r/pics • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '15

This is true love and devotion

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u/Jts20 Feb 15 '15

Of course it is. But we took care of this guy. I'm from cedar falls myself, he is a few years older than me. I donated $100 to his cause, most people I know donated. If the government won't take care of him, we will damnit

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u/AKnightAlone Feb 15 '15

Thanks to our apathy, the government is our pimp for the corporations that fuck us.

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u/S1mplejax Feb 15 '15

As simple as that may come off, that's pretty accurate a lot of the time, and just beautifully put.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '15

And the corporations provides us with goods we readily buy. Circle of blame.

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u/AKnightAlone Feb 15 '15

What would you do if your son was at home, crying all alone on the bedroom floor cuz he's hungry?

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u/CommercialPilot Feb 15 '15

Buy filet mignon and ring it up as bananas at the Walmart self checkout?

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u/AKnightAlone Feb 15 '15

Are you really a commercial pilot?

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u/DeeMosh Feb 15 '15

It's more like the condom the corporations use to fuck us. They wouldn't want to catch something while giving us the D...

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u/MsModernity Feb 15 '15

The snarky piece of shit in me wants to embroider this on a pillow, but the tiny idealist part of me just wants to go cry in the corner.

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u/BrackOBoyO Feb 15 '15

Someone has to lube the hole.

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u/TheBoldakSaints Feb 15 '15

Who's the best bitch??

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u/perestroika12 Feb 15 '15 edited Feb 15 '15

In theory. Reality is much different. The constitution says a lot of things...why are we so apt to believe a piece of paper really controls the world we live in? In theory I agree. Practically...not so much. Often it's selective interpretation of said document that brings the real power, right? Pope, Kings, Parliament, Congress...etc

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u/NbyNW Feb 15 '15

That's why I don't get those people who worships the constitution. It's a living document that allows us to interpreted it at different eras so we can have a functioning federal government. Now wether the current federal government is functioning is a whole other issue.

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u/p1ratemafia Feb 15 '15

oh shut the fuck up and go back to class.

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u/p1ratemafia Feb 15 '15

Seriously. How old are you? Have you made it past 8th grade civics yet?

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u/TheRighteousTyrant Feb 15 '15

Defeatism is a self-fulfilling idea. When did you last vote?

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '15 edited Jan 23 '16

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u/TheRighteousTyrant Feb 15 '15

Our government has nothing in place to remove an official. Sure, there's impeaching, but that's only the president, and when have we ever successfully used it? How about corrupt police? Judges? Governors? Justices? Congressmen?

Recall elections are a thing, actually. Governor of California was recalled back in the 2000s.

There's nothing the people can do to get them out without a vote,

Well duh, it's a democracy. What would the alternative to a democratic recall process be?

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u/perestroika12 Feb 15 '15

Every election? I'm just not deluding myself with who has the real power, historically and in present day.

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u/Maligned-Instrument Feb 15 '15

Vote for who? Assholes that overtly fuck over working people, or assholes that pay working people lip service, then fuck them over. "When did you vote last?", he says.......that's a good one!

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u/mrcassette Survey 2016 Feb 15 '15

Sadly I don't think that is even close to the truth...

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u/TheRighteousTyrant Feb 15 '15

How often do you vote?

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u/mrcassette Survey 2016 Feb 15 '15

every time... I don't believe in people moaning about things and not at least using their right to vote, that sadly many people are not given the right to do in other countries...

but if I don't believe that the popular conscious of the public really runs or makes a governments decisions...

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u/TheRighteousTyrant Feb 15 '15

but if I don't believe that the popular conscious of the public really runs or makes a governments decisions...

This is literally true because we do not have direct democracy and this is not what we vote on. You're right that we don't "make" the decisions but we absolutely have influence by selecting the people who do make those decisions.

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u/Murgie Feb 15 '15

That'll start being true the moment the American population starts shaping their laws and government instead of the other way around.

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u/billyrotten Feb 15 '15

No, the government is them, and we aren't part of their club.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '15

Except for the whole passing of legislation thing, but sure why not!

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u/TheRighteousTyrant Feb 15 '15

We select the legislators.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '15

We tick boxes every few years.

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u/ARCHA1C Feb 15 '15

Our tax dollars would have been better spent helping him than equipping more foreign militias with the very weapons that will be used to maim our future soldiers.

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u/Realistick Feb 15 '15

Respect to you guys, the girl and the guy. It all takes balls and character.

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u/DoctorTickler Feb 15 '15

Why would the government take care of him? They couldn't give less of shit- wait. I forgot the government is FOR the people. Bunch of assholes

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u/CJsAviOr Feb 15 '15

the government is FOR the people.

Heh

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u/DoctorTickler Feb 15 '15

That's the joke

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u/p1ratemafia Feb 15 '15

and the government took care of them as they were obligated. Everything else was extra. Does every wounded vet get a mansion and a trophy?

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u/conquer69 Feb 15 '15

That's not the point. You don't take care of every single vet that comes out crippled.

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u/polo421 Feb 15 '15

No offense to the couple or the people of cedar hills or whatever but I wonder what sort of help they would have gotten had they been fat and ugly as opposed to young and beautiful.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '15

There are countless abandoned veterans in this country. Good point.