I can't remember what this is called but it tastes pretty good.",
"It's almost like nature is more real than computer animation.",
"https://imgur.com/gallery/5SCdr\n\nHere's a picture of Romanesco I took a few months ago. Still beautiful. "
] | 7 | pics | Nature has tighter looking fractals than a computer can generate |
/r/pics/comments/7nzko3/murmuration_forms_a_giant_bird/ | [
"Bird Vultron",
"Wow, neat. It's like we already [just saw it on the front page!](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7nopm5/a_murmuration_of_starlings_assumes_the_shape_of_a/)",
"Front page material for sure."
] | 3 | pics | Murmuration forms a giant bird |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzkzh/margot_robbie_on_the_suicide_squad_set_giving_her/ | [
"One of the actors was on Howard Stern once, talking about how Robbie gave these fucking terrible tattoos to folks all over the set. And, everyone was gullible enough to think that her fame and hotness would make her a talented tattoo artist when she was a total disaster. ",
"That second toe tho. ",
"Either Margot has tiny hands or Cara has a really big foot. "
] | 3 | pics | Margot Robbie on the Suicide Squad set giving her friend/co-star Cara Delevingne a tattoo. |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzlus/our_driveway_after_todays_southern_snow_storm/ | [
"A winter wonderland for sure :)",
"It happens maybe every 20 to 30 years here. We are always mystified and bewildered. All I can say is for day or two it will be wonderful.",
"Yeah...living in the north it isn't so glamorous, except on Christmas ;)",
"What part of the south is this?",
"Hardeeville, SC "
] | 5 | pics | Our Driveway! After today's Southern Snow Storm |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzlvv/greetings_from_the_bottomless_pit_xpost/ | [
"Ponte Tower in Johannesburg, South Africa was built in 1975 to a height of 173 m (567.6 ft), making it the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa. The 55-story building is cylindrical, with an open center allowing additional light into the apartments. The center space is known as \"the core\" and rises above an uneven rock floor. When built, Ponte City Tower was seen as an extremely desirable address due to its views over all of Johannesburg and its surroundings. \n\nDuring the late 1980s, gang activity had caused the crime rate to soar at the tower and the surrounding neighbourhood. By the 1990s, after the end of apartheid, many gangs moved into the building and it became extremely unsafe. Ponte City Tower became symbolic of the crime and urban decay gripping the once cosmopolitan Johannesburg neighbourhood. The core filled with debris five stories high as the owners left the building to decay. \n\nIn May 2007, Ponte changed ownership and a re-development project called New Ponte was put in motion. The planned development would have contained 467 residential units, retail and leisure-time areas. In 2010, the subprime mortgage crisis caused the banks not to provide the funding and the revitalization was cancelled.\n\n[Here's a few more pictures](https://i.imgur.com/KDEkY3r.jpg)\n\n",
"Any time I see pictures of that place, I just want to re-watch Chappie.",
"Had anyone ever BASE jumped it?",
"Reminded me of Dredd \n \n> Movies \n> \n> One of the final shots of the 2009 film District 9 is of the tower.[9] \n> Director Philip Bloom dedicated a documentary film titled Ponte Tower.[10] \n> Ingrid Martens filmed her award winning documentary Africa Shafted: Under one Roof,[11] entirely, over two and a half years, in the Ponte lifts. \n> The skyscraper \"Peach Trees\" featured in the 2012 South African film Dredd is heavily inspired by Ponte tower. \n> The final scene of the 2014 movie SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines was shot in this location. \n> One of the scenes of the 2015 movie Chappie was shot in this location.[12] \n> A battle scene was filmed inside the tower for the 2016 movie Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.[13] \n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_City_Apartments#Movies \n \n99% Invisible did an interesting podcast on it: \nhttps://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ponte-city-tower/\n\n\n\n"
] | 4 | pics | Greetings from the Bottomless Pit (xpost r/evilbuildings) |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzmtt/wow_this_is_bananas/ | [
"Is this real or Photoshopped? If real, where is it?",
"It's from the Natraj Club, a group of 11 people in Odisha, India who create an amazing work of art once a year. They do not accept donations from the public and seem like a great team!",
"This is awesome, is it supposed to be Ganesha?",
"This shit is bananas.",
"I believe so. A few comments on their Facebook page say it is, but they didn't caption it.",
"B-A-N-A-N-A-S!",
"Quick! Get some elephants in there to eat up all those bananas! ",
"For those who don't know, this is Ganesha, the ~~Indian~~ Hindu god of intellect and wisdom.",
"Are you a holla back gurl?",
"You just know he'll be yellow for like 4 hours, and by this time tomorrow someone's going to be baking a big ass banana bread. ",
"Too many times around that track ",
"*I ain't no elephant girrrrl.*",
"It's kind of difficult to tell how big this is.",
"Did they use a bigger banana for the elephant's dong???",
"It is through the art and only through the art we can realise the perfection..True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.this is the awesome creativity through art of bananas\n",
"There's always money in the elephant stand!",
"Needs a banana for scale.",
"1 million bananas for scale. ",
"Come Mr TallyGod, tally me banana!",
"Yes",
"that's cool. ",
"One monkey is going to find it and that’ll be the end of that!",
"I legit thought there was an elephant inside of there; the eyes appear realistic until you zoom in.\nI'm tired.",
"**Those are",
"Then a frozen chocolate banana elephant!",
"what? you mean starving artists that enjoy being poor?",
"yum. banana bread.",
"Everyone is talking about bananas. I think we need to talk about the elephant in the room",
"Think the elephants right hand is subduing samsara ? ",
"Yes, but how big is it?",
"That’s what she asked ",
"None for sale tho ",
"Damn you. It has 1000s of them!",
"Is it just me, or is that elephant winking?",
"The guy in the red shirt looks like you just told him this joke and he's like hah ^^stfu",
"Wow. Quite appealing.",
"Needs a banana ",
"at least four",
"no it's bananas",
"Looks like elephant is peeking through his left eye ",
"> appealing\n\nBravo. Well done.",
"Then, the monkeys showed up.",
"Is this Ganesha? That's coool",
"Yiga clan statue",
"The Bananas I freeze when they get too ripe never make it out of the freezer. It is a frozen banana wasteland. ",
">frozen banana wasteland\n\n/r/bandnames",
"Hey, I like that name a lot.",
"Walnuts are on sale right now at Costco. Go buy a Costco membership if you don’t already have one, then buy a three pound bag of shelled walnut halves for $11.99 Use those in your banana bread. ",
"Now that's a deal. I have a Costco membership but I always spend way too much on Cheese there. Literally can't leave that place without spending at least a hundred dollars lol. ",
"The eyes really tie the whole thing together. Whoever made those did a fantastic job making them look lifelike. ",
"Can they add a banana for scale?",
"Who tallied those bananas?",
"No, this is Patrick.",
"If that's how they're going to do Blackbolt, I wonder how they're going to do Galactus?",
"Do you have any apples?",
"Yes. Interesting story about how Gamesha came into existence.\n\n>Ganesha is the son of Hindu God Shiva and his wife Parvati. He was created by his mother using earth which she moulded into the shape of a boy. As Shiva was away on his meditative wanderings, Parvati set her new son as guard while she bathed. Unexpectedly, Shiva returned home and, when he saw Ganesha claiming to be Parvati's son, he got angry and called for his gang of demons, the bhutaganas, who fought ferociously with the boy. However, the youngster easily held his own against such fearsome adversaries and Vishnu was forced to intervene in the form of Maya and, whilst the boy was distracted by her beauty, the demons, or Shiva himself, lopped off his head. At the commotion, Parvati ran from her bath and remonstrated with Shiva for so summarily killing their son. Repentant, Shiva ordered a new head to be found for the boy and, as the first animal available was an elephant, so Ganesha gained a new head and became the most distinctive of the Hindu gods. As a reward for his great courage in fighting the demons, Shiva made Ganesha the leader of the bhutaganas, hence his name. \n\n\n\n",
"How did he get his two extra arms then. ",
"Sad it’s not in monkey form ",
"and one day, it will vanish for sure",
"They come with the head as part of the character upgrade. \n(You don't get them if you just go into Big Head Mode though)\n\n",
"Parvati was creative and could use an extra pair of hands helping around the house, I guess?",
"looks like they've got plenty to eat if they get started on the statue when it ripens.",
"I recently started using that wasteland for my oatmeal!",
"B-A-N-A-ELA-PHANT! !",
"This is genius!",
"I'm not sure how big this is can you use a banana for scale please?",
"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?",
"How many extra lives would that get you in Donkey Kong?",
"Elephant. Bananas for scale.",
"whoa! how many bananas can you spot? :P",
"Ten thousand loaves of elephant bread in seven. ",
"That's not elephant, that's lord Ganesh who is worshipped in India.",
"That is a lot of wasted food",
"You think you can get away with that caption you sick fuck?",
"Kids in Africa could eat this elephant...",
"The Gods will find this very appealing",
"I see the Yiga are upping their game.",
"That's pretty bananas",
"But it’ll keep its apeel the whole way through",
"Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!\n",
"the money is in the banana stand",
"That guy is standing next to the equivalent of 2 nuclear power plants... in regards to emitted radioactive energy that is. ",
"They are not monkeying around there.",
"So how are we going to measure it?",
"Yea very fucking bananas ",
"B-A-N-A-N-A-S!",
"Told you Nonghi had the mind like a steel trap.",
"No .. fucking bananas is something completely different.",
"Do they distribute the bananas? What I mean is, are they being eaten? ",
"Banana Ganesh, Banana Ganesh, Banana Ganesh, Banana Ganesh! ",
"If these are off of the tree, it will last for a while before it turns yellow. The bananas you get in supermarkets are gassed to make them ripen quicker or else you would have to wait forever before you could eat them. I worked in produce and we went to a distribution center where they showed us the banana process. ",
"You need an elephant for scale.\n",
"And then a bread elephant ",
"Trump's Twitter account: The Statue",
"If you'd ask my grandma it will be honey elephant in six.",
"Green Bananas ",
"Looks Yummy ",
"Big banana ",
"i'll be Happier if it seems to be Yellow ",
"Hahahahaa :)",
"Banana for scale? ",
"People are starving in Africa and they are wasting bananas on a stupid display like this???\n\nI don't mind at all. Great use of bananas.",
"One trunk goes around my back",
"Seems like a MONUMENTAL waste of food, really cool though!",
"Then a Babanana-Bread in form of an elephant",
"Crazy",
"Banesha is day youuuuuuu?",
"How many banana spiders are in there?",
"I’m glad someone liked that. ",
"No,this is patrick!",
"Very appealing.",
"Not really he only had the trunk and head of the elephant, the rest of the body was Ganesh's own.",
"B-A-N-A-N-A-S This is banana's B-A-N-A-N-A-S",
"Religion: We're all starving to death but lets waste all this food making a big banana god. ",
"What a waste of food.",
"This is a take on Ganesh, a Hindu God. Bananas are usually considered auspicious in Hindu traditions and used in prayers and rituals, but this is taking it to whole another level. ",
"Those are*",
"Suddenly overcome by the desire to replay Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.",
"Yiga Clan storehouse",
"This [elephant] is [made of] bananas",
"Perfect title for the photo!",
"Definitely Ganesha. The left tusk is broken, just like in the story. The symbol on the forehead also indicates it's Ganesh.",
"So if I wanna jerk off to pics of floral elephant statues Ima do it bro. Just saying. ",
"B A N A N A S",
"impressive. reminds me how in costa rica they use banana in almost anything they cook. banana chips, banana tortilla etc",
"I feel like this should be a monkey.",
"Okay I love your username, please make me more sanskaari",
"I wish London had art work as impressive as this.",
"Fyi not an elephant.he’s a hindu god!",
"Yes, I am Ganesha!\n\n(a little shout out to the DanMachi fans out there)",
"How many bananas shoud be used??",
"Hello, this is dog",
" Or use tons of electricity to hang up Christmas lights on tens of millions of homes for a month. ",
"Yes, yes it is. ",
"How...APPEALING... "
] | 137 | pics | Wow. This is bananas! |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzmtz/this_was_not_meant_for_you_gooses/ | [
"When I came out of work today, I took a photo of these geese who apparently thought the sign was meant for them. But as this spot is pretty much directly under the approach path to runway 05/23 at Pearson airport in Toronto, I left them alone.",
"Maybe they had an emergency.",
"- geese -"
] | 3 | pics | This was not meant for you, gooses! |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzo8a/do_it_yourself/ | [
"Microwaved watermelon, 1 cup and 2 sponges, 1 towel and a glove, man, just the classics.",
"eww",
"A big zucchini or a melon mmm perfect "
] | 3 | pics | Do it yourself! |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzp0p/i_bought_a_new_car_recently_i_went_home_and_order/ | [
"[For those who haven't seen The Other Guys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1j4mK6cs_A)",
"You just need a deer vagina in the back seat and you’ll be all set!",
"I'm glad they got the raccoon placenta off the back window before I got it.",
"My favorite line in that movie is when Dirty Mike tells the boys to rub their dicks on the Prius after they get busted by terry and allen",
"Is it soup kitchen ready?",
"Prius' were made with soup kitchens in mind.",
"Prius' were made with soup kitchens in mind."
] | 7 | pics | I bought a new car recently. I went home and order this license plate frame as soon as I got home. |
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http://i.imgur.com/CxC9ii4.jpg | /r/pics/comments/7nzqt2/polished_meteorite_sphere/ | [
"For some reason, I want to fire that out of a cannon. Epic daemon killing damage.",
"How do you find a meteorite? ",
"Is that Moldavite? In a matrix of metal? Beautiful!",
"I saw [this](https://youtu.be/XLfYtMa62SQ) a while ago. Hope that helps!",
"I wonder who it is that has the title Ball Polisher.",
"For the low low price of $18k\n\nhttps://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/ca/polished-meteorite-sphere/",
"Thanks!",
"It was recently determined that most iron artifacts which predate the Iron Age were actually made from meteoric iron which was found laying on the ground.",
"It’s 40% moldavite! (Clank clank)",
"Go to /r/itsslag and look at what slag from blast furnaces looks like. That’s what you _don’t_ want to look for. Everyone thinks slag rocks are meteorites although actual meteorites don’t look like that at all.\n\nSee also the page title for /r/whatsthisrock \n\n",
"Determined recently? When its been known for ages that people without smelting tech scavenge iron from metorites? [Polar explorers found a meteor that eskimos were getting their iron from](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_York_meteorite) over 100 years ago, and they knew of the eskimos using it for a century before they found it!",
"You didn't wheel that across town in a radio flyer wagon did you? on your way to a radio interview?",
"Did that come from Uranus?",
"Calm down there cowboy. The study confirming that dozens of pre iron age iron artifacts were in fact proven to be made from meteoric iron was only published a couple of weeks ago.",
"it freaked me out when i saw op's reflection. At first i thought there was a face embedded in it.",
"Upvote for Cody's Lab, that guy makes some very interesting and educational videos!",
"Olivine, not moldavite. In an iron / nickel matrix. ",
"Yes, he does. I love that he explains things in a practical manner. "
] | 18 | pics | Polished meteorite sphere |
/r/pics/comments/7nzr81/carrie_fisher_1983/ | [
"That was long ago on a beach far, far away.",
"In her own words, amen.",
"Paul Simon was making love to her \n\nI'm jealous ",
"Up vote for anything Carrie Fisher"
] | 4 | pics | Carrie Fisher, 1983 |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzujv/piper_the_airport_guard_dog_who_died_in_traverse/ | [
"For those of you who missed Piper's [first appearance](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/46un89/airport_guard_dog/) on the sub and the subsequent [AMA with his handler](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/487m4a/i_am_the_airport_k9_guy_my_dog_is_the_airport/). \n\n[News story](http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/01/piper_michigans_famous_airport.html) about his death (cancer).\n",
"RIP, Piper. ",
"OH man that sucks.[ Here is a video of him doing his job](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgQjkO4HoJ0) \n\nFrom IG \n\n> airportk9\n> \n> Friends,\n> \n> It is with the ultimate sadness I must report the passing of my best friend and love of my life.\n> \n> Piper passed away tonight peacefully in my arms after fighting a year-long battle with prostate cancer. He fought valiantly, and we did everything we could, but sometimes life just has to take its course.\n> \n> Today, Piper enjoyed a pain-free day, filled with love from family and friends, mostly his fellow airport employees. He played soccer, got some much deserved butt scratches and yes, he chased away one last snowy owl as he sailed into the night.\n> \n> As I hope was plainly evident, we are grateful. Grateful to have done what we loved for three years and had a whole hell of a lot of fun doing it. Mostly though, we're grateful for all of your support. It's what's really helped us through the dark days.\n> \n> As we leave you tonight, know that Piper is in a better place. I only ask for your patience as I take time to tend to my shattered heart.\n> \n> Lastly, as a final act of true class, the flag you see here flew today at @uscg Air Station Traverse City and was taken down, folded and presented to us and a token of their love. Please join me in thanking the men and women, past and present, of Air Station Traverse City for their awesomeness. Piper and I are forever in your debt.\n> \n> With love,\n> \n> Brian & Piper",
"Fair winds and following seas shipmate. "
] | 4 | pics | Piper the "Airport Guard Dog" who died in Traverse City tonight |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzv6k/we_failed_twice_to_get_a_dog_but_the_third_time/ | [
"You named him \"Cheese\"?",
"Just showed up ?\n\nSo he ran away from someone else and now you're keeping him ?\n\nOr is there another background story ?",
"Somebody say something about cheese? Cause if you gonna make a cheese run, holla at me, dawg! ",
"Sure did!",
"He was lost, and my mother-in-law found him. She took him to the vet, who didn't find a chip on him.\n\nWe posted him to various 'found dog' sites, put up signs and looked through the lost dog ads on those same sites. No response after a week. We're treating it like a long foster, but deep down we think he's ours now.\n\nEdit: capitalization",
"Cool. Good luck with him, he looks like a neat dog.\n\nBorder collie/Aussie shepherd dog cross ? Something similar ?",
"So far as I can tell, he's all Aussie, and just a super sweet shadow following us around.",
"You're gonna have fun keeping him exercised and entertained.\n\nI hope at least one of you is into frisbee, or jogging, or agility/obedience, or something that keeps him from getting bored ! :-)\n\nThey're amazing dogs, but usually need to keep their brains and energy occupied.",
"I've been needing a better excuse to be more active, and I love playing ultimate. I think we'll have a good time cocking a disc around. Thanks for the idea! I'm surprised I hadn't put 2 and 2 together yet. Lol.",
"Things to work on: [Aussie shepherd tricks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYlmfLkhS1Y)\n\nand some [frisbee fun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4siu0AxX85M)",
"Awesome, thanks!"
] | 11 | pics | We failed twice to get a dog, but the third time our good boy just showed up. Reddit, meet Queso! |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzvgp/erotic_equestria/ | [
"I found this book at my grandparents house. Published in 1969. It’s now a family heirloom. https://i.imgur.com/QORYuZg.jpg ",
"I can’t find this on Amazon!?",
"So it's pretty much a book about donkey shows with horses ? "
] | 3 | pics | Erotic Equestria |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzwkh/my_attempt_at_pasta_for_one/ | [
"For one?!",
"Leftovers I guess\n\nEdit my next 5 meals",
"If anyone tells you that's too much pasta, tell them to stop trying to control your life.",
"Looks good",
"Did you cook the sauce and the pasta in the same pan? ",
"No you silly goose. Cooked pasta goes into the sauce last minute. ",
"Nice. Just making sure you weren’t cooking like a barbarian ",
"Yep, that looks about right. ",
"Woah hey now",
"For 1 dozen..."
] | 10 | pics | My attempt at pasta for one |
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/r/pics/comments/7nzzdu/hologram_illusion_lamp/ | [
"Is that real? Source?",
"Its just a 2-d sheet of plastic with etching in it. It looks like garbage in person. ",
"Our kids have them as nightlights.",
"it's real, you can buy them [here](https://trippyneeds.com/collections/optical-illusion-hologram-usb-lamp) for pretty cheap",
"> It looks like garbage in person. \n \nThis reads like my tinder review page would",
"Take my money!!",
"I absolutely will not accept that this is a 3D lamp without solid proof that it's not just a hologram",
"I have one of those (a different design) and they look nothing at all like they do in pictures. They actually look terrible in person.",
"....",
"Yup.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/ou0kmQsXl7A?t=116",
"Like something you would buy at Spencer's if you were 14.",
"Thanks. Saved me some time looking for one",
"I think it would be ok if the price point was at $15 but 40 is insane in my opinion. ",
"> 40-50 bucks for etched plastic and LEDs\n\n> pretty cheap\n\nI think you and I don't see money the same way."
] | 14 | pics | Hologram illusion lamp |
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/r/pics/comments/7o00kp/what_a_compressed_silicone_enhanced_chest_looks/ | [
"wut do they look like un-compressed? just curious.",
"That is one of two reasons I would never get silicon implants. The second reason is that I'm male.",
"Me to!",
"What's her name? Research essay I have to write......."
] | 4 | pics | What a compressed silicone enhanced chest looks like |
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/r/pics/comments/7o00uv/the_most_beautiful_things_in_the_world_are_free/ | [
"But you can give it to the birds and bees I want money",
"How much did pay to stay at the place you took the picture? Or how much did you pay to get there? Beautiful pic, but nothing is free. ",
"My moms house, sitting on my porch. Would have been more expensive to stay in the US over break. And regardless of how much money I might have, I simply could never buy that scene. ",
"Very true. "
] | 4 | pics | The most beautiful things in the world are free. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o010s/the_lakota_people_camp_of_dignity/ | [
"This is that thing where you make Those People live in the worst conditions, and then complain about the conditions they live in.\n\nGo fuck yourself. ",
"What is this a picture of? Do you actually know? ",
"What is this a picture of?",
"Who made them live in a temporary protest camp and spread trash everywhere?",
"You posted this, right?",
"Yes. Its a picture of the Dakota pipeline protest and its left over trash.",
"Why didn’t you say that?\n\n",
"It’s a picture of what THOSE PEOPLE actually live like, I guess. ",
"Didn’t they actually block the roads and prevent the protesters from bringing vehicles in past a certain point and then forcibly remove them without letting them clean up?\n\nAgain; go fuck yourself. Really, ",
"Wow you are a very hateful person clearly you are a Trump supporter.",
"your kind of racism is intolerable. "
] | 11 | pics | The Lakota People Camp of Dignity. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o0197/who_did_this/ | [
"They left the best part",
"Not me!",
"A goddamn monster",
"Fckin psychopaths! I suppose they are able to murder children without a second thought. There are some disgusting people out there."
] | 4 | pics | Who did this ??? |
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/r/pics/comments/7o027u/today_piper_a_border_collie_who_works_at_a_small/ | [
"Good boy, Piper, good boy! RIP",
"When I read that today, I had to hold back tears. What a great loss for our community. He will be missed. RIP Piper",
"Probably developed the cancer from breathing all those airplane exhaust emissions.",
"RIP sweet fella",
"😪 My mother had a dog (Coco) that was also a Border Collie such a nice dog, passed away for bone cancer in late 2015 💔 R.I.P Piper you will be missed ",
"OH man that sucks.[ Here is a video of him doing his job](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgQjkO4HoJ0) \n\nFrom IG \n\n> airportk9\n> \n> Friends,\n> \n> It is with the ultimate sadness I must report the passing of my best friend and love of my life.\n> \n> Piper passed away tonight peacefully in my arms after fighting a year-long battle with prostate cancer. He fought valiantly, and we did everything we could, but sometimes life just has to take its course.\n> \n> Today, Piper enjoyed a pain-free day, filled with love from family and friends, mostly his fellow airport employees. He played soccer, got some much deserved butt scratches and yes, he chased away one last snowy owl as he sailed into the night.\n> \n> As I hope was plainly evident, we are grateful. Grateful to have done what we loved for three years and had a whole hell of a lot of fun doing it. Mostly though, we're grateful for all of your support. It's what's really helped us through the dark days.\n> \n> As we leave you tonight, know that Piper is in a better place. I only ask for your patience as I take time to tend to my shattered heart.\n> \n> Lastly, as a final act of true class, the flag you see here flew today at @uscg Air Station Traverse City and was taken down, folded and presented to us and a token of their love. Please join me in thanking the men and women, past and present, of Air Station Traverse City for their awesomeness. Piper and I are forever in your debt.\n> \n> With love,\n> \n> Brian & Piper",
"*Prior to his death on Wednesday, owner Brian Edwards says Piper enjoyed a fun day playing soccer and spending time with loved ones. He also says the dog ‘chased one last snowy owl as he sailed into the night.’*\n\nThe U.S. Coast Guard Station in Traverse City, MI also presented Piper and Brian with a U.S. Flag. RIP.\n\n[Source with photo gallery](http://fox17online.com/2018/01/03/piper-the-airport-dog-passes-away-after-battle-with-cancer/)\n",
"Thinking of all who loved and were kept safe by this beautiful boy. \n\n\nSounds like you did a brilliant job, Piper! I'm sure if you could speak to your humans U ou'd tell all of them not to worry because where you are right now it's always your favorite weather, and you can eat as much chow as you want while still keeping your figure, and the toys and treats and other doggos are just AMAZING! And the whole no more pain thing, I mean that's awesome, right?! But most of all, if you could tell them, I'd bet you say thank you thank you thank you for giving you the coolest life a pupper could ever have and that you hope another pupper gets the same chance you had and most most most of all you'll be waiting to see alllllll your humans (even the ones you barely knew) again some day but that they'd better not hurry because you've got plenty to keep you occupied until that day comes. And there's probably a doggo or two that need them here. \n\n\nHere's to you, Piper. \n--. -. --- --",
"I totallv heard this in the classic 'talking to dogs' voice! "
] | 9 | pics | Today Piper, a Border Collie who works at a small airport in Traverse City, Michigan, passed away from cancer. He worked year round as wildlife control, chasing animals and birds off runways. A local hero, he was a guardian of aircraft and their passengers. And above all, he was a good dog. 💔🐶 |
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/r/pics/comments/7o02hj/fly_fishing/ | [
"Not with that rod and reel...",
"Notice the pants",
"Funny, I was just about to say she's using a spinning rod and reel, then notice the zipper ...",
"Ahaaa! Ya gots me!"
] | 4 | pics | Fly fishing. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o02m4/when_i_looked_in_my_pockets_on_new_years_i_found/ | [
"Hmmm...",
"Minted on Jan 1st? ",
"Perhaps the title made me sound like I was claiming that. I meant just the year alone, my fault for the phrasing!",
"lol",
"Let's check users history...hmmm.",
"Hmmm hmmm",
"Yes. 2018 minus 1918 is 100. 100 is no more significant than 99, but congrats. ",
"Just giving you a hard time. The average coin only circulates for 25 years. That penny is worth around 2.2 cents based on the copper content. #pennyfacts ",
"Hmmm indeed...",
"Hmmm hmmm hmmm",
"It’s a lil more significant ",
"That sounds like bullshit ",
"Could it be possible that OP deletes posts automatically to prevent doxxing?",
"Four score and twenty years ago ",
"It's a little smelly ",
"One more. Maybe ",
"r/iamveryneildegrassetyson",
"Seriously, how long have you had that penny and have been waiting for this day?",
"Karma would stay.",
"ITS A SHIT PENNY",
"In honesty, and maybe this will clear things up with others, I know I didn't get the penny on New Years since I didn't leave the house. However, I have a terrible habit of leaving my pockets full of receipts and change from transactions. When I went to do the laundry I checked my pockets in my jeans and here we are now! I really do wish I could prove that I found it on New Years. I feel very lucky!",
"It would have sounded much better if you would have said the value increased by over 100%, haha. Thanks for the neat little fact!",
"Hmmm, good point.",
"At midnight! ",
"Hmmmmmmmm",
"K?\n",
"Year 2000 we skipped leap year, which we skip every 1,000 years. \"Exactly 100 years old\" could be a day short depending on how you're counting.\n",
"I'd say it's more satisfyingly insignificant. There's just something about 100 that feels a lot more nicer than \"I found this 99 year old coin\". ",
"I got one of these at work and held on to it for about fifteen minutes before giving it to someone else. Wish I'd kept it. It was cool to have a 100 year old object in my hands.",
"I know what you mean, I love thinking about what this penny has seen. It saw the roaring 20's, the great depression. The second world war, the moon landing and the internet. Things like that. ",
"Pennies before 1984 have a nice ring to them.",
"Its an omen. Like you might have good luck. Or you could die; who knows.",
"I love the smell of bullshit in the morning.",
"I think I'm okay with either one. ",
"One of my replies to another comment goes into more detail about the penny. ",
"Can I purchase?"
] | 36 | pics | When I looked in my pockets on New Years, I found a 1918 penny. Exactly 100 Years Old! |
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/r/pics/comments/7o031j/worlds_smallest_phone_is_so_tiny_it_weighs_less/ | [
"My phone also weighs less than a pound.",
"God?",
"Do you put it in your ear?",
"Zoolander's phone...",
"No you put it in your butt for prison ",
"It's not like my huge phone doesn't get lost/misplaced enough. Imagine trying to find this in your house if it's out of batteries.",
"What is this? A phone for ants?",
"These tiny phones are literally designed to go up your butt.\n\nhttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zngpz4/prison-phones-that-go-up-your-bum"
] | 9 | pics | World's Smallest Phone Is So Tiny, It Weighs Less Than A Coin |
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/r/pics/comments/7o03rc/this_cozy_corner_booth_we_ate_at_tonight/ | [
"Gorgeous ",
"I love the jukebox. Don’t see those very often anymore. Some diners around here in jersey still got them. It reminds me on last scene of the sopranos. ",
"Oh you ninjas and your selfies.",
"Seeburg made a terrific remote jukebox system, which is what most of them are on the East Coast. Not sure of this one, though. The one that went with the Seeburg 100 looked like [this](http://cdn.barrett-jackson.com/staging/carlist/items/Fullsize/Automobilia/214065/214065_Auto_Front_3-4_Web.jpg).",
"Love but the benches are too far from the table "
] | 5 | pics | This cozy corner booth we ate at tonight |
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/r/pics/comments/7o03td/frozen_staged_again/ | [
"Do you want to build a snowman?",
"Just in time to change my desktop background. ",
"Do you want to do some blow man? FTFY"
] | 6 | pics | Frozen staged again. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o03u5/just_a_normal_weekend_in_north_dakota/ | [
"Lol what the fuck ",
"So scary ",
"So much for hosting a barbecue outside this weekend. ",
"We hit -35 in Illinois dude so many pipe bursts and places running out of toilet paper ",
"Strange. I never wanted to visit North Dakota. Still don't.",
"Seems about right. Greetings from Fargo!"
] | 6 | pics | Just a normal weekend in North Dakota. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o04b3/800_year_old_church_still_standing_in_borgund/ | [
"\"You wanna come over and help me hang up chrismat lights?..... hello?\" ",
"Decent r/evilbuildings material.",
"I'm dumb",
"800 year old church? There's one in every other village around here, what's so special about that?\n\nOh. 800 year old *wooden* church. Ok, that's a little more impressive.",
"Any information on how they restore/maintain it? Seems pretty amazing.",
"The is a civilian Temple whose main purpose is to train Priests who can heal allied units and convert enemy ones. Back then, to construct these temples it only cost 200 wood. They were available to every civilization except for the Macedonians because fuck them.",
"Still hasn't been burnt down by any roving black metal bands.",
"It's nice to see The Hound finally finished it",
"[WOLOLOOO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq__sCfpqvA)",
"Most of the ancient churches in scandinavia have been burnt down by asatru extremists. Not very unlike neo Nazi's.",
"It is covered in tar.",
"No. There are 28 of these.\n\nOne has been burned down and then rebuilt. ",
"By the power of Godspell, I have acquired approval rights in this subreddit.\n\n*This has been an automated message.*"
] | 13 | pics | 800 year old church still standing in borgund, Norway. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o051b/my_fortune_arrived_incomplete_what_did_it_say/ | [
"A TANTALIZING NEW PENIS WILL COME YOUR WAY.\n\nThat's what I'm goin' with.",
"A tantalizing new panda will come your way quickly.",
"A TANTALIZING NEW FASCIST REGIME WILL COME YOUR WAY\n\n",
"Missing word is prospect",
"Sweet! I need a new one!"
] | 5 | pics | My fortune arrived incomplete. What did it say? |
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/r/pics/comments/7o05be/the_effects_of_running_and_gravity_on_a_toddler/ | [
"\"The Jedi have betrayed the Republic!\"\n",
"Looks like my uncle Denny!",
"This made me and my wife crack up wayyyyyy more than it should have "
] | 3 | pics | The effects of running and gravity on a toddler... |
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/r/pics/comments/7o06ah/grandmas_holiday_fudge/ | [
"Slightly disturbing. ",
"I think grandma pooped on some foil",
"Take her to the ER immediately.",
"It looks like it's wiggling...",
"She really packed it in",
"Grandma may be using a walker, but at least her movement is regular. ",
"No walker, but I can vouch for how regular she is. I’ve walked into the bathroom after she’s used it on many occasions. \n\nEdit: Grammar"
] | 7 | pics | Grandma's holiday "fudge." |
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/r/pics/comments/7o06zn/a_calendar_seen_in_a_fort_myers_barnes_noble/ | [
"Saw this at the mall yesterday https://imgur.com/oQpPwqp",
"I’ve seen this one also. \n\n[Vladimir Putin calendar](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ewdc5FvDL._SL500_AC_SS350_.jpg) ",
"Supercars... Sweet."
] | 3 | pics | A calendar seen in a Fort Myers 'Barnes & Noble'. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o08mq/contemplating_dinner_option_at_mall/ | [
"Get Aflac and bigger pants beforehand. ",
"Hell yeah, sign me up. ",
"That's breakfast, 2nd breakfast, lunch AND dinner..... ",
"Might be a bit heavy. You can even it out by ordering a diet coke",
"Are you supposed to shove it up your ass?..",
"I like Diet Coke. ",
"When you can’t be bothered to eat more than one meal a day. ",
"Only 2200 calories? It's either way smaller than pictured or I'm severely overestimating, but I'd expect that to clock in at about 5000 calories. ",
"Suppositories are in. ",
"Intermittent Fastings benefits. ",
"What about elevensies?"
] | 11 | pics | Contemplating dinner option at mall |
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/r/pics/comments/7o08qw/the_lines_are_there_for_a_reason/ | [
"There is a page on Facebook called parking like a twat uk that is dedicated to this sort of thing",
"Umm what if the passenger needed to get in and out of a wheel chair? They would need the extra space.",
"Back in. The striped area is reserved for both accessible spaces. You would hope they’d see how selfish this is. ",
"It was probably the passenger in the wheelchair (what those lines are meant to give room for! And the driver wasn't comfortable backing in (old) \n\n\nEdit : I see they could've parked a space down haha. Still, probably old as fuck and shouldn't be driving anyways.",
" Need the room to get out the passenger side. Duh. ",
"I have come to the conclusion that people with parking passes are assholes and don't give a damn. If you can drive, you can park. Those fucks."
] | 6 | pics | The lines are there for a reason |
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/r/pics/comments/7o08vv/its_freezing_in_new_york_and_in_my_city_the/ | [
"except your city looks like the ruins of a 3rd world country lol",
"Every city has its own charm. Please don’t compare. ",
"As you compare Yemen to New York..."
] | 3 | pics | It’s freezing in New York and in my city the weather is uplifting |
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/r/pics/comments/7o09at/my_995_year_old_grandmother_quietly_passed_away/ | [
"Sorry for your loss. What a great picture to share and remember your grandmother.",
"Very sorry for your loss. Great to hear that she had a career back then. ",
"A. So cool she had a career like that.\nB. The scantaly clad in the calendar behind her shows what she probably had to still deal with though.",
"Everyone in the 40s looks so classy. ",
"Food writing?",
"She's an angel, may she be publishing excellent food articles in Heaven for all to enjoy.",
"Hey I’m not judging. Just curious what medium you use. More of a Frank’s Wing Sauce kinda guy, myself. ",
"Sorry for your loss. She was beautiful ",
"What a lovely woman. My condolences. ",
"Dealing with an accurate way to track the days of the year paired with what one would see on a beach?",
"Good catch! I (female) once had a CEO reach over a desk and pat me on the head for doing a good job :(",
"Gorgeous lady. Beautiful smile.",
"Actually I was wrong it's not a calendar it's a girl in a swim suit. Racey during that period. ",
"~~Fuuuuuuck~~ (edited) fuuuuuuudge what time period was that around? ",
"I am sorry for your loss. What a beautiful and talented woman she was!!!",
"Im sorry for your loss ",
"Beautiful lady. Sorry for your loss",
"Looks like she was about to begin the good life",
"My great grandmother passed too, she was 94 and died peacefully. Sorry for ur loss",
"Lovely woman, beautiful smile. Very sorry for your loss. She lived a long, and I hope mostly happy life. ",
"Why does it matter if the paper was liberal leaning?",
"I feel your pain.. I lost my Nanah a couple months ago she was 99 too. I'm so sorry for your loss. She had a wonderful bright light in her, i can tell from the photo. Almost 100 years of life is such a blessing and they were such unbelievably strong women to live that long. Ill never stop missing my Nanah.. and ill never forget everything she taught me. Stay strong, they will always be with us.\n",
"1940. Women with a paying job.",
"Silicon Valley, ca 1985. I was teaching the company how to use their software. He told the CEO of my company (a man) that he wasn’t needed, but I was. He reached over and patted me on the head. I was 27. Lol, I’m not sure who was offended most. ",
"Great, uplifting picture! But why is it important that the newspaper was liberal-leaning? \n\nEdit: Inserted 'uplifting' because I was missing that word earlier",
"Probably because she had a \"traditionally male\" position",
"I find it interesting that at our youngest and at our oldest is when we count fractions of age",
"Sorry for your loss.\n\nBut I really like this pretty sure r/oldschoolcool would enjoy this.",
"Wow. As a 29 year old, this makes me realize that I need to appreciate the life I have now. The fortunate among us end up looking at pictures of ourselves from 60 some odd years ago and wondering what happened. The unfortunate among us will not get the chance to do so.",
"Oh of course! That makes perfect sense. Thanks!",
"Beautiful lady. Sorry for your loss. ",
"99.5 years is a terrific innings! Was she able to enjoy most of her latter years?",
"Paging /r/colorizedhistory",
"Would smash!",
"Pictures of other ladies dressed in bathing suites on the wall too... Nice. ",
"I've been known to spin a yarn or two in my alphabet soup. ",
"Youth is a limited time opportunity, live it while you can because you will be old for a very long time.",
"It wasn't that unusual for women to work for a newspaper during this period, especially if her work concerned an advice column, fashion, gossip, or in this case, food. (this was actually the norm) Many papers, small and large, featured women in these positions. \n\nAnything of the \"hard-hitting\" sort was definitely given to men, though.\n\n",
"I have never met my grandfather. But at the time the photo of your grandmother was taken 2 years later my grandfather went to fight in the navy aboard a amphibious landing vessel as a radio officer third class. He died in 1974 of cancer. It was probably due to Chromium used on naval base workshops. Even now me living in the bay area I am exposed to it. It increases risks of cancer within 10 to 20 miles of naval bases older than the 1980s.",
"Gotta throw \"liberal-leaning\" in there if you want upvotes",
"It is appreciated. ",
"This pic makes me sad. She looks so full of life in that photo. Now she's dead. We're all going to fucking die :(",
"I love everything about this picture. Her face, her expression, even her clothes. She was beautiful. My condolences.",
"Such a beautiful lady. Its crazy to think about all of the amazing stories she could tell. ",
"She's so cute!",
"My Grandma died, better whore her out for internet points!",
"To be fair, he did this to everyone. He was raised by dogs.",
"Environmental portrait*",
"Sorry for your loss. She was such a bright young woman:)",
"Dr. Seuss did [their political cartoons](https://imgur.com/a/GqMRA) which are mostly making fun of the Axis and American non-interventionists.",
"Hey just so everyone knows it was a liberal-leaning newspaper..",
"It's basically a requirement. ",
"Multiple comments have inquired as to why I felt the need to put \"liberal-learning\" in the title. This is not to spread any type of political agenda You've got to remember this is the 1940s, where my grandmother managed to get a job in a predominantly male field. This can be highlighted by the scandalous picture in the background, when was the last time you saw a picture like that allowed on work premises?",
"Someone had to say it",
"She's beautiful ",
"Liberal? You mean communist!?!?\n\nNever mind the joke. I'm sorry for your loss.",
"She always took pride in the way she looked! Even in her 90's. ",
"Such a pretty lady! May her soul rest in peace ",
"I'm really sorry for your loss. My own Nanna is approaching her mid nineties and I'm dreading getting that call.\n\nHas no one realized the poster that says Europe is backwards? Makes me think the picture is mirrored. Or is it all the PCP I smoked earlier with Bob Dole?",
"I loved seeing this photo. Thank you for sharing some of her life with us. I'm glad she lived a long one, but I'm sorry about you losing her now as well. ",
"Maximum updoots ",
"Thank you for the support<3",
"Hey, sorry for your loss. Hope she had a good life, nearly at 100! :(",
"I didn't notice that at all until you mentioned it. \n\nEdit: also, enjoy her company while you can. I lived quite a ways away from her (I'm in SC, she was in RI) so I couldn't see her very often and might not be able to make the funeral. So if you're close enough, make some new memories with her. ",
"I can definitely try and find some stuff later! I'll set a reminder. ",
"It's appreciated!",
"I don't know how to feel about this, but she was a very spectacular lady!",
"I appreciate the condolences. ",
"Indeed. ",
"Thank you!",
"She used to always joke that she'd \"tap out after 100\", so I'm sad she wasn't able to make it there. Amazing person though, so glad I knew her. ",
"Sorry for your loss",
"Interestingly enough, she used to joke that after 100 years old she'd \"tap out\". I guess I included \"99.5 years\" as opposed to just \"99 years\" as a kind of tribute to that. ",
"Oh yes! She was always so full of life and lived on her own until just a few years ago. She regularly went (and drove - until around mid 80's) to her local YMCA. God, she was spectacular. ",
"My grandfather (her husband) also died of cancer around the 1980's. It's a terrible thing. Wish I could've known him. Sorry about your grandfather!",
"Enjoy life while it lasts, friend. I can't remember a day I saw her when she wasn't smiling. ",
"She was an amazing lady, to say the least. ",
"She definitely had some amazing stories!",
"For those interested, [this](https://i.imgur.com/QhxSvmG.jpg) is a picture of her from last year. ",
"She was an optimist and therefore had the tendency to round up.",
"Karma mining",
"PM was financed by Republicans, so of course it believed in social liberty and equality. It's nice to see a strong Republican woman get her time to shine on this page!",
"You should be proud that she was a Republican but it does seem odd to kinda preach it, haha.",
"I'm sorry for your loss. My 103 year old great grandad passed yesterday. ",
"Because you wont get those circlejerkin updoots",
"What an amazing photo. She sounds like a wonderful woman. I'm sorry for your loss.",
"I've never heard anyone else count an old person's age as a fraction. It's just used here to show they were nearly 100.",
"Even though she's young in this picture, she had that sweet, caring, motherly look. I'm sure she was a fantastic grandmother. Rest easy.",
"Although sad to hear the news, i find it fascinating the things your grandmother would've seen in her lifetime",
"The best",
"Thank you! It's appreciated. ",
"Looks like we're both in mourning. Sorry for your loss. ",
"That might've made my day. Thank you very much!",
"1950 . Please watch your language on Reddit.",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"Playing with noodles,. caught in the 40s looks so classy.",
"The pic almost looks like she was caught mid-laugh.",
"/r/oldschoolcool",
"I'm not sure at what point most people stop keeping track of 'I'm X and a half years old' but I'm pretty sure it is generally at least 1 or 2 years before 99.",
"[https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/7o2336/this_was_my_grandmother_when_she_was_a_food/](https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/7o2336/this_was_my_grandmother_when_she_was_a_food/)",
"Indeed!",
"Taking this from one of my other comments:\n\n>Interestingly enough, she used to joke that after 100 years old she'd \"tap out\". I guess I included \"99.5 years\" as opposed to just \"99 years\" as a kind of tribute to that. ",
"[ǝqoɿυƎ](https://i.imgur.com/NxtdrI1.jpg)",
"My grandma passed away noisily",
"oh man, that smile could light up a room",
"R.I.P",
"And did on many occasions!",
"My grandmother was also a writer for PM during the war! I wonder if they were friends?",
"She would have had the opportunity to meet someone who was once a slave and someone who had been to outer space. That's insane. ",
"Imagine someone in the future showing a photograph of today’s teenage girl when the latter has become a grandmother. ",
"Agree. Cool pic. Nice story. No need for politics, in my opinion. ",
"Wow she looked great for someone pushing a century. ",
"It's common to say condolences, but when someone gets that old, it seems to me that congratulations to her are in order! That is a rare achievement. ",
"Nah, they really were classier back then. Everyone, poor or rich, cared about their appearance.\n\nPlus, everyone was skinny, which always helps.",
"r/oldschoolcool",
"My perspective on such comments: +2 pride in your grandfather for winning the favor of such a desired woman!",
"lol because this is r/pics, a cancer filled ballsack of a subreddit where dummies blow smoke into each others' arse",
"Did nice guys teach you how to talk to/about women?",
"Well what do you mean by classy? Dorothea Lange took amazing photographs of people during the Great Depression that are not classy but portrayals of the struggle of the poor. Lewis Hine photographed children who worked in factories and adult blue collar workers and helped change child labor laws. You would probably even recognize some of their pictures. ",
"I'll roll with it!",
"She lived everyday to it's fullest!",
"Absolutely was! Age was just a number. ",
"It's certainly a possibility!",
"Hot Grandma. \n\n",
"Well... realistically, she probably had a few blah-days, but if she lived every day to its fullest, then, wow! That's all the greater!",
"That’s the spirit! More grandmas should go out in a blaze of glory. Shoot up a mini mart, or park a truck on a railroad crossing. ",
"Karma for virtue signaling",
"liberal leaning? have you seen the poster behind her must have been great place to work.",
"Can someone colour it for you, would look awesome",
"Let's round that age up to a hundo.",
"Lack of abundant foods helps with the skinny thing. Also just came out of a depression and were in a war.",
"I think an era-appropriate expression would be, \"Va-Va-Va-Voom!\"",
"https://i.imgur.com/bDXTnKP.gifv",
"https://i.imgur.com/RgpzNU3.gifv",
"I'm sorry for your loss. I'm in same place soon, my nana is not coming home from the hospital anymore, she is 95. Just waiting for the news, it is really weird situation since she has her wit intact. Visiting her has that \"might be the last time we see each other\" vibe but we've been mostly laughing with her which has been a great relief.",
"Wow... That's uhh... Interesting? Where you going with this OP?",
"Food was abundant it just wasn't processed beyond recognition yet",
"It was bound to be said, at least it's out of the way early.",
"It explains the pin-up girl in the background. ",
"That’s basically porn for that era. It’s like if you had a furry masturbation pic today. ",
"Fixed! ",
"because in 1940 for them to hire a woman as a writer they would have had to been liberal leaning. ",
"MY FIRST THOUGHT AS WELL",
"Eh, I was trying to prove a point that in this guys mind if anyone does anything bad it's because they're a liberal. His entire post/comment history is littered with it. ",
"I'm sorry for your loss. Even at an advanced age, it is still hard. It is a nice photo, can I suggest taking a stroll over to /r/Colorization? Her photo is very clear and it will look amazing once colorized.",
"):",
"Is your grandmother the one in the picture above the head of the young woman kneeling? DAMN... She was HOT !!",
"Calories in calories out",
"Fuck it, say she was 100!",
" And Japs.",
"It's a click bait headline, but reddit loves that shit so they'll eat it up. ",
"She was beautiful. I'm so sorry for your loss.",
"I stopped saying my age and a half when i was 11...",
"Her spirit will live on for ages in our browsers",
"Also the .5 should be obsolete after you reach 7",
"99.5, so she lives 99 years and 6 months? ",
"Yep. Go back and look at pictures of the crowd at a football game during the 40s - 60s. Everyone is wearing suits and fedoras. Even the coaches. It was all about looking sharp back in the day.",
"Woah now it's liberal leaning, not fully liberal",
"Thank you for your kindness. ",
"She's quite a dish.",
"[r/oldschoolcool](https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/)",
"looks like young ladies I see around the trendy parts of my town. ",
"everyone in pictures look classy until personal cameras became common. Pictures were an event. A portrait like this was a serious thing so it makes sense you'd look your absolute best. ",
"I like the photo of the sexy lady in the upper right corner of the picture.",
"True, it's not inherently wrong to caricature Tojo, but giving [Japanese-Americans](https://i.imgur.com/IitVny1.jpg) Tojo-face and portraying them as a threat shows why the internment happened. ",
"Sorry for your loss mate. \nDefinitely a looker she was.",
"Great photo. I love to think how crazy it is just how much she would have seen and done in a lifetime from the 1940s, and before, right up to this year. \n\nSorry for your loss. ",
"Sorry for your loss mate",
"I second that",
"My wife did an AMA on Reddit with her father when he was about 90. He was WWII and Korea vet. So redditors asked the questions, questions his own kids had not asked about his life and service. They all learned quite a bit. Since then I have suggested in posts like this that the grandkids ask all/any questions. Get her stories, what it was like to live through WWII (I found my mother's sugar ration coupon last year, but she died before I could ask her about this). Have them go through any picture albums they might have and tell you about the pictures and identify everyone in them (again my parents both died before I found these albums). I have an Ancestry account and I have loaded up the best images, scans of documents, and family oral stories. This way my siblings and children will have access to them. But it would have been nice for my interest to have started while my parents were alive.",
"Sorry for the lost of your family. Your grandma looked like someone who had had a life of happiness and fulfillment!",
"She definitely did!",
"Nothing held her back!",
"I think that is an excuse for people who stop improving themselfs and stop stepping out of their comfort zone after their 20's.",
"‘Specially that hottie in the back.",
"Same great smile. She must have been a special part of your life. I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you have many happy memories to hang on to.",
"Gramma was an Instagram model. Look at that contouring!",
"What did saying the paper was liberal leaning add to the story? ",
"Great picture, and condolences on your loss. What a great life!\n\nIt looks like the picture is flipped (backwards) based on the lettering on the \"Map of Europe\" behind her. Might want to check that out.",
"Liberal-leaning but men still knew they were men in the forties hence that pin-up girl picture behind her on the wall",
"Yeah! Another user mentioned that, I don't know why. Someone went ahead and flipped it the correct way, let me try and get the link. \n\nEdit: [Here](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7o09at/-/ds6bd1g).",
"So she wouldn’t be mistaken for as a *right* leaning food writer; the uncultured philistines, reviewing foods without political contemplation, they’re a scourge to the industry!",
"Maybe they were trying to save money?",
"Thank you!!",
"Was she ever able to tip *full* liberal before she died? Asking for the party.",
"That is so cool! it looks like she's sitting in the morgue. ah, the good ol' days of newspapers! She looks like a really classy lady. sorry for your loss.",
"Here's [me](https://i.imgur.com/AgalPtl.jpg) age 18, and [now](https://i.imgur.com/SY0MCef.jpg) as a Grannie with 4 grandchildren. ",
"The day the first photo was taken, was a very special day; first time under a certain kind of influence. ",
"Sorry for your loss. Glad you have a nice photo from back when. \n",
"Good point. They probably werent adding salt and sugar to Iiterally everything.",
"ALL CAPS FAMILY",
"Thank you!",
"She definitely was, and thank you!",
"sorry to hear your grandmother passed. by this picture she looks like she enjoyed life. gorgeous smile. she'll be in your heart forever.",
"I feel your sadness, lost my grandmother a week before Xmas, her funeral was yesterday, glad it’s over now though, spent the last 3 weeks of her life in hospital.",
"Haha cheers\n\nEdit: not a clue what any of that is... not. a. clue.",
"I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’re confusing liberalism with socialism.",
"Maybe she called it the liberal-leaning paper and it was some sort of inside joke or something. That would be the only reason why I would think it would be appropriate to listen to that sort of thing",
"Probably not. But if we make your weird assumption, it still wouldn’t make sense cause Reddit isn’t in on their inside joke.",
"Aaaaand how is that related to the fact that you don’t have a penis?",
"This post would be downvoted to hell if the title had conservative-leaning instead. ",
"Virtue signaling isn’t really the right word here. He’s not making an overt value statement. ",
"She looks so oppressed and unhappy compared to today’s women /s",
"Serving sizes were lots smaller. A plate from a \"blue plate special\" is about half the size of a plate from virtually any sit down restaurant nowadays.",
"Can't forget to mention it was a liberal leaning newspaper! ",
"I think OP was trying to point out how much more *progressive* liberals are and that's the reason a woman was allowed to have that position in the 1940s. Narratives.",
"Ohhh, I think the 40s and today are a lot different in terms of politics. I think both liberals and conservative women would have had a hard time getting a job back then unless it was in a \"woman's\" profession. Also hadnt the democratic party in the 40s been less geared towards social reform then. You could argue they were still proponents of Jim Crow then. I may be forgetting my history but it wasnt till the 60s that democrats became socially oriented. ",
"Woah what a babe",
"So close ",
"I often find myself thinking the same thing - that people were elegant. I think it has to do with attire, perhaps because fashion was fairly standardized and it was all formal by today’s standards. No matter if you were rich or poor - it looks like people wore what today would be considered formal wear. Am I the only one who sees this as a possible answer?",
"Candid photos were a lot rarer then",
"Indeed!",
"Err, thanks",
"That's no way to go :(",
"Absolutely will, thank you for the kind words. ",
"Haha sorry, she's drop dead gorgeous tho",
"Id hit it",
"In circa 1981-82, I was living in Virginia, and spent some time as a telemarketer for Olin Mills photo studio. When I would get an old lady on the phone, a frequent response was \"I'm too old and ugly to have my photo taken\". I would ask \"Do you have a photo of your grandmother?\" and \"Do you have grandchildren?\". Next, depending on the response, I'd say \"I'm sure you treasure that photo of your grandmother, and your grandchildren will treasure this photo of you, for years to come\". The other response was \"Don't you wish you had a photo of your grandmother? I'm sure you wouldn't think she was old and ugly if you had that photo\". I was fairly successful in selling photo packages. Can't say I'm especially proud of that. But I do have my own photos of my family; my parents as children, my grandparents, etc. I'm happy to have the old photos. ",
"Too late! :|",
"are you wearing a fedora?",
"Enhance.",
"Condolences. \nMy father wrote for PM before the War, so it's quite possibly knew you GM; the staff was pretty close-knit.\nThe paper produced some excellent reportage in a multi-newspaper locale and was--and often still is--thought of as a publication that was ahead of its time.",
"It's true, my grandma was born in 1925 and she said they never ate sweets except for holidays, what's more she grew up on a farm so they grew most of their food themselves. Doesn't get much less processed than that",
"Why does it matter if it was liberal or conservative leaning?",
"Came here to ask the same question, Mr. Dildo",
"She was very gorgeous!",
"You should share this on r/lastimages",
"Nope, unfortunately was one thing after another that kept her in there.",
"So sorry for your loss. ",
"Hopefully she's happy now, wherever she is. ",
"I think they made pictures of her since 1940",
"You don't find it wrong to caricature Tojo (and ostensibly other Asian figures) but what do you think of caricaturizing Black figures with cartoonish big lips and big flat nose? ",
"Would bang. I mean, then, not now. Probably. But possibly. "
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"is very cool, very cool\n",
"Looks like a much larger version of Mr Roger's Neighborhood.",
"Alright. ",
"If you look close at the shoreline you can see frank Gallagher passed out ",
"You inadvertently made it look like a miniature because the foreground is blurry. Very cool",
"Tiltshift ",
"FIONA IF YOU ARE READING THIS. \n\nI AM IN LOVE WITH YOU.\n\n🤘",
"Titshift",
"Can confirm, it has been in the single digits for the past week",
"Thanks for the info",
"Oooooh !!",
"Titshits",
"I can see the house I’m going to rob from here",
"yesterday, my ass. where's trump tower? this is more like 1985",
"wow",
"good tilt shift effect... cold and crisp feel",
"This kinda looks like it was built in *Minecraft*.",
"Sweet Home Chicago!",
"Nice shot man. I miss my city by the lake.",
"Post this to r/cityporn",
"Right on the middle of the shot?",
"He only redeeming quality of ohare is this view. I have taken many versions of this shot.",
"the fake dof you applied on your phone is the best part\n",
"Oh. So you had the airplane. We were all looking for it. Next time leave a note.",
"I see Wrigley Field! ",
"I thought there would be more ice. It's been pretty cold",
"Did you fly in from the 70s?",
"So this isn't Game of Thrones?"
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"Took me a second.\n\nYeah Oregon is weird with that, every time I pass through, I pull up to a pump and start to get out, then feel stupid as some kid runs up to help.",
"Growing up, we had ONE station like this in the town I lived in (Missouri, not Oregon) And we never went. they no longer have attendants, nobody wants to pay for gas, they Damm sure don't want to tip extra to have someone do a minuets worth of work...especially if you're poor like we were lol.",
"There used to be a bunch of them here in NE WI that had two sets of pumps back in the 80s. One was full service and the other self service.",
"/u/griffith12, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No pictures with added/superimposed digital elements.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/griffith12&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7o0cbp/oregon_trail_2018/?context=10\\))"
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/r/pics/comments/7o0fb6/my_dice_bag/ | [
"Now that’s a big bag ‘o dice. Get ready for some Dungeons and Dragons, my friend. ",
"Yup playing pathfinder on Saturday \n ",
"I have also ordered the pound of dice on Amazon.",
"I got it for birthday two years ago from sister she got me the bag too "
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/r/pics/comments/7o0fuj/mother_nature_dropping_jennys_number/ | [
"I have a feeling Erik did this intentionally. ",
"crossposted to r/nevertellmetheodds",
"1 in 1 because why tf are the lows higher than the highs. fake news",
"but Jennay~~~ I love you Jennayyy",
"Classic Erik",
"Especially since the numbers underneath don't correlate with them",
"\"...and accuweather forcast with meteorologist Tommy Tutone\"",
"For those wondering, it’s a song.\n\n\nJenny, Jenny, who can I turn to?\nYou give me somethin' I can hold on to\nI know you think I'm like the others before\nWho saw your name and number on the wall\n\nJenny, I got your number\nI need to make you mine\nJenny, don't change your number\n\n867-5309\n867-5309\n867-5309\n867-5309\n\nJenny, Jenny, you're the girl for me\nOh, you don't know me, but you make me so happy\nI tried to call you before, but I lost my nerve\nI tried my imagination, but I was disturbed\n\nJenny, I got your number\nI need to make you mine\nJenny, don't change your number\n\n867-5309\n867-5309\n867-5309\n867-5309\n\nI got it, (I got it), I got it\nI got your number on the wall\nI got it, (I got it), I got it\nFor a good time, for a good time call\n\nHey, Jenny, don't change your number\nI need to make you mine\nJenny, I call your number\n\n867-5309\n867-5309\n867-5309\n867-5309\n\nJenny, Jenny, who can I turn to?\n867-5309\nFor the price of a dime I can always turn to you\n867-5309\n\n867-5309\n867-5309\n867-5309\n867-5309\n\nAlso, interesting note but IIRC, it is now one of the banned numbers that you can no longer get",
"High of 0 low of 23... \n \nGo home, weather, you're drunk",
"Why are some of the top numbers lower than some of the bottom numbers? Aren't those supposed to be the high and low temps? I'm calling shenanigans.",
"There are four lights!",
"Davenport, Iowa for those of you interested.",
"I swear to God I'll pistol whip the next guy who says \"Shenanigans.\"",
"\"I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy that says 'shenanigans!' \"",
"Shenanigans.",
"Bamboozle!",
"Whoahhh! \n\n*hands pistol to op*",
"https://i.imgur.com/sVNsPsa.gif",
"7 highs and 6 lows? I smell shenanigans",
"Now I got the song stuck in my head",
"lol!",
"this may shock you but the lows are overnight and the highs are during the day",
"Dammit Erik what we say about messing with the weather! ",
"High of 3... LOW OF 23!!",
"Damn you Tommy Tutone!",
"It does, thanks for the info!",
"Dammit Erik!",
"Where do you live that has warm nights? Genuinely curious.",
"Does it usually get 23 degrees warmer at night where you're from?",
"This has to be fake, the night temps are higher by 20 degrees?",
"Hey thats pretty good",
"You're on the front page, man. This is the troll toll.",
"This post is probably moot.",
"Hey Farva what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?",
"iowa, and truthfully this last week is the first time in my life i have noticed this. I work nights and there have been multiple days this last week where i have gone to work and noticed a few hours later it has warmed up.",
"Gotta pay the troll toll if you want to get in this boy's hole.",
"Don't remember, don't care.",
"Here's a little tip, for those of you who will never get this number out of your head: \n\n\nThe next time you're in a store and the cashier asks if you're a member or have a rewards card for discounts, tell them \"yes, but I don't have it with me. Can I give you my phone number?\"\n\nThen give them the local area code, and Jenny's number. It has never failed me.\n",
"Look at the picture more closely. It says it went from a day of 5 degrees to a night of 14 degrees, then, as the sun is in the sky, it cooled down to three degrees, then after the sunset it warmed up to 23 degrees, then immediately cooled down to 0 degrees in the day.\n\n\nNone of that makes sense.",
"This is also vintage Erik",
"wunderground shows the temperature peaking around midday and dropping at night https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KDVN/2017/12/31/WeeklyHistory.html?&reqdb.zip=&reqdb.magic=&reqdb.wmo=",
"It's better to think of it as the day temp and the late night temp.",
"Unfortunately, you are going to need to keep telling people.",
"No that's squirrels. You don't fuck with squirrels",
"Shenanigans. [Here's the current weather](http://www.kwqc.com/content/misc/417804673.html). \n\nNo it does not get warmer at night in Iowa. \n\nThe song's stuck in my head now though so you win. ",
"A week ago i would have been all: \"of course it's a song who, doesn't know that?\" But last week people in it group chat at work were sharing their mobile numbers, so I put in 8675309 because i thought it was funny. Someone asked which area code. Everyone else seconded it.",
"So you're telling me it's gonna be 3° in the day 23° that night and then back to 0° the next day?",
"Something seems off. The real weather looks like this. \n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/V7F0PrJ.jpg \n\nhttp://www.kwqc.com/weather\n\n",
"https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KDVN/2017/12/24/WeeklyHistory.html?req_city=&req_state=&req_statename=&reqdb.zip=&reqdb.magic=&reqdb.wmo=\n\nyou still get peaks in the midday (scroll down to the graph)...sure some nights are warmer than the previous day, but I'm not seeing where the nights are warmer (espcially 10-20 degrees warmer) than both previous and following day",
"I have a feeling of that too... So I checked out their weather [this week](https://imgur.com/gallery/FXOFB)",
"r/nevertellmetheodds",
"Why are there 7 numbers on top and 6 on the bottom? ",
"That music is some of the things I miss about the 80’s. And the high school romance movies. ",
"Six nights between seven days.",
"This is when you leave the group chat. They are no longer worthy of your time.",
"The moon, she be hot.",
"This still makes no sense.",
"Maybe there’s been les wind at night? No windchill?",
"And it will continue to be bullshit.",
"Fake news. The weather doesn't get warmer at night and then colder again the very next day.",
"I got it!",
"I am so glad I moved out of that area to a much more mild climate. I saw it was -30 with the wind chills earlier this week.",
"What a difference a day makes.",
"I do this at CVS since I'm too lazy to create an account there. Based on the detailed receipt CVS give you, that account has like 10000$ in rewards",
"Actually this is the foolish Erik",
"End of the world, next Tuesday. Confirmed",
"...You mean Shenanigans?",
"Yup -18 actual temp sunday. ",
"I was just going to post this and you beat me to it! I'm a cashier and a customer that travels for his job told me this. I tried it with four of our surrounding area codes and they all worked!",
"If by chance it is not it is your duty to sign it up",
"Who the fuck is Jenny I'm so confused right now",
"crazy if you look at the top of all time post on that sub, it's also in iowa... what are the odds of that?",
"Yeah I get that, but even in that case the top number should still be higher. ",
"24 little hours.",
"Not necessarily.\n\nBut in this case going from -3, to 23, and then back down to 0 overnight seems unlikely.",
"I got it, I got it",
"Unless he’s accounting for what the temperature feels like with winds, in which case days could feel colder than nights",
"It failed me two weeks ago. Until then I had done it many times.",
"Shoot what’s this from",
"A 23 degree night followed by a 0 degree day? Yeah, no",
"Song called 8675309/jenny by tommy tutone",
"That is amazing!!!!",
"Super Troopers, go watch it right meow! ",
"Super Troopers",
"~hands pistol~",
">High of 5\n\n>Low of 14\n\nWhat even is this prediction",
"Super Troopers. ",
"Ahhhhh I remember it now ",
"I remember trying a bunch of this number with different area codes. About half of them went through to something, my favorite being Jenny’s Plumbing",
"janie's got a gun...",
"Have you seen a lot of Photoshops in your day?",
"Did you know 'unlikely' and 'impossible' are two different words?",
"You took the pic a whole day after the OP you moron.",
"Nobody will get the Dinah Washington reference. Unless there's a good cover version I've never heard.",
"/u/Gre8one7, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/Gre8one7&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7o0fuj/mother_nature_dropping_jennys_number/?context=10\\))",
"Maybe when me shit turns purple and smells like Rainbow Sherbet.",
"This is the greatest thing I've ever seen",
"I use this number at the gas pump and if you are lucky you can usually get 20+ cents off per gallon. So many people use the number for shopping that the rewards build up after a day or so. ",
"Home of Our Captain",
"That's gotta be on purpose.\n\nI think you can do that right? I see many companies do that whole 800 - 69DILDO",
"r/nevertellmetheodds",
"Weatherman is fucking around instead of giving you the actual forecast. ",
"Erik, Erik who can I turn to? \nYou give me somethin' I can't stick my tongue to \nI don't think this forecast is like the others before \nWhen I saw your name and forecast I hit the floor \n \nErik, I got your forecast \nSummer will take some time \nErik, please change your forecast \n \n867-5309",
"Never ",
"~Takes safety off~",
"It's called a temperature inversion you illiterate, Trumpist hillbilly.",
"> remember it now meow\n\nDamn son, a swing-and-a-miss there. You were so close...",
"[Bwoooooooooooah](https://imgur.com/gallery/Z8kgtkx)",
"That's the night prediction, not low. This is doctored anyhow.",
"Yeah? I bet the person inputting the numbers was just fucking around at the studio. Notice the overnight lows stayed more or less the same. ",
"Wow, what a shitty insult",
"[Bwoooooooooooah](https://imgur.com/gallery/Z8kgtkx)",
"I don't even watch the news and I'm pretty sure those are the night temps, not the lows...",
"Maybe op used photoshop. Maybe it’s maybelline.",
"I think it's likely that the picture is fake.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/eZufx\n",
"[this captain?](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/_ubX3AM8N1XB6K-sCxuElRWveP8=/0x43:584x372/1600x900/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/47316548/Rollins_New_Day.0.0.jpg)",
"You left the safety on killer!",
"Did you know that people sometimes use understatements for comedic effect?",
"[Maybe.](http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/012/648/41d.gif)",
"Yup, went to high school with him",
"Erik going rotary. ",
"They showed us the funny.",
"Could someone please ELI5 what the joke is here? What's Jenny's number?",
"8675309/jenny is a tony tutone song",
"Nice. I’m on the other side of the river from y’all. ",
"Of course. Your comment was not one of those times.",
"ahaha he said the reddit meme. nice bro xDDD",
"So fucking what? Are you a weatherman? Can you show me a pic of your Masters or PhD in Meteorology? Of course you can't, because you've recieved 0 formal education on weather and you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Idiot.",
"[Relevant xkcd](https://www.xkcd.com/1053/)",
"Lol calm down it's not that big of a deal.",
"*Pistol-whips*",
"Ah, thanks! :)",
"Are you always this hostile? ",
"\"Tommy\" Tutone",
"Damnit, we have a local radio host called tony tone and i messed that up lol",
"Only to /r/iamverysmart assholes who like to pretend they're experts.",
"YO THE QUAD CITIES! MY HOME! \n\nfucking 563 this is hype as hell",
"my beautiful home",
"There's literally dozens of us!"
] | 149 | pics | Mother Nature dropping Jenny's number |
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/r/pics/comments/7o0gb7/japanese_loafers/ | [
"Quit loafing around",
"'An eaten loaf is soon forgotten' not these.",
"r/hmmm",
"...but is it actually bread?",
"I love the texture it nice ",
"one loaf of a loafer please",
"Are those the new uggs?",
"Yeah, but you know you'll pull some handfuls to nosh on, on the trip home.",
"r/atbge"
] | 9 | pics | Japanese Loafers |
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"no thanks",
"Lol ",
"[I think someone’s at the door now.](https://imgur.com/gallery/eld18) "
] | 3 | pics | My screen door. Minus 49 the other day. 36 today. So cold your hand sticks to it. Brrrrr |
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"Banana in sweet & sour pork sauce, mini-lobster, and a candied lemon. A+",
"lol bananas in strawberry sauce, crawdads, and sugared Asian donuts\n ",
"That sounds way more appetizing.",
"but i guess crawdads are mini-lobsters",
"upvote for 'mini-lobster'!"
] | 5 | pics | Went to a Buffet |
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/r/pics/comments/7o0k27/my_forest_of_avocado_trees_is_coming_along_nicely/ | [
"Wait, you can eat the leaves?",
"Sexy aren't they ;)",
"Did you germinate them yourself? Do you have any tips. I had one almost to the point I could plant it and it died. :/",
"Yes I ate the avocados from Walmart and saved the pits and now I have trees. These are a year old already. \n\nMaybe this will help\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/6raa66/ysk_when_trying_to_grow_avocado_seeds_by/?st=JC00FUX0&sh=da2faf4a\n\nWere you doing that?",
"They need a warm climate, the slightest touch of frost will kill them"
] | 5 | pics | My forest of avocado trees is coming along nicely. The tallest one is 40cm/15" tall. Super healthy, the leaves are so thick and waxy and delicious, hnnnng |
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"That white stuff is frozen oxygen",
"You must REALLY need that pregnancy test if you're willing to go to Rite Aid when it's that cold out. ",
"So I saw another post with a Walgreens sign showing the same temp. Why are they both showing the same temp? Why -196?",
"I think +/- 196 is default for a lot of temperature software. I did a remote start and didn't have a thermistor and the temperature read out ws 196. More than likely the thermostat froze over and didn't give a reading. So the computer defaulted to the lowest temperature. Just a guess though.",
"Is it really fucking cold in the US or are all the posts I'm seeing the same sign, or just shitty soft/hardware. ",
"There’s a bit of a cold front sweeping the country and a hurricane set to hit the east coast. Fun times.",
"It's a high of 4 degrees and a low of -10 here today. It's colder in other parts"
] | 7 | pics | It sure got cold here fast |
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"get him some paw pads. ",
"he/she sort of looks like he's trying not to make it known that he hates it because he sees how much you're liking it. ",
"It seems like snow is slowly spreading over his body :)",
"She loved it especially snow balls",
"nice. she seems like an energetic dog that's down for pretty much anything haha",
"Yes she is, in the pic she is actually out of breath from running so much.",
"I only see one dog."
] | 7 | pics | My dogs first time seeing snow |
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"It has such a Pixar expression. So very disgruntled.",
"That owl needs an umbrella. The mushroom is not doing it for him. ",
"Wasn't this a Photoshop with the cameramans little owl? Are you planning on selling your account by any chance?"
] | 3 | pics | Owl Sheltering under a mushroom |
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/r/pics/comments/7o0tvh/doug_jones_sweared_into_office_by_mike_pence_next/ | [
"Take a good look Pence. You're looking at the future.",
">Sworn in...",
"Love the side eye!",
"Sworn.",
"Who's Morticia? Jesus...that's a cold stare. Like the kind of cold your testicles get in a polar bear plunge. That kind of cold. ",
"Eat Shit, Mike Pence. ",
"*Voice inside Mike Pence's head*: oh dear lord, what is he thinking about? ",
"\"Sweared into\" sounds like something Pence would say.",
"Ha ha suck it Pence!",
"Pence probably would have had a conniption fit if Jones had asked to swear on the Constitution instead of a Bible!\n\nMissed opportunities don't often come again.",
"His son looks like he’s thinking “heh, this fucking guy.” ",
"Mother, mother, I believe I'm getting an uncomfortable erection.",
"Dick Cheney has a lesbian daughter who was out during the campaign. He actively supported the legalization of gay marriage despite Republicans being against it, and his daughter married her now-wife whom she was dating while he was in office.\n\nNewt Gingrich's sister is a lesbian and after she came out he waffled on the gay marriage issue, basically saying homosexuality was here to stay and families must find a way to make peace with that.\n\nIt's amazing how Conservatives act when the gay person is someone they love. Even though Newt hardly embraced gay marriage, he backed off the rhetoric against it and encouraged people to accept their loved ones.\n\nI have to wonder how Pence would react if one of his daughters, or his son, came out as gay. ",
"Ok, chill...no need to be rude.",
"He's looking at his mother, I believe.",
">hit on him \nFrom behind. FTFY\n",
"I'd like to think his son just stared at Pence like that while licking his lips the whole time, just to fuck with him. ",
"Dick Cheney also paid his lesbian daughter a handsome salary to keep her mouth shut about LGBT rights while he was in office.",
"Bjorn. ",
"Pence can’t help his peripherals. ",
"Or he’s worried he’ll like him. ",
"“I hear they don’t call him Mike ‘ignite the sodomite’ Pence for nothing!”",
"Bill Maher did a segment on that. Basically \"until it happens to you\". You're anti gay then your son comes out as gay and all of the sudden you're ok with it. ",
"Openly gay son and woman next to him seem entirely unsure. ",
"💺 👉",
"Peter.",
"It’s almost like it’s harder to be a homophobe when someone you know is gay. ",
"Or his mother is thinking, \"Don't even think about fucking the vice president.\" ",
"r/accidentalrenaissance\n",
" People's attitudes change and that is something that should be encouraged. You won't get them to change by brow beating or shaming them like so many in this thread have done. \n\n \n ",
"Those damn daggers in his son's eyes. Staring straight at a man who publicly states his disdain for his existence. What a moment to capture. ",
"It looks like Pence is ~~worried~~ hoping that Jones' gay son is going to hit on him.",
"Just you saying that made me think about it... I'm guessing you are now thinking it as well internet stranger, so don't judge\n\n",
"sworded in ;p",
"Paul.",
"Or, \"I think I fucked this guy.\"",
"Wrex.",
"I live in Alabama, get the fuck out of here with your fancy fucking words, adding an -ed to words has work-ed just fine for us down here. \n\nAnd stop being offensive, Jones' son is openly *eccentric*. ",
"This is one reason it's so important for people of note to come out. ",
"Rob Portman, senator of Ohio was against gay marriage, until his son came out too.",
"John. ",
"I wish more politicians had sons that were poor. Or sons that were women.",
"Except Tony Abbott in Australia. He was anti-gay marriage right to the last even though his sister has been openly lesbian for a long time",
"\"DEMOCRAT DOUG JONES REFUSES TO SWEAR IN ON BIBLE\"\n\nNo reason to give free fodder to the wingnuts' alternate universe of outrage\n\nAlso it's a personal choice; it seems Doug actually has a quiet personal Christianity that contrasts nicely with Pence's fundamentalism.",
"His son knows 😏 ",
"Actually, the stare is directed towards his [mother](https://dougjonesforsenate.com/doug/), not at Pence... unless he is trying to find where Pence's heart might be.\n\nEdit: a word. ",
"The same can be said for movie stars who support some form of cancer research, they finally find a cause to support because a loved one is affected by the ailment.",
"I made no mention of Jones' son, so...WTF are you talking-ed about?",
"Female politicians or male politicians or both?",
"You're like the fifth person to make this observation. The difference is they weren't assholes about it.",
"I would have made *Sizzling* sounds when my hand touched the Bible to freak Pence out. ",
">It’s almost like\n\nI look forward to the day this dies",
"*Mike Pence's internal voice begins to become self-conscious:* I hope this suit doesn't make my ass look too big.",
"*LOOK ME IN THE EYE GAY HATER, I'M TOTALLY EYE FUCKING YOU RIGHT NOW, THAT'S RIGHT, IGNORE MY EYE FUCKING, COWARD*",
"Unfortunately, it's not my responsibility to coddle people into not being evil.\n\n\nIf you think that some people deserve less rights because of their sexuality, you'll have to deal with the rest of the world disliking you. Despite recent events, politicians are not children.",
"I don’t think conservatives feel the unrelenting loathing towards gay people that seems to have become the expectation ",
"ping! ping! ping! ping!",
"When folks are publicly SUPER anti-gay, I always assume their chrome browser incognito tabs have seen some SUPER gay things.",
"Uneducat-ed",
"No wonder he was sweared into. Pence probably isn't a fan of his openly gay son.",
"\"make America gay again.\" 👀",
"Uneducatorn ",
"Mike \"Turn the fruits into vegetables\" Pence.",
"Morticia is wife and mother Louise Jones.",
"*wife Louise",
"No need for you to be a pseudo phallus.",
"So many people don’t get this.",
"Oh the irony 😆",
"> It's amazing how Conservatives act when the gay person is someone they love. \n\nToo bad they never find out one of their kids is poor (Maher? Colbert? I forget whose line that is?)",
"You are either a troll, or someone who just started reading some news, say in the last few hours. Do I think that *every single fucking repub* hates people different than themselves? NO. Do I think it’s the over-fucking-whelming majority? You bet your ass. ",
"Lmfao the look of misery in that woman’s face",
"Was Dick Cheney ever really a huge social conservative though?\nI only really know his stances on foreign and maybe economic policy.",
"Maybe, just maybe, the most intolerant and hateful examples of republicans make the news? Wouldn’t that make sense? ",
"and they call it that because you write your name in cursive.",
"Yeah but abbot is an odd cunt. ",
"There are 2 people in that picture who think about gay sex on a daily basis.",
"He's a wing-nut cunt, look at his ears!",
"Mike “The Electric Fence” Pence ",
"Just dropping in real quick to say fuck Mike Pence",
"Roll Tide.",
"you guys seem to think that conservatives have an extreme frothing hatred of homosexuals. which i think is unfair. i personally know several gay conservatives; and i don't hear many of them in washington fighting to repeal gay marriage.",
"Sounded too much like porn so Mother made Pence change it to sweared in.",
"Shepard.",
"Great now I'm going to have a whole imaginary relationship with the senator's son.",
"Doesn't Pence's religion require him to kill that heathen? /sarcasm",
"It's a total failure of empathy. To require an issue to personally affect you to be upset at the injustice and pain such hateful policies can inflict doesn't *really* show you as someone of capable of evolving morally, it shows you as being a bit of a moral midget. ",
"Maybe, but Pence is specifically one of those, so perhaps this wasn't the thread to attempt to make that point in.",
"It's easy to hate what you don't know. But it makes me respect them a little. I don't presume to know if they were against same sex marriage because they genuinely believe it's wrong, or because they just don't really care either way and follow whatever the party says, but the fact that they're willing to put family before rhetoric and their own agenda humanize them a bit\n",
"I thought the post was about the actor Doug Jones. I was confused for longer than I should have been.",
"they fucked",
"http://amp.timeinc.net/time/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom",
"And that is *exactly* the kind of response you know only an Aussie would say.",
"The son and mom are sharing a smug look as they revel in what surely is pences inner pissing tantrum",
"Or you could go in the other direction and disown them. I've met people who have no relationship with their family.\n\nOf course, this would be impossible to do if one were a politician, what with their lives being constantly on T.V.\n\nThough... after Trump, I think all bets are off now in U.S. politics.",
"Its almost like it never will... ",
"Better than them still not supporting it",
"Mike \"AC/DC the LGBT\" Pence",
"If they continued to be a homophobe even if it was someone close to them, would you admire their conviction or deplore their bigotry?\n\nMaybe both? Gotta love ambivalence.",
"That always seems to happen doesn't it",
"> Though... after Trump, I think all bets are off now in U.S. politics.\n\n\"After Trump\"? Jesus, are you people that forgetful of the past?",
"It looks like he's looking at his mom",
"And she's a hypocrite for taking it.",
"There must be a backstory...or just the glance of a mother to her son, \"Don't even...\" with that wry look in his eyes to match hers!",
"650,000 Karma points ?? ",
"Unless you're the gay person. But its easy to hate yourself ",
"The difference is before the diagnosis they don't fucking root for cancer ",
"Money talks way more than beliefs in this world. ",
"You mad bro? Then come at me bro! Lmao",
"I don't recall another politician asking a rival nation to hack into their political rival's network.\n\nIn 3rd world countries, sure. But Trump brought that piece of fun to the U.S.",
"Shouldn't this be, \"Doug Jones sworn into office next to his openly gay son by Mike Pence.\"?\n\nThe way you said it, it would be that Mike Pence has an openly gay son who was present.",
"Doesn't make her any less of a hypocrite.",
"http://amp.timeinc.net/time/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom",
"Thanks for coming in!",
"The body language here is a case study",
"\"Good news! Our latest fundraising event has collected $150,000 for cancer.\"\n\n\"You mean, to fight cancer, right?\"\n\n\"Err, yeah, something like that...\"",
"Yes",
"Excuse me for... dropping in",
"Or tell other people with cancer that they're going to end up in hell and deserve it. Or, in fact, make their lives hell.",
"Rigidity in beliefs is not something people should admire. Especially when the belief is revoking or preventing the privileges and rights of others.\n\nHonestly, I’d be quite shocked and morally against anyone that would hate there own children for coming out, it goes against he basic biological necessity of providing care for your offspring. It is a most unnatural thing; ironic considering the arguments some of them have against homosexuality ",
"it's not really the same, it's not like they openly campaign against people with cancer until someone they know gets it",
"Afaik, statistics support your opinion. ",
"Almost harder? It is harder to be a bigot of any kind when someone you care about represents the thing you are railing against.\n\nThe reason for this is because when things are dehumanized and taken in the abstract, it becomes easy to hate it. without feeling even the slightest pang of one's conscience. Once these ideas, such as homosexuality, Islam, immigration, or black and brown people, are represented by a living, breathing human being that you care about, you can no longer separate the concepts without undergoing extreme mental jujitsu, or what psychologists call cognitive dissonance.\n\nThe challenge however, is this: we are all hardwired to dislike and even hate the things that we do not understand. If something moves in the dark that we do not recognize we will try to kill it or run away. In low brow politics, fear is used as a powerful weapon to energize people that are prone to fear. It is definitely not limited to, but often used to motivate the poor and uneducated in order to gain support. \n\nA well known example of the extremes such manipulation can cause is in Nazi Germany, where ordinary Germans, devastated by the Versailles Treaty after losing WWI, were desperate for something to hate. While prejudice in Jews has existed throughout the centuries, Hitler used Jews to represent the source of all German problems. Those that did not care for Jews were easy converts; those that did were forced to either betray their friends and loved ones, or risk persecution in order to maintain their integrity.\n\nThis is why, when all is said and done, we must expose ourselves to people from different cultures alien to our own. We must learn to listen to different points of view without shutting them down because we do not agree with them. We must learn to care about other people. There are our defenses against succumbing to prejudice and narrow minded views. Because the more we allow ourselves to engage with different people, the more the unknown becomes known, and the less fearful we become. This is how we can tear apart racism and all other isms in the world.",
"or Ralphie Wiggins",
">Rigidity in beliefs is not something people should admonish. Especially when the belief is revoking or preventing the privileges and rights of others.\n\nAdmonish means \"reprimand firmly\"\n\nSo you basically just said you **shouldn't** reprimand someone for having a firmly held belief, ESPECIALLY if it leads them to bigotry.\n\nThat's probably not what you meant, which is why you shouldn't use words you don't understand.\n\n-edit-\n\nHEY! DOWNVOTING FUCKWITS! His sentence originally read as it does at the top of this comment, and he's since edited it. Stop acting like a bunch of dumbarses and pay attention.",
"I meant to type admire*** and I think autocorrect got me. Thanks for pointing that out though ",
"She is not one of my favorite people. At all.",
"But also impeach Trump, amirite?",
"\"Advocate\" would also work.",
"Bill Maher did a solid New Rules maybe 8 months back about conservatives \"getting religion\" once whatever they are against comes into their own life. Hate gays..until gay relatives, hard on drugs.. until they or someone they know gets a drug addiction. He had a bunch of other examples I just can't remember them.\n\n\nEdit: found it - https://youtu.be/BVwFmdipfZg",
"Unless you're former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott",
"r/Accidentalrenaissance ",
"Tell that to Abbott ",
"He is also against same sex couples having children despite his sister having a child. ",
"Agreed. Also you might find [this excerpt about Nazi Germany](http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html) interesting. It's more tangentially related but I think you'll appreicate if you haven't seen it before nonetheless",
"I met Mike Pence’s niece at Red Rocks once. She’s not lesbian though.",
"Just being a dick for no reason in a thread about not being a dick for no reason. I hope you feel great about yourself. ",
"I've noticed this. A lot of people in general have a borderline criminal inability to empathize with people unless they're direct relatives or close friends.\n\nIt's insane to me. I don't know how it's so hard for these people to just imagine themselves in a given position and empathize a bit. Put themselves in the shoes of a mother of three who has to choose between an electric bill or health care, or put themselves in the shoes of a lesbian who can't visit the love of their life on their deathbed because a hospital only allows spouses in the room.\n\nI mean, it's a good thing that they're changing at all, but why is it so hard for some people to understand that there are so many other people in this world with problems they probably couldn't even dream of?",
"Would have loved it if he wore some rainbow glasses.",
"\"Hey google, play that hipster song with the whistling\"",
"Everybody in Alabama sucks Texas cock, asshole.",
"And exactly the same with abortion ",
"This. This is the thing my parents do not get about relatives and politics. *Of course* I'm going to think less of their bigoted asses when they knowingly (or willfully ignorantly) vote for someone who thinks anyone deserves less rights just for being born as the person they are. ",
"I know that look. There's sexual tension in that room. Ten bucks says Pence performed a low-key and shame-filled blowjob on Carson Jones less than 5 minutes later .",
"\"which is why you shouldn't use words you don't understand.\"\n\nhey thesaurus can u maybe chill being snarky? he fucked up typing and fixed it",
"Curious",
"I'll go for anyone that isn't getting into nuke threat twitter fights like a little bitch. So yes, fuck Pence and impeach Trump.",
"The dude used a different word and then edited it without saying so in the post itself. I wasn't being a dick - his original sentence originally said you shouldn't admonish someone for being a bigot.\n\nHow the fuck am I a dick for calling that out?",
"> I have to wonder how Pence would react if one of his daughters, or his son, came out as gay.\n\nEvangelical closet cases don't have compassion for other gays because they think everyone just isn't trying as hard as they are to resist the urges Satan put into their bodies. Pence is gayer than a French steel mill. ",
"Loved him as the amphibian man with an ass",
"\"This fucking cunt.\"",
"Uhh. As a Texan. *I fire my gun in solidarity, but I don't really get it.*",
"okay?",
"There it is ",
"Pence must have requested an exorcism after the ceremony. ",
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"Can someone post a video so we can see that this was just convenient timing of a photo? Kid looks like he’s 3 seconds away from smiling.",
"\"Why won't other people just let me discriminate and hate on gay people in peace? So much for the tolerant left!\" ",
"Wait. He's at 795,000 for me, and you commented 54 minutes before me. What explains this?",
"I don't like this line of thinking. By assuming anti-gay bigots are all just closet-cases you're blaming gay people for gay-hate. \n\nStraight people can just be hardcore bigots. ",
"He's got a \"I know you from somewhere ...ohhhh Grindr\" look.",
"I had to re-read the title of the post too. Mostly because I was pretty damn sure Pence doesn't have a gay son.",
"Ironside. A true badass.",
"what makes you guys think pence is homophobe ",
"Doug Jones.. the ACTOR?",
"This triggers Repubs.",
"Source?",
"Meanwhile, Moore is hanging out at the mall waiting for a recount.",
">Or sons that were women.\n\nSo daughters? I think a lot of them have those.",
"Misspelled Oklahoma there, buddy.",
"Wide stances in the airport bathroom widely stay in said airport bathroom...",
"Mike \"Taze The Gays\" Pence ",
"These people aren’t really against these issues personally. They just know they get votes for being against them.",
"Or those examples end up as VP.",
"Mike \"if you like cock, you get a shock\" Pence",
"Unless they are secretly gay themselves and have to hide it so they go completely against it as Pence is probably doing",
"Just like all those guys recently who are aggressively “feminist allies” who end up being sexually manipulative perverts. ",
"Swearedids",
"I grew up in rural Oregon. There was one black family in town. Incredibly nice. Growing up, I can't tell you how many times I heard somebody railing about \"lazy inner-city culture,\" to be followed up with \"but that Johnson, he's a hard worker!\"\n\nIt's why I think Sesame Street was--and still is--one of the most powerful forces for equality. Sheltered children were raised to see a multiculture neighborhood as a just bunch of normal folks.",
"Are you a Trump supporter/fan? I’m genuinely curious because if you are, can I ask if you’re at all embarrassed or ashamed at the things he does and the way he comes across in public? ",
"can confirm ",
"Way to not get it, intentionally or accidentally. ",
"Of course, he's being oppressed in his freedom of religion because lib-rals won't let him do just that!",
"Tell that to Tony Abbott. Australia's biggest antigay marriage advocate... Despite his sister being lesbian and wanting to marry.",
"They can \"cure\" them of that.",
"From across the ditch, check out our former PM, the Hon. Tony Abbott. Spoiler: He's a bloody wanker. \n\nDuring our recent controversial and very public debate on whether same-sex marriage should be legalised, he was at the forefront of the 'no' side, actively campaigning to not let them legalise gay marriage. He also abstained from voting on the final bill, when it came to parliament, when the electorate he represents voted overwhelmingly (something like 74%) to legalise gay marriage.\n\n\nHis sister is openly gay.\n\n\n\n",
"Oh man, I bet Mike Pence was so angry about this!!! He really got burned on that one. ",
"Who NEEDS more pants, not less.",
"On the other hand, being willing to waffle as soon as someone you know comes out as gay means it was never an earnestly held belief in the first place. It means they knew they were being shitty all along just so they could get the support of true believers. \n\nI think that's where the ambivalence comes in. Which is worse? Aggressive ignorance or intentional maliciousness?",
"He also ate a whole onion.",
"*At least* two people. We really have no idea what she's into. \n\n[-p.s.-Fuck Ajit Pai](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7jxtrv/friday_fun_offtopic_megathread/drab96b)",
"\"Openly Gay Son, by Mike Pence\" sounds like a great name for a clothing line.",
"must be scary for poor mike! \nthoughts and prayers",
"Being ignored or forgotten would actually be worse given how shitty they act towards LGTB people. ",
"The last Australian prime minister has a gay sister who is also a politician. He fought against gay marriage till the end.",
"This way tho, it can sound like Jones and pence had a gay son together.",
"Being against something that helps others until it happens to you basically seems to be the way of modern conservatism.",
"There are thousands of homosexual homeless gay teenagers out there whose parents kick them out of the house for being gay. \n\nIt's a real danger in a lot of families to come out while you're still dependant on your parents for a roof.",
"Oh hey Winston.",
"Can I filter out this comment? It feels like i see it on everything that I click on",
"Comment Karma, nobody cares about Comment Karma.",
"Progression and liberalism always prevail. My only worry is that big strides are often taken after horrific events. Keep pushing these old, backwards narrow minded people.\n\nEdit: I DO NOT MEAN THE POLITICAL PARTY! I'm from the UK, I just literally mean liberal in general, the dictionary meaning of the word. ",
"But doesn't this only work if the homophobe isn't someone overcompensating for their homosexuality? Do you think a straight homophobe can have their changed by knowing someone who is close to them that is gay, whereas a self-loathing, closeted homophobe is incapable of coming to peace with homosexuality by knowing others? Because surely the person you know best is yourself, and if you're gay... you know gays ",
"It's almost like people are selfish pieces of shit and as long as it doesn't affect them directly it's easy to be hateful towards an individual or a whole group of people. ",
"I really doubt VP Pence actually feels anything negative towards the man's son. ",
"Like Roy Moore, right? ",
"So who fucking cares???????????",
"The ex Prime Minister of my country has a gay sister. While he was in charge of the country, he actively opposed gay marriage. \n \n \n \nMustn't like his sister much ",
"He's saying that these men are mysoginists and that they respect and care for their sons far more than they do for their daughters. So hoping that they could have a kid with all the respect they give their sons, but have it be a girl. \n\n&nbsp;\n\nAnyway it's a joke",
"Why does Reddit still pretend pence is anti-gay?",
">It's almost like it's hard to hate *x* when someone you know is *x*.",
"Oooh the endless monologues on low-lives who purposefully get pregnant etc, until jr from school whose dad is CEO doesn’t want to wear a condom with your daughter.",
"Tony Abbott, former PM of Australia and the de facto head of the \"No\" campaign in our recent marriage equality vote has had a lesbian sister who's been out for years, but that never stopped him.",
"I love the look on his sons face. Priceless",
"> you guys seem to think that conservatives have an extreme frothing hatred of homosexuals. [**which i think is unfair**.](https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/UG8iXD4ek7sPqqSLskiq8Kr0Am4=/fit-in/850x850/http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fdrag-race-s7e1%2Fginger-reaction.gif) \n\n",
"Mike \"Smear the Queer\" Pence",
"its not even that they believe in it or anything though. They are whores. They believe in nothing. They go where they can make the most money. But when you get pressured by your own blood, you have to make a choice, and in these cases they chose to partially side with their blood. Its a quality of life issue at that point. Get a tiny bit more support and $, or lose your sister/daughter. ",
"Onion eating fuck",
"He did fucking twice. ",
"I thought it was the twin peaks character ",
"Looking forward to the day gender and race wouldn't matter so much in politics....probably gonna die first but oh well",
"no, either sentence structure is perfectly fine. the original sentence is ambiguous but you have bad understanding of the English language if you read it as being strictly one way or the other.",
"You're so stupid lol",
"Ha Ha! -Nelson",
"Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Abbot's sister also against gay marriage too? I remember thinking that seemed so backwards when I heard it.\n\nEdit: Looks like I heard wrong but that's something I'm glad to have been wrong about!",
"pretty damn sure? It’s gonna be funny when an illegitimate son shows up and is gay. Extra points for the guy being half black. ",
"Doug Jones standing next to his gay son, as he's sworn into office by Mike Pence",
"But it seems to be quite easy to act as a homophobe if that someone is yourself.",
"I'm still going to hate \"ghetto\" people/culture and gang bangers until the day I die. It wouldn't matter if I had a child that turned out that way. ",
"What point are you trying to make? Trump's brazen behaviour has undoubtedly emboldened future public figures and blazed a trail for any of them who want to publicly push their extremist views.",
"So happy you did!",
"Plot twist: Pence is gay.",
"So edgy",
"Or a perfume.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*Openly Gay Son*\n\nEau de Toilette\n\nMike Pence",
"Ah, don't worry, here we have psychologists that can turn your son from gay to straight. A really unexplainable side effect is that after the son turns straight and stops visiting the specialist, he would go live in a very far away place with little to no contact with his parents. It's probably because he is working/studying really hard. ",
"What a fucking dick",
"What's wrong with him?",
"Ehhh, I don't know about that logic. That would be akin to an article about a Muslim terrorist attack with someone saying \"not all Muslims are terrorists.\" Would you still say \"this isn't the thread to make that point\"\n\nAlso, I have to disagree about the idea that the \"overwhelming majority of republicans just hate gay people\". Rather I think it would be more apt to say that the majority of people who hate gays will also vote republican. But that doesn't mean that republicans in general hate gay people. It's an important distinction IMO because most of my friends vote republican consistently and I would say that only one of them has ever mentioned opposition to gay rights as a motivator to vote GOP. I honestly think your average republican/right leaning voter simply doesn't care about that issue enough to the point where they would vote in the other direction.\n\nJust my thoughts.",
"Why the fuck would I admire his conviction in this case? ",
"It's finally starting to feel like [current year]",
"This. ",
"Who gives a shit about his one sexuality",
">It's amazing how Conservatives act when the gay person is someone they love. Even though Newt hardly embraced gay marriage, he backed off the rhetoric against it and encouraged people to accept their loved ones.\n\nMy conservative family acts like my mother's bisexuality doesn't exist and actively ignored her at family gatherings for the first few years after she came out.",
"3-5% of the population identifies as gay. Pew Poll in 2014 found 33% of Americans don’t think homosexuals should be accepted by society. \n\n\nThat’s a LOT of people in the closet",
"It's fun to read to much into shit where we really don't know where any of the participants are looking. ",
"I can get behind that signature. ",
"When your beliefs are based on a book that you claim was WROTE BY GOD then I do think cherry picking things you don't like out of that book is pretty pathetic, actually. How can you go against the word of god? Dumb. ",
"I'm in the \"damn he sucks but he's still better than Clinton\" camp.",
"Fucker ate a raw onion like it was an apple, skin and all. Then he did it again.\n\n\n\"Yes I am hooman! Watch me eat vegetable matter like hooman omnivore and not reptilian carnivore!\"",
"...are they estranged?",
"In Australia the word we use is 'cunt' ",
"Can someone photoshop this so that Doug Jones is flipping off Mike Pence?",
">identity politics\n\nNo one cares",
"What the hell does it actually mean?",
"sweared in isnt wrong, I'm sure Mr. Pence was screaming obscenities in his head.",
"Mike Pence, aka....Mike Pence.",
"ha take that bigot XD",
"Had to read the title four times in order to understand what OP was trying to say.",
"Yeah but he's a cunt. ",
"The cynic in me thinks that abandoning family for being gay would play worse in the media than backtracking on the matter. \n\nA twisted application of republican family values so to speak.",
"> Unedumacated\n\nFTFY",
"Where does this come from? I've heard a lot that homophobia indicates in-the-closet gays, but I don't know how it started or what the history of the trend is. Can someone give me examples?\n\nI'm honestly curious.",
"I imagine Pence \"swearing\" him in: \"Jesus fucking Christ on a cross, get your rat bastard hand on the damn book . . . \" Or something to that effect.\n\nEdit: yeah",
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"Dude if the name of the porno is \"Two guys have sex for the first time with each other but their both straight so it's not gay\" then it's not actually gay",
"Though we've learned it's possible to be homosexual *and* a homophobe. Most homophobes are.",
"I don't think all anti-gay bigots are closet cases. I do believe that many of them are closet cases, though, and I believe Mike Pence is one of them. A lot of hate is just cleverly disguised self-hate. Not all, but a lot.",
"No, the title definitely shouldn’t be like that. It’s confusing. “Openly gay son” should be placed next to “Doug Jones” to avoid confusion. \n\n`Mike Pence swearing in Doug Jones next to his openly gay son` might be a better title, or `Doug Jones, standing next to his openly gay son, is sworn in by Mike Pence` although that second example isn’t great because it’s in the passive voice, It clearly places “openly gay son” next to its relative, “Doug Jones”",
"Not every republican",
"Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott also had a gay daughter while campaigning against marriage equality in Australia.",
"\"Me fail English? That's unpossible.\"",
"He's an onion munching embarrassment ",
"It's harder to be X when someone you know is X. That's why conservatism tends to be for assholes who face no consequences who think they still have what it takes to impose consequences on others.",
"We shall never give up. The fight for liberalism and progression shall not stop no matter how many stupid god damn oranges are elected. ",
"You would think but from what I can tell they still hang out I know tony is daughter loves her aunt and cousin and pretty pro same sex marriage with little issue which is good. \n\nAnd he still has an invite to her wedding. Which he has accepted. \n\nI know many people who wouldn’t dare be too progressive because how their parents would react. ",
"Nice text but gwdope was being sarcastic.",
"I knew something was up.",
"Can confirm, was a silly Christian boy with Republican parents. Then a couple friends came out in high school in the early '00s. Well if my cool friends are gay, why is that so bad?\n\nThe best way to defeat bigotry is by staring it in the face and giving it a hug.",
"Lmao where did you hear that from?\nI've read a lot of lies about politicians but this is a new one. ",
"Feels very American nowadays. Whenever you think government, you think secret meetings or political tangled relationships, the Government's truly disconnect themselves from the people. ",
"I'd argue that ruling on a basis of personal empathy or emotions in general is a bad thing though. I'm all for gay marriage and whatnot but being connected personally with an issue is almost always going to sway someone - who says it is for the right direction? ",
"I suspect that he is closet gay and feels shame about it so that is why he behaves like this.",
"I dont think you are giving enough credit to the flaws in the human mind. I think it shows how easy it is for people to have long held beliefs that are simply not based on any deep reasoning, just emotion and rhetoric that have never been critically examined.\n\nWhat you see in these cases is quite a large wedge being driven into the heart of someones beliefs that they clearly have to reconcile reality with their flawed thinking.\n\nMost people with even a passing fondness for critical thinking embrace that feeling and examine it for a new world view. For people as entrenched as this it is probably quite a big moment for them, psychologically speaking.\n\nI dont doubt there are many people who hold these belIefs publically for cynical political gain, but I've met enough people who hold utterly irrational beliefs to no longer assume that is the default reason for it.\n\nMost of the problems caused in our world are, in my opinion, caused by a serious lack of critical thinking and foresight, and this issue of conservatives backing away from gay rights issues is like the psychological equivilent of an ant farm. Fascinating to see how it works in action.",
"super bonus extra points if trans",
"Pretty damn sure he would have drowned him in the tub if he had. ",
"Yeah this is the guy we’ll have in charge if trump gets impeached..let’s keep cheering for that ",
"His horribly bigoted views",
"What a cunt!\n\nHow can you openly support something that denies your own sister a basic right just because you think you have a right to police what 2 consenting adults do in their bedroom.",
"And saying his nieces and nephews need a male role model, but refusing to be that male role model.",
"Ignore the morons replying to you. You're right. These people have a lot of growing up to do.",
"Pence is probably gay himself. He has that self loathing vibe going on, like he thinks 'the gays' will convert him. ya know, because he's shamefully gay. ",
"Pence looks **pissed**. Or maybe I'm misreading just a longing, cock-hungry gaze from him. Probably both.",
"Is that even legal in your country? \n\nIf so, its a fucking disgrace and you should all be ashamed of your society. ",
"You realize Mike Pence isn't anti-gay at all right? All he did was support conversion therapy for people _who wanted it_.\n\nIgnorant to the effects of it? Maybe yes. Anti-gay? I hope you all choke.",
"Everyone who genuinely believes that being gay is a choice is probably a bisexual in denial. ",
"Implying someone doesn't understand the words they're using and calling people fuckwits. FYI I didn't didn't downvote you, just answering the question.",
"You just got gay -ed",
"Empathy is a skill and sadly not everyone grows up to learn it, or when and how to use it.\n\nBlame the educational system. Because it's apparently not the family's responsibility to teach it. /s",
"Who gives a shit?",
"It's an extremely well-known fault of his, and the links to his various statements are all over this thread. So if you honestly don't know, I feel like you have your head intentionally in the sand. But here you go: http://amp.timeinc.net/time/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom",
"Yeah, easy to say that from the outside. ",
"Everything's thabulous!",
"Lookin at his Mom like... He lucky you here holdin me back.... ",
"You know Pence was thinking, *\"do I really have to fucking do this?\"*",
"We're done here. ",
"Save for the \"evangelical republicans\" I think your typical Gingrich/Cheney type conservative is mpre concerned with preserving the idea of tradition and cultural ideas that have been in place for a long time. When they finally get an opportunity to see for themselves through their own family that gay people are pretty much the same and want exactly the same things anyone else wants, they step off the rhetoric. They realize at that point that the culture won't somehow fundamentally change for the worse.\n\nThat's why we see even religious minded conservatives like kasich say things on the campaign trail like, \"it's the law now, and I will respect this law regardless of my own feelings\" (paraphrasing)\n\nThat's how I see it anyways\n\n",
"I have met like 3 people so far who have confided/ apologized because they used to be racist against black people until they met/befriended me. Crazy how things work out",
"Larry Craig was outed as being gay and he was one of the hardliners against gay marriage.\n\nGuess he didn't want his boyfriend asking him to marry him.",
"[True but the evidence is compelling.](https://www.ranker.com/list/top-10-anti-gay-activists-caught-being-gay/joanne)",
"l-o-fucking-l\n\nHere we go. All the excuses for why people become pieces of shit. Wah wah wah. Cry cry cry. ",
"Or you can be a republican lawmaker in Ohio and have your dick buried inside some other dude while being openly anti-gay.",
"Pence there with the characteristic cheerfulness of the christian right",
"Democrats need to race bait for votes",
"He looks shocked ",
"Sounds like a SAT question ",
"I firmly believe in the right to choose between dick or cunt. So I'm down for any descriptor that reflects negatively and colorfully upon Mr.Abbott. ",
"Fuck Ajit Pai",
"Pence knows a gay person as well as you can know anyone - it's just that they are in severe denial and named Mike Pence",
"Because it shows they truly believe what they're saying, I suppose. If something is \"bad\" for everybody else, it's also \"bad\" for their loved ones.\n\nNot that that's a good thing in this case - I can't think of a single good secular reason to oppose gay marriage.",
"Its like the neo-right has no integrity and their views are completely arbitrary with not a single bit of coherence to them. Almost by design its this way.",
"I struggle to believe that super anti-gay people use anything but Internet Explorer. ",
"Wasn't Pence subjected to conversion therapy?",
"Fruits *are* vegetables",
"You don't have to be married to have sex...",
"I really like how you put that, especially the point you made about irony--I love a concise argument that uses the opposition's point against them. Kudos",
"Suck on that Pence..\n\nya conservative fairytale believing retard.\n\n",
"you wished. ",
"Nope its side eye\n\nFuck ajit pai",
"I hereby supernintendo you in.",
"> Fucker ate a raw onion\n\nHow can anyone trust a person that does that? ",
"If you sincerely think such a large portion of the nation is evil, you need to reevaluate your views and reconsider theirs. ",
"Why did he perform the swearing in? Anyone know?",
"Me too. Same with people who are anti-semitic, Islamophobic, or racist. Usually in some degree or the other, they are abiding by the Torah, praising Allah behind closed doors, or are secretly Black. \n\nFor example: next time some jerk says some real anti-Jewish stuff, take a big fistful of raw bacon out of your pocket and ask them to stuff it in their mouth. Guess what? They don't want to. Closet Jew confirmed. ",
"The absolute lack of empathy for anyone not in their immediate family is a staple of the Republican party. It's \"me and mine, no one else\".",
"That still leaves ambiguity about whether it's Doug or the son being sworn in.",
"Well here's some love ❤️ ",
"Hence my question - having strength in your beliefs is good, it means you don't cave easily or flip-flop on your opinion constantly. But having ignorant or bigoted beliefs is bad, for self-evident reasons.\n\nI suppose in this case the bad would outweigh the good. Still, it's a good question and I wonder why you find it offensive. Can't handle slightly controversial debate?",
"Not unless you're Tony Abbott ",
"Such a gay glare",
"Yeah with RES or another Extension that allows CSS Blocking\n\n[Example](https://www.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/5bbbbc/is_there_a_way_to_autohide_automoderator/)\n\nScroll down to Saikimo comment",
"/r/titlegore",
"Likely to cover the smell of alcohol on his breath",
"Why? She'd be a hypocrite for speaking out AGAINST LGBT rights. \n \nI don't know anything about her but maybe she just wanted to live her life in peace and quiet? \n",
"Wiggum?",
"Homophobe /hɒməˌfəʊb/\n\nNoun\n\n1. Someone so far in the closest that they don't believe straight people *actually exist*.\n\nThat's not to say that **every** person who has ever stood in opposition to equal rights for LGBT people is secretly gay. There are many paths to bigotry. But there are a few obvious warning signs for those who are in this category:\n\nFor instance, if someone claims that the species will die out if everyone is \"allowed\" to be gay, that's an indication that *they* are reluctantly pretending to be attracted to the opposite sex, and they assume that the same is true about every other person. Because, guess what, this isn't something that straight people spend their time worrying about.\n\nIf someone spends an inordinate amount of time fantasizing about every little detail of what gay couples do in the privacy of their own bedroom? Again, that's not something that straight people spend large amounts of time worrying about.\n\nAnd someone is actually making money preaching their hatred, that's the next best thing to a guarantee. [Haggard's Law](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Haggard%27s_Law) states that the more obnoxious and hateful a homophobe, the more likely he will be involved in a gay sex scandal. The best their wives can do is cross their fingers and hope that the boy their husbands are eventually caught with will at least be a consenting adult.",
"Ya i'm all for saying \"fuck homophobes\" but cmon...most homophobes are not gay, they just hate gay people, for some reason.",
"I know. What I meant is that opposing gay marriage is punishing people for their sexual orientation when it's nobody else's business.",
"I wonder if Pence had to bring his wife along. ",
"I like the look he is giving him. Look me in my eyes while you sworn him in bitch.",
"Liberals won the gay rights issue, conservatives won the gun rights issue. ",
"A “son by Mike Pence” sounds like Pence fathered the son. ",
"That smile tells the whole story.\n\n*You thought I'd burst into flames after touching a bible, didn't you?*",
"*and we don't care about the old folks talking bout the old style too*",
"Australia has a politician called Tony Abbot, who is staunchly against gay marraige despite having a sister who is gay.\n\nI almost admire him for it.",
"And he's attending his lesbian sister's marriage too lmao",
"No, not really. Sure, there are a lot of fucking psychos out there, and most of them should probably be in jail. But they're a product of society. ",
"Tony Abbot- the only man Australians call a cunt and actually mean it.",
"Marry obama",
"Too bad they've moved to HBO (out of reach for minorities and low-income folks) and have essentially been gentrified for those White hipsters/yuppies who'd be watching this new-age \"Sesame Street.\"",
"**PAI! Right in the kisser**",
"Not at all awkward. Not in the least.",
"What a cunt dick. ",
"Probably the most sensible thing anyone is going to say in this thread.",
"Ralph Wiggum?",
"I don't get this. I've seen it a couple times. Can someone explain?",
"I swear! I swear! ",
"“Yup, look him in the eyes, you bitchass bitch”",
"... You are unwell.",
"Unless the kid is 18, no, it's not. But realistically, what can you do? Force the kid to go back to a place that will clearly do everything they can to make them leave? Put the parents in jail? ",
"He is an Alabama senator. I believe they's sweared in down there.",
"and that's why I started Gays For Everyone, but there just aren't enough willing to go live among the hicks and rednecks to make a difference.",
"This makes me happy. More people need to stand up like this and get in these assholes faces.",
"I'm more inclined to think that one of them probably just thinks of it as sex. ",
"VP is president of the senate.",
"Who’s that morticia-looking bihh?",
"I'm super glad Mike Pence doesn't have an openly gay son. That would be a pretty shitty house to grow up in.",
"> [what makes you guys think pence is homophobe](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bc/25/1a/bc251aa50ee2cc9bba543e1599a4e992.gif)\n\n",
"So proud, so brave..... this is truly the pinnacle of proud, brave meaningful action in America. I’m so proud that they’re all so brave and my country is so forward thinking and progressive! ",
"Margeret McPoyle style",
"While it's true that most of them don't act openly hostile in person, their policies still speak for themselves. And beyond that, they keep pandering to the rabid lunatics who do have that visceral hatred.\n\nThey can smile and shake hands with a gay person, but then they turn around and work on all the things that make their lifes difficult for no other reason than catching votes. That is still disgusting.",
"An \"staunch\" advocate for a cause that takes hush money to not talk about the cause isn't actually a staunch advocate at all, hence the hypocrisy.",
"Not a good enough excuse to become scum. If your family is poor the government will pay for a very good chunk of your college education. I am talking about in the U.S.A. here. I know this because my family is very poor, but I didn't become a worthless drag on society because of it. ",
"Ya I got it lol",
"Would Pence dine alone the gay son? Wink wink know what I mean?",
"Yeah. It's kind of really scary reading it. I'm proud there are some people standing up, it's still something of a democracy after all. But then you hear about secret underhanded bullshit going on...and granted we at least *hear* about it, but no one *does* anything about it. After all, it's not them. ",
"someone's triggered",
"The same can be said of sexists and racists; be hateful to those different from you until your family has a personal connection to other races and gender. Then, you'll learn to hate less.",
"GODDAMMIT ",
"no now were done here",
"Doug Jones (standing next to his openly gay son) as he's sworn into office by Mike Pence.",
"Trump, too! His sons are cocksuckers.",
"/r/titlegore",
"I wonder if that poll was just two options or multiple \n\nBecause 33% seems rather large \n\nI wonder if there was a \"indifferent\" option ",
"Found the gay guy ",
"Oh fuck off, bellend.",
"Imagine the Eau De Parfum version ",
"Don't worry you're not alone ",
"Holds inhumane views against the LGBT community. Was one of the worst governor of IN (my home state) in recent memory. Did little to nothing to help battle the state's opiate and amphetamine epidemic. Barely did anything about the states debt. So really, he's just an average to below-average politician who has no place running the country in any way. \n \nAnd if you want to get a little more conspiratorial: He may or may not hold connections to the KKK, which used to operate out of Indianapolis.",
"He really is the one of the biggest sacks of shit we ever had as PM... Not the biggest, but up there.",
"> Put the parents in jail?\n\nSure, why not? Break the law and not get punished? America doesn't seem to have a problem jailing people for far more minor things than that. \n\nHyperbole aside, there should be SOME legal reaction to turfing your kids into the street. ",
"If its nobody else's business, why does it matter if the government (and, by extension here in the States, all other state governments) recognize it?",
"He obviously doesn't like his sister much.",
"It makes me respect them the same level I had or maybe even a little less. They don't know what the fuck they stand for if they're going to spew hate for so long but be so easily swayed just because they're suddenly affected in their personal life. No real empathy, or if they do suddenly have empathy, no brain power to realize all the people they've shat on for so long have felt the same way their daughter/son/sister/brother/etc had all along.\n\nI hear what you're saying and part of me wants to say awh that's kinda nice, they ultimately care about their family enough to take a step back and rethink some things. But then the rest of me gets annoyed and overrides with nah why didn't they just give one shit to listen to anyone else who tried to explain feeling that same hate dumped onto them for forever and how unjust it is.",
"Did somebody say…*peanut butter?*",
"I don't know you, but I love you",
"Had no idea Oscar Pistorius was his son ?",
"Yes, we know.",
"Have you checked under his backyard?",
"650,000 Karma points ??",
"Yeah man politics isn’t like sports. It’s not some arbitrary preference that doesn’t actually mean anything. Politics is comprised of our opinions on how we should live with each other, so it’s naturally going to involve peoples’ innate character. I can’t just look someone in the eye and chuckle when they tell me Trump has the right idea about things. ",
"*nods & furiously stares silently for three whole minutes*",
"> Unfortunately, it's not my responsibility to coddle people into not being evil.\n\n Be the change you want to see in the world, mutha fucka.\n -Gandhi",
"What part? I guess it doesn’t really matter, anything besides i5 has rural folk",
"Ah, ok - if she was a staunch advocate before, then that changes things. \n\nAs I said, I'm unfamiliar with her. \n\nAnd cheers for the downvote. ",
"Also strange how not all conservatives are actually hateful toward gays and some Liberals are. But this stereotype keeps getting forced into the conversation because this fading narrative is still politically useful.",
"A recent national study in Sweden found that 27% of young Swedes (I think the age range was 15-25) identified as \"not heterosexual\" compared with less than 5% of the >60-year-old Swedes. \n\nEdit: The percentages depend on how you crunch the numbers (and I may have misremembered the details from reading another article on it ) but here's an article about the study I found from a quick googling. [\"Det visar sig också att ökningen blir större med varje generation. Mellan 18-24 ökar siffran till att hela 43 procent identifierade sig som icke-binära, och bara 46 procent identifierade sig som helt heterosexuella.\"](https://nyheter24.se/nyheter/forskning/880652-unga-hbtqia-okning).\nTranslation: It [the study] shows also that the increase is larger with every generation. Among 18-24 year-olds the number increases to a full 43 procent who identify as non-binary and only 46% identify as completely heterosexual. ",
"me so sworny",
"Cheney always against gay marriage until she came out and then he flipped. And even then it was a pretty luke warm support of equality. ",
"\"son by Mike Pence\" is a different sentence than \"Doug Jones sworn into office next to his openly gay son by Mike Pence.\"",
"Well that would be the smartest decision he ever made, could you imagine him being the male role model in your life?",
"Username checks out",
"Because humanity before has proven to advance past \"discrimination\" into full-blown \"elimination\" of undesirables. Such pieces of shit these thinkers are.",
"Northern English.",
"I respect anyone who calls people out on using words they don't know. Upvoted.",
"When did that happen?! I could have sworn I saw it playing in a doctors office recently. ",
"Because humanity before has proven to advance past \"discrimination\" into full-blown \"elimination\" of undesirables. Such pieces of shit these thinkers are.",
"Even Pauline Hanson became less racist toward Asians now she has Asian extended family members. Muslims on the other hand ...",
"Sure, but if you put the parents in jail, the kid is again without a caregiver, albeit, at least in a home for a little while, until the utilities get shut off for non-payment. ;)",
"Because humanity before has proven to advance past \"discrimination\" into full-blown \"elimination\" of undesirables. Such pieces of shit these thinkers are.",
"No one's going to mention that woman is Demi Moore?",
"You're looking at post and comment karma combined. /u/TheWolfeOfWalmart was looking at comment karma.",
"Oregon ? how are y'all handling the self-service fuel apocalypse ?",
"I care :(",
"Or a skills test to get an interview for a job. ",
"What? You aren't serious are you?",
"Sure, but it's so easy for everything to go horribly wrong through no fault of your own, the before you know it you're caught up in that shit. A lot of those people are lost causes, nothing can fix them. But it's society as a wholes responsibility to fix it. \nIt's a multi-generational thing. And not easy by any means. ",
"No, that is his British Tour de France winning cousin.",
"Who's the cuck now...",
"You could force the parents into paying child support to the child, maybe?\n\nedit: Throw in some mandatory anger management, sensitivity and tolerance classes, why not.",
"Unless he is found implicit in Trumps many activities, which he probably *will* be. ",
"Who was bigger? ",
"He's a reddit 1%er.",
"Does anyone know his insta because he's kinda hot",
"Not to be confused with Straight Ed.",
"\"Mike Pence and the Openly Gay Sons\" is the name of my Rammstein / Pet Shop Boys mashup band!",
"Doug jones is a retard",
"gay",
"but pence doesn't fear gay people. They fear him. Therefore he can't be a homophobe",
"Wtf happened to grammar and spelling on reddit...\n\nSworn in. Sworn. ",
