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kik2dagroin posted:http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/10/02/democrats_will_politicize_ebola_just_like_they_politicized_aids I like how Rush doesn't understand how a disease like Ebola is a threat to the world and not just the countries in Africa it's currently affecting. Rush, a supposed campion of free-market capitalism, doesn't understand how the concept of globalization makes it possible for what would have been decades before isolated incidents of epidemics in one geographic location can easily become a global pandemic. There's nothing political about trying to stop a deadly and highly infectious virus from spreading to other parts of the world and becoming established. Western Africa is an economically developing region. It's not just Africans that are going to these locations. Multinational companies operate in these countries and their employees have just of a chance of bringing back Ebola as an African immigrant.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Worked for Carthage for 200 or so years When your buckets of cash are that large it doesn't matter whether mercenaries are inefficient or dangerous, you can just drown all your problems in money until you encounter Rome.
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Oct 3, 2014 15:36
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Letters of Marque worked for the British during the Napoleonic Wars. Sortof. I see that whole phenomenon as more an attempt to legalize & regulate & co-op piracy than as an attempt to actually hire a mercenary navy, though -- see, e.g., Henry Morgan.
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Oct 3, 2014 15:47
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GreyjoyBastard posted:When your buckets of cash are that large it doesn't matter whether mercenaries are inefficient or dangerous, you can just drown all your problems in money until you encounter Rome. And even then it still worked as long as they were paying Xanthippus.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:This is really nothing new for anybody that knew about weev before the iPad thing. He's always been a hosed in the head weirdo who was ironically racist but actually was. Most of the people involved in the development of the original Encyclopedia Dramatica were hosed in the head. Wasn't the majority of the people that started 4chan ex-goons? I seem to recall Weev in prank call videos of Gorgeous George fwiw. (4chan kind of reads like SA's unfunny special needs little brother fwiw).
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FuzzySkinner posted:Wasn't the majority of the people that started 4chan ex-goons? http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=1889
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Do the people who think we should ban all flights from Ebola-stricken countries now think that other countries should do the same to us since Ebola is here? Or should we just ban all travel to and from the state of Texas?
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No, because ~exceptionalism~. It's the same reason that we have this moral imperative to bomb the poo poo out of anyone for whichever reason, but the moment it comes back to the US in some form it is an evil act that requires further display of force.
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Tender Bender posted:Do the people who think we should ban all flights from Ebola-stricken countries now think that other countries should do the same to us since Ebola is here? Or should we just ban all travel to and from the state of Texas?
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FuzzySkinner posted:Wasn't the majority of the people that started 4chan ex-goons? yup It's FYAD except half the userbase is 100% serious and there's no moderation so child porn can be seen on the frontpage a good chunk of the time. At least with reddit the anime porn is contained to specific subreddits, with 4chan it's ubiquitous icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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GreyjoyBastard posted:When your buckets of cash are that large it doesn't matter whether mercenaries are inefficient or dangerous, you can just drown all your problems in money until you encounter Rome. At which point you might get a little salty.
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Tender Bender posted:Do the people who think we should ban all flights from Ebola-stricken countries now think that other countries should do the same to us since Ebola is here? Or should we just ban all travel to and from the state of Texas? Considering the speed at which the outbreak is going out of control, severely restricting flights and movement by nationals of those countries is probably going to happen regardless, so doing it now rather then later makes sense to me.
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Is Birch Barlow the most accurate satire/parody of Rush Limbaugh ever done? You can really tell that Harry Shearer actually spent time studying him and his style of speaking. Also the "Golden Microphone" is a nice touch.
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Oct 3, 2014 18:15
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Rush has spent literally the entire show hitching about liberals not wanting to discriminate and that is why we have someone with Ebola here. He mentioned Obama ordered a stop of planes to Israel a few months ago for political reasons and now Obama is too feckless to stop all traffic. Of course Obama won't stop air traffic from Africa, because that would be closing the borders and he told a bunch of Mexicans yesterday he has no plans to close the border. I really don't know how someone can say that poo poo without a bit of irony or self reflection.
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Dirk Pitt posted:Rush has spent literally the entire show hitching about liberals not wanting to discriminate and that is why we have someone with Ebola here. If it makes you feel better Rush doesn't believe a word he says. He found an easy way to get rich and now subsists entirely on painkillers and beautiful Dominican boys, all because he found a particular brand of bile and hatred that appeals to a large demographic of uneducated people in this country.
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Notorious QIG posted:If it makes you feel better Rush doesn't believe a word he says. He found an easy way to get rich and now subsists entirely on painkillers and beautiful Dominican boys, all because he found a particular brand of bile and hatred that appeals to a large demographic of uneducated people in this country. Yeah. I just don't get how he can call the cdc a bunch of liberals and scream: 'I THOUGHT IT WAS HARD TO GET'  over and over and over again.He talks like every current government employee had a one on one interview with president Obama. And then after a week the president liked them so decided to make them cdc analyst 1.
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It definitely makes me feel worse that instead of just being a lone crazy person, it's actually profitable and marketable to cynically pretend to believe that liberals want to spread Ebola around because they think it's unfair that it's only in a few countries.
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Dirk Pitt posted:Yeah. I just don't get how he can call the cdc a bunch of liberals and scream: 'I THOUGHT IT WAS HARD TO GET' The CDC has actually been all over the board on their public awarenes with ebola. They're mostly trying to keep the public calm right now, so they've been focusing on the "hard to get" line. For example in some of their statements they've claimed you need direct physical contact with an infected person, which is false (contact with infected bodily fluids can do it, without UV exposure the virus can linger in contaminated material for some time, and potentially it may be spread via aerosolized bodily fluids as well). Not that Rush is the right person to be pointing that out, but in this case it's the figment of truth that lend his lies credibility.
