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  • Yes, only on an Onion Video would two retards debate the implications of whether an atheist or a symbolic rock has better morals.

  • you have more than "just to see what happen", obama

  • I love the onions version of the prez

  • The comments section on this video is terrible, but at least the top comment isn't "I thought onion news was fake" or "this is more real than the actual news".

  • how the hell does every comment thread end up into a debate about religion?

  • @DaMaster2401 Because religious is bullshit and people are just starting to realize it.

  • ........that is all the news the free masons want you to know this week........Hilarious.

  • "Gotta love when the top 2 comments are the same quote"

    Yeah, I hate when that happens >_>

  • @finka123456

    Actually, an atheist can still believe that and still believe only heterosexuality is right, while a gay person can be religous. I believe in human morality of the reverence and respect for most life and the like. Atheism would be horrible without human morals or some kind of morality.

  • @Darty105 I dont understand that, If you believe that humans are essentially nothing but highly evolved rocks what is it that gives them value?

  • @Tysrian what highly evolved rocks don't have value!?!? That damn 'molecular genetics miracle' salesman got me farming and trying to grow rock people for nothing! Should made one from dirt and huffed my breath at it or something like I thought I should in the first place!

  • @Tysrian Money is paper, plastic, or semi rare metal. What gives money value?

  • @57worldwide First explain to me how your question is relevant to my question.

  • @Tysrian You must be intentionally ignorant.

    You asked what gives "highly evolved rocks" their value, so I asked what gives currency its value. (I did this so you could perhaps take a hint. I believe the same thing gives value to both.)

  • @57worldwide OK. Money gets it value from people assigning value to it. Money is an accepted substitute for material possession that is what makes it value. I do not understand on what basis or foundation atheists would create morals for human beings. Money has value but no one is fighting against 'money rights violations' or 'crimes against money'.

  • @Tysrian the problem starts when money is assigned a value by a central bank, not by any physical object. This is a problem because it erradicates the purpose of money in the first place, to be a paper representation of something that is used to trade for goods and services. Without exception this leads to inflation, which in turn leads to devaluation of the currency, the increase of prices on imported goods (basically everything these days), and with corruption in the right places: poverty.

  • @Tysrian keep in mind that paper money for as long as it has existed up until the 1930's (i may be off a decade) was only a piece of paper that represented it's equal value in gold. It was meant as a practical alternative to carrying 20lb of gold everywhere you went to pay for things. Today, the only thing that gives money value is how much money is in the system. this is called "Fiat currency".

  • @Tysrian

    Implicit in your idea that atheists have no basis for humanity is the idea that morality is not something internal and must be dictated by an outside force.

    Obedience to power is not morality; it is the mark of a sycophant.

  • @Silkeyn If you believe that humans are overdeveloped rocks why would we even need morals? Wouldn't that be in contradiction with the 'scientific facts' that we dont really have any inherent value. We are just a convenient coincidence, a product of chance, nothing special. Why would you abandon 'scientific truth' just because you have a chemical reaction telling you that human life is valuable. Atheists are harmless now but God forbid that they actually start believing their theories.

  • @Tysrian

    Morals come from logical consistency, and the need to coexist with each other.

    True morals have something important at the core of them: universality. In other words, consistency; since humans are not fundamentally different from each other, the same moral rules apply to everyone the same.

    However, this is not a small topic to discuss, so if you want to continue it, we will have to move to a different medium (I hate youtube's comment system). Email, perhaps? I won't bite you.

  • @Silkeyn Sure, send me your adress

  • Watched this at school...LOL!

  • 0:34-0:40

    Is it just me or is that school footage definitely from the 90's?

  • @signnocto DONT EVEN TRY!!! WERE TAKING BACK THE WHITE HOUSE!

  • @signnocto YOU CANT STOP THE FURY OF THE REPUBLICAN AND TEA PARTY!! DONT

  • After reading this comment thread I wish Obama had pressed the red button.

  • I wanna push the small red button, to satisfy my curiosity...

  • @juggasteveo YOU FOREIGN CANADIAN TERRORIST!!!! YOURE ANTI MILITARY!! DEMOCRACY IS TRUTH!! SPREAD THE TRUTH!! GINGRICH 2012!!! NEWT! NEWT!NEWT! NEWQT!!1!!

  • @orrgla Uh, yeah, sure. Considering we're the US's closest military partner and part of NATO, you're retarded. And a troll.

  • @Max17766 IM DONE WITH THIS CONVERSATION, YOU COMMIE! GET BACK TO RUSSIA

  • @orrgla Go back to sucking Bush's dick and touching yourself, then.

