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Ames is trolling Reason quite entertainingly: http://pando.com/2014/07/24/as-reasons-editor-defends-its-racist-history-heres-a-copy-of-its-holocaust-denial-special-issue/ quote:“The German concentration camps weren’t health centers, but they appear to have been far smaller and much less lethal than the Russian ones.”
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DemeaninDemon posted:I wonder if GOP asshats like him and Ryan have booze chats like we do. ufarn posted:I think Boehner buys it by the gallon. People need to pronounce it as "boner" more often. "Well, if it isn't that Republican Boner again!" That's probably what they do when they're shooting the poo poo and talking about booze.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:People need to pronounce it as "boner" more often. "Well, if it isn't that Republican Boner again!" That's probably what they do when they're shooting the poo poo and talking about booze. I took civics when he ascended to Majority Leader, and my teacher was a former Republican congressman and colleague of his. He would punish students for pronouncing it "boner."
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ReindeerF posted:Ames is trolling Reason quite entertainingly: Ames is a weirdo but I applaud his good work here.
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Jul 27, 2014 00:58
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i would like to say that i just got back from a brief trip to austin where i got very #turntup and interstate driving when exhausted is hard! thank goodness for 5 hour energy. how is eveyrone's weekend going so far? 
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Jul 27, 2014 01:33
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No, their business model is to be so bland that it might as well be plagiarism, but without all the risks actual plagiarism raises.
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I find it pretty surprising that The Blaze and BuzzFeed didn't have higher standards.
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i personally browse buzzfeed for miracle-babies-to-warm-your-heart-today and i'm downright shocked that this post contained plagiarised miracle babies. i'm really upset right now
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i'm kinda shocked at the apparent amount of work they did compiling that list.
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i just hope zipper stuck? you're in luck: 21 Emergency Makeshift Beauty And Wardrobe Hacks or 23 Cats Who Are Channeling Beyonce are pure unadulterated buzzfeed magic. i'm not sure i'd be fine - ethically speaking - with reading a plagiarised post about 29 Puntastic Jokes That Only Pinoys Will Understand.
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Dreylad posted:i'm kinda shocked at the apparent amount of work they did compiling that list.
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Thankfully, the BuzzFeed articles now link back to the original content on Yahoo! Answers, so I know where to go for higher-quality information.
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Dreylad posted:i'm kinda shocked at the apparent amount of work they did compiling that list. 500 Articles We Might Have Plagiarized!
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http://flavorwire.com/469305/plagiarism-explained-in-forrest-gump-gifs
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R. Mute posted:they like lists that's the one thing missing from Clickhole. that and comments.
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We hired a former employee of Glenn Beck. What happened next will not actually surprise you.
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3 Great Posts You Won't Believe I Came Up With In Response To This One Weird Editorial Apology: 1. i just hope zipper stuck? you're in luck: 21 Emergency Makeshift Beauty And Wardrobe Hacks or 23 Cats Who Are Channeling Beyonce are pure unadulterated buzzfeed magic. i'm not sure i'd be fine - ethically speaking - with reading a plagiarised post about 29 Puntastic Jokes That Only Pinoys Will Understand. 2. 500 Articles We Might Have Plagiarized! 3. We hired a former employee of Glenn Beck. What happened next will not actually surprise you.
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Discendo Vox posted:
This article sponsored by A Koch PAC.
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They actually fired him because he wasted all that time writing 459 pieces of original dreck, when he could have just copy-pasta'd, like, thousands in that time.
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So how's this experiment going so far you think
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p good. No major complaints. Have you noticed a reduction in non-germane derails in other threads Xylo?
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ReindeerF posted:Ames is trolling Reason quite entertainingly: quote:And Ames's treatment of Russian teenage girls is documented with frightening glee. In the book he recounts one evening with an expat investment banker pal and what he thought were three 16-year-old girls: I actually tweeted this picture to him with the line "Does this make your pervometer needle hit the red?"... and ended up getting my account suspended. 
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The only thing more annoying than an inane list is an article patched together from animated image macros. gently caress Web 2.0! Bring back dialup!
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The Monkey Man posted:I actually tweeted this picture to him with the line "Does this make your pervometer needle hit the red?"... and ended up getting my account suspended. Nixon posted:Jesus Christ.
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Wasn't the exchange quoted as: HALDEMAN: Hot pants. NIXON: Jesus Christ.
