Friday, August 27, 2010

Gas Station Pump Tells Non-Believers to Leave the Country


August 11, 2010 on WISTV

29 comments:

  1. "One woman says she patronizes this station solely for the reason that she likes the message."

    That's about the right level of rationality I would expect from a theist. 

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  2. At least he makes it easy to know where not to get gas.  Bigot.

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  3. Yet another reason not to go to BP

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  4. One of billions of reasons I could never become a Christian: I don't join hate groups.

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  5. Why is it that to these people "under God" is more important than "indivisible"? They really give the game away with these kinds of choices. Patriotism is just lip service to them.

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  6. And by "God", of course he means <span>his</span> god - so jews, hindus, muslims, etc. need not apply. This is a white, christian nation, god dammit!!!

    But hey, it's the free market at work, right? If you don't like it, don't spend your hard-earned money there... Like when Jesus sold all of those fishes and loaves at a huge markup to that crowd of starving people.

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  7. I'd never worn buttons or pins until I put a red "A" lapel pin on my jacket 3 years ago--it's still there.  This video has me thinking, again, about wearing something stronger; I really don't think anyone has a clue about what the red "A" means (unless they've read <span>The Scarlet Letter</span>). I saw a Flying Spaghetti Monster lapel pin (with "FSM" in the center) for sale recently, but I'm thinking that words would be far better. For example, I think that a "Faith is a vice!"  pin/button would be understood. If the Xn pukes can put their views in our faces, then I'm for doing the same to them; let them be disturbed every time they see one of us.

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  8. E pluribus unum bitches!  We old school.

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  9. Ok, when they stop to use technolgy and really trust God for everyting I will do that.

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  10. He's a Christian supremacist, just like the rest of the Christian Nation herd of freaks. In fact, I believe "Christian supremacy" to be a very apt description of their agenda. I don't know what else one would call the "7 mountains" movement--for example.

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  11. <span><span>If this showed up in my neighborhood....well, I expect stuff would be broken (to put it mildly). Bigots do not get a free pass here. </span></span>
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    <span><span>Is that report from Columbia, South Carolina? I think so. Damn! Those Southern fucktards really need to stop fucking their siblings and cousins; as the centuries roll on the devastating consequences of all of that Dixie inbreeding is becoming a threat to our nation’s stability.   </span></span>
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    <span><span>Perhaps those imbeciles should have the courage of their convictions and get the fuck out of our free, constitutional republic…again. Good riddance to them if they do.  </span></span>
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  12. This is about as unprofessional as it gets. Even if I agreed with the message, I wouldn't do business with him. Professionals do not bring their personal business to work. They leave it at home.

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  13. Wonder how long before BP tells him to remove it.

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  14. Chrisitian Taliban at work. As Sinclair Lewis said: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

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  15. The missing-the-point in that petrol station is epic!

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  16. What if enough people parked their cars in front of each pump and just sat there all day in protest? then if the cops are called, each person could act dumb saying they're having trouble operating the pump.( hence more time the station loses more $$.

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  17. Nah, it wouldn't work. Stations make almost no money (about 1% or less per sale) on gas purchases, the real profits go to the oil and refining companies- and the government, of course, by way of taxes. And if you charge it, credit fees put the owners in the red, which is why you might see cheaper rates for customers using cash - and that's also why rebate earning "gas cards" are very common these days... more money for banks and big oil.

    Private owners of gas stations make most of their money from that carton of milk decide to purchase while filling your tank, or that slice of pizza you realized that you were hungry for as soon as you saw it. So if you did procrastinate in protest, you'll probably get thirsty and end up buying a Pepsi from the owner anyway.

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  18. <span>Nah, it wouldn't work. Stations make almost no money (about 1% or less per sale) on gas purchases, the real profits go to the oil and refining companies- and the government, of course, by way of taxes. And if you charge it, credit fees put the owners in the red, which is why you might see cheaper rates for customers using cash - and that's also why rebate earning "gas cards" are very common these days... more money for banks and big oil.  
     
