"The Administration does not support blowing up planets." I guess we're going to have to wait until the Republicans are back in the executive branch.
Unless its Chuck Hagel or Rand Paul.
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#22As an American taxpayer, I applaud this use of my tax dollars.
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#23"The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it." The White House blog doesn't link to the source article, so here it is: http://www.centives.net/S/2012/how-much-would-it-cost-to-bui...
I see a link. Maybe they just added it? Or maybe you're saying the linked article is not the O.G. source.
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#24"The Administration does not support blowing up planets." I guess we're going to have to wait until the Republicans are back in the executive branch.
So many things to say, but really not the right forum.
Sigh. I laughed at this, it's a fun and smart response targeted to a sub-community that barely broke the threshold to get that response.
But let's be real. If your standard of 'blowing up the planet' is somewhat lesser than 'the Republicans'...it might make you feel better to say it but history shows both of them are plenty happy dropping bombs for no justifiable reason.
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#25"The Administration does not support blowing up planets." I guess we're going to have to wait until the Republicans are back in the executive branch.
I know its a political site, but please stay away from politics as shown in the guidelines.
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#26Now that they write a joke response to a joke petition, it would be nice to see a serious response to a serious petition.
There's apparently at least 96 responses so far. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/responses
Is 96 the real number? Since the search bar always says 'featured responses'. When you click the bottom bar to see more responses it does some delayed-JS-scroll action and shows all of 8 more results.
Unless you're really trying to increase the drop-off rate on each click, why make it so crappy? How many sites set their pagination to 8 items, unless they want users to linger on what was just delivered?
They don't seem to be very serious about the petition site. Good PR, and I guess I'm glad they have the option, but it's kind of a joke.
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#27I can't tell you how happy it makes me to know our federal government has a sense of humor.
I think we're about to reach a point where internet humor and government and humor finally converge. Congress has basically been trolling the American people (minus anyone actually getting to laugh about it) for most of the last decade, and they're finally getting trolled back by the likes of internet-driven campaigns like Mint the Coin.
I think this is a great development. As a DC resident, I can attest to everyone here taking themselves far too seriously.
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#28For all the talk of the Obama administration being anti-religon, they're relying on ancient myth to argue against technological progress
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#29"The Administration does not support blowing up planets." I guess we're going to have to wait until the Republicans are back in the executive branch.
"Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.
"You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.
"Fools.
"The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy."
- Sam Hughes, "How to destroy the Earth" - http://qntm.org/destroy
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#30Just hilarious! May the Force be with you!
I think the Farce is strong in that one. Seriously though, all it takes is a bunch of Star Wars reference to garner a bunch of Likes? No wonder there are so many actors in politics.
Everything that isn't a Star Wars reference in that response is fantastic and actually a little inspiring.