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Firi, I salute that man xD
 
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They only got less than 4 600 USD? That's 3.2k in €. I know everything there is cheaper, but that's still pretty ridiculously low.
 
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This cat belongs to a real good friend of mine.... if any of ya'll can help with her vet bills that would be awesome. If you can't well... that's alright too. Any emotional support I can send her way would be great too.
 
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@Change.org:
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..... I don't know whether to jump for joy or be scared shit-less.
 
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also, recyclable spray on clothes
 
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Wow... Spraying solvent all over yourself... That... Doesn't seem like a good idea.
 
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Leading to this amazing quote:
"Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics... they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation."
 
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Love how they they're saying that the spray on clothing will "make life easier"...
 
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Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, on the U.S. economy:




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WAT.
 
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Well, you can say what you want, but he is right in many ways...
 
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Basically using a fake alien invasion as just one scenario to get the populace to buy war bonds and such to help the economy. I believe even wealthy citizens bought into them during WWII. I wouldn't toss the idea aside so quickly just because of the subject matter that's partially a joke and the speaker even admitted to borrowing from a Twilight Zone episode where a false alien invasion was used to bring about world peace.

It's not as dumb an idea as it appears.
 
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Might I point you all to the movie "Wag The Dog." The situations are different, but the concept is the same. Conceal a big problem behind a seemingly bigger, albeit fake, problem. You could even go as far as calling it a straw man fallacy. You'd just be taking it one step further than the normal rhetorical sense. It's not a perfect fit, but you can still make an argument that it's a lot easier to justify spending against something far-fetched than it would be to tackle the problem directly.
 
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Now, I didn't read the graphic novel version too deeply but, watchmen too?
 
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Eh, I suppose kinda, Toxic. The threat that was used to attempt to attain world peace wasn't fake, but it's source was...
 
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Now, I didn't read the graphic novel version too deeply but, watchmen too?

Graphic novel and movie are fairly the same in the endings. Just the movie used Dr. Manhatten's powers to make what essentially was a massive nuclear explosion in New York... while the comic had a massive alien octopus teleported to New York that wrecked devastation.

But yes, similar thread of logic.
 
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Wait, people all the way in Toronto felt the quake? I'm sorry, but I didn't really feel anything.
 
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I... wat? This bitch had to be drunk or something

EDIT: This did make it to the news, btw
 
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