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Way to unnecesarily explain the original joke, there.
Damn, ninja’d.
Me too. Those ninjas are efficient.
Irony detection failure.
Absolutely… what a prick…
*Sigh* This is why the rest of the world thinks all Americans are retarded.
/One/ of the reasons.
Naw, we don’t think ALL Americans are retarded… just that the sane & intelligent ones are outnumbered, and frequently out-shouted.
Thanks. We few are still here, and still fighting for sanity…foolish though our efforts may seem.
Thank you for being one of the sane other members of the world and not generalizing ALL American’s as f**king retards. You’ve made my day.
I waver back and forth about the outnumbered part, its so hard to tell sometimes precisely because the out-shouted part is without a doubt correct. Do we hear the roar of a majority or are the stupid ones really just that loud?
Either way, its good some people realize its not everyone.
Wow, “unknown” is a moron.
Not just him. Three-thousand people voted this up.
“Why they think” or “How they know”?
Then tell them to GTFO . Can’t they tell we don’t want them here and , they can each take an african with them . That’ll raise the American IQ
I’m guessing they can take you too. In view of the fact that all of mankind evolved from Africa (please note the capital A) by taking you they’d definitely raise the US IQ!
You are an idiot.
Rahowa is a good deal worse than that. Look for him/her/it in a white robe with a pointy hood, burning crosses on people’s lawns.
Also the fact they use the word retarded so much, which literally means ‘lated’, which is stupid in itself.
It also means “to hinder”. To be mentally retarded is to have your mind hindered.
Wait, what?
Even if you were going to be so obtuse as to use verb definition instead of the adjective definition, it still means to slow or impede. It doesn’t mean ‘late’, which isn’t a verb anyhow.
*groan* Did you really fail to see that that was the whole point of the original caption? The irony was pretty blatant.
you idiot – that’s the whole point of the original picture!
l2Sarcasm.
*yourfacemypalm* Sarcasm is difficult, I know.
Yeah, just….. get lost. The original joke worked. The re-iteration makes it to the front page.
Why do be bother having accounts anymore? This site is lost.
f**k you too buddy.
Oh, Overlolrd, was this poster yours? Yeah, it sucks.
This poster is a “Not Getting Sarcasm” fail!
ahahahah indeed, you someone should do another demotivational out of this with the following:
“GETTING A JOKE
you are doing it in the wrong way”
aahhahaahha
oznerol – ahahahah indeed, you someone should do another demotivational out of this with the following:
“GETTING A JOKE
you are doing it in the wrong way”
aahhahaahha
LMFAO – that’s a great idea!
Dustin made a ‘fail comment’ fail, failing to succintly summarize the fail.
So.. does that make it a win?
No, there is 3 fails
So, fail x fail = win x fail = fail
Give him a break . He’s not too bright , for a 13 year old with Downs Syndrome
The original’s subcaption was spoken by Stephen Colbert. If you didn’t understand it as satire/humor, fail.
Yeah, this is just someone showing they didn’t get the joke of the original poster.
Not only is the OP a moron, but so too are 3 out of 4 people viewing it, judging by the like:dislike ratio.
Double caption fail – there were already people living in North America when the first Europeans arrived.
Technically Immigrants. They are believed to have crossed into Alaska and worked their way South.
And where do you think they came from?
Africa
years ago I realized that the concept exemplified above, thinking you are clever for repeating a joke in a less clever way because you didn’t get the joke in the first place, needed an actual english word.
my friends came up with the term “shwhack”/ing/ed,
which was derived from the joke that was involved in an incident like this when we were finally fed up enough to actually make a word.
i suggest english get this word.
then we can have a shwhackblog.memebase.com or whatever
I have to be honest, sarcasm is hard to detect over the interwebs.
There may be another side to this.
Previous immigrants made a new life here, leaving everything behind.
More recent immigrants (and we all know who they are) have brought their petty bickering and jealousies with them, and demand we change our laws and traditions to suit them.
That is not immigration. It is invasion.
You are saying just the same things as the last generation said. The Chinese were bringing their culture, the Jews were bringing their culture, the Irish were bringing their culture.
You are just as bad as the previous generations of anti-immigrant people, the ones who beat the Chinese, the ones who tried to keep Jews from building synagogues, the ones who put the NINA* signs in their windows.
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*”No Irish Need Apply”
dude, its called a history book. try reading one
Well said…
Errr, they *did*. They came here to make a better life for themselves, and they truly became American. Many of the immigrants today (especially the Illegal ones) do not WANT to become American, but they want to enjoy all the fruits of our system. They enjoy the freedoms that our forefathers fought for, and then they have the gall to, say, put a Mexican flag over the American flag, or demand that we accept Sharia law in the courthouse.
You’ve been listening to Fox News too much. The immigrants coming here now want the same things as our ancestors did. They left Saudi Arabia or Egypt or Iran because those countries are horribly oppressive. Some still wear the traditional dress of their homelands (and so did Jews and Irishmen when they first came over).
The stuff about Sharia in the courthouse is plain nonsense. It’s just made up out of whole cloth. No one has tried that here, and they won’t get away with it if they do.
Fox News has gone to court for the right to LIE on the air, and won. You can’t trust ANYTHING you see there.
Look, I’m not afraid to say it.
The Irish need to gtfo and go back to Ireland. I will not eat your leek soup. No sir. They come in here and try to force their holidays, like St Patrick’s Day, on us, hang their Irish flags over their “pubs” (because apparently Bar isn’t a good enough word for them), and now they’re even running for public office. Go home! We don’t want your potato eating arse in our country. My grandaddy didn’t come here to see a world full of Micks running everything. We were good ol’ god fearing protestants, yessir.
You sir, are an idiot!
Leek soup comes from Wales, not Ireland. It’s also the reason the leek is a national emblem of Wales. “pub” is short for ‘public bar’, just like “bar” is. The majority of “good ol’ god fearing Protestants” came to America via Ireland….. more commonly known as the Scotch(sic) – Irish. Is there anything in your post that was accurate?
“Pub” is short for “Public House”. The “Bar” is the side bit where Workmen were expected to go to, with people in “fancy” clothes going into the “Lounge”.
Scotch Irish, seriously! The Scots (Spelling IS Correct) who were forcibly expatriated were also as a rule Catholic (circa 1750′s, 2nd Jacobite Revolution and forcible clearing of the Highlanders) and they went to Canada. Hence the fact the World’s Largest Highland Games are in Canada and not Scotland. They had nothing to do with Ireland, and the Irish who emigrated were trying to escape famine and oppression.
You’ll generally find that the Protestants who went to the US were from England, and the reason that the US is still a mainly Protestant Country is because they were the ruling elite. Hell I’m not even American but I know the fact that a Catholic was elected President was classed as major news!
The whole point of the US is it has been one group after another’s struggle to become integrated that has made the country the way it is. However never before has the media, and it’s own agenda that decides what happens and what people think (ironically in the case mentioned above, owned by an Australian, even if he does now hold a US Passport). What are the stats? 20% of US believe Obama is a Muslim, 2% believe he is a terrorist, 25% don’t even believe he is an American?
