Do We Have A 'Silly Shit Politicians Say' Thread? If Not, Here We Are

[NynJa]

So would you consider the head of a top media corporation a "political" figure? I would considering they have a massive influence on that shit

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell...ling-1.3099972

Watching U.S. Netflix in Canada by using location-hiding services such as VPNs is stealing and needs to be more frowned upon, the new president of Bell Media says.

Bell Media president wants to slut-shame people who VPN their Netflix from America, and wants it to be considered theft.


http://bundles.bell.ca/#INT=BUN_tvfi...q_102614_pb_On
TV/Internet/Phone "bundle":
TV: "Major networks and specialty channels + 15 à la carte channels of your choice like AMC and Discovery"
Internet: "Download of up to 25 Mbps, Upload of up to 10 Mbps, Usage of 150 GB/mo, unlimited bandwidth for an extra 10$/month"
Phone: "1 free calling feature for 3 months, Includes unlimited long distance calling within Québec, Unlimited Canada and U.S. calling for only $10/mo."

For the low low price of 127/month


Now thats theft...

[Melena]

Cheaper than what I was paying even with the extra 10 for unlimited for HD TV, Internet and phone we never used. Why I cut the cord and have internet only now.

[Buffy]

Well, it is theft, although I wish there were a way to avoid the geo-location rules.

[Quicklet]

Copyright infringement is not theft by any reasonable legal definition or interpretation, despite how much certain corporations would like people to believe it to be. That's why it's called copyright infringement, not copyright theft.

[myreality]

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...e-not-settled/

Santorum: I’m More Qualified Than Pope Francis To Talk About Climate Change Because I’m A Politician

Headline basically summarizes the article.

[notorious bum]

Ass juice working hard for that Kock money.

[kuronosan]

Doesn't the pope have a degree?

[Tyrath]

Yeah, the article mentions it lol.

[Aristio]

Maybe the wrong thread, but whatever.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...-may-be-white/

Leader for a local NAACP may be white.

[kuronosan]

No, she's definitely white. She rejects her heritage and identifies as black.

I really don't see the problem.

[archibaldcrane]

At first I thought she was doing a social experiment where she lived as black to understand the experience...but that doesn't appear to be the case.

[Blubbartron]

If this is inappropriate feel free to remove it, I'm simply using the term I've seen.

Up until this moment, I thought the transnigger movement was a farce created by 4chan to mock SJWs, but it seems it may not be. I really don't know how to respond to the insanity of this person. The fact that she took her adopted, black brother and turned him racist against white people when she herself is white is just... fuck, man. And she's referring to him as her son even though they're relatively close in age. Is it some kind of subconscious allusion to the high number of black (very young) teen pregnancies? What the fuck is wrong with humanity?

[zoobernut]

It is a very interesting issue indeed. On one hand lying like that is just silly. On the other hand it does bring up good conversations about how you rate your race who gets to claim what and what race even means. How far back do you have to go in your heritage to be able to claim a race as part of who you are? Does the one drop rule apply or is there a different cutoff point?

Race is a strange way to group people together specially with how genetics work and how outliers and anomalies can be isolated without anywhere to belong. What if you are person who wants to identify with the culture of your heritage but people are prejudiced against you because you do not look the part?

[Tyrath]

I mean, I sort of get it. I was born brown but I'm basically as white as it gets. But I guess I don't get it on a certain level because I've never considered calling myself white.

[kuronosan]

But she literally was born white, is of German ancestry, and identifies as black.

She's an idiot for trying to look black.

But, in the face of transgender movements gaining support... is there really a problem with that?

[BerenTebogo]

I think my only qualm with this is that she was the head of a NAACP chapter, a national organization with an unambiguous goal.

[Melena]

But she literally was born white, is of German ancestry, and identifies as black.

She's an idiot for trying to look black.

But, in the face of transgender movements gaining support... is there really a problem with that?

[zoobernut]

I think my only qualm with this is that she was the head of a NAACP chapter, a national organization with an unambiguous goal.

The NAACP has had white leadership in the past hasn't it? Hasn't there been white members from the beginning?

[BerenTebogo]

The NAACP has had white leadership in the past hasn't it? Hasn't there been white members from the beginning?

I didn't know this. To be honest I don't know much about the leadership of the NAACP as a whole it is just what I focused on in my cursory glance at this story. It made me chuckle.

[Blubbartron]

But she literally was born white, is of German ancestry, and identifies as black.

She's an idiot for trying to look black.

But, in the face of transgender movements gaining support... is there really a problem with that?

Yes, yes there really is a problem with that. Transgendered people have some logical basis in biology. Trying to pass yourself off as a certain ethnicity because you really like their culture is insane because culture is 100% sociological. Honestly, it makes me question transgendered people, and I'd really rather not do that. What if it really is a mental health issue? What if there's a common cause that makes people not feel "right" just being what they are, and it's not biological, but completely psychological? Maybe one is biological and one's psychological, I don't know, but we're on the path to sexually identifying as an attack helicopter being completely reasonable, and I don't want to live on that planet.