Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Syt]

NOT shared by my family, but seen on Reddit:



Because when I hear Washington, Jefferson, Franklin etc. I think "oppressed underdogs."

[Zanza]

How was e.g. Jefferson not a career politician? He started at age 31 in 1774 and with short breaks had high political offices until 1809, i.e. for 35 years. Thats what you normally call a career...

[Syt]

How was e.g. Jefferson not a career politician? He started at age 31 in 1774 and with short breaks had high political offices until 1809, i.e. for 35 years. Thats what you normally call a career...

I think they imply that they didn't pursue a career in politics prior to the revolution, maybe?

[The Larch]

How was e.g. Jefferson not a career politician? He started at age 31 in 1774 and with short breaks had high political offices until 1809, i.e. for 35 years. Thats what you normally call a career...

As if anyone could enter politics back then, they were "gentlemen politicians" with an independent wealth separate from their political careers.

[grumbler]

   Why are we trying to figure out why lying morons lie?

[Zanza]

  Why are we trying to figure out why lying morons lie?

To demonstrate our self-perception of intellectual superiority in order to feel good about ourselves. 

[Razgovory]

How was e.g. Jefferson not a career politician? He started at age 31 in 1774 and with short breaks had high political offices until 1809, i.e. for 35 years. Thats what you normally call a career...

I think they imply that they didn't pursue a career in politics prior to the revolution, maybe?

But they were in politics before the Revolution.  At least some of them were.

I honestly find it weird that the GOP has really moved into class warfare.

[Razgovory]

  Why are we trying to figure out why lying morons lie?

I do not think they are lying, I think they are simply ignorant.  Hell, I bet half of them believe that the revolution was fought to protect the right to bear arms.

[Admiral Yi]

I honestly find it weird that the GOP has really moved into class warfare.

This dude wasn't trying to play the class warfare card, at least not the way I see it.  He was trying to play the brilliant Trump outsider vs. the corrupt deep state establishment card.

[DGuller]

How was e.g. Jefferson not a career politician? He started at age 31 in 1774 and with short breaks had high political offices until 1809, i.e. for 35 years. Thats what you normally call a career...

You need a bit of context here.  In this thread Syt forwards a lot of memes that some would characterize as potentially misleading.

[DGuller]

  Why are we trying to figure out why lying morons lie?

I do not think they are lying, I think they are simply ignorant.  Hell, I bet half of them believe that the revolution was fought to protect the right to bear arms.

It's hard to know where ignorance ends, lying begins, lying ends, and insanity begins.  These memes spread because people get so emotionally activated by them that their critical thinking gets short-circuited.  It really is engineered insanity.

[grumbler]

It really is engineered insanity.

I'm definitely stealing this one.  Is it original, o did you encounter it somewhere?

[DGuller]

It really is engineered insanity.

I'm definitely stealing this one.  Is it original, o did you encounter it somewhere?

Original.

[Syt]

[garbon]

It really is engineered insanity.

I'm definitely stealing this one.  Is it original, o did you encounter it somewhere?

Original.

Googling turns up an odd F1 campaign a couple years back.