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Duke Igthorn posted:Lady and gentlemen, my sister: Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
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Sardine Wit posted:Does anyone have a good link that basically sums up how terrible Breitbart.com is? All I can find on google are very partisan looking sites that won't convince anyone. As I said her politics have always seemed so much more left-wing I feel like the right takedown could actually convince her to think a bit more critically about the things she's sharing. The Gawker obit is pretty good. It's long, and vicious, but it's a pretty comprehensive review of why Breitbart was scum. edited to fix link VVVVVV yes that's what I meant, oops! I have the most D&D clipboard I guess. Swan Oat fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jul 24, 2014 |
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Jul 24, 2014 19:10
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I think you mislinked, it leads to a book about US military and CIA interventions since WW2. Did you mean this? Cause drat that is scathing.
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Jul 24, 2014 19:18
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I read that post about Breitbart and found a really interesting post detailing the preparations Anders Breivek made before killing 150 people in Norway. The really interesting part is that it shows correspondence between Pam Geller and an anonymous person talking about plans for a terrorist attack in Norway. Geller hid the identity of the poster after others pointed out that even making these sorts of threats is illegal in Norway, as she stated that she wanted to protect the poster. She's never released the identity of the poster, even after Breivek's massacre. We all know that people like McVeigh and Loughner are inspired by rightwing blowhards preaching hate and the death of America but I don't know that I've ever seen such a clear cut case of "evil person reads conservative dogma then goes out and commits a terrorist act" before.
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Jul 24, 2014 20:54
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My mom just posted this to Facebook, and I think it might be the ultimate opposite_of_reality.jpg that isn't a right wing politoon about Gaza: Slavery: totally unconnected to capitalism.
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Jul 25, 2014 01:04
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Duncan Doenitz posted:My mom just posted this to Facebook, and I think it might be the ultimate opposite_of_reality.jpg that isn't a right wing politoon about Gaza: Well, it just say "made it possible". Obviously slavery was still a great idea if you were the slaver. And it's really not like the first slaves were only taken once the first elements of what we now call capitalism developed in Europe. Slavery had many forms and existed for millenia before that.
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Jul 25, 2014 01:16
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Magres posted:It reminds me of something my mom says  Kind of reminds me from an Amazing Race episode where they asked a team from rural America how they felt about a competing team of two gay man. "I've never met gay people before," the woman started. And just when you braced for the worst, she continued, "They're really nice! What's the big deal about anything, they're just nice people." 
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Jul 25, 2014 01:26
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Duncan Doenitz posted:My mom just posted this to Facebook, and I think it might be the ultimate opposite_of_reality.jpg that isn't a right wing politoon about Gaza: I forgot which thread this was and I was seriously expecting this to be a sick burn on capitalism until I got halfway through.
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Jul 25, 2014 01:59
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Weird Facebook question: I posted earlier about a fake quotation a friend put on Facebook. He called me a wet blanket and then deleted the comment (but it still showed up in the notifications area. Come back two hours later and I just happen to look at his page. There the quote is and all of the comments made previously. Now he has deleted the wet blanket comment and created a new comment telling me how wrong I was. Is there a way to delete a post, wait an hour or so and repost everything from before? This has happened with this person a few times and it always happens with him making one more comment to prove how wrong I was and I never get the notification that he commented. (Side note: I did respond again and now he has deleted it again....it no longer even shows up in my notifications area as having existed)
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Jul 25, 2014 02:11
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Weird Facebook question: He could have changed its display rules to be visible to only him, then changed it back once he came up with his nuclear bon mot.
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Jul 25, 2014 02:13
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Weird Facebook question: He may have changed the privacy setting on the posting to "only me" while he worked up a SICK BURN so you'd look the fool. Edit: gently caress, beaten like a slave caught trying to learn how to read under antebellum American Capitalism  .
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Jul 25, 2014 02:13
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Nth Doctor posted:He could have changed its display rules to be visible to only him, then changed it back once he came up with his nuclear bon mot. Facebook: where "I should have said" becomes "I said and you can't prove otherwise"
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Jul 25, 2014 02:14
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Duncan Doenitz posted:My mom just posted this to Facebook, and I think it might be the ultimate opposite_of_reality.jpg that isn't a right wing politoon about Gaza: No, see, THAT was [thing that is virtually indistinguishable from capitalism but we call it something else when it is bad, and say it "wasn't true capitalism" cause the fairies didn't keep it pure]. See? Also : Croesus - totally got rich off of looting. THe factory owners and bankers of the industrial revolution, meanwhile, all served their fellow man. Fulchrum fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Jul 25, 2014 |
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Jul 25, 2014 02:26
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Just had a right-wing acquaintance post on my Facebook that 'future historians will blame the downfall of America on the direct election of senators.' Like...I don't even know what to say to that. I don't understand how anyone who claims to be all about 'freedom' can believe something that blatantly authoritarian. How can you post all kinds of poo poo about a 'free country' and then immediately follow it up by saying that the problem with this country is that the people living in it just have too much say in how it's run? How little self-awareness must a person have, to simply not notice the massive contradiction there?
