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Flashfyr3 [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-12-04 6:48:27 PM  
18 votes:

Hunter Biden's Laptop Case: I swear every day this year has been me reading the politics tab and thinking, "maybe I was too hard on dubya..."


You likely weren't. He sucked. He sucked BAD. That's just how egregiously reprehensible the current cesspit of deplorable are.
 
ginandbacon [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 3:38:35 PM  
15 votes:
No. Nope. Nopee no no no. Nah uh. HELL NO.
 
BizarreMan [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 3:46:37 PM  
14 votes:
Afrikaans: Nee (nee-uh)
Arabic: لاor La(lah - "a" as in "yacht")
Bengali: না or Nā (nah - "a" as in "yacht")
Dutch: Nee (nay)
French: Non (noh)
German: Nein (nine)
Greek (modern): Όχι or óchi (oh-hee)
Hausa: A'a (ah-ah - "a" as in "yacht")
Hindi: नहीं or Hahin (nah-heen - "a" as in "yacht")
Italian: No (noh)
Japanese: いいえ or iie (ee-eh)
Malay: Tidak (dee-dah - "a" as in "yacht")
Mandarin Chinese: 不是 or bù shì (boo-shih)
Nepali: होइनor Hoina (hoh-eye-nuh)
Polish: Nie(nyeh - "e" as in "net")
Portuguese: Não (now)
Punjabi: ਨਹੀ or Nahi(nah-hee - "a" as in "yacht")
Romanian: Nu (new)
Russian: Нет (Nyeht)
Quechua: Mana (mah-na - "a" as in "yacht")
Spanish: No (noh)
Swedish: Nej(nay)
Telugu: ఏ or Ē (ay)
 
NateAsbestos [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-12-04 6:46:40 PM  
13 votes:
The POTUS gets to just unilaterally change the farking citizenship test?

Can you IMAGINE taking a "for real" test written by that farking idiot?
 
Purple_Urkle [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 6:49:07 PM  
12 votes:
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Hunter Biden's Laptop Case
2020-12-04 6:46:27 PM  
12 votes:
I swear every day this year has been me reading the politics tab and thinking, "maybe I was too hard on dubya..."
 
HugeMistake [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 4:39:27 PM  
12 votes:
One more thing for Biden to reverse on day one. It's going to be a hell of a first 24 hours.
 
Mrtraveler01 [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 6:48:53 PM  
10 votes:
Articles of Confederation

I still remain convinced that conservatives confuse the Constitution with the Articles of Confederation.
 
mrwhippy
2020-12-04 6:55:20 PM  
9 votes:
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Purple_Urkle [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 6:55:44 PM  
7 votes:

aleister_greynight: Purple_Urkle: [Fark user image 425x132]

B-A-C-K-W-A-R-D-S F-O-R-W-A-R-D-S


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Flashfyr3 [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-12-04 6:51:27 PM  
7 votes:

Mrtraveler01: Articles of Confederation

I still remain convinced that conservatives confuse the Constitution with the Articles of Confederation.


That question also notably left out the English Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, not to mention any of the works of enlightenment thinkers that inspired the sources of inspiration they do list. This test looks like horseshiat I would take a student-teacher intern to task over if they tried bringing it into a 9th grade government classroom, much less a farking actual citizenship test.
 
Skarekrough
2020-12-04 6:59:37 PM  
6 votes:

ArcadianRefugee: Trump's New Citizenship Test Is Full of Conservative Bias-And Dotted With Mistakes

and will only be around for 40-odd days.


You're an optimist.

This cyst on the ass of America is going to be around, in one form or another, for a very long time.

In losing he has made 20 million in donations.  20...farking...million.

The grift is not going to end any time soon.
 
Mrtraveler01 [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 6:58:26 PM  
6 votes:

Flashfyr3: Mrtraveler01: Articles of Confederation

I still remain convinced that conservatives confuse the Constitution with the Articles of Confederation.

That question also notably left out the English Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, not to mention any of the works of enlightenment thinkers that inspired the sources of inspiration they do list. This test looks like horseshiat I would take a student-teacher intern to task over if they tried bringing it into a 9th grade government classroom, much less a farking actual citizenship test.


Also fails to mention that the Constitution came to be because the Articles of Confederation created a clusterfark between states.

So it was really the failure of the Articles of Confederation that inspired the Constitution Constitution moreso than the document itself.

I think I would probably get deported if I answered the question like that though.
 
transporter_ii
2020-12-04 6:52:40 PM  
6 votes:
Here is one. A minority group can't win politically, so threatens to kill fellow countrymen. United States or the Middle East?
 
Day_Old_Dutchie
2020-12-04 7:01:35 PM  
5 votes:
31. Who does a U.S. senator represent?

