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Christ, are we still talking about this? Take it to CD. Post FReep. So one FReeper finally asks the question that a lot of us here have asked: quote:To all the Putin apologists A bit illiterate and hyperbolic, but with 98 replies he's certainly kicked a bees nest. Just because we love the leader of a foreign country and hold him up as all that we want in a leader doesn't mean that we don't love America! quote:To: Red White and Blue patriot  quote:To: Red White and Blue patriot This has nothing at all to do with the topic at hand: quote:To: Red White and Blue patriot Putin: He has Russia's best interests at heart. quote:To: Idaho_Cowboy Presented without comment. quote:To: Red White and Blue patriot When you're being picked up by the police and whipped with barbed wire and having nails driven through your fingers, you can style yourself after the French Resistance. Until then, shut the gently caress up. quote:To: justa-hairyape I know that he's bad, but the little man in me just thinks that he's so... Reaganesque.  quote:To: Responsibility2nd The CIA is even less interested in what you shits are doing than we are. quote:To: Dr. Thorne I'm sure there'll be more as the thread develops.
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Mar 5, 2014 20:11
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Georgia Peach posted:Pope Francis could support civil unions There's no way you can realistically say the Pope is "pro" gay. He's obviously just "anti treating people like subhumans."
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Mar 5, 2014 20:31
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ColdSnickersBar posted:There's no way you can realistically say the Pope is "pro" gay. He's obviously just "anti treating people like subhumans." As if Freepers wouldn't see that as exactly the same thing.
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Mar 5, 2014 20:33
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Zeroisanumber posted:Christ, are we still talking about this? Take it to CD. Post FReep. I was going to post that same thread. Tear each other apart 
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Mar 5, 2014 20:35
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Putin thread seems like ripe ground for mass-zottings.
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Mar 5, 2014 21:01
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Dirt5o8 posted:Putin thread seems like ripe ground for mass-zottings. I dunno. I'm sure JimRob is conflicted. His love for America but hatred for Obama and love for an authoritarian right-wing hunk like Putin... Which side does he pick??? Darkman Fanpage fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Mar 5, 2014 |
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Mar 5, 2014 21:16
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US and Israel Worked Together to Track, Raid Iranian Weapon Ship I fail to see how this is furthering Obama's Islamic agenda, but he's still at fault here. quote:To: Nachum quote:To: Nachum quote:To: tet68 quote:To: Nachum The real plan is revealed! quote:To: Nachum quote:To: Bloody Sam Roberts
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Mar 5, 2014 21:25
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Dirt5o8 posted:Putin thread seems like ripe ground for mass-zottings. There's only so much more zotting he can do. He certainly can't zot anyone who sends him a bit of their social security check every month.
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Mar 5, 2014 21:28
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"Loose (purple) lips" And I'd be the racist for calling him out on that.
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Mar 5, 2014 21:30
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"Logic" now means "agree with whatever I say" as in "You just don't think logically so you're wrong,"quote:To: Nachum
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Mar 5, 2014 22:22
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Freepers: Talking about "purple lips" isn't racist
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Duke Igthorn posted:I want a Freep flow chart of how the world works; everyone is secretly working for AND against Obama, Obama is too weak to lead and holding the US in an iron death grip of control, every country is running riot while doing whatever Obama wants, the military hates him and wants him out while covering up his mistakes and agreeing with his policy decision. It's a super complicated plan and Obama seems to have a hold on it so I say let him keep going.
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Mar 5, 2014 23:19
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I don't think I've ever seen anyone say "joooooos" in an unironic context.