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Jul 25, 2014 03:09
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Democracy is great as long as guy I like wins. If guy I don't like wins, we have to assume the masses are knuckle-dragging uneducated mongoloids who need to be protected from themselves.
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Jul 25, 2014 03:21
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Magres posted:It reminds me of something my mom says Oh, wait, is she sincerely supporting gay marriage? Because at first I thought she was making the (unfortunately common) argument that "gay people already can get married to someone of the opposite sex, just like everyone else! Why do they need special rights?"
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Jul 25, 2014 04:07
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RagnarokAngel posted:Democracy is great as long as guy I like wins. If guy I don't like wins, we have to assume the masses are knuckle-dragging uneducated mongoloids who need to be protected from themselves. This, but without a trace of irony.
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Jul 25, 2014 04:10
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Mister Adequate posted:This, but without a trace of irony. echoes of laissez-faire
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Jul 25, 2014 04:12
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Magres posted:It reminds me of something my mom says This is a very nice sentiment that's just phrased weirdly. It's kind of a weird linguistic thing but by using the phrase "gay marriage" you kind of suggest that it's something different from "real marriage" like it's an inferior imitation. I don't want two men to get "gay married" to each other, I want them to simply get "married" to each other.
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Jul 25, 2014 04:35
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The way my mom puts it irks me because she has a long running sentiment of 'why can't they just be NORMAL' about gay people. Like not in a 'well those men need to go bang women' way but she is very much not a fan if a gay man is flamboyant at all or basically if you can reasonably guess that a man is gay based on his dress, appearance, body language, or whatever. So it's less 'well I want them to be able to just do it freely without having anyone judge 'gay marriage' as lesser than 'normal marriage'' and more she wants them to act like completely hetero people outside of their bedrooms. And like whatever, if gay folks don't want people to be able to tell that they're gay, that's fine, and I think it's also cool if it's part of the version of themselves they show to the public.
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Jul 25, 2014 04:39
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Mister Bates posted:Just had a right-wing acquaintance post on my Facebook that 'future historians will blame the downfall of America on the direct election of senators.' Direct election of senators wasn't a thing for a while in the US, they were appointed by the state legislature. It was changed because during the Civil War there were problems with states not appointing senators, having deadlocks over senators, and intimidation and bribery. Apparently Oregon had the first direct election of senators in 1907, and the Seventeenth Amendment which changed senators to direct election happened in 1913, so it's a pretty recent thing. While it's definitely a problem of "The guys I like didn't get elected therefore it's ruining the country" it's also a bit of founding father/Constitution worship too. http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Direct_Election_Senators.htm That's where I got all the information from, although if you showed it to your friend I'm pretty sure he'd call the claims of bribery/intimidation to be government propaganda.
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Jul 25, 2014 04:54
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:This is a very nice sentiment that's just phrased weirdly. Pretty sure the common term among proponents these days is "marriage equality", for this exact reason.
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Jul 25, 2014 05:00
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Duncan Doenitz posted:My mom just posted this to Facebook, and I think it might be the ultimate opposite_of_reality.jpg that isn't a right wing politoon about Gaza: Wait, they're making a third one of those?  And they already made a second one? 
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Jul 25, 2014 05:39
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Jul 25, 2014 05:42
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Wanamingo posted:Wait, they're making a third one of those? The second one did utterly abyssmal. If there wasn't a cult just this shy of scientology behind the books the very idea of proposing a third movie to a movie exec would be sufficient cause for the exec to invoke the castle doctrine/stand your ground. The best part? They're locked in to doing the Galt speech, as written. All 70 pages of it. OAquinas fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Jul 25, 2014 |
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Jul 25, 2014 05:43
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It was talked about earlier and the money's on one of the parts just being Galt's Speech by itself.
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OAquinas posted:The second one did utterly abyssmal. If it wasn't a cult just this shy of scientology behind the books the very idea of proposing a third movie to a movie exec would be sufficient cause to invoke the castle doctrine on their part. It apparently takes about 160 minutes to read aloud with a speech-like pacing. That's over two and a half hours. It's a whole movie by itself... of nothing but the speech.
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Jul 25, 2014 05:46
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djw175 posted:It was talked about earlier and the money's on one of the parts just being Galt's Speech by itself. With a cameo of Ron Paul to boot!