The present majority in the Senate would be representing

1. Greedy people
2. Rural bumpkins
3. Bullying police
4. The God Botherers
5. Misogynists
6. Racists/White Supremacist
7.The willfully ignorant
 
Jgok [OhFark]
2020-12-04 7:53:36 PM  
4 votes:

Slide10000: aleister_greynight: Purple_Urkle: [Fark user image 425x132]

B-A-C-K-W-A-R-D-S F-O-R-W-A-R-D-S

See how things are interpreted differently by different people?  The way I read that, the answer would be:

B-A-C-K-W-A-R-D-S

And I would have been wrong.

Not that that's unusual or anything.....


Because of the comma, i would have answered "sdrawfor".

It didn't matter what answer you gave, though. The person grading your test could claim that any of those were wrong or right, and you had no recourse.

Stupid uneducated white man writes "drowfor"? Close enough!

Intelligent self-educated black man writes "sdrawfor"? Sorry, you were supposed to write "backwards"!
 
Bennie Crabtree [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 7:01:22 PM  
4 votes:
FTA: 14. Many documents influenced the U.S. Constitution. Name one.
• Iroquois Great Law of Peace

:D for real? Nice. I wish that more lawyers would reply to Originalist arguments by citing the Iroquois Great Law of Peace. (I've read a translation of it, and a translation of core oral tradition stories, basicallty various major examples of the jurisprudence for interpreting parts of the Great Law). It is no more cringeworthy than all the other legal arguments from before 1750ish, but it is also siginificantly better at modern (after 1750ish) principles for pointing out the consequences of disagreeing to the point of obstruction. If the IGLP is considered in the same list as the Federalist Papers then obstructionism will be easy to sweep away because obstructionism causes plague, war, famine, migrants are lost and become homeless, etc etc etc. Those principles seem, you know, very relevant these days.

I mean, I've also read texts from the Ojibwe perspective that point out from their point of view, the Mohawk (1 of the 6 Irogquois nations), are refugees who ended up in Ojibwe territory when a white settler plague prevented them from returning home. But even that argument sounds really, really salient in Covid times. Legal pluralism and refugee status during a pandemic? Yes, please, we need that.

Like, if that's the list of contitutional texts, America, do it. Dooooo iiiittttt.
 
Mantour [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 3:53:27 PM  
4 votes:

BizarreMan: Russian: Нет (Nyeht)

 да (Da)
 
Walker [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 7:02:26 PM  
3 votes:
Trump (and 90% of Americans) couldn't pass that test.
 
phlegmjay
2020-12-04 7:02:06 PM  
3 votes:

Flashfyr3: Mrtraveler01: Articles of Confederation

I still remain convinced that conservatives confuse the Constitution with the Articles of Confederation.

That question also notably left out the English Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, not to mention any of the works of enlightenment thinkers that inspired the sources of inspiration they do list. This test looks like horseshiat I would take a student-teacher intern to task over if they tried bringing it into a 9th grade government classroom, much less a farking actual citizenship test.


Not to mention, British common law.

And for people so obsessed with the 10th Amendment, the question on what rights Americans have is laughable in its brevity of specified answers. But that's probably a result of the states rights advocates caring less about individual rights than the powers of state and local governments to restrict rights. After all. They rarely talk about the importance of the 9th amendment. Certainly not with the same fervor.
 
ArcadianRefugee
2020-12-04 6:55:48 PM  
3 votes:
Trump's New Citizenship Test Is Full of Conservative Bias-And Dotted With Mistakes

and will only be around for 40-odd days.
 
edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-12-04 6:54:48 PM  
3 votes:
Interesting. I know four Norwegians living in Virginia; one married my nephew. Nephew's MIL and SIL took the test and were this week sworn in as new citizens. I'm sure they took the old test.

Niece in law and and her daddy have yet to take the test and will likely get the harder one. She's an attorney and he's a senior executive in a company. They are all also serious Trumpers. Like many, they are very excited to be in this country and see a great future here.

I will be amused is if they don't pass the test.
 
iron de havilland [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-12-04 7:25:15 PM  
2 votes:

Flashfyr3: Hunter Biden's Laptop Case: I swear every day this year has been me reading the politics tab and thinking, "maybe I was too hard on dubya..."

You likely weren't. He sucked. He sucked BAD. That's just how egregiously reprehensible the current cesspit of deplorable are.


Kind of interesting from an Overton window viewpoint, though, innit?

Next GOP president will be worse than Trump, and we'll be longing for the relatively sane days of Trump.
 
monsatano [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-12-04 7:16:34 PM  
2 votes:

aleister_greynight: Purple_Urkle: [Fark user image 425x132]

B-A-C-K-W-A-R-D-S F-O-R-W-A-R-D-S


Wrong. No vote for you.
 
Someone Else's Alt
2020-12-04 7:03:17 PM  
2 votes:
I cannot wait for these fascist scumbags to get tossed out of the white house.
 