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SedanChair posted:Schindler's List was kind of a plodding, dutiful movie, not unlike 12YAS. I never understood all the hype but then again I got my youthful dose of horror reading Man's Search for Meaning. [/quote] So the film about black suffering and atrocity is overhyped as a film because it clearly only got praise because of white guilt, but the film about white suffering and atrocity is overhyped as a film because it isn't as good as this book about white suffering and atrocity. Wow, predicted that one. And the opinions of the guy who adapted the screenplay have nothing to do with the merits of the film, just as how ellen's selfie has nothing to do with the merits of the film. You really are desperate to just not offer any discussion of the topic, film, or art involved, and are grasping at anything no matter how tenuous aren't you? SedanChair posted:That's an interesting perspective, and totally wrong. quote:His hosed up self-loathing racist beliefs have revealed themselves in his movie, quote:which presumably he wrote as a story about the last blacks in America who had the right to complain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Years_a_Slave SedanChair posted:I don't need to talk about the film (not that it would shed any light on things for you, as you've admitted that you're holding forth without having seen it). The fact is that a self-loathing Booker T. Washington type who praises black Republicans and makes fun of black men getting killed by police wrote a screenplay about the wretchedness of slavery. It's a revealing and inherently political act which is placed in context by his prior statements (no apology for or disavowal of his previous opinions has been offered btw). The fact that you refuse to actually discuss the merits of the film in a discussion about it winning an award based on merit really says it all. Good to see you are still earning that title there. At this point you've demonstrated complete ignorance of even the most common knowledge of the film (like that it is a British film, that Steve McQueen made it, that it is based on real events) to the point where I don't even believe your claim to have seen it. Keep on trucking there fucknuts.
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ColdSnickersBar posted:12 Years A Slave could have been written by a baby-eating child molester, or have been written by Hitler himself, risen from the grave. Nah all those guys work for the Disney Channel these days. And even they included gay characters. So yeah even our stupidest entertainment is beyond freep. Mind Loving Owl fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Mar 6, 2014 |
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Mar 6, 2014 00:31
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Am... am I in TV IV?
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Freep thread: most disciplined, on-topic thread. Let's get anxious about it.Fried Chicken posted:At this point you've demonstrated complete ignorance of even the most common knowledge of the film (like that it is a British film, that Steve McQueen made it, that it is based on real events) to the point where I don't even believe your claim to have seen it. Keep on trucking there fucknuts. I did see it though. Who cares if it's British? An American racist wrote it. Who cares if it's faithful to the book? An American racist found the book suitable for his purposes.
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Are you trolling or something? I can give you a list of films which are pretty out and out racist if you want, and it won't have have this film, which was you know, directed by a black man, written by a black man, based on a book by a black man, with a nearly all black cast.SedanChair posted:Freep thread: most disciplined, on-topic thread. Let's get anxious about it. You know films don't just appear by magic when the screen writer finishes the screenplay, right? As a white man, I found the film powerful, because like McQueen's other films, it was an unflinching look at human suffering and how badly people can treat each other. I thought Chiwetel Ejiofor played the role of a man robbed of his dignity and humanity amazingly, and McQueen was able to capture the needless cruelty and dehumanisation of the slave trade without either compromising his indie past, or sensationalizing it into a emotional weepy, a la Spielberg. He showed one man's life caught in an horrific situation, that thankfully was ended. It was a hard and emotionally draining watch, but I'm glad it was made, and I'm glad I saw it. But according to you, I only liked the movie because I was afraid of not being politically correct?  That might be the most D&D.txt thing I've read in ages.To get back on topic, did any Freepers freak out over Ellen DeGeneres hosting, or did they use up all their rage on generic liberal Hollywood stuff? OldMemes fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Mar 6, 2014 |
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Mar 6, 2014 01:18
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OldMemes posted:As a white man, Good To Know
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SedanChair posted:Freep thread: most disciplined, on-topic thread. Let's get anxious about it. It being British means it is broken from the American context, which was part of your original complaint. Ridley may be a shitstain, but you are yet to point out at all how that shows up in the film because you refuse to discuss the film. Ridley didn't "find it suitable for his purposes", McQueen started on it in 2008 and brought in Ridley when it got going in 2011. Ridley wasn't even the sole writer, McQueen co-wrote it and has been fighting with Fox Searchlight for credit. So basically you have that the guy who came in to a 3 year old project to clean the script is an rear end in a top hat, therefore clearly that being an rear end in a top hat influences how we should view the film (despite being contrary to elementary media analysis), it shows in the film (though you can't say where) and even then it clearly doesn't deserve best picture because of its merits which you refuse to discuss.
