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Devour posted:Well since she's back on I didn't say the cult was small. I'm talking more about Steve Schmidt. He was the guy who found Palin, he put her forward, and he has been cursing that day ever since. Fulchrum fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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Fulchrum posted:I didn't say the cult was small. With her back on fox though, I am looking forward to the Bill Maher commentary on her! EDIT: \/\/ Changed it. Spelling... Devour fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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Devour posted:oval office. Can we not do this? e: thanks! Pope Guilty fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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Devour posted:I know. The thing I just don't get with the GOP on Palin is why they still embrace this women. Nothing about this women is appealing to anyone other than a hard leaning conservative. She handed the election to Obama on a silver platter, then QUITS her job for irrelevant reasons, then she gets her own reality show; effectively equating her with Kim Kardashian & Paris Hilton in terms of maturity, and then cashes in on sales of a book about nothing. This women DOES NOT bring in anybody to the republican party who's not already in it. Woman, she is not a collective.
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Warchicken posted:This is going to sound like a joke or hyperbole to anyone outside Louisiana, so be advised its not: if this stuff in Louisiana continues, LSU will be the only remaining university in the state, and that's only because it has a football team. And that will only save it for so long because eventually the education system will be so bad that no Louisiana students will be accepted by LSU anymore(already happens in many of their departments - generally they do not even consider applicants to the music program from Louisiana schools unless they are from a specific area or have extremely high test scores). Are the private colleges still doing alright? Or are Tulane and the like going down the toilet with the state schools?
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Devour posted:I know. The thing I just don't get with the GOP on Palin is why they still embrace this woman. Nothing about this woman is appealing to anyone other than a hard leaning conservative. She handed the election to Obama on a silver platter, then QUITS her job for irrelevant reasons, then she gets her own reality show; effectively equating her with Kim Kardashian & Paris Hilton in terms of maturity, and then cashes in on sales of a book about nothing. This women DOES NOT bring in anybody to the republican party who's not already in it. You're making the mistake of thinking they want to. At Cpac this year, Palin made this little remark http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/03/16/sarah_palin_fires_up_cpac_by_attacking_obama_rove.html “More Background Checks? Dandy Idea, Mr. President. Shoulda Started With Yours" This, coming from a woman whose lack of a background check almost singlehandedly destroyed John McCains campaign (the economy, the war and the fact that McCain was a grumpy old bastard against a charismatic handsome (relatively) young man added to it). But not to Palin, and not to the people who are watching Palin - its because the country was tricked and didn't listen to their folksy common sense. Palin tells them everything they want to hear. "Obama is a Kenyan socialist, we just have to scrutinise him harder" "Obesity is small potatoes when I can't get way too much soda" Our values are good christian values. We just need to let people see how good they are, and we won't have to compromise" "Liberals are a bunch of America hatin' idiot egotistical nutjobs, but why are they so mean and calling us names" What they want, more than anything, is to be told that they're right about everything, they don't need to change, they just have to make the country see that its true. Its bullshit of the highest order, but compared to the soul searching and compromise that an actual rebuilding would entail, its such sweet bullshit to swallow. Faced between diet and exercise, and gorging themselves on candy until they die of a heart attack, all it takes for the GOP is one person telling them the candy is good for them to forget completely about dieting. And its because she tells them whatever they want to hear without caring about reality that she can rewrite her own reality. She'd both a culture warrior, ready to take the fight to the lamestream media, AND an innocent victim, who was just minding her own business and then people started being mean to her. She is a Washington outsider, AND a machiavellian politician capable of demolishing her oppenents with a sentence. She's a simple Hockey Mom, AND a saavy media queen. She is whatever she wants her cult to believe she is. tl;dr, Because they want her to be right. And if the GOP threw out everything in their platform that they wanted to be right, just cause it was a proven loser, they'd be left with "_____ _______ Party".
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Is this community too high-brow and too sensitive to call a oval office a oval office? Oh sure, it's a specific honorific for only a certain gender (except when it's not) but do we have to be so sensitive? Sarah Palin is the very model of a oval office, and I think that on a comedy website we should be able to call a oval office a oval office without soul-searching. Every one of you who thinks Palin falls short of the label, "oval office," can name at least three other people (not counting me) who deserve the label. gently caress it, call me a oval office, too if you want to. Sticks and stones. Palin is one of the cuntiest of cunts.