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I have no idea what the circumstances were, but Ames claims that the piece in question was satire. With that crew of Ames and Taibbi and so on in Russia at that time it's impossible to say. Even if it is satire it's not funny (even subject matter aside, it's not structurally funny at all), so I have no idea, but it's the first thing he gets hit with every time he does an attack piece and his response has been consistent. EDIT: Sort of reminds me of Taibbi's famous death of the pope article. Also not at all funny. Not because I venerate the Pope for any reason, just because funny is funny wherever you find it and that article was just lame shock jock garbage. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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quote:Know Your Rights! Things To Keep In Mind When Dealing With Police http://www.clickhole.com/article/know-your-rights-things-keep-mind-when-dealing-pol-616
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ReindeerF posted:I have no idea what the circumstances were, but Ames claims that the piece in question was satire. With that crew of Ames and Taibbi and so on in Russia at that time it's impossible to say. Even if it is satire it's not funny (even subject matter aside, it's not structurally funny at all), so I have no idea, but it's the first thing he gets hit with every time he does an attack piece and his response has been consistent. Ames' piece wasn't satire. Part of his whole -- gimmick I guess -- is that in the period following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, everything became sort of unhinged. Things were wild, and real, because there weren't any rules and norms for a time. That's why he partied at the Hungry Duck, that's why he and Taibbi did ridiculous pranks, that's why they did all the drugs, that's why Ames hosed the 15 year old. I've read a lot of his writing and I genuinely come away with the sense that he thought he was living in a new frontier or something. And even the way he talked about coming back to the US initially, in addition to the poo poo with the Russian government there was a whole lot of "Russia is getting boring because the Duck is shut down, there's sushi bars and people acting respectable" etc. That story about the young girl may have been fictional but it wasn't satire. I guess what the point of that dumb paragraph is that the satire defense is basically "I was taken out of context". Ames does good work sometimes, and the shady poo poo he has done or claims to have done in the past doesn't invalidate it. It also does not excuse it. Mark Ames! e: clickhole owns also
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John Dolan is the most interesting product of the Exile, especially now that the line between his actual self and his misanthropic alter ego is blurring more and more with each article he puts out.
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i had barely started his memoir when i was like okay yeah dolan is brecher. i like dolan because we share an affinity for wallace stevens 
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 apparently lowtax is reaping the benefits of democracy? (link redirects to mayone.us which redirects to mayday.us) this is the only forum ad i have ever clicked on.
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Has mayday.us actually done anything yet, or did Lessig, Abramoff, Boyko, et al walk off with the money? How long do PACs usually take to put money to use when they receive a windfall?
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How much would it impact our democracy in America if senators could decide the way their successor was chosen? As in, on the day they were sworn, they had to submit a plan for choosing their successor and it could be anything they wanted. They could say "My office will be subject to an election in 6 years, where anyone in my state can vote regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity, who is 21 years of age or older" or they could say "I'm going to continue my office until I die, and my successor will be chosen by the Cat Fanciers Association of <big city> in <my state>." Senators would be allowed to change these plans at any time, but would have to submit something on the day they took office. Obviously, plans for the future would become a big thing if there was an election for the seat, but I can't see how it would actually affect the political landscape.
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cheerfullydrab posted:How much would it impact our democracy in America if senators could decide the way their successor was chosen? As in, on the day they were sworn, they had to submit a plan for choosing their successor and it could be anything they wanted. They could say "My office will be subject to an election in 6 years, where anyone in my state can vote regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity, who is 21 years of age or older" or they could say "I'm going to continue my office until I die, and my successor will be chosen by the Cat Fanciers Association of <big city> in <my state>." Senators would be allowed to change these plans at any time, but would have to submit something on the day they took office. I hold my office until I die and then my son/his son gets it. Essentially similar to the status quo but without the veneer of respectability?
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That's what I'm saying would be possible. But here in the US we have that already, for example I'm watching the rising star of Delaware politico Beau Biden as we speak. We also have a lot of ways to complain and rabblerouse that aren't directly connected to the ballot box. I'm saying would having that privilege change our politics at all?
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Interesting piece in NYT today about the shrinking foreign news bureau:quote:News systems are not designed for this. Reporters move like herds of sheep, flocking to the same places at the same times to tell us, more or less, the same stories. Foreign bureaus are closing. We are moving farther away.
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