Fun game:
Try posting a comment on the internet so ridiculous people will know that you are joking. *Hint: this is impossible
Joke credit to XKCD
I think you missed Jack’s point. He’s using the Irish example to MAKE FUN OF what people are saying about more recent waves of immigrants.
Since when did the majority of Protestants come from Ireland?
I like you and your sense of humor. Good job bringing all the trolls out
We’re having the same problem in Australia right now. For close to two hundred years people of all backgrounds have immigrated here, and assimilated to the culture. In the past 10- 15 years, more and more people have moved here and kept their own traditions etc (which is fine, within their own homes and communties- but I’m called a racist when I try to celebrate being “Australian”)
These people come here (and to your country as well by the sounds of it) demanding the same rights as the rest of us, but don’t wan’t the responsibilities that go with it
They “became American” Then perhaps you can explain all the ethnic enclaves where the past immigrants settled in the major cities in the US.
Oh, right, because a few isolated pockets where people aren’t “American” – that is, where they didn’t learn the language, didn’t accept our values for life, liberty, and property, and didn’t, ya know, integrate with society – these isolated pockets completely invalidate my argument that immigrants 50-100 years ago are rather different from the ones nowadays.
Sorry, no. Before, they (by and large) came to settle in this country and join us. Now, most of the illegal ones are coming here just to mooch off our system and then go back home.
The legal ones, though, tend to be okay – our immigration system is less onerous than most other immigration systems, but it’s still a pain. Not many, I’d wager, would go through that just to go back home a decade later.
Your argument was made about the Irish when they came, about the Italians when they came, etc etc etc. Just look at the Mafia. Whole bunch of Italian guys who cared more about being Italian than being American. However, their kids became very American. Give the Mexicans a few generations and you’ll see the same.
True, there will be exceptions, but many of them, ya know, integrated, many learned the language, many accepted our laws… and many didn’t go right back to their home country when they got what they wanted from us.
Also, all of the welfare laws that have come into play since then make me VERY touchy about people coming in her just to mooch off the system. Back then, it wasn’t such a problem; if they fail, well, their failure is their own. Nowadays, if they fail, WE pay for it.
I think you seem to be blurring the history a bit.
The first immigrants that came over didn’t really “become american” at all. They were the founders of an American society. Before then there wasn’t really any American culture or society whatsoever. We had a fledgling government, very limited laws, and only 13 States. Being “American” really had no meaning, except (possibly) that you fought in the Revolution (but then a lot of French soldiers would have indeed been America–and in truth, many stayed here and made a life :O.
Anyway, America had an influx of immigrants that began to settle in pockets around the country, mainly in port citys and often in slums. You had Irish, German, Chinese, Italian, and all others types of nationalities, EACH practicing their own customs, EACH speaking their own language, EACH working in horrid conditions trying to make a life for themselves. They didn’t “become American” overnight.
It would be their offspring who “became American” because they would have attended public school, learning English, adapting the customs that were taught. Either the family would see these teachings as dishonorable to their ancestry, thus spiraling into the isolated pockets you speak of. Or the family would slowly, through generations adopt these customs. Moreover, these immigrant children (no American) would become politicians, financial leaders, and role models in society. And in turn they would add to American customs. You can even trace what ancestry parts of the country comes from by analyzing their accents.
Also the US took over large territories that were primarily 1)French-in the midwest 2) Spanish – in the west. And again the generational effect had to occur.
So you taken a very complex idea and reduced it down to “former immigrants became Americans”:”Immigrants today just want free stuff.”
But even if you look at the influx of immigration from Mexico from the 1900′s – 1950′s, most families moved away from the border. Mainly seeking factory jobs in Chicago. In fact, these families are highly integrated into our society. Many don’t even speak Spanish any more.
I would place a bet that in 100 years the Hispanic population you so readily complain about with be as much a part of the American society as the millions of immigrants that have made, changed, and remade this country.
Too long didn’t read …
Ah yes the real problem with the world today is comments like this, where everyone wants their information packaged into tiny two-sentenced quips, instead of reading some valid information.
And yet ironically, someone would read the entire page of comments to see what kind of mindless dribble people have posted, to which the sum of the dribble is longer than my post.
/sigh
How about this for invalidating that arguement: 50-100 years ago, as today, immigrants were largely shunned by mainstream society. The only place they found social acceptance was with their own kind. People who moved here from Italy therefore wanted to live near people who moved here from Italy, and the same for people from Ireland, or wherever else.About 1970, a professor of Games Theory ran a simple experiment to see if maybe segregation was happening by accident, rather than on purpose. Take a checkerboard pattern: two colors alternating, but place the colors randomly. The idea is each square represents a family in a house. Say that each family wants neighbors who share their values, so they want at least 2 of the 4 squares that touch theirs to be the same color as theirs. Each turn, any family that only has one same-color neighbor or less may trade places with a family of the other color who has the same problem, so each gets a neighborhood they like better.
In an amazingly small number of turns, the colors are all clumped together.
Because the Irish immigrants want SOME neighbors who are Irish Immigrants, they soon wind up in communities with nothing but Irish immigrants, and the same for the Poles and the Italians and the …. everybody.
UNLESS. Unless you stop thinking of yourselves as “(insert word)-American enough that what you want for neighbors isn’t a hyphenated word, it’s just “Americans”.
Which sadly means you’ll probably move away from those hyphenated Americans due to the same forces that clump them together. And then you’ll start complaining about them taking all the jobs.
Your rant is true in the same sense that water is dry.
Immigrants of yester-year did not assimilate any better than immigrants do today. And it was mostly for the same reason: because of people like you who treated them like intruders who had no right to be here.
You’ve been watching too much F*x N**s. It’s a lie. The vast majority of immigrants today come for exactly the same reasons our ancestors did.
And no one has ever demanded that we accept Shari’a in the courthouse. If they did, they’d be swatted down right quick. The biggest problem we have in this country is people attempting to apply Levitican law, which is equally inappropriate!
You’re watching too much of CNN’s lies.
Try living with a bunch of illegal aliens in your neighborhood.
The women are prostitutes.
The kids run wild.
The men sit around and deal/do drugs all day.
The collect welfare – many under multiple names in multiple states.
They get free health care.
Often they live up to five families to a house.
Then they go back to wherever they came from and another batch takes their place.
I have to LIVE with this. If they want to be here LEGALLY and WORK and CONTRIBUTE by all means, they’re welcome here. But I believe if you BREAK THE LAW you get PUNISHED. Period.
What part of “ILLEGAL ALIEN” do you NOT understand? They’re here ILLEGALLY. They are BREAKING THE LAW and therefore should be punished. Period.
Wow, no more classic spouting of nativist bigotry could be imagined. First, you’ll note that the post I was responding to talked about “recent immigrants” – and you know what, very few ILLEGALS are from Muslim countries. So how many Mexicans are demanding Shari’a law?
You go to talking about illegals because you want to lump them all together so you can disparage immigrants generally. It’s stupid.
Also, you’re obviously unaware that being in this country without documentation is not a criminal offense. Little subtlety there. It’s not a crime; it’s a tort. Read up before you rant (I realize this is like asking Osama bin Laden to study the Torah, but I have to try).
I’m quite glad to see some people come up with reasonable arguments.