"Cant tell if the son wants to kill him or fuck him",
"His son is seriously hot ;-)",
"His own electorate voted 75% ‘Yes’ to same-sex marriage and he didn’t even show up for the vote (after promising to honour their resounding Yes). I’m sure his lesbian sister is proud.",
"So, the majority of conservatives hate gays? I just can't even respond to how dumb that comment is.",
"Sweared into sounds like something that should be done to Pence for being a bigot",
"Good photography is knowing how to establish and compose a shot to achieve effect, great photography is capturing moments like this where everything seems to just fall into place naturally.\n\nNot to sound like a pretentious dickhead, this is just a great photograph and so very human.",
"I think he is really cute!",
"The great triggering of November 8 2016 has made them very emotional. Their rage is palpable. They will suffer. ",
"I’d rather the smell of VB or wine than onion. ",
"I want to upvote this... but the title is so bad!",
"Why? ",
"Higgins. Raphael Higgins, at your service. \n\nThe number one layabout this side of Pemberton street. ",
"you're looking at the combined karma :)",
"Voice inside Pence:\n\n*\"C'mon Jeffy [Sessions]. Do something to send all these gay hippies to prison.\"*",
"That's quite the thing. \"It is my problem to get male role models for every child, but definitely not my problem to be one.\"",
"pretty sure the new agreement is that new seasons air first on hbo, then pbs. kids who can't afford hbo are still getting sesame street!",
"Even better would be, \"Closet homosexual Mike Pence turned on by some generic white guy's hot gay son.\"",
"That look on Doug’s son - staring down that homophobic shit stain Pence - priceless. ",
"It's a commonly used, enduring booster phrase for the University of Alabama's football team, the Crimson Tide.\n\nIt has recently become a much more popular meme, mostly used to jokingly endorse incest.",
"“sweared” lol but honestly that is what mistrust looks like ",
"Omg exactly. My cousin actually laughed at me and said \"it'll be fine\" after the election. Yes they voted for Trump. No it has not been \"fine\". At least for people less wealthy than them. Also thanks for putting that better than I've ever been able to. Somehow still don't think it'll help my inevitable argument when parents don't like my opinion of family again. ",
"Thank god at least someone isn't a kneejerking dimwit raining downvotes on me like $1 bills on a whore.\n\nStealth edits piss me off.",
"It sure does seem like people admire it though. \n\nGlorified in the media too. If a politician changes their stance based on evidence and arguments some people are quick to call them unreliable or even a betrayer.\n\nFictional characters like Captain America are glorified even when he literally says that he's right and the whole world is wrong if they don't agree with him. He's made out to be the good guy when he absolutely refuses to compromise on anything.\n\nIt really should be taught more that it's okay to be wrong or to change your mind. That it isn't embarrassing to admit to that. ",
"T E N S O",
"Bad grammar is a bi-partisan issue. ",
"http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/roll-tide?full=1\n\nIt's the rallying chant for the University of Alabama. It comes from the stereotype that people in Alabama like to commit incest. ",
"Dougie Jones? Twin Peaks? Where is his coffee? Coffee...",
"I don't know where you're getting at. You can be against gay marriage on a principle basis but still love your family member (s) regardless if they're gay.\n\nYou can still view marriage as a sacred ceremony between a man and a woman without being homophobic. Like this is why I don't support it xyz, but if people were to get married to the same sex, what are you gonna do? Be a tyrant? Maybe reddit should stop revelling in unnecessary emotions.\n\nI don't understand why people have to live the way reddit wants them to. I don't understand the fascination in being outrage because of how a person thinks. It's like the flat earth phenomenon. You're all retards for giving them air time.",
"Correct. That said, more politicians with transgender* children would be appreciated too so we can stop with the bathroom bill and other bullshit ",
"I don’t care if gay as long as you do a great job and you don’t make it a huge deal. \n\nGood luck, Doug Jones ",
"> And cheers for the downvote. \n\nWell, I didn't, but now I have. Twice.",
"multi-generation my ass, dude! Like I just fucking said. It DOESN'T EVEN FUCKING MATTER if your family is poor as hell. Simply make good decisions and have a little ambition, and your life should turn out pretty well. \n\nBut no. Ghetto culture is all about being a loud \"hard\" thug. Ghetto culture was in my high school (grade 9-12). I always saw it for what it is. Stupid as fuck. ",
"I can't wrap my mind around this concept. What sort of parent would do this? It sorta only makes some logical sense if you hold a belief that homosexuality is both a conscious choice, and as bad as murder.",
"Because you get rewarded by the state for doing it.",
"Christine Forster has been engaged for 4 years. There were a few prominent gay people against marriage equality but I don't think she was one.",
"Nobody messes with the Mcpoyles! *shrieking laughter*",
"Because I believe that the government should not deprive citizens of their rights because of their sexual orientation/religion/race/gender. Everybody should have the same rights.",
"These people have no empathy until it affects them personally.",
">sweared",
"I could just upvote your comment, but I’m going to have to say it for myself.\n\n*Fuck Mike Pence*",
"Good person. ",
"That's interesting because conviction and beliefs seems to be all the rage in politics right now.",
"\"I dont have enough people words to make it understand you the way it understands me\"",
"Mother and son seemed to have had an entire conversation with a simple look and smirk. I can't even get my kid to listen even when I've repeated myself ad nauseum.",
"To be fair they're referring to people who are fanatical about it, not that I know any statistics that support that.",
"Rigidity lol",
"I didn't know Pence owned slaves.",
"My grandma, who believes that George W. Bush was \"a panty waist liberal\", changed her tune about homosexuals when my cousin came out. ",
"Its almost as if disowning your family over a difference of opinion is fucking childish lol",
"/r/titlegore ",
"\"Can I go home, the leperchaun tells me to burn things\". \n",
"Don't think it would bother him as he works with a gay man very often. Silly for any one to make the assumption mike pence cannot be around or stand homosexuals. Actually stupid, really.",
"Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if anywhere from 50-75% of elected republicans privately support gay marriage, but play identity politics because a major chunk of their base has issues with it. ",
"Unless you're former Australian PM, Tony Abbott. His sister is gay and he still doesn't give a shit about the lgbt community. ",
"ELI5 why Pence has a reputation for being super antigay?",
"'Sweared' is correct, if still uncommon. The simple past tense should always be fine. Notice how even words like 'lighted' are replacing 'lit'. We should get rid of all the irregular verbs, but in the meantime we should accept the simple past tense even when it looks strange. Kids intuitively understand this. Let's make them correct rather than force them to learn the exceptions.",
"What struck me the most in there was the part where it said 'after all its too hard to understand or too complicated' - none of us have any clue what's up in Pentagon, or the closed door meetings. It's insulting to what the Democracy stands for",
"You also don't have to be an asshole to someone who is doing what they honestly believe is a moral good. It's almost as if people are allowed to have different moralities than you and attacking them for being different than you are is exactly what you hate them for doing.",
"Fuck that was strange. Something's wrong with that cunt hey. ",
"> (out of reach for minorities and low-income folks) \n\n\"Poor minorities! None of them have any money! They can't even afford HBO! Tyrell and Shaquila don't even have socks!\"\n\nTyrell:\"Um, actually, I'm just fine. Sesame Street, at this point, has become such a pop culture phenomenon there's really no need to watch it. Plus there's always old clips on youtube an-\"\n\n\"Don't try and make me feel better, you poor, poor, defenceless minority! Let me save your soul!\"",
"Here's what I don't understand.... Did his son being gay have something to do with him winning an election? It's 2018... stop tripping balls any time someone happens to be openly gay! No need to even put it in the poorly written headline anyway. ",
"Wiggum. ",
"It's still funny to me that people actually care if someone is gay or not. If you're straight then why does it matter that someone you don't even know is gay? Your race, gender, sexuality isn't what makes you a \"good\" person...it's what's in your heart. People who have disdain for anyone who is gay are not \"good\" people.",
"Per Wiki: HBO will hold first-run rights to all newer episodes of the series, after which they will air on PBS member stations following a nine-month exclusivity window, with no charge to the stations for airing the content.\n\nEdit - source: http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/13/media/sesame-street-hbo/index.html",
"Yeah HBO buying Sesame Street doesn't have any negative impact on people watching on PBS and the show is now in no danger of being cancelled or losing funding.",
"*shitcunt\n",
"I bet christmas is fun at their house..",
"I remember the clip of him I saw on reddit where he was on a show and a viewer who was a woman called in and he rolled his eyes at the host to say \"hah, women\". Some people just have no tact.",
"Having conviction about an outdated, awful, hurtful viewpoint is not good. You will not convince me otherwise. I'm tired of pretending *everything* is subjective. Pence's view on gay marriage is awful, full stop. In this situation, I can say with certainty that among the options you gave,\n\n>would you admire their conviction or deplore their bigotry?\n\nI would deplore his bigotry. \n\nPerhaps, if he still preferred licking dirt after trying chocolate for the first time, that conviction would be something to admire. But not this. \n\nAnyway I know you're on my side and just posing a devil's advocate-style question, but can you really not figure out why I'd find the question offensive? ",
"Look up his record as governor of Indiana. That's a good place to start.",
"> By assuming anti-gay bigots are all just closet-cases you're blaming gay people for gay-hate.\n\nI didn't interpret it as that.\n\nA lot of evangelical preachers who say \"being gay is a choice\" and get caught having gay sex secretly, and then ask forgiveness, and go back to their wives.\n\nIf such people were progressive, they would self-identify as bisexual. Instead, they honestly believe, just like their own experience, everyone has a choice between gay and straight sex, and that \"choosing\" to have straight sex is a sign of moral character.\n\n",
"So it is somebody else's business. Now the question is: why does the state reward people for doing it?",
"This logic is why I don't understand why a lot of conservatives don't seem to support a lot of programs that help women.\n\nWouldn't you want to pass laws that help people like your wife or daughter or sister out?\n\nI mean just by looking at his twitter, Ted Cruz REALLY loves and cares about the sexual health of his female family members. Yet, as far as I know, he is against abortion. ",
"\"In this picture: Doug Jones, His openly gay son, Mike Pence\" would be even better.",
"Is there something bad about being conservative?",
"You mised a letter there. \n",
"That's a really flawed argument.\n\nThe reason is because the state gives rights to married couples that unmarried, or unrecognized partnerships do not have. \n\nYour argument would make sense if the state didn't recognize any marriages, but they do, and therefore give implicit approval of those unions, and disapproval of the others. ",
"Triggered ",
"I don't think that's it. I doubt most high level politicians are homophobic at all. Instead, I think they're just checking opinion polls for their voters. \n\nDemocrats, like Clinton and Obama, changed their position on gay marriage at about the same (or later). Are all these politicians discovering their family members suddenly? Or, do they see gay marriage is getting popular support, so they being up their gay daughter, sister, whatever?\n\nI don't think the elites really care about social issues like that. The only purpose of such things is to divide people. The elites are fine with whatever, while they busy themselves plundering the public coffers. ",
"Holy triple post batman! You don't have to say the same exact thing three times to make your point friend. ",
"i get where you´re coming from, but it´s often the case when people don´t understand why someone \"chooses\" to be gay. In their mind, it is an active decision to go out and have sex with the same gender. That´s not how that works, attraction isn´t something you willfully choose or don´t choose. A lot of the times it seems to me, those people are a little bit bisexual and they chose to just persue the opposite gender, because the other one is just \"wrong\"! It´s the first thing i can think of, when i hear something like \"resist the urges Satan put into your body\" etc. ",
"What right would be denied a gay person?",
"We call them bigots. Then they say “so much for the tolerant left”\n\n",
"You, clearly?",
"That seems to be almost exclusively an American thing. I've never heard of it happening in the UK for instance (not that it hasn't, but would probably make the news if it did).",
"Oh definitely but it happens. I have a friend who is in the closet. Just because if he came out his parents would through him out immediately amongst other things and he couldn’t support himself ",
"Malcolm's fighting for the title.\n\n\n\nJohn Howard is pretty close despite his kind of outwardly sensible demeanour.\n\n",
"Your way makes it sound like Pence turned his son gay.",
"> He's a bloody wanker\n\nSee here he's just a fuckin' asshole. Jerkin' off is fine, butt assholes? Shitty people.",
"It's harder to stare at people from inside the closet. ",
"I have a hard time understanding how you could adequately justify that statement, given how things are going.",
"https://imgur.com/AmxYkIH",
">Having conviction about an outdated, awful, hurtful viewpoint is not good. You will not convince me otherwise.\n\nNever even remotely attempted to or indicated that I would want to. So thanks for the character smear there.\n\n> but can you really not figure out why I'd find the question offensive? \n\nOh I know exactly why you do, and that's why I made the comment about not being able to handle even slightly controversial topics. If you can identify it as a devils advocate question and yet you still get offended? You're not the kind of person I want to have a discussion with. I'm not interested in associating with people for whom a literal thought experiment \"triggers\" them.",
"To be fair, with a sufficiently long video, you can get a single frame that says whatever you want it to say.\n\nFor example, [here's](https://i.imgur.com/gnsuyCb.jpg) one where Pence is trying to check out the son, and Doug Jones is actively preventing him from interfering with his date with Joe Biden.",
"Found the bigot!",
"A little piece of me thinks Pence might have a few fabulous skeletons in his closet ",
"I assume they aren't smart enough to not use IE.",
"He would be shocked /s",
"The fuck you want",
"Welcome to the US. What you do with your crotch-parts is wildly important, and also, gross, don't talk about it you filthy whore.",
"I was born with a severe disability and live in the US. My brother before he transitioned was a lesbian. Our step father is a die hard republican and married my mother when we were young enough for him to believe he raised us. He doesn’t believe transgender is even a real thing and openly bragged about threating a gay man he went to high school with hanging him from the flag pole because he supposedly flirted with him. He also is of course against standardized healthcare even though he is well aware how expensive a disability like mine is for me. Modern day republicans are true pieces of shit and never underestimate how despicable they are capable of being. I should also mention he only had girls with my mom. He genuinely believes their only purpose in life is to serve the true leaders and only people who truly matter, men. Don’t believe for a second the kind of person he is is an anomaly in the US. His beliefs are held by the overwhelming majority of conservatives in this country. ",
"Why oh why of all the States that could just up and fall into the ocean one day, did it have to be California and not Alabama.",
"No, it had more to do with the fact that he was running against an actual pedophile rapist and the fact that giving Trump more power was a no go for everyone who voted for him. This is actually the first time I'm hearing about his son. Really, nobody cared about it when he was running and nobody cares now. It's just funny given Pence's stance on homosexuality is all.",
"Holy crap, there is some shit going on in that picture.\n\nThe looks on each face tells big stories.",
"Nah, there's a lot more than him. He's not even the worst.",
"I'm not the one claiming marriage is nobody else's business, so no, it's not flawed.\n\nWhat rights does the state give to married people that it doesn't to unmarried people?",
"I use \"cunt\" all the time.\n\n\"Do you seriously have so much contempt for women that being a vagina is the worst thing you could possibly be?\"\n\n\"Shut up, you dumb cunt.\"",
"People fear and reject what they don't understand.",
"Not very well, have you seen fb? Hundreds are freaking out lol",
"Luckily we can watch full episodes and clips online. I didn't even really realize they moved it to HBO",
"K",
"It's most common in deeply religious parts of the country. We got some crazies here.",
"> *Too bad they've moved to HBO (out of reach for minorities and low-income folks)*\n\nYour wording is a bit off there - HBO isn't \"out of reach for minorities and poor people\". It's out of reach for poor people, a disproportionate % of which are minorities. \n\nThe way you wrote it, no minorities have HBO, which I don't think is what you intended to say :) ",
"they still air all the episodes on PBS",
"The right to marry until recently.",
"Is this true?",
"Okay but can we just talk about the shit eating grins on both of the Jones men for a moment?",
"I think you mean \"His *gorgeous* openly gay son\"",
"News flash: They're not homophobes, they pretend it to appeal to homophobe voters.",
"They were told to by religious people they follow, so they do. \n\nI was told to hate people who wear socks with sandles. Nothing to do with religion, just shit I've been told. ",
"Pence is muslim now?",
"\"Yes, helloo, I am real man. You guys want to go skateboards?\"",
"No one I know really cares, but I do live in Eugene.\nAaaand my people know How to pump gas.\n\nThat whole trope is just making fun of people who love in 1 of the only 2 States (?) That have had this law.",
"Name of your sex tape. ",
"👉👈🤔",
"Meh. Could just be related to the [Kuleshov effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect).",
"👉😎👉Zoop",
"So if you are gay, you cannot (could not) marry anybody?",
"Neocons had a big line in social conservatism, IIRC? Or was it more foreign and economy?\n\nNever thought I'd forget the political nuances of the Bush administration but here we are.",
"So apparently we all hate gay people now lol ",
"He's keeping an eye on Pence, who already tried to corner him once in the men's restroom.",
"I'm pretty sure only inhuman monsters refuse free pocket bacon. ",
"Ok. Google told me the Alabama bit but not the incest part. Thanks. ",
"But if somebody openly supports a shitty person, knowing they are a shitty person, doesn't that make them shitty by proxy. Even if the issues don't directly effect them. \n\nIt's like if somebody commits a crime and I supported them in it, I'm guilty by proxy. Accessory to murder or aiding and abetting, whatever it's called.",
"Of course he did. She’s the only one who can stop him from raping every woman in sight. He admitted it. ",
"Ok. Google told me the Alabama bit but not the incest part. Thanks",
"My theory is as follows:\n\nThe Libs needed someone high up in their party to represent the aging wealthy WASP voters on this issue so as not to alienate them. They also wanted to appear not to impede the publicly popular legalisation process either. \n\nEnter Tony, who is ex-pm and current christian conservative jester of the party, the perfect person to play the role of the Libs no vote mascot. The average voter knows of Tony well enough that if he says he is not representing the party as a whole they will buy it. \n\nSo the Libs get to keep the old bigots on board and also appear to be pro gay marriage all at the same time if, as was expected, the yes vote recieved a substantial majority.",
"Just a season later when all the issues are more disconnected with the Zeitgeist.",
"Username checks out",
"GET FUCKIN REKT.",
"I read this as \"Doug Jones sworn into office by his openly gay son, Mike Pence\".",
"I still remember when she had that one Asian lady who was a member of her party saying \"she was one of the good ones\". Baby steps Pauline baby steps",
"Fiscal conservative? No.\n\nReligious conservative? Yes.",
"Like if owned ",
"It's Alabama. \"sweared\" is right. \n\n\"Him and I had went to that Senate to get sweared in\"",
"He actively fought to pass legislation against LGBT people as governor of Indiana. Not sure how successful he was in passing those laws. And he’s also openly spoken against them. All based on his christian religious zealotry. ",
"Checking in from the great fly-over state of Indiana. Fuck Mike Pence. ",
"What if the rigidity in belief is in things you like? Like not having race wars or even being tolerant of homosexuality?",
"Who do you think she got that from?",
"Experimenting doesn't mean that you're automatically gay. A mouth is a mouth and your body responds to stimulation. Just close your eyes and think of Canada.",
"The ultimate aim of any law is to discourage certain behavior. If it takes a few taking the fall to show how the system works, so be it.\n\nParents choosing jail over their own kid doesn't reflect very well on them anyways. It takes a certain type to want to prove without a shadow of a doubt what huge pieces of shit they are.",
"You're projecting",
"If you really want to impersonate (badly) a crazy American liberal, it's \"defenseless\". We use the S here.",
"What he posted is not a fact.",
"The right to participate in the civil institution of marriage, with all the concomitant benefits?\n\nThat's already a big one, surely. Not to mention all the baggage that goes along with being implicitly delegitimised (as couples, as individuals and as a group) by being excluded from this fundamental social institution.",
"Tell that to Tony Abbott.",
"I bet you there's a *strong* correlation between that and American christianity.",
"It’s a shame that can’t possess a modicum of empathy for other people and their situations. Still, I guess if they get there in the end...",
"The cold stare Jones's son gives pence. Like just try to convert me motherfucker",
"you forgot to \n\n-fuck Ajit Pai",
"Lol you know minorities have HBO too right? You talk like all minorities are helpless. Same thing with the voter ID laws. “Minority’s can’t afford IDs so Voter ID laws are racist”. Cmon man be serious ",
"\"My cat's breath smells like cat food.\"",
"Well he was always a huge, conservative evil bastard",
"All mike pence is thinking is zap",
"I don't know why you think I'm heavily offended. Or if I was offended, why it would exclude me from debate. If I was triggered I'd have fucked off already. \n\n",
"He's a fucking cunt.",
"No, he's basically advocated for it https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/us/politics/mike-pence-and-conversion-therapy-a-history.html?referer=https://www.google.com/",
"We don't know what happened at Bible Camp.",
"That little guy has seen some shit",
"Now this is gay",
"Please tell me this isn't sarcasm, I don't know enough about it and reality is getting difficult",
"Pence is so anti gay he is most likely a closet homosexual that hates himself. ",
"I find that others are more accepting when you add your own flair\n\nYa daft cunt",
"Ah... I didn't realize Pence was so, pensive about homosexuals. ",
"I will now channel the sort of people that do this:\n\n> Well, good for them, standing up for what they believe. Those gays need to decide to be straight or keep it to themselves where we god-fearing folk don't have to see it. \n\nSee also: Kim Davis",
"I don't need love, just some lovin'.",
"So if you're married, you have the right to be married? That makes no sense. ",
"Most of the things they cited are from 2006 / 2007. You should see what Obama was saying about gay marriage back then.",
"Maybe Mike Albino Pence is gay, that would be so awesome! ",
"\"What's a diorama?\"",
"[It's not gay if it's in a three-way.](https://youtu.be/Pi7gwX7rjOw)",
"Who are you even talking about and what is your point?",
"Thank you for clarifying that for me! I was thinking that Mike Pence had an openly gay son and felt bad for the guy. I can only imagine the struggle of being guy with such a homophobic father. And then I got confused as to why Mike Pence's son would even be at Doug Jones' swearing in.",
"\"Sweared into\" sounds like something ~~Pence~~ Trump would say.",
"Normally when someone is gay and uneducated something does get torn",
"Sworn*",
"[Wipe that shit eating grin off your punchable face](http://thesmithstreetband.bandcamp.com/album/wipe-that-shit-eating-grin-off-your-punchable-face)",
"As usual, the woman in the picture goes nameless.",
"It's generally harder to throw blanket hate over any group of people when you get to know one of them.",
"VP seems to have no problem. Stop trying to incite things, you losers.",
"In psychology they have a name for this: the [contact hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_hypothesis).",
"Is Mike Pence that dude who becomes emperor of the US after California sinks into the ocean?",
"Mike \"what a fuckin asshole\" Pence",
"Wtf? Did you reply to the wrong post?",
"I think in this case, the earnestly held belief is that everyone should confirm to one's own ideas. \"I don't want to be gay\" -- no one else should be gay either. \"My son is gay, so I have to get over myself and accept him\" -- so should everyone else. ",
"Yeah you tell him. You got him so good I heard he's resigning",
"Is it though? From what I've seen, if they get an abortion, it's only because they needed it because their situation was *special*. Everyone else is a Satan worshipper that kills babies for sport.",
"Well, apart from all my objections to Clinton's policies (particularly a gender-war record and platform that included, on top of all the usual feminist dogma, calling for \"gender-responsive policies\" in the justice system, to reverse the trend towards gender equality in that area) and character, the very badness of this Presidency is fantastic. We need to stop concentrating power in the executive. Congress and the courts need to stop deferring to it so much. My Democratic representative, a big fan of giving Obama all the war power he needed, is now in favor of reducing the liberal scope of the AUMF which passes for a Congressional authorization of war. That's wonderful! The left cares about civil liberties again. Great! It is so good to have a President whom everybody hates.",
"Don't insult Morticia Addams name, man\n\nOne of the most loving, supportive, and downright pleasant mothers in cinema.",
"Doug Jones swears at his office by his son, next to the openly gay Mike Pence",
"By this reasoning, everyone who openly supports just about any US federal politician is a shitty person. ",
"Mike \"shock the gay away\" Pence sure does, though ",
"And pretend it's burning you and ask if it's ok to just hover your hand over it.",
"> if the homophobe isn't someone overcompensating for their homosexuality\n\nThis is not a thing. People are taught to be homophobes, and then if they realize they experience same-sex attraction, they direct the hatred they were taught inward. No one becomes homophobic only after realizing they experience same-sex attraction.\n\n> whereas a self-loathing, closeted homophobe is incapable of coming to peace with homosexuality by knowing others\n\nKnowing LGB people absolutely can help people realize they are LGB and overcome internalized homophobia. ",
"\"Doug Jones sweared into office by Mike Pence next to the former's openly gay son\"?",
"There's still an Asian candidate in my state. He has other Asians on his Facebook page questioning his \"excessive use of the number 4\" in his campaigning. Because that's clearly the key issue here.",
"What type of legislation?",
"Disowning your family memebers that are actively supporting denying your rights and being against who you are as a person isn’t childish, fuck that. If I was gay and my sister was out their rallying against my rights and gay people, I would absolutely disown her unless she gained some sense and accepted me.",
"Great work. \nTake the rest of the day off!",
"It should be \"sworn into office\"",
"> I don't know why you think I'm heavily offended. \n\nBecause you asked:\n\n>but can you really not figure out why I'd find the question offensive? \n\nImplying that you do.",
"That dude is so hot",
"It's a shame that none of their relatives can come out as secretly black. We could have solved a lot of problems a lot earlier.",
"What? I haven't heard that story.",
"[tolerance paradox](https://i.redd.it/uedawtfzqbgz.jpg)",
"> It's amazing how Conservatives act when the gay person is someone they love.\n\nJon Stewart had a great segment about a Fox News lady who had multiple segments deriding generous maternity leave policies until she had a babby, then she was suddenly quite appreciative. He called it \"postpartum compassion\".",
"*sworn",
"Why is that bad?\n\nIf someone doesn't want to serve someone because of religious reasons or any other reasons for that matter I don't think they should be stopped. ",
"I would stare him down so hard just to make him uncomfortable.",
"He's a cunt and so is his sister. His sister is progressive when it suits her, but otherwise she's \"fuck you, I've got mine\"",
"This is why the GoP have cut funding to public broadcasting...",
"I would take gold over karma any day of the week. ",
"He can feeling Pence longingly looking into his soul.\n\nYou're not fooling me Pence. I know you're the old guy at the end of American Beauty deep down.",
".",
"That's not true.",
"Thank you for the nice Christmas present",
"Well, the people pushing these false narratives aren’t known for being particularly smart. ",
"What you are saying sounds like Doug Jones had a child with Mike pence who is openly gay. ",
"HBO bought Sesame Street but the only major change is that it airs on HBO first. I think it ends up on PBS after six months or so. I know a guy who works on the show (also runs the Muppets website ToughPiggies) and he told me the work environment barely changed at all. I don't know why people act like this is such a big deal, as a kid watching the show on PBS would never notice the delay or difference.",
"It's almost like if you try to love people instead of hating them, you make the world a better place.\n\nI wish there was some widely accepted religion in the US that Republicans could embrace that taught these values as a fundamental principle. Oh well",
"I'm totally reading \"pence\" in that heavy French accent. \"Mike Ponce\". Heh. Ponce. ",
"I would argue it's a failure of empathy to denegrate an entire group of people because of what they have been raised or choose to believe. If it hasn't happened to someone close to you it is easy to see why people would have false and misguided views on the topic. That's how racism begins because people create a narrative about a group that most don't interact with. ",
"we know what you are doing and it's pedantic, shallow even. ",
"It started when Republican senators that were anti-gay got ousted as being gay. It was a lot of self-hate on their part. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig_scandal?wprov=sfla1",
"Think of the phrase over compensating. ",
"^~~Wiggins~~\n\nWiggum",
"\"Sweared\" isn't even a word\n\nThe way it was said here doesn't mean anything\n\nIt's just moon-man word jumble",
"Except I'm pretty sure most politicians don't really care one way or the other. You just gotta go hard for your party and become a full-blown conservative if you want to get elected as a Republican.",
"Ignorance is bliss eh buddy? Lol.",
"I don't see the big deal. Maybe if one of the people being sworn in is gay then I would. ",
"The fact the top posts are about correcting the OP’s grammar says a lot",
"So basicly, HBO is paying the costs for Sesame Street and show it first but then let's PBS air it free of charge? If that's so, tha'ts pretty decent actually. ",
"The look on each one of their faces tells a story.\n\n\nAlso, giddit Doug Jones! ",
"Twice?? When was the other time?",
"Who is the openly female person?",
"That's an admission that they're to be *tolerated*.",
"To be fair, he is anti-immigration despite being born in London. ",
"What does calling out shit cultures have to do with a black family in Oregon? You can criticize people who glorify violence and crime, you know.",
"That has nothing to do with convervatives, and it's a good thing.\n\nPeople are supposed to learn and change for the better.\n\nThere's two kinds of discrimination: homophobia and just plain bigotry and hatred. The former can be cured simply by exposing the person to people who are gay so they can see that those people are just people and just like them. \n\nThey are afraid or lack empathy for something because it's foreign to them, they don't know it they don't have any context to put it in so they can't empathise. It's not real to them.\n\nThe people who know and interact closely with gay people and stay homophobic those are the true bigots and they can never be changed , they are just monsters.\n\n\n\nDitto for racism. Most people are afraid of what they don't know or don't understand so they are dismissive of it. Half of my family were xenophobes who never really interacted with a brown or black person in their life. The second they actually got a muslim neighbour or coworker they got to know their xenophobia went away and they are no longer racist.\n\nThen you have the people who aren't just xenophobes but true empathy-less racist sociopaths, and no amount of good faith reasoning or context or learning about other cultures and people will change these fuckers. These are your Trumps, your mcconnells, your roy moores, your average trump supporter, your racist uncle who is nice to his black neighbour's face but calls him a nigger behind his back.\n\n\nIt's this group that you need to shun as hard as possible, but blaming xenophobes and homophobes for changing for the better is not productive. ",
"Anything more recent? That article cites a position he took in 2007 and 2006. Obama as recently as 2008 came out strongly against gay marriage. ",
"Upvote. You argued your point and didn’t really deserve the downvotes. I think people kind of misuse the whole voting system. Including me, sometimes.",
"priceless",
"Whats that about..i seen something about it on facebook",
"\"Next to his openly gay son, Doug Jones is sworn into office by Mike Pence.\"",
"They seem to do whatever they can to limit their freedoms. What else would you say that is? ",
"more like 0.01%er.",
"The point stands, despite the name-calling. So, are you saying the right to marry was *not* being denied, or is there something more to this right to marry you say exists?",
"I always thought it was nonpossible",
"Holy shit his son is cute. ",
">Workrn in..",
"He’s so brave!",
"American Beauty?",
"So brave.",
"Glad you took the time. Take care now! Drive safe!",
"Maybe his sis stole his toys when they were kids or something. ",
"Who says Pence was even bothered in the first place? ",
"Has Roy Moore said anything? He's kinda disappeared. \n",
"It was a few months ago. Although I think he just took a bite not eating the whole thing. It was brought up in the Australia subreddit. We all took the piss ",
"That is a legitimate point. I literally had not ever considered the matter that way.",
"So Pence must have been flicking that elastic band on his wrist like crazy. ",
"So by that logic, some racist white people are secretly black?",
"Pence's home state paper\n\nhttps://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/04/what-we-know-gov-mike-pences-position-gay-rights/78257192/",
"So everybody should be intolerant of each other. Got it. \n\nHey look. We're back where we started and are accomplishing nothing. ",
"https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/04/what-we-know-gov-mike-pences-position-gay-rights/78257192/",
"DAGGERS",
"I have a cousin that I saw eat an onion like that and he dyed his hair blue and lives off his parents and refuses to apply for any job at all in his middle 30's now. I'm not saying there's a connection, but I am saying that. ",
"There's so many things wrong with this title lol",
"Doug Jones will be a one term senator. Everyone makes mistakes! ",
"https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/04/what-we-know-gov-mike-pences-position-gay-rights/78257192/",
"What did he do? Saves me looking",
"r/titlegore",
"oh really?\n\nhttps://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/04/what-we-know-gov-mike-pences-position-gay-rights/78257192/",
"here's a breakdown in pictures https://imgur.com/gallery/o8tn5",
"It wasn't name calling. ",
"Mike \"LGBTBBQ\" Pence",
"Sorry, I agree with him on most of that. ",
"Sworn in would be past tense. Sweared in is the past participle. They have different meanings",
"Why are there not more hellboy jokes on this post???",
"I can't help but imagine someone cussing at him until he agreed to take the position.\n\n\"FINE, I'll be a Senator, just stop swearing at me!\"",
"Chill with the racism bro",
"What this angle fails to show you is Mike (the electric fence) Pense, maintaining eye contact with Doug with one eye. While his other eye is giving Doug's (openly gay) son the legendary stank eye.",
"Come on out.",
"But you can love anywhere! 🙂",
"There are elements to a marriage that are nobodies business, such as the gender, race, or sexual preferences of the members of the union. That's very different from saying that the whole concept of marriage is nobodies business, which is what you are implying with your comment.\n\n[Here's the list of the Rights and Responsibilities of Marriages in the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_and_responsibilities_of_marriages_in_the_United_States)\n\nSorry to throw a huge list at you, but it's past my bedtime.",
"well, if you interpret it as the right to marry the people you are sexually attracted to. Then one could speak of discrimination. It's sort of saying that businesses don't need a ramp for wheelchairs, cause everyone can try and use the same entrance. \n\n\nedit: changed business to businesses ",
"*Swallowed In ",
"Hold on a second. We dicks don’t include Abbot as one of us. He’s “a complete tosser”",
"Tony Abbott truly believes whatever suits him. Don't let the fact that he lies to himself as well fool you.",
"Y’all come back, now. Ya hear?",
"Actually, while HBO does fund Sesame Street now in order to keep it going, all episodes are still aired on PBS after nine months of HBO exclusive run time. I doubt kids care whether their Sesame Street episodes are a season behind. Also, HBO was given no editorial oversight into the show as part of the deal but in fact, more diverse characters and actors have been added since the switch, such as Julia, the first autistic puppet. Sesame workshop who produce the show were having financial difficulties due to declining DVD sales and HBO wanted to add children’s programming to compete with Netflix and Hulu, so its basically a win for everyone. ",
"SWORN, not sweared ",
"Appreciate it dude, thanks.",
"He also shot a guy in the head while he was in office, so I think she was wise to take the money quite honestly ¯\\\\\\_(ツ)_/¯ ",
">name calling\n\nWhere?",
"Don't forget he said his sister's kids would be better off with a straight couple.",
"But you said \n\n>Still, it's a good question and I wonder why you find it offensive. Can't handle slightly controversial debate?\n\n*before* I said this:\n\n>but can you really not figure out why I'd find the question offensive?\n\nSo you imagined me being offended from the start. ",
"I don't think that \"white hipsters\" watch much HBO, but you do what you have to do to get in a random dig at white people.\n\nThank you for being such a good person and ally! /s",
"Like his allegations.",
"> attacking them for being different than you are is exactly what you hate them for doing.\n\nHomophobes can choose to stop being homophobic. Homophobic politicans can choose to not try to legislate their beliefs. I cannot choose to stop being bi. So it is absolutely not the same thing. I don't like them because they hate me. They hate me for who I am intrinsically, for something I did not choose that is normal and good and beautiful.",
"Coming from an American who doesn’t identify with either political “side” you are quite literally the definition of a bigot. ",
"Why would the vice president be swearing in a state senator?",
"I can tell your a bigoted asshole just by reading your comment. Fucking uncanny. \n",
"I'm a filthy whore.",
"It's almost like it's harder to be a cunt to someone you care about, as opposed to faceless strangers. ",
"Lol I can’t tell if this spelling is an accident on purpose",
"But how am I supposed to avoid those juicy spoilers for 6 whole months? Nobody tell me what the letter of the day is, I want to be surprised.",
"You're missing the point. The only reason they changed their attitudes was because a family member was gay. Had this not been the case their attitudes would never have changed, whether you shamed them or kissed their asses. ",
"\"HAHA HOW WILL DRUOMFPF RECOVER FROM THIS\"",
"The only thing between that boy's penis and Mike Pence's mouth is that bible. Literally and figuratively.",
"I'm kinda thinking about gay sex with the son. Hes cute. ",
"Is the game Oregon trail anything like Oregon in real life? thats all I know about it",
"Looks like he's going in for a Borat-style high-five.",
"Would you agree there is a diffence between you, a private citizen having issues with a gay man or a lesbian woman; and someone who is Gov of a state making law?\n\nit doesn't matter if you yourself think lesbian women are \"wrong\" somehow; but it matters if you are a Gov. making it Law : (example) that all lesbian women should be taken to some camp and be brain washed to become straight; or they can be turned away from going to a state college because they are lesbian.",
"\"Does this motherfucker realize I could break his ass in two, I'd snap his chicken neck before he could call out for his mommy. Bitch ass closet case.\" - Doug Jones' son. ",
"Sworn*",
"You telled him!",
"I'm so confused by everything after there's an Asian candidate in your state",
"To the GOP, money is the belief. ",
"A small subset of americans hate them, the rest parrot media without knowing anything, far from 80% of humanity. The rest of the world has actual problems than a politician that really despite his thoughts has done no harm to any gay person using his power in office.",
"/r/me_irl",
"Justice! ",
"Lol you think he gives a shit, worry about the real threat to the gay community which is Islam not Christianity. ",
"I went back and looked at it after your comment. Fascinating",
"Uh-huh. That's why more accusers came out the night he lost, right?\n",
"THEY AIN'T HAD NO FAMILIAL RELATIONS, PAWWWWLLL!!!",
"What. Even. ",
"Doug Jones looks pretty villainous here tbh",
"> Yous talkin bout trannies or sumthin?\n\nquote of the day",
"That State is hilarious. \n\nSo many of them are freaking out over being able to pump their own gas hahaha",
"No \n\nBernd...",
"There was a conservative a few years back who flipped on gay marriage after his son came out as gay. A ton of republicans basically said \"Hmf! Well let's see him try to legalize meth when he finds out his son is a meth head! Have some morals!\"\n\nConservatives sometimes flip, but the party itself is pretty stubborn.",
"Just his son will do fine. Pointing out the fact he is gay makes it seem as though he is different to anyone else in the room. Don't be so homophobic.",
"Now it just sounds like at one time Mike Pence was pregnant with Doug Jones' gay son.",
"Yes but HBO isn't cheap.\n\nAnd voter ID went far beyond ID.\n\nFirstly, how does your granny, born in 1940-1950 where her birth was only recorded in a bible go to rhe DMV, miles away, so rural it's not open 5 days a week and even start to get an ID.\n\nAlso, with statistics and \"surgical precision\", in NC they cut back the following:\n\nEarly voter period\nSame day registration\nVoting in the right area but wrong precinct\n\nGuess which people these changes affected by far the most?\n\nSource: i took the time to read the NC supreme court ruling from 2015 and what the GoP did was nothing short of evil",
"One has experienced it and the other has fantasies of it",
"This is why I have no hope for humanity. Greed, ego, and selfishness always prevails. ",
"I’m trying to find any recent news on these accusers...are they going to take him to court?",
"Fun fact. If you completely block your sense of smell and wear a blindfold, you can't tell the difference between a mouthful of apple and a mouthful of onion.\n\nSupposedly, anyway. Never tried it myself, just in case it's bullshit.",
"Who fucking cares? Jesus this sub is a train wreck. ",
"Wow, so many things wrong about this statement, where to even begin",
"And if I'm sexually attracted to someone who is currently married? Within my close family? Younger than 18?",
"*don't let mother hear this*",
"Love yourself, homie. 🤗🤗",
"I remember when love-ins were saved for serious social issues. You guys are taking it too far having love-ins over the purchase of fuel. Different kind of pumping altogether . . . ",
"Or taser company.",
"It's not just homosexuality either. Pretty much every conservative position breaks down they imagine it affecting themselves. The only moral abortion is my abortion.",
">I don't know why people act like this is such a big deal,\n\nBecause they took way too long after announcing the deal to explain that Seasame Street wouldn't be leaving PBS.\n\nThat delay in explaining what they were doing led to theories and rumors that spread.",
"Is it wrong of me to wish Jones' son would have blown a few kisses + some cheesey winks at Pence?",
"> What sort of parent would do this?\n\nAn abusive, unintelligent, sociopathic one, that sort.",
"Let's dispel with the notion that they didn't know what they were doing. They knew exactly what they were doing.",
"Admit it, you secretly wear socks with sandals. Everybody that says they hate it actually do. It's 100% factoid. The truth will come out eventually. \n\nDoes your dad know you wear socks with sandals?",
"> A lot of the times it seems to me, those people are a little bit bisexual and they chose to just persue the opposite gender, \n\nThis is biphobic, please stop saying it.",
"And? Pence has a job to do. Why do Liberals categorize everyone? Race, gender, sexuality. We are all people.",
"He’s not a state senator. He's a US Senator. The VP presides over the Senate. ",
"Twice?? When was the other time?",
"Or maybe when politicians decide to change their public stance on gay marriage they encourage their family members to publicly come out or tell them they can stop hiding",
"\"When I grow up I want to be just like Super Nintendo Chalmers or a butterfly!\"",
"Oh boi.. I'd love to hear that definition.",
"That's what Mike Pence said. ",
"> America doesn't seem to have a problem jailing people for far more minor things than that. \n\nShooting them dead, too. All you gotta do these days apparently is leave your house on command and protect your eyes from a spotlight, to get a bullet in the head.",
"You’re right, but still, it’s almost as if you shouldn’t need to be personally affected by an issue to stand on the right side of it... ",
"From Alabama. Still sworn. ",
"Higgins I thought I asked you to leave a tie on the doorknob if you expected Robin home.",
"You should Google it and read one or two things, this will bring you up to speed pretty quick",
"I have no idea. Why do you think I'm his accusers? I have no idea what those people are going to do.\n",
"_violent shudder_\n\nWhat a truly horrifying thought.",
"Yep, confused me a little",
"Does this trigger the Trumpsters?",
"When emotions (past a certain point) are brought into a discussion or debate everything usually goes downhill. Basically it becomes impossible to analyze information in an unbiased way. Think about it.\n\nAnd I’m pro gay marriage, by the way.",
"I have no idea what that's supposed to mean",
"As long as they keep The Cookie Monster and Big Bird, IDGAF",
"So Pensive...",
"Rational arguments, clear thinking and admitting thoughts are personal opinions - get out, your type doesn’t belong on Reddit.",
"Still on PBS. Just a delay on how quick they get new episodes. Kind of like timed exclusives for video games. And really there's so many episodes already out there, I doubt any kid would see the same one twice.",
"This is amazing. And he's kind of a stud!\n",
"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/us/politics/mike-pence-and-conversion-therapy-a-history.html\n\nI can't copy-paste from there, so you'll just have to read it. Pence has approved conversion therapy and had a strong record of opposing gay rights as late as 2016. \n\nAlso, bringing up Obama is a misdirection as you know. But he at least changed his opinion. ",
"\"What's a battle?\"",
"I never said such a thing.",
"> It's amazing how Conservatives act when the gay person is someone they love.\n\n*Party before Country, unless it's Family.*",
"> \n> Mike Pence swearing in Doug Jones next to his openly gay son\n\nThat version sucks balls. Makes Mike Pence the subject. \n\nDoug Jones standing next to his openly gay son, being sworn in by Mike Pence.\n\nMuch better.",
"> On the other hand, being willing to waffle as soon as someone you know comes out as gay means it was never an earnestly held belief in the first place\n\nWhich is what I was alluding to above.\n\nIt's a tricky issue, that's for sure. Still, we should be able to talk about it like adults, not get triggered like a bunch of petulant children being told they can't have candy for lunch.",
"Source? I thought a study disproved that link. ",
"Someone's sexuality shouldn't mean anything about anything.\n\nIt's 2018. No one cares. Just don't shove any prejudice of any kind on people that don't want it and everything is good.",
"“I bent my wookie.”",
"So far, all of these are purely benefits, not rights, or a right obtainable through signing some other document.",
"**SO BRAVE**",
"> unless his trying to find where Pence's heart might be.\n\nSo he can rip it out and feed it to mongrel dogs. ",
"Care to explain why that is biphobic? Don´t get it. If a religious doctrine implants the thought into bisexual people, that loving your own gender is wrong, wouldn´t the thing i described be the outcome? ",
"No. I think that if people elect a governor and it's clear they agree with his views/ability to enact those views, it's okay. It's not always about religion either. I have no religion. \n\nIt was totally fucked up those people got sued for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding. ",
"Motherfucker is starin' down the devil.\n\n...good on him.",
"> are simply not based on any deep reasoning, just emotion and rhetoric that have never been critically examined.\n\nFlip-flopping your opinion because someone close to you is in whatever group you were against isn't based on deep reasoning either. It's ENTIRELY an emotional position.",
"> pedantic\n\n> shallow",
"I mean, the best time to make this argument might not be when Republicans picked an anti-gay bigot as Vice President. ",
"I think it's mainly just Pence in this example",
"Like father like son?",
"Here in the South \"eccentric\" is a euphemism sometimes used to avoid acknowledging homosexuality. He was making fun of that, not criticizing you.",
"If only every Conservative could simultaneously find out their son/daughter is a gay Muslim who is about to marry a black Mexican who was brought up in a poor family and maybe then we could say goodbye to bigotry! ",
"I dont get the fuss with what the title of this should be. We'd all know if Mike Pence had an openly gay son because Pence would've disowned him by now.",
"Is his son single? Because damn. ",
"Tell that to Tony Abbott\n",
"OGS's eyes appear to be casting some doubt upon Pence",
"What are love-ins?",
"Somebody must have cast a protection spell on Pence to keep the bible from burning him.",
"\"Are they going to take him to court?\" That's you implying that I know what the accusers are gonna do. I'm not psychic.\n",
"I was never aware that someone pumping gas for you was a thing.\n\nDo you tip them or something?",
"> I don't know why people act like this is such a big deal,\n\nMostly because Disney has pretty much cornered the market on childhood and it's scary to a population that relies on various media to compensate their children for the lack of attention caused by the fact that both parents have to work two jobs to get cable. And eat.",
"Anybody know the name of that sub where they make imaginary album covers.? This would work great!",
"But can they? How much of ones morality is ingrained into their very identity? For example, because of the religion they are a part of? ",
"I was wondering if you heard any news...not implying that you’re psychic. :/",
"The side eye the son is giving suggests this may be the case ",
"Not a good moment by any means.\n\nMakes him look pissed or paranoid.",
"> It really should be taught more that it's okay to be wrong or to change your mind.\n\nYeah, only people have completely gotten the wrong idea and now participation awards and tests it's impossible to fail are a thing.\n\nKids should be allowed to fail, without mollycoddling, without comforting and going \"here it's alright, have this award anyway\". The adults don't have to be dicks about it, but use it as a lesson to teach that failing is natural sometimes and an opportunity to learn.\n\nInstead of teaching them that nobody can tell them they're wrong.",
"No, he means with swear words: \"Well, you fuckin won, ya jackass.\"",
"Frankly, I'm just surprised that Mike Pence is allowed to stand that close to a woman who is not his wife.",
"Game. Blouses.",
"But do they know they won’t survive the winter and die of exposure if they’re shunned ",
"Virginia is the best state for it though.",
"I didn’t know he had a gay son. I’m surprised that wasn’t used against him during the election ",
"Right, literally take what you said and apply that to your response to the mere mention of /r/AgainstHateSubreddits\n\nIf your feelings aren't hurt then why lie about it being a hate sub? That post had 0 effect on your life, yet you were triggered anyway. You should talk to someone. Not good to be angry all the time, you know?",
"[You mean Tony Dumb Dumb?](https://youtu.be/c3IaKVmkXuk)",
"This means Congress won't be able to kill Sesame Street through zeroing of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Appropriations. Whether they zero or not is anyone's guess year-to-year, probably moreso in trumpworld.\n\nHBO could eventually kill Sesame Street when it no longer makes sense to carry such a heavy load. Licensing is currently where it's at for Sesame Street and should continue to make sense. \n\nPeople watching Sesame Street on PBS won't notice anything but a lag (but with 48 years catalog, it's not a big deal). \n\nPublic Broadcasting may have to figure some things out at the member station level (stations pay dues even in public to keep status) and lost a bargaining chip though... \n\nThere's been a lot of discussion in the Public Broadcasting sphere regarding longterm funding, especially in regards to the volatility of governmental funding. During the Sequestration, zeroing out the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was a huge talking point of the newly elected tea party members. \n\nWholly in response to those shakes from DC, Public Broadcasting stations began looking at what it would actually mean, to leave CPB yet still remain community/state Public Corporations. \n\nDue to the funding structure of CPB, there are \"Goldilocks\" (conditional outliers) members that could see a road out. Because of the curve, it's generally the Super Large Metro areas who can sustain grants through philanthropy, and the smaller rural stations with lower overhead and higher community giving rates. \n\nThe problem with that is: If you vacate the pond of both the big and little fish, what of the middle? Chances are administrative costs would be spread over fewer stations, things like the Minnesota/Alaska models of sharing would cease and CPB would soon see their overhead rise in a highly politicized time. \n\nIt kinda sucks for Public Broadcasting at large in a long run, but is good for Public Broadcasting/HBO/Kids/most everyone.",
"I feel like the title is missing a comma.",
"\"Go banana!\"",
"That was my take on her look. \"Dear god honey, please don't, not on the floor of the Congress, they'll never get the blood out of the carpet.\" ",
"Ridiculous. I have more respect for someone who follows their convictions than someone who goes wherever the wind takes them. If you believe something is wrong/right and you practice those beliefs than at least no one can call you a liar.",
"Yes, it's quiet sad when Muslims are attacked for thinking women should cover themselves up. Different moralities, amirite?\n\nIt's almost like American conservatives are enjoying getting coddled so much after the election when compared to the left. It's almost like saying it's almost like [my opinon is true] makes you sound like an idiot.\n\n",
"Paul Keating. But it's close.",
"\"There are dozens of us!\"",
"I don't know, i don't live in oregon, i just saw a post on fb about it, there is literally an entire wall of text of people asking \"how am i gonna get to work without gas\" or \"it's not safe!\" Lol",
"It's true! I can't live a lie anymore! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fXnzdi3wVgw&t=130",
"Reminds me of Daryl Davis, a black musician befriending local KKK members in to a point where they just dismantled their chapter.\n\nKilling KKK with kindness. (KKKKK)",
"I believe that if their conviction in their position is honest and genuine, it's an admirable trait, even if the actual position or opinion is disgusting. It's like a dubiously redeeming feature. Like a \"well, he's a cunt, but gotta give him points for not wavering\" kind of thing.\n\nQueue a barrage of downvotes from people who can't separate the two distinct points in my comment and have decided I'm saying bigotry is a good thing.",
"It's about vocal gay haters, not those who just have some opinion because they were indoctrinated by their church. The people who will answer that gays shouldn't be allowed to marry if asked? Probably not (all) gay. The one dude who will constantly complain about everything that is \"gay\", point out every gay couple and let out a disgusted \"ough\", and bring his distasteful opinion up in every other discussion? Probably gay. ",
"Considering he supports electro-shock therapy for it, I don't think he would react too well. ",
"Sworn into office by the secretly closeted gay, Mike Pence. ",
"“having or revealing an obstinate belief in the superiority of one's own opinions and a prejudiced intolerance of the opinions of others.” \n\nIntolerant of an entire way of thinking, check, moral superiority, check. You hit the main points pretty hard\n\n",
"Sure. If I was weeping and screaming outright, it would affect my analyzation. But we're just chatting on the internet, there was no need for him to think I was \"triggered\" (his words) and therefore try to exclude me from debate. ",
"Because you opened with \"Why the fuck\". To get an emphatic response I must have at least brushed a nerve.",
"ZAP",
"> viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of **two sequential shots** than from a single shot in isolation.\n\nFrom the page you linked, sorry. I agree that people do apply biases of a situation's context to photos but the Kuleshov effect, afaik, is specific to film editing.",
"The future of what? The first gay president?",
"They are in the closet.",
"Two of my siblings are openly gay. Mum loves them none the less but is still against it",
"Thanks, I appreciate it. Come back soon.",
"http://time.com/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom/\n\nHe's held some arguably anti-gay political positions over the years.",
"If looks could kill. ",
"The same for trans people. ",
"Lol I did that to raise the comment counter from 777 to 778 \n\nFor some reason I have been experiencing a weird chain of coincidences in which a LOT of posts had 777 likes or comments on them \n\nAnywhere and everywhere it’s weird \n\n",
"As a gay, there are many conservatives who think about gay sex far more often than I do. Pence, Santorum, Pat Robertson, that asshole that stumped for Cruz, probably Cruz himself. ",
"Lol wow Those have to be fake bots or something...\n\nTransients and skirts keeps coming up which is weird,\n",
"ROFL",
"Sounds like Roseburg",
"Tolerant? I thought liberals were supposed to be snowflakes? ^(/s)",
"You really did a number on that title didn't you",
"Bringing up Obama is pointing out the double standard of using positions taken a decade ago. The article you posted lacks any specifics about 2016.",
"Do you support a fundamentalist Muslim's restaurant's \"right\" not to serve women who don't cover their hair?\n\nThat's my problem with religious conservatives. Very often they're not in favor of \"religious freedom\", they're only in favor of their own religion's freedom. ",
"\"Very attractive man and some woman\" isn't gay even if you spend most of your time looking at the man 🤔",
"pence resigned!!1!1",
"I understood it. Your title sounds too clustered. ",
"Whereas ex-Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbot, who is conservative (though his party is incongruously called the Liberal Party) whose sister and her lesbian partner were two of the faces of the recent Yes campaign for legalising gay marriage came out with pearls such as:\n\n\"It's time to say that political correctness has got completely out of hand and to vote \"no\" to stop it in its tracks.\"\n\nHe also said it would threaten society and religious freedom.\n\nHe is still in office and said he would vote with his electorate, which voted overwhelmingly yes.\n\nThen he abstained from the actual vote in Parliament.\n\nHere is a nice mural someone painted though http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/scott-marsh-mural/8893108\n",
"More identity politics...give it a fucking rest.",
"well, I think you'll find most mature Americans in the 20-40 age range don't care too much if someone is gay or lesbian, so yup, i'm done with our chat.",
"Pence looks so pissed and the others are just loving it! This is great!",
"Yeah, we hate you too.\n\n^^^^^^^^/jk",
"you can sort of see the disdain on Pence's face. Sad, very sad that he's the vice president",
">Apparently most people in Oregon assume that in order to pump gas you must first remove all people from the vehicle and stand in the open while thugs attack from all angles, all while being sprayed with gas\n\n\nHey man, [bad stuff can happen at gas stations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2MfsMmki5U&t=5s).",
"but why male role models?",
"When Pence walked into the room I'd have said \"DING DING...Hoist the Rainbow Flag, the Queen Mary is comin' into port.\" ",
"YES!\n\nI was wondering who's openly gay son it was.",
"There's no evidence that Pence hates homosexuals.",
"It’s actually down to 24% in 2017\n\n\nhttp://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/5-homosexuality-gender-and-religion/\n\n\nAnd yeah two options of either “accepted” or “discouraged” by society. Not sure if that still seems “rather large” to you, but the data is the data ",
"It wasn't just \"the mere mention of /r/AgainstHateSubreddits\". It was someone acting like one hate subreddit has some sort of moral authority over other hate subreddits. \n\nAlso, my response was pretty mild compared to what you wrote. And I didn't target an individual. \"Snowflake ass bitch\" was it? I would hope you could come up with better insults than that. ",
"Doug Jones stands next to Mike Pence, openly gay son; swears to uphold his constitutional duty.\"",
"Yeah, actually. I don't think call-out culture or attacking someone for something they honestly think is a moral good is at all okay. Its what reasoned discussion is for. Why do Muslims believe that way? What are they trying to accomplish with that idea? What is actually happening when that idea is implemented? We either have to be open-minded to all or to none. Picking and choosing based on convenience is no longer a moral system. ",
"*Owed a toilet*\n\nRussian Hookers (KGB Inc.)",
"> I don't want to pump my own gas, hate the smell and having to get out in the Winter in a skirt, no way\n\nJesus christ, people. ",
"Or OP since he actually did ",
"That’s what I read. People trying to trick the algorithm for top feed.",
"Is that identity politics i detect?",
"How about nazis - what is your stance on American neo-nazis?\n\nI mean if an entire Nation elects a Presidents who has no problems with Nazis killing an American citizen in 2017; then it's clear the entire nation is fine with nazis (this is the logic you just used)",
"eyeing Mike pences bulge ",
"Lucky for Doug Jones and his family he isn't being sworn in by [Biden](https://youtu.be/CGkmMKn_fBk)!",
"You're postulating a lot of extremely homophobic people are secretly bisexual. This blames bisexual people for homophobia, or at least serious acts of homophobia like institutionalized homophobia. Because homophobia affects anyone who experiences same-sex attraction, this effectively shifts the blame of homophobia from the (mostly straight) people and institutions that teach and perpetuate it, onto the very people it victimizes and oppresses. This is really no different from the \"extremely homophobic people are all secretly gay\" theory, except for the added bonus that bisexual people face biphobia in addition to homophobia, which is something we have to deal with from straight and gay people alike. Additionally, your theory relies on the idea that bisexual people can easily choose to (pretend to) be straight. That's really not the case. I suffered the same effects from being in the closet that gay people do.\n\nIt's also just statistically improbable. LGB people are a minority of the population. There's way more homophobes out there than us.",
"It's like how atheists think about religion all day",
"If you look carefully at Jones' hand, he is clearly raising his middle finger in between his other fingers!",
"Just because you love someone doesn't mean you see them as an equal. It's like asking \"if you love your dog, why don't you let it vote?\" Maybe somewhat less dehumanizing than that. Sorta. ",
">FreeSkydives4Commies \n\nLet me guess, Barack Obama and the Clintons are radical communist socialist leftists?",
"It's in the third paragraph down, dude. Come on. \n\nIf you follow the links in that paragraph you'll also discover this:\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us/politics/indiana-law-denounced-as-invitation-to-discriminate-against-gays.html\n\nThat was three years ago. ",
"/r/madlads\n\n/r/cringe ",
"It's simple: He doesn't love her. As fucked up as that sounds.",
"And yet his district voted overwhelmingly in favour of gay marriage!\n\nGood old out-of-touch onion eater Tones.",
"I'm not right leaning, not a republican or a conservative, didn't vote for trump, don't like pence.\n\nNow given that, what I see in this picture...I see an old guy doing his job, and a gay guy mad dogging him because of a difference in spiritual and personal values and beliefs.\n\nNow if you ask me, is call that \"close minded\".",
"In New Jersey, they force you to have your tank filled by gas attendants. You're not allowed to do it yourself, at least on the highway.\n\nBoy was I surprised when a dude ran me down and told me I wasn't allowed to pump my own gas.",
"But is he an openly-gay ex-Olympic fencer?",
"Damn rich kids, getting all of the current and relevant moral lessons from singing puppets on TV while low-income youths have to wait 6-months. Poor kids will be 6-months behind on understanding all the Sesame Street memes.",
"But the media keeps telling me that if you don't support gay marriage then you *hate* homosexuals.",
"To counter that, former Australian Prime Minister is vehemently anti gay and spearheaded the 'vote no' campaign in our recent gay marriage survey.. His sister is very openly gay and has been for a long time.\n \nI bet they have the most awkward Christmases.",
"Source?",
"Nah, that logic is dumb.\n\nThat's like saying /r/atheism is secretly religious. ",
"Almost every politician does. Republican or democrat. It is now a trend to support gay marriage as a democrat. Can’t win the democratic presidency without supporting this issue. Can’t win a republican one while supporting this issue. ",
"http://time.com/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom/\n\nHe's generally lobbied for some arguably homophobic positions",
"Because I used a curse word, I was triggered and unable to be debated with?",
"Optic Gay Transferrance from Jones Jr. \n \nVP Pence, defenseless, mesmerized, hypnotically, falls to his knees, lowers the zipper and while cupping the sweaty, bulging bag of nectar, engulfs the turgid shaft in one giant swallow like a blue whale enveloping plankton, swallowing the millions of little swimmers like a starving man at a gay Ryan’s Buffet.",
"That's not name calling. Name calling is like if I said you're a fuckwit. Pedantic and Shallow are descriptors of your argument in their post. I don't quite understand how you can interpret that as name calling.\n\n",
"This just in, most racist white people are actually black but paint themselves white each morning.",
"Reminds me of this great video from Dale Hansen...\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Fum9jeApDzk",
"I bet pence would be rather... shocked",
"Not sure what you mean with the first one, but if you mean polygamy, I, am not against that, and maybe that should be revised, with the necessary checks and balances in place to counter abuse. \n\n\nsecond one: that one is a bit obvious, except when there's no blood relation, revise as well I suppose. \n\n\nThird one: marriage is a contract, no under age person can enter a legally binding contract, so there's that.\n\n \n\njust out of curiosity, are you actually against gay marriage or just like being clever about these things? ",
"I wonder how he'll react when he finds out he himself is gay.",
"I believe it's called \"tolerance\"",
"Homophobic God willing. ",
"> Sesame Street, at this point, has become such a pop culture phenomenon there's really no need to watch it. \n\n\nAside from your intentional misunderstanding of what they said, wtf point are you trying to make here? If something gets popular people don't want to watch it any more? It makes zero sense.",
"You know, humans possess this amazing ability to not have to blanket case every single fucking thing.\n\nIf you can't see the difference between same sex marriage (marriage between two consenting, non-related adults) and pedophilia, then you actually deserve some namecalling.",
"Eau Penly Gayson\nEau de Toilette\nMike Pence",
"Hmm, I wouldn't say that. I mean someone can do something wrong and you can still love, appreciate and respect them. \n\nMost Christian churches condemn pre-marital sex between men and women as much as they condemn gay sex. Gays just get really up in arms and call people that don't approve hateful.\n\nI disapprove of my sister riding her bike in the city without a helmet, it's irresponsible and sets a bad example for others. I'm still going to hang out, love and respect my sister.\n\nGay politics just paints everyone that disagrees with them as a hateful bigot and that's what you're doing. It's not right, but it's effective.",
"Why is that black family necessarily associated with the inner city? The two don’t necessarily correlate...",
"Sweared, is that a word?",
"This is the problem with the left. I'm 100,000,000 % supporter of LGBQ community. But if someone doesn't approve, what's the issue. They are allowed to have their beliefs. \n\nAnd from what I've heard unless I've seen misinformation the Mike Pence horror stories are untrue. \n\nMy post isn't even really centered towards Mike Pence just in general. If someone is against homosexuality, that's their thing. \n\nDo a good percentage of those people probably have gay thoughts? Probably lol. They should just do it and stop hating.",
"Why must everything extravagant be in French?",
"Or u/kws1993",
"Not really, no. Neoconservatism was all about paying lip service to social conservatism to get the votes of the religious right while really concentrating on an imperialist foreign policy.",
"Any emotional or important context this post should have is ruined by the OP's poor grammar.",
"To be fair Pence, could then make buzzing sounds when going in for a handshake in return.",
"I find half a bottle if wine and a few bumps of MDMA is the best state for love tbh. ",
"In English, the simple past of swear is 'swore', and the past participle is 'sworn'. I have no fucking idea what language you are trying to speak.",
"The word ‘triggered’ carries such negative connotations that whenever it’s used people get offended and furher discussion is doomed. Hence I don’t think it has much use anymore.\n\nAs for you, you probably weren’t triggered but still mentioned the possibility of being offended. That said, my comments weren’t directed at your analyzing abilities but at the majority of discussions concerning hot topics.",
"Doug Jones sworn into office by Mike Pence next to his son.",
"Everything about that title is all kinds of wrong grammar. Mods should've taken it down. ",
"Most things are simple until they affect you personally.",
"Lee Harvey Oswald just liked pamphlets and book depositories! ",
"”Like using gasoline as aftershave - bracing!” ",
"Damn dude, you're like a historian scientist psychologist or something!",
"wut",
"same theory as to why densely populated areas are more liberal and rural areas are more conservative. The more you are around a certain type or mix of people you start to understand them, but if you are isolated its easy to be xenophobic and fearful ",
"Surely you've heard something like \"you don't want to end up pumping gas for a living do you?\"\n\nThey don't get tips in Canada. I personally avoid places that pump for you. ",
"r/titlegore",
"lol /titlegore",
"Same\n\nFuck Ajit Pai",
"I knew he supported i just thought the reason was because it had worked on him. O well. It was a nice idea while it lasted",
"2 states as far as I'm concerned. It's oregon and new jersey. ",
"> sweared\n\nJesus Fucking Christ ",
"What is obvious about the second one? If I'm sexually attracted to someone in my close family, why can't I marry them?\n\nLittle of column A, little of column B. ",
"You would be surprised how many welfare recipients are against welfare",
"I bet you get a headache when you read anything longer than the back of a cereal box.",
"What's a battle?\n",
">*hot* gay son",
"Needs to go for a swim",
"Um. It's relevant due to Mike Pence's homophobia. ",
"Fair enough. Then I simply disagree. \n\nAmerica was not more free when black people needed special travel guides to know where it was safe for them to eat and sleep during a road trip.",
"Suck it, Pence. You racist, homophobic ass-munch.",
"Morals and religion are something you are taught, and therefore you have the power to change your beliefs and overcome those teachings, even though it may be difficult. That's not analogous to me being out and expressing my sexuality. I wasn't taught same-sex attraction. It's not something you can teach.",
"You know, I'm a former Republican, I voted for Trump, love me hate me whatever. The one platform that pushed me away from the Republican party the most is the anti gay agenda. I've been to Afghanistan twice, I've served with gay soldiers, they're just as good if not better because they feel they have something to lose. I still lean a little right when it comes to politics, but there is one thing I won't back down on and that is helping the homo'ies get some butt pussy without getting shamed. Get it you significantly better well groomed bastards!",
"\"I'm a Star Wars!\"",
"he also tried several times to enact legislation that makes it legal to specifically discriminate against homosexuals, argued several times that it is discrimination to prevent christians from discriminating homosexuals, stated that allowing openly gay couples among us is a signal that society is starting to break down, and had some things to say about gay members of the military as well.\n\nmaybe read up on a topic before you start raging about it next time :)",
"Whatever you say, /u/Cuckcuck_ ...",
"Reminds of that Nazi picture when he was told the photographer was Jewish ",
"Something like a cover marriage that involves children? ",
"How is this news in a civilized country?",
"I'm not the one defining these rights that supposedly exist, you know. So far we have a claim that you have the right to marry whomever you are sexually attracted to. I'm probing to see how many revisions this right goes through.",
"Nah, slightly left of center and center right respectively. I'm more pragmatic than that. ",
"You sir have my upvote.",
"But Pennsylvania has Intercourse. ",
"Pence looks like \"Mother\" made him try a buttplug 3 sizes too big without warning or lube. Somebody get him 2 popsicles and a Valium.",
"Ooh, here comes the personal insults again. Can't say I'm too surprised as that's the typical resort when you've run out of actual counters. ",
"I said \"related to\". If you know a closer term, please tell us.",
"These people should come to the Netherlands . They won't get far because everything is self service here.",
"I mean maybe but I also am of the opinion gay people are aware they are, in fact, having gay sex",
"I grew up in Alabama and there is not much difference between rural Alabama and rural Oregon. I live in Portland now and if you go 20 minutes outside of Portland it is very much the same.",
"Historically many of the the politicians with the *most* vitriol against gays have been gay themselves. Pence definitely attacks gay peoples right to exist, whereas your other examples are just on the wrong side. ",
"Turns out sworn and sweared are both past and past participle. Sweared is nonstandard.\n\nAnd we be speaking English, asshole.",
"I'm assuming it was just a \"lol republicans are dumb\" comment",
"Haha this is funny. Apparently, you can't even exit your car without stumbling over \"transients\" in Oregon.",
"But you don't have it?",
"Really wasn't expecting that comment to start extolling the virtues of Sesame St.",
"What's with the prolific use of \"transient\"",
"I'll probably get down voted to hell just lime the last time I said this but here goes...\n\nI often get told I'm racist by my left leaning friends because I'm really hard on gang banger wannabes. They conveniently ignore all my posts that involve other cultures I dislike including those amongst the white race because I guess that would mean they would have to admit they choose to not look at the full picture.\n\nAnyway, I've said for a long time that I'm not against any race. I'm against certain cultures within those (all?) races. Let me examine that just a bit further with a personal experience.\n\nI've traveled all over the country. Been in some fantastic inner city areas (/s) and some awesome developed areas but for this discussion I'm going to use a trip that took me to two extremes just a couple of hours apart.\n\nI woke up one morning and was going to take a ride on my motorcycle about 40 minutes away for breakfast. That somehow turned into a trip that took me two states away from home for the afternoon.\n\nOn this trip, I stumbled across a very \"average\" rural town. I took note that the vast majority of the populace was black. Most were older but there were certainly younger as well. The homes and yards, while older, were all well taken care of and maintained. The people I crossed paths with were all dressed nicely and most were seemingly friendly. Waving or nodding as I moved through town.\n\nProbably less than an hour later, I hit a larger city (still somewhat small but definitely a city). Here too was mostly black, with a hodge podge of Hispanic and white and probably some others too but definitely black heavy. Here, the houses were mostly trashed, the vehicles all ghettoed out, thug wear well represented with all trying to appear \"hard\".\n\nYards were full of junk. No friendliness encountered with exception of two nice guys and a woman (who in full disclosure were wearing the aforementioned thug wear) that were sitting in the eating area of a local gas station that I stopped at for a break.\n\nMy point in that long winded ramble is this. People can dislike subsets of certain cultures without disliking an entire race (lazy inner city versus Johnson the hard worker) but to voice said opinion will generally get you lumped together with actual racists that don't give two shits what a person is like but strictly focuses on the color of skin.\n\nYour childhood memory is not one of hypocrites but rather of people that disliked the typical inner city culture. There again, not all in the inner city are bad but the shit heads are certainly well represented. \n\nIts no different than when I talk shit about my dislike of meth head white trash. That doesn't make me racist against whites, it means I dislike the trash that typically fall within a certain populace that fit the white trash stereotypes. \n\nEdit: LoL... Never change reddit. \n\n\"Someone doesn't have my same viewpoint! They are racist, a nazi, a fascist...\" \n",
"I believe the word \"eye-raping\" conveys more dominance.",
"OP title fail.",
"It's actually how all gas was dispensed originally\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling_station_attendant",
"I live in Orange County and when the free plastic bag ban went into effect, some middle aged guy was pissed as fuck that he couldn't have a bag for free. He was so mad that he demanded a refund. Just because he couldn't have a free grocery bag for his ONE (1) bag of family size doritos. ",
"Dammit son, it’s official!",
"There aren't any kids at the mall anymore (anymoore).",
"He's just a cunt.",
"Tony Abbott embodies this and he is not deserving of your admiration. ",
"No, but if they start washing my windshield without asking, then I feel compelled to.",
"Yeah people tried to say that Bill Clinton was looking at Ivanka during Trumps swearing in. ",
"Ignorant White people can come to grips with the fact that Pit Bulls aren't inherently dangerous but will think all Black people are violent thugs, so that sort of cognitive dissonance doesn't surprise me",
"Wait... Americans don't pump their own gas into their cars?",
"I just moved to Jersey from New York and I forgot where I was and went to pump my own gas....the way I got yelled at you would think I was trying to blow the place up. ",
"Combo budgie smuggler/Harold Holt reference FTW!",
"I don't know. They shouldn't.",
"[1] Still waiting for (or finally getting) acceptance from his mother.\n\nOr, \n\n[2] Glaring down Mike Pence as the evil homophobe he is.",
"You sure showed him!",
"Standing next to his openly gay son, Doug Jones is sworn into office by closeted gay Mike Pence.",
"Oregonian here, Nah, at least in our community we didn't tip them. Weirdly I am hearing more people freak out about the loss of jobs than the lack of somebody doing a service for you. ",
"All those cites at worst are \"against\" the LGBT by proxy, not directly.",
"Why is this news? Is this a contender in the shitty title, irreverent story and bad grammar triathlon?",
"Yo people freak out about the recent free plastic bag ban in California. Any change really scares the shit out of them.",
"I love how they both have such barely controlled amusement all over their faces!",
"And if the person themselves are secretly gay, they’re twice as homophobic.",
"Odd, because you'll find a slew of people who have changed their sexuality, albeit with difficulty, just like you've mentioned beliefs will change. \n\nNot saying I think being gay is a choice every gay person woke up and made one day, but I wouldn't say the same thing for a lot of moralities that people abide by, either. ",
"F",
"I'm a brick!",
"What is the reasoning behind people not being allowed to pump their own gas? Surely if people can be trusted to drive a car they can pour liquid in a hole.",
"Hate the sin, love the sinner.",
"Literally one person hits somebody with their car and you jump to the conclusion Nazis are a major threat to the US. Get the fuck outta here.",
"Very cute son!",
"Pence sure does, and frankly I think you're giving some conservatives too much credit. ",
"Mostly outdated policies though, most occurred when the nation itself was less friendly towards gay people too. I think a lot of republicans have changed with the nation as well. My extremely right wing father doesn’t even think gay marriage is bad anymore.",
"Sworn. \n\nSWORN!\n\nfuck\n\nAlso, Mike Pence is a fucking piece of shit. ",
"Then let’s go to Egypt, or Chechnya where they routinely spend and support government resources to oust gays. They’re certainly going out of their way to talk about gays there. Are the men (and women) there, who support such crimes more likely to be gay too? \n\n\nThe “routine/intense homophobia is only explained by repressed homosexuality” hypothesis is funny at first, but c’mon. When people, like you, suggest that all vocal or externalized homophobia is disguised homosexuality, it’s blaming gay people for their own oppression. I mean, just look at how you phrased it: when it’s a vocal gay hater it’s a gay guy but when it’s someone (a straight guy) who has the same opinions but doesn’t say as much, it’s “some opinion because they were indoctrinated by their church”. \n",
"I've literally never heard that saying in my life. I'm European though and gas attendants aren't a thing here.",
"They have every right to say what they want. They have freedom of speech. \n\n",
"Cool story",
"Yeah nah, malcolm? Are you for real? Yeah paul keeting comes close but ol mate tony takes the cake.",
"You seem to have this misconception that all conservatives are against gay marriage. My whole family is religious and conservatives but have never said gay marriage is wrong. We have no gay family members either.\n\nPeople think all conservatives are against it but that's because of stereotypes and our voices get overrun by assumptions and loud people who think they are correct.",
"You base that on reddit..",
"33% of people say that, but how many of them are, like, raging homophobes rather than passive ones? We're talking the ones who actually physically threaten/assault gay people. The ones who really crusade against it, not the ones who just curse the gays under their breath but don't do anything other than vote and sneer at two men holding hands. The latter are brainwashed, backward people, for sure, but the former are the ones who are likely to be closeted homosexuals.",
"Something like a butthole, I reckon he mean-ed.",
"Yes I do support their right. \n\nIt's not even my \"own\" religion.",
"Nowadays though you just take hundreds of photos and you're likely to find atleast one good one. ",
"Peaceful protests, typically against the Viet Nam war that focused on love and peace, during the 1960s. John Lennon and Yoko Ono did a much-publicised version dubbed a \"bed-in\" in 1969.",
"I think Pence is the one who’s a little light in the loafers ;)",
"Me too. Like, does being vocally opposed to pedophilia make you a probable pedophile?",
"woah... This Is Crazy becuz They have different Opinion. Hah. Woag.",
"Interesting. So it's just a classic case of two people talking past each other. Because you wrongly assumed what ideas are behind my original comment. \n\nHow do you reconcile the assumption that I hold my opinions as superior with my statement saying that there's nothing wrong with being fiscally conservative? If I was the caricatural person you think I am, I would've just answered the question with a simple \"yes\", not with a comment that hints at a more nuanced way of thinking.\n\nYou opened your comment by saying that you're not a Republican. What makes you think I care? Did you think I would hate you or dismiss your opinion for it?\n\nYou came up with an awful lot of conclusions about me based on just six words. ",
"That's like, most of the world.",
"That look that Jones' son and Pence are sharing.... that's some adult content. ",
"What did he say? ",
"Its not “amazing”. It’s unfortunately how we are. It so easy to be a homophobe when you don’t know any gay people and a racist when you don’t know any black people. Once you have then in your life it’s a lot harder to dehumanize them as simply part of some group. ",
"Not just America. My grandfather is a minister, my uncle recently came out properly, we've all known for years and my grandfather has not taken it well. The man is in the later years of his life, granny passed away not that long ago and he has cut off one of his sons completely.\n\nMeanwhile the middle child, a drug addict piece of shit (he's a piece of shit, being a drug addict is not why he's a piece if shit, it just makes it so much worse) gets bought a new car by my grandfather. Gets forgiven for punching my grandfather in a fit of rage when they were trying an 'intervention'. Gets a pass on being an absentee father for 20 years. \n\nAll the lies and bullshit and nastiness is just fine but woe betide him if he married and loved another man. ",
"\"I don't want to serve black people because of my religion, what's so wrong with that??\" ",
"Mcpoyke is more of a slither. ",
"Doug Jones sworn into office by his openly gay son, Mike Pence.",
"That's because you don't represent the evangelicals that constituted most of the party a few decades ago. Now your party is mostly comprised of people even more prone to fantasy. Kudos. No one thought you could get more ignorant and untenable, but you were resolute in your efforts.\n\nI would thank you for destroying the future of constervatism in the US, but the truth is that the Democrats that will usurp your power thanks to your comical level of ineptitude, naked malfeasance, and hack villainous thievery, and that will leave us with god damned neoliberals at the wheel.\n\nIn other words, congratulations for realizing the core of the Republican base has changed since Trump and Bannon made nazism cool again. Here's a gold star to put on your lapel, but just to be clear it's to symbolize learning, not whatever your people tell think they're for...",
"Be careful guys, it could be like hanged... I mean who saw that one coming in elementary english? ",
"Or when he comes out as gay",
"When I look at Jones juniors face there's also at least one person in that photo that is thinking about getting eye lasers.",
"read up on the definition of homophobe.\n\njust because the root of -phobe is the greek word for fear, doesn't mean that the modern english word is completely bound to this single definition.\n\n(regardless of this, i *do* think that his stance on homosexuality is ultimately rooted in fear, just not in fear of these icky gays per se, but in fear of losing power).",
"You read more into my words than i intentioned on saying. Of course i´m not saying, that this is the case for ALL bisexuals. More of a extremly vocal splinter group, that act that way. My maint point is about the people, who always think that being gay or bisexual is a decision. Wouldn´t that mean, that they chose to be straight at some point in their lives? I didn´t say anything about those decisions being easy either. But you have to get into the mindset of those super religious people. For them, being bisexual or gay is just not an option! Every thought or urge is a sin that you must resist under all circumstances. These \"pray the gay away\" camps exist because of this mindset. Ridiculous and extremly despicable in my eyes. I´m more blaming in the closet bisexuals for actively supporting these actions and making it harder for everyone else. EDIT: to be more clear, i´m blaming the in the closet bisexuals who support that stuff, NOT ALL in the closet bisexuals of course. ",
"I’m from Oregon. Tipping is non customary but apparently some people do it idk why. I don’t tip my mechanic or the people in retail but hot damn do people get excited when someone else washes their windows. That’s the only time I’ve seen it.",
"A character from the TV show The Simpsons",
"But Mike Pence surely does.",
"That grin though.",
"So being homophobic is the way to complain about homophobia?",
"So we've boiled down your personal support of legal gay marriage to \"The government rewards it for some reason, and even though I don't know what that reason is, anybody in any marriage-esque relationship fulfills that reason\".\n\nI can't think of a more correct word besides \"fulfill\", but I hope my understanding of your opinion is conveyed accurately.",
"[over 23 of them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMsG9ScQP9I). That's some wide stance they got over at the GOP.",
"It's a jobs thing. Mandatory gas attendants at every pump means more demand for labor.",
"It’s hilarious how conservatives want us to believe they weren’t all for calling us degenerates just some years ago, then switching to “I just believe marriage is between a man and a women” and soon they will probably say they always supported us. It’s amazing how in just a few years they managed to quiet down the memories in their heads of how they despised, insulted and pissed all over us for decades and convinced themselves they were just indifferent towards and not actually hated the concept of LGBT rights.",
"If side-eye could kill",
"Those all look like pretty reasonable stances, and none are evidence that he *hates* gay people.",
"Great, he totally destroyed our meme.",
"Except your average voter isn't going to vote beyond their self interests. If your primary concern is lowering your taxes, reducing commercial/business regulations for your small business, and keeping the 2nd amendment as unrestrictive as possible, why would you then turn around and support the candidate that campaigns against all the previously mentioned issues you care about but is for the one thing that youre ok with but doesn't really have any bearing on your own life.\n\nEdit: words",
"Seeing what you want to see.",
"I think you mean complicit",
"So did Obama. So did Clinton. What's your point? \n\n",
"I don't care what they truly believe. I care about what they do and if you're not supporting your relatives because they're gay then I would consider you deplorable.\n\nBeing strongly convinced isn't in itself a positive trait. ",
"What does his son's gayness have to do with anything? I thought we are beyond that stuff?",
"Seems like most don't even have children that are American.",
"but homo means same and phobe means fear, so he fears what's different . That make him a heterophobe",
"Unfortunately there are still a lot of conservatives who aren't accepting even when it's someone they love. ",
"lol go sober up, kid",
"Isn’t it supposed to be sworn? Is this some weird official spelling like hanged? ",
"Mike pence is not",
"Sesame Street doesn’t have anything on the diversity of mr Rogers’s neighborhood",
"If the shoe fits...\n\nBTW, nice post history. I bet the_Cheeto is real proud.",
"that’s like a quarter of their lives at that point!",
"Well, you can also just hate the concept of all adult couples regardless of sex enjoying the same rights and benefits under the law.",
"Sworn. Sworn. Sworn.",
"I don't think he has any ideas at all. But he did support gay people in front of the GOP\n\nedit: sorry for saying shit that doesnt fit the narrative. Apparently people are either 100% good or 100% bad.",
"Mike Pence is openly anti-lgbtq.",
"Same... Reddit has really gone to crap with this SJW agenda.. you can't even leave free speech anymore?",
"Apparently the Trump voters aren’t either. ",
"Mike \"Ol' Slanty Hat\" Pence.\n\nFuck. I'm really bad at this game.",
"What does his son being gay have anything to do with anything? ",
"Phrasing",
"California doesn't slide below the sea level with its tectonic movements. It slides away. It'll become an island and eventually merge with South America.",
"I did say \"arguably\". Personally I'd say that thinking homosexuality is a choice, legalising workplace discrimination, and fighting for don't ask don't tell are all pretty homophobic, but I appreciate there are arguments for the latter two",
"Source needed.",
"Intentionally changing your sexuality is absolutely not possible. Conversion therapy is torture and brainwashing, and there is no proof it works.",
"“Doug Jones sworn into office by openly gay son, mike pence”",
"Because inner city is code for black people in some circles. ",
"so stupid?\n\n",
"I've had a few chunks of raw onion meant for the barby and I can tell you this. The day someone gives me a spicy apple is the day I give up on fruit and veggies.",
"Mike Pence is a gay man deep in the closet himself so I doubt it'd affect his views",
"I'm really digging how uncomfortable Mikes's son looks.\n\n\nReally captures the spirit of politics right now.\n\nHis son looks like he's waiting for a punchline .\n\nNah, dude you are watching a politician get sworn in next to \"Mike the electric Fence Pence\".\n\nAre we done with anti-gay religious shit yet?",
"I'm a pioneer. But that's besides the point, even if I did drink it wouldn't change the fact I'm right.",
"I will look for it but I think there was a study saying that conservative people will most likely only change their view if a topic affects them directly through family while liberal people are more empathetic to other people's views. I don't think it was a shaming paper but an observation through statistical analysis and psychology.",
"Hey, fuck you. Glad he's running this country. Thanks.",
"Lazy source: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweared",
"The son's gaydar must be going haywire looking at Pence with how deep in the closet Pence is",
"Honestly, when it comes to Alabama, incest is heavily implied.",
"You won't believe what comes after W. I'm not gonna spoil it but man, that shit just came out of nowhere. ",
"I think “Doug Jones sworn into office, next to his openly gay son, by Mike Pence” works better.",
"I was reading through the comments and read yours quickly and moved on. A few seconds later I laughed out loud and had to come back and upvote it. Sneaky funny.\n",
"Went to Jersey for a rodeo, had a conversation with a girl at the pump about this. \n\nShe said, and I quote,: \"In Jersey, we don't pump gas, we pump fist!\"",
"Sweared in = “@!&$&@!!!”",
"Well, part of the problem people have with those bans in those States are that a lot of places aren't just banning plastic bags, they're also charging for each paper bag you ask for (which can easily be recycled and are biodegradable). So in essence they're kind of getting ripped off. ",
"Is this only a modern American phenomenon or do you suggest the Nazis who imprisoned gays to be closet cases as well? \n\n\nThis isn’t a nonsense Hitler tangent. If you really believe that “extreme homophobia can only be explained as repressed homosexuality”, then I wonder if you believe it only in the current American cultural climate or if it’s like a universal human tendency",
"Both have more recently been in support of things like gay marriage, transgender rights, anti-workplace discrimination acts. ",
"It's the look on his son's face that makes this picture for me.\n\n\"OK, so which one of you inbred streaks of piss is gonna be the first to say something?\" ",
"I can’t imagine the satisfaction he must have standing there, seeing his homophobic ass have to swear in the father of a gay child. I think this is one of my gay fantasies. ",
"Pence is extremely anti-gay and supports the practice of conversion \"therapy.\" ",
"Oh hi Mark.",
"It sounds like utopia ",
"Edgy",
"Omg I know ",
"Nobody really cares about that shit.. \n\n\n\nAt the end of the day it's just capitalists vs communists. \n\nOne ideology supports people working hard and growing to Help society the other supports the death of hundreds of millions.\n\nOne champions personal responsibility the other champion's victimhood and blaming failor on the successful instead of learning from it. \n\n",
"Just Oregonian things™",
"I mean...",
"Rigidity in beliefs is a good thing for Christians. It is to be admired. \n\nHave you heard the story of Job? \n\nThe devil told god that the man Job only loved him because he had so much good shit going for him in life. God said \"Oh yea? Watch this.\" and proceeded to fucking OBLITERATE Job. Took his farm, his livestock, his family, and his health. Yet he was still faithful to God. That's why Christians usually have the belief that all trials and tribulations are to be met with unyielding determination and not a willingness to adjust. \n\nIf you want to argue biological necessity then it does actually make sense to abandon your gay children. They are less likely to reproduce. Better to invest in the kids who will carry on your blood line.\n\nI understand you though, you are trying to swing science to the side of acceptance, but it's deceitful and you will lose more people from your progressiveness than you will gain. Better to be open and honest. Say \"I don't know, but I'll let you know when I find out for sure.\" ",
"In India they try to short you on gas by altering the display so that it looks like more petrol was put in than was actually. You also pay in cash so the attendant pockets the difference.\n\n**TL;DR:** Don't trust others to fill you up.",
"Careful there. You're going to strain something if you keep stretching like that. ",
"The way you say it makes it seem like mike pence is Jones’ gay son. Should probably be “Vice President Mike Pence swears in new senator Doug Jones as he stands with his openly gay son” IMO ",
"Budgie smuggler?",
"\"I just threw the brick *at* your head, it didn't hit you! I'm not a bad person!\"",
"How about a real source? Because this pretend one also thinks beated and readed are the past participles of beat and read. I'm sure I could keep adding to this list.\n\nhttps://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/beated\n\nhttps://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/readed",
"I was expecting Roy Moore to bust through the middle of it..",
"I'm sorry I still don't see that as wrong. If I own a business I believe I should be able to refuse service to anyone I want. The alternative is to say you are being forced to do something against your will. ",
"Russians. \n\nEnglish not first language.",
"I believe the word is sworn but Pence looks pissed ",
"Being PRO-LGBT and a republican seems incredibly counter-productive...",
"[Columbia University begs to differ](http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Sex/story?id=117465&page=1) that intentionally changing your sexuality is impossible. Issues you might have with extrapolation or representation aside, the study was able to find about 200 people who believed they had (and about 110 of them being \"satisfactorily straight\" as determined by the person conducting the study).",
"> Literally one person hits somebody with their car and you jump to the conclusion Nazis are a major threat to the US. Get the fuck outta here.\n\n\nOh, how many Americans were killed by Nazis since 1945?",
"> It’s almost like it’s harder to be a homophobe when someone you ~~know~~ love is gay\n\n",
"It's so easy that I'm doing it right now while not even trying!",
"Stop being deliberately obtuse. The word 'homophobe' is used to describe someone with an unnatural hatred of LGBT people as you are well aware.",
"I’m just fascinated that people like this actually exist.",
"> They have freedom of speech.\n\nI could try to teach you Con Law 101 re the US First Amendment; but instead shall simply give you a RES tag , block you; and move on with my life.\n",
"> Of course i´m not saying\n\nIt sure wasn't obvious to me. Perhaps you should work on being clearer.\n\n> My maint point is about the people, who always think that being gay or bisexual is a decision. \n\nWhere's your proof for that? I don't think that's the case.\n\n> i´m blaming the in the closet bisexuals who support that stuff,\n\nThis is not what you said originally. You said \"a lot of times\" extreme homophobes are bi. You did not mention homophobes who are straight, you did not mention a possibility of extreme homophobes who are gay.\n\nPlease blame societies, cultures, and institutions that teach and perpetuate homophobia. Please work to fight homophobia and heteronormativity. Don't blame the primary victims of homophobia (all LGB people). You're pointing fingers at the result, not the cause.",
"We obviously don't know what Pence thinks of the LGBT community and if he hates them, nobody is arguing that either but only he can know that but he's surely took a stance against the advancement of their rights.",
"This looks.. shocking",
"/r/titlegore",
"[One of my favourite videos on the internet](https://youtu.be/cRMI4Z7ri8A) ",
"It's just fake jobs for people that didn't go get useful skills. Just like the recycling industry. \n\nEdit: Reddit not ready for that truth.",
"More points if he's a transman to be more specific, identifies as non-binary and is vegan",
"politicians (and people in general) seem\n to take a closer look at their beliefs when it becomes a personal issue like the examples you listed. I get it, and I'm glad that Republicans seem to quickly drop much of the hateful and ignorant rhetoric in favor of a more rational and compassionate perspective in these situations, but fuck am I sick of waiting on all these assholes to find out they're related to somebody who is gay, trans, an addict etc. is there a term for this phenomena?",
"The Catholic Church...",
"Mother approves. ",
"You can also reuse the bag and never have to pay again. Or get an even nicer bag and never have buy one again. I've literally only bought like 3 bags in the past year bc I bring my own. They're supposed to be a ripoff so people will remember their bags. Yeah, some people disagree with this and everyone is entitled to their opinion but I was referring to people freaking out about it. Saw a guy return a single bag of chips just bc he couldn't buy a plastic bag that he didn't even need. This type of person would have simply trashed the free bag, so I'm happy with the ban.",
"It's like me being from Michigan and now living in a place where it rarely snows. Everyone calls off work and nobody goes anywhere if there's a dusting of snow on the roads. If it snowed more often, they'd get used to it. I'm sure Oregon will too. ",
"Yep. Lesbian here: that's one all-American-looking man. Would totally let him teach me about NFL before having an awkward conversation where we both misinterpret the other's intentions before each realising the other one's gay too and getting a beer.",
"I think focusing the negative energy on a single person is ultimately harmful to the cause. If the most prominent message is that Ajit Pai is a cunt with a massive punchable mouth, it's much easier to dismiss it as just personal attacks from trolls who don't really understand the issue and just want to bash Pai, rather than the justified outrage of informed citizens. ",
"In two states.",
"Oh fuck they can pump their own gas now?\n\n\nFirst time I got gas in Oregon, I got out and started pumping it myself and everyone freaked out.",
"In that case I'd like to create more jobs by having people to tie my shoes for me every day. Makes about as much sense.",
"jesus lmao\n\ndo you realize how little compassion you seem to have when you say things like this?",
"ok, I'll do none of that because you mean nothing to me. ",
"You can see the thought balloon from Jones...\"Say one word, Mike, just one fucking word...you cunt\"",
"He obviously opposes gay marriage. However, he treats gays and straights alike. There is no story here.",
"Unless,of course, you yourself are deeply closeted. Then it’s easy as hell. ",
"I also heard that Roy Moore’s Jewish lawyer was in attendance as Doug Jones’ lifelong friend and voted for him. You can’t make this shit up people.",
"A fucking miniscule almost irrelevant amount.\n\nNazis were defeated 70 years ago and there hasn't been a Klan killing in 37 years.",
"Looks like Prentiss from criminal minds!\n\n\n",
"Mike pence is a closeted homosexual. He calls his wife mother, probably also calls her that while she pegs him in the ass ",
"They called dibs. It was established in the League of Nations after Russia called the country a giant salad. ",
"He could also be closeted. It not unheard to be homophobic and closeted. I’m not saying it’s true, but I’m just saying. ",
"who? what? ...thanks?",
"Seriously, our ikea's have self service cash registers.\n\nYou can shop at ikea without any human contact whatsoever!",
"That's because inner city culture is terrible and lazy.",
"Can confirm. Went to college in long island and we had many people from new jersey. I taught many a college student to PUMP GAS. Sigh. \n\nEdit for the curious: the key is just follow rhe prompt on the gas station pump. Press the buttons it tells you to and lift appropriate levers. Also, remember to unscrew the gas cap if you have one - this was sadly a surprise to some. ",
"Good babe for when you're angry (if you're into metal)",
"Be thankful for this. Imagine that they would stick to this world view and condemn their own blood. There are enough people out there who do this. Even if I don't like or agree with them. I always need to praise positive change in a person. Small steps. ",
"I mean it isn't anything to do with religion just human decency.\n\n Fuck people who wear socks and sandals together. ",
"r/titlegore",
"Yea, that's Ralph Wiggum. OP wrote Ralphie Wiggins, which is like a Hobbit form of Ralph Wiggum.",
"I fucking love the number of upvotes you got for something Ralph Wiggum would say in response to someone asking him his name.\n\nP.S. You apparently can't pay attention to things in the real world at all, including the popular culture you're using as a distraction.",
"but I thought Drumpf and Pence were going to put gay people in concentration camps?",
"Not American, so I don't think it's my place to put it in. ",
"> Straight Ed\n\nMore commonly called “Health and Sex Ed” in high schools.",
"Pence 2024 just got locked up.",
"HAHAhA! Liberalism is failing the world over. Once you creeps start pushing for pedophile rights it will all collapse. ",
"I actually do see your point. The problem is that the exact same sentiment has been latched onto by bigots as a way of normalising their bigotry, which makes it tough to tell when the “fear” is just a code word for racism.\n\nIt’s the problem with any nuance that’s slightly right leaning tbh - the worst characters latch onto a reasonable thought and weaponise it, leaving people who are legitimately not racist or sexist or whatever else in a weird situation. The left has done a better job of not letting their views get weaponised (eg: better pay is not socialism), but the biggest media outlets (fox being the obvious one) on the right do lean too far.",
"The party of “fuck all y’all, doesn’t effect me” changes tones when it does, in fact, effect them. Every single time.\n\nThe hallmark of the Republican Party is an alarming lack of actual empathy. Denying evidence-based policy is a close second, sooo surprisingly...\n",
"Lol just because he doesn't agree with gay marriage doesn't mean he hates gays! Unlike liberals we aren't full of pure hatred.",
"Gay",
"The look between the son and the mother.\n\n\"Mom that's Mike fucking Pence.\"\n\n\"Yep. I know. Try not to laugh.\"",
"I'm fairly sure some are trolls, yes, but I'm equally sure most aren't.",
"I forgot the whole \"I appreciate gays now that I'm running for election,\" Hillary Clinton. Holy fuck you people are brain washed.",
"Because everything sounds sexier and fancier in French. Example:\n\n*J'aime le poulet rôti, surtout avec des patates et arrosé d'une bonne sauce bien épaisse.*\n\nYou have no idea what it means but it sounds so fancy, right?",
"I understand what you're saying but not wavering isn't automatically admirable. It can mean that someone is unwilling to change their mind, regardless of what happens. \n\nAnd it's difficult to separate the two points when someone believes you deserve to suffer because you're gay. People are not robots. The two go hand-in-hand anyway.",
"Why is Pence standing with his gay son? Is it bring your kid to work day?",
"HaHA - nelson",
"He doesn’t stand for LGBT rights, it’s just ironic lol",
"We do. At least, the vast majority of us do. Two states, Oregon and New Jersey, decided to prohibit people from pumping their own gas. The extremely stupid reasoning behind this was that it would create more jobs by forcing every gas station to hire personnel whose sole purpose was to pump gas. \n\nOregon recently passed a new law allowing less populated counties (each state is broken up into different counties) to pump their own gas again, likely because gas stations in those counties might have difficulty getting enough people to hire to do it, especially the ones out in the middle of nowhere.\n\nThe whole thing is stupid and they just need to revert it entirely. Thankfully I don't visit those two states, except Oregon a couple of times a few years ago, so I don't have to deal with it.",
"Is this a computer generated image?",
"I disagree. I lived in a city in Oregon that had the ban and I didn’t see a problem with it. They cost 5 cents a piece and most people use reusable bags which are sold for a few bucks. The paper bags were gigantic so you’d only need 1 or 2 for the same amount that 4 or 5 plastic bags would carry. I think the ban is great and encourages reusable bags. The people that have problems with the ban can easily fix it by using reusable bags.\n\nThe only thing I hated was the paper bags didn’t have handles so you had to carry them in your arms. I quickly started using reusable bags just because I wanted handles. ",
"That's nothing special. You can just comment every few minutes and get a lot of comment karma by replying to the top comment of rising posts. The real dick measuring contest is by how many times you've been gilded. Quality over quantity.",
"*Wiggum",
"That’s brilliant. Self checkouts are probably in my top ten favorite inventions. ",
"Wrong religion, I think you might want to look towards the east ",
"This is just false\n\n\nEdit-it’s almost sad the comment above received so many upvotes. More people will now think/believe this, enforcing their thought that he was some evil character who shot some dude in the face. Not that Dick was a great guy but this hiding his daughter thing is total bullshit. ",
"Mike \"Homo-cide\" Pence.",
"The real question is what comes after Z... Å?",
"Not OP, but the list is long, and the extent of what's \"good and bad\" can depend on your political views (For example, abortion). However, just a few controversial things regarding him: \n\n* He is blamed for allowing an HIV outbreak to spread in Indiana a few years ago\n\n* He tried to block federal aide to legal refugees already residing in Indiana after the Paris attacks a few years back, until a federal judge stepped in\n\n* He is overtly anti-gay. In that past, he stated gay marriage would bring about societal collapse. As governor, he signed a bill which allowed businesses to discriminate based on sexual orientation as a \"religious freedom\" bill\n\n* He is (or at least was) against women in serving in the military. He also wrote in a 1999 opinion piece that he thinks of \"Mulan\" as \"Liberal propaganda\", and the movie is proof the women in the military doesn't work\n\n* He wrote into law one of the strictest abortion laws in the nation, of which similar laws in Texas were ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court. He has also authored bills to defund Planned Parenthood, an obviously controversial move\n\n* Pence is strict on drugs and drug crime; he signed a bill reinstating mandatory minimum sentencing, which is also essentially stripping discretionary power from judges\n\n* An obvious recent one would be his waste of hundreds of thousands of tax payer dollars for a silly PR stunt over the NFL anthem situation (He attended the game with the intention of walking out when they kneeled)\n\nThis is not an exhaustive list, but I feel it highlights why so many people don't like him",
"Wait... are we finally allowed to pump our own gas?! I've been out of state for a month now, and haven't kept up",
"It's enough to google Mike Pence + gay rights to find out the answer dude.",
"Doug Jones was sworn into office, next to his openly gay son, by Mike Pence. \n\nWhy are people scared of commas? ",
"HBO is owned by... (checks)... Time Warner though?",
"\"Tony please, I don't want to see your collection of budgie smugglers again...\"",
"My support of gay marriage is that if straight people get it, gay people get it too. Simples. I'm not entirely sold on the idea of marriage as a whole, but if it is going to be a thing, make it a thing for anyone who wants it.\n\nWhy are you so angry?",
"And in the Navy.\n\nWhere you can sail the seven seas.",
"The office is by his son? That's poor directions.",
"Man, you [kinda fucked up that quote, huh.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQUjOLuqQMo)",
"What a respectable person you are.",
"No one is unaware about why religious authoritarians try to impose their will upon LGBT people. It's about disgust at someone who is different and a desire to exercise control over them. This is gleaned from reading religious texts and actually talking with them. From your comments, it seems that you think that people should gather information but never actually work out a solution. That solves nothing.\n\nUnfortunately, a conversation going around in circles is too tiring. We have our own lives to live. Coddling them can get tiring. The only feasible way to get a lot them to reconsider their veiws is to for them realize that the rest of the world has moved on. \n\n\nPeople need to have that kind of dialogue to realize that yes, maybe some of the positions they hold actually *are* shameful. Maybe they need to change.",
"Man this is such a powerful picture lmao. \n\n\n\nDoug Jones’ son is looking at Pence like “If he weren’t the 2nd most guarded man in the world I’d this cocksucker”",
"Does it go on sale on Black Friday? I'm asking because of your name and all...thought you may have the hookup...",
"lol I'm just waiting for Matt McGorry to be outed as one",
"Oh look, another one of them.",
"With a heavy French accent \"Pence\" would be pronounced like [the 2nd word here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dEnu1hx70A)",
"it looks like this post is about us politics\n",
"\"How does it work, son, I like the penis as well.\" ",
"I just think OP meant about those who parade as one thing but are secretly something else. Parade as hateful of gays, but is secretly gay, parade as a male feminist, but secretly use it to abuse women. \n\n\nAdmittedly I don’t think the comparison is strong or worth spouting out.\n\n\nExamples of such men: Charles Clymer, Michael Hafford, and Joss Whedon to name a few. Keep in mind not all of them are rapists (like Hafford) but instead simply present themselves as male feminists but in truth treat women badly when behind closed doors (like Whedon, especially when he fires Carpenter for being pregnant, or claim the reason he cheated on his wife *multiple times* was because of all those ‘beautiful, needy, aggressive women.’) ",
"Once the opinion is established, it's become rule. Any evidence to the contrary will just be an exception to the rule.\n\nI've met a racist guy in the past who had a friend who was black. According to him black people had no soul. Except for his friend, of course.\n\nEven the ultra religious when presented with the choice will go out of their way to maintain their religion, even though its been demonstrated to be wrong on an issue right in front of them.\n\nOne of the most admirable traits a person can have is the ability to change their own opinion. We should praise this more when we see it instead of calling it \"flip flopping\" or the like.",
"Yeah I can't stand this whole \"It's our responsibility to change their mind\" thing. No it's not. They're aren't children.",
"With the exception of Alan Keyes. He flat out disowned his daughter when she came out. Points for consistency, anyway. ",
"Those who strongly identify as atheist maybe. I think about religion during Xmas and when visiting family when they invite me to church. I even say yes once every year, do communion because I think sacraments are sweet.",
"He's looking at Pence, the mother is looking at him looking at Pence, it's confrontation and support. \n\nDoug Jones is looking directly at Pence in defiance. \n\nIt's a fucking great photo",
"Fuck no. It’s a half-assed attempt at a jobs program and absolutely nothing more. I’d rather pay for those fucks to do just about anything else rather than drastically slow down my fill up time.\n\nI’m progressive as all get out and Oregon’s gas system is one of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever run across.\n\nFor those that want to argue, wait overnight for gas a couple times and get back to me. ",
"I just hope a ton of blue states don't have to get nuked for pence and his master's doing ",
"But Moore is the pedo here, and plenty of republicans thought that was fine and voted for him anyway.",
"How many extra points if he's Muslim?",
"Get a job Oscar ",
"woah you were quick to move the goalpost",
"I'm just going to go ahead and take the L. At first I was pretty sure 'sweared' worked in that sentence but now I just don't know",
"Russian bots need an update!",
"He probably looked at her at some point though.\n\nAnd since Bill is still Bill, he probably \"looked\" at her at some point as well.",
"Idiot ",
"I'm really not a Clinton supporter. And as far as I know, Clinton never supported gay conversion therapy, or tried to defund HIV/AIDs research unless they disavowed gay people",
">it goes against the basic biological necessity of providing care for your offspring \n\nBeing gay goes against the basic biological necessity of producing offspring. It is a most unnatural thing.",
"My boss is a Christian conservative and her brother is gay. She told me she thinks he should live a life of celibacy as the only way not to be a sinner. She would rather her brother be alone his whole life than find someone to share love with of the same sex. ",
"The irony being your absolute dripping distain for an entire group of people. Well done lol",
"For someone gay he sure looks like he wants a piece of that MILF action.",
"Fuck Ajit Pai\n\n\nFuck Ajit Pai",
"Kinda like there are no gays in Chechnya?",
"Heynong Man",
"That's... not a correct use of the word.",
"Did you ever hear \"But that Johnson, he's a credit to his race\"?",
"Oh ok, makes sense.",
"Because the Bible says it's a sin, and if society accepts gay people, children might think it's okay to be gay, and they'll fall into willful sin. (Willful sin being distinct from sins you try to avoid and feel bad about after.) A lot of really good people believe this garbage because they were indoctrinated from birth.",
"Well Pence's politics are certainly queer so it's not completely off. ",
"You can add criminal to that list (abandonment of a child).",
"<3 it's ok fellow gay, we can all be there for each other",
"They think people who are gay need punishment because if you treat them nicely then it means you're condoning their behavior and they won't change. After all, they believe homosexuality is a sin to them and sins need to be avoided.\n\nIt's like the people who hit their children and say \"I only do this because I love you and it hurts me as much as it does hurt you.\" ",
"/r/accidentalrockwell",
"That's how you know now that The Simpsons has faded from pop culture - when someone calls Ralph Wiggum \"Ralphie Wiggins\".",
"Good old Token Jones.",
"Didn't you know? You have to be sweared in on a Christian bible.",
"Fuck yeah.",
"He actively, doggedly works AGAINST lgbt rights. Slight difference. ",
"I don't know why this is weird to people.... that's kinda the way we work with everything.",
"Same way it's harder to be racist if your servants are black.",
"Reading this shortly after I was woken up by an earthquake in the Bay Area hahaha",
">wasn't Abbot's sister also against gay marriage too?\n\nIf so she's got a [weird way](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/christine-forster-to-marry-in-february) of showing it",
"Most major stores have self checkouts in the US. ",
"Better late than never, don't you think? Holy fuck you person seeing everything in black and white.",
"Because it was one of the dumbest ideas a state has ever come up with and now people are bummed they no longer have 100% artificial government jobs. I lived in Vietnam and their manufactured jobs were more dignified and useful than that stupid bullshit. I make a point of trying to get through the entire state without dealing with that utter nonsense and I doubt I’m alone. ",
"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-ex-gay\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy\n\n**Please** do not spread this myth. I’m going to repeat this: Conversion therapy is torture and brainwashing. It does not work. All it does is hurt you inside and out. You can find plenty of stories online detailing it. People (including children!!) have died undergoing it. People have committed suicide after leaving it. People have committed suicide so they won’t be forced to go, or go back. \n\nBeing LGB is normal and good and beautiful. There’s nothing wrong with us. Our sexualities do not need to be changed.",
"> I don't presume to know if they were against same sex marriage because they genuinely believe it's wrong, or because they just don't really care either way and follow whatever the party says\n\nBut in practice what's the difference when the result is the same?",
"[Maybe he just lost his glasses?](https://youtu.be/yecNfSLnxp8c)",
"Your version would have me asking “Is this next to Pence’s openly gay son or Jones’s?”\n\nTry “openly gay son of Senator Doug Jones stands nearby while watching his father being sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence.”",
"Well and for people who can't get useful skills. You ever talk to anyone who pumps gas for a living? Like legit that's their job for several years? Generally nice folks but dim as they come without needing direct state assistance.\n\n\nEdit - also have to say you're assessment of the recycling industry is so out of touch it's comical. It's actually generally profitable with exceptions for rural areas without the infrastructure and population base to support it. However even rural recycling collection programs can prove profitable when done competently. Usually shipping the material to areas that have actual facilities via train or large trucks. Then again you need people who aren't shit heads who want to keep wasting perfectly good fibre, metal, plastic, etc in landfills.",
"Yeah, Mike Pence & Doug Jones.",
"The SWATting death? I wasn't aware of the \"protect your eyes\" bit, thought he basically just opened the door.",
"Riiiiight. Because wanting equal rights and wanting to discriminate are simply differences of opinion",
"And there it is. The strawman to outstrawman them all.",
"\"I was a sexist pig, but now I have a daughter!\"\n\nIt's the same thing everywhere. Zero capability of looking at things from another perspective",
"Unemployment is so low!!!",
"He seems to think being gay is a choice, so he would probably either disown them or just not like that part of their life bur still love them, depending on what kind of a dad he was.\n\nI work with someone who has a gay son and feels the way our VP does about gay people and he does the 2nd one ",
"I think the better question is what’s your point. The original statement was questioning whether Pence was anti-gay. The response was that he supports political positions that he has an anti-gay political platform. You reply by saying so did these other people. How does comparing Pence’s positions to other people’s disprove that he is anti-gay?\n\nIf you hold anti-gay political platforms then you are anti-gay. Lumping more people into that category doesn’t disprove the original premise. ",
"Is being gay some sort of medal or meant to make this headline any more significant? ",
"What did Pence do to him? Looks like spoilt brat. ",
"It looks like he’s having some openly eccentric-ed thoughts about ol’ Mike Pence in that photo.",
"People who sleep through a division says what?\n\nAbbott: 'What?'",
"English is not my native language so just don´t over-analyze every single word i write. Of course i´m paraphrasing when i say stuff like \"a lot of times\". Try to read between the lines a little and get the gist of it ;) \n\nI didn´t mention homophobes who are straight or extreme homophobes who are gay because that wasn´t the point i wanted to make...? Why would i talk about that then? \n\nI don´t even get, where you (again) take the argument from that i blame all LGB people... ",
"Maybe you would actually meet some liberals and realize that you are believing right wing propaganda ",
"I empathize with them. Unfortunately I cannot reach them. That's up to other liberals. But for now they all seem content with calling us all nazis",
"Basically, One Nation ran an Asian candidate in the WA state election called Tshung Chang. He had a slogan like Chang4Riverton or something which attracted criticism from an Asian commenter on his Facebook page because 4 sounds like death in Chinese. No comment on why he was working for Pauline \"swamped by Asians\" Hanson's party.",
"How do we convince someone in their family to come out as poor, black, or muslim?",
"I think his contention was that if you fuck fifty dudes in a weekend and get AIDS, you should probably change your lifestyle. He doesn't want to literally electrocute gays, dumbass.",
"With 8 inches of pounding snow.",
"You seem to define everything with a color prefix. Even when you intentionally leave it off, you've already painted the picture. It doesn't take much guesswork to figure out what you are saying. \n\nDo you think a majority of citizens like gang members? It doesn't matter whether they're 1%er bikers, cartel members, crypts, bloods, or aryan brotherhooders. They're all despicable. \n\nI wonder if you just find certain fashions offensive. If you see someone with baggy pants and showing off their boxers or skivies does that upset your decency ideals? \n\nWe live in a multicultural society, but you seem to expect everyone to dress and act like yourself. It's not going to happen, just accept it and move on.",
"Well that's dumb.\n\nBut no it comes from deep seated self hatred regardless. No happy well adjusted person hates another person for no reason",
"> I don't like them because they hate me. They hate me for who I am intrinsically\n\nThis brings to mind the whole \"there's fine people on both sides\" argument.\n\nThere is one side saying \"White people are superior and everyone else should be subjugated/extinguished from the earth\" and there's the other side saying \"People who think this are the worst.\"\n\nIt is not hypocrisy to condemn people who hate an entire group of people for no reason.",
"It actually started as protectionism for local business. When self-service pumps became a thing, a station owner (or a few of them, I can't remember) was too cheap to upgrade and didn't want to lose business to big national brands like Shell and Hess. Conveniently enough, he had some friends in the state legislature who he successfully lobbied to make self service illegal.\n\nI moved to NJ about 10 years ago and I've driven all over the country. I'd never vote to repeal the self-service ban. Every time I have to fill up when it's 10 degrees outside reminds me of that.",
"Rejected Bathroom rights - 2016\n\nSigned amendment - 2015\n\nOpposed gay marriage - 2015\n\nApproved proposal - 2013\n\nBacked 'Don't tell' - 2010\n\nSo no - not really.",
"I grew up in Oregon and have lived in a few other states where Ive pumped my own gas. Either way, it didn't seem like a big deal to me. It is nice, however, when the weather is nasty to just stay in your car. \n\nGas stations employ a ton of people. It makes sense for rural areas, but I would be surprised if they ever passed a law like that in the city. An insane amount of people would become unemployed, many of which may have trouble finding other reasons of employment.\n\nI can always tell people from out of state at the pumps because they can't help but get out and stand next to the person pumping their gas.\n\n",
"I was wondering the same thing. What third world country is this happening in? ",