    Private owners of gas stations make most of their money from that carton of milk you decide to purchase while filling your tank, or that slice of pizza you realized that you were hungry for as soon as you saw it. So if you did procrastinate in protest, you'll probably get thirsty and end up buying a Pepsi from the owner anyway.</span>

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  19. <span><span>Nah, it wouldn't work. Stations make almost no money (about 1% or less per sale) on gas purchases, the real profits go to the oil and refining companies- and the government, of course, by way of taxes. And if you charge it, credit fees put the owners in the red, which is why you might see cheaper rates for customers using cash - and that's also why rebate earning "gas cards" are very common these days... more money for banks and big oil.    
       
    Private owners of gas stations make most of their money from that carton of milk you decide to purchase while filling your tank, or that slice of pizza you realized that you were hungry for as soon as you saw it. So if you did procrastinate in protest, you'd probably get thirsty and end up buying a Pepsi from the owner anyway.</span></span>

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  20. does anyone know if that is a fox station ... they only interviewed people that agree with it ... so it must be a fox news station 

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  21. They only interviewed people at the gas station.  If the message has been there a year like the report says it would have already driven away the business from people who don't like it.

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  22. I'm not nearly as upset about the fact that a business wants to cater to only believers as I am that they spread the lie that this is "one nation under god" while doing so.  It's the lie being told as justification for it that's the biggest problem.  People being spiteful and hateful isn't really all that damaging as long as their hateful statements are couched in the form of subjective opinion.  It's when they start telling objective untruths that there's a problem.  I'm not a fan of hate-speech laws because they tend to attack the wrong part of the problem - making it illegal to be hateful regardless of justification.   You get into just as much trouble for truthful hateful things as for false hateful things, and that's wrong.  The problem with the gas pump message - the ONLY problem with it - is the lie it tells about the history of the country.  The fact that it's hateful while it does so is secondary.Being hateful of a group is just plain bigotry.  Being hateful about a group so that you don't mind spreading lies about them, on the other hand, is propaganda - and that's a far far worse problem.

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  23. What a sick bloody country you Yanks have. Are all you people suffering from Poisoning by Religion. I have been there ONCE, never again. The best part of America is the Airport on the way out.

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  24. To the last woman who says she disagrees with God being taken "out of the system": God was never IN the American system! <akroyd> you ignorant slut </akroyd> >:o

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  25. Well that's the point, isn't it? I mean they seem to be running this as a nice little story with no controversy. "Hey, there's this patriotic message at the gas station and everybody loves it. They aren't even doing it for publicity! Good, eh?"

    I'm sorry, but if they were taking this at all seriously, they could have found at least one person to a least say, "well I'm not keen on it but I guess it's their right. Seems a little weird though."

    I wonder how they'd react if you walked in, explained that you didn't like the message you received when about to pay and told them that you were going to leave now. "Hey, you can't leave without paying!" - "Oh suddenly you DON'T want us to leave. Is that it?"

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  26. I'm reminded of what one newspaper said about South Carolina right after they seceded from the Union in 1861:

    "South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too large for an insane asylum."

    Somethings never change.

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  27. I agree that this part of the country is sick. However, rural Europe is not necessarily much better. Maybe the bigotry has a slightly different spectrum, and maybe there isn't as much rural area in Europe as compared with US.

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  28. If I were religious, I would thank God every day that I don't live in South Carolina!

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  29. If you look at a map of Union/Confederates States in the Civil War and a map of the split between Obama and McCain in the 2008 Prez Elec. the only real difference is that there are a lot more fairly empty states filled in on one of them.
    America was FOUNDED on the fact that there are TWO Americas. The two major and horrible effects of this were a free/slave State balance for 100 years (followed by near slave level discrimination for 100 more), and the creation of the Senate where every State gets two Senators. Both horribly anti-human rights/fairness/freedom and still paying the price for them both. The 'South' has never fallen.

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