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Star Man posted:Who the gently caress calls street racing "drag racing"? Americans. There's only 12 roads here with curves.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Americans. There's only 12 roads here with curves. The curves are all left turns, and we call it NASCAR.
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Star Man posted:Who the gently caress calls street racing "drag racing"?
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Sep 25, 2014 21:50
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wikipedia posted:Drag racing has existed in both street racing and regulated motorsport forms since automobiles and motorcycles were developed.
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Star Man posted:Who the gently caress calls street racing "drag racing"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwZy1G1sMlw
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anonumos posted:I mean, it has ALWAYS mystified me why oil companies didn't diversify into all forms of energy production (which they do but not to the scale I'd assume they should). They are so sunk into fossil fuels that they fight against renewables rather than diversify further. It's a very strange phenomenon, one that I believe is a losing battle unless you consider ONLY this quarter's profi----OHHHHH! That's right. Defining yourself as an "energy production company" sounds nice on paper but in practice the processes to create that energy are quite different to the point that most of it is outside the core competencies of oil companies. Meaning if they do move into those markets, it's at a rather large risk and the big question always is, why not do it with a completely new company? During my studies I recall a case of an oil company that did define itself as energy producing, moved into nuclear, found out it actually knew jack poo poo about nuclear and nuclear had no synergies with their existing operations, and proceeded to lose a lot of money trying to do poo poo it didn't know how to do. Similarly, imagine if green takes off, which company will be in a better position to compete: 1. a startup with some patents and/or competencies related to the field and otherwise a clean slate, or 2. an oil company with a ton of legacy costs like having to pay upkeep on existing infrastructure, fund cleanups and disposal operations of said old infrastructure and a workforce who knows comparatively little about green energy while having to pay a load of for instance pensions to said workforce. Basically fossil fuel energy companies are heavily incentivized to keep the economy running on fossil fuels for as long as possible because once green and/or nuclear takes off properly there's really no reason for them to exist.
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anonumos posted:I mean, it has ALWAYS mystified me why oil companies didn't diversify into all forms of energy production (which they do but not to the scale I'd assume they should). They are so sunk into fossil fuels that they fight against renewables rather than diversify further. It's a very strange phenomenon, one that I believe is a losing battle unless you consider ONLY this quarter's profi----OHHHHH! That's right. It would mean a short term loss for a long term gain. Any and all CEO's in America say "gently caress you get out of my office" the second you said the word loss.
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Holy poo poo this clip  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrqaw7lB76cNo, Republican's have NO problem getting women to vote for them, it's just a image problem.
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BigRed0427 posted:Holy poo poo this clip I think someone's forgetting that it's Democrats who are the REAL party that's declared a War on Women. 
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What little I caught of Rush today, he was trying to weave some Democrat Party conspiracy by citing a poll that said married women support the GOP so that the Democrat's secret plan is to keep women from getting married and somehow it tied into immigration reform. It was so insane I actually laughed out loud by myself in my car. Probably the funniest part of it was the implication that Democrats ever think things through that clearly or are organized and proactive enough to do it in the first place. I'll have to dig up the transcript to describe it but it was some truly 11th dimensional chess poo poo and it reminded me why I first thought that Limbaugh was a parody show for the first two or three years I heard his show. It was so batshit I can't even recall the logic behind it but I'm sure his listeners just nodded their heads and mumbled in agreement.
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I honestly fear that if Hillary wins POTUS in 2016 the GOP will step up the "war on women" to their "war on blacks/hispanics" defcon level. Right now they feel like they still have a chance, and they are making earnest (if reluctant and idiotic) attempts at appealing to women voters and avoiding this sort of poo poo. But if that scenario comes to pass I can honestly see them putting up the same "gently caress it" attitude they toss at blacks and hispanics right now, where they feel like they get more play out of semi-openly making GBS threads on them and giving the base a red-meat goose. Or where the begrudging efforts to appeal to them aren't serious on any level and in fact often just a veiled gently caress you (see: anytime in the past 10 years a GOP name has made a big deal about showing up at a hostile org to give a speech). If they lose 2016 and races in the interim thanks to womens issues I think there's a very very good chance the entire party writes them off as a new Democratic bloc and just lets the whole place go hog wild on this "boobs on the ground" type poo poo. tl;dr - I see a near future where the MRA cult is just as praised and welcome in the GOP as cops who shoot unarmed black people, and border patrol agents. Intel&Sebastian fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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"This is so empowering," said the hired eye candy dressed in shiny hair and lip gloss rather than, you know, an outfit a professional would wear. Boobs on the ground, boobs on the ground, broadcastin' like a fool sayin,' "boobs on the ground."