"One of my good friends from high school is a big time lutheran. We went to a lutheran school so it made sense, I just never fully bought in. Now about 6 years out of high school his brother came out as gay. I didn't know what he would think, but he accepted him and changed his mind completely on gay people. It's just sad that's what it took for him to believe a gay person won't go to hell. ",
"cute son may I say...",
"If you're suspected of any \"bad behaviour\", you might fool others into thinking you don't behave that way if you openly demonstrate that you are against such behaviour.\n\nAccused of smoking crack? Come out as a \"war on drugs\" kind of guy. It's just over compensating.\n\nBut it has it's false positives too. Not every homophobe is gay but most gay people that don't accept they are (at least publicly) are extremely homophobic.",
"Or maybe Sesame Street is AWESOME.",
"still more than you ever accomplished, noble keyboard warrior ;)",
"At least they are consistently inconsistent.",
"sweared? wtf",
"What are you disagreeing with though? People are now having to pay more than they had to before. Bags used to be free (including paper bags, which aren't a problem to the environment that plastic bags are). And who's to say they aren't reusing the paper and plastic bags? I use plastic bags as my bathroom trash bags lol\n\nYou can agree with the policy and ban on plastic bags, but you can't really argue that the end user is the one paying the cost for it rather than the store. You, as the customer, are getting ripped off. That's not in dispute.",
"R/photoshopbattle",
"Omg my life is complete!",
"It's not gay to watch it either as long as you say \"no homo\" first.",
"I would've asked for Pence to use the Satanic Bible to swear me in. ",
"What was wrong with Keating?\n",
"Omg the bravery!",
"Or at the very least, 49% endorsed.",
"There are plenty of hard-line anti-gay Republicans who turn out to be gay themselves.",
"Je vais t'en donner de la bonne sauce bien épaisse, tu vas voir si c'est fancy.",
"There's an episode of the west wing where there's some senator filibustering and everyone's shitting on him for it .... until they discover the thing he's filibustering (I can't remember what it was exactly) is for his grandkid then they all chip in to help him. \n\nNever knew what message they wanted to send there ... that Bartlett's office would do special things for people they know? Didn't seem like the point of that show ....\n",
"No reason not to, either. It isn't like it will change that many minds about the man. But, that is just as good an argument to swear on the Bible. I imagine Doug Jones swore on a Bible because it was what he wanted to do. ",
"The problem with Pence isn’t just that he THINKS it’s acceptable to discriminate against a minority, it’s that he’s attempted to use his political power to do just that (as gov. of IN)",
"Thank you, I literally only opened this post to make the same correction.",
"Straya, represent.",
"Lol ",
"No doubt it’s been commented a million times, but sworn*",
"Nothing you said changes the fact that the customer is the one paying for it when they didn't have to before. The customer is getting ripped off.",
"Mikey's trying so hard not to stare into Yung Jone's smoldering eyes",
"Pence had to stand very close to Mother to resist any urges here.",
"Unedgimakated",
"Son is totally clocking Pence. We see you Daddy Pence, we see you.",
"I thought he wasn't allowed there anymore.",
"Note how they all say nonstandard? ",
"Explains that polar vortex we have now. ",
"It's my understanding that they told him to put his hands up, then blasted him with a spotlight. He reflexively raised his arms, and they shot him for it because it apparently looked like he was \"pointing a large gun of some sort.\"\n\nIn reality it was a bored, trigger-happy cop with a murder-boner looking for some action.",
"Mother would *not* approve.",
"That man fills me with loathing",
">I lived in Vietnam and their manufactured jobs were more dignified and useful than that stupid bullshit.\n\nYou’ve got me curious, what sort of manufactured labor do they have there?",
"Along those lines, computers should be outlawed because accounting by hand with pencil and ledger paper necessitates a LOT of labor...",
"IIRC Mike pence was against gay marriage and he along with trump are homophobic",
"Don’t do that, you know what he meant. ",
"Sworn my dude",
"Ideally, though it really depends on the gay person in question. I know a few gay guys who are absolutely unbearable to be around. Aggressive sexual harassers with bitchy attitudes. I don't apply their traits to others, but I could see how a homophobe would use that behavior to justify their hatred. ",
"There are 2 people in that picture who think about gay sex on a daily basis.\n",
"Exactly. And let's not leave it at just sexuality. Let's add skin color, religion (or lack thereof) and gender into that mix.",
"No, they're just referencing the highest liked comments which you can see at the top there. At the bottom right side of each comment you can see the number of likes/reactions/whatever-the-fuck-facebook-is-calling-them-now. Just pretend those are reddit upvotes. So the one that talks about transients has 1300 \"upvotes\" and is thus seen by everyone before they make their own comment.",
"People who hate pedophiles are actually child molesters themselves. Who could have known.",
"Isn’t it homophobe in itself? Like, “we straight people don’t hate gays, it’s the gays themselves hate gays!”",
"If that actually was true, gay people would not be legally marrying in much of the country today. That has come to pass because attitudes about homosexuality, on the right, have obviously moderated an awful lot compared to even slightly less recent history. That is why it is a lost war for those who actually care to keep fighting it. ",
"Pence said he was going to vote against any measure that legally recognized gays for anything, and is against both marriages and civil unions. \n",
"He would burn them in a fire... cause God and shit. /s",
"It was mentioned in one of the top comments (pretend the likes on the side of each comment are upvotes) so everyone else is mentioning it in reference to that, mostly to make fun of the person that said it.",
"did you read that link before you posted it?",
"Conservative politicians only act that way because analysts tell them that they will get more votes in doing so. It’s the same reason why Democrats openly support refugees, migrants, and illegal aliens... analysts know that once all 3 groups become citizens, they will vote for the handouts (Democrats).",
"So was Obama ever considered “anti gay” or do only right leaning people get that label?",
"I think a lot of it comes from the fact that the only people you can tell are gay on the streets are Fabulous ™ gays. People tend to do a big mental shift when they realise that someone 'normal' that they've known for years could also be gay. Or live in denial and convince themself that their loved one IS in fact a raving gay.\n\nNot that there's anything wrong with that, but that's a different point.",
"Thank you :) It's nice to get some support from the right wing sometimes.",
"Everyone should adopt a gay. It worked wonders for my marriage. ",
"( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)",
"It is almost like it is hard to demonize something mundane when it becomes a part of your own life.",
"Straight edged?",
"r/AccidentalRenaissance ?",
"That’s all marketing. ",
"“Uhhhh...”\n\n",
"Yes, but that is Sweden so there will be more gays anyway.",
"Hell, given the way Trump talks about her I imagine he checked her out too",
"That flair made it get past the US politics filter.....",
"So what?",
"How many gay businesses have conservatives forced to close? You guys are on the wrong side of this one ever since that little cake shop \"victory lap\" you took a few years ago, sorry.",
"She was trying to give you a handie",
"*Hot openly gay son (ftfy)",
"Most of the population then?",
"I've been spat on and assualted. And the liberals that dont do that sit on reddit and call me nazi all day, thus encouraging their extreme elements.Sure not all liberals are so vile. But the politically active ones? I'll take my chances with a refugee from syria",
"Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!",
"But is he? But is he?",
"That's called sexual harassment.",
"Yeah and I never said that it wasn't. I'll say it again.\n>They're supposed to be a ripoff so people will remember their bags.\n\nAnd good. It's not a ripoff if you just remember to do the what is better for the environment and bring your own bags. I spent less than a dollar on bags this year. Such a ripoff. ",
"Nah, he was a bag freeloader before. Nothing is free, someone had to pay for it. \n\nIf I bought you lunch every day for a year, for no reason, and then stopped you wouldn't be getting \"ripped off\". ",
"i mean, i won't start to insult you, but i get the poster above.\n\nyou're obviously not open to reasonable debate, he might as well shame you. by limiting your impact on society he still does something good.",
"And we're all like: \"Why is Mike Pence's gay son standing next to Doug Jones?\"",
"If we are doing extra extra credit then maybe let’s throw in “survived botched abortion” in it as well. ",
"I always found it hilarious how leftist hero’s like Obama and Hillda were completely against gay marriage up until 2012 when public sentiment topped 50 percent pro; and they get/ got a total pass for that. ",
"As if you can somehow be a closeted theist like a closeted homosexual. Lol",
"I do!",
"Try tell that to tony Abbott, Ex Aus prime minister who is openly against gay marriage whilst his daughter is gay and wanting to marry!",
"i sure hope they don't introduce any hipster puppets\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMgqQkZtjyY",
"You wanna be the guy doing it?\n",
"I think it's more like if you are constantly angrily vocal about (insert opinion here) even when it makes no sense to be. You probably have some issues/thoughts/experiences with it yourself. Including pedophilia\n\nIt's not that saying \"I hate gay people\" makes you gay. But if you are constantly talking about it. Constantly bringing it up. Actively fighting it. And you are just so over the top about it, you might be overcompensating for some feelings you have.\n\nIf I met someone that for no reason was just constantly talking about how bad pedophilia was. When there was no context for it. I would be a little concerned about why they were thinking about this so much",
"What was the situation that lead you to being spat at and assaulted? ",
"One of my favorite sayings about homophobe legislators: If you think homosexuality is a choice, for you it probably is.",
"It's not how conservative but how anybody acts regarding this issue. ",
"Where did you get the idea that Trump is homophobic, he has often voiced support for the gay community and even held up a LGBT flag at one of his events",
"Just a reminder, Obama and Hillary Clinton were both saying marriage was between a man and a woman in 2008.",
"Whew, It is a Bible, I've heard word that you must be sworn in on one which means those of different religious faiths must not be able to serve in politics. So happy the Moore campaign is smart on them thar nuances of US politicking and offered to educate us on it.\n\nEDIT: /s in case it wasn't clearly evident\n\nEdit 2: the silliest argument ever which is what inspired my sarcasm. https://youtu.be/WFYRkzznsc0 ",
">Simply make good decisions \n\nYeah, that's so simple. Why didn't I think of that. \n\nEdit: Give this a listen when you have some free time: https://www.wnyc.org/series/busted-americas-poverty-myths\n",
"The store paid the cost of it as part of the service. It became a de facto standard across the Country for decades. \n\nA law came along and changed that. It is a rip off. ",
"Watch it to know what it's about*",
"And?",
"It’s nothing to be ashamed of..",
"take your meds kevin.",
"I was confused too, but the pic explained it more for me ",
"100k upvotes coming",
"The difference between Pence and Newt and Dick is Pence is actually a religious nut job, he is on record saying he wants to us federal funding to \"seeking to change their sexual behavior.\" So if anyone that was was close to him ever came out, I am pretty sure that he would try to send them off for \"treatment\" or would just disown them.",
"Pretty fucking cool!!!!",
"Maybe a wave will send it beside Vancouver Island",
"Okay. You don't mind it. We get that.\n\nBut a lot of people do. They have a reason to disagree with it. They're paying out of pocket now when they didn't have to before. People don't like that. \n\n",
"Oh. As someone from outside the US, the latter is what I thought they meant. Thanks for this.",
">It's still funny to me that people actually care if someone is gay or not. \n\nWho is said \"people\"? ",
"Pence had to hate that....to the extent it caused him pain I am so happy....FUCK MIKE PENCE!",
"I'd take that 1000 times over \"I believe in a random assortment of stone age documents that tell me being gay is wrong... It also says not to eat the bottom half of a cow, but I don't count that part\".",
">I dont think you are giving enough credit to the flaws in the human mind.\n\nI was worried you were about to go a much more dark path with this. \n\n\nI agree with you but I think you are taking a bias perspective on the matter. While I don't believe someone chooses to to be gay, people have vastly oversimplified the issue if they believe it is strictly a nature matter.",
"Is that a.... threat?",
"Could just be that good people are willing to change long held beliefs in light of new personally observed evidence. \n\nTimes change much faster than many people's lives last, and I'm sure most of our grandparents aren't as accepting of the choices some young people make as those young people's peers are. \n\nMany of those older people are demonized by the forces that be, hoping to use them as fuel to divide us, to advance whatever causes they support.\n\nBut while my grandfather may have been more racist than I am as one example, it doesn't mean he was a bad person. In fact I'll struggle to be the man he was to his wife and children.\n",
"Alabama spurns practical things like that in favour of abstinence-only programs that really fuck things up. ",
"That’s why we don’t coddle liberals in their safe places. They will just have to deal with the rest of the world not liking them. ",
"::Doug Jones on his way into office::\n\n\"Fuck this fucking silver haired faggot hating asshole.\" ",
"I was about to post how Doug seemed to have gotten a few pounds since I last saw him.",
"I can attest to that, Broski! ",
"isn't the pump thing going to raise prices though? if it isn't then I wouldn't care.",
"This reminded me of that speech by Dale Hansen. https://youtu.be/jMR1Uh2fJwQ",
"well you can.... but you have to pay them. Nothing stopping you creating jobs.\n\nWhat's stupid is when it's government mandated ",
"Truly homophobic, other than he was the first president to support gay marriage coming into office. And I don’t remember Pence arguing with him. Oh and he said fuck you all and waved a LGBT flag at a conservative rally.\nhttps://i.imgur.com/ES7GJtk.jpg\n\nSo yeah, he might be more some sort of secret homophob just like is a secret Nazi that Israel names a bus stop after, or you might be letting your own hate and bias cloud your judgement.",
"Dated a girl from Jersey in Florida who we called Jersey, can verify ",
"There are definitely plenty of straight people out there who rely on the whole “gay people ruin the sanctity of marriage” crap to feel better about their own unsanctimonious relationships. Kinda liie LBJ’s white/colored quote, if you can convince the worst straight people they are better than the best gay people, they’ll feel much better about themselves. ",
"He's talking bad about Dick Cheney. He doesn't need a source \n\n/s",
"Do you have proof that people are struggling financially more now than before President Trump was elected?",
"I literally said that everyone has a right to an opinion and that I was referring to people *freaking out* about the ban. Idk what you're on about. It is extremely unreasonable and considered a freakout to spend the extra time to get a refund for something that you didn't even need.\n\nI still think it is weird as fuck to be upset about a few dimes, bc it isn't hard to remember to bring bags.",
"Know lots of Alabamians. Still swore. Same in Mississippi and Arkansas, believe it or not. ",
"My apologies - it should read:\n\nDoug Jones and his son installs Open Office for the swearing Mike Pence; gay",
">from Alabama\n\nChecks out.",
"Why the hyperlink?",
"*One thousand one hundred thirty-eight* other documents is not reasonable when other people only have to sign *one*. And that's not even accurate because a) in the event of death or catastrophic illness family of the afflicted can dispute (and most importantly **win** against) contracts in court, and b) unless one of those contracts is a marriage certificate specifically many rights are non-transferable- things like pensions, government social security benefits, health insurance coverage (considered a benefit by some), child custody, and many others that I don't have the time to cover for you atm. \n\nNeedless to say, there are definitive *rights* granted to married persons that are non-transferable. The issue is not with the concept of marriage contract law as these rights are generally reasonable and necessary. The issue is that gender is an arbitrary barrier of entry for the contract of marriage and places severe disadvantages on the lives of otherwise law-abiding, productive members of our society. ",
"Welcome to the world of lobbying my friend!",
"Of course he did. ",
"I think they were quoting Simpsons road rage",
"And an avid environmentalist. ",
"My ex hated cats because he never got to know one, all he knew of cats where that they were dicks and heartless sack of fur and claws that will never love you because that all he was ever taught. That's what society, the media, and the general population at the time of his early development taught him. And it wasn't until he personally spent time with one that he realized what he thought he knew of cats and his intense dislike of them was based on false information. I'm saying saying cats and gays are the same, but the analogy fits.",
"So.....Muslims? ",
"Something something OMELETTE DU FROMAGE",
"^ this guy is in tense",
"http://i.imgur.com/tNJD6oY.gifv \n\n This is a kind reminder that in French we say \"omelette *au* fromage\" and not \"omelette _du_ fromage\". \n\n [Sorry Dexter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW3-9gdjYA)\n\n[Steve Martin](https://youtu.be/DOJDNChwgBw?t=2m49s) doesn't appear to be the most accurate French professor.",
"I am seriously dissapointed. \n\n:(.",
"Well either they turn their backs on their belief or their career, both are not easy things to let go of ",
"\"With his openly gay son by his side, Doug Jones was sworn into office by Mike Pence\"",
"Care to explain for us that don't live in the US, cause I don't get it! ",
"I mean Jones wasn't supportive of gay marriage until only a few years ago, I think he only changed his mind because it was his son just like Rob Portman.",
"If it does, then yeah, I understand the concern. But I was talking about the people all over facebook going \"I don't even know how to pump gas\" and \"the transients are going to rape me in my skirt\". ",
"Atleast not those who were born in the 90s.",
"Probably not the same because Dick Cheney and Newt Gringrich aren't really \"religious\" in any real sense from what they've said publicly(who really knows privately), it was more of a political thing. For Pence, it seems to be a closely held belief. ",
"Not defending the actions if that's the case. But how so. Because from what I've heard he was just trying to make homosexual conversion an option. (Which I think is awfully stupid) but again some people choice. Also he signed anti discriminatory laws for LGBQ in Indina.\n\nI know it was after criticism from his religious freedom act. Which I haven't thoroughly researched but I find nowadays things either go under the radar with democrats or blown out of proportion with republicans so id have to read more.\n\nAlso I know he signed the largest tax cut in Indiana's history. Possibly I'm a naive voter but I'll always vote for the guy with big tax cuts. To me it's the only true way to live.\n\nAgain I understand this is a personal flaw as a voter. I'm not perfect.\n",
"Hey, nobody cares about your opinion snowflake. Stop getting so offended by everything.",
"> I can't think of a single good secular reason to oppose gay marriage.\n\n\nPossibly the declining birthrates in the first world and the relation between birthrate and national economy? Also, the possibility that western culture has some part top play in the success of western civilizations? (declining birthrates means the death of cultures that have declining birthrates)",
"Son wants to fuck Pence lmao look that those eyes",
"Most prejudices are rooted in a limited worldview that views the \"other\" as being different from you in negative ways. When people have this challenged, usually it changes their outlook. It's how [one man](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis) disbanded the Maryland KKK using friendship. ",
"In New Jersey, they don't pump their gas; they pump their fists. ",
"Why is that?\n\nEdit: Nvm, it’s been answered",
"Who he hired from \"Rentboy.com\" LOL.",
"Welp",
"Are you feeling powerful?",
"Shit i'm mixed race and I have relatives saying that shit around me and my mom.",
"I was at a trump rally. Now please go ahead and validate the attackers because I'm a 'nazi' I expect nothing less! \n\nAlready got called a nazi lol fucking liberal bitches",
"WTF photoshop is a hell of a thing ",
"Fun fact!\n\"Utopia\" means nowhere\n\n\"Eutopia\" means paradise\n\nIt's one of those words that is going to change officially in time, but I'm still holding on.\n\nHow neat is that?!\n\nEdit because I submitted before I was done like a fool \n\nEdit formatting",
"Does it have to mean something to anyone? ",
"Does it vary? I have a friend who speaks French natively and I remember him saying it was omelette du fromage.",
"[Abstinence-only, child pornography-fighting senator caught sending racy emails to male staffers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal)\n\n[Gender-equality/LGBT-equality-fighting conservative politician with a history of diddling little boys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert#Child_sexual_abuse_and_hush-money_scheme)\n\n[This says pretty much everything: \"In 1989 Craig was reported to have led an extended effort that pushed for more severe punishment of Representative Barney Frank for his involvement in a gay prostitution scandal.\" Later caught soliciting sex from an undercover cop in an airport bathroom.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#2007_arrest_and_consequences)\n\nBasically, go watch the documentary [Outrage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrage_\\(2009_film\\)). ",
"http://i.imgur.com/tNJD6oY.gifv \n\n This is a kind reminder that in French we say \"omelette *au* fromage\" and not \"omelette _du_ fromage\". \n\n [Sorry Dexter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW3-9gdjYA)\n\n[Steve Martin](https://youtu.be/DOJDNChwgBw?t=2m49s) doesn't appear to be the most accurate French professor.",
"Why on earth would you think someone not wanting to spend extra money (their own money that they earned) is a freakout? I'd say it's actually pretty reasonable. \n\nIt sounds like they saw there was an additional fee for bags and had to make a choice which resulted in them putting some chips back. \n\nThat sounds pretty shitty to put the burden on that poor fellow. This wasn't a change put through by the free market where each of the stores decided to start charging for bags on their own - this was put in and forced upon people via a law. \n\nI don't live in a State that bans plastic bags and charges for paper bags. Why would they charge for paper bags? Paper bags aren't dangerous to the environment. I can totally see why a lot of people disagree with it. I sure would oppose such a law in my State. ",
"But it's a stupid idea",
"I cant be a homophobe, I have a gay friend.",
"I won't argue, I will just call you a \"bigot.\"\n\nComing from a liberal and conservative: conservatives suck! Haha sooo edgy! r/thathappened r/im14andthisisdeep r/gobacktopolitics",
"\"it ain't gay if the balls don't touch\"",
"\"If we had some cheese we could have cheese and eggs if we had some eggs.\"",
"Not true. You can choose your own religious texts or opt out and use the Constitution instead",
"I sometimes imagine Trump must have been like as a dad.\n\nThe way I imagine he was never really a dad. Just a father. I doubt he ever changed a diaper or woke up in the middle of the night to calm the baby down. Did he take the time to teach them to walk? To talk? Did he do fun science experiments? Or play silly board games?\n\nMaybe it's just me but I doubt he did any of this. Does he see Ivanka as a daughter or just as an heir?\n\nAnyways, it's also hard to imagine trump having sex with his wife, so just add it to the list. The man is as weird as it gets.",
"Went on vacation to the Jersey Shore with the inlaws a couple years back. They we're driving, and stopped for gas. I thought I'd be nice and go pump it for them. Woo boy was that a mistake. Dude came flying out of the station like a bat out of hell screaming at me. He startled me so badly I actually dropped the nozzle, which was ironic because I've never done that before in my decades of self-service here in PA. \n\n\nCrazy ass New Jersey. ",
"THAT'S NOT CANON DON'T MAKE ME LOOK LIKE A FOOL MAN",
"Foot massages for everyone!!!",
"Man, i gotta post some Zoe Leonard now!\n\n\n>I want a dyke for president. I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to AIDS, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no air-conditioning, a president who has stood in line at the clinic, at the DMV, at the welfare office, and has been unemployed and laid off and sexually harassed and gaybashed and deported. I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a Black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn’t possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown. Always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker. Always a liar, always a thief, and never caught.",
"Yeah he is openly gay alright! He is eyeballing Mike Pence like a hungry hyena in the Serengeti!",
"Swornt",
"It's because family and religion are the top pillars of republicans but for most of them family trumps religion.",
"Obama, Clinton, and Biden all during the 2008 primary said they were anti-gay marriage I belive Biden said during a question he thought it was unnatural, then jump to 2012 when 52% of Americans said it was okay Obama and Biden switched.\n\nI mean what's worse switching your opinion because of a family member or because of a dying political ship?",
"Good bot",
"Token?",
"u wot",
"In my opinion, You're stupid if you can't remember to bring a few bags with you to the store. \n\nWhy should a store even be obligated to offer bags? That is their hard earned money. \n\n",
"Absolutely.",
"Mike \"if you were hoping for dicks later, I'm gonna get the generator\" Pence",
"I live in Oregon and it was my understanding the new law has very limited effects, making all the commotion that much more hilarious to me.",
"No it isn't, fuck them. ",
"It's almost like they only do things that would be in their best interests.",
"rekked",
"Openly sassy. ",
"No. Sorry but it doesn't exist in correct French. Because \"du\" would mean that the cheese owns the omelette.",
"I love this comment, as it rings so true in my experience. Conservatives I know will often adjust their worldview based on lived experience, those around them. Liberals are dogmatic to the very end. \n\nI live and grew up in Los Angeles. You would not believe the venom and vitriol of those around me who know me to be an open caring individual, after they found out I supported Trump in this election. Absolutely unreal hatred.",
"I think you mean\n\nShithead, Mike Pence",
"In what way does denying marriage equality NOT impose hatred and second class citizenship to LGBT folks? You act as if it’s ridiculous to assume someone against gay marriage would also hate gays. Well, they’re actively against giving equal legal rights to couples other than a man and woman. That’s discrimination and bias aka a form of hatred and prejudice. Your logic is kind of iffy.",
"Good bot.",
"The gas stations that are 24 hrs have an attendant at night",
"religion is more of a choice than skin color tho",
"I don’t know if his son realizes it but those are fightin’ eyes he’s got there.",
"Bjeared.",
"Not really, it could even make it easier to be homophobic sometimes. The real change is when it is someone you LOVE.",
"Showing hypocrisy isn't a strawman. Unless your goal is to shut down that kind of criticism i guess ...",
"I'm friends with Cheney's daughter's now-wife. You can't imagine how cruel Cheney has been to his daughter. Don't let his public BS fool you, he's a fucking hateful bigot.",
"Posts like this always seem to bring out the worst in this site.",
"Why eat an onion to cover alcohol breath when you can put a whole packet of Sen-sen in your mouth...of course which is worse depends on how much you hate the flavor of anise.",
"The biggest anti gay voices are usually the ones that like it hardest up the ass.",
"Why is Mike Pence the one doing the swearing in?",
"Did I say the opposite?",
"You were just laughing at people from oregon and now you're doing the same thing. People pumping gas for you in Oregon was a standard too. Why should the store buy the bags just bc it is \"normal\"",
"Bonne sauce ayyyeeeeee ;)",
"The special situation is usually that they had an affair with their secretary, and needed to keep it on the DL. That’s what Jesus would do.",
"Can I ask you what you think the purpose of marriage is with respect to the state? \nLike why does the state(the federal government) provide this extra protection and benefits to people that pledge their life to each other? What is the reason from the states point of view?\n\nI hope this doesn't offend you and I am not religious at all I just want to understand what other people think.",
"If looks could kill, Pence would be dead.",
"Dick Cheney is pro gay marriage until it comes to election years for his other straight daughter.",
"I like how you all think Pence gives a shit about some colleague's gay son. ",
"Which one is his son?",
"Yeah, I've got money riding on Pence having one of two sex scandals:\n\nSome go to jail forever, FBI agents need counseling after going through his hard drive, fucked up shit\n\nSomething that's not illegal or harmful, but really hypocritical/weird",
"No one has the \"right\" to serve their country. If that were the case then the government would facilitate 100% employment by providing a job to whoever wanted one.",
"Good bot",
"Meek Ponce",
"I hope his wife was there to supervise this process. In case Pence started getting any ideas...",
"huh?",
"Because the Constitution",
"White Satan n Lady death swear in good people ",
"I dont understand how you came to that conclusion based on that sentence",
"Ahhhh here come the insults. X person who doesn't feel the same way about this as I do is stupid. \n\nStores were never obligated to offer free bags. They did it as a service. If Albertsons stopped giving out free bags don't you think more people would flock to Wal-Mart, who did give out free bags? The free market made that decision already. That's why all stores offered free bags. \n\nWhat the new laws did in some states was make charging for bags a requirement, at the cost of the customer. \n\nAnd where did welfare and handouts come from? This has nothing to do with social programs. Actually, this is kind of an anti-social program as it puts an additional monetary burden on the customer. There were no such burdens (on either the customer or the business) beforehand. ",
"Its a jobs thing and if you really stop and think about it. Unsupervised access to an incredibly flammable and explosive substance that can be used to make makeshift bombs, and start wildfires and house fires, used as a propellant for makeshift projectiles does seem spinable to an uneducated populace back in ye' olden days on top of the fact that it creates jobs.",
"The transgender military thing reminds me of immigration. If you're against immigration then you are instantly a bigot, even if you are against it for economic reasons.\n\nIf you are against the army paying for trans surgery that means you hate trans people.",
"Maybe everybody should stop supporting the politicians then?",
"Found the guy with the waxed mustache and skinny red jeans!",
"Looks like contract negotiation in Fifa 18",
"It's more insulting when they make their rhetoric about \"the government staying out of people's personal lives\". Apparently that counts only if you want to be old fashioned bigoted and/or racist.",
"It’s harder to be against Pre existing conditions when you are diagnosed with a disease. ",
"DAMN i want to get gay with the openly gay son",
"Honestly, that's what I thought at first. Had to re-read the title to make sure what I read was correct.",
"I don't really think Peence cares at all about him, but I still think it's a cool moment. A gay man watch his pro-gay father being sworn in by an anti-gay politician has to be a surreal experience for everyone involved. ",
"what rights did gay marriage bring that wasn't available before, out of interest?",
"Sweared in? 🤪🤪🤪",
"Would you like one? I have many to give you.",
"Imo this whole \"homophobes must be gay if they hate gay people so much\" attitude is a dangerous one to have. You're just dismissing the idea that homophobia is a real thing and that there are indeed people who detest homosexuals.",
"It’s a good thing this isn’t a Muslim nation",
"Looks like doug jones is his sons rapist",
"Wow that happens? Like.. theres no official attendant, so you can't get gas? Wtf do they have a degree in pumpology?",
"I actually respect the Australian anti-gays more for NOT immediately folding as soon as they find out a relative is gay. \n\nIt's a lot classier than the American \"fuck you and everything you stand for, unless your particular issue involves someone in my family\" attitude.",
"You don't want prayer in schools? Must hate Christians. \n\nYou want affirmative action? You are anti white racist\n\nDang arguing like a liberal is easy! Even if it is all ad hom",
"English man sucks.\n\nEr, I mean...",
"Its going to be zoolander.\n\n*clicks*\n\nYup.\n\n",
"Chambre pour un de plus?",
"You joke, but this is kinda real. The people most likely to hate Muslims in the US are almost certainly extremely religious Christians who believe 95% of the same things as the Muslims they hate. The Torah and the Bible include most of the same books, and Allah is the Judeo-Christian god in a different language.\n\nRacism doesn’t quite fit in the same way, but you could argue that’s because everyone is racist to some degree or other, if you boil racism down to its two primary components: in group- out group behavior and top down processing.",
">Yes, I do. People should be able to deny service to whoever they want. ...\n\nSo what about (hypothetical) a Muslim doctor not ready to serve a Christian (for whatever religious reason) ? What if it is in an emergency room ? \n\nWhere do you draw line ? I understand one should have freedom to practice one's faith, but that doesn't give him/her the right to affect others negatively. Denying a service defies the whole concept of society.\n\n",
"Huh? You used an example of refusing service to blacks when discussing religion.",
"I don't agree with that argument, though. Even if you banned gay marriage, it's not like it'd turn gay people into straight people anymore than banning straight marriage would suddenly turn people gay. \n\nIf that was truly something to be concerned about, governments should be encouraging straight married couples to have more kids. Tax breaks, government aid, free/subsidized education, etc. I'm no economist, so I'm not well equipped to propose an alternative, but I'm pretty sure \"try to make gay people straight\" isn't the best of plans.",
"Dayum, I hope he doesn’t read this. ",
"I wonder if he's going to just be just a super left leaning senator knowing he can't realistically win in 2020? I mean Jones/Moore combined got less votes than Jeff Sessions did during his previous election when a Democrat actually challenged him. He could pull a Richard Shelby the other US Senator from Alabama and just switch parties and serve 20 years.\n\nThe reason I said he can't win in 2020 because a poll shown by Nate Silver on election night had Strange the other Republican in the primary up 64% to 32% on election day. ",
"Ps: Fuck justhad2login2reply",
"The unintuitive disconnect here is that a lot of career republicans probably having nothing personally against queer peoples, but oppose their rights because they are incentivized to do so. \n\nAnd if you still think they are evil for that, I encourage you to think about how much discount clothing you got on sale was made by underpaid children laboring in sweatshops around the globe. Both spread despair without directly interacting with any victims.",
"This was a recurring theme in *The West Wing* - that various laws are annoying or disagreeable until they affect someone you know, then suddenly you \"see the light\"... \n\nHowever, the best application of this idea was in the episode on Mandatory Minimums, where CJ Cregg called a bunch of legislators into the (empty) press room privately to review the preferential treatment their loved ones had received on drug crimes, and suggesting that if they didn't get on board opposing mandatory minimums, maybe next time she reviewed these cases she'd do it in front of the entire White House press pool. \n\nNow *that* is how you lead a country. ",
"Was your name Jaffar? \nDid you came from afar? \nWas there a bomb in your car? \nDid you yell Allah akbar? ",
"Mike looks nervous that there is a women in the room.",
"“Ahh, you’ve done grand laddie. Now, you know what you have to do? Burn the house down. BURN THEM ALL!!!”",
"I can see 'Gayson' being one of those first names that start popping up in the gradeschools here in 5 years. Like Payton, or Makkynzee, or well you get the drift.",
"Il semble delicieux - j'ai faim :( ",
"I think it's important to remember: Whites voted for Moore. This is the result of the DNC importing dark skinned people for centuries. ",
"No thanks. ",
"Nah, Republicans don't believe in that. ",
"It's usually a religious thing. For a lot of them, they believe that homosexuality is a sin and being a homosexual is enough to condemn your soul to hell/whatever equivalent. So in their own fucked up way, they think they're *helping* the gay person and saving them from eternal damnation by mistreating them and hating them. Because, again in their own fucked up way of thinking, they believe this will help \"convert\" some of them to heterosexuality and thus save their souls. \n\nSo for them, they think it's ok to treat someone like garbage now if it'll pay off for them after they die, even if the other person doesn't even believe in the same religion/afterlife. But these people are hypocrites because the bible literally tells them not to judge others. It isn't their place to judge other people for their sins. \n\nSo yes, the main point here is that they're not good people. Keep in mind that this isn't all religious people, and likely not even most of them. I'm religious but my main motto in life is to be tolerant of all other people and their lifestyle choices, so long as those choices do not negatively affect other people.",
"Creating jobs is a bad thing? Let me guess, you hate ice cream too?",
"Pegging isn't a homosexual thing",
"His opinion truly is a result of modern echo chambers probably",
"Giving her the \"Get ready to HODL\" look",
"Odd that people think it is newsworthy to point out that a politician who is being sworn in is standing by his gay son. There appears to be no other purpose for the picture and caption than bigotry.\n\nSad.",
"I'm not sure she's a hypocrite. Valuing money over principles is probably consistent with the values instilled in her as Dick Cheney's daughter.",
"If by \"privately support\" you mean \"doesn't care unless there's an advantage to be doled out of it somehow\". ",
"But you have people pumping gas as a job?",
"Fucker ate a raw onionHow can anyone trust a person that does that?",
"Doesn't only thinking of yourself make you a shitty person? \n\nI'm taxed heavily, and I'm totally okay with that because my tax money is supporting free healthcare and social programs for the less fortunate. I'm not so selfishly insane to think that I'm that much more important than everybody else. \n\nIf a politician told me he was gonna make my life a ton better but shit on other people I'm not gonna vote for him.",
"Oh no, he said “cuck” 😱",
"Yes. Discussing religious \"freedom\" to discriminate against people based on their race, gender, or sexuality. \n\n",
"> Pence never stated that he supported the use of electric shocks or \"gay conversion\" therapy.\n\nhttps://www.snopes.com/mike-pence-supported-gay-conversion-therapy/",
"Swear into me!",
"If there isn't already gay porn starring a Mike Pence lookalike, there's going to be a gay porn video based on this exact situation. ",
"“... his openly gay son by Mike Pence” makes it sound like Pence is the father of Jones’ openly gay son.",
"It's definitely not a thing for Out homosexuals.",
"Was that English?",
"Notice how no politicians who were, themselves, aborted ever come out against abortion?",
"Sweared into hurts my brain",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3NoDEu7kpg \n\nVideo: Average Tuesday for Mike Pence",
"\"For Muppets fans who grew up\" - what is this Tough Pigs site? Are Muppets really in the news enough for a whole website with podcasts!? The world is so strange.",
"That’s the most attractive version of Lady Gaga I’ve ever seen. ",
"Do you use parachutes that are certified in a communist country?",
"Never said that. You just keep trying to change what i say and it's idiotic. You simply wanted to argue. I said you're stupid if you forget bags. .30/yr isn't a ripoff. Period. If you think it is, you're one of those people you were just making fun of in Oregon. ",
"Cursed him into office as well",
"Who's gay son, doug jones or pence?",
"Almost harder? It's almost like it was the beginning of a spiteful joke. I mean clearly you had a lot you had to say but lol come on we all know it supposed to be humorously rebellious... right?",
"I can see where the confusion lies, that's not gay according to ancient Greeks.",
"Your argument is a catch 22. \n\nYou’re not empathizing with people’s inability to empathize. ",
"My first and immediate thought... “who gives a flying fuck what this guy sticks his dick into?!?”\n\nSeriously, why do we really have to point that out? ",
"Or a Harlequin romance novel",
"He’ll be gone in the next election. Anyone thinking otherwise is kidding themselves.",
"When being sworn into a government office, why is it acceptable to take the oath on any religious text? Shouldn't the constitution always be used to make it clear that you are serving the constitution and not your religious morals, upholding the separation of church and state?\n\nIt seems like nobody ever really cares about that one",
"\"Openly Gay Son, by Mike Pence\" new band name I called it.",
"Same in the rest of the western world, this \"can't pump your own gas\" attitude is a very uniquely American thing.",
"You'd think that to be a good politician, to be a good advocate for the people you represent, you'd know how to be empathetic, or at least try to understand how it is to be in someone else's shoes",
"Someone who steals budgies for a living.\n\nSee also : drop bear. ",
"It is almost like they aren't as scary as people seem to think they are.",
"That was perfectly understandable English. Please point out the faults with that sentence.",
"My grandfather was paid to scare pigeons away on Fifth Avenue during the New Deal.",
"Statistically speaking, he should want a recount, a lot of results didn’t make sense. I wasn’t much of a fan of the guy myself, however there was definitely some fuckery going on. There were even news interviews with what appeared to be uneducated people saying that they voted 2-3 times. ",
"It's almost like some conservatives struggle to empathise unless they are put in the situation.",
"I thought you might have been quoting some parody or something. Then I saw the footage.\n\nThat boy ain’t right. ",
"Back in the 1940s it was almost unheard for self-service to be a thing at a gas station. One enterprising gas station owner decided to offer cheaper gas if you pump your own fuel. This became hugely popular and threatened his competition. Rather than adapt they went ahead and lobbied to make it illegal to pump your own gas. Their reasoning for it was it's not safe to have someone untrained to pump gas. Now it's more of a jobs thing in New Jersey that keeps it from being repealed.",
"In her book, Ivana claims that Trump had little to do with the day to day dealings of being a parent to their children. He didn't bond with them truly until they were old enough to understand his businesses. ",
"Kind of like how folks who insist that *everyone* say Merry Christmas don't actually know any Jewish people or others who don't celebrate, and can't imagine why wanting to include them with a \"Happy Holidays\" could be a nice thing. ",
"Or maybe he should just come out of the closet himself... But he made the “choice” to be straight. Hence, his overt fear of gay people because he wants the peen himself and takes his self hatred out on others. It’s only a choice for those who chose to stay on the closet.",
"Now don't go gettin' all flustrated on me. ",
"No idea. I'm in Australia where we always fill up ourselves. \nI don't think I've come across it in Europe or Japan either but some stations have very helpful attendants that do other things too. \n\nIn Australia we still have people at each station... but they look after the store and you go in to pay. Usually it's a one person operation with two or more at busy periods. ",
"Pullin a Tony Faggo- I mean Abbot",
"No, Ralphie Wiggins the idiot son of the local Police Chief Wiggins on the hit cartoon [The Thompsons](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XvyHYgIG4kU/hqdefault.jpg)",
"Call for help.",
"IE/Edge has had incognito for years. Edge also has µBlock Origins among several others extensions.",
"lol at first. Guess we will just all forget about this...\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBw8DGEYmng",
"Pence has to be so sexually frustrated in that pic",
"Shhh. The world doesn't need to know about our shameful politicians. Let them all think we're dollerydoos and surfing. When the tourists get here and the reef is dead, just tell them it was like that when you got here. ",
"Solidarity from the UK, although I will probably keep it to particular subs rather than derailing some of the more volatile ones (not naming names).\n\nFuck Ajit Pai",
"I know stink eye when I see it. That is definitely stinkeye",
"You are conflating \"not being in favour of gay marriage\" and homophobia",
"We were just in South Africa and they have pump attendants. ",
"No its Ralphie Wiggins. Clearly you've never watched The Sampsons. ",
"Strong convictions are really bad imo, you need to reevaluate your opinions every time you learn more about a subject.",
"No one really cares, but you don't need to put a comment lmao",
"The son is definitely gay! Look at him gazing at Pence!",
"Doug Jones prolly molested his poor child. Most gays end up that way due to some form of abuse. ",
"I mean I don't agree with the guy and think he's a little off the rails at times but I think it's fair to say that it's been fine. I'm far from even middle class so I'm definitely in the \"less wealthy\" category that you mentioned but it's been fine. Most statistics out there point to us maintaining the status quo or improving. The ACA is the only questionable part if you approve of and take advantage of it",
"Mm yes, I often ask my boyfriend: \"Hey, want to have gay sex tonight? If you give me a gay blowjob, I'll do that special gay thing you like 😘\"\n\nTo which he answers \"You don't have a boyfriend, stop lying to people on Reddit\"",
"You have unsupervised access as soon as you drive your car home from the gas station...",
"I think “Next to his openly gay son, Doug Jones is sworn into office by Mike Pence” might be the best way",
"Wow. This is so provocative. It's the epic culmination of decades of LGBT rights progress, juxtaposed with the epitome of discrimination and homophobia. 'Tis a beautiful sight to behold; a gay man profusely spitting upon the face of Mike \"Pink Triangles Collector\" Pence.\n\nI will be sure to add this to my collection of dozens and dozens and dozens of other examples of ostentatious LGBT symbolism directed towards cowardly, treasonous Mikey. I find they become more profound upon repeat viewings and as I build up my collection upwards of 142 examples.\n\nI especially love that time that one gay couple hung a Pride flag beside Mick's house. Wait...no, I think prefer that other time a different gay couple did the same thing. Actually I prefer an entirely separate occasion than those previous two where a gay couple hung a Pride flag outside his *vacation* home.\n\nI hope Michelle hasn't become dulled to sight of the LGBT community slapping his senile face. I hope he still, as the neo-Nazis say, gets \"TRIGGERED\" by us. I mean, look at his face in this picture! It's evidently insufferable for him, and he deserves no better. Quite ironically if I do say so myself, he clearly is in a Hell of his own, if you fancy.",
"Shocking ...",
"People tend to forget we already found there are more jobs than people, made even worse when many people need multiple jobs to not end up on the street.\n\nThe new deal basically made up jobs so almost every e was really on welfare, but at least they did something to earn it so it wasn't as stigmatized.\n\nIt was like Universal Basic Income with an extra step.",
"Malcolm's fighting for the title.John Howard is pretty close despite his kind of outwardly sensible demeanour.",
"He's still banging on about the carbon tax and the boats.\n\nThe man is a living time capsule. ",
"I went to visit my friend in Oregon two years ago. I got out to start pumping my gas when this dude runs up to me before I'm all the way out. My fight response kicks in as I automatically believe I'm about to have to fight off a mugger. He stands right next to the half open door and starts questioning me about what I'm doing. Took a minute for me to believe that he was actually just going to pump my gas for me. That was a fun learning experience.",
"That's fairly common, generally mom also calls dad \"dad\" or \"papa\" or wtv. It adds an element of family familiarness or closeness.",
"what in the ever living fuck does his sons sexual preference have to do with his fathers job ?\n\nwill liberals ever stop defining people by what group they belong to ",
"What does organ of preference have to do with this?",
"Found a fellow Hoosier",
"This \"you took a few seconds to type a comment so clearly you care\" thing is so fucking dumb",
"my mother who kicked me out would disagree with you",
"r/accidentalrenaissance",
"Watch Inuyashiki. The main antagonist is a good insight into how conservatives think.",
"Well explain this then. \nhttps://www.hrc.org/blog/100-anti-lgbtq-bills-introduced-in-2017\n\nhttps://www.aclu.org/other/legislation-affecting-lgbt-rights-across-country\n\nhttps://www.npr.org/2017/09/08/549453484/lgbt-advocates-trump-administration-s-stance-in-cake-case-is-yet-another-letdown\n\nAnd of course, the most explicitly anti-lgbtq national party platform ever:\nhttp://abcnews.go.com/Politics/log-cabin-republicans-gop-party-platform-anti-lgbt/story?id=40564850",
"> Unsupervised access to an incredibly flammable and explosive substance that can be used to make makeshift bombs, and start wildfires and house fires, used as a propellant for makeshift projectiles does seem spinable to an uneducated populace back in ye' olden days\n\nEverything you said is not a problem in the US. At all. In any way. \n\nTerrorists don't go to gas stations en masse to get their gasoline for bombs lmao",
"Women aren't really people so it doesn't matter how many they know /s",
"Fascinating that this is still such a big topic in the states, we had an openly gay foreign minister a decade ago in Germany.",
"Looks like I was definitely misinformed then! Glad to know though, always happy to have someone on the right side of things. I thought it seemed weird that she would be against it - guess I can't believe what I hear in passing.",
"> Do you tip them or something?\n\nNope.",
"\"I like men now.\"",
"now I'm not an expert but it *could* be because Pence is vehemently against gays",
"I’ve lived in the south my entire 43 years, and never once heard that euphemism. ",
"Sweared or *sworn?",
"He would of never made in politics, and drank himself to death at an early age. ",
"It's been going on for hundreds of years but americans think it's just them. a pope during the rennaisance ruined a bunch of statues by ordering all their dicks be chopped off so as to not tempt people. \n\nIn conservative culture, there's no such thing as a gay identity...so gay children born into heterosexual cults (like christianity) are raised to believe they, and everyone else they know, is heterosexual. They then begin experiencing same sex attraction and dont think that theyre gay...but that there's something in the culture that's tempting them (while not understanding that they were just born gay and there's no evil culture transforming them into gays..theyre JUST gay and have always been)...so they literally walk amongst other americans, truly believing EVERYONE is like them, experiencing same sex attractions that they MUST destroy because those feelings are evil..and that we must all come together to stop the evil thats causing heterosexuals to experience these evil feelings. Almost all the powerful, politically well connected anti gay bigots have been closeted gays. This is basically just horrific child abuse by heterosexual christian parents raising seriously fucked up gay people. ",
"Haha. Open your eyes and use your brain. You have missed the very obvious point of the photo. The reason its newsworthy is because Mike Pence is widely perceived as a classic closet-case while loudly opposing homosexuality for political reasons. Furthermore, the guy Jones beat is also a gay-hating republican. The cherry on top is the fucking death stare Jones son has locked onto Pence - he knows exactly what Pence is. ",
"Doug Jones, standing next to his openly gay son, was sworn in by Mike Pence.",
"Im british so i am not familiar with the guy",
"I don't know which is worse, the fact that Republicans won't open up their hearts until it happens in the family or the fact that they are so hateful to begin with....\n\nI wonder how they would feel if other things they stood against happened close to home, would they feel the same way about poverty? The war on drugs? Pro life?",
"ITT: OP Fucked up the title.",
"Thanks for the info, that's something I'm happy to have been wrong about!",
"Better late than never?!? Please do me a favor and look up any Hillary pre-2012 stance on gay marriage.",
"This is why Julia Gillard cracked one day and went vitriolic on him. He should never have won anything, I remember him being asked about two senators and what were greatest strengths and he said something along the lines of their sex appeal. I almost smashed my TV. ",
"it' when it's pay at pump that you get issues, guys! Pumping your own 'gas' is not very difficult\n\nhere in the UK i have only ever experienced an attendant fueling up for me once. I was confused af thinking this lonely old man is just trying to provide over the top service as an excuse to merely have some mundane conversation with me for 5 minutes. \n\nBut then again here in the UK we don't like strangers conversing with us at length. Whenever i go to North America in general i find it unnerving how OTT friendly and polite everyone is\n\n",
"Rejected bathroom rights?\nObama's was the one who put protections in place. \nhttps://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/22/516664633/trump-administration-rescinds-obama-rule-on-transgender-students-bathroom-use\n\nAnd here he is supporting it in 2012\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2012/05/09/politics/obama-same-sex-marriage/index.html\n\nSo where the hell are you getting your timeline from?\n",
"Mostly used for the guy and his mother that did the dirty. ",
"So a gay guy in a picture is fucking headline news now? SMDH",
"These are fringe cases. The exception not the rule. In most cases people are simply against gay marriage. Nothing much more complex to it than that. Humans like to add all sorts of explanations about things to make themselves feel better",
"We do. It's just Oregon and New Jersey.\n\nTrust me, the concept is baffling to all of us too. The first time I drove through Oregon and found out I couldn't pump my own gas I was flabbergasted. When I read up as to \"why\", I was even more flabbergasted. The whole thing is backwards.",
"Gee whiz... if it's a strawman it ought to be really easy to dismantle yet you disappeared.",
"Wow! Mike Pence got owned! XD",
"Mike \"Babys, not Buttsecks\" Pence.",
"Not just limited to conservatives or gay marriage. Politicians always flip flop on issues when they're forced to actually live them. See also - healthcare.",
"As I said, there appears to be no other purpose for the picture and caption than bigotry.\n\nSad.",
"He isnt even anti gay, which is why he doesnt care.",
"Over 100 new anti-lgbtq bills were introduced by republicans last year alone. \n\nThey're fighting to make discrimination and \"religious liberty\" laws nationwide. \n\nAnd in Texas they're fighting to undermine the validity of same sex marriage. \n\nSo if you don't think it's still happening, you're not paying attention toon. ",
"Having a lesbian sister didn't really stop Tony Abbott from being rather against same sex marriage over here in Australia, especially when he was PM a couple of years ago.",
"Went to Australia when I was in the Marines. I thought we said cunt a lot. Boy was I wrong.",
"Point was having a job market for a simple and inane task is just jobs for the sake of jobs. Nothing wrong with that if you *hire* someone for that, but having it mandated is dumb. It's like making it illegal to tie my own shoes because other people get paid to do it for you and you doing it yourself would be taking away their income or something.",
"Sorry to ask, I'm not American: Why is it such a big deal that someone's son is gay that it's worth a headline? I always thought homosexuality is (mostly) not an issue in the States",
"I don't know why but i've been dragging my feet not finishing that show. As soon as i'm done, on to the last kingdom ",
"..and that’s about the saddest thing I’ve read all week. :(",
"we've got openly gay politicians too. We also have politicians who belive it's sinful like Pence",
"Do you think private hospitals should deny dying patients because their white/black/whatever? Even if the next closest hospital was impossible to reach without medical consequences? Genuinely curious to what extent you believe in this idea.",
"bonner sauce",
"I’d hardly call it a rip off, how many plastic bags do you think you use in one year alone? In the UK we can either pay ~5p for the standard plastic bag or ~20p for what’s called a ‘bag for life’ from supermarkets which is stronger and typically larger. Once the bag for life is damaged or worn out the supermarket will replace them for free. \n\nI bought two bags last year, 40p, and living with others means we have a cupboard full of them. I just stick em in my pocket before going to the shops.\n\nIn the first 6 months after the charge was introduced plastic bags saw an 85% decrease in distribution, from 7Bn the previous year to 500M in that 6 month period.\n\n[source: 2016 guardian article ](https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/30/england-plastic-bag-usage-drops-85-per-cent-since-5p-charged-introduced) \n\nOn top of that the money generated by bag sales in many cases goes towards funding community projects. Tesco in 2016 made £26 million available to community projects just from its bags of help scheme alone. \n\n[Source: Tesco Groundwork Bags of Help scheme](https://www.groundwork.org.uk/Sites/tescocommunityscheme) \n\nA couple quid each year for these kinda benefits is hardly what I’d call a rip off for the consumer and I’d rather have 6 Billion less plastic bags disintegrating across the UK per year. I have no idea how massive the figures would be for USA.",
"What the fuck are you talking about? The DNC importing black people for centuries? ",
"I’m from Washington State. Every once in a while my adventures would take me south of the border. I know the laws, but every damn time I pull up to the pump down there I get out and start pumping. I have to apologize a million times cause you just forget. I wonder what it would be like for the roles to reverse. ",
"I mean, why drive it home when you could chuck it into a crowd of people?",
"I thought this was /r/fakehistoryporn based on the title alone",
"Unless the only gay person you know is yourself. (Pence) ",
"John",
"I'm just playing devils advocate. Just because someone says they support something and holds a sign doesn't mean they really do. But if he does support them, all the better. Maybe its just mike pence then",
"It’s actually more difficult for the rich..who’s only contact with middle-class people, much less the poor, have been people employed by them. \n\nThey could still make the effort, though. ",
"That’s usually how it happens... you didn’t see Christopher Reeves donating to research on spinal injuries before he got paralyzed, now his foundation brings in millions for research each year. \n\nPeople can change their views when presented with new information or are able to view it in a new light and if you still want to talk shit, you’re the asshole. ",
"See he swore in on a bible. So it's true Muslim's can't run for office legally.",
"He would pray that gay away. I mean pray so hard, just pray the shit out of that prayer. ",
"Sounds like something OP actually said. \"Sweared into.\" You probably believe uneducated folk voted pence into office as well, eh? Not a single LGBTQ has been forced converted or gassed because of this presidency. Can we grow up? \n\nhttps://www.snopes.com/mike-pence-supported-gay-conversion-therapy/\n\nOnce drump/pence actually do start forcing conversion, Ill stand with the lgbtq and take him out. \n\nUntil then, can we please stop the crocodile tears and carry on with our lives? Can't go anywhere anymore with out someone making an asswipe comment.\n\n\n",
"Holy shit that stare down is intense. ",
"I wonder what he did wrong",
"That and quite a few vocal anti-gay pastors being outed. ",
"Lets be real Pence is probably in the closet.",
"There were literally riots over this a few decades ago. \nAnd lgbtq people regularly face discrimination in hiring practices. That's part of the reason homeless people are overwhelmingly more likely to be lgbtq than the general populous. \n\nIt's simple, if your business is open to the American public, you serve the American people. We decided this already a long time ago when we decided businesses couldn't ban black people. \n\nEdit:\nCurious. Downvotes. Maybe you need sources? Surely no one would consider relevant sources or facts to be unwelcome in a discussion on reddit. 🙄\nhttps://splinternews.com/what-a-researcher-learned-after-sending-out-resumes-wit-1793854083 \n\nhttps://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt5h3731xr/qt5h3731xr.pdf\n\nhttp://outandequal.org/2017-workplace-equality-fact-sheet/\n\nhttp://fortune.com/2017/06/25/lgbtq-employment-discrimination/\n\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2017/03/29/homeless-rates-for-lgbt-teens-are-alarming-heres-how-parents-can-change-that/\n\n",
"Say what you will about Abbott, but at least he stood for something. Sure, that something might have been something akin to 13th century Europe, and outright idiotic besides, but it was something that he actually believed in. \n\nTurnbull is so beholden to the right of the Libs, he's been pushing the same policy, rather than grow a pair and actually make his own policy decisions. His only driving motivation seems to be \"stay PM\", with no thought to actually doing anything worthwhile beyond that.",
"Or Republicans are only capable of empathy when someone they know intimately is affected. ",
"Lol you're a moron",
"Are you sure? The official english definition is \"a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions\"\n\nhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/utopia\n\nIt does seem Thomas More did invent the word from the greek words however, which do mean \"nowhere\", but that doesn't mean that its the official meaning in english.\n",
"It's a law mandating a financial burden shift to consumers rather than letting the free market make its own decision. \n\nIt's one of several laws that do things like this. Buying four nice, reusable, durable bags for $10 a pop every year might not seem like much to you, but it adds up over time. $40 is $40. \n\nWhen you start coupling new laws like this with other laws that also shift the burden to the average American, the costs start to add up. It isn't just this single law, it's a collection of laws, all which eat in to our pockets. \n\nPeople don't like having to pay for services and goods that they didn't have to pay for in the past. It's doubly insulting when they have to pay for it because of a law mandating it rather than the free market doing it's own thing. \n\nEDIT: Just wanted to add to this - a big stinker is that they're charging for paper bags too, mandated by law. Why? They aren't the environmentally unfriendly disaster that plastic bags are. So I'm not buying the \"it's for the environment\" argument. If that were the intention they'd just ban plastic bags entirely and offer the paper bags for free, like they always have. Or at least let the stores decide if they're going to offer the paper bags for free or not, and let the free market decide on that. There's no reason for a mandated law to charge for paper bags.",
"Yeah that was more what I was trying to get across. It's more like mandating having designated shoe tyers for the sake of having jobs for such an inane task.",
"Growing up in a small VASTLY white town in MI, i can attest to this. There will always be the \"well those damn inner city- but YOU are really hard working and a good one,\" level shit. ",
"> does seem spinable to an uneducated populace\n\nI think this is the salient point here.",
"Not an argument.\n\nSigned, not \"another one of them\"",
"> My extremely right wing father doesn’t even think gay marriage is bad anymore.\n\nThat's awesome by your father and great progress for society, but it does not lend any credit to Mike Pence while he still opposes it and still fights for the votes of those who belief accepting gays is literally the doom of civilisation.",
"To find the bigot.",
"Mike Pence, the Vice President, is a famous homophobe and supports conversion therapy for gay people that is pretty much just electrocution and psychological torture, all in the name of baby jesus ",
"Live in Jersey and I’m sure most people would hate for the state to become self service though I’ve heard rumors it’s coming.\n\nEdit : mixed up self and full .",
"Yep, they even fought a war to keep them in chains. ",
"It's an insurance thing. The gas station has to pay less on premiums if they limit the hands on the pump to a few regular people. ",
"I think pence would send the person to conversion camp. After that doesn’t work, he’d probably disown the person. Pence seems strict and homosexuality isn’t acceptable because religion. ",
"Just because those aren't his beliefs doesn't mean he's going to persecute someone else for living their own. People are just looking for a fucking fight all the time. Grow up. ",
"Je suis Hon Hon Hon.\n\n\nYou’re right it does.",
"Mike was dying inside lol. I love it.",
"Ahhhh I didn't read through what he said thoroughly and missed the entire point of his explanation. ",
"The right for homosexuals to get married.",
"Honestly nothing wrong with that imo.\n\n\n'Pidgeon chaser' is a bit much but you could definitely have more people cleaning cities. ",
"Doesn't support their narrative",
"It really sounds like you are speaking about my hometown of Joseph, OR. But rural Oregon is big enough that could be anywhere.",
"Not sure if this study’s ever been replicated, but it showed that homophobic men who say they are straight [are more likely to get boners](https://www.psychologytoday.com/files/u47/Henry_et_al.pdf) when looking at gay porn than non-homophobic men who say they are straight. ",
"Attempting to disparage 2 religions in 1 incoherent statement? Check.",
"...they are? Depending on the station of course. Some close but there are 24hr ones",
"Sad that we must remind Americans of republicans bigotry?",
"The ACA fucked the masses far more than this tax bill will. At least with this tax bill, the middle class will see money back on their paychecks. Better than raising taxes, like the left likes to do, but still not as much of a cut as I would've liked.",
"Le poulet est l'amour. Le poulet est la vie. ",
"Yeah, no. Serving in the military is absolutely not a right. There a physical and mental health standards that must be met and sustained throughout service. \n\nA guy that thinks he's a gal, or a gal that thinks he's a guy, has an exceptionally high hurdle to leap in the mental health arena specifically before his peers are going to feel comfortable with giving him/her a loaded rifle. Additionally, when you consider the exceptionally high suicide rates and exorbinate medical expenses attached to a transgendered person undergoing therapy or conversion - a very simple cost/benefit analysis will tell you that allowing transgender people into the military does not further the mission of the military.",
"You are hilarious. You are trolling right? No? Damn. Still funny. ",
">the bible literally tells them not to judge others. It isn't their place to judge other people for their sins.\n\nI never understood that either. The Bible clearly says that it's god's place alone to judge people... and that only *after they die*.\n\nIf Jesus saw someone hating someone else for no good reason he'd slap some sense into them, **these people are literally the Pharisees that the Bible warns them about.** Fucking pretend-Christians.\n\n",
"Love it. ",
"Well he does want to electrocute the gay out of jones son so...",
"Hilary Clinton didn't support gay marriage until 2013. ",
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAY",
"I'm not sure what his sons sexuality has to do with his achievement but congratulations to him, and congratulations to his son for being gay? ",
"Al Swearengen wants a word! And it won’t be a nice one. ",
"I prefer [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cSkX7X8a3o) one, doubly sweet because it was right before the spill.",
"Religion is also more of a choice than sexual preference.",
">Boy was I surprised when a dude ran me down\n\nSeems like an excessive reaction, did he use your car or his to run you down?",
"I wish more people chose to swear in on the Constitution rather than the Bible. The Bible is pretty morally depraved, to be honest.",
"Pence supports gay conversion therapy and is a well known christian bigot",
"The *object* of the sentence is Doug Jones as the *verb* is being done in relation to him, not Pence. Pence is the \"subject\" as he is acting on the *object*. So then it's understood the \"openly gay son\" is in relation to the *object* of the sentence.",
"marriage isn't a right.\n\nit's hell.",
"I choo choo choose you.",
"Pence looks like such a ghoul.",
"I agree with you buddy, im defo more of a rightwing guy but yeah caring if someones gay or not is retarded lol. I mean most things people do are badly fucking retarded.",
"Is this slang for shit",
"Support policies that will electrocute the gay away",
"Dick Cheney is a Cunt.",
"So I'm out of the loop, is there a problem here with the guy having a gay son?",
"Unfortunately bigotry and hatred are alive and well in the states when it comes to homosexuality, among many other things.\n\nAnd it's a \"big deal\" because Vice President Mike Pence is very openly anti-gay: He's been opposed to Same Sex Marriage, anti-discrimination laws, and has even publicly stated that he supported (which of course he now denies) conversion therapy, the practice that people can be converted from gay to straight. So he's basically standing next to someone he wishes didn't exist.\n\nHope that helps.",
"ly ",
"Full service is what you already have with attendants. Self service is pump your own.",
"No youre completely off. Christians accept gays, just dont want to change the definition of marriage",
"You jest but I guarantee that exact conversation has happened in a majority of gay relationships.\n\nlmao tho, you got me :P",
"cool story, bruh",
"This picture is purely awesome. ",
"What a joke. People think something as simple as that is worth raising their voice over.",
"Why does it matter if he's openly gay? The title should say \n\n\" ...sworn into office by Mike Pence next to his son.\"\n\nI can't help but to ask, why do we need to know that he's gay? Openly gay? \n\nI've never understood why this shit matters.",
"Pence is pretty vocal about not supporting the LGBT community. ",
"I do, a bit. As much as possible, the educational system should be an equalizer for kids who aren't getting what they need at home, including non-academic stuff like nutritious food, positive role models, and social skills. There's a great program in Canada that teaches empathy in schools (rootsofempathy.org), and it's been quite effective at reducing bullying. Schools should be about preparing kids to be functional members of society and responsible citizens. We all benefit when they are successful. ",
"The Crimson Tide? Isn't that phrase a eufemism for.... something else?",
"Side eye set to stun!",
"So what? You act like mike pence melts if he sees a gay person. He doesn’t support the lifestyle big deal. Neither do I but I don’t get scared seeing a gay person ",
"I don't quite label it homophobia, but that's basically the argument I use when I bring up the inconsistency with the religious argument against gay marriage, but the silence regarding divorce/remarriage/adultery. It's much easier for someone to see themselves having sex outside of marriage or getting a divorce than getting a gay marriage, so they argue against gay marriage. Yet all of those are against Biblical standards. \n\nIt's easy to ban something you (generalized \"you\") don't think you'll ever want. ",
"Bravo. Had a hearty chortle. ",
"He supports torturing the gay away, yeah that’s a huge difference",
"I feel like a lot of fear and hatred from conservative Americans is highly compartmentalized. My parents keep voting to make immigrants’ lives harder despite my wife being an immigrant who they love like their own daughter, and them constantly inviting immigrants with nowhere else to go for our thanksgiving and Christmas family gatherings year after year as long as I can remember.\n\nConservatives aren’t always cruel people, they often show compassion to individuals that they’ve met and know one-on-one. But they have a really hard time showing compassion or empathy in more abstract scenarios and don’t seem to have trouble endorsing cruel policies when they aren’t looking into the eyes of those affected.",
"You may not be a nazi but I don't care. All you brown shirts look alike. ",
"I ❤️❤️❤️Mike Pence!!!!!",
"Stupid sexy chickens.... ",
"what rights?",
"*sworn ",
"Are you saying just about any US federal politician is shitty?",
"> a dude ran me down and told me I wasn't allowed to pump my own gas\n\nThat seems like an excessively harsh punishment.",
"Wait, what?",
"Probably both. I have at least some mild form of respect for people who can at least maintain some kind of consistency. If you're going to be a waste of oxygen, the very least you can do is be a consistent waste of oxygen. ",
"Some people who have committed actual violent crimes are still loved by their parents.\n\nAnd then some people get kicked out for liking men.\n\nWhen you're less of a parent then someone who hugs their serial killer son...it's time to re-examine your life. ",
"Another victory for liberal gay dominance brought to you by Reddit. ",
"He would probably try to electrocute them",
"Not the northern bit. NoVa is full of clueless tears when it comes to driving - trying to operate a motor vehicle around here fosters hatred, not love ",
"Right?? I get that it’s illegal but you clearly see my NY plates so maybe not scream in my face? Just a simple “sorry ma’am, can’t do that here.” ",
"You mean by 2024 Pence will be locked up?",
"And that folks, is the entire point. Thank you, sir of mam. I wish this was the photo caption",
"Colorado’s evangelical baker Jack Phillips got appealed up to the Supreme Court. Phillips also refused to bake a gay couple’s wedding cake, leading Colorado courts to rule that he must, and him to voluntarily exit the wedding-cake business.\n\nIt sounds like he didn't want to comply with the law and closed up shop voluntarily. I don't think you can say he was forced to close.",
"Mrs Krabapple? My worm crawled into my mouth...",
"Not a bad theory",
"I'm surprised Pence didn't have his wife, aka \"Mother\" present to protect him from catching any *gay*...",
"Atheist kids in those families also face that so if the kid is both atheist and gay, it is essentially imperative that they do not come out until they are independent. \"Family values\" apparently supersede taking care of your child.",
"Dirt sniffing. Dirt. Sniffing.",
"You swear on something that is significant/valuable to you. You're kind of implying that your promise is as strong as your attachment to what you are swearing on. It's not related to what you are serving or believing in.\n\nFor example, \"I swear on my mom's life\" is a common phrase. Unfortunately, \"I swear on my dad's life\" is not as common.",
"Wiggum",
"Again, more jobs is a bad thing? I can do a lot of things myself, ring up my own groceries, pump my own gas, change the oil in my car, cook my own food, but I like the idea of someone having a job over doing it myself.\n\nIn your argument, inane tasks are going to continue to grow thanks to automation, wouldn't protecting jobs be a good thing? Or should we all end up jobless because everything becomes so easy and simple to do?",
"This is gold. ",
"All in the name of baby jesus",
"mike pence is super gay.",
"Sworn",
"Going to ignore the misplaced modifier?",
"A Christian parent ",
"It’s because some guys wrote a book 2,000 years ago telling them to. Make sense?",
"Austria has Fucking.",
"I'm absolutely loving the look on the son's face. It's the best kind of smug. He knows his presence is internally destroying Mike Pence.",
"If you didn't eat them while your sense of smell was effectively cut off or shut down, then nothing you just said is relevant to what I said.",
"It's almost like if you're not in their in-group, conservatives don't give a shit about you",
"I can’t imagine the satisfaction he must have standing there, seeing his homophobic ass have to swear in the father of a gay child. I think this is one of my gay fantasies.\n",
"Isn't Doug Jones in the Twin Peaks revival?",
"Yeah Doug is kind of giving Mike the fuck face, almost didn't catch that.",
"Sworn ",
"Welcome to the light. Just don't vote for Trump again.",
"I see one person with hate and intolerance in his eyes and it is not the VP",
"Can confirm. My mom is a conservative and she was absolutely repulsed by the idea, but now that I’ve come out she totally embraces it. ",
"The Vice President is very anti gay and supports gay conversion therapy. It’s not an issue for the rest of the country just the people that currently run the government. ",
"Potentially. Tbh I know very little about her or the matter, just that Abbott was against it till the bitter end and her sister was gonna be one of the earlier people who was gonna marry when the ACT briefly legalised it.",
"Literally the thing that drives me the most crazy about Conservatives. Zero empathy for others until it effects somebody in their own tribe.",
"Or an album/artist. ",
"R/pics never ceases to amaze me. Honestly you guys should just rename the sub to r/politics and combine the two because at this point there isn't much a difference. ",
"Only the out of towners tip them. You can tip if they clean your windows and stuff, but it's not necessary. \n\nNew Jersey is definitely watching how it plays out in Oregon before they pull the plug here. ",
"Is that why Pence is mean mugging him? ",
"So, the sport-y equivalent of Folger's Coffee?",
"“No Mother, for the last time, all I’m saying is that as a straight Christian man I found him objectively attractive in a completely platonic way.”",
"Having an economy where people are forced to waste their days working pointless jobs just to get access to basic necessities is inefficient and immoral. Its an entirely pointless job, those people would do more good for society sweeping streets, creating art or educating themselves.\n\nIn the west there are more people than there are meaningful jobs. If we have to resort to shit like mandatory tank-fillers at gas stations we really should get started on setting up a UBI program instead.",
"Imagine the smile on Pence’s punchable face if he was swearing in Roy Moore, instead? ",
"Mike pence is extremely anti gay and supports gay conversion therapy. ",
"He doesn’t hate gays he just disagrees with their lifestyles. He also believes sex before marriage and adulterous relationships are wrong too. If there was a Muslim standing there instead (who I might add shares the same beliefs on the topic (with the exception that he would want to have them murdered by throwing them off a rooftop immediately) would OP have made this post?",
">-and still is\n\nOptimistic. I'm pretty sure the alt-reich would consider Sesame Street a kind of white genocide and has doubtless convinced a substantial portion of the millennial generation that liking Sesame Street is only for the most egregiously self-hating whites.",
"Exactly. \n\nThere's a bunch of people below you who seem to think I'm defending bigotry as if it's some kind of virtue, but seeing as you instantly understood my point, I'm fairly confident it's not what I said that's the problem with those people.",
"Born and raised in Alabama and I know people joke, but literally the only place I had abstinence only education was church. And even that changed bit when I got to high school and got some different leaders. It was a much more open topic. I’ve been out of high school for 15 years. ",
"I'm a gay right winger and I am against gay marriage. am I ignorant?",
"I'm *not* a monkey.",
"Who cares about his gay son, what the hell does that have to do with anything? Stoke the fire with information that just doesn't matter! This shows how retarded we are as a nation. WTF????",
"HUNDREDS!",
"Did not know this so I definitely broke the law when driving through on that one",
"Haha. It IS the case. You don't know what you are talking about. You admitted it. Stop. ",
"You got a source for these interviews? ",
"why? because it's different than yours? everyone's opinion matters. grow up.",
"No, my argument is that it being *mandated* is stupid. Like shit mate let me tie my own shoes, put my pants on myself, cook breakfast myself, fill gas myself. A good example is checkout counters. I'd much prefer self-checkout but hey, everyone likes a person checking out for them. But no one's around *banning* self-checkout counters and mandating that all checkouts be manned to preserve jobs.\n\nUnless that's actually a law, which would be stupid.",
"Sworn in the ass by Mike Pence's Gay Son, by Chuck Tingle ",
"I think the people of AL had a bit more to say about it.",
"It does, maybe thats why the french insist on speaking french even when no one else in group understands it.",
"I'm not talking about Christians in general though. I'm a Christian myself and I even specified that what I described did not apply to most religious people.\n\nI was talking specifically about the people that choose to be homophobic. Their reasoning for this behavior is *usually* religious. In this case, they aren't *actually* being religious. They're just using religion as a scapegoat to hide their own hatred, pretending that they're doing some good deed by following the religious teachings. These are hypocrites and, in my mind, not true Christians.\n\nI'm sorry if I didn't make that clear enough.\n\n---\n\nAs for \"changing the definition of marriage\" that's one point where I'm just going to have to ask \"why does that even matter in the first place?\" I'm a Christian. I plan to one day marry a woman and start a family. But if the definition of marriage no longer specifies the genders of the two people being married, it isn't going to change *anything* about my marriage. \n\nThe point of marriage is to find an adult partner to love and share the rest of your days with. The \"definition\" doesn't need to be any more specific than that. Your marriage will not crumble because we stopped including the words \"man\" and \"woman\" in the definition. Literally *nothing* will change about your marriage if those two words are no longer in the definition.",
"Garry Gergich*",
"ie, made up",
"I’m not going down that rabbit hole",
"There's a difference in having a political stance on the topic and being a homophobe. I personally have no issue with the concept of homosexuality and I have many people close to me who are gay.\n\nHowever, I do not support gay marriage...that doesn't make me a homophobe, or think of them as second class citizens, I just feel that the whole concept of marriage should be reserved for hetero couples. I would even go as far as supporting the REMOVAL of marriage benefits in the name of equality.",
"When people on reddit find it hard to believe there are actually people who aren't gay,..I remember that I'm on reddit surrounded by soyboys..",
"Mike pence doesn’t hate gay people",
"Pence: *’Gay marriage is fine, as long as both guys are hot.’*",
"Look at that side eye.",
"The problem is when you try to force multiculturalism on a people or peoples who don't want it and then the negative stereotypes are proven to be correct...",
"Rammpets?",
"it's the new Fuck Olli, but not just for GoT fans!",
"\"When I grow up I'm going to Bovine University!\"",
"Isn’t it obvious? Only super closeted gays think that homosexuality is such a sin because if we accept gays then everyone will turn gay and society will be ruined - they think like this because they themselves have repressed homosexual feelings which they think everyone else also does. ",
"All that and he didn't even have the conviction to actually vote? Coward, I say. Coward.",
"Will they be allowed to connect their own electrical outlet to their vehicle once electric cars are a popular enough thing? I mean people with electric cars likely plug in themselves every night, so likely would have as much or possibly initially, more experience than any attendant.",
"I know his son. He's not gay either. ",
"It’s almost like life experience sometimes changes people...",
"> inability to empathize with people unless they're direct relatives or close friends.\n\nIt's called tribalism.\n\nIt's a fundamental human trait. My tribe is more important to me than your tribe. In times of prosperity we can afford to help you, in times of scarcity we'd rather beat the crap out of you and steal your stuff. The less we know about you the farther away your tribe is, and the less we care about you. Having a gay son pulls the gay tribe much closer.\n\nRacism, homophobia, religious wars, they're just subsets of tribalism.\n\nSports is another form of tribalism. We send our symbolic warriors to symbolically kill your symbolic warriors in a symbolic war. Think about that the next time you watch the Super Bowl.",
"Bastard is what this American chooses.",
"“It tastes like burning”",
"\"Next to his openly gay son, Doug Jones is sworn into office by Mike Pence\"\n\n?",
"Boom. Very well said",
"Jaaa....NEIN!",
"... Dougie Jones",
"Wh-why, might I ask?",
"Says the party whose candidate was an actual religious pedophile lol. You’re active in MGTOW, though. That means you’re just angry at the world because women find you repulsive. You are so pathetic, your idiotic posts and views mean next to nothing. ",
"Textbook whataboutism.",
"Pence is straining hard not to imagine young master Jones in a pair of assless chaps.\n\n“Mustn’t go there...” followed by sweat beads.\n\n(I am from Bama and I am more proud of his election than any football game)",
"r/accidentalrenaissance ",
"\nI live in Alabama, get the fuck out of here with your favor fucking words, including a - ed to words has work-ed fine and dandy for us down here. ",
"My sister-in-law was gay and now trans. I'm still against gay marriage. Have all the civil unions you want, just not the sacrament of marriage.",
"Of course not, check his post history. ¯\\\\_(ツ)_/¯",
"The way the fundamentalists have taken over everything and forced their values on others, an abstinence-only approach seems far more likely now than 15 years ago. The Roy Moore types exert too much influence, to the detriment of society. ",
"> patates \n\nwell well well, look at the american continental french speaker. ",
"Here in brazil theres always been someone to do it. You dont tip them, its their job they have a salary. You can tip if you ask them to check your oil or wash the windshield, but its not expected of you and most people dont.",
"He should have chose to be sworn in using a gay Kama sutra book, imagine forcing Mike pence to hold that. It would have been perfect.",
"oh for god sakes, DUH!, he is allowed to think differently than you do, dont be intolerant while you scream for tolerance fool ",
"\"The doctor said I wouldn't get so many nosebleeds if I just kept my finger outta there!\"",
"I think he really wants to",
"Joy is an emotion so you're not too far off.",
"Back to tge dreadnought.\n",
"None of that is true\nhttps://www.snopes.com/mike-pence-supported-gay-conversion-therapy/",
"Well, if you do it right....",
"\"This line is OG Son!\"",
"Mike pence is famously anti gay. ",
"Correct, all words are indeed made up. ",
"He looks like a gay",
"You misspelled \"mentally ill\"",
"Same with abortion. Didn't some conservative rep/senator have to step down after he asked a mistress to get an abortion?\n\nHere it is: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-10-04/pro-life-rep-tim-murphy-pressured-mistress-to-get-abortion ",
"If you really love your child I think you should try to treat him. Gay people suffer from depression and anxiety moreso than the rest of the populous. And I can see why parents treaten to kick their kids out in order to get them to seek treatment for their illness.\n\nConversion theraphy looks to be pretty effective at curing the «gay-illness».",
"Found the Roy Moore supporter, God only knows what your username refers to, but one can only assume it has something to do with pedophilia. ",
"My hope is he'd kill himself...\nAnd before I get down voted to oblivion I just have a very negative reaction to people who think it's cool to electrocute fruits into vegetables.",
"\"Like the cock. Get the shock\" -Mike pence.\n\nNow you know how he will act. ",
"By OP's standard of \"doesn't pass some observer's purity test,\" yes. ",
"> \"but that Johnson, he's a hard worker!\"\n\n\"You're one of the *good ones*\"\n\nYeah, not a quantum leap improvement there.",
"> people who love in 1 of the only 2 States\n\n*Allll my exes live in Texas*",
"And then they became republicans because (ohmygawd) party ideologies change.",
"One of us\n\nOne of us",
"He doesn't swear. Or have a penis. ",
"I'm so butthurt right now. I fucking loathe 'Bama but I hate UGA more. ",
"Friend of Prison Mike",
"Omelette mit fromage",
"Good one. Got em. ",
"Mother must be close by.",
"But you are wrong. So..... ",
"Enter Tony Abbott...",
"It doesn’t even have to be someone you love. Simply being around people from other races, lifestyles, backgrounds makes you more tolerant.\n\nThe problem in the US is that you have so many bubbles (especially in terms of race) where people go a large part of their lives without even seeing a person who isn’t exactly like them. Or if they do it’s a “token” experience and not seen as part of their community.",
"do you have to tell them your credit/debit card pin to put it in for you?? how does that work that sounds like a security issue I've only ever seen non self pumps in NY haha",
"👌👌Omg yaass queens 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻😍",
"It goes with \"costed\"... education these days.",
"You are an embarrassment to your cause.",
"You would think that but Australia’s former prime minister Tony Abbott has an openly gay sister and we’ve just legalised gay marriage. Didn’t stop his moral compass in the slightest when he heavily campaigned in favour of a no vote in our plebiscite. ",
"He supported gay conversation therepy, even if he doesn't claim to hate gay people he is still a fucking asshole and his beliefs have caused alot of harm towards gay people. It's immoral to hold the beliefs he does. ",
"Forced? You seem to miss the point. No one is \"forced\" to do the job. It's simple and available to most people willing to work it. It doesn't even require a food handlers card. It's an accessable job to most people.\n\nI don't know where you're pulling this \"forced\" notion. You may be forced to have someone do something for you, is it really that big of a deal? No. Arguing against that is just full of personal opinion that doesn't help anyone but yourself feel better.",
"I'm in Tennessee and I haven't seen a gas attendant since the early 80s.",
"Go ahead and say things like readed, beated, teared, sweared, and weared in your daily conversations and let me know how that works out for you. Put them in your resume too.",
"“You can’t call me homophobic! That’s bigoted against people who hate fags!” The mental gymnastics of Republicans never ceases to amaze me. ",
"Well, the lucky ones.\n\nBill Maher, it seems, kind of ignored the ones that get beaten, kicked out, sent to conversion therapy...",
"can we call him Doug Judy?",
"Yes, but context makes it pretty clear",
"Yeah, it is a term from the 50s and 60s used for guys like Liberace. No one has used it since.",
"Can I just be against both? Fuck religious fanaticism. ",
"There's probably a hundred other examples (* of politicians, I mean)",
"Go take an Econ 101 class, because I can't get someone so ignorant to see the value of these jobs, as well as preserving them for the future.",
"Dank😂",
"Why do you guys always suck at math",
"Religion doesn’t teach empathy and that’s where a lot of these folks are getting their warped ideas about what it means to be gay. ",
"I don’t think homophobes know what a browser extension is",
"Dude, *Pence* is gay. Anyone with a shred of gaydar can tell. He would never in a million years accept himself, or a loved one as a homosexual. Denial is a hell of a drug.",
"Somehow this reminds of the Ambiguously Gay Duo",
"I'd keep mike away from the son. He might get tingly inside being around another gay man.",
"I came here to say this. A little bit of sick came up into my mouth when I read the title. I had to go back and read it again to make sure I'd seen it properly.",
"He's probably beat him/her with jumper cables. That's how /u/rogersimon10 died.",
"And there's a picture of a train!",
"That's not his son. Aaron Paul clearly had a child with Jack Black.",
"It's really a very flexible phrase with a wide range of useful applications.",
"This information about his son sex preferences is nessesary or I do not get something?\n\nEdit: chill out guys with -1, I'm not from USA and was just curious ",
"Yes. This whole sentence is a mess.",
"r/titlegore",
"Religious beliefs are all cool when you're not trying to destroy other peoples lives.",
"\"Sweared in\" to office? Don't you mean \"sworn in?\"",
"Delusions much?",
"And yet, in Australia, our ex prime minister [actively campaigned against marriage equality](http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/b706223248a54b597a66e8e129e1ffa5) a few weeks ago, despite having an openly gay sister.\n\nNow that we have marriage equality, he's said he's looking forward to attending her wedding sometime soon.",
"too bad that wasn't the case with tony abbott and his gay sister",
"I worked in Appalachia over the summer and for the entire two months I was up there, I only saw one black guy, and he wasn't even in the area I was living in! When you see how homogeneous the region is and you consider how they voted, it kinda makes sense. When the only exposure you have of black people is hearing on the news that BLM is shutting down a highway with a March or \"disrespecting the flag\" in the NFL, or terrorist attacks by Muslims, the open racism of the GOP doesn't affect them and they can see it as their way to stick it to the \"lazy welfare queens\" and \"violent jihadists\" (I don't agree with these sentiments). \n\nIt's a shame because a lot of the issues that affect urban blacks affect those in Appalachia, but they don't realize it because they're not exposed to each other. \n\nIt was definitely eye opening in a sociological way when you had a mutual love of die-hard Trump supporters, and you could see that they really just wanted hope, and that's what Trump provided, however racist that might be. ",
"At least 32000+ people\n\nEdit: 73,000+\n\nI'm not sure why I'm getting downvoted for this factual statement...",
"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/11/barack-obama/president-barack-obamas-shift-gay-marriage/",
"You can tell Mike Pence is not happy having to be near a gay man.",
"On like a bible? You know you *have* to swear in on a bible.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOr a stack of super man comics we’re not choosy. ",
"You’re clearly missing the point. \n\nCreating jobs for the sake of having more jobs does not simply make things better. \n\nEspecially when frivolous jobs are *mandated*. \n\nTo use your ice cream metaphor. \n\nIt’s not that we don’t enjoy the taste of ice cream. We just prefer not to be told we *have* to keep eating ice cream till we have diabetes. ",
"I'm gay interested in why you think so",
"Some how op thinks pence was in pain to be next a gay person",
"But...but islam is clearly worst and that's why we can't stop talking about that religion. /s",
"Mike Pence is a huge homophobe, so, the there's a fun side to that picture.",
">Same thing with the voter ID laws. “Minority’s can’t afford IDs so Voter ID laws are racist”. Cmon man be serious \n\n\\^The sound someone makes when they don't know anything about voter ID laws.",
"Or Donald Trump ",
"I just would have used the constitution. ",
"Right now I hate gus Malzahn more than both of them. My whole fucking week I've been fuming. ",
"He looks afraid of him, pussy. ",
"Avec mon poulet rôti j'aime Coca Cola, aussi connu sous le nom de Champagne américain.\n",
"\"I Choo, Choo, choose you!\" ",
"You just hand them your card and they put it in the gas pump card reader that’s literally 3 feet away from you. So while there’s a chance of it being stolen (while you watch, nonetheless), no, you’re not giving them any information.",
"You lie as much as trump",
"Oh okay thx for explaining ",
"Why the hostility? Isn't it common sense that mandating jobs for inane tasks and making it illegal to do them yourself is just stupid? If you want to have gas pump attendants, sure, just give the consumer an option.\n\nYou literally don't make any refutations to my counter point so if you're done I'm done. Good talk.",
"> I have to wonder how Pence would react if one of his daughters, or his son, came out as gay.\n\nPence really isn't the anti-gay spokesman reddit tries to make him out to be. You've been duped.",
"Sorry (´~` )\n\nHow about a [cute gif](https://giphy.com/gifs/cheezburger-cat-fox-OvQGA7SF5oRMs) to cheer you up?",
"This was pretty much my argument to my (somewhat homophobic) father during Australia's recent marriage equality vote. Neither me nor my sister are gay, but perhaps one of her kids will be, and don't they deserve equal rights? ",
"It’s difficult to not say republicans lack empathy. It has to strike them personally. Otherwise they’re against it. ",
"I love how he's giving Pence this look of \"Yeah bitch, I won and now I'm all up in this bitch (the Senate).\"",
"https://youtu.be/7qnd-hdmgfk <- relevant",
"pence resigned!",
"There was no fuckery, stop being a moron",
"Hum, what? I'm not sure what you're trying to say but patates is a very common nickname for pommes de terre here in France.",
"Did Pence take a shower later to make sure he didn't catch any gay cooties?",
"Damn that Uncle Joe, I’d like to have a few drinks with him. ",
"I can *almost* empathize with the people freaking out about gas in Oregon. It's like those first times, as a kid or young adult, where you had to learn how to do some basic life skill? Like, you're so uncertain about what you're doing, and it was almost a little scary sometimes. The difference is, kids just get on with it usually and know they have to learn it, and most of these experiences are over for most people by the time they're fully independent. But these are just grown ass adults freaking out about learning a new basic skill. \n\nIt's just pumping gas! Literally everyone else does it!",
"I think there's plenty of need for it. \n\nNot your shoes, the gas pumping. I know plenty of people would flock to places where someone pumps for you as a convenience; they'd pay the extra fee too. \n\nAfter all, some restaurants are self-serve, others have waitresses/waiters. Some deliver, others are pick-up/eat in only. \n\nIf I didn't have to pump my own gas, I'd gladly pay someone to do it. Southern US resident here. ",
"Pence would say the thing that we just said because Pence is dumb, not like us. Haha.",
">You reply by saying so did these other people. How does comparing Pence’s positions to other people’s disprove that he is anti-gay?\n\nThe point of that comment wasn't to disprove that Pence was anti-gay. The point was to illustrate the hypocrisy of people who bash him for it while praising historically anti-gay public figures themselves. \n\nI find it odd that nobody can find anything to support his being homophobic since he started to run for election with Trump. According to the comments above, he should have full democrat support on the matter since that's the same thing Hillary and Obama did. See the hypocrisy? Probably not. ",
"whose openly gay son? Doug Jones' or Mike Pence's?",
"Christians",
"Actually, all that says is he didn’t directly say it. ",
"So you think we should repeal parts of the Civil rights act? ",
"Is there a way to add wild cards to the content filter on the reddit is fun app? I was already blocking the \"US Politics\" flair but that stupid \"|*sworn\" is keeping it from working on this post",
"Here is one of them, it was nearly impossible to find since google and YouTube appear to bury the videos.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/-PFXBJGvE28",
"I thought i was seeing a game screenshot for a moment ",
"Gay man here, can absolutely confirm. Wouldn't even mind letting Pence watch it",
"Yeah I know right, we should let all people with a mental conditions with a high suicide rate into the military, it's not like it's a serious job that put's people's lives at risk or anything important...",
"Not for everyone, unfortunately. Some people have no problem hating someone they once loved. For others, their love manifests in efforts to fix, not accept the person.",
"Aww, did you drop your \"/s\"? Looks like you're losing a bunch of karma over it.",
"\"Ralph, remember that time you said you saw Snagglepuss outside???\"\n\n\"He was going to the bathroom...\"",
"just the way all my friends make jokes about themselves in their relationships and it's 100% a joke I'd make in a gay relationship.\n\ni'm in uni, maybe it's (literally) college / generational humour?",
"If I was a Nazi, could I get sworn in using Mein Kampf?\n\nJust cause it has meaning to you doesn't make it something that is acceptable to use when pledging to serve the US constitution ",
"https://youtu.be/-PFXBJGvE28\n\nHere is one of many that I witnessed that day, I’ll try and dig up more. Many of the links that I saved have been removed from YouTube.",
"Yeah I'll be as intollerent of intollerance as I want, fuck that guy he's a monster. Just because he has a right to his beliefs doesn't mean I don't get to enjoy seeing him swear in a Democrat to a safe republican seat because they doubled down too hard and a racist pedophile candidate and lost. The fact that joneses gay son is there just adds to the whole scene. ",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"“Mother, may I swear into you?”",
"It’s not what’s in your heart that makes you good, it’s your actions and choices",
"I recently moved to a city that gets a LOT more rain than where I'm from, and keep telling friends to be safe driving in the rain, and they look at me like I'm mad. When it rains in my home city people forget how to drive.",
"I filtered out US politics, stop messing with the flairs.\n\n",
"If two men have sex is that not in fact gay sex? It’s not like the term is belittling or anything it’s just literally gay sex.",
"Liberals don't condone killing in the name of Islam. Therefore, that statement is -by definition- a strawman",
"I think you are a bit off on characterizing the right. I think most of us at the_Donald are cool with gays. It doesn't affect our freedom or lives so we gladly welcome gays into our community. It's a bit biggoted to make us into some evil straw man. Our side's gays are amazing and we love them. We care more about a person's character than their sexual affiliation or race.",
"I mean, I've made that joke.",
"You should make working on reading comprehension a New Years Resolution. ",
"It's almost as if they know our entire system is a farce, and they are just trying to get theirs. They justify it by telling themselves that the other side does it too.",
"Pence is using every fake heterosexual fiber of his being not to gaze into those warm inviting eyes.",
"I still think Pence himself is gay. The most vehement opposers all have something to hide.",
"Pence probably got an erection...",
"That's not how that works... that's not how any of this works!",
"Wankel engine.",
"He wouldn't speak to them for two months while he \"prayed\" about how to react.",
"Anything at all is worth raising your voice over in Jersey. ",
"Sure, I can agree with that. My gripe is that it's illegal to pump your own gas apparently and as such you *need* to mandate manned pumps. Just like self checkout at Wal-Mart isn't illegal, just optional. I'm sure most would agree that making self-checkouts illegal to preserve jobs is stupid.",
"They are the immoral homosexuals that they've been warning us about.",
"Solid comment. ",
"Gay porn",
"So then where do you get his support for conversion therapy?",
"Let us discuss dudes who maybe should not have jobs... he just laid down there at the end. \n\nSigned a new contract and ceased to try anymore. ",
"There were some pretty high profile evangelical preachers who got caught with male prostitutes and whatnot as well.",
"No, it runs it as credit, so they run it for you and give you a receipt to sign. Not weird at all -- like a cashier. ",
"Now you can also filter out US Politics / *sworn :)",
"> more diverse characters and actors have been added since the switch, such as Julia, the first autistic puppet \n\nMeanwhile, adults at the CDC are forbidden to use the word “diversity” (among other words) in budgeting documents for next year. \n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html",
"Personally I think it would be a great idea to bring back.\n\nThere is a lot of stuff that would really only get done by volunteer work, but most of us with the time to do it can barely afford two eat let alone spend time doing those things. Basically a.program that gives people money as long as they do something to help out sounds great to me.\n\nApparently though that is socialism or something and we are supposed to hate that.",
"Ya. Wouldnt want to end up like Joan Rivers.\n\nGuess what the first thing Obama did as soon as he left office.\n\nShacked up with 2 homosexual men for a vacation at their \"Golf Club\"\n\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4143660/Obama-heads-gym-day-leaving-office.html\n\n\"Just a day after leaving the White House, Obama is in the Palm Springs area on vacation.\n\nHe and Michelle are staying at the mansion of Spanish ambassador James Costos and his husband, interior designer Michael Smith, in Rancho Mirage.\"\n\nBlowing coke and Michelles cock just like the good ol days. Barry is back.\n\n\n\n",
"I bet his gay so is so bummed not to have creepy Joe, Hotdog Barack or Micheal/Michelle...SAD!",
"Yeah, I have no qualms with someone saying gay sex. You might need to specify, but in the end sex is just sex.",
"Conversion therapy ",
"Yeah, I had the exact same problem, this better not be a trend of including some bullshit word to get past people's filters.",
"Anybody seen any of the Roy Moore accusers lately? No, of course not. Just continue being \"useful idiots\". ",
"This is hilarious. We should troll muslims with gay people as well. ",
"Username checks out.",
"What harm has his beliefs caused towards gay people? ",
"Pence believes in conversion therapy and wants to treat homosexuality like a disease...",
"This tank filling job is just one example. There are tremendous amounts of jobs which are about as valuable to society.\n\nUnless you have a disability, are elderly, etc, all people are forced to work to partake in society.\n\nWhat logically follows is that there are a ton of people today who in effect are forced to waste their time and energy on pointless and unfulfilling jobs in order to not be homeless and starving. Does this sound like a desirable scenario for a nation and its citizens?\n\n",
"I get what you're saying but tbh I think your analogy is poor and undermining your argument.",
"Visit Brazil and yes, they accept tips, for pumping gas, cleaning your windows and checking your oil.",
"That's cool. I wish this was happening more when politicians suggest to \"invest in education\"; rather than paying to build more classrooms and sports halls or whatever.\n\nIt's not cool when they deliberately keep the population uneducated in order to make manipulating them easier.",
"Back in 1994, Idaho faced an anti-gay initiative known as Proposition One. \n\nOur first poll was disheartening because it revealed that most people didn't care that this legislation would hurt LGBT Idahoans. They DID care when we framed it as an intrusion by 'big government' restricting our freedoms. \n\nWe did a follow up question asking if they knew any gay or lesbian people. Those who were okay with the proposed legislation usually said no. Those who were against it invariably said yes!\n\nSo we had a tough decision: Do we run a campaign that tries to change the hearts and minds of Idahoans who don't care about their LGBT neighbors? Or do we run a campaign that doesn't mention LGBT issues and plays to their fears of 'big government'? \n\nWe only had three months to run the campaign, limited resources (initially), and very little experience. So we went with the 'big government' option and defeated the initiative by barely 3000 votes. \n\nI wasn't happy with that decision, but I understood it and if I had to do it again, I would vote to do it again. \n\nHere is a documentary on the No on One campaign if anyone is interested. I am in it in the background twice for about two seconds each :) \n\nhttps://youtu.be/bTCp7Z0i_y4",
"That grin man.\n\n\"We're going to make this as difficult as we can for you, and you still HAVE to do it\"\n\nThough shouldn't Donald be swearing him in?",
"What the dilly dilly does your son's sexual orientation have to do with swearing into office? ",
"Not sure if \"Nintendo\" was intentional or not...",
"People are hanged, curtains are hung.",
"That's extremely specific, I don't think it deserves it's own filtering.",
"While I like UBI as an idea (and also think there's going to be some form of it in the future), the sense *feeling needed* is very important for human sanity.\n\nIt's part of societal acceptance, both for the individual and how others see you. That's just the way we run. \n\nEven if the job is made up, someone else has you there doing it, so at least you can moan and gripe that \"it's that asshole's fault.\" NOW, you can fit in with everyone at the bar and talk about how much your job sucks. NOW, you belong.\n\nStaying at home while getting paid to stay off the streets is great for society, but it can make people feel worthless, unaccomplished and overall, \"less than human.\"\n\nThe stigma of a \"free check from the government\" is very real, even when it's necessary, such as a disability. \n\nNot everyone is smart or driven enough to find a *duty* for themselves outside of a job that is \"demanded\" of them. That's one of the issues UBI cannot address; UBI will only fix (if done right) monetary problems.",
"ok, your part of the problem, thanks for showing us your intolerant bigoted beliefs , the mans gay son has fuck all nothing in this world to do with anything political fool , his father is being sworn in, not him \n\nMy son likes girls with big tits, it dont have anything to do with my recent promotion at work by my flat chested boss, people like you make the wold a shitty place, ",
"> Ajit Pai\n\nI'm going to have to be the one to come out and say it.\n\nAjit Pai is a hero.",
"It's not up to Pence. It's up to 'mother'.",
"Our founding father would be so disappointed right now",
"Lmao that's the dumbest thing I've ever read on Reddit, which is a feat unto itself",
"I think it's more like conservatives becoming liberal on issues which affect them personally.",
"You must be from under a rock",
"And right after intercourse comes Blue Ball. God growing up in Lancaster was weird. ",
"Let's all appreciate the irony of somebody taking a \"ban things I disagree with\" stance and then telling someone to take an Econ 101 class. Fucking hilarious, 10/10.",
"It's almost as if being militantly intolerant is indicative of other, deeper flaws.",
"I thought it was safe without a /s !! Live and learn... Was the silliest take I'd ever seen when the Moore campaign manager argued that one...",
"Pour deux actuellement, svp.",
"How does it feel to vote for a senile man child who spends his day yelling at the TV?",
"I know, I was just messing with you a little ;)\n\nCheers, mate!",
"The original comment is more satirical and less of an argument tbh. More realistically I'd compare it to self service checkouts at grocery stores.",
"That Mike Pence once tried to make it illegal for homosexuals to even APPLY for a marriage license? I agree.",
"Can you even read?",
"Aah, of course. So the crucial point in that is actually \"by Mike Pence\". Yeah, I have heard that he is extremely anti-gay but somehow didn't put the threads together. Now everything makes sense (especially Pence's glance hehe). Thanks to both you and u/Blink_Billy for clarifying.",
"And if you read the bible God seems to be pretty into mass punishment.",
"Mike Pence is a huge anti-gay person.",
"Nobody burst into flames?",
"Ironic when you note that gas attendants are exposed to so much benzene on the job (a job created by their government) that they often get lung cancer.\n\nSource: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajim.4700200607/abstract ",
"( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (>_>) ( o_o ) (<__<)",
"There are some jobs that aren't \"necessary\" until the people doing the job goes missing for a week.\n\nI don't think about garbage pickup often, until they have a bad 2 weeks because of bad weather. Then all I can think is, \"Good god, I'm glad we live in a place where trash is not an everyday thing.\"",
"I'm with ya mike.",
"Mike Pence doesn't only hate gays, he tried to make it illegal for homosexuals to even APPLY for a Marriage license when he was Governor.",
"I know one thing, DON'T TAKE MY FULL SERVICE!!!!! Nothing is better than looking out my window(down about 1/2 an inch right now) while someone else pumps my gas in 15 degree temps with 55 mph winds at this second.",
"Ooooh, if looks could kill, henny. Stabbing Skeletor with his eyes. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼",
"Whoa, he waved a flag? That's settled, then.",
"What does cat food smell like though?",
"I think he’s talking to you...",
"Yea I don't know man. I think we're reading a lot into this picture. ",
"His son is eyeballing that chick, you sure he's gay?",
"Mike Pence is a notorious homophobic.",
"I like it when it cold out so I don't have to get out of my car, but other than that shit pisses me off. Half the time its one fucking guy and you have to wait five minutes at the pump before they walk over and start pumping after starting the pump for 5 other people that came in after you. and it's times like those where I've pumped my own gas and they can get the fuck over it.",
"I think it was more making sure he didn't take office. And he didn't. No way to get justice in courts after all this time.\n\nYou mad son?",
"plus if you read the bible apparently God is into mass punishment, so maybe they're trying to avoid punishment themselves.",
"As a Dutch inhabitant I asking myself what is the \"news value\" of this. What is wrong with having a gay son? It is 2018 for crying out loud. ",
"Yes. About your attitude.",
"How did a fundie like Pence not shrivel in on himself from the mere presence of gayness? Amazing.",
"What does his son's sexual preference have to do with it?",
"Dat side eye",
"Well, it's called the Retail Gasoline Dispensing Safety Act, not jobs creation. In 1949 when this was enacted most gas stations were still full service. The first self service didn't open until 1947. Either they thought NJ too good or too dumb. Interesting, really.\n",
"He done sweared in.",
"In which end?",
"Tryin to make a change :-\\",
"Our solution is to give more money to the extremely wealthy and wait for it to trickle down. I've spent days following around wealthy people, though, and so far I haven't found anything trickling out of them. Well except for that one guy with an incontinence issue.",
"Funny how no gay couples did that at Muslim-owned businesses. Funny.",
"*sword",
"Yet he didn't.",
"I don't know if you're joking, but he definitely did forget the /s.\n\nHe's referencing one of Moore's campaign managers actually thinking that you do need to be Christian and do need to swear on the Bible.\n\n[His face is priceless.](https://youtu.be/WFYRkzznsc0)",
"Si c’est fancy... Comedy gold right there!",
"Doug Jones ***sworn into*** office by Mike Pence next to his openly gay son.",
"Yas agreed",
"I don't see the republican doing anything bigoted. kws1993, who posted the picture with caption was behaving in a bigoted manner.\n\n",
"Even self serve stations need an attendant there 24 hours.",
"It's almost like it's gay to be hard when someone you know is a homophobe.",
">all-American-looking man\n\nWhat does that even mean",
"Alright, fair enough.\n\nAre you also a non-American?\n\nAfter they had their last election Reddit was non-stop US politics, it got so bad that I had trouble finding anything I cared about on the frontpage. ",
"LMAO. Brilliant. Thanks for putting a smile on my face. \"openely eccentric.\" lol. ",
"that's the joke.",
"In SC we have the opposite problem. Some stations (rare) will have 1 self service pump, but if you pull up to one they yell at you and wave their arms around until you move to a different pump because they know you didn’t do it on purpose.",
"Are we supposed to be impressed or something?",
"And what did you learn?",
"[He's making a reference to Roy Moore's campaign manager seriously having no idea that you don't have to swear on a Bible.](https://youtu.be/WFYRkzznsc0)",
"There's not a problem that he's gay. It's just a little humorous that Mike Pence is so against the LGBT community. It makes the facial expressions of Doug and Mike pretty funny.",
"haha",
"Because of Pence's anti-gay stance",
"Mike Pence is VERY anti-gay. ",
"Bet Pence went full Biden on the son.",
"Ahh, I thought maybe any official could do the ceremony. Learned something I otherwise would have never thought of learning today. ",
"Pence tricked Jones and with his magic bible,and will turn his queer son into man steer ",
"r/Photoshopbattles",
"Username checks out.",
"Fun Fact: You don't need to use a Bible when swearing in.",
"Nobody can lie *that* much.",
"It's only gay for the dude taking it, duh",
"Having had been laid off long enough to need food stamps before I agree with you entirely on that.\n\nThe worst part about it was feeling like I just... Was extra. One more useless person.\n\nEven chasing pigeons for my food would have been an improvement.\n\nI do think aside from just giving financial aid when we are down, it would be great to give us something to do to feel like we are part of society instead of a drain on it.\n\nEven of it is just ladling soup at a kitchen or harassing birds, at least I am doing something.",
"Eagerly awaiting the chance to see *Always On My Mind / Bück Dich* live!\n\nSidebar: as a Hoosier, I've wanted to start a political punk band called *Dyke Pence* since, oh... roughly November 20th, 2016. Lemme know when you'll be ready to tour!",
"Couldn't give any less of a shit about gays wanting to burden their lives with marriage, etc. but you are definitely a degenerate for classifying people you know nothing about in such a way. Luckily for the gay community most people can distinguish between the rational gays and delicate snowflakes like yourself.",
"Let me posit this: he was still trying. He just isn't good. He is way out of his league, a two bit pop Warner coach who just got lucky with a one in a million hire and the greatest college qb of a generation when he got the job under chizik.\n\nHe has never been able to manage personelle. See: rotating qbs in and out of drives in last years Clemson game, not having a starter until game four that year, running every starter rb into the ground leading to injury and inexperienced backups, all the star players who have left the team in disgrace over his tenure... I could go on.\n\nHe cannot manage coordinators. Randomly \"giving them the reigns\" then taking it away. Seriously, who can't make a muschamp defense work with that talented class?\n\nHe cannot add to or adjust his playbook. I swear to god if I have to watch another drive that has 4 wildcat plays I'm going to scream. If the run works we pass. If the pass is working we run an outside option.\n\nHe cannot develop players. Look at every \"star\" non-lineman non defense (the two groups gus has very little to do with) auburn has ever had. How many of them left the program genuinely better than they arrived. Zero.\n\nHe's just a guy with all the luck in the world (and I'm assuming photos of Jay Jacob's that are compromising that he keeps secret for extentions, it's all I got)\n\nWar Eagle forever anyway, but man fuck gus. ",
"Same thing happened to me when I was driving to college and going through Jersey.\n\nI was shocked for two reasons:\n•That I wasn’t allowed to pump my own gas\n•That the gas station attendant got as angry as he did at my small mistake. \n\nBy his yelling, you’d think I just ran over his dog, duct taped it to the grill and was about to plow though his house. Just a simple “Sorry, state law says I do it” would have sufficed.",
"> That’s a LOT of people in the closet\n\nNot all people that don't like gay people are gay. However, time and time again we've seen people that are REALLY against gay people tend to get caught in a bathroom stall blowing somebody.\n\nAnd if you think about it there is some sense to this. I don't like indian food. I personally don't care if other people like it I just don't. It prolly crosses my mind almost never.\n\nMeanwhile some people are thinking about gay sex A LOT. They are fervant about gay sex, it is on their mind all the time, gotta stop all the gay sex, gotta make it harder for people that like gay sex, gotta keep people that like gay sex from getting rights, gay sex gay sex gay sex always on the mind. Oooh better show everybody how much I DON\"T like gay sex!!!!!",
"Thanks what Pence did but without the pretending",
"His consistent refusal to deny it.",
"cool",
"You’re joking, right? ",
"So they can post stupid shit like this. \n\n",
"I'm surprised the Reddit community allowed this post to reach 37k karma with this much r/titlegore",
"typically they either find a begrudging acceptance or double down. i can only imagine how things would go down if one of huckabee's kids came out",
"The comment I replied to sounded delicious. Mine... Well depends on your taste I guess :)",
"my assumption is from where the article says they did. \n>Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior. \n \nMaybe not directly saying shock therapy, but absolutely saying give money to groups that want to treat homosexuality as a disorder. Because the specific types of “treatments” weren’t specified the person that started it took it to the extreme. \nThe statement that he supports shock therapy isn’t wrong, but it’s reeeaaaaally desceptive. ",
"Not in the least. My guy is in the Oval Office and will be for 7 more years. Enjoy your tax cut!",
"Well none old enough for school",
"That's different, neither Dick or Newt are religious, they may even be atheists but they certainly put on a more religious act than they actually are. And despite all the gay hate many anti gay people believe family comes first, they were simply saying they want to stop gay people for votes. When they have to choose between a similar amount of lost votes + abandoning a family member, or just losing some of the strong anti gay voters it's a no brainer.\n\nPence however is probably a real fanatic, not the same situation.",
"Dernol Dblimpf is finish",
"Sausage",
"No, the right to getting married is a right. Homosexuals gained that right only recently. \n\nYour personal bad experience with marriage doesn't change that.",
"\"Oh I'll miss that Ralph Wiggins, reminds me of my boy\"",
"Oh that's such a bullshit response. Being liberal doesn't mean you lack a fucking moral compass ",
"Yes, you could use Mein Kampf. That's not a very good idea tho.\n\n> Just cause it has meaning to you doesn't make it something that is acceptable to use when pledging to serve the US constitution\n\nLike I said, the item you're pledging on has no direct relation to the US constitution. It has a relation to the man giving the oath only. It is used to give others a sense of what the person's oath is worth. The Bible is an excellent choice when it comes to something whose value is understood by pretty much everyone, even non-Christians.",
"[Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesn’t mean you have to approve of it. If you had to like it it’d be called the Museum of Acceptance. Tolerate means you’re just putting up with it. You tolerate a crying child sitting next to you on the airplane or you tolerate a bad cold. It can still piss you off. Jesus tapdancing Christ!](http://southpark.cc.com/clips/104225/acceptance-speech)",
"And as studies have shown, it's harder to be racist/Islamophobic if you actually meet foreigners instead of living in some rural area.",
"This should be the title.",
"Which is why “family values” are ultimately a meaningless crock of shit.",
"Lol that death stare at pence from his son. ",
"Its not that hard. I had a friend who grew up in the former soviet area of germany. his parents, grandparents and pretty much the whole village, was filled with homophobic neo nazis. when he realized that he was gay, he had to run from the village because his parents and their friends would have beaten him to death. \nI met him sometime after he had a brain tumor removed and he was trying to get back on his feet after his boyfriend stole all his money and his possessions. \nWith his information I managed to track down his great-aunt who had emigrated to canada when she was a young girl so we contacted her daughter via FB. Long story short. She took him in and gave him a job at her senior-care facility. he might have lost his birth family but he gained a new one.",
"Wait... Are you telling me Liberace was gay??",
"They see it as deviation from and an attack on their values.",
"No one's pointing out the clear effort it's taking Jones' son not reach out and murder Mike Pence. I don't admire the restraint.",
"Wondering if this should be cross posted to r/accidentalrenaissance?",
">I don't live in a State that bans plastic bags and charges for paper bags. Why would they charge for paper bags? Paper bags aren't dangerous to the environment. \n\n[That's not true](https://ecomyths.org/2014/05/27/myth-paper-bags-are-greener-than-plastic/) While paper is a renewable resource, and recyclable, there are many environmental hazards associated with their production & shipping, and most environmental studies have found them to be as bad, or worse, than plastic. I have a million reusable bags at home that I always forget to bring, but I wish they would pass a law like that in my county. It's a pretty minimal inconvenience, and my laziness / forgetfulness is a shitty excuse to keep harming the environment. \n\n",
"To be fair, many don't hate them, they're just against the marriage.",
"So you’re “bi”-lingual? ",
"Me too. I am a straight woman and I like dicks just fine (calm down, I am old, move along reddit) and I am certain I have never thought about guys and dicks as much as any of these supposedly straight guys who swear they are just all fired up about gay sex because of the bible. Nobody thinks about it as much as these guys and you gotta wonder why!",
"How is this delusional? How can you not think that being more accepting of people is progression it's madness. ",
"Or somebody from Alabama..",
"Look at Rome, right before it fell.",
"Nobody side eyes like the gays",
"Bjork",
"I am surprised these mandatory jobs don't require mandatory respirators and protective suits. Really sad when they are just trying to make a few bucks, but end up with cancer in 15 years. ",
"A face down who would do something stupid Pence, openly gay son or Doug. Well the fight is between openly gay son and Pence... who will win??? \n\nIf Little button man (mr trump) dies or resigns or gets the fuck out of office will Pence be the next guy to pick on???",
"Pretty sure Pence is thinking that too. Right now, wherever he is.\n\n[\"Stupid, sexy, gorgeous gay son...\" - Pence probably](https://youtu.be/WaeRM7X_yS4)",
"I asked for your opinion, not your interpretation of another person's standard.",
"> A lot of people in general, have a borderline criminal inability to empathize with people unless they're direct relatives or close friends.\n\nJust after high school, one of my Mormon friends came out as gay. His family disowned him so thoroughly, they pretended like they didn't even know his name. So it appears to me that the borderline criminal inability to empathize extends even to relatives in some cases.\n\n",
"Yep, I'm not a US american either and I totally get what you mean. I leave it unfiltered though to be fair as I'm amused if anything by the entire \"Oompa Loompa in the Oval Office\" ordeal. But yeah I totally get where you're coming from, luckily the subreddits I frequent most are more or less void of US politics (well aside from jokes/funny that is of course).\n\nWhat really annoys me though is that the r/politics subreddit is unbearable ever since (and that, despite the name, it's specifically for US politics) so yeah... ",
"All I said was he supports gay conversion therapy, which he does, which is basically torture towards the ‘patient’",
"You say you're a Christian and yet reject the biblical view of marriage. How the secular world defines marriage, doesn't change the covenant you and your wife, make with God. But as Christians, we're commanded to preach the word of God and try to help avoid people falling into Sin. ",
"It was actually pretty common for most politicians, Republican or Democrat to be against gay marriage during the Bush and Clinton administrations.\n\nRegardless I'm glad we've moved past that. As much as I'm more of a state's rights guy ending discrimination is more important and I think it was the right call to judge it unconstitutional to block gay marriage.",
"This idiot thinks being poor and a women makes you gay! Gettem Reddit!",
"Good drunkard",
"Honey, I'm a Vols fan. That's all I've got to say about coaches. ",
"Actually, chicken & spuds rock my boat a little harder. ",
">The term \"All-American\" is also colloquially used to describe stereotypically clean-cut, mainstream or conventional American middle class people, particularly teenagers and young adults. Phenotypically, the stereotype suggests a blond-haired, light-eyed, WASP, Northern European, or \"nordic\" appearance. This usage was popularized by the radio series Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, which ran from 1933 to 1951. The \"mainstream\" culture was dominated by white Americans, but this connotation is changing along with demographics and acceptance of a multi-racial society.\n\nBasically it means he looks like a 1950s jock, but a nice one.",
