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quote:my figure of the Biblical David by Michelangelo I bought at the Louvre in Paris I was going to make some snarky comment about how tacky this is (possibly with a reference to Adorno). Then I realized that they probably really enjoy those memories from Paris, and they think it's nice to have some art around the house. Like, yeah, they're posting on freep, and they have that weird tagline, they're probably awful...but this awful person also wanted to go see Paris and brought back a giftshop piece of kitsch they display in their bedroom and they probably don't even know why it's kitsch.  Is there a German word for when you feel smugly superior to something that you find both sad and cute, and you feel bad for feeling smug?
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Wait, why the hell would you buy a figure of David at the *Louvre*?Captain_Maclaine posted:We do tend to turn this thread into an Eco chamber at times, admittedly.  I'm sorry
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isildur posted:Driving college friends from out of town to a nightclub in LA, watching them freak out right around the intersection of Fairfax and Santa Monica. Good times. (And the time we went somewhere near MacArthur Park. White knuckles the whole way. 'Are the doors locked? Roll up the windows!') If they can't handle MacArthur Park, then wouldn't be able to enjoy the transcendent experience that is the Number 19 at Langer's Deli, which is basically the worst karmic retribution I can think of. Though I too have run into people who think the moment they set foot in any part of a big city they risk getting killed in rampant gang violence. Seeing people freaked out to be in West LA is really disconcerting. I actually end up feeling bad because I can fall back on the racial and economic segregation that consumes the whole are and assure them they probably aren't going to run into more than a handful of minorities in their time in Santa Monica and Brentwood.
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cafel posted:If they can't handle MacArthur Park, then wouldn't be able to enjoy the transcendent experience that is the Number 19 at Langer's Deli, which is basically the worst karmic retribution I can think of. I lived about a mile from Echo Park, going to West LA was like travelling to a different country.
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America Needs a Kingquote:To: Squawk 8888 quote:To: Squawk 8888 quote:To: Squawk 8888 Wall Street Analysts: Bitcoin Could Revolutionise the Non-Financial World Too quote:To: Errant quote:To: Errant Serial Knockout Attacker Arrested in Brooklyn quote:To: Responsibility2nd quote:To: Responsibility2nd quote:To: Responsibility2nd quote:To: Responsibility2nd quote:To: Responsibility2nd
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As someone who actually worked as a crime reporter, I have to say I never felt it was necessary to mention the race of a criminal suspect. It's not some sort of vast media conspiracy in my experience.
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Jan 3, 2014 19:01
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Nothing in FReep is as infuriating as that dunderheaded article from Politico. "Does America need a monarch?" No. gently caress you!
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Jan 3, 2014 19:02
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Georgia Peach posted:Fairfax and Santa Monica? That's like one of the least fearful areas. Noooo there are scary people walking around! It's scary! (granted it was like 1 AM but even so) I tried to see it from their point of view, and really it's that if you've lived your whole life in a mostly rural state, any city landscape is going to be disorienting and threatening. Even tourist-trap Hollywood is terrifying if your experience is limited to, at most, suburban sprawl. That the city is also populated with the Other just increases the sense of alienation. Which isn't an excuse, but it's at least an explanation. Freepers are almost certainly more concerned with the Other than the cityscape itself, but I think there's a good reason they're always careful to say 'urban' before 'black'. In settings in which they're comfortable, Freepers are able to submerge their racism in familiarity: 'just folks', 'one of the good ones', 'a good Christian', and so forth. (I'd love to see a gaggle of freepers loose in, say, Shinjuku. See how long it takes for them to find a McDonalds and stay there for the rest of the day.)
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Jan 3, 2014 19:06
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isildur posted:In settings in which they're comfortable, Freepers are able to submerge their racism in familiarity: 'just folks', 'one of the good ones', 'a good Christian', and so forth. Or, at least, "know their place."
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Jan 3, 2014 19:09
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isildur posted:(I'd love to see a gaggle of freepers loose in, say, Shinjuku. See how long it takes for them to find a McDonalds and stay there for the rest of the day.) They'd rage that they couldn't get a double Qrt. Pounder with Cheese and their sodas were half the size without free refills.