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Sep 26, 2014 00:23
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Anyone else remember the fit republicans pitched when the US military started allowing women to be pilots?
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I honestly fear that if Hillary wins POTUS in 2016 the GOP will step up the "war on women" to their "war on blacks/hispanics" defcon level. Right now they feel like they still have a chance, and they are making earnest (if reluctant and idiotic) attempts at appealing to women voters and avoiding this sort of poo poo. Yeah, we might see the GOP do some insane poo poo, like make a woman get probed like she's been abducted by aliens to exercise her rights. Or nearly unanimous opposition to the Lily Ledbetter act that outlaws open discrimination against women in terms of pay. Or actively sabotaging any efforts to close the wage gap. Or screaming slut at a woman who talks about how birth control should be a right. Or defending rape. Or putting forward laws saying that single mothers are child abusers by definition. Or reaching out to Gamergate shitblocks and saying they have a legitimate cause and should be celebrated. And they'd only do the most tokenistic stuff, like give women awards for no reason and not even bother to put the womans name on the loving award. What can you point to in the last few years that means they haven't been at "gently caress it" level since 2007? Fulchrum fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Fulchrum posted:Or attempt to contact Gamergate people and say they have a legitimate cause and should be celebrated. Didn't the AEI do just that recently?
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Bombing from an airplane doesn't qualify as "on the ground" for anything whether it's boots or boobs.
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Hodgepodge posted:Didn't the AEI do just that recently? That is what I as referring to in a list of insanely sexist poo poo the GOP does now, yes.
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Sep 26, 2014 00:44
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"Boobs on the ground", while dumb, is at least a lazy topical word play (that's offensive), while "can't figure out how to park her fighter jet" deserves a place alongside Polack jokes in that host's WASPy Elk Lodge circa 1963.
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So is right wing media going their minds over Holder resigning yet? They've had him up as the ultimate boogeyman for Obama's entire presidency and blame him for just about everything. Also, I hope we can get a video of Holder punching Grassley or Issa before he leaves the DOJ.
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Fulchrum posted:Yeah, we might see the GOP do some insane poo poo, like make a woman get probed like she's been abducted by aliens to exercise her rights. Or nearly unanimous opposition to the Lily Ledbetter act that outlaws open discrimination against women in terms of pay. Or actively sabotaging any efforts to close the wage gap. Or screaming slut at a woman who talks about how birth control should be a right. Or defending rape. Or putting forward laws saying that single mothers are child abusers by definition. Or reaching out to Gamergate shitblocks and saying they have a legitimate cause and should be celebrated. Prett good point, I won't dispute it. I just don't think they've written women off as a possible pick up (rightly or wrongly, and cynically since they offer exactly nothing) which is a major difference when it comes to say Hispanics, where elected officials can claim they're dirty criminals determined to infect ypu with ebola and get away with it.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I honestly fear that if Hillary wins POTUS in 2016 the GOP will step up the "war on women" to their "war on blacks/hispanics" defcon level. Right now they feel like they still have a chance, and they are making earnest (if reluctant and idiotic) attempts at appealing to women voters and avoiding this sort of poo poo. Yeah but I think Hillary has the ovaries to call that poo poo like it is, unlike Barack. I don't think she'll let them hide behind their dog whistles the way he has.