Jamiesings, that was one of the stupidest comments i’ve read in all of my life on the internet.
Congratulations.
Well, doesn’t appear that the site wants me to respond to your bigoted rant. But we weren’t just talking about illegals, even though you seem to want to tar everyone with the same brush.
Somehow it still shocks me that there are people like you in America. When it no longer does, I shall despair.
Ah, I see the confusion. We are referring to illegal immigrants – not immigrants in general. However, ‘immigrants’ includes both legal and illegal – and, thus, we do have an immigrant problem… though that problem is mostly if not entirely with the *illegal* part of the *immigrant* group.
And, since illegal immigration is such a large portion of the immigration debate today, it does deserve to be brought up.
Well, I’m pretty sure it’s safe to assume that any debate about immigration is focusing on illegal immigration, not the legal brand. Legal immigration is one of America’s strong points; illegal immigration just plain sucks.
I don’t get what you mean by “people like you” either. He was making an observation about his neighborhood and environment, not anything wildly offensive…
The reference to Shari’a law in the post I was originally responding to belies your interpretation. Very few M o s l e m immigrants are here illegally.
And I mean people who say “immigrants” and then rant about illegal immigrants, as if all immigrants were illegal. They’ll back off when called on it, but the fact is, they’re trying to associate the resentment people feel for illegal immigrants across all immigrant groups.
This is the same technique used by the Bushistas when claiming that Saddam had “weapons of mass destruction.” They were maliciously misdefining that term to include chemical weapons, even though no chemical weapon causes mass destruction. They were trying to make people think he had nukes, which he never did.
Yes, because that describes EVERY illegal immigrant in the nation. It’s not like thousands are attempting to gain legality through education via the DREAM act.
W00T THE DREAM ACT! I hope it goes through…its not their fault they’re here illegally, they deserve citizenship if here before 18 Yrs.
Ah yes, the children ARE citizens if they are born on US soil… but that doesn’t mean that the parents can stay here. So, they have a choice; find someone to adopt the children, or take the children back with them to their home country. But the parents cannot stay.
You must be joking. The dream act gives in-state tuition to children of illegal aliens, correct? This is the most moronic thing any citizen of the United States of America could want for themselves. Think it over: any child whose parents came here against the law and raised them on money that was not due to them as non-citizens, can go to, say, the University of Oregon for the same price as someone who grew up right next to campus and whose parents paid taxes all their lives. Then someone from Idaho–a mere 400 miles away–whose parents also paid taxes all their lives, has to pay almost THREE TIMES as much for their education. How is that fair? Give to the system and lose.
Free money for illegal aliens means no money for legal citizens.
I have no problem, culturally, racially, linguistically or whatever-ly with any group of immigrants that wants to come here. But LORD people, why are we giving our support money to people who don’t pay taxes????? The system is leaking money and that is going to be the problem in the long term.
there are also enough citizens that behave in that manner. how about also making them illegal? oops, that would mean you’d be illegal too.
your grandfathers were also living with their 10 friends in the same stable!
and your grandmothers were also prostitutes at the saloon’s!!!!
they were killing the real americans and searching for cold!
they were bringing black “aliens” because they were too lazy to work in the fields.
And now you, the grandchild of these good christians…- who by the way continue to kill people in order to keep their oil-generated power – you have a problem with the immigrants!
just think the irony….just for a moment…
Of course you are not to blame for your grandparents attitude…but at least, when you know that your today goverments help to create poverty and war around the world in order to command everyone (divide and conquer – balkans, middle east, etc.)…then you have no right to have complaints about the results (immigrants) of this policy.
“Try living with a bunch of illegal aliens in your neighborhood.” Lul, not their fault you can’t get a decent job that pays enough for you to move out.
And all Christians I live around are the Westboro Baptist kind, or come pretty darn close.
Stereotypes are fun!
Jami, before you go on a rant about immigrants, first learn a little bit of facts. Illegal immigrants go to your country because of the economycal opportunities. Without them, your economy would collapse, and it would’ve collapsed in the 1950′s if it wasn’t for Mexican immigrants (Operation Brazero). Also, there’s a great difference between justice and legality. The immigrants caught are sent to jail because of such horrendous crimes such as:
Driving without license
Drinking in public
Transiting Arizona without papers
Is that how everyone in the U.S.A. lives? They need to have their papers close because of some immigration nazis? What about the whites who live there everyday? Do they also need to show their papers? Also, many of those immigrants are humilliated at local jails where they are forced to use pink underwear and are sentenced to many years in prison. Legality =/=justice
Attempts to apply Shari’a law in the US are more heard of than seen, it’s true, but it has actually happened in European countries, including merry old England. One supposes that the recent up-swing in banging that drum with regard to the US is meant to preempt any such notion from gaining acceptance.
There’s a backlash against multi-culturalism rising, and I for one approve. All cultures are NOT equally respectable. Some are qualitatively better than others, and the difference can be recognized. That’s not to say that American culture is perfect; it isn’t. It’s just got a lot of very good features. Hence the reason why immigration is a topic for discussion. If American culture wasn’t desirable, people wouldn’t be trying to immigrate in the first place.
As for immigration vs invasion, that’s an easy question to answer. Do their kids born in the US speak English, as well as their parents’ language? If they do, it’s immigration. If they don’t, it’s invasion.
One supposes that the recent up-swing in banging that drum with regard to the US is meant to preempt any such notion from gaining acceptance.
No, it’s meant to make people fear and hate M o s l e m s. It’s a divide-and-conquer strategy.
We don’t need to combat it by such means, because we have this thing called the First Amendment here, specifically the part called the Establishment Clause, which keeps any religion’s viewpoint from becoming the law. Mind you, Christians have gotten away with violating it for a couple of centuries now, but the idea that S h a r i ‘ a would be so favored is facetious at best.
Well, when M o s l e m s believe in a ‘holy’ book written by a mad conquerer who killed thousands, and when the main method of conversion in I s l a m was by the sword, and when the major M o s l e m countries basically KILL anyone who converts away and treats anyone who isn’t their religion like second class citizens…
Forgive us for not trusting people who subscribe to such an ideology; the very BEST thing they can do is take it completely out of context and make it, ya know, non violent.
I have a to-do list for you:
1-Take a closer look at the old testament.
2-Read the “holy book” you’re so down on here.
3-Compare T a l i b a n to K K K. And I mean historical, Politically-involved and widely-accepted K K K.
4-Think before you speak.
I have a to-do list for you.
1-Take a closer look at the B i b l e.
2-actually read “holy” books before you talk trash about them. I believe you will find preachings of tolerance and peace.
3-compare certain white-pointy-robe-wearing CHRISTIANS to certain people who do despicable things with airplanes.
4-Think before you speak.
All wise recommendations, but I fear they will fall on deaf ears. the person to whom you address them is already locked into an Us vs. Them mentality, and will defend it against all assaults, including facts.
OK, this site is apparently trying to keep the real issue from being discussed. I tried three different ways to post a reply to this and none of them would post.
Apparently the site has decided that the name of a certain Abrahamic religion that isn’t Judaism, Christianity, or Baha’i is obscene.
Way to fight bigotry, site.
