A legitimate response from the OP, who didn't even mention race, is something along the lines of, "Kiss my fourth point of contact, or get your head out of your own," in response to the personal attack and violation one of the few APS rules there are.
Color me confused... what APS rule do you feel I violated? And how does my post reflect a personal attack?
Yawn. I'm always ready for the riots, as well as any single person can be. But your image is ignorant and mildly offensive.
If he loses, his supporters will know they are in the minority, and also in the wrong, and also on the unfriendly side of the law if they decide to liberate TV's and flip cars.
I'll donate a case of 5.56 to my local PD if there are riots in town. And I typically despise police.
But your premise is wrong, and also tinged with racism. And I'm not one to pull out the "racist" card with any seriousness... typically it's in jest with a gif like this for stating something sensible that race-pimps on the left tend to hate:
In your case, it's not a joke.
Obama has lost support of many of his prior supporters... lots of athletes that were behind him last time are telling fans to stay away from him in 2012. Even his monolithic 95% or higher black vote that he takes for granted, cannot be taken for granted.
So... I won't be clicking "like" on your non-link.
Every sentence in my post is confronting the image and text the OP posted, and not the OP himself.
Here's "da rules."
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=4406.0Hello, all. Given our influx of new members, I thought it was time to remind members of our (relatively few) posting rules on APS.
1. Please watch your language. No vulgarities, rudeness, or words that would make Art's Grandma blush (or swear herself!).
2. No porn, gratuitous violence, or offensive posts. Moderators' judgment will be the determining factor in what is offensive. If you'd say it to a gathering in your average family living-room, you should be fine to say it here.
3. Offensive threads will be deleted in their entirety. Offensive posts will be deleted, leaving the original thread intact if possible. Offenders won't be warned - if you see a post or thread of yours is gone, it means it fell foul of Rule 1 or Rule 2 above.
4. Repeat offenders will be banned. No excuses, no reasons needed, no argument. The rules are simple enough. If you can't follow 'em, don't post!
I hope this is clear.
The above ruleset comes from the Round Table... I don't see how I've violated any of them.
As far as Politics Place... I attributed the OP's entire original post to the OP himself. However, he did not reference his sources, bringing the OP afoul of APS Policy #322-A, subsection 4, item 2:
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=25455.0Recently, lawsuits claiming copyright infringement have been filed against several websites on behalf of at least one newspaper.
The suits claim, among other things, that participants of the website copied and pasted whole articles from the newspaper’s website in violation of copyright laws.
Anything ‘published’ on the web is viewed as intellectual property and therefore copyrighted by the originator. This includes newspapers, magazines, e-books, blogs, and posts on websites if there is no “free use” statement.
At this time there is no way of telling what the outcome of these lawsuits will be, but it is expected that there will be many more of them as other newspapers, magazines, etc., sign on in an effort to protect their intellectual property.
In order to protect our members and APS from possible litigation, all members must abide by the following new rules:
1. Copying and pasting passages from or entire articles from another site to APS is strictly prohibited.
While copyright law provides for “fair use” of portions of a copyrighted work, fair use is open to significant interpretation. It’s easier and safer to avoid the entire question by not copying any of the copyrighted work.
2. If you wish to call attention to an article, you must provide a link to the article along with the name of website. For example: www.xxx.yyy/zzz (The Lower Thumbsuck Daily News).
3. In keeping with our prohibition against “cut and paste drive by posts” (a link to an article with no substantive commentary by the poster) you must provide, in your own words, a brief summary of the article AND your reasons for believing it will be of interest to APS members.
Posts that do not follow these new guidelines for dealing with copyrighted material will be deleted and the member reminded to follow this policy. Members who continue to violate this policy may lose their posting privileges at APS.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Had the OP indicated properly that the image and borrowed text came from somewhere on facebook with proper attribution, I wouldn't have attributed it to him.
As I expressed in a later post in this thread.