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Sir Tonk posted:So is right wing media going their minds over Holder resigning yet? They've had him up as the ultimate boogeyman for Obama's entire presidency and blame him for just about everything. So far today... Fox Host: Holder Ran The DOJ 'Much Like The Black Panthers Would' Libertarian Think Tank Removes Piece Comparing Eric Holder To George Wallace
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Prett good point, I won't dispute it. I just don't think they've written women off as a possible pick up (rightly or wrongly, and cynically since they offer exactly nothing) which is a major difference when it comes to say Hispanics, where elected officials can claim they're dirty criminals determined to infect ypu with ebola and get away with it. They haven't written off Hispanics either. Or African Americans, or even gays. They think they're on the cusp of gaining all of these demographics, if only they can explain their message of "gently caress YOU gently caress YOU gently caress YOU DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!" right. Their policies are now at 100% "gently caress anyone and anything that isn't a straight white rich male", and that needle isn't shifting until it dies in a ditch somewhere. Despite this they still try to act like they're not racists, or sexists, or hateful to anyone. Hilary won't change that. VVV Case in motherfucking point. Fulchrum fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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"I don't understand why black people don't vote for us!" In related news this weekend on the radio I heard someone talking about a new outreach website. Apparently there's now a central location where you can get both republican talking points AND the latest hip hop news! Sadly I was in a rush and couldn't stick around to get the website name but I'm sure this is the moment when it all turns around for the GOP
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Man, if only.
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Hay guys! By the look of all these stock photos, Republicans seem pretty cool! (sorry if this is a repost) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iff7mNsGK50
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BiggerBoat posted:What little I caught of Rush today, he was trying to weave some Democrat Party conspiracy by citing a poll that said married women support the GOP so that the Democrat's secret plan is to keep women from getting married and somehow it tied into immigration reform. It was so insane I actually laughed out loud by myself in my car. The best part to me was playing Una Paloma Blanca with canon fire to make fun of peaceniks. I shouldn't have laughed, but the pettiness of it makes me laugh really hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd4Zy77fDpo
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Sorry to dredge up an old derail (briefly) but this is an example of the slur "democrat" having become established in the mainstream: Note Republican respondents as compared to Democrat respondents. 
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That seems like the right label to use in that situation though? It's referring to the people who identify as Democrats vs. people who identify as Republicans, rather than the Republican or Democratic Parties as entities. Like, I get the whole argument. I went all when I had to do my overseas voter registration and all the references were to the Democrat Party, etc. But that's really a non-example to me.
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beatlegs posted:Note Republican respondents as compared to Democrat respondents. Democrat is the proper term for members of the Democratic Party.
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The GOP doubling down on the terrible is the best possible outcome, because it quarantines the terrible in one coherent place and allows it to be contained all at once. If the Republicans moved to the left and the Democrats to the right, then you couldn't do that. Don't expect the Democrats to move to the left much, but by removing right wingers from power the center is effectively moved to the left with no action at all by the Democrats.
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BiggerBoat posted:What little I caught of Rush today, he was trying to weave some Democrat Party conspiracy by citing a poll that said married women support the GOP so that the Democrat's secret plan is to keep women from getting married and somehow it tied into immigration reform. It was so insane I actually laughed out loud by myself in my car.  logicRush starts by saying that originally marriage was done for financial reason, which is considered a bad thing by femi He continues by saying that women tend to marry up, which is  HYPERGAMY crap that again misses the point: women tended to "marry up" because the patriarch of a lower family could use his daughter as a way to increase his social standing by marrying her to someone of higher station. So yeah, it's true but only in the sense that women had absolutely no agency in the matter.And, according to Rush's source, people are increasingly marrying for financial reasons today because the economy is bad. So femi
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beatlegs posted:Hay guys! By the look of all these stock photos, Republicans seem pretty cool! (sorry if this is a repost) This is absolutely incredible. How could anyone think this is even remotely a good idea?
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hello internet posted:This is absolutely incredible. How could anyone think this is even remotely a good idea? Any communications major that isn't scamming the poo poo out of their local GOP branch right now deserves to be unemployed.
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hello internet posted:This is absolutely incredible. How could anyone think this is even remotely a good idea? "You have a problem with my First Amendmant rights? Who's really the intolerant one here?" Is there a country I can move to that isn't a total loving embarassment? 
