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moller posted:
Oh for fucks sake. Everything about this picture is dumb.
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May 8, 2014 05:39
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dreffen posted:Oh for fucks sake. Everything about this picture is dumb. Jesus, it's libertarians.jpg right up there. "Free minds and free markets?" Come on.
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May 8, 2014 05:41
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Your 2014 US male power fantasy, ladies and gentlemen.
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May 8, 2014 05:44
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pangstrom posted:Your 2014 US male power fantasy, ladies and gentlemen. Hey gently caress that, my power fantasies are way less lame than that. 
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May 8, 2014 05:48
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I'm confused by the pinstripes and flag pin. Also I was trying to figure out what the thing that looks like a sewing machine is - it's a mockup of a 3D printed gun from Forbes. Heh.
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May 8, 2014 05:49
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I just want to say that I'm with Console Gamers Without Borders, and we're working with Gamers Without Necks to raise money and awareness about white male suppression and discrimination in the US.
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May 8, 2014 05:54
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Phone posted:I just want to say that I'm with Console Gamers Without Borders, and we're working with Gamers Without Necks to raise money and awareness about white male suppression and discrimination in the US. Gamers Not Without Fedoras.
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May 8, 2014 06:01
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Are they unironically identifying with that smug entitled little poo poo?
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May 8, 2014 06:12
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Bunleigh posted:Are they unironically identifying with that smug entitled little poo poo? Libertarians.
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May 8, 2014 06:13
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The best touch is the magazine on the floor.
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May 8, 2014 06:13
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Rush Limbaugh posted:I actually believe that part of the reason the liberals tried to run Paula Deen out of business is because she was a big advocate of butter and fat and southern cooking and all that, and she just offended the food Nazis of the left. Do not doubt me on this. Rush Limbaugh posted:Do not doubt me on this! Brendan Eich is canned, forced out, 'cause his $1,000 donation four years ago equal hatred for gay people! Rush Limbaugh posted:Remember the point that I made yesterday -- and do not doubt me on this. Virtually everything that you have heard from climate change/global warming proponents predict and warn you about come strictly from computer models, which are predicting the future 10, 20, 50, 100 years out. The global warming debate is not even about science. Rush Limbaugh posted:They continually try to destroy her because they're afraid of her. Don't doubt me. Do not doubt me on this. They're coming after me now, and Fox News. Rush Limbaugh posted:Do not doubt me on this. The next president, particularly if he is a Republican, is going to immediately be hated and reviled, A, for winning, and then, B, for governing....He's gonna have a satellite administration in exile, in Washington. I guarantee you. Do not doubt me. Rush Limbaugh posted:My instincts, do not doubt me on this, folks. It's a long way to go before this all happens, but the trend has begun, and the trend line is obvious. It's gonna happen. Rush Limbaugh posted:Everybody in both parties knew this was coming, folks. Do not doubt me on this. Everybody knew. Got these by Googling ["do not doubt me on this" rush limbaugh]. It's a phrase that always jumps out at me when he uses it - and it seems like he uses it quite often. If someone said to me, "Do not doubt me on this!" I'd immediately...doubt everything they just said.
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May 8, 2014 06:17
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Elephant Ambush posted:Libertarians.
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May 8, 2014 06:22
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Star Man posted:The best touch is the magazine on the floor. The Droste Effect.  Bunleigh posted:I mean the shoe fits but it doesn't seem like a comparison you'd self-apply. He has weed, an XBL headset, a four loko, a 3d printed gun, and ostensibly a sweet job. He takes no guff from the frowning scantily clad woman.
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May 8, 2014 06:25
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Bunleigh posted:I mean the shoe fits but it doesn't seem like a comparison you'd self-apply. He's rich and in control and nobody tells him what to do. That's how every fat fedora-wearing software engineer nerd loves to imagine themselves.
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May 8, 2014 06:26
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"Talk to the hand, because the head is a thumb."
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May 8, 2014 06:57
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That is a pretty good job of capturing literally every libertarian I have personally known, minus the woman in the background. They are always perpetually single MRAs.
