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FuzzySkinner posted:"They live" loving owns. "Gattaca" is a personal favorite.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378894/mass-killings-have-become-rorschach-tests-charles-c-w-cooke/page/0/1 Charles C. W. Cooke, good as always National Review posted:One has to play similar games in order to harmonize the killer’s astonishing, deep-seated hatred of females with the fact that four out of the six people he killed were male. There is no question that the shooter had constructed a poisonous ideology in which women were the sworn enemy. His targets, in his own ugly words, were “all you girls who rejected me and looked down on me, treated me like scum while you gave yourselves to other men,” and so intolerably angry was he at women in general that he expressed a wish to put them into camps, to watch them “starve to death,” and to force a few carefully selected survivors to breed with him and others of his choosing. This having been done, he suggested, “sexuality would not exist,” “humanity will be pure and civilized,” and “men will grow up healthily, without having to worry about such a barbaric act.” He was, let’s say, not a fan of the fairer sex. One has to play similar games to understand the commentators, poster posted:He talked on and on about women rejecting him, but he killed an equal number of men in his bloody pique. Maybe he was desperate for a woman to make him want a woman. Didn't he plan to kill women and run into some complication at the sorority that made him kill those guys, anyway, or am I wrong?
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# ? May 28, 2014 02:27 |
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Man honestly we should quit parsing his manifesto. gently caress your stupid ideas, cur. They're stupid. I don't want to let freaks know that there's a way to get Anderson Cooper to parse your manifesto. You can loving hear the trepidation in journalists voices as they discuss it. They know they're contributing to it.
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Time to read Zinn posted:http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378894/mass-killings-have-become-rorschach-tests-charles-c-w-cooke/page/0/1 A locked door prevented his rampage through a sorority house, so he went to go kill someone else.
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# ? May 28, 2014 02:59 |
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Time to read Zinn posted:http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378894/mass-killings-have-become-rorschach-tests-charles-c-w-cooke/page/0/1 The neo-Nazi shooter a while back ended up only killing Christians and nobody questioned whether he was motivated by anti-Semitism. Why the gently caress does who he actually killed matter? It's because they secretly agree with the misogyny
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# ? May 28, 2014 03:01 |
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The most amazing thing about that transcript is rush admits to never having seen The Running Man.
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# ? May 28, 2014 04:14 |
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He saw running in the title and knew it wasn't for him.
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# ? May 28, 2014 04:22 |
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I thoroughly enjoyed the part where Rush complains about "the left" exploiting and spinning the shootings for their own benefit, and then in the next breath starts mocking the kid's dad for some reason. Still not as good as talking at length, with great confidence, about the implications and subtext of a story he's never read or seen though. That's just special.
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# ? May 28, 2014 04:46 |
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If you guys are serious about the Mulford Act poo poo, I know two brown people (one is a Muslim!!!) who are hardcore all about guns and hardcore all about sticking it to the NRA. They have also mentioned that they'd like to get something along the lines of NAFACP going. I can talk to them about it. We've got post-children. Once they get the ball rolling, we can expand. Would people be interested in this, or is this just a D&D wankfest?
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# ? May 28, 2014 04:48 |
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kik2dagroin posted:The Hunger Games. My dad does the same thing. He didn't need to see The Hunger Games or the Dark Knight Rises to know that they should be lauded for their libertarian messages. (DKR "shows the truth about Occupy." You will, of course, remember how the OWS protestors stole a nuclear device and held the entire city of New York hostage and executed the elite citizens in a series of show trials.) He has read the Harry Potter books and joins others in hailing its libertarian message: http://studentsforliberty.org/blog/2011/12/08/the-libertarian-subtext-of-harry-potter/ Students for Liberty blog posted:The story seems simple on the surface. A boy’s family is killed by a power hungry evil wizard and the boy trains to ultimately destroy him. So what’s so unique about J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter? (The italicized quote is evidently meant to follow the third paragraph, but it breaks up the fourth paragraph instead because of a formatting error.) Yes, J.K. Rowling created a libertarian champion while exploiting Britain's welfare system. (She'd held a job, but quit it to write her first book, so she didn't technically need to be on welfare.) A libertarian champion who grows up to be a government bureaucrat. Pththya-lyi fucked around with this message at 07:55 on May 28, 2014 |
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How is pacifism remotely libertarian???
