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Zeroisanumber posted:They were also supposed to be the vanguard of tyranny back in the 1990's. I remember breathless accounts of their supposed "emergency powers" and their secret evil factories, "The X Files" often used a FEMA stand-in as the goons of the evil conspiracy. A lot of the shine got taken off of that turd post-Katrina. How does that saying go, the government competent enough to save your life is competent enough to take it away? 
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Iron Crowned posted:Oh, I really need to wander into D&D more often. I've heard endless stories like this about people having to work next to crazy nutfuckers all day. Yet only the right has permission to bitch about being shunned and persecuted by society. Go figure.
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People have been posting quotes from the now deceased Robert Bork around the blogosphere, and even though I'm not sure which of the D&D threads to stick them in, I feel they need to go somewhere. The passages come from both his Slouching Toward Gomorrah book and a C-SPAN interview. Whenever I think of Bork, however, the first thing that comes to mind is a line from Peggy Noonan, the only time she has made me laugh.Peggy Noonan posted:What everyone forgets about the case of Robert Bork in his confirmation hearings is that regular people watched him, listened to the workings of his fabulous and exotic mind, saw the intensity, the hunger for intellectual engagement, caught the whiff of brandy and cigars and angels dancing, noticed the unusual hair, the ambivalent whiskers, and thought, "Who's this weirdo?" These, however, these are just bully: "Feminist gatherings within traditional denominations celebrate and pray to pagan goddesses. Witchcraft is undergoing an enormous revival in feminist circles as the antagonist of Christian faith…The feminists within the [Catholic] church engage in neo-pagan ritual magic and the worship of pagan goddesses." "The fact that men, who did not cry ten years ago, now do so indicates that something has gone high and soft in the culture." \  "The very fact that we have gone from Elvis to Snoop Doggy Dogg is the heart of the case for censorship." "Irving Kristol was going through Romania back when it was a Communist dictatorship, and he learned that, of course, they banned rock ‘n’ roll on the grounds it was a subversive music. And it is, but not just of Communist dictatorships. It’s subversive of bourgeois culture, too." "Dixieland music had real themes to it, had often a very complex musical form. The music of today, a lot of the stuff we’re talking about rap seems to be nothing but noise and a beat without any complexity or without any I don’t understand why anybody listens to it. Well, rock ‘n’ roll still had some melody and I don’t think it could express a lot of emotions that the music before that could express. But it still had some melody and some distinction. And the melody gradually dropped out until we just have this rap." "A lot of people comfort themselves with the thought that this is confined to the black community, but that’s not true — some of the worst rappers are white, like Nine Inch Nails." \  "alt.sex is on the Internet. That’s a category. They have a variety of things under alt.sex, which is alternative sex. Particularly horrifying was this alt.sex.stories. I don’t know how to work the Internet yet, but I did that research. I found it written up." "One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately…. I watched for some time–riveted by the sociological significance of it all." \  http://www.waggish.org/2012/robert-bork-in-memoriam/
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Peggy Noonan posted:What everyone forgets about the case of Robert Bork in his confirmation hearings is that regular people watched him, listened to the workings of his fabulous and exotic mind, saw the intensity, the hunger for intellectual engagement, caught the whiff of brandy and cigars and angels dancing, noticed the unusual hair, the ambivalent whiskers, and thought, "Who's this weirdo?"
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So Bork was basically Ignatius J Reilly in real life? That's hilarious, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
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beatlegs posted:So was that in defense or criticism of him? Because it's Noonan I can't tell. Oh, in her typically noxious fashion, she liked and defended Bork, and sort of hemmed and hawed over the American public maybe not being ready for "colorful" and "interesting" thinking. That quote was really just a tangent in a piece about the hilarious Harriet Miers nomination by George W. Bush.
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Has this been posted? Anti-union douchebag-ette, Dana Loesche is suing her parent company for poor working conditions:quote:Dana Loesch, who claims to be the “Editor-in-Chief of Big Journalism” (this explains a lot), is suing the parent company of Breitbart.com. Apparently she was unaware that working for a crazy conservative media outlet would naturally involve “indentured servitude in limbo.” Hey, Dana, where you been, girl? http://www.politicususa.com/anti-union-tea-party-poster-girl-dana-loesch-sues-breitbart-llc-hostile-working-conditions.html Utterly delicious.
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That is amazing. The smuggery from the Daily Kos is a tad obnoxious, but the overall hilarity of a rabid anti-unionist complaining about and subsequently suing her employer for their lovely treatment of her is some quite heavy  .
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It's just pure balls-out sadness when you turn yourself into a frothing Nazi and can't even get rich off of it.
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Her heart obviously wasn't in it enough. You can't go half-Hitler and expect to get the whole lebensraum. You gotta go full Hitler.
