Marines are BRIBING our poor kids with TOYS!!! I AM LIVID!!!

[DS1]

How dare they! Dressing up like Santa and delivering toys! There should be a LAW against this, I am furious!

This is the HITLER YOUTH ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!!

STOMP CRASH STOMP

Link, if you can stomach it

Since my ears are still ringing from the sonic boom of this thread going right over the majority of DUers heads, it's sarcasm, pretty damn blatant sarcasm at that. It's also in the lounge. It's a reference to this discussion, where the Marines you 10 to 12 people just defended and their service-providing breatheren are called all sorts of nasty shit. Have at it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=730744

[xultar]

1. Are you joking? What's the deal? n/t

[DS1]

2. ayup

It's a one of my uber-sarcastic responses to some of the comments here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=730744

[prolesunited]

3. So, you DON'T

see any distinction there. :eyes:

[DS1]

4. oh wait, wait

here it comes

almost here

:eyes:


ahhh

[demsrule4life]

5. The Marines have had the Toys for Tots program for years

god forbid they are trying to bring a little happinness to less fortunate kids. Guess I have to tell my oldest son that is a Marine not to do it, I would hate to see him as some jackbooted thug.

How many toys have you delivered to the poor?

[scottcsmith]

6. A great program

The Marine Corps has been operating the "Toys for Tots" program since 1947, and have delivered millions of toys to needy children during the holidays. It's a great program, and it puts a smile on the face of a child. How could you oppose that?

[DS1]

7. They are obviously instilling the image of a false Santa

in the minds of these young disadvantaged, usually fatherless, children. Then they can sign up to become Santa, or as Rumsfeld quipped, strategically and tactically irrelevant.

[SonofMass]

8. They need the toys to lure children in Afganistan

and Iraq to the proximity of their land mines.

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. maybe they just want to be nice

These are kids. By the time their of age to serve in the military it will be three presidents from now. And I'm sure not all of them are going to go off to join the army.

The army isn't Bush. The army isn't Rumsfeld. Sometimes it's just soldiers who want to help kids.

Sure beats being in Iraq, I'm sure.

[xultar]

31. The kids don't even know they are marines. They are dressed as

Santa remember?

[DarkPhenyx]

10. *smack, smack, smack, smack*

Now go to your room! No cookie for you!

See...I did get teh joke this time. :)

[DS1]

11. oh, thank you lord

someone gets it.

fuggin amazing, hats off to DarkPhenyx

[DarkPhenyx]

14. Yes I did.

And anyone who has seen me get really stupid about something that was obviously a joke will know this is a really rare event. :)

I agree with your opinion of the thread being parodied here, BTW.

[DS1]

17. thanks

Funny how the 'military-is-evil-no-matter-what-they-do' crowd is noticeably absent, eh?

[DarkPhenyx]

18. E-Yup!

I count this as a good thing though.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

36. yeah, hard to find fault with that particular program

and, yeah, I got the sarcasm even without the notice. I guess some people can't read.

[Sequoia]

12. They've been doing this for a long time

and I have their PSA CD on my desk which will go into the recycle bin. Unless I can tape over it.

[ohiosmith]

13. You're not serious I hope.

If not for the Toys For Tots program, my six siblings and I would have gone without gifts when we were kids. My dad was in a veterans' hospital as a result of action he saw in the South Pacific during WWII and what little my mother made selling home backed goods barely kept a roof over our heads.

I must have been indoctrinated by those facists as I was an active war resister during the illegal war in Viet Nam, and am a life long democrat.

You should be ashamed.

By the way, I have donated to Toys For Tots for more than 40 years.

[Occulus]

16. I bet you've reread this thread

so can ya at least edit to let us all know you get it now?

Thanks. Hey, it's only polite....

edit: gawd, that other thread is looong.... I also understand your sentiment after reading as far as I could.

What a fantastically sarcastic thread this is. Wonder how many other people will kneejerk post on this....