‘Attempts to apply Shari’a law in the US are more heard of than seen, it’s true, but it has actually happened in European countries, including merry old England.’
No, it hasn’t. Get your dratted facts about my country RIGHT.
Actually, they have. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPod-hxD7g <– seems to show just how little they regard our laws. This group of people doesn't wanna come into our country and integrate and respect our freedoms; they want to come in and, if they can, make it another Muslim state.
I watched the video. The security force’s hostility was obvious and scary. It is hard to watch people who should be adults use such petty means to get what they want.
Actually, they do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPod-hxD7g
They do not care about our Constitution, our freedoms, our liberties. If they had the power, they would make the US just another M u s l i m state (yes, apparently they have blocked that word >=/ )
“[T]hey want to impose Shariah Law”.
Sharia (Arabic شريعة Šarīʿa; [ʃaˈriːʕa], “way” or “path”) is the sacred law of Islam.
-Wikipedia
Mexicans are mostly catholics.
don’t be so hard on him, he probably can’t tell brown people apart
Why should he ? Mud is mud
I’d just like to say “Death to the ‘White Race’.” Preferably by as much interbreeding as possible. Goal: there will be no one of purely European stock (you know, people like me) on the planet by 2100.
Just so you know. You racist POS.
And white trash is white trash.
Your racist comments aren’t appreciated. Being Mexican does not make me less of a person than you.
If you hate everyone of color, then why don’t you move to Antarctica? I’m sure America would be a bit better with every bigot like you that moves there.
Although I’m pretty sure you would call the penguins out for being black, too.
Yes, I know that. Did I limit illegal immigrants to Mexicans?
Blargh, dunno why it didn’t show up the first time I posted >.<
Anyway, as for "Levitical Law" – sorry, but since such laws (that is, no working on sundays, no alcohol sales on sundays, anti-soddomy laws, etc) have been slowly but surely been stricken down in courts – and rightly so – there's really nothing to worry about from that front. But when people who threaten to burn Q u a r a n s are threatened with lawsuits and bodily harm, whereas people who make 'art' by submerging a crucifix in human waste are given government money…
Yeah. I don't think so. We're not moving towards Levitical law (though I agree that it would be bad if we did), we're moving towards Sharia.
Levitican law is still, too often, used as a justification for denying things like marriage equality.
I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that we’re “moving toward” Shari’a law in this country. There may be a few occasions where it pops up as a consideration, but then so has Jewish law (a law in New York tried to make it impossible for a Jewish man to get a legal divorce unless he granted his wife a Jewish divorce…good motive, but unconstitutional), but I don’t see it informing legal discourse in any general or widespread way. I still think you’re succumbing to scare tactics.
They truly became American. As in: they first defined what “American” was, completely ignoring that there were settlers there before them with completely different customs, religions, laws, societies. That’s what the first immigrants did. And before that, at some point, those who we call “Native Americans” immigrated there as well. And before that who knows.
Ah, then you agree that we should fight tooth-and-nail to preserve our way of life, rather than allow another culture to subvert us? ^.^
Uh, guys?
I wasn’t talking about Mexican immigrants.
I was referring to the ones from South Asia.
Again, this exactly echoes comments about immigrants for hundreds of years. They don’t want to be American, they want to be Italian, they want to be Irish, they want to be Polish. They won’t follow our laws, they will only follow the Pope.
Every generation of bigots thinks their prejudice is valid. It never is.
Hear, hear. Thank you.
Boy, the stupids are coming out on this one, aren’t they? If more people would think like (or even just listen to) you, America would a) be a better place and b) have a better reputation.
^ “If more people would think like …you [ie, me]”
I cannot even begin to express how much I hate this attitude. Hate hate hate hate hate. Your [ie, his] way of thinking is NOT the best way to think, nobody’s is. Calling other people “stupids” for their opinions is ridiculously condescending. Stop high-five-ing each other for thinking alike and accept that your opponents may have valid claims, claims you should try to think through rather than dismiss as “stupid”.
/endrant. As for Rey’s comment; the point is not that today’s immigrants face the same criticism/prejudice as yesteryear’s: this will always be true as people will always, always, always be afraid of what they are not used to. Not saying it’s okay, just that it is part of the nature of human society. The point is that today’s immigrants, especially M u s l i m s (this is so annoying btw, wtf site?) don’t see themselves as Americans and don’t wish to be American, leaving room for the Faisal Shahzads and Anwar al-Awlaki and Hamid Hayats of the world. They aren’t isolated cases either, as they’re the products of their environments and communities. I don’t think it’s a necessarily invalid claim.
*facepalm*
Absolutely! I recall the first settlers perfectly adapting to Native Americans and integrating without causing any new social problem!
Oh wait…
Guess what? There was no Native American nation. There were only a bunch of tribes, and very few of those recognized any sort of human rights, and many *violated* human rights on a regular basis (and, ya know, killed the ones that didn’t).
They were called ‘savages’ for a reason. Complain all you will about America, but the political advancements alone were worth it, let alone the technological, medicinal, educational, spiritual, etc, advancements that were made, and would not have happened if America was not settled by the English settlers.
Yeah, it sucks that the original settlers didn’t treat them better, but the descendants of the Native Americans are living far, far better lives than they otherwise would have.
Thankfully for us, all those “Native Americans” (f**k you, Indians) were already Christian. Thankfully, the colonies already had a democracy before a bunch of immigrants decided they wanted one. It’s just too bad that these “more recent immigrants” didn’t come here to take advantage of the laws and freedoms we enjoy, but rather to change and destroy all of them. It’s too bad that they couldn’t have just come here to make a better life for themselves and their families. Thankfully, those “previous immigrants” were nothing like these “more recent immigrants.”
Uhm… yeah? And what about the native americans, who were just living in their villages? They were just all killed by the new immigrants, who are the actual “americans”. Honnestly, I prefer the actual immigration, much less violence.
its always interesting to see the the polarized ends of the immigration issue. People get uptight REAL fast when they hear anything they don’t like.
Personally, I do like immigrants. Many are very nice, and have lots to contribute. I am friends with several first-generation immigrants myself. I wouldn’t call it an invasion like imillard.
But I also don’t like the mentality that downplays the role of the European settlers. Yes, indeed they were immigrants too. But they *did* come with nothing. They got a slab of land and the instructions: don’t die. They got the fun job of clearing land without all of today’s convenient technology, and couldn’t just facebook their family back home. Winters were cold and harsh, and work was hard. And yet they built up the land, and laid down the framework for society (granted, at the expense of the native americans… that’s another issue for another time).
The original settlers performed quite a feat – and many did so without slavery of any kind. Why do people outspokenly defend today’s recent immigrants as being on such equal footing? They didn’t have to do nearly as much.. and in fact, our countries cater to them to an amazing extent until they get settled, and then beyond. And you can bet that many of them wouldn’t be making the trip if north america was still a forested wilderness devoid of modern conveniences.
I agree. The damn Irish came over here demanding that we end discrimination over them, make them eligible for public office, quit sending them off to die in our wars. Who the f**k do those Irish bastards think they are? Leak soup? I will not eat your God damn leak soup. And they’re trying to change our traditions, making us celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and bull s**t like that.
