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Sephyr posted:Oh yeah, I remember those. They were endlessly entertaining. Whomever made them couldn't leave the western welfare-intensive nations too far down the list without risking looking silly ("Wait...if all these countries are totalitarian hellholes, why do they have such high life expectancy and quality of life?"), but they also could not let them climb too far up without sabotaging their own argument. ...I'm beginning to suspect that one of their criteria was "how white is this country".
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Tarezax posted:...I'm beginning to suspect that one of their criteria was "how white is this country". Given that Hong Kong and Singapore are always at the top spots, I doubt it. It's mostly an exercise in propping up oligarch-friendly systems and giving them legitimacy while pretending the the results obtained by more social-democracy-minded countries come from adherence to their model. See, if it's working, it HAS to be their ideology. Nothing else would achieve anything but Ukrainian Famines all around!
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SedanChair posted:Sounds like the time is right for Ancap Burning Man. Just open carry Mosin Nagants and homeopathic contraception booths as far as the eye can see. God please no, I deal with enough Ancaps at burning man as it is.
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Being a male citizen of Singapore requires two years of national service. That has to scare away some of the FYGM crowd.
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Funny how people will so favor the freedom to make money that they ignore other freedoms. Speakers' Corner Also, I hope they enjoy keeping their guns at the shooting range, if the government grants them a permit to own a gun at all.
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So I never knew that the National Enquirer was such a right-wing thing. I mean I obviously know it's a trash tabloid but it seems like in the past year or so it's gotten way more obvious that they're not just trying to sell their poo poo to any idiot they can regardless of political ideology. Today I was at the grocery store and I saw the most recent issue on the stand and it said something like "Even Michelle can't believe Obama traded 5 terrorists for 1 deserter!" with a picture of an angry Michelle above it, and a picture of Obama on the right that was intended to make him look sinister and evil. The best/worst/funniest part was that right below the picture of Obama it straight-up says "IMPEACH HIM NOW!" Maybe my memory is bad or I just don't pay close enough attention to tabloids but I think this is the first time I've ever seen anything like that on a tabloid cover.
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Elephant Ambush posted:So I never knew that the National Enquirer was such a right-wing thing. I mean I obviously know it's a trash tabloid but it seems like in the past year or so it's gotten way more obvious that they're not just trying to sell their poo poo to any idiot they can regardless of political ideology. They talk trash about whoever is in power. I'm pretty sure they had lots of "Bush is drunk/on drugs" covers when he was President.
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Maybe American tabloids are trying to be more like British tabloids now, who knows.
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skaboomizzy posted:They talk trash about whoever is in power. I'm pretty sure they had lots of "Bush is drunk/on drugs" covers when he was President. Yeah I remember them doing that with every president since I've been alive but I've never seen "IMPEACH HIM NOW!" before. I've seen the Fox News style "Impeachment?" with the ever-so-offensive question mark there (or when Clinton was legit impeached), but I've never seen a straight-up demand for it like that.
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Who do you think is going to be the most likely to even look at National Enquirer when they're at the grocery store? A FoxNews viewer, or NPR listener?
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Obvs, since I've never seen a National Enquirer at the Whole Foods.
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Sir Tonk posted:Who do you think is going to be the most likely to even look at National Enquirer when they're at the grocery store? A FoxNews viewer, or NPR listener? Going off of personal experience, anyone at a checkout who is not currently having their stuff scanned.
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skaboomizzy posted:They talk trash about whoever is in power. I'm pretty sure they had lots of "Bush is drunk/on drugs" covers when he was President. Yeah the National Enquirer basically just talks poo poo about whoever is prominent that week. Then there are non-stop "hey look this celebrity GOT FAT boy howdy fat people do suck hahahaha LOOK AT HOW FAT THIS CELEBRITY IS!" Really the proper response to the National Enquirer is to either roll your eyes and walk away or pick up a copy for a good laugh at how ridiculous the thing is.
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I miss the Weekly World News. You know they would've been the publication to herald Bat Boy's crucial role on Seal Team 6.