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# ? May 28, 2014 08:05 |
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LaughMyselfTo posted:How is pacifism remotely libertarian??? Not so much pacifism as non-aggression - basically leave me and my stuff alone and I'll leave you and your stuff alone. If you do mess with me or my stuff, however, it's on like Diddy Kong. EDIT: One example of the hosed-uppedness of the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP): say you own a high-rise apartment with a flagpole sticking out of the exterior wall. One day when you're in the apartment when a guy falls out of a window above your apartment and grabs your flagpole. According to the NAP, he is trespassing on your property and you're well within your rights to push him to his death. Pththya-lyi fucked around with this message at 08:20 on May 28, 2014 |
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PeterWeller posted:I like that he implies that they never made a movie about the dire ramifications of nuclear weapons back in the 40s, 50s, or 60s, you know, the golden age of B movies about the dire ramifications of nuclear weapons.
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# ? May 28, 2014 08:36 |
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Pththya-lyi posted:Yes, J.K. Rowling created a libertarian champion while exploiting Britain's welfare system. 1) Libertarians are good guys who fight bad guys 2) Harry Potter is clearly a good guy who fights Voldemort (a bad guy) therefore 3) Harry Potter is a Libertarian hero and the next generation is going to be Libertarians ha ha ha ha suck it libs!
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# ? May 28, 2014 08:43 |
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FMguru posted:A-movies, too (Fail Safe, On The Beach, motherfucking Dr. Strangelove). Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety is a really good book that will make you at how many close calls the US had with accidental nuclear weapon detonations. The movies Fail Safe and Dr. Stangelove are discussed in the book.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety is a really good book that will make you at how many close calls the US had with accidental nuclear weapon detonations. The movies Fail Safe and Dr. Stangelove are discussed in the book.
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# ? May 28, 2014 09:08 |
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kik2dagroin posted:
Yes, we all know how well "Just say No" worked.
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# ? May 28, 2014 09:48 |
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My Q-Face posted:
Very well with good conservative children! Those godless liberals and the spawn of the democrat party though...
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# ? May 28, 2014 09:51 |
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It's funny that the article claims Harry Potter is a libertarian, considering he shared his parents' wealth quite freely. Oh, and every libertarian I know is a complete "master race" shitheel (apologies to non-racist libertarians on the forums). It's pretty central to libertarianism that some people are just better than others, and most think it's no coincidence that white people are rich. The motherfucking Atlas Shrugged book was all white people all the time.
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anonumos posted:It's funny that the article claims Harry Potter is a libertarian, considering he shared his parents' wealth quite freely. Libertarians are fine with voluntary charity! They just don't engage in it themselves. (Well, unless it's a rich people charity, where the real purpose of participating is to show off your house/car/horse/yacht/[fancy belonging(s)].)
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# ? May 28, 2014 14:04 |
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FuzzySkinner posted:The next? THEY'RE PROMOTING THEIR VALUES IN HOLLYWOOD! VIOLENCE! SEX! DRUGS! ALL GLORIFIED!. One minor point on this, I watched American Beauty again recently and can completely understand how it would upset conservatives due to the use of straw men. Same with Donnie Darko.
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# ? May 28, 2014 14:11 |
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eggyolk posted:One minor point on this, I watched American Beauty again recently and can completely understand how it would upset conservatives due to the use of straw men. Same with Donnie Darko. Those characters you call straw men... some of us have them in our family. I would love it if they were straw men. The world would be a much better place. Conservatives were pissed at American Beauty because it's like Falling Down but the character becomes disillusioned with capitalism and modern society. As a rich white person you are supposed to be happy, and god loving help you if you aren't. ErIog fucked around with this message at 14:19 on May 28, 2014 |
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kik2dagroin posted:Limbaugh spent about an hour musing over the meanings of The Hunger Games. Let's just get a little dose of context because this whole thing started as a fairly benign comment as he ranted about the recent shooting in Santa Barbara Strong words for a guy that flies to the Dominican Republic to gently caress child sex slaves.
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Pththya-lyi posted:Yes, J.K. Rowling created a libertarian champion while exploiting Britain's welfare system. (She'd held a job, but quit it to write her first book, so she didn't technically need to be on welfare.) A libertarian champion who grows up to be a government bureaucrat. This would actually be completely consistent with the way most libertarians actually behave (see: Ayn Rand and Medicare, etc.)
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# ? May 28, 2014 14:20 |
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I still love Fox's outrage at V for Vendetta's depiction of a scifi Bush administration. (The villain was scifi Hitler - it was written years before Bush, they Godwinned that one all by themselves.)
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# ? May 28, 2014 14:23 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:This would actually be completely consistent with the way most libertarians actually behave (see: Ayn Rand and Medicare, etc.) Let's not forget Paul Ryan who has had food on his table from government money literally his entire life, and yet seeks to cut those benefits.