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May 8, 2014 07:02
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moller posted:
Genuine misogyny rather than just Tumblr "my pearls!" misogyny, fat man, the fantasy of having a tailored suit and tie job, the illusion that console gaming is somehow important, drinking 4loko poison ... this is a self aware troll cover, right? Oh, oh my gently caress, it's, "Free Minds and Free Markets." I had this cover totally confused with, "Free Inquiry," now I understand why it's Dumb And So Goddamn Crazy.  
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May 8, 2014 07:11
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I'm assuming that the actual article will be about how Online is the last true bastion where people can harass women, and shout racial slurs at strangers with the same risk-free abandon that we could back in the good old days about 30 years before anybody involved in this story was born. Hilariously, near subversively repellant image. Why is our white hero chubby? why is his girlfriend who is less interesting than his halo match wearing uggs? "Because it is lovely" is an obvious, but somewhat odd answer for a magazine cover in favor of.
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May 8, 2014 07:14
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Bunleigh posted:I mean the shoe fits but it doesn't seem like a comparison you'd self-apply. To be fair, there is a certain resemblance to a younger, office-aesthetic, Penn Jillette.
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May 8, 2014 07:20
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Elephant Ambush posted:He's rich and in control and nobody tells him what to do. That's how every fat fedora-wearing software engineer nerd loves to imagine themselves. Rich people don't put their box springs directly on the floor. He's dressed like that to play the game I Am A
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May 8, 2014 07:35
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It hella looks like Chris Christie.
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May 8, 2014 07:37
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mr. mephistopheles posted:It hella looks like Chris Christie. I think you mean PizzaPOTUS_420.
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May 8, 2014 07:40
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I can't stop laughing. That's how millennial libertarians and college republicans see themselves? That's their ideal?
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May 8, 2014 07:42
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Hazo posted:I can't stop laughing. That's how millennial libertarians and college republicans see themselves? That's their ideal? I would not be surprise in the slightest if people identified with the lovely prick son in GTA5 which is what he looks like to me. That and yeah there's a little Chris Christie in there.
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May 8, 2014 07:55
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Missing my little pony dolls everywhere. Hazo posted:I can't stop laughing. That's how millennial libertarians and college republicans see themselves? That's their ideal? Yep. The awful adult libertarian scumbags in washington/media/etc. who seem to behave like walking caricatures didn't come from nowhere. They used to be horrible college-age libertarian scumbags. Those are the role models of the present generation of college-age libertarian scumbags. So yeah, you can look forward to a new generation of walking libertarian caricatures with their own specific new strain of stupid. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 08:21 on May 8, 2014 |
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May 8, 2014 08:17
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Not only do they have the art style down but that is a nearly perfect match for the son in gta 5 who spends all day gaming and merely imagines himself to be an important hard working person who will get an important high paying job any day now. Like there is some serious Poe's Law poo poo going on here. And yes that's his mom.
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May 8, 2014 08:28
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http://reason.com/VideoGameNationquote:We're happy to point you in the direction of super-special landing page that includes all the magazine's gaming-related articles plus more than a dozen web-only features and videos. From ""Video Games Every Libertarian MUST Play!": quote:Papers, Please: Indie game Papers, Please puts players in the role of a customs official in a fictional Eastern European country. Players must analyze the paperwork of each person attempting to pass through a border checkpoint. As the game progresses, the paperwork review process grows more complicated. At first passports are enough, but soon documents like work visas, entry permits, and immunization records also require examination. There are bribes, and special exemptions for diplomats, and wrenching personal stories from potential immigrants. It's all timed. Failure means fines. At the end of each day, players return home to ration the pittance earned on food, rent, heat, and sometimes medicine for the family. Bring home too little, and you'll watch them die off.
