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Full Battle Rattle
Aug 29, 2009

As long as the times refuse to change, we're going to make a hell of a racket.
Milo loves young white dudes, it shouldn't come as a shock

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TheDeadlyShoe
Feb 14, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 hours!
Milo believes hair can replace charm

ZobarStyl
Oct 24, 2005

This isn't a war, it's a moider.
Is this the manifestation of Fox actually realizing this is the last chance to flog the Benghazi hoax? Between the Gowdy committee shitshow and yet another election with zero traction, I can't see them milking this any further.



...I'm wrong, aren't I?

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



If anything Milo does for the near future annoys you, just tweet at him or DM him asking if this is the real Milo

TheDeadlyShoe
Feb 14, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 hours!

ZobarStyl posted:

Is this the manifestation of Fox actually realizing this is the last chance to flog the Benghazi hoax? Between the Gowdy committee shitshow and yet another election with zero traction, I can't see them milking this any further.



...I'm wrong, aren't I?

Vince Foster.

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 207 days!
Honestly, if it will put money in the hands of someone who needs it, I'm fine with the entire rationale being poo poo. It isn't like Rhodes established his scholarship to further any aim I would support besides that of education either.

Dr. Killjoy
Oct 9, 2012

:thunk::mason::brainworms::tinfoil::thunkher:
Yeah gotta say that taking money from the pockets of wingnuts and giving it to people who need it is a worthy venture. It's a shame that the well will run dry when they remember that they don't actually care about poor people and that this was all a contrarian exercise.

Bushiz
Sep 21, 2004

The #1 Threat to Ba Sing Se

Grimey Drawer

FuzzySkinner posted:

Also Milo is fascinating in this clip because he's just flat out :smug: as hell during this. He's screaming, he's angry, he's making up facts. Christ, say what you will about Limbaugh, but at least the man has a bit of charm to him at times.

And this is the problem with the alt-right, and what might be part of it's undoing. It's impossible for them to like things. Ideological purity is a full time job for them. Rush Limbaugh isn't beholden to that. He's allowed to like things. Chip Davis is a weirdo alt rockstar type that's polyamorous and probably a card-carrying member of the Natural Law Party, but Rush still likes Mannheim Steamroller. Keifer Sutherland is a hippy-dippy leftist, but Rush still likes 24. The alt-right doesn't have that. Ideological purity is to them what it was to anarchist/communist/socialist parties in the 60s and 70s. The alt-right can't like things, because if they like things, that's an affirmative position they've taken. All they can do is hate.

kartikeya
Mar 17, 2009


quote:

In a move certain to infuriate the left, Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos has created the Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant, “a scholarship exclusively available to white men who wish to pursue their post-secondary education on equal footing with their female, queer and ethnic minority classmates.”

I'm not really feeling the fury here. Not even mild indigestion.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Dr. Killjoy posted:

Yeah gotta say that taking money from the pockets of wingnuts and giving it to people who need it is a worthy venture. It's a shame that the well will run dry when they remember that they don't actually care about poor people and that this was all a contrarian exercise.

Further proof that the oppressed white male can't ever get a break or a hand up in this county :911:

Xand_Man
Mar 2, 2004

If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous


Dr. Killjoy posted:

Yeah gotta say that taking money from the pockets of wingnuts and giving it to people who need it is a worthy venture. It's a shame that the well will run dry when they remember that they don't actually care about poor people and that this was all a contrarian exercise.

DONATE HERE TO ELIMINATE POOR MINORITIES*

*because they won't be poor after we give them your money.

Typical Pubbie
May 10, 2011
60/40 Milo gives the scholarship to a middle-class kid from the suburbs.

Clip-On Fedora
Feb 20, 2011

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/22/media/national-review-disinvited-debate/index.html


The National Review released an anti-Trump issue, so they have been disinvited from the GOP debate.

HackensackBackpack
Aug 20, 2007

Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?
Does anyone on The Left seriously get infuriated over such transparent acts of antagonism?

Deptfordx
Dec 23, 2013

kartikeya posted:

I'm not really feeling the fury here. Not even mild indigestion.

Right, it's straight projection. It's normal to work myself into a towering rage at the slightest thing, therefore liberals must be the same.

It's like Freepers constant assertion of President Obama, a man so even-tempered 'The Presidential Anger Translator' could become a running joke, as a raging cauldron of fury.

BaurusJA
Nov 13, 2015

It's cruel...it's playful... I like it

Leofish posted:

Does anyone on The Left seriously get infuriated over such transparent acts of antagonism?

Some, I do personally, but thats just me. As a general political class? Probably not, the Left, well I take that back, maybe a certain portion of militant marxists and maoists.

BaurusJA
Nov 13, 2015

It's cruel...it's playful... I like it

Deptfordx posted:

It's like Freepers constant assertion of President Obama, a man so even-tempered 'The Presidential Anger Translator' could become a running joke, as a raging cauldron of fury.