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Jul 25, 2014 05:46
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Magres posted:The way my mom puts it irks me because she has a long running sentiment of 'why can't they just be NORMAL' about gay people. Like not in a 'well those men need to go bang women' way but she is very much not a fan if a gay man is flamboyant at all or basically if you can reasonably guess that a man is gay based on his dress, appearance, body language, or whatever. So it's less 'well I want them to be able to just do it freely without having anyone judge 'gay marriage' as lesser than 'normal marriage'' and more she wants them to act like completely hetero people outside of their bedrooms. And like whatever, if gay folks don't want people to be able to tell that they're gay, that's fine, and I think it's also cool if it's part of the version of themselves they show to the public. I have some friends who think the same way. That they have no problems with gay people but they do wish they more like 'the gays in America' because they don't dress up in drag and aren't 'flamboyantly gay' quote="Prism" post="432663739"] It apparently takes about 160 minutes to read aloud with a speech-like pacing. That's over two and a half hours. It's a whole movie by itself... of nothing but the speech. [/quote] I think it'd be an interesting bit of cinematography to try to form an entire film about where the plot is happening on screen but the only audio is a 2.5 hour speech in the background.
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Jul 25, 2014 06:07
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gradenko_2000 posted:I have some friends who think the same way. That they have no problems with gay people but they do wish they more like 'the gays in America' because they don't dress up in drag and aren't 'flamboyantly gay' Haha what? Where do you live? Is it a more flamboyant culture there?
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Jul 25, 2014 06:20
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I have no idea what this means so I'm not sure if it's crazy or not. The dude is a pretty big Christian and calls himself a socialist. Hates minorities, immigrants, thinks gays should pick a different word for marriage because it is defined in the bible as being between a man and a woman. I don't know what the gently caress really. 
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hamster_style posted:I have no idea what this means so I'm not sure if it's crazy or not. The dude is a pretty big Christian and calls himself a socialist. Hates minorities, immigrants, thinks gays should pick a different word for marriage because it is defined in the bible as being between a man and a woman. I don't know what the gently caress really. What's he talking about, marriage in the Bible is a livestock transaction between a man and another man for the securing of the second man's daughter for reproductive purposes. It definitely involved a lot of cows, camels, and goats, if I am not mistaken.
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Jul 25, 2014 06:33
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As I recall, it's a reference to Abraham and Sarah. She was infertile, so she said, "Go have a child with this slave girl, Hagar." Then Sarah got jealous and told Hagar to leave, which is where Islam and Judaism sort of branch off.
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Jul 25, 2014 06:37
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Nyarai posted:As I recall, it's a reference to Abraham and Sarah. She was infertile, so she said, "Go have a child with this slave girl, Hagar." Then Sarah got jealous and told Hagar to leave, which is where Islam and Judaism sort of branch off. This poo poo is always the craziest, it sounds like something out of a gossip rag.
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Magres posted:The way my mom puts it irks me because she has a long running sentiment of 'why can't they just be NORMAL' about gay people. Like not in a 'well those men need to go bang women' way but she is very much not a fan if a gay man is flamboyant at all or basically if you can reasonably guess that a man is gay based on his dress, appearance, body language, or whatever. So it's less 'well I want them to be able to just do it freely without having anyone judge 'gay marriage' as lesser than 'normal marriage'' and more she wants them to act like completely hetero people outside of their bedrooms. And like whatever, if gay folks don't want people to be able to tell that they're gay, that's fine, and I think it's also cool if it's part of the version of themselves they show to the public. Does it bother her when straight men and women act flamboyantly straight? We get it, man, you're cat-calling a woman on the sidewalk, you're straight, stop rubbing it in our faces. Ugh, these girls at the next table over are talking loudly about their boyfriends, why do they have to shove their straightness down my throat? Stop trying so hard, heteros.
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Posts picture of pride parade, which happens literally every day outside my house (and inside my dreams)
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Buzkashi posted:Does it bother her when straight men and women act flamboyantly straight? We get it, man, you're cat-calling a woman on the sidewalk, you're straight, stop rubbing it in our faces. Ugh, these girls at the next table over are talking loudly about their boyfriends, why do they have to shove their straightness down my throat? Stop trying so hard, heteros. I get your point, but I find it genuinely irritating when I see men harassing women and when people the table over speak really loudly (about anything). Both are far more irritating than flamboyant gay men, however, who can be annoying or charming depending entirely on their personality, rather than living up to any "appropriate" image of masculinity.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Haha what? Where do you live? Is it a more flamboyant culture there? I live in the Philippines. They're really pertaining to gay men in drag. "do they really have to do that?" and I just roll my eyes
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bango skank posted:This poo poo is always the craziest, it sounds like something out of a gossip rag. My favorite is Jacob having kids with like 3 sisters and at least 2 servant girls because the dad was like "nope you have to marry the older one first"
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Willatron posted:I get your point, but I find it genuinely irritating when I see men harassing women and when people the table over speak really loudly (about anything). Both are far more irritating than flamboyant gay men, however, who can be annoying or charming depending entirely on their personality, rather than living up to any "appropriate" image of masculinity. To you personally, yes, but in either of those already annoying situations you could see a disproportionately higher amount of annoyance from the general public if it were same-sex (lesbian catcalling a girl, a bunch of gay guys discussing their boyfriends).
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