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Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Rick_Hunter posted:

Focusing on this part because I was reminded what small town Indiana was every time I had to drive by Martinsville.

Well, no, that is a special case, being the historical capital of the KKK and all. It's safe for PoC to go to most small towns in the state, whereas Martinsville has in recent memory made visiting black high school athletes feel like Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier.

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Complaint Compilation
Apr 8, 2016

:sax:

Hahahah-
What the gently caress?

Every member every army on earth should get to stand in a line and slap him one by one whilst saying "Shut up, stupid."

Complaint Compilation fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Aug 4, 2016

Complaint Compilation
Apr 8, 2016

:sax:
Oh yeah a nuke might kill civilians too :butt:
collateral damage!

gently caress off Donald.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Wrong thread

The Crotch
Oct 16, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo


I no longer want to live.

The Crotch fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Aug 4, 2016

Complaint Compilation
Apr 8, 2016

:sax:
I hate to be a huge nerd but a nuclear reactor does not lead to nuclear weapons.
You'd need a breeder reactor to make plutonium yes?
Which Iran does not have.

IRAN NOOOOKS!
:tinfoil:

/nuke derail

Complaint Compilation fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Aug 4, 2016

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

PoorMoralCompass posted:

Oh yeah a nuke might kill civilians too :butt:
collateral damage!

gently caress off Donald.

I mean I for one would love to live in a society that would be reverting back to the 14th century.

Jesus....

Seriously, all one would do would be need to watch "Threads" to realize why such a thing is the worst.

Complaint Compilation
Apr 8, 2016

:sax:
oops!

ErIog
Jul 11, 2001

:nsacloud:

The Crotch posted:



I no longer want to live.

Is there a link to a short breakdown of the GOP trying to start Iran-Contra v2.0? I need a way to answer my conservative relatives, but I don't have any information about it.

edit: Just realized this is Ollie North in this image saying this.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I guess, though, if there is one dude who is the go-to expert on making hostage trades with Iran then he would be the one. He finally gets to talk about something he's actually qualified to talk about.

ErIog fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Aug 4, 2016

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

The Crotch posted:



I no longer want to live.

good lord.

uninterrupted
Jun 20, 2011

uninterrupted fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Sep 11, 2020

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

The Crotch posted:



I no longer want to live.

Hang on, wait, what was his defense again? It was the patriotic thing to do? Not so loving of your country to make the necessary sacrifices anymore when the Reagan is Black, Ollie?

beatlegs
Mar 11, 2001

The Crotch posted:



I no longer want to live.

The irony is so intense my eyeballs are rusting

beatlegs fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Aug 4, 2016

Zwabu
Aug 7, 2006

What has Fox News been covering the last couple of days? I'd think they'd try to avoid Trump's various meltdowns as much as possible.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Zwabu posted:

What has Fox News been covering the last couple of days? I'd think they'd try to avoid Trump's various meltdowns as much as possible.

OBAMA PAYING 400 MILLION DOLLARS TO IRAN FOR HOSTAGES!!! :byodood:

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable

PoorMoralCompass posted:

I hate to be a huge nerd but a nuclear reactor does not lead to nuclear weapons.
You'd need a breeder reactor to make plutonium yes?
Which Iran does not have.

IRAN NOOOOKS!
:tinfoil:

/nuke derail

Well you see let them have a couple isotopes here and a couple isotopes there and then they'll be making nukes before you know it

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Asproigerosis posted:

Well you see let them have a couple isotopes here and a couple isotopes there and then they'll be making nukes before you know it

Give them an inch and they'll take a Three Mile!

ErIog
Jul 11, 2001

:nsacloud:

Pope Guilty posted:

Give them an inch and they'll take a Three Mile!

:drat:

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/761036187188375552

As someone who was AT the parade? :allears:

Goatman Sacks
Apr 4, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

Cythereal posted:

OBAMA PAYING 400 MILLION DOLLARS TO IRAN FOR HOSTAGES!!! :byodood:

It's almost as if the coordinated outrage behind this 7 month old news was a right-wing "break glass in case Trump self-immolation" device.

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum
Watch Clinton Cash? What's so exciting about knowing they're rich?

