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ToxicSlurpee posted:Oblammo is my doing. I started it to make fun of Republicans and all that Obongo and Obummer nonsense. It's always so negative so I tried to put a less negative spin on it. Imagine Obama presenting something amazing and being all "Oh yeah, BLAMMO! You're welcome, America!" and it will make more sense. Haha, I always thought it was used in context as "Obama blames Bush for everything so he's 'Oblamo.'" I didn't realize it was coined by a Goon.
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Refind Chaos posted:Haha, I always thought it was used in context as "Obama blames Bush for everything so he's 'Oblamo.'" I didn't realize it was coined by a Goon. Blame only has one m. 
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Sep 22, 2014 01:06
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Venusian Weasel posted:I don't think anything's going to top Obi Wan Nairobi as far as nicknames go. What about the Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers?
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Sep 22, 2014 02:09
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Are we really saying that pointing out that the burning of books and the burying of scholars by the Qin was super hosed up is racist and paints a narrative of the backwards east? Really? It's like saying the Khmer rouge was ok because criticizing them would be racist.
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Sep 22, 2014 02:14
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I think if the past few centuries have taught us anything it's that being an evil extremist dick knows no ideological boundaries.
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Sep 22, 2014 02:16
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Axetrain posted:Fox news is currently complaining that the guy who jumped the White House fence wasn't shot dead by the secret service and instead merely apprehended. Apparently the guy who arrested him didn't open fire because the guy wasn't carrying a weapon, which means of course that white house security is poo poo for not just murdering the guy. It's really really dumb. When I read this post it jogged my memory a bit since I seemed to recall some crazy fucker storming the White House when Bush was president and I was immediately inclined to go find a parallel event. Turned out they did shoot the fucker dead so for once at least they're consistent.
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Sep 22, 2014 02:17
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:See also: Obummer, Obongo. I like Obummer. It's not racist like Obongo or Osama or some of the others. It's just a dumb mildly insulting nick name like you'd make up in elementary school.
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Sep 22, 2014 02:20
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While some book burning and scholar killing almost certainly occurred, it was also likely exaggerated quite a bit by Sima Qian. Reading the Records of the Grand Historian can be seriously hilarious with how much he goes out of his way to completely embarrass Qin Shi Huangdi with obviously over the top claims. A personal favorite passage:quote:The First Emperor was growing up, but the Queen Dowager’s immoral behaviour did not cease. Lü Buwei was afraid that disaster would befall himself if they were discovered, so he secretly sought out Lao Ai, a man with a large penis, and made him a retainer. Sometimes, to the strains of licentious music, he made Lao Ai walk along with a wheel of tong-wood attached to his penis, and he ensured that the Queen Dowager heard about it so that she might be tempted. Literally just straight up calling the Emperor's mom a cock crazy slut, something he does A LOT. Sima Qian's style was to write anecdotes that advanced his ideology first, and if they were true that was just a bonus.
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Sep 22, 2014 02:32
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I agree it wasn't the death splosion that Sima Qian made it out to be, so what? That doesn't mean that the Qin and the legalists were seriously bad news. Pointing that out isn't some racist statement. I'm more concerned that NDT was endorsing Mohism and that is bad. Shbobdb fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Sep 22, 2014 |
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Sep 22, 2014 03:12
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Shbobdb posted:Are we really saying that pointing out that the burning of books and the burying of scholars by the Qin was super hosed up is racist and paints a narrative of the backwards east? Really? I think the big thing is suggesting "they never recovered," as in treating it like they're still at a level of development they reached during the Qin dynasty. There tends to be racism when discussing non-white history, though, in that white history is all about all the awesome poo poo that white people did and boy howdy white people sure are amazing while non-white history tends to be about turmoil and all the bad poo poo that happened. In particular Chinese history is really goddamned long and China invented some of the most important things in history but I remember only hearing about China in high school when it was about how much the Chinese loving loved opium, how Mao was basically Satan, and how things suck in China because communism. For better or for worse when Asian history is discussed in America it is very frequently racist as hell.