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So apparently right wing diehards want Piers Morgan off the air now, after he was tough on some gun lobbyist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC4JJWUtzkc
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Mr Interweb posted:Has this been posted? Anti-union douchebag-ette, Dana Loesche is suing her parent company for poor working conditions: Hilarious, but you know that you have the snark turned up to 11 when even I think the article is too snarky.
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Sick_Boy posted:So apparently right wing diehards want Piers Morgan off the air now, after he was tough on some gun lobbyist. I didn't see the whole interview beforehand, but did the gun guy actually object to the idea of calling someone mentally deranged for carrying out a mass murder?
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Mr Interweb posted:I didn't see the whole interview beforehand, but did the gun guy actually object to the idea of calling someone mentally deranged for carrying out a mass murder? No, as usual Piers Morgan is a preening idiot, and his most splendid displays of plumage come when he senses a chance to elevate his profile. There were plenty of arguments to use against Pratt but he didn't use them, he just berated him for the duration of the segment.
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beatlegs posted:I've heard endless stories like this about people having to work next to crazy nutfuckers all day. Yet only the right has permission to bitch about being shunned and persecuted by society. Go figure. I know part of it, at least for me is I'm usually cursorily informed about things. I don't have the massive in depth knowledge of anything like you guys do, but I usually have enough to know better. I really can't counter whatever the daily talking point from the conservosphere is. Even if I did it would fall on deaf ears, and be reflected back on me being labeled a "bleeding heart liberal." I saw how they treated the other guy, I'd rather just keep quiet, since it's not really worth it. My friend refers to it as "intellectual waterboarding." I do have to say from what I've heard there, it must be extremely stressful being on the right, you literally have to be afraid of everything.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Hilarious, but you know that you have the snark turned up to 11 when even I think the article is too snarky. quote:Dana was hired by CNN to represent the “Tea Party” point of view for the 2012 elections. As the rest of the world is aware, the Tea Party is persona non grata these days. Dana better rebrand herself with the next wave of conservative hatred before she becomes irrelephant. I'm probably a bad person for chuckling at that.
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Sick_Boy posted:So apparently right wing diehards want Piers Morgan off the air now, after he was tough on some gun lobbyist. Oh god, I want Piers Morgan off the air, but not like this.
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boom boom boom posted:Oh god, I want Piers Morgan off the air, but not like this. I just watched a cool interview he did with Willie Nelson where they discussed pot and Morgan seemed completely cool about it. He is a bit smug but he seems to be a pretty decent human being. There's a Morgan hate-dogpile thread in GBS and I have to say the celebrities being posted who are trashing him are bigger douchebags than Morgan will ever be (Jeremy Clarkson, Adam Corolla). That plus the rightwing idiots hating on him gives me a newfound sympathy for the guy.
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Morgan is utter scum, he's a former Murdoch buttboy, he was balls-deep in phone hacking, he's a man without principles. In short he was the perfect man to take Larry King's place.
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boom boom boom posted:Oh god, I want Piers Morgan off the air, but not like this. We have CNN on in the break room at work and he's been alternating between close personal interviews <relative> of <victim name> who died in <mass shooting> and then shouting down some paid gun shill for pretty much an entire week. It's pathetic emotionally manipulative poo poo "journalism" of the worst order. He literally shouted "STOP TALKING" at some lobbyist the other day and I had to stop and wonder why he wasn't just doing an editorial.
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Yes we really should give gun industry shills who accuse gun control advocates of polticizing tragedy while blaming the killings on video games and unarmed teachers a fair and honest break.
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beatlegs posted:Yes we really should give gun industry shills who accuse gun control advocates of polticizing tragedy while blaming the killings on video games and unarmed teachers a fair and honest break. We shouldn't make them look better by making it look like the only way to argue with them is incoherent shouting and emotional appeals.
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beatlegs posted:Yes we really should give gun industry shills who accuse gun control advocates of polticizing tragedy while blaming the killings on video games and unarmed teachers a fair and honest break. We also definitely should not give Gun industry shills loving evidence of gun control types politicizing the tragedy
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I think it was OK in a public relations sense to shout the guy down. Most people watching had the same emotions Morgan did, and I doubt anyone who was left sitting on the fence about the issue was more outraged by Morgan shouting him down than the guy spouting offensive bullshit.
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Unoriginal Name posted:We have CNN on in the break room at work and he's been alternating between close personal interviews <relative> of <victim name> who died in <mass shooting> and then shouting down some paid gun shill for pretty much an entire week. It's pathetic emotionally manipulative poo poo "journalism" of the worst order. He literally shouted "STOP TALKING" at some lobbyist the other day and I had to stop and wonder why he wasn't just doing an editorial. Again, perfect replacement for Larry King.
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The best Piers Morgan moment ever was when he appeared on the UK news panel show "Have I Got News For You", acted like a high-and-mighty poo poo, and was completely baffled as to why everyone seemed to be laughing at him when all three of the other panelists kept making jokes at his expense. At one point, he snapped at fellow panelist Clive Anderson (former "Whose Line is it Anyway" host and former barrister) "What do you know about editing newspapers?", to which Anderson quickly replied "About as much as you do." 