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/03/clint-eastwood-trump-racist-comments

Is it bad I feel like giving Clint Eastwood a pass because his contributions to the world of cinema are incredible?

Christ. "Millenial Bashing" is a major trigger for me, but Clint seems to be the only guy I've ever seen make me genuinely SMILE when he said those comments. Even his stupid "chair" stunt didn't a single thing in swaying how much I love his movies.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

*chomp chomp chomp*
I'd say Eastwood is just an "Old Man Yelling At Cloud" at this point but, you know...

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

PoorMoralCompass posted:

I hate to be a huge nerd but a nuclear reactor does not lead to nuclear weapons.
You'd need a breeder reactor to make plutonium yes?
Which Iran does not have.

IRAN NOOOOKS!
:tinfoil:

/nuke derail

You can obtain plutonium by reprocessing used fuel rods from a normal reactor. Not trivially, but way easier than making weapons-grade uranium.
A specially-designed breeder reactor allows you to make large quantities of plutonium with relative ease, but it's not absolutely required.
(A thorium-based reactor could not be used to obtain plutonium, hence some interest in them)

beatlegs
Mar 11, 2001

FuzzySkinner posted:

Is it bad I feel like giving Clint Eastwood a pass because his contributions to the world of cinema are incredible?

That and he's very old. he deserves a pass.

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant
There's such a thing as a talented rear end in a top hat. I don't think it's worth eschewing media from people who disagree with you unless it's really egregious.

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

StandardVC10 posted:

There's such a thing as a talented rear end in a top hat. I don't think it's worth eschewing media from people who disagree with you unless it's really egregious.

Yeah it mainly got posted because I saw it trending on my twitter topics. It scared me for a second because I thought it was something else that 2016 is more famous for..

Eastwood is also proof that the "LIBERAL HOLLYWOOD" myth promoted by Fox News and co is bullshit. Dude's STILL making blockbusters to this day Even got one the RWM slobbered over like you wouldn't believe ("American Sniper").

(Also I did actually LIKE American Sniper. Just not for the reason that most conservatives did.)

Assepoester
Jul 18, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Melman v2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7e6gLht6OQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr2PtuviAJo

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge

beatlegs posted:

That and he's very old. he deserves a pass.
The "racist grandpa" status.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

This is the third time I've said this across several threads, but it bears repeating: Brad Jones reviews offensive schlock and literal porn for a living, and he walked out of this movie in disgust. That's how bad it is.

My Face When
Nov 28, 2012

Hide your healthcare.
Hide your wife.

Clint Eastwood is not Jon Voight in terms of actors with lovely opinions.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
Clint Eastwood has spent his whole life pretending to be a tough rear end in a top hat and that's what he's doing now.

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

Phoenixan posted:

The "racist grandpa" status.
On that note, I'm not sure you can make movies like Letters From Iwo Jima / Flags Of Our Fathers and Gran Turino and be a racist the way we usually understand it.

Any young person that talks like that is definitely a racist rear end in a top hat no matter what else he does, and for that matter a lot of old people that talk like that are racist assholes as well. On the other hand you have people like Clint who have lovely opinions and yet clearly aren't lost souls or whatever - they have certain characteristics permanently baked into their personality as a product of the times that shaped them, and which they have to overcome to even come within shouting distance of what we consider acceptable now. So you can take that into context.

Of course there are also people his age who aren't racist shits in the slightest so it's clearly not totally just "oh they're old". But that's pretty rare. Basically Clint Eastwood was just your average shithead like anyone else 50 years ago and which these days is almost parody.

And now that I see he's saying he'll vote for Trump I'm a little less sure of myself, actually. There isn't any excuse for that and comparing Trump to past American Presidents is just laughable.

Kilroy fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Aug 4, 2016

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

Unite: MASH!!
~They've got the bad guys on the run!~

The Crotch posted:



I no longer want to live.

More proof that conservatives can't remember more than two weeks ago clearly.


Kilroy posted:

On that note, I'm not sure you can make movies like Letters From Iwo Jima / Flags Of Our Fathers and Gran Turino and be a racist the way we usually understand it.