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skaboomizzy posted:I miss the Weekly World News. You know they would've been the publication to herald Bat Boy's crucial role on Seal Team 6. The Weekly World News was the only rag in America that printed the truth.
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Leofish posted:The Weekly World News was the only rag in America that printed the truth.
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Elephant Ambush posted:So I never knew that the National Enquirer was such a right-wing thing. I mean I obviously know it's a trash tabloid but it seems like in the past year or so it's gotten way more obvious that they're not just trying to sell their poo poo to any idiot they can regardless of political ideology. All tabloids are fascist.
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# ? Jun 15, 2014 07:51 |
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Or at the very least, some kind of bizarre dog-eating-its-own-vomit version of the violence of right-wing futurism art in its most BOLD FONT EXCLAMATION POINT SIMPLE WORDS FOR SIMPLE VIOLENT ACTION stupid.
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:John McCain @SenJohnMcCain 18 Aug 2010 On Twitter, I have very few followers. I'm not much of a Twitter presence nor am I sure how to use it well. That said, I just tweeted this about ten times. To Rush Limbaugh, McCain, GOP_Senators (not sure if it's a real account, probably not I guess) and every follower and leftist-type I have ended up following over the years. I also tweeted two more things to McCain (pointless, I know I know): "I never claimed to be a maverick," and "I never saw a war I didn't like!" gently caress it. Thanks for that post. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Jun 16, 2014 |
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Great. Now we get to hear about "Obama's War" (Iraq) in the same vein as "Obama's Recession" and "Obama's Economy". They're going to hang this failed poo poo on Barrack Obama when, even back when 80% of the country was for this stupid, chickenshit war, all of the smartest people knew it was the dumbest idea ever. I mean, who could have seen this situation in Iraq coming? Besides anyone paying attention I mean. They're going to (successfully) pin this on Barrack Obama for having the audacity to get the gently caress out of there and no on in the media will call out the right wing hawks who criticize him nor cite any of their quotes from 2002-2008. As Iraq (predictably) erupts into chaos, it's going to be all about how Obama lost an unwinnable, stupid war waged for no reason at all.
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BiggerBoat posted:Great. When the withdrawal date was first announced by Bush, I knew it was so that in the event a Democrat won the presidency that it was going to make them look bad if anything went wrong.
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Star Man posted:if anything went wrong.
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Dr. Faustus posted:"If." I would like to believe that there is a universe where things did go well. This isn't that universe.
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Star Man posted:When the withdrawal date was first announced by Bush, I knew it was so that in the event a Democrat won the presidency that it was going to make them look bad if anything went wrong. I remember a significant chunk of the right losing their damned minds about Bush announcing a withdrawal date at all. "Well now they're just going to wait until the day after we leave and then enact all their awful plans!" Parts of the right very seriously wanted to be at war for the rest of forever.
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Of course they do, they hold stock in the military industrial complex. Gotta keep those pockets lined.
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BiggerBoat posted:Great. If Iraq was Obama's war then Vietnam was Nixon's war.
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Considering Nixon sabotaged peace talks and escalated the war into other countries there's probably a good case that by the end it was more his war than LBJ's.
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quote:RUSH: President Obama on Friday, late Friday afternoon in Canon Ball, North Dakota, the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. This is during the Canon Ball Flag Day celebration. Hey, at least he isn't one of those crazies that thinks the moon landing was a hoax Someone on C-SPAN made fun of Limbaugh's books so naturally he spends half the program explaining how liberals are the real racists quote:RUSH: My two children's books were dissed on C-SPAN2 last night. Here are the audio sound bites. It's C-SPAN2. BookTV is what it is, and there was a discussion event. This was taped on June the 9th. It's for a book entitled Brazil's Dance With the Devil. It's about the impact of the World Cup on Brazil. quote:RUSH: Peter Beinart, Atlantic Monthly, had a post on Thursday, The Atlantic's website: There is an "unprecedented crisis of authority in today’s GOP." Whereas among Democrats, party hierarchies are clear and largely unchallenged. His point is the Democrats have got their act together; the Republicans don't. And he explains why. He argues that it's the Democrats today who are optimists and it's the Republicans who are pessimists. And it's even more specific than that. The Democrats are optimistic about the prospects for what they want America to become. It really is endlessly amusing how conservatives keep up the delusion they can win with just white males quote:RUSH: Let me show you something on the Dittocam. If you're watching the Dittocam at RushLimbaugh.com, let me zoom in a here. Do you see this picture I'm holding up here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers? Do you see that? That is the official Flag Day photo distributed by the Democrat Party. What do you see in that picture? It's not a flag. It is a cute, adorable, young Hispanic-looking child peering over what looks to be bunting. Pretty sure there is a flag in there.