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Jan 3, 2014 19:23
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kik2dagroin posted:quote: I'd ask what the hell a Nork is but I'm terrified I know the answer
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gardenald posted:I'd ask what the hell a Nork is but I'm terrified I know the answer North Korean. Apparently this fine poster is intrigued by the possibility of starving to death in a frozen police state, as long as somebody in power is feeding his choice of "other" to packs of starving dogs.
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Jan 3, 2014 19:59
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If you haven't heard, that is how Un very recently had his uncle and several aids executed.
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Brings a neat perspective to those stupid memes about N. Korea having 'safer' borders than the US.
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The thing I hate most is how good these people are at compartmentalizing big finance and bribed government vs glorious free market american capitalism. Its like they are so close to getting it but never think it through quite far enough. Its probably subconscious to avoid shattering their world view. I mean, "crony capitalism", cmon. There isn't a  big enough for that.
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Jan 3, 2014 20:28
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Vriess posted:They'd rage that they couldn't get a double Qrt. Pounder with Cheese and their sodas were half the size without free refills. Freepers would love the fact that some of them still have smoking sections but would probably get mad that those sections also have really effective ways of removing the smoke from the building and minimizing the amount of smoke that drifts to other sections of the restaurant.
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Jan 3, 2014 20:37
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isildur posted:Noooo there are scary people walking around! It's scary!
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(Inter racial) local couple wants answers after racial slur found on key tagquote:To: armydawg505 quote:To: armydawg505 quote:To: BenLurkin quote:To: BenLurkin
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Wojtek posted:If you haven't heard, that is how Un very recently had his uncle and several aids executed. The only source for that is a Chinese newspaper, so it's pretty dubious.
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Jan 3, 2014 20:44
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A&E Welcomes Phil Robertson Back to 'Duck Dynasty' Suck it (though not in a gay way at all), Libs quote:To: ConservativeInPA quote:To: icwhatudo quote:Capitalism lives!!! quote:To: ConservativeInPA quote:Anyone care to see if the DU’s heads are exploding? quote:To: ConservativeMan55 quote:To: ConservativeInPA
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Sharkie posted:I was going to make some snarky comment about how tacky this is (possibly with a reference to Adorno). Then I realized that they probably really enjoy those memories from Paris, and they think it's nice to have some art around the house. Like, yeah, they're posting on freep, and they have that weird tagline, they're probably awful...but this awful person also wanted to go see Paris and brought back a giftshop piece of kitsch they display in their bedroom and they probably don't even know why it's kitsch. Congrats on being the lovely liberal stereotype everyone hates!
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Jan 3, 2014 23:19
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kik2dagroin posted:
What the actual gently caress? It's like these guys consider the slaveowners in Djano Unchained role models.
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Ex-Vikings punter: Coach made anti-gay remarksquote:To: Olog-hai I think this sums up Freep's incredibly-strange standards when it comes to vulgarity and "family-friendliness" pretty well. Go to heck, you faggots!
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e_angst posted:
Why do you think they're so pissed about the movie?
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e_angst posted:What the actual gently caress? It's like these guys consider the slaveowners in Djano Unchained role models. Hahahaha, "like." You slay me, e_angst.
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e_angst posted:What the actual gently caress? It's like these guys consider the slaveowners in Djano Unchained role models. I don't know, freep hated Django Unchained for the obvious reasons. Lots of posts about how it was a plot by evil lieberal Christian-hating Hollywood you-know-whats to stoke a race war, lots of posts smirking about how they would love one because they would get to slaughter the urban ferals. Lots of posts about how blacks are the "real racists", usually interleaved with posts about how the black subhumans must be exterminated.
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Wojtek posted:If you haven't heard, that is how Un very recently had his uncle and several aids executed. You know that uncle has been executed twice before, and sent for reeducation at least once. If we don't see it with our own spy satellites there is no way to confirm or deny any news from North Korea at all.