Oh that’s right. The “original” immigrants brought no petty bickering and jealousies with them to this “unconquered” and new land. They didn’t bring their WASP-y prejudices and certainly didn’t f**k over the natives by demanding that the natives change their way of living and religion.
Are you f**king kidding me? Get off your high horse.
Those ‘laws and traditions’ were brought over by boat, you know. What we call the ‘original’ immigrants (even though natives were already there) forced their laws and customs on the people already living there, those who they didn’t kill or lock away anyway. There are no people in America who have a right to lecture people over the internet saying that immigrants need to respect the culture of the natives, since the only ones who aren’t being hypocritical by doing so don’t get very good wifi in their tipis.
Er…no. Even the “natives” who were already here were immigrants from Asia. All of human history is about migration and immigration. The only problem is, there haven’t been immigration laws until roughly 3 centuries ago. Now that the whole world agrees that every nation has the right to decide who enters its borders, illegal immigration is a valid problem and needs a good, fair solution.
Yes the original immigrants had such high regard for the existing laws and culture that they almost entirely wiped them, and the people who lived by them, out. That’s the proper old skool immigration that made America great
Oh right! The colonists really didn’t change the place, and accepted fully the traditions of the country. For example, they never attacked and killed the original inhabitants of the land. They also tried their best to be incorporated to the local tribes instead of pushing them away to build their towns.
They left their European ways behind and became truly american natives, right??
C’mon. If mexican immigrants are invaders, what can we say about the european colonists who entered the land crashing and burning the millions of original americans who occupied the land tens of thousands of years before them?
So you really want to compare a modern f**king Mexicans to settlers from the 1400s? you really want to go there?
Maybe if the original inhabitants figured out how to create a thunderstick instead of pretty pots they wouldn’t have been wiped out.
Yeah, right. Previous immigrants made a new life here — after they got ride of those pesky natives. Definitely not invasion ^^
You’re right, previous immigrants didn’t run roughshod over the people already here. Oh, except for those people that got intentionally sickened, killed, and relocated to reservations. Yeeeah.
Petty bickering and jealousies? Because the French, English, Dutch and Spanish all got along so well when they all first came over?
Look, immigrants haven’t changed. You just view them as abhorrent because you’re here, now. If you lived in Mexico, you’d probably be as gung ho about getting here as so many of them are.
Why the f**k do Americans care about immigration, your country is basically empty anyway
At least his heart’s in the right place?
Just not to bright in the head, I guess.
LOL You are right
No, you are Right
Agreed. I think the second guy didn’t get it, but the first person DID.
I agree with everyone else here. The dude was trying to be edgy and clever, but then he missed the mark completley… fffaaaaaiiiilllllllll.
Yep. This is an epic comprehension fail. And of course it’s posted as coming from “Unknown”. Anyone going to own up to being this stupid?
HEY LET’S ALL REPEAT THE SAME POINT!
he didn’t get the sarcasm ME=ORIGINAL THOUGHT!
The American Dream
To come to America and have your children complain about all the immigrants taking their jobs
I find it ironic because the immigrants I find irritating are the ones here against the law.
You come over legally, no prob. Welcome. Have a slice of apple pie and some dreams.
My Grandfather did it, I’m sure you can too.
Actually there was no immigration law in the USA for a long time. Only since the 30′s has it become possible for someone to be there illegally.
ummm no… There has been constant laws regarding immigration starting with the Naturalization act of 1790. Do some research please.
Thank you Kyle for having a brain. Thank you Jack for not.
actually, they’re both right. sorta. there have been immigration laws in place basically since the founding of the country-it’d be dumb not to have any- but only in recent years (the last 100 or so, recent historically) have they made it as challenging to become a citizen as it is. besides exorbitant fees to even come to America, you then have to wait five years and take a test only given in English-one that most Americans fail when asked to take. laws are important. but maybe we should hold our citizens to the same standards we hold our guests.
Exactly. My maternal great-grandparents had to come through Ellis Island and go through all those exams. Then on top of that have their name misspelled!
(Well, to be fair they had changed it three times already to try and hide the fact they were Jewish from those whom would persecute them for that….)
If people want to be here legally, I have no problem. I have a wonderful set of neighbors whom are here legally, he owns his own gardening company, she is a maid, their kids have gotten scholarships and are currently in UCLA.
The ones I have problems with are the ones here illegally, who prostitute their own wives, deal drugs, and some have in the past actually admitted to collecting welfare under four different names in four different states. The men sit around doing no work. They barely speak english. Their kids run wild. They have Mercedes and other expensive things.
That’s the kind of “immigrant” I want out of this country.
I get you may be trying to add an intelligent, well reasoned argument to this conversation… but you meant to say “who,” not “whom.” And this is a textbook example of a strawman argument.
…It’s not a strawman argument, whatever else it may be. Go back to school. It’s not misrepresenting the opposing viewpoint (ie that illegal immigration is the same as the historical immigration America is famous for). If anything it’s hyperbolic, not a strawman.
Actually, kinda is a strawman…the hypothetical superimmigrant in all likely hood does not exist , and is in fact a construct of fevered paranoid fantasy.
Oh, I understand. You are against imaginary immigrants.
Dude, face it you lost last Tuesday and are still sore. Face it, legal works and illegal takes benifits that being legal gives to your kids. You prefer for your children to go without for a illegal?
You need to understand that they are not all like that. don’t generalise.
all americans are fat anyway. Enjoy that? same s**t! JUst relax yourself, most illegal immigrants are trying to escape from somewhere worse off, be happy that you are lucky enough to live in a secure and stable country!
it might have escaped you, but jamisings wasn’t generalizing. in fact, she goes to the bother of talking about her immigrant neighbors that she likes.
then she moved on to say that some immigrants (ie, a subset of “immigrants” as a whole, as in *not* all immigrants) get in illegally and abuse our countries.
now, I will say this very clearly. many recent immigrants are law-abiding, respectful, and deserve a place in our society.
However, it would be stupid to say that *no* immigrants come in to abuse our hospitality. We can all agree that at one point in time, at least one illegal immigrant has come across the border and taken us for all we’re worth.
I believe there’s an excluded middle in your argument
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may I remind you of the very first immigrants to america? You know, those who brought their language (English), religion (christianity), took the land and slaughtered the original inhabitants? You think that was according to the law and customs of the Native Americans?
Actually, most Natives died from disease, not war. And they didnt have any laws, or common cause of defense. If they had defended themselves or killed all europeans as soon as they had landed then perhaps they would have had a shot. The US has a right to choose who can come into her borders, just like EVERY country has the right to so. Common sense.
the diseases you speak of were brought over by the Europeans, who also mostly withheld healthcare from native americans. Letting someone die=not much better than killing them
Also infected blankets etc were given out to Native Americans at outposts etc. Maybe people should check out Dead Man, gives people a bit of an idea of what really went on…
yeah, diseases that were brought over by the very first immigrants.
They did try to defend themselves at one point but bows and arrows don’t work too well against guns and cannons
Oh, well then it’s okay! Wait, no it’s not.
