TinTower posted:

Stalinist twitter is salty as gently caress:

https://twitter.com/LuhanskRepublic/status/731910418810068992

The winner in this reality was a Crimean Tatar singing about Stalin's deportations of 1944.

TinTower posted:

Stalinist twitter is salty as gently caress:

https://twitter.com/LuhanskRepublic/status/731910418810068992

The winner in this reality was a Crimean Tatar singing about Stalin's deportations of 1944.

zakharov posted:

I'm sure I'm missing some cultural context but I can't understand getting this mad about a singing competition.

Roblo posted:

I think you're underestimating the complex political stuff that's in play amongst many of the countries in Europe. It's not just the historical stuff either. Greece/Turkey. All the stuff amongst the former USSR countries, lots of countries opinions about a Germany due to austerity.

Especially since Russia (came third) recently invaded Ukraine (came first). Who won by singing a song about Russia loving over Ukraine less than a century ago. Georgia also recently had a little war with Russia. You really can't see why some people get 'mad'? That's not excusing the muppets above. Of course.

Roblo posted:

I think you're underestimating the complex political stuff that's in play amongst many of the countries in Europe. It's not just the historical stuff either. Greece/Turkey. All the stuff amongst the former USSR countries, lots of countries opinions about a Germany due to austerity.

Especially since Russia (came third) recently invaded Ukraine (came first). Who won by singing a song about Russia loving over Ukraine less than a century ago. Georgia also recently had a little war with Russia. You really can't see why some people get 'mad'? That's not excusing the muppets above. Of course.

DicktheCat posted:

Does the winning country actually get anything?

EmmyOk posted:

Imagine peak American Idol fever except every state has a contestant in the final.

TheFallenEvincar posted:

if you really think about it, everything we DO is HISTORY, man

EmmyOk posted:

Our presenter gets more bitter and angry every year since we have the record for most wins but haven't won in like 100 years. He bitches about Azerbaijan giving Serbia 12 points being "bloody typical" but expects 12 from the UK, it's great.

Regalingualius posted:

Has that cartoon really started going mainstream? I'd find it kind of hilarious if this is what makes people think Garrison is a lovely person, especially since it's one he actually made, for once.

Roblo posted:

Where are you from? I'm curious what country would expect the brits to give them 12?

Roblo posted:

Where are you from? I'm curious what country would expect the brits to give them 12?

TheFallenEvincar posted:

if you really think about it, everything we DO is HISTORY, man

Cage posted:

If it makes it more schadenfreude for you, this is from a mustang board I read:

Cage posted:

If it makes it more schadenfreude for you, this is from a mustang board I read:

Cage posted:

If it makes it more schadenfreude for you, this is from a mustang board I read:

burexas.irom posted:

I wish I could work myself up into a frenzy at will.

burexas.irom posted:

I wish I could work myself up into a frenzy at will.

LordGugs posted:

I'm assuming this is the Last Podcast on the Left group. That poo poo is a hot mess.

Cage posted:

If it makes it more schadenfreude for you, this is from a mustang board I read:

EmmyOk posted:

Whenever I think of Legolas failing to take down that suicide bomber Uruk-Hai in The Two Towers I get really angry so then I just refocus that anger on climate change or black dead gay president babies or w/e the gently caress.

Karma Monkey posted:

Yes, the physical appearance of the first lady is definitely the main thing the nation needs to be concerned with.

EmmyOk posted:

Whenever I think of Legolas failing to take down that suicide bomber Uruk-Hai in The Two Towers I get really angry so then I just refocus that anger on climate change or black dead gay president babies or w/e the gently caress.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

quote:

““Let me tell you some things. I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I can tell you how to stop the vast majority of abortion in the world. First, make knowledge and access to contraception widely available. Start teaching kids before they hit puberty.

Teach them about domestic violence and coercion, and teach them not to coerce and rape. Create a strong, loving community where women and girls feel safe and supported in times of need. Because guess what? They aren’t. You know what happens to babies born under such circumstances? They get hurt, unnecessarily. They get sick, unnecessarily. They get removed from parents who love them but who are unprepared for the burden of a child.