  • @orrgla please stop

  • @orrgla YEs once we get tired tired of him all we have to do is pretend to be uglier older and sick and he will leave us for a younger nation...perhaps south sudan?The guy actually thinks he is moral and a christian...people that moraly bankrupt enough to cheat 3 times go straight to hell in christianity and so will our nation if we elect that pillsbury dough boy douche...RON PAUL 2012....also your trolling and being funny

  • @finka123456 hell doesn't exist though

  • @bigbeeftomatoes Yeah i know atheist for life but if someone claims they believe in so called higher morals like marriage between man and woman and what not and then they are a hypocrite about it can fuck off to his or her hell.....he is obviously a sociopath

  • @Max17766 yeah, shits fucked up right now over here, make no mistake. here's an american who agrees with you, the only reason we're in such shit is because congress blocks obamas every move! they wont let him budge to do anything, and then the right wing comes swooping in about how this mess is his fault. congress grins and agrees, while their pockets get bigger and bigger from these right wing lobbyists. idk if i made sense, but point is its a never ending self-destructive cycle

  • what the FUCK is rong with this fucking country! we have a sick violent terrorist president, AND WE CANT EVEN GET THE BUGET RIGHT THEY WERE GONNA TAKE ALL THAT MONEY AWAY FROM THE MILITARY! LIBTARDS!!

  • @orrgla I think you may be dumb.

  • @finka123456 I CAN SPEAK PERFECTLY FINE, I KNOW IM NOT DUMB, MAYBE YOU'RE DEAF AND BLINMD!!!

  • @orrgla Good. Less military money, the better. Conservotard.

  • @Max17766 FUCK YOU I KNOW PEOPLE IN THE MILITARY!!! MY SON!! FUCK YOU!!

  • @orrgla I don't give a shit, you government is ineffective as hell. But, go ahead, keep deregulating and slamming Obama. God forbid a guy helps his citizens and gives the rich the middle finger!

  • @Max17766 SEE YOUR NOT EVEN AMERICAN YOU STUPID FOREIGNER WE NEED NEWT! WE NEED NEWT!

  • @orrgla I know I'm not, I'd be too ashamed of my nationality if I was. Your country has been fucked since Reagan, but yet, you seem to have the morbid curiosity to continually elect people who WANT only good for corporations, they don't give a fuck about you.

  • @Max17766 HOW DARE YOU SPEAK AGAINST AMERICA YOU HIPPE HOW DARE YOU. AND FYI THE SUPREME COURT JUST DECIDED THAT CORPORATIONS HAVE 1ST AMENDMENT RIGHTS SO GUS WHAT THEY ARE PEOPLE LIBTARD

  • @orrgla I prefer to be called a "democratic socialist", not a hippie*. Also, corporations are NOT people. They're profit making legal entities, supreme court ruling or not.

  • @Max17766 OH SO YOUR A SOCIALIST!!!!

    SOCIALIST!!

    SOCIALIST!!

    DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISM IS THE ONLY WAY THAT A COUNTRY CAN FLOURISH!!!

    JUST LOOK AT THE ROMAN REPUBLIC!!

    ROME WAS AN CEMOCRACY AND THEY WERE THE BIGGEST EMPIRE EVER

  • And they fell, hard. I support in a form of socialism that still believes in a mixed-market economy.

  • @Max17766 OKAY YOUR JUST USING FANCY WORDS AND STUFF, SHOWS YOUR JUST A LIBERAL ACADEMIC

    MAKING MY HEAD HURT, CANT DEAL WITH IT.

  • @orrgla I'd rather be an educated liberal than a blue-collar conservative.

  • @Max17766 ID RATHER BE IGNORANT THAN BE A SOCIALIST!!!

  • @orrgla WAS THE BIGGEST THEN THEY FAILED DUE TO THERE OVERWHELMING HUNGER FOR WAR AND THE MILITARY...THEY PUT ALL THERE MONEY IN THE WAR MACHINE,AND IN THE PROCESS LOST THERE SENSE OF DEMOCRATIC STATUS....THE SAME WILL BE FOR THIS COUNTRY IF WE DONT TAKE UP A DIFFERENT FOREIGN POLICY....WAR IS NEVER A WAY TO HAVE DEMOCRACY

  • @Max17766 i think we may have a troll on our hands here...

  • @celloguy23 I'm just fired up after watching "Capitalism: A Love Story". Also, that guy is a moron.