May I remind YOU of the very first immigrants to America? You know, those who came down from the NE across the Bering Strait (before it flooded), bringing their language (which evolved into what we now call the different tongues of the Native Americans), religion (mother earth, father sky to break it down into terms you can understand), took the land and tried to slaughter those who wanted to take it from them? That was the law and customs of the Original Native Americans. It’s called history, look it up.
Actually, you missed the first immigrants by like 50,000 years there. The descendants of the first immigrants to America were the folks who met (and interbred with) the Norse explorers who called it Vinland, and it was their descendants who met the english speaking christian immigrants a few hundred years ago.
The first immigrants to America came across the Bering Straight, and share genetic recessive traits with the population of Mongolia.
As for the European immigrants’ actions being against the laws and customs of the people in power at the time, point granted, but what are you saying? It seems to be intended as a rebuttal to the humorous observation of the cycle of complaining about immigrants taking jobs, but it doesn’t really do that at all. Are you suggesting that if foreigners would like to work in America, they have to conquer us first?
I vote for exporting America: “Don’t come to America, let America come to YOU. Apply now to become the 51st State. Don’t let Puerto Rico get all the glory; they’re practically a state already. How about the State of Baja California, or Kashmir? Or maybe one near YOU!”
DING DING DING INVALID ARGUMENT ALERT
I was wondering when someone would bring this up.
They would LOVE to come the way our ancestors did, legally and in masses. Sadly, we greatly restrict the number we allow in, causing them to sneak in.
Indeed, its sad for them that immigration is restricted. I bet there are many deserving families that will never make it over.
However, it bothers me a lot how people feel it is their absolute right to live here. Since when did it become our obligate duty to take in everybody who asks?
Indeed, since we have so much, it is relatively easy for us to accommodate people. And if we wish to help those who are less fortunate, it makes sense to let them step up onto our liferaft.
But our countries have a responsibility to look after their own people first. Even (and perhaps especially) recent immigrants should see the value in this. Imagine if you immigrated in a giant wave of people into the US or Canada because the new policy was “take in everyone”. How would you feel if the country then fell apart due to cross-cultural conflicts and a lack of spending on in-country needs? Suddenly, there are droves of people from england living in location x, kenyans living in location y, russians living in location z, and chinese living in location w. Pre-existing cultural tensions would come back, and the country might fall apart into many small nations, and all that welcoming “land of the free” culture would dissolve.
Don’t take what we have in north america so lightly. Just cause it seems like a rip-roaring place to be doesn’t mean that it can’t change if you push it too far.
^This. No prob with legal immigrants, huge problem with illegal ones. My grandmother did it and she was illiterate. Figure it out.
Err the very first immigrants didn’t come legally.
well, in all fairness, there wasn’t really a law established here either to make it legal or illegal.
Well, in all fairness, they pillaged as much as they could. The white man came to the Americas, slaughtered everyone, established himself and called himself “American”.
Let’s put it this way: an Egyptian man is an african, yet he’s not black. If he comes to America, is he an “African American”?
I love the way people use these vague, ambivalent tags for everything.
There is no such thing as an American to begin with.
Well, there is a such thing as American since it is a nationality, a name used to refer to someone of a certain country. American is just taken from the name of the country, its been that way for a couple hundred years at least now and I don’t see it changing.
Technically speaking, it can be used to describe anyone who lives in North, Central, or South America (considering that the continents share the title “America”). The only difference between the US and the several other countries is the fact we have “America” in the title, there for we are generalized as Americans.
In even more fairness, the Native Americans pillaged each other as much as they could too. Those WERE the laws/customs of that time. The first white people to come to America were weak and outnumbered…there’s no way they could’ve taken over if the tribes weren’t rivals themselves and as awful to each other as the “white man” was to them.
If there is no American….there’s nothing else either; no Indian, no Brazilian, etc. As great as a label-less world sounds, it’s probably not very plausible, at least not in our lifetime.
you are an idiot. learn your history before you start writting dumb S**t! This is why the rest of the world thinks Americans are dumb. Brazilians came from Africa, “Indians came from Asia. The first white people to come to America did so in mass and had GUNS!!!!! They died not because of the Natives, but because they were too stupid to grow food. F’n A
+1 completely missing the point.
But fine, I’ll play. How about this? Everyone came from Africa. The end.
My funniest experience with the later half of this post was when a born Jamaican but now British citizen was yelling at a guy for calling him African-American just because he was black and in America.
Well, so much for the American habit of calling Europeans “Caucasian”. Never got that.
Chances are, if your grandfather came today, he also wouldn’t be able to make it past the legal barriers erected since.
true that, during the industrial revolution, when most immigrants came, there was NO immigration restrictions. The government even encouraged immigration with an easy path to citizenship
P.S. counting only European immigrants, there were actually harsh restrictions on Chinese Immigrants at the time.
Yet people keep saying this country was not founded as a White man’s country . We decimated the indian population to make room for Whites . Like it or not , it is a fact . The vast immigrant infestation is comprised of indians from south of the border . Hey mexico . Your reservation is below the Rio grande . Stay there .
ACTUALLY….a majority of those South of the US border aren’t natives of that area either (as far as Forefathers go anyway). Mexico and South America were ALSO over run by European invaders from the likes of Spain and other countries. There are very few indigenous persons left in some S.A. countries.
*native americans
Right…because there’s just as much free, open room in America today as there was 200 years ago. Because it’s not like urban centers are already freakin’ dying from overpopulation and it’s not like every system we have, from Social Security to healthcare to freakin’ traffic, is overburdened with the load of 350+ million people (and growing).
There’s a reason immigration was easier then than it is now. If you think about it, immigration is more open today than it ever has been before–for most of America’s history, there’s been some sort of racial/regional ban on immigration.
Yes, but my grandfather never made it. He died on the Mayflower when he was 6 years old.
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and i’m guessing your grandma had one of those good old immaculate conceptions, eh?
What.
EPIC relative fail
1) he was a father at the age of 6?
2) Didn’t the mayflower leave england in 1620? That’s some amazing longevity in your family.
Yes, and the bigots and racists were just as hateful to your grandfather as the bigots and racists are to the immigrants today. The circle is complete.
and im sure the first immigrants went through proper legal process with the native americans
Do you have ANY concept of how difficult it is to get an American visa these days?
yea your grandfather didn’t have a 10 year waiting period… LOL
Yes, the original probably was supposed to be ironic, but there ARE people who really do think like that, so I don’t fault whoever made the second caption for “missing the sarcasm”
The american way of understanding irony…
To be fair, the second poster not getting the sarcasm in the original IS pretty demotivational.
This poster have “FAIL” all over it.
Has*
As does your paleolithic grammar.
Neanderthal response to exaggerate the point?
How cute; that immigrant kid is trying to get the statue of liberty with the old “pull my finger” trick. Don’t do it Lady Liberty, that’s some Old World stink in there!
*has. you fail
Stephen Colbert reference, people. The first poster is quoting him. The second poster, as many people here already pointed out, completely missed the sarcasm.
I wanna see the original, there was no need to do another lair
*layer
Stephen Colbert reference, people. The original poster was quoting him. The second poster, as others have pointed out, completely missed the sarcasm.
Way to ruin the joke, dumbass.