"I think they say \"so much for the tolerant left\" when I say I disagree with homosexuality and you call me a bigot, but when a Muslim says it, you try not to act islamaphobic by being okay with their homophobia.\n\nIts creates a complete double standard in which you are not tolerant with my life views at all, but You're okay with the same views if the Muslims were indocrtinated to it from birth in a culture where women are treated worse than the goats.\n\n~~*the more you know*",
"Are you kidding? Super Nintendo Chalmers rocks! Seriously, though, it’s one of Ralph’s absolute best lines in the show.",
"Homophobia does apply to most religious people. Look to the Muslim world, the most homophonic place on earth. And these are social attitudes shared by most of them, even in the west. Sure, there’s a lot less violence over here but when a Gallup pole finds that 100% of British Muslims think homosexuality is an unexceptable life style choice people tend to ignore it. ",
"Did someone say Gwent?",
"I thought this would be a video about James Buchanan, who many historians believe was gay....forgot I was reading the controversial/crazy pants comments.",
"So brave",
"Really, how so?",
"Worse, you are taking his job!!! Lol",
"My cousin is gay and last month told me he was going to a gay Christmas party at a gay bar. So...maybe that's what he thinks as he gives gay blow jobs?",
"Or a personal lubricant.",
"> Rejected bathroom rights?\n\nIt's literally the latter end of the article linked - \"He rejected the Obama administration directive on transgender bathrooms - IN MAY\"\n\nThe article is from 2016. Try reading it.",
"not his “mother”",
"He was the governor of Indiana and while there pushed for the \"religious freedom restoration act\" to be signed into law which made it legal in Indiana for a business to discriminate against LGBT folks. That's just one example but both him and the people who hold his beliefs are responsible for persecuting LGBT folks and they support things like gay conversation therepy and am sure would love to see all sorts of restrictions and laws put into place if they could get rid of the Constitution. \n https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Freedom_Restoration_Act_(Indiana) \n\n\nEdit: added missing punctuation. ",
"And let's get rid of these dang fabled stop light signals that took the jobs of hard working American traffic police! ",
"The only moral abortion is _my_ abortion: http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/anti-tales.shtml",
"It's what Ralph Wiggum calls Superintendent Chalmers on The Simpsons.",
"Oh please humanity won't make it long enough to see that happen",
"Sittin' in senate with my.. new colleagues,\nSo I got the good book to swear a colleague upon.\nPicked up the Bible and read out the pledge, I said..\n\"This the Constitution, do you swear to it?\"",
"> A lot of people in general, have a borderline criminal inability to empathize with people unless they're direct relatives or close friends.\n\nYou are right and this phenomenon really makes me sick. \n",
"Oh like that guy Chrisley.",
"The way you frame your comment makes it seem that everyone who is Conservative, or for less government involvement, is anti-gay. When this is not the case at all. \n\n",
"yeah by far",
"Doug Jones, accompanied by his wife (?) and openly gay son, is sworn into office by Vice President Mike Pence",
"It should say: The openly gay son of Doug Jones stood next to his father during *the re-enactment* of his swearing-in.\n\nThis is not a photo of that ceremony, this is a photo of the re-enactment, as OP failed to distinguish. It is possible that this arrangement was the same in the Old Senate Chamber but that is not what this is.",
"I'm pretty sure his wife would have done it. Doesn't want Mike to be turned. \n\n\"I'll handle it, and don't you dare look at the TV with those scantily clad women on it either! Read your bible!\" She said.",
"No one made a statement that he supports shock therapy though... Gay conversion therapy is shitty even if it doesn’t include trying to fry someone’s brain. ",
"Chicken, potatoes, sauce, good right?\n\nI never learned to read/write French, but used to speak it until about 5",
"Sworn not sweared.",
"In a highly televised and highly advertised election, there were almost half the votes of the previous elections as well as less votes in total than what Jeff Sessions received when he ran for senate unopposed. Every single man and woman in the state were aware of what was at stake, yet less of them showed up to vote...... wut.",
"Pence looks pissed! GOOD!!",
"Caring about someone doesn't mean you can't have your own opinions that are detached from those people you care about. \n\nCaring about someone means you do your best to support them, sometimes your best doesn't sit well, sometimes it does. Important part is that you do your best, and that you don't lash out when their \"best\" doesn't work out for you.",
"You'd think straight people would love non-straight people because it means theres less competition.\n\nWhen you're a guy though, and you struggle accepting whatever feminine side you have (because you desperately want to be a 'real man') obviously a gay guy will freak you the fuck out.\n\nNo reason for it though. They find you way more repulsive than you do them. Ha!",
"It looks like nearly every /pics post i see is about politics. ",
"Many of them",
"Hahaha",
"We didn’t call him Mike ‘deus volt’ Pence in Indiana for nothing\n\nOr\n\nMike ‘like it in the crapper, get the zapper’ Pence \nMike ‘set phasers to straight’ Pence \n\n https://i.imgur.com/UQzlamu.jpg ",
"I love the signature idea.\n\n\n-Fuck Ajit PAi\n\n\nTryin to make a change :-\\",
"Cow Town?",
"It’s still psychological torture",
"is mike pence against people being openly gay? is that why this is significant?\n\npardon my ignorance, i just dont understand how someone could be politically opposed to someone expressing their romantic proclivities\n\nplease ELI5",
"Damn you beat me to this by 13 minutes\n",
"Why?",
"Sorry but who is Doug Jones and what makes this picture special with his gay son?",
"Lmao you Guys provide a good laugh",
"Meh",
"Yes liberalism is madness, glad we agree.",
"I read that some part of it was so that so many people aren't over-filling and \"topping off\" the tank. Supposedly wasting gas, over-charging, and also polluting with toxic fumes and spillage. It also helps because it can be a really useful out-of-school job, or second job, or whatever. I don't get why it's such a bad thing really, people want extra service and complain about having to tip at restaurants, but at gas stations you don't even have to get out of your car, and you don't have to tip them.",
"I fuel up before and/or after Jersey specifically to avoid having someone else fill my tank. It annoys me in the way bathroom attendants annoy me. I know what I’m doing here and would pay more to do it myself if I had to. Complete opposite of self-check our lines at grocery stores. Those are the worse. ",
"This was a disturbing post to read since I just finished reading the comment chain where they were talking about how he was looking at his mother. ",
"It’s history. When internal combustion cars came out all pumps in all countries were operated by staff. \n\nSlowly over time people realised it’s not that hard and the petrol attendant job faded away. \n\nAs a European I have seen movies with pump attendants, I thought it was a “lazy courtesy” so people didn’t have to stand outside in the heat, I never knew it was actually forbidden in some states. \n\nI’ve been pumping my own fuel since I was 16 and got my first moped. ",
"> He obviously opposes gay marriage. However, he treats gays and straights alike.\n\nlol.",
"you're not fighting for anything lmao you're just roleplaying revolutionary ",
"John Howard? Our second longest serving prime minister? He had to have been doing something right to stay in for so long; I’m no Liberal apologist, but he did an objectively decent job at running our country. Even if it did stall towards the end. ",
"I second that.",
"That'll show him for being religious!",
"Why does the title have to mention his openly gay son? Does it matter that his son is gay? ",
"Weird, a nordic blond man isn't really what I would picture for a stereotypical looking american man, even in the 50's",
"I think they've earned the shit eating grins for this moment.",
"Pence looks like he is passing a kidney stone...this makes me happy on this cold ass January morning",
"Obviously. It would be completely inappropriate to use someone else's son.",
"Baby bjorn. It’s his son.",
"Though it's a really dated joke. How many people even remember Super Nintendo consoles these days?",
"Tony Abbot the former Prime Minister of Australia, who's sister is openly lesbian fought gay marriage till the bitter end.",
"He's also the son of jetpack-riding, Sky Police Chief Clancy Wiggins. ",
"Horrible bot",
"Is Doug Jones’ son giving Pence the stinkeye or what ?\n",
"True. Others had been saying it was shock therapy and the link was trying to disprove the shock part. ",
"Vous le vous etc.. etc..",
"How is Mike Pence responsible for AIDS?",
"They’d fuck them both",
">I have to wonder how Pence would react if one of his daughters, or his son, came out as gay.\n\nThe same can be said about an illegal alien killing a loved one, but we can't talk about that.",
"Jones looks My T creepy....A good pal of Biden fo sho.",
"TIL Dick Cheney of all people supported gay marriage. ",
"Doug Jones sworn into office by Mike Pence next to his openly gay son - and Mike Pence swore under his breath.\n\nMeanwhile Jones' son is saying \"ha, bitch!\"",
"His sons not gay, but his wife's maid of honor was her Gay best friend. I wonder how Pence felt about that",
"Monsieur, ce ne sont pas des patates, ce sont des pommes de terre! ",
"Roll tide baby ",
"Amazing",
"Exactly this. I mean no obviously her opinion just changed and had nothing to do with pandering to voters ",
"About what?",
"The bible mentions judgement over 700 times, the reason you don't understand is because you wrongly think the biblical teaching on judgement is simply this line \"Judge not, that ye be not judged?\". \n\nWhen in fact Christians are called to righteously judge throughout the bible, I mean it can't get more clearer than this: \"The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.\". Put very reductively, we're called to get our own selves sorted out, before passing judgement and only judge in line with truth and Gods teaching. ",
"Well, when William the Conqueror took over England...",
"You mean [the delay of four whole paragraphs in the announcement](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/business/media/sesame-street-heading-to-hbo-in-fall.html)?\n\nThe \"theories\" spread because people didn't actually read the announcement and just read the headline.",
"How about angry helicopter noises?",
"He beat out the trump supported candidate and Mike Pence is for gay therapy conversion",
"You are misinterpreting the photo and the intent. Sad. ",
"Are you saying Trump is against these protections or Obama?\n\nBecause Obama put the protections that Trump is dismantling in place. ",
"The top comment to this thread is /u/NYContractor saying:\n\n> Why does Reddit still pretend pence is anti-gay?\n\nThe response was that he he held (and still holds) anti-gay positions. Your comment then adds other politicians and says so did they so what? Either your comment was trying to show that Pence is not anti-gay because democrats have held the same positions in the past or you're trying to change the entire subject of the conversation. \n\nIf you want to have a separate conversation about hypocrisy that's fine, but that has nothing to do with the original comment that stated Reddit is \"pretending\" Pence is anti-gay. There's also a huge difference between the three candidates you compared, in that two of them have come out publicly as being pro-LGBT. Pence never has, there's no indication that he has or he will, and while Governor of Indiana actively worked against the LGBT community. When the day comes that Pence comes out and publicly says he supports LGBT rights and same-sex marriage, maybe he'll get some support from the dems on that issue. Separately, while Obama and Clinton previously held anti-gay views they both came out for it publicly and have done a lot of work to support those communities since coming out. To paraphrase your condescending question. See the distinction? Probably not.\n\nAlso, when you say Clinton and Obama are \"praised\" while being historically anti-gay, I'm not sure if you mean praised on LGBT issues or praised in general. If the former it's because, as stated above, they have actually done things to benefit the LGBT community whereas Pence hasn't. If the latter, then certainly you can understand that someone can praise a politician for certain positions or achievements while disagreeing with them on others, or do you 100% agree with every single politician you've ever supported?",
"Yea it isnt like he has any influence or anything\n\n",
"You asked if it was English, then you said it was a coherent sentence? He also only stated factors within those religions in a simplified way, he didn't disparage them.",
"Look into grammar OP.",
"Although that is very awesome of Dick Cheney to do for his daughter.. He is still the single most biggest asshole of my life from 2000 to 2008, along with Donald Rumsfeld. Evil people. Fuck them!",
"are you really this naive? Politics is full of people on both sides who politically opposed to what people do in their private lives",
"it tastes like burning",
"While you're right that \"Utopia\" means \"nowhere\" in Greek, every time someone uses it in English, they are referring to the book Utopia, which describes a perfect society. ",
"The link that was provided said shock therapy. They were trying to use that as a defense that everything about pence supporting conversion therapy was a lie when it clearly wasn’t ",
"They're just playing Trains",
"Keeping redundant pointless jobs purely for the sake of keeping a person employed is not the way the world moves forward though, it’s how one place gets left behind. \n\nImagine if that argument was used to not add those little coin locks to shopping trolleys, because without them super markets get to hire so many people to collect carts!",
"I can appreciate it was a rough month there, yall are sitting pretty with Pruitt. I would rather that 100x over than seven years of gus. \n\nMay your victories over bama be frequent and dominant. \n\n",
" Not joking, he was at like -10 at the time. ",
"> It’s a very *fluid* phrase\n\nFTFY",
"Even though I live in the US it can still be a bit unnerving. I'll be walking my dogs or riding the bus and random people will try to talk to me, sometimes if I have headphones on. You would think that would say \"don't talk to me\" but some just don't get the idea.",
"It made me cringe, too.",
"\"Don't worry, you little slut, I won't tell...\"",
"\"Sweared into\" lol",
"The way the son is looking at Pence. I don't know if he wants to fuck him or kill him...",
"How do you \"disagree\" with a sexual orientation",
"So no evidence, is evidence now? ",
"Who is arguing? I asked you to clarify your points and you attacked me instantly lol. Your false equivalency is horrible. ",
"Oh do keep up if you're going to chime in. This is about Pence and what he has said about the gayboys. \n\nMike Pence: \n\nRejected Bathroom rights - 2016\n\nSigned amendment - 2015\n\nOpposed gay marriage - 2015\n\nApproved proposal - 2013\n\nBacked 'Don't tell' - 2010\n\nThe fact you're getting upvotes whilst completely missing the flow of conversation is pretty telling.",
"\"Now that I've sworn you in, would your son be interested in this conversion program I have for him?\"",
"I’ll bet Pence has a hard-on ",
"Holy shit, stop the hyperbole. ",
"Less commonly called a Turnip.",
"I love Mike Pence ",
"You can always count on the flair to fix the title!",
"Their point was at least she ended up supporting it, hence the better late than never comment. Pence is still openly against it. \n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Freedom_Restoration_Act_(Indiana)\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/mike-pences-most-controversial-stances-on-gay-rights-abortion-and-smoking-2016-11",
"Everyone",
"ICONIC",
"I can explain this one because I've worked for two \"religious organizations.\" What these organizations exploit is fear. The whole world is getting worse they say, we need Jesus more than ever. The church is the last beacon of hope, give us your money. And people do, they give millions and millions of dollars. Muslims are trying to take over our country they say and there is abortion and porn and the \"gay agenda\" is taking over. \n\n\nIn reality they just use whatever social issues are big at the time. Believe it or not interracial dating was an issue just like this and a long time ago it was owning slaves. The reason they are called \"Southern Baptist Church\" is because they broke off after Northern Baptist churches tried to tell them what to do with their slaves. In reality religious leaders don't give a fuck about homosexuality it's just the most current issue to push their rhetoric and get your money. ",
"What do you mean we are not fighting? We are fighting for equality. Do you want me out in the streets shooting people who disagree with me? Good luck with that buddy. ",
"As someone from New Jersey, this makes me worried.",
"Zing!",
"jokingly? *war eagle*",
"People in jersey are assholes. The gas attendent gives them an extra person to be an asshole to. ",
"The whole point, like over here in Europe is to just encourage you to bring your own reusable bag. \n\nRecycling is great, but there is still a cost to it, the now wet/ripped paper bag still has to find its way to a recycling Center and cost energy to be recycled. ",
"Holy shit! What a fucking dick!",
"they showed him who the cocksucker is",
"Omelette de fromage ",
"Sworn*",
"Who teach you English? ",
"I hated sesame Street an a kid. Idk why, the characters just all made me uncomfortable. So whenever I think of that show I just get the creeps. ",
"Eh, that was a meme in NJ for a while after that show \"The Jersey Shore\" aired. Pretty stale meme at this point I think.",
"It was an off season special election. Turnout for those is usually terrible. Most people don't even turn out for mid terms. ",
"Thank you and back at you. ",
"I guarantee if I every drive through Jersey I’m making this mistake. \n\nI understand that it keeps people employed, but unless this was a full service kinda deal where they cleaned the windshield, checked the tires, checked the oil, *and* pumped the gas I don’t really see the point anymore. ",
"Does anybody else not like the trump administration yet finds posts like this just stupid and petty",
"Sesame street was perhaps multi ethnic, but not multicultural. Big bird never thought that jews were the enemy while the count didnt want elmo drinking beer, and followed him on the street screaming profanities. The problem with multicultural areas, are that not all cultures mix together well, and some cultures are straight up inferior to others, and some traditions that are endemic to those cultures i.e Sharia courts or genital mutilation or husbands beating their wives, should be actively discouraged and illegal. \n\n\nIn short, theres no problems if the guy doesnt eat pork, there however is a problem if he has a harem of underaged lady boys in the basement of his pizza parlor",
"You can be my friend, internet stranger. Strangers have the best candy.",
"I feel good about my hatred for homophobes and Nazis and racists. I suppose I'm part of the problem if the problem you are talking about is how to establish a white ethnostate or whatever crazy horrible shit you people want to set up. I am comforted by the knowledge that religion is dying off in this country which will mean alot less hateful evil people like Mike pence using his religion to persecute people he doesn't like. People see what type of \"morals\" y'all have and are increasingly rejecting that. But I'm not bothered if I'm part of the problem for you because I actively oppose the type of hate filled Christian theocracy that you people seem to want to set up in this country. ",
"*il met la lotion sur sa peau ou il obtient le tuyau à nouveau*\n\nYou're right, the way it sounds now actually makes me hungry.",
"The look on that guy's face after the journalist tells him he doesn't have to swear on the Bible is priceless",
"Doing everything they can too not seem homophobic. Reeks of desperation.",
"There are more than 2 religions that share those absurd beliefs. People with bigoted *belief systems* should not be making policy.",
"So by that logic does that mean if your so anti trump does that make you a closet supporter that hates yourself? Just curious.",
".):",
"Pence *(whispering): I can fix you.*",
"Nobody believes the Bible was written by God. You can't effectively criticize things you don't understand",
"Sometimes to be truly tolerant you have to be intolerant of intolerance. Which sounds backwards but makes sense if you think about it.",
"I agree. I was commenting on someone else’s suggested edit. It struck me as a funny rewrite because that person made it sound like Mike Pence and Doug Jones had fathered a son together, an uncomfortable idea to Pence, I imagine. ",
"I reckon so",
"Cringe",
"/r/politics is pretty much the flip side of /r/the_donald at this point, total democrat propaganda as far as I can tell. I hoped that the US getting the most ridiculously inept president ever would be a wake-up call to \"my guys\" as a liberal but they keep on living in their own reality. Ugh, this is why I filtered out US politics, both sides of their terrible binary system are so unbelievably bad, corrupt and hopeless.",
"I can't read french but all romance languages are the same. Something about loving chicken with potatoes and a good sauce.",
"I almost got in a fight with a gas station attendant the first time I drove through New Jersey. I thought he was making some kind of shitty attempt to steal my car until he opened his jacket and I saw the name tag. ",
"Nuh uh, War Eagle!",
"Sworn. \n\nGood grief. \n\n",
"Did Pence he catch the gay? Does he need conversion therapy now?",
"Seriously. The false equivalency ITT is ridiculous. ",
"Thank you, sir.",
"Mature and well thought out",
"I was thinking, Pence has an openly gay son?? That doesn't sound like a good childhood.",
"I don't see how my personal opinion is relevant, since I never gave it or even hinted at having one. The point is by OP's logic, if you support anyone who's \"shitty,\" which is of course subjective, then you're also shitty. Since this one politician is shitty by some metric, how then can we not construct some metric by which most, if not all, are? Take it a step further, then the whole country is shitty for putting up with them. It's a nonsense line of reasoning.\n\nAnd no, I don't have an opinion on whether every elected official in the country is shitty by my own standards. There's plenty I don't like, but I obviously could not back up a general claim like that, which is part of the point I was making. ",
"I will say, even as someone from a normal self serve state, I got confused as a kid the first time I had to actually lift the lever instead of just pick up the pump haha.",
"Your source begrudgingly admits that plastic bags cause storm drain clogs and oceanic disasters while paper bags do no such thing, and is basing its findings on the assumption that people are reusing plastic bags more than paper bags. \n\nTrader Joes Paper Bags are reused more than a plastic bag ever would be. To try and tell me that a paper bag is just as bad for the environment as plastic is disingenuous and ignoring a lot of other factors. \n\nAnd I don't care about what you think a \"shitty\" excuse is. I'm not ever going to vote to ban plastic and paper bags in my State. My carbon footprint is less than many people in this Country already - I refuse to go dig in to my own pockets any more than I have been. \n\nBan private jets and the like and then maybe I'd be willing to come back and have this discussion about what *I* need to do for the environment. ",
"No, he was eccentric. Are you even paying attention? ",
"If you choose to call reddit news.. then yes. This site is ALL about identity politics rather than judge a person based on character.",
"This is great! Can I steal this please?",
"He takes it a little farther than just not supporting gay marriage. Saying a gay family will signal the collapse of America sounds pretty hateful to me. \n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom",
"It's crazy how as soon as the election was over no more accusers came forward and it was no longer covered by the media, almost as if it was a smear campaign..",
"I'd argue this is the view of most young(er) Republicans. Most people just don't care. It's the boomers and sellouts who are trying to cater to evangelicals that make a big deal over restricting gay rights.\n\nHell, it wasn't until recently that being pro-gay marriage was part of the Democrats agenda, either. Both Clinton and Obama were previously against it just a few years ago. ",
"Risky click of the day. And it's only 8am where I live!",
"Word",
"Mike Pence: “I choo-choo-choose you!”",
"Perfect globalist propaganda. Targets Whites and they pay for it! ",
"That'll teach him!",
"What movie is that first gif from?",
"Word up",
"They're all fucking",
"Openly anti-gay? No, he has religious views which mean he doesn't support gay marriage and religious business owners should have some protections. He has also never supported 'conversion therapy', but religious based counselling for people who are conflicted about their faith and sexuality. Sure, that therapy has had ethically issues in some places, but that isn't a reflection on him. \nAlso, how uneducated about religion are you to believe that Christians don't want gays to exist. I'm sure Pence wishes that there wasn't Sin or that the person would turn away from Sin. But to say he wishes the son didn't exist is pure slander. ",
"\"Doug Jones sworn into office by Mentally ill next to his openly gay son\" does have a ring to it. You might be right",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Freedom_Restoration_Act_(Indiana)\n\nhttp://time.com/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom/\n\nhttps://web.archive.org/web/20010519165033fw_/http:/cybertext.net/pence/issues.html (look for the family values section)\n\n\nThere is no parallel between Pence's hyper-single-faith and anti-gay position and anything you seem to ineptly be trying to say with your vapid whataboutism.",
"r/thathappened",
"Haha",
"This is quite possibly one of the most ridiculously ignorant internet tropes. \nDo you really want a president who was stupid enough to get exposed to AIDS, irresponsible enough not to budget for health insurance, didn't know what birth control was and got pregnant at 16, couldn't hold down a job, doesn't know if s/he's a man or a woman, doesn't realize that there is a difference between 'trying' and 'doing' drugs? \n \nThe entire diatribe is basically a laundry list of situations arising from poor decisions and shitty life skills. Yeah, go give that loser your vote. #Inspired ",
"This was up there, in that there what you call Dee Cee",
"I respect that you say you're personally going to be the \"on the streets fighting\" but I think calling it *fighting* is just conflating it",
"This weirdo keeps staring at me for no reason",
"For anyone who hasn't seen the moron in question, here's the speechless bully....\n\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kXdcS_7CA1o",
"Or make his gay child get conversion therapy.",
"I think it might not be legal to do it yourself or maybe the gas station gets fined if someone. The one time I saw someone attempt it I think that is what the attendant said but I haven't been able to find any info to back that claim up. \n\nIt sucks because these gas stations get so busy and they have like one guy for 7 pumps. I could have gotten out and had have my tank filled before the dude even gets to me if I could fill it myself. ",
"I have no doubt we'll transition to bringing ones own reusable bag in the future, I just think it can be done with the free market, and not via mandatory laws that put the cost burden on the consumer. \n\nMy carbon footprint is rather small, after all. ",
"Why does reddit push homosexuality in our faces. ",
"*Sworn ..... sweared is not a word, bruh",
"Good on that guy for not knuckle punching him in the throat",
"Because Sessions wasn't a pedophile. The majority of Alabama is republican, and having a pedo as the R candidate made quite a few of them not show up.",
"Oh, so it's a Quick Time Event.",
"In Thompsons, chalkboard write on Bort!",
"I like \"Openly Gay Mike Pence, by Son\" better.\n",
"I really find it hilarious that people lose their minds about the slightest change. And then they adapt to it and it's like it never happened. It makes me doubt us if our government was ever undermined or we had an impending extinction level event. ",
"Or rig it with actual smoke... Just imagine!",
"\"sworn\", not \"sweared\"",
"Oh, that stance can get reeaaally wide if you ask for it. Doublewide, as the big boys like to call it.",
"Most conservatives I know don’t give too shits if your gay",
"New Jersey gas station handies are the best gas station handies.",
"......why was Biden at the swearing-in? Is he a friend of Jones?",
"I don't know. Should someone be denied service just because they're gay? No. Would it be ok to deny service if the person wanted it specifically for something against your beliefs? I think that's fine.",
"More like r/algore ",
"Aaaand here we go, derailing a thread about bigotry by redirecting it to Muslims. Dunno about you but everyone I know who is against homophobia is against it coming from all angles. Please quit using them as a scapegoat",
"Or a great idea for a sitcom.\n\n\"My Two Dads\" is taken, so maybe \"Nurture vs Nature\" ?\n\nOr \"The Electro-Conversion Theory\". Mike keeps trying to electrocute their son all the time to a cheesy laugh track, and Doug stops him and shakes his head.",
" I BENT MY WOOKIEE!",
"There's something slightly funny about him abstaining from that vote. Like \"You're all going against me, I don't wanna play anymore.\"\n\nThat being said, agreed, he's a cunt.",
"It's far more nuanced than just saying he votes against gay rights. You use 'gay rights' as a blanket term for a whole variety of issues, from marriage to business rights to make it seem as though there's isn't a nuanced position behind each of his votes. ",
"You never mentioned the subject of your condemnation and we're replying to a post about Obama you colossal nitwit. Don't go off blaming everyone else when you've failed to clarify your statements yourself. If you look throughout this thread (or really any lgbtq related reddit thread) you'll find a lot of misinformation about lgbtq Rights and discrimination. ",
"No politricks like identity politricks",
"My older sister was an English teacher at my HS (Mississippi) she was the \"Abstinence-Only Education Coordinator..\" even then I gave her shit about how dumb of a concept that was..",
"poor dude looks scared, like he's worried he's about to get tased.",
"Your vice president thinks conversion therapy is a legitimate cure for the gay. The fact that he is your vice president shows how retarded you are as a nation. Doug Jones's openly gay son was now doubt put up there for this very reason. ",
"You don't have to embrace gay marriage even if you have no problem or even like gay people.\n\nMarriage is about tax breaks primarily, tax breaks which were granted due to the fact that heterosexual couples will mostly end up having children at one point, which keeps this whole humanity thing running.\n\nThat's not the case for homosexual couples and as far as I'm aware gay couples in countries where gay marriage has been allowed for some time now don't end up overwhelmingly adopting children or having children from surrogate mothers and such either. So they're basically granted tax breaks that single people don't receive for... well, I don't know for what.\n\nThat's the reason I don't support gay marriage and think it's detrimental to society as a whole.\n\nIn a better world, I would like these tax breaks to be associated with child rearing instead of marriage, which would completely alleviate all of my concerns with gay marriage.",
"It’s jersey. Yelling is the local language. ",
"This has to be one of my favorite Aussie-isms. I have hundreds of favorites. You guys have the best slang in the world.",
"Actually the correct wording is “Doug Jones sworn into office next to openly gay son by lapdog to a sundowning narcissist.”",
"What's the problem? Jesus was also allways surrounded by sick people. ",
"Gotta love his son's look of \"Say something about me needing to be 'saved' or that its 'a choice' mutherfucker... I DARE you!\"",
"Same with abortion. It’s unthinkable to some people, until they find themselves dealing with an unwanted pregnancy ",
"sworn*",
"Depends on the gas station. 99% of the time it’s just hand the card over and get a receipt. But every once in a while they’ll ask for a zip code. Never asked for a pin though. ",
"He's gittin' him swornified",
"Allah Snakbar! ",
"relax",
"Stone age? Biblical texts were written way after that and over a long period of time. ",
"Who cares if he's gay? ",
"You don't get metaphors, do you?",
"Fucking awesome. I don't know how I haven't seen this before. ",
"I'm sorry...are you contending, against all possible evidence, that he isn't?",
"I’m asking this and being completely serious, are you a fucking retard? ",
"This title gave me cancer.",
"Hey everyone, look how different he is! ",
"Exactly.\n\nHey guys, if you supported/voted for Barack Obama in 2008, you voted for someone who was against gay marriage. Obama didn't support it publicly because it was politically inconvenient for him to do so.",
"“Could Oscar and Angela be having a gay affair? Maybe!”",
"> with the exception that he would want to have them murdered by throwing them off a rooftop immediately\n\nAre you sure? Or does he just know that that kind of shit doesnt fly anymore? ",
"I know that varies from state to state, but I agree with you on that point.\n\nIt should be left up to each gas station, for sure.",
"reddit likes to virtue signal over its own made up scooby doo ghosts",
"Sleep? That’s where I’m a Viking!",
"Oh this is one of those caught-at-the-right-moment pictures. Like the one where Obama wasn’t shaking hands with Trump. Brainwashed liberals, go jerk each other off in your imaginary Clinton-run world. ",
"Bro I'm still in the mitten and I'm still somehow surprised how locals in general are inept at driving in snow even though we live in fucking Michigan (I'd have italicized that but I don't know how). Makes me think we should just do the same damn thing here and huddle inside so the goofies on the road stop slamming into things/each other",
"Yeah OP goobered up the title. ",
"many conservatives are fine with gay people. Pence, specifically, it's an incredible anti-gay bigot",
"Also in my experience in NJ, the people who do it suck at their job. On Sunday i was driving back from NJ and had to get gas, pulled up and there is a new-ish Mercedes being filled up. The attendant just let the gas cap swing around loose and scratch up the paint instead of putting it into the receptacle that every modern car has in one shape or another.\n\n\nWhen he left and I pulled up I got out of the car to put my gas cap away correctly.\n\n\n I drive a nice, aggressive looking high end sports car. I pulled up to the pump after the Merc, and the dude says \"regular?\". It should be so obvious to anyone who knows anything about cars that this car can not take regular fuel, especially someone who fills up cars with gas for a living. \n\nWhat a total waste of time.",
"Well you can love your son if he is on drugs too but without wanting him that way.",
"Because you cant see his eyes?",
"Like tissue paper. ",
"What about this is so upvote-worthy?\n\ndude's first day on the job. does his son being gay somehow materially alter/improve/detract/distract???",
"It isn't that people change their beliefs, its about why they change their beliefs.\n\nIf they change a correct belief into a wrong belief because of a personal benefit or issue then they are a moral weakling.\n\nIf they change an incorrect belief into a correct belief because of a personal benefit or issue then they are an intellectual weakling (they were before as well, its just now it is exposed that if they had just thought about the issue enough in advance it would have saved everyone a lot of grief).\n\nIf they change an incorrect belief into a correct belief because they sat down and thought about it when challenged by objective, external, evidence then that shows they are morally and intellectually courageous to be willing to admit to having been wrong.",
"You couldn't miss the point harder than if you tried, jesus. You don't get it.",
"But who's watched the Simpsons in the last 15 years? A LOT of references from the show are dated.",
"Mike Pence BTFO",
"Why's he gotta be gay in the headline? They forgot his shoe size and favorite ice cream",
"Sounds like he doesn’t get along with his sister",
"Statistically speaking there’s a very good chance that someone in his family, be it cousin, niece, nephew, aunt or uncle is gay. ",
"The sexual tension is very strong here I think and Pence is making a mental note not to dine alone with Jones Jr.",
"Ringo ",
"> I have to wonder how Pence would react if one of his daughters, or his son, came out as gay.\n\nWell, if Trump is to be believed, Pence would want to hang him/her.",
"To be fair, it is provably safer. About two people a year die in gas station fires (I'm pretty sure here but it was a bit hard to tell) related to pumping gas. So while the gene pool might thank us for letting those two go, the NJ law does *technically* save lives.",
"Wow, I must've missed that during my Simpsons-watching days. Or I just forgot; haven't watched since probably before 2000.",
"Sounds like something someone would try after failing with “gullible isn’t in the dictionary.”\n\nEdit: autocorrect.",
"My cousin played the homophobe in college.",
"Furthermore, it was a deliberate choice by Moore. The place was meant to be both a paradise and \"nowhere\", meaning that such a perfect place could not exist in reality.",
"Incomprehensible unless he just saw *Holes* with Shia LaBeouf.",
"Formerly. However price controls destroyed the textile industry. Which, in the end, didn't matter anyway because the factory that made the steel rigging was nationalized and retooled to manufacture bullets to shoot dissidents. \n\nWe mostly just use backpacks full of rocks. Which is fine, parachutes are bourgeois excess to begin with.",
"> It's amazing how Conservatives act when the gay person is someone they love.\n\n\"All blacks are criminals, except of course that Bill from the accounting, he is one of the good ones. And Devon from church, they are an exception.\"\n\nThey are mental gymnastic champions, rules are different between the people they personally know and all others. This goes to abortion, race, gender, sexual preferences etc etc. Everyone else can't take an abortion but our little Susie, she needs to get rid of that hellspawn but that is it, no more after that for anyone.",
"We don't force you to do shit. I'm not gonna tell a grown ass person that they can't pump their own gas. My only responsibility is to make sure idiots don't fill their gas cars with diesel or the other way around. ",
"We prefer \"flouncy\"",
"This should be on a Cards Against Humanity response card haha",
"\\*looks at username*\n\nMore than remember the N64, I think.",
"Ralphie Wiggins...",
"They also have people bagging your stuff in a supermarket as a job.",
"And his half/step brother is too ",
"> I mean most things people do are badly fucking retarded.\n\nYou mean like still using \"retarded\" as a derogatory term?",
"Doug Jones is a National Treasure",
"Yeah sorry I think if you own a business yes you damn right have the right to refuse service even if it’s because you don’t want to serve gays (which to be clear wasn’t the issue in the gay cake case). ",
"Eat shit, Kamala Harris ",
"Fabulous!",
"We don't? Seriously, look up how things actually are. There are a lot of states where lgbtq people are still treated as second class citizens.\n\nBut sure, it's true that the right is generally the enemy of the vulnerable in society, and that includes passing tax laws that fuck everyone over. But they make damned sure it fucks a certain group of people over extra hard, always. There's so much history with this.",
"Well, user name is related at least.",
"And Michelle Bachmen. Plus her husband was gay too.",
"Trump was the first presidential candidate elected who ran on a pro-gay marriage ticket. Why does homosexuality have to be a left right thing? Why is it even an issue? Just seems to be a divisive talking point. ",
"Heeeeeeeyyyyyyyy!",
"If you think that opposition to the marriage equality movement involved revoking or preventing privileges/rights of others then you don't understand the opposing viewpoint. Communities endorse relationships via marriage. When the LGBT community felt left out of this situation in specific communities, instead of suing over the denial of access to specific privileges resulting from a licensed marriage, the legal cases took the direction that these states/communities don't have a right to choose whose marriages to endorse. This IMO makes the whole point of marriages moot (if anyone's relationship can be endorsed then what makes any of them specifically worthy of a ceremony for it) and simultaneously attacks my right to choose what I personally endorse as a citizen of a state that previously codified heterosexual marriage.\n\nAnd you can tell when reading the majority opinion in Obergefell that this ignorance towards personal rights to endorse other people is exactly what was intended by the majority because they thought it was more straightforward than alternatives.",
"Thanks for saying this. Fucking insane that people exist like the one you responded to. ",
"Do they turn you on though? It isnt a coincidence that many anti gay people are so far in the closet they have adventures in Narnia.\n\nSecond thought looking at your username you are a troll or very deep in the closet. ",
"\"He was skiing that thing where he *casually* brings something up, like I don't know. Come to me like a man! Always talking about how tough you are, can't even look me in the eye!\"",
"Go West to Moskau!",
"Oh fuck off fuckwad",
"It's...a trap?",
"\"Next to his openly gay son, Doug Jones sworn into office by Mike Pence.\"\n\nBoom",
"When 63% of the country is triggered by now, you have to wonder ",
"It's not a rocket appliance...",
"I did not know this before, very interesting!",
"/u/DrQueerlove posted this article\n\nhttp://amp.timeinc.net/time/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom\n\nu/AsterJ then replied \"Most of the things they cited are from 2006 / 2007\"\n\nI then listed everything in that article NOT from 2006/2007 that are date stamped links to prove u/AsterJ was wrong.\n\nThen along you come and demonstrate some next level idiocy and get all pissy about it. No one was talking about Obama - it is and has been about the article about Pence and what and when he said it.\n\nI can only hope you're drunk if you're this easily confused.",
"A loving, caring parent. That believes in God. I don't count it as loving but they absolutely do: all that is needed to remedy the situation is if the son stops being gay, the parent does not need to do anything since God said so..",
"He’s a trumpster ",
"You need universal healthcare - you spend more of your taxes on a system that provides lesser healthcare for a smaller group of people. It's incredibly inefficient by design - because someone is pocketing all that money.",
"TOO SOON",
"Pence looks like he just shit his pants!😃",
"Because to Pence the Vice President it does matter. It shouldnt, but it does. That is why. ",
"Lel look at pence’s face ",
"That sounds really familiar, I think I know where youre referring. ",
"Accidental Renaissance",
"We've had 10 people in the last week in my county trying to fill their tanks with diesel in a gas car, and gas in a diesel. Helps with disabled people which we serve a lot of. Old people, people who don't want to get out of their cars etc. We serve a purpose, probably don't need like 2 or 3 dedicated people to do it. Just have 1 to be there to help those people and don't take advantage.",
"If trans people want to serve our country and do it well then why the fuck shouldn’t they be entitled to healthcare to cover if? You should be more concerned about the military spending billions upon billions of dollars on shit they’ll never use. I’m sure a single fucking jet being put on the back burner would cover all these rampant trans surgeries you’re worried about for the next 200 years. ",
"Sounds more fearful than hateful if you ask me. Fearful for the collapse of society. And I agree with him.",
"I'm very relaxeded.",
"I still can’t wrap my head around why anyone cares enough to be *that* against something going on between two consenting adults. If you think it’s gross, whatever, but that’s not a valid reason to make laws against something and persecute people. \n\nEither way, it’s not like anyone is fucking in public either. If gay people merely existing or like... holding hands with their SO in public offends you, that’s your problem, not theirs’.",
"Aren't most 60 year old males anti-gay?",
"No need to worry, your message is always welcome here!!",
"I'm in NJ, but have lived and gone to school in other states, I learned how to pump gas before I was a teenager. Let me tell you, I've seen people in NJ, during bad weather when the attendants are overwhelmed, do some incredibly stupid and dangerous shit, especially when it came to filling gas cans for their generators. I'm more than happy to have an attendant, especially since that means the average gas station is employing eight people instead of three or four.",
"gr8 b8 m8.",
"Well with those kind of fatality numbers I’m amazed anyone is allowed to do anything for themselves if safety is truly the logic. ",
"Mr Abbot is a dick-cunt.",
"And?",
"Are you kidding me? You should be ashamed of yourself dude",
"[Or Mr Wu.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rGU2xwSsFs&t=10s)",
">You say you're a Christian and yet reject the biblical view of marriage.\n\nI might be a bit of an oddball in that regard. I'm not really sure how much of the bible I really believe. I think our religion would have been *much* better off had the bible simply not been written. Too many people use the bible as a weapon. That's not what it was intended for.\n\nI see the stories in the bible as they are: stories. They may or may not be true. Honestly, I don't think it matters. The only thing you need to use the bible for is to learn morals and values that help you live your own life, much like any other fable or lesson. The bible should not be used as a literal telling of historical events. The point isn't whether or not the stories are real. The point is what you can learn from them.\n\nFor me, I'm a Christian because I believe in God and I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I'm not a Christian because some old book told me to. My relationship with God is way more important to me than any book.\n\n>preach the word of God and try to help avoid people falling into Sin.\n\nThere's a very large difference between helping someone avoid falling into sin and actively judging them for their sin, the latter of which is what we're talking about here and is also considered a sin according to the bible.\n\nThe main issue with biblical sins is how nobody knows which ones are ok to ignore and which ones should still apply. Have you ever eaten shellfish? I hope none of your clothes are made out of mixed fabrics. If you've done either of those things you've sinned, at least according to the bible.\n\nPerhaps some sins, especially those silly ones mentioned in Leviticus (the same place the homosexuality sin is found), aren't meant to apply to us anymore. I mean, if it's ok for me to eat lobster and wear mixed fabric clothing then I think it's reasonable to say it's ok for two guys or two girls to be in a relationship and get married.\n\nI think the best solution for sin is to just make them all entirely personal. You can believe and follow whichever sins you want to just as long as you don't try to make other people do so. Your sins are between you and God. The world will be an overall happier place if everyone kept their ideas of what is and isn't a sin to themselves.",
"Lol, I'm pretty good at reading people, especially their facial expressions. First, it looks Doug has the facial expression that reads to me \"yeah, MF I won the election, and yes my son is gay\", then the mother and son are looking at each other in unspoken inner dialogue : with Mom is telling her son not to say anything, be quiet, and the son's inner dialogue is saying to her \" this is a crazy shit I'm going to say something!\"",
"I think he'd send them to Pray away the Gay gatherings or try his own homegrow electroshock therapy with jumper cables and a car battery. I'm not entirely sure Pence would be able to see past his own deluded beliefs to consider the feelings of a loved one of saod loved one was gay. If you think electrocution is the way to 'cure gayness' then you're pretty far gone IMO.",
"We really still mocking him for not having a meal with a woman who isn’t his wife after all the sexual allegations and slush funds to hide sexual transgressions in politics?",
"What?",
"No, it really doesn't!\n",
"All of them",
"As a US man, I'm wondering if this is code for something fucked up he did, or if he literally ate a whole onion.",
"Pence got that mister T look\n\nThat come over here and fuck me in the ass look. ",
"What does having an openly gay son have to do with shit lmao, his son didn’t get sworn in. Anything though to push a gay narrative with you weirdo sjw’s",
"I’m not sure it’s so much of people thinking gays are not “good” people as much as they just either don’t like the thought of two men together or just find it weird. Which they have every right to do so.",
"Very concrete thinking there ",
"Maybe the waffling is 'I realize I have been filthy garbage and I want to change'. ",
"Its like how the democrats pretend to care about the people who vote for them even while they fuck the voters in the ass.",
"I think it is just because there are so many Conservative Americans who are virulently anti-gay. I don’t experience as much talk about gay’s in the northern european countries I know, mostly because people don’t care about the issue.\n\nI find that Americans liberals tend to speak a lot about issues which conservatives already have a very strong opinion on such as homosexuality, abortion, gun control etc. liberals in other countries don’t speak as much about any of this because there is no huge reactionary conservative base to deal with.",
"No, Edgar Britt is. Obviously. ",
"Just you wait, Ralphie 'iggins, just you wait!",
"How embarrassing! ",
"I think it’s a shame that some people need a gay relative to change their views, but it’s even worse when that doesn’t even make them see sense. What a desperately miserable way to live your life. ",
"I'd really prefer he'd be an hero.",
"Mike Pence cares. He openly cares and is public and clear about his opinion. Having his openly gay son attend his swearing in sends a message to the Vice President that says “The American people elected me even with a gay son whom I love and accept. The American people, whom you serve, do not as a majority, share the values that you have attempted to press upon them.”",
"We really don't. I swear everything that people know about jersey is people pump your gas, and the jersey shore is a documentary about life in New Jersey, you know because what's more new jersey than 10 people from New York and PA.",
"Holly shit: You Aussies weren't kidding.\n\nhttps://media.giphy.com/media/6uqbaF4J8KCTC/giphy.gif",
"While this is anecdotally true in my real life experience; I’m getting a little tired of it being trotted out as an excuse every time a homophobe acts like a bigot. \n\nIt’s almost like saying “no one hates the gays more vehemently than themselves” and sometimes I think it’s used to excuse terrible behaviour and explain it away as a personal problem. \n\nIt takes away the accountability from the homophobe, and turns it into an “understandable internal struggle”.\n\nIn my opinion Mike Pence does not hate gay people because he’s secretly gay, or afraid of his own fantasies....\n\n...he hates gay people because he’s a small minded bigoted cunt with a shit education, and a crippled world view.\n",
"Many people *are* arguing that. And which rights are you talking about? Gay 'marriage' wasn't a right until very recently.",
"Gotta make them tips somehow.",
"It's not even a colloquialism, our ex PM ate an onion like an apple because he's a loose cannon. ",
"Congrats! You just became a conservative",
"When I'm on my motorcycle I tell them to hit the high road lol.",
"Love it!! Hah ha! \n\nPence was gritting his teeth. Lol!",
"What's extra funny about situations like that (I've been on food stamps myself before), is that you're actually *paying* into the system when you do have a job.\n\nSo, there's actually no reason to feel bad about using social programs to get you back on your feet. After all, that's the whole point of them.\n\nThe only thing I've found that helps when you're that down on your luck is to help others. \n\nVolunteering at places with more people like a church, homeless shelter, hospital, etc. helps.\n\nSometimes we don't realize the amount of human interaction we get from having a job. That minimal human contact can be enough to feel like we belong to something outside of our families, a \"community.\" Not a close one, but a community, nonetheless. (This can also lead to better networking and finding job opportunities; you can also put this on your resume if you can't find a job fast. It shows you weren't \"bumming\" around.)\n\nIf you lose your job, you sometimes only think of the money and forget that daily moments of humanity you had talking to others.\n\nA friend of mine was jobless for almost a year despite her experience in her scientific field. She started volunteering at a hospice. During her time there, someone passed away it made her more humble about this big machine we're all in. Someday, all of this won't matter, and we won't even be around to laugh at ourselves.\n\nYet, today it does matter.\n\nThat's the absurdity of our lives in a nutshell.",
"Or the statute of limitations prevented going to court for things that happened 30 yrs ago or more?",
"Is there some other sort of punch?",
"> Probably not.\n\nthey never do. see above.",
"I have to know if this is literal, or a metaphor. Not sure which is funnier.",
"Yes, gay rights is a blanket term to describe the pattern of Pence being on the anti-gay side of most if not all relevant issues. \n\nBy nuance do you mean the Bible says it’s an abomination” ?",
"Why does he look so mad at Pence for no reason",
"Being tolerent does not mean you have to be tolerant of intolerance, fool. ",
"Too bad you have to keep the collection in the closet though...",
"Get over yourself, you don’t know or understand everything. If trans people want to serve they’re just as entitled to as some white redneck who bathes in confederate flags with questionable religious beliefs.",
"Why? I like petty, narrow minded, holier than thou people being made fun of and mocked at any opportunity.",
"People acting like this revolutionary... “people care about issues that directly effect their loved ones”\n\nOmg wow who would of thought that was the case despite the repeated demonstrations of humans doing this exact same shot throughout history....\n\nIf people genuinely cared about things there wouldn’t be over a billion people currently starving... it doesn’t directly effect them so ppl don’t care. Wow ",
"Wow yiu cracked the case detective, clearly nothing this person says is worth anything as a result. /s",
"It was mentioned because it's funny to think how uncomfortable it must have made Mike Pence; and, by extension of your comment, how much it bothered you. ",
"Wow you cracked the case detective, clearly nothing this person says is worth anything as a result. /s",
"You realize that you can have full service stations without banning self-service stations, right?\n\nI mean, they're rare around here (in RI) because most people would rather pump themselves than pay an extra 10-20c/gal to have someone else do it for them...but they do exist. On a day like today, I'd gladly pay an extra $1.50-$3 to have someone else stand out in the freezing cold.",
"To be fair, it's literally illegal to pump your own in some areas. Maybe they were freaking out because you were breaking the law?",
"What's the significance of the gay son?",
"\"yvaN eht nioJ?\"",
"Some believe it's a big deal, because they are still pretending pence is anti-gay.\n\n[Like how some pretend Obama is anti-gay because of this.](https://youtu.be/N6K9dS9wl7U)\n",
"Only in some counties",
"Also: Blacks are all inherently criminal except Devon from accounting, he is different, one of the good ones.\n\nIt is their basic building block. Until it is close by, until they learn to know the person then the rules are different. They just do not get that the rest of the world has same feelings, excuses, history; that the rest of the world is full of humans. They are very much only seeing their monkeycircle and has no empathy outside of it.",
"Can't upvote enough.",
"We need to stop blaming closeted gays and bisexuals for homophobia. I get why it’s a popular opinion given Pence’s stance on conversion therapy but some people are just bigoted assholes, and Pence is one of them.\n\n",
"Yessir",
"Republicans in particular tend to suffer from this.",
"Nah.",
"Oh, sure. I can imagine people hiding their faith in, for example, the Soviet Union.",
"[What?!](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/dNiKrBd) ",
"Don't be dumb.",
"Do you really believe that?",
"Look at Pence. I can almost hear him. \"If I look at the gay man, I'll stare, and I'll get aroused. If I look at the gay man, I'll stare, and I'll get aroused. If I look at the gay man, I'll stare, and I'll get aroused.\"",
"This is stupid. I can't believe this happened in my state of Alabama. Fuck Doug Jones ",
"You mean *analogy*. \nAs in, using shitty analogies to make a shitty point does not make a strong case for said shitty point. ",
"That guy only has eyes for pence penis 👀",
"Tourists got pretty uppity when I worked at Target in Seattle and it was raining like... I'm sorry there's only paper bags. You can get a cloth one for like .89 cents and have that the rest of your vacation? ",
"Are you in favor of banning bull dozers? Lots more jobs if we make everyone dig with shovels. Why not ban any restaurant without a full waitstaff? \n\n\nAnyone who has taken an Econ class knows that markets allocate scarce resources more efficiently than the government. ",
">\tMost of the things they cited are from 2006 / 2007. You should see what Obama was saying about gay marriage back then.\n\nIt was in his second sentence, the *only* name in their post. Could you read that far? You do typically read past the first sentence, or can I call you a fucking idiot in this one without upsetting you?\n\nYour immediate reply:\n>\tRejected Bathroom rights - 2016\n>\tSigned amendment - 2015\n>\tOpposed gay marriage - 2015\n>\tApproved proposal - 2013\n>\tBacked 'Don't tell' - 2010\n>\tSo no - not really.\n\nYou never mentioned the subject of your ire immediately after a troll made a point about Obama's lgbtq record. \n\nThat's why you've been downvoted and why I (and reddit, apparently) believed you to be criticizing the former president. ",
"Pickle puffer",
"Father/Son grinning cause they know Pence's loins are saltier than the Dead Sea. ",
"It’s because conservative Christians don’t actually hate gays, they’re just against gay marriage. You’re confusing them with another religion. ",
"I realize it's pointless to engage with you because you're probably a bot anyway, but where did this come from? I had never heard anyone suggest Pence wasn't anti gay until this morning where I'm seeing it everywhere. Is this the new directive for the day or whatever? ",
"What does this have to do about anything? I don’t understand why this is posted?",
"He looks like he is contemplating taking one for the team and punching him in the face for the gay population.",
"So hes conditionally gay...",
"Um was Pence's wife there too I hope?",
"Your entire logic doesn’t make sense. Your willing to give Muslims a pass because of their religion and they don’t know better but Christians don’t get a pass because they should know better just because they live inside the US even tho they may have been sheltered and raised that way? Just because Muslims don’t vote very largely in the American election doesn’t mean they don’t vote for homophobes in their own local elections... ",
"He posts all over /r/anarcho_capitalism, ignore him.",
"Which it is. It means to be able to be guided. It's *on* a page *in* the dictionary. ",
"Lol I forgot that how desperately conservatives need to switch the subject to Obama. You guys have an obsession it’s hysterical. ",
"50% of the US population cares. Liberalism is a brain disorder.",
"Behold, the smelliest of all the stink eyes.",
"This photo has some game of thrones level subtext",
"Over 44 thousand and counting. ",
"YOU WILL **CALL HER!!!**",
"This guy is a clown who skimmed the Keynes article on wikipedia and thinks he knows about economics now. ",
"US senator from Alabama. Sweared in in DC ",
"It's called docking, Google it.",
"I mean, inner city culture *does* suck. Demonstrably so. It’s okay to say that and doesn’t smear the Johnsons in any way. ",
"from one crusty old white face to another",
"Plot twist: u/thejameskyle is looking in the mirror. ",
"r/accidentalrenaissance ",
"The more a politician is anti-gay the moore I expect him to be discovered balls deep in a black male prostitute. ",
"What about Joseph Lyons?",
"Love me some zoop ",
"A confirmed bachelor. ",
"Yes? ",
"Obama and Clinton are currently on the right side of the issue, Pence is still on the wrong side of the issue. When someone changes their mind, it’s unfair to forever remind them that they used to be wrong.",
"Former Australian PM Tones Abbott would like a word..",
"That black man is kneeling! ",
"But mike pence isn't against gay people. He just has the very dumb belief that conversion therapy works, and should be allowed to anyone who wants to use it.",
"He’s not a hateful man. Again, disagreeing with a Life style for your religious beliefs is not hate or murder. Your allowed to like what you want and dislike what you don’t. ",
"Sworn*",
"I think politicians should always vote based on their friends and families opinions and current issues. It's as if they are their constituents and not the people that voted them in... \n\n/s",
"So, you are drawing line, only when someone dies. What if it was non life threatening injury ? Like injury that can result in amputation ? Rendering someone's life meaning less ? Will it be ok to deny service ? What if person rendering service is not a doctor, but an Emergency Vehicle Operator, is it ok per you, to deny service ?\n\n",
"Man, if that ain't some side-eye for the ages",
"Why isnt this garbage in r/politics where it belongs?",
"Whenever someone uses the shellfish and mixed fabric line, it's a good indication they haven't spent much time studying the bible or reading any commentary at all. I mean, if you're a Christian and don't even know what Mosaic law or the new covenant is and how that pertains to shellfish and mixed fabric then you have some huge gaps in your knowledge. You just argued that because we eat shellfish, we should disregard the entire teaching on a sacrament!\n\nGo find a spiritual advisor or a good priest/pastor and they should be able to help you with this. ",
"Honestly, this is how it should be logically. It's so much more sensible to add ed to verbs for past tense, no exceptions.",
"I would have been sworn in on a Waffle House menu just to piss Pence off",
"I didn't say anything about court all I pointed out was all the accusers coming forward and the coverage they received in the weeks leading up to the election suddenly seem to have dropped of the face of the earth as soon as the election was over. Seems odd.",
"Exactly what they want you to think... most likely they were all very friendly and mike pence prolly doesn’t give a shit about this guys son being gay... but this one image were the camera man caught a certain angle and cutting of the eyes is suppose to somehow make this a slap in the face to republicans so reddit can have there circle jerk and get people worked up over gays and homophobes...",
"The only people who can possibly think being gay is a choice are bisexuals or closeted gays. For the rest of us, we can't be turned gay, so we just don't care about what gays do, it's not contagious.\n\nHence the impressive number of anti gay advocates caught having gay sex. Additionally, those that grow up thinking it's wrong and concealing it, see the ones parading as less moral than them; if he can make the choice, so can they, hence they are weaker.",
"Better yet; ask to be sworn in on the satanic bible. ",
"Might have even been sweareded in. ",
"Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAkzlIku1XU",
"Why’s that an issue ",
"So your bashing a guy who has strong morals and dedication to his marriage?",
"Carthago delenda est!",
"OSS 117 Le Caire nid d'espions",
"Got that right, tell em'!",
"The Republican Party just got finished financing a pedophile",
"There's probably a city on the border of France and Germany where the people sound equal parts sexy and scary",
"Well yeah! Duh.",
"Mike Pence said swear words! Awwwwewwwwewwe, awwwwwwwwwe, awwwwwwwwwewwe (said in shifting gears tone)",
"There are some full service gas stations in Michigan, one I remember most is just before The Mack heading north. You tip them and the ones I have been to clean windows as well. It is pretty nice when it is cold out.",
"Being sworn in\n\n",
"Oh man! Burnnnnnnnnn!",
"Wiggum...",
"Hey, you asked, I told you. It wasn't meant to be a political statement.",
"The title is fucked on so many different levels that it's comical.",
"J'aime me battre",
"Such a dumb suggestion that you must be gay to not support homosexuality. No I’m not into gays, and honestly I don’t care if someone is gay. But I’m tired of the media and social media pushing gay Shit like it’s normal",
"Whst about “Doug Jones, next to his openly gay son, being sworn into office by Mike Pence”?",
"I wonder if a time will come when stories such as this stop becoming headlines... hopefully.",
"Or a fisting. ",
"I don't understand. ",
"There’s actually an interesting history here. I don’t remember the specifics so I’ll stay general, but you have google to confirm or deny. \n\nLet’s take the wayback machine to when France and England were the two popular girls in high school constantly fighting to have the most minions. France was on top at the time and used their influence to change the language. They were in charge, so their language was “proper”. This is also why we use the word beef to mean cow meat at the table. Beef is derived from boeuf and was the French word so it was used at the table while the English word cow was used by commoners in the field. There are other examples, but this is the one that stands out in my memory. Did you ever wonder why chicken was chicken whether in the field or at the table, but cow/beef was not?",
"If eyes could strangle his would be",
"Dated one, wasn’t crazy",
"Oh, the delicious irony! ",
"I mean, I would say about 51% of them.",
"Yeah, and we should stifle development of renewable energy because coal mining creates a lot of jobs!\n\n...oh wait",
"The greater good",
"If looks could kill...",
"Pence is know for being anti-LGBT.",
"Everyone does this type of thing at some point of their lives, but it's extremely fucked when they let it affect other people. ",
"Nah, man. That post is metaphorical. There was no comparison. You can usually spot analogies because the majority of them use \"like\" or \"as\" in the comparison.\n\nSource: Let me pretend my English degree is useful.",
"r/accidentalrenaissance ",
"http://www.science20.com/news_account/different_hiv_rates_among_homosexuals_and_heterosexuals_ignores_risky_behavior_data\n\nMaybe he really should. ",
"If that helps you cope with the fact that not everyone thinks the same way you do, then sure, assume away. ",
"He’s probably more pissed about swearing in a Democrat, heh.",
"You are the only one that mentioned the word \"hate\"this far in this thread so no. Gay marriage has been a right in more developed nations for decades and if you want you could click the link about Pence's voting record above in this thread and actually read it.",
"Yup, very true. That's my point. Conversely, its about liberals not doing the same. I'm getting doenvoted, but how many of you liberals know other liberals who have conservative friends who have changed your views through experience? ",
"Idk man I have an openly gay cousin that is now married and my entire extended family (except for a few other secret Democrat cousins) of ex-amish absolutely hate him.",
"Do you know the meaning of any words you use?",
"“Call for help!”",
"Almost like once someone understands something they didn’t previously understand they learn from it. Whoa what a concept. ",
"Both sexual harassers and Mike Pence are suggesting that men just can't help but touch or harass women when alone with them. Both are gross.",
"Is that a common Australian phrase?",
"*you're\n\nif you're going to make retarded nu-male comments, at least get the spelling right",
"The whole title is fucked",
"Exactly, is purposefully reductive, in order to create an 'anti-gay' strawman. Same as if I were to say people who want Christian bakeries to serve them are anti-Christian.\n\nAll Sin is an abomination. ",
"More jets discourage other actors from taking hostile actions. Paying a plastic surgeon to cut off your dick does not.",
"Feed him a cookie, I heard they like cookies. ",
"I can't even consider upvoting OP because of this.",
"> ~~Heh~~ Hon hon hon.\n\nFTFY, monsieur.\n\n",
"It's mutually beneficial. Gives HBO something enticing to draw parents to a subscription and the show doesn't have to worry about funding.",
"I will admit that I forgot people like you come here with the average reading comprehension of my 6 year old niece. So sorry about that. ",
"Lock eyes from across the room,\nDown my drink while the rhythms boom, \nTake your hand and skip the names,\nNo need here for the silly games.",
"Cool, thank you",
"iirc there were gas station attendants pumping gas at all stations up until the late 60's or early 70's. They used to clean your windows while the tank filled. It was great in the winter time.",
"If you smile and shake my hand and then turn around and vote to take my right to get married away you are still a fucking homophobe. What the fuck else proof do you need besides openly wanting to take rights away. \n\n“There’s no story here” \n\nLol awww do you think because you say that it makes it true. No one cares about your shitty opinion but over 44 thousand do care about this story. So just go back to plugging your ears and going “lalalalaa” like the child you are. ",
"Pence is so deep in the closet he just was offered tea by a badger.",
"Thank you.",
"Not to mention that the Rep. Was an accused pedophile. That generally deters people who believe in \"family values\"",
"\"The doctor says my nose would stop bleeding if I could just get my finger outta there.\"\n",
"I regret that I have but one up-eye-fuck to give. -Abraham Lincoln. ",
"Why is it news that anyone is gay anymore? Haven't we moved beyond that? If Pence is bothered by it, whatever. Why do we have to announce that someone is gay anymore? Who cares? You want equality? Go live your life and stop attracting attention to yourself. Nobody cares - Ellen outed herself 20 years ago. Move on. Why can't the headline be that Jones was sworn in next to his son?",
"Everything triggers the Trumpsters. ",
"So long as you're both the same color.",
"\"Mrs Krabapple and Mr Skinner were in the closet making babies and baby looked at me!\"",
"If he was the former governor of California, he would be swole in.",
"That poll is 100% wrong; I can tell you that much. I personally know gay Muslims. Both themselves and their families are fine with it. No one group, as large as a religion that size, will ever be 100% for/against something. ",
"Horniness.",
"One of my favorite comments I saw was a lady saying how dangerous it was and that it had to be done by trained staff. I'm pretty sure that staff had the same training I had from my dad when I was twelve : \"Just hold the trigger until it makes a sound.\"",
"That's fine but it doesn't mean i have hatred for trans people. Right?\n\nIf I wished the government spent their money more wisely for road workers, it doesn't discount my point because they spend more money on schools. Money is money and I don't think it should be spent on that kind of surgery (publicly).",
"It's easier to hate people you don't know.\n\nWhy do you think \"a credit to your race\" and \"one of the good ones\" are such regular terms in right-wing vernacular. They're mostly a bunch of pussies who are too afraid to be bigoted to someone's face, so it turns out the people close to them (physically or emotionally) are all conveniently the exceptions to the rule.",
"Swored ",
"Besides believing he doesn’t deserve marriage and will burn in hell for all eternity. No biggie. ",
"The son is eye fucking Pence pretty hard ",
"I know you can use any religious text to get sworn in with, but what do atheists get sworn in with? The Constitution?",
"So much for the persecuting crew that is the left these days",
"I don’t understand why Trump voters think that Trump is a friend of the LGBT community because he held a flag one time.\n\n1/3 of his judicial nominees have anti-lgbt rulings in their past\n\nhttp://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/365784-advocacy-group-nearly-a-third-of-trump-judicial-nominees-are-anti\n\nAnd he made Pence the VP! That guy supports conversion therapy, and now even after he asked his supporters to vote for Roy Moore (who hates gay marriage) he’s pro-lgbt?",
"Look, I’m an atheist but I know and love a lot of very religious people. Can we stop with the hyperbole, please? Conservative Christians don’t *hate* gay people or want them dead. They simply disagree that gay sex is hunky dory but they’re taught to hate the sin, not the sinner. There is a religion that preaches that gays should be murdered and then their followers do it. Christianity ain’t the one.\n\nIf you could criticize the actual danger to gay people throughout the world, you’d actually be helping. Everyone pretending like there isn’t an *actual* threat out there is highly disengenuous and possibly even dangerous. ",
"Jason bourne ",
"Good one",
"\"People should NEVER change their minds. I respect people who stick to their guns and never waiver from their commitments and beliefs ever. Pragmatism is for cucks and people who change with society are cucks too. If you choose steak, you must eat steak every day of your life. If I catch you eating salad or chicken I'm going to flip\" \n\nLemme guess, most of your relatives never moved out of the shit town they were born in, and drove the same car for years because they couldn't afford any better on the forktruck driver/hardware store hourly wage?",
"Why is it that racists like you blame racism on democrats while vomiting racist shit shilling for republicans? Are you so self unaware that you cant actually see what you are saying? \n\n",
"His Instagram is a sight for sore eyes!",
"Mine has a physical lock on the gas door so I have to get out all the time either way. Might as well do it. Thankfully, full service stations are rare here. ",
"I want to fuck Doug Jones' son",
"Bill Maher had a great clip on this: [The Empathy Gap](https://youtu.be/BVwFmdipfZg) ",
"In you case, people are thinking that probably because you post in the racist, transphobic hellhole called the _ donald.\n\n\"I don't know why people think I'm a violent thug, I just attend all the meetings where violent thugs are known to be!\" \n\nEdit: I see by my downvotes I'm not allowed to be suspicious of people who post in racist, transphobic subs. ",
"Super Nintendo Chalmers is one of my favorite lines ever. ",
"Lol please tell me what the fuck a gay lifestyle is why you don’t support it. ",
"Or that Mike Pence is strongly anti-LGBT and even once advocated for gay conversion therapy.\n\nThis is a great picture.",
"1/3 of his judges have anti-lgbt rulings\n\nhttp://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/365784-advocacy-group-nearly-a-third-of-trump-judicial-nominees-are-anti\n\nHe made Pence the VP, Pence supports conversion therapy.\n\nCampaigned for Roy Moore who hates gay marriage.",
"Why do gays look so creepy? He looks like he’s thinking of doing dirty things to Pence",
"Not cussed in?",
"is it irony that most of the people commenting in this thread fit that description?",
"If looks could kill, I’d ask Doug Jones’s openly gay son to look at me.",
"Do you understand english? I did not say i was going to be on the street fighting. On the contrary. Fighting for a belief can be done in whichever way it is nessecary. Through terrorism like twats in the US killing innocent people in churches and at concerts or through words on reddit and twitter.",
"The side eye is amazing. ",
"This video means nothing, he could have just as easily been saying that he encouraged voters.\n\nAlso YouTube didn't bury this video, it's generically named, no tags, and 43 votes that's not a video that will ever be easy to find.\n",
"As an Alabamian, that's fuckin' right.",
"Bet you look a lot creepier.",
"He openly cares? What do you mean by that? ",
"Shh, get your logic out of here. ",
"If you think that gay people shouldn’t be able to get married, how are you treating gay people and straight people the same? You’re literally saying these people over here don’t have the same rights as these people over there.",
"That's the only thing liberals see in others. They have no regard for the actual character of a person, just whether or not they will benefit them politically. Disgusting people. ",
"Tell me about it. I’m out on the playground, and the kid with HBO is all, “...and then Ernie really irritates Bert”. Why even bother watching now?",
"Eau de Penlygay Son de Pence. It has a nice ring to it.",
"*down yonder",
"The beautiful content in this post has clearly overrided any and all egregious grammatical errors from the OP and others.",
"More lefty identity politics. ",
"Good bot",
"They’re currently on the right side of the issue, Pence isn’t",
"If you excluded gay men from AIDS research, what would be left to study? A hundred or so people who got AIDS through tainted blood transfusions?",
"> Fuck Ajit Pai\n\nYeah! Fuck him!\n\n-p.s.-Fuck Ajit Pai",
"Pretty much. I'm not an overly liberal person in the US. I just love how stupid and how easy it is to get a ride out of conservatives here.\n\nGay? Cool your choice be gay.\n\nAbortion? I wouldn't want to be put up for adoption or loathed by my parents because I was conceived at an inconvienat time. So sure your body your choice, that \"baby\" ain't a baby yet. go ahead.\n\nGun control? I like my guns. I love my guns. My family and I went through background checks and obtained them legally and it was not an issue. So why not make it a bit harder for Mr. Rough childhood McKillCats to get one. If you're sane and responsible sure have a gun.\n\nConservatives are just so easy to rile up and their arguments stop making any logical sense. All their evidence comes from either the bible, which is a document that has been edited 1000 times or more to fit what ever corrupt power wanted it to say. Or the fact that your co situation says tight to bare arms. Which when it was written was like. Fucking muskets and shit. Not a god damn AR15 or even a 9mm pistol. \n\nConservatives are equal to the people who brag about not reading to me. I'm happy your proud. But it ain't anything to be proud of.",
"No that’s Islam. ",
"Snowflake",
"We just say \"bingo\".",
"If being gay is normal (it is) then why is this significant?",
"She doesn’t have to be there when it’s “guy time.”",
"That is just the bravest thing I've ever seen",
"You mean it’s wrong for people to become accepting over time? \n\n",
"Yup, everyone but you, the only person here who spoke in incomplete sentences without a subject, is wrong and a complete ninny. Well done. ",
"So what? is he like special because his sons gay? like who freaken cares.\n",
"Although, it seems that they have a serious problem with gay people when it is themselves. ",
"Pretty much. I'm not an overly liberal person in the US. I just love how stupid and how easy it is to get a rise out of conservatives here.\n\nGay? Cool your choice be gay.\n\nAbortion? I wouldn't want to be put up for adoption or loathed by my parents because I was conceived at an inconvienat time. So sure your body your choice, that \"baby\" ain't a baby yet. go ahead.\n\nGun control? I like my guns. I love my guns. My family and I went through background checks and obtained them legally and it was not an issue. So why not make it a bit harder for Mr. Rough childhood McKillCats to get one. If you're sane and responsible sure have a gun.\n\nConservatives are just so easy to rile up and their arguments stop making any logical sense. All their evidence comes from either the bible, which is a document that has been edited 1000 times or more to fit what ever corrupt power wanted it to say. Or the fact that your co situation says tight to bare arms. Which when it was written was like. Fucking muskets and shit. Not a god damn AR15 or even a 9mm pistol. \n\nConservatives are equal to the people who brag about not reading to me. I'm happy you're proud. But it ain't anything to be proud of. ",
"If you think that, then you might be a bigot too 🤷🏼♂️",
"Lol this is why conservatives need liberals. They’re so fucking stupid they actually think a guy waving a flag means anything substantial. ",
"Perhaps they shouldn't have used dirty needles to get high?",
"> I wonder if he's going to just be just a super left leaning senator knowing he can't realistically win in 2020? \n\nstarting with saying we should look past the sexual assault accusations against President Trump. so left!",
"A lot of it is that the municipalities don’t have the snow removal and salting equipment to prepare and clear the roads. It’s not just the lack of driving knowledge. We just got snow in GA and SC, and the roads are legitimately impassable in many areas. I-95 was shut down with semis stranded and clogging the bridge at the state line. ",
"Not sure who to trust. \nUpflames for everyone. ",
"is this what we call a dangling modifier? Thats a danglin'.",
"The vice president sweared in front of a gay guy in the open?\nNo,... Mike Jones yelled a cuss word into the office next to the VP's office,...\nNo, Mike Jone's son has an open office next to the Vice President",
"Maybe so, but Moore will be a zero term Senator",
"Is your name Ben Dover?\n\n\nBecause if it isn't, it's time to fill out a NS-394 and apply at the nearest state circuit. The appeal process will take approximately 2-3 weeks, then you will be asked to fill out the final NS-395 form which will secure the name change.",
"Can you get a sense of humor",
"That look says it all ",
"Like hitting on underage girls?",
"I'm pretty sure that's Paul Thomas Anderson.",
"Being attracted to members of your own gender isn’t a lifestyle",
"Thank you, thought Pence somehow had the gay son.",
"That’s a straight up lie...",
"Pete Ricketts, my Governor and a piece of shit human being, has a gay sister and is still quite anti-gay.\n\nHe did attend her wedding though.",
"Why would he say his to his own mother?",
"Raised pitch, not volume. Only jersey people know that! This is why some of the best doowop groups are from Princeton",
"Go outside and meet a gay person. You’ll see that we’re not trying to destroy society, and you’ll probably make a nice friend. ",
"Lots of Twin Peaks fans around Birmingham. We viewed the lovable connection as free publicity for the correct candidate.",
"Not when the person is you. Then you got to double down and really hate the gays.\n\nUntil you know, they find you in Puerto Rico playing tummy swords with a 15 year old.",
"Is there some importance to the son being gay? Who cares. I know who doesn't - most of the country, including Mike Pence. The idea that he is some kind of homophobic bigot is a lie made up by the Clinton campaign. More leftist, victomhood fantasy BS.",
"r/titlegore",
"While you are partly correct, it's only because the existence of Moses is disputed by Jewish Theologians and impossible to determine the time frame he might have lived. More importantly, the Torah was an oral tradition up until Moses wrote it down. It is literally a religion that came out of the last vestiges of the Stone Age. After all, God did give Moses the commandments on *stone tablets*.",
"Mike Pence is an advocates for gay conversion therapy. He's insanely homophobic, and the fact that he has to swear in an Alabama Senate winner that actually supports the LGBT community adds new layers to it.",
"How about, “Doug Jones, next to his openly gay son, sworn into office by Mike Pence.”",
"He would call upon the Lord to smite them",
"It's either warm enough for sandals, or it's fucking not. Make up your damn minds.",
"It would be better to simply omit \"Mike Pence\" from the title. Who else would swear in new senators?\n\n\"Doug Jones sworn into office next to his openly gay son\"",
"As a Chicagoan, I am baffled by this. I always assumed everyone in America pumped their own gas, and that others doing it for you was a trend that stopped in the 50's/60's. ",
"And most of them turn out to be gay. \n\nIm not a homophobe but watching 2 dudes kissing grosses me out. This doesnt mean I believe they need to be legislated against or hate them or afraid of them or anything. It means Im not gay. What is there to be afraid of? Homophobe quite literally means you are afraid of homosexuality. Seems like most homophobes are actually afraid of being gay. ",
"Wussup",
"Given Pence's strong reactions on this topic and the mountains of evidence supporting a conclusion of psychological projection in similar cases, I see no reason to believe Pence is *not* actually a closet homosexual. He completely fits the pattern we've seen over and over again with politicians who make extra special noise about gay issues and then later its found out they've been engaging in a little man-on-man side action all along. ",
"Jones looks like every dad on every sitcom on Nickelodeon. ",
"Booo, what a lame response. Try to up your trolling game.",
"His exact words were that homosexual marriage triggers “societal collapse.” Here is an article from Time Magazine derailing (with sources) his statements and actions throughout his career.\n\n[Here’s What Mike Pence Said... Time Magazine](http://time.com/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom/) \n\nWhether or not you agree or disagree with his position, he has been very clear on the matter for his entire career.",
"This isn't exclusive to conservatives. Having someone close to you who's LGBT is like the #1 indicator of pre-LGBT views.",
"No I'm not. /u/barry--zuckerkorn said conservatives don't hate homosexuals, to which the person I replied to said \"just Pence\". \n\nAnd we're obviously talking about the US here, don't play dumb.",
"Gay marriage and associated LGBT issues are not even political issues anymore. Nobody cares who anybody else touches genitals with - as long as they are consenting adults.",
"Dorne ",
"I sweareded once but done got me detention.",
"Depending on the area, pump attendants often aren’t paid by the stations in South Africa. They often pay the station to _allow them to be there_ and they make money on tips only. They’re just that desperate for a job, it’s sad. ",
"Liberal is empathetic to all\n\nConservative is empathetic to those you relate to",
"how bout \" next to his son\".",
"READY TO VORK!",
"My city just banned plastic bags altogether as of January 1st. You can't even pay for them anymore. I do have a dozen reusable bags at home, but I forget it like half of the time, so I feel like [this is going to be me in 2018](https://imgur.com/r3iOK08).",
"Because without the fact that Pence himself hates gay people, the fact that Doug's son is gay is pointless.",
"Ohio senator Rob Portman was also strongly opposed to gay marriage until his son came out. He now supports it. Pence strikes me as a guy that would send his child to conversion therapy before ever opening his mind and heart.",
"No, he is BOYhemian.",
"Exactly. The fact that people don’t know this tells me they have no conservative friends. Which is obvious since they clearly think all conservatives are awful people versus people who have differing opinions. ",
"When someone has a repeated track record of stating, sharing and supporting provable falsehoods on a specific topic you can no longer trust that person on that topic. \n\nAlso, putting /s at the end of a sentence starting with 'you cracked the case detective' is redundant. :)",
"Given the number of people who live in NJ but work in NY, I doubt most Jersey-ites(?) think about that. Maybe like, a Missouri plate or something.",
"Say what you want about TD, but they are not triggered. They actually won. ",
"good one!",
">I don't have any children. \n\n -Mike Pence, probably",
"How embarrassing!",
"He'd react however Mother told him to react.",
"I'm pretty sure that most people that know of Ajit Pai are most likely well informed and does not harm the cause. Just showing that Americans are not happy with this former Verizon lawyer now FCC chair Ajit Pai (can you say conflict of interest?).\n\n-p.s.-Fuck Ajit Pai",
"No parallel? Lmao. Ever heard of DOMA? Hillary openly advocated for it. So did Obama. Federal law supersedes state law as well, just an FYI.\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/26/obama-and-clinton-love-to-celebrate-gay-marriage-now-heres-how-late-they-were-to-the-party/?sw_bypass=true&utm_term=.727fa18071f1\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/3702584/gay-marriage-axelrod-obama\n\nhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/11/barack-obama/president-barack-obamas-shift-gay-marriage/\n\nhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/17/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-change-position-same-sex-marriage/\n\nDon't mind the facts right? Obama was an Avid DOMA supporter as well. He did nothing for gay rights other than saying nice things. And you apparently bought it. Lol. \n\n",
"Well no. Serving the country isn’t a right. ",
"Fine next to his son and across from an insane morally bankrupt man who openly advocates electroshock conversion therapy for homosexuality.",
"Yeah- it's called RESEARCH... Jeez...",
"> It's amazing how Conservatives act when the gay person is someone they love.\n\nOr maybe it's amazing the variety of people (and politicians) who find themselves under two ginormous umbrellas thanks to our two-party system?\n\nNah, can't be that, because my tribe is always right and the other tribe is always full of pricks and assholes.",
"Curious to know if all US elected politicians need to be sworn in with the bible (take an oath), or if they have the option to go a non-religious route (i.e. an affirmation)?",
"I have friends that are gay. I have a cousin who is gay. Doesn't change my opinion.",
"I'm so lost.",
"Bill Maher did a video on this, [the empathy gap](https://youtu.be/BVwFmdipfZg) ",
"Doug Jones’ son is a good looking dude! Reminds me of the guy from the show Las Vegas.",
"Who gives shit that he was sworn into office next to his openly gay son? Why can’t he just be sworn into office next to his son?",
"Well we joke, but that's exactly what they are. These are people who are gay, but who also deeply believe homosexuality is a sin. \n\nIt's hard to empathize with the ones that are vocally homophobic assholes. But there's a unknown portion of these folks that are in a really uncomfortable spot. ",
"they're*",
"*sworn",
"That quite a bit more than a few frames...",
"It is normal and has been since humans were humans. Shit it is normal throughout the animal kingdom. Long before social media existed. \n\nWhat do you have against it and why should it be legislated against? ",
"Sorry but how am I defending persecuting gays by saying we need to remind Americans that republicans are openly bigoted towards homosexuals? I’m saying that Pence is a bigot and everyone should be reminded of that.",
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">the world is so strange \n\nAnd that's a bad thing? ",
"\"out of your mouth, Ralph\"",
"“Tastes like burning!”",
"It is a cornerstone of conservatism in general.\n\nAnd it does feel inherently hypocritical when so many of these conservatives label themselves proudly as Christians.\n\nI’m an atheist but I read the sermon on the mount as Jesus’s indictment of only being nice to your family, your tribe. You don’t get points for that, you get points when you share with strangers who aren’t like you and even weird you out. \n\nJesus’s own big speech, and he never mentions being anti-gay. But he does mention hypocrites.",
"It’s because of Mike Pence’s very public views on homosexuality...",
"The \"openly gay son\" is probably the only reasonably normal bloke in the lot.",
"I have conservative Christian friends and they don’t hate gay people. There is a religion that teaches their followers that gays should be murdered but Christianity ain’t it. It would be nice if we’d quit pretending that Christians are a clear and present danger to gays. They truly aren’t. I think it’s dumb as shit to care what gets people off but it’s actually evil to think they should die for it. ",
"It's because an open homophobe is the one swearing him in.",
"Haha, Pence was in the same room as a gay guy, isn’t that awesome?",
"I think you'll remember more than half of republicans didn't even want Trump to win and didn't work with them. Take it up with them, it's too convenient to blast Trump every day",
"This post was obviously made by a Russian\n",
"That's why I think fox news was the most dangerous. It dehumanized sects of people. I do agree though that these shows do help spread awareness. The challenge is many of these people aren't watching.",
"You're in for a treat! Here's a short documentary on the subject:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/B7dO7-RtZwA",
"Implicit gay (BJ) vs explicit gay (gay Xmas party)",
"Yah, longtime friends apparently.. Uncle Joe has good taste in people.",
"if he put commas after 'office' and 'pence' it would make sense",
"Because of Mike Pence’s insane views on homosexuality.",
"Sure, we'll just ignore that the Bible also says that Judgement is \"God's alone\" and such, and the fact that the verse you posted references exactly that: God's judgement, not man's. That verse is saying you need to talk about and be ready for God's judgement, not be judgmental yourself.",
"And to be totally honest it's not like Mike Pence was standing there shaking with hatred lol.\n\nY'all get excited over some random shit.",
"Doug Jones's gay son swears upon entering Mike Pence.",
"He'd stop being alone in a room with him.",
"Yeah but a jet won't make anyone *feel* better. Don't forget that feels take priority over reals.",
"I have seen Facebook. But since I'm not from Oregon I haven't seen any posts about people freaking out. Not sure if you know that Facebook is based on the people you personally know, and different people have different feeds due to knowing different people.",
"So owned lol! Gays for the win!",
"Don't follow the news or the Doug Jones election?",
"Ask Rob Portman about that. \n\nI don't resent the fact that having a gay loved one forces a conservative to check their values as it gives them perspective. I think it is a good thing that it does. \n\nI'm glad that they \"waffle\" and change their minds, versus how it used to be, where they would just disown their family member. I don't think it's hypocritical that they change their minds either once they have a new perspective that really hits home for them",
"Nope- they can swear in on whatever they want. This guy taught us all a very important lesson. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFYRkzznsc0",
"> *49.9% concentration* camp",
"https://youtu.be/BVwFmdipfZg",
"Are you okay?\n\n-p.s.-Fuck Ajit Pai",
"[Actually you don't have to swear in on a bible](https://imgur.com/a/fKyyE)",
"Doug Jones sweared into office, by Mike Pence, next to his openly gay son.",
"Straight man here. I'm not gay, but if I had to pick a dude he'd definitely make my list.",
"S o o n\n\n- That guy",
"This is why I think the most important thing Dems can do this decade is help destigmatize abortion. 1/3 women has had an abortion. And that number is actually higher in women 40-60. Would conservatives be so against abortion if they knew their mom had one? Or their favorite aunt? Or a teacher they respected? Or their daughter? When they’re surrounded by women who have “killed babies” but are nice people that they love I think they will be forced to confront their backwards views on the issue. ",
"The most Australian-Scottish thing I've read all week. ",
"That can be extrapolated even further for conservatives.\n\n>It’s almost like it’s harder to be a bigot when someone you know is different than you. ",
"Dude - get with the program \n\n\nAlso, I give a shit 👍🏽",
"Winning",
"Me too! I kept driving around to different pumps thinking they were all broken until I figured it out!",
"I have a feeling Mike Pence would crucify him/her and throw holy water to cast away the gay in them. ",
"He’s not Muslim...",
"I appreciate this clarification. ",
"It's a fundamental personality feature of conservatives. They completely lack empathy and imagination. Issues DO NOT EXIST for them until they are personally touched by them. I think this is why they are generally so fearful and cling to religion, guns, and the past.",
"No, they cannot. And half of what they attack Pence on for the past is based on distortions and falsehoods.\n\n\nAll they want is to have their victimhood fantasies, circle jerk each other with their tears and rage against make believe Nazis.",
"Looks like he got it from his father haha",
"Gay American Man (cis) here. I'm not getting \"All-American\" from him. Sorry. Also, I wouldn't assume his interest in sports. That is if you can provide some evidence that he's into the NFL (other than reading Edelman/Amendola amateur gay porn fan fiction).\n\nEdit: I was wrong. I found some evidence. Now I gotta find that fan fic.",
"Yeah, really. Plenty of valid rape accusations by other women. Don't need to go making ones up.",
"Gods judgment is different to mans.",
"Roll Tide",
"Or a racehorse.. \"And making his move now is Openly Gay Son, going by Mike Pence...\"",
"It's almost as if right-wingers can't help themselves. Honestly.",
">Get over yourself, you don’t know or understand everything.\n\nWell, as an attorney and veteran I feel like I have a better than average understanding of constitutional rights and what service in one of the military branches entails.\n\n>If trans people want to serve they’re just as entitled to as some white redneck who bathes in confederate flags with questionable religious beliefs\n\nNo, nobody is entitled to serve in the US military, that's what I just explained to you. \n\nBathing in confederate flags would not disqualify someone from military service as long as they also bathe in soap & water. \n\nReligious beliefs - while vague - can certainly be a basis form disqualification or exemption from military service. For example - Amish, Mennonites, Quakers, ministers and divinity students... etc...",
"It is when you think conversion theopy and such nonsense is a legit 'cure' and you hold a poition of power. Pence is not a run of the mill bigot. He is a bigot with a lot of influence and support. \n\nHe is a hateful man. People like him would gladly throw people off buildings if it was allowed. ",
"Calling the President orange is really played out and stupid. Just FYI",
"There's only so much correction that can be offered else the reddit community turns on you like rabid dogs with shouts of \"grammar Nazi!\" and brandishing of pitchforks. ",
"I am taking it up with a guy who think that Trump isn’t anti-gay right now",
"I’m sure some are good people",
"Very sobering picture. ",
"Mike \"Follow God's path or feel Tesla's wrath\" Pence",
"These old fucks grew up in a time where everything told them being gay was bad. And as much as our generation is telling them, sometimes all they needed was someone close to them to show them they aren't some evil cursed being but just a person who likes the same genitals they have",
"When considering there’s zero evidence to suggest it it’s probably not the best idea to base policies on it dipshit. ",
"This is the best non-insult-insult I’ve seen in a long time. Cheers, ya passive aggressive cunt!",
"Nowadays? Professional photographers carried around entire *bags* of film before digital photography came of age. Tons of photos has always been the norm.",
"So we are guilty until proven innocent in this country? It’s weird, there is no new news about the accusers or any civil lawsuits from the accusers..... it’s almost as if it was all just a sham. Do a google search for news with he search going back the last 10-15 days. ",
"It’s Wiggum you Dunderpate!",
"This thread is comforting. Glad I’m not the only one. ",
"Just showing where I was able to find her identity. ",
"Tbf, he wasn't excluding them from research, he just wanted to shift funding away from organisations that \"encouraged\" gay sex.\n\n",
"Sooooo you admit pence doesnt hate gays?",
"I about had a aneurysm ",
"It isn't pretentious at all. Most people here need to be reminded of this because they are blinded by their own beliefs. Ironic huh?",
"/r/AccidentalRenaissance ",
"Moore made sure of that.",
"No. It means, \"Do what your parents say with no argument whatsoever. Submit and stay in your predestined role which is above all make mom and especially dad look good to their peers.\" Family values is more about maintaining a social hierarchy than anything else. If kids are in the habit of behaving like good little sycophants they will carry those habits into adulthood. which makes it easier for the church leadership to control them till the grave. ",
"I vacation in Jersey. Jesus fucking Christ is it fucking annoying. I could probably fill my tank by the time the attendant even notices I'm there. I never got yelled at, but was told that I was not allowed to do that. \n \nThere is a gas station in my town with an attendant that pumps your gas. I have only been there one time. I didn't realize the station had an attendant. I never went back.",
"What are you talking about? Muslims are not allowed to run for office because Doug Jones won over a sexual predator?",
"Can you start a change? Why denigrate women for the choices men make? Kinda discriminatory, wouldn't you say?",
"I won't say he's heroic, cuz he's not. But Comcast was literally behind Net Neutrality. They supported it from the beginning because it ensured they would remain the big dogs in the ISP game. The FCC chair who instated Net Neutrality, Tom Wheeler, was the president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. Net Neutrality was never about what's good for the people. It was about what's good for the Telecom companies \n\n \nEdit - I'd love for anyone downvoting this to respond and say why ",
"You are an insignificant gnat.",
"Ask Mike Pence. He's the one that allows the thoughts to motivate him to be a gigantic piece of shit.",
"> I live in Alabama, get the fuck out of here with your fancy fucking words, adding an -ed to words has work-ed just fine for us down here. \n\nActually, it would make sense to have a rule that this is grammatically correct. If you think about it more complex versions of past particles don't really add anything to a language. E.g. \"he went home\" isn't any better than \"he goed home\", it contains the same amount of information except that \"went\" doesn't really follow an easy logic, so from a purely logic point of view \"goed\" would be the better solution.\n\nThat said, English isn't too bad at this. E.g. in German conjugation is far more complicated and the verb changes for almost every person and then again with time references.",
"If you knew anything meaningful about anything you—- never mind ...sigh ",
"Ohioan here. God, I fucking hate Portman ",
"Bigger issue is we don't have salt trucks. Its cheaper to the local economy to simply shut down for one day every 3-5 years than to pay to the purchase and maintain a salt fleet.\n\nAlso when it shows down here, it tends to snow at exactly 32 degrees, so all that lovely snow hits the pavement, melts, and is refrozen by all the snow landing on top of it. That tiny dusting becomes 90% black ice.\n\nAlso having lived up in both places where it snows regularly, and places where its rare, everyone up there also forgets how to drive in snow for the first snowfall of every year, its just that they have salt to help compensate for the relearning curve, and down here there is never a second snowfall. \n\nMost of the wrecks we get in Atlanta every snowfall are actually visitors from up north who don't realize how much salt aids them, and proceed to lose control of their vehicle in their hubris. As someone who's lived in both, I'll happy drive on Northern roads in a couple feet of snow, its really not hard at all. But I would desperately avoid driving on Southern roads after a light dusting.",
"Isn't that you just guessing?",
"A Democrat in Alabama is a moderate Republican elsewhere.",
"I understood it the way it was written",
"Mike Pence Toilet Smell by Mike Pence",
"<3",
"So a highly publicized, special election with a lot to loose shouldn’t of had a good turnout? Are you coherent? Everyone in the country knew how important the election was, in Alabama their local news stations talked about it 24/7 and you couldn’t walk down the street without hearing someone mention something about it. ",
"Done sweared into",
"But he is an orange. ",
"Not nearly like it is now, come on. ",
"yikes",
"[They do not, in fact the US Constitution is very clear on this matter](https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi)",
"Omelet du fromage",
"They'll probably seduce you, but it may involve whipping ",
"Dang that son is cuteeeeee",
"I thought Doug Jones was the fish guy from that movie? ",
"Haha true my bad. Just finished a night shift so my mind isn’t working .",
"You're not alone. I vote for personal freedoms first. You do you boo boo!",
"The shit eating grin on his face opposed to Pence is priceless. ",
"*stamping on foot* HELLO... MR.... THOMPSON....\n\n",
"Why is being against immigration bigoted? Immigration itself has nothing to do with race, etc. And why would those specifically opposed to it for economic reasons be bigots? That doesn't make any sense. Basically you are saying that even if you have an argument against immigration that has nothing to do with WHO is coming into the country, you are a bigot anyway. Huh?",
"If he had an openly gay son, maybe he wouldn't be Mike Pence.",
"So what? Who cares",
"r/accidentalrenaissance ",
"\"Hey I only care about your opinion if it matches mine otherwise you are a racist bigot.\"\n\nThe left, everyone....",
"That look though...",
"Ok? Pence isn’t going to zap him with an electrode.... yet. ",
"He'd probably eat it",
"Exactly. Because contrary to what republicans say, their stance against gay rights and anything related is not a matter of being traditional or anything. It's lack of empathy. Most people who actually do hang out and get to know gay people realize they're not these existential threats to society out to disintegrate the construct of mariage and turn your kids gay because of some secret agenda.\n\nThey're just people.",
"Thats not the case at all. Mike Pence is stating that it puts his political career or relationship in danger because of the ease of allegations and the impact they have, irrelevant if they are based in reality or not. \n\nIts not worth the risk for a career politician. If its work related or an interview, then a more suitable meeting place than a quiet restaurant can be used.",
"Wha? I feel like you're referencing something? Or maybe not. But I'm curious.",
"You left a couple out.",
"That is a Jersey Shore joke.",
"I believe Senator Portman also changed his position after his son came out.",
"If you're afraid to dine alone with women regardless of the political climate, you might be a trash human being.",
"That's exactly why lol. This guy is the epitome of mental defect.",
"Feminists think about rape on a daily basis ",
"I think you mean “sweared into”",
"I love him in Star Trek Discovery ",
"Lol if you can’t understand that comment you very likely have a disability. ",
"Huh. I remember when Bush/Cheney were in office, it was painted that Cheney disowned his daughter because she was a lesbian, and that they were completely estranged. Amazing what happens when you let time do its work.",
"We always scream logic, science, pragmatism when it comes to Government. Those things and empathy are often at odds. That which is best for most people will often be disastrous for at least a small minority.\n\nOne way to think of it would be to be against gay marriage because you believe that marriage should not be managed by a government agency, and should be governed the same as any contract between two people. You take either a standard marriage contract or a custom one drawn up by your lawyers, all parties go through a period of reflection to ensure they understand the contract so they can legally agree to it, then they sign it and it becomes legally binding.\n\nIf you believe something, and someone else is able to convince you otherwise, then you were not terribly firm in your convictions.",
"\"This tastes like grandma\"",
">If you want to have a separate conversation about hypocrisy that's fine, but that has nothing to do with the original comment that stated Reddit is \"pretending\" Pence is anti-gay.\n\nFind me one piece of evidence that Pence has done anything remotely anti-gay since taking office or joining Trump on the campaign trail. I'll wait \n\nYou see, your argument falls apart if you don't push to \"have a separate conversation about hypocrisy\" because you know full well you and your ilk are hypocritical when it comes to this issue. \n\n>and while Governor of Indiana actively worked against the LGBT community.\n\nSo did Hillary and Obama while senators and, for Hillary while first lady as well.\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/26/obama-and-clinton-love-to-celebrate-gay-marriage-now-heres-how-late-they-were-to-the-party/?sw_bypass=true&utm_term=.727fa18071f1\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/3702584/gay-marriage-axelrod-obama\n\nhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/11/barack-obama/president-barack-obamas-shift-gay-marriage/\n\nhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/17/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-change-position-same-sex-marriage/\n\nLet's use facts. \n\n>When the day comes that Pence comes out and publicly says he supports LGBT rights and same-sex marriage, maybe he'll get some support from the dems on that issue\n\nYou know that is bullshit. Dems use LGBT issues as pawns. Just like illegal immigrants. They'd have done something permanent in 2010 instead of lining the pockets of HMOs. Watch as they refuse to act in a bipartisan fashion for DACA recipients. They won't ever actually help those people because if they do they lose an important platform issue. That and there are dems, such as DNC chair Keith Ellison, who are still fundamentally and religiously opposed to gay marriage and homosexuality in general. >80% of congress is still christian. Do your homework. \n\n>Also, when you say Clinton and Obama are \"praised\" while being historically anti-gay, I'm not sure if you mean praised on LGBT issues or praised in general. If the former it's because, as stated above, they have actually done things to benefit the LGBT community\n\nNo, they havent. The supreme court did it. Note that they are an independent body. \n\n>If the latter, then certainly you can understand that someone can praise a politician for certain positions or achievements while disagreeing with them on others, or do you 100% agree with every single politician you've ever supported?\n\nThat's rich considering this whole thing is about blasting anyone who supports Pence over a single non-issue based on past positions while neglecting the history of the alternatives used to compare him with.",
"Damn. Did he have a mini stroke?",
"search it up for yourself, a google search will tell you all you need to know. It does sound like your fb does lack alot of diversity though. https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2018/01/03/oregons-freak-out-over-pumping-your-own-gas-shows-why-many-dumb-regulations-still-exist/amp/",
"J'espère que c'est une belle sauce blanche",
"After yelling at us to keep away from the gas pump and shooing us back in our car, a gas attendant in Oregon told us we weren’t expected to tip him. So I hope that’s the correct answer, because I never have.",
"Is that why he's looking at Pence like a pork chop?",
"If it’s so normal why is only 3% of the population in the u.s gay? Less than 1% for trans. ",
"A bit harsh, I would say unusual cunt",
"Lol right?!",
"Trois",
"\"Repeat after me: I, Doug Jones, do solemnly fuckin swear...\"",
"Please elaborate on how those aren't symptoms of poor decision making! \n\n#GOSH MOM YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!!",
"Moore isn't allowed at the mall, remember?",
"Homophobic is improperly used. My parents are vehemently against gay marriage yet are good friends with a lesbian couple and have them over all the time. There’s a difference, folks. ",
"Although I will totally support adding \"onion eating fuck\" to the Tome of Aussieisms, if some brave cunt is willing to propose it at the Annual Emu Court.",
"Honestly? I have known a few people that were gay or bi... and sadly, of those, only 2 were actually gay. The rest were edgelords trying to get attention. But, that is just my own experience as someone from rural Murica.\n",
"Damn right! And the proper response is to yell right back at that jerk off.",
"Religion is just a veil for bigotry in business decisions. It was used to justify Jim Crow, and now we're seeing it used to justify anti-gay sentiment. It is inappropriate and un-American to use *religious beliefs* to make policy.",
"Both sentences could work (if the title used sworn instead of sweared). \n\nThe way to think of it is that prepositional phrases add meaning and context to a sentence but removing, adding, or rearranging them must still make grammatical sense. \n\nFor example, \"Doug Jones (is) sworn into office by Mike Pence next to his openly gay son\" can be reduced to \"Doug Jones (is) sworn.\" \n\nNow, to find out whose son is the \"openly gay son\" just remove all but the relevant prepositional phrase. \n\nSo \"Doug Jones (is) sworn into office by Mike Pence next to his openly gay son\" becomes \"Doug Jones (is) sworn next to his openly gay son.\" \n\nNow, we can clearly see that the possessive pronoun \"his\" belongs to Doug Jones, therefore the openly gay son is Doug Jones's son. \n\nNo, I'm not an English major, I'm just an expert at bullshitting the word count in papers.",
"thanks, man.",
"Evidence that's he's a homophobe?",
"I was meant to say that you weren't going to be ",
"That can also be applied to pretty much any political issue. When it affects someone you love, suddenly you start to care about the issue. That isn't exclusive to just politicians either, unfortunately. \n\nI shouldn't have to say these things about adults but maybe, as a kid, I just an idealistic mentality about how adults should behave. Now that I'm an adult, I see that I was more of an adult back then than most adults will ever be.\n\n/minirant",
"to be fair... ",
"http://time.com/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom/\n\nHe opposed a law which would make it illegal to discriminate in the workforce by sexuality, he said that the law “waged war on freedom and religion in the workplace.”\n\nHe opposed the repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell.l, saying he didn’t want the military to be some “a backdrop for social experimentation.”\n\nRejected Obama’s directive that people should use the bathroom of their gender identity\n\nHe wanted to defund HIV/AIDS research in favor of gay conversion therapy, programs which \"provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.\"\n\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pences-most-controversial-stances-on-gay-rights-abortion-and-smoking-2016-11\n\n",
"Alan Keyes daughter came out as gay. He disowned her. ",
"Always? You certainly are busy. ",
"2005 Americans learn from Newt that homosexuality is not going away.\n\nLol.",
"They can't even help themselves. They've learned nothing this past year and a half.",
"Then I guess we’re done here. Prejudices are sometimes just too ingrained. I feel bad that your cousin and friends have someone in their life that thinks they’re collapsing society because of who they love. ",
"I like to ask homophobes why they care about what brings another man to orgasm. Puts a fun gay twist on it. ",
"Live in PA, used to work in NJ. I made the mistake of stopping for gas in Jersey. The attendant came up to the pump, foreign guy, fully immersed in his conversation he has having on his Bluetooth headset in his native tongue.\n\nI told him to fill it with premium and he sort of nodded. I was texting my then girlfriend to let her know I was stopping for gas before heading to her house so I didn't look back to see him start the pump. You'd expect the guy to be proficient at his job, right?\n\nWrong. I looked back and saw he was putting regular into my car. I yelled out to him that he put in regular when my car takes premium only. He was too busy arguing someone on the phone. The pump stopped as I was getting out so I took it out and closed my gas cap. My car ran like absolute shit for a week. I'll never get gas in NJ again",
"Hate the people, love the person. ",
"If it's just sex, is it the source of all human beings? The fact that all babies come from straight sex, and no babies come from gay sex, is not even the only major difference. But it's a notable difference, since marriage is all about where babies come from and therefore has nothing to do with homosexual couples. ",
"That is so brave of him! To be standing so close to his openly gay son. \nHe doesn't even look worried about catching the gayness. \nMaybe his son's gayness is past the contagious stage?",
"It's too early to wonder if I slipped into a parallel dimension in the middle of the night so I'm just going to accept this as fact.",
"you're thinking of the westboro Baptist nuts that go to every gay event with picket signs",
"Abortion as well",
"No, it's just a surprise. I'm not sure what to make of people wanting a specifically adult take on the Muppets. Like a typical fansite would be too lowbrow...?",
"I dont think we should stifle automation so that people should have jobs. Instead we must learn to adapt, create new jobs, or find another way for ppl to get money.\n\nWe should never stifle technology. Automation must happen.",
"Why does the guys sexual preference matter?\n",
"defeated a religious lunatic only to be sworn in by a religious lunatic ",
"nobody gives a fuck about queers any more, grow the fuck up. It's like the world owes them a fucking trophy because they are gay. God damn it. . . . \n",
"[This man brings shame to us all](https://media.giphy.com/media/6uqbaF4J8KCTC/giphy.gif)",
"There is if there's a Lush jesus christ",
"You mean you do believe. ",
"What other presidential candidate ran a pro-gay marriage ticket and was elected? ",
"OMG SO DO MOSLIMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHATS YOURE POINT? \n\nGOT ‘M",
"I’d say the vast majority are. I think religion is dumb but it doesn’t make you a bad person. ",
"\n>I have to wonder how Pence would react if one of his daughters, or his son, came out as gay. \n\nRamp up the Bible study club attendances to an 11, increase the frequency with which he demands “urgent council” with his parishioner\n\n*“Yeah I know he’s gay John but he’s my son!! Should I hate him or what?!”*",
"There is also a push from stores like quick check, krauzers, and 7-11. (At least there was in the 90's). In other states, many gas stations have the quick stop stores attached because you HAVE TO get out of your car. In NJ, you never get out of your car and have to stop somewhere else for your coffee and snack. There was quite a lobby against self serve gas in NJ in the 90's from those store chains. ",
"Honestly there are plenty of things to hate Mike Pence for that aren't this, I don't think this is a big deal",
"These days most 'good photography' is having a very powerful DSLR and taking thousands of shots on burst mode and then choosing the best one. ",
"Son looking understandably uneasy being that close to someone who'd be happy to send him to a camp for reprogramming...",
"This could be read as \"Doug Jones sworn into office by openly gay son and mike pence\" because of the idiotic concept that US news outlets often replace \"and\" with a comma.",
"They can't wrap their brains around gay marriage yet you think they know about incognito mode?\n\nThat gay porn is in their history for all to see",
"There was a study that showed people lose empathy as they gain more wealth. They may talk the talk, but the millionaires and billionaires of the world have lost the ability to empathize with the poor, uninsured, the working class and the middle class. \n\nThey are still able to empathize with individuals in their sphere, but not people at large. This study should be used as evidence why we must democratize election spending and stop equating wealth with true leadership. ",
"Pence supports gay conversion therapy which is pretty effed up. Trump is clearly anti 'T' with trying to get trans folks pushed out of the military. And Trump with his anti immigrant and anti Muslim rhetoric does get the same stupid, hateful sorts that are also very often anti lgbtq riled up and emboldened.",
"what in the hell is wrong with that picture, needs more jpg",
"We are out of Bort license plates. I repeat we are out of Bort license plates.",
"Asia also has full service gas pumps.",
"So Muslims don’t have to change to get a pass but Christians do, got it.\n",
"Yeah, in that God is permitted to judge, and man is not. That's starkly clear.",
"Yeah, but isn't that, like...95% of the Oregon population?",
"He showed pence good!",
"What if it's not? ",
"So New Jersey is like Brazil, where we say \"for your own safety\" instead of \"to create unnecessary job categories\" ",
"Nothing more gay than caring about what another man does with his dick!",
"because pence is old school and doesn't agree with gay rights, so the irony is he swore a man into office that has an openly gay child...\n\nit's not that bug of a deal in the end but everyone is like hurr durr see we made him kneel to gay power! \n\ndude has his political and evangelical preferences and I have mine so it doesn't matter to me either way",
"Holy crap that kid looks a psychokiller",
"I thought the same thing--yet here we are, jousting at the windmills of grammatically incorrect Reddit posts. It will never end.",
"i just remind myself the overwhelming majority of users on this site aren't old enough to vote or do not live in the US. furthermore, as the last election demonstrated, the groupthink mentality that is reddit clearly has no impact on the real world. let this 17 year old edgelord get his upvotes. the only snowflake is he, lol.",
"I work with someone who is distantly related (via marriages, etc.) to Pence, and, if I'm remembering the family tree correctly, he *is*. I believe a niece?",
"You're being disengenious.\n\nThe full quote shows how innocuous and sensible that quote is. \n\n>And let me say emphatically that this debate today is not about discrimination. I believe that if someone chooses another lifestyle than I have chosen, that is their right in a free society. But tolerance does not require that we permit our courts to redefine an institution upon which our society depends. Societal collapse was always brought about following an advent of the deterioration of marriage and family.\n\n",
"Nothing means anything. ",
"I mean...if you can afford a valet, by all means!",
"/r/titlegore",
"Why does it look like he's at a meeting of death eaters or something?",
"You know he was using pences homophobia against him, \"yeah mike, turn around, lemme get a good look at that cute ass you lil sexy twink\" ",
"No need for the \"...\" like he's an idiot, it's really fucking stupid and unnecessary for someone to be there ",
"Loving the side-eye shade his son is throwing",
"We shouldn't be congratulating people for accepting the differences in people only when someone they love is different. \n\nYou're not a good person because you've changed your opinion to be easier for you to deal with. People are different from you. That's fine. You need to deal with it on a societal level, not just a personal level.\n\nWhile I guess we can pat those people on the back for having the decency to not disown their child or sibling, I don't think we should be lauding them for \"finally realizing people being different doesn't make them evil or wrong.\"",
"Cheney didn't actively support gay marriage during his term. He actively supported Bush's amendment of the constitution banning gay marriage. When asked by the press about how he felt about it regarding his gay daughter his answer was that his personal life was off limits to the press. I always found this especially ironic considering the federal government at the time was actively trying to deny a basic human right to an entire group of people based on their personal lives. Bonus points if you almost fell out of your chair when the election of trump was so stunningly awful that Ellen Degeneres had Bush on her show as a representation of a republican president that wasn't a lunatic when he had so very recently been crusading against gay Americans during his own presidency. Bonus bonus points if you remember how shocked gay republicans were that the president they voted for would do something they found so personally hurtful. Yet again gay republicans were shocked that Trump started crapping on LGBT rights as soon as he entered office, proving yet again that the underlying theme of republican voters is poor decision making and a complete lack of understanding of the moral character and intentions of the party they vote for. Looking at you poor people who voted a billionaire into office who's only successful legislative actions have been to hurt poor people's medial access and make the already rich massively more wealthy. Bravo bravo. ",
"Personal connection can be really effective at changing one's mind. For example... \n\n1. The bro male who takes a sudden interest in female empowerment and stopping the sexual harassment of women... because he just had a baby girl and can't stand the thought of her suffering.\n\n2. The person who stops parking in handicap spots (or too close to them)... because their grandma broke her hip and now needs a wheelchair to go to the grocery store.\n\n3. The person who votes to make abortion illegal in *all* cases... until they give birth to a severely disabled child who can't walk nor talk nor wipe themselves, and they have to spend the next 50+ years raising them.\n\nEmpathy is a huge problem.",
"Using your supernatural beliefs as an excuse to push policies that discriminates, persecute, and tortures gays, like Mike Pence and many other Christians, does make them bad people. ",
"Swore in. Can't be adding unnecessary letters.",
"Doug Jones is the doer.",
"I like roast chicken, especially with potatoes and smothered with a really thick sauce.",
"Harriet!\nHarry-it\nHard-hearted harbinger of haggis\nBeautiful, bemuse-ed, bellicose butcher.\nUn-trust... ing.\nUn-know... ing.\n\nUn-love... ed?\n\nHe wants you back, he screams into the night air like a fireman going to a window that has no fire...\nexcept the passion of his heart.\nI am lonely!\nIt's really hard!\nThis poem... sucks.",
"Bad bot. ",
"Tony Abbott should take a leaf from these guys book. He said his own sister (gay) shouldn't be able to parent her children or something very similar. ",
"Bad Meatbag",
"Alexander Shunnarah approved.",
"Bad piece of cogware.",
"This reminds me of the ‘stupider’ post from yesterday",
"Just stopping by to ask if you need help finding a professional to deal with you mental issues?\n\nYou people are so delusional and deranged. \n\nI'm happy knowing the world is opening their eyes to your bullshit. \n\nRepublicans don't hate gays, they don't want them in camps, and your fake outrage over a miniscule amount of the population is completely Absurd.\n\nThe democrats have literally nothing to run on in 2018 and 2020.... literally nothing besides \"muh gays and blacks\"\n\nAnd you'll lose the black community too. \n\nUnder Trump black unemployment is at an all time low, and black homeownership at an all time high. \n\nBuckle up, cowboy. You're in for a ride when voter ID hits. ",
"Seems like there's a lot more worthwhile things to lose your everloving shit over than a five cent plastic bag. If you lived in a state that banned plastic bags I'm sure you'd realize what a non issue this is, everyone has their own bags or just carries their goods.",
"Cause he ran with the first pro gay president I guess, ",
"He wasn't talking about trial. He said no more accusers came forward. Practice some reading comprehension.",
"What is going to happen the day he is honest about himself?",
"Yeah but then you deal with the employees dying from cancer due to an abnormal amount of exposure to the fumes from gasoline.",
"Almost like it's harder to hate a faceless group of people for being different (or some other specious biblical bullshit) when you start to think of them as real human beings. ",
"He literally claimed as part of the Republican study group in 2006 that gay couples would lead to societal collapse and tried to divert HIV prevention funding towards \"conversion therapy\".",
"You’re conflating military service with working for a private company. Whether or not military service is a right has nothing to do with private employment. ",
"oh jeeze",
"Sweared. Lmao. ",
"Is this the new \"furthermore, Carthage must be destroyed.\"?",
"Yes please stop offensed",
"Well, the free market in a way is fixing it. With an added tax on grocery bags there is an incentive for the market to change. If you buy enough groceries, eventually you would be saving money switching to reusable bags. Without a regulation like this, I don’t see the free market ever resolving this issue, in fact it probably caused this problem. Why bother buying a $20 bag if you can get as many disposable, but environmentally unfriendly bags as you want?",
"Idk I live in Michigan, and even tho we have the means to plow roads, they are in no means cleared of snow and ice right now. You just drive slower and expect to slip and slide",
"Pence's policy is backwards and sexist. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/pences-gender-segregated-dinners/521286/\n",
"Quatre personnes! Nous aurons une fete de sauce chic. J'ai des boissons, alors je vais les apporter ;)",
"http://time.com/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom/",
"Holy shit that is just too good. People are fucking stupid",
"Where does shocking said gays until they're \"cured\" fall on your spectrum of evil?",
"Yeah, it's weird, especially for a guy. Seriously, why do they care so much? Shouldn't they be happy that there is less competition for girls? \"I am so angry that this guy doesn't want to fuck girls\" sounds like some pretty weird logic.",
"Coal mining has less jobs than it ever has, and it's not because of renewable energy. Itakes a lot less labor to blow the top off a mountain and then sort the coal out.",
"Does this rule apply to motorcycles too? Just in case I ever wind up in a state that has this sort of thing. ",
"Doug Jones looks happy everyone else has hysterical facial expressions ",
"Pretend away. ",
"That was a lie being passed around.",
"\"motherfucker\" for one...",
"Let’s see some numbers then, if it’s just a simple cost/benefits analysis. Show us the math. ",
"Must we put the sexual orientation in front of names, \"Straight Doug Jones sweared into office by Straight Mike Pence next to his openly gay son and some other (not sure if straight or gay) or not sure of gender identity. (Assuming Woman though)",
"It did. But it must be easy just to sweep aside your own violence",