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Sep 22, 2014 03:43
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ToxicSlurpee posted:White history is all about all the awesome poo poo that white people did and boy howdy white people sure are amazing while non-white history tends to be about turmoil and all the bad poo poo that happened. Where do you think all the turmoil and bad poo poo in the non-white history came from?  ToxicSlurpee posted:For better or for worse when Asian history is discussed in America it is very frequently racist as hell. For the stuff the west doesn't claim to have invented, the history of those things is always discussed as "Marco Polo or some other European guy is the important one because he was the one that went to get it from those savages." *Portions of this post are sarcastic, and should not be used as evidence that anti-white racism is a thing that exists in any kind of scale. ErIog fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Sep 22, 2014 |
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Even if the WHite House trespasser had turned out to be a super terrorist mastermind about to atomize the building with muslamic lasers, wouldn't it still be better to apprehend him? Question him, find out about his buddies, financers and so forth? Guess when RW bloodlust converges with their need to naysay any event that happens under the current administration, there's no holding back. But drat, even the most bloody-handed factions of the italian fascists and bolcheviks had some actual strategic thinking behind them. Guess they were softies compared to the current crop of freedom-lovers.
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Sep 22, 2014 05:22
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If he assaulted the white house, they'd throw him a ticker tape parade and you know it.
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Sep 22, 2014 05:44
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Nah, If it had been an attack it would have gone something like this, "It's embarrassing that the secret service let this happen, but I'm just disappointed Obongo wasn't there when it happened." Or, "False flag! This is just another false flag attack perpetrated by the Oblammo administration to get another reason to take our guns!"
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Sep 22, 2014 09:15
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If the SS had killed the guy the headline would be OBOMA SECRET SERVICE KILLS MENTALLY ILL VETERAN
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Sep 22, 2014 12:36
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:If the SS had killed the guy the headline would be OBOMA SECRET SERVICE KILLS MENTALLY ILL VETERAN And thousands of right-wingers would rejoice because Mental Illness is a weakness and Dead Veterans are just another of God's wondrous creations.
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Sep 22, 2014 13:57
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PeterWeller posted:I like Obummer. It's not racist like Obongo or Osama or some of the others. It's just a dumb mildly insulting nick name like you'd make up in elementary school. Consider that in the context of the "DemocRat Party" discussion and you've pretty much identified the emotional maturity level of the average conservative. Thinking about it they're on about that cognitive level as well.
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A bit of a cross-post from a few weeks back in the Freep thread, but I've compiled a list of casually stupid names they have used for Obama in their threads. Here's a few:Freep posted:obamateur
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Sep 22, 2014 19:07
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I tried coining "Nobongomer" a while back as a portmanteau of "Nobama", "Obongo" and "Obummer", but it was probably either too over the top or sounded like random gibberish instead of a derogatory Obama nickname.
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Sep 22, 2014 19:08
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I honestly like "Hussein Clown Posse."
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Osama bin Obama just reeks of trying too hard, though.
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Yeah, wouldn't Obama bin Laden work better, in fact i'm suprised that's not on the list.
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MasterControl posted:Many of you share workplace stories that are similar to idiots of Facebook however id like to share a random encounter just outside my house. I planted a bunch of margiolds because they grow like crazy and are pretty. They really grew this year and several people have said they liked them, randomly. Total strangers. Yesterday a guy stops and asks if they were hybrid or did i go them from seed? No less than 30 seconds later im hearing all the leaning in to tell you this "unbelieveable" thing you didnt know stuff. Then montsanto. Then america and he loves it but there are secret plots to take away everything he loves. He noticed my daughter in a i tx tx shirt i bought in austin. Oh, texas huh, the things theyre doing to poor rick perry down there..Luckily she ran away and gave me an excuse to leave as well. He kept on shouting as i walked away about look up this one website. Probably some infowars nonsense. I was at the pharmacy a few days ago and while I was getting some medicine, a guy was complaining to the pharmacist that "common core bans mentioning George Washington" and it's part of a plot to totally remove the founding fathers from general knowledge for just one generation - because that is all it takes to destroy a culture, that's how communism destroyed the Russians.
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robotsinmyhead posted:A bit of a cross-post from a few weeks back in the Freep thread, but I've compiled a list of casually stupid names they have used for Obama in their threads. Here's a few: Baquack Obamailure(s).
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I think all these names are a manifestation of the right's frustration over the fact that Obama can't be easily ridiculed like Bush was. He's smart, educated, thoughtful, pragmatic, etc. With Bush you could just call him stupid and everyone knew what you were talking about.