DrD'isInfotainment [OhFark]
2020-12-04 6:58:43 PM  
2 votes:
Fuq'Trump. Everything he touch's not only dies, but in its afterlife, poisons so much that the people are hard pressed to wage a dire war of eradication to snuff out their delusional propaganda mercilessly.
 
Mrtraveler01 [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 6:51:02 PM  
2 votes:
So how long until we can chuck this test into the dumpster?
 
Purple_Urkle [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 6:50:43 PM  
2 votes:

Mrtraveler01: Articles of Confederation

I still remain convinced that conservatives confuse the Constitution with the Articles of Confederation.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Const​i​tution_of_the_Confederate_States
 
oa330_man [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-12-04 5:22:59 PM  
2 votes:

BizarreMan: Afrikaans: Nee (nee-uh)
Arabic: لاor La(lah - "a" as in "yacht")
Bengali: না or Nā (nah - "a" as in "yacht")
Dutch: Nee (nay)
French: Non (noh)
German: Nein (nine)
Greek (modern): Όχι or óchi (oh-hee)
Hausa: A'a (ah-ah - "a" as in "yacht")
Hindi: नहीं or Hahin (nah-heen - "a" as in "yacht")
Italian: No (noh)
Japanese: いいえ or iie (ee-eh)
Malay: Tidak (dee-dah - "a" as in "yacht")
Mandarin Chinese: 不是 or bù shì (boo-shih)
Nepali: होइनor Hoina (hoh-eye-nuh)
Polish: Nie(nyeh - "e" as in "net")
Portuguese: Não (now)
Punjabi: ਨਹੀ or Nahi(nah-hee - "a" as in "yacht")
Romanian: Nu (new)
Russian: Нет (Nyeht)
Quechua: Mana (mah-na - "a" as in "yacht")
Spanish: No (noh)
Swedish: Nej(nay)
Telugu: ఏ or Ē (ay)


Ain't no "murican" in there so it don't count.
 
DemonEater [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 10:03:35 PM  
1 vote:

minorshan: NateAsbestos: The POTUS gets to just unilaterally change the farking citizenship test?

Can you IMAGINE taking a "for real" test written by that farking idiot?

I'm certain he couldn't pass the test himself. This or any other version.


I took the old test two years ago and it's sad how many politically-engaged US-born friends missed at least one question when I asked them the same ones I got.

So yeah turnip has no chance at all
 
gameshowhost [OhFark]
2020-12-04 9:17:27 PM  
1 vote:

Purple_Urkle: aleister_greynight: Purple_Urkle: [Fark user image 425x132]

B-A-C-K-W-A-R-D-S F-O-R-W-A-R-D-S

[Fark user image 425x593]


*fewer
 
face bacon
2020-12-04 7:52:49 PM  
1 vote:
During training for my job we had to memorize hundreds of historical Canadian facts/events.

We would be challenged as a group and if we failed we would not advance in training.  The questions and some answers were skewed to the positive.

They left out stuff like this:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_​m​achine_(homosexuality_test)
 
TrashcanMan [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 7:35:51 PM  
1 vote:

iron de havilland: Next GOP president will be worse than Trump, and we'll be longing for the relatively sane days of Trump.


it's the next ( after Biden ) Dem President ya gotta worry about.  It could be AOC and lord....hungry people eating.  Homeless getting shelter.
 
Slide10000 [BareFark]
2020-12-04 7:18:27 PM  
1 vote:

aleister_greynight: Purple_Urkle: [Fark user image 425x132]

B-A-C-K-W-A-R-D-S F-O-R-W-A-R-D-S


See how things are interpreted differently by different people?  The way I read that, the answer would be:

B-A-C-K-W-A-R-D-S

And I would have been wrong.

Not that that's unusual or anything.....
 
Snapper Carr
2020-12-04 7:15:43 PM  
1 vote:
No.  Otherwise we'd be talking about Obama's 4th term.
 
phrawgh [BareFark]
2020-12-04 7:09:57 PM  
1 vote:
Where's the question about the reincarnated dead foreign joo who handed Jefferson the constitution on silver plates?
 
eddie_irvine
2020-12-04 7:05:33 PM  
1 vote:
If Vlad has 200 billion Rubles and pays Donald 20 billion Rubles, how many much of Donald does Vlad own?
 
Olympic Trolling Judge [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 6:54:38 PM  
1 vote:

Walker: Don't worry, they're asking for a do over in Georgia, so that should fix everything for him.
[Fark user image 850x1106]


The electors vote in ten days, so unless the Superior Court of Fulton County absolutely hauls ass, they can't enjoin shiat.
 
Nadie_AZ [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 5:49:11 PM  
1 vote:
Will this be changed next year?
 
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