  • @Max17766 and btw, trolls typically exaggerate the stupidity of people they disagree with, he may be smarter than you think

  • @celloguy23 True. Although he REALLY likes that shiny caps lock key.

  • @Max17766 dude, he's a troll, he goes on every damn onion video and posts shit like this

  • @palipride47 Yeah, I saw him pointlessly raging on other videos, at first I thought he was retarded, but now I know he's a shitty troll.

  • 1:47 FTW!

  • If Obama was a bad president, Herbert Hoover was a worse president.....

  • @TheHm3 Hoover was a great humanitarian and civil servant... up until about the time he got elected. Then he started sucking. Putting MacArthur in charge of handling the bonus marches? It's like asking a fox to make sure your baby chickens don't run off.

  • @sanmanx12we Yes,everyone who says anything bad about a government official should be killed. Also, Carl Marx should be declared a saint.

  • "Insert quote from the video to fuck it up for the rest"

  • @sanmanx12we that's satire. And really who the hell signs their comments not only with their first and last name but also their former job. Are you serious. This piece of information will be available on a server for the rest of time. Smart one.

  • "Legislator say schools 'the last place' they wanted to see money go"

    Yeah, obviously

    T_T

  • @sanmanx12we 0/10

    Obama is a fuck anyway

  • @sanmanx12we

    So true. If only people would just refrain from cracking jokes or being otherwise critical of those in power then our world would be a much better place. [Satire]

  • @sanmanx12we: and not have all the people who believe it is real news and make comments about it? F no!

  • Gotta love it when 1 top comment is quoting another top comment that is commenting about previous top comments!

  • haha the nascar thing was pretty funny^^

  • Lol about the satellite one, I swear at my phone too, expecting a satellite to frantically get a signal to me.

  • You know, I'm also kind of curious to see what would happen if humanity were to be completely obliterated.

  • @DaGavinX Just look outside your window. It's already happened.

  • LOL" desperate School supplies" , soo true.

  • I'm sure everyone would have pressed that red button just to see what would happen.

  • lol

  • what a liberal pussy... ...and you want this coward as your president...??? ...abysmal...

  • "Gotta love when the top 2 comments are the same quote"

    Dude, me too!

  • i would so push the button the very first day in the office...!

  • That's all the news the Freemasons want you to know this week.... HA!

  • I love the photo of the guy who doesn't need a computer. He looks happy with his computer

  • Hahaha, the non-computer is just a box. XD

  • The schools joke was fail. America spends a shit load of taxpayer money on schools but union bureaucracy keeps them shitty. A lot of it just gets funneled directly to big unions.

  • lol damn those freemasons.

  • i like the regular guys voice better

  • OBAMA OBAMA

  • That's the first time I've seen "the button" which launches the nuclear arsenal.

    He has to be careful when he buzzes-in a guest to the White House or puts his phone on speaker.

  • The Onion, one of the few sources of real comedy in this country.

  • @repsesper I think you mean "of real news."

    I watch Fox News for my comedy.

  • Gotta love when the top 2 comments are the same quote

  • Schools are overfunded

  • The NASCAR bit was the funniest part. LOL

  • "Accidentally sending parts of the defense budget towards schools helping foster academic excellence" that ones obviously fake, American politicians would never make that mistake.... O_O

  • 339 US Politician saw this

  • "Gotta love when the top 2 comments are the same quote"

    Aaha, so true man. So true.

  • hahaha a man with no friends tells it like it is haha

  • Hes so right about NASCAR and the those basketball players in suits

  • Push it O.o

  • some parts of this video make allot of sense lol

  • Accidentally sending parts of the defense budget towards schools helping foster academic excellence, this was a grave error.

  • "That's all the freemasons want you to know this week." lol

  • just push the damn button u pussy.

  • 1:47 well that's true at least

  • lmfao "thats all the new the free masons want you to know this week"

  • You guys don't seem to realize that this is really just an advertisement for their web site. That's why they don't spend to long on any one joke. These are just some of the articles that were posted in the last week. They want you to visit the onion for the full article so the can get money from the banner ads on their site. They don't get money from YouTube.

  • @Skulblaka377 I disagree. While they may advertise their website at the end of the video, it doesn't mean that their YouTube channel is purely advertisement, otherwise they wouldn't have thought up about 380 videos just to get people to watch until the end where they say "Please visit our website". Also, when you said "That's why they don't spend too long on anyone joke" is also false. They don't spend much time on one joke because they make skits.

