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PubOption's avatar

Are loaves and fishes socialist at Vacation Bible School?

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The Quirk's avatar

"Responsibility" is just another word for making someone else clean up your mess.

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Dashboard Buddha's avatar

confetti and small pox blankets

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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

The real lesson here is that the Liberty Patriot Instructor person is giving the kids' "Candy Investments" bogus triple-A ratings, which of course represents the bankers and their unregulated default swaps that nearly killed the entire world's economies?

Then, the lesson continues as the kids never ever bother to figure out that their candy-backed "banks" are filled with nothing but flavorless candy dust, because they are told to just quiet down, eat this anusburger, and look at this cartoon video of cats dancing.

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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

<blockquote>Children will blow bubbles from a single container of soapy solution, and then pop each other’s bubbles with squirt guns in an arrangement that mimics socialism. They are to count how many bubbles they pop. Then they will work with individual bottles of solution and pop their own bubbles.</blockquote>

Bubbles which pop on their own symbolize what, again? Tax cuts? Welfare handouts? Invisible hands of the free market?

I like the ingeniousness of these 'educators' ... you can just tack <i>in an arrangement that mimics socialism</i> on the end of literally any activity, and it will satisfy their analogy. Because, of course, Teabaggers / marks / suckers / Survival Seed aficionados will never ever bother to think through any of it.

The real lesson of this camp: a bagger and his money are soon parted.

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fuflans's avatar

i hope they remember to teach them that when monster wildfires break out in AZ public spirited citizens with buckets will save your house.

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fuflans's avatar

<i>Starting in an austere room ... symbolizing Europe</i>

have these people HEARD of the 'baroque' or 'rococo' or 'the vatican'????

oh. wait. of course not.

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Dashboard Buddha's avatar

Holy Cow, I too went to high school in FL andI had to take that same class. I think the name was Capitalism vs. Communism, though. Our teacher was pretty cool IIRC. Pretty much, "capitalism is fine, but it's not without its problems".

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Dashboard Buddha's avatar

At what point to they put 11 candies on the table and the Koch portrayor takes ten and the accuses the union portrayor of making the Patriot (child) share his candy?

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Joshua Norton's avatar

Do you know <i>who else</i> took young kids and force fed them ideological indoctrination?

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SheriffRoscoe's avatar

Tampa Liberty School in the am, Vacation Bible School in the pm. Teabagger kids in the Tampa area are livin' large this summer.

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Dashboard Buddha's avatar

On one hand, this is appalling. On the other hand, only the children of Teabaggers will be going. Still appalling, but it probably won't make the kids any stupider. ie- when you're at the bottom of the hole, you can't go no further.

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PsycWench's avatar

Totally off-topic but with Kirsten's arrival, I think the official Wonkette image should return to this <a href="http://tiny.cc/js8qg" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://tiny.cc/js8qg">http://tiny.cc/js8qg</a>

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SheriffRoscoe's avatar

Another example: Somebody symbolizing BP/Big Oil, takes a shit in the water fountain, while everyone else is forced to apologize because the fountain was too high for him to sit down comfortably while doing so.

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Joshua Norton's avatar

Plus the kids will get some great ideas for Halloween costumes.

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