Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Valmy]

Not quite sure I follow. Is that something like the return of that group of Fillon people?

I think so. Sort of like Newt Gingrich returning to power or something ridiculous like that.

[Duque de Bragança]

Not quite sure I follow. Is that something like the return of that group of Fillon people?

I think so. Sort of like Newt Gingrich returning to power or something ridiculous like that.

There is (sadly?) no Newt Gingrich returning to power but yes it could be a throwback to this ridiculous '86 campaign slogan:



Followed by a conservative victory, no less. 

[Syt]

It is also a great example of that fallacy that Berkut spoke of where we compare the worst examples of the opponent with our best intentions.

Well, there's also this common variant on the theme:



Clearly we need another proper World War with tens of millions of deaths to toughen up again.

[Berkut]

I am certainly amazed at the lengths people will go to justify their need to feel better than others - like anyone posting that on facebook ever stormed a beach anywhere.

[Razgovory]

I despised the beach.  I stormed around it all day.

[The Minsky Moment]

It is also a great example of that fallacy that Berkut spoke of where we compare the worst examples of the opponent with our best intentions.

Well, there's also this common variant on the theme:



Clearly we need another proper World War with tens of millions of deaths to toughen up again.

2016: grown men need to be protected from theater actors making polite statements about unity.

[Syt]

Hear this? Drop out of college and increase your chances to become a billionaire!

[Valmy]

Damnit! I ruined my life

[viper37]

Hear this? Drop out of college and increase your chances to become a billionaire!

Once you eliminate those who inherited their fortune, how low does that figure drop to?

[Valmy]

Hey now! The Koch brothers all have advanced degrees.

[Eddie Teach]

Hear this? Drop out of college and increase your chances to become a billionaire!

He only made half of it on his own, the rest belongs to his wife.

[grumbler]

I am certainly amazed at the lengths people will go to justify their need to feel better than others - like anyone posting that on facebook ever stormed a beach anywhere.

I've stormed a beach! 

[grumbler]

Hear this? Drop out of college and increase your chances to become a billionaire!

82.4 percent of the unsourced statistics you read on the internet are made up.

[Ed Anger]

I am certainly amazed at the lengths people will go to justify their need to feel better than others - like anyone posting that on facebook ever stormed a beach anywhere.

I've stormed a beach! 

With Scipio Africanus

[The Brain]

I am certainly amazed at the lengths people will go to justify their need to feel better than others - like anyone posting that on facebook ever stormed a beach anywhere.

I've stormed a beach! 

I'm telling IKK.