"Except there never were people paid to tie shoes, so it's not a relevant comparison. When gas stations started popping up as the auto business boomed, station attendants were respectable new jobs that came along with them. They poured your gas, checked your fluids, and washed your windshield. The old pumps took a lot longer and there wasn't the same volume of vehicles so these tasks were appreciated and it wasn't considered a time drain like it would be now if your local station started doing all of that overnight. \n\nNew Jersey passed a law when these pump jockeys started to be eliminated over concerns about Joe Average pumping his own petro being unsafe, but since then they've maintained the law because it protects unskilled labor jobs which people tend to thumb their noses at but which keep people working without a large cost to the population like social welfare. \n\nI think the NJ law will eventually be overturned. Up until a year or two ago, they had the cheapest gasoline compared to all of their neighboring states, but now they're basically at par because they raised their taxes. With the gas no longer considered a bargain, the workers will soon start to look more like a reason the gas costs more and less like a convenience, and they'll sacrifice jobs for the perception that they can save a few cents per gallon when in actuality the station owners will just pocket the profits.\n\nGetting back to the original topic, your parents probably tied your shoes at some point, but they weren't paid for their efforts and I'm sure they have no interest in following you around now to do so if they're still around.",
"I would disagree and say that it's very worthwhile to lose your shit over any law that mandates you spend more money out of your own pocket. \n\nWe live in a democracy and to me it makes sense to loudly speak your mind and state your opinion on something you may disagree with. Especially if that thing digs in to your livelihood. Seems pretty reasonable to me. ",
"You have no idea how sincere these peoples religious beliefs are. So you have no evidence to say they're using religion as a cover. Though I doubt a bigot would fight all the way to the Supreme Court, because they don't like gays. \n\nSo religious freedom and freedom of conscience are un-American? I wasn't aware it American to force religious people to ignore their beliefs. Didn't some people move to the US to escape exactly that? ",
"And the fact that he won the election from Alabama being a moderate liberal too.",
"Did Pence need a chaperone?\n",
"People are not okay with anti gay bigotry so long as it comes from a Muslim. Why would anyone think that? ",
"Well, it was a joke... so...",
"r/accidentalrenaissance ",
"You kill what you fear. And you fear what you dont understand.",
"Sweared. Gay. ",
"#SWORN\n\nnot everything has to be latinized",
"Well now Jersey is the only state left with this dumbass rule so unless you’re in the country’s butthole, you’re good. But I believe it applies to everything including motorcycles. ",
"In Christianity, all are sinners, so don't call yourself righteous.",
"Second English major reporting in. No sign of analogies in that passage. ",
"Cringe.",
"As usual, it's about not having empathy for anyone outside your small circle. If they aren't in your inner circle they don't matter. ",
"Reading comprehension is not your strong suit...",
"Are you saying that Pence wouldn't be able to be alone with a woman without sexually harassing her?\n\nYou might be right. Apparently it's been a long time since that's happened and he might not know how to act. ",
"Very true. I am not even conservative but as soon as you post something that doesn't fall exactly in line with Reddit extreme leftist views everyone tells you to go back to the donald. I have never even posted there once. In fact I was auto banned for posting in another subreddit from there so I can't even post there if I wanted to lol. Reddit is going to be a shit show in 2020. Watch.",
"What a great debate.",
"I think it's just so they can be able to talk about it from the point of view of peripheral audience, as young children do know how to use the Internet and forums nowadays. ",
"So we just ignore all the times, it's explicitly stated that Christians should judge Sin? All the times we're told that not judging is a Sin? ",
"*sworn",
"It’s almost like it’s harder to be a _____phobe when someone you know is _____",
"I could've sweared it was sworn.",
"Bu-bu-but! Mike Pence HATES GAYS! Remember?? He’s a homophobic bigot?!?? \n\nThat’s you all one month ago",
"This is at least a distinct improvement from twenty years ago when they would just disown their children.",
"BORK BORK BORK",
"I did the same thing driving through Oregon this summer. So awkward. I filled up as little as possible. 24hr gas stations in cities with populations over 40k are allowed to let you pump your own gas after they close.",
"Not quite sure I need to explain that my example was satire. They're both inane tasks that one can easily do themselves. Maybe they were necessary at one point but not anymore. ",
"Just once, just ONCE, consider that you need to change. Really stop, and look inside yourself, and think long and hard if maybe it is you and not others that need to correct there way of thinking. \n\nDon't worry about what Muslims are doing, or liberals, or the guy down the street. Just really ask yourself. What if it's me? \n\nI did this in 10th grade 25 years ago and realized how wrong I was about so many things. ",
"\"Part of our fellowship\" \n\nThey are college students. They are legally allowed to vote in either their home state or where they attend college (but not both at the same time for a national election). ",
"“Sworn”",
"How is quoting the bible calling myself righteous? Also, Sinners can still be righteous. ",
"I didn’t commit any violence, and I’m really doubtful that you just happen to be one of the small few of pro-Trump demonstrators who were on the receiving end of it. ",
"Lisa, I wanna buy your rock",
"It’s actually illegal in Jersey. In 1949 they passed the Retail Gasoline Dispensing Safety Act, and if an attendant allows a customer to pump their own gas they can be fined between $50 and $250. Practically it doesn’t matter much since they haven’t actually issued a fine in over two years.",
"Look at him, just being gay right out in the open like that. I will have to pray for Mr. Pence. #Sarcasm #FuckThisAdminstration #FuckYouTooBecauseItsTheInternet",
"Down here in Australia, our conservative former Prime Minister Tony Abbot was openly anti gay and very anti gay marriage despite having an openly gay sister. They're pretty much estranged because of it and I think his sister actually rallied against him. He campaigned against same sex marriage hard to the end, even when we had the national vote for same sex marriage, he was saying that a '40% no vote was still a moral victory'.\n\nI guess \"until it happens to you\" doesn't apply to dug in fuckwits.",
"Look how unhappy Pence is. It's delicious.",
"I never even met a single anti-gay person in my life, so I am not even sure they are exist. ",
"He has a point about the first one. When it comes to conversion therapy I think that was his belief at the time and intended to offer it only to those who wanted it. Neither of those is evidence or homophobia.",
"Telling someone they can't marry who they love because who they love feels icky to you seems at least sorta hateful...",
"Great idea! You go first, quantify the benefits for me. ",
"**Sweared**",
"That is incorrect. The subject of a sentence is the main noun that is doing the verb (\"(is) sworn\"), so Doug Jones is the subject. Also, for title purposes, the \"is\" is excluded but still implied.\n\nA direct object is something to which the subject directs the verb. So the title doesn't have one. \"I made a cake.\" Here, the DO is the cake.\n\nAn indirect object is not something to which the subject directs the verb, but is still affected by the verb. It looks like the title has one but it doesn't. \"I made her a cake.\" Here, \"her\" is the IO. \n\nSo wtf is Pence? A prepositional object. Prepositions are words that describe space-time: of, around, by, at, on, below, under, over, in, out, etc. \n\nA prepositional phrase is a preposition and its object: around 9 o'clock, at the beach, in the house, out of the house, etc.\n\nIn the title, there're three prepositional phrases: \"into office,\" \"by Mike Pence,\" and \"next to his openly gay son.\" The last one has a possessive pronoun and 2 adjectives but that's not important. \n\nThe prepositional phrase \"next to his openly gay son\" refers to the *subject*, therefore Doug Jones's openly gay son.",
"What is about that sarcastic, grim face?",
"Gay!",
"Homosexuality is not an abomination. Someone lied to you ",
"Disliking gay people is some seriously antiquated bull shit. You can't use religion to hide the fact that you're a homophobic asshole. ",
"To keep him off of Sonny?",
"I love that last hastag.",
"Thats what i thought it was saying too",
"Exactly. That's why intolerance breeds more intolerance. Once we stop tacitly endorsing it by elevating sociopaths to the highest levels of our society, it will fall out of fashion and their numbers will recede. ",
"The people obsessed with gay people ruining society are almost always gay themselves secretly.\n\nJust like the people who won't shut up about racists are almost always the biggest racists.",
"He stubbed his toe on the way in so could be both.",
"Yeah, i got yelled at in Oregon too. Like I had any idea, I've been doing this for years.",
"Telling people they can't marry anyone they are ever going to love is very shitty and at least a little hateful.",
"Pigeons and their droppings a riddled with bacteria. He was doing a public service. ",
"oh yeah. that boy's got them gay eyes ",
"Nope. You can swear on whatever--most choose a Bible as George Washington did, but it could be Hop on Pop if you like. Barack Obama swore on two Bibles at his second inaugural--one owned by Lincoln, the other MLK's. John Quincy Adams and Franklin Pierce swore on a book of law. Teddy Roosevelt didn't swear on any particular book I'm aware of in his hasty ceremony in 1901. There are two Muslim members of Congress--Keith Ellison, I know for a fact, swore on a Quran owned by Thomas Jefferson. All the Constitution prescribes is the oath itself.",
"I think fat, dumb Americans are going to ruin society. \n\nCurious: when was the last time you saw a doctor? What is your typical diet like? What’s your height and weight? Do you workout? \n\nWhere do you work? How much money do you make? What is your highest level of education?",
"Technically nobody born in the 90s are kids anymore.",
"*Italicize* a word or sentence by putting a single asterisk on either side of them. ex: \\*word* becomes *word*. Bold is two asterisks. ex: \\*\\*word** becomes **word**. \n\n# You can also use hashtags to increase the font size. \n\n\\# You can also use hashtags to increase the font size. \n\nETA: You can bold and italicize by using three asterisks. ex: \\*\\*\\*word*** becomes ***word***",
"Works. You can technically place prepositional phrases in any order in the sentence. \"By Mike Pence, Doug Jones, into office next to his openly gay son, (is) sworn.\" Very choppy and annoying, but it works.",
"I mean I’m sure there are conservatives or “right wingers” that still look down on homosexuality but if they are going to paint an entire political party on some outliers then is it safe to say the entire left hates white men because of some outliers? ",
"Republicans who hate the pursuit of happiness will be triggered by this..",
"I identify as conservative, but I am more of a libertarian. I do not downvote democrats.. I do not automatically upvote conservatives. It's amazing how much most folks have in common... but we're too hung up on insulting each other and \"being right\" in front of the hivemind. This site really went downhill. But I appreciate folks like you give folks like me a reason to stick around/lurk. Cheers.",
"I would probably use “The Chamber of Secrets”",
"Everything swings back to Islam with you people.",
"They don't even know what a browser is. They just click the internet button (e)",
">You just got gay -ed\n\nGaid?",
"Yeah not all Christians are so backwards as to see homosexuality as sinful.",
"Yeah the title is just a mess from the ground up",
"\"sworn\"",
"Whoa, you're right. Fuck, I'm getting old.\n\n*edit- Upvotes for all you wonderful people below me.",
"Yeah, but inner city kids don’t need a giant bird to teach them about the inner city.",
"No he doesn't have a point because he has no evidence. They are both absolutely evidence of homophobia because only homophobes believe in conversion therapy, everyone else accepts the long standing evidence it doesn't work. Homophobes think that as long as they veil their attempts at discrimination in politics that it somehow different but it isn't, you still want to treat gay people differently from everyone else and no bullshit political claim changes that.",
"Love this. ",
"This sub in a nutshell. Pointlessly political photos with the grammar and foresight of a 4th grader.",
"Thuh DEE-cee.",
"Give a shit how?",
"Democrats use the same logic with their beloved muslims.\n\n*\"You can't be intolerant of their (hateful) beliefs!!\"*\n\n",
"I dunno. I've found that sex with gay guys isn't as good as sex with straight guys. ",
"Its much harder to be against somethimg when it affects you directly. They would be far more friendly to government provided health care if they didn't already have government provided health care for life.",
"No they were definitely freaking out because I was breaking the law.",
"Lol, okay bro.",
"Let's BEE friends ",
"Your point?",
"They have something to lose. Cause you know. Straight bitches don't. Lol",
"wow hes gay ",
"I think it’s unnecessary to ban/mandate everything because it *technically* destroys/saves lives.\n\nWe should definitely work to make things safer but that can be done in ways that don’t involve outlawing them.",
"Why in the world would you WANT to pump your own gas when you could just stay in your car? I grew up in NJ, but have spent the past 20 years in NYC without a car. We just got one last week and God pumping your own gas sucks. ",
" Pence is probably more worried he's standing next to a woman.",
"That isn't true at all. Most people on either the left or the right are trying to make their way through life, find contentment and meaning. The things you are saying are part of what is dividing people, who mostly have the same goals and wants. Most people don't give a fuck about capitalism and no one wants communism. ",
"Sure you have every right to feel icky, but when you make it a voting issue where you are actively trying to deny other people a right, well that makes you something pretty ugly.",
"Swore.",
"Mais, qu'est que c'est un patate?",
"Reddit 2018",
"Not a Hoosier, but I feel your pain",
"Tons of jobs don't exist anymore because technology changes and they become obsolete. We don't ban electric trains and insist on running coal-fired trains everywhere just so the guys shoveling can have their jobs \"preserved for the future.\" If you don't get that it's because _you_ don't understand economics.",
"Two states\n",
"Son looks like he wants to teach Pence a thing or two",
"Or G W Bush. \n>'I am the swearer inner.'\n",
"Lmao... what? I’m not the homophobe here friend... just pointing out the ridiculous double standards of the left.",
"to me this just shows the massive impact that fundamentalist christianity has had on America\n\nThis would be a non-story in the UK \nNo-one would would understand the point of it\nSad and *very* scary - the US is scared of ISIS but right in their midst they have exactly the same extremism problem with their christians",
"After the swearing in. They said nana nana boo boo, stick your head in doodoo.",
"Signed, fellow alabamian\n\nI mean \n\nRoll tide y'all ",
"3% openly gay. The figure is higher. \n\nAbout 1 in 10 people are gay or bi. This has always been the case, but because people like you exist they hide it. \n",
"For the most part, how I've heard it from religious friends: it doesn't matter how good a heart one has, it's all about what the bible says, and supposedly they've been taught that the bible says it's wrong. That's it... Being a good person won't get you into heaven, only following the bible will. ",
"Obviously you didnt read the provided snopes link. So, that's like, your opinion. \n\nHe supported funding for individuals seeking therapy, it would be effed up to not support people seeking help.\n\n Big difference between funding for people seeking what they want, and actually forcing conversions. That's, like, fact. From an arguably left news source. Cheers!",
"Which is really strange considering he is looking at his mother",
"How many Muslim cake makers are in your town?",
"TIL marriage and sex are literally only done for the purpose of procreation, and straight sex only consists of penis-in-vagina in the missionary position and never includes oral sex or foreplay, or anything else but putting dick into pussy.\n\nJokes aside, gay sex, while it has a significant difference with the genitalia used, is not that different from straight sex. Not all gay couples practice anal sex. I've been with my partner almost a year and we've only done it once. Everything else we've done could still easily be done if one of us were a woman.",
"I thought it was The Simpletons. ",
"> It's saying \"not every Muslim is homophobic and we shouldn't treat all of them as homophobes just because some of them are.\" \n\nCorrect, not all of them are, just **[90%+, in countries with laws that explicitly punish/outlaw it.](http://i.imgur.com/zaQlI03.jpg)**\n\n> And before you ask, the difference between Muslims who are not all homophobic and republicans who are not all homophobic is that Muslims as a group don't get to vote for their representatives and they don't keep voting for homophobes.\n\nThey do though.\n\nIn majority-muslim countries, their religion is law.\n\nSometimes sharia law and sometimes 'decency' laws.\n\n",
"It’s pretty great since the don’t have to pander for public funding. Guaranteed funding likely means they can plan better for future improvements. ",
"GOTEM DAYUM THATS FUNNY YOU COME UP WITH THAT JOKE ON YOUR OWN NEVER SEEN THAT WUN B4 NICE 1!!!!!!!",
"But it's actually relevant that his son is gay, since Mike Pence is a raging homophobe.",
"HBO rescued Big Bird from the Republicans. Never forget.",
"Each of those facial expressions say very different things",
"Why is his son's sexual orientation relevant?\n\nWhy does the left maintain the position that a Christian who maintains a certain set of beliefs is a bigot, but a Muslim who maintains the exact same belief (and often an even more extreme position on it) is just being pious and true to his faith?",
"How do you not see how delusional you people are?\n\nCan you explain why being against gay marriage is a big deal? Why is it bad that thinking gay relationships are gross?\n\nSeriously.... what are you guys running on in 2018??\n\nTaxes? Healthcare? Economy?\n\nGo ahead.... tell us. \n\nI haven't seen 1 thing besides \"REEEEEEEEEEE, BLACK PEOPLE AND GAYS!!!\"\n\nIt's comical. \n\nEdit: have to add that even \"russia\" is dead. You people are toast.",
"I was making a broad statement, not specifically about LGBT rights. But while we’re here, he tried to ban transgender service members from the military and he rolled back government protections of LGBT employees. So you can fuck off with *your* narrative. \n\nEdit: A word ",
"He'd have electroshock therapy used on them.",
"I believe the central point is somebody who has been through rough stuff but shows capability to learn from mistakes",
"So I'm backwards for following my religion? Well Christians have a long history of being 'backwards' compared to wider society, we're used to it. ",
"He would send them to that special totally not brainwashing and torture camp. To get closer to god and pray the gay awa5",
"NEXT!",
"It adds layers to the complexity of this nations in ability to give LGBT the same rights and privileges as everybody else. \n\nPence is a homophobic fucktard so it brings me some joy that fucktards like him are slowly having to face ( literally face ) the very people that he is against and know Homophobia is losing. \n\nA Dem politician with an openly gay son was elected. Think about rage that Pence must have 😂",
"Doug Jones’ son looks like Peter Dinklage if he wasn’t a little person. ",
"Swornt in. \n\nAlso, to me, looks like he's got a shit eating grin on his face!! I love it!! That wry smirk! Looks like Pence is mean-mugging his son, too. Great picture!",
"Hey you too man/woman! Hope you have a good day today. ",
"I’m sure mike pence prayed for Jones’ son.",
"Rigidity in moral beliefs is a lot more admirable than rigidity in beliefs about matters of fact.\n\nI mean I'd rather people weren't bigoted, but if you only stop being a bigot because someone you like would be a victim of your bigotry, is that really so praiseworthy? Conversely if you stick to your guns I can understand that, while you may be a bigot, at least they *are* deeply held convictions rather than just an excuse to be horrible to people.",
"Why is this a noteworthy picture ",
"Personal anecdotes but growing up gay provides some insight into this. Many of the homophobic gay folks who teased me were also pinching my ass when nobody was looking. Other gay guys I know have had.l similar experiences. ",
"Your version of Christianity is backwards if it teaches you that homosexuality is a sin.",
"*Eau de Airport Toilette",
"Send this to r/photoshopbattles lol",
"I bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose ",
"> It's amazing how Conservatives act when the gay person is someone they love.\n\nNow can you imagine if one of these Conservatives actually knew a poor person?",
"Should you be able to refuse to pay your employees?",
"Lol, ok bro. ",
"Most (rich) conservatives don’t really give a fuck about social conservatism. It’s lip service to the stupid rural voters who do. ",
"They don’t tell that to Moore. Keeps the kids safe. ",
"You guys act like this is the first time a Christian was in political office. Mike Pence does not hate gay people. He thinks homosexuality is a sin and that it can be changed from within. This is what MOST Christians believe. And if not frabkly you can call yourself whatever you want but you aren't in line with most sect's official stance on the issue. Soooo yea this over inflation of Mike Pence as some 1950s Terminator for the gays is SO clearly part of the Trump hysteria. And honestly it's been a whole year. Calm the fuck down already.",
"/r/AccidentalRenaissance",
"Says the guy who probably lost his shit cuz some NFL players took a knee.",
"Sports and politics are both marshaling of hatreds, they are good things in a sense, they act like a vent for our natural hate instincts for people who are not us.",
"The sexual tension between Pence and his son is just to much to bear. ",
"Can't wait for new episodes on the 19th, miss that divisive sonofabitch",
"Doug's wife is giving me some Morticia Addams vibes that I am HERE FOR.",
"So FUCKING American!!!!",
"“Abstinence education”",
"Didn't know Christian Grey was gay...",
"Thanks. Lots of horrible titles lately.",
"I just got an image of my old twinked out level 10 night elf /dance",
"You can still be addicted to heroin and spend the extra money to buy some needles on Amazon. The Government can't hold peoples hands and show them how to preform decent hygiene.",
"There's no my version, biblical teaching is very clear on the issue. Something doesn't stop being sinful, because societal attitudes change. ",
"No election ever has a decent turnout, stakes or no. Are you even old enough to vote?",
"I think it's fair to say that Clinton likely supported gay marriages personally, but saw it as political suicide for a while before finally coming out in support of it. It's inconsistent and I sure as Hell hated the both of them for similar flops, but at least they each got to this point. \n\nPence just thinks it's wrong because of his book. I don't think he's against it overall because of his constituents, he just genuinely believes it's wrong.\n\nI didn't vote for Hillary Clinton (this being a small reason for it) but of you think that this specific flaw is the same between the two of them it's pretty safe to say that you're likely the brainwashed one here.\n\nI couldn't give a shit how religious someone is. I actually respect it in many cases, like when Pence actually acted on not being out to dinner with another woman by himself. I think it's silly, sure, but I respect that he can consistently practice hos religion. \n\nI don't respect someone letting it leak into their policy making decisions. You are not supposed to do that, yet he does.",
"Did you read the Snopes article? Pence said: \"Resources should be directed to those institutions seeking to help those that want to change their sexual orientation.\"",
"Your post mischaracterizes Dick Cheney and gives him too much credit for doing something that could be seen as brave when that's not really very true. You may not have intended to be giving him credit, but I think that's how it comes off to people who don't know the real story.\n\nThe truth is that even though his daughter is gay and was out at the time, he refused to support gay marriage during the 2000 and 2004 campaigns. Republicans, of course, wanted marriage to be between a man and a woman, and he refused to support gay marriage simply out of political expedience. Clearly he believed that support of gay marriage would hurt the Bush's chances of winning either of those elections. Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards even challenged him during the debate about not supporting gay marriage despite his gay daughter, and Cheney (and his daughter) only got pissed at Edwards for even bringing her into the conversation.\n\nNot long AFTER the 2004 election, when his opinion would no longer affect his political future, Cheney said publicly that he supported gay marriage. Again, this made clear that he supported it before the election and simply was too cowardly and politically focused to make a principled stand on the issue.\n\nFurthermore, as far as I know he has not \"actively\" supported gay marriage in that he has done nothing more than make public statements in support. He hasn't done anything else I don't think, which I would classify as very \"passive\" support that was very belated and meaningless given how he waited until after he no longer had an election to win.\n\nThe kindest thing one can say about him on this is that he made a political decision because this issue would hurt his chances of winning, but that's still unprincipled and shitty, and he deserves no credit for it really.",
"Snow is more about the lack of resources to clear it, not the snow itself. In SC it snowed 5\" yesterday and there is still 5\" of snow on the ground today. We have to wait for it and the ice below it to melt.",
"Happy cake day!",
"He sure looks gay",
"Yes, and now it’s 2018. Things change. ",
"Guilty until proven innocent is a legal precedent, not a public opinion rule.",
"Mike Pence is virulently anti-gay. Do you really want to review some of his greatest hits policy wise?",
">[BM]: They usually say that there are few things that make people understand about gay people, and one of them is having someone in your family. That is why Dick Cheney, after all, a conservative in every other issue was sort of reasonable about this. After all,\n he turned on this before Obama did!\n\n>[...]\n\n>[BM] They only seem to have empathy...\n\n>[DS] ...when it happens to them.\n\n>[BM] when it happens to them.\n\n>[DS] Nancy Reagan is for Stem cell research because Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's disease, Rush Limbaugh is for drug treatment as opposed to incarceration because he had his ass addicted to drugs, Megyn Kelly on Fox News is for maternity leave after she pushes out a brat, but not before. [...]\n\n>[BM] What they all need [...] is a poor person in their family.",
"If middle America has taught us anything, it's that the more ultra religious, anti-gay you are, the much greater the probability there is of you sucking off little boys and / or are having an affair with a same sex member of the congregation.\n\nIf you're REALLY unlucky, you get caught with a black tranny. That's the hardest one to explain, the black part.",
"That's usually how it works in general not just with gay people. \n\nWe have lots of rules. And some people like to imagine or pretend that all the rules should be valued equally. But we can actually understand the importance of a rule by how we deal with the rule breakers. \n\nWhen you don't have a personal connection to any rule breaker, including yourself, you don't feel any need to make the assessment. You are free to just blanketly condemn all rule breaking.",
">[BM]: They usually say that there are few things that make people understand about gay people, and one of them is having someone in your family. That is why Dick Cheney, after all, a conservative in every other issue was sort of reasonable about this. After all,\n he turned on this before Obama did!\n\n>[...]\n\n>[BM] They only seem to have empathy...\n\n>[DS] ...when it happens to them.\n\n>[BM] when it happens to them.\n\n>[DS] Nancy Reagan is for Stem cell research because Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's disease, Rush Limbaugh is for drug treatment as opposed to incarceration because he had his ass addicted to drugs, Megyn Kelly on Fox News is for maternity leave after she pushes out a brat, but not before. [...]\n\n>[BM] What they all need [...] is a poor person in their family.",
"Except Pence ",
"They both have their own beliefs who gives a shit??",
"The Catholic Church makes up 50% of Christians, and they don't believe in conversion therapy, neither do the Anglican Communion, the Orthodox, Methodists, Prystbeterians as far as I know. That makes up about 70% of the Christian religion. Unless by Christians you mean just evangelical protestants then your numbers might be a bit off.",
"Do the kids in his trunk count?",
"You're overestimating how much people give a shit. If you're a news junkie, it might seem like *everyone* is talking about it. But the majority of people aren't. I mean, the presidential election is all anyone talks about for like 2 years, and only like half of Americans even turn out for that.",
"Pence supports gay conversion therapy. Next.",
"Hey! I got a C in college French therefore I understand about a 2.0 worth of that. ",
"Ha! tell that to my mother who threw out into the street my brother on the morning of his 18th bday because he wa gay. Its been 10 years now, I recently reconnected with him via a secret facebook as she forbid even thinking that I had a brother. All his pictures were burned, his stuff was thrown to the trash. For a while I started to doubt if I really did have a brother or if I had made him up.",
"A lot of people do.",
"Lol WAT. I can't believe I haven't seen this yet. ",
"It must be the first time he has ever met a Christian person. ",
"Hi. A few things - First, you said \"a lot of the results didn't make sense\", this doesn't support that statement. Second, no where did anyone in that clip admit to voting two or three times. Third, anyone can canvass from out of state, and his ambiguous statement - \"pitched in to vote and canvass\" - isn't grounds for a recount, and neither is one needed to determine if him or his fellowship voted illegally. It seems you only paid attention to Fox's spin at the beginning of that clip, and not what was actually said by the secretary of state:\n\n\"We don't have any evidence of people doing that. Our numbers would not indicate that has happened.\"\n\n+\n\n\"Voted fraud would be very unlikely because ever voter is required to show a photo ID before casting a vote.\"\n\nHere's that same secretary of state over a week later dismissing claims of voter fraud and confirming the man in your clip is a registered voter in Alabama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvj0AESEJ4I",
"Well.....Pence isn't openly gay.....",
"He’s the Vice President of the USA. “No big deal he’s jus ignorant”",
"Oh, straight Ed. He’s so funny, trying to get with women, wearing clothes that aren’t as cool looking...",
"The problem is then they move on to the \"my brother is a good gay, not like the other evil gays\". Hilter had a Jewish Doctor, for instance, and he had the SS protect him because he was a \"good\" Jew. ",
"He isn't publcially super anti gay. ",
"Like him or hate him, Bill Maher had a great bit on his show about how Republicans are always against social progress until it happens to them. Worth checking out.",
"Lol 1 on 10 such bs, do you have any actual evidence of that?",
"Jones' son and pence are staring each other down like they're in a standoff.\n\nSon: Let my people marry!\n\nPence: Stop trying to turn me gay!",
"Thinking about moving there from shittyflyover indiana, how is it? Should I do it?",
"Cause I don’t wanna lose my dad. If i fuck up, my mom is expendable ",
"Lmao OP can't even fucking spell.",
"_openly defiant_ is what I cals him!",
"Is this important or... ? ",
"wait.... its dead??!!?!",
"I know exactly how sincere they are. I'm saying that people can be religious all they want, but it is un-American to use religion as a veil to discriminate who gets served by a business. Business owners certainly can worship how they want, but that does not extend to the bigotry imposed on particular groups by a religion in their business dealings.",
"L, I, B, dem polly-tichuns up yonder sure is purdy in'ere sundy git-ups.\n\nRoll Tide.",
"You're not very bright are you?",
"Its when you shit liquid.",
"Yeah because Moore is there.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw3o6qNZWmg\n\nYou tell me?",
"You're misinterpreting their views. They're saying that they can't marry them because it's wrong and immoral and possibly cause further moral damage (in their opinion). And in any case, even if it was because \"it feels icky\", it's not hateful if they don't do it because they hate them. Neither case has anything with dislike of a person, it's about the activity.",
"Thanks! I could use it..",
"Should have been: Doug Jones stands next to his openly gay son while getting sworn in by Mike Pence.",
"The great triggering of November 6, 2018 will see to that\n",
"Why 10 and not 19?",
"What hateful beliefs? ",
"Expert level shade thrown in that photo",
"lol muh nfl\n\ni watch esports",
"Clinton and Obama clearly had changes of heart and publicly said so, I see no evidence that Pence has changed his mind at all, he supported Roy Moore’s candidacy in September.\n\nhttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/352612-pence-congratulates-roy-moore-we-are-for-you\n\nTrump just fired the entire HIV/AIDS Council, I’m not hearing an outcry from Pence, he hasn’t apologized for anything he’s said at all, which leads me to say he still believes it.",
"God I hope they parody this on SNL...",
"What's with this revisionist history? Why are people trying to make Pence a person who just loves his religion? His stance against gay people is stronger than the majority of conservatives in Congress. He advocates for gay conversion therapy ",
"There's a lot of hateful shit in the bible... I hate religon and the suffering its caused in the world but i hate hypocrites a lot more. ",
"That look. ",
"Who gives a flying fuck if he is fucking gay. For fuck sakes assholes. ",
"The guy swearing has a naughty smile \"what are you going to do?\", his son just can't avoid looking at Pence, like he is waiting for something to happen, Pence is looking at the guy swearing with tunnel vision and it looked to me like he was leaning back.",
"What’s your point? It’s not like Mike Pence hates gay people. Mike Pence isn’t a Muslim.",
"There's no point in arguing with you, when you just keep making assumptions without evidence. \n\nBut I will ask you whether you think it's bigoted to force a religious person to Sin?",
"It makes sense to us. But the reason it became so popular is a bizarre self internalized admission of gayness being wrong on the part of left leaning people in their attempt to shame right wing people for being anti gay. \n\n\"Like oh haha this guy only hates gays because he himself is gay.\" \n\nYou see the same shit in other examples. \n\nWhite guy makes a statement about blacks people being criminal and violent and some offended good guy responds \"Bet you wouldn't say that to a black persons face\" \n\nWhy? Stupid.",
"Here is the thing a lot of people don't understand.\n\nAny intelligent person realizes that gay marriage should not be the issue it is today. Let people marry whoever they want as long as they are all consenting adults I don't care what genitals they have. \n\nMost politicians are intelligent people. They are pandering to a voting base that is just simply stupid. They realize they can rile up people over something they have no personal stake in and 'stand against it' to get voters to stand behind them. The same also goes for a bunch of democratic politicians as well. They are standing up for gay marriage because its the side their team picked, not because they give any fucks. \n\nI'm betting almost every politician out there doesn't actually give two shits about gay marriage personally. Sure there are a few idiots who stumbled their way into office (like MR. YOU HAVE TO SWEAR ON A BAHBUL) that are against it but the mass majority of them don't really care about it either way. ",
"That clip will never fail to make me laugh\n\n",
"Bjork: The Other Weird Meat",
"You wrote homosexual instead of homophobic.",
"If they are saying it is wrong and immoral they are saying there is something inherently wrong with gay people. That is hateful.",
"you mean diaphragm right?",
"Lol awkward. Drive up and say fill it up with regular please. Yes I'm paying with my card. Thank you goodbye.\n\n\n",
"Pensive.",
"Pence looks at the gay son with great compassion. Probably thinking of Luke 15:11-32.",
"Is that truly how you view it lol. ",
"So where in the Bible are these teachings???",
"Are we sure he's gay? Hes looking at that lady with some longing eyes...",
"me irl",
"a collaboration with Ivanka? Or are we calling her 'Brick' now?",
"Oh fuck , I read that as ***Alex*** Jones.",
"You done messed up OP",
"The gay son is a Jones or a Pence?",
"I feel like I am reading some bizzaro version of the Fancy Nancy books to my 5 year old",
"You people will spin anything into sounding negative",
"It's made of real bits of panther, so you know it's good",
"Tbh the whole time he was PM felt like he wasn't 100% there. I wouldn't be suprised if they found out he had brain damage from a stroke while he was PM.",
"Yeah. One of them wants to love the person he loves, and the other one wants to put him in gay conversion therapy. All beliefs should be respected/s",
"Not forced therapy. So basically he believes you can change. Aka Christian next",
"As long as everybody involved is consenting I don’t see any issue but I honestly don’t think they work out very often ",
"That’s not his fault. That’s societies fault for automatically siding with the woman based on circumstantial evidence. So then men need to do bullshit like this to protect themselves. \n\nSure, when you’re a nobody, it doesn’t matter. But when you’re the fucking Vice President, there are definitely people who’d lie to bring you down",
"Republicans have to swear in Democrat racists and bigots all the time, I doubt having a gay man present is going to affect the V.P. at all.",
"He wants to avoid false allegations, or allegations with 0 evidence.\n\nRemember getting Mike pence would be the holy grail for feminists.",
"articulate a substantive answer or move along ",
"But why is Adolf Eichmann swearing them in?",
"White",
"Am I the only one here who thinks this looks CG? It looks like a really high end cutscene.",
"There is no place for grammar in virtue signalling, sir.",
"I lean left and hate all religions equally.",
"Wow that’s... kinda hot.",
"Looking at Pence like \"this dude sent me a message on Grindr\"",
"thanks, my error",
"Michigander from the sticks reporting in. \n\nThe roads can literally be sheet ice (like 2 years ago, ugh) and bosses will still give you non stop shit",
"It tastes like burning ",
"Jones. Pence would've sent his kid to a camp to strengthen his grip on the hangers in the closet.",
"Wooow that’s a lot of subtext.",
"When a few accusations can ruin decades of work, you’d be an idiot not to have an alibi. ",
"Not sure what is better. The shit-eating grin on Jones's face, or the slight Mona Lisa like smirk on his son's face.",
"You mean the impetus to come forward and put yourself out there to hopefully stop a slimy man from being elected to the US Senate went away as soon as he lost the election!? Weird!",
"SO BRAVE ",
"Yeah Pence looks like he really wants to make him not gay in this picture.",
"If a gay man has gau sex is it just straight sex? Is this like when you subtract negative numbers?",
"Look at that laser stare.",
"Care to site the legislation? Or are you just content to be a dbag that doesn't have to back anything up?",
"Dude, I'm from Indiana. Mike Pense was the one who started that whole \"it's totes ok to not do business with gay people\" thing. It cost our state millions and made us look like idiots. We're not Kansas!",
"Well considering there have been plenty of Republican lawmakers attempting to write laws about it and practically zero Muslims in US govt, I'd say treating them as equal cause for concern is a bit delusional. ",
"/r/titlegore ",
"No. Totally different situation. If you’re unable to argue something without analogy you have no ground to stand on. ",
"Believe in conversion therapy? \n\nYes they do. They don't support forced conversion therapy. But they do believe an individual who is can become straight and they believe he can do so with the help and instruction of others. That is gay conversion therapy. Mike Pence did not support the forced conversion therapy you are referring to. ",
"what an absurd statement\n\nPence has a lot of backwards views but this particular choice is simply not worth discussing and certainly does not qualify as being a trash human being. \n\nThis is the exact type of polarizing discussion that keeps this country in hateful tension.\n\nTone it down and learn to be a human yourself.",
"I don't like Pence. He lets his backwards thinking hurt millions of others ... But mocking people like Pence only pushes individuals like him further towards extremism.\n\nAcceptance of his radical views isn't the goal. Mocking his radical views definitely won't help either though.",
"Pence would send his kid to conversion therapy at the first signs.\n\nHe's a fucking monster.\n\nThe people that talk about not demonizing the other side don't realize the level of scum that this administration has sunken to. ",
"TIL that’s what lesbians fantasize about when they see a gorgeous man. Thanks for educating us straights.",
"I like to think many of them were upset when AltaVista shut down.",
"Don't rape my shitter ",
"I'm not in that picture though.",
">There's a lot of hateful shit in the bible\n\nAnd the koran doesn't?\n\nThe koran *literally* calls to hate Jews, to quote it:\n\n*\"Allah's Apostle said, \"The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. \"O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.\"*\n\nThis happens even on \"current year\".\n\n**[Miss iraq had to flee her country after taking a photo with miss Israel.](http://www.newsweek.com/miss-iraqs-photo-miss-israel-family-iraq-death-threats-middle-east-violence-749390)**\n\nIslamic countries don't even want to recognize israel existence and try to get it banned or their athletes refuse to participate with jewish peers.\n\nBut that doesn't stop ultra-liberals claiming islam is progressive or that ***[\"muslims are the true feminists\"](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/gabby-aossey/muslims-are-the-true-feminists_b_9877692.html)***\n\nWe shouldn't tolerate any religion that is this hateful.",
"What you're saying is that I should seduce Mike Pence's son?",
"The fuck...\n\nJim Carey's The Grinch did the same thing...\n\nhttps://youtu.be/0mGmEE20CR0?t=1m23s",
"Yes I do actually. Give me some examples of him being virulently anti gay. \n\nLet's see if you know how adjectives work.",
"SCORE ONE FOR SWEET JUSTICE",
"Really hate to be that guy but...\nSworn",
"Well THAT’S pretty fuckin gay!",
"Jade give 2 rides",
"I don't know why you're getting downvoted, this is the thought process. In the parents' minds, they are honestly doing the \"loving\" thing, because the eternal soul is more important than your life on earth. \n\nI think it's a horrible way to think and treat people, but it doesn't do any good to misunderstand them.",
"I'm from Indiana. We deal with weird shit all the time. But Pence did weird shit and ruined our economy. We were happy to be rid of him.",
"The Catholic Church? That would directly counter the idea that homosexual inclinations are an intrinsic disorder as laid out in the catechism.",
"Sweared in was he",
"OH so THAT’S the full text of the poster I saw when I visited New York. Man i found this so cool but there were words missing and couldnt find who had written it",
"The only one deeming it an issue is you. So tell us, why is it an issue?",
"It's a common sense policy when you're the Vice President tho. Can you not see that?",
"I can't unsee this.",
"Iowa driver here. The amount of dumbasses that think just because their brand new truck can accelerate well on snow means they can stop on a dime on snow is rediculous. Road was still covered with inches of snow and ass hats will still ride my ass going 40.\n\nOr pass when you can't see any indication of where the road should be.",
"Are women allowed to speak at the church you attend? Because I think you'll find that pretty much all of the teaching about homosexuality post the new-covenant comes from Paul's letters, a person who also wrote that women should not be allowed to speak in church (and that men having long hair is unnatural).\n\nWhilst the whole shellfish and mixed-fabrics thing is easy to shrug off, it takes a whole lot more jumping through hoops to treat homosexuality as being a bigger issue than lying, being a drunkard, a woman speaking in church or pretty much any other sin, given the vast majority of the teaching on all these subjects comes from Paul's letters.",
"Good human!",
"Don't worry - you have a point worth stating.\n\nIf a couple mutually decided to have an open marriage, reddit would applaud their bravery (or at the very least, reserve judgment as their decision). When a couple decides to set up a mutually agreed upon boundary to protect what they perceive as important, reddit freaks out and calls it disgusting.\n\nGuardrails aren't disasters--if you hit one and bounce off, you've avoided the disaster it's blocking. That's the entire point. If people really want to criticize Pence, there are better ways to do it.",
"You should see how quick their pancakes flip when it comes to abortion.",
"The last president... For starters...",
"It's most likely the gas station that would be cited if a state inspector happened to be around (even though [it's very rare](http://www.nj.com/traffic/index.ssf/2015/05/ever_wonder_what_happens_if_youre_caught_pumping_your_own_gas_in_nj_so_did_we.html) for anyone to get in trouble for it) so the employee is probably under pressure from the owner/manager to make sure it doesn't happen.",
"Love this ",
"Not sure what point you're trying to make.",
"/r/titlegore",
"I was led to believe it was an insurance thing. They only have to cover the employee instead of being liable for injury and this is why prices are almost always lower ",
"Je veux regarder, quatre ",
"As if it’s difficult to find the dozens of homophobic and misogynistic excerpts from the Quran",
"> No, the right to getting married is a right.\n\nMarriage isn't a right just like healthcare and free college aren't rights.",
"ITT people miss the joke for failing to look at the username.",
"No. You can say that there's something wrong with person without being hateful. Some people are prone to alcohol addiction, that doesn't mean that thinking it's wrong means you're hateful to them. \n\nAnd while one part of religious people might believe it's not choice, other might see it that way.",
"I've always wondered about that. What did Pence do? Get really drunk or something and do something stupid?",
"Geez, where to begin...\n\n* Outlawing/punishing homosexuality.\n* Punishing raped women.\n* Stoning people to death.\n* Imprisoning non-believers.\n* Banning women from going to school.\n* Banning women from having independency from their husbands.\n* Murdering whoever disagrees with their religion.\n\n**[There are so many to choose....](\nhttp://i.imgur.com/zaQlI03.jpg)**\n\n",
"But would Mike Pence be in a room alone with him?",
"Did I say he was my vice president? Way to jump to conclusions and judge someone you don't know. Hmmmmm........ I don't care who Mike Pence is. Doug Jones's openly gay son is nobody, \"he is a human\", just like all the rest of us. So him being in this picture does not justify news, Doug Jones being sworn in is news.",
"When you've been doing it your whole life and were unaware of the law in the state, yes it was awkward, and something I wanted to avoid when I was there.",
"Right. It’s like me disagreeing with someone’s natural red hair. \n\nBut the people who disagree with homosexuality will say it is because they are Christian, and they get to pick and choose which parts of the Bible to take literally and get worked up about. I don’t see many Christians disagreeing with farmers planting more than one type of seed in the same field. Or clothing made from two different types of fabrics. ",
"This man was our Prime Minister. ",
"Oops and thanks ",
"Dude looks like he's got a raging clue.",
"If you could provide some evidence that it is sinful to bake a cake for a gay wedding, sure. I'll wait.",
"I get the point and It's great moment for a Doug Jones and his family and his Gay Son. ",
"I suppose it's along the same line to my line of thought that Christian people can fix their perversion too if they want try.",
"Same with hillary Clinton. She still hasn't stopped complaining about her landslide loss ",
"Cuz mike pence has never been near an openly gay man before ",
"I don't want to go searching for it, but I'm sure a lot of you have seen the recent video of the Roy Moore protester during the campaign, an older, super-southern man holding a big sign decrying Moore for making fun of his gay daughter who eventually committed suicide. The man is interviewed and tells how he used to take his daughter to multiple doctors and therapists, etc. to try and get the gay \"cured\" and they all told them the same thing, that that was how she was and they can't do anything about it. So after she kills herself because obviously she hated her life, her father here decides it's bad to hate gay people.\n\nMoral of the story: fuck you old redneck, you're still the one to blame for your daughters death and you know it. you were the one who remained ignorant when it actually counted. ",
"r/titlegore",
"Accurate. The word \"fuck\" in varying conjugations must also feature at least twice per fucking paragraph. ",
"When people in power discriminate, it is still discrimination. Can you not see that?",
"Someone should of told him that moment was not about him",
"Did they drop the accusations, or did the media just stop covering it? The election is over, and Moore's political career is probably over. \n\nThe story isn't going to get much traction now, since we're not on the brink of electing an alleged pedophile into the Senate. \n\nAnd why isnt Moore going after his accusers now? If it was all a smear campaign, shouldnt he be suing for defamation. ",
"I love that shit eating grin.",
"You guys need to let go of this gross misconception that Republicans actively hate gays and are completely intolerant of them.\n\nIt's a pathetic fallacy. And the media using that fallacy to create these silly headlines is fake news.",
"28% of you downvoted this post. Sorry, you don't like it when love trumps hate.",
"Is being openly gay a sign of bravery in 2018? I mean, a dude won women of the year a few years ago.\n\nThe point is, Who cares?\n\n\nI doubt Pence really cares, too. ",
"Wow the iq in this one...",
"He’s trying to prevent allegations of misconduct, not the misconduct itself. ",
"Let me guess, your line of argument will be because it isn't specifically mentioned, then it isn't Sinful? ",
"3 day old account lmao. ",
"I don't think Pence would accept it. He'd try to send them to some camp where they try to brainwash the gay out of them.",
"Even happens in small conservative towns. They get all angry when someone proposes increasing aid to the poor or wants universal healthcare, then when someone in town has a medical emergency, they're all over the local politicians begging for programs just to help their town. Then within 6 months they forget about it and go back to conservatism.",
"Us Oregonians are just fine. As usual, the Internet exists in some other plane of reality. (I had to go google search to even figure out what the fuck everyone was talking about. This change is hardly new, it’s just a small expansion on what’s been law for the last year or so.)",
"\"Make america gay again\"",
"Where is this oasis of tolerance??",
"I love how the title subtly assumes that since Mike Pence is against gay marriage he is therefore against all homosexuals and is entirely conflicted with this action. Pretty much sums up the typical pro-gay's reductionist perspective of their political opponents. ",
"You don't have to conspiracy theorize about fake allegations. Obviously, he thinks he can't control himself and I respect that. I wish our president had the same awareness. ",
"New Jersey, and my random town in Massachusetts I live in. All gas stations in our town must be full-service with no self-service allowed. It's weird but I've grown used to it.\n\nWhen visitors are here they always ask \"do I tip him?\" No, no you do not.",
"Or \"\"Doug Jones sworn into office\" would suffice.",
"Sworn",
"I think it's the people who got put on suicide watch after November 8th who care. They take it as a small victory seeing someone they despise so much being mildly uncomfortable.",
"commas are important people",
"/r/accidentalrenaissance",
"Sweared in? I guess they just brought Roy Moore in to shout profanities at him.",
"Thank you for your clear and informative response. Mr. Pence is a fucktard that is full of rage. Hopefully the developing traitor storm will sweep him into a nice quiet place with firm supervision like the rest of them...",
"Anyone who thinks it is a choice lives in a community where gay people are afraid to let their identity be known. They are not afraid of tolerance or acceptance I promise you. I get that people are born into those communities and it was just how they were brought up, but the onus on humans as moral beings is to have some friggin empathy.\n\nSo while the attitude you describe is far less objectionable than outspoken hate, it is still ugly as it shows a willing lack of empathy which is tougher and tougher to maintain without some degree of intolerance for natural behavior that holds no harm for those that are not gay.",
"I love links that just go to Imgur images of “statistics” ",
"An instrinsic disorder that can be overcome. Unless it isn't a sin, which it is then no individual is condemned by God to perpetually be sinful. We are all sinful according to the teaching etc but we are able to overcome sinful behavior. Homosexuality as an underlying state of being may not be sinful but living as a gay person is. Catholics along with all other sects of Christianity believe this and also believe you can work towards overcoming the impulses. \n\nThat's what Pence believes. He doesn't believe is shocking your testicles until the gay flies away.",
"I couldn’t disagree more. We shouldn’t let the majority hold tyrant over the minority. Disallowing homosexuals the right to marriage or any other freedoms expected of a heterosexual couple / person is exactly what revoking and failing to recognize the individual rights and privileges that other people expect to enjoy in our country. I should say as well, the ceremony matters not if the participants all enjoy themselves, no one is making you attend.",
"Hey now remember on Reddit, \n\nChristian gay bashing = abhorrent \nMuslim gay bashing = acceptable/non-existent\n",
"Dick Cheney was in favor of gay marriage when not just Republicans, but also most Democrats were against it as well...Including president Obama when he was elected.",
"https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/2/donald-trump-holds-high-flag-gay-equality/",
"What makes the situations different? ",
"Sometimes Reddit can be so hypocritical it makes my brain hurt.\n\n*Everyone at Reddit*\n\n\"You should respect an individual's beliefs. Empathy, understanding and respect should be shown to people who think different than you.\"\n\n*article about someone Reddit doesn't like*\n\n\"LMAO look at Pence what a fuckin loser! Creep! He doesn't believe in gay marriage and he's a religious shill!!\"",
"You triggered some people with this one... Made me laugh really hard, thank you. ",
"i knew this site would get worse after the election\n\ni had no idea just how bad though",
"Mike 'Third Rail for the Failed Male' Pence",
"Sworn?",
"Actually it's to do with the fact that most of what we think of as taste is actually smell. It's why everything tastes so bland when your nose is blocked.\n\nOnion taste is caused by the aromatic compounds it contains. Take away the ability to perceive them and you're left with a vague crunchy sweetness, like apples.",
"Ok?",
"Thank you",
"> He wants to avoid false allegations, or allegations with 0 evidence.\n\nNah, he thinks just the way the Taliban thinks, men and women shouldn't interact because uncontrollable urges....\n",
"You missed a bunch. Lets not weight this too much on one side.\n\nCongress should support the reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act only after completion of an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus. Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.\n\nLets sum this up. \n\nSee where the money is going. We shouldn't send it to places that are known to spread the virus. Instead, put the money to help people who have already chosen to not want to be around a lifestyle that has the virus often attached to it. \n\n\n\n\n",
"I just watched Sesame Street on PBS this morning. Snow Day!",
"I really haven't got the energy for another Paul's letters debate. But I mean, if you can't see how the whole meta narrative of sexuality throughout the bible is about the covenant between man and woman in Christ then there probably isn't any point. ",
"An uninspiring am dishonest comment from someone who themselves is either mentally ill or trolling. That much is apparent by your name ",
"I love that the downtown target has that little souvenir section on the second floor, and for some reason, sells a postcard that's just a blurry, wordless aerial photo of Bellevue.",
"By that logic, Hillary Clinton likes to eat shit because she's never denied it.",
"Minorities AND low-income folks? Do high-income minorities not get HBO either? Why not just say low-income folks and leave minorities out of it?",
"The son doesn't even seem to be looking at Pence, but rather his mother. But no, it's totally him giving Pence the stink-eye, Pence seething in anger, and is the photo of the decade!",
"Honestly was looking for this comment to see if it was just me. Where you at, lil Jones?",
"Sworn",
"And the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 80's when men would say \"I hate fags. I'm a married man.\" and then go out and have sex with men ",
"Yea I don't feel bad. We have enough information at our finger tips these days. \n\n",
"> You guys need to let go of this gross misconception that Republicans actively hate gays and are completely intolerant of them.\n\nTheir continued support of anti-gay legislation seems to indicate otherwise.",
"Not worth talking to them. Only an IRL experience could change their mind. Here, they're just looking to troll.",
"Ok, here is a 226-page PDF backing it.\n\nhttp://www.pewforum.org/files/2013/04/worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-full-report.pdf\n\nWhat's your excuse now?\n\n*\"Statistics and math are an alt-right invention and therefore islamophobic!!!! FAKE NEWS!!!\"* ?",
"Exactly. :-)",
"I feel like that's a bit different. A lot of women keep that to themselves or will only share with a few close friends/partner/etc. All the women I know that have had one have never been open about it with their parents. \n\nAs someone who came out as bisexual to my parents recently, it was pretty easy (also my dad is now pro-LGBT rights, whereas before he believed marriage was strictly between a man & woman), to tell them I was having an abortion? I'd never hear the end of it from my *very* pro-life father - would probably be a relationship ruiner.",
"Hillary Clinton and Obama were against Gay Marriage until it could get them votes...what's the big deal? \n\nOne is a bigot for condoning ones lifestyle...question who is condoning who?",
"I know that you are correct and this is the reason they do it, so when I say this, it’s not directed at you. As an economist, the idea of the government mandating jobs (like a command economy) and the horrible inefficiency that is begotten by that makes me facepalm with near lethal force. It just doesn’t make sense. If you have to force certain jobs to be created, they probably shouldn’t be created—especially for low-skilled, low-paying jobs. I suppose it ultimately comes down to an “equity vs. efficiency” battle, but even if you choose equity it doesn’t quite add up. The firm could employ that person to do something else for them, something that is actually useful and CREATES something for the firm, rather than do a job that can be done without assistance, for the most part. Getting rid of those laws is a good thing, we should encourage it.",
"Why would being able to pump your own gas raise prices? That is one less person that the gas station is going to have to employ. And you don't have to tip an attendant. If anything shouldn't it make it cheaper?",
"This one got me, well done",
"Look at him being all openly gay there. In the open.",
"Gasp!",
"Right. They are just against equal rights for those that aren’t like them. The same argument was used for interracial marriage and discrimination laws - they didn’t hate black people, they just wanted them to be treated like second class citizens and not have the same rights as their white fellow citizens. ",
"Who honestly thinks that Muslims are better then Christians? If we're gonna take a look at them both in black and white, both religions are fucked up, both Muslims and Christians want to impose their will on others, and honestly you're all fools. Being a bigot stems from being ignorant, being a Christian (or Muslim) stems from being ignorant.",
"There are no solid 100% factual numbers for your 3% or my 10% for various reasons. The truth no doubt lies somewhere in the middle. I didnt say 1 in 10 are gay either, I said 1 in 10 are gay or bi, this obviously is not an exact figure. But the figure certainly is higher than 3%. Face to face surveys show lower percentages than anonymous online ones. More conservative nations seem to show lower admissions than more liberal ones. \n\nThere are a lot more gay/bi people than you want to believe there are and they absolutely did not suddenly appear en mass with the advent of social media.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation \n\n",
"...by excluding women from environments where networking happens. Read the posted article upthread.",
"Yeah I saw it. That is to say I seen it",
"#MonsterLivesMatter",
"and? does he not have the right to advocate for what he wishes to? does that in anyway make it exceptional that he swore this person into office? \n\nno, because at the end of the day he is just doing his job that he was appointed to do... \n\nit's not a special occasion, its the left trying to make it something special by throwing the fact that he has an openly anti-gay agenda... ",
"My point is they both have different beliefs, doesn’t mean they can’t coexist. We don’t have to hate everyone that doesn’t believe what we believe in. ",
"What part of the Bible can I find the definition of marriage? ",
"So what?",
"His wrist is pre-adjusted for bible placement each time he talks (slow burn)",
"Cause moi wants it",
"Never heard L I B, hahaha love it",
">I like the roast chicken, especially with potatoes and washed down with a good, thick sauce.\n\nFor those curious.",
"In all honesty, I doubt Pence actually really cares much, if at all.\n\nTo me it seems kind of folly to believe that any elected official holding a high office really cares about people being gay or trans or whatever. It's just a reflection of their base.\n\nI'd also bet that Mike Pence is generally a nice guy who treats people well.\n\nI think his policy is fucked up and dehumanizing, and he deserves to be judged every bit due to it, but I also find it find it less than useful to try to squeeze greater symbolism out of these sorts of scenes.",
"Oh burned! How will Pence ever recover!",
"I think they call it Warshinton",
"If you're livelihood places five cents over a tremendous impact on the environment, I'd again argue that you have much bigger issues to tend to. You want to get worked up over illegitimate use of your money, there's significantly more valid places to look.",
"The look on the sons face says it all",
"Oxford Comma....very useful",
"\"I love French, it's like wiping your ass with silk.\"\n",
"The look on everybody's face in this picture is just wonderful. ",
"She ended up saying she supported it so you'd vote for her.\n\nYou have no idea what she personally believes, and she openly admitted that she lies about her positions publicly for votes.\n\nWhy anyone would believe anything that woman says is beyond me.",
"Isn't that what it says on the sign when you enter Indiana?",
"His wife is definitely gay.",
"> Doug Jones's openly gay son is nobody, \"he is a human\",\n\nBarely human according to Pence. This is why it is news. \n\nEdit: \"This shows how retarded we are as a nation.\"\n\nYea way to jump to a conclusion. How did I ever come to this conclusion? ",
"They have this weird thought process that the left hates Christians and adores Muslims. That we want to help them enact sharia law or something. Many of these same people can also be found clamoring about Hillary Clinton, Podesta, Uranium One, and Benghazi. Go figure. ",
"Christian baker refuses to bake gay wedding cake -> lawsuits, AG investigations, Media outrage, Democratic politicians speak out against them, etc.\n\nMuslim baker refuses to bake gay wedding cake -> crickets",
"Nah it's the other way around. I know because I'm from an atheist-majority country and nobody here gives a shit about religion. Religious people on the other hand go out of their way to spread hate about atheists all the time for not wanting to join their cults (eternal suffering and all that). \n\nSo I think someone might be projecting! ♥\n\nIf you want a better example though, it'd be how dumb ass hateful trump supporters like you spend more time thinking about islam than actual muslims.",
"People mistake empathy for sympathy. I understand it but in no way endorse, support or accept it as ethical or moral. It is faith and as such, is irrational.",
"Unfortunately most of the time a financial incentive is the only one that works. That’s what those little coin slots on shopping trolleys are, or the coin slots on public lockers. \n\nSame can be said for many other things. I don’t see the point in people getting upset about their rights and freedoms over a 10c shopping bag, we have bigger issues to worry about, I also believe the whole of India has just banned disposable plastic bags. If a little ‘tax’ makes the whole planet healthier then I’m all for it",
"I left out the part about not sending money to places that encourage accepting who you are, but that too is incredibly shitty and goes hand in hand with the explicitly pro gay conversion therapy sentence. ",
"No one's \"forcing\" multiculturalism. If people don't like other races then they're by definition racists and can move somewhere else if they want. ",
"Put them in the trunk of your car. \n\nI used to forget all the time and this was my solution. ",
"Pence is from Indiana. It's not exactly a backwater southern podunk state.",
"Usually determined by what's in your heart.",
"That's the idea :)",
"I agree, but the tone in this subthread has been that \"people who stop being homophobes when they find out someone in their lives is homosexual are assholes\" is pretty shitty, you're condemning people who have changed their behavior in a positive way based on their life experience.",
"Politifact gave it a half true, I think the language was vague but based on his history I can see some justification for making that assumption. \n\nPence’s own words on his campaign website from 2000, specifically a passage that calls for funding groups that give \"assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior\"\nhttp://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2016/dec/02/gavin-newsom/pences-support-conversion-therapy-not-settled-matt/",
"What businesses have liberals forced to close? and how have they done it? I don’t understand your argument. ",
"So what about those white supremacists and Islamic extremists? Do you respect their beliefs, Mr. Moral Authority?",
"That fine but when one of them fought to take rights away from the other because of their beliefs then it's a problem",
"I live in Northern mn. My trailer park doesn't plow no matter how much snow we get. It just gets packed down until we have like 5 inches of ice to drive out of the park on. It's great when I'm in my car trying to turn onto the off street and I just spin tires in the driveway all day.",
"“Mike Pence, in front of openly gay son, swore Doug Jones into office.”\n“Openly gay son gazes on as Doug Jones is sworn in by Mike Pence”\n“Secretly gay mike pence and openly gay son swear in Doug Jones.”",
"Only one group is dumb enough to use it unironically",
"Is that the Addams family mom?",
"You say that like it's not a good reason. Actually knowing a gay person probably changed their perspective a lot.",
"If he wants Alabama to support him he will. I mean, they almost voted a pedo in because his opponent was a dem",
"Wow Pence can hardly keep it in his pants with how aggressively sexually suggestive that guy is being ",
"Pretty sure Mike Pence has met gay people before and was not traumatized by this event. Glad DJ is my new senator, though. Roll Tide",
"I read this as \"Doug Jones sworn into office by his openly gay son, Mike Pence\".\n\n",
"The Kandinsky is painted on both sides.",
"#***Word***",
"They can always use surrogates or adopt. Some animals actually never pass on their genes but conspiring us to animals is a moot point anyway",
"I can't tell you how much I don't care about Mike Pence's stand on gays. If that is the climate that we decide the rules of politics in this country ,I weep for the nation. There are way bigger things to deal with right now then whether Pence is a homophobe or not. He is just one person ,\"no one cares\".",
"Well people do have the right to do or not do business with whoever they want. If they won’t do business with gays then someone else will gladly take their money.",
"I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're either very young or very privileged. I don't however, want to waste my time teaching some Cartman on reddit what empathy is - I do hope that life lessons will teach you that.\n\nEdit: actually here's a recommendation: watch some documentaries. On drug addicts, on people in vulnerable situations. Watch some documentaries on how the US responded to the aids crisis. Look up stuff on systemic injustice. Read, dude.",
"Oh so you guys are cool with dynasties now? ",
"Bisexual man here, I'd totally bone him!",
"What anti-gay legislation? Be specific. Link to it. To the proposed legislation, not some left wing media that spins the hell out of it.",
"If she isn't good enough for her own family she's not good enough for ours",
"No mall? What do these kids to with their lives?",
"> it’s harder to be a homophobe when *you know* someone you know is gay\n\n",
"Damn...good cup of coffee ",
"Lmao",
"You can’t expect the race baiting, homosexual baiting, intolerant left to have good grammar. I sweared, what did you expect?",
" But he wouldn't. Pence looks like a guy who doesn't even know what humor is.",
"But he's the suppository of all wisdom...",
"\"correct\" and \"incorrect\" have no place in discussions on beliefs and opinions with no factual content. I believe tomatos and cucumbers are disgusting and that gin tastes like misery. Millions of people disagree with me. Neither side is right or wrong. Concordantly someone can dislike a group of people without being correct or incorrect. If they start saying that a certain group does or does not do certain things, when they do not or do respectively, that's when they can be right or wrong.\n\nBut prior to that it's equally valid to anyone else's beliefs.\n\nSince that was kinda clunky I'll give some examples.\n\n\"I hate (x) food\" - ok. \n\"I hate x food because it makes you y\" - possibility of correct/incorrect statement\n\n\"I don't like (x) group of people\" - ok. \n\"I don't like (x) group of people because they (y)\" - possibility of correct/incorrect statement.\n\nNote that for the latter pair, it's possible for an outside observer to assume bigotry. This is also a matter of opinion with a possibility of correct/incorrect.\n\nPeople have trouble separating emotion from logic, so please don't get angry and assume I'm excusing shitty behaviour or malignant opinions. I'm just trying to point out that it's not as clear cut as some people would like to tell you.\n\nIf that was kinda rambly it's 1am here so my words izzent gud.",
"Would hate to see what Sundays are like. ",
"Huh, those all seem a lot like things Christianity always pushed. Weird how only one is considered hateful. ",
"I mean just because he doesn't support gay marriage doesn't necessarily mean he wants gay people to be put in prison and be killed like reddit pretends. It's not that black and white. Unless you still believe the complete debunked myth that pence wanted electro shock therapy for gay people. He pushed for \"alternative treatment\" for people with AIDS, and the \"alternative treatment\" was abstinence and contraceptive education. So basically he fought for something that's pretty undeniably good and the media ran a slander campaign trying to suggest it was electro shock therapy he wanted. As far as I know neither he nor trump have indicated that they want to take away the right of marriage from gay people. ",
"In a way they do. Helps them stay away from the bad community influences of gangs and form good community bonds instead.",
"But what about medical care and other necessary services? The law was too broad for it to be practical. What where someone might only have, like, one lawn care service in town or something?",
"You are right, Republicans do not hate gays, blacks, women or minorities. They just act that way.",
"Actually, most people I know assume Pence is in the closet and his anti-gay stance is based on self loathing. ",
"That's how I understood it too when I read it. I had to google it to make sure I was reading it wrong.",
"My car doesn't have a trunk but yeah, I did keep some in my car for a while, but since I need to bring them inside when bringing in the grocery, I would just forget to bring it back to the car after.",
"Hell, Trump said that raising the kids were \"Woman's work\". He made it well known he didn't raise his kids, including the sons.",
"The Religious Freedom Bill for one.",
"Happened with my parents. They still bash the shit out of other gay folks in front of me too.",
"Uh ok? Kind of unrelated to the comment you replied to.",
"You mean the son wasn't afraid of being electrocuted?!",
"But the definition of marriage has already been changed dramatically by time. Where in the western world do we have arranged marriages set up by fathers, who ask for dowries, solely for the negotiation of property, all while assigning arbitrary bonus value to \"virginity.\"",
"I don’t see why this is a big deal. I’m pretty sure Mike Pence has no issue with this, so why is this a thing? He’s gay, so what. He’s just a guy. ",
"I wouldn't deny that it is is considered the \"norm\" for sexuality to be between man and woman throughout the Bible, I just don't think there is a very persuasive argument that a loving homosexual relationship is explicitly forbidden. However even if you do take that view then there is no implication that it is in any way a worse sin than things that most people are guilty of every single day (e.g. lying).\n\nIn fact, on the scale of \"love your neighbour as you love yourself\" - repeatedly mentioned as the baseline of all Biblical laws - homosexuality should be pretty darn close to the bottom of any list of sins that we should make a big deal about.",
"AOL. Definitely. ",
"I mean, you can be cynical or you can realize that as shit affects you, you have the ability to rethink your stance and change",
"Bahble",
"He sure looks openly gay in the open.\n\nCan someone be openly gay in the not open?",
"...can you adopt me?",
"ctrl-f titlegore\n\nyep",
"Congrats Doug Jones, your son likes to suck dicks. Great accomplishment. ",
"The best would be, \"Doug Jones, next to his openly gay son, sworn in by Mike Pence.\"",
"No YOU get some love <3",
"Lose the \"the\" before roast chicken and that's perfect.",
"Mike Pence in this picture looks confused as to why he is getting a semi boner.",
"For the record though, Cheney is now an on the record supporter of gay rights. He regrets his choice to not do it sooner. ",
"I’m well aware of the fondness for rigidity when it comes to religion but I argue that moral rigidity goes against gods plan for us. Why would he design people that we were to hate? It makes no sense. Likewise, I’m not a “liberal” and I’m not trying to convert anyone, there’s no way to swing science to the side of acceptance when I’m making an argument about morality.",
"Yet the “mildly uncomfortable” you’re seeing is all being read by your desire for him to appear this way. It’s just confirmation bias. ",
"Just because you're offended by what it says doesn't mean it's not in English. ",
"I hope Mike Pence didn't get any cactus candy after the ceremony. No, that's mean. I hope he had one small piece.",
"There’s an excellent episode of an excellent show (Master of None) where you see glimpses into the different childhoods of two fathers who came to America to raise their families. Their sons have no idea how different it was for their fathers growing up, and by contrast the kids often show their ignorance and privilege, taking their relatively comfortable and untroubled life for granted. I think of the episode often, whenever I see someone crash into a life experience so different from their own that they dismiss it out of hand as ridiculous, impossible, or unlivable and awful.\n\nYou are assuming people born in poverty, people rejected from their families for how they were born, and people with a chronic and devastating illness have all the same choices, options, and perspective that you have. I’m not saying that you are incapable of understanding their perspective, but know that you are likely farther away than you realize from knowing what it’s really like to be them, and it takes a lot more empathy than the amount you’re using now.",
"Also maybe the kind that forced a Pakistani trans woman I know to flee her home and country in the middle of the night due to being tipped off that her brother and father were planning on murdering her in the name of Islam.\n\nKeep up your double standards, every time you open your disgusting mouth you insult real victims worldwide, and they resent you for it. ",
"Probably Portland? ",
"Thank you for sharing this!!",
"No, the correct title would only refer to what’s relevant: that Doug Jones was sworn into office by Mike Pence.\nThe rest is irrelevant. Unless you’re using someone’s sexuality as bait. Which the left is all to good at.",
"Yeah, because someone can't *legitimately* be against gay-marriage without being filled with hate, lies, and/or metal instability. Again further establishing my observation. ",
"You’re pretty sure Pence is cool with it?",
"I prefer [this body language](https://i.imgur.com/XAfPZtd.png), which clearly illustrates that Jones' son is an outside to a group who enjoy mocking and laughing at him. Weird how we can take any still/photo and read whatever we want into it, right?",
"It’s already a crime to refuse to treat someone medically if they require it. \nAs for the lawn care thing, I guess they’d have to mow their own grass. Any service could be refused to anyone for almost any reason so long as it’s not going to kill them. It’s generally just not a good business practice because it will lose your business money if you do that.",
"Sure but that would be an ad-hominem, a bigoted generalization and other assorted fallacies rolled into one.",
"And Roy Moore couldn't win in the most conservative state in the country. Doesn't that prove ops point that you're being unfair painting conservatives at large with such a big brush?",
"I seen the lady really worried about wearing a skirt and getting gas all over herself. I think she believes that you start the pump flowing before putting it in the car. When I'm working at 6am, I goto the gas station down the road and no matter the temp there is a mid 30s lady dressed to the nines fancy skirt and all pumping her own gas and looking fancy while doing it.",
"4.1%? Wouldn't call that low in a vaccum. If we had a federal jobs guarantee, it could be pushed down to 0%. Otherwise 3% is our target.",
"I'll make note of that. Canadian here, NY adjacent, so pumping my own gas is like breakfast over here (it's how Canadians fight bears, but you didn't hear that from me). \n\nLast thing I ever want is to get yelled at by Jersey-bros about taking their job to fill up my motorcade. ",
"No, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t give a shit. ",
"Thank you! That's a lovely sentiment, and one I'd like to rally behind, across political devisions",
"lol, i have a regular twitch follower who is french and gives me shit for my american high school-level french and always says \"omelette du fromage\" to me.",
"Fuck you, Mikey!",
"How is it anti-gay? I thought freedom of association was a constitutional right.",
"http://i.imgur.com/tNJD6oY.gifv \n\n This is a kind reminder that in French we say \"omelette *au* fromage\" and not \"omelette _du_ fromage\". \n\n [Sorry Dexter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW3-9gdjYA)\n\n[Steve Martin](https://youtu.be/DOJDNChwgBw?t=2m49s) doesn't appear to be the most accurate French professor.",
"And the is it exactly. To think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin you have to actively be seeking that interpretation and do some twisting of words or interpretations of words to get there. ",
"Yes well I am comfortable applying correct and incorrect to issues such as gay marriage. I have never known someone to say \"Hey, you are flip flopping\" when their buddy says \"You know, I think Ill give tomatoes another chance.\"",
"Pence himself really doth protest too much about the whole homosexuality thing. I don't rule him out to be closeted.",
"First of all, that’s not what your article says.\n\nPence doesn’t have dinner *alone* with women. He’s not excluding them from the table. He’s not saying they shouldn’t be there. Hes just trying to have someone else be there as well. \n\nThere’s a huge difference between saying he won’t have one on one meetings and he won’t have meetings.\n\nSecond, from that article...\n\n> Hewlett’s surveys, interviews, and focus groups found that 64 percent of executive men are reluctant to have one-on-one meetings with junior women\n\nIf 64 percent of executive men feel that way, it’s a problem that goes deeper than Mike Pence. And maybe before you jump to just blame those 64 percent as being sexist, maybe try to understand where they’re coming from. When they’ve spent decades building up their career, they’re not gonna wanna risk ruining their reputation with even allegations of misconduct. ",
"Disclaimer: For most of this comment, I'm not stating my views, I'm explaining views of other people.\n\nFirst, I'm not arguing about which laws should US have or not. I'm strictly speaking about whether they hate those people or not.\n\nSecondly, there's a certain difference between \"incorrect\" race+race marriage and between \"incorrect\" sex+sex marriage. There are real significant biological differences between sexes, but races are mostly same.\n\nThird, they're not calling for any discrimination (they're people who are, but that's not people I'm speaking about) against them except for the marriages, which suggests the problem isn't the person, just the marriage (or the relationship).\n\nLastly, even if everything else I said was bullshit, removing those rights still doesn't necessarily include hate. If person wants law which prohibits people with high risk of addiction (based on family tree or something) from ever drinking alcohol, it doesn't mean they hate them. It's not right and it's extreme, but it's not hate. ",
"You are either a troll or just a shitstain of a human.\n\nNot sure which.",
"Being gay is liek, so hot right now.",
"Part of an old joke that requires some artwork to go with it but I'll attempt it with just words. Not all hillbillies can read, you know. :)\n\nIf you can translate this, you are from the country.\n\n\"M R pigs.\"\n\n\"M R not pigs!\"\n\n\"M R 2 pigs, C M pens?\"\n\n\"L I B, M R pigs.\"\n\nThe hand drawn version has a sketch of a pig and a sketch of a safety pin instead of the words.\n",
"We can go back and forth all day. Go ahead and provide some passages from Deuteronomy or Joshua or Judges. Cross-reference that with the Gospels. A *True Christian*^TM recognizes bigotry as evil and responds to it with Love. Christ came as a serious counterpoint to antiquated Hebrew traditions. How would he respond to some asshats using religion to discriminate?",
">Huh, those all seem a lot like things Christianity always pushed.\n\nShow me christian countries/doctrine that on \"current year\" allow:\n\n* Hang gay people in public executions. \n* Stone women (rape victims too) to death.\n* Call for the murder of non-believers.\n* Murder people that draw jesus.\n* Imprison people for not being christian.\n\nI'll wait.\n\n",
"Wtf? It's even still got the peel on! Eating an onion is a bit odd, but I'd have assumed he'd peeled it first.",
"I didn't make any claim about the actual cost/benefit analysis of transgender enlistees or its simplicity--you did. But, since you say it's so simple, I would like to see you do the math and post it here.If it's truly as simple as you say it is, you wouldn't have any trouble presenting such an analysis (with some sources to back it up, of course). \n\nOr maybe it isn't simple, and you're talking out of your ass.",
"That look. The only way it could have been better is if it were the \"I want to do you\" look. That would have REALLY made pence uncomfortable.",
"But your compassion for others should er to the side that’s in favor of accepting people for who they are. Standing your ground stubbornly, specifically when it comes to the welfare of your children or your neighbor isn’t having conviction it’s morally reprehensible. My beliefs didn’t change as the winds go, I accepted them when I got to know a homosexual person.",
"Du~\n\nDu Hast~\n\nDu Hast West End Girls~",
"Why is it stated that someone's not involved child being gay have to do with Pence swaring Doug in?\n\n It it because he's Christain and dislikes them? Pointless add in guys, bad headline.\n\nEdit: \n(Why so mad /pics?) Haha, sorry for pointing out you hypocrites.\n\nHere's some logic though for you \"folk\", if this was, say a picture with Trump with a gay woman behind him somewhere, would the headline say, trump speaks with gay woman behind him!\n This up next on BuzzFeed! \n\nWho cares about some kid's damn sexually, Jesus, so sensationalized. ",
"I can't speak for everyone, but for me, yeah, sports and booze just about covers it.",
"The people dying are the really, really fucking stupid ones, so I'm not sure it actually helps us to save them.",
"A picture is worth a thousand sassy, very sassy words. ",
"where did you get that quran passage?",
"I got shrugged off as I put back the nozzle after filling up the last time I was in NJ. I totally forgot until the guy walked up and said you’re good now I guess... the guy must have been busy.",
"\"are you thinking what I'm thinking?\"",
"[Not really, actually.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFYRkzznsc0)",
"Why is it amazing that people are willing to forgive and set aside themselves for people they care about moreso than they do for other people? Everyone does that. ",
"I think we’re waiting for Mike Pence to come out, and not his kids.",
"Ah, yes, ole reliable: “If you object to, or speak anything other than glowing praise for gay marriage in any way, you’re just a closet homo.”",
"He is in person, who has a huge amount of power. ",
"Just because a guy likes wearing fancy boots",
"He let an HIV epidemic grow to epic proportions when he was governor of Indiana before permitting \"emergency\" needle exchange programs to formalize. Just off the top of my head.",
"Conservatives only obtain empathy or understanding when it is something that affects them personally. ",
"I didn't know Henry Cavill was Doug Jones' son!",
"As a gay person raised by Christians and grew up in the church surrounded by them, this is bullshit. The Christians I know hate gay people, far beyond the marriage argument.",
">A photographer shoots 20,000 to 60,000 images on assignment. Of those, perhaps a dozen will see the published light of day \n\n-National Geographic",
"All I am saying is why do people belive liars.. That hag with the year book lied about adding things to it, then refuse to turn it over for handwriting analysis. The dems played that sexual assault game with Moore, just like they did trump.. But it worked out for them this time.. Now you don't hear a single peep from these girls now that election is over. ",
"We're adults physically ¯\\\\\\_(ツ\\)_/¯ ",
"What’s wrong with sucking dicks? Should the ladies stop doing it too? ",
"I'm from the west coast and was in Newark for business a couple years ago. So I go to some brand new, who gives a shit, cheese steak place, ordered and walked over to fill my soda. This establishment had a brand of soda pop I had never even heard of. I always expect to see either coke or pepsi products so I was caught off guard for maybe 5 seconds. I sample a few different flavors and settle on one that was delicious. As I am filling my cup a voice bellows out from behind me. This place had many customers present, minding their own business, but this complete stranger just straight yells at me, \"HEY...(5 second pause)...that soda is pretty freakin' good RIGHT!!!??? This man is about 20 feet away and this was the first and only interaction I had with the man. I was a bit taken aback, but managed a much more subdued, \"uuuhhhh, yeah, I really like it!(uh hyuk, hyuk)\" like I'm some kind of Leave it to Beaver little tyke, responding to his imposing teacher or something.\n\nI don't know exactly why, but this interaction has stuck with me. To me, it really represents my impression of people in the greater NYC area. People there are stoic, always in a hurry, and as long as you don't get in their way while they are trying to get to or from work, they are some of the nicest people I have met anywhere. I was so shocked by how nice everyone was. I had been presented a stereotype of new yorkers for my whole life where they were depicted as these loud, crass, always in a hurry, enormous asshole types. Turns out, everything but the last one was pretty accurate. No idea, why I decided to write this whole stupid story out on some rando, mid-tier, comment thread. Congrats on making it through this almost Ken M level comment. NO TIME. GOTTA GO!!!!",
"Then the rigidity comes from compassion and care for your fellow man, something I think is arguably better and different ",
"i wonder if he wouldn't be so anti-gay though, if that were the case.\n\noftentimes it takes something directly affecting someone for them to have a change in heart/opinion. see, for example, all the celebrities who contract some sort of disease and then suddenly start giving a shit about curing said disease starting funds for them.\n\ni'm by no means blaming them or saying they're being unsympathetic to the suffering of others, just making an observation.",
"Perfect explanation!",
"Is Mike Pence short for Micheal Pencil?????",
"😏",
"ACTUALLY in some cultures blah blah",
"Remember penicillin? Fuck, I'm mold",
"“He was undressing me with his eyes!”\n\n“Yeah but he was electrocuting me with his!”",
"The non-verbal conservation going on in this picture is great.",
"Maybe that's why sports turns me off so much. Your statement rang so true to me, and even reading it made me feel uncomfortable and \"put off\". But honestly, thanks for saying this.",
"What the fuck? \n\nFirst off, \n\n> He is a Muslim who opposed gay marriage in 2008 based off his cultural beliefs and changed it to get votes in 2012 before the election. \n\nLol.\n\nSecond, that’s literally not my point. I agree that it was for votes, but that only supports my point... \n\nIt’s not possible to win the Dem nomination while apposing gay marriage. Obama did it in 2008, but things change and it’s not an issue you can oppose and still win support from the base anymore. \n\nThanks for proving my point ",
"Oh that side eye!!! ",
"Pretty sure this is the case for Mike Pence",
"One is happily open he can be him self, the other so regressed he punishes others for his dirty dirty mind thoughts of naked oiled up men.",
"That and slavery and all kinds of things that we’ve all stood up to stop is evil. Do you think there were no Christians standing up for gays and slaves? ",
"Yes true. Political beliefs certainly are very sports like in America these days ",
"I’ve never seen such side-eye",
"Considering how cold it is in the Midwest, this is one of the few times I would like it here. ",
"I know a gay person who \"became straight\" with the help of a local church. No fucking clue what they did, but no one is forcing anyone at gun point to get conversion therapy. It's not law that gays are wrangled up to be converted. So why does it matter if mike pence doesn't have a problem with people voluntarily trying to go to conversion therapy?",
"Too real lol. The more Shunnarah billboards you see, the closer you are to the heart of bama lol",
"Thanks ",
"If a consenting adult wants to suck a dick and another consenting adult wants their dick sucked. Then I think it should be allowed. ",
"yeah, thanks, i get it, bot.\n\ndo you just auto-reply with that message whenever someone says \"omelette du fromage\" instead of \"omelette au fromage\"? also why am i speaking to you as if you were an actual person?\n\nomelette du fromage muthafucka",
"http://i.imgur.com/tNJD6oY.gifv \n\n This is a kind reminder that in French we say \"omelette *au* fromage\" and not \"omelette _du_ fromage\". \n\n [Sorry Dexter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW3-9gdjYA)\n\n[Steve Martin](https://youtu.be/DOJDNChwgBw?t=2m49s) doesn't appear to be the most accurate French professor.",
"Calm down, bawah. Go git in yore pigyep truck and run over some squirrels, yule feel better.",
"Wait. Mike Pence's son is openly gay?! And why was he at Doug Jones's swearing in?",
"Ahhh, left out the part that didn't fit the ending of your story. Good one.\n\nFunding goes to many places that encourage accepting who you are while not spreading a virus. Art school is a simple one. \n\nHow big is your brush?\nLets play.\n\nIf \"who you are\" knowingly has a virus attached to it, why should we give you money to knowingly possibly/probably contract a virus?\n\nhttps://www.cdc.gov/msmhealth/HIV.htm\nHave fun!\n\nPeople have no issue being who they are without federal resources. \n\nShouldn't we fund not spreading a virus? ",
"There's only one thing that I think he's missing. He calls a bunch of people \"lazy\" but in reality they're in poverty and working hard to survive. As for gang members they're a fringe minority and everyone including actual inner city black people hates them. And he seems to think they \"like\" living in such poverty ridden, run down neighborhoods, which couldn't be further from the truth.",
"But it's also not forced on anyone. It's not law for gays to go to therapy. No one can force a gay man to convert to heterosexuality. ",
"I'm in the dark as well regarding success rates, but I can easily see someone 25 yrs ago saying the same exact thing about gay marriage. I don't think we should look at if the relationships \"work out very often\" to decide the legality of it.\n\nAnd if the Democratic Party picks up the cause, it could flip Utah overnight. As you said, as long as we're dealing with consenting adults, I don't see why It should be illegal.",
"Spoilers",
"Stop being homophobic. Just because he is gay does not mean he always thinks about sex. ",
"Mike Pence has an openly gay son?",
"A DANGLING PARTICIPLE.",
"Wait! Pence has an openly gay son??",
"You can and should vote in your own self interests. That's kind of the point of voting. You elect representatives to who hold your interests in mind when working on legislation. Regardless, it doesn't make you selfish. Because if you're a good person you've probably been thinking of others and doing good deeds the whole time. You shouldn't need the government to do that for you. In fact, I bet you could do a better job at being kind to others than your government can. \n\nI volunteer regularly and donate to charity monthly. I work hard at my job and I treat (almost) everyone with resepect. I almost always vote republican. By your logic I'm a shitty person because my party doesn't currently swing in favor of marriage equality (even though they ARE beginning to come around to it) and I still vote for them. But thinking in this way, not only do you think I'm a shitty person, but everyone voting for the right side of the aisle is a shitty person because they didn't want to compromise all the other issues that were important to them to support the issue that you felt was important to you.\n\nEdit: added an extra sentence.",
"One of the best moments on TV this year hahahahaha",
"Actually it was right wing talk radio in the 90s, followed by Fox News, which sunk political discussion to the level it is at now. When half of the country has been brainwashed into quite literally believing that liberals are enemies of the country actively working to destroy it, there is no moderate discussion to be had with people who support demagogues like Trump. Fortunately, the Fox News chickens are now coming home to roost for conservatives as we're seeing with the schisms in the Republican party. In the meantime, fuck Trump and anyone who supports him.",
"It’s snowed more in the past 8 years in southeastern VA than the 22 before it when he was growing up here. We wouldn’t just “get use to it” because we have nearly 2 million people in the metro area of Hampton Roads and many of those people are in the Navy and former Navy and other military. A huge chunk of our population is transient and doesn’t stay more than 4 years. \n\nNow we have more snow plows than when I grew up, but my city has 1/4 million people and we have 8 trucks that can plow non interstate streets. We are a pretty large city physically and have no counties within a 30 minute drive (7 independent cities with no counties in between)\n\nIt’s a tough spot to be in when it snows and we have 12 inches here today. Shit will probably be closed till Wednesday. ",
"Hi, Just wanted to mention all the teens who have been forced into conversion therapy by their homophobic parents.",
"Look in a bible, maybe? ",
"Mike -follow gods path or feel Tesla's wrath - Pence",
"I don't believe bakers should be required to bake cakes for gay weddings, but it's pretty heinous to be able to fire someone on the sole basis of being gay or being able to deny government services is another.",
"Op had to point out that the people in the pic think about gay sex. Why should that even matter.",
"Yeah, no God fearing American has ever killed or abandoned their child for being gay/trans/whatever. ",
"Damn. Sid Gormley's come a long way! ",
"WIGGUM, YOU UNCULTURED SWINE.",
"hey look. enlightened people can change over time. That stands in contrast to the whataboutums who just try to use hypocrisy as an argument against progress in thinking. \n\nYou cited sources where obama and clinton either improved in their thinking or displayed political realism. As the citizens of the country became more openly accepting, they either changed their position or began to openly talk about their actual position. \n\nIn the meantime, you've done nothing to show that a single christian republican base politician has improved. Why? Because it is all but non existent in the regressive party. Improving isn't their goal. \n Moving backwards at acceptable expense of fucking over other people in favor of money or religious extremism is their goal. Waving the hypocrisy flag by itself and without even understanding the narrative you are actually painting doesn't improve your position. It just highlights the fact that you have nothing interesting to contribute .",
"Actually they don't. They don't hate them, nor do they act that way.\n\nI think Democrats are more hateful towards those identifiable groups simply because they constantly try to use them as political footballs against the Republicans.\n\nAnd did you know that the KKK was an actual official arm of the southern Democrat party? You could not get the Democrat party presidential nomination without the support of the KKK arm of the party. More than 1000 white Republicans were lynched by the KKK along with several thousand blacks.\n\nHistorically, the Republicans have been on the side of the minorities.",
"It’s just gotten worse and worse. Completely non political subs are doing it now. This site is going to die. ",
"Every facial expression in this photo is perfect.",
"Y'know, while it might be potentially misleading, I prefer OP's phrasing. Precisely because it may be misunderstood...",
"I love that reddit has to manipulate these \"feel good\" posts to the front page of default threads, as if it's a way of \"fighting back\"\n\n\nG\n\nE\n\nT\n\nO\n\nV\n\nE\n\nR\n\nI\n\nT",
"And?",
"People can try to argue “I don’t hate gay people, I just don’t think they should have the same rights”, but to me that is bullshit. And it goes beyond just marriage. It includes adoption, it includes other rights that come with marriage. It includes visitation rights for a gay parent. There are many rights that many people on the right are OK with subverting in the name of their religion \n\nSimilarly I imagine in the days of segregation people almost certainly said “I don’t hate black people, I just don’t want them around me or my family”. ",
"I think he's trying to say it wasn't fine for people who directly lost programs like CHIP and DACA. Plus we all lost net neutrality which could fuck us over a year down the line. Those lawsuits are currently blocking the order and I hope they work permanently.\n\nEdit: oh, forgot climate change. We'll probably see increased effects from that down the line too.",
"The point is Pence is labelling gay therapy institutions that encourage accepting your gayness as places that further the spread of HIV. That is some grade A doltish, hate right there. If you can't see that...",
"It’s God’s place to judge people, but if a sinner can be corrected and saved from eternal damnation, then doing so is a moral imperative.",
"I find there’s no shame with changing your belief if you’re swayed by a close one. As for your second question, I couldn’t tell you whic is worse ",
"Whatever *your* dad did to you, I'm so sorry. ",
"Besides, look at Republican reactions to the Obergefell ruling. That spells our their intolerance of gays pretty clearly.",
"Because they are different. ",
"Ehh I suppose that's true. ",
"Nowhere even near the same rate, maybe try defending your original position instead of using your lil whataboutism tactic bud",
"The last 4 elections (mid-term and general) disagree with you. ",
"I don't need to defend anything against your bigotry",
"What's Morticia Addams doing there?",
"That's the way it was in Oregon for a very long time, I guess until recently? I was married to an individual from Oregon for a long time, she told me that the reason it was illegal to pump your own gas in Oregon was because some idiot set themselves on fire while pumping gas, a long time ago. Something about lighting a cigarette while pumping gas. Anyway yeah, I visited the inlaws there once and got out of the car to fill up the tank, the inlaws were puzzled as to why I got out and the guy at the station read me the riot act for touching the pump handle. I was a little confused until it was 'splained to me.",
"Because he used to support electro-shock conversion therapy? I mean, is this some sort of elaborate trolling and I'm just taking the bait? I thought it was common knowledge.",
"Or the next novel from [Chuck Tingle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Tingle) ",
"I’m not saying it isn’t beneficial. I’m saying that in the vein of this conversation, about how Sesame Street helps people connect with minorities in the inner city— it’s not much of an issue that inner city kids won’t learn about themselves through a show.",
"> not \"omelette du fromage\". \n\nomelette du fromage, you say?",
"I'm in Michigan now and I wish I lived somewhere that shut down due to snow. My current boss expects us here no matter how dangerous the roads are. ",
"I love the look he’s giving him. It’s almost as if his gaydar is going off. ",
"http://i.imgur.com/tNJD6oY.gifv \n\n This is a kind reminder that in French we say \"omelette *au* fromage\" and not \"omelette _du_ fromage\". \n\n [Sorry Dexter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW3-9gdjYA)\n\n[Steve Martin](https://youtu.be/DOJDNChwgBw?t=2m49s) doesn't appear to be the most accurate French professor.",
"> sweared \n\nJesus Christ ",
"Pence is a liberal? He's the one who wants to restrict the rights of certain \"categories\" after all...\n\nhttp://time.com/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom/",
"wow, are you gay or something? ",
"I felt brain cells die when I read \"sweared\"",
"Pence seems like the kind of asshole who tries to tickle the palm of your hand with his finger while shaking his hand.",
"Openly gay is a strange turn of phrase. Closeted Gay Is not something you could describe someone as. Realistically. \n\nNobody is gay until they are openly gay. Is there slightly open gay and sometimes gay offshoots. I don’t get it. \n\nIs being gay his defining life characteristic? Why wasn’t he described as Doug Jones quite tall son? Or intelligent son? \n\nWhat am I missing here? ",
"He likes em young. ",
"so you're saying it's not \"omelette du fromage\" then?",
"Pretty sad that you have to sort by \"controversial\" these days to actually see a balanced opinion of things. \n\nTells you everything you need to know about this website and the people who run it. ",
"Heh. First saw it there as well. Walking the high line I bet?",
"http://i.imgur.com/tNJD6oY.gifv \n\n This is a kind reminder that in French we say \"omelette *au* fromage\" and not \"omelette _du_ fromage\". \n\n [Sorry Dexter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW3-9gdjYA)\n\n[Steve Martin](https://youtu.be/DOJDNChwgBw?t=2m49s) doesn't appear to be the most accurate French professor.",
"“Why can’t I see my grandson’s photos? I keep pressing “e” !!!! PLEASE HELP !!!!”",
"As a Canadian: fuckin’ eh, rights, hoser. ",
"The only way Pence changes is if he comes out as gay himself. ",
"Yes, YES! What about those Murricans? What about them ey?",
"He trolled anti-gay mike pence.",
"Safety issue from what I understand - that's the justification I was given a long time ago when visiting Oregon. Still puzzled me though, as long as you're not terminally stupid there's no safety issue.",
"Does it..... does it not?",
"I guess I don’t understand your point. \n\nYour point is that most Muslims (vast majority of them), in countries where Islam is the official religion, think that Homosexuality is a sin? ",
"what's this i hear about \"omelette du fromage\" again?",
"http://i.imgur.com/tNJD6oY.gifv \n\n This is a kind reminder that in French we say \"omelette *au* fromage\" and not \"omelette _du_ fromage\". \n\n [Sorry Dexter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW3-9gdjYA)\n\n[Steve Martin](https://youtu.be/DOJDNChwgBw?t=2m49s) doesn't appear to be the most accurate French professor.",
"I'm not saying the people who bash Pai are uninformed, I'm saying if people focus on insulting Pai rather than on promoting Net Neutrality, it's easier for Pai and the FCC to *claim* people don't really know anything about the policy and just dislike Ajit Pai and dismiss the overwhelming negative response as just \"ad hominem\".",
"Relevant reading:\n\nhttp://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html",
"I think they actually get cussed in. ",
"Is that what T_D told you?",
"In light recent events, I think Pence looks like a genius for this.",
"eh, okay. saying \"omelette du fromage\" to provoke a response from this bot has officially become tiresome.",
"http://i.imgur.com/tNJD6oY.gifv \n\n This is a kind reminder that in French we say \"omelette *au* fromage\" and not \"omelette _du_ fromage\". \n\n [Sorry Dexter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nW3-9gdjYA)\n\n[Steve Martin](https://youtu.be/DOJDNChwgBw?t=2m49s) doesn't appear to be the most accurate French professor.",
"Wait, they have rodeo north of the Mason-Dixon? TIL... \n\n:D \n\nKidding. I've heard of the Calgary Stampede, and I'm not talking about the CFL football team.",
"I am inspired by your hatred of Ajit Pai and resolve to see net Nuetrality restored. I will use \"fuck Ajit Pai\" as a greeting and salutation from now on. \n\nHave a good rest of your week, fuck Ajit Pai ",
">where did you get that quran passage?\n\nI quoted the sahih-bukhari, one of the kutub al-sittah, considered one of the most authentic book after the quran on islamic faith, my mistake to mix it with the other most-authentic-book in the islamic faith.\n\nBut fear not, there is enough intolerance in the quran to compensate:\n\n* It demands that Christians and Jews be fought and brought under submission for their beliefs **[Q 9:29](http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=9&verse=29)**.\n\n* Husbands are allowed to beat their wives if they “fear disobedience\" **[Q 4:34](http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=4&verse=34)**\n\n* Gay people are abhorrent to nature. **[Q 7:80~84](https://quran.com/7/81)**. \n\n* Apostasy laws, including imprisonment or execution, may be imposed on anyone who leaves Islam **[Q 4:88~89](https://quran.com/4/88)**\n\nI am not defending Christianity, just pointing out islam is definitely no better and even objectively worst on current year.",
"The fact you designate whole groups of people as sinners because a book said so is pretty disgusting. ",
"Honestly, the dude looks high",
"The thought that Pence has any kind of issue with gay people is complete nonsense. Even snopes has disputed all that “conversion therapy” crap from 2 decades ago.",
"I love Jones' \"say something, motherfucker, I dare you.\" smile...",
"Wow, when i joked about asking if you understood the distinction, I didn't know you actually wouldn't understand a simple distinction. \n\nFirst of all, are you arguing right now that being silent on a position is the same as changing your mind on that position? There is objective evidence that Pence was anti-gay and was adamantly against Obama's decisions on repealing DADT, refusing to defend DOMA in court, and various other issues. He has never, ever said or done anything since then that would make someone think he has changed his position to being pro-LGBT. Are you saying that anything Pence has been silent on over the last year, we can assume he changed his position on? That's a really weird argument to make.\n\nSecond, once again it's not hypocrisy to acknowledge that someone made changes in their political positions and support those changes. The links you provided literally prove my point, they're all before Obama and Clinton changed their platforms. Literally the point I was making is that they publicly changed their platforms, while Pence has not.\n\nNext, you tell me to do my homework, but you didn't even bother to do a quick google search on Ellison? Ellison's home page on this issue literally says \"I believe in expanding marriage rights and responsibilities to same-sex couples and to have those marriages recognized by other states and the federal government. I strongly support repealing the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, which actively denies marriage rights and recognition to same-sex couples.\" [Here's the link since I doubt you'll google it yourself.](https://ellison.house.gov/issues/civil-and-human-rights/gay-lesbian-bisexual-and-transgender-equality)\n\n[Here is also Ellison's voting record on the issues in case you think his site is misleading](http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Keith_Ellison.htm)\n\nNow it's certainly possible that Ellison is anti-same sex marriage on a personal/religious level, but like Tim Kaine said during the VP debates, having a personal opinion about an issue such as same sex marriage doesn't mean you publicly vote that way because there is a difference between your personal views and what is right for the public.\n\nNext you attribute everything that was pro-lgbt under the Obama administration to the Supreme Court, which is nonsense. in 2009, Obama signed an anti-gay bullying act into law. That had nothing to do with SCOTUS. In 2009 Obama also issued a directive, the provisions of which were also implemented in the ACA. That was also before any SCOTUS decision. in 2010 Obama repealed DADT, that was also pre-SCOTUS decision. In 2011, Obama announced that the justice department would no longer defend DOMA. in 2014, Obama signed an executive order prohibiting employment discrimination based on one's sexuality. I think that's more than enough to disprove your claim that everything that was pro-LGBT was done by SCOTUS and not Obama (not to mention that Obama appointed justices to SCOTUS who he knew had pro-LGBT stances, but that's another conversation all together).\n\nYour last comment again makes no sense. I don't actually understand what you're trying to say. Pence gets blasted by people who disagree with his positions, and his supporters get blasted because they support a politician who holds certain positions. Just like how Obama and Clinton get blasted by people who oppose their positions and their supporters get blasted for supporting Obama and Clinton who have positions that their opponents disagree with. I, for example, voted for Obama, didn't agree with him 20% of the time, but did agree with him 80% of the time. I agreed less with McCain in 2008 and I agreed less with Romney in 2012, so I supported Obama. If a republican came out with more liberal stances than what Obama held, I would have supported that republican. What does your last sentence even mean? You just keep moving the goal posts further and further away from the original conversation.\n\nAnd, if you're looking for anti-LGBT positions from Pence, I don't think you need to look farther than his VP debate with Kaine. His literal platform during the 2016 election was that marriage is only between a man or a woman. Since being elected, he has neither said nor done anything to contradict this position. So I don't understand why you think I need to show he continues to hold that position. are you aware of statements he's made where he said he now supports same sex marriage and is against discrimination based on one's sexuality? Because I haven't heard those statements.\n\nTo summarize, apparently you don't understand the difference between politicians who used to hold anti-LGBT positions who have since changed their position and have passed actual legislation in support of their new platform, and a politician who held and anti-LGBT position in the past, and has remained silent on the issue for a little over a year. Apparently you also think that when someone is silent on an issue after having a history of having a specific issue on that issue, it somehow becomes his opponent's responsibility to prove that he continues to maintain his position, and not his supporter's job to show evidence that he changed his position. I wasn't aware that someone had to actually prove the status quo is still the status quo, but okay.",
"Christ certainly didn't love Sin and would rebuke anyone who didn't discriminate against Sin. He would side with the people who discriminate against committing a Sinful act, which supporting a gay union would be. \nAlso, these people aren't using their religion to discriminate. They're choosing not to take part in something they deem Sinful. ",
"r/goodbandnames",
"Seriously, what's the thought process here? Whenever I'm driving 94 or any freeway it's also always trucks or SUVs that are on their sides in a ditch or plastered against the trees. Apparently four wheel drive actually doesn't help when you're going 60 with snow and black ice. Crazy innit?\nAlso, nothing more bizarre than seeing someone try to pass you in real heavy snow and then they just keep going right on off the road cause they can't see shit lol",
"You're all over this thread spraying your salty tears. ",
"So a picture of Queen Elizabeth probably isn’t a good idea either?",
"You know Mike Pence went home and did a \"Crying Game\" shower scene after being so close to a gay.",
"It does, but no one bothers motorcyclists who fuel up on their own.",
"As he was sworn in he threw in a couple of fucks here and there. ",
"Can confirm. My family has been very outspoken on their views of the matter. I came out a month ago and you'd think they'd been marching in Pride protests for decades. It's amazing what love (and a little guilt) can do.",
"You are absolutely being disingenuous.\n\nAbove you said \"His exact words were that homosexual marriage triggers 'societal collapse.'\"\n\nIf you read his exact words, however, that's not what he said. He says that societal collapse follows a deterioration of marriage and family. He never mentions homosexual marriage being a cause of that, and he is spot on that strong families make a strong society.\n\n",
"That grin. That shiteatibg grin says it ALL. \n\n.\n\nThis put a warm smile on my face on an otherwise frigid snowy day",
"N'oubliez pas les *saucisses*.",
"I'm sorry I still don't see that as wrong. If I own a business I believe I should be able to refuse payment to my employees if I want. The alternative is to say you are being forced to do something against your will.\n\nDo you agree? ",
"It’s almost like Republicans aren’t capable of empathy. ",
"He can see the rainbow colored aura coming off of Pence's brow",
"> Marriage isn't a right\n\nI mean, the freedom to GET married is. It certainly is now.",
"Mike Pence seems like a True Believer. I think he would go full puritan and, lacking the legal authority to stone his son or daughter, would instead banish them from the family and demand nobody else in his family speaks of them again. \n\nI get the sense Dick Cheney didn't *really* care about homosexuality before, and Newt was holding a party line. I get a *very* different vibe from Mike Pence.",
"Swornded",
">No, I don't like other races. Does that make me racist?\n\nYes",
"The comment that was in response to said it’s possible to win the nomination without supporting gay marriage. In context, “things change” is basically “not anymore”.\n\n",
"I mostly agree with you here. We all want the same thing. A prosperous country to live in. We might disagree on how to get there, but that's why we vote for people who represent the issues that are important to us so we can reach legislative compromises....this aspect of our society is....errr....struggling at the moment. But a return to good discourse is never impossible.",
"Lol right sure buddy",
"This should not still be a thing. \n\nMost sane people in the Western world don’t care anymore. \n\nWhen it happens in Saudi Arabia it will be time to be shocked. ",
"If you think Clinton changed her mind out of progressive views and NOT to appeal to a progressive shift in her voter base in an attempt to get more votes, you need to go re watch her almost robotic mimicking of Bernie's stances once he became a real threat.",
"I designate everyone as sinners.",
"I love the look on Pence's face, horrified that he has to be so close to a gay man and he had to swear in a Democrat. ",
"Does Seasme street have transgender individuals or is it transphobic?",
"and than they changed it to sissyboy",
"Christ, what a typical reddit circlejerk. Perfect opportunity to take a single picture and create some sort of story to explain *exactly* what each person is doing and thinking that will perfectly confirm our biases. Jones' son is *totally* staring down Pence, who is *obviously seething* in anger at having a gay in his presence! Or maybe he's looking at his mother as they share a \"Fuck you Pence\" moment. Let's bash Republicans everybody! \n\nOr...[we can look at the video of the ceremony](https://streamable.com/rhafx) and see that it looks completely normal, everyone was cordial, and the screenshot was simply taken at the perfect time for a narrative to be built around it. \n\nBut hey, this is reddit, right? Where anything can be spun into anything we like. I prefer [this picture](https://i.imgur.com/XAfPZtd.png), which clearly illustrates that Jones' son is an outsider to a group, and someone his father likes to mock and laugh at in public. Weird how we can take any still/photo and read whatever we want into it, right?",
"Is it me, or does Mike look like he's trying to Jedi mind trick the gay dude, who is fighting back with his own considerable mental powers?",
"The original title made perfect sense the first time I read it. Yours confused me a bit but I got it anyway. So I’m gonna say no",
"Been there. They had to put those anti-theft screws in all the signs entering (har har har) or leaving Fucking. They also have cameras. They got tired of fucking Americans stealing their fucking Fucking signs.",
"It all starts at the local level so consider getting active in your local government! There's positions available all the time, they won't always be for education policy, but you can make a difference somewhere.",
"So do you think \"trailer park heroin addicts\" have the resources to go across town to the needle exchange? What if the needle exchange is closed? If you think these people are too dumb and impatient to wait for more money why would they wait all night to go get new needles?",
"Clearly you haven't spent much time here. We like to get angry and yell over dumb things, especially in situations where a quiet rebuke would suffice. Why be polite when you can be loud and obnoxious? It's just a Jersey thing.",
"Rob Portman, Ohio Republican Senator is the same way. Supports gay rights as of a few years ago because his son came out.",
"I typed out a bunch of different responses, but none of them could adequately point out just how stupid your question is.",
"i'd feel the same tbh.",
"What a hero!",
"Dont get me wrong, I love all the “zap-em-straight pence” memes, but there is a certain civility that must be maintained in politics (usually 🙄), and Pence does usually show that. Even if you don’t agree with him, he is rather mild. Unlike other politicians that I won’t name",
"> And I agree with him.\n\nI find it hard to believe anyone on the planet has ever been influenced by your opinion, so I guess it doesn't matter?",
"Millenials don't know how to spill ",
"Sports is a bit tribalistic but I like to think I reduced that influence in my personal life by cheering for players, not teams.",
"They do the same thing on healthcare when they get sick. ",
"He’s a teen distortion,\n\nSurvived abortion\n\nA rebel from the waste doooown",
"Sick argument! Way to out yourself as a typical hypocrite soft boy",
">Your point is that most Muslims (vast majority of them), in countries where Islam is the official religion, think that Homosexuality is a sin?\n\nNo, my point is that the vast majority of muslims world-wide think homosexuality is unacceptable, ***a crime punishable with jail or death*** and their political system uses these religious beliefs to enforce this.\n\nIt would be a big leap towards progress if it was just \"a sin\" for them.",
"r/accidentalrenaissance",
"But doug is a christian, just not the total dick kind of christian mike is. ",
"He seriously looks like he was having a stroke. I was wondering why nobody was checking to see if he was okay.",
"The stink eye",
"I agree. Small business owners get to choose who they do business with. If you go to a Muslim food store, you can't demand they stock and sell you pork.\n\nThere should be all kinds of legal protections in place for arbitrary firings. Why haven't the Dems put anything in place? Bill and Barrack were in office for a sum total of 16 years. A lot of states have had Democrat governors and govts. Why did they not do anything of any substance to help these and other groups by passing appropriate protective laws?\n\nBut also... where has govt services been denied anyone for being gay? I'm not aware of any instances. Except for maybe that one nutbag that refused to issue a gay marriage permit or whatever the hell she did.\n\nMost states allow employers to fire people for any reason they want. Or for no reason. So it's not as if there are many protections at all for workers in general. So it wouldn't surprise me that there are no such protections for gays. Why have the Democrat legislators not done more?",
"Was that English?\n\n",
"To be fair, they should be representing the consensus of the party. I have no problem with changing views to follow popular demand on an issue like this. It's when they pretend that they always felt this way or deny their positions in the past that gets me. ",
"Can you point to a single person who believes that?",
"So many people here are proud of that \"quote\" for some stupid reason. As a New Jerseyian, it makes me cringe every time I hear someone say that.",
"That gay son is eye fucking the shit out of Pence.",
"In the *NA*VY!",
"This! This is extremely misleading and annoying in headlines!",
"ah yes Mike \"you touch the cock you get the shock\" Pence",
"I looked in the bible, it happened 2 thousand years ago, not in 2015~2018.\n\n\n\n**Again:**\n\nShow me christian countries/doctrine that on \"current year\" as liberals say allow:\n\n* Hang gay people in public executions. \n* Stone women (rape victims too) to death.\n* Call for the murder of non-believers.\n* Murder people that draw jesus.\n* Imprison people for not being christian.\n\nI'll wait.\n\n",
"> would rebuke anyone who didn't discriminate against Sin\n\nNo, he wouldn't. He would tell you to forgive and love, period. ",
"Pence had to be this close to a woman that's not his wife *AND* a gay? He had to do a lot of praying after this.",
"I know these are happy stories but it’s still appalling to me that someone in public office doesn’t have the critical thinking skills to empathize with others who are not their immediate family. Like the infamous “Would you want someone to do that to *your* daughter” etc. Why is it our responsibility to remind politicians that other humans exist besides them? And that *gasp* their job is to listen to and represent those people, NOT treat them like subhumans?",
">It adds layers to the complexity of this nations in ability to give LGBT the same rights and privileges as everybody else. \n\nWhat rights do gay people not have?\n\n\n>Pence is a homosexual fucktard so it brings me some joy that fucktards like him are slowly having to face ( literally face ) the very people that are against and know they are losing. \n\nProof?\n\n>A Dem politician with an openly gay son was elected. Think about rage that Pence must have 😂 \n\nWhy would he care? He probably didn't give it a srcomd thought. Hell, he might not have even known.\n",
"HBO is pretty freakin awesome. ",
"That's definitely not what I think - I think Clinton would change her views at the drop of a hat to reflect whatever she felt would get her votes. I'm simply explaining why many people cut her a break compared to Pence.",
"These people seem to believe the ignorant rhetoric that conservatives hate gays.\n\nNone of these things would be surprising to you if you stopped listening to liberals who decide that they can choose conservative motives for their choices. \n\nWhat? Conservatives don't hate black people because we are against the welfare state? What?! Conservatives aren't for making birth control inaccessible cause Jesus?!\n\nIt's ridiculous the stereotype thrown around. ",
"Remember alchemy? Fuck, I’m gold",
"I'm happy to hear they chose to love and support their families rather than disown or shame them. \n\nIt can be hard to change your mind on something that you believed in so strongly. Sure, it would be nice if they had changed their minds before it became a personal issue. \n\nI'm friends with too many gay people who have broken or nonexistent relationships with family due to something as trivial as sexual preference. \n\nGood on them for realizing that being gay doesn't change who their loved one is, it is just another part of who they are that they chose to share with you.",
"Could be r/accidentalrenaissance",
"Doug Jones left hanging by Mike Pence next to his openly gay son. ",
"*Sworn in",
"Fuck Mike Pence",
"No, but why (try to) ban patriotic Americans from serving for no reason?",
"The irony in this comment is breathtaking. ",
"Links?",
"[How gay guys experience lesbians.](https://youtu.be/j3kyeOUrdS4)",
">No one's \"forcing\" multiculturalism. If people don't like other races then they're by definition racists and can move somewhere else if they want. \n\nWhat if they hate all races equally. Believes no one race is better than the other, but they all suck?",
"Why can't he just be \"his son\"? Why does he have to be \"openly gay son\"? \n",
"Works the same way with racism too. It’s amazing how someone’s perspective changed when they have a legitimate friend of another race or religion. ",
"No, he's thinking of the 100 anti-LGBT bills introduced this year by Congressional Republicans.\nhttps://www.hrc.org/blog/100-anti-lgbtq-bills-introduced-in-2017\n",
"> You ever talk to anyone who pumps gas for a living? Like legit that's their job for several years? Generally nice folks but dim as they come without needing direct state assistance.\n> \n> \n\nOne of the local attendants is exactly like that. Genuinely nice dude, always remembers me when I come in, but he's not right. Like, I don't think he'd be able to hack it doing something like bagging groceries. Maybe he could work as a shelf stocker or something, but I doubt there are a lot of opportunities open to him.",
"\"sweared\"",
"Depends. Does your voter base randomly burst out into a beatbox version of God Save the Queen?",
"As people, it’s important to recognize the difference between a religion in the form of its original text, the religion as people practice it, and the religion as a theocracy perverts it. The Torah, Bible, and Quran all have very extreme and deadly passages. One would be hard pressed to find a religion or civilization that has not gone to war for their clan. However, just as there are a million different kinds of Christians, there are a million different kinds of Muslims. You can’t compare a devout Mormon to a secular Christian who maybe celebrates Christmas and Easter. You can’t compare an haredi Orthodox Jew to a modern Reform Jew. The same applies to Muslims. Religion has caused a lot of mayhem in the world and a lot of good. I can’t say whether it as a whole has a net good or bad in the world. It’s just something that exists that we all have to come to terms with. Democrats saying don’t hate a person because of their religion are only observing the constitutional right to practice whatever you like. That doesn’t mean they don’t have a problem with individual passages or practices that are bad. ",
"\"Putting that OG smell on your son\"",
"Dangling participle.",
"I’m a conservative Christian. I have many gay friends who are reps and dems. They know that I believe homosexuality is a sin, but that I don’t look down my nose at them. We have mutual respect and we all get along. It happens more often than you think.",
"I was expecting a skinny guy wearing prosthetics.",
"Because Mike Pence is very anti LGBT",
"And can we take a minute to talk about how unattractive his dad is? (sorry, Doug Jones) \n\nThat boy is one miracle of genetics. ",
"Remember headers? **Fuck, I'm bold**",
"Mary Magdalene was a whore. Judas Ischariot was an assassin. The definition of sin is literally to miss the mark. Think a game of darts. If you miss the bullseye, technically it is sinful. That's why modern Christianity recognizes all people as sinners. Christ didn't necessarily love sin, he Loved sinners though, and accepted them for who they were and forgave them because they didn't really even know any better. It is not the place of any Christian to discriminate about sin. That is between a person and their particular convictions, as made clear in the new testament.\n\nEDIT: Corrected mistake about Simon the Zealot",
"whataboutism",
"Which views? I want to see if I'm missing anything other views of his",
"Yep! It was on this huge torn up poster and I thought it was the punkest thing ever lol",