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There's so many other things to label her with there's no need to bring gender into it. Honestly everything that needs to be said about her had been said about five minutes after she was foisted on the general public and there's no need to revisit it or her.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Is this community too high-brow and too sensitive to call a oval office a oval office? Swap in words that attack homosexuals or black people for being homosexual or black and ask again. Or don't, because using slurs that attack people for being members of oppressed groups is disgusting and has no place in civilized discourse.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Is this community too high-brow and too sensitive I think the greatest  of this shitpost is that the poster is being oversensitive and offended with the fact someone politely asked a person not to use a slur.
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Neremworld posted:I think the greatest In Palin's case though, it is almost appropriate. She really did go out of her way to play up all a lot of terrible stereotypes. Some times it is easiest just to call a spade a spade, especially when they are going on TV and being all, "Hey, look at me act like such a space!". She was all about being a mom, and having sex appeal, and all the winking, and not having any clue about the outside world, or having any interest in reading a newspaper. oval office is a slur against women because it is an old term for vagina, and Palin was the vagina incarnate for those on the right wing. She was all about defending patriarchy and making babies, and otherwise being a dumb yet charming vagina.
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:In Palin's case though, it is almost appropriate. Even if it was 'almost appropriate', it doesn't justify it. It's not right to call black people who are huge jerks the n-word, or gay people who are huge jerks the f-word, do we? That's literally your argument. "Well, she's a huge jerk of a woman so we can use a slur denigrating women!" Even if they act so-called 'sterotypical' of the word you want to use, it just makes you worse.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Is this community too high-brow and too sensitive to call a oval office a oval office? Have you enjoyed your dozen-year sleep, visitor from a world where that poo poo is acceptable?
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Just say rear end in a top hat or poohead or some other butt thing, those are post gender.
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SedanChair posted:Have you enjoyed your dozen-year sleep, visitor from a world where that poo poo is acceptable? I'm picturing goony Rip Van Winkle with a neckbeard. FedoraDefender420 posted:Just say rear end in a top hat or poohead or some other butt thing, those are post gender. Now this is a modern man.
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I'm actually post-modern and post-man. Not in a gay way though.
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FedoraDefender420 posted:I'm actually post-modern and post-man. Not in a gay way though. I've got some packages on the way, could you grease a few hands and pull some levers to make sure they arrive safely?
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:In Palin's case though, it is almost appropriate. She really did go out of her way to play up all a lot of terrible stereotypes. Some times it is easiest just to call a spade a spade, especially when they are going on TV and being all, "Hey, look at me act like such a space!". Just recently, there was some conservative magazine cover with the headline "SARAH PALIN'S RACK" along with Palin making jokes about being fertile at some speech. That's her schtick.
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I always felt like Sarah Palin was less about trying to get women to vote Republican by having a token woman but more about having a woman they could point to and say "hey women, this is what you should be." Or perhaps a mix of the two. Anyway, I kind of felt like she was more of a construct than an actual person. It seemed to me that she was picked because she fits what the Republican party seems to think is the ideal woman. She's physically attractive, she's stupid, and she does what she's told. She's had more children than average and thinks being a mother is just the single best thing ever. Her public image is that of a good woman who does whatever the patriarchs say because that's what a good woman does. I could be wrong, of course, but Sarah Palin always struck me as somebody that was deliberately installed to serve as a role model, especially considering that she did manage to get a successful career as a politician. I felt like part of the message was "hey ladies, if you sit there and be pretty and do what you're told we might let you play at being a man some day and make you a VICE PRESIDENT!" Let's just completely ignore the simple fact that the Republican party is openly hostile to women's issues.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I always felt like Sarah Palin was less about trying to get women to vote Republican by having a token woman but more about having a woman they could point to and say "hey women, this is what you should be." Or perhaps a mix of the two. Anyway, I kind of felt like she was more of a construct than an actual person. It seemed to me that she was picked because she fits what the Republican party seems to think is the ideal woman. She's physically attractive, she's stupid, and she does what she's told. She's had more children than average and thinks being a mother is just the single best thing ever. Her public image is that of a good woman who does whatever the patriarchs say because that's what a good woman does. She's like an attractive Phyllis Schlafly. 