[ohiosmith]

26. I get it, honestly I do. Unfortunately due to some of the horseshit

posts I've read here on occasion (and the fact that this struck a raw nerve) it didn't immediatley occure to me that I should look for the sarcasm rather than cynicism. Mia culpa

[DarkPhenyx]

28. I have that same problem.

What does it say about the world when we assume this kind of crap might be real.

[DS1]

29. Some people see what they want to see, and never

really understand what they are replying to, in their haste to express disgust. It's part of the game. I just wish more of the people defending this program, which I definitely find nothing wrong with (which has nothing to do with either myself or my brother being Marines <- nothing at all), would have said something in the other thread linked where the military is bashed left and right, again.

The military is run by civilians, some people around here are too quick to forget that, this is my back-handed way of complaining. Or as someone else suggested, trotting out my red herring. Never tried to walk a fish though.

[DarkPhenyx]

30. I would have been more vocal on that thread...

...but I rapidly realized it was pointless, and my posts would have gotten steadily nastier, and more cutting. I'm really tryig to help Skinner and crew out by posting civilly. Some people, and threads, make it hard though.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

38. Wait JUST A DAMN MINUTE THERE M A R I N E!

A RED herring?

Red?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Over?

Are you insuiniating that by having United States Marines dress up as Santa in their RED suits, that this in some way will bring back the evil scourge of Red Communists in this country?

Why, I bet you are some kind of pinko subursive or something.

Imagine, trying to convert the fish to communism. Harrrupmph.


;(

The very idea.

[DS1]

39. He said! He said it! He said THE WORD!

BUUUUUURRRRNNNN HIM! BUUUUURRNNNN HIM AT THE STAKE!

HE SAID THE C WORD! AND I DON'T MEAN CUNT! HE SAID THE OTHER C WORD!

BURRRRRNN HIM!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

40. Communisim.... Communist.... Commie.... Pinko.... Socialist

there, I said them all....


Hahahaha...

You can take my keyboard when you take it from MY COLD DEAD HANDS!


Slavba, Tovaraich...

[Kamika]

15. Can someone explain just what this is?

Please.. I'm not college edumucated or anything.


So I fail to see what they do , or what's so bad.

Is it marine soldiers dressing up like Santa giving away toys if the kids parents sign up or something? :)

[Catholic Sensation]

19. I know sarcasm is hard to get sometimes

but please people, WHEN THE POST IS THAT FUCKING RIDICULOUS USE SOME COMMON SENSE.

[el_gato]

20. so you think it's okay for military reps to push propaganda

in our schools so now you trot out a phoney red herring

it is just a toys for tots program
and nobody has complained about it
but you want to use it to discredit
concerns over propaganda in our schools

lame

[DS1]

21. so career day is immediately tagged propaganda

if someone in the military shows up.

[Red State Rebel]

41. We spread propoganda about the benefits of being a heating & air

tech every year at career day!

[DarkPhenyx]

22. those concerns kinda discredited themselves.

They really didn't need our help with it.

[DS1]

23. yeah, and herrings don't have feet.

trotsky!

[ArkDem]

24. I was being scarcastic in the thread you have linked and

everyone thought I was being serious.:shrug:

[Don_G]

25. The Marines Even Got The Bikers In On It

The Christmas Toy run is an annual event in my city. The Bikers buy new toys and make a poker run out of it every year in December.

I think the Marines want to recruit the Bikers too.

[DS1]

27. ack! why didn't this occur to me earlier?

Bikers are harder to hit with RPGs.

[Don_G]

32. Yet Another Thread

:evilgrin:

[screembloodymurder]

33. Asked my wife, a schoolteacher, if the Marines visited her class.

She said no, but she could use them. She would welcome the Army and Navy, too.

[Noordam]

34. Not all Marines care for kids the ex-Marine IG for Florida DCF is

one of the biggest ass holes in the world... And yes he is in it for the money.......

[DS1]

37. Yep, because all Democrats have driven their dates off bridges

Easy to group a type, isn't it?

[scottcsmith]

35. I feel really stupid now

D'oh!

I don't think sarcasm translates well to the written word.

Just my .02

Still a good program for the kids.

[SOteric]

42. *SNARF*