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beatlegs posted:I think all these names are a manifestation of the right's frustration over the fact that Obama can't be easily ridiculed like Bush was. He's smart, educated, thoughtful, pragmatic, etc. With Bush you could just call him stupid and everyone knew what you were talking about.
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beatlegs posted:I think all these names are a manifestation of the right's frustration over the fact that Obama can't be easily ridiculed like Bush was. He's smart, educated, thoughtful, pragmatic, etc. With Bush you could just call him stupid and everyone knew what you were talking about. My favorite criticism is that he's cold and calculating... I'd loving hope so considering he's the loving president.
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Whiteycar posted:Makes me wonder if deal extreme or something makes a small plastic box where all it does is have a flashing red light. http://www.amazon.com/Varad-LL-RE-Flashing-Theft-Deterrent/dp/B001F11ZPM/ref=pd_sim_sbs_misc_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=03JPGD9F2Q2PT8W1YKNJ
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robotsinmyhead posted:A bit of a cross-post from a few weeks back in the Freep thread, but I've compiled a list of casually stupid names they have used for Obama in their threads. Here's a few: the Obamanation sounds like a wrestling stable. Beery Hussein Ebola Junior is just funny, but I don't get Zoey Dunham Soetero.
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Zoey Dunham Soetero makes my loving day. I get the Lena Dunham hate, and the "real" last name, but why do they hate Zoey Deschanel?
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MasterControl posted:There's an old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says, fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me.... you can't get fooled again. This isn't an example of him being stupid. This is an example of him realizing on the fly that a clip of him saying "shame on me" would have been horrible attack ad fodder and trying to audible out of it.
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:This isn't an example of him being stupid. This is an example of him realizing on the fly that a clip of him saying "shame on me" would have been horrible attack ad fodder and trying to audible out of it. And in doing so created even worse attack fodder 
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PeterWeller posted:Zoey Dunham Soetero makes my loving day. I get the Lena Dunham hate, and the "real" last name, but why do they hate Zoey Deschanel? If they're taking the time to hate on Lena Dunham there's a decent chance they're also GamerGate dorks. Not 100%, but there's surely a correlation.
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beatlegs posted:I think all these names are a manifestation of the right's frustration over the fact that Obama can't be easily ridiculed like Bush was. He's smart, educated, thoughtful, pragmatic, etc. With Bush you could just call him stupid and everyone knew what you were talking about. They think he is just as easily ridiculed. The difference is while the left harped on Bush's goofy speaking errors, the right harps on things that they think are goofy because they're easily confused. "You didn't build that", " ISIS isn't Islamic", using light dumbbells for a shoulder fly workout, etc. They're like "Haha get a load of this guy!" and everyone else is like "... Yeah, that actually makes perfect sense."
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Pope Guilty posted:If they're taking the time to hate on Lena Dunham there's a decent chance they're also GamerGate dorks. Not 100%, but there's surely a correlation. There's also a lot of people that hate Zooey Deschanel for being hipster-y, I could imagine that being even bigger percentage-wise on Freep considering their usual outlook.
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PeterWeller posted:Zoey Dunham Soetero makes my loving day. I get the Lena Dunham hate, and the "real" last name, but why do they hate Zoey Deschanel? I don't know if you were joking, but I assume the "Dunham" is from Obama's mother's name. No idea about the Zoey part.
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Nothing will top B-Rock the Islamic Shock
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Idran posted:There's also a lot of people that hate Zooey Deschanel for being hipster-y, I could imagine that being even bigger percentage-wise on Freep considering their usual outlook. I keep forgetting that she's in that TV show and thinking people are like 10-15 years out of date when they talk about her.
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Tender Bender posted:They think he is just as easily ridiculed. The difference is while the left harped on Bush's goofy speaking errors, the right harps on things that they think are goofy because they're easily confused. "You didn't build that", " ISIS isn't Islamic", using light dumbbells for a shoulder fly workout, etc. They're like "Haha get a load of this guy!" and everyone else is like "... Yeah, that actually makes perfect sense." I remember Obama joking about having to visit "57 states" during the 1st campaign and conservatives went absolutely obsessive over it because it was finally, finally something they thought was comparable to a Bushism.
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