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Mar 6, 2014 01:30
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SedanChair posted:Good To Know lol at the guy echoing right wing talking pointd trying to discredit someone based on race
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Darkman Fanpage posted:I dunno. I'm sure JimRob is conflicted. His love for America but hatred for Obama and love for an authoritarian right-wing hunk like Putin... Which side does he pick??? JimRob will most likely call for people to stop posting pro-Putin stuff, and memory hole any points in the past where he has engaged in it himself. There has been some pushback from the more fervent Cold-War-addled anti-Russia GOP demagogues in the past few days over this issue.
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SedanChair posted:Good To Know Did you read the rest of what I actually typed, or did you just jump on the SJW bandwagon. I was saying that people of any race can enjoy the movie and its message. The truths this movie tells about America's past go above any colour divide. I'm not even American and I got that from the movie, because I could see it as a story of human suffering, and that's a thing people should be able to understand universally. You are literally acting like the liberal strawman that Freepers think is everyone even slightly to the left of Nixon is. OldMemes fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Mar 6, 2014 |
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Mar 6, 2014 01:35
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Could you guys stop arguing about movies? we've had multi-page discussions about rabbinical sermons, but a half dozen posts is a problem? poo poo, given that Sedanchair is showing the Freep can come from within the thread by unironically regurgitating right wing hate this is still relevant.
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Hillary Clinton Calls Putin 'A Tough Guy With Thin Skin'quote:To: gooblah quote:To: gooblah quote:To: gooblah I won't post anything from this thread, the title says it all: 23 memes and graphics that demonstrate how embarassing Obama is compared to Putin ------------- Context: German home-school family will not be deported from US quote:US immigration officials confirmed the Romeike family have been granted "prosecutorial discretion". quote:To: SoFloFreeper quote:To: SoFloFreeper quote:To: SoFloFreeper quote:To: capydick quote:To: SoFloFreeper quote:To: Buckeye McFrog quote:To: SoFloFreeper 
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Could you guys stop arguing about movies? quote:Posted on 1/18/2014 6:22:22 AM by napscoordinator
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Just because a Freeper likes something, does not make it a Freeper piece of media. I'm sure there are Freepers that like drinking coffee, does that mean that drinking coffee makes you a crazy far right racist? Of course not.
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kik2dagroin posted:
Couldn't possibly be that Glenn Beck is an idiot talking out of his rear end!
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OldMemes posted:Just because a Freeper likes something, does not make it a Freeper piece of media. Sure but the Freeper is right, 12YAS pointedly does not get "all Hollywood liberal," it's presented in a vacuum of the past, alien in its horror. Watch it and feel cleansed! We sure don't do that anymore! It was the job of Hollywood liberals to make everything but the film itself "all Hollywood liberal." Act in it and feel cleansed! Well, act in it to whatever extent you can deal with how it affects your public image. Fassbender and Giamatti have tons of guts and chops, and aren't A-list, so they take the irredeemable slave-beating roles. Brad Pitt has more at stake, so he can be Mr. Virtuous Quaker Who Didn't Have Any Slaves, No Sir. Look, if Lupita Nyong'o achieves real stardom, or if we start seeing an entire genre of films about slavery emerge and come to prominence, I will stop criticizing Hollywood as a den of racists who like to congratulate themselves for promoting slavery torture-porn. I'll stop criticizing liberal film-goers as hypocrite scum. But as it is this movie was marketed as anguish-in-a-bottle, as something for you to watch and feel like you've achieved something.
