How does this happen? Chick-fil-A branded as anti-gay?

[kentonio]

Indefinite detention, warrantless wiretaps and drone strikes are a conspiracy theory now? Do you actually have TV's in philly?

[Ben Kenobi]

I want to know how many Apolytoners are hypocrites. What do you guys make of this?

Are the Mayors of Chicago and Boston banning Marvel from operating in their states and selling comic books? No?

Then I guess your comparison is total bull****.

[kentonio]

Are the Mayors of Chicago and Boston banning Chick-fil-A from operating in their states and selling chicken?

[Hauldren Collider]

Are the Mayors of Chicago and Boston banning Chick-fil-A from operating in their states and selling chicken?

cities*

And they'd love to, but have recently realized that's illegal.

[kentonio]

So what you mean is 'No'?

[Ben Kenobi]

And they'd love to, but have recently realized that's illegal.

Damn that thing called a constitution.

[kentonio]

So in other words they havent tried to do that and all you're doing is knocking down a strawman of your own creation?

[Hauldren Collider]

So what you mean is 'No'?

What I mean is that they would have if these protesters hadn't made a fuss.

[Dr Strangelove]

Asher, could you explain this please? Canada is looking really ****ed up right about now. I mean hearing aids are like glasses. It's a relatively cheap and easy way to turn what could be a life-limiting disability into nothing. Surely Canada would provide that for her citizens before subsidized sex change operations, right?

Hearing aides are not covered by either Medicare or Medicaid in the US.

[Hauldren Collider]

Hearing aids are also relatively inexpensive, no? Like maybe $150 for really nice ones?

[kentonio]

What I mean is that they would have if these protesters hadn't made a fuss.

Ah, so we can now bash politicians for things that they haven't actually done but which we're pretty sure they would have if they could?

So anyway I hear that Romney wants to imprison all US citizens who earn less than $100,000 a year and harvest their organs to sell to rich foreign businessmen. Shame about that little thing called a constitution, Mitt you monster!

[regexcellent]

Hearing aids are also relatively inexpensive, no? Like maybe $150 for really nice ones?

I think hearing aids are about $1-2.5k. Cochlear implants run in the tens of thousands of dollars.

[regexcellent]

Ah, so we can now bash politicians for things that they haven't actually done but which we're pretty sure they would have if they could?

So anyway I hear that Romney wants to imprison all US citizens who earn less than $100,000 a year and harvest their organs to sell to rich foreign businessmen. Shame about that little thing called a constitution, Mitt you monster!

You are a massive dumbass. Posibly the worst part is how you tend to attempt to bolster your arguments by calling yourself a British conservative and ascribing your leftism to the differences in politics across the Atlantic. I have met British conservatives and you are not one of them. You are simply unintelligent.

Rahm Emanuel and certain Chicago councilmembers (or whatever term they use there) announced their intention to stop Chick-Fil-A from moving into Chicago on the basis that its owner happens to be against gay marriage. Mitt Romney never said anything so ludicrous as proposing the imprisonment of the poor on the basis that they are poor.

[regexcellent]

Ah, so we can now bash politicians for things that they haven't actually done but which we're pretty sure they would have if they could?

So anyway I hear that Romney wants to imprison all US citizens who earn less than $100,000 a year and harvest their organs to sell to rich foreign businessmen. Shame about that little thing called a constitution, Mitt you monster!

You are a massive dumbass. Posibly the worst part is how you tend to attempt to bolster your arguments by calling yourself a British conservative and ascribing your leftism to the differences in politics across the Atlantic. I have met British conservatives and you are not one of them. You are simply unintelligent.

Rahm Emanuel and certain Chicago councilmembers (or whatever term they use there) announced their intention to stop Chick-Fil-A from moving into Chicago on the basis that its owner happens to be against gay marriage. Mitt Romney never said anything so ludicrous as proposing the imprisonment of the poor on the basis that they are poor.

[kentonio]

You are a massive dumbass. Posibly the worst part is how you tend to attempt to bolster your arguments by calling yourself a British conservative and ascribing your leftism to the differences in politics across the Atlantic. I have met British conservatives and you are not one of them. You are simply unintelligent.

You wouldn't know a UK conservative if one walked up and punched you in the face.

Positions of the modern UK conservative party..

-Will push for gay marriage to be legalized by 2015
-Overall spending on the NHS will rise every year
-Providing extra education funding for children from disadvantaged backgrounds

That sounds like a UK version of the Republican party to you? Once upon a time there were clear ideological relationships between the Tories and the GOP, but you've turned into such a bunch of heartless tossers that even conservatives in the UK look at you with disgust and contempt. Mitt Romney wouldn't be able to win an election to a town council here, and many prominent Republicans would have been charged with hate crimes for the nasty hate mongering crap they spout about muslims.

Mitt Romney never said anything so ludicrous as proposing the imprisonment of the poor on the basis that they are poor.

No, he just wants to tax them more, remove their social safety net, environmental protections, worker rights etc, and keep them as a permanent underclass his buddies can exploit to increase their shareholder profits.