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Yesterday I started playing GTA IV for the first time and got a chuckle from the mock talk radio. Yesterday I decided to download the Alex Jones podcast and I cannot tell the difference with the GTA mock radio. He has a guest talking about microchips in the brain. I never thought it would be this bad.
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There actually is technology to implant chips in brains - they are being developed to return motor function to stroke victims. As per usual, paranoid superstitious twits fear new technology rather than just have healthy skepticism of the how the health care industry in the US will handle things like this. So you get morons thinking it a new form of mind control or whatever. It doesn't help though that a brain chip plays into the 'controlling machine' types of paranoid-schizophrenics, who attribute their bizarre behavior and thoughts to unseen machinery usually controlled by evil entities.
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Spacedad posted:There actually is technology to implant chips in brains - they are being developed to return motor function to stroke victims. As per usual, paranoid superstitious twits fear new technology rather than just have healthy skepticism of the how the health care industry in the US will handle things like this. So you get morons thinking it a new form of mind control or whatever. I just can't believe this. A guest is talking about some entities - archons, demons, whatever you call them, that feed on your electromagnetic field when it is affected by fear and chaos and so they manipulate our perception of reality to make us generate chaos and fear so they may feed and... oh Lord. And the ads for silver gels and venus flytrap pills... oh Lord, oh Lord...
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Alex Jones is amazing. The fact that he has people that actually take him seriously astounds me. The guy is a con artist par excellence. Somehow he's convinced thousands of people that he is some kind of revolutionary fighting back against the techno totalitarian robot one world government or whatever it is he's spouting these days. I personally feel he has surpassed David Ickes in terms of just how insane his claims are.
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My favorite Alex Jones conspiracy of all time comes from three or four years ago when he was trying to push that City Year, a Americorps program founded in 1988, was the Hitler Youth branch of Obama's Neo-Nazi regime.
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Crasscrab posted:Alex Jones is amazing. The fact that he has people that actually take him seriously astounds me. The guy is a con artist par excellence. Somehow he's convinced thousands of people that he is some kind of revolutionary fighting back against the techno totalitarian robot one world government or whatever it is he's spouting these days. I personally feel he has surpassed David Ickes in terms of just how insane his claims are. Oh, who is this David Ickes? He was the guest I was talking about! Did I just catch an all-star crazy tag team on my first outing into the conspiracy wilderness?
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Sick_Boy posted:Oh, who is this David Ickes? He was the guest I was talking about! Did I just catch an all-star crazy tag team on my first outing into the conspiracy wilderness? He's a crazy man who believes in the 'reptilians', the whole 'a race of lizard men are infiltrating our society to do SOMETHING! (I think he was one of the first to bring that insanity out?) Also a lot of generic UFO poo poo.
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SedanChair posted:We shouldn't make them look better by making it look like the only way to argue with them is incoherent shouting and emotional appeals. My mom taught me a long time ago that "You can't argue with crazy." The Republican party (and its conservative tentacles) are masters of semantics and twisting arguments by distorting them or omitting facts. This is perfect for a base of supporters who either lack critical thinking skills or choose to suspend them in order to justify thei beliefs.
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Glitterbomber posted:He's a crazy man who believes in the 'reptilians', the whole 'a race of lizard men are infiltrating our society to do SOMETHING! (I think he was one of the first to bring that insanity out?) He seems to have gone more metaphysical, talking about parasitic pure-energy beings which some call demos, or archons, or djinns manipulating our perceptions of reality and turning people into computer programs or some poo poo like that. Edit: Listening to Alex Jones makes me want to play Deus Ex. Heck, let him write a sequel.
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Sick_Boy posted:Oh, who is this David Ickes? He was the guest I was talking about! Did I just catch an all-star crazy tag team on my first outing into the conspiracy wilderness? Jon Ronson, the guy that wrote the book "The Men Who Stare at Goats", had a short documentary series called "The Secret Rulers of the World" in which he hung out with nutjobs as they did their nutjob things. Here's the episode where he followed David Icke around. It's actually rather sad just how crazy Icke is, because it becomes obvious that he's not some guy milking this whole conspiracy thing for the money like Alex Jones, but that he's actually got issues in the form of voices in his head and all that. http://youtu.be/b8kwbQyFTdk Darkman Fanpage fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Dec 23, 2012 |
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Crasscrab posted:YouTube user vilemonkey makes some great Alex Jones craziness videos. Holy poo poo, this is awesome  . Seriously, usually listening to idiots on radio depresses me, but this is like listening to an episode of the F-Plus.Almost enough to change my avatar to a picture of him with the caption "Giant Pedophile Armies with Nuclear Weapons", but I still like the CAD one too much.
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