"I dared to drive through NYC with Mississippi plates. It was a remarkable experience. It seems everyone who noticed felt the need to yell at me about something. (And I was hauling ass/running yellow lights with the rest of them.)",
"Many, sure, but not most.\n\nhttp://abcnews.go.com/Politics/log-cabin-republicans-gop-party-platform-anti-lgbt/story?id=40564850",
"Getting ganked by a level 19 is typical, getting ganked by a level 10 makes you question your life up to that point",
"> Weird how only one is considered hateful. \n\nreally? You've never browsed /r/atheism before, huh?",
"If you will have one on one meetings with male co-workers but not female coworkers, that is discrimination. ",
"That's my dream career.",
"Even more pathetically, neither can you. ;) Get over it already.",
"Actually, More was being satirical--a claim that \"Utopia\" is nowhere because perfection does not exist. Now it's become the norm to use the words synonymously, but they aren't quite the same yet! The evolution of language is awesome.\n\nEutopia/Utopia https://imgur.com/gallery/2lMkL",
"Smells like denial ",
"Who cares. Why are you guys so homophobic?",
"TBH, the statement says nothing about gays. The Ryan White Care Act supports ALL people living with HIV. \n\nYou're assuming it's about gays because you know the virus does go along with gays. My previous link it supports your assumption. \n\nSo, since the virus goes with gayness(your word, kinda hateful too,) what is wrong with spending money on people who have chosen to not partake in the future spread of the virus?\n\nHate HIV? Who doesn't? \n\nI don't want my tax money supporting the spread of HIV. ",
"Though, Dick Cheney has another daughter in Congress who has remained staunchly anti-equality.",
"[Here is a nice compilation](https://www.vox.com/2015/6/26/8851381/gay-marriage-republican-responses).",
"I came here just to find this comment",
"You can't just say that and not link it! ",
"This subreddit is garbage now, everybody is always crapping on the right, i thought this was supposed to make fun of boh sides.",
"To be fair to you it can be more dangerous if it's the first rain in a while; a lot of oil has had time to build up on the roads. Whereas if it's raining all the time it's getting washed away.",
"The irony here is so strong.",
"I'm pretty sure Mike pence has a raging lady boner. ",
"I was listening to a conversation between women who thought it was weird a guy they knew was bisexual but we're cool with the idea of a woman bieng bisexual.\n\nWhen I told them that's a huge double standard they simply looked at me like I was secretly gay. Cause you know, there's no logic in my statement.",
"Sounds like Ohio and Oklahoma lawmakers should hang out.",
"His son is a Navy jet pilot — some of the gayest guys I’ve ever worked with.",
"The way he's undressing Mike with his googly eyes you can tell he's a geezer pleaser.",
"This is America, people with different opinions having different success. Most importantly in their county they can have a right to their opinion and not be oppressed. This in a weird way, is the way it out to be, as they say, God Bless everyone no exceptions!",
"> He may or may not hold connections to the KKK\n\n\nLol that is such a shitty accusations. \n\nYou may or may not hold connections to the KKK...",
"r/titlegore",
"Ctrl+B. Fuck I'm **bold**.",
"r/AccidentalRenaissance\n\n",
"What is the point? You act like anyone who doesn't support gay marriage has a deep burning hatred for any homosexual.",
"It would be hilarious if his son wasn't actually gay, he's just a weird virgin.",
"CALL ME ALABAMA!!",
">He let an HIV epidemic grow to epic proportions when he was governor of Indiana before permitting \"emergency\" needle exchange programs to formalize. Just off the top of my head.\n\nIsn't something similar happening in California now? Lowering the penality for KNOWINGLY giving someone HIV.",
"You people are so fucking petty it's retarded. It's just a swearing in, not a gotcha moment. ",
"This is very /r/AccidentalRenaissance, some good Caravaggio lighting.",
"Shitty states trying to create jobs. Oregon has no export, it's a shit hole. ",
"> People should be able to deny service to whoever they want.\n\nYeah, segregation was great! ",
"Worst part about American politics right now is I actually thought, “damn, Pense’s son is gay. Not surprised but I feel bad for the kid”",
"Hope Mother was nearby to prevent Mike Pence from catching the gay.",
"Did you seriously try to say that fucking HBO is out of reach for “minorities” and simultaneously lump us in with poor people? Lol, and I bet you think you aren’t racist right? I’ll happily compare paychecks with you, and any “white hipster” working for that min wage at a coffee shop.",
"Yep, recently had an infection which pretty much killed my sense of smell completely. I couldn't taste anything. I could tell if something was supposed to be salty or supposed to be sweet, but it was a different sensation than taste with smell.",
"MIKE JONES. ",
"Absolutely!\n\nI screenshot a good dictionary (OED is my favorite), and it explains the satirical nature of \"Utopia\" just as you have. Maybe More would think it's funny that people have dropped the \"e\" and are constantly being accidentally satirical when they are describing something they find infallible! I think it's funny.\n\nEutopia/Utopia https://imgur.com/gallery/2lMkL",
"I've definitely had a few of THOSE\n omelettes.",
"Suck it Pence",
"There’s also so much fucked up shit in the Bible. I went to a religious school and was required to study it, and that was the nail in the coffin for my short religious life. \n\nFor a true Christian, I really think that following the Bible to the letter is criminal. Ultimately it is the word of man, and it is flawed. But like the sad individuals who cling to every word of the constitution like it was etched in stone by god himself, these people can’t think critically enough to loosen their grip on the words of men before them. While I do not believe in god, I support those who do while understanding that their religious life is their business and not something to be thrust on others. ",
"Most of bigoted behavior can be boiled down to fear responses. People don’t really care about much at all until it seems to threaten them—“my taxes are being spent on X?!”, “Schools will talk to my kids about X?!”—and they react until they feel they are in control and away from danger.\n\nThere’s been a lot of research that shows people identify more with family, people of similar looks (including but not limited to skin color), people with similar accents, and so on. The more they remind you of You, the more likely you will unconsciously read them as friend instead of foe—and vice versa. Anyone that reads as particularly foreign, we don’t always unconsciously interpret them to be real and fully human.\n\nThe real trouble starts when people have described outsiders (in stories, jokes, tropes, political statements, and more) as less than human, or worse, as something that evokes a disgust response. The Nazis described Jews as vermin, a disease to be cleansed, the Hutus described Tutsis as cockroaches. If you associate anything with disease and filth, you are going to avoid it more unconsciously *even if you don’t believe it*, and are more likely to be violent and oppressive if you do. So, the way people treat LGBT issues (transgender issues especially), talking about it in terms of hiding away unbecoming behavior, of how it’s “unnatural,” how children shouldn’t be exposed to even the idea, and that you can “catch” it, but it’s not something you would want to be—all of that reinforces a mentality that it’s “unclean,” which makes it easier to treat “unclean” people as less than human with no regret.",
"How lonely is your moms basement?",
"Nothing is wrong with it, just dont see how being gay is an accomplishment ",
"No, but his imaginary boyfriend is.",
"Yup, you just found one of the main weaknesses of the English language. ",
"Right? Like, it's cold, it's rainy, I have nice work clothes on, I still need to eat this bagel and I don't have time to stop at the restroom to wash off the grime that's gonna get on my hands...\n\nPlus, everyone here is talking about how long it takes for the attendant to fuel them up. The only time I've had to wait more than 30 seconds was when I was on the Turnpike at one of those rest stop stations, and it's not really fair to judge *anything* by the quality you get at a Turnpike rest stop.",
"I have to assume you are being willfully obtuse. No institution was encouraging the spread of HIV. That is how Pence is choosing to describe institutions that encourage gay people to accept who they are.",
">Dude if the name of the porno is \"Two guys have sex for the first time with each other but their both straight so it's not gay\" then it's not actually gay\n\n\n> their\n\n\nthey're*",
"And you do exactly what I'm talking about. If you know what I'm talking about without me attaching color, guess what...\n\nI've dealt with just about every gang you mentioned there. I also addressed that in a roundabout way in my original post.\n\nWhat I have a problem with are shitballs trying to come off as bad asses and trying to be something they saw in some movie or TV show.\n\nAs I said before, I have no problem with any particular race. What I have a problem with is any sub segment of any race that tries, and succeeds, in being \"badasses\" by emulating what ever gang lifestyle they choose to admire.\n\nThe fact you turn it into something racist does nothing but strengthen my point.\n\nHere, I'll give you another example. Gays. I'm friends with someone that is a pretty well known and prominent person in the gay scene in Indiana (I am not going to say more to avoid naming that person or doxxing myself.) He and I have the same opinion about two things but I'm a bigot for having my opinions and he's \"allowed\".\n\nI have zero issues with homosexuals. I do however have a problem with people being obnoxious about it and running around being overtly sexual in front of kids AND adults for the sake of saying \"look at me! I'm queer!\"\n\nWell congrats. Glad it took leather and overt stereotype strengthening behavior to feel better about yourself. Same as thugs and gangbanger wannabes, you're just being an asshole.\n\nHe's also a legal immigrant. He, like me, dislikes illegal immigrants that bypass all 5he steps it takes to be legal. Why should he have had to go through all the bullshit that he did to be legal when others get a free pass? Again, people abusing the system. But, I'm a bigot that hates immigrants even though it's explicitly clear that I don't care where you are from so long as you are doing it legal.\n\nGo ahead and judge me all you want. It doesn't change that I'm not a bigot but it does prove that you can't come up with anything but \"well you're obviously a bigot\". ",
"Umm actually most white Americans are poor, and HBO is cheap anyway.",
"No, you don't hear the press reporting it anymore because the election is over. Do you think these women were just going to spend the rest of their lives doing tv interviews about their sexual assaults or trauma? They only got air time because what they had to share was important at the time for voters. ",
"Awkward!!!",
"> I don't like other races\n\nDude, we don't want to call you racist, but if you actually don't like other races, we don't have another choice. That's the exact definition of being a racist. Whether you respect their personal space or not, the facts still remain that you discriminate against them in one way or another. I'm more curious as to why you limp together all members of other races into the same group and decide you \"don't like them\". Everyone should be judged on their individual beliefs, not what their skin color or family's background is.",
"Because he’s a liberal who’s definitely not racist at all.",
"Hahaha. What irony. Thanks for your comment. Today is a travel day for me. I’ll be chuckling about this for hours. ",
"\"Sweared\"?",
"Yes we are. Mike pence has such a complete lack of self control that he can't be around other women. That deserves to be mocked relentlessly",
"I still think you don't understand the opposing viewpoint. Most people believe that the LGBT community should enjoy the same privileges from the state as anyone else, but many people also disagree that those privileges should be connected to state-licensed marriages -between anyone- because that results in communities needing to endorse any and all relationships that could possibly be construed as marriage in order for everyone to have equal rights.",
"Shockingly, a lot of gay people hate Pence quite a bit. I think the fuck you stare is pretty fitting.",
"[No, I found you.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=d545PS_AkOw)",
"But that's the thing, the bill was too broad. A doctor could turn someone away and not face consequences till later. And it set up the precedent that gay people could be discriminated against.\n\nIt also made things confusing because Fort Wayne has a provision for LGBT people on our books and we didn't know how the law would effect it.",
">Yeah people tried to say that Bill Clinton was looking at Ivanka during Trumps swearing in. \n\nIt is Bill....",
"I'm not saying like it's not a good reason. This is what you're inferring. It shouldn't be the ONLY reason. Not being able to think from any other perspective but your own is definition of selfishness. Any enlightened person, one with an open mind, or intellectually curious person is able to fathom and conceive what it might be like from another person's point of view who isn't himself. It's called empathy. Many people lack it. And this is also why most people are shit. ",
"Yeah, don't do that. Same thing with that NSFW post.",
"I'll simplify it. I dislike assholes. When said assholes just happen to be of a race different from mine, that doesn't make me a bigot. It just makes me someone that dislikes arrogant assholes. ",
"Black vote = fuckery?",
"My facebook lacks diversity because I'm not friends with people from a state I've never been to?",
"That's what it looks like. I frantically looked it up thinking that surely people as wholesome as Sesame Street wouldn't exclusively be on HBO. I'm glad I was right :) ",
"Oh of course there are differences between religious \"holy texts\" and how people practice it.\n\nBut the big difference is that Christian countries are not theocracies, while plenty of Islamic countries are, with a big number of muslims world-wide that are perfectly fine with that. \n\n'Liberals' and plenty of democrats falsely believe these people don't want to uphold all their holy texts bigotry, when they really want:\n\n* **[40% of British Muslims want Shariah law.](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1510866/Poll-reveals-40pc-of-Muslims-want-sharia-law-in-UK.html)**\n* **[65% of European Muslims believe that Shariah law is more important than the law of the country they reside in.](https://www.wzb.eu/sites/default/files/u6/koopmans_englisch_ed.pdf)**\n* **[European Muslims are 750% more likely to be fundamentalists than Christians.](https://www.wzb.eu/sites/default/files/u6/koopmans_englisch_ed.pdf)**\n* **[45% of European Muslims believe that Jews cannot be trusted.](https://www.wzb.eu/sites/default/files/u6/koopmans_englisch_ed.pdf)**\n* **[60% of Europe Muslims are explicitly homphobic. This is not due to poverty or education.](https://www.wzb.eu/sites/default/files/u6/koopmans_englisch_ed.pdf)**\n* **[28% of British Muslims would like for Britain to become a fundamentalist Islamic state.](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/many-british-muslims-put-islam-first/)**\n* **[68% of British Muslims support criminalizing criticism of Islam.](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/many-british-muslims-put-islam-first/)**\n* **[Only 3% of British Muslims support free speech.](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/many-british-muslims-put-islam-first/)**\n* **[62% of Canadian Muslims want Shariah law.](http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/01/strong-support-for-shariah-in-canada)**\n\nI am only quoting polls in the west, if add in the middle east the list grows a lot.",
">Dick Cheney has a lesbian daughter who was out during the campaign. ** He actively supported the legalization of gay marriage** despite Republicans being against it, and his daughter married her now-wife whom she was dating while he was in office.\n>\n\nMore like he just kept his mouth shut on the issue.",
"Yes, nobody ever interpreted the Bible in ways telling them to kill gays/anyone opposed to them including other Christians...",
"You know... I’m starting to see that and I’m okay with it. I too am loud and obnoxious and like to yell over dumb things. ",
"It was a funny comment about many of these homophobes being closet homosexuals. Lighten up bud.",
"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand what is so ironic.",
"I’m not saying it isn’t \n\nI said it’s not as bad as you made it seem. He’s not excluding women like you said \n\nIt’s also not entirely his fault or unreasonable. Don’t be so quick to blame ",
"With Jones in office you can bet our kids are going to have to start taking Gay Ed in grade school now!!",
"Yes, but next time your nose is clogged are you willing to take a bite out of a raw onion to confirm that?\n\nI’m not. ",
"If it's inclement weather sometimes I'll give them a dollar or two for some hot coffee, but honestly not that often. It's the same way I'll give landscape guys some cold water or juice if it's really hot out.",
"Good thing we have to identify everyone who's gay as gay so everyone knows. How progressive of you reddit. ",
"If it hasn't been said yet, this should totally be posted in r/accidentalrenaissance",
"That has to be one of the stupidest statements in this thread.",
"How miserable is your existence? You have to insult someone instead of proving your claims. Feels over reals am I right?",
"Mike Pence is sitting at the dinner table eating, and his son walks in. He says dad I have something to tell you, and you're going to be shocked. Mike Pence says what is it son? He said well dad I'm gay. Mike Pence laughs and says I thought you said I was the one going to be shocked. ",
"\nBut the media keeps telling me if you don’t support blacks voting then you hate blacks! ",
"Sorry bud. I'm not gonna read a short story's worth of bullshit. Still can't provide sources to show pence is anti-LGBT since campaigning or assuming office. Can't show anything he has done to further the issue. Can't show anything Obama has done to help those communities with action via executive order or legislation (note that the exec. order you mentioned applied only to companies contracting with the federal government). LOL. Same applies to hillary. \n\nI knew you wouldn't. In conclusion, my favorite quote (projection) from your above comment.\n\n>You just keep moving the goal posts further and further away from the original conversation.\n\nBut keep going. I'm enjoying watching you whine about the valid comment showing your hypocrisy.",
"> it includes other rights that come with marriage\n\nSo yeah, it's still about marriage.\n\n>People can try to argue “I don’t hate gay people, I just don’t think they should have the same rights”\n\nDid you read my example?\n\n>If person wants law which prohibits people with high risk of addiction (based on family tree or something) from ever drinking alcohol, it doesn't mean they hate them.\n\nIn this example, person would restrict someone's right to drink alcohol, because he thinks it's sinful and promoting more alcohol abuse. While not hating them. In same way, these people want restrict access to sinful behavior as well. And my example is even a bit in your favor, since in my example the laws are targeting specific people, but with anti-gay marriage laws, those laws are applied to everyone (even though it obviously in 99,99% cases affects gay people).\n\nThere's not necessary any hate against gay people, to hate gay marriage (i.e. thing viewed as sin).",
"You are honestly asking what rights LGBT people don’t have ? ",
"Rob Portman, senator from Ohio, did the same thing, iirc. It's uncanny. ",
"That would be an odd position to take...They themselves would belong to one of the races they hatred.\n\nIt would depend on how they treated the races. If they still were nice to everyone, not that big a deal. Otherwise, they'd just be your typical asshole, but for racial reasons.",
"> difference of opinion\n\nYou guys always have a really inclusive idea of what counts as 'just having an opinion\"",
"It's always easier to be a POS to people you don't have to face.",
"Eh i don't know. I am a married woman, I got out to dinner with groups or individual women co workers. \n\nI go out with groups or individual gay coworkers.\n\nI would never go out to dinner with a male co worker unless it was in a group.\n\nI'm not all weird and worried about being near men that aren't my husband, and I'm sure he wouldn't care who I was hanging out with. But it just seems wrong? \n\nWork related or casually, going to dinner with a male coworker seems weird to me.\n\n",
"Christians are trying to do the same thing.\n\nIf they weren't, there wouldn't have been LGBTQ controversy in politics. how many anti-trans and anti-gay bills, and bigoted Congress people have you people put into office because they're members of the same God Squad?\n\nDo unto others my little whataboutist. Do unto others.",
"Eutopia/Utopia https://imgur.com/gallery/2lMkL\n\nHere's a good comparison. (I'm on my phone and not great with Reddit, so this link is probably being overused. My apologies.)\n\nBut yes, they are different. The \"e\" has been dropped over time, but they were intentionally different. \n\nMore was being satirical--as in, as perfect place does not exist. (It's all explained in the link and I have faith in your ability to read.)\n\nIf you like words, you should invest in a subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary. It's the BEST, in my humble opinion, for tracing this sort of thing.\n\nI think it's cool, but I'm lame and fall asleep early and wear aloe socks, so I can't say I know what's cool. I can say, though, that they are different, and that I'm holding on to that \"e\" for dear life! ",
"The thousands of people who upvoted this clearly do",
"\"A leprechaun tells me to burn things\"",
"> That stands in contrast to the whataboutums who just try to use hypocrisy as an argument against progress in thinking.\n\nI don't think you understand \"progress in thinking\" much less basic logic.\n\n>You cited sources where obama and clinton either improved in their thinking or displayed political realism. As the citizens of the country became more openly accepting, they either changed their position or began to openly talk about their actual position.\n\nYou mean FLOPPED? LOLOLOLOL! Can you possibly be more obtuse?\n\n>In the meantime, you've done nothing to show that a single christian republican base politician has improved. Why? Because it is all but non existent in the regressive party. Improving isn't their goal. Moving backwards at acceptable expense of fucking over other people in favor of money or religious extremism is their goal. Waving the hypocrisy flag by itself and without even understanding the narrative you are actually painting doesn't improve your position. It just highlights the fact that you have nothing interesting to contribute .\n\nHA!",
"Ugh, I was hoping it was you, now I have to go dig through modlog to figure out who did the other one. \n\n",
"Agreed. Strong convictions are quite bad and nobody's ever going to change my mind about that.",
"All the major religions are hateful. If you where sitting here saying we shouldnt tolerate all religion I could understand, but you're singling out Islam which instantly turns me off from you pointa as you come across as a hateful hypocrite. ",
"I haven spoken French in about fifteen years, but you’re talking about food you love right? Chicken, potatoes and some good sauce?",
"No. Stop it. ",
"Maybe when the right stops embarrassing themselves with pedophiles, homophobes and bigots.",
"Having grown up in a deep republican state, it always seemed odd to me that most of the conservatives I knew wanted the government out of their wallets but had no problem lobbying for the government to intervene in the basic civil rights of people who were not like them, because their religion “tells them to.” Not everyone is Christian. If a person interprets biblical teachings as instructing them to judge others for those sinners’ benefit (which, as someone who studied the Bible in an academic setting, I don’t think it does - but that’s another story) that doesn’t mean that their religious opinion trumps another persons’ civil rights. It’s the fact that freedom of religion includes freedom from religion. An individual can’t break these rules because their religion gives them an imaginary right to be the moral police for others. ",
"You don't need to put a comment about that.",
"> All the major religions are hateful.\n\nYet only **one** officially enforces these hateful beliefs of their holy texts via theocracy government.\n\nGuess which one.\n\n>but you're singling out Islam which instantly turns me off from you pointa as you come across as a hateful hypocrite.\n\nShow me christian countries where:\n\n\n* Hang gay people in public executions. \n* Stone women (rape victims too) to death.\n* Call for the murder of non-believers.\n* Murder people that draw jesus.\n* Imprison people for not being christian.\n\nIf you can't then you'll understand why i am singling out Islam.",
"Nice strategy you have here of faking ignorance, but as you can see, it always fails miserably.",
"Last I checked they have the same rights I do. Can vote, marry, buy homes, own businesses. My gay aunt used to be a minister before she retired...\n\nSo yes. What rights do I have that they don't?",
"So Jesus would tell people to love Sin? ",
"No. It would be evidence. ",
"Username checks out. Greetings from New Mexico, home of the opiate trade, paintings of horses, and better food than Texas. ",
"That’s a slippery slope argument, but as long as consenting adults are involved I don’t see an issue with communities needing to recognize the coupling ",
"ZAPP",
"You can point to a single person for anything. We should be asking him to give us a significant group within the population.",
"Federal law trumps state law in these matters. I’d have to see the law, but I doubt it said a doctor could refuse to treat someone because of their sexual preference. If it did then I doubt it would pass the state senate, or would be overturned by the state Supreme Court.",
"Sure ",
"It doesn’t really matter what their intent is, right? Whether or not they are doing it for their benefit or for the imagined benefit of the “sinner,” they are infringing upon another person’s basic rights to exercise freedom of religion and not have their civil rights governed by the religious beliefs of others. ",
"Nah girls born in the 90's are too old for him now. He's more into that born-in-2003 strange. ",
"Will you swear to coddle my delicate ego for your entire life.",
"At a quick glance they seem to be responding to the court seemingly pro-actively changing the meaning of a law from its actual intent.\n\nIt's a basic concept that the courts should enforce the law as written and intended by the legislators. They don't have the authority to actually change the law or the application of the law. That's what legislators do.\n\nIt just happens that they did this in the context of the marriage laws.\n\nSo a couple of issues emerge. Why would the supreme court do this when they know fully well that they don't have that authority? Did they not expect pushback? Likely they did it to provoke pushback. So, how did it come to be that the supreme court went from an apolitical body to a left-wing activist court?\n\nThere are two failures here. If the laws were written to allow same sex marriage in the first place, this wouldn't be an issue. Why did the Dems not pass the legislation needed in the first place? And two, in the absence of a proper legal change, the Dems appointed a left leaning supreme court to effect a change in interpretation of the law that doesn't meet the intent of the law.\n\nIn the end, the Dems failed. And this is still a contentious issue. ",
"You're being obtuse now. This conversation has devolved to ignorance. Good luck mate.",
"Holidays must be awkward.",
"Not just Muslims, applies to basically every religion.\n\nAnd there's evidence that lack of education has more to do with it. Views change as they get more education/world exposure. For example, American Protestants are less supportive of gay marriage than American Muslims.",
"Exactly.",
"We’ve won that argument already. I’d like to move on to gay people’s right to not get murdered in the ME and quit pretending that American conservatives are a threat. There’s an actual threat to gays out there and we’re silent about it while beating up Christians regardless of every poll saying Christians under 40 don’t give a shit if you’re gay. There’s an actual bogey man out there and pretending Christians are violent and mean and super awful is dumb. ",
"> Christians are trying to do the same thing.\n\nTrying **and** failing miserably because liberals stand to them.\n\nThe same liberals that refuse to do the same with islam and make up words like \"islamophobic\" to protect the most bigoted religion in the planet from criticism.\n\nWhich goes back to my original argument: democrats allow intolerance when the source is islam.",
"He'd disown them. He's hardline quiverfull type, they encourage that",
"Its a bit of a jump to go from 'individual doesn't want to be in a situation where he can be accused of impropriety' to 'individual can't control himself of committing impropriety'. ",
"He gives me a Joel McHale vibe",
"Gay son checking out Pence hard core lol. Good for him ",
"Look, the snowflake went through our posts and downvoted us :P",
"Try listening to how “libruls” are all communists who hate America and embrace sharia law 24 hours a day. ",
"Sweet victory! ",
"All these conservatives don't know what it's like to be denied marriage rights. They should try actually talking to gay people instead of treating them as a political wedge issue",
" Regardless, there is no need for you or anyone to correct people using the word utopia to describe a perfect place as it is always in reference to More's Utopia and is in no way incorrect.\n\nReally though the only reason I argue is because I don't want this to become Reddit's next pedantic copypasta. It's fine to say utopia in the context it was used, and everyone knows what it means. ",
"It's a lot more than 5 cents, and it's new. People clamor to change existing policies all the time that eat in to their pockets. New changes are typically more known, and as such, people will know to disagree with them and be more vocal about it. \n\nPeople don't like going in to their own personal pockets. You're over simplifying this and not taking what an individuals standpoint and mindset might be when they disagree with a law like this.",
"Ironic.",
"You're the first one to bring it up.",
"You don't top them.",
"It is hyperbole to say that they *all* do, but there are definitely some conservative Christians who threaten homosexuals. It would be doing those individuals a disservice to pass over that fact. I know conservatives who aren’t into the idea, but also recognize that it’s not their business. To me, that’s the perfect reconciliation of their religious and political views. But it would be naïve to pretend that there are not gay men and women in Christian conservative communities who feel unsafe, and we owe it to them to talk about it. ",
"It was a special election. If you don't know that special elections have horrendous turnout, then you don't know a single thing about our elections system. ",
"Then mike pence should be doing this with men as well as women. Its discrimination because its only women. Men can accuse other men of rape. ",
"Pence would be the type to kidnap his own kids and force them into those places that say they can \"pray away the gay\". \nWe'd likely never know it. ",
"Dunno, you tell me",
"They tax gas less, but create jobs. So we get cheaper gas with more jobs than other states, which leads to more income.",
"Idk...I hate trump supporters and Republicans. I don't work t to check if he is one, because the reddit app will crash if I do, but can we talk more sensibly and politely with these guys, instead of showering them with attacks and downvotes.?",
"If you don't like it, leave. This isn't like real life. You don't exactly need money to unsubscribe or filter out this subreddit.",
"This happened to me in Oregon last year. She pumped me with a very smug look after that.\n\nLike I'm the weirdo for starting the whole procedure ",
"Is there anything to suggest they aren't?",
"Are people by law allowed to get married? Then they have that right. Are you arguing semantics here or what?",
"He would hook electrodes to his sons nuts and shock him if he got aroused from gay porn that pence would force him to watch.",
"Yep, correct.",
"Which, by the way, would actually be an excellent economic policy.",
"My impression is that publicly they pay lip service to this issue, and privately are working overtime to restrict any activity deemed “icky”. ",
"Learn to read. Jesus would tell you to love eachother. Not love sin. ",
"Ahh, the old \"I won't read your comment because I don't want to deal with my own idiocy and don't know how else to respond\" defense? Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. \n\nYou write that you won't read my comment, then write that I can't prove Obama did anything for the community, not realizing I had an entire paragraph explaining how he helped the community since 2009. Nice work.\n\nYou also just continue to prove that you don't understand the difference between politicians who actually changed their positions and a politician who just hasn't addressed the position since November 2016, or that the burden of proof is on the individual to show the status quo has changed, not that the status quo continues to be the status quo.\n\nSpeaking of bullshit, why don't you look again at your statements about Ellison and then his actual voting record or his official platform and let me know which one of us is full of shit.",
"Christianity caused the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades, do you seriously believe that if these Muslim country's where Christian that they wouldn't be stoning people for being gay or any of the other horrible things in the bible? \n\nIslam is a tool used by the people in these country's to justify doing these things. They could just as easily justify these things with the bible. \n\nWe arn't beheading people in most Christian countries not because Christianity is better than Islam but simply because we are more developed and religion is less important than in the less developed countries.",
"I bet there was a lot of swearing...",
"My first time outside of NJ I stopped to get gas, and my mom, who hadn't pumped gas in 20 years was teaching me. I accidentally grabbed the trigger and spilled it everywhere, my mom started screaming and I didn't know what to do so I just kept going flailing it everywhere...like that scene from Zoolander.",
"> because of their religious beliefs.\n\nSo..how is that an argument against liberals not being open-minded? It's against *their* religion (by their own interpretation). They should keep it that way. They can repress themselves all they want..why should others suffer for something that doesn't affect them?",
"No he means that Pence could still kick the shit out of any sorry liberal your party could hope to send out ",
"Word",
"You obviously haven't seen any antifa videos ",
"The fact that there are individuals in the white house who still believe in conversion therapy and civil servants who refuse marriage licenses to gay couples indicate that the issue is not yet settled, even legislatively. Even if every Christian under the age of forty is chill with homosexuality, last I checked everyone with power is basically standing in their own grave. It’s going to be a while. \n\nLuckily many people can handle the complex idea of there being more than one issue to care about simultaneously. This often happens when domestic and international politics overlap on the same issue, but my vote only counts in one arena. ",
"The look he is giving Pence. He would rip that coward's arms off and beat him to death with them.",
"Except we don’t see any violent Muslims running for federal positions, right? The left absolutely condemns violence, be it in the name of Islam or any other religion. But they also condemn anyone, Christian or otherwise, that opposes basic rights like gay marriage. \n\nHere’s the difference between you and liberals: liberals don’t give a rat’s ass if Roy Moore is Christian or Muslim or Zoroastrian, the fact is he used his religion to justify beliefs that are antithetical with America. No liberal would support anyone from any religion doing that. This isn’t a criticism of someone’s religion, it’s a criticism of their moral values. ",
"I'd like to see the numbers on all these Northern aggressors causing all the accidents ",
"“How you gonna leave me half-way sheard?” “Shorn”\n“Half-way shorn”",
"\"To ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus.\"\n\nWhat types of behavior facilitate HIV spread? \n\nMake sure these places are not celebrating or encouraging that behavior. Exactly what the statement says. Twist it how you will.\n\nHave public events, be proud, but keep your clothes on, no sexual behavior or explicit items. At least that's what I take from it. \n\n\n\n\n",
"The thing is that free bags aren’t something you are owed, or a right you’ve earned. It’s a nice thing stores used to do for free that, turns out, was incredibly harmful to the environment. The good news is the fix effectively costs nothing. The store is still providing a service that you choose to endorse, they don’t owe you a billion plastic bags. I understand that it’s your prerogative to choose your battles, but there’s more energy efficient and morally justifiable places to stand your ground on issues that concern your (literal) nickel.",
"Lol you better buckle up for the next 7 years snowflake ",
"Jesus accepted that part of you that could be free from Sin, not the Sinful part. He didn't just forgive people and let Sin go 'because they didn't know any better'. He quite openly rebuked Sinners, very harshly: \"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?. In every encounter with Sinners in the bible, he quite clearly tells them to Sin no more. We're directly called to discriminate agains Sin, to cast righteous judgment. \n\nYou think Jesus would smash up a temple market, but then join in the perversion of the sacrament of marriage? This hippy Jesus narrative has no basis in scripture and is purely a creation of people who try to conflate moral relativity with Christian teaching. \n",
"\"We need to stop the government handouts!\"\n\n\"They're trying to take away my corn subsidies!\"",
"How come?",
"I highly recommend that Dead Mall series on YouTube for anyone who wants some 80s mall nostalgia.",
"And just like that, it all makes sense now. ",
"Well, I mean I don't want to badger you, but I'm just trying to make sense of your position. It seemed to me as if your point of contention is being forced to do something you don't want to do, but you actually are okay with this in some contexts. ",
"https://media.giphy.com/media/NecZOCAQpGXOU/giphy.gif",
"Intensely keeping his eyes on Pence. ",
"Carson Jones *(whispering): Right back at you, baby.*",
"Yep, that's what I take from it too.\n\nI considerable that thoughtless, unempathetic and hateful garbage.",
"Well, I truly doubt that it'll become mainstream Reddit lingo. It'd be awesome if it did, though.\n\nEveryone knows what you mean when you say/write either. That's fair, and that's why language is so cool! But I correct all of my students when they use the two interchangeably. Though, I wouldn't take points off for it.",
"Look at that fucking stink eye Jones's kid is giving him.",
"Yea look at all hes done for the LGBT community! ",
"I'm not sure but I'm worried about the collective IQ of the whole state the more I hear about the gas pumps.",
"It has!",
"I'm a very friendly person, I'll give directions if they're asked for nicely, hell I'll even tell you where there is decent food. However gather in a group in the middle of the sidewalk or stop in front of me when I'm trying to be somewhere and I WILL FUCKING KILL EVERYONE YOU HAVE EVER FUCKING LOVED YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE. ",
"Might be r/photoshopbattles material",
"It has been posted there!",
"Which one were you in? \n\nEdit: Also, in reference to your \"your own violence\" comment, which one was I in? ",
"I don't get why the openly gay son part even matters. The focus should be on Doug Jones, the identity politics jab was unnecessary. ",
"Yeah, like ponce in English.",
"I find it surprising if my brother was so against the person I love I wouldn’t talk to him. I guess she is a better person than me. ",
"BURN motherfucker! ",
"Remember slavery? Fuck, I'm sold.",
"I don't think it is stink eye. i think it is his gaydar being activated by the deeply closeted Pence.",
">and since Bill is a *straight guy*\n\nCome on, are we going to pretend only Bill Clinton looks at hot women? ",
"You are really painting Conservatives or Republicans that vote for less government involvement in the private sector with a broad brush. I identify as a Conservative and love my gay friends and the gay community. A lot of gay people also vote Conservative or did vote Republican in the last election because of President Trump’s strong response to the horrific Orlando shooting and his stance to protect the gay community from anything happening like this in the future. ",
"Unless explicitly stated nothing is sarcasm or a joke. You don't get to use that \"implied\" humor in text form it is considered bad form and underhanded manipulation",
"Duh-duh-da-duh...*snap* *snap*",
"Most racist white people possess the qualities they claim to criticize black people for. So yes, in a sense.",
"[My God!](https://youtu.be/NVf0CfA6ygM)",
"Nailed it. Hon hon baguette. ",
"[He's so sworn](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/73/f8/e0/73f8e0ed2e33b806a14bd7053aae4169.jpg)",
"Because of the way society views it. \n\nNo one views going to dinner with a friend of the same gender or a gay friend of other gender as romantic. But dinner with a friend of the other gender is usually viewed as “something more”, regardless of whether it is or not. So that’s why even when it’s a professional context, people may not always see it that way. \n\nI don’t think it should be that way. But I understand working in the society we were given, not necessarily the one we would want. ",
"\"Do lesbians hold water in pots???\" haha!",
"Mike \"Deus Volt\" Pence",
"I don’t entertain things when they’re so obvious. It’s like you pretending to not know why 2+2=4 and asking me to explain it. ",
"Can confirm ",
"Obama? Here is the position he ran on in the 2008 campaign:\n\n\"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.\" - Obama\n\n From the MTV interview here http://www.mtv.com/news/1598407/barack-obama-answers-your-questions-about-gay-marriage-paying-for-college-more/",
"\"Father forgive them for they know not what they do\"\n\n> \"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?\"\n\nHe was referring to tax collectors and merchants who exploit the poor with RELIGION. Don't take it out of context to support your incomplete understanding of his actions.\n\n> You think Jesus would smash up a temple market, but then join in the perversion of the sacrament of marriage?\n\nMarriage is a contract between people and God. It is not a sacrament. The only way you can defend the idea that marriage is between a man and a woman is by citing the Torah, which is absolved by Christ's sacrifice. edit: Do you also believe that a woman is the property of her father until he gives her away to someone suitable, or sells her into slavery?\n\nI can't waste any more time trying to educate you. I studied theology at a Nazarene Seminary. Ultimately what I learned was that religion is a tool used by hypocrites to manipulate fools into supporting them financially. YMMV, but Jesus was a dirty hippie who wore sandals, walked everywhere, and hung out with the sleaziest people.",
"What? Most hate (racism/homophobia/etc) can be boiled down to the fear of the unknown. The fact that knowing someone close changing their views doesn't mean they knew they were being shitty all along. It just means they realized their fear was unfounded and they realize there is no reason to hate these groups of people. It probably is just the remnants of a primitive survival technique when we all lived in tribes. Other tribes were a potential risk to our tribes survival so we learned to fear them. It's why racists often hate black people as a whole but might absolutely adore the black family they are neighbors with. They see the family as an exception to their hatred because they know and interact with them. People often hold views like \"Well family so and so isn't like the rest of group x they are actually good people\". The more familiar they get with a race the less racist they become. I grew up dealing with racists and homophobes and saw this all the time. Hardly anyone is ever actually intentionally malicious. Most people like to think they are a good person and probably believe that they are. ",
"Found the trumpster ",
"\"You've got a secret. I can tell.\"",
"\"Pardon me bpy, woupd ypu be interested in my summer camp program?\" -Pence 2018",
"There's nothing loving about helping someone condemn themselves through Sin. ",
"the problem with your response is you didn't write anything in there that could easily be taken out of context and thrown in your face to derail the argument. so he will never respond to you or learn anything. ",
"> Christianity caused the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades\n\nNice whataboutism.\n\nAnd wrong too.\n\nThe crusades were a counter-attack to **[islam invasion.](https://i.imgur.com/5DfRDhN.jpg)**\n\nDoes the sentence *\"RECLAIM the lost holy lands\"* sound familiar?\n\n>do you seriously believe that if these Muslim country's where Christian that they wouldn't be stoning people for being gay or any of the other horrible things in the bible?\n\nThere are plenty of christian countries that do not do that in \"current year\".\n\n>Islam is a tool used by the people in these country's to justify doing these things.\n\nThat's called a \"theocracy\", an outdated concept that doesn't exist in the western world.\n\nWestern countries have their constitutions and laws, they don't use the bible **as** their law, unlike Islamic countries.\n\n>We arn't beheading people in most Christian countries not because Christianity is better than Islam but simply because we are more developed and religion is less important than in the less developed countries.\n\nThere is a big chunk of \"less developed\" countries, as you call it, called \"south america\", and gays aren't beheaded and women aren't stoned to death for being raped there.",
"The point is, pence was supporting the ACT, which helps all people with HIV. Regardless of background. From earlier, we stated that its know HIV and gays go together. \n\nPence is so unempathetic and hateful against gays, he wants an act that helps all gays suffering from HIV. \n\nWouldnt he be against helping anyone gay in any way if he was so hateful? \n\nWeird logic ya got there. ",
"How Muslims act in a different country cannot be used to condemn the ones that are here. It's a great point of discussion in support of secular interpretation, but until Muslims start beating or killing LGBTQ members in the states, and/or trying to affect policy the way Christians do to try and use their religion to justify stripping away the rights of others, then the best course of action is to maintain dialogue and promote understanding and compassion between to differing cultural opinions.\n\n\nMainstream American Christianity is more regressive to American Culture and Progress.",
"Quick, make it about the soldiers! Make it about the soldiers!",
"3 years*, not a snowflake. The snowflakes are people wanting to remove everyone investigating the republicans. ",
"Damn, people really don't like the south",
"Amazing. Simply amazing. ",
"It is also understandably cautious behavior in certain high risk political environments.",
"Wait what special consequences occur if you swear in on a bible vs anything else and break your oath?",
"He said to unconditionally love eachother. God can make the judgements later. It isn't your job either way. \n\nNot to mention the whole issue of your forcing your beliefs on others, which is ridiculous.",
"Definitely sounds like a book title.",
"That's a huge block of text to try to defend a lie.\n\nNo shame, huh?",
"If the only takeaway is “Hey, I should watch Master of None,” I’ll still take that as a win",
" In 1987, my junior year of high school, I came to the conclusion that homosexuals should be allowed to marry. At the time, only about 4% of the US had the same opinion. That means that almost every heterosexual person over 50 right now did not support gay rights at the time. \n\n People change. Whatever moves them in the right direction and changes their mind is positive. ",
"That's my issue. I don't know how to do lots of things, but learning to do new stuff is awesome! If you don't like to learn something so easy to master at most ages, than how did you handle learning other things in life. ",
"I wish they would outlaw those billboards across the nation they are just eye pollution",
"Wasn't calling him an idiot. And whether it's quote fucking stupid and unnecessary or not obviously if there is a 24-hour gas station and the station requires an attendant there's going to be an attendant there. \n\n",
"But definitely not Christians who hate trans people am I right? Their religious beliefs definitely aren’t questionable. Get over yourself, times are changing. ",
"The facial expressions in this pic are priceless!!",
"Pence would send them off to his \"fix the gay\" camp. ",
"> How Muslims act in a different country cannot be used to condemn the ones that are here.\n\nOk, can we condemn the ones that are 'here' for how they act?\n\n\n* **[40% of British Muslims want Shariah law.](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1510866/Poll-reveals-40pc-of-Muslims-want-sharia-law-in-UK.html)**\n* **[65% of European Muslims believe that Shariah law is more important than the law of the country they reside in.](https://www.wzb.eu/sites/default/files/u6/koopmans_englisch_ed.pdf)**\n* **[European Muslims are 750% more likely to be fundamentalists than Christians.](https://www.wzb.eu/sites/default/files/u6/koopmans_englisch_ed.pdf)**\n* **[45% of European Muslims believe that Jews cannot be trusted.](https://www.wzb.eu/sites/default/files/u6/koopmans_englisch_ed.pdf)**\n* **[60% of Europe Muslims are explicitly homphobic. This is not due to poverty or education.](https://www.wzb.eu/sites/default/files/u6/koopmans_englisch_ed.pdf)**\n* **[28% of British Muslims would like for Britain to become a fundamentalist Islamic state.](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/many-british-muslims-put-islam-first/)**\n* **[68% of British Muslims support criminalizing criticism of Islam.](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/many-british-muslims-put-islam-first/)**\n* **[Only 3% of British Muslims support free speech.](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/many-british-muslims-put-islam-first/)**\n* **[62% of Canadian Muslims want Shariah law.](http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/01/strong-support-for-shariah-in-canada)**\n\n\n\n>but until Muslims start beating or killing LGBTQ members in the states\n\nTo liberals dismay, **[the biggest anti-LGBTQ crime in the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting)** was perpetrated by a muslim, for islamic reasons.\n\nThat didn't stopped liberals to lie in order to protect their beloved islam, claiming he was a \"closeted self-hating gay\", something the FBI completely disproved.",
"How is he \"openly gay\" here in this pic? It looks to me like he's here as dudes son, not as Captain Gay.",
"I already did.\n\nYou said \"His exact words were this.\"\n\nThey weren't.",
"Jones looks like he wants to stab Pence in the throat. ",
"A phobia is not just a fear. ",
"Fuck mike pence. He's got some repressed gay feelings deep inside his butthole",
"?",
"I had to pause it when he sat there gaping like a fish to cringe. Imagine being that wrong and not even knowing you're so wrong. He definitely deserved that, but it hurt to watch. ",
"And nobody is wasting the nobody. ",
"Yup",
"you're downvoted here but you're right.",
"Yeah, a good one. Like I said though what qualifies a great shot is the kind of exact timing that cannot be planned around.",
"So a person willing to take a bullet for your fucking useless life to enjoy liberty shouldn’t be entitled to a surgery they want that in no way impacts you? Go fuck yourself buddy, we’ve got enough weapons.",
"Hey man, if you want to lie to people on the internet, nobody is gonna stop you.\n\nYou do you.",
"No one said it is.",
"Flip flopping is saying whatever you can to get votes/supporters. People who actually change their views should be valued, sure. But someone goingg back and forth on hot button issues every day to get as much support as possible is slimy and you don't know what they'll actually do on those hot button issues. ",
"As I told another: In 1987, my junior year of high school, I came to the conclusion that homosexuals should be allowed to marry. At the time, only about 4% of the US had the same opinion. That means that almost every heterosexual person over 50 right now did not support gay rights at the time. \n\nPeople change. Whatever moves them in the right direction and changes their mind is positive. And many people changed their minds based on actually knowing someone who came out. It was why coming out was so encouraged. It was for visibility. \"If Susan is gay and is a great person, how can I deny Susan the same rights as me.\" \n\n Please be open to other peoples' views and try to change them rather than simply condemning them. If I had used your tactics, I would have had to condemn every single person that I knew. Imagine living like that...",
"I moved 2500 miles away from them. Blessedly, I no longer see them. Or any other TV lawyer billboards, for that matter.",
"[*I’m not racist, buuuut…*](https://youtu.be/xdyin6uipy4)",
"It’s super informal though, not fancy, right? So I figured you’d say pomme des terre if it was gonna be fancy and you’re French. \n\nMy bad though. Probably even spelled that wrong. \n\nEdit: to be clear it’s cause people from Louisiana or French Canada tend to say patates exclusively. ",
"Lol, @you people, let me tell ya something biggot, I have a biracial family with gay members , and believing in traditional marriage is in no way shape and or form homophobic or Nazis or racist, . People like you are part of the problem, and I don't want you representing me, \n\nI stand by my comment you biggot, this man's sons sexuality has not a thing to do with his father's belief or the religious beliefs of Pence, and shame on you for connecting them. \n\nYou make me sick, and you are the only racist I see around here ",
"Lol okay mr. 32% approval rating. Mr lost a senate seat in Alabama. Sure thing. 2018 will be a blood bath with that delusional attitude lmao. ",
"Unfamiliar things are easy to demonize.\n\nFamiliar things are easy to love.",
"Heh",
"I'd look up Deuteronomy 17\n\nAnd I say that as an agnostic leaning towards a Christian type God. I just throw out the Old Testament. \n\nChristianity is messed up too. All the abrahamic religions are",
"OMG its Mr. Jackpots!",
"It's funny that you're being downvoted when you absolutely can't be wrong with that statement.",
"Yes, we do. The old whites already have it, it's called medicare. They could give two fucks about the rest of us. They consistently vote against medicaid, socialized medicine, or anything for non-retirees. While they enjoy medicine at my expense. ",
"Not trolling, just calling out a liar.",
"Boooo\n\nSee you at the natty, nerd\n\nOh wait...",
"If youre in the closet youre still gay.. Openly gay is just used to describe people who are public about it. You can be in the closet and still in denial that you're gay, or in the closet just because you don't want people to know for personal/professional reasons. \n\nSome people are only out to close friends or family but otherwise don't bring it up, making them not exactly openly gay because they may hide it from some and not others.\n\nBeing gay isn't his defining characteristic, but it's seem significant in this context given the views of Doug Jones's opponent, which are more extreme than Pences.",
"No no no. A religious one. Only religious people take offense at their child’s sex life. \n\nDear Evangelicals,\n\n Christianity is supposed to be about following Jesus Christ, not teaching hate and hypocrisy from your pulpit. ",
"I wonder if there was touching of the hands...a hand shake. ",
"You keep calling it discrimination like this is some magic word that makes the situation completely black and white. If a woman decides she doesn't want to share an uber with a strange man in a bad area, she is discriminating but perfectly justified. ",
"Oregonian here, wth are you talking about?",
"Well if it’s not gay if it’s in a three-way, what about if it’s three men? Is it still gay? Or is it extremely gay? Truly a modern paradox. ",
"Grew up right by Maple Grove Raceway. My dad is less than 5 minutes from Lancaster county, and 15-20 from both Chester and Montgomery county. \n\nLancaster still is weird, but I tend to stick to Berks county. Which is also weird. ",
"Sorry, what exactly are my tactics?",
"Yeah. What I meant was. You couldn’t write a newspaper headline describing someone as a closeted gay person. That would be homophobic and really strange. ",
"Actually lived in Berks for a while. Can confirm. Berks is just as weird. ",
"As I said, there's nothing loving about helping someone condemn themselves to Sin. It explicitly states, even commands us to judge throughout the bible. You're taking nuanced teachings of love and judgment and over simplifying them to the point that they become relativistic. \n\nThis should help:\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/7jiuoz/judge_not_lest_ye_be_judged_wait_what/",
"lmao what? What about the left with gays, trannies, immigrants, woman gropers, pedos and commies ans socialists? I think you got it wrong buddy.\n",
"That's dumb. ",
"That’s just a dumb argument from gays. If someone is publicly SUPER anti- pedophiles, do you assume they’re automatically pedophiles? ",
"Rabbit lives in a trailer!",
"Oh so now your giving me a hard time because of my lifestyle choices? Typical. I love my rock. ",
"*Exclusively at Macys*",
"Well let us know when we can call him Dead af",
"Lol, having your own Christian beliefs hardly means your intolerant, fool ",
"remember when i used to be warm? Fuck i’m cold",
"Fuck Pence and his family",
"Alright then.",
"My favorite is getting linked random youtube videos that slowly zoom in on photos as part of a \"conspiracy\". Some guy once told my clinton had herpes, and then linked a video like that. And claimed i was a sheep for not believing it. ",
"Doug Jones' son looks like Matt Boomer.",
"my professor sayed phobia mean fear ",
"Spreading unconditional love was Jesus main teaching, and what he repeatedly stressed as most important. I don't care how you or the christian sub want to bend it. And again, even that ignores the fact you have no right to stand in the way of others rights.",
" Supporting shaming people for only changing their minds because family members came out. I didn't mean it as an accusation. I was simply asking you to think about it.",
"The same reason they “pretend” Sessions is anti-marijuana (hint, it’s because it’s fucking obvious). ",
"You misspelled \"right\". ",
"Yes, I forgot about the gulags. ",
"No anger here. Just wondering how you know that gay marriages serve the government the same way that straight marriages do when you don't even know what the government is trying to accomplish by recognizing marriages at all. ",
"Remember when Hillary called black people super predators. She continued to be in the same room with Obama (a black man) many times. I'm sure all those pics have made their rounds on reddit. Man r/pics is riddled with some steamy horseshit sometimes. ",
"great minds think alike :D",
"But these politicians don’t talk about them without any context, they get asked about it way more than they should or it involves policy etc",
"Telling it like it is...",
"This is a disgusting slander. Do you know anything about the Taliban? The violence and atrocities they commit? Mike Pence not eating alone with a woman is not the same thing as being in the fucking Taliban, you miserable sausage muncher. Yeah I said it, you munch on sausages. ",
">Too bad they've moved to HBO (out of reach for minorities\n\nOk, what's stopping minorities from watching HBO?",
"Good on mike for putting his personal opinions to one side. ",
"It depends if the balls touch. If the balls don't touch, it's not gay. If you're sucking dick, then it's gay. But a mouth is a mouth, so if you close your eyes, then it's not gay . A hole is a hole, and pegging is a thing, so if you're not looking, then it's not gay either. So basically, just keep the lights off and think of Canada. ",
"My issue with this arguement is that it's always about other countries. Here in america, we don't have the issue of gays being stoned and beheaded frequently by muslims, outside of ONE mass shooting. What is an issue here in america is right wing and heavily religious people pushing laws to limit the rights of gay people. If a huge number of Muslims came to america, pushed heavily for anti-gay laws and actively fought to harm them or attacking them in the street, I would absolutely stand up against that just the same. But until muslims in america do this I won't condem them, just as i don't condem every republican because, shocker, there are plenty who accept gay people. ",
"It is true that it's easier to catch flies with honey. But the problem is a good 1/3 (at least) of the US refuses to even acknowledge reality let alone entertain any other reality. So with these people you could give them a shit ton of honey and it still won't do anything. They're a waste of my energy. ",
"It doesn't cost \"nothing\". It costs every single person that shops at a grocery store additional money.\n\nIf this went across the US, this would cost the people of the United States $3,210,000,000.\n\nThat's if every single person in the US bought 1 permanent and nice, $10 bag.\n\nJust 1. And even those nice and permanent bags aren't \"permanent\". But okie dokie!",
"See, now that's how I know you actually don't actually listen to your political opposition. \n\nI don't think solutions should not be worked out, and the fact that you think that purely because I think we should approach situations calmly and without malice speaks volumes of your political maturity. \n\nMaybe. And if they don't? What then? You spend the rest of your life seething hatred and emotionally stoning them to death?",
"Yeah, the City section is sometimes hilarious, but I'll be damned if I didn't buy all the rainbow covered Pride merch a few years ago. ",
"If all I knew about gay people came from media coverage of pride parades, I'd think they were out to destroy traditional family values, too.",
"Wait, he doesn't? I thought that's what happened to everyone...",
"Yes I have heard that. It is one of the favorite talking points of Fox News talking heads. \n\nIn a way saying; we modern Republicans cannot be racist and bigoted because Democrats AND Republicans almost a century ago were openly racist. Makes no sense.\n\nThe obvious truth is that, the man that won the presidency as a Republican is openly racist and bigoted.",
"\nJup, fuck them too ",
"prejudice can't survive proximity.",
"Because marriage is only a christian thing and their world views should affect everyone.",
"Basement dweller supports trump?\n\nShocker.",
"I don't think forcing anyone to undergo anything is right. I'm with you there. If someone *wants* to change, however, why not let them explore what avenues they believe will help, so long as they don't hurt anyone else?\n\nI never said there's anything wrong or that your sexuality needs to change. I'm just saying that it's possible, just like changing your moral beliefs is possible. ",
"Well, let's see. Estimates have shown that around $5M-$8M would be spent on surgery in a military healthcare budget around $47.8B. So you want to ban thousands of transgender people from serving in the military in order to save what would be generous to call a drop in the bucket on the budget - a move that the pentagon never asked for and has actively avoided. Yes, I'd say that your position indicates you have some issues with trans people. ",
"Yeah thats awesome! Hawaii didn’t have them when i lived there and it was just a beautiful thing!\n\nI wish we could do the same here. All along our highways we have billboard after billboard distracting from the beauty of our country. \n\nIf i lived in a foreign land, visiting the USA would be disappointing as we have such a serious eye pollution problem / we have trash just strewn all over the sides of the roads / our lakes and rivers are polluted / every exit has exactly the same stores\nWalmart\nDollar General\nArbys\nMcDonalds\nStarbucks\nCVS\nWalgreens\nChevron\nQT gas , etc\n\nNo wonder visitors always get lost ... no more cute mom n pop places / its corporation glut\n\nUgh. \n",
"Lol I don’t come from a religious family at all. I just think it’s wrong/weird/unnatural/gross? I don’t care about supporting any anti gay movements though. I just don’t care about them. Not everyone has to embrace gay people",
" Again, by the time I was twenty, I only knew two others that agreed with gay marriage: all of us straight guys. People change. In my life time, about 60% of them have. ",
"Yup lol. They feel they are validated in doing so but it doesn't change the truth of it lol.",
"Contrary to popular beliefs, Mike Pence doesn't hate gays. ",
"This is an accurate representation of my gay guy friends when my Girlfriend and I start talking about lesbian things. ",
"jesus christ /u/kws1993 \n\nyou had one job ",
"Pence swears into a pillow so that Jesus can't hear.",
"I'm not saying that's how it should be, I'm saying it's not based on hate (there are cases when it is though)",
"Yes. I'm assuming you're asking this question because you think I'm advocating for something I'm not. I'm purely saying that changing sexuality is possible, not that I think attempts to do so should be something we pressure people into doing. This is reflective of my stance of moral beliefs as well, which is why we're talking about this in the first place. ",
"Something something herron",
"Them’s fightin’ words!! ",
"People have their beliefs and ideaologies, whether we agree with them or not. Having them challenged by something that hits so close to home must create a lot of inner turmoil that requires reconciliation, but is one of the best ways to get someone to flip positions. \n\nLooking down on people, belittling them and visiously trying to argue with them will generally not get them to change their views. This seems to be the preferred approach by many instead of understanding where the beliefs come from, trying to find common ground and also possibley coming to the conclusion that their beliefs are deep rooted and not easily changed. \n\nEven though I do not agree with those that have the stance that gay marriage is an abomination, I try not to discredit the person because of those beliefs and respect where their belief comes from. \n ",
"Culture is not race. If Jews dont want their 1 country turned into an oppressive Islamic state, you think they are racist?",
"I'm not intolerant! You're intolerant of my intolerance!",
"Really? I love sports precisely because it is tribalism. It's much better to vent this human trait in \"pointless\" competitive challenges rather than in politics or other potentially harmful aspects of our lives. If anything I think people need to turn to sports more now than ever with how divided countries like the US are becoming. There is no greater feeling than yelling your head off with thousands of other like-minded fans. In the heat of the moment you cheer with, high five, hug, feel extreme joy, and heartbreak alongside strangers. They don't feel like strangers though because they are fellow fans. You really feel like you are part of something bigger almost like a collective organism when you are in a huge stadium. It unites people from all walks of life and backgrounds together under a common cause. I think sports can help a lot of depressed and isolated individuals out there who feel alone in this world. I love coming across fellow fans when I travel. It's comforting to know in almost every city I go to I can find a bar of like-minded people I can share a drink and a laugh with. It's almost like a giant social safety net. \n\nEveryone likes to feel like they are a part of something greater. Sports are a tribal exercise with no real victims which is why they are so beneficial to society. They fulfill an intrinsic human need to belong to something. It allows us to hate rival \"tribes\" without really hating anyone in particular at all. Sports are a commonality that can bring people together. I find it beautiful that we have created something that can bring together people from Poland, Columbia, Senegal, and Japan and unite them. People who are so different in all other aspects of life blur together under fandom. Sports are the great uniter of mankind. I love it because it's just so insanely human.",
"I am. I'm just waiting for someone else willing to engage in it with me. I walk a path with someone and then they start hurling insults and attacks. Not sure how doing so \"limits my impact on society\" or how vitriol and malice are \"something good\".",
"A single lawsuit over the surgery rules alone would run more than 8 million.",
"Respectfully I disagree. I’m Christian and very proud to be, and I believe that type of therapy is and was ridiculous. However, it was voluntary. He didn’t gather us homosexuals , put them in a camp and force them to undergo treatment fo gay. His once support of said ridiculous treatment was once thought in the Scientific community as a plausible way to change behavior such as smoking, drinking and even stealing. Even as farce as that may seem today it happened. Society now tells us that if we don’t agree with homosexuality that we are monsters and should be run out of society. Meanwhile Muslims, who have the most extreme beliefs and not only disagree with homosexuality, but are embraced and that part of their beliefs structure is conveniently ignored and disputed this by thousands of online videos showing the very act of it. Remember, Muslims are instructed to, and currently hunt and kill gay people, as ridiculous as that sounds. Being once in favor a crazy volunteer method thought to “help” homosexuals, pales (did I spell that right?) in comparison to what is really happening in the world and Muslim community Now. It is atrocious that someone would lose their life for choosing to love someone. ",
"\"Swarn\"",
"But \"him and I had went\" is acceptable? :)",
"I don't know about his father. I can confirm that Mike Pence with RIFA and his predecessor Mitch Daniels coercing right-to-work laws, selling our highways to toll companies in Spain, and replacing public school money with a voucher system has royally screwed hardworking taxpayers in this great state. Both of them can eat shit.",
"Can't tell if trolling.",
"Right because he's not putting gays in gulags that's the benchmark for being \"pro LGBT\". My god dude...he's literally done nothing for the gay community and has no plans to. If anything all he's done is refuse to acknowledge pride, strip transgender freedoms, trash Obama's bathroom bill, and revoked fair pay and safe workplace legislature. He speaks at explicitly anti gay \"focus on the family\" rallies saying this will be going \"back to how they used to be\". \n\nIt's not like he's executing them, but in what fucking universe is he \"pro LGBT\".\n\nOh yeah, he just got done endorsing Roy Moore who still thinks being gay should be a crime. He did hold a rainbow flag though....",
"Of the list, most were benefits, not rights, so no need to sign anything to try to get them because no one is owed benefits. \n\nOf the ones that were rights, you wouldn't need to sign one document per right. Plenty of them overlapped (e.g. visitation rights and medical decision rights).\n\nIs it arbitrary? Why do governments recognize marriages at all?",
"Thank you, that was a fantastic read. Disturbing as all hell too. It makes so much sense... too much sense.",
"The states with the least racially diverse population tend to be liberal Democrat voting, and states with a lot of non-whites tend to have more racists. There is a lot of evidence that exposure increases hatred in many cases. And if being exposed to a person with a difference leads to feeling differently, that doesn't make it right. Empathy is fundamentally irrational. You can have empathy for a Nazi or an ISIS member too. They eat sandwiches just like us. Jews were a harmless scapegoat. Muslims have 50 countries and are gradually taking over the world. The majority in many of their countries favours the death penalty for gays and apostates. Almost 70% do in Pakistan. Fears about them are real and rational. Your hatred of right wing American Christians is no less bigoted than a fear of Islamism. \n\n>This is how we can tear apart racism and all other isms in the world.\n\nSo you want to destroy altruism too? You want to destroy many belief systems. You're a bigot just like everyone else. Why don't you want to get to know the people with these isms instead of hating them?\n\n>We must learn to listen to different points of view without shutting them down because we do not agree with them. \n\nSo you think it's wrong to hate ISIS and we should empathise with them instead? You've lost all morals. We need to pick and choose which groups are good and which are bad. Just because hating blacks or Jews is wrong doesn't mean hating every possible group that exists is wrong. ",
"shouldn't you be someplace dividing people based on sexuality, race and religion while categorizing them based on association or relation?. insnt that what YOU PEOPLE do ?",
"I didn't know about Lousiana or French Canada.\n\nYes, patate is more informal than pomme de terre, for instance restaurants and shops use pomme de terre on their tags and menus and pomme de terre is the word used in any official context. But patate is not vulgar or anything. Nobody's gonna get mad if you say patate instead of pomme de terre (unless you're a waiter at a 5-star restaurant of-course).",
"It’s still funny to me that people actually care if someone likes gays or not. Leave them be. Everyone has different opinions.",
"> the man that won the presidency as a Republican is openly racist and bigoted.\n\nOnly according to the Dems and only since he became a credible threat against Hillary. Before that, during nearly 50 years as a well known business man, nothing.\n\nBut nice try.",
"I can't even understand your point of view. Thousands of LGBT youth had to suffer through gay conversion therapy. It's barbaric, and his view really shouldn't be respected. ",
"As did banning transgender people. \n\nAnd I don't even get your point. Why would they need to sue if Trump hadn't banned them? Their surgeries were being covered. Why would they sue over the rules when they're being covered?\n\nSo again, it's a bit hard to say this is a budgetary decision.",
"Remember Playboy? Fuck, I’m Centerfold.",
"No I've already seen this. How does this make that comment relevant to what it replied?\n\n",
"> This is the exact type of polarizing discussion that keeps this country in hateful tension.\n\nReponse\n\n> No its actually the fact all of the other side is fully evil and brainwashed that is causing the polarization! If they didn't think differently then there wouldn't be any polarized discussion! But its actually the fact the Republicans don't all think the same thats causing the issues! Idiots!",
"> My issue with this arguement is that it's always about other countries. Here in america, we don't have the issue of gays being stoned and beheaded frequently by muslims, outside of ONE mass shooting.\n\nI mean, muslims are like 1% of the US population.\n\nAnd they still are disproportionately related to these attacks.\n\n>If a huge number of Muslims came to america, pushed heavily for anti-gay laws and actively fought to harm them or attacking them in the street, I would absolutely stand up against that just the same.\n\nSo as long as muslims remains as 1% these attacks like orlando shooting or boston marathon are not as important?\n\nIf anything that makes islam a bigger threat considering all the damage done related to their small number.\n\n\n\n",
"Bellatrix Lestrange looks *pissed*",
"“We can’t believe someone has different opinions and beliefs and since they don’t agree our opinions, we call them bigots so we can feel better about ourselves.”",
"That is one fine looking son, though. The shade he's throwing is amazing. ",
"Which would have been a huge waste of state money. Pence wasted tons of money just to prove a point.",
"When \"the left\" loves Islamists that kill gays, such as Hamas (who Bernie Sanders has indirectly endorsed through Jeremy Corbyn), but viscerally hates American Christians for the same thing, then they are being bigoted. ",
"Do you have any legitimate source on your claim that most homosexuals are homosexual because of abuse? Didn't think so.\n\nYou then extrapolated a second belief based upon a previously held belief that you have no evidence or basis for. Just like the first belief, you have the second belief without any evidence or legitimate basis as it is solely believed based upon your first belief that has no evidence or basis.\n\nI hope you can see how it is a problem to form beliefs and opinions from thinking in this manner. Also, the claim is pretty ironic given the circumstance of the election and his opponent.",
"Lol I love how this is the only argument you have. When all else fails, just yell out “bigotry!!”.",
"No the point is he was making his support of the Act conditional on slipping in his pet funding project which was steering money away from real therapy for gay people towards gay conversion therapy.",
"No, I mean against gay marriage like having a whole double faced party who panders to homophobes and spouts lies about the LGBT community constantly and currently (Seriosuly though, did you all suddenly forget gay parents molesting children, comparing it to polygamy, and transgender people harassing girls in bathrooms?). Their literal vice-President is for “conversion therapy”, often acknowledged by psychiatrists as a form psychological abuse and detrimental to an individuals mental health. I can’t believe I have to write this off.",
"I agree with you, but we should also respect people's beliefs, even if we don't agree with them. It's not easy for anyone to change their beliefs, especially when they are very deep rooted and big part of their lives. As long as those beliefs aren't causing you to act out in harmful ways twords others.\n\nI also respect people who can look past someone's beliefs they don't agree with and find common ground (this goes both ways).\n\nIf you go down the rabbit hole of the gay debate there are unsettled arguments on both sides and it really comes down to your outlook on life. \n\nThose that are against it have religion, which is it's own full debate and I believe there are benefits to organized religion as long as you stay in the middle ground. There is also the procreation aspect, which the opposing side could argue population control. \nThere is also the genetic side, which I haven't looked into lately, but I believe is still unsettled. We are doing so much work in genetics now that the debate of whether it's a mutation or evolution is unsettled and arguments can be made for both it being good or bad at this point. ",
"So first off I’m not going to call you a Nazi until you see you do some white suprematist shit.. or kill Jews/gays\n\nSecondly I can’t help but think given that last sentence that maybe you were not an entirely innocent party in all of this.",
"He looks shocked",
"He trashed the bathroom bill!?! He’s done with.",
"Sworn... 🤦♂️",
"TIL Wanting equality under the law = snowflake",
"Aaaaannnnnndddd.... You're part of the problem.\n\nThat's not what I said. I pointed out the ignorance, which you are now displaying, it a distaste for a group 9f people (regardless of race, that want to be associated with drug dealers and gangsters) and specifically not any particular race.\n\nYet you want to bring it back to being about race.\n\nWho is the racist again? ",
"Are you a seppo? Coz if so explaining our slang to you guys doesn't sound right to your ginger. You just can't wrap your loafs around it. \n\n(Are you from the US? Because our colloquial language isn't easily interpreted by your ear. You can't seem to wrap your heads around it.)\n\nAnother example: \"The kid had trouble with the cop.\"\n\nBecomes: \"The billy lid had froth and bubble with John Hop\"\n\nI personally believe we did this so even English speakers couldn't listen in on our conversations. Cockneys could, but not English speakers. ",
"That’s a good point but I believe there is a difference between disagreeing with gay marriage from introducing legislation that actively suppresses gay people’s rights and freedoms.",
"New Jersey resident here--you don't tip them.",
"Well yeah that's what you do when being sworn into office ",
"We should make them all wear little rainbows so they're easier to identify.",
"The biggest example for me would be the way trash collection works. On some level it makes sense, but there are a TON of people employed that way. Essentially it’s also an issue with the culture where littering is commonplace, because everyone knows they have these teams sweeping up and collecting the trash every night. Most people sweep their own front porch (or their business’) as it were then people come around with giant wheelie bins every night and sweep the street and collect everybody’s piles. And it’s not at all like they couldn’t afford a normal trash system with trucks etc. instead of a massive workforce of people pushing around wheeled dumpsters every day. I really do think the two are related though because none of the countries around there (even the ones on a much lower economic level) litter anywhere near as much. You basically throw all your trash of any kind on the street when you’re done, because the trash army is going to come around later and sweep it all up, every night. As you can imagine, they don’t get everything every day so it’s still a major problem there. My friends were somewhat embarrassed by it but it’s hard to change something like that when everybody just expects the government to clean everything up. This is in the capitol BTW, can’t really speak to anywhere else. It’s one of those weird leftovers of communism as far as I can tell, and not the only one. Free enterprise reigns these days but there are still a lot of bizarre vestigial rules that effect the way things play out. ",
"Can you please point out what is conspirational about what I just said? Just say it and I can quickly respond with articles of GOP politicians saying these things.",
"I wonder if Doug knows he doesn't have to swear on a Bible...those are for ejaculating on, aren't they?",
"\"oh ok I'll go somewhere else now that you've so kindly educated me on the error of my ways\"",
"why shouldn't it? because it doesn't agree with yours? because it is wrong to you? maybe, it is right to him, and your view is wrong? \n\nthat's the great thing about this country, we can all disagree with each other as much as we want. as long as we do so within the limits of the law... and he was within the limits of the law...\n\nI don't agree with his standing, I fully believe that LBGT should have open and equal citizenship rights (taxes, marriage, benefits, job security), the same as every other legal citizen in this country... \n\nI also agree with the movement to legalize weed, I agree to womens choice regarding their own bodies, and the right to government funded universal healthcare (for everyone not just the poor)... conversely (on the other end of the spectrum) I agree that illegals need to be forcibly deported, and that Americans should be able to arm themselves adequately in case they must over throw a tyrannical gov't again... \n\nwhat I'm saying is that I am a true independent, I try to see every side of every argument... is it wrong that he forcibly tries converting gays (in my opinion yes) was it lawful for him to do though? absolutely... I don't shit on people because of their personal beliefs, I treat them with the same respect that they treat me, and if I met him and he was a good person to me, then I would be a good person to him as well, even if I had opposing views... ",
"Check out the look between Mom and Son.",
"* Signed and defended the **Religious Freedom Restoration Act**\n* Voted against the **Employment Non-Discrimination Act**\n* Has opposed virtually every proposal for laws that **ban LGBT hate crimes**, including the 2009 Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act\n* Has threatened **\"societal collapse\"** if same-sex marriage became legal\n* Opposed DADT and **opposes LGBT people from serving in the military**\n* Proposed to reroute funding from the **Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program** to gay conversion therapy groups\n* **Caused an HIV outbreak in his own state** after defunding programs that provided healthcare and testing for those in high risk groups\n\nThe list goes on, really. I think the qualifiers for me that make him \"virulently anti-gay\" and not just run-of-the-mill \"anti-gay religious dude\" are the efforts to kill LGBT citizens in his own state by removing/rerouting HIV/AIDS funding and the opposition to hate crime legislation, which defends nothing from a religious perspective and is only meant as a vicious slight to LGBT people.\n\nAt least the Westboro Baptist Church just *tells you* they hate you. People like Mike Pence actually try to fuck your life up through public policy.",
"Edgy!",
"seems to be one of the iron laws of the universe: \nwhen I correct others I fuck it up",
"It’s not like he’s the first elected official to ever waste money. Cuomo in NY has made a career out of it, hence the state’s four billion dollar deficit.",
"Go Banana!",
"Yep, have slept at gas stations more than once. It’s so mindblowingly stupid. FWIW, I’m what right wing dumbasses would probably call a socialist, but even I can see that this is not the way to go about making sure people have some income. It’s sooo annoying even when they are open, I don’t know how they deal with it. I guess the lack of sales tax (also a stupid idea) makes up for it.",
"There’s the silver fox in action. Not surprised to see the circle jerk on pence.",
"i woulda worn a rainbow pin",
"Thinking differently is fine. Thinking differently based completely on propaganda, lies, and fake news whose explicit purpose is to polarize? Not so much. Impressive strawman though.",
"Didn't you see his \"I Love Cock\" haircut? I mean, it's totally obvious if you look at the signs. He's staring at Pence like he's imagining him slowly undressing before him until he's standing there wearing nothing but his sock garters and wife beater. How disgusting.",
"Nothing? Really?\n\nCentral Park five ring a bell? \n\nAnd that is only one example.",
"Pretty morbid. It’s not healthy to be filled with so much hate.",
"http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/12/12/roy-moore-campaign-spokesman-swearing-on-bible-tapper-lead.cnn",
"But that's New York. Indiana had a very healthy surplus and had withstood the recession better than many of our neighbors. Pence decimated that. ",
"\"I sleep in a drawer.\" ",
"No, not really. It's the same way that you call people a dick without 'denigrating' men",
"Because trans people are often mentally unstable and have a high rate of suicide. It also brings in medical issues and makes living quarters more difficult. For starters.",
"I mean...you pick the least convincing point and completely ignore the rest. Ignoring reality seams to be a trump supporters strong suite. Keep it up bud.",
"The Clinton's are not pro-gay. They're very uncomfortable with it in private. ",
"Sounds about right. It’s the same moralizing bullshit as elsewhere where people are uncomfortable giving people money to survive so they force them to jump through a bunch of hoops and do idiotic tasks as if that makes things better. Not the best and brightest working the pumps, to be sure. Quite the opposite in my experience, hard to find dumber people employed anywhere. Give them some of my tax money so they can survive, don’t create solutions to problems that don’t exist. Some sort of weird leftover Puritan “dignity of work” bullshit that just fucks with everybody else. ",
"Remember dice? Fuck, I'm rolled. ",
"I fell down the hill? Fuck I rolled ",
"Should have sai \"Remember blizzards?\"\n\nIt's also timely because I'm sitting in one at the moment.",
"The title for this post is brought to you by the State of Alabama. ",
"I’m sure he wants to, but he’s so deep in the closet he’s coughing up Christmas presents. ",
"So I offer to give proof and you refuse, coward. Now, given that they are the same, can you provide a source about dems comparing in the last 20 years gay marriage to polygamy or molesting children, saying transgender people will harass people in the bathroom or advocating conversion therapy? I think not lol.",
"That’s was the transgender freedom you mentioned, so that’s the one I picked on. And focus on families is anti gay? That’s kinda messed up, there are no gay families? ",
"Their churches tell them to hate homosexuals. I live in a prominently Catholic town. Many of the children I teach have told me they hate gays, being gay is wrong, two have even told me gays should be hanged. I'm gay myself, and obviously my kiddos don't recognize that in their insular bubble, so I have to tell them it's wrong to hate people for traits they cannot change themselves. It's a sad thing to see.",
"lucky you, i’d love to experience a blizzard ",
"You know those moments where you find a false belief or something within yourself that you never really thought of before, that was me with this video;\n\n\"The Australian accent just doesn't make sense coming out of a guy in a suite.\" - my brain.",
"Yeah you're on to something. Maybe keep them all in one spot too. Like a camp! So we know where they are. Unreal. ",
"So no, you don't have any evidence that this post was botted, thanks for confirming",
"Roll Tide",
"Okay. One example. And a dubious one at that.\n\nSo he wanted to come down hard on criminals. Specifically 5 horrendous criminals who happened to be black. Would his attitude be different if the 5 accused were white? Doubt it.\n\nYou are conflating two issues. Badly.\n\nYa got anything else?",
"Remember surveys? Fuck, I'm polled.",
"I'm surprised that Mike Pence's head is not exploding by standing so close to a gay man.",
"Why is it THE LEFT? Why can't that just be a sensible person? \n\nRight now, in America, Muslims are not throwing gays off buildings. That's happening elsewhere, and no one is giving them a pass. Muslims in America are not voting blindly for candidates who break almost every one of the ten commandments, buy say \"I'm a Christian\" so everything is all good. \n\nArguing butwhatabout doesn't change that, and often the arguments do not truly apply. \n\nWe don't have a Muslim antigay vice president. We have Mike Pence. \n\nWe don't have a lying, stealing, bullying, groping Muslim president. We have Donald Trump. ",
"supply side economics is bullshit",
"no, everyone should not tolerate intolerance. its not that hard. unless you're a nazi, white supremacist, or one of their sympathizers/enablers. then it suddenly become a FREEZEPEACH issue. ",
"Hahahahahahahaha",
"What a politician personally believes doesn’t affect me at all. It’s what they openly support and vote for that does. ",
"Loaded question.\n\nThe answer is clearly a no, and just about everyone would agree with me. Whether or not they want an \"oppressive Islamic state\" is one question. Whether the *Isreali government* should continue going out of their way to abuse Palestinians is another question entirely. The former is not a question of racism. The second may very well be.",
"Both ‘sides’ do this",
"I don't know. Michele Bachmann still hasn't come to terms with her husband being gay.",
"HOW DARE THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS SPEAK IN A CALM AND COLLECTED MANNER?! Downvotes!!! Enjoy your week friend.",
"Yep, that's the disposition in general around here. ",
"Wanna see mike penice?",
"Well done sir",
"In your scenario, she is not his boss.",
"Yea.. Yea. One of the Donald accusers took a 500k bribe That just came out.. I'm sorry once you get caught lying your credibility is worth dog shit",
"I honestly wish I were in a situation where I could just take in Gay/Lesbian teens who get kicked out, put them in the guest room in my house, and help them get off to college or trade school. \n\nThere are so many legal barriers to this, though. And there's no \"sign up to take in a homeless 16 year old\" center. \n\nWere I wealthy I'd buy a nice 6 bedroom house and have 4 of the rooms and all my time devoted to this.",
"Oh one of them......that certainly discredits all of them right? Moron ",
"You'd like Dallas/Fort Worth's [Dale Hansen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fum9jeApDzk).",
"Thats what happens when you have a \"president\" who thinks education is a joke and who has a fan-base of which around 70% don't even have a high school diploma. Idiocracy is now.",
"None of the rest had proof you.. Idiot. So basically what you are telling me is.. It's guilty until proven innocent.. You must be one gullible bitch.. How about this I say you molest children.. Does that make you a child molester according to you.. It does",
"“Say something, motherfucker.”",
"The Criminals were INNOCENT you ignorant bigot.\n\nAnd there are many more, just take the time to research them.",
"Isn't he the Veggie Monster now?",
"I'm an ex-Christian because I studied the bible, and I'm afraid he's right. The bible is strongly anti-gay, no way around that.\n\nIf you think the bible is immoral (it is), leave it behind.\n\nYou already have a better morality than the illiterate shepherds who first told those stories.",
"There it is. I can fill out my bingo card.\n\nFox News viewers have actually been shown to be less informed than people who consume no cable news at all. And if you think that there is any analog to Breitbart and Infowars on the left? Well then you are exactly one of the people I'm talking about.",
"AFAIK I am not mentally ill, but I doubt I can afford to go get a check so for now I am assumin I am somewhat healthy.\n\nMay I ask why you think I might be mentally ill?",
"Look who's talking.. The jackass admits on tape he grabs women without permission.....you don't even believe his own claims? You aren't even gullible you are just fucking dillusional.",
"Swored.",
"I'd swear on a copy of Harry Potter like the kids do in that Simpson's episode. \n\nKidding... but it'd be interesting to see the response if politicians started swearing on novels. Atlas Shrugged, Art of War, etc. ",
"His sons face is like >u>",
"If you don't even understand basic grammar you should probably stay away from politics. ",
"It worked for the ancient Greeks, right?",
"Man I don't know why everyone first reaction is to yell at you. Like dudes, we come from area's where we pump our own gas and it's normal. Yall don't have to yell at us like we're playing with a bomb, just come over and explain it to us and we'll get back in our cars and sit the fuck down.",
"This Pence is anti-gay thing is mostly a meme. \n\n>If I saw a restaurant owner refuse to serve a gay couple, I wouldn't eat there anymore. As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it. (wiki)\n\nYeah he's a Christian and holds positions that were perfectly normal not even ten years ago, but he's not a zealot.",
"> The Criminals were INNOCENT you ignorant bigot.\n\nErrrr... I wish it were that black and white, no pun intended. Some guy claimed responsibility, but the evidence didn't necessarily support his claims. Looks to me like the police and the prosecution and the press coverage really made this a massive media circus and muddied the narrative pretty badly.\n\nIt's pretty presumptive for anyone to say that they were innocent.\n\nedit: and if there were \"many more\" why can you not simply provide them. Likely because you simply can't.\n\nedit2: and further to the kkk being an arm of the democrat party. Did you know that Jason Kessler, the head of \"Unite the Right\", an alleged right wing white supremacist group, is Jewish? And he was an operations manager for the Democrats under Obama right up until the election day in Nov of 2016, when he apparently had an epiphany? Did you know that?",
"It can make nice people do evil things.",
"Sure, the minute we hold violent Christians and alt-righters to that standard first.",
"Maybe one day you'll be able to express that viewpoint without throwing out slurs and stereotypes, but hey, one step at a time.",
"Oh definitely, trying to destroy the rights of another human being is reprehensible no matter what, and to me no loving God would condone that, which tells me they're just projecting it onto God to justify being horrible to someone.",
"> I have to wonder how Pence would react if one of his daughters, or his son, came out as gay.\n\nHere I was thinking his son was openly gay.",
"Fuck off. Pence took money from the poor to give it to electric shock therapy for \"converting\" gay people.\n\nPence is a shitstain.",
"Hey, a blowjob is not gay unless balls touch.",
"That’s the cover story for the jobs program.",
"Wow. Maybe just read a quick article instead of writing one without any information? A quick peek at Wikipedia would tell you about his abhorrent policies.\n\nI can only imagine you've remained ignorant on purpose.",
"It's normal to be around 5-10%. How is that hard to understand?",
"Jone's wife might be transgender as well, Pence would have had to take a bath in Holy water after this was done. ",
"but she is discriminating, and discriminating is always evil no matter what ",
"What would have made the black turnout so high? What motivation did they have? ",
"The only thing stopping Pence is our secular constitution, in a heartbeat he would change our country into a Theocracy if he could. How many LGBT folks kill themselves in the USA because of the hate this guy (and others like him) preaches? So indirectly he is causes suicides. ",
"Just google it and read it, otherwise you are just a troll.\n\nThis is what happens when discussing with Trumptards, it comes a moment when you just realise it is a waste of time just like trying to explain the US Constitution to Donald Trump. There is just a peanut instead of a brain. \n\nThe End.",
"1. The more mentally unstable point is debatable, due to how being trans is classified.\n\n2. High rate of suicide in the LGBT community most likely stems from the persecution that issues like this are thrown on them.\n\n3. It doesn't make living quarters more difficult. They stay with the gender they identify as. Sort of like with bathrooms?\n\nFor starters.",
"You don't see them doing anything bigoted in the photo, or in general?\n\n In this photo, Mike Pence is one of our country's \"best at bigotry\" award winners, and Jones Jr is the target of that bigotry.\n\nIn general? well shit, you might have been asleep since 1900",
"> Just google it and read it, otherwise you are just a troll.\n\nI did. Did you?",
"So to win an election, all we need to do is round up some random women to say the other candidate attempted to kiss them, or dated them 49 years ago when they were 16, etc...... Society is fucked, if people are ok with this.\n\nRoy Moore was a high profile judge long before running for senate, why didn’t these women come out of the woodwork earlier?",
"What I meant was, it wasn't Republicans being painted with a broad brush here, it was Pence who specifically has a bad track record regarding LGBT rights. Or to use your analogy, it was about a Iranian cleric who maintains that all infidels should be killed. And people are criticizing him, but not saying anything about other Muslims. Coming in with \"not all Muslims\" when nobody was talking about them, and what you are saying specifically doesn't apply to the cleric is irrelevant. It is like saying in a thread about Samuel L. Jackson, \"not all African-Americans were born in D.C.\". That isn't what was being said, and Jackson specifically was, so even if your statement is true, and counter to overgeneralizations, it is tangential at best.",
"Your facts offend me /s",
"When you compare previous senate votes on off preseidential election years, there are nearly twice the votes for Alabama senate races when compared to the Moore-jones race. \n\nAre you able to comprehend sentences? Are you able to read my previous comments? Do you need help using a computer or reddit?",
"Dumbass. Saying you want to electrocute gay people until they pretend to be straight, and that you want to exclude trans people from public spaces, is not the same as saying \"Don't do that.\"\n\nYou can go fuck yourself with your false equivalence.",
"Go ask any Muslim you're so willing to let into America, dont ask me. I disagree with it and think it shouldn't be done. They think heads should be chopped off for it. But I'm the bad guy here because I was taught that even if I disagree with something, that doesn't make it evil",
"Look in the tunk!\n",
"It means I thoroughly enjoy banging sluts without the commitment you white night beta. And liberal women are by far the easiest lay if you can get past the stench. ",
"> Sure, the minute we hold violent Christians and alt-righters to that standard first.\n\nAnd democrats/liberals don't? They focus on that almost 24/7.\n\nBut condemning islam? That would be \"islamophobic\".",
"Jesus you're a dumbass.",
"It's like he's incapable of comprehension.",
"When someone like him is presented with facts that completely contradict his shitty narrative, all they can do is hurl ad hominems and other fallacies ",
"Where are you getting $10 from? I’ve never seen a reusable (key word, “permanent” was your word) bag being sold for more than $1.25, and those are usually branded/gaudily decorated. I own four that I either got for free or spent .25 cents on. Heck, you could keep reusing your 5 cent bag if you really can’t be bothered.\n\nBut I’ll bite, say someone really needed the best bags they could get and spent $2 on five snazzy bags that they really put to work, such that they needed to be replaced annually (for reference, my 75 cent assortment of bags has lasted me four years of regular use). That’s $10 annually this unrealistic, hypothetical person is using on a service they elect themselves into. Most people spend more than that in a couple days worth of coffee, or parking in a city area, or metro passes. \n\nI’m sure you’ll persist in your case that any increase in cash that you’re expected to pay is completely unacceptable, and again, that’s totally your right. But you shouldn’t be surprised when anyone with a cursory knowledge of environmental impact rolls their eyes at the guy pitching a fit over his five cent bag, a service he’s arbitrarily decided he’s owed for free.",
"\"I may be a bigot and an asshole, but look at the Muslim!\"",
"Lol well get fucking used to it bigot were not going anywhere. ",
"r/titlegore",
"It's really weird how some people imagine that mentioning gayness is homophobic. There's nothing wrong with being gay or with mentioning it, especially when you're captioning to explain a visual tension with the other guy in the photo ",
"They usually hand me the spigot--no technician wants to drip on the paint.",
">According to him black people had no soul. Except for his friend, of course.\n>\n\n\nBut what about soul food, and soul music? What about the Soul Train?\n\n",
"Fail troll.",
"Yeah, this guy's full of shit.",
"It's a little harder once you try to think, but I wouldn't want to hurt you.",
"His son is fine",
"> Maybe. And if they don't? What then? You spend the rest of your life seething hatred and emotionally stoning them to death?\n\nLike you're doing to the people you're arguing with right now.\n\nBut, nope. I'll just go on with my life. They get emotionally stoned everytime a gay couple kisses. Sadly, there's nothing we can do to accomodate this type of anger and hostility in our lives. ",
"Please point me to where homosexuality is described as a sin. It is barely mentioned and at worst was described as impure by Paul. Never is it explicitly described as sinful or wicked. So you have to pull that message out yourself if you want to find. At worst the OT describes male-male sex as an unseemly thing.\n\nNowhere in the NT will you find Jesus preaching against gay people or gay sex. In fact his teachings are consistently and stridently about loving and not judging each other.\n\nSo to think the Bible says gay sex is a sin and especially to think gay people deserve any sort of scorn, you have to make some assumptions in the OT and to pretty much ignore massive portions of Jesus' teachings. In short, you have to be a pretty lousy Christian.",
"I am 100% a Trump supporter, it saddens me that our country is this divided. I don’t hate you for your beliefs. \n\nFYI hate Republican politicians just as much as I hate Democrat politicians. Both democrat and republican supporters are misled imo.",
"Please point me to where homosexuality is described as a sin. It is barely mentioned and at worst was described as impure by Paul. Never is it explicitly described as sinful or wicked. So you have to pull that message out yourself if you want to find. At worst the OT describes male-male sex as an unseemly thing.\n\nNowhere in the NT will you find Jesus preaching against gay people or gay sex. In fact his teachings are consistently and stridently about loving and not judging each other.\n\nSo to think the Bible says gay sex is a sin and especially to think gay people deserve any sort of scorn, you have to make some assumptions in the OT and to pretty much ignore massive portions of Jesus' teachings; in short, you have to be a pretty lousy Christian.",
"Are the_dumbasses really trying to make \"hotdog barack\" a thing?! That's fucking hilarious!",
"No, but gayness is totally different than that. Plenty of anti gay people have turned out gay to support my statement. It is a well known psychological issue. ",
"The suicide rate stems from them being unstable and uncontent with who they are, they wouldn't be trans otherwise.\n\nYou don't see how a genderqueer transvestite could potentially cause problems in a barracks of the opposite sex?\n\nFurthermore why do you want trans to be the face of our military of all things?\n",
"He just thinks they shouldn't be allowed full rights...",
"Yeah plus all the shady environmental shit that's been going on because of people he assigned or fired. ",
"“Full rights” \nDo you even know what you’re talking about? ",
"......I know you didn't call him one, you implied it. ",
"Also looks like he'd like to hurt Pence.",
"Except like, you forgive them for REMAINING homophobic right?\n\nLike, you basically tell them that their entire religion is bigoted, non diverse, and they were raised knowing nothing but bigotry..... And then... They either feel insulted, try to cut your head off, or try to convert you to their briefs.\n\nIn no way do they make any attempt to even rationalize their homophobia or come to terms with it and let go of it, to better themselves. They remain equally bigoted, and YOU forgive them and demand they be allowed refuge in a country that has all but outlawed their way of thinking.\n\nYeah, your logic really went full circle on that one. I'm not even homophobic, I just disagree with it in the same manner that some people disagree with getting anchovies on their pizza, I think it's gross and it's not for me. Thats like, literally the definition of being a straight guy, homosexual stuff does the opposite of turn me on. Its literally the most natural thing about being straight, I think gay stuff is gross.\n\nDoesnt mean IM the one wanting to cut heads off for it, in the same way I wouldn't disown and kill my children if I found out they liked anchovies on their pizza. I would just make jokes about anchovies being gross and they can joke about how old fashioned and outdated my pepperonis are.",
"Except like, you forgive them for REMAINING homophobic right?\n\nLike, you basically tell them that their entire religion is bigoted, non diverse, and they were raised knowing nothing but bigotry..... And then... They either feel insulted, try to cut your head off, or try to convert you to their briefs.\n\nIn no way do they make any attempt to even rationalize their homophobia or come to terms with it and let go of it, to better themselves. They remain equally bigoted, and YOU forgive them and demand they be allowed refuge in a country that has all but outlawed their way of thinking.\n\nYeah, your logic really went full circle on that one. I'm not even homophobic, I just disagree with it in the same manner that some people disagree with getting anchovies on their pizza, I think it's gross and it's not for me. Thats like, literally the definition of being a straight guy, homosexual stuff does the opposite of turn me on. Its literally the most natural thing about being straight, I think gay stuff is gross.\n\nDoesnt mean IM the one wanting to cut heads off for it, in the same way I wouldn't disown and kill my children if I found out they liked anchovies on their pizza. I would just make jokes about anchovies being gross and they can joke about how old fashioned and outdated my pepperonis are.",
"So then you're not arguing what you're arguing at all. Which is what's so annoying about a lot of these cases. Oh GOP is \"obstructionist\" but democrats are \"fighting for what's right\"\nArgue the merits of the topic, not how people go about them. ",
"Into Mike Pence the office is next to Doug Jones's openly gay son.",
"That's an insane point of view. Please never vote.",
"Maybe he was more of a Soulfly kind of guy.",
"I’m not even shilling for the liberals here. Applying a double standard where it is far too underused to an almost infallible target.\n\n“I’ll read the comments but just won’t think about them!”\n",
"Was present or is a present?",
"Liberal gay dominance = being allowed to function in public",
"I wasn't aware that flip flopping was a strictly \"political term\" and used for going back and forth. Thanks for explaining! What would be a better expression to use?",
"i live in my own apartment",
"dude you got so fucking mad in the political humor thread that you copy/pasted your tirade to a submission that doesn't even contain the joke that gave you an aneurysm.\n\nLOL",
"And 40% didn't. This is the 1/3 stronghold supporting Trump I'm talking about and nothing can change their minds. Reason and facts are meaningless to them. ",
"Tastes like Grandma!",
"Luke 19:27",
"Depends entirely on the beliefs.",
"What did the sexual orientation say that you disagree with",
"I was at a petrol station in Italy fairly recently and they had an attendant that wanted to pump my gas. But it wasn't mandatory",
"This is an amazing quote, thanks.",
"That's true. That's part of what makes it scary for me. I can easily see this happening to us. Like the beginning of what they're describing is eerily similar to what we're experiencing now. And it's bad, but as they said, there's no way to foresee the end. At least not at this point that I can see. And not without doing worst case scenario and someone calling you the equivalent of an alarmist. ",
"Is this what passes for \"Subtle\" to you morons?\n\n\"ShittlaryClinton\"\n\nPosts in: The_Donald, UncensoredNews (Literally run by neo-nazis. They don't hide it.)",
"His son is pretty hot....",
"He can't.",
"exactly.",
">That would be an odd position to take...They themselves would belong to one of the races they hatred.\n>\n>It would depend on how they treated the races. If they still were nice to everyone, not that big a deal. Otherwise, they'd just be your typical asshole, but for racial reasons.\n\nI disagree. If the asshole put all races to the same shit level (even their own), then they couldn't be a racist. \n\nFirst, they don't believe one race is better than another, they believe all races are shitty.\n\nSecond, they wouldn't be treating one race better than another. ",
"I agree except for Religion, someone in my family could follow any religion they wish but it would not humanise that religion for me it would never stop me thinking that religion is disgusting in all it's forms.",
"The object of the sentence is Doug Jones as the verb is being done in relation to him, not Pence. Pence is the \"subject\" as he is acting on the object. So then it's understood the \"openly gay son\" is in relation to the object of the sentence.",
"Maybe they liked the guy that literally put the fucking KKK behind bars over a child molester.\n\nGet fucked. You lost.",
"I mean he did request $65k of some good ol succulent weiners.. sooo",
"\"Because the fags are tearing apart the moral fabric of society, and they rape children.\" \n-idiots",
"Like now I'm trying to learn why my Wi-Fi router only is giving my phone 13 when my wired stuff is at 114 M something. Either my phone or router sucks.",
"> The suicide rate stems from them being unstable and uncontent with who they are\n\nOr from the fact that they get judged by people like you? Do you think there'd be an issue if there wasn't a stigma behind transitioning?\n\n> You don't see how a genderqueer transvestite could potentially cause problems in a barracks of the opposite sex?\n\nI could see how people who don't like trans people would cause problems, yes. My advice to them is to grow up.\n\n> Furthermore why do you want trans to be the face of our military of all things?\n\nAh, so what this is really about is that you think if we let trans people join the military, everyone will see our armed forces as trans and there for somehow inferior?\n\nSeems like a you issue.\n",
"Whataboutism",
"You seem to like to dodge around the fact that Islam has statistically caused less direct damage and death than Christians within our borders, and cases of Islamic radicalization can be traced back to some basic fundamental issues rooted in social rejection of disaporic communities. Social tolerance and acceptance curtails Islamic radicalization. Tools which many Alt Righters and American Christianity idealists use to isolate anyone they consider different/beneath them.\n\nThe issues with Christians and Alt-righters only appear the same as islamic immigrants because groups have hijacked the language to feed their victim complex, and fuel the political conservative machine. Liberal/Dem backlash is against regressive ideas, and the escalation of right wng intolerance and aggression which weakens the U.S. Civic contract in favor of fear and zero sum reasoning.",
"It has been less than 2 days since Trump whined about mean ol hillary ruins everything.\n\nGet over it.",
"Really? Says the guy who initially responded to a different opinion with \"Hey, fuck you.\" Typically conservative stating there opinion in a rude way like \"Fuck everyone else it's us against them.\" Then crying and feeling attacked whenever someone argues back. And Liberals are snowflakes look in a fucking mirror man.",
"Except that it's a picture, not an article. You know, what's got them wurds in?",
"That's actually what I'm saying: No one should tolerate intolerant people. Which, because everyone is intolerant, means nobody should tolerant of anybody. ",
"he cute\n",
"Dat stare doh.",
"Hahaha no, I don't hate anybody here, nor am I chucking any stones. Nice try though. ",
"What about Hillary though! ^What ^about ^Hillary ^though! ^^What ^^about ^^Hillary ^^though! ^^^What ^^^about ^^^Hillary ^^^though! ^^^^What ^^^^about ^^^^Hillary ^^^^though! ^^^^^What ^^^^^about ^^^^^Hillary ^^^^^though! ",
"Right as the typical conservative groups everyone with an opposing opinion under one stereotype. Thinking all liberals have the idea that if someone doesn't agree with them they must be racist. Fucking idiot.",
"It's a caption to explain the photo. Pence is extremely anti gay. That's why Jones Jr is giving him the stink eye.",
"I saw a Reddit comment years ago that said something like: I found out a counselor I respected and admired was gay, so how could I hate gay people, because I could never hate Shawn. That always stuck with me. It is these little personal interactions that change people, not data or philosophy but knowing Shawns and Tyrones; Mohammeds and Trevors; Staceys and Joses. ",
"This seems to be the universal thing I've been reading a lot lately. I've lived in the Northeast my whole life (native New Englander, now Jersey transplant), and while we may move quickly and be brusk if we're in a hurry, we're some of the nicest, most genuine people you'll ever meet--we're just not afraid to speak our minds if you piss us off. In the South (where people are stereotypically thought to be \"friendlier\"), they're *savage*, they just won't say it to your face.",
"I'm really not sure if you're trolling or just sheltered, but I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.\n\nRespecting people's beliefs just \"because\" doesn't make any sense. It's just a poorly constructed conecpt in the first place. It's not possible to respect a belief, or an idea. We should all respect people regardless of their ideas, yes. But beliefs, opinions and ideas need to stand on their own. I don't need to be rude to a flat earther but I also don't need to give any credibility to his idea because it's just wrong.\n\nNow, about your example of homosexuality, i have NEVER seen anyone argue that it is a good thing because of population control. This is literally an insane argument to make.\n\nRegarding the \"nature vs nurture\" debate, it doesn't add anything to the discussion. It just doesn't serve as an argument in any way.\n\nEvolution and mutation are not separate. In fact you cannot have evolution without mutation so I'm not even sure what you meant.",
"Didn't say it mattered. But it is possible to disagree with people that do something purely for the sake of attention. And I guess the people downvoting don't seem to understand that distinction.",
"Classic [dog whistle](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dog%20whistle) term. Being rude is a cardinal sin in Oregon and will get you ostracized. And overt racism is rude. This makes it all sound bad, but Oregonians are some of the nicest damn people you'll ever meet. But it's easy to hate on someone you've never met.",
"Or specifically Mike Pence? The one in the photo?",
">40% of British Muslims want Shariah law.\n\nA very comparable number of Christians in the U.S. want Christian law to supersede Federal Law.\n\nFor some reason we don't see any serious talk about how they're incapable of assimilation.",
"At this point I'd venture a guess that you are more likely to be disqualified from military service for your *actual* hatred of Christians than are your *imaginary* Christians who hate trans people...\n\n\nHave a great 2018 👍🏻 ",
"Yea, but PBS gets a censored version with all the swearing and muppet titties cut out.",
"uhhh, k.",
"I mean, liberals put all Christians in the same bag.\n\nIf don't believe me look down, at all the other people replying me with *\"but muh crusades\"*, *\"they are a minority so it's not an issue\"* and other nonsensical statements.\n\nSuddenly when the polls expose the bigotry of their beloved muslims liberals/democrats resort to that *\"but but...1 out of 10 are good so they are all good\"* shitty apologism.\n\n\n",
"You're welcome. I forget where I first heard about it but it was probably on here somewhere. And yeah, that's what makes it so disturbing. You can really see the progression of what happened and how easily it seems to have happened. ",
"And....there it is. Typical liberal playbook. Can’t make an intelligent argument so you start name calling. And if you turn off CNN long enough to look up the word “Bigot” you will see it’s defined as being intolerant to someone’s belief. What I am not, nor did I say I was. Disagreement with someone’s way of life is not intolerance, its opinion. ",
"So were you unable to graduate highschool or are you still to young?",
"How surveys are worded, how many people are surveyed, and where the surveys are distributed have a massive effect on the answers that you get. I tried looking into the last two links, but I could not find anything about their survey methodology at all. We're you able to find anything?\n\nFurther, in the article for the 2nd to last bullet (only 3% support freedom of speech), it states \"When asked if free speech should be protected, even if it offends religious groups, 62 percent of British Muslims say No, it should not.\" The 3% refers to answering every freedom of speech question with max freedom answer, which could have been affected by poor question wording.\n\nhttp://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/291\n\nAbove is a different interpretation of the same results, although I still cannot find the actual results, questions, and methodology\n\n\nAlso, it seems like you are also manipulating the information. In the first link it really states: \"Forty per cent of the British Muslims surveyed said they backed introducing sharia in parts of Britain, while 41 per cent opposed it.\" However, skimming the article, I could not find an actual source for the survey, were you able to find it?",
"This country needs to stop elected politicians voted into office due to slander, election fraud, and voter fraud of their opponent.",
"It’s much harder to accept when it is himself who is gay and he gets to see all these young men have such a good time on U Street but he can’t join them. ",
"And there it is. The extent of your intellectual capability.",
"OMG GAY PEOPLE EXIST SO PROGRESSIVE\n\nMAY I PLEASE GIVE YOU MY FUCKING APPLAUSE",
"Why is the KKK relevant in 2017? They have less than 3,000 members in the entire world? Why are African Americans so concerned about racial issues today as opposed to economic issues? ",
"No no, I read that conservatism is a brain disorder",
"Willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas.\n\nThis is what I mean by liberal. If you could explain the madness you see in that then please fucking go ahead. \n\nThe absolute irony of all of this being that I indeed am not open to your stupid idea that being liberal is a bad thing because I'm too hung up on the notion that you must believe, truly believe that if a person thinks they are liberal they must be some kind of hippy shit bag. But no the true definition just means you're pretty accepting of others. \n",
"Yeah because this is clearly a headline written by a conservative. What a genius you are.",
">why are African Americans so concerned about racial issues\n\nThe awareness of trumpsters in a nutshell",
"If you can present some solid objective evidence that /r/uncensorednews is ran by neo nazis I will denounce them right here and right now. ",
"Fuck his job. ",
"I don't mean the political party, im from the UK I really couldn't care less about the state of US politics at the moment. I mean the literal sense of being liberal. ",
"Yeah, I was kidding... His job shoulda been gone years ago.",
"Are you fucking stupid? \"By\" is a preposition. So \"By Pence\" is a prepositional phrase which makes it impossible for \"Pence\" to be the subject. The verb \"sworn\" has an (is) that is implied. It's Doug Jones (is) sworn. Doug Jones is the subject as the verb is actually a conjugation of \"to be\" which breaks the usual acting of the verb.",
"I do!",
"No. I'm just waiting for you to quantify the benefits. I think we can all safely assume their is at least *some* costs associated with clothing, training, transporting, housing, feeding, providing healthcare, etc for a typical soldier - so, before undertaking the more exhaustive efforts of quantifying all of the costs associated with a typical soldier - and then adding all the additional anticipated costs associated with transgendered individuals such as counseling, gender reassignment surgery and associated treatment, prescriptions, and compensable time when unable to perform assigned duties etc... It makes far more sense for you to first identify how transgendered troops benefit and make the military a more effective fighting force because if you can't, well then obviously we don't need to bother with assessing the cost.\n\nI'll check back in a few hours. Don't let me down, bruh!",
"look up their goddman banner image.\n\nJust look at the post histories of the top and most active mods.\n\nThey've even stickied fucking threads admitting they're neo-nazis and they don't give a shit if you care!\n\nThe fact you can spend any amount of time there and not realize this is astounding.\n\nStraight from the top mod *yesterday*\n\nhttps://np.reddit.com/r/uncensorednews/comments/7nq0yb/somali_migrant_38_dresses_up_as_nurse_and/ds4cz68/?context=3\n\nNo wonder you thought your shitshow of a concern trolling post would fool anyone.",
"*swairnd",
"Try Korea or Japan at the gas pump: full service bliss. ",
"\"What about, what about\"\n\nCongrats on the red herring ",
"Is he not just a Huntsville guy? I don't wander a lot.",
"Then you didn't understand the response. It is possible to not disagree with homosexuals, while disagreeing with people who simply claim it for attention. They are two separate groups of people, typically lumped in together. One makes sense. The other is childish.\n\nAnd many can't seem to grasp the difference between them, when folks like me say we disagree with one of those two.",
"It’s not disagreeing with someone’s orientation. It’s the fact that people are forced to accept and embrace them, otherwise they’re bigots. Don’t ask me to accept your lifestyle. ",
"I grew up in a half 1/3 white, 1/2 black, .16666666 everything else area. Everyone was treated equally and everyone got along well. 2008 rolled around and now it seems as if civil rights somehow came to an end even though it didn’t, and everyone’s marching for the equality that they already have........ I can’t even talk to the people I grew up with anymore because of my conservative economic values (btw I support gay marriage and marijuana legalization), everything gets turned into a racial debate, and it shouldn’t. I’m constantly called a racist even though I’ve never done a racist thing in my life..... People are literally acting like segregation and slavery exist in 2018, a big part of it is because uneducated and sheltered people have been given a voice on twitter and Facebook. \n\n\nOh and if voting for Trump makes me a racist, then so be it.... he was never called a racist until he ran for president. That’s the term that white democrats use to get black votes.",
"so you're following me around now?\n\nYou're right. I should just keep my mouth shut and go along with the flow. Who wants context when we can just create stories from scratch taken from a split-second picture of the swearing in ceremony, right? lololol Pence sux! Totally a closet gay, right?!? \n\nBTW, does every comment that doesn't go with your jerk constitute a \"livid rant\" and having \"an aneurysm\"? Just want to know what level of ideological boneheadedness I'm dealing with.",
"Yeah I do the same some times. Just bring the cart to the car and then return it if you gotta. I don't mind the inconvenience for plastic reduction. ",
"Yeah I do the same some times. Just bring the cart to the car and then return it if you gotta. I don't mind the inconvenience for plastic reduction. ",
"Lol no one will call you a bigot for not liking red hair but you will be called a bigot for not liking gays. \n\nI am not Christian and not religious at all but I still don’t like gays. Just like you’re allowed to not like someone about a person, I’m allowed to not be okay with their sexuality. They can be gay all they want, just don’t ask me to embrace it",
"Basically political MTV ",
"You could at least make sure your bootyblasted rants are addressing a thread where the thing you're mad about actually happened. LOL",
"Dont you know ole stick up the ass sessions is gritting his teeth about then! Ha Ha Yes!!",
"Definitely not lol, he’s all over bama and the gulf states I believe. He’s even had a commercial where he pokes fun at himself in a way for being on damn near every billboard in bama ",
"Honest question, what is “fighting to make discrimination law nationwide” look like? I’m pretty middle of the spectrum politically, but most republicans I️ talk to believe that it’s more that they oppose the need for special laws protecting special groups, ie identity politics. ",
"> the sense feeling needed is very important for human sanity.\n\nImportant for many, but it should be optional. I'd love to work on my own personal side projects, but don't feel inclined after a day of work. Not having to do some nonsense job for my basic income check would allow me to do that.",
"I’m a nationalist, but definitely not a socialist. Socialism is the death of civilized societies in my opinion. I will certainly denounce that mod. \n\nI was definitely not concern trolling, again I hate republican politicians almost as much as I hate Democrat politicians. It’s time for both parties to get fucked. ",
"Or just rename the sub to r/antitrump",
"In case it wasn't clear, my entire post should come with the world's largest sarcasm tag. The law is absurd",
"“Fighting for votes” of people with objectively wrong world views is not a new, and ESPECIALLY not a uniquely right-wing, tactic of politics. It’s a pretty big chunk of what politics have become, unfortunate as that may be. ",
"Wowww recently true fact. Nice.",
"Except a couple of months ago, a couple refused to serve to Republicans in their restaurant and that was totally okay with liberals. Last month, a college student was asked to leave by a gay guy for wearing a MAGA hat but that’s also totally okay, right? So much for Americans serving Americans.",
"The object of the sentence is Doug Jones as the verb is being done in relation to him, not Pence. Pence is the \"subject\" as he is acting on the object. So then it's understood the \"openly gay son\" is in relation to the object of the sentence.",
"Lol most people still use it as a derogatory term and there is nothing wrong with it since “language and words change their meaning over time.” Am I right?",
"You should have told him to Call the cops and see what happened",
"Again there's no conversion therapy in the Catholic Church, they advocate celibacy for homosexuals. Pretty sure that's the stance of most liturgical churches.",
"We hear more about the ones getting caught blowing dick in a Nordstrom when because they make more interesting headlines. \n\n\n\nWhen the Roy Moore accusations happened, it’s not like the headlines were like “Male senate candidate who wants to criminalize homosexuality accused of sexual relations with women”. \n\n\n\nAnd as I’ve asked the other replies suggesting the same thing - is this hypothesis only applicable to modern America or would suggest Hitler was probably gay too?\n\n",
"> You seem to like to dodge around the fact that Islam has statistically caused less direct damage and death than Christians within out borders\n\nNo, they haven't.\n\nStudies that say so start counting on **September 12th, 2001**.\n\nGuess why they started on that specific date and not 1 day before.\n\n\n\n>and cases of Islamic radicalization can be traced back to some basic fundamental issues rooted in social rejection of disaporic communities. Social tolerance and acceptance curtails Islamic radicalization.\n\nHahaha!\n\n...Wait...you serious?\n\nGod, you can't be this uninformed. Using your logic, islam-loving places like sweden should be utopias of what liberals call \"cultural enrichment\".\n\nGuess what, they aren't.\n\n**http://www.bra.se/download/18.cba82f7130f475a2f1800012697/1371914727881/2005_17_brottslighet_bland_personer_fodda_sverige_och_utlandet.pdf**\n\nIt's a study that investigates the share of all crime committed by Muslims. It found that, looking at 1997-2001 statistics, Muslims immigrants were 4 times more likely to kill. \n\nAfter 2005, the Swedish government has refused to publish new statistics. This is obviously because they know that Muslims today commit even more than back then, and if they allowed people to see these statistics then they would face massive backlash on their migration policies.\n\nToo bad for them, they can't censor reality outside their country.\n\n* **http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/21/europe/sweden-stockholm-riots/index.html**\n\n* **https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/annu-en-handgranat-sprangs-i-malmo**\n\n* **https://www.thelocal.se/20150724/third-grenade-attack-in-a-week-rocks-malm**\n\nThere are more if want me to keep posting them.\n\nSince sweden is too scared of the truth, i don't know why...since according to liberals ***\"reality has a liberal bias\"*** (LOL), and stopped counting let's look at it's neighbor. The liberal pro-islam norway.\n\n**https://www.politi.no/vedlegg/lokale_vedlegg/kripos/Vedlegg_3591.pdf**\n\nThe 2015 police report finds that Muslim refugees commit 25% of crime, but they only make up 5% of the population. So in summary, the 5% commit 25% of the crime, and are **625%** more likely to do it than a native Norwegian.\n\nIt's a violent religion, there is no other way to put it.\n\nShow me a place where christians are 625% more likely to commit crimes (terrorism is a crime) than the native population.\n\n> Liberal/Dem backlash is against regressive ideas, and the escalation of right wng intolerance and aggression which weakens the U.S. Civic contract in favor of fear and zero sum reasoning.\n\nUnless it's Islam-related.\n\nThen it's suddenly \"islamophobia\", like you have seen with sweden and germany.\n\n\n\n",