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threefive posted:Congrats on being the lovely liberal stereotype everyone hates! Not sure what stereotype I'm supposed to be but whatever. 34 Photoshops and memes to mock and burst the bubble of global warming alarmists Every single one is either "Al Gore lol" or "If global warming how come snow," but I have to give this one credit for being...something. 
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Yeah the more I poke around the more I see it as just a rumor by a single source. Point is that freepers are looking to to North loving Korea for inspiration. 
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I know talking about :goonrush: isn't kosher, but has there ever been a concerted effort to troll the site? I'd love to see examples of confusion turning to indignant rage. 
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Triskelli posted:I know talking about :goonrush: isn't kosher, but has there ever been a concerted effort to troll the site? I'd love to see examples of confusion turning to indignant rage. They've become vaguely aware of us from time to time as some posters (TapTheForwardAssist, I think?) used to have sleeper accounts on freep, but it hasn't exactly resulted in anything amazing. Plus, they hardly need an excuse to fly into indignant rage as it is, so it's not like there's any big gain. Also, if I remember right they have a very long probationary period for new accounts expressly as an anti-troll device, and ban at the drop of a hat, so any effort would likely crater before generating anything good.
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Triskelli posted:I know talking about :goonrush: isn't kosher, but has there ever been a concerted effort to troll the site? I'd love to see examples of confusion turning to indignant rage. Standard "don't touch the poop" disclaimer applies. Plus freep is heavily moderated, and new posters have their posts probated/screened. Just let them wallow in their own crapulence and content yourself on the succulent tear drippings.
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Triskelli posted:I know talking about :goonrush: isn't kosher, but has there ever been a concerted effort to troll the site? I'd love to see examples of confusion turning to indignant rage. They're so goddamn paranoid that they will ban any referral IP from this place on sight, plus if you don't walk the finest of lines as a new poster you will immediately get the zot. Trust me, I've tried. Anyway, it's not worth it. Fritz Coldcockin fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Jan 4, 2014 |
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Triskelli posted:I'd love to see examples of confusion turning to indignant rage. I don't think that would happen. If there's one thing freep threads have demonstrated it's their ability to mentally turn on a dime to stay with whatever their worldview holds as true at that moment. In the old thread you could see it happen in real time after the massacre in Norway. From "Oh the savagery" to "Commie hitler faggots had it coming" just like that. It was pretty eye opening. They'll save their indignant rage for things like men holding hands, women who have sex, and (R)s who aren't conservative enough.
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Triskelli posted:I know talking about :goonrush: isn't kosher, but has there ever been a concerted effort to troll the site? I'd love to see examples of confusion turning to indignant rage. Nothing you can come up with is as funny as what they produce themselves.
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Erghh posted:I don't think that would happen. If there's one thing freep threads have demonstrated it's their ability to mentally turn on a dime to stay with whatever their worldview holds as true at that moment. They're right about things being like 1984, except they misunderstand it's them doing doublethink.
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quote:Achmed: Hey Mustafa, you got the spray paint. I know the first person I blame when I see a swastika is a Jew! In Freepland the Jews are good ONLY because Hitler killed them. They CAN'T be racist because they LIKE Jews! Just like how they CAN'T be racist because they don't say the n-word!
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Duke Igthorn posted:I know the first person I blame when I see a swastika is a Jew! No, they're good because they're the bait for the Jesustrap--they have to build a temple or some such and then get horribly attacked to
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Duke Igthorn posted:In Freepland the Jews are good ONLY because Hitler killed them. That, and a significant proportion of freepers ascribe to nutty dispensationalist beliefs about the biblical end times and the precursor events that Revelation claims need to take place in restored Israel. This is the "bait for the Jesus trap" thing I and others have referenced, which comes from the belief that most/all Jews need to be back in the holy lands to trigger the rapture and end times eventsduring which almost all the Jews actually die and are damned for their refusal to accept Christ but who's keeping count? EDIT: Beaten like a non-believer during the millennial reign of Christ.
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