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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPatton Oswalt tweeting the question we are asking
Link to tweet
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For non Twitter folks,
This was his response
The fuck kind of country are we living in? Good God.
To this story
Employee quits job at for-profit child prison camp after being told to order three siblings not to hug each other.
[they were] huddled together, tears streaming down their faces
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,356 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)Brothers and sisters can't hug each other, because it might get sexual?
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)mucifer
(23,549 posts)with each other.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)According to Frank Bruni of the New York Times, that means we can't talk about this anymore, and we all have to scold Patton for using a naughty word. Shame, shame, Patton! Using a swear when talking about this obscenity means that good people of high minds - who would ordinarily be upset about siblings being ordered not to hug each other while housed in a concentration camp - now have to cover their ears and can't do anything else.
When, oh when will celebrity randos ever learn not to cuss when talking about the depradations of the Trump administration? Now instead of demanding an end to these cruel and inhuman tortures, we all have to recite the never-ending litany: Shame on Kathy, shame on Samantha, shame on Robert, shame on Patton.
Takket
(21,575 posts)Fuck Bruni for placing concern over obscenities over human suffering.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)yardwork
(61,649 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)He has a very good point. Descending to the depths of the dotard gets us nowhere. We just look as bad as he is.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Bruni's premise is dubious at best, his argument would be wanting in a middle-schooler's blue book, and his conclusion is utterly worthless. It does, however, appeal to a certain group of people who would much rather focus on some celebrity rando's naughty word than address the issue that prompted that word.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Im still with Michelle Obama and her advice.
No one else here is, though.
I wont be dragged down to the deplorable level. Nope.
Thats when they win.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)(snip)
Dear people citing The Bible:
Its a cool book with some wonderful passages but it also has ghost sex & giants & super babies & demons. Its why we dont make laws based on Game of Thrones, My Little Pony or Legend of Zelda.
Found at: https://twitter.com/TheGoodGodAbove
Patton's Twitter: https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt
To the children......
marieo1
(1,402 posts)My heart breaks for all the children, families. How sad!!!! We need to get rid of Sessions, Trump, Pence, McConnell, Ryan and all the creeps, and I'm sure there are others that support them.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Cha
(297,290 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Cha
(297,290 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Your childish husband tears up papers to signal his underlings that The Meeting Is Over, in violation of the Presidential Records Act, which requires by law that every piece of paper that passes through the President's hands (even very small hands) must be preserved intact. That's why the White House has to pay people to put those papers back together. Also, your petulant, impulsive husband deletes tweets, also against the law.
On that point, the third lady will be forever silent.
Cha
(297,290 posts)Monsters.