http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=8938856246&topic=5425



fuck, is it Phelps'?

[Edited on August 19, 2008 at 1:47 PM. Reason : damn grammar]

8/19/2008 1:47:14 PM

wtf

[Edited on August 19, 2008 at 1:48 PM. Reason : i'm going to just assume troll bait..no way someone is that retarded]

8/19/2008 1:48:11 PM

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"this was written in "The Public Pulse" (opinion) section of the sunday world-herald by a Nebraska man... Going for the gold Why does U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps need all those gold medals? Surely, two or three would be enough to gain him a slew of product endorsements, thus ensuring him a lifetime of financial security. Is Phelps just another greedy, self- centered American, so focused on personal excellence that he has lost the capacity to feel compassion for his fellow athletes from less wealthy countries? After all, didn't they also train hard? But Phelps just won't quit. He keeps competing as hard as he can, thus depriving others of their fair share of medals. Where is the justice here? Perhaps Congress should hold hearings and pass a law compelling Phelps to either stop crowding out the competition or give up some of his medals to less fortunate athletes, whose sense of self-esteem surely must be suffering in the wake of Phelps' successes."

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"depriving others of their fair share of medals"

isn't the point of a competition to determine who is deserving of the medals?

8/19/2008 1:49:43 PM

It's a commentary on the typical democrat view that some people earn "too much" money, and it should be redistributed to those who earn less.

Pretty sure this article was written as a joke.

8/19/2008 1:51:49 PM

please tell me they are not serious.

8/19/2008 1:52:43 PM

The replies on facebook are fucking hilarious

8/19/2008 1:53:45 PM

wow.

There are a lot of people who look really stupid for taking that article seriously. They're all in college too, how sad.

8/19/2008 1:54:27 PM

How can anyone, even for a second, think that this might be anything but a dig against dems?

8/19/2008 1:54:41 PM

8/19/2008 1:59:02 PM

There are 55 pages of retards being outraged, with a few people interspersed saying, "wow, you guys are retarded."

8/19/2008 2:01:09 PM

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"The man that made this ridiculous comment clearly has never been a competitor in his life. It's so absurd I'm mad at myself for even responding to it."

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"We got another 4 years of Bush because of people like that in Nebraska."

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"This is the most ignorant and idiotic waste of words I have ever heard."

(haha self-pwnt irony)

8/19/2008 2:02:17 PM

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"Pretty sure this article was written as a joke."

true

8/19/2008 2:06:38 PM

Kids these days...

8/19/2008 2:08:43 PM

some of you cant tell obvious satire

8/19/2008 2:24:59 PM

8/19/2008 2:27:16 PM

sounds like something a democrat would really say

8/19/2008 2:29:31 PM

yeah it does, windfall profits tax on phelps excessive medals

[Edited on August 19, 2008 at 2:34 PM. Reason : .]

8/19/2008 2:33:33 PM

more like, it sounds like something a republican would think a democrat would say

8/19/2008 2:39:02 PM

oh really?

what exactly is it that democrats say, then?

8/19/2008 4:24:00 PM

Why is it that I can watch those gifs and never get tired of them?

I just stare and watch it play over and over while I laugh a little.

8/19/2008 4:27:51 PM

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"more like, it sounds like something a republican would think a democrat would say"

8/19/2008 4:30:47 PM

uhh

that's not the counter argument you're looking for, because the analogy is pretty much spot-on, except that you could argue that life is not a competition where we need winners and losers in the way that a sporting event is.

8/19/2008 4:32:19 PM

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"They're all in college too"

that means a lot.

8/19/2008 4:34:20 PM

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/08/19/just-asking-is-michael-phelps-a-douche/

8/19/2008 4:39:28 PM

oh really?

what exactly is it that democrats say, then?

8/19/2008 4:51:42 PM

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"that's not the counter argument you're looking for, because the analogy is pretty much spot-on"

No it's not. and the fact that you think it is reflects your poor understanding of the issue

8/19/2008 5:14:30 PM

then please

explain to me where i'm wrong

8/19/2008 5:16:03 PM

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"uhh that's not the counter argument you're looking for, because the analogy is pretty much spot-on, except that you could argue that life is not a competition where we need winners and losers in the way that a sporting event is."

duke you need to shut the fuck up forever if you really think that

8/19/2008 5:16:31 PM

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"more like, it sounds like something a republican would think a democrat would say"

8/19/2008 5:19:08 PM

^^ I'm waiting for the explanation of where I'm wrong

because I have heard pretty much every one of those talking points straight from the mouths of leftists.

Like I said, the analogy fails in that life is not a competition in search of winners and losers in the same sense that the Olympics is (though in some ways, it is certainly just that). Other than that, it's pretty much on.

8/19/2008 5:29:55 PM

this thread is awesome.

[Edited on August 19, 2008 at 5:45 PM. Reason : ^completely agree]

8/19/2008 5:44:41 PM

^^what exactly is it that you want to argue about, so I can narrow it down...funding social programs, a progressive tax structure, holding congressional hearings (btw Arlen Specter, a republican is the king of holding retarded congressional hearings, such as the one investigating spygate because he is an eagles fan), etc?

[Edited on August 19, 2008 at 5:49 PM. Reason : .]

8/19/2008 5:47:56 PM

I think this is the perfect Republican view on global economics in that our country only does better when everyone else is down.

/I'll be your lightning rod of hate.

8/19/2008 5:51:56 PM

EXCEPT THE OLYMPICS ARE GAMES

AND LIVING IS LIFE

MOTHERFUCKER

8/19/2008 5:54:54 PM

^^^ progressive tax structure is the best example, although funding social programs also falls into the scope of the argument (the two are related, anyway, of course)

8/19/2008 6:19:56 PM

so you're saying that the wealthy should pay a lower percentage of their income in taxes than the poor? If you are really concerned about fiscal responsibility then cutting defense spending should be your biggest priority, as our defense spending has been out of control since Reagan.

[Edited on August 19, 2008 at 6:48 PM. Reason : .]

8/19/2008 6:46:20 PM

come on, dude...nobody advocates regressive taxation.


well, maybe a few people advocate practices that would effectively be regressive (for example, a pure national sales tax or pure flat tax with no exemption for the first "X" amount of income), but it's generally because they simply haven't thought the issue through carefully enough--not out of any actual desire for regressive taxation. that's ridiculous.


maybe we could cut defense spending some, but I'd be quicker to target Medicare, Social Security, unconstitutional government agencies, etc.

[Edited on August 19, 2008 at 6:58 PM. Reason : adfasdfasd]

8/19/2008 6:57:26 PM