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quote:So, can I summarize this for you? What Mr. Beinart here is saying is unless you Republicans become Democrats, you are going to remain miserable losers, and you are going to lose your country unless you change and embrace this demographic change and learn to see a growing constituency for tolerance and social justice, like this bookstore, as the norm and perfectly fine and understandable, even, then you're perpetually going to lose. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Demographics and public opinion are now "Democrat policy" to be defeated, instead of "poo poo that's going to happen barring some catastrophic event". Please proceed governors! It's almost as if Rush has seen what his bottom line looks like after 8 years of gloating and getting everything you want, and what it looks like after 8 years of SCARY BLACK MAN WE'RE UNDER SIEGE! and has decided to invest in GOP failure and their bases persecution fetish. Intel&Sebastian fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jun 16, 2014 |
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I would not trust anyone who took Flag Day seriously or solemnly.
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Berke Negri posted:I would not trust anyone who took Flag Day seriously or solemnly. With the rarely seen commentary: quote:Flag Boy was conceived one day over sixteen years ago when my friend John Quinn and I were wandering through the streets of Philadelphia, horribly hung over as always, in search of grapefruit. We came across a scene of festive commotion: a little brick courtyard filled with schoolchildren all waving little American flags. A man in uniform stood to one side, prepared to address them. John and I approached a woman who seemed to be there in some official capacity, a guide or chaperone. "What's going on?" we asked her. "Something in honor of the flag," she explained. "In honor of the flag?" we asked. She just looked at us. "It's Flag Day," she said. IT'S FLAG DAY!
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I bet Rush is right you guys. Surely a drug-addicted college dropout is way more knowledgeable about climate science than the publishing Ph.Ds on the IPCC.
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Hazo posted:I bet Rush is right you guys. Surely a drug-addicted college dropout is way more knowledgeable about climate science than the publishing Ph.Ds on the IPCC. "College only serves to brain wash our children into being liberals." A thing someone in my family said, and the honest belief of a alarming number of people.
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If you were brainwashed into being a liberal because of college then obviously you didn't have strong enough conviction in your beliefs in the first place
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quote:It's another straw-man creation. "I don't remember anybody saying the moon wasn't there." (laughing) Well, you can see it! He's trying to compare that to those of us who say there isn't a god. Mr. President, you can't prove it, and none of your theologians can prove it. There is no proof. All you've got is books. The only thing saying there is a god are books!
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Books are an extension of the mind and the imagination, which is how God 'exists' - since there is no way of concretely proving or disproving the universe has an engineer Rush Limbaugh asks a metaphysical question 'how do you know something is real, man, y'know?' (you don't) - when the real question is one of the precautionary principle - 'how do you acknowledge and react to a threat?' Climate change is one threat, terrorism is another - it is interesting how much more willing we are to accept the reality of the threat that can be answered with more guns and panicked, enraptured audiences.
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All properly-designed scientific experiments have a control group. Without an identical copy of Earth where an industrial society never develops, you have no idea if the current climate trajectory is different from a control group, therefore
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The Rokstar posted:Needless to say, I love this "you can't prove global warming is real, so it doesn't exist!" argument. I counter with "you can't prove god is real, so it doesn't exist!" Watch their head explode from rage.
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RadicalR posted:I counter with "you can't prove god is real, so it doesn't exist!" Watch their head explode from rage. They've got it covered with "The proof is the Bible."
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Prism posted:They've got it covered with "The proof is the Bible." That doesn't prove God exist. It was written by man, egro God was made up.
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