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News Archive; For the news that will never get old
Topic Started: Jan 7 2009, 03:07 PM (4,599 Views)
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That article is crap TGoz. It's like if I were to look up bad arguments for ending child slavery, then suggesting those bad arguments are getting in the way of truly ending child slavery. If there are people out there who will ignore good arguments just because they managed to find a few bad ones strewn about the internet, THEY are the ones worthy of criticism, not the 15 year old stoner on some message board who said weed would cure cancer. Cracked is usually cool but this was just a rant that people say dumb things on the internet. Wow.
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http://news.yahoo.com/army-amputee-thrown-ny-roller-coaster-dies-044044948.html

When you read it, it's tragic.

When you picture it...
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Jul 9 2011, 10:08 AM
That article is crap TGoz. It's like if I were to look up bad arguments for ending child slavery, then suggesting those bad arguments are getting in the way of truly ending child slavery. If there are people out there who will ignore good arguments just because they managed to find a few bad ones strewn about the internet, THEY are the ones worthy of criticism, not the 15 year old stoner on some message board who said weed would cure cancer. Cracked is usually cool but this was just a rant that people say dumb things on the internet. Wow.
Its an article making fun of people with certain viewpoints; can't that be in good humor? I'm sorry it offended you so much, but most of cracked's stuff makes fun of people/things, and you usually like it.

The guy isn't even against weed, it's just satirical humor man. Take it for what it is!
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I do like Cracked, but that's because it usually finds obscure yet interesting information and has an educational purpose. With this though, I just don't understand the point. He's intentionally finding bad arguments, then debunking them. He said at the beginning that he's never heard anyone say they just wanna smoke weed and be left alone, so clearly he's not looking very hard at the other side of the debate. I just think he propagates the image of weed smokers as uneducated rambling stoners, and I assume it's based on a personal opinion of bad arguments he's heard. That's fine, but that's just an opinion and seems better suited for a blog, where Cracked usually deals with interesting facts. There's nothing interesting to me about reading marijuana isn't some super miracle drug that's 100% good for you, whereas that piece they had on amazing things invented by Donald Duck was just brilliant.

Eh whatdya expect from a pothead? :P :X XD
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I do like Cracked, but that's because it usually finds obscure yet interesting information and has an educational purpose. With this though, I just don't understand the point. He's intentionally finding bad arguments, then debunking them.


i think the humor in the bad arguments is that they are regularly used, and the humor in posting it here is that all 5 of those arguments have been used in chat at some point or another by members
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But they're not regularly used!

His FIRST argument is that people say it will fix the budget, for which he cites a SINGLE article written by a college student as evidence. He cites it as proof that he's "not exaggerating" the claims that marijuana will fix the budget, but if you actually read the article, NOWHERE does it say it will fix the budget, only that it could generate enough revenue to pay for a single government department. He claims the article is about how marijuana will "save the economy", but that phrase is not used anywhere in the body of the article, only in the header, which is frequently written by a completely different staff member all too willing to exaggerate for the sake of readership (especially at a college newspaper!). Then as a kicker, the cracked writer calls the pro-pot author a "he" when it's clearly written by someone named Samantha. He clearly didn't even read the damn article, and yet he STILL had the gall to say he wasn't exaggerating. It's completely bunk. It's bullshit. It's phony. It's make believe. He invented an argument to debunk an argument. How is that not the epitome of a gigantic steaming pile of horseshit?

And throughout it he throws in the "Oh well don't yell at me, I personally don't care whether it's legal or not, I just think the cause of legalization is hurt by bad arguments". What a fucking copout. He makes up arguments, generalizes legalization advocates as dumb stoners, and then blames others for hurting the cause. This article hurts the cause because it includes blatant fucking lies. He can't hide behind that crap and pretend like he's being objective. There's bias against the stereotypical stoner throughout the entire damn article.

It's like sitting down for a political chat and I say, "Oh I'm open to conservative politics" but I continually make fun of Tea Party advocates the entire conversation and claim "Oh no I'm objective, I'm only making fun of the BAD arguments". That's horseshit, I'm taking pot shots for the sake of being a dick. Cracked can do better, this was shit.
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Also, what especially pisses me off about the whole concept, is that every single one of these arguments is built for the audience.

The American people sit by and do fucking SHIT while kids are locked up for doing something that these Americans claim they don't really mind. They don't protest. They don't rally. They don't write letters. They sit on their comfortable ass letting other people's freedoms (ones they claim to respect) be trampled on because it doesn't directly affect them. Of course all smokers wanna do is smoke, no fucking shit. But when we go door to door and say "Why cant we just be allowed to do what we want", people don't do SHIT. So we as potheads have to come up with arguments for why marijuana legalization will help YOU. That it will cost you less tax dollars, that it could help you if you get cancer, that if you support prohibition, your cigarettes and alcohol could be taken away. Because if we say we're doing it just for us, you treat us like shit. We get labeled, we get generalized, we get entire life stories written around us in the matter of a few seconds. People don't fucking stick up for other people. They stick up for themselves while innocent people rot in jail.

So who gives a fucking shit if the arguments aren't that good, they're only there because people are selfish fucking pricks who stick their fingers in their ears when the real argument is laid on the table: You don't have a right to tell me what to do in my house when it doesn't bother you. So yeah I get pissed when people come after the arguments made in the fucking appendix cause they're too fucking apathetic and unconcerned to deal with the crux of the fucking matter and pretend it doesn't exist. This cracked guy criticizes smokers for not just coming out and saying we want to smoke. Fuck him. As if we're allowed. When medical marijuana advocates testified in front of Maryland legislators, they were thrown in jail afterwards.

These supposedly shitty arguments are a desperate plea for someone to help us. And nobody is. So this cracked writer can fuck off with his snarky little comments.
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Jul 9 2011, 09:11 PM
The guy isn't even against weed, it's just satirical humor man. Take it for what it is!
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http://www.avclub.com/articles/yes-the-outlawz-smoked-tupacs-ashes,61151/
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"Return of the Welfare Queen"

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/23/politics/weflare-queen/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
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A study on psilocybin as an anti-depressant:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/23/magic-mushroom-trips-point-to-long-acting-antidepressant-drugs/
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http://news.yahoo.com/last-known-wwi-veteran-dies-110-152605465.html
"Those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter"
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9066337/CCTV-police-officer-chased-himself-after-being-mistaken-for-burglar.html
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http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/08/10354257-cnn-suspends-commentator-roland-martin-over-beckham-ad-tweets

yay!!! I'm glad everyone's feelings are no longer hurt!
"Those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter"
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Feb 8 2012, 06:50 PM
Enough with the political correctness! As our southern friends would say...

GOT DANG!
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Not really news http://www.budgettravel.com/slideshow/photos-12-elevators-to-ride-before-you-die%2C8201/?src=artrc
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"Punishing Kids Through Facebook" http://www.mobiledia.com/news/139656.html
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Babies born with withdrawals: http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/28/health/drug-babies/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

What a shit awful trend that needs to be reversed.
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Terrorist intelligence found in porn files -- http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/30/world/al-qaeda-documents-future/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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CNN's India affiliate's article on Extreme Rules. Except, uh, the photo they used .... not sure that guy is still on the active roster!

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/wwe-extreme-rules-2012-cena-beats-lesner/253451-2.html
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