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jackofarcades posted:Ben Shapiro of Breitbart News seems like such low hanging fruit, but what are you gonna do? Indeed, its terrible when a mediocre and otherwise insignificant player is given undue attention because he is outspoken about social causes. OH WAIT 
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Apr 29, 2013 17:03
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A DENVER FAX posted:Indeed, its terrible when a mediocre and otherwise insignificant player is given undue attention because he is outspoken about social causes.  I do find it ironic that this news comes out the day Tebow gets cut
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Apr 29, 2013 17:04
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ReindeerF posted:It's a fair point, though his cultural impact has unquestionably diminished. It would be interesting to see whether he's made up the gap left by his FNC payroll. My guess is no. I'm pretty sure he made more money from his radio show than he ever did at Fox. His audience has definitely narrowed since his Fox days, but they're the true believers willing to fund his Deseret survival shelter/coke vault shenanigans. A DENVER FAX posted:Indeed, its terrible when a mediocre and otherwise insignificant player is given undue attention because he is outspoken about social causes. Maybe God does exist after all. Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Apr 29, 2013 |
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Apr 29, 2013 17:14
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Goatman Sacks posted:That smug bastard angers me more than the "professional" trolls out there.... his voice sounds exactly like you'd expect from his photo. The guy's Twitter portrait looks disturbing like Bud Cort in "Harold and Maude". It's a pretty punchable face.
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Apr 29, 2013 17:24
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I think Ben Shapiro looks adorable  . Come here you little broken zionist and let me give you a hug.That Breitbart article you posted ReindeerF convinced me to subscribe to NSFWcorp. I like their model where you can share some things but the links expire etc. (I know this sounds like I am a stooge in some infomercial but I have no relationship with anybody there) https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/breitbart/c9223ba6586d36cc94ff4d450dbe86dcd2d62c29/
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Apr 29, 2013 17:52
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Rush Limbaugh just now "All of social science is fraudulent." Stopped himself just short of calling for book burnings.
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Apr 29, 2013 17:54
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1 person committed fraud, therefore the entire field is fraudulent. Just like Global Warming even though there was no fraud! It's just common sense 
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Apr 29, 2013 17:56
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How is it that Ben Shapiro, the guy that fell hook, line, and sinker for the "Friends of Hamas" joke, still has a job? Oh that's right, he's writing for breibart.com. No need for actual integrity or competence there!
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Apr 29, 2013 18:00
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Anti-intellectual. Anti-science. Feels 'certain elements' of society are actively plotting its downfall. Pro-book burning. Pro-mysticism. Yep it's the liberal socialists that are the nazi's, folks.
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Apr 29, 2013 18:06
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Oh, Shapiro, so close to the real point. While it shouldn't matter that Collins is gay, unfortunately, it actually does. And that, the fact that it does matter when it shouldn't, is the real story. Let's face it: It would be awesome if we could take what Shapiro said at face value, that "He's gay? Who cares; judge a basketball player by his ability to play basketball, not his sexual orientation." Ultimately, that's the point, isn't it? But unfortunately, the country (and a good part of the world) isn't at that point, yet. I guess Shapiro is just ahead of his time.
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Apr 29, 2013 18:12
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It shouldn't matter that someone is gay if what they're doing is something that will make people like gays more.
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Apr 29, 2013 18:18
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Also Collins plays center; he's not going to have huge numbers. A real man would know this.
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Apr 29, 2013 18:25
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pangstrom posted:I think Ben Shapiro looks adorable
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Apr 29, 2013 18:29
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watt par posted:Also Collins plays center; he's not going to have huge numbers. A real man would know this. Yeah, the dude has had a 10+ year NBA career. He was doing something right.
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Apr 29, 2013 18:46
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Not every center is Hakeem Olajuwon, it's true.
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A DENVER FAX posted:Yeah, the dude has had a 10+ year NBA career. He was doing something right. That something right was be 7 feet tall. At one point in his career he was an average to slightly above average defender but beyond that he was pretty awful. However him being bad at basketball for a long time doesn't diminish the significance of what he did today so I obviously agree that Shapiro is an idiot and an rear end.
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I dunno about awful, I'd call him painfully average most all the way through. You know what isn't painfully average though? Being the first male athlete in major American sports to come out! But yea, I can totes see how it'd be confusing why he's being praised for bravery, thanks Bretbart dude! It's like he legitimately has no idea why anyone would attach social significance to it.
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Apr 29, 2013 19:17
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Tatum Girlparts posted:I dunno about awful, I'd call him painfully average most all the way through. I'd be happy to discuss it over PM or something since this isn't really the place for it and obviously should be more about the second part of your post about how dumb Shapiro is but I would strongly disagree with calling him even average.
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Apr 29, 2013 19:31
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Being the first male athlete in major American sports to come out! Wasn't there another NBA player to come out post-retirement a few years ago? I think he is just the first active player.
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A DENVER FAX posted:Wasn't there another NBA player to come out post-retirement a few years ago? I think he is just the first active player.
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A DENVER FAX posted:Wasn't there another NBA player to come out post-retirement a few years ago? I think he is just the first active player. There have been a handful who have come out after retiring.
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Was listening to Rush today out of the same morbid curiosity that draws us all in, and he was going off on the Dutch social psychologist or something faking his results so there's proof all science is bunk. It was kinda funny how everything he accused the so-called "left" of doing "brainwashing, promoting ideology over everything else, indoctrinating children through education, etc." was exactly what Republicans/conservatives do. I'm sure there's a name for accusing your supposed enemies of doing exactly what you really do everyday.