The joke is…
Actually, my ancestors came over here to make their own community and kick the indians out. We barely let the Irish come over, so the whole immigrant-argument is invalid. It’s only now we don’t force people to change their last names to something “American” when they get off the boat.
To whoever posted this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony.
someone should re-post this as an epic fail.
Understanding a joke fail…:|
Stupid liberal doesn’t understand witty liberal. Head in ass fail.
I’d say that’s a ‘head-in-ass’ win! Can’t get much better at having your head up your ass than that guy! (not that I don’t have my moments)
from some comments I’ve the feeling to be watching to a KKK meeting…
guys, stop believing all the lies you see on TV and start to read bookS…
Save our land
Join the Klan
Because books are invariably truthful.
At least when my grandparents immigrated they could speak the language and support themselves.
If you come to this country to find a better life and the American Dream you are an immigrant, if you come here just to make the place just like the one you left you are a colonist
Except after everyone came to America to build a better life and opress the natives, they stopped liking being a British COLONY. War ensued. But the original immigrants were In fact colonists, mainly from the rest of the British empire I believe. Way to integrate into the native society there and leave their own culture behind.
I’m not even from America but I still know more about your country’s History. Shame.
Wait, what? Oh, now I see the part where I said I was American. You have some great counterpoints in your argument too, showing your superior history knowledge. I am impressed.
http://picupload.org/i/7ab4077613fa.jpg
The difference is, why my grandparents came their 4,ooo miles they did so legally. ANd I don’t want to hear any s**t about how hard it is back in their home contries. That’s not our problem. MY grandparents had their own fair share of s**t to deal with in the U.S.S.R. during WWII.
Yeah, so if the laws on Soviet immigration had been as restrictive as the laws are now on Mexican immigration, no one should have had any sympathy for conditions in the Soviet Union, right? No matter what Stalin did, “tough s**t, it’s illegal.”
Некультурный идиот.
*face-explosive*
Ah. Lost irony. The worst kind.
genial in pula mea
Well, MY forefathers walked 20000 miles of ice and death, through the Bering strait by foot and in small wooden canoes by sea, thousands of years before those pesky immigrants came to take our jobs, land and lives.
20000 miles? So, they took the long way round? Wouldn’t it have been easier to go 5000 miles the opposite way? I can see where your intelligence stems from….
Frankly, if your ancestors weren’t trying to drive away the English, French, Spanish, Dutch and Portugese back in the 15th to 17th centuries, you are an immigrant, too!
but what if i’m mostly white, but some of my ancestors were Native Americans?
Then you’ll bring it up in conversations, even when it has nothing to do with the conversation. The people around you will then sigh and pretend to find it fascinating.
(Also applies to Irish ancestry)
Win.
Clever win
So you’re saying I’m super-screwed? Because I’m Native American and Irish.
You think America has it bad. There will be a civil war in the UK before too long.
Any evidence for this?
Bollocks. Immigration into the UK has been happening for 2000 years. Everyone integrates sooner or later.
Wot, like the Romans? What about the Normans? I’m sure you woulda been quite happy about the Nazis too…
I agree. The Scots and Welsh want Independence! Any Religious Wars can get to the Back of the Queue!
my daughter is english, scottish & welsh! i hope she won’t develop a complex over this!
I’m English/Irish. I argue with myself a lot :p
Yeah, us intellectual Brits will be kicking the bejabbers out of all the chavs and bigots. And we’ll win too
The flames, THEY BURNS USSSS
Everybody immigrated here. No peoples are truly “from” this continent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
Yeah Dustin, exactly. The second poster didn’t get the first poster’s joke.
Your forefathers traveled over 4000 miles of ocean, presented imigration documents to a government official, learned how to speak english, and paid taxes.
*sigh* Yes, that’s the joke, thank you.
AHEM: native americans.
that is all.
Ahem. Walked across the Bering Strait, whilst frozen.
Sarcasm fail
Stotan1228 is right. This is EXACTLY why we think Americans are morons.
Golly gee willikers guys, i think that this poster guy missed something YA THINK?
These fights only happen because people on one side always drop out the crucial word. Illegal.
Yes, we immigrated here. Everyone did. Why is it different now than then?
When throngs of immigrants came in the late 1800′s, early 1900′s, we were a growing society. We needed bodies, workers, people with skills. When these immigrants stepped off their boats, registered on Ellis Island, and were on shore, they became Americans. Every race group has had it rough. The Irish, Italians, Polish, Germans, and especially Africans all had some difficulty to go through, especially the Africans.
This now. This is different. We have a system for legally accepting people into the US. Illegal immigrants break these laws by trespassing. Unlike the immigrants of the pictured era above, they do not pay taxes, add to any social collective, and actually use many tax paid resources as well like schools (California allows them to pay in State tuition) and hospitals (emergency rooms are treated like regular check ups). Anyone who does not live in a border state, say Southern or farming areas of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, we get the full brunt of the problem. People in other states can sit back and criticize all they want, but you don’t have to deal with the problem. I live close to Santa Ana, CA. It is one of the filthiest cities in the US, and it has the highest illegal immigrant population percentage wise in the US. Coincidence?
No. A natural disrespect for the laws, culture, and system of government of your host country can only lead to one thing, and that’s people marching in the streets, demanding more free tax money, more rights than they deserve seeing that they are not even legal residents, and more demands like being able to live their entire life in the US without ever having to speak a single word of english.
So of course there’s a natural backlash to such an, for lack of a better word, “invasion”. 15 million people not paying state or federal income taxes, actually get tax funded subsidies, and demanding we change our ways rather than them changing theirs.
Just a few days ago a poor kid named Cody Meyers was forces to take his American flag off his bike (the day before Veterans day might I add) since some hispanic kids at his school got upset. Yep, this is the world we live in now. Ask for some sanity, some regulation of the rules we have in place, and you’re portrayed as a bigoted racist.
Luckily the vast majority of Americans are still against illegal immigration and always will.
how do you know that isn’t a coincidence? do you have any evidence? i didn’t think so. And the legal system that’s so great? if you’re a skilled laborer, it’ll take about 20 years to get in, if not? then you’re f**ked
THAT was the joke. Foolish!
Thank you for ruining the joke, captain obvious. Moron…
Well, everybody in the USA besides the pure native americans descend from immigrants… Right?
Whoever made the second picture is an idiot who didn’t understand the first joke. The whole point of the first joke is that it’s ironic. The person who made the second joke took that irony seriously.
How did this failure of a demotivational make it on to the front page? And why does it have a positive rating? Every day brings us one step closer to idiocracy.
Obviously everyone can’t get a joke. The OP was obviously making a social commentary on how so few people get sarcasm anymore…… right? ……. right?! (to be clear, that was a joke, the op’s obviously an idiot)
MY ancestors (well, a chunk of them, anyway) walked over a freakin’ LAND BRIDGE.
So the rest of you can just all get the F*** OFF MY LAWN!!!!
http://cheezburger.com/xsebasxcsc/lolz/View/4171005184
This is the reason verydemotivational is going down hill. The first joke was funny, and the second just shows that the poster has no idea what the first joke was actually about.