Resources? Honey, we try. There aren’t enough resources anywhere. There are waiting lists, and promises, and maybes. If the government itself can’t hook people up, what makes you think an impoverished single mom can handle it? Abolish poverty. Do you have any idea how much childcare costs? Daycare can cost as much or more than monthly rent. They may be inadequately staffed. Getting a private nanny is a nice idea, but they don’t come cheap either. Relatives? Do they own a car? Does the bus run at the right times? Do they have jobs of their own they need to work just to keep the lights on? Are they going to stick around until you get off you convenience store shift at 4 AM? Do they have criminal histories that will make them unsuitable as caregivers when CPS pokes around? You gonna pay for that? Who’s going to pay for that?

End rape. I know your type errs on the side of blaming the woman, but I’ve seen little girls who’ve barely gotten their periods pregnant because somebody thought raping preteens was an awesome idea. You want to put a child through that? Or someone with a mental or physical inability for whom pregnancy would be frightening, painful or even life-threatening?

I’ve seen nonverbal kids who had their feet sliced up by caregivers for no loving reason at all, you think sexual abuse doesn’t happen either? You say there’s lots of couples who want to adopt. Kiddo, what they want to adopt are healthy white babies, preferably untainted by the wombs and genetics of women with alcohol or drug dependencies. I’ve seen the kids they don’t want, who almost no one wants. You people focus only on the happy pink babies, the gigglers, the ones who grow and grow with no trouble. Those are not the kids who linger in foster care. Those are certainly not the older kids and teenagers who age out of foster care and then are thrown out in the streets, usually with an array of medical and mental health issues. Are they too old to count?

And yeah, I’ve seen the babies, little hand-sized things barely clinging to life. There’s no glory, no wonder there. There is no wonder in a pregnant woman with five dollars to her name, so deep in depression you wonder if she’ll be alive in a week. Therapy costs money. Medicine costs money. Food, clothes, electricity cost money. Government assistance is a pittance; poverty drives women and girls into situations where they are forced to rely on people who abuse them to survive. (I’ve been up in more hospitals than I can count.)

In each and every dark pit of desperation, I have never seen a pro-lifer. I ain’t never seen them babysitting, scrubbing floors, bringing over goods, handing mom $50 bucks a month or driving her to the pediatrician. I ain’t never seen them sitting up for hours with an autistic child who screams and rages so his mother can get some sleep while she rests up from working 14-hour days.

I don’t see them fixing leaks in rundown houses or playing with a kid while the police prepare to interview her about her sexual abuse. They’re not paying for the funerals of babies and children who died after birth, when they truly do become independent organisms. And the crazy thing is they think they’ve already done their job, because the child was born! Aphids give birth, girl. It’s no miracle.

You want to speak for the weak? Get off your high horse and get your hands dirty helping the poor, the isolated, the ill and mentally ill women and mothers and their children who already breathe the dirty air. You are doing nothing, absolutely nothing, for children. You don’t have a flea’s comprehension of injustice. You are not doing poo poo for life until you get in there and fight that darkness. Until you understand that abortion is salvation in a world like ours.

Does that sound too hard? Do you really think suffering post-birth is more permissible, less worthy of outrage? “Pro-life” is simply a philosophy in which the only life worth saving is the one that can be saved by punishing a woman.”

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

TinTower posted:

Stalinist twitter is salty as gently caress:

https://twitter.com/LuhanskRepublic/status/731910418810068992

The winner in this reality was a Crimean Tatar singing about Stalin's deportations of 1944.

RareAcumen posted:

Michele could play She Hulk, if she were a foot and a half taller.

Anyway, check out this rad rant on how being pro-life is all bullshit.


http://twistedlandstourguide.tumblr.com/post/144425688010/you-think-youre-pro-life

Ignimbrite posted:

Have who the next President of the USA will be by having their wives duke it out in the ring.

DemeaninDemon posted:

I'm not sure if I'd want to watch Bill v Trump's Wives in the Thunder Dome.