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Oct 3, 2014 19:24
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So I was wondering how they would spin the good jobs numbers today. And Rush decides to cling to the employment number truther theory http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/10/03/limbaugh-claims-59-percent-unemployment-rate-is/201020
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Notorious QIG posted:If it makes you feel better Rush doesn't believe a word he says. He found an easy way to get rich and now subsists entirely on painkillers and beautiful Dominican boys, all because he found a particular brand of bile and hatred that appeals to a large demographic of uneducated people in this country. What Conservatives believe: gently caress everyone and everything else, the things that benefit me and my cronies are what matter. Profit above all else. gently caress you, got mine. What people who say dangerous things they don't believe for money believe: gently caress everyone and everything else, the things that benefit me and my cronies are what matter. Profit above all else. gently caress you, got mine. You can't really be disingenuous about being a hardline conservative because whether or not you 'believe' you're still someone advocating that people behave in manners that will harm great amounts of people simply because you personally stand to benefit.
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Oct 3, 2014 22:46
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Dana Loesch Steven Crowder and some black conservative play FEMINIST NAZI JEOPARDY http://louderwithcrowder.com/nazi-feminist-jeopardy-video/
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Oct 3, 2014 23:17
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Conservative brand humor is hilarious in how unfunny it is.
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FMguru posted:I got tired of that game back in the USENET days.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Dana Loesch Steven Crowder and some black conservative play So how long until Stephen Crowder and Dana Loesch get caught loving each other. Darkman Fanpage posted:Conservative brand humor is hilarious in how unfunny it is. Haha, do you get it? Minorities are big loving babies for fighting for equal rights and treatment. It's hilarious! Now if you'll excuse me I have to go cry about how persecuted I am for being a white Christian in America.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Conservative brand humor is hilarious in how unfunny it is. I spent about 5 seconds on that. How do people not understand comedic timing or what makes a joke a joke? I mean, Jesus. Were they pissing their pants over these or just going "YEAH THAT'S A GOOD ONE! GET EM" Because bleh!
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FuzzySkinner posted:Wasn't the majority of the people that started 4chan ex-goons? The majority of people who started 4chan are current goons.
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"Louder With Crowder". That's the best catchphrase he could come up with?
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I'm sure. If he were clever and funny, he probably could've made a living as a real comedian.
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Yeah but he's also stuck with an extremely punchable face so I think "conservative comedian" is his only real calling.
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The only reason Loesch has an audience is because conservatives deem her fuckable. She doesn't say anything groundbreaking and pretty much rides on the coat tails of Glenn Beck. Now Crowder is doing same with her. Watching that Jeopardy sketch is pretty much making light of very serious issues and haha rape.
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So I'm starting to get quite rustled at how heavily Fox News is trying to incite panic over ebola, with the obvious intent to make people fear immigration. The usual easily disporved talking points, unsubtle racism, etc, I can just roll my eyes at - but this ebola bullshit is seriously pissing me off. They could get a lot of people killed with the poo poo they're saying (like talking about how the CDC doesn't know what they're doing, reporting "ebola like symptoms (aka an African guy with a flu)" as a confirmed case... I don't know, am I alone in this?
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It's definitely enraging but I honestly think this is par for the course. Right-wing media tends to focus predominantly on instilling fear in its consumers. A single ebola infection can easily be paraded around as direct personal failure of Obama himself, used as another exhibit of how totally incompetent Big Government is, while also furthering the notion that scientists and/or doctors are ivy tower latte sipping nitwits that don't know as much about the world as you do with your razor honed notion of 'common sense'. While to people that understand nuance and complexities something like an ebola infection here was bound to happen eventually given the interconnectedness of the world these days and the severity of the outbreak in West Africa. A patient zero appearing on American shores (WHO WAS DEFINITELY COMING HERE ILLEGALLY!!!!  ) allows the right to smugly recline back in their chairs, take a puff of their cigars, and smirk as they exhale a plume of smoke in your face and say "I told you so  " while they offhand in Congress vote to defund basic public services like the CDC and divert those funds to building giant walls around America to keep those infected illegal immigrants out. Midterms are also coming up and the right seems to be engaged in a truly ironic form of projection whereby they accuse Obama of using ebola to influence elections while freaking people the gently caress out about getting infected with ebola because Obama.
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Goatman Sacks posted:So I'm starting to get quite rustled at how heavily Fox News is trying to incite panic over ebola, with the obvious intent to make people fear immigration. The usual easily disporved talking points, unsubtle racism, etc, I can just roll my eyes at - but this ebola bullshit is seriously pissing me off. They could get a lot of people killed with the poo poo they're saying (like talking about how the CDC doesn't know what they're doing, reporting "ebola like symptoms (aka an African guy with a flu)" as a confirmed case... I don't know, am I alone in this? It's just another excuse for hyping up fear of black people.
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I've retooled my anonymous twitter account from trolling Republican politicians to dispelling misperceptions about Ebola. Feeling productive, 140 characters at a time! It's interesting to see each wave of memetically transmitted wrongness.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Dana Loesch Steven Crowder and some black conservative play Excellent timing with the news of domestic violence in the NFL.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:It's just another excuse for hyping up fear of black people. Africanized killer bees are going to get us all!!! Run for the hills!!!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/02/george-w-bush-iraq_n_5920526.html Bush has weighed in on Iraq, saying "no it'll all turn out fine if we're patient." quote:In the Fox News interview, Bush recalled how he would phone his predecessor, former President Bill Clinton, for advice while in office. Asked whether Obama did the same, Bush said he did not.
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Goatman Sacks posted:It's kinda refreshing, actually, that Bush isn't some poo poo-slinging pile of venom like Dick Cheney is about the Obama administration. Even after he's out of office he's the president you'd most like to go have a beer with.
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