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SedanChair posted:Sure but the Freeper is right, 12YAS pointedly does not get "all Hollywood liberal," it's presented in a vacuum of the past, alien in its horror. Watch it and feel cleansed! We sure don't do that anymore! I can give a list of really racist Hollywood films if you want, films that you CAN get angry at for being horribly offensive. Plus it wasn't even a Hollywood movie - it was a British production, funded by Film Four, with additional funding from Brad Pitt's production studio! Me and the millions of others who saw the movie didn't do so because of some hypotheical "white guilt". It's because it was a powerful and brilliantly made movie. So white people maybe going "yeah, white people have done some pretty awful things in history" is white guilt, but white people ignoring it somehow solves the problem? Even though it was directed by a black British director? Someone who has actually made pretty powerful art that questions society's morality, past and present, rather than just sitting at a computer, grasping at strawmen?
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quote:SOMEONE REPORT ME TO THE FTC BECAUSE I HAVE A MONOPOLY ON SHITPOSTING Jesus, the  expended for that were a public goddamn service.Just ignore this dumbfuck and let him migrate back to tumblr. ErIog posted:JimRob will most likely call for people to stop posting pro-Putin stuff, and memory hole any points in the past where he has engaged in it himself. There has been some pushback from the more fervent Cold-War-addled anti-Russia GOP demagogues in the past few days over this issue. Have there been any threads were the idolaters clashed with the old guard? Seems like a wonderful place to see doublethink in action.
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WarpedNaba posted:Jesus, the Yeah, he's really going out of his way to be upset at something that exists largely, perhaps entirely, in his own imagination. quote:Have there been any threads were the idolaters clashed with the old guard? Seems like a wonderful place to see doublethink in action. Sorta. During 2012 there was a brief moment immediately following Romney's nomination when Jimrob decided that
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I'm both "tumblr" and "a freeper" apparently.OldMemes posted:I can give a list of really racist Hollywood films if you want, films that you CAN get angry at for being horribly offensive. Oh can I? Thanks! Thanks for letting me know what I can get angry about. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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SedanChair posted:Oh can I? Thanks! Thanks for letting me know what I can get angry about. You might want to try the book Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Jack Shaheen. It's a good starting point on race and racism in cinema, which is something that has a long, sad history, from early movies such as Birth of a Nation and The Jazz Singer, to the representation of ethnic minorities in modern blockbuster films like Transformers: Rise of the Fallen. It's a pretty popular area of film studies, there are lots of books on the subject, check your local library. Try and that, and stop derailing the thread.
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Seen it, seen them, know it, still have my opinions. Feel free not to derail it yourself. Feel free to not be taken aback at a nonwhite opinion that doesn't masturbate you for your viewing choices. I love how you've begun every post from the starting point of "if only you knew more about film" 
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So if a movie tones down the evils of slavery it's whitewashing and wrong, yes I agree... and if it portrays it as horrific and fearful to its core existence the film is just a way for white people to feel good about themselves. Even if it's made by black people and based on a real life black person's story. Tumblr activism is confusing. OldMemes posted:You might want to try the book Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Jack Shaheen. It's a good starting point on race and racism in cinema, which is something that has a long, sad history, from early movies such as Birth of a Nation and The Jazz Singer, to the representation of ethnic minorities in modern blockbuster films like Transformers: Rise of the Fallen. It's a pretty popular area of film studies, there are lots of books on the subject, check your local library. Sounds fascinating, thanks for the rec.
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More Freep gay sex fantasies!quote:To: demshateGod From http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3130002/posts
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SedanChair posted:Seen it, seen them, know it, still have my opinions. Feel free not to derail it yourself. Feel free to not be taken aback at a nonwhite opinion that doesn't masturbate you for your viewing choices. There's a reason for that, I'm doing an MA in film, starting to get into film academicia and I'm aiming to become a film studies lecturer, so yeah, I'm going to approach this from a film studies angle. It's kind of my thing - it's like how someone talking about issues in a book would look at it from a literature study angle. You read material via waht you know and how you understand it. And considering how smug you've been, you can't really accuse anyone else of the same. I like how you assume every poster who disagrees with you is a racist. Also, this is the worst derail, sorry Freep fans. OldMemes fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Mar 6, 2014 |
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