We Should Ban Life Jackets & Other Flotation Devices

I don't appreciate Neatorama taking a political stance in a post one way or another. Nor do I appreciate the attempt by Neatorama to ridicule the beliefs and values of the majority of the population. I just found this site and am ejoying it's content, but if you wish to take such a bold political stance, I'll have to boycott this site and reccomend that others follow suit.

I don't wear a helmet on my motorcycle either.

Again, we come to this site to see fun and interesting things, not political BS.

Also, the bottom half of this analogy falls apart; it doesn't make sense. Many people desperately want to have children; not too many want to drown. Nor does saving a person from drowning necessitate killing another living being.

I can't help but wonder if the people who are saying they wish not to have anything political on this site are only saying that because they disagree with the sentiment.

Anyone here agree with the sentiment, but wish it not to be on the site? Tell the truth.

This has got to be trolling...

While I agree that this site is probably not the place for overtly political statements, I have a hard time seeing this as such a statement. While it was attached to someone political, I'm fairly certain that the grand majority of people, despite their political beliefs, understand the original statement was ridiculous at best.
While I also didn't particularly enjoy all pregnancy being likened to drowning, you have to keep in mind it's satire - that's the point. If you don't get that, you probably shouldn't read A Modest Proposal.

Funny how critiquing an unscientific point of view is called "political", yet stating said view is considered educated opinion when in fact the view is political and the critique is humor siding with non-political reasoning.

Fark Photoshop contests used to be fun in the 2000s because they were humorous and lighthearted. At some point people began flooding the contests with political "humour" which included hot-button topics like abortion and religion and eventually drove away half of the Farkers who had been participating and/or voting in this once lighthearted, trivial activity. I'd rather not see this happen to a site I enjoy such as Neatorama.

If it weren't for complaints, we'd get no comments at all. Think about that when you want to encourage this or that type of post on this site.

President Obama's publicly-stated opinion is that any children conceived from 'swimming" but are unwanted should be intentionally drowned. And if they survive the first drowning, they should be drowned again.

The latter part is far scarier than a no-name Representative's personal opinion.

Much like this poster, the whole politics thing is a joke.

I am shocked, shocked!
Netorama has out-done itself by presenting clear logic and reasoning.
Please stop this.

[deleted - I understand the sentiment, but please keep it civil - admin]

Saw this @ eatliver a few days ago, thought it was funny there and its funny here too.
The commenting at eatliver was more forgiving. I don't understand how people can get so bent out of shape over a silly parody. I love neatorama and will always come back even though i do not agree or care for every post. You guys get it right more often than not, in my opinion.

I wonder how much hate mail "the onion" gets?

lol, i love it

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While I snorted at the poster with a grin, the poll on banning lifejackets isn't really in context. A less-politically minded person may scroll down and see the poll and have a litter of kittens just from the implied message of the child paired with said poll. :) Just thought I might want to point that out.

Remember kids, wear your lifejackets when you're on the water!