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# ? May 28, 2014 14:23 |
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moths posted:I still love Fox's outrage at V for Vendetta's depiction of a scifi Bush administration. (The villain was scifi Hitler - it was written years before Bush, they Godwinned that one all by themselves.) Also Lord Business, the villain from the Lego Movie, was clearly, clearly modeled after Mitt Romney (and not Will Ferrell, Lord Business' voice actor).
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# ? May 28, 2014 14:27 |
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Wow, did they even watch the movie? That Romney assessment entirely falls apart because of spoilers.
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# ? May 28, 2014 14:29 |
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There was a lot of kid killin' in the Bible too. Mostly by god's command.
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# ? May 28, 2014 14:34 |
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moths posted:Wow, did they even watch the movie? Are you kidding me? It's a kids' movie! Now lemme tell you about how it's an attack on conservatism!
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# ? May 28, 2014 14:36 |
Conservatives higher in the echelons know their entire ideology is an evil scam so sometimes they don't realize that evil characters in the media might NOT be symbolic of them and they jump the gun in the outrage machine.
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# ? May 28, 2014 14:38 |
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Is the @Todd_kincannon twitter meltdown real or is it a really elaborate troll? https://twitter.com/Todd__Kincannon http://www.salon.com/2014/01/27/tea_party_troll_todd_kincannon_goes_on_misogynistic_anti_wendy_davis_twitter_rant/ More recently: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/todd-kincannon-yesallwomen-ucsb-killings/
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# ? May 28, 2014 16:41 |
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He's a troll that feeds off the attention given him whenever he tweets something disgusting. It'd be better if everyone just ignored him.
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# ? May 28, 2014 17:37 |
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Radish posted:Conservatives higher in the echelons know their entire ideology is an evil scam so sometimes they don't realize that evil characters in the media might NOT be symbolic of them and they jump the gun in the outrage machine. I've recently adopted an old catch-phrase to respond to this one: "If the shoe fits". I've said this to a lot of people who want to abolish CPS for taking kids from abusive parents because their parents "spanked them one time".
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Raskolnikov38 posted:He's a troll that feeds off the attention given him whenever he tweets something disgusting. It'd be better if everyone just ignored him. He's a pro troll and his point is valid. Why are feathers so ruffled by dumb poo poo? It's like the mindset for content on this forum versus, say, a Clearchannel radio station that censors everything from "poo poo" to "chrome 45." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVJAz0XT8I4&t=41s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVJAz0XT8I4&t=120s The words "whore" and "balls" are censored, too. If the censorship trend goes any further things like "liquor store" will be censored, as well. This version actually has a few parts uncensored, "green," "drugs," "chrome," and "gun," are usually censored. Heaven forbid a cautionary tale about life on the wrong side of the tracks actually mention some of the things that are bad.
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moths posted:I still love Fox's outrage at V for Vendetta's depiction of a scifi Bush administration. (The villain was scifi Hitler - it was written years before Bush, they Godwinned that one all by themselves.) The use of the O'Reilly/Limbaugh clone on the network is pretty scathing of them. Another character that was created a YEARS before Limbaugh and Fox News even existed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flBpsyFbEOs I realize it's very much an anarchist/libertarian type of movie but I really enjoyed "V for Vendetta" FWIW. What is bizarre how quickly Fox News is willing to criticize any type of film. Neil Cavuto threw a hissy fit that "Zero Dark Thirty" didn't win an academy award, yet, "Argo" did. "IT'S JUST HOLLYWOOD GIVING AN AWARD TO ITSELF". He didn't even see the movie. My conservative dad? Loved it by the way.
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# ? May 28, 2014 18:46 |
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My dad saw it and loved it but framed it as "yay, Hollywood's finally making a conservative movie!!!" on the basis that true leftists must be unwilling to view Iranians as antagonists or something?
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# ? May 28, 2014 19:13 |
Also it's like the CIA's one successful adventure.
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# ? May 28, 2014 19:21 |
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I typically notice conservative "values" in film when they manifest in some eye rolling racist grandpa poo poo. Consider when the swarthy foreigners (from a sandy place) teamed up with OWS to nuke Gotham city. It's like, OK Nolan- We get it, you're a rich white guy and this was the scariest scenario you could imagine. OF COURSE you only see this in hyper unrealistic fantasy circumstances, like Red Dawn or 24. Are there any grounded films where the conservatives were right all along?
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FuzzySkinner posted:What is bizarre how quickly Fox News is willing to criticize any type of film. Neil Cavuto threw a hissy fit that "Zero Dark Thirty" didn't win an academy award, yet, "Argo" did. "IT'S JUST HOLLYWOOD GIVING AN AWARD TO ITSELF". He didn't even see the movie. My conservative dad? Loved it by the way. But I thought Zero Dark Thirty was just liberal propaganda to remind people about Bin Laden's death right before the election?
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