  • i disagree with with captstormwind. onionnews has made 100's of vids, so why not start another way of telling it? especially for the general youtube audience who seem to have the attention span of a 3 yr old and can hardly watch anything more the 2 minutes long anyway. besides, news productions do this kind of update thing too. so stfu, stormwind. your whole existence is a "total pill"

  • I think this guy's videos are stepping up to the plate. The past ones weren't cool at all, but this is great.

  • that part about the school budget probably hit right on the money

  • say what you will about this guy, but that tid bit on education was genius

  • oh onion, how could you... crappy liberal propaganda , FU onion

  • "That's all the Free Masons want you to know this week"

    hahahahaha, only part of the vid that made me crak up :D

  • @14DEADSOUL ewige blumenkraft und ewige schlangenkraft!!!!!!

  • @14DEADSOUL I'm really not liking this guy who's talking, he sounds depressing.

  • @pat5168 This guy indeed blows. They should hit him over the head with the shovel they used to dig a shallow pit--not that I don't like him, or anything.

  • @14DEADSOUL IT'S FUUNY 'CAUSE IT'S TRUE!!!!

  • @14DEADSOUL yeah, I would have cracked up to if you didn't fucking comment that -.-

  • @shit4brains222 too*

  • @shit4brains222 hahaha sorry, never expected it to be the top comment, just make sure to watch the vids before reading the comments, I had the same problem.

  • HAA HaaHa ha hee hee. Hmm. I love this.

  • a man with no friends tells it like it is :P

  • this is the least crappy of the new onion clips. still not as good as the old stuff.

  • Is there really a red button in the oval office that does that?

  • I think it's pretty great as is. It's just video commentary added along with their headlines they always have at the bottom fleshed out a bit more. And you have to admit, the footage of Obama staring at that button and rubbing his forehead is hilarious.

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  • Gotta love when the top 2 comments aren't the same quote

  • As soon as I hear this guys voice I skip to the next vid now. None of the other ones with him were funny, theres no reason to think this will be. I hope The Onion returns to form soon, the past 2 months have been less than great.

  • all the news the free masons want you to know this week. awesome

  • Hah, pretty fucking funny!

  • Wow that's amazing how Obama is so stupid to even think about pressing a button that shouldn't even be there. That's very unprofessional and all this is not news worthy and yes I know it's fake just messing with everyone.

  • something's different...

  • I love this format, it's like a list of jokes with visual aid. :D

  • Yes I agree this seems to be a different format then what we are used to. Its okay but not as good. That HP Non-computer is the bomb though!! haha

  • give the interns something else to do...

  • give the interns something else to do...

  • comment about how a comment quoting a line in the video gets the most thumbs

  • What happened.... these videos are so low for The Onion

  • In other news, a new use for the portable solar fire ray device was found: Scientists say that it can also be used to see objects larger and more detailed.

  • LOL Why is the button red anyway? Why not make it doodoo brown so no one want to touch unless they absolutely have too?

  • That was actually funnier than the other onion shows lately...

  • Goddammit Obama, I didn't vote for this guy so he could NOT destroy the human race.

    Remind me to vote Republican next time. They're actually crazy to hold on to their end of the bargain.

  • "And now a video recap of the weeks news for the quasi-literate" :D

  • @RiseOfTheNerd

    he mad.jpg

  • @RiseOfTheNerd no, it's funny. it is. and anybody who thinks it's funny probably doesn't care at all that you don't. this shit is hilarious to those of us that understand it...

  • Most dull voice ever. I fell asleep even after giving myself an adrenaline injection.

  • @i0npath Do you often just randomly keep needles full of adrenaline around jjusssttt in case u watch a boring video?

  • it's stupid how the top rated comments are of the same thing with the SAME WRONG SPELLING. get an education retards

  • "That's all the news the freemasons want you to know this week."

    Genius. Notice how he neutrally says everything, it is a perfect combination with this sentence.

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  • "And now a video recap for the quasi literate."

    AND

    "That's all the news the Freemasons want you to know this week."

    LMFAO! I just have to show the school fund error part to my professors. LOL

  • I had to look at @Deadlywaterboys and @TheRandomeses comments so I could see what @headsetphobia was talking about so I could see what @TommyBShow is talking about...

  • Dont do it Barack dont do it !

  • this one video is better than the previous ones

  • sometimes i cant help but wonder if the onion news s completely fake or if most of it is real. because everything in this video seems true

  • Freemasons, meaning Jews?

  • @renumeratedfrog are you serious? no.

  • @renumeratedfrog meaning Illuminati :O Dun dun dun!

  • Gotta love when the top 2 comments are the same quote