When he gets mad he just starts looking very intense and then often kindve exhausted. At its most intense its more like disgust than tower rage. Like when he has to give his 4032 gun speech of his presidench after another shooting.

Also, Obama does seem very even-keel general, I admire that about him, the poo poo the republicans pulled on his rear end would have sent me into a towering rage for sure

Wales Grey
Jun 20, 2012

Leofish posted:

Does anyone on The Left seriously get infuriated over such transparent acts of antagonism?

It annoys me that Milo continues to peddle his steaming hot takes, but at least he's doing something vaguely charitable this time.

Goatman Sacks
Apr 4, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

beatlegs posted:

According to mainstream news outlets reporting on the Flint water crisis, it was the EPA's fault.

This line was getting hit pretty hard on Bret Baier's show last night. They compared it to the Colorado mishap, and had a permaoutraged conservative dude yell about how private businesses would go to jail for this. They kept harping for 10 minutes about how the EPA knew the water was bad last year, and didn't tell the residents of Flint. Then at the last 10 seconds of the segment they mentioned that the EPA says they weren't legally allowed to tell the residents the information, as that's the state's responsibility.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007



It's interesting how every MRA/Red Pill/sexist media person is a republican

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
(until 30yrs)

Luminous Obscurity
Jan 10, 2007

"The instrument you know as a piano was once called a pianoforte, because it can play both loud and quiet notes."

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:



It's interesting how every MRA/Red Pill/sexist media person is a republican

"no u" - Steve Crowder

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:



It's interesting how every MRA/Red Pill/sexist media person is a republican

This is the most logical explanation. It couldn't possibly be that young men are emotionally and mentally stunted human beings and make all sorts of dumb decisions.

e: there's a game called King of Dragon Pass (I think, I haven't played it; however, I've listened to two podcasts about it therefore I'm an undeniable expert), and one of the tenants is that, yeah, you're a barbarian, but you should solve things socially vs war. There are other details like how women have equal rights as passed down from the gods. Gary Butterfield mentioned that one of the things that subverts your expectations by inverting cliches in interesting ways like how men are considered to be emotional, wild, and undependable, whereas women are level-headed and cunning.

e2: im gud @ grammer

Phone fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Jan 23, 2016

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
Imagine meeting a scholarship recipient of Milo's grant. I couldn't imagine how insufferable they would be.

"I got a full ride to college because I'm a white male."

Harold Fjord
Jan 3, 2004
I had many dormmates in university who received scholarships for being from underprivileged Appalachian areas of Ohio. Same thing really.

Spun Dog
Sep 21, 2004


Smellrose

Wales Grey posted:

It annoys me that Milo continues to peddle his steaming hot takes, but at least he's doing something vaguely charitable this time.

Honestly, the only place I ever hear about his idiocy is here. Crowder too. Is he really that relevant outside of this forum?

Good Citizen
Aug 12, 2008

trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump

Spun Dog posted:

Honestly, the only place I ever hear about his idiocy is here. Crowder too. Is he really that relevant outside of this forum?

Milo is more of a gamergate style Twitter troll but Crowder worms his way into a surprising number of Facebook feeds.

OAquinas
Jan 27, 2008

Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.

Good Citizen posted:

Milo is more of a gamergate style Twitter troll but Crowder worms his way into a surprising number of Facebook feeds.

Yeah, he's not even checkmark-worthy.

deoju
Jul 11, 2004

All the pieces matter.
Nap Ghost
Until otherwise demonstrated I just going to assume that scholarship fund is a scheme to grab attention and bilk money from rich idiots.

Edit: and possibly divert money from students who might actually need it towards Milo's friends and family.

deoju fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jan 22, 2016

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/22/politics/national-review-10-reasons/index.html

National Review V. Trump

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/01/22/have_you_ever_seen_anything_like_it_gop_tries_to_kill_both_its_front_runners

quote:

RUSH: Have you ever seen this? Have you ever seen a primary campaign where the two top front-runners in a party are both trying to be destroyed by that party?

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it's Open Line Friday!

RUSH: Do you ever remember seeing anything like this? Forget in your lifetime, because you haven't. Or maybe you -- no. Not two. The two top front-runners, factions, different factions within the Republican Party are trying to take out both of these guys.

...

So over here you have establishment Republicans trying to take out Ted Cruz by sidling up with Donald Trump. Over here you have conservative intelligentsia, the intellectual leading light of conservatism, National Review, trying to take out Trump. The establishment, which National Review has been plenty supportive of in recent years, is trying to take out Cruz, sidling up to Trump, while National Review is trying to take Trump out.

If Ted Cruz becomes president of the United States, I am here to tell you that there will be more knives needing to be removed from his back placed there by fellow Republicans than by any number of knives in his back placed there by the Democrats, 'cause the Democrats' attacks will be from the front, and he will see those coming.