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May 8, 2014 08:31
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moller posted:He has weed, an XBL headset, a four loko, a 3d printed gun, and ostensibly a sweet job. He takes no guff from the frowning scantily clad woman. Babylon Astronaut fucked around with this message at 08:45 on May 8, 2014 |
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May 8, 2014 08:39
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You didn't post the best one.quote:Bioshock: Players fight their way through the ruins of an Art Deco underwater city set up as a kind of sci-fi anarchist utopia—where biological modification is plentiful, looters are treated as scum, and the pursuit of individual desire and accomplishment is considered life’s most noble goal. The villain is clearly intended as a riff on Ayn Rand’s super-individualists, but in a mid-game twist, he shows he’s not simply a bad guy. The revelation elevates Bioshock from satirical, action-driven homage to Rand into a clever riff on the perception of individual freedom and the nature of choice. At least he says its satirical, but that's putting it really lightly - the entire game takes the piss out of Ayn Rand. Cardboard Box A posted:Not only do they have the art style down but that is a nearly perfect match for the son in gta 5 who spends all day gaming and merely imagines himself to be an important hard working person who will get an important high paying job any day now. Like there is some serious Poe's Law poo poo going on here. I think that image is a good fit for internet libertarians who post lengthy droning preachy replies to reddit, random newspaper article sites, youtube, forums, facebook, etc. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 08:45 on May 8, 2014 |
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May 8, 2014 08:41
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 Gamers.txt found the original artwork from GTA 5. So is it supposed to be the same kid but older and now a politician who still lives at home and wears a suit while playing videogames?
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May 8, 2014 08:46
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Somehow it still retains the same effect.
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May 8, 2014 08:54
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As if libertarians needed any more help blurring the line between satire and embodying an un-ironic walking caricature.
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Slo-Tek posted:I'm assuming that the actual article will be about how Online is the last true bastion where people can harass women, and shout racial slurs at strangers with the same risk-free abandon that we could back in the good old days about 30 years before anybody involved in this story was born. Wonder no more, I just did 80 hours of research:  quote:Reason is the monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets." It covers politics, culture, and ideas through a provocative mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews. Reason provides a refreshing alternative to right-wing and left-wing opinion magazines by making a principled case for liberty and individual choice in all areas of human activity. "Blah, blah, blah, we claim to be Libertarians when in actuality we're carrying water for the ultra right GOP who wants Friedmanite free markets and corporate serfdom to rule over all. Because gently caress representative government." I think your right, there must be some sliver of irony to the cover, but not as much as an actual reasoned person (like the New Yorker's cover showing the Obamas sharing a Terrorist Fist Bump).  Edit: Ahaha, I'm a naive fool. I may have called it without ever finding, "Video Games Every Libertarian MUST Play!" but I held on to hope that some part of the publication was ironic. I don't mean to be insulting in any way to anyone else who shared my hesitance to pass a snap judgement, but there it is. Thank you, Von Sloneker, I can now gouge my eyes and/or brain out. There is no longer a need for either in this abyssal hell pit of a country. Post 9-11 User fucked around with this message at 09:06 on May 8, 2014 |
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May 8, 2014 09:02
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That cover art is hilarious, and Reason is a garbage rag, but hell it's fair to give the douches credit for not being anti-video games. I'm not sure if he's in that category, but Ed Schulz was bitching about GTA5 on one of his programs back when it came out, and that's quite disappointing.  And is this article about tax breaks for the gaming industry true? http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/05/06/tax-breaks-for-game-makers-epic-fail I can't believe video games are more subsidized the oil or financial industry.
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May 8, 2014 09:44
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Cardboard Box A posted:And yes that's his mom. Actually, isn't that his sister?
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May 8, 2014 10:01
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Libertarians are far worse than proud Republicans.
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May 8, 2014 12:06
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Mr Interweb posted:Actually, isn't that his sister? Yes, its the sister.
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May 8, 2014 12:10
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Spacedad posted:You didn't post the best one. wow, just wow. How the gently caress do you take that away from Bioshock. What i find funny is all the entire list is bullshit. then again, objectivists were never that intuitive.
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Naga Warlord posted:Got these by Googling ["do not doubt me on this" rush limbaugh]. It's a phrase that always jumps out at me when he uses it - and it seems like he uses it quite often. If someone said to me, "Do not doubt me on this!" I'd immediately...doubt everything they just said. Nah, it's just a phrase, not so much him instructing his peons to believe Dear Leader - some things aren't really that deep.
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