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October 26, 2008 9:57 PM Subscribe
This year I'm going as a terrorist.
This post was deleted for the following reason: WTFilter -- mathowie
That'd go great with #4!
Flagged as half assed outragefilter.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:02 PM on October 26, 2008
Flagged as half assed outragefilter.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:02 PM on October 26, 2008
probably not Amazon's fault but still shameful
posted by bottlebrushtree at 10:02 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by bottlebrushtree at 10:02 PM on October 26, 2008
Plenty-o-threads available to plunk this in. I saw it on Reddit too.
posted by cashman at 10:11 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by cashman at 10:11 PM on October 26, 2008
Roger Ailes implies Obama a terrorist way back in March 2007.
posted by netbros at 10:22 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by netbros at 10:22 PM on October 26, 2008
You could go next year as Sambo. Two for the price of one.
posted by salishsea at 10:27 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by salishsea at 10:27 PM on October 26, 2008
Are you sure you don't want to go as a FLAG? [dramatic movie music]
posted by katillathehun at 10:33 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by katillathehun at 10:33 PM on October 26, 2008
Come to think of it...I\d like to go this year as a deleted Mefi thread. I'll throw on a pair of bunny ears and go as the Easter Bunny whilst carrying a big blue card with a comment from jessamyn saying "You're not even trying are you?"
posted by salishsea at 10:34 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by salishsea at 10:34 PM on October 26, 2008
Come to think of it...I\d like to go this year as a deleted Mefi thread.
Weak sauce. Going as whatever Matt's latest twitter or post is about - that's the new hot shit.
posted by cashman at 10:36 PM on October 26, 2008
Weak sauce. Going as whatever Matt's latest twitter or post is about - that's the new hot shit.
posted by cashman at 10:36 PM on October 26, 2008
Whatever the merits of this post on Metafilter, I still e-mailed Amazon and said, politely, WTF, I'm a-headin' for Barnes and Noble. You betcha!
posted by vac2003 at 10:38 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by vac2003 at 10:38 PM on October 26, 2008
Wait, weak sauce and hot shit? Can we at least keep our metaphors using the same orifice?
posted by maxwelton at 10:39 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by maxwelton at 10:39 PM on October 26, 2008
You think you're hot shit, but you're really just weak sauce.
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 10:43 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 10:43 PM on October 26, 2008
You could go next year as Sambo. Two for the price of one.
Already been done.
posted by sambosambo at 10:44 PM on October 26, 2008
Already been done.
posted by sambosambo at 10:44 PM on October 26, 2008
I've got to ask the question no one else seems to:
EVEN IF Obama WERE a card-carrying, Al-Qaeda member... what exactly would that empower him to do? It doesn't appear to me like he'd get much congressional approval or funding to declare ware on Israel... but maybe he could get a couple of nukes off? I still don't think that's how that works, since the 25th can allow for a sitting President to be taken down by his own cabinet if it's clear that he's gone completely batshit fucking insane.
So Obama's a terrorist... does he abolish homeland security and open us up to terrorist attacks? Lord knows it's not like he'd be able to craft his own suitcase bomb to take out the White House himself with any ease at all...
I'm just saying that short of undermining policy in completely bizarre ways, it seems like any terrorist worth their salt would be considerably better equipped outside of the system. Or, in fact, at any point in the chain *below* the President himself.
Am I wrong here? I just find it an interesting way to counter the completely ridiculous terrorist notions besides the obvious "are you this christfucking stupid and yet still able to speak?"
posted by disillusioned at 10:46 PM on October 26, 2008
EVEN IF Obama WERE a card-carrying, Al-Qaeda member... what exactly would that empower him to do? It doesn't appear to me like he'd get much congressional approval or funding to declare ware on Israel... but maybe he could get a couple of nukes off? I still don't think that's how that works, since the 25th can allow for a sitting President to be taken down by his own cabinet if it's clear that he's gone completely batshit fucking insane.
So Obama's a terrorist... does he abolish homeland security and open us up to terrorist attacks? Lord knows it's not like he'd be able to craft his own suitcase bomb to take out the White House himself with any ease at all...
I'm just saying that short of undermining policy in completely bizarre ways, it seems like any terrorist worth their salt would be considerably better equipped outside of the system. Or, in fact, at any point in the chain *below* the President himself.
Am I wrong here? I just find it an interesting way to counter the completely ridiculous terrorist notions besides the obvious "are you this christfucking stupid and yet still able to speak?"
posted by disillusioned at 10:46 PM on October 26, 2008
This Obama=Terrorist shit might actually fly if the world worked along the lines of action movie plots. It's the same kind of logic that's behind the "ticking time bomb" scenario that's been used to justify torturing people.
posted by dunkadunc at 10:53 PM on October 26, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by dunkadunc at 10:53 PM on October 26, 2008 [2 favorites]
Nice Post
posted by Damn That Television at 10:58 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by Damn That Television at 10:58 PM on October 26, 2008
I don't think that there is any universe in which this would be considered the best of the web.
posted by ob at 10:59 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by ob at 10:59 PM on October 26, 2008
In before close!
This is a bad post and you are a bad person for making it.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 11:13 PM on October 26, 2008
This is a bad post and you are a bad person for making it.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 11:13 PM on October 26, 2008
This post is going to get Swiftboated.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 11:16 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 11:16 PM on October 26, 2008
"Your search "terrorist costume" did not match any products in: Apparel & Accessories." Apparently Amazon's mods are up all night.
posted by one_bean at 11:20 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by one_bean at 11:20 PM on October 26, 2008
Member since 2001, and you thought this was a good idea?
posted by bigmusic at 11:21 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by bigmusic at 11:21 PM on October 26, 2008
Your search "terrorist costume" did not match any products in: Apparel & Accessories
So, I don't even get it. Obama/McCain stuff, I guess.
posted by paisley henosis at 11:25 PM on October 26, 2008
So, I don't even get it. Obama/McCain stuff, I guess.
posted by paisley henosis at 11:25 PM on October 26, 2008
I like how there was one review of the mask itself.
posted by dirigibleman at 11:26 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by dirigibleman at 11:26 PM on October 26, 2008
Woah, too slow.
posted by paisley henosis at 11:26 PM on October 26, 2008
posted by paisley henosis at 11:26 PM on October 26, 2008
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