"Respectively, that article seems to just kinda use buzzwords without proving a whole lot of trackable, explicitly stated issues. “Passes law that allows discrimination” is used in nearly every example, without any further explanation. ",
"Trusting the consumer to all start using reusable bags on theit own is stupid bc a lot of people really don't care about the environment. Have you learned how much plastic waste is left in the environment ? It's ridiculous. So now is the time for change. Less than a dollar to get bags is worth saving the environment when many people using paper bags *don't even recycle them*. ",
"It was so awkward when a couple of friends and I did a road trip and passed through Oregon.\n\nWe were aware that you can't pump your gas, but wasn't sure about tipping and erred on the side of being safe and tried to give the guy a $3 tip after.\n\nHe looked at us like we were crazy and asked what that was for. He didn't accept it. Awkward as f.",
"> I will certainly denounce that mod.\n\nHe is most certainly not the only mod. Dig into the mod list. They specifically are nurturing a sub to be a neo-nazi haven and they ban anyone who voices issue with that.",
"\n>he was never called a racist until he ran for president. \n\nAside from all the fucking times he lost or settled lawsuits for racial discrimination? Or is that FAKENEWS",
"Figured he was thinking of showing Pence what he's missing. But only if his wife is in the room.",
"Not sure you understand what irony means lmao ",
"You know damn good and well you wouldn't be getting a \"ma'am\" or \"sir\" anywhere north of Kentucky.",
"You aren't calling me a nazi? Well that puts you above 99% of liberals ",
"You are a troll. The sentence is in a passive voice. Pence is not the subject. He is part of a prepositional phrase.",
"Fake news.",
"Holy shit guy, without even diving into the specific politics of the matter, consider this.... if the Republican Party was even CLOSE to as openly ignorant and vapid as you make it out to be, would ~50% of voters have voted republican in the last election? ",
"the real problem imo is the party politics themselves. I'm sure there are plenty of republicans which have no problem with gay marriage but basically have to ask like they do because it's under the Republican Doctrine. I'm sure there are similar situations with other issues on the Democrat side I just can't think of one as needlessly polarizing as gay marriage",
"I don't think anyone should be \"serving the government\", what a bizarre concept.",
"Pence seems like the sort of prick that would reject one of his kids for being gay.",
"The object of the sentence is Doug Jones as the verb is being done in relation to him, not Pence. Pence is the \"subject\" as he is acting on the object. So then it's understood the \"openly gay son\" is in relation to the object of the sentence.",
"You can't deny service to a person for **who they are.**\n\nYou can absolutely kick out a person for *being a piece of shit,* like wearing a swastika arm band or a MAGA hat. ",
">I read the other responses. Unless I missed one, no one brought up the crusades. \n\n**[Here's one.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7o0tvh/doug_jones_sweared_into_office_by_mike_pence_next/ds6ixh2/)**\n\n>The original point of my original comment was that \"you people\" - sorry for the phrase but I don't want to call you an \"islamaphobe\" And I'm not sure how else to refer to the group you belong to, just know that I'm not generalizing because I'm defining the group by the phenomenon, - **focus too much on the group and the statistics while I, and many others on the left, largely prefer to focus on the individual.**\n\nYeah, think not feel.\n\nFacts not feels.\n\nAnd it my case, not defend people that would be happy to hang me for being LGBT.\n\nIf statistics say 9 out of 10 (technically 92~93% but rounding it to 90%) are no good then it's pretty safe (and grammatically accurate) to say almost all are like that and therefore a threat if care about actual progress.\n\nAs a LGBT person, it is ridiculously frustrating how much democrats love a group that makes conservatives look good in comparison, and even more, that want to silence any criticism towards them with words like \"islamophobia\".",
"You're right. It was more of an \"AY YO BITCH! THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING???\"",
"I'm from TN, but drove up to see family in NY a few years back. I stopped in NJ to get gas fully aware of their shenanigans. My car takes high octane gas and I told this to the attendant. He started pumping the low-octane stuff anyway and walked away. So, I got out, stopped the pump and started pumping the right stuff. \n\nThe dude started yelling at me and I could not have cared less. I'm not about to let some disengaged jackass ruin my engine because \"there are rules here.\"",
"Lol no you can’t ",
"http://zzcad.com/parse.htm\n\nUse this site type the sentence \"Doug Jones is sworn into office by Pence next to his openly gay son.\" Doug Jones is the subject. Bye.",
"If that’s the case, then you can absolutely kick out a gay person or a freak show tranny",
"They've been fighting for \"religious liberty\" laws, which would allow someone to ban someone for being lgbtq from their store, refuse to do your job as a government employee, or even deny healthcare. \n\nThe biggest example is the cakemaker story. A cake maker refuses to make a cake for a gay couple, they sue. GOP has been backing the cake maker's right to discriminate against gays. ",
"He may or may not be several midgets stacked on top of each other, wearing a big coat.",
"You don't \"disagree\" with someone else's sexual preferences, dickface.",
"\"Mike better not get in my face, cause I'll *drop that motherfucker!*\"",
"Your beliefs and opinions are part of “who they are”",
">For some reason we don't see any serious talk about how they're incapable of assimilation.\n\nMaybe because they are the country founding population and grammatically speaking, assimilation only exists when foreign entities entering in contact with the majoritarian one.\n\nBut worry not, there are plenty of mainstream media outlets (like huffpo or salon) that are more than happy to shit on them 24/7.\n\nSo it doesn't worry me since they get their well-deserved criticism.\n\nWhat worries me is the \"religion of peace\" that gets a free pass from the so-called liberals.",
"Is that what you democrats call \"projection\"?\n\nAnswer the question:\n\nWhat are democrats running on in 2018? 2020?\n\nAny thoughts????",
"Well, he's the most famous and powerful man in the world right now, and he's also a subliterate asshole. There's not many places left where it isn't relevant to call him out.",
"I bet that was a shock for him. ",
"The object of the sentence is Doug Jones as the verb is being done in relation to him, not Pence. Pence is the \"subject\" as he is acting on the object. So then it's understood the \"openly gay son\" is in relation to the object of the sentence.",
"When did your sexual orientation become how a person is introduced or described...\"Hi, I'm Doug Jones and this is my openly gay son, Carson Jones.\" Also just because a person doesn't agree with the practice of being gay or lesbian does not make them a homophobe or hater of LBGT people.... I wish people could get that straight for once. ",
"You can almost hear that whisper inside Pence's head\n\n>Oh mother, he is still looking at me\n\n>I can feel his agenda creeping into my loins\n\n",
"lol, I am not even am american. You guys are all stupid.",
"Doug Jones, standing next to his openly gay son, was sworn in by Mike Pence.",
"Enjoy your brief time in the Senate Doug!",
"As much as you want to push the strawman, that doesn't make it the liberal argument.\n\n>Maybe because they are the country founding population.\n\noh so the U.S. is a christian nation now?\n\n>What worries me is the \"religion of peace\" that gets a free pass from the so-called liberals.\n\nWe just want fuckers to stop advocating shit like 'nuke mecca' and 'ban islam' and plotting to bomb apartment buildings because it's full of Muslims.\n\nI don't like fundamentalism of *any* religion. Whether it's a christian or muslim or a buddhist bombing or massacring people *that shit is bad* The problem is we seem to be the only ones willing to look beyond \"ISLAM BAD\" to try to get to the root of the problem, while the modern GOP is mostly content with blind bigotry.\n\nYou guys want to bomb the middle east into the dark ages, then act surprised when the parts you've bombed act like its the dark ages.",
"I️ hold the same stance as you on the cake issue. But I️ encourage you to pay attention to the full scope of an issue like that. Politics aside, completely objectively, does this seem right?\n\n“The court sentenced the Christian couple to a fine of $135,000 for the “emotional damage” they had allegedly caused the lesbian pair. Rachel Cryer-Bowman and Laurel Bowman-Cryer had accused the Kleins of “mental rape,” adding that they had suffered a “loss of appetite” and “impaired digestion” from the ordeal, which remarkably led to simultaneous “weight gain.”” \n\n135 K for emotional damage is just downright scummy, in my opinion. Now the mom and pops bakery is completely out of business, when IMO their only mistake was saying “we won’t do it because you’re gay” instead of “were completely booked up, sorry”. \n\nThis same couple has refused to make cakes for divorce parties, bachelor parties, and even Halloween themed cake. Extremely, openly Christian, and very likely targeted by the lesbian couple because they saw it as a “golden goose” so to speak. And they were exactly right. 135K to go home with ain’t too shabby. ",
"Yes you do. Some people enjoy having sex with animals. That’s their sexual preference. I disagree with that. See it’s easy. ",
"Having 78 restrooms per each individual gender in all public places and the genocide of all white, straight males.",
"\"Doug Jones uses his son as a political prop while being sworn in by Mike Pence.\"",
"I think you're retarded LMAO",
"Liberals really hate facts don't they :)",
"I'm sorry, but do you know him personally or are you basing your opinion off of what CNN shoves down your throat? I'm guessing the latter... ",
"It's not *who*, but rather *what*. If the government is handing out marriage licenses and benefits for being married, it must be because marriage serves a purpose to the government. Government incentives behavior it has a vested interest in perpetuating and punishes behavior it has a vested interest in limiting. That's just how government works. ",
"Trump supporters really hate facts don't they :)",
"Has anyone ever sworn in on the constitution or bill of rights?",
"Oh, bless your heart. I don't think you've read the bible as well as you think you have.\n\n[Leviticus 18:22](https://www.biblestudytools.com/leviticus/18-22.html)\n\nGod calls homosexuality an abomination (in this translation \"detestable\"), that's a crime that warrants a death penalty.\n\n[Leviticus 20:13](https://www.biblestudytools.com/leviticus/20-13.html)\n\nGod tells his people to murder people for homosexuality.\n\n[1 Corinthians 6:9](https://www.biblestudytools.com/1-corinthians/passage/?q=1-corinthians+6:9-11)\n\nGays can't go to heaven.\n\n[Romans 1:25-27](https://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/passage/?q=romans+1:25-27)\n\nHomosexuality is unnatural, shameful, and deserves a \"penalty.\"\n\n\n\nThe bible is an awful book with awful lessons by awful people. Your own morality is obviously superior to the \"god\" you worship. ",
">The only people who can possibly think being gay is a choice are bisexuals or closeted gays\n\nBisexuals might thing *having gay sex* is a choice, but excluding trolls, I doubt any bi person would say that orientation is a choice.",
"I was never making the case that transgender people come with more or fewer benefits. You're arguing with yourself. \n\nAll i've asked you do to is to provide me with your very simple cost/benefit analysis. ",
"I was never making the case that transgender people come with more or fewer benefits. You're arguing with yourself. \n\nAll i've asked you do to is to provide me with your very simple cost/benefit analysis. ",
"LOL\n\nIt's almost like I'm addressing the comments on this post, the one your commenting on now, which called Pence a closet homosexual, saying Jones' son is totally staring him down, that this split-second picture is somehow a case-study in body language, and just an overall shitshow of people taking the opportunity to attack and insult Pence.\n\nLOL \"bootyblasted\"! You totes got me! Sick burn yo!!! LOL\n\n",
"uh huh.\n\ntell me more",
"Gay people don't have a common lifestyle; there's nothing for you to reject",
"uh huh.\n\ntell me more",
"If I call a man a dick, I am denigrating him. If I call a woman a dick, I am still denigrating men, because I am saying male genitalia is bad. ",
">How surveys are worded, how many people are surveyed, and where the surveys are distributed have a massive effect on the answers that you get. I tried looking into the last two links, but I could not find anything about their survey methodology at all. We're you able to find anything?\n\nThe polls were made by different entities (so yeah, all pollsters reach similar conclusions...i wonder why!) so for the metodology you will have to search each one individually in the pollsters sites.\n\nIt's not hard, here i found one for the poll made by ICM:\n\n**https://www.icmunlimited.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Mulims-full-suite-data-plus-topline.pdf**\n\nSeems like a pretty solid metodology to me.\n\nMaybe you are suggesting a faulty polling in 1~2, but even if that was the case, it doesn't erase that all the other ones reach the same conclusion.\n\n>Further, in the article for the 2nd to last bullet (only 3% support freedom of speech), it states \"When asked if free speech should be protected, even if it offends religious groups, 62 percent of British Muslims say No, it should not.\" The 3% refers to answering every freedom of speech question with max freedom answer, which could have been affected by poor question wording.\n\nNope, it really says that only 3% are ***consistently*** pro free-speech in their answers, not that they answered \"freely\".\n\n*\"The news is no less alarming on the question of freedom of speech. Seventy-eight percent support punishment for the people who earlier this year published cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed. Sixty-eight percent support the arrest and prosecution of those British people who \"insult Islam.\" When asked if free speech should be protected, even if it offends religious groups, 62 percent of British Muslims say No, it should not.\"\n\n\"The scary reality is that only three percent of British Muslims \"took a consistently pro-freedom of speech line on these questions.\"*\n\nOnly 3% consistently defended freedom of speech, the other 97% changed their answer depending the question.\n\nBut there is no such thing as half freedom of speech, is either freedom or not.\n\n> Also, it seems like you are also manipulating the information. In the first link it really states: \"Forty per cent of the British Muslims surveyed said they backed introducing sharia in parts of Britain, while 41 per cent opposed it.\" \n\nI am not manipulating the information.\n\nLike you said, it DOES say 40% want to introduce sharia law.\n\nOut of 100 they are still the minority.\n\nThe 60% that didn't said yes out of it 41% explicitly against it you mention is already implied.\n\nIf i told you \"1% of the population likes duck-shaped hats\" is not manipulation of information to not say \"99% doesn't\", that's implied.\n\n",
"Just rest assured if Katie Perry’s giant bouncing boobs wind up on the street again all the fat ugly Linda’s in the world will have their outrage shredded and burned.",
"So, you're conceding that transgendered individuals offer no benefit to our military? \n\nDisappointing. \n\nWelp, nice chatting with you. Have a great 2018.",
"Ew why’d you have to take it to incest?",
"Ever owned thousands of properties in a city? I’ve worked for someone that has, someone who was 100% not racist and was very careful in anything that was said or done. There were tons of racial discrimination lawsuits brought on against him...... his business partner who owned 30% of the company was black! \n\nRacial discrimination lawsuits brought on by housing disagreements are a dime a dozen in large urban areas. ",
"Aw, you tried lol",
"Is this supposed to be impressive? Or is it supposed to be like one of Trump’s weird power plays?",
"Whatever he does. Don't shake his hands. ",
"Why the fuck do you dumbass trumpists always think people watch CNN? Who the fuck watches CNN outside of a waiting room? And what that fuck kind of argument is that? Somehow seeing hours of his public speaking, policies, and one-on-one interviews isn't enough to get an idea about the guy? Jesus, what a fucking waste of space dumbass question.",
"Oh he \"looks villainous\" as opposed to fucking little girls and actually *being* villainous? Also, Moore looked like a creepy pedo uncle dressed in a halloween costume. And he fucked little kids. For years. ",
"That's not how that word works. Nobody is requesting a consensus on whether they're gay. \"I disagree\" is as relevant as saying \"I have teeth.\" \n\nIf by \"i disagree,\" you actually mean \"you shouldn't do that,\" then you're being pretty dishonest.",
"He would have easily won if he wasn't a child molester and even with that information he only lost by 1%. \n",
">Doug Jones *sweared* into office \n\nBefore, posts like this wouldn't have even seen the light of day.\n",
"I don't think you follow. What relation to office other than his father does he have? Is he a member of congress too?\nThese are rhetorical questions of course. This is a bait article. His gay son means absolutely nothing to the fact that he was sworn in. It's like a black and white crime. Why does color matter other than to use as a fuel for hate? ",
"And society never believes male accusers. What was your point?",
"I highly doubt it. Gene therapy can't change existing traits, because unless whatever that gene is manifesting is developing, the cells in question are going to have a set structure already. Like, a CRISPR shot can potentially prevent cancer by removing cancerous genes before they activate, but it can't make a short person grow in adulthood, because the bones, muscles, ligaments, etc. are done growing at that point, or rather- it *shouldn't* do so.\n\nAttempting to force a person's body to grow would likely be a dangerous mess- what if you don't activate the genes to also grow their internal organs to support a larger body? What if you neglect to include a gene to deactivate the growth process afterwards, or if it malfunctions? What if your gene therapy fails to lengthen ligaments while the bones and muscles grow as expected? It's a risky enough game to play with genetics even from an embryo. To try and make significant changes to a mature, living being is going to be exponentially more involved.\n\nSuch a deep-rooted psychological trait as sexuality is similarly entrenched by years of memory and personality and psyche, and \"flipping the gay switch\" (if it even exists as a single gene in the first place rather than an amorphous gestalt) would be about as effective as making a short man tall, and possibly as dangerous psychologically as the height issue would be physiologically.",
"Have you ever heard of Kevin Spacey?\n\nAlso, that's exactly my point. Mike pence is discriminating against women unless he also has the same actions of not eating alone with other males. ",
"I suggest you actually read the case instead of inventing excuses for him.\n\nAlso nice moving of goalposts!\n\n>No one ever called him racist before!\n\nNow it's\n\n>So what everyone did it!",
"Sorry, bigot, lgbtq people are absolutely \"born that way,\" going by all current scientific explanations. Find someone else to hate on. \n",
"But you still expect the world to change for you...right? \n\nI can reject the beliefs. I don’t have to accept someone who just had a change of heart and decided to change their identity \n\n",
"I didn't realize the word minority was synonymous with not being able to afford a premium service",
"My only thought at this point is, \"Fuck Mike Pence.\"",
"That's absolutely not true. It's the same reason you can have a dress code at a nice restaurant, or kick someone out for having a shirt that says \"fuck everyone\" or some other form of hate speech (like the MAGA hat, in this example). The business can't refuse service to a person based on the ideological beliefs if they're not using them to cause problems. Ex: a homophobe could walk into a gay person's restaurant, have a nice meal, and leave, but if they call the owner a dyke or wear a hat that proclaims they hate LGBTQ rights, then, yes, they can kick them out. ",
"Lol, ok bro.",
"> As much as you want to push the strawman, that doesn't make it the liberal argument.\n\nWhat strawman?\n\nThe ones pushing to censor criticism towards islam aren't the conservatives.\n\n>oh so the U.S. is a christian nation now?\n\nWhere did i said that? I said the founding population were christians.\n\nNot that the governing entity was. There is no law that forbids a non-christian from becoming president.\n\nThere are lots 'christian countries' that do not use the bible AS their constitution.\n\n>We just want fuckers to stop advocating shit like 'ban islam'.\n\nLeaving your hyperbolic \"nuke them\" aside, there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting a ideology banned.\n\nBeliefs are not immune to criticism.\n\n>The problem is we seem to be the only ones willing to look beyond \"ISLAM BAD\" to try to get to the root of the problem, while the modern GOP is mostly content with blind bigotry.\n\nWho is \"we\"?\n\nAnd what bigotry are you talking about.\n\nSince when it's bigotry to call out a shitty belief for being shitty? Using your logic all atheists are bigots.\n\n>You guys want to bomb the middle east into the dark ages, then act surprised when the parts you've bombed act like its the dark ages.\n\nAgain, who is \"you guys\"?\n\nWhat i argue is that the most hateful and expansionist religion on the planet should NOT get a free pass in the west, with words like \"islamophobia\".\n\nWould be amazing if liberals spent the same time they spend criticizing Christianity on islam.",
"Honestly it depends on the reasons you’re moving. I would say, absolutely, I’ve lived hear my whole life and I love it. That was a major reason for me to stay for college. But again, still depends.",
"I'd hazard a guess that most religious conservatives believe homosexuality to be sinful. That is the crux of the problem. A free society cannot allow businesses to *hide behind religion* to justify discrimination. Religion is personal. Business is licensed by the state, and the state should not allow business to discriminate against minorities regardless of the owners' personal religion.",
"Lol the hypocrisy is astounding. “I can reject someone but you can’t reject me.”\n\nI also love how that’s the only argument you have. “Urmm I have nothing else to say to ummm, bigot!!”\n\nActually there isn’t enough evidence conducted on the topic and there is research that suggests that environmental factors play a role.\n\nIs name calling the only tactic you have for people who don’t agree with you?",
"Until you've been denied service from somewhere, you really can't say what the emotional damage of being a second class citizen is. \nI'd lose sleep over it, personally.\n\nThat being said, the fine was mostly from the state. ",
"Wow you all a bunch of petty assholes. So sad you lost to Trump, shit like this will keep him in office. ",
"I did it. It wasn't that difficult, actually. ",
"In the example of the republicans who got kicked out, they weren’t doing anything wrong. They had been protesting earlier and the owner saw that and when they came in to eat, the owner kicked them out based on ideological beliefs.... but that’s okay with you, right?",
"*ruining",
"You called trans people freaks and used a transgender slur.\n\nYes, that makes you a bigot.\n\nYou also can't tell the difference between serving someone who is being civil, but *happens to be gay or republican or black*, and a person who is causing a disruption based on what they believe, not who they are. \n\nSince you can't separate the two, and you've already started out with slurs, I really don't think there's a discussion of any kind to be had here. ",
"What hate has Pence preached?\nHomosexuality should be cured? Acting on such urges is sinful?",
"Lol if someone is a man and they suddenly decide they want to be and dress like a woman, that absolutely makes them a freakshow",
"Got an article? I'd love to hear that they didn't come in with their signs, didn't harass any of the people in the restaurant outside earlier, before coming in, and weren't wearing anything to cause the people in the restaurant discomfort over their hateful, bigoted, or sexist views. \n\nEdit: \nLooked it up much later in this discussion. \nHere's what he considers \"not doing anything wrong.\" (Warning, disturbing imagery on the pamphlets they were handing out.)\nhttps://www.out.com/news-opinion/2017/10/09/heroic-gay-coffee-shop-owner-kicks-out-anti-gay-group-says-hed-fck-christ",
"I kind of like that I have no problem believing that Pence's policy is backwards and sexist and ALSO common sense. We live in an absurd time.",
"You also can’t understand that someone who was being civil but happened to be protesting earlier against the gay owner’s beliefs got kicked out...",
"Wrong. If a person was designated male at birth and had an actual gender of female, it makes them transgender, which isn't even a mental health disorder. \n\nSmarter people than you have debated this already, it's ok to just listen to them. ",
"The democrat's are going with the gay token on this one, you poor oppressed bitch will get her turn later.",
"Nope, no threat at all. How do you get a threat out of a simple declaration? Besides, it's true.",
"1) You seem to have this story in your head, but haven't shared it\n2) Protesting outside of someone's store and then coming in is absolutely disruptive. ",
"Clearly there is not going to be any movement toward rationality from your end on this issue. \n\n It's apparent from the double standards (citing calls from the right to nuke mecca is a hyperbolic lie to you, but the the fantasy that the left wants to censor all criticism of the religion is a-okay?) and unwillingness to understand my points presented in your comment.\n\n\n>there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting a ideology banned.\n\nyet in the same breath and damn others as enemies of free speech and accuse them of pushing censorship.\n\n\n\nHopefully others scrolling by get something out of this exchange by witnessing your derangement.\n",
"Clearly there is not going to be any movement toward rationality from your end on this issue. \n\n It's apparent from the double standards (citing calls from the right to nuke mecca is a hyperbolic lie to you, but the the fantasy that the left wants to censor all criticism of the religion is a-okay?) and unwillingness to understand my points presented (by repeatedly, purposefully misrepresenting them) in your comment.\n\n\n>there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting a ideology banned.\n\nyet in the same breath and damn others as enemies of free speech and accuse them of pushing censorship.\n\n\n\nHopefully others scrolling by get something out of this exchange by witnessing your derangement.\n",
"Ah. Is that another thing the pope hand waved out of existence to make Christianity seem less crazy? Cool cool...",
"Remember Poker? Fuck, I fold.",
"Why is marriage a government thing",
"> No, my point is that the vast majority of muslims world-wide think homosexuality is unacceptable, a crime punishable with jail or death and their political system uses these religious beliefs to enforce this.\n\nCan you please show me where in the PDF that you provided it states this? I cannot find it. \n\n>It would be a big leap towards progress if it was just \"a sin\" for them.\n\nThat's weird, your own fucking source says: \n\n>\"Regardless of whether they support making\nsharia the official law of the land, Muslims\naround the world overwhelmingly agree\nthat in order for a person to be moral, he or\nshe must believe in God. Muslims across all\nthe regions surveyed also generally agree\nthat certain behaviors – such as suicide,\nhomosexuality and consuming alcohol –\nare morally unacceptable\"\n\nMorally unacceptable; Sin, some might call these two synonymous. \n\nAnother excerpt from your own fucking source: \n\n>Muslims around the world also share similar views about the immorality of some behaviors.\nFor example, across the six regions surveyed, median percentages of roughly eight-in-ten or\nmore consistently say prostitution, homosexuality and suicide are morally wrong. \n\nHmm, morally wrong again. Almost as if they think it's a \"Sin\". Go figure. \n\nPage 81 of your own fucking source goes on to discuss how it's a moral issue. \n\nIt's almost as if your source doesn't support your claim at all. \n\nBut perhaps, perhaps I've missed the part of your source that says \"the vast majority of muslims world-wide think homosexuality is unacceptable, a crime punishable with jail or death\". \n\nBut perhaps you just like to make shit up to fit your world view? Perhaps you like to post retarded pictures of \"Statistics\", then post a link to a long PDF, figuring no one will actually read it. ",
"Being a transgender is not wrong if you are born with the other gender’s genitals or if you are born with both. But when you decide later in life that you were “born to be a woman”, yes you are a freak show and make most people uncomfortable ",
"> No, my point is that the vast majority of muslims world-wide think homosexuality is unacceptable, a crime punishable with jail or death and their political system uses these religious beliefs to enforce this.\n\nCan you please show me where in the PDF that you provided it states this? I cannot find it. \n\n>It would be a big leap towards progress if it was just \"a sin\" for them.\n\nThat's weird, your own fucking source says: \n\n>\"Regardless of whether they support making\nsharia the official law of the land, Muslims\naround the world overwhelmingly agree\nthat in order for a person to be moral, he or\nshe must believe in God. Muslims across all\nthe regions surveyed also generally agree\nthat certain behaviors – such as suicide,\nhomosexuality and consuming alcohol –\nare morally unacceptable\"\n\nMorally unacceptable; Sin, some might call these two synonymous. \n\nAnother excerpt from your own fucking source: \n\n>Muslims around the world also share similar views about the immorality of some behaviors.\nFor example, across the six regions surveyed, median percentages of roughly eight-in-ten or\nmore consistently say prostitution, homosexuality and suicide are morally wrong. \n\nHmm, morally wrong again. Almost as if they think it's a \"Sin\". Go figure. \n\nPage 81 of your own fucking source goes on to discuss how it's a moral issue. \n\nIt's almost as if your source doesn't support your claim at all. \n\nBut perhaps, perhaps I've missed the part of your source that says \"the vast majority of muslims world-wide think homosexuality is unacceptable, a crime punishable with jail or death\". \n\nBut perhaps you just like to make shit up to fit your world view? Perhaps you like to post retarded pictures of \"Statistics\", then post a link to a long PDF, figuring no one will actually read it. ",
"Ahh... I was once a dumb little teenager too. It'll get better.",
"You have a very common, but poor understanding of Matthew 7:1-5. ",
"Lol, good one.",
"From the people who added an 's' to \"y'all\" I expect no less.",
"Way smarter people have debated that it’s not absolute, and that environmental factors play a role. It’s okay to just listen to them.",
"You're just wrong. Take the L.",
"Jesus I couldn't even get past \"sweared\" to see an obvious subject-verb agreement. You are the one true grammar nazi. ",
">[I was never making the case that transgender people come with more or fewer benefits. You're arguing with yourself.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7o0tvh/doug_jones_sweared_into_office_by_mike_pence_next/ds6vwfo/)",
"Do you suppose Pence would be allowed to be in a room alone with the younger Jones?",
"I don't *hate* the grammar in the title, I just don't want my kids exposed to it, that's all.",
"I'm not!!! Guys phobia means fear so mike pence isn't afraid of the gay people he is actuakly heterophob we must use technical terms to defeat the right ",
" Voter ID laws will destroy the Democratic Party forever",
"Oof. Toughen up. Sorry. Why you think the divorcees, bachelors, and Halloween fans didn’t sue? Because they were just mentally tougher? Or because they realized there was no money in it? ",
"You're clearly a snowflake ",
"The people that identify with a party are stupid. ",
"Link to the case?",
"I had no problem with homosexuals until someone close to me came out and treated people like shit. \n\nIt’s been difficult to not take those negative emotions and apply it to the group entirely. ",
"The largest benefit is Tax breaks, which were largely an accident of the 1948 tax reforms that changed the unit of taxation from the individual to the family via the adoption of income splitting for married couples, partly because taxpayers in community property states were already implementing joint filing on their own.\n\nThe simple fact is that to fix this oversight would be political suicide.\n\nSo your conjecture that it benefits the government is only true in that to do anything else would hand control of the government to someone else.\n\nThe main reason that government got involved in marriage in the first place was the usual attempts by Christian elements to insert biblical concepts into legislature, pseudo arguments about marriage protecting children and such.",
"It's fucking amazing how conservatives are this way about every single issue. You want to cut government entitlement? Well my g-maw is on social security and public housing, but THE REST MUST GO! Except for the corporate subsidies. I'm a self-made man and I need those to stay afloat.",
"Because\n1) They're not a regularly denied group of people, so they really can go anywhere else and\n2) Can you find evidence of this baker refusing service to them? ",
"Hahaha yeah I don't even speak French but I totally imagined it like that :D",
"Neither will. Only grace will.",
"No.",
"All evidence points to the contrary. Gender is likely decided in the womb and realized by age 4, sexuality often comes later in adolescence, but parents often know before then. \n\nEither way, it's not a reason to deny someone service. You don't have to wear your Nazi outfits everywhere, someone has to be the gender they are though. ",
"Actually, most people are cool with trans folks. Bigots like you are in the minority. ",
"bet ur fat irl LOL",
"Trump nominated a gay man to be ambassador to Germany.\n\nSo no, you do not recall correctly. ",
"John Oliver told you not to use whataboutism bb. ",
"Like Pence has never seen a gay person before.",
"1) You really, truly believe this lesbian couple couldn’t find any other place that would make them a cake?????? And do you believe gay people are “regularly denied” service in public? \n\n2) https://www.google.com/amp/amp.nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/andrew-sullivan-let-him-have-his-cake.html",
"Businesses are forced to do shit against their will all the time. Follow safety regulations. Follow performance regulations, price regulations, service regulations. \n \nYou as a person have a right to be a racist cunt. Businesses don't, and thank fucking god for that. ",
"What rulings have they made during this current administration that are anti gay?",
"You're allah damn right",
"By that logic, it would be okay to deny someone service who is wearing a ‘Black Lives Matter’ shirt, right? That would be okay with you? No black people will be offended and no one will lose their shit here, correct?\n\nAlso, no one is talking about Nazi outfits. MAGA outfits do not equal to Nazi outfits. ",
"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html\n\nhttps://vault.fbi.gov/trump-management-company\n\nAdditionally look into the video testimony during one of the cases of racial discrimination for one of his casinos.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0n3xEQD9u8\n\nThe only way you would not know about these is if you've been actively avoiding them. Trump's history with racism was *well* documented and broadcast before his bid to run.\n\nShit, he's *the champion* loudest voice of the birther movement, which is steeped in racism.\n\nYou can either accept this or continue to plug your ears. Either way your assertion that these were made up to attack him during his run has been definitively put down.",
"I dont know",
"Ye.... no :(",
"\"But Hillary did this and this and that\". \nGet over it for fucks sake. Nobody cares about her anymore. \nShe won't run for office, so stop bringing her up everyone someone says something against the fucked up admin which is ruining the country. \n",
"/u/somehowrelated doesn't know what liberalism means.",
"Okay, I got a C in English throughout high school, so maybe I'm more on your level. \n\nAnalogies always use a statement containing \"like\" or \"as\" so it's more direct and overt. Metaphor is subtler, and often relies on hyperbole, or something obviously impossible if taken literally like \"been deported\" with the implication of being an illegal immigrant and therefor explicitly ineligible. \n\nThe author obviously does not want a recovering crack addict president. However, the author has incredibly strong feelings that presidents need to be in-touch with regular people, and that's more important than having what looks like a spotless past. Maybe you're on the autism spectrum and you're just that literal, or maybe just an asshole trolling for bad karma.",
"Lol can’t have those pesky blacks and poors voting can we?!",
"Yep, how would you like to be told your existence is sinful.",
"Woman gropers...hmm. \nI didn't know Mr \"grab her by the pussy\" was on the left.\nAnd putting immigrants and trans people and socialists and communists together with pedos? Wow. ",
"Legally speaking, yes, it would be ok. \n\nBut you'd have to be a racist prick to do it. \n\nAnd yes, MAGA is not the same as Nazi apparel. It's just really similar. ",
"Roy. Moore. Fucked. Little. Girls. Lots. Of. Them.\n\n\nFor. Many. Years",
"> Can you please show me where in the PDF that you provided it states this? I cannot find it.\n\nSince **you don't know how to read** i should repeat what you quoted, with emhasis on the important parts:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*\"No, my point is that the vast majority of muslims world-wide think homosexuality is unacceptable, a crime punishable with jail or death and their political system uses these religious beliefs to enforce this.\"*\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*\"No, my point is that the vast majority of muslims world-wide think....\"*\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*\"No my point is...\"*\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDid you asked for a PDF saying what i said what my point was? I don't think so because that would be something VERY stupid to ask. Any person with basic reading comprehension would understand the difference between \"a PDF says this\" and \"my point (for posting this PDF) is...\".\n\n**So, what are you asking, again?**\n\n>Morally unacceptable; Sin, some might call these two synonymous.\n\nAnd how is it punishable?\n\nBecause in christian countries is JUST a sin.\n\nIn christian countries the law doesn't punish it, does islam punish it in their countries with their laws? We both know the answer is \"yes\".\n\nOnce again you show how you don't know how to read, my comment you quoted:\n\n*\"It would be a big leap towards progress if it was* ***just*** *\"a sin\" for them.\"*\n\n>But perhaps, perhaps I've missed the part of your source that says \"the vast majority of muslims world-wide think homosexuality is unacceptable, a crime punishable with jail or death\".\n\nYou can google it.\n\nWhat? Want me to link you to muslims hanging gays while cheering?\n\nOk, since you can't google it here is for you:\n\n**[Four Iranian men sentenced to death by hanging for sodomy](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/four-iranian-men-sentenced-to-to-death-by-hanging-for-sodomy/)**\n\nWant a video too?\n\nDO YOU WANT TO SEE GAY PEOPLE BEING HANGED?\n\nShow me christian countries doing this on \"current year\" or shut the hell up.\n\n>But perhaps you just like to make shit up to fit your world view? Perhaps you like to post retarded pictures of \"Statistics\", then post a link to a long PDF, figuring no one will actually read it.\n\nAh so now facts are \"retarded\".\n\nOf course, for someone with such a shitty reading comprehension it's impossible to understand simple, measured facts.",
"r/titlegore",
"You really think gay people not getting medical care destroyed Indiana’s economy?",
"Oh you’d have to be racist to kick some wearing a BLM outfit out but, oh don’t worry, a liberal can totally kick someone wearing a MAGA outfit and it’s all okay!\n\nIf you’d have to a racist to kick out a person wearing BLM clothing, what would you have to be to kick someone out wearing a MAGA clothing? Someone who can’t tolerate and accept the fact that someone shares a different opinion than you?\n\nThe hypocrisy is amazing lol",
"Yeah... no",
"On the way out! That pesky climate change is killing it.\n\nShh. Don't tell anyone, we need the tourist dollars. ",
"I didn't say it was the best of plans I was just purposing a possible reason since you said you couldn't think of one. I don't oppose gay marriage.\n\n\nMost people who do oppose gay marriage think that homosexuality has some competent of it that is environmentally based and that it is not entirely biologically based. By allowing and accepting gay marriage you increase the number of gay people and this results in a further declining population.\n\n\nWhile I agree that homosexuality has a biological basis it's a tough sale to claim that culture and environment have no impact at all on the sexuality of children. I know there are plenty of studies and evidence showing the biological component, but those same studies do not disprove an environmental component.\n\n\nPopulation decline is not a problem on a global scale and we allow immigration to offset it. Declining population is only something to be concerned with if you dislike immigration. The people who don't like gay marriage are usually the ones who oppose mass immigration as well. Mass immigration can change the culture of a country. Really the question is how much do you value the current culture in the US? or are you alright if that culture changes?\n\n\nI am ok with a cultural shift in America so I'm fine with gay marriage and immigration. Some people believe that a cultural shift is going to cause problems in some ways so they oppose these things. Their concerns are not unfounded. Many people and their way of life have died throughout history due to changes in culture. I just hope future changes lead to further prosperity, freedom, equality, and opportunity for as many people as possible. \n\n\nIf they don't have these positive effects, maybe the people opposing these changes were right? After all, the percent of people living below poverty and starving on the globe is at an all time low while population is at an all time high. People in western nations have lots of freedoms and are continually moving towards equality. Violence on the globe is also at an all time low as well. It's a very complex scenario but I understand why these people value western culture so much. I think we can make it better while they are scared we cant, but I don't think their beliefs are unreasonable.",
"That's actually my favorite part about sports. It gives me a way to feel that tribal connection without blindly supporting a nation, state, or workplace. Compared to cutting a blank moral check to those tribes, supporting my hand-egg warriors (go Cowboys!) has way fewer real-world implications. Plus there are 31 other tribes holding mine accountable. ",
"Drop bear is a killer bear in Australia. Everything wants to kill you here. ",
"Drop bear is a killer bear in Australia. Everything wants to kill you here. ",
"Drop bear is a killer bear in Australia. Everything wants to kill you here. ",
"Source that it was an accident?\n\nSource that the reason government is involved in marriage only because of \"inserting biblical concepts into legislature\"? Because my search of the topic led me to a compilation of government decisions throughout the years about why it recognizes marriage in the majority opinion of Baker v. Nelson (1971). The common thread between them that was noted in the opinion was that the continuation of society through creating and rearing children was the driving impetus. So, what proof do you have of your claim?",
"That is how the word works. You can disagree with the way someone lives their lives. We all have free will. Just as someone can disagree with me being heterosexual or monogamous. I do not, nor have ever, hated or discriminated against any member of the gay community and never will. To each their own. Don’t confuse my attitude about it with idiots who do those things. Sleep with whichever gender you like, live next door to me, I don’t care. Go to church with me as well, anyone is invited. Want me to hire you, if your qualifications are what I’m looking for, if course I’d hire a gay man or woman. But I’m not going to lie and say I support it when I don’t. Nor am I going celebrate someone for what they do in their own beds. The whole topic is overplayed. ",
"I suppose the implication is that his son was there beside him in spite/protest of Pence's known anti gay leanings. ",
"That's what I'm talking about when say respecting their beliefs. Respect the fact that they have beliefs that are typically deep rooted and shaped by their experiences and no matter the amount of \"shouting down\" and belittling you do will change them (kinda what you are doing in your comment). If the person is overall a good person and you one day find out they believe x, instead of vigorously trying to change their opinion respect that they have beliefs shaped long before you. \n\nYou are so quick to argue the second part with what you believe is right, without putting any thought or being open minded. These were just hypothetical arguments one could make regarding the topic, but the main point is what are you arguing for, that it's good or bad and good or bad for whom, society? If that's the case then you have to realize it's subjective and an unsettled argument with people on both sides. ",
"Way to take your own source out of context, bro:\n\n>When an MTV viewer wanted to know what Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama thought of Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment on the 2008 California general-election ballot that would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry, MTV News brought the question straight to the man himself.\n\n>\"I think it's unnecessary,\" Obama told Sway, in response to a question sent in by Gangstagigz from San Leandro, California. \"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.\"\n\nHis personal stance was that the word applied to hetero unions, but his professional stance was that people should be free to do what they want.\n\n**He's literally stating that the proposed California ban on same-sex marriage was a bad idea.**",
"That's what I'm talking about when say respecting their beliefs. Respect the fact that they have beliefs that are typically deep rooted and shaped by their experiences and no matter the amount of \"shouting down\" and belittling you do will change them (kinda what you are doing in your first lines of your comment). If the person is overall a good person and you one day find out they believe x, instead of vigorously trying to change their opinion respect that they have beliefs shaped long before you. \n\nYou are so quick to argue the second part with what you believe is right, without putting any thought or being open minded. These were just hypothetical arguments one could make regarding the topic, but the main point is what are you arguing gor; that it's good or bad and good or bad for whom, society? If that's the case then you have to realize it's subjective and an unsettled argument with people on both sides. ",
"I sweared to God this title is going to give me an ulcer. ",
"> Clearly there is not going to be any movement toward rationality from your end on this issue.\n\nI could say the same too, it would be amazing if there was any movement towards rationality, but some people, **even after being presented all the facts** prefer to pretend there is no problem with a bigoted, intolerant belief like islam.\n\nAt that people are objectively ***evil.***\n\n>It's apparent from the double standards (citing calls from the right to nuke mecca is a hyperbolic lie to you, but the the fantasy that the left wants to censor all criticism of the religion is a-okay?) \n\nWhat fantasy?\n\n**[Sweden 'covering up' migrant rape and violent crime for the sake of 'humanitarianism'.](https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/768980/Sweden-cover-up-migrant-rape-violent-crime)**\n\nSame with germany cologne crimes.\n\nAfter 2012 (and after realize the majority of crimes were comitted by muslims) sweden stopped gathering statistics, for that reason.\n\nSome people think it's a surprise **a violent religion with no respect for women** would lead to **attacks towards women and violence.** \n\nThey are LITERALLY getting a free pass.\n\n>yet in the same breath and damn others as enemies of free speech and accuse them of pushing censorship.\n\nTolerance shouldn't tolerate the intolerant. \n \nThis applies to fascists. \nAuthoritarians. \nBigoted religions. \nRacists. \nAnd etc. \n\n",
"Wha-in what way?",
"Wha-in what way?",
"Except as individuals, they All follow the same ideals and beliefs, because they are all apart of the sane religious group. \n\nSo you DO blame them since they fullheartedly support the Islamic Agenda and do everything in their power to empower it, even if that includes the harassment, oppression and murder of women and gays alike?\n\nI actually said you DEMAND that they be brought into America as refugees, because you claim they NEED it. Let's breakdown why you think they NEED it.\n\nTheir Islamic country was ruined by Islamic war in the same of Islam, and these Islamic people have now become homeless because other Islamic People murdered their families and destroyed their homes. So now, because Islamic terrorism has caused the destruction of their homelands, you think the Islamic people need to be exported to OTHER nations while they demand the other nations be recreated with the ideals of Islam, the religion that got their homes destroyed, oppresses woman and kills gays.\n\nAll because you hope.. Bringing them here.. Will... Enlighten them to the fact that we are different... \n\nWhen in reality... They already know we are different... And their goal is to convert us and take over our land or die trying... \n\nSo... There is absolutely no hope of them abandoning their religion when they come to America. In fact, in the name of diversity, you would INSIST upon them keeping their beliefs so...\n\n\nThe whole fucking thing doesn't work and you and I both know it",
"Again, you are generalizing. \nMost liberals won’t call you a nazi just like most conservatives won’t call me a libtard",
"Not even close, but definitely a pedant.",
"Ok",
"What!? You mean he's not actually a massive asshole shooting lightning out of his finger tips!? He's not really a nazi!? NO WAY!!!!1!1 ",
"Noel Francisco, Trump appointee is arguing that lgbt people don’t have the same access to goods and services as others.\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-not-get-into-the-butcher-or-the-candlestick-maker/2017/12/05/0632b3cc-da01-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?utm_term=.53577b02d022\n\nGorsuch refusing to state that gay couples have the same rights in terms of birth and death certificates as heterosexual couples do.\n\nhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/06/28/gorsuch_s_first_anti_gay_dissent_has_a_huge_factual_error.html",
"Changing your mind or Updating your opinions? Learning more about the issue maybe? I think the times you can use the term flip flopping isn't limmited to political situations, for example you could flip flop on the descision to go to a new job. But anytime i hear someone using it it almost always means going back and forth on a desicion, not necessarily changing your opinion. ",
"It said \"I'm natural because animals do it so that makes it okay\"\n\nMy disagreement was \"yeah but animals also eat shit, vomit, and each others babies, is it okay for me to do those things because animals do it?\"\n\nIt was at that point that the sexual orientation claimed it was also a new gender, because feelings.",
"So are you saying Muslims are NOT bigoted for oppressing women and killing homosexuals?\n\nOr are you agreeing that they are?\n\nOr are you saying it's not fair to use Muslims as an example since they make up 1/7 People, meaning clearly 1billion+ people agree that death is an acceptable punishment for homosexuality?\n\nPlease continue defending the ideology that discriminates against everything that isn't a Muslim. ",
"Ah I see. Haha! \n\nWell it shows how much I actually pay attention to anything political. ",
"MAGA isn't a race, bigot. ",
"Is that Ralph or mike pence?",
"Docking",
"\"You are either a troll, or someone who just started reading some news, say in the last few hours. Do I think that every single fucking repub hates people different than themselves? NO. Do I think it’s the over-fucking-whelming majority? You bet your ass.\"\n\n\nThis is what I was attempting to respond to. So while I understand the angle you're getting at and can agree to an extent. There are clearly people here blaming all republicans or conservative voters because of ONE guy, in this case Pence. \n\nGiven this context, I think we can agree that my point is at least a valid one to make.",
"Donald Trump, who stated that he'd see about repealing same sex marriage, ran with Mike 'Taze the Gayz' Pence, and repeatedly said that marriage was between a man and woman.... Is pro gay? Why, because he once held an upside down rainbow flag?? ",
"Tell that to the massive HIV epidemic that he did literally nothing about. ",
"\"LOOK, THIS MAN'S GAY\" \"See? Nobody cares\"",
"No, but the weird tax cuts, business pulling out because of the discrimination, and other bad privatization plans did. This isn't even getting into his failure with the state's opiate crisis. ",
"It's good that you're able to tolerate people who like their sex different than you like your sex. That's... a good start.\n\nBut saying \"I disagree\" about who someone is attracted to is just a really, really ineffective way to communicate that.",
"Okay, fair enough. How should I have said it. My goal was not to offend. ",
"He’s just a cunt",
"I think it goes both ways ;)",
"Sworn",
"Do you understand the role of the military?",
"Right, we can't do things just because animals do them. What does this have to do with homosexuality?",
"Have you ever been to a barby? All you can smell is the meat and sweaty bastards. Effectively is an understatement.",
"That smirk. ",
"You're homosexualizing of all of this is very unsettling",
"> No, my point is that the vast majority of muslims world-wide think homosexuality is unacceptable, a crime punishable with jail or death and their political system uses these religious beliefs to enforce this.\n\nAll I want is a source for this claim. And then you come back with: \n\n>You can google it.\n\nThen you say: \n\n>Ok, since you can't google it here is for you:\n\n>Four Iranian men sentenced to death by hanging for sodomy\n\nOh, ok, surely your link proves your point of \"my point is that the vast majority of muslims world-wide think homosexuality is unacceptable, a crime punishable with jail or death and their political system uses these religious beliefs to enforce this.\"\n\nBut you know what, just keep changing your point. I get it. Your point initially was \" 90%+, in countries with laws that explicitly punish/outlaw it.\" You proved your point with a Imgur picture. Then when I asked for a source, you proudly provided me with a 226 page PDF that supposedly backs up the Imgur image. But it doesn't. \n\nThen you tell me your point is \" that the vast majority of muslims world-wide think homosexuality is unacceptable, a crime punishable with jail or death and their political system uses these religious beliefs to enforce this.\"\n\nOf course, this isn't supported by anything that you've provided. When called out on it, you tell me that I should google it, and provide me a link supposedly about four iranian men sentenced to death for sodomy, as if that proves any of your so called \"points\". \n\n>Show me christian countries doing this on \"current year\" or shut the hell up.\n\nI'm not the one making false claims (lying) about religious demographics. That would be you. \n\n>DO YOU WANT TO SEE GAY PEOPLE BEING HANGED?\n\nOf course not. But the fact that Iran hanged 4 of them does nothing to prove any one of your constantly changing \"points\". \n\n>Ah so now facts are \"retarded\".\n\nNope, facts aren't. You, in your comments, have not provided me with any facts. \n\nIf you want to provide me with some sort of sourced facts, then I'd be more than willing to have a discussion. If you want to just make shit up, call it facts, post a link to something that happened in one country to four people, etc., I have no desire to entertain your retarded sense of logic and fact-based analysis. \n\nThe more I read through your comments the dumber I feel. Perhaps you should go to a sub with less rigorous proof requirements, one where they support making wild accusations without providing any sort of documented source to back it up. I might suggest the donald, or conservative subreddits. ",
"So did I, but it could have easily gone the other way.",
"Apparently you and everyone ITT.",
"It isn't obvious to me at all. You said you believe you, the business owner, should not have to endure being forced to provide your services to a person. The only justification you offer in support of this refusal is that it violates your freedom of will.\n\nWell, okay. I agree that it does.\n\nWhat I have trouble understanding is, why you believe that your freedom of will, as a sovereign citizen owner of a business, justifies refusal of service to a customer, but it does not justify refusal to pay an employee, or follow health and safety regulations, or to obtain a license to operate, or to pay taxes, or to meet any other kind of obligation which you don't wish to meet, for whatever reason.\n\nAnd it is not at all obvious why your position is not consistent. Yes, they are different situations, but it is not obvious to me why being forced to do some things are unacceptable, and why being forced to do other things are acceptable, when your sole objection is \"I shouldn't be forced to do what I don't want to do.\" ",
"That isn't a response. The liberals chose to target a Christian-owned business and not a Muslim-owned one. Why is that?",
"Say someone changed their mind or have a different opinion doesnt really imply a pejorative meaning, does it? I suppose I was thinking of something akin to flip flop but in the context of being dismissive of someone because they changed their opinion, but I cant really think of the appropriate expression.",
"Not usually. But yes from time to time.",
"Yawn. ",
"That is... absolutely interesting, and I can see the trouble it would cause.\n\nIt just blows my mind to think along the lines of “I’m just going to throw my trash in the street, the government will clean up after me! I’m helping the economy!” ",
"It's almost like they are the product of generations of wealth and exist outside of the real world, and whenever the real world sneaks into their life they suddenly flip to the right side of the issue ",
"Pence hates gays so much this was allowed to happen.",
">If he wants Alabama to support him he will.\n\nOr maybe he wanted to because he's Christian. Do you even know anything about him other than \"he ran against the bag guys?\"",
"> But you know what, just keep changing your point. I get it. Your point initially was \" 90%+, in countries with laws that explicitly punish/outlaw it.\" You proved your point with a Imgur picture. Then when I asked for a source, you proudly provided me with a 226 page PDF that supposedly backs up the Imgur image. But it doesn't.\n\nYou really do not know how to read.\n\nThe image is literally a graphical copy-paste from the PDF put together.\n\nMaybe if you knew how to read you would open your eyes and see the small letters on the corner of the image has the link to the PDF i posted.\n\n\"But it doesn't\"? \n\nREALLY?\n\n>The more I read through your comments the dumber I feel.\n\nThat's your fault, if you were smart enough to actually understand the information you are provided you wouldn't need to be saying \"it doesn't prove anything\" when it literally does.\n\nALL you had to do was see the corner of the image, realize there is a link and then see that the link i posted was the one on the image.\n\nAnd you couldn't even do that.\n\nThe worse is not that you lack the ability to make a very basic connection, but the fact you boast your own ignorance and deny reality (\"but it doesn't?\" Seriously??).",
"Tell me, if I say cheating on your wife is sinful, am I saying those who commit it that their existence is is sinful? No\n\nIf I say that sex before marriage is sinful, am I saying those who commit it that their existence is sinful? No\n\nIf I say homosexual sex is sinful, am I saying those who commit it, that their existence is sinful? Obviously No!\n\nWhy is it different in this case?\n\nIt appears to me honestly that you are ignorant of Christian beliefs. A married man who is attracted to women other than his wife has not sinned, only when he lusts has he sinned. \nThe same is so of a gay man, being attracted to other men is not sinful, when he lusts he has sinned.\n\nTemptation =/= sin, for even Jesus was tempted in the desert by Satan. \n\nPeople do not choose how they are tempted, you do not choose what you are attracted to. If you choose to act on such attractions that is sinful. \n\nOn an added note suicide is very sinful.",
"*sworn*",
"lol...I don't know where to start but how about with \"yall\", who are yoh talking about? Everyone in this thread??? So I can't go in your post history and see you post about college football or video games and make the same argument? \"This nba player talked shit about this team/player\". People could say that is excited over random shit...whats your point? If yall isnt everyone in this thread, who do you mean? ",
"> I have to wonder how Pence would react if one of his daughters, or his son, came out as gay.\n\nHe would likely just disown them. Or say that he loves them but he won't speak to them again until they 'convert'.",
"I absolutely will not take anything from NYTimes as fact.\n\nWould you be so kindly as to point me to which specific pages of the trump management company documents I need to read?\n\nAlso, I’m not sure how the birther movement was invalid as well as racist. Obama lived outside of the country for years as a child with his step father, his real father was also a senior government official in Kenya... it really isn’t that hard to believe that he may have been born elsewhere..... which by law would still make him a natural born citizen anyways. What amazes me, is that no one focused on how long he actually lived outside of the US.\n\nI don’t understand how you guys can cry racism anytime someone disagrees or questions a poc.",
"Dang its so true, guy at work talked shit about mexicans and others until his military son found a non english speaking latin american fiancee. Now he totally changes his tone on certain matters.",
"r/totallynotrobots",
"Well yeah at some point its like who gets to be a garbage man and who gets to be a gas attendant or teacher or doctor or whatever...edit, the answer is you, all the good jobs are taken by people with family members or friends in the system from the top down.edit 2: if im correct, from here its like supply and demand. If everyone can buy a mid level suv we would run out of raw material...or lets say florida oranges...if everyone could afford that item the same as everyone else, everyone would buy an orange and we would \"run\" out, or not because the people harvesting the oranges steal some on the side for their familys who sell them in the black market. These things dont get busted because everyone involved benefits from the top down, with jobs or oranges absolute power will always corrupt. One issue is private property, so if you have water or oil on your land, should you get paid for it? Well thats one reason things are how they are. You see if I own the oil company or run the florida orange company I can use that black market money to bribe my workers outta jail or bribe people to look the other way. Eventually I have to take over another company/industry for more bribes/influence.... if my gang of orange workers never go to jail I cant lose unless everyone boycotts oranges/oil/water which is impossible...",
"Pence is closeted.\nSource: co-worker's gaydar",
"As I've said, I'm not the biggest fan of the bible. I'd honestly rather it never have been written. The entire point of religion is faith. People are more worried about how literally they can interpret the bible rather than just having faith in their own relationship with God. \n\nI just can't see God disapproving of a loving relationship between two adults simply because they don't have opposite genitals. That isn't the God I believe in. I do consider myself a Christian, but I'm definitely a lot less strict in my beliefs than the average Christian. I'd rather focus on loving my neighbors rather than judging them.\n\nSo many problems in the world have been caused by people trying to \"help\" other people by sharing/pushing their religion on them. The bible is always at the center of that. It never should have been written.",
"I did a whole lot of Googling.\n\nDo you call handing out this flyer (warning, shocking imagery) to not be disturbing?\nhttp://www.pinknews.co.uk/images/2017/10/Big-Inside-AGMD-QF.jpg\n\nNo wonder you didn't want to link any articles. \n\nEdit: Context for disturbing flyer the supposedly peaceful protesters were distributing *inside the coffee shop:* https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2017/10/09/heroic-gay-coffee-shop-owner-kicks-out-anti-gay-group-says-hed-fck-christ",
"Lol duh. Thank you for responding politely I probably deserved worse",
"Oui.",
">you do not choose what you are attracted to\n\nExactly, so if you are attracted to the same sex, then you are sinful for falling in love and marrying and having a lifelong relationship with a partner and having children.\n\nTo be not sinful, according to Pence, means you must remain unloved/unmarried/alone/without family for your entire existence. \n\nTo many of the gay community, there is no point in living 80 years alone without loving lifelong companionship. \n\nSo Pence is basically complicit in assisting gay people to commit suicide, which is sin.",
"Why do gay people have to parade around their gayness? Can't they just be normal human beings? It shows a great deal of insecurity and at the same time narcissism on their part. ",
"Lol you gotta love how this legion of doom, aka trumps administration, look like they’re evil. Mike pence looks like a goddamn Nazi. I’m just waiting for him to peel back his skin like the red skull. ",
"sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared sweared ",
"Gay people are so narcissistic it's sickening. And the majority of people are so kind and gentle we have to sit here and just be bowled over by their demented narcissism. As a regular guy who knows that most of these gays are just victims of a globalist agenda, it's rather funny to see them prance around like a bunch of zombified nancy boys on pcp. ",
">I absolutely will not take anything from NYTimes as fact.\n\nThat doesn't surprise me the least bit. Which is why I also linked the direct documents.\n\n>Would you be so kindly as to point me to which specific pages of the trump management company documents I need to read?\n\nYou've not given the least bit of acknowledgement that you've shifted your position. Additionally it is astounding that you had never even heard of this case, as it would have absolutely come up if you had done the least bit of digging into *why* people have called trump racist instead of injecting your own reasons. So no, I will not. I have given you the case. I have given you a summary article of it (which you dismissed because you dismiss facts that hurt your case). \n\n You can take the initiative to read.\n\n>Also, I’m not sure how the birther movement was invalid as well as racist. \n\nThis also does not surprise me.\n\n>I don’t understand how you guys can cry racism anytime someone disagrees or questions a poc.\n\n🤔 From the same guy who somehow fucking missed the uncensorednews mods were nazis despite them practically screaming it. \n\n\nWe have reached the point where I present you facts, you move the goal posts and then retreat further into just disbelieving facts and crying victim. So have a nice day.",
"Since a troll's purpose is to literally just waste someone else's time, it's almost an art to be able to separate them from people who hold some less than popular opinions online. It's a very important skill though.\n\nSince it seems you actually meant what you wrote down, for the sakes of dialogue I'll continue to respond.\n\n> That's what I'm talking about when say respecting their beliefs. Respect the fact that they have beliefs that are typically deep rooted and shaped by their experiences and no matter the amount of \"shouting down\" and belittling you do will change them (kinda what you are doing in your first lines of your comment). If the person is overall a good person and you one day find out they believe x, instead of vigorously trying to change their opinion respect that they have beliefs shaped long before you.\n\nLike I said, respect for people, no matter what they think, is extremely important for a civil discourse in society. Respect for their opinions, not so much. Especially when such opinions can be downright harmful.\n\nWhich leads me to the next part of your comment. There's a lot of shouting down, there's a lot of belittling and what not, but there is also a lot of ignoring. If you want to argue with a person about an opinion you hold so dear without being able to actually put together a proper argument, those can be the only expected reactions. If I arrive at a UN meeting \"arguing\" we should bomb all infidels, I'll be dismissed because that opinion doesn't have any value and doesn't add anything to the discussion.\n\nOnce again, I'm not saying that person should be shot down, but there is absolutely nothing being added to the discussion. You are saying that disagreeing with them is trying to change their beliefs, but where is your respect for the other person's belief? or at least the respect for the other person? who might indeed hold important information to share with you?\n\nThe fact that a person is overall good, completely besides the point. I'd argue that a lot of people that believe they're good opposed (and still do) gay marriage for instance. I cannot (and this is my opinion) accept that a person who is willingly causing harm to other people and still considering themselves good is an overall good person.\n\n> You are so quick to argue the second part with what you believe is right, without putting any thought or being open minded.\n\nI'm not quick to argue what I believe what is right. This is the ONLY thing that we're doing here. There's no \"due respect\" to your beliefs I must somehow present since I don't even know what they are!\n\nCan you please point out where I have indicated I'm \"close minded\"? I've heard this being said so often (to me and other people) but most of the times it a basic strategy for masking \"you don't agree with me/my argument so you must be close minded\". There are in fact close minded people who hold all sorts of opinions, both safe and harmful, objectively wrong and scientifically correct. Unless there is something that clearly indicates that, it's just a cheap debate trick to call it out.\n\n> These were just hypothetical arguments one could make regarding the topic, but the main point is what are you arguing gor; that it's good or bad and good or bad for whom, society? If that's the case then you have to realize it's subjective and an unsettled argument with people on both sides. \n\nWell, you didn't really specify the arguments were hypothetical. The debate is very much real, but you didn't specify exactly what it was, even though I assumed it to be what you said: \"is homosexuality good or bad for society?\"\n\nIn fact, most of the arguments you provided as examples, sound extremely familiar, like arguments from religious groups, which I grew up hearing. They're nothing new, and have been thrown around for quite a while. I've personally had these discussions before and which is why I briefly mentioned my counter arguments.\n\nThese examples in fact are why I wasn't sure your comment was from a Troll who just wanted to elicit an emotional response or someone who I called sheltered. You might consider this a bad thing, but someone who was raised in a small town in the southern US and has never really traveled or talked to different people is exactly that, sheltered. The examples you used sound like they come from a sheltered person, so I made that assumption. That wasn't rude and if you felt belittled by that alone, I'm willing to bet you might have a bad experience with the internet.\n\nNow, the \"unsettled argument\" you mention is never going to be settled because it is not an argument it's an opinion. And yes, you are correct there are people on both sides. But the reason people are unwilling in discuss this is not because they are close minded and don't want to change their opinions. They are unwilling to discuss this because most of the arguments have already been presented in some form. People on both sides now won't change their mind because the arguments on both sides are based on religion motives (or the absence of it).\n\nThat's why there is no scientific panel full of anthropologists and sociologists trying determine if homosexuality is a bad thing. In fact, mostly, it only bothers people based on their religion and nothing else.\n\nJust because you have people with different opinions doesn't mean that is needs to be discussed until an agreement is reached. There are people out there who believe in aliens, who believe that earth is flat and a bunch of others. If that were sufficient to determine an unsettled argument, you could claim that anything is possible! Even that maybe fascism is good for society, since there's a bunch of them out there too.\n\nConsensus is key. Once, people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, that was their opinion and that is just how things worked. Until it changed and today we know that they were wrong. We can be dismissive and claim we know nothing because it might change tomorrow or we can do the best with what we have today and take it to be true until more information (which should be pursued) is presented that contradicts current beliefs. This is what it means being open minded.",
"A very sensitive person. Someone who is easily hurt or offended by the statements or actions of others.\n\nThis has nothing to do with politics. Snowflakes can be liberal or conservative. Whether it is a compliment or an insult is a matter of opinion and depends on the context.\n\nSeems fitting for you buddy. ",
"Marriage ain't all it cracked up to be. Sometimes I wish it wasn't an option. ",
"He should have blown him a kiss",
"Just wanted to say I laughed out loud at your comment on public transit. ",
"How do we determine what jobs are non sense vs needed. Like people who run the garbage plant. I understand with UBI the idea is basically , everyone gets a check, period. But if you do work you get paid extra to do what you want. So the trash guys, (I know, robots but besides those) or who runs the robot factories or mining operations etc....so lets say (total bullshit number) we need 1 million ubi+ workers for mandatory jobs like doctors or farmers (we dont have machines for everything). We'd have to determine what jobs get paid what salary (which accounts for ubi and taxes etc).heres where it gets tricky to me. Lets say the president or whoever decides his son in law gets the water treatment helper job with a fat salary, he doesnt run the plant but he is just there on paper getting a fat check...we'd have to be on top of that. Itd be tough to determine these mandatory jobs and who gets them and for what salary and make sure there not being abused...but then its about supply and demand...if nobody is picking oranges or apples or anything for cheap labor than there will be a huge demand and no supply...right? Same with cars or bikes, everyone can \"afford\" one but who is making them and how? The materials, the buttons, gears, wheels, tires, metal, seat etc. All gotta come from someone/somewhere. If you already get a UBI and have a hobby are you gonna make bike chains for almost nothing more? You can survive but not afford your hobbies..",
"Maybe he secretly enjoyed a fair suck of the sav?",
"No, a hypocrite is somebody who says one thing and does the opposite.\n\nShe took money in return for saying nothing and doing nothing. That's shameful, but not hypocritical.",
"haha!! huurrrr stop calling hypocrisy!! ONLY BASH DRUUMPHH NO LOGIC ZONE HURRRDUURRRRR!!! ",
"First thing, gays can't have children together, and about 80% of kids raised by gays are from previous heterosexual relationships. (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/sex-couples-census-data-trickles-quarter-raising-children/story?id=13850332). So they are clearly 80% of those who have a family were previously willing to have a family under the standard conditions.\n\nNow, let me get this straight, you are saying that if they can not put their dick into another man they would rather die? Is being chaste literally in your eyes comparable to death?\n\nActually even worse, they need not even be chaste, as they can still marry a woman if they wish. It may not be their cup of tea but they can still have their desire for companionship, and family. \n\nWhat you are really saying here, is if they can not have a fulfilling sex life, they would rather die. Sorry to break this to you, but a large amount of heterosexual relationships are unfulfilling, that doesn't mean that polygamy being illegal, should be justification for suicide.\n\nIf you choose to kill yourself, over your sex life that is your fault. Pence isn't to blame. Even worse when all he did was speak the truth.",
"Might wanna take a chill pill",
"I hate it when the son is older than the dad.",
"I see your point. I'm kinda looking at it like, Chinese people don't call their food Chinese food. They just call it food. ",
"I’d know what the fuck that meant if Clarke was still alive. ",
"Not everyone is capable of creating things though. Some people are 100% satisfied with just pumping gas all day, and then going home. There is a job for everyone, and if this type of job allows some people to stay off the government roles, then in my mind it is beneficial.",
"Might have started out that way, but it's definitely a jobs program now.",
"It used to be a safety issue when pumps didn't have automatic shut off valves. It's a jobs thing now.",
"Only in deep rural areas where they can't staff stations 24/7. Portland Metro and most of the Willamette valley remains unaffected.",
"I can see how health insurance is considered a benefit by some people (though I disagree) but all the others are rights. If you spend your life with someone and by running their household allow them to make gains in the workforce, you have a right to their equity (pensions, social security, etc) because you sacrificed your own equity in their name. This is why alimony exists, as well. Visitation rights cannot be granted if you are not family; children are people and not property. Medical directives are routinely over-ridden by *family* and it's safe to say that a family who does not recognize your right to choose a life partner will readily ignore end of life decisions in place regarding medical and estate wishes. \n\nThe reason I brought up the need for multiple contracts is that in the event you are incapacitated (by death or otherwise) *family* can take your inheritor to court and overturn those contracts. It is much easier to overturn all of them in a single case as opposed to having multiple contracts rolled into one which would necessitate much more time and money to litigate, as well as establishing a very clear intention will. *Family* can do this because they are *family*. It is much easier, much more simple to just make someone a part of your family by **marrying** them. Or adopting them in the case of a child. Two people cannot adopt a child unless they are *married*, otherwise only a single person can do so.\n\nAnd if you'd like to go about removing the right of the government to recognize marriage that's fine. But then I hope you've also got a clear solution to revising 200 years of contract, family, estate, international, immigration, and tax law (and countless others) to repair what you've just broken, as well. An easier solution is to simply recognize same-sex marriage.",
"I know you're pretending to be a retard, but a lot of people actually don't know a phobia is a fear or aversion. Aversion is a dislike of something. Homophobia is an aversion or dislike of homosexuality or homosexuals. ",
"Could I get some context..?",
"Portland has become extremely expensive. Both the rental market, and home purchasing market are completely bonkers. It's very tough to make it here if you are not already pretty well established. If you have a good job lined up, go for it. If you're dropping everything to move here on a whim, don't.",
"I didn’t say that. At all. If they oppress women and kill homosexuals yeah they’re bigoted. I’m saying we aren’t talking about Muslims specifically, we are talking about homophobia and Muslims who are homophobes are also in that category...\n\nYou seem to get tight in the spanx for Islam. When did I ever bring that up? You did, in your comment. ",
"Why not?",
"https://youtu.be/_PH4E2zx8gg",
"But you said if they oppress women and kill homosexuals...so then... Yes we are talking about muslims specifically",
"I didn't say anything about anyone being vapid. Neither party has the market cornered on stupid people.\n\nI was talking about how evangelicals are dying off, so your party stopped catering to them as much and went after the far right nationalist xenophobes Fox News et al have been working overtime to churn out for past 20 years. Ergo, your depiction of people's views of Republicans vis a vis homophobia is wrong. There are still millions of rabidly homophobic Republicans, they just don't get as much airtime because the GOP is busy blaming all of the world's problems on immigrants and brown people. We are aware of this dynamic. ",
"Well you asked what it said that I disagreed with. Thats specifically what it has to do with it",
"he's so openly gay, that i bet he was getting fucked in the ass right then and there, at that very moment.",
"What guys? We are one sentence into knowing each other and youre already into the ad hominems.\n\nYou dont know me like that lol",
"Has someone posted this in PS Battle yet?",
"The openly gay son, who is also a zookeeper :D",
"Tax breaks are not rights. Double pension when working for the government is not a right. Preferential hiring to government positions is not a right. There are plenty others like these, but I'm sure I've made my point about them. \n\nYour parents/siblings can attempt to overturn anything in your will regardless of marriage status or not. Anybody with any kind of standing can, be it your live-in girlfriend for 6 years or your estranged uncle that you haven't spoken to in 10 years. Marriage does not change that. \n\nI actually wouldn't want government to stop recognizing marriage, but it's because I understand why they started to in the first place. I'm wondering what your belief as to that reason is in the first place, since you declared the previous restriction of government-recognized marriages to opposite-sex couples as arbitrary. ",
"You would have millions of people doing \"jobs\" that would add no value to anything on everyone else's dime.",
"So every Christian whose religious belief is that marriage is between a man and a woman, they all hate gay people?",
"The point some people are making is that gay guys often just refer to it as sex. I don’t believe anyone said anything about it being belittling.\n\nKind of like a kid who goes to Catholic school probably doesn’t say “today at Catholic school we had a pop quiz,” they just say “today at school we had a pop quiz.” ",
"> does seem spinable to an uneducated populace back in ye' olden days on top of the fact that it creates jobs.\n\nYou missed the point entirely.",
">does seem spinable to an uneducated populace back in ye' olden days on top of the fact that it creates jobs.\n\nI think you missed the point of my statement.",
"I even made a warning before I said it that it sounds ridiculous (conspiratorial)... and you still felt the need to make this comment. Stop. Everyone here knows Indy is a haven for the KKK. And that Pence has ties to David Duke. Not saying it means anything, but it might.",
"IDGAF who he was okay with people marrying, that motherfucker is evil",
"If I were to give them benefit of the doubt, I'd point out that weird grammatical anomalies like this often come from older English where there was less structure. An example of this is hanged vs. hung. Where the past tense of the verb \"to hang\" when referring to execution stayed \"hanged\" while when referring to hanging objects as support is \"hung\".\n\nPerhaps an actual linguist out there can shed some light on whether or not the unusual \"sweared\" has some historical context in that region.",
"Yeah, and certain counties are worse than others. Near the major cities like Terre Haute, Bloomington, Indy, etc. the cops can be pretty lenient. When you get out in the boonies you run into the cops on power-trips.",
"But some gay couples do practice anal sex. And there are in fact big differences between vaginal sex and male/male anal sex. And that’s ok. It requires no justification.\n\nI think the best way to respond to the person above you is to say “so what?” Or just not respond at all. It’s not necessary to prove how similar straight couples and gay couples are. ",
"I don't see how it's a poor understanding. I can guarantee you that most, if not all, of those homophobic people have far greater sins of their own to worry about than the \"sin\" of homosexuality that someone else is committing. That verse tells people not to judge others for the specks in their eyes when they themselves have planks in their own eyes. \n\nLet God do the judging. It isn't our place to do that. We should only be publicly concerned with improving our lives in *this world*. If you want to concern yourself with the status of your afterlife, that should be a private affair, between only you, God, and your closest loved ones. If your neighbor or a complete stranger is sinning in your eyes, *leave them be*. It is their job and their loved one's job (and their church's job if they're a voluntary member of one) to correct their behavior, *not yours*.\n\nPeople concern themselves so much with their afterlives, and especially *other people's* afterlives, that they fail to see the harm they're doing to *their current lives*. We're here right now in this world. It doesn't matter where you believe you're going to go after you die. Right now we are here and right now we need to improve our current lives. \n\nOtherwise what's the point of even living this mortal life in the first place if we're just going to harm/attack each other over our beliefs about the afterlife? We weren't put on this planet to do that to each other. We were put here to love each other and thrive as a society. We can't accomplish that by quoting bible verses at each other telling people these are the hard set-in-stone rules to living life. \n\nThe bible should be a loose guide meant to teach you morals and values, not a hard set of laws to live by. Because when people use it in the latter way they often use it as a weapon to hurt other people and that is *not* what the bible was intended for.",
"If a real American Patriot is sworn in by a treasonous, unAmerican fraud like Pence, does it count?\n\n\n*Yes. Yes it does.* ",
"How? You are not acknowledging that YOU brought it up when they are only a specific group of oppressors. ",
"That’s gay.",
"Because of the Norman invasion of England back in the middle ages, I think. The conquering Normans, who were one of the ethnic French groups of the period, established themselves as a ruling class, while the ethnic English groups were subjugated. This is also why the common livestock of the time have English names for the animal but have French names for their meat. The most obvious examples of this are sheep (mouton, in French) and pig (porc). At least, this is how it was explained to me some time ago. The etymology certainly checks out, and the historical correlation of the invasion and the development of modern English is fairly clear as well.",
"So you disagree politically? I heard this could happen ",
"But 90% of women have a baby at some point in their lives, and that does in fact involve penises and vaginas. 100% of people, including gay people, exist because of penis-and-vagina. So penis-and-vagina sex is the most important thing in the world, because nothing else would exist without it. So on the one hand we have the existence of all humans, and on the other hand \"I like to shoot cum too, it feels good.\"",
">Source that it was an accident?\n\nDr. James R Alm\nProfessor and Chair of Economics at Tulane University\n\nhttp://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/question/168985-why-do-married-people-get-tax-breaks\n\nAs for the second statement, that's purely anecdotal, since nobody can give me an answer that doesn't boil down to \"it's complicated but think of the children\"\n\nI notice throughout this entire comment section, in your responses to me, and everyone else, you've played your little \"socratic method\" game but refused to stand on a point yourself, this makes me feel like your motives are suspect.\n\nYou're also putting me in the position of arguing for a status quo with which I don't agree, my position is that marriage is a matter for priests, not politicians.",
"People like Pence still do.",
"This is an accurate representation when lesbians are held accountable to their distorted pretentious beliefs. How many down votes will I get? ",
"please stop",
"I think you just like to throw around the insult of \"troll\" when you don't agree with someone's views and feel challenged. It's actually quite ironic since my comment was addressing just that issue, people belittiling others when they don't agree with their beliefs (in this case perceived beliefs) instead of taking the more emotionally challenging road of trying to get understanding and finding common ground. \n\nAs to the respecting a person's beliefs I am not saying respecting the actual beliefs, but respecting the fact that they are shaped over ones life due to a variety of factors. When you have respect for the fact that it was a long road in aquiring those beliefs than it will make it easier for civil discourse to happen, as you will realise that in order to change them (if that is your goal) it will also be a long road and belittling and shouting down are not good tactics. Many arguments happen over beliefs, without any understanding why each side holds them and what got them there. I feel that is unproductive and will not yield any positive results other than shouting down. \n\n\nThis is all dependant upon people wanting to have real discussions, as there are many that just want to bully their beliefs on others without any respect for the person or the road that got them there. \n\nAs to the last part I'm not saying a conclusion has to be reached, not at all. Just that both sides need to realise there is no wrong or right answer when it comes to the topic and it's just that an opinion. \n\n\nI was responding to your initial comment of respect and the comment you made about people holding onto beliefs even when they are wrong. In the context of this topic my point was there is no wrong or right answer and you actually even said as much in your last comment. \n\n\n",
"\"Sweared\". It's hilarious when assholes try to insult the intelligence of others, only to out themselves as retards.",
"SWORN",
"I cant tell if you’re being purposefully obtuse or if you genuinely don’t get it",
"Why does\"openly gay son\" need to be added?",
"Sorry, I thought it was following the chain from the original comment, \"I don’t think conservatives feel the unrelenting loathing towards gay people that seems to have become the expectation\" which was stated simply as a reply to the posting of the image.\n\nI bet now that this has been around longer, if I read all 5,401 comments there might be several that do paint with a broad brush, just due to the sheer number of comments, and this being an internet forum. Apologies for the mix up if any fault lies with me.",
"drakkar noir",
"so why should black people tolerate white supremicists who think they’re subhuman? why should gay people tolerate bigots who hate them just because they were born different? its not “we shouldn’t tolerate anybody” it’s “we shouldn’t tolerate those who are ideologically intolerant”. but i feel like you know that’s the point and what it means and are purposefully missing it.",
"So.... One guy's opinion. Show me transcripts of deliberations from the time. Op-eds in newspapers. Letters. Something. Anything firsthand. \n\nThe Supreme Court is much less anecdotal for why the government recognizes something than a random professor who said something once. If you're going to accept the professor, you're kind of obligated to accept the Supreme Court. \n\nBecause there's not much I need to stand on when the one side already doesn't hold up on its own. Why open up the possibility to get distracted with irrelevant portions of my stance (as I've noticed is a trend among the left in my discussions with them)?\n\nSo you want government out of marriage?",
"Neither. If everyone is intolerant, then no one needs to be tolerated.",
"The point is, with enough jets, no one needs to take a bullet",
">So you want government out of marriage?\n\nIf it has to still exist, yes. I don't believe marriage as a concept has a future.\n\nIf the government continues to make it a legal matter, then it should be available to all consenting adults of sound mind.\n\n>Because there's not much I need to stand on when the one side already doesn't hold up on its own.\n\nCoward.",
"Why would anyone be part of a religion that openly calls for your death?\n\nIt's not like Christianity, we are talking about a religion that has absolute control over the country laws and law enforcement where LGBT people are executed in public hangings, while people cheer.\n\nI read about it constantly, gay people that left Islam but pretend they haven't in front of their family so they aren't punished for being a *\"dirty apostate\"*. I have never heard of a LGBT person that willingly chooses to follow and support Islam.\n\nEither way, it's a very anti-LGBT doctrine so if a person that willingly followed and supported it existed, said person should feel bad about it.",
"You can, but not really. I'm not aware of any law prohibiting attendants in other states but they are the rare exception. I don't want to have to go out of my way to find the one station where someone will pump for me.",
"Pence must have been thoroughly upset when he was swearing him in. ",
"Because thoughts are just thoughts. No one has any right to be liked by everybody. You'll have people hate you because you're smarter, because you're dumber, because you drink, because you don't drink, because you're white, black, brown, or yellow. Until they start causing physical harm or restricting your rights, there's no difference between being hated because of your skin color and being hated because you breathed the wrong way. When they start causing physical harm or violating rights, again, there's no difference between violating your rights or harming you because of your skin color or because of your method of breathing because the end result is the same. \n\nOf course, this is only applicable on a private level; government should not be able to discriminate at all on any unchangeable characteristic. \n\n> \"we shouldn't tolerate those who are ideologically intolerant\"\n\nThis is an ideologically intolerant statement of itself, and therefore you don't need to be tolerated. ",
"So even those that are within your immediate family? Or already in a marriage? \n\nName-call all you like, it doesn't change the point. ",
"I feel like quite a lot of people throughout his life probably tried to tell him he had it wrong about cats, and instead of spending time with some and making up his own mind, he just went most of his life talking shit about cats because of hearsay instead. Then he finally hangs out with a cat and is like lol oops, maybe I should have stopped vomiting hateful nonfacts and listened when all those people told me cats are all different and most are great animals.\n\nA sillier form of ignorance but ignorance all the same.",
"...what?",
"1)I'm not sure, potential for fraud is high, needs nuance.\n\n2) all parties involved must be consenting adults. If the existing spouses consent, sure.\n\n3) still not sure why you want me to defend something I have clearly stated I do not support.",
"\"gone the other way\"\n\nAsking that people not become scum doesn't seem that that high of a standard to hold people to. ",
">Tax breaks are not rights. Double pension when working for the government is not a right. Preferential hiring to government positions is not a right. There are plenty others like these, but I'm sure I've made my point about them. \n\nI'm not saying tax breaks are rights, I'm saying that since tax law incorporates marriage into the system if you plan to deligitimize marriages across the government then you you will need to revise those aspects of the tax law.\n\n>Your parents/siblings can attempt to overturn anything in your will regardless of marriage status or not. Anybody with any kind of standing can, be it your live-in girlfriend for 6 years or your estranged uncle that you haven't spoken to in 10 years. Marriage does not change that. \n\nYour live-in girlfriend of six years can because she's been living as your wife would. Your estranged uncle can because he's family. Marriage makes you family, it most certainly does change things. A buddy from work would have no standing. \n\n>I actually wouldn't want government to stop recognizing marriage, but it's because I understand why they started to in the first place. I'm wondering what your belief as to that reason is in the first place, since you declared the previous restriction of government-recognized marriages to opposite-sex couples as arbitrary. \n\nThough I've not researched marriage exclusively, it's my understanding that government originally recognized marriages as an extension of property rights, which we still do today (though people aren't still property & women are afforded more agency). Sex is an arbitrary barrier to entry for marriage contract because, like I said, same-sex couples are tax paying, law abiding, consenting adults that are fully capable of entering into any number of legally binding contracts but, for reasons related to religious & traditional undertones, are still being denied access to this one **hugely interconnected** contract. If you're going to try the offspring route, a single man or a single woman can adopt or in vitro a child and so can a same-sex couple. But with a barrier to marriage, only one can adopt, cover with insurance, have say in medical treatment, interact with the schools, and take custody in the event of divorce.",
"....aaaand silence. ",
"What did that matter?",
"The potential for fraud in any marriage is high. Green-card marriages, for starters. \n\nWhen you marry someone that is already married, you are not also marrying their other spouse. You are just marrying the one person. \n\n",
"I mean he also wouldn’t escalate nuclear tensions like Trump has been. We called him beyond the norm for a reason. Pence would be shitty, but he’d be less dangerously shitty. ",
"I'm not gonna down vote you because you're trying way to hard to be edgy and nothing you said makes any sense. It's pretty silly of you to say that lesbians are being held accountable for anything. Especially since the video was made by a gay guy. \n\nThe whole point of the joke is that lesbians and gay guys stereotypically don't know how to talk about relationship and sex stuff with each other. Maybe try not to be so touchy. You're just looking for reasons to be upset. ",
"Do you feel like you could empathize wit how Mike Pence feels?",
"I could have clarified my response better. What matters is that we've at least reached some understanding of each other's logic. Given what you had for context, I would probably agree with your argument. It definitley makes sense.",
"That first paragraph was in response to \n\n> I can see how health insurance is considered a benefit...but all the others are rights.\n\nNo, she's not. The US, as a whole or each state individually, does not recognize \"common-law marriage\". But you seemed to have missed the point of that paragraph: anybody with any kind of standing (such as anybody mentioned in the will) can fight to overturn anything within it. \n\nIt's not me going the offspring route; that is something that the Supreme Court laid out pretty explicitly in their majority opinion in Baker v. Nelson. They held that because the government has a vested interest in the continuation of society through offspring, they are within their rights to provide varying benefits to couples that can produce such. Since the inevitable \"those who have already decided to not have kids prior to getting married\" / infertility question will come up, they also stated that the government does not have a right to delve that far into the privacy within the marriage. ",
"Not so much in your policies, but your bootlicking servitude. I think your type of authoritarian mindset is closer to a mental disorder than a political view.",
"Ah, so you're part of the problem",
"I really think all this nuclear war talk is just dick measuring and no one is going to do anything. ",
"I'm sure no one in your family or friends, let alone you are divorced adulterers right??? I'm sure you and your ilk never mix fabrics or eat anything banned right??? \n\nI also remember the part where he said anyone who has sinned should throw stones first, o wait, he said anyone who hasn't sinned... I'm sure you are without sin if you are trying to get the splinter our of peoples eyes and not totally ignoring the branch stuck in your own eyes...",
"I don't get it. Why the confusion over lesbians in particular?",
"I can't imagine it's terribly expensive for HBO to produce it either. They could probably produce 5 years of Sesame Street for the budget of one episode of game of thrones. So effectively free for HBO. ",
"I can't wait for you to be arrested when you start stoning adulterers in the streets as you are commanded. Make sure that when your kids disobey your or are just plain rude to kill them, since you have that right according to your loving bible... ",
"Well animals breathe so I disagree with breathing",
"It's because they're talking about relationship stuff. It's a stereotype that gay guys and lesbians Don't know how to talk about relationships and sex with each other. Since the communities don't always overlap. Unlike both side overlap with heterosexuality. Kind of like the stereotype that straight guys and straight women can't talk about relationships with each other. But gay guys and straight women can, as well as lesbians and straight guys. ",
"Do they know you're secretly terrified of them?",
"Why's Ted Cruz wearing a wig in that photo?",
"I get that. But wasn't it equally numbing for the opposing to have to swear in on a book that denies their lifestyle?",
"They know my beliefs and we avoid talking about politics. They're not as sensitive as you guys are so we're fine ",
"So you've told them in detail about how you think they're going to destroy society, you're terrified of them, and don't want them to have the right to get married? I highly doubt that.",
"> So people who are LGBT, who live in Muslim countries and either are or pretend to be Muslim, should be forced to remain there and suffer because some other Muslims are homophobic?\n\nFrom where did you got that?\n\nLike i said, i don't think there is LGBT people that are **willingly** supporting Islam (i have to make emphasis on it since you don't get it) while not denying their own LGBT identity, they have to do it so they won't get killed in their country for being apostates.\n\nI said nothing about they having to be doomed to die there, they could move to another place and then abandon the bigoted belief that was imposed on them.\n\n\n>Do you know that Dearborn, Michigan, America's largest concentration of Muslims, was far ahead of the curve on LGBT rights and protections?\n\nI see it has a big arab population, but i can't find any statistics about muslim population. Have numbers?\n\nIn case you do, we see Islam in action every time there is a large concentration of muslims:\n\n>*In 2010, Nabeel Qureshi, David Wood, and two other people were arrested at the Dearborn International Arab Festival for handing out Christian literature aimed at Muslim believers, and for yelling conversion messages, although there was no evidence provided of any agitation of the crowd. They were prosecuted for breach of the peace. Police ordered them to stop filming the incident, to provide identification, and to move at least five blocks from the border of the fair. (...) In a separate civil trial, the City of Dearborn was found to have violated the constitutional rights of the defendants, with the city later settling the lawsuit and issuing a formal apology.*\n\nFaithful to the words [of their leaders](https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/796794018269118468?), coexistence is not an option, only domination of others.\n\nI am pretty sure if it was a muslim majority country, these people would have got [a more severe punishment](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-man-sentenced-death-atheism-ahmad-al-shamri-hafar-al-batin-appeal-denied-a7703161.html) instead of an apology.\n\nBeing tolerant of intolerance is no good.\n\n",
"I don't think you understand how Christians study and interpret the bible.",
"As in they don't, yeah, I know that already... Thank Zeus you guys don't actually follow the bible or it would look like the Salem Witch Trials all over again... ",
" You should actually read the bible. ",
"Roll tide?",
"This is a great example of how Christians just pick and choose which parts of the bible to acknowledge. Or a great example of how ignorant they actually are about their religion ",
"Thinking more by Salem",
"Which makes sense given Donald's relationship with his own father was the same. ",
"When asked to give an example of Donald being a good father, Ivanka noted that he would always pick up the phone when she called him from a payphone at school. ",
"That Jew passage specifically refers to a battle....I suggest you read these Quran. ",
"Whenever someone uses the 'mixed fabric' line, it just shows they really haven't a clue what they're talking about. A kid in Sunday School could answer that one.\n\nIf you've finished with the high school atheist schtick, there are plenty of resources out there for you to increase your very limited understanding of theology. Here's a hint though, picking random parts of biblical verses isn't a coherent theological argument. ",
"Your argument makes no sense. Are criticizing the ideology? Or the peole who follow it? If youre criticizing the ideology, then you need to criticize all other religions that have violent verses. ",
"Look are voting records and get back to me. If you vote for, and choose to be represented by, people who are actively trying to take freedom from a certain group, then you hold responsibility for their actions.",
"I've only read the bible, and read history on how Christians who really believe the bible behave... \n\nPlease try to explain how killing your kids for being disrespectful is taken out of context please. \n\nEdit: \n> Whenever someone uses the 'mixed fabric' line, it just shows they really haven't a clue what they're talking about. A kid in Sunday School could answer that one.\n\nAnd yet you couldn't explain it yourself... ",
"Yep. Find a good one and I might change my mind ",
"I'm pretty sure people make mistakes like this on purpose so people correct them and they get higher ranked. \n\nI'm pretty sure please forgive me if I'm wrong",
"Pence is super anti-gay. He believes in straight camps. ",
"Then you make them do jobs instead of \"jobs\". All government programs are only what you make them out to be. IMO a few public works projects would add way more value to the country than our current \"welfare\" system where we pay people to go on Indeed for 8 hours a day.",
"Thank Zeus? This is cringy...",
"Man that was a quick goalpost move. Which gay dude is broadcasting their gayness again?\n\n>It shows a great deal of insecurity\n\nYeah, that might be because they've only recently started to be treated like normal people, and the current administration is actively trying to undermine that. Why don't you think before you say stupid shit?",
"He has actively tried to do that though. You're denying reality.",
"Straight camps?",
"As long as we're being pedantic, I respectfully submit to you that \"sweared\" is not correct. See [here](http://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-english-verb-swear.html).",
"> If youre criticizing the ideology, then you need to criticize all other religions that have violent verses.\n\nAll do, yet there is only 1 that is actively used as law in a considerable amount of the world and liberals refuse to denounce it.\n\nIs not that hard to understand.",
"I didn't expect to keep rambling on but just felt like it once I got going. So where did I lose you? We were talking about menial jobs like gas staion attendant and UBI (universal basic income). For UBI everyone has to contribute to society or alternatively do nothing but still get paid enough to survive and you decide where your money goes and what to spend it on. If you want to work than you are paid extra compared to others who dont work. So in the first example, if everyone has a job, who decides who gets what job? Okay, if you have 100 equally qualified pediatricians (if everyone wanted to help sick kids) or teachers, construction workers, football coaches, or whatever, there is gonna be greater demand than supply because of automation. So who wants to be a trashman? Not many people, so you see eventually jobs will be decided by nepotism and bribes, not by qualification. Noone would do back breaking carpet installing if they can make the same at mcdonalds....with the second plan of UBI, noone is required to work, people pretty much volunteer because they dont wanna sit at home or they have expensive hobbies that they need extra money for, not covered by UBI. So lets say it was all 100% Random...everyone is assaigned a random job and you get put in a position of power. The problem here is usually greed, or addictions. Okay so you run a certain factory, lets say toilet paper or work at one delivering shipments. Eventually (with any hot commodity) people will steal to pay for whatever. Why? Like I said greed or addiction. Think about all the industries, internet, water, power, food, candy whatever. The people in charge will always want more. Or the people at the bottom always want more. So unless you have zero corruption, its almost inevitable. Even if people get caught, they will lawyer up, pay off anybody and everybody etc...call me crazy but this is what happens in most government with elected or appointed officials with no working checks and balances ando lobbying and vote corruption etc. People will always find a way to fix or rig the system and try to literally become and remain the system. Thats the end goal for the billionaires. To buy influence and power. The billionaires own the media, the courts, etc. They are untouchable in some cases. I'm all for a working UBI but that would be 20-30 years from now if modern society's are still intact and have progressed very far from where they are. Anyone who thinks UBI is gonna happen before a civil war is crazy and the climate change might come before that, so yeah....the US trying any type of ubi before the rest of the world has a stable economy would result in a callapse of the world economy. Lol. USA doesn't have trillions in the bank to give out to people to order food and supplies from the rest of the world. Third world countries would have to raise prices to keep up with our demand and eventually say screw this when they have enough money....so pay $20+ an hour to have your shit made or do it yourself. Food prices skyrocket.edit:its not always greed but sometimes love too, lets say a doctor has 2 patients and can only save one, or any example where you need special treatment, lets say you dont want your kid in the military, orwelding or whatever, and you run a steakhouse or anything at all and you tell that person look I need a favor ill give you these for special treatment, once that get to judges or newspapers or whatever its game over...rambling now, where were you lost?",
"Well, straight camps is more of I guess a slang term a few of my friends use but Pence believes in conversion therapy. \n\nhttps://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/us/politics/mike-pence-and-conversion-therapy-a-history.html?referer=https://www.google.com/",
"I feel sorry for him, but I can't even begin to understand his motives. I can't tell if he actually thinks he is Christian and is doing what he has to do to secure his spot in the afterlife, or if he's using Christianity as a reason to further his own personal agenda.\n\nIt's possible to have empathy for someone but still hate what they do. Everyone is sort of a product of their upbringing and their environment.\n\nThat said, I admit it's much harder to have empathy for an otherwise very fortunate person using their position to make the lives of people far more needy than them miserable for whatever reason.",
"Interesting... I can understand not agreeing with homosexuality but this seems extreme...",
"That's called misanthropy, the irrational hatred of humans in general.",
"You realize that your dumb ass is the one who came in deflecting towards Islam right? We're not talking Muslim extremists or the middle East. Where in America are Muslims throwing gays from buildings? You made an ignorant statement regarding christianity. If you don't actually know what you're talking about, then sit down and shut the fuck up. I'm sorry some of us actually care about the positions our politicians take\n\n",
"Alright so I think you need to chop that down and make it way more concise.\n\nBut what I'm hearing is that you think vcorruption would screw with people getting specific jobs and that we need to have a civil war just to do again what we had in the depression? I more meant stuff like more parks jobs, maybe more graffiti clean up, etc.\n\nAlso something about 20 dollars an hour pay to get anything done when we're talking about some form of ubi. \n\n\nHonestly rewrite that with actual paragraphs. I don't want to just write off your point since you're clearly putting some effort into it.",
"They look like creeps.",
"The mental gymnastics of ignorant bigots, you mean. SJW's do the same shit, and its all evil nonsense that destroys our ability to communicate with one another.\n\nEdit: Source- gay furry",
"Yeah nobody ever lies about anything or supports anything untrue unless their whole life is lived that way. Very black and white world the world is. /s",
"I understood your point, it just seemed ridiculous at the time because I assume even an \"uneducated\" person would see the basic concept that I laid out. Then again I have a bad habit of overestimating people's intelligence.",
"> All you can smell is the meat and sweaty bastards.\n\nWhy aren't you reading what I'm writing?",
"The media sucks. It should have read \"Doug Jones sworn into office, next to his son, by Vice President Mike Pence.\"",
"Roy Moore was ripped off by fake votes. This libtard will be outed in the next general. ",
"\"Not agreeing\" with being gay is like \"not agreeing\" with having cancer. You don't choose to be gay any more than you choose to have cancer, so there is nothing to \"agree\" with. ",
"A Confirmed Bachelor.",
"Sorry, I meant not agreeing with the moral aspects of homosexual relationships. You can be attracted to the same sex, but you don't have to act on the impulses. Otherwise that'd be likened to people not having control over their actions. As with any urge, a person can choose not to nurture or act on those urges. That's the difference between your comparison to cancer. Yes, you don't choose to have cancer. But I'm also sure you don't have control over what cancer does. Some people believe that sexual relations should be with a man and woman, not the same sex. That's where 'agreeing' or 'disagreeing' with homosexuality lies. ",
"Yeah love they neighbor, no where does it say to kill gays.",
"God your an idiot ",
">Mother\n\nYou spelled \"Billy 'Wimmuns Ain't Equals' Graham\" wrong.",
"From [Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweared):\n> (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of swear\n\nYou'll find other mentions of it if you search. It's definitely nonstandard, but then so was [lighted](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lighted) not very long ago.",
"Leviticus 20:13\n\n>If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them",
"\"equal rights\" has gone way too far.\n\nhttps://pics.me.me/gay-rights-1995-we-want-tolerance-2005-we-want-equality-8640443.png",
"You guys being people who make the argument you just made.",
"Dude. It's not about that. It's about wanting a president who has experienced pain and who has experienced loss. Somebody who's had to fight and hasn't had the world handed to them. Somebody who truly understands the plight of the disadvantaged and who understands suffering so they would avoid heaping it on the people. *That* is the point.",
"What kind of reply do you honestly expect. You went off on a long ass tangent about Muslims when we're talking about something else. Oh, and you were just trying to deflect from the fact that the bible *does* call for the death of gays. What do you honestly expect, how is anyone actually supposed to discuss anything with you? Try not to be do sensitive when people are calling out your hero's for their bullshit \n\nEdit: Muhammad married a little girl, Yahweh chose a twelve year old girl to carry his child, and you're still wrong ",
"I looked it up. The massive epidemic is 200 people, which is terrible but not sure if it qualifies as an epidemic. Within 3 months of the outbreak he reversed his position on needle exchanges. It's not a gay thing I think, articles say it is connected to the opioid crisis, which is something both Trump and Pence put at the center of their campaign platform. Maybe he shouldn't have had that position in the first place but he's a politician elected within a certain culture which looks at these things as creating the problem in the first place (not just christians, needle exchanges are or have been controversial pretty much everywhere). Under these circumstances the quick reversal doesn't look bad to me and I take it as further confirmation that he isn't a zealot. ",
"So blame the people that impose religious law in the country, not the ideology. ",
"I'm like 90% sure its just defending themselves from all possible angles. They're politicians. It'd be silly not to in that scenario.",
"Anyone else think Pence looks like Agent Orange from The Punisher Netflix Original",
"> Hahaha\n\n>>Nice try though\n\n\nUnfortunately mockery like this does not not lead to anything constructive and only helps to further the divide between people with ideological differences.\n\n\nPeople may have reasons for thinking that you are shaming and attacking them. People are allowed to have different moralities and opinions. ",
"Sounds like a BoJack Horseman episode",
"This comment needs more upvotes.",
">I even made a warning before I said it that it sounds ridiculous (conspiratorial)... and you still felt the need to make this comment. Stop. Everyone here knows Indy is a haven for the KKK. And that Pence has ties to David Duke. Not saying it means anything, but it might.\n\nEveryone knows you have ties to David Duke too. ",
"Good one.",
">That's called misanthropy, the irrational hatred of humans in general.\n\nIs it irrational though? Humans are destroying the planet, unless you are one of those global warming deniers...",
">Good one.\n\nIs that some KKK reference?",
"Shh, you’re trying really hard",
"I think the router is shit. Charter refuses to admit it is but as soon as I was forced into this one my cell phone Wi-Fi went to hell. If I had a computer I would know for sure. Need to just buy a good one.",
">Shh, you’re trying really hard\n\nIs this some sort of KKK recruitment you're doing? If so, you need to try harder.",
"Oh, so Trump is t trying to ban transgender people from the military?",
"And that's the old testament",
"You're the one triggered by the picture dawg. All I did was point out you were *wrong*",
"I know the feeling.\n\nTry what I do.\n\nDo the *minimal* amount of work possible on your side projects 5 or 6 days a week (if possible). For me, that's 10 minutes each day. That's one hour a week.\n\nThat's 52 hours in a year. \n\nI can push myself through that. No more, specially if I'm tired. \n\nSometimes I only get 5 minutes, but ever little piece of effort adds up.\n\nAlso, when the time comes, one of my hobbies will probably become my main money earner. I just have to figure it out well enough.",
"I swear he swore he would never swear in a Dem, this was his last swearing in he swore. ",
"Do you not realize how many church's teach both testemants as equaly important? Do you know how many people don't even recognize the difference? Come to the bible belt for a bit. At some point you'll come to understand how the Church was able to wield such power in the past",
"When I was a dumb teenager I believed in god. It did indeed get better! ",
"Just admit that you didn't know the bible endorses killing gays",
"If you swear on the Bible and break it, you go to hell",
"They move you to Michigan? Is that a new law that passed?",
"Yeah, it does make you wonder what they have to tell themselves in order to justify that behavior. While I know caring and open minded Christians who really put their money where their mouth is - adopting children, volunteering in and outside of their communities - it is very hard to support organized religions as a whole when they seem to condone that specific type of righteous hatred :( ",
"I bet Pence got yelled at when he got home. He's not supposed to be around other women and he knows it.",
"Damn straight. On your knees. ",
"Maybe not, but most vote on party lines and as a whole, Republicans have been anti gay, this is historical fact.",
"No need to downvote. I'm asking what the difference in legistlation is here. As far as I know there isn't any. ",
"I for one would like to see this, cause I pretty much stay out of politics, but i haven't seen Democrats exhibiting the a fore mentioned things, not homophobic at least.",
"Same thing with John McCain being against torture, since he was tortured himself",
"TYPICAL right wing mentality - \"i got my own so fuck you\"",
"by that logic it should be legal for businesses to discriminate against people because of race, and new nazis and anti gay bigots are trying to restrict the rights of minorities and homosexuals. ",
"If diabetics can't go into the military because of the complications of supplying & transporting insulin, why should they allow a trans person who needs their hormone therapy, lest they become emotionally unstable due to fluctuating hormones?\n\nThe point of any military is to be an effective & efficient fighting force. Accommodating to individuals with specific medical requirements is not only unnecessary, but detrimental to its function.",
"We're talking about 250 million adults here, many of which are baby boomers and heading into retirement. Unless we all want to take care of them, ehich yields no money but cost alot in food, water, supplies. Just an additional problem. I don't think theres nearly enough jobs for the demand. Pretty soon youll have the whole world flocking to the usa to have their kids born here for future UBI. If we don't let anybody in we will turn into Japan. All old people and no young people. Economy crashes.edit. so competition and jobs are huge. If people can move overseas to a country paying twice as much (less supply, too many doctors here and people will work for less). So all the good talent moves away.",
"Perfect \"CAPTION THIS!\" candidate.",
"Yeah, because your bronze age god makes so much more sense lol",
"You sound like a gay feminist.",
"Because the government has decided to incentivize family units and spouses are given certain rights regarding inheritance, pension rights, social security, divorce, etc...",
"Did you choose to be straight? Did you stand a cross roads and decide to go down the straight road?\n\nWhat gets your rocks off is not a choice.",
"And? Any time I went to church I didn't once hear how gays should be stoned. There's really only one other religion that believes in stoning.",
"So first thing's first: Reddit has quite a few users. Claiming hypocrisy when there is a large enough sample size to allow multiple opinions to exist makes no sense. \n\nBut, let's tack on the implied *liberal* to your assertion and counter that as well. His beliefs are intolerant and go against the things said in the first statement. Of course liberal redditors don't like people who are intolerant of others, that's maintaining a consistent opinion.",
"I am not shaming or attacking anybody except in response to when they attempt to shame or attack me. Again, nice try. If you're going to just lob accusations in the hopes that one sticks, just leave. It's not constructive. ",
"That Trump and his cohorts are unpopular here? If it bothers you that much, why don't you just go to voat, they're overwhelmingly right-wing there.",
"Lol is that supposed to be an insult?",
"That's true of course! ",
"Honestly, only some business types should have it be illegal. Anything related to meals (such as restaurants or grocery stores), or shelter (housing, hotels), or other basic needs for survival should not be allowed to, but anyone else should let the market work that out. How many people would have bought iPods or iPhones had Apple slapped a \"whites only\" banner on all their Genius stores? I mean, we've already seen places get shouted out of business for statements made, not even business practices, that were seen as discriminatory. ",
"[this](http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/health/lgbq-teens-suicide-risk-study/index.html) article documents the reality that the number of LGBT teens that have either planned or attempted suicide is double that of hetero teens. most evangelicals truly love \ngay people and have great sympathy for their plight. out of their love for the human race they want the LGBT lifestyle to be properly regarded for the pain it truly inflicts rather than normalized such that is harms more people.",
"Does it?",
">Comparing White supremacists and Islamic Extremists to gay people\n\nWe've reached peak retardation.",
"You should re read my comment\n",
"Fuck Pence.",
"Darn tootin. Or, is it pootin these days. ",
"Yeah but if that's what you're surrounded with, and that's all you know then it's not that easy is it? \nIf you need to act like a dick in order to survive, after a certain point it becomes very difficult to come back from that without any support. ",
"Then my job here is done.",
"I *am* talking about trial, because outside of that why would they now? He is not running for something, so what purpose would it serve? I read it perfectly fine thanks.",
"I font know ",
"Two, you're. ",
"Let me know when that happens.",
"No, that is why we instituted term limits. ",
"Got it. Love the sinner, hate the sin. Nothing I haven't heard before. \n\nTell me, If I say that your religion is bad, am I saying to those who practice it that their existence is bad? No.\n\nIf I say that your religion is a whiny, hypocritical, judgmental, ignorant, pedophile-covering, victimhood-coveting, sex-phobic, thought-phobic, mindless waste of time, money, and energy, am I saying those to who practice it that they're whiny, hypocritical, judgmental, ignorant, pedophile-covering, victimhood-coveting, sex-phobic, thought-phobic, mindless and wasteful? No.\n\nIf I point out that it's bad to spend an hour a week overdressing and apologizing for being human to a nonexistent entity that created the entire universe and somehow cares WAY too much about your sex life, am I criticizing the people who do that? Obviously No!\n\nWhy is it different in this case?\n\nIt appears to me honestly that you are ignorant of what human relationships are. Love and sex are actually related, and your religion has left you too preoccupied with sin to notice or care about that. (Remember: that last sentence was criticizing your religion, not you; don't take it personally.) A older gay man smiling to himself whilst thinking fondly of his husband is being just as gay as a lesbian going to town on her girlfriend.\n\nAn attack on gay sex is as attack on gay love, and an attack on gay love is an attack on gay personhood.",
"I voted for Trump so me and my entire family must me morons is that what you are saying? Wow. ",
" Th jdfdcmhsd ",
"Dave Borchers",
"Thank God Obama is out of office then.",
"46%",
"Did you just imply poor people and black people are unable to obtain IDs?",
"[COPY PASTE FROM A PREVIOUS CONVO:](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7mnsg4/evangelical_americans_support_for_trump_doesnt/drvuyem/)\n\n\"I believe net neutrality is truly important. Our ability to communicate with almost any other place on Earth in real time, with no form of gatekeeping, is incredibly important for our advancement as a society and species.\n\nI believe that these corrupt governments and corporations know and realise this. The few will try to do anything to maintain control over the many. Keeping the many shattered and disconnected is the best way. The free internet is the only way I see in the many breaking their shackles.\n\nI do NOT want to dilute the message too much away from net neutrality. trump is just like any other dictator, autocrat; whatever you want to call him, out there. North Korea, Russia, Venezuela, Philippines. They are the few. They will kill every single one of the many to keep control.\n\nBut we are still the many. Their importance does not supercede our own. Ajit Pai is not more or less important or a threat, he is the face of this specific threat. Through his actions and his handlers, he is the head of this particular snake.\"\n\n[-p.s-Fuck Ajit Pai](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7jxtrv/friday_fun_offtopic_megathread/drab96b)",
"That's why my signature links to that specific comment. Yes.\n\n[-p.s-Fuck Ajit Pai](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7jxtrv/friday_fun_offtopic_megathread/drab96b)",
"Annie, are you okay, you okay, you okay, Annie?\n\nAnnie, are you okay, you okay, you okay, Annie?\n\nAnnie, are you okay, you okay, you okay, Annie?\n\nAnnie, are you okay, you okay, you okay, Annie?\n\n[-p.s.-Fuck Ajit Pai](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7jxtrv/friday_fun_offtopic_megathread/drab96b)",