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Guys guys! According to John Oliver, we can just ignore her! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2uIFZRIDJA
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Palin is close to the perfect physical embodiment of the Republican Bubble. No facts matter, no reality, no truth, just whatever liberal bashing is in fashion that day. And always, always the victim.
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Neremworld posted:Even if it was 'almost appropriate', it doesn't justify it. It's not right to call black people who are huge jerks the n-word, or gay people who are huge jerks the f-word, do we? That's literally your argument. "Well, she's a huge jerk of a woman so we can use a slur denigrating women!" swampland fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Oct 5, 2019 |
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HootTheOwl posted:Guys guys! Yea considering her only work these days is in venues you must actively buy tickets to go to, or Fox News, yea I can be pretty secure in my idea that I can live a life 100% Palin free.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Yea considering her only work these days is in venues you must actively buy tickets to go to, or Fox News, yea I can be pretty secure in my idea that I can live a life 100% Palin free. I endorse this- she's effectively a professional troll at this point. Or perhaps not, I have trouble discerning how much her behavior is governed by "My base will love this" Vs. "Those drat pinko liberals will hate this".
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The problem with ignoring her is she still manages to spit out a phrase every so often that poisons the overall discourse (cf. "Death panels"). It's the same reason you can't just put bad forum trolls on ignore, everyone else responds anyway.
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Hey, thanks for all the great replies! You know who else I think are cunts? This is merely a partial list: Sean Hannity Michelle Bachmann Rush Limbaugh Gretchen Carlson Scott Walker This certain woman at my job who annnoys the poo poo out of me, Lars Ulrich Ann Coulter (although it may be intentional) Governer McRory Welcome to a whole new usage of the dreaded C-word! Set yourself free! Now, being called goony by goons, that really ticks me off.
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^^^ Nobody gives a poo poo and using that word isn't going to magically be okay any time soon.swampland posted:I agree with your point but I'm also assuming you're not a child and can write friend of the family and human being without mummy telling you off when you're talking about those words. It's called being respectful and it's something that adults do.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Hey, thanks for all the great replies!
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Dr. Faustus posted:Hey, thanks for all the great replies! You're a very brave man, can we get this guy a medal already?! edit: Might as well say who you think are total faggots, since I'm sure that's next on your list.
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Getting ticked off by goons is pretty goony. As is willfully ignoring the context and history associated with the ways people talk to each other.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Hey, thanks for all the great replies! Congratulations on being a character from one of the many lovely Kevin Smith movies I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWdVwt2deY4
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 So this is the thread version of Clerks II's "we're taking back porch monkey!" now? (only less funny)In RW media news, Ben Stein's back to denying climate change, referring to the opposition (Read: the entire scientific community) as "global warming terrorists." Edit: Goddamn you, beaten.
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Ah, The Onion is leaking again I see.
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Neremworld posted:Even if it was 'almost appropriate', it doesn't justify it. It's not right to call black people who are huge jerks the n-word, or gay people who are huge jerks the f-word, do we? That's literally your argument. I remember the dark days of misogynist segregation in the south. One time, me and some of my gal pals decided to go to a local Denny's after softball practice. But when the hostess saw us walk in she folded her arms, gave us a hard look, and said "Sorry, we don't serve cunts in these parts. Now ya'll git!" But seriously, oval office is an offensive word, and if a person asks you respectfully not to use it you should just be a decent human being and not use it. Typical Pubbie fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Jun 24, 2013 |
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Monkey Fracas posted:Ah, The Onion is leaking again I see. Sometimes it really feels like they've got a game of one-uping going on with The Onion. "You think we're that crazy? No, we're THIS crazy!"
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:As I often do when discussing Jindal with my fellow Louisianians, I'll note that ol' Bobby is a Rhodes Scholar who was accepted by, and subsequently turned down Harvard Medical School. As I've seen from many a people who've put out a doctoral thesis; writing a thesis and missing the point can very easily go hand in hand.
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