Why are people arguing immigration here, over this piece of s**t poster. So stupid, can’t tell that the original caption was a pretty good ironic statement.
I don’t get it.
The second joke being made fun of by the fact that it “missed” the point of the first one. Dustin is acting as though they dont understand the second joke to be a punchline to the first joke, and is sneering at it in an attempt to seem smart.
gtfo troll
Just shut the f**k up and stop being a troll.
you now look stupid.
You make a very true point…
Also true, 99% of these these Demotivational parodies are just not funny. Only the original posters are actually funny.
Yea, it cant be a she cuz all she’s are supposed to be in the kitchen! Unless one of them finds the keys to their chains…
Yeah, it’s pretty stupid. Someone clearly doesn’t understand sarcasm.
/facepalm Whoever made this and whoever voted on this lack knowledge of the term SARCASM. The original was ironic ON PURPOSE. This is just as stupid as arguing about immigration on a cheezburger network site.
Thank you again, Captain Obvious. (Because you just can’t grind that point into the ground too many times.)
See, what I mean by that, and what plainly none before me has figured out, is that the person who put this together failed to realize that the person who put the original caption on was being ironic. By which I mean that they were making a point by saying the opposite of their intended meaning.
Are we all clear now? I would really hate to leave anything to inference.
oRly??
http://cheezburger.com/View/4173196800
Irony- some people don’t get it.
There is a difference between immigrants who come in the right way, and immigrants who don’t. If my ancestors can wait in SOVIET CONTROLLED EAST GERMANY for years to get permission to immigrate, the fence-hoppers can wait in Mexico.
818 skinheads
Wow. This kind of triple digit posting is the kind of thing I’ve become accustomed to seeing on Pundit Kitchen, not here…
I made a reply http://cheezburger.com/HumbertoL/lolz/View/4173613312
I’m tired of seeing all the racist remarks on here. It started out with how the maker of this poster completely missed the mark, but then everyone started to share political views.
Bottom line: I’m really tired of hearing how all Mexican immigrants are prostitutes and deal drugs and drink all day. I’m Mexican, and I find these comments offensive and clearly from some misinformed people.
I won’t call you stupid. You’ll have my hide. But I will say that you watch WAY too much Fox News.
Look around: Those people working on your roof in the hundred degree weather, only taking a five minute break every hour or so? Do they LOOK like they’re just bumming around? Immigrants have it much harder than the rest of us. A Muslim man in an airport gets stares and dirty looks, while a white man can get through security, no sweat.
Ditto.
I actually stopped hanging out on Pundit Kitchen because hearing the same political clap-trap over and over got… tedious….
Evidently, other folks had similar feelings. Unfortunately, they brought the clap-trap with them when they left. >:(
Political opinion pushers:
We know where to find you. If we wanted to hear them, we’d be there.
You are kind of missing the point too.
Immigrants aren’t the problem, immigrants from mexico aren’t the problem, ILLEGAL immigrants from ANY country are the problem, as they are (as much as it is horrible to say) generally not a positive force in the nation.
‘S’up, Dawg!
Listen, we heard you like this joke, so we went —
yeah, yeah, yeah– you all know where this is going.
First fail funny, your addition unnecessary and unintelligent.
did you know you can join the U.S. military without actually being a U.S. citizen? food for thought
Your point?
Nu-uh. Even their ancestors were immigrants. There’s no valid way to win this argument.
Jesus Christ, people.
It’s a f**king poster. Get the f**k over yourselves.
Have you ever tried to force your political correctness on to others so hard that you missed the fact that they were already being politically correct?
Wonder how long it will take for the progressives and liberals to start going at each other. It seems to have already started in Washington.
Moderates will continue to shake their heads in disbelief and go back to work.
Have you ever tried to force your political correctness on to others so hard that you missed the fact that they were already being politically correct?
Wonder how long it will take for the progressives and liberals to start going at each other. It seems to have already started in Washington.
Moderates will continue to shake their heads in disbelief and go back to work.
You nailed it, buddy! Some people just don’t get the point. To them, cleverness has to be a strange image and some pointless idiocy that’s funny the first time you hear it, but fails to provoke thought, and doesn’t really bear repeating beyond the first couple of times.
Plus side, it shows that the only thing holding up the immigrant discussion is the fact that even people on the same side don’t always recognize that fact.
F**king owned haha
First 4000 miles?
Second all them forefathers learned the language and custom, at least to some degree so as to be able to communicate and find common ground. That is why there talents were able to be implemented as a complementary force, and how they could live as neighbors.
NOT at all comparable to a foreign population producing a cultural insurrection and going out of their way to stand apart from the rest of the peoples in the area they move to.
Third…4000 miles?
London to new york is 2983 miles.
creator of second poster is Sheldon Cooper…. he failed sarcasm this tiem
My ancestors WALKED here, several thousand years ago . . . so yeah, get the hell out of my country.
There’s a grey area here, my predominant genes are british/danish but i do have native american in my family tree.
So, you can’t exactly tell us all to ‘get off your lawn’ when some of us are still partly your cousins.
Where do you live, kirkasant?
There might be a chance you are in Blackfoot land. If that is the case, start packing. My people didn’t take stray members of other tribes lightly.
I suggest you find your own land, too.
Dustin – I couldn’t agree more…I’m not even going to bother reading any other comments…just wanted to make sure at least one other person got this – I thought the original poster was funny…I think it’s amusing that someone didn’t get it….
The original joke was wrong to begin with. It’s ILLEGAL immigrants.. you know F**KING CRIMINALS we don’t want overrunning the country. The immigrants from the early 1900s came LEGALLY, didn’t just jump a fence. Send the f**kers back to Mexico where they belong. Want to come here, come here f**king LEGALLY.
not to present an old argument but; 400 something years ago you were the illegal immigrants.
Saying that people now has to come legally to your stolen country, is just silly.
This is the dumbest argument ever.
EVERY country has fought imperialistic wars, and yes even the native americans fought amongst themselves.
There are laws now, and those laws give a process to legally come over to the U.S.
Yeah, it can be hard to get this legalization, but there is a reason the put a bit of a choke hold around the people coming into different countries.
f**king irony, how does it work?
wow… apparently over 4000 people didn’t get the joke…
That’s an epic fail…
Reading these kind of arguments makes me actually quite glad that the initial americans left the UK. We really don’t miss you..
Not all of us are like that… just the majority of us seems to think that the minority of us doesn’t deserve equal rights…. Or at least that equal rights = special rights.
It’s a sad day when I have to get my political flame war fix from Graph Jam… Pundit Kitchen is too busy being Playboy Kitchen.
One day… ONE DAY… I will click on the comments section of something from the cheezburger network, and there won’t be a political argument going on.
Oh, who the hell am I kidding?
Well, there is a poster of obama talking about finding waldo, and the only argument is from someone who mentioned a teleprompter (and this argument is small, very small.)
Wait, ‘him/it’???
So they’re either a guy or they’re an object?
*Confused*
I agree with Dustin. The first post was ironic and funny; the second makes you want to facepalm.
Sorry, they emigrated from Siberia – they just crossed the Behring land bridge before there was anyone else around to care.
Irony……We just don’t get it……
captain obvious, strikes again
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