"That doesn't really address my point. Yes, Ajit Pai *is* the face of this specific threat. But if he were to leave, the threat would remain. It's much bigger than just one unlikable Chairman. \n \nRemember when people were saying \"fuck Ellen Pao\" a lot because reddit banned r/fatpeoplehate? Then Victoria got fired, and once again Pao got the blame. Until she eventually left. Only later we hear that she might actually have been *against* censoring reddit, and that she had absolutely nothing to do with the firing of Victoria (that was Alexis Ohanian, i.e. [/u/kn0thing](https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing), and he was more than happy to watch Pao get torn apart - probably while eating his popcorn). [Some](https://www.recode.net/2015/7/13/11614676/reddit-chief-engineer-bethanye-blount-quits-after-less-than-two) even think that Pao was little more than a sacrificial lamb to take the fall for some unpopular changes. And whether you're fine with reddit banning those harassing subreddits or not, the point is: Ellen Pao leaving didn't change anything. She wasn't the sole captain of the ship, deciding reddit's course by herself. But she *was* the sole lightning rod for all the backlash and hate. \n \nI get that having an ugly face to direct your anger at makes it a lot easier and satisfying than being angry at something more abstract like policy. But it also means that, even if you aren't just dismissed as a bunch of trolls, you can't be too surprised if at some point, the people fucking you over go \"well, as you asked, we're getting rid of the guy you all hate so much. Problem solved, right?\" - and then absolutely nothing else changes.",
"Yeah, he's a narcissist asshole, and I don't get how anyone sees him as benevolent or loving.",
"The front fell off :(",
"The then-leader of our country ate an onion like an apple and forever shamed our nation. The onion eating, wing nutted, budgie smuggling shitcunt ",
"LMAO. All I want is for you to provide me a source for the bullshit, made-up, anti-muslim claims you made. \n\nI'm not the one who doesn't know how to read or to make logical arguments. That would be you. \n\nIf you want to show me anywhere in the PDF, or any other document, proof of your absurd claims, then I'll take a look at it. \n\nIf you want to be a bigoted, anti-muslim, unintellectual redneck, then that's on you. \n\nI truly feel sorry for you, going through life, having these notions in your head that are completely false, then when called out on the false, fake notions that you're spreading, you double down on the stupidity and post a bunch of random links that in no way support the bullshit you're spewing. ",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"Jesus your an intolerant bigot , lol @ I demand tolerance for my beliefs while I spew hate for yours , How dare you hold beliefs that differ from mine, how dare you, I demand you adopt mine NOW ",
"LOL, you can go fuck yourself with your grossly fabricated intolerant horseshit , \n\ngo find some Islamic extremist to hate, at least then you will have good reason , what a douche ",
"no it doesn't, thats the problem ",
"I love hunting and identify heavily as a hunter. It is my way of life. All three of my sisters are anti-hunting and have protested and been involved in campaigning for legislation that would affect me. Their opinion may result in action, but I can only respect them for committing to what they believe in and being willing to put themselves in the fray.\n\nI don't see this situation as substantially different. My family is more important to me than that.",
"Oh, I see what you mean. Makes perfect sense. Thank you for explaining it to me. ",
"Well duh there’s no difference in the legislation.",
"That's like saying *\"blame nazis, not nazism\"*.",
"Northern aggressors is a really trollish way to put it (durrhurr she lives in the south, she must be pro-Confederacy. Bitch, I grew up California, fuck this alt-right revival) but I'm going to take your post seriously anyway. Hubris and overconfidence is a common problem amoung all humans. Its hardly a regional issue.\n\nI'm not sure there has been a formal study done on it. Its just a \"watching the local news thing.\". Local news during a snowfall will of course report on all the major accidents, and especially fatalities. Its pretty much all the news is about for the day, considering their are hundreds of accidents minor and major.\n\nAnd a very disproportionately common thing to hear is things like \"John Smithingson died in a fatal accident, he is from Illinois and was visiting his family in Atlanta for the holidays.\". If I had to give an estimate, it feels like only around 20-25% of the dozens of major accident reports following a snowfall, actually involve people from local cities. A far cry from the 95+% locals that make up accident reports the rest of the year.\n\nThis could easily just be confirmation basis, but the gap is large enough that it seems unlikely.",
"It would serve a pretty great purpose assuming the accusations are true of course.",
"\"As expendable white trash, we felt a great deal of anxiety about the future of the country. Having no skills and being completely replaceable, we felt that the flow of immigrants posed a direct threat to us because we are totally unremarkable and could easily be replaced by people who work harder for less. Mama lost her cashier job and Dad lost his factory job cuz of the blacks and immigrants. We just wanna be middle class (a lifestyle we are entitled to and deserve as Americans) and have our guns and freedoms\"\n\nJudging by how poorly you can construct a sentence, I'm going to guess that you and most of your family probably have little education, have never left your hometown, and genuinely believe that the US is greatest nation on earth.\n\nOh, and that Wrestling is just as much of a sport as anything else. And Wal-Mart is a great place to make your hard earned dirt dollar go farther on sweatpants and chips.\n\nRIP Dale Earnhardt, I guess? My button is bigger. \n",
"Lol",
"> that if they can not put their dick into another man\n\nYou see, that is your problem, it's all sex act and nothing about the relationship. I guess you were bred to think that way and can't help it.\n\n>as they can still marry a woman if they wish\n\nDo you think you could marry a man for companionship? I couldn't, it would be unthinkable. Stop and think for a few minutes what you are saying instead of just mindlessly repeating what someone told you to say.\n\n>but a large amount of heterosexual relationships are unfulfilling\n\nYes, but they tried, and keep trying, and they probably were fulfilling for at least some years. Pence doesn't want to give gays a chance at it, everyone deserves a chance I would hope.\n",
"> LMAO. All I want is for you to provide me a source for the bullshit, made-up, anti-muslim claims you made.\n\n>If you want to show me anywhere in the PDF, or any other document, proof of your absurd claims, then I'll take a look at it.\n\n\n#Algeria \n**Religion:** Islam. \n**Punishment:** Fines of up to 10,000 dinars, up to three years in prison \nExtrajudicial killings of LGBT people by vigilante groups are tolerated by the authorities. \n**[Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Algeria)**\n \n#Comoros \n**Religion:** Islam again. But hey, reality has a liberal bias! \n**Punishment:** Up to five years’ imprisonment and 1,000,000 franc fine \n**[Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Comoros)** \n\n\n#Gambia\n**Religion:** The religion of pieces. \n**Punishment:** Up to life imprisonment. \n**[Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Gambia)** \n\n#Afghanistan\n**Religion:** Aaaaand it's islam! \n**Punishment:** Execution by stoning. \n**[Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Afghanistan)** \n \n#Guinea\n**Religion:** Liberal's favorite religion. \n**Punishment:** Up to 3 years imprisonment and fines of up to 1,000,000 francs. \n**[Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Guinea)** \n\n#Mauritania\n**Religion:** The \"true feminist\" religion, according to liberals. \n**Punishment:** Execution by stoning for men, imprisonment for women. \n**[Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Mauritania)** \n\n#Sudan\n**Religion:** Islam again. \n**Punishment:** Up to execution. \n**[Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Sudan)** \n\n#Morocco\n**Religion:** Islam. (Who would have guessed it?!) \n**Punishment:** Up to 3 years imprisonment and a fine. \n**[Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Morocco)** \n\n#Somalia\n**Religion:** The democrat party beloved religion. \n**Punishment:** Up to execution. \n**[Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Somalia)** \n\n#Brunei\n**Religion:** Is it islam? I wonder if it's islam...yup, it's islam. \n**Punishment:** Execution by stoning. \n**[Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Brunei)** \n\n#Iran\n**Religion:** Islam. \n**Punishment:** Execution. \n**[Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iran)** \n\n#Saudi Arabia\n**Religion:** Islam? Islam. \n**Punishment:** Up to execution, with “criminals” also imprisoned, fined, and whipped. \n**[Source.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia)** \n\n&nbsp;\n\nI got bored, you get the idea, or not considering you can't even read. It took less than 5 minutes of google.\n\nYou said you will look at it, right? \n\n**[Here's a report by a western outlet of an execution in saudi arabia, where they not only execute people, but do it in a specifically evil way. (Other muslim countries execute by stoning, this one executed by hanging from cranes)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqJVP3AMqyI)**\n\n**Warning, not for the faint of heart.**\n\nI wonder what will you say about this. That is, **if** you do have the gall to still defend \"the religion of peace\" after seeing that, though i doubt any decent person would. \n\n&nbsp;\n\nWhat were you saying again?\n\n> bullshit, made-up, anti-muslim claims you made. \n> truly feel sorry for you, going through life, having these notions in your head that are completely false, then when called out on the false, fake notions that you're spreading\n\nLiberals and democrats can't stop themselves from protecting their favorite religion, huh? Who would have guessed it.\n",
"Warshinton. Ain’t that close to Nashveel? Where they make all them cohntry musick songs? I laak ‘at stuff.",
"You don't see difference between your hobby and whether people are able to be full participants in society?\n\nIf you're against your family members being legally allowed to marry whomever they love it's because of beliefs that suggest they're fundamentally lesser than you are. That's not a simple difference of opinion.\n\n",
"Woaha, first thing the person before was attacking Pence for his beliefs and the beliefs. \n\nYour comment was so full of rhetoric that it was hard to read honestly. I get it, you know your anti-religion Democrat talking points, but I don't really see the relevance.\n\nSo you are saying here, that saying gays can't have sex, denies gay love and therefore denies gay personhood. You have made 2 massive stretches here. \n\nYou can have friends and love people without putting your dick in them. Brotherly love shouldn't have dick play involved.\n\nAgain it is a lot like loving someone else's wife or girlfriend I guess. By me denying their love, the action of sex, I am not denying their personhood. To say such a thing is ridiculous.\n\nTo put it a standard way, the accumulation of your existence should not be whether you put your dick in men or women.\n\n",
"past tense of swear is Swore, the correct word here would have been Sworn.\n\n",
"The future of Democrats with socially liberal agendas pulling off insane victories in historically Republican areas.",
"Past tense of Pence is Ponce. Future tense is Pance.",
"Upvote earned. High five. ",
"7 more years snowflake ",
"Yeah and it's the only way to secure our elections against Russian meddling ",
"3 more years snowflake <3",
">The potential for fraud in any marriage is high. \n\nSpecific cases have a much higher risk, like the example you gave. As I said, nuance.\n\n>When you marry someone that is already married, you are not also marrying their other spouse. You are just marrying the one person. \n\nInteresting, why do you define it that way?\n\n",
"Because, as you stated earlier, a marriage is a contract between two individuals. If I'm working as a fry cook at McDonald's, also going to work as a waiter at Sonic doesn't mean Sonic has to start paying McDonald's or interact at all with them.",
"According to your downvote and thus denial, you're not. Cool story bro tell it again.",
"I'm pooping right now. This is as relaxed as it gets.",
"I don't recall making that statement, but unfortunately this app I am using makes it difficult to navigate to parent comments.\n\nIf we're using that analogy then part of that contract in any marriage arrangement I am aware of is exclusivity, (I mean, isn't that the point?) so to amend that clause would require both parties to agree or else a breach of contract would occur.",
"What?",
"Two points: \n\n1. There are documented cases of homosexual behaviour in several species. A pair of gay penguins hatching an abandoned egg, for example. So it is indeed not unnatural.\n\n2. There's the theory that the evolutionary role of homosexuals is to enable their family to better support their siblings which is why they apparently are more likely to be born after the mother had to endure stressful times. \nThrough this they ensure the survival of someone who is genetically quite similar to them and may guarantee that at least a part of their genome survives. \nThis video explains this point far more eloquently, but I have to admit that I don't know whether it is scientifically sound: https://youtu.be/4Khn_z9FPmU \n",
"So Mike Pence can take money from programs for the poor in order to shock-therapy gay kids into \"straight conversion,\" but if anyone points out that's wrong, they are intolerant? \n\nWhat a worthless person you are.\n\n",
"What a pathetic display.",
"Totally possible it wasn't you. My app isn't the greatest either and I've had several chains at the same time.",
"There was a homophobic ND state legislator from my area who got outed on Grindr! The best part is the guy's name, Randy Boehning.",
"Yep, if looks could kill Pence would have dropped dead.",
"It is truly amazing how incorrect you are. Keep generalizing though.",
"Metal is good to recycle most everything else is a net loss. When I say recycle I don't mean scrap yards. And landfills actually provide power when designed correctly. It's hardly the end of the world for man kind if we use landfills. Space isnt even and issue. And it costs more to remake plastic than make it raw.",
"I want to, it's going back and I'm gonna get a decent router next check or two. It's dumb I pay for 100 but my router can't give that even tho it's what they said I have to take.",
"Really maybe I want the tax money we gives to recycling plastic and paper to go to training our people. But no I have to be heartless cuz I don't wanna waste tax money. ",
"People don't tend to believe what they have not personally witnessed",
"what A sad intolerant bigoted fool, who hasn't a clue how tolerance works ",
"lol, what worthless human being you are, sorry but I dont buy into your guilt by association full of grossly exaggerated fairy tale nonsense , \n\nMaybe we should hold you accountable for the actions and beliefs of others , \n\nJeffry Dohmer donated money to AIDS research, NOW WHAT ?\n\nBIGOT ",
"oh and lets not forget, Hilary Clinton and Obama took money form Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where they throw gay people off roof tops .\n\nGuess your intolerant guilt coin backed you into a corner.\n\nwhy would you vote for somebody who takes money from gay haters ?????? .\n\nsee how that works fool ?\n\n",
"So, you don't seem to understand how thought works. Try saying things that relate to what was said to you.",
"Wtf are you talking about? Do you know how to make one thought follow another?",
"What a waste of human material.",
"Charter cable can blow me. Dish I have to be nice to.",
"I wish there was a term for missing qualifying statements like I clearly just did, but I\r\nthink most people just call it \"being an internet asshole.\" I'm very sorry!\n\nAnyway, most of the time, I think this falls under the umbrella of \"context bias.\" There is probably a closer term (Attribution biases, perhaps?) but I don't feel confident in saying any more specific term definitively.",
"Ya only 2 companies in area not expensive as fuck so be nice to one and shit on the other. Then switch it up so the don't become complacent.",
"Just saw this. Omg I love this. What a moment. That dumb mf pence and his effing incestuous mother. ",
"Mayk Punsft BTFO!! He had to be in the same room as a queer, suck on that, Nazis. ",
"No. It's just some serious sideeye towards a religious anti-gay bigot. \n\n",
"No no no. It’s Mike Pence sworn into office by openly gay Doug Jones, Son.",
"Good old double dicking.",
"More like, “I need mike inside me right now, no condom.”",
"He should have rounded them up in camps?",
"So you went from saying he looks a sexual abuser to saying he looks like a pedophile.\n\nThat look is not lust. It's scorn.\n\nI suppose you think he deserves the Nazi \"solution\" for gays [kampfgruppe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampfgruppe) karl.\n\n",
"Oh, Mike Pence has loved a lot of gay people. But we're not supposed to know about them.",
"Its not a hobby, its my identity and what I do for living. As it is my livelihood there is an argument there to be made that its actually more integral to my participation in society than a gay person being able to marry. If I had to choose I would pick recieving an income over getting married any day.\n\n> If you're against your family members being legally allowed to marry whomever they love it's because of beliefs that suggest they're fundamentally lesser than you are\n\nMy sisters certainly think I am lesser than them due to my hunting, they have said as much. They are both vegetarian and feel it makes them morally superior, which it well might. Hell, my brother is a human rights lawyer who spends his time and energy representing moneyless refugees apply for asylum. He is by many metrics superior to me, if he were to say or act so I would not decide to disown him.\n\n",
"This is the stupidest thing I've ever read. ",
"Those men were anti-gay too. What’s *your* point?",
"Hahahaha oh yeah sure it’s the “liberals” that categorize everyone, not the conservatives who insist that some people shouldn’t have equal rights.\n\nIf we’re all people why do they insist on treating some of us as sub-human?",
"Besids it being a retarded ideology based on war and hatred? Not really",
"Literally just a few years ago they wanted us back be arrested just for existing. Now we’re expected to believe they’ve done a complete 180 out of nowhere? We see through that shit.",
"Who the fuck cares about some old politician who’s will never have any power again?\n\nThis is the current administration we’re talking about here.",
"I thought i was seeing a game screenshot for a moment ",
"I know, have you ever seen a bigger thread of total intolerant bigots, in-fact I would argue that most of reddit is anti gay based your standards. \n\nhere is the math.\n\nreddit = liberal.\n\nliberal = democrat.\n\ndemocrat = vote for Clinton and Obama, as well as Pelosi.\n\nall 3 = donations from Muslim countries who are anti gay. \n\nrefute one single word of that bigots ",
"You intolerant bigots blame Pence for the beliefs of a some donor .\n\nyou also HATE Pence for his lifestyle choice and beliefs. \n\nboth correct by your own words.\n\nHilary Clinton and Obama excepted money from Saudi Arabia FACT FACT FACT FACT FACT.\n\nSaudi Arabia is anti gay , FACT FACT FACT FACT.\n\nno tell me something intolerant bigot , how is your guilt by accusation hate any different than the the ones I laid out .\n\nDont open your close minded bigoted mouth unless you can refute with FACTS ",
"Sorry bigot, you cant pick and choose who gets to be hated based on who donated money to them, or what they believe.\n\nyou ether apply to all , or it dont apply .\n\nnow whos the daddy ",
"I'd assume the daddy is coming to teach you basic logic later.",
"Are you having a seizure? Should someone call an ambulance?",
"Is there a number I can call to get your elder care specialist to help you back into bed?",
"besids it wingback?\n",
"lol, whats a matter, your hatred will only run on a way way street?\n\nI am so glad I was not born a close minded bigot intolerant to any and all beliefs except my own like you .\n\nPence is no more guilty of gay hate than Obama and Clinton, and the FACTS prove that based on your own guilt by association rules that YOU applied ,\n\nit has a name, its called bigotry .\n\nhow dare you not believe as I do, how dare you, in-fact I demand you adopt my beliefs this very secound or your subject to hate.\n\nFACT , Saudi Arabia as a country is ANTI GAY , FACT Obama , Pelosi and Clinton all excepted donations from Saudi Arabia.\n\n\nNow I want you to to explain in your own bigoted words, how that is any diffract than Pence being hated for the beliefs of one of his donors .\n\nOh and BTW bigot , your no more entitled to your bigoted beliefs than he is \n\n",
"are you backed into a corner with facts that prove your a one sided bigot ",
"logic is simple, \n\nif your apply guilt by association to Pence, you must also apply guilt by association to Clinton and Obama , \n\nif you hate Pence for his beliefs, Your subject to him hating your beliefs.\n\nthis concludes your lesson in logic ",
"By your logic then, since some of you actually ARE Nazi's, then it's up to the rest of Trump supporters to \"reach them\" or its justified for liberals to call all of you Nazi's.\n\nI personally prefer to avoid generalizing or bashing a whole group of people based on the behavior of a portion of that group. ",
"It's not racist to note he was elected by blacks and browns. It's true. ",
"Oh really... care to elaborate?",
"lol. Guess enough good ol boys were on board huh? \n\nI was raised among you fuckwits, and let me tell you, you people are fuckwits. \n\nHe was elected by balck and browns? Get used to it because they get a say too. ",
"*Being hahaha god dam autocorrect ",
"Actively opposing gay marriage. against the repeal of don't ask don't tell. Caused the largest aids epidemic in Indiana in the last twenty years. Actively supporting Roy Moore, who believed homosexuality should still be a crime that the government could punish you for\n\nEdit: supported using taxpayer funds for conversion therapy",
"So are you saying not wanting taxes, wanting freedom of speech, wanting secure borders, wanting gun rights, not wanting to support freeloaders etc. is based on war and hatred?",
"Jade give 2 rides",
"Jesus you're about as sharp as the beer shits I just had. \n\nPence supports legislation that harms gay people. It's not bigotry to oppose bigotry.\n\n",
"It's not guilt by association dumbass, it's just guilt.",
"Do you understand what bigotry is?",
"For someone that is relaxed you sure are trying hard to prove it.",
"No that didn't really address your point. I think I misread your initial statement. Your points are very well taken. \n\nWhat would you suggest? \n\nMy signature is not meant to change the FCC. It's not meant to be a powerful tool. It's only purpose, at least for me, is to just remind people that net neutrality is no longer 'neutral'. \n\nIf my signature makes just one person think to themselves, \"Oh yeah, Pai and his FCC really had it out for net neutrality, I wonder why?\" then mission accomplished.\n\n\n[-p.s-Fuck Ajit Pai](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7jxtrv/friday_fun_offtopic_megathread/drab96b)",
">\"my point is that the vast majority of muslims world-wide think homosexuality is unacceptable, a crime punishable with jail or death and their political system uses these religious beliefs to enforce this.\"\n\nThat's your made-up, bullshit argument, and you have yet to back it up. I'll ask you again, do you care to provide a source for this? Or can we both agree that it's bullshit, and completely made up?",
"**[I just did, you just ignored it because you prefer to see people die than criticize the religion of pieces.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7o0tvh/doug_jones_sweared_into_office_by_mike_pence_next/ds85rlx/)**\n\nAre you so much of a scum that you will ignore the list i did and just keep repeating *\"it's a lie even if there are sources and videos of people hanging from cranes!\"*?",
"Well then, if we're denigrating both groups then its not discriminatory is it?",
"I don't know, it's difficult to keep people engaged with such an ongoing political issue even if it's in their best interest to do so. \n \nThough if the intention behind your signature is just to remind people about the abolition of net neutrality, have you considered editing some additional information about it into the post your signature links to?",
"\n>No, she's not. The US, as a whole or each state individually, does not recognize \"common-law marriage\". But you seemed to have missed the point of that paragraph: anybody with any kind of standing (such as anybody mentioned in the will) can fight to overturn anything within it. \n\nI wasn't referring to common law marriage. I live in Florida, where common law marriage is unrecognized (and everyone is batshit crazy), and people frequently are unmarried but otherwise in decades long relationships. Like so many other states, we're also dealing with an opioid and drug epidemic that is seeing many of these couples parted by unexpected deaths and the accompanying cases of family vs cohabiting partners. Additionally, the US as a whole has seen a downward trend in marriage and an upward trend in longterm cohabiting couples, so we've been seeing this play out in the courts for a while now.\n\nI'm saying that she has filled the role a wife otherwise would and the courts recognize that she had a strong position in the deceased's life. Anybody can fight, but that doesn't mean they're going to win. They're definitely not going to win if the courts won't let them just get married in the first place and don't recognize the relationship as valid.\n\n>It's not me going the offspring route; that is something that the Supreme Court laid out pretty explicitly in their majority opinion in Baker v. Nelson. They held that because the government has a vested interest in the continuation of society through offspring, they are within their rights to provide varying benefits to couples that can produce such. Since the inevitable \"those who have already decided to not have kids prior to getting married\" / infertility question will come up, they also stated that the government does not have a right to delve that far into the privacy within the marriage. \n\nYes, and I'm saying that same-sex couples can raise children just as well but that barring them from marriage adversely affects their medical and custodial liabilities. ",
"I mean, they cared enough to take the time to whine about it. So I suppose he cares that much.",
"No I'm saying wanting to take equal rights away from minorities and wanting to make laws about what people can do with their own body and in the privacy of their own home, is based on fear and hatred. Or rather it's usually based on religion which in turn is based on fear and hatred.\n\nNone of those things you mentioned, with the exception of gun rights, are things conservatives actually stand for. How does not supporting freeloaders jive with giving huge bailouts to banks and corporations? How does wanting freedom of speech jive with banning certain words from being used by the CDC, or with wanting to ban gay marriage or keep LGBT \"propaganda\" off of television and away from children? How does not wanting taxes jive with a HUGE, constantly increasing military budget?\n\nYou see, none of those things are actually consistently held up. The inequality and prejudice though, that's consistent.",
"lol /titlegore",
"How so? ",
"What Rights? \n\nYes we conservatives do stand for all those things. ",
"And a same-sex couple can't have the same recognition? \"Alan and Bob clearly had a romantic relationship of heavy involvement in each other's lives/finances/etc and therefore, for purposes of executing Bob's will, Alan will be given the same standing as Bob's wife would have\" is impossible without same-sex marriage recognition?\n\nRegardless of the capability of raising children, same-sex couples lack the ability to create them, which was an important part of the compilation from Baker v. Nelson. Even when the day comes that we're consistently squeezing eggs together to form children from two women, there still is the reasonable assumption that your typical lesbian couple won't be doing that due to the invasive nature of the procedure. Never mind that a law allowing lesbian couples based on that ability would be sexist because same-sex male couples would not be able to do likewise.",
"What rights? Literally all of them, just pick one. Voting rights, interracial marriage, gender equality, marriage equality, gays in the military, trans in the military, gay adoption etc.... whatever you pick, conservatives stood against it at some point, and in some cases still do.",
"Yeah sorry we just disagree on some of those “rights”",
"Yeah I know. And that disagreement is based on fear and hatred. And yeah you should be sorry. Don’t worry though, time will prove us liberals right again as it has done on every other equality issue ever and in a few years you (or your kids) will be saying trans rights are “obvious” just like voting rights for black folks, despite the fact that your political philosophy opposed those rights on the exact same basis, and had you lived in the 50’s you would have opposed them.\n\nIt would be nice if you guys could just accept that we know better so we wouldn’t have to go through this process with every single equality issue that comes up. But if we have to keep dragging you kicking and screaming into a better future, we will.",
"Keeping mentally ill out of the military isn’t exactly based on fear and hatred. Lol you know better?",
"You insist on calling normal, hard working, loving and in many cases patriotic people “mentally ill” and keeping them from serving their country, and you expect me to believe that’s not based on fear and hatred??\n\nYes sweetie, we know better. But like I said don’t worry, time proves us right every time so in a few years keeping trans people out of the military will be as unthinkable to you as keeping women out of the workforce, and you’ll deny having ever had that opinion. Just like your political allies have recently done with gay marriage and every other equality issue once it becomes obvious that it was a good idea.",
"Trannies are absolutely mentally ill just as schizophrenics",
"Yeah see? Hatred. What you’re expressing right now is hatred, complete with a slur and everything. Thanks for proving my point.\n\n In a few years calling trans people “trannies” will be considered on the same level as calling black people “niggers” and you’ll say “I never said anything like that, I’ve always supported trans rights, but not [whatever equality issue is under debate at that time], that’s just ridiculous!”",
"This is literally not about hatred. It’s just not wanting mentally ill in the military. Being against something isn’t hatred. That’s just you being spoiled. \n\nI’m never going to support trannies. That will never change. \n\nSo you’re saying it’s hated based all because I’m using a word you don’t like? Tranny means the same to me as transsexual so what difference does it make what word I use? Just because YOU assigned an arbitrary hate value to it? If I told you “bread” is a slur to me would you stop using it? No that’s silly. It doesn’t mean you hate me for using the word bread. ",
"Wooow that’s a lot of subtext.",
"Sounds like devil-talk to me pal",
"Aaaaaand now you're talking in circles trying to explain away your hatred as something logical. Yet at the same time making your true feelings even more obvious by saying shit like \"I will never support trannies\". Man you really are ticking all the boxes on the dumbass conservitard checklist. \n\nHave fun being proven wrong about everything again and again forever. We'll be over here on the right side of history, slowly but surely pushing towards equality no matter how much you bitch and moan about it. Later hater.",
"yes I do, and your bigotry against Christians is painfully obvious ,\n\n*One who judges and/or despises others based on their physical appearance, descent, gender or personal beliefs.*\n\nso sugar, now we just want to know, were you born a bigot, or is your bigot filled hate for another human that you have never met grounded in copy cat group agreeing because you are insecure and shallow \n\n",
"no no, they don't get say too. Because of Democratic Politics, they get the ONLY say. They vote as a block of 90+% for their former slavers in exchange for welfare. \n\nLeveraging stupidity in favor of corruption, great party. ",
"So, you haven't answered my question, why do you support a political party and politicians who took money from gay haters and gay hater groups ???????????????",
"why do you support politicians and political parties who except money from the worlds largest organized gay haters and homophobic killers.\n\nand less not forget , Obama supported the same legislation until he figured out you were idiots he could use. then based your wacked bigot filled hate he supported legislation that harmed Christians , \n\nIts called personal beliefs and personal preference bigot. \n\nyour a bigot that is no beter than those you hate with your bigotry which shows how shallow and insecure you are. ",
"Ok well you sound like a little girl that can't get her way. That's all this is. You want to impose your beliefs/feelings on others. You're just upset they want to too. \n\nYou really can't \"prove me wrong\" about trannies. There is no right side of history here. ",
"Ohhhhh yes my friend we can and will prove you wrong about \"trannies\" just like we did about \"niggers\" and \"faggots\" before. You're wrong every time, what are the chances you're gonna be right this time? Zero.\n\nAnd oh yeah, call me an entitled little child now, that was the last thing missing from a complete conservitard stereotype. Yeah because wanting people to have individual freedom and equality is so childish and spoiled. Wanting the government to force everyone to live their lives in a way that doesn't offend or confuse you is so mature. You're maturity incarnate when you throw a hissy fit over a few trans people being allowed to serve their country.",
"Pence is holding his breath the whole time so he won't catch the gay.",
"When I said, \"nonsense\" I was specifically referring to the context of jobs that exist solely for the sake of \"job creation\" (like the pigeon chaser, or say, a modern revival of elevator operators, or even gas pump operators).\n\nRegarding UBI, it sounds like you have some misconceptions about it - like your example with the president awarding a \"job\" to his son in law for an inflated salary. That sounds more like an argument against communism or against electing a president with a conflict of interest with a corporation. UBI does not involve the government seizing the means of production, any problem with nepotism we'd have with UBI we already have now.\n\nThere are also different ways to implement UBI. One, yes, is just writing a check at a flat rate to everyone. I prefer a falloff method, similar to negative tax, where your UBI income would follow a curve based on your work income, until you hit a certain equilibrium point and now you're paying taxes. Most people with jobs will not get UBI checks written to them in this case. No, this would not result in a \"make more, get less\" situation.\n\nAs for hobbies and stuff, you're overestimating what UBI is supposed to provide. It won't give everyone enough to buy a car every year, it's meant for basic income - it should cover food and shelter, giving people with no income a place to live with heat and food, not much more. It's not intended to fund whatever money-sink hobbies you might have - you won't be going to the movies every day on UBI. When I said \"my personal side projects\" I was referring to projects I'd like to do that could in turn become my business in the future, not just something I spend money on for the sake of it.\n\nFor your last example with making bike chains \"for almost nothing more\", that's not how it would work. Again, UBI is not intended to provide for everyone's hobbies. But, if your \"hobby\" is biking and working on bikes, and you make bike chains/seats/handles/etc, you can turn that into your business without worrying about food or housing payments. You wouldn't be getting \"almost nothing more\", you'd be getting nearly what you're being paid. Sell a custom chain for $100, your UBI might go down $10 (probably less) if we're on the curve model.",
"I'd love to do that, but I can't really split my time up too granularity and have it still be useful. It's a software thing, where 10 minutes of work each day for 6 days results in significantly less than one consecutive hour. What I really need to do is block out time on weekends...",
"Your first three paragraphs pretty much reiterated what I said, specifically \"you can survive (shelter food water) but not aford your hobbies\"....in the last, ok, there wont be enough hobby chain makers to supply chains to the masses. Either through raw materials or time. People will be sitting around waiting for bikes, bike parts, video games, tvs, etc. Your taking away the incentive to work 40 hours a week. You'd have to have full automation over everything and every step of the building process. Mining, refinement, shipping, recieving, building, reship. So until thats even close (10-20 years). Theres not much to go on. Even then like I said, you need people to run the factories and oversea the operations of 50 different industries. They're all gonna be well educated and get paid....at that point everyone sitting around getting paid getting education...im not gonna keep going.",
"> Your taking away the incentive to work 40 hours a week.\n\nThis is the crux of where we disagree, I think. I doubt most people would feel content with \"enough to survive but not partake in hobbies\" for the rest of their lives. People would still work so they could do what they wanted, go on vacation, but things they like, etc. It's the difference between surviving and living a comfortable and enjoyable life. The benefit of the UBI situation is that you aren't tied to your employer for the basic necessities, and since you aren't absolutely desperate if you're unemployed, you can afford to shop around for jobs instead of needing to take the first bad offer you're given.\n\nHuman psychology requires fulfillment, and because of that they'll still look for work. While it's not conclusive, we've seen as much in the few relevant studies and trials we've done on the subject.\n\n> People will be sitting around waiting for bikes, bike parts, video games, tvs\n\nFunny you should mention - I can't speak for the others, but my personal projects I mentioned before are in the video game development sphere. A lot of people I personally know are in the same situation. For creative mediums like games, I'd bet that a system like this would result in significantly more independently created works, if not AAA products.",
"Yeah good luck with that. I don't think you've proven me wrong on those other things either. Can't wait until I'm proved wrong so the trannies can go to the bathroom with little girls. ",
"The post it links to is not even information about net neutrality. It's just a post from another user that I got the idea from. \n\n\"So I know it's not quite totally off topic from the events yesterday, but on social media just like how Cato the Elder ended his speeches to the Roman Senate with \"Carthago delenda est\" (Carthage must be destroyed) I am ending every single post on social media with \"And fuck Ajit Pai\" until net neutrality is restored.\" u/LuminousRaptor\n\nAlthough, maybe I'll change some things a bit. Thanks.\n\n[-p.s-Daily reminder that net neutrality no longer exists.](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7jxtrv/friday_fun_offtopic_megathread/drab96b)",
"Or maybe because they're a pack of mentally ill narcissists. Trump is not at all trying to \"undermine\" anything about the gays, he doesn't care. Much like most people, we don't care, which is why gays have to prance around and throw their homosexuality in everyone's face. It's childish, ridiculous and mentally ill. ",
"Your really not paying attention. Again were saying the same thing but what you fail to realize is that there wont be enough jobs for people to work to do anything but survive. Like I was saying, all the jobs that your talking about are gonna be taken by the absolute most qualified people who also have family connections or bribe/kickback for the job. The middle class would be gone. There will be miminum wage garbage jobs that nobody wants because its literally not worth it. when you have 100 people still willing to do the job to support their addiction or hobby they will do ot for thr lowest cost, dollars per an hour because of so much job competition to do somrthing other than survive. ",
"He actively supported Roy Moore, who thinks homosexuality should be a crime that the government can punish you for. He chose Pence as his VP. You're actively denying reality and lying to yourself\n\n>Or maybe because they're a pack of mentally ill narcissists\n\nAnd then\n\n>Much like most people, we don't care\n\n",
"Ok, so where in all I've said is there something fitting that description? Quote please moron.",
"I doubt it. As of late, I see more of this kind of thing coming from the Democrats, imposing ideology on the greater populace. Which side throws around the idiotic phrase \"right side of history\" all the time?\n\n>How many LGBT folks kill themselves in the USA because of the hate this guy (and others like him) preaches?\n\nI'm going to say not that many as the United States is the safest place in the world for LGBT people. ",
"Because it's a nonsense question. You don't even know that I do support those people, and your accusations are just silly anyway, especially since this entire thread has been about your dumb ass defending Mike Pence's anti-gay fervor.",
"Who am I supporting now? What legislation are you talking about?\n\nI'm not sure what you're attempting to do. It's certainly not an argument. \n\nWhatever your purpose is, you're so bad at it, but so angry, that it's become really amusing to read your bizarre nonsensical rants. I'm seriously entertained.",
"Again, your entire life revolves around butt intercourse. \nYou're a sick mentally ill person. \nNo one cares where you put your penis. ",
"The entire concept you're presenting. \"Identifying\" yourself by your hobby is stupid first of all. There a reason I don't call myself a gamer even though videogames are my primary hobby. They don't define me.\n\nSecondly, that this kind of identification is the same to you as someone's gender or sexual orientation is ludicrous. There's never been a society that kills or imprisons hunters like even modern societies have done. There idea that your relatives disagree with you about hunting is not the same as someone disagreeing about their right to exist and participate in society.\n\nYou're arguing in a purely rhetorical manner that I cannot help but believe is insincere. You're using the meaning of words to construct something that seems rational on the surface level, but is hollow and pointless.",
"I mean, I'm not gay, but obviously you care where I put my penis ",
"LOL, you are the fools spewing bigot fueled intolerant hate towards someone based on the beliefs of some donor and support for legislation.\n\nmaybe you should learn to read a thread before you have an opinion, ",
"I am not defending shit, I am pointing out the fact that you are all huge hypocrites, the man simply stood for traditional marriage like 5 billion other people, based on personal beliefs ,\n\nyou want tolerance while you engage in total hate filled intolerance. \n\neverything you add in between that is grossly exaggerated horseshit simply because the man is a republican.\n\nso dont come in here pointing your finger, the problem is in the mirror fool. \n\nObama and Clinton both voted for the EXACT same legislation, and they both took money from the worlds largest organised gay hate group, and that is pure FACT !!!.\n\nyour all bigots beating a straw man ",
"do you believe that everyone is entitled to their own personal beliefs and lifestyle choice?. YES or NO, no babble, no slobbering buts , no smoke screen quotes , its ether YES I do , or NO I dont. NO = bigot .\n\nthe jest here is that Pence deserves hate because he took money from some organization that supported some legislation that didnt suit the gay lifestyle , FOOLISH seeing how Obama and Clinton as well as the entire democratic party took money from counties where homosexuality is against the law, and even punishable by death. \n\nthose are just FACTS, and I challenge you to refute them. \n\nObama and Clinton also supported the EXACT same legislation the Pence supported, you just didn't hear that on the bias media you tools digest. ",
"So you can't find anywhere that I've actually said something bigoted? Quelle suprise.\n\nPence signed into law an extremely anti LGBT law. He's said that marriage equality would lead to societal collapse, and that denying gay people the ability to marry was about compelling \"God's idea.\" In congress he opposed bills that would allow sexual minorities protection under existing anti-discrimination law.\n\nYou lying about that isn't convincing. You realise that everyone here also has an internet machine, yeah? I can look things up on it? Lies as blatant as those are just pathetic.",
"You realise that \"the man simply stood for traditional marriage like 5 billion\" is exactly the problem, right?\n\nHe wanted to deny some people the ability to marry, because he didn't like who they were attracted to. \n\nHe was also an elected congressman and governor, who gave speeches, wrote laws, and voted to enforce that gay people couldn't marry.\n\nThat's bigotry.\n\n\n\nWhat you're doing is a pathetic attempt to lie about it for some reason, years late, and assuming everyone has amnesia and also can't Google.",
"Did you forget the question?",
"Pensive.",
"How about trying to use animals to justify something by claiming it to be okay and natural because animals also do it.\n\nSome things are just unnatural and shouldn't be done.\n\nIts funny that usually religion and science disagree on almost every subject, except of course this one. Really funny actually.",
"Part of being mentally ill, sometimes, is that you don't recognize it yourself. What do friends and family think about your behavior, your partner, do you have a productive work environment, do you pay you bills etc are more pragmatic questions to ask when you assess your life and mental health where you can get real world feedback.",
"nope, did you forget that tolerance is a two way street, and bigotry is unbecoming ????",
"Why do you support politicians and political parties that except money from organized gay hate states, and what makes you hink your beliefs and life style choices trumps anyone elses ? \n\nJust face it, your an intolerant bigot , the same thing you accuse Pence of, only pence dont go around spewing hate like you all do.\n",
"Do you believe that EVERYONE is entitled to their own lifestyle choices and personal beliefs without being ridiculed. YES of NO , NO = bigot \n\nits a very simple qestion that you keep avoiding because your a hypocritical bigot who group agrees for the sake of acceptance .\n\nYour also avoiding the FACT that Obama and Clinton both supported the EXACT same legislation that Pence did, and excepted money form organized gay hate states , yet you praise them, which more than proves your bigotry fueled hypocritical stereo typing .\n\nits just historical FACTS, dont blame me because they exists ",
"Those aren't facts at all. Obama and Clinton did not support that legislation. Why do you keep lying about easily researched things?",
"I don't. What has made you imagine I do? You keep inventing things you say I stand for.",
"Did you forget to look up the definitions of the words you use? I've already corrected you on your absurd misunderstanding of bigotry.",
"no I corrected you ,\n\nyou are indeed an intolerant hypocrite bigot guilty of the EXACT same thing you hate others for , \n\n\"big·ot\nˈbiɡət/Submit\nnoun\na person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions or beliefs, one who is intolerant of religious groups , ethnic, or race\".... tada \n\nhave a good night hypocritical bigot ",
"do you believe EVERYONE is entitled to their own beliefs and lifestyle choices, free of hate belittling and intolerance.\n\nYES I do - or NO I dont. \n\nits a simple qestion a child could answer so long as they were not an intolerant bigot like you ",
"YES THEY DID , what an idiot \n",
"they BOTH also took money form organised gay hate states , do you live under a rock or do you only hold republicans to your hate fuled bigoted standards ",
"Link an article.",
"That's Mike Pence to a T. What have I said that fits that definition. Quote me",
"Yes, which is why I am antagonistic to the goals of Mike Pence, who has signed legislation that would deny gay people the choice to marry, and trans people the choice of bathroom. Which beliefs or choices do you think I want made illegal? Where have I said so?",
"Do you think I've supported people taking money from Saudi Arabia? Why would you think that? How is it relevant? In what way could that show that Mike Pence hadn't signed bigoted laws?",
"IF you can't even follow the thread, stop comenting and trying to make it about you. \n\n\n if you voted for any democrats you are guilty of the same thing Pence is being hated for, ",
"You have Google, park your wilful ignorance and look yourself, there was only around 9000 sources ",
"Sorry, I don't take orders from itolerant bigots who engage in willful ignorance ",
"Bigot ",
"Find me one.",
"You're really bad at this.",
"There isn't a thread, there's just you being incapable of communicating like someone halfway sane, and me seeing what absurd invention you come up with next.",
"Uhhh. Ok. That's an odd way to convince someone you're correct though.\n\nThe foetal position as a conversational tactic.",
"No, literally the only religion on the planet that remotely believes their religious texts were written by a deity is Islam, which believes their deity dictated their text verbatim to the prophet Mohammed who wrote it down. This makes it unopen to interpretation, the dogma is literal.\n\nChristians and Jews believe their holy texts are the works human authors who had the divine inspiration to write them. Which opens the door for interpretation for mainstream denominations and most smaller ones, other than the literalist extremists - who have no theological evidence to back up their claims.\n\nSide note, do you also believe that Christians are required to follow Old Testament laws or even really care about the Old Testament? I find that those who believe Christianity is a literalist religion also believe that the Old Testament means anything at all to Christians other than historical context - which is not true and in fact is the whole point of Christianity, really - saying the Old Testament is fucked up and you don't have to live like that anymore because Jesus.",
"lol, your the one who holds bigoted hate towards a person because they have beliefs and lifestyle choices that differ from yours, so its got nothing to do with me being right and everything to do with you being an intolerant bigot .\n\nI want you to be tolerant of me and my choices, but ill be dammed if I will except yours and be tolerance of you.\n\nBelieving in traditional marriage has not a thing in this world to do with gay hate, and everything to do with strong religious convictions, and the hate you can muster wont change that.\n",
"lol, no no no, its you and few other hypocritical intolerant bigots trying to convince yourselves that your hypocritical intolerant bigotry is some how justified .\n\n",
"no, your really bad at convincing yourself that you are not a hypocritical intolerant bigot , you are and you need to come to terms with it.\n\nNow use your 1/2 witted biased google to find one word of hate and intolerance coming from from Mike Pence ",
"its right there on your keyboard and you know dam well it is, you just want to argue using your cherry picked biased bullshit.\n\n\nFACT, entire democratic party supported traditional marriage and voted to keep it nearly a dozen times in my life time. \n\nFACT, entire democratic party and all its major politicians except money from organised gay hate states. \n\nFACT Obama ran on traditional marriage views,\n\nFACT, Clinton ran on traditional marriage views.\n\nFACT, your a hypocritical intolerant bigot \n\n",
"Damn. Sid Gormley's come a long way! ",
"Couldn't agree more. I really don't get the conservative pre-occupation with gays. Are they afraid it is contagious or something?\n\nIt is a bit weird how we label the abortion issue. I don't think anybody favors abortion, but they favor making it a personal choice. I had a kid at a very inconvenient time, and I argued to keep it. But I would never dare tell another couple that they need to make the same choices as me and my wife made.\n\nI personally love guns too, but I wouldn't want gun regulation in Norway to be relaxed. That you have to demonstrate a certain amount of skill and may only own one for hunting, sports shooting or military service is fine by me.\n\nA suspect that when conservatives hear the word \"gun control\" it gets translated to \"take gun away from me, and ban them totally.\" I don't personally think the US needs an absolute gun ban in the style of the UK. But at a minimum there should be training on safety required and every gun should be registered on every transfer of ownership.\n\nAlso no military weapons unless you are in the homeguard or military. I don't get why that would be draconian.",
"I like to quote dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who was murdered by a muslim fundamentalist: \"A tolerant society can not survive by being tolerant towards the intolerant.\"\n\nIn the same vein I would then argue that being intolerant of Trump is a necessity for the survival of a tolerant and democratic society. You can not maintain a society with freedom if it is run by people who do not believe in freedom.",
"It really comes down to how absent and negligant most people are about actual pollitical issues in the states.\n\nAs a whole many conservatives don't bother reading between the lines \n\nAnd many people who are labeled liberals in the snide toxic tone are labeled such because they jump on the wagon, albit the opposite one of conservatives. without reading between the lines either. They just actually read the words first.\n\nIt's really basic \n\nConservative= \"No I'm right you're wrong I don't need to give a reason leave me and my ideas alone. But I'll force mine on you as well.\" \n\nLiberal=\"No I'm right here's the reasons I'm right stop forcing your shit no backup ideas on me but I'm gonna force mine on you.\" \n\nAmericans don't like being told what to do. But we love telling others what to do... turns into a mess when we do it to ourselves you see? ",
"Ok, is your point that the Democrats took too long to openly support equal rights for gay people? No fucking duh. Was that your point?\n\nThose people have publicly apologised, and said that their views were wrong. Mike Pence never has, nor has the rest of the Republican party, still trying to enact laws that intentionally harm LGBT people.\n\nNone of what you've listed is the same as the legislation that Mike Pence signed, and the policies he still supports.\n\nI specified some legislation that pence signed during his period as Governor. You'll find that there weren't any Democrats supporting it.\n\n\nThe point that I'm a bigot because I want people to have equal rights, and I don't support people who want to deny equal rights, is completely insane. \n\nI suspect that you don't really know what you're attempting to prove or disprove, and you're just angry because you're an old christian watching the world realise that religion is useless.",
"You still can't find me one thing I've said that was bigoted? Part of the problem is that you don't understand what the word means, and that there isn't anything to copy, but...do you know how to highlight and copy text? \n\nI've already given you quotes from pence saying that “societal collapse was always brought about following an advent of the deterioration of marriage and family.” Pence also called being gay a choice and said keeping gays from marrying was not discrimination, but an enforcement of “God’s idea.”\n\nI also showed you examples of LAWS he signed, that harmed a specific minority, because his religion teaches him that homosexuality is evil. \n\nTrying to pretend both sides are the same is sweet in a way. It shows an acknowledgment that the Republican platform is and has been intentionally harmful. But, it's a complete delusion. Pence and other Republicans STILL support efforts to remove the ability to marry from a group of Americans because of their sexual orientation.\n\n",
"Blah blah blah, you are defending a hate filled circle jerk aimed at a person who simply holds beliefs that differ from your own .\n\nGay marriage is now legal and you intolerant bigots still cant check your hypocritical hate at the door, \n\nSo don't puss on my leg and tell me it's raining , you hate Christians you have never met simply because they are Christians. ",
"Lol, you hate people simply because they don't share your beliefs. \n\nBelieving in traditional marriage has nothing to do with hating gays, but your hate for pence has everything to do with being Christian. \n\nBigot ",
"Dumbass, I don't hate christians. I used to be one. My family still are Christians. I don't hate people for being deluded. What I hate are bigoted laws made to force other people to live according to their delusions.",
"You can \"believe in traditional marriage\" all you like. If people like Pence didn't make laws forcing those beliefs on other people, everything would be fine.",
"lol, yes and if people like you didnt cram your lifestyle down peoples throat and people like Obama didnt make laws forcing Christians to participate in things that went against their convictions, everything would be fine. \n\nsee how that works mr intolerant biggot ",
"oh, you mean laws that force people to go against their core beliefs and life long religious convictions dumbass .\n\n",
"Where are you getting your figures? least racially diverse population tend to be liberal Democrat voting, and states with a lot of non-whites tend to have more racists. That does not sound accurate.\n\nWhy would you say I hate right wing American Christians? I never said that I did. In fact, I don't.\n\nWhere did I say it's wrong to hate ISIS and empathize with them?\n\nIf your goal here is to expose my seeming hypocrisy as a way of undermine my argument, you are not very persuasive. You are making a lot of assumptions.",
"I'm sorry for trying to make you marry a gay person. That was too far.\n\n\nSeriously though, what law are you talking about?",
"seriously though , your a hypocritical bigot ,\n\nits so funny and predictable to watch you defend your bigotry with bigotry while you accuse others of what your guilty of.\n \nwhen the day comes that you can except the fact that some people hold beliefs that differ from your own, you will finally be a man instead of group agreeing attention seeking insecure bigot who wants to force other people to adhere to your ways .\n ",
"I'm doing my best to make it illegal for a man to marry a woman. \n\nONLY GAY PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED TO HAVE BABIES. ALL BABIES WILL BE GAY.",
"OP is illiterate ",
"It’s not what you said, it how you say it. Tone is 50% of a statement. You came off like an arrogant asshole. ",
"[Tone policing (also tone trolling, tone argument and tone fallacy) is an ad hominem and antidebate appeal based on genetic fallacy.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing)",
"What's morally wrong about homosexuality? Who are you to say what's moral? ",
"It's not up to me to dictate what is moral and not, it's God.",
"Seriously though, what law? I'd like to know what evil Obama committed in your version of the universe.",
"I just discovered that guy! He wrote something so baffling stupid on one of my posts, that I burst out laughing. I’ve now been going threw all the comments he’s made, and it is an absolute goldmine of shit so stupid you you can’t but help to laugh 😂 ",
"...uh...sworn....\nGovernment education?",
"2+2= Ğ",
"I dont know the point is mike pence is the worst person",
"You can tell the gay son is not pleasant to see Mike Pence.",
"Which God dictates what's moral?",
"wow this was an old conversation...ummm... Which God dictates *that moral? Well, the God who created us dictates what's right and wrong. He has the right, not us. But, it's up to you whether or not you obey. ",
"So just because you believe in a particular version of a God, we must all follow what you believe? There just as much non man made evidence that God exists as there is evidence of Big Foot. Wait a minute...maybe Big Foot is GOD!?\n\nEver eat shell fish? If so, you're going to hell according to your God. There is more talk about what to eat in the Bible than laying down with another man. ",
"No, you missed the part where I literally said, \"You choose wether or not to obey\". It's right there at the end of my comment. No need to act like that:) And hell is nothing but a burial. He doesn't send humans to a fiery pit of doom. There is a lot of evidence that God exists, look around you. The very fact humans exist, let alone the earth, is evidence of His existence. And since you're talking about what's in the Bible, God specifically says what He thinks about homosexuality. I'm not sure why you would think just because there's only a few verses in the Bible about it, that it would render that topic unimportant. But, like I said, I don't expect you to change your beliefs. I'm merely explaining mine since you were interested :)",
"Well he's right.",
"did you just move from \"he's totally not anti-gay!1!\" to \"well of course he's anti-gay, but that's a good thing!\"?\n\nway to show your true colors...",
"Legend has it that back in 1976 Mike Pence first and only true love Randy left him for the local weed dealer. Since that day Mike had vowed to ruin the lives of all stoners and gay men, He is quoted saying \"My heart was broken by a stoner so ill stone them till they stop smoking the pole and the pipe\" The last few decades Randy was forced to go into hiding in Canada where he struggles day by day with a crippling hamburger addiction. ",
"\"Sworn\"",
"Where he on and off again dates a failed cop who is a raging alcoholic. ",
"His son can swear me into his office any time. "
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"Burn it.",
"Thanks for the nightmares",
"It has a bug",
"Am literally lying in bed with a smoke detector 3 feet from me. Thanks for the energy boost brah ",
"How Alarming!!!",
"So I assume you’re looking for a new place to live after you have now torched your house?",
"Stupid smoking spiders..."
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"Doesn’t gas freeze at like -40 degrees F?",
"Roughly. And the sign only has one piece of tape? I've never seen an outdoor sign at a gas station with less than 10x the tape. Fake.",
"Even if you cut it with water, it would still freeze way below 32F",
"If you cut it with water it wouldn’t run correctly almost immediately! Idiot.",
"So since most fuel for cars in the US is E10 this is what probably happen. So the ethanol in the fuel is hygroscopic meaning it absorbs water from the air. So probably what happend is called phase seperation, as the fuel gets colder the E10 can't hold as much water and expels it and the water sunk to the bottom. That water then froze on the pump and blocked it up. ",
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"Not at all",
"It says to join the challenge with Chicharito which is the name of a soccer player on the Mexican national team. His real name is javier Hernandez. Chicharito means small pea. His dad was a soccer player too and his nickname was the Pea. So when his kid joined, he got nicknamed little pea. ",
"Ha! That makes so much more sense. We all got a giggle out of the Google Translate version, though. Thanks! ",
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"Beautiful!!! ",
"One big thing I miss down south here are days like that. Great shot!",
"I got married in the White Mountains! Beautiful!"
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"Guess you weren't as true to the source material as all the sweaty ass cracks I see every year.",
"Nice jugs kid",
"So thirsty for some reason...",
"Thanks dad",
"Yea",
"Yoko from gurren lagann?",
"Yes",
"How ya doin'?",
"I thought showing the goods was a big part of cosplay. Guess not.\n\nBTW, I think you look great.",
"Neck covered completely. Looks fine to me.",
"I guess when your titties reach a certain point its not kosher anymore. Thanks though.",
"Don't feel too bad. My titties passed that point long ago.\n\nThen again, I am a guy.",
"Its a self inflicted curse and I dont regret it but I wish someone had atleast warned me",
"wait.. who told you to cover up? at a con, of all places..",
"You are true to the character though.",
"They don't want all the neck beards wearing body suits without dance belts getting all pointy.",
":O",
"This con was sponsored by \"People who ruin everything\"",
"you are blessed",
"Awesome tits",
"yeah,that bullring needs tobe covered up",
"shit. now i'm confused if your titties are haram or halal",
"What's the big deal? it's like going to the beach!",
"I thought that was common knowledge... i mean, in other places people are offended by a virtual behind on a scene?"
] | 24 | pics | After being told to cover up at a con |
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/r/pics/comments/7o12lc/that_little_dog_is_ridiculously_happy/ | [
"Didn’t Target have or still has a dog just like this in their advertisements?",
"The Target dog in the ads is a bull terrier. \n\nThis looks like a shepherd mix of some sort. ",
"Good Ol’ Spuds",
"Yeah different breed but this little guy has similar markings to the OG mascot. "
] | 4 | pics | That little dog is ridiculously happy |
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/r/pics/comments/7o13jd/last_shift_at_the_thrift_store/ | [
"/r/accidentalrenaissance ",
"Congratulations! You now have bedbugs and the plague.",
"Was it court ordered?",
"That's a really nice dress.",
"I was thinking similar. The cringe."
] | 5 | pics | Last Shift At The Thrift Store |
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/r/pics/comments/7o164h/this_actor_from_return_of_the_jedi_looks_just/ | [
"That's Trevor Dinklage. He's his dad.",
"Peter Dinkladges’ fathers name is John. Thats not him.",
"Jesus buddy.",
"I only point that out because at first I believed you."
] | 4 | pics | This actor, from Return of the Jedi, looks just like Peter Dinklage. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o190y/only_in_bama_maga/ | [
"yikes.",
"So what is in the back windshield?",
"Dat right dare iz my cusbands car... we luv dem reepublican family values ",
"Looks like the paper temporary plate",
"I'm even more confused ",
"In Alabama when you order a custom tag they give you a print out to put in your window till the metal one comes in. The actual plate is ALD TR this person made the DON and UMP out of cardboard or something. ",
"Oh wow thanks. I thought you meant temp tag as in when you buy a vehicle which is usually a date of sale or date of expiration.",
"You sounds like you talken right but then’gain you said dem and that’s to close to them there other people who stole the office here recent"
] | 8 | pics | Only in bama #maga |
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/r/pics/comments/7o19ic/every_year_my_family_returns_to_our_childhood/ | [
"Love it, but its /r/mildlyfrustrating that its not a perfect circle",
"From the thumbnail image, I legitimately thought this was a skydiving photo.\n\nI feel relieved to find out it’s actually a circle of safe, albeit cold, people on earth.",
"Dude, believe me, as a perfectionist photographer and yelling at my dad to raise his stiff arms up after repeatedly jumping up, checking the, the screen, then running back to get the shot, it was frustrating to me too.",
"Haha I never looked at it like that. And yes, we were very cold. It was Dec 28 in rural Ontario so it was friggin’ cold as balls, eh?",
"Hella sick none the less",
"Thanks a lot. Tough to rally 6 grumpy family members at 7am before anyone went to work and get them to lie patiently in the snow. We all loved the result though."
] | 6 | pics | Every year my family returns to our childhood home to celebrate Xmas and do annual Xmas photo. This year’s may be the best. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o1dbx/piper_the_dog_who_works_at_traverse_city_airport/ | [
"I'm from the area and news broke today. I met him once while attending school in TC. He will be greatly missed <3",
"Once a good boy, always a good boy",
"/u/Goldwolf143, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must directly relate to the event in the picture. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/Goldwolf143&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7o1dbx/piper_the_dog_who_works_at_traverse_city_airport/?context=10\\))"
] | 3 | pics | Piper, the dog who works at Traverse City Airport and has made the front page several times, passed away from cancer. Let's give him some send off love |
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/r/pics/comments/7o1g34/everyone_meet_link/ | [
"Cute - what type of pup? Looked like a Keeshond?",
"Yes he is a Keeshond. ",
"Oh btw fun story. I wanted his name to be Bear but my wife wanted his name to be Link like Wolf Link. So we compromised and his name is now Link. ",
"We used to call my cat Link, because my room mate's pug Ganon used to start fights and then lose.",
"Haha that's great! ",
"Floop."
] | 6 | pics | Everyone meet Link. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o1jpn/shot_of_the_moon_i_got_the_other_night_after_a/ | [
"That's probably the most attractive moon pic I've ever seen",
"What’s a true color edit?",
"I don’t think it’s a thing",
"It's an edit to show the subject's true colours. ",
"Makes sense",
"It’s basically when you use saturation and contrast along with some filtering to bring out the colors that are already there. The blues and reds are most likely minerals and such that are in the soil from what I understand.",
"Thanks! This was my first real attempt at photographing and editing the moon for myself. I’m pretty excited about the result!",
"Neat! Good work :)",
"How do you photograph the moon? I want to take photographs of the stars but I am clueless on the process.",
"I used a Skywatcher 150 Telescope with a Nikon D5100 camera. I believe I set the camera to 200 iso with 800 exposure. Took about 100 pictures and stacked them together using Registax. Followed that by bringing out the true color with Photoshop.\n\nYou can do the same thing without a telescope. Just a camera with a decent lens and steady base/tripod will do."
] | 10 | pics | Shot of the moon I got the other night after a true color edit |
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/r/pics/comments/7o1krw/planning_a_world_trip_today/ | [
"If you plan to visit austria we have a bed for you! I like world Traveller ",
"cool keep it on facebook",
"Haha fair enough",
"Must be nice lol\n\nHave fun!",
"Please don't come to brazil. It's a shitty place.",
"Ive never been to SA, but ive met alot of people via online gaming from SA.\n\nNever ever visit that continent.",
"Chile is ok"
] | 6 | pics | Planning a world trip today |
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/r/pics/comments/7o1muw/my_5_challenge_is_complete_with_bonus_10_notes/ | [
"Ah Canada...we do love our Monopoly money",
"looks like nz to me, could be wrong though\n",
"$5 challenge? Whats that?",
"Hrm. I've never seen NZ cash...but those are definitely the same colours we use here...what a coinkydink.",
"Keep all the $5 notes you get through the year.",
"Great job OP! What's your total?",
"$1960! I didn’t need any of it badly enough to spend it, and it means so much more now after my hard work",
"[nz notes](https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/notes-and-coins/notes/banknotes-in-circulation)\n\nwe are currently transitioning between series 6 and 7",
"Also our twenty’s are green these are 10’s and 5’s",
"Bloody excellent!!",
"Damn my mobile network! I can't see it...but i believe you.",
"And brown for 100s...which confused me for a bit, but i just figured OP was ballin",
"If only I had a job to do that...",
"I hope you score one you like very soon. ",
"r/neet",
"That's a great effort. I barely touch cash anymore so don't think it would work as well for me. What area do you work in if you don't mind me asking?",
"So..where are we spending them?! Yay",
"For the time that I saved this up I have worked in entertainment and retail. My bank charges me stackloads to use my card so I’ll often just withdraw a fair amount when I get paid and work with that :)",
"Entertainment you say.....",
"(¬‿¬)",
"Thanks :)",
"Saving this comment so i can see it when I can actually get on wifi later",
"Saving this comment so i can see it when I can actually get on wifi later"
] | 22 | pics | My $5 challenge is complete! With bonus $10 notes for discipline |
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/r/pics/comments/7o1ndg/new_iphone_x_real_marble_iphone_x_case_to_start/ | [
"Congratiolations you just spend $1000 on a phone which only cost apple $20 to make",
"yeah, I'm still happy though. it's not like I can make it on my own",
"Does that mean the phone isn’t good?",
"Looks good, get a skin for the airpods next!",
"No it's a good phone, it means it's ovepriced",
"Overpriced compared to what? No other phone has the fastest processor, best display, stainless steel. ",
"Best display is just an opinion, I would buy a phone with a slightly slower processor for $600 less, I don't need stainless steel",
"I want to! any recommendations for that?\n",
"It would be better to say its not worth it to you. In the free-market, it isn't overpriced because nothing else offers what the iPhone X does.",
"If some other phone have 90% of what the Iphone has but it costs 50/60% less. Why would you buy the IPhone, why do so many people cares about 2 milliseconds faster load time and another photoshop app",
"and planned obsolescence. ",
"It has a notch thus it must be the best. /s"
] | 12 | pics | New iPhone X & Real Marble iPhone X Case to Start the New Year!! |
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/r/pics/comments/7o1sc5/5_am_fog_on_the_highway/ | [
"Where is Ryan Gosling?",
"Did anyone else spend a few minutes staring at the picture expecting there to be a flashing light somewhere?",
"Into the pines? ",
"Not even a bike guy, but cool ass pic",
"KTM Duke? ",
"This started playing in my head once I saw the picture;\n\nhttps://youtu.be/MV_3Dpw-BRY",
"Seems like somewhere in North India. I would hazard a guess to around the NCR region, but could be off by miles! ",
"Cells",
"Eerie yet beautiful",
"Reminds me a little of Tron somehow",
"nice KTM!",
"You buried the lead OP. There is a convenience store on the highway!",
"Where’s the fucking highway???",
"/r/outrun",
"Yeah, looks like the 390",
"i hope you took one with out the bike in the way, it's a cool bike and all but it's covering the interesting stuff."
] | 16 | pics | 5 am fog on the highway |
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/r/pics/comments/7o1xen/i_do_not_know_much_about_knifes_but_i_thinks_this/ | [
"R u Pakistani?",
"r/mallninjashit",
"Nah german",
"Oh my God. Is that a real sub? I've gotta check this out. ",
"It is real. Thank you. ",
"Nicht mehr mit dem gescheissposten machen",
"Liar, you are a Bosnian war criminal."
] | 7 | pics | I do not know much about knifes but i thinks this Knife Rox unbelivebel really Uniq knife |
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/r/pics/comments/7o1zwr/t_h_i_c_c/ | [
"Very fat.",
"He can bearly walk. ",
"That's gotta be photo shopped right? I mean....it looks like a cartoon character lol.",
"You still ought to be careful, or you might meet a grizzly end.",
"I can’t bear all this fat shaming. ",
"Looks like Pooh switched to the all garbage diet.",
"\nEating his way out of the dump. ",
"I'm going to guess it's got a lot of plastic in its system.",
"**BRUINS**!!",
"In awe of the size of this lad. Absolute Unit.",
"Getting fat eating garbage......incredibly sad, not hahah",
"Yeah, I'm struggling to believe it's real as well.",
"Hm, can't quite decide on your meaning,\n\na) Getting fat eating garbage? [That's] incredibly sad, [it's] not \"hahah\".\n\nor\n\nb) Getting fat eating garbage? [That's] incredibly sad. NOT! hahah",
"It is winter though, they need to get fat ",
"not THAT fat",
"Don't body shame, it's a big beautiful black bear and it doesn't need no man.",
"he could last three winters. ",
"ABSOLUTE UNIT. keeekkkkkkk",
"/u/kilerppk, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No pictures with added/superimposed digital elements.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/kilerppk&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7o1zwr/t_h_i_c_c/?context=10\\))"
] | 19 | pics | T H I C C |
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/r/pics/comments/7o20dl/canadas_barrett_martineau_looking_fierce_on_the/ | [
"I thought for a second that Canada had become the first country to successfully recruit a polar bear for an Olympic team. ",
"Bearett Martineau",
"r/BearJokes",
"This will probably end up being true, just not yet. It will be Canada or Russia to do it first.",
"LOL i was waiting for that.",
"Bearett Martinaursine",
"You are right. Russia will be the first to have a bear athlete, and it will be for boxing. Canada 2nd because they make up half the Canadian population. ",
"BMW xD rawr",
"Bear on the Canadian Olympic team? Bit of a stretch.\n\n\nThe bear is doing skeleton instead of hockey? That's just silly."
] | 9 | pics | Canada's Barrett Martineau looking fierce on the skeleton track with a custom painted helmet. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o26fm/jack_sparrow_2015_vs_2017/ | [
"Damn. That's awesome! ",
"The one on the left is still better than anything I could ever draw.",
"Jesus... This is literally \"draw the rest of the fucking owl\"\n\nCrazy good",
"Dude. This is legit stuff right here. Props to you.",
"I'm glad Jack got the help he needed, he's looking much healthier now",
"Is this yours op. It's really good",
"In 2 years Jack Sparrow had completely changed.\n\nIf Jack can do it so can you! \n\nJoin Art correction facility® and become the man you're capable of\n\nOnly for 5.99$ a week",
"Yes, it's mine. Thanks!",
"It's amazing how much progress you made in 2 years. Really well done. Did you take an art class or teach yourself?",
"What 6 months clean of meth looks like",
"Just self teaching",
"I'm guessing less rum was consumed while drawing the second one.",
"Looks like you gave up drawing and just grabbed a camera instead. Impressive!",
"V impressive, OP. Perfect example of Practice, practice, practice ...\n",
"You became very well at shading",
"TELL ME HOW",
"2 years",
"Plastic surgery does wonders these days man.",
"2015: Frozen cadaver of Cap. Jack Sparrow\n\n2017: Johnny Depp in flesh and blood\n\nThat's how I find it.",
"Can you teach us how to draw the one on the left? ",
"Wow, what's his secret?",
"Me vs the guy she tells me not to worry about.\n\n(seriously, awesome work OP)",
"Just goes to show practice makes perfect, and you self teach? That's incredible!",
"Changed",
"But he still looks sad, why....Why......WHY Captain Jack Sparrow looks sad?",
"Because the rum is gone.",
"You could do better than that with some practice",
"What's the biggest/most important thing you learned? ",
"One on the left looks like Mickey Rourke.",
"How often did you practice to get to where you are today? I sketch myself but have trouble carving out chunks of time to seriously practice on a weekly basis ",
"Captain Jack sketched ",
"My son is about 16 and is on the same road as you. Great job, and thank you for being a positive inspiration.",
"Probablly more tbh",
"How old are you and how long have you been drawing?",
"They look identical. ",
"No",
"I dunno, it's like the one on the left is just waking up, skin looks clear. Not much difference.",
"Haha!",
"Have been using any web resources, tutorials? Can you recommend any? ",
"Wow that took 2 years to draw?",
"i love Jack,he's looking much healthier now",
"need proof",
"Unless you’re in a dream. If it was a dream there’d be rum.",
"You should’ve switched the pics so the 2017 jack is looking at the 2015 jack",
"Congratulations Jack! He finally graduated high school :') ....(tassle)\n\nExcellent work though.... truly",
"me too thanks",
"I'm also teaching myseld how to draw, and I think this is just wonderful. I try to draw something every day, even if it looks like shit, and when I feel down I just look back to my first pictures to see how far I've come- in comparison, anyway. I've got a loooong way to go still. \n\nHow long have you been drawing for? :) ",
"Wow, I thought someone was showing off a crap drawing next to a photograph. Amazing progress.",
"Crazy improvement. Well done. ",
"Why is the rum gone?",
"What an improvement. Keep drawing OP",
"Looks way too young lol. Depp is a mess",
"i love the bits of hair that are white. you had to draw around them to make that effect. really dope. this took a long time for sure ",
"how?",
"*captain Jack Sparrow",
"I've never been able to shade faces like that. Any tips?",
"Left one looks like they cast Mickey Rourke to play Jack Sparrow. I'd pay money to see that.",
"That is incredible progress OP. I urge you to keep at it.",
"Haha!",
"Jar of dirt.",
"All those drugs really made Depp flesh out that character. ",
"That looks really good!!! Please never stop drawing! Great improvement forsure. I hope to see more of your work in the future",
"Fantastic improvement. Great job.",
"Man, that's a really impressive jump in skill! Can we see more of your awesome artwork??",
"They from different angles, so it's too hard to compare.",
"That's \"Captain\" Jack Sparrow",
"how did you get such dark values on the second one? even when I try to grind my charcoal pencils to near nothing I still only get a dark grey.",
"Wow, I didn’t realize at first that the right is a drawing also. Just thought I didn’t understand the reference. Amazing work OP.",
"How much time do you spend practicing?",
"Looking a bit “ peakened” was ye Jack? ",
"Leaving this here, where it belongs. Fantastic work on the drawing. \n\nhttps://youtu.be/GI6CfKcMhjY",
"You know, I posted a joke on one of these before and got down voted. So not again. ;c\n",
"Why?",
"relevant username",
"Right eye needs more light too dark except that other is OK",
"this is the internet goddamnit",
"Those two years were really good to him...",
"Looking like qtpie on the left",
"Knocked it out of the park.",
"https://imgur.com/kmFRfJa u satisfied?",
"I'm 21, I started drawing in 2015, actually",
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"just woow,in only 2 years!\nThat is an impressive improvement!",
"How many hours a day/week do you typically draw?",
"Checkmate.",
"How often are you drawing to increase your skill level by this much? Very impressed",
"Did you do these completely free-hand or using the grid technique?",
"One, because it is a vile drink, that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire royal navy is out there looking for me. Do you think there is even the slightest chance they won´t see it?",
"the internet thanks you. awesome work.",
"This is awesome, you should be really proud of yourself.",
"Practice. ",
"that's the shadow side though",
"Must have been awful for you Jack... well it bloody is now!\n\n... there'll be no living with her after this. ",
"Too many layers of dark charcoal :D",
"also wanna know",
"Grid 4 life, mate",
"great job! \n\ncan you do one of his CGI'd image from the last movie as well.",
"Nice! Looks great!",
"And if you switch them, you have Johnny Depp in 2017 vs Johnny Depp in 2010.",
"Phenomenal improvement and talent! Especially impressed by the hair and the detail on that jewellery just to the left of his cheek, hope people notice that because it's amazing! ",
"Of course the facial features and lighting are spot on and beautiful, but what I'm really fucking impressed with here is how fuzzy those dreads look, because I know how hard that shit is.",
"Prefer the 2015 one tbh\n\nKidding.... great progress- be proud of yourselves!",
"There should be Captain in there somewhere.",
"You mean you start with a big circle, then a little circle, then put in some eyes and... BAM! PHOTOREALISTIC DRAWING OF AN OWL!\n\n? \n\n😂",
"You gotta give us deets. You're doing great and your patience has serious improved.",
"psh i could draw that...worse",
"This is really inspiring to keep me practising. ",
"He quit drinking?",
"/r/restofthefuckingowl",
"It went from Gilbert Sparrows to Jack Sparrows.",
"Damn, nice improvement ",
"Someone learned how pencil hardness works. Great improvements. You've got a really solid use of contrast/depth/darkness now. If you haven't tried it yet, the next level in understanding contrast is scratchboard... :)",
"wow talk about a transformation tuesday",
"damn! that is good. ",
"Wow you're amazing, great improvement over 2 short years ",
"But, where did the rum go?\n\nAlso, excellent job!",
"Sweet recovery, brah. ",
"Withdrawal sucks. For real. ",
" But why is the rum gone? ",
"The first one looks like a mexican biker",
"**Captain Jack Sparrow",
"Captain Jack Trejo. ",
"Cant wait to see 2019",
"2015 is Police sketch art\n2017 is a most recent photograph\nBeautiful!",
"Dude, that is seriously impressive and encouraging. \n\nYou should really write up on how did you get started, what tutorials did you use and such. It can help a lot of people pursue something they've been wanting to do for a long time. ",
"I got this saved from another post like this. [Lots of artists giving tips on where to start](https://np.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/6oksi2/2010_to_2016_watercolor/dkifcpu/)\n\nPretty much draw a lot of things you like and it gets better. Try to draw from real life and do still life etc. Copy other art you like esp if you're going for that style. Also draw and shade basic shapes (likely why bowl of fruit/apple is a classic practice) as this will improve how you draw and shade over time. Someone also recommended /r/ArtFundamentals/"
] | 128 | pics | Jack Sparrow 2015 vs 2017 |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2c7z/photo_of_a_painting_of_a_painter_painting_a/ | [
"Sweet repost. ",
"Isn’t this actually a photo of a painter looking at a painting of a painter painting a painter painting around a painting?",
"That was on the front page yesterday, yes. ",
"Ah. Ok. "
] | 4 | pics | Photo of a painting of a painter painting a painter who is painting around a painting. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2cjz/our_basement_looks_like_something_out_of_a_horror/ | [
"It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again ",
"Today I went for the first time to my fathers basement. I never had a reason to, but today we went down there together due to my curiosity. \nIt‘s a lot bigger as expected. \n\nI made an Imgur album with additional pics: https://imgur.com/a/J41nr\n\nEdit: the last picture is just smoke because it‘s cold down there. Included it cuz it‘s actually a spooky ghost\n\nEdit 2: It was supposedly used as a shelter in World War II but I don‘t know if it‘s true.",
"Do you rent it? My last torture house was bought by a church and my grandma is getting suspicious about the screams in her basement.",
"I‘ll think about it! We could abduct People together. ",
"Your basement it's bigger than my house! LOL",
"The turtle can't help you.",
"Haha I know that feel! My father can‘t use the extra space tho, it‘s cold and wet. ",
"*stalker intensifies*",
"This is legitimately spooky haha ",
"/r/nocontext",
"Found another photo of it online. http://www.dreadcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/blairwitchprojectbanner.jpg"
] | 11 | pics | Our basement looks like something out of a horror movie |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2ct8/his_face_after_a_weeks_vacation/ | [
"Refreshed and ready to go back to looking through people's trash and biting at the sky for no particular reason",
"His whole life is a vacation.",
"Aww! What breed is he?",
"vacation boye doing a relaxe!",
"Bernese mountain dog. ",
"This picture makes me happy. Thank you!",
"Vacation?? He's a fucking dog, what does he have to go back to his 9-5?"
] | 7 | pics | His face after a weeks vacation |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2cy1/accurate_joker_cosplay/ | [
"Amazing ",
"I'm not into cosplay and can't identify 50% of the characters I've seen people dressed up as.\n\nThis is the most accurate cosplay I've seen - looks like he stepped out of the movie!",
"Why so similar?",
"Looks like he's tired of playing the joker",
"https://imgur.com/r/HighQualityGifs/dI1icMZ",
"Let’s put a smile on that face",
"That's almost too accurate...",
"Do you want to know how he got that scar?",
"Damn. That is uncannily accurate.",
"Showerthought: The joker openly supporting Harvey Dent for DA is a surefire way to ensure Harvey Dent won't be DA.",
"Don't talk like them you're not them...",
"So Heath has just been hiding in plane sight all this time. An agent of chaos after all.",
"looks like a nurse to me, to be honest.",
"Matlida name tag missing. ",
"sooo.. today I realized that Heath didn't die, he just decides to show up at every Con ever as The Joker",
"That would make me jump the fuck out of the way. ",
"May you have much better hospital stays in your future. ",
"Credit to the cosplayer, Jesse Oliva (aka @AgentsofKhaos on twitter). He does his own makeup and makes his prosthetic scars.\n\n[Here](https://imgur.com/a/5TKYE) are a few more pictures of him. You can see more at [his website](http://jesseoliva.wixsite.com/agentsofchaoscosplay) and at many more [gettyimages](http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/jesse-oliva?sort=mostpopular&mediatype=photography&phrase=jesse%20oliva)",
"But does he have the manilla folder with the DnD character sheet in it?",
"Looks like a cosplay of Doc trying cosplay.",
"Took me a few seconds to register that it wasn't Heath Ledger",
"That mom is unimpressed.",
"Holy shit, that just looks like heath ledger!",
"Best Joker ever. ",
"To them, you're just a freak...",
"Liquid latex?",
"Step 1. Look like Heath Ledger",
"It’s just the angle. The other pics of him are still excellent, but not as uncanny. ",
"This guy could pull of floki from Vikings as well! Quite well in fact ",
"Like me!",
"WOW",
"Yes too much similarity ",
"A little Young though ",
"My thoughts exactly, he made an amazing outfit but it's his *demeanor* that really sells it",
"How can I get away with wearing a nurse's outfit without people calling me a \"trap\".",
"You'd think thats heath himself, holy shit thats some sick cosplay and it didnt even involve some nice big titties",
"OMG\n",
"Is he the same one?",
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"did he tell you how he got the scars?",
"May be ",
"I want to see how he walks though",
"Two things I could go without the rest of my life : Joker and The Last Of Us cosplays. ",
"Great advertising for gamefob.com",
"\"And the accurate cosplay, it wasn't cheap. He outta know, he bought it.\"",
"I'm.just impressed by the accurate design of the bomb trigger in his hand...",
"\" Hi....\"",
"Probably because 50% are from obscure shows/anime/games that only a niche crowd will get.",
"This is the first cosplay I've ever seen that legit makes me uneasy. I mean, I'd be panicky and looking for the closest exit if I saw this guy walking around.",
"Needs more makeup smearing.",
"I think I just realized why cosplay is pretty sick ",
"[Looks nothing like the Joker! ](http://remezcla.com/film/cuban-american-cesar-romero-original-joker-batman/)^(Casar Romero forever!!!)\n\nSorry, we all have different Jokers, but I will give you this is a good Heath Ledger cosplay.",
"And the other 50% are all Deadpool ",
"And which displays the most cleavage...",
"Almost like when neo nazis and the KKK supported trump...",
"To be fair, I look *exactly* like Ryan Reynolds in that mask. ",
"The makeup is great but the greasy hair style is even the same. Excellent job ",
"Heath Ledger is alive. Cover up by Killary. Find out more at InfoWars. ",
"The fact that nobody else is dressed up, as if this is at a boat show or something, makes it funnier. ",
"Ziegfried, this is Chaos! We do not, make amazing cosplay!",
"Accurate? I had to do a double take with [the original](https://imgur.com/a/sp8f9). This guy is the spitting image",
"Or Spider-Man ",
"Hahah what a j .. prankster! ",
"Everyone’s saying how much that looks like Heath Ledger, but all I’m seeing is Christopher Lloyd.",
"BURN THE WITCH",
"I see what you did there",
"oh wow i have never seen someone cosplay as the joker ever, this is wild!",
"Someone contact DC... We've found a replacement",
"You're lucky, I look like Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool when he's not wearing the mask.",
"Pretty much yeah. \n\nSome of them are just hot busty girls dressed in a skimpy <insert colour> outfit. Not that I don't like that, but I will never get anything more from it than that. ",
"Accurate Joker repost",
"Wow, actually scares me. Would avoid eye contact. ",
"Even this guy's hairline is accurate.",
"It that a photograph?",
"I like the creative spins on cosplay. My friend did one where he went in PJ bottoms, a coffee stained undershirt and a crappy Deadpool mask he made from a red fabric bag that something he bought came in and sewed on eye patches. He went as a fat lazy Deadpool and it was probably one of my favorite variants on a well known character.",
"Where's the cosplayer?",
"lline",
"You look like an avocado had sex with an older, more disgusting avocado",
"If he started licking his lips, you better run. We totally need that picture BTW.",
"Lipstick",
"but he doesn't have any makeup on his hands...otherwise great job!",
"Doc Brown is the Joker?",
"Dat ass, doh.",
"Oh my goodness my heart. Rest In Peace Heath Ledger ",
"Always enjoy seeing this one. \n\nhttp://karmadecay.com/r/pics/comments/7o2cy1/accurate_joker_cosplay/",
"This is so good, he is scary accurate. Incredible. ",
"Spider-Man is the cheapest and easiest way to get into cosplay. For well under $100, you can get a dance belt and a cheap spidey suit, and you're good to go. \n\nEveryone know who you're trying to portray, and you can work on your poses from there. ",
"The part that impresses me the most is that detonator. Its the small details that take a cosplay from good to great.",
"What leaves me with a question mark on my face is that some of these (amazing) cosplayers choose to wear a dress. For whatever reason. As if the original and classic outfit wasn't great enough. Some men just want to watch themselves on a dress, I guess.",
"Rip Heath Ledger, honestly the best Joker of all time. ",
"“You gotta introduce a little anarchy.”",
"I don't think that was the bomb trigger used for that scene though.",
"Wrong socks, 9/10. Would push off a building again. ",
"Photoshopped",
"Plus 20 or 30 pounds, usually.",
"It’s somewhat of a unwritten code (I think, I don’t cosplay) that in costume, you ARE the character, especially super heroes for little kids",
"The facial expression is what sells it.",
"Pleasant Park",
"It said Dent not Dad!",
"It was the frogs all along ",
"Of *muscle*",
"Someone skipped leg day.\n\n*Why so skinny?!*",
"I'd be a liiiitle worried he actually had a bomb in there.",
"girl in those red pants tho",
"I like this. Most of the time the Heath Ledgers joker is over done, but there is something more subtle in this one. ",
"What’s that ",
"HOLY SHIT. THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE HIM!! ",
">He does his own makeup\n\nSo did Heath Ledger!",
"To be fair, I look *exactly* like Deadpool without the mask.",
"it's almost like, smart people understand you don't give small unsavory minority groups the power to decide elections by simply aligning themselves...\n\n",
"Looking cool Joker! ",
"This is some Poe's law shit right here. Someone will think you're serious. I guarantee it.",
"ITT: \n\ndiD hE TeLL U hOW He gOt hIS ScARs??!?",
"Imagine seeing that guy lurking outside of a hospital. ",
"Why are you being so serious???",
"Hey, that’s totally unfair. At least half of that is Harley Quinn ",
"What does it say? I read \"Gamer B...\" something, can't make it out.",
"I love that you couldn't get any other Joker to do something like dress up as a nurse but Heath Ledger. It's a silly idea but he did it and it was scary.",
"Uh Oh.",
"That mallet wouldn't be allowed in Phoenix.",
"Like Freddie Kruger face-fucked the topographical map of Utah. ",
"Not gently. Like it was hate-fucking. There was something wrong with the relationship and that was the only catharsis that they could find without violence.",
"✈",
"Wow, he's very talented!! ",
"Was his father a drinker and or fiend?",
"so you're indestructible, and completely unfuckable?",
"Too bad it looks like the site's been laying low for 7 months. No place to buy merch either so now I'm curious.",
"Like they did Bill Clinton as well. ",
"Pretty sure that’s actually Heath Ledger^/s",
"Holy moly this is amazing! He looks just like Heath Ledger.",
"I knew a girl who did this cosplay once. She said people were freaked out by her. She had small boobs and the makeup on so it wasn’t easy to tell she was female. ",
"The long Con...",
"Super accurate. Only thing that's looks kinda different are the eyes if you zoom in.",
"In our case, its a written rule. 501st Legion isn't supposed to remove helmets or otherwise break the illusion in view of the public. We do allow a little peek to help reassure little tikes that might get upset.\n\n[Me as Vader](https://i.imgur.com/Hgse5Af.jpg)",
"There's 5 of them. Are we looking at the same thing?",
"dammit... ",
"is that doc brown in joker make up?",
"And the other *other* 50% are Deadpool in different costumes.",
"Fuck I wanna cosplay so badly ",
"Holy creepy shit. ",
"Aaaaand politics. Why are politics in every thread",
"Heath Ledger faked his death, duh.\n\nThought this was common knowledge? ",
"It's not about the outfit, it's about *selling* the *posture*.",
"Step 2. Don't look unlike Heath Ledger",
"I don't see a \"Matilda\" nametag. ",
"Super impressive ",
"These blast points are too accurate for sand people. ",
"Oddly enough he put in so much work that, somehow, he actually *does* look like a guy who has a plan. \n\nWell executed as well. ",
"Welp.... Off to watch Batman again. ",
"*Hhhiii...*",
"Maybe not",
"Is it time to start the Tupac/Machiavelli conspiracy theories?",
"Holy shit that’s really good",
"Most subreddits have a goddamn minefield for allowed links, domains, and content.",
"Have an upvote",
"Rigid collodion I imagine.",
"WHATABOUTISM!",
"Here's a sixth:\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3b5thi/now_thats_an_impressive_joker_cosplay/\n\n",
"Just another example of trash mods making rules for the sake of making rules. ",
"/r/cosplay ",
"Nice. However he is being upstaged by the Mark Zuckerberg cosplay behind him.",
"dang thats the best one I've seen",
"BUT HES DEAD!?",
"Bravo! I wonder how long that took him... Nice nametag lol",
"[We would be honored if you would join us.](https://imgur.com/a/yBgeg)",
"It's a little crazy that a guy can walk around a crowded event with a suspicious bag and a detonator. It is an awesome cosplay though!",
"i read this as heath was reading it in his joker voice",
"I'm still not 100% convinced it isn't",
"you could honestly convince me this was Heath Ledger. 10/10",
"Gogurt Tube",
"Indeed. Never would have recognized the character were it not for that slight lean.",
"Thank god he’s not wearing a surgical mask, I would have had no idea that he was the joker",
"Wait... that doesn't sound accurate.",
"That is really fucking accurate. Does he sound like the joker too? Can he act? I'd watch it. Incredible.",
"Jeez that's on point as fuck. ",
"Ah, you may be right. It's definitely the one from the boat/ferry scene",
"Pfft. That's obviously Heath Ledger's ghost.",
"From the looks of his legs, this might be the day he learned to walk.",
"Heath, is that you buddy? I miss you",
"Look closely at jokers left shoulder. That's what it is.",
"Be right back I gotta go Binge on Star Wars theory YouTube videos now thanks lol",
"I’m going to watch this movie again. Thanks for making my night a little easier "
] | 204 | pics | Accurate joker cosplay |
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"I would be on board for this to be an unofficial official weather gauge. Similiar to the Waffle House Index in the southern U.S.",
"Thank god the bananas are there for scale. ",
"where?",
"\"thank you Jack, Today we are expecting 4 1/2 bananas of snow accumulation with temperatures expected in the mid freezing your balls off with a high of don't bother trying to start your car and a low of burst fucking pipes. Your ten day forecast is really fucking cold. Jack... Back to you.",
"Things are getting bananas there",
"The best banana scalers can do it with just one.",
"Future generations will speak in reverence of the 4-nanner snowstorm of 2018",
"What are you Puerto Rican? Who keeps bananas cold?",
"Yeah, and it's only been coming down for .1 Mooches!",
"4 bananas",
"Yo. Lemme get some of that. \n\nI'm here in North Lake Tahoe, access to 5 different ski reosrts, and we're dodging dirt spots. \n\nE:...and now it's raining. ",
"I’m fairly certain that’s how they measure horses too",
"Take us to....*Banana-Con 5*",
"The [source of this image](https://imgur.com/gallery/dgBY2) shows that it was posted to on Dec 21 2012.",
"Hey Mr. Tally Man tally me bananas!!",
"LOL",
"At least you have a fireplace.\n",
"Fake! I used to live where it snows a lot. Snow, next to a house, especially during a blizzard or snow storm is always deeper than everywhere else due to the wind piling the snow up against the house.\n\nIf you were to walk 5 feet past the door, the snow would only be a third as deep.\n\nThere's a reason why the OP is not standing when he/she took this picture.",
"Go back to 9gag",
"Then the prophecy is fulfilled.",
"[use this](https://www.ruralking.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/s/o/south_bend_metal_fish_scaler_tool_1025s_.jpg)",
"Well if he's Puerto Rican he sure as shit doesn't have any cold bananas right now. ",
"great",
"Try stacking them vertically next time. Using false angles to make snow seem deeper....",
"One banana, two banana, three banana, four...",
"My god you sound like a twat ",
" wow... that's a nice bunch",
"Would you rather fight one banana sized duck or 100 horse sized bananas?",
" There's an elephant in India that is probably causing your shortage. ",
"It's good to see the banana scale still in fine form!",
"At least they will stay fresh",
"Wow, you took the [exact same photo as this person did 5 years ago](https://imgur.com/gallery/dgBY2)?!?!\n\nYeah, no. Fuck off, karma whore /u/Petaaa.",
"OP didn't take this picture, it has existed [since 2012](https://imgur.com/gallery/dgBY2).",
"This is a bamboozle and you know it OP! You're not measuring vertically enough!",
"[This demonstrates only a fraction of our power](https://i.imgur.com/K9InSPy.jpg)",
"LE^LE^LE^LE^LE",
"That's more like 3.7 nannas",
"Thanks /u/NegativeTwelfth, we took care of it. ",
"Your the twat, for thinking it's fine to mislead people.\n\nThe OP very clearly wanted you to believe that the snow was that deep, everywhere, when it's not! I simply pointed that out.",
"which makes it even worse, the OP is karma fishing...",
"r/BananasForScale/"
] | 41 | pics | Snow is getting deep here nearly out of bananas to scale it. |
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"Wow. Love it.",
"Thank you! Wish I could've used a decent camera for this shot, rather than an iPhone. lol\n",
"Beautiful result, nonetheless."
] | 3 | pics | Cumulonimbus cloud moving in. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2gox/melbourne_for_ya/ | [
"I love that they express their disdain but don't deface the actual painting. ",
"Thanks, I needed a melbourne.",
"You can thank @Lushsux",
"Accept*",
"See how the rest of the wall is just red brick?\n\nJust guessing but it's probably a message from the artist to whoever (council, building owner etc.) painted over a previous piece with the brown paint. ",
"Good morning to everyone, \n\n**accept** whoever painted this.",
"Ah so the \"painted this\" refers to the brown paint...its sad that my thoughts went to someone being homophobic :(",
"well... morty's only 14, so...",
"Infinite universes. You know this happens in at least one.",
"It’s a reference to a meme. “Goodmorning to everyone except whoever made this” was popular a few months ago",
"Ah. Didn't see that one. ",
"Is this a joke or do you genuinely believe that they made an error?",
"The VR chat of murals",
"You know it's Australia when even the murals are shitposts",
"I think they mean you should accept the homosexual imagery, even though it's also incestuous and pedophilic.",
"What street is this? Would love to stop by and see in person someday :) ",
"I wanna see a closer version of each one, especially the Kylo Ren one!\n",
"You make an exception, not an acception. ",
"First this I noticed:\nAjit Pai, hated across the globe.",
"From left to right:\n\n1. Keaton Jones\n\n2. Rick and Morty\n\n3. Ajit Pai with trademark giant Reese's mug that is says \"Reddit tears\" pointing to it\n\n4. Ajit Pai saying, \"Gucci Gang\" repeatedly\n\n5. Natsuki from [Doki Doki Literature Club](http://store.steampowered.com/app/698780/agecheck) (which I just finished last night and...w e w l a d)\n\n6. Shirtless Kylo Ren meme\n\n7. Virgin from V/C meme\n\n8. Chad from V/C meme\n\n9. Circle game hand gesture\n\n",
"7 & 8 are the comparative \"virgin and chad\" meme.",
"1 is Keaton Jones, the kid who made the video about him being bullied.",
"The feece's one is [psychicpebbles.](https://twitter.com/psychicpebble?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)",
"Do we have better pictures of all of them? It seems more interesting than my frontpage.",
"T'was a joke my friend",
"It was a joke.",
"Is this the future of memes?",
"The giant Reece's cup also says \"feeces\" then \"Verizon's bitter lumps(?)\" Underneath it",
"What street?",
"And their related..",
"Yeah, it's not the gay, it's the incest. "
] | 31 | pics | Melbourne for ya |
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"I can see your feet",
"[Reminds me of Baron Von Bomburst's henchmen in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8usREnPMrUk/Vz5sbdUUKwI/AAAAAAAAGe8/LmIRE9uctxAexyg_mYnj9n9fO2QGBqAwgCKgB/s320/GertFrobe2.jpg) \n \nEdit: [FOUND THEM!](https://youtu.be/mMHnwrt2l1k)",
"lol yes.. my grandson and I were playing hide and seek.. his feet and his giggle gave him away",
"Ikea 2018 preview. the Kidisünder side table. $19.95"
] | 4 | pics | They will never find me here |
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"Looks like blood vessels in the brain",
"dreambot!",
"That heart in the middle of the tree thou.."
] | 3 | pics | Morning breaks through the tree of life |
/r/pics/comments/7o2hun/a_chinese_farmer_driving_about_5000_ducks_to_a/ | [
"u/fuckswithducks...got a mass orgy over here",
"Quack",
"TIL duck herding is a thing",
"The competitions can be brutal.",
"You counted them ?",
"Pond, codeword for...... [\\(>‿◠\\)](https://www.foodnut.com/i/Quan-Jude-Roast-Duck-Restaurant/Quan-Jude-Roast-Duck-Restaurant-Beijing-China-Duck-Certificate.jpg)",
"Nope might be 1000 or 2000",
"Must be that pond right by the Eat As Much As You Like restaurant, I guess..."
] | 8 | pics | A Chinese farmer driving about 5,000 ducks to a pond |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2iil/this_church_with_solar_panels_is_powered_by_god/ | [
"And that gods name is Sol.",
"I took this picture in Centerville, Utah a couple months ago.",
"Powered by the Sun of God",
"so God didn't create oil or coal?",
"I really think sun worship is the most appropriate religion. The sun is the reason there is life on Earth or indeed even an Earth itself. Praise the sun!",
"My thoughts as well, but hey, people concerned about the environment is always a good thing.",
"Don't you mean Ra",
"Helios",
"Isn't everything, as per their dogma? "
] | 8 | pics | This church with solar panels is "Powered by God" |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2kdj/my_boyfriend_likes_dugongs_so_i_drew_some_for_his/ | [
"First read: \"My boyfriend likes dungeons\" and my brain worked hard trying to remember any game that had such creatures included.\n\nNice coloring - especially for 1st time.",
"Love it! They are so cute ",
"It's the cow of the sea-ea-ea!\n\nGreat work! ",
"Sorry to break this, but you have drawn [Manatees instead](https://www.spotmydive.com/uploads/images/manatee-dugong-differences.gif)\n\nA nice work nevertheless, and who loves dugongs will adore manatees as well, so great work.",
"These are really beautiful colors, a partially simplistic style with a bit more complicated use of shapes. The flowers and branches are really wonderfully implemented with these creatures. An odd combination if you ask me, but you really made it work well together.",
"Is this true?\n\nI remember when I was younger, I was in a park, playing catch with my friends.\n\nOur ball rolled away from where we were playing, right next to this old man sitting on a bench near the footpath. I walked over to get it, and cursed my friend. I called him a dugong.\n\nThe old man heard me, and behind his withered old lips he spoke at me:\n\n'Dugong. Son, do you even know what a dugong is?'\n\nI shrugged, I was only young, and shy.\n\n'Dugong.' He paused, 'Dugong, it's the cow of the sea.'\n\nThe old man patted the space next to him on the bench, ushering me to sit down. I did, and he reached down to the grass, picked up my ball and handed it to me, and then continued.\n\n'Dugong, dugong, also known as the manatee.' I always remembered that, this is why I find your comment so shocking. But this isn't just what the old man said, 'It does not have wings, because that is silly. Doesn't live in a tree, because that would also be silly.'\n\nI nodded and agreed. He stopped and cleared his throat. I could see my friends in the corner of my eye, confused and bewildered, but I was too drawn in at this point. \n\nRaising his arm, he pointed right in my face from across the bench, 'Compared the dolphin, it's very close cousin... it's quite ugly.' He paused, and sighed 'So very ugly.'\n\nIt was then I realized he had urinated on himself.\n\nAnyway, great work OP, and TIL that Manatees and Dugongs are quite different!",
"\"They're dugongs!\" I love Nigel Thornbury ",
"I'd love something like this as a wallpaper...",
"Also know as the manatee.",
"I guess r/watercolor would like it.",
"I think he mispronounced DONGS.\n\nIt was probably a nervous stutter. ",
"Oh wow, this whole time I honestly thought \"manatee\" was the American word for dugong. Thanks for clarifying! ",
"Thanks so much! I was inspired by [kozyndan](https://shop.kozyndan.com/products/vegans-poster) ",
"They all taste good with the right sauce?"
] | 14 | pics | My boyfriend likes dugongs so I drew some for his birthday. First attempt at drawing and watercolours, didn't know where else to share! |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2l9z/cheetah_at_st_louis_zoo_gives_birth_to_8_cubs/ | [
"Wow! \nA litter of 8 cubs, Mom has to be exhausted! ",
"I really hope no asshole Cardinal fans take offense to this",
"Their heads look like the original American football helmets.",
"So does dad!",
"Wow! That's a lot of monkeys!",
"Momma eyes be sayin', \"What have I wrought?\" OR MAYBE \"Well, it WAS pretty uncomfortable having them all inside - but havin'em all out & all over the place? There may be some challenges ahead...\"",
"But the father is not the husband. Wife was a cheata.",
"Already has the mom face nailed down. ",
"Cheetahs gonna cheat. One of the world's most impressive animals. Hands down. ",
"Isn't 8 a ton of cubs for a Cheetah? Also don't think in the wild most of the cubs live."
] | 10 | pics | Cheetah at St. Louis Zoo gives birth to 8 cubs |
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"Did everything just taste purple? ",
"A dessert fit for a troll.",
"Of quartz thats a thing",
"This is natural or grown by someone? So wait this is actually some fancy cake?? I guess the fondant layer should have tipped me off 😃",
"Purple, & blood and broken teeth",
"This hurts my teeth to look at. It's either stone or pure sugar...",
"This looks like something from clash of clans. Did it cost 100,000 gold pieces to upgrade? ",
"Gordon Ramsey: “l love the different textures you get in every bite. Well done.”",
"Gneiss cake",
"Or Jell-O!",
"I wonder how many calories are in a slice of it? ",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/haGSYkV.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image. It was a custom piece available through TheSweetKarmaBar on Etsy and sold on November 23, 2017.",
"Thanks. My teeth feel a little better... ",
"that's actually an awesome idea. it would only require a special mold but it can be done with jell-o",
"no calories just minerals. ",
"Orange Joe!? \nIs that you?",
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"Jello is made from boiled skins and hooves.",
"As far as I can tell, this is a 100% crystal sculpture by Cat Machine Gems. They have been making these crystal cakes since 2014, but this particular one looks like it was first posted in August 2017. \n\nYou can find them on Facebook @CatMachineGlobal or Instagram @catmachinegems.",
"Yummy. ",
"Why would anybody try topaz this off as cake?",
"Some people wanna have their cake and agate too.",
"You can get a similar effect with a blender, mixer, or fork and some trial and error. I did something similar for a Frozen cake. With the right consistency Jello breaks apart into sharp polygons on its own. You can also just cut it with a knife, but that was too much work for me.\n\nEDIT: [Not my cake, but similar effect done with cubed jello.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/13/69/0c/13690cf3b62becf0320c9cd0c7a013f8.jpg)",
"no",
"I'm confused. Is this a cake made to look like minerals or is it minerals made to look like cake?",
"So this is not food?",
"Also confused, but also pretty baked",
"Might as well use them if you've already killed the animal",
"cool album title",
"Dude... are you cake?",
"Only if they have a good apatite",
"Just as toasty as one 😎",
"Reminds me a little too much of copper sulfate, but thanks anyway!\n",
"It's the Brand.",
"ill take the whole damn thing biiiiitch\n",
"Or you could just cut the pieces and stick them together. But you would have to be really good. if I did it it would look like a 4 year old put it together. ",
"lol"
] | 38 | pics | Actual crystal cake. slice, anybody ? |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2mik/i_made_a_puck_mount_for_my_gopro_came_out_pretty/ | [
"You really hit your goal on this one",
"What da puck?",
"Post a pic of the mount",
"Same mount from last time I tried but different GoPro https://m.imgur.com/4D4PVLe"
] | 4 | pics | I made a puck mount for my GoPro. Came out pretty neat |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2npn/sir_your_package_has_arrived/ | [
"I'll take two unlimited weed.",
"https://youtu.be/e_DqV1xdf-Y",
"Seems like one too many",
"I read this in my head in same sing song tune as \"Food, Glorious Food\" from Oliver! \nWEEED, UNLIMITED WEEEEEED"
] | 4 | pics | Sir your package has arrived. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2o5p/its_an_egg_in_the_shape_of_a_chicken/ | [
"This came first! ",
"If anyone is interested, [Original post from 2 days ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/7npuov/half_my_eggs_yolk_boiled_outside_of_the_shell/)",
"Why does this exsist? It's beautiful! "
] | 3 | pics | It's an egg in the shape of a chicken! |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2sct/nasa_just_quietly_released_an_hitherto_unknown/ | [
"Dark side of earth seems like a lame joke to make ",
"Well there you go Flat Earthers- not flat at all it’s concave",
"God that's absolutely beautiul",
"No matter the evidence, they'll never believe it. We should just ignore them at this point. ",
"/u/retrologist, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must convey accurate information. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/retrologist&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7o2sct/nasa_just_quietly_released_an_hitherto_unknown/?context=10\\))",
"This has been out for a long time..."
] | 6 | pics | NASA just quietly released an hitherto unknown photo of Earth taken by an Apollo astronaut on the way back home from the Moon |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2vf2/thats_really_humane_a_sikh_taking_his_turban_off/ | [
"Really? If taking off a hat is the greatest humiliation then talk about thin skinned. Woman bleeding on the ground so he helps. That is basic humanity.\n\nAlso, he is a police man. It is his job. ",
"Guy taking piece of cloth off his head is rendered as a hero. Not by the fact that he's clearly taking care of someone, not that he's what - a policeman assuming from his clothes, on a duty... What's highlighted is the fact that he took off his turban! A hat of some sort! \"Sacrifice\".\n\nMan, we have to respect each other, sure, but if that's where you're looking for humanity, then it's safe to assume that the world is fucked up.\n\nAs for the guy - he did a good thing and most likely wasn't thinking about religion/cultural drama while doing that. Kudos to him.\n\nAnyway - is there some background for this photo, what are we looking at?",
"You wrote practically the same thing while I wrote mine. Anyway - that's exactly my point. Humanity is so much more than taking hats off...",
"But if morality is subjective, ‘humane’ has no moral guideline? U/phylanara",
"I'm kinda sure Sikhism tolerates taking off your turban to help an injured person. ",
"sure, after he ran her down,,,to help",
"I suspect from the posing of the photos, especially the first one, that it is staged.",
"Morality isn't subjective. There is simply the right thing to do, help a suffering fellow human being, and then reasons not to be a good person. ",
"If a sikh is okay with watching a woman bleed while he can do something then he is a shitty human. If he values his hat more than a fellow human then he is not a good person. ",
"So morality is objective to you? There is a line? ",
"Eh, you know what? forget it ,you're missing the point here",
"It's a nice gesture and all, but when someone's life is in danger or they're seriously hurt, don't expect sympathy because you made up a rule that you have to be embarrassed when your head isn't covered.\n\nThat's not a sacrifice, at all. Caring for someone who's injured is a noble deed, taking of your hat isn't.",
"Isn't it inherent objective? ",
"didnt know a turban can heal head wounds ,lol",
"And you're labouring one, badly. Take a hint.",
"Can't do that with a MAGA hat",
"I'm not missing the point, I understand your point and making my own. You see credit in some bloke taking off his hat. You call it humane because of some perceived barrier. I'm saying that you shouldn't be giving credit to him as it is expected of him as a human and a police officer. You wouldn't be calling it out of it was a woman ripping off part of her skirt would you? ",
"You tell that to Frosty the Snowman. ",
"What? ",
"What is happening here?",
"Your limited knowledge of that religion and how it is practiced is probably unmatched.",
"it is certainly not the greatest sacrifice a sikh can make. ridiculous.",
"You're being obtuse and it's kind of stupid.",
"I don't think he's really jabbing the religion as much as OP's title ",
"No, but a makeshift head compression bandage may.",
"A Sikh wears a \"turban\" to protect their hair. The religion mandates that you don't cut your hair so it gets long and is hard to keep clean so they wrap it up. The religion also mandates that your actions demonstrate peace and love. Taking off a head scarf and risking getting your hair dirty in order to dress someone's wounds isn't humility, rather it's someone doing what they say they believe.",
"EDIT: replied to the wrong comment.",
"I made no claims on my knowledge so you have nothing to base that on.\n\nI'm replying to OPs statement that this is the greatest humiliation and i'm stating that's bullshit and I offer no sympathy if that is in fact considered to be the greatest humiliation.",
"I think they meant inherently ",
" Sikhism is pretty sick though my dude so isn't there some loophole in it that says you can take it off if it's to help someone else or something along those lines?",
"I was using you as a collective pronoun.\n",
"\"or the greatest sacrifice he can make\"",
"Reading comprehension 101",
"Then why didn't he use his shirt",
"*photo of a man helping an injured child*\n\n\"The world is fucked up\"\n\nCan we collectively go 8 minutes without finding something to get mad about?",
"What a disrespectful title to Sikhs. ",
"These pictures are from a Punjabi music video that was based on a real event that happened in New Zealand. \n\n",
"I mean, Sikhism is the religion where half of their Gurus martyred themselves to save their flock.",
"Putting into practice what is preached. Pretty cool stuff.",
"man fucking op just removed a comment in which he claims that a sikh would rather face death than remove his hat. Over dramatizing asshole. You're just trying to score easy points by taking a nice gesture and making it into something it's not. ",
"This looks like it's from a TV ad or something ",
"That's an absurd title, and belittles the religion.\n\n",
"this particular scene is actually a screenshot of an indian film. \n\nit's a recreation of a real event though that happened in new zealand. ",
"Is this man even Sikh? Hair looks pretty short.",
"As a Sikh, taking your turban off isn't a big deal. It's just a way to stay presentable and your hair out of the way. Fortunately I'm also balding so it keeps my head warm.",
"New Zealand is two words.",
"Or for any reason whatsoever, lol.",
"As a Sikh, this guy is an idiot that doesn't know a thing about Sikhism.",
"Try and think about what I wrote.",
"Pretty sure of of my friends has a MAGA turban actually. 👳🏻",
"Thank you! Complete nonsense!",
"You can take your turban off if you head itches, OP is uninformed and this post is ridiculous. (I'm a Sikh, btw)",
"Hair get dirty? How would it get any dirtier than mine.",
"It's long, just up in a bun right at the front.",
"I saw it.\n\n\"OP thinks this is good because X, and I think it's good because Y. If you think this is good because of X, you are fucked up. Even though we both agree that this is good\"\n\nIt's a dumb fight to pick is all I'm saying. ",
"Oh fuck off",
"Two words is two words. ",
"You sadly missed my point. I'm not about OPs intentions *per se* as pointing out good deeds is ok. I'm about fact that it was rendered as good deed - and exceptionally good (humiliation, sacrifice) - just because guy in photo took off the hat. So, that's why I wrote about fucked up world (not that the OP is fucked up and not because of depicted help!) - humanity is much more than taking off piece of cloth off your head.",
"What is the context of this picture? This looks like something from a TV show. ",
"That looks like an infection waiting to happen.",
"It would be akin to using the Koran as note paper or breaking a cross to make a splint..... to me all religion is BS 1000yr old thinking. But still show respect to those who practice whatever. You on the other hand saw a turban and immediately minimalist anything else you saw.",
"Inherent≠inherit",
"Agreed. This isn't uplifting, it's a serious indictment of religion.",
"Yes. Earth and Middle earth. \n\nOops.... not \"worlds.\"",
"Nice reply. I'm making a counter point that we shouldn't lower a bar just because of some religious meme and you insult me. I think it is clear who is the stupid one here.\n\nGo play with your cultural relatism somewhere else. If I was the sikh policeman in the picture I would feel insulted that you would think it is okay to make a big thing out of me doing my job. People like you are just like the bigoted imperialists of the victorian era. You are okay to hold a lower moral bar for someone from a non Christian religion because they somehow don't know better. People like you make me sick. ",
"But not everything. Sometimes everything is one word.",
"I did not \"see a turban and immediately minimize\" as that comment suggests that i'm minimizing on the basis of THIS particular belief system, when I am not.\n\nI stated that if OPs claim is true, that this idea is bullshit and not what we should be praising this person for. I would say the same thing about someone, say, refusing to burn a Koran/Bible if they were desperate for warmth or refusing to break a cross to make a splint.\n\nI don't respect any choice that could, hypothetically, prioritize antiquated beliefs over personal health/safety.",
"You sure do assume a lot about me.\n\nI never stated my opinion on your argument with **a different person** if you hadn't noticed.\n\nI just said you are being obtuse by intentionally ignoring the point the other guy is trying to make. Your reference to a woman ripping off part of her skirt shows that you're actively avoiding the meaning of the \"hat.\"",
"I am not ignoring the point, I am clearly stating that the point is indulgent and based on cultural relatism. I am making a counter point.\n\nYou really aren't very good at debate are you. ",
"So your argument is that his turban means nothing to you, so who cares whether he takes it off? lol.",
"As a balding Sikh, I'd love to have that much hair.",
"It would not. The turban holds no religious meaning in Sikhism, it's just a form of attire that we are prideful about. It would be like a lawyer using his nice silk tie to wrap a wound to stop bleeding. \n\nThis whole thread is just ignorance. \n\nAlso, Sikhism isn't even 1000 years old.",
"I'm going to copy one of my other posts here: \n\nThe turban holds no religious meaning in Sikhism, it's just a form of attire that we are prideful about. It would be like a lawyer using his nice silk tie to wrap a wound to stop bleeding. \n\nThis whole thread is just ignorance.",
"My point that in the real world a turban means absolutely nothing. It is a bit of cloth worn as a hat. The guy in the picture is a police officer. He has a duty towards the injured woman. It is totally irrelevant that in his imaginary religious world the turban might have some significance.\n\nTo praise the officer for using his turban is a form of colonial bigotry. What you are saying is the officer is unable to separate the imaginary religious world from the real world, but you, as the more intelligent person, can. Therefore you take it upon yourself to praise the simple man for doing what is morally expected of him.\n\nYour arguement is prevalent these days, and is providing excuses for continuing abuse of others in the name of some religious meme. Your argument is holding back social development for millions of people caught in a religious-social trap. ",
"Again, assuming my argument. :p\n\nYou sure do seem to think you know my opinion when I haven't stated it. I've merely criticized yours.",
"You are defending the statements made by the OP to which I raise a counterpoint. By default you assume those opinions. You really need to read up about debate. As you don't appear to have anything valuable to add then I consider this over. ",
"Please show me where I defended the statements of OP.\n\nYou're inventing things in your head because you like to argue."
] | 77 | pics | That's really humane, a Sikh taking his turban off is like the greatest humiliation he can tolerate or the sacrifice he can make. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2wvd/when_they_make_a_live_action_archer_film_they/ | [
"who would play Lana? Pam? ",
"I know Amy Schumer is annoying but hey, so's Pam.\n\nLana simply has to be Aisha Tyler.",
"Aisha for Lana, sure! Amy could\ngo fuck off, she’ll probably ruin the whole thing if she was cast. ",
"She was my first thought. Honestly looking at the cast of voice actors I'd say go with most of them. Jillian Bell doesn't look a million miles away from Pam. Chris Parnell could easily pass as Cyril. Jessica Walter as Mallory etc.",
"Cast him as anyone but Superman."
] | 5 | pics | When they make a live action Archer film they need to cast Henry Cavill. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2ykh/firefly_squids_japan/ | [
"HIDEAUZE!",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/4di91Mu.jpg) is a much higher resolution version of this image. Credit to the photographer, [Takehito Miyatake](http://www.take-miyatake.com/statement/index.html).\n\n[Here](http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/05/25/takehito_miyatake_a_japanese_photographer_explores_the_mystical_nature_of.html) provides the following caption:\n\n> Beached Firefly Squid Light Up the Japanese Coast, Japan, 2013. The hotaru ika, or firefly squid, lives 2,000 feet below the water. In spring, they come up near the surface to spawn, and some of them even wash up on the beaches. A school of squid glowing like jewels looks like a blue band trimming the water’s edge.",
"Do they hurt?"
] | 3 | pics | Firefly Squids, Japan |
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/r/pics/comments/7o2zui/squirrels_playing_in_snow/ | [
"Photographer: **Vadim Trunov**",
"A woman will train them to kill her ex boyfriend, i guarantee it.",
"I saw a lot of squirrel photos like this. Did the photographer hang out with a specific clan for a long time and does he still do that?",
"There are multiple pictures like this.\n\nFrom sites, there aren't any \"explanations\" as to how these pictures were taken."
] | 4 | pics | Squirrels playing in snow. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o30t4/christmas_wish_turned_to_failed_new_years/ | [
"Looks broken to me..",
"Something on it froze",
"Maybe they got a newer, better model after getting a few years good use out of this one??\n\nEver think about that, OP??",
"Of course I did, but where's your sense of humour!",
"🤣"
] | 5 | pics | Christmas wish turned to failed New Year's resolution. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o3442/just_your_average_condom_bike_top_speed_60mph/ | [
"It's best to wear protection when you hop on that thing.",
"It's actually 60 kmph.",
"All you need now is a female bike",
"Shit...\nWho the hell says kmph?",
"Everyone doesn't live in America.",
"I don’t live in America. I’m just saying it’s normally shortened to kph. ",
"r/ATBGE",
"Yeah, that would have been a better place to post it. I’m new to this game.",
"60 kph? That's amazing!\n\n I would have thought it would kinda stay in the same place going backwards and forwards a little bit.",
"I know! To be fair though, I didn’t take it for a test drive, it might only go 55."
] | 10 | pics | Just your average condom bike. Top speed 60mph. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o3640/my_doggo_on_topo/ | [
"doggo style",
"Lots going on there, not sure where to start.",
"what do ya mean"
] | 3 | pics | My doggo on topo |
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/r/pics/comments/7o36qm/snow_flakes_inside_of_glass/ | [
"*actual photo of today’s youth",
"Dont you mean... [Snowflakes Behind Glass](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/03/09/world/09Womensday2/09Womensday2-superJumbo.jpg)",
"Yeah😇",
"Ohh okay "
] | 4 | pics | Snow flakes inside of glass |
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/r/pics/comments/7o384o/beautiful_granite_park_in_the_eastern_sierra_and/ | [
"Beautiful dog in granite Park",
"Australian sheppard?",
"Australian Cattle Dog. He grew up as a street dog. Now he lives the good life and joins me on all my outdoor adventures."
] | 3 | pics | Beautiful Granite Park in the Eastern Sierra. And a dog. |
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/r/pics/comments/7o38iv/working_on_wasteland_bunny_ears/ | [
"They look great. However, if the aim of the pic is to show off your fab ears, why crop one out slightly? 🧐",
"Boobs",
"Boobs",
"Oh... I get it. Look at my fabulous...ahem...ears. ",
"Wow, very nice indeed ",
"Watch out for those Feral Ghoul Splicers",
"Just take them out!!!😀",
"Bobs",
"Ears right.....this was posted to show your \"ears\". ",
"( . )( . )",
"What am I supposed to be looking at here?",
"What kind of flowers are on your shirt?",
"/r/trashy",
"Been working on those ears for a month already, huh?",
"I was also checking out the legbeard nest in the background too...",
"Meth ",
"This is not what this subreddit is meant for. ",
"Looking good so far",
"You mean look at how trashy I am?"
] | 19 | pics | Working on wasteland bunny ears |
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