I have never seen anything like this, where the two top front-runners are both being targeted by different wings or elements, if you will.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/01/22/have_you_ever_seen_anything_like_it_gop_tries_to_kill_both_its_front_runners

Mr Interweb
Aug 25, 2004

Goatman Sacks posted:

This line was getting hit pretty hard on Bret Baier's show last night. They compared it to the Colorado mishap, and had a permaoutraged conservative dude yell about how private businesses would go to jail for this. They kept harping for 10 minutes about how the EPA knew the water was bad last year, and didn't tell the residents of Flint. Then at the last 10 seconds of the segment they mentioned that the EPA says they weren't legally allowed to tell the residents the information, as that's the state's responsibility.

Even ignoring that last part, how exactly are conservatives rationalizing that this wouldn't have happened if there was less regulation?

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Bushiz posted:

. Keifer Sutherland is a hippy-dippy leftist, .

that true? never knew that.

mr. mephistopheles
Dec 2, 2009

For some reason people think that private companies won't intentionally harm people because doing so would hurt profits.

The problem is that is only relevant if the people harmed belong to a demographic that has social value (wealthy white people) and the resources to hold the business accountable and create public awareness.

One of the biggest companies in the world knowingly sold HIV contaminated hemophilia medicine to countries with less regulation after a bunch of people were infected in Canada and the US and it basically hasn't hurt them at all.

Too many people assume the most profitable action will also be moral but the reality is if the cost of wrongful death lawsuits is less than the profit to be gained, a company will knowingly sell a product with like a 25% mortality rate in trials and try to obfuscate that fact for as long as possible. There are multiple real world examples of it.

Government agencies are far from perfect but I'd trust them with my safety well above anyone with a profit motive.

Jerry Manderbilt
May 31, 2012

No matter how much paperwork I process, it never goes away. It only increases.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

that true? never knew that.

he's the grandson of the dude who led north america's first avowedly socialist government, but beyond that i dunno

ToastyPotato
Jun 23, 2005

CONVICTED OF DISPLAYING HIS PEANUTS IN PUBLIC

mr. mephistopheles posted:

For some reason people think that private companies won't intentionally harm people because doing so would hurt profits.

The problem is that is only relevant if the people harmed belong to a demographic that has social value (wealthy white people) and the resources to hold the business accountable and create public awareness.

One of the biggest companies in the world knowingly sold HIV contaminated hemophilia medicine to countries with less regulation after a bunch of people were infected in Canada and the US and it basically hasn't hurt them at all.

Too many people assume the most profitable action will also be moral but the reality is if the cost of wrongful death lawsuits is less than the profit to be gained, a company will knowingly sell a product with like a 25% mortality rate in trials and try to obfuscate that fact for as long as possible. There are multiple real world examples of it.

Government agencies are far from perfect but I'd trust them with my safety well above anyone with a profit motive.

Yeah, most of the time bad behavior has hurt private companies, it has been because the government took action in some form against them. I can't really think of any case where a company did something absolutely terrible and harmful, but also perfectly legal, and therefore got away with it. Pretty much anytime something bad happens, recalls happen, lawsuits happen, and when it is particularly bad, investigations with media coverage happen. The threat of lawsuits alone is enough to keep some businesses at least slightly honest when it comes to certain things, and even that is something we can thank government backing for.

Takoluka
Jun 26, 2009

Don't look at me!




""Once you are born, gently caress you." - Crowder" - The GOP

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
One really weird aspect of the current Republican party/right-wing meltdown is the fact that it has almost nothing to do with ideology. None of these people really disagree on the issues at all - the only thing I can think of is Trump's unwillingness to cut Medicare and Social Security, which is at odds with every other Republican's plans for "entitlement reform". This is entirely about personalities and tribal affinity and signalling. This isn't about slavery or opposition/support for a war or civil rights, it's about...well, what exactly?

I am enjoying the exposure of the "intellectual tradition" of conservatism as complete garbage, though. It turns out all those people vote Republican not because of a principled opposition to overweening state power or a dedication to free markets or strong affinity for the works of Hayek, Burke, and Oakshotte - they just hate gays and messicans and nig-nogs and uppity women and smelly hippies and will support anyone who will give them a good kicking. That's really all there is to it.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

So you'll stop urging for wars in the Middle East that get shitloads of innocent people killed including women? And dramatically expand womens' healthcare?

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Deptfordx
Dec 23, 2013

Phone posted:


e: there's a game called King of Dragon Pass (I think, I haven't played it; however, I've listened to two podcasts about it therefore I'm an undeniable expert), and one of the tenants is that, yeah, you're a barbarian, but you should solve things socially vs war.

Son, you've been listening to too many Nysalor Riddlers. As any real Orlanthi knows, 'Violence is always an option':colbert:.

Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Jan 22, 2016

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