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Scratch Monkey posted:The sad part is that Trump is just some ridiculous sideshow there to highlight how ridiculous the Republican party has become... I think it's a mistake to say Trump is just a symptom of the Republican party's excess, though he is that. To be more accurate, we have to look at ourselves too. A nation is like an organism, something that works in a far more fluid manner. Trump is a symptom (and a symbol) of the psyche of the entire United States. Shallow, detached from reality, desperate for meaning and willing to use violence to "right the ship" as it were, to bring order to chaos. Trump is what anthropologist call a "trickster" personality -- never considered important in a sane society, but deadly serious in a time of transition or uncertainty. They sometimes offer Faustian bargains, mostly for their own amusement. Mythologically, there are many examples. The classic historical example of course is Hitler, who never would have been able to come to power without the hyperinflation and indignities of living in Wiemar Germany. Typically however, the trickster is not totally evil or totally good. After all, Trump isn't Hillary Clinton or Lindsey Graham, who certainly qualify. I can't hate Trump, not after giving out Graham's phone number (who incidentally would play the part of Martin Sheen in the Dead Zone). StickySweater fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jul 26, 2015 |
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Rand alPaul posted:Wow she's quite stunning, with an amazing voice. I look forward to her feuding with Taylor Swift soon. She really is, and really does, and once the internet fame train gets running it'll turn out she's a neo-Nazi who lives with a gangster that spends his time squatting and smoking when they're not harassing gays together. What will happen first, Russia becoming anything but an rear end-backwards authoritarian shithole for the first time in history, or America achieving Full Communism?
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"We are one of those nations that somehow are not part of mankind, but exist only for the sake of teaching the world some kind of terrible lesson." -Pyotr Chaadayev. (He was subsequently declared to be "mentally insane" for his criticism of the Tsarist government and placed under house arrest.)
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Hello D&D, this is probably a long-shot, but a year back or so, someone on SA (either through the previous picture thread, or somewhere else) linked a brilliant photo blog about hostile architecture but I can't find back to it for the life of me. Do any of y'all know any possible candidates? Cheers.
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Was it The Dismal Garden?
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boneration posted:Was it The Dismal Garden? Yes! Thanks a bunch.
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Hundreds Gather for Unveiling of Satanic Statue in Detroit The "largest public satanic ceremony in history" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7km578ulD4M
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MariusLecter posted:Hundreds Gather for Unveiling of Satanic Statue in Detroit That owns, America would be far better off with Satanic idols everywhere instead of all the Jesus poo poo. Baphomet 2016
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Wheeee posted:That owns, America would be far better off with Satanic idols everywhere instead of all the Jesus poo poo.
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okay edmund burke. That is super intense.
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i like that this implies that black americans are committing self-genocide out of sheer hatred
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Good, American grocery store: Scary, foreign grocery store:
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OBESITY RATE by state and year:Peven Stan posted:Good, American grocery store: I miss those scary, foreign grocery stores. In Italy, "fast food" would be something like this from one of the every-twenty-miles highway rest stops: Meanwhile, in Horrors of American Food Science: Accretionist fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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Accretionist posted:OBESITY RATE by state and year: Actually, in Italy, "fast food" would be something like this:
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Stultus Maximus posted:Actually, in Italy, "fast food" would be something like this:
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The only thing about that video that's at all new or surprising is that the top comment on Youtube is actually good. https://vid.me/yMzT
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22 swagbucks is equal to 22 cents, for context.
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Wheeee posted:The only thing about that video that's at all new or surprising is that the top comment on Youtube is actually good. A political site that wants to be taken seriously posted:
What's the over/under on this guy being a goon? MizPiz fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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MizPiz posted:What's the over/under on this guy being a goon?
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WhiskeyJuvenile fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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MizPiz posted:What's the over/under on this guy being a goon? And oh my god have you seen those awful racist cartoons by that Kelly guy??
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Wheeee posted:And oh my god have you seen those awful racist cartoons by that Kelly guy?? In my defense, parody and reality are basically indistinguishable at this point. MizPiz fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Jul 29, 2015 |
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