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hello internet posted:This is absolutely incredible. How could anyone think this is even remotely a good idea? Remember, they think the only problem they have is messaging, not content. So now they're trying to say "Hey, we're not the bad guys. Now, how about we gently caress over everyone who's not a rich white straight male? Wait, what are you getting hostile for? We're not the bad guy here". Luminous Obscurity posted:"You have a problem with my First Amendmant rights? Who's really the intolerant one here?" Tibet?
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Fulchrum posted:Tibet? Premodern Tibet was a theocratic slave society that regularly used horrific torture as punishment for crimes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Tibet#Human_rights_in_pre-1950_Tibet quote:In a description of the judicial system that was enforced under the Great Thirteenth, Sir Charles Bell, who was his friend and confidant, calls the Tibetan criminal code "drastic". "In addition to fines and imprisonment, floggings were frequent, not only of people after they have been convicted of an offence, but also of accused persons, and indeed witnesses, during the course of the trial. For serious offences, use is made of the pillory as well as of the cangue, which latter is a heavy square wooden board round the neck. Iron fetters are fastened on the legs of murderers and inveterate burglars. For very serious or repeated offences, such as murder, violent robbery, repeated thefts, or serious forgery, the hand may be cut off at the wrist, the nose sliced off, or even the eyes gouged out, the last more likely for some heinous political crime. In former days those convicted of murder were put into a leather sack, which was sewn up and thrown into a river".[33] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_in_Tibet_controversy#Human_rights_in_Tibet quote:Because Tibetan Buddhism prohibits killing, mutilation and other extremely cruel punishments were widely used in old Tibet. The mutilation of top level Tibetan official Lungshar in 1934 gave an example. Tsepon Lungshar, an official educated in England introduced reform in the 1920s; after losing a political struggle the reformist was sentenced to be blinded by having his eye-balls pulled out. "The method involved the placement of a smooth, round yak's knucklebone on each of the temples of the prisoner. These were then tied by leather thongs around the head and tightened by turning the thongs with a stick on top of the head until the eyeballs popped out. The mutilation was terribly bungled. Only one eyeball popped out, and eventually the ragyaba had to cut out the other eyeball with a knife. Boiling oil was then poured into the sockets to cauterize the wound." [67][68] This was sufficiently unusual that the untouchables (ragyaba) carrying it out had no previous experience of the correct technique and had to rely on instructions heard from their parents. An attempt was made at anesthetizing the alleged criminal with intoxicants before performing the punishment, which unfortunately did not work well.[68]
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icantfindaname posted:Premodern Tibet was a theocratic slave society that regularly used horrific torture as punishment for crimes Fine, Atlantis. Whatever.
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quote:RUSH: Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, we had polling data, survey data from something called the Public Religion Research Institute. The data we had yesterday: 73% of Americans think that they don't have a chance to have success as their parents did, and I think that was the survey in which people said that they had missed out on the chance for success. This rant was even more vacuous than usual. Let's just get rid of all the how's and why's that we achieved independence from Britain and alternate printing 'FREEDOM' and 'AMERICA' in the largest fonts that will fit on the pages of the next generation's history text books! That will teach them what this country is about! quote:RUSH: The war against nonreligious religious extremists continues. It's been stated that there's no military victory over ISIS. Obama says a military victory is not possible, or isn't gonna happen. "There is no military solution to Islamic terrorism. It has nothing to do with Islam, which is the religion of peace." That's Obama and David Cameron. All of that and much more coming up. quote:RUSH: This is amazing how this kind of stuff works. It was just yesterday on this program that we were talking about the usual scare tactics Democrats use, because there was a story, CNN, Dana Bash and Deirdre Walsh did a story on how the Republicans are using fearmongering tactics against Democrats, accusing the Democrats of all these horrible things. And I said, "No, no, no, no. A, it's not happening. B, it's the other way around." It's the Democrats who are. You see my friends? During my imaginary conversation with a member of the Republican Party he was flummoxed by my query about suppressing the votes of minorities. Clearly not a single member of the party, nor the party as a whole, is capable of engineering any scheme whatsoever that could possibly disenfranchise an individual that was statistically likely to vote for the competing party in an election. This link, which I haven't bothered reading, may or may not support my position, but I will just reassure you that it probably does anyway. 
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