Those People Over There Are The Problem!
Acceptance Village, Alabama. A new study conducted by Professor Iblameyou of the University of Chicago was released today which found that all of the problems in the world today are caused by other people. “These results are amazing,” said Professor Iblameyou. “I surveyed over two thousand people from every part of the globe over the past three years and found, every time, that people blame other people for everything wrong with the world and with themselves. Clearly, these results indicate that the problem of other people is plague-like and simply must be eradicated before life on earth comes to a screeching halt. I would have released these results sooner, but the assistant I had working with me on the project was rather slow in putting the data I gave her together so I had to delay publishing this report. Last time I’ll work with her, I tell you that.
My study also found that when groups of other people act together, they’re even more damaging than when they act alone. Sometimes other people will form into groups, or countries even, that are very different from you and yours. When this happens, chaos ensues. These “other” groups start to act as if they’re as good as you and your group. Name-calling almost always follows. Fighting follows this, and soon, full-scale wars have erupted. We must act now to end the problem of others, a.k.a. those people over there. I’ve started an online group called End All Others Now. Our purpose is to make all others become just like us for the sake of the planet and all humanity. You can join the group at othersblow.com for the nominal fee of 50 dollars. Hope to see you all join – unless, of course, you’re one of them. If that’s the case, don’t bother because you’re not part of the solution, you’re the problem.”
The Arm Chair Pontificator 
Well of course it’s other people! It’s ALWAYS other people 😉
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That’s what tRump says, and when has he ever been known to be wrong? 🙂
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Ugh!
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😀 ❤ ❤ ❤
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Sure thing.
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Great post! I think you will like this: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LaughAtReligion/
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Good stuff. Thanks.
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I knew it!
Other bloody people! I knew it was them!
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The buggers!
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Funny. 🙂
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Thanks.
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By the way Jeff, here is ONE such “group” I speak of — actually most all of my home state:
http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/texas-senate-votes-to-allow-county-clerks-to-refuse-issuing-same-sex-marriage-permits-9362348
This utterly infuriates me to no end!!! 😡
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Ain’t no place like Texas, eh.
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Never… and hopefully there never will be too. LOL 😉
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Ummm, this is not a joke right? This is actual and factual true-blue thinking that is now epidemic so I HOPE this isn’t satire and is truly a reflection of several/many human groups… RIGHT!!!? 😛 😉
Hahahahaha!
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I believe so.
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He who smelt it
Dedt it
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Something to say on an elevator.
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Seriously, no truer words have ever been spoken. The mentality of blaming others, while absolving oneself of all responsibility, was addressed by satirist P. J. O’Rourke (surprisingly, a lifelong Republican) at the Commonwealth Club after the election:
“America is experiencing the most severe outbreak of mass psychosis since the Salem witch trials of 1692.”
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Could not agree more. Why should I blame myself or see my own faults when I can blame everything on “them”?
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Thanks for that. My perception of the WaPo article wasn’t that lazy people are abusing SSDI, but that desperate workers are resorting to it because they have no other choice. Workers struggling to survive often suffer stress-related health problems, and this can qualify them for SSDI.
My town is one such down-on-its-luck, blue-collar, predominately white community. Poverty, drug abuse, domestic violence, petty crimes, and lots of people dependent upon government programs, is the depressing way of life here. I know many, many people receiving assistance. It ain’t pretty.
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Apologies. Didn’t mean to direct that toward you.
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Does this explain why the Alabama legislature thinks churches should have a police force?
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The others who think that are wrong.
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It’s effing unbelievable
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True.
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I went to the site to sign up but someone else must have beat me to it because it couldn’t be reached. Disgusting how those other people get in the way of good deeds.
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The buggers.
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Sartre was right: ‘Hell is other people’
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Indeed.
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The Onion would love this. . . 🙂
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I know, but they don’t accept submissions. They’re one of “them” I guess. 🙂
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Their loss. . .
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Very much so. 🙂
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