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Agustin Cienfuegos posted:Was listening to Rush today out of the same morbid curiosity that draws us all in, and he was going off on the Dutch social psychologist or something faking his results so there's proof all science is bunk. It was kinda funny how everything he accused the so-called "left" of doing "brainwashing, promoting ideology over everything else, indoctrinating children through education, etc." was exactly what Republicans/conservatives do. I'm sure there's a name for accusing your supposed enemies of doing exactly what you really do everyday. Projection.
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Apr 29, 2013 20:41
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Elephant Ambush posted:Projection. There you go! (was having a brainfart)
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Ron Paul is a whiny moron. Ron Paul slams Boston 'occupation' quote:Paul said the scenes of the house-to-house search for the younger bombing suspect in suburban Watertown, Mass., were reminiscent of a “military coup in a far off banana republic.” Yes, that's exactly what it was like, Ron. The Boston Police were toppling the Tsarnaev regime in Nicaragua.
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Crasscrab posted:Ron Paul is a whiny moron. Wasn't the "lockdown" voluntary?
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This whole issue/meme about "Obamaphones" really drives me to distraction and is a perfect example of the effectiveness of right wing messaging. I hear it repeated constantly and I bet if you took a poll, less than half would know it was a program started under Reagan and continued by G.W. Bush. It's petty, childish and intellectually dishonest. In other words, it's the epitome of right wing media and the way they report.
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BiggerBoat posted:This whole issue/meme about "Obamaphones" really drives me to distraction and is a perfect example of the effectiveness of right wing messaging. I hear it repeated constantly and I bet if you took a poll, less than half would know it was a program started under Reagan and continued by G.W. Bush. It's petty, childish and intellectually dishonest. In other words, it's the epitome of right wing media and the way they report. I really hate it when any policy is named after any President. Obamacare and Bush Tax Cuts are equally lovely and stupid to me. All it does is make it easy to assign blame to someone you don't like regardless of the facts or history or context. I go out of my way to say Affordable Care Act.
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Elephant Ambush posted:I really hate it when any policy is named after any President. Obamacare and Bush Tax Cuts are equally lovely and stupid to me. All it does is make it easy to assign blame to someone you don't like regardless of the facts or history or context. I go out of my way to say Affordable Care Act. They were the Bush tax cuts though. People just call them that for clarity sake. People call it Obamacare to create a negative gut reaction in people who don't like Obama because it's easier than explaining why they dislike the program (mostly because it was enacted by Obama). A better comparison would be Reaganomics, although in that case it began as a folksy way to sell the idea and continues to be used to create a positive connotation for people who deify Reagan. And it is dumb as hell.
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BiggerBoat posted:This whole issue/meme about "Obamaphones" really drives me to distraction and is a perfect example of the effectiveness of right wing messaging. I hear it repeated constantly and I bet if you took a poll, less than half would know it was a program started under Reagan and continued by G.W. Bush. It's petty, childish and intellectually dishonest. In other words, it's the epitome of right wing media and the way they report. I explained that to my conservative co-workers who laughed themselves silly at the "Obamaphone" video and pointed it out to EVERYONE in the office as proof that Obama was a reverse racist trying to give tax money to lazy (black) people whatever way he could. They handwaved it by saying Obama made it so much worse than it ever was. You cannot explain things or use logic to these people.
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BiggerBoat posted:This whole issue/meme about "Obamaphones" really drives me to distraction and is a perfect example of the effectiveness of right wing messaging. I hear it repeated constantly and I bet if you took a poll, less than half would know it was a program started under Reagan and continued by G.W. Bush. It's petty, childish and intellectually dishonest. In other words, it's the epitome of right wing media and the way they report. He was heckled for saying the New York Times was in the business of gathering news.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tD2H6AX1fE
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Dennis Praeger is having a grand time railing against the hookup culture in college as a result of feminism and secularism. Yes, this is the way to attract the youth vote, by being against sex. We all know that sex isn't popular at all. E: oops, got my right wing weirdos mixed up Good Citizen fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Apr 30, 2013 |
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Apr 30, 2013 18:15
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Good Citizen posted:Mike Gallagher is having a grand time railing against the hookup culture in college as a result of feminism and secularism. Yes, this is the way to attract the youth vote, by being against sex. We all know that sex isn't popular at all. I'm sure lots of guys in college would be more on board with feminism if they knew it apparently caused "hookup culture"
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We were shown the pool table rape scene from "The Accused" in my feminist psychology class (or "psych of gender" or something like that). Man everyone was feeling like hooking up after that.
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Apr 30, 2013 18:24
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Good Citizen posted:Dennis Praeger is having a grand time railing against the hookup culture in college as a result of feminism and secularism. Yes, this is the way to attract the youth vote, by being against sex. We all know that sex isn't popular at all. That reminds me of the best bit of "research" Andrew Kaczynski ever dug up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K61UADVD4VA Money shot at the end with the two college republican brosephs.
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ReindeerF posted:If you haven't read the NSFWcorp piece about Breitbart's empire, it covers Shapiro in detail and is pretty good: Is there a way to read it without subscribing for money? \/\/ Thanks! Uncle Wemus fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Apr 30, 2013 |
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Apr 30, 2013 18:30
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Good Citizen posted:Dennis Praeger is having a grand time railing against the hookup culture in college as a result of feminism and secularism. Yes, this is the way to attract the youth vote, by being against sex. We all know that sex isn't popular at all. Were you listening to his show yesterday? He brought some lady on who claimed that college guys hook up with women not because they want to, but because social pressure forces them to hook up and then brag about it for street cred. She then said that college students as a whole hate "hookup culture" but are pressured into it to appear cool and that really they all want monogamous marriage  .
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There's some truth to societal peer pressure on hookups, but that's more of a lad culture and "women are objects" problem. There are plenty of people who dislike hookup culture but I don't think those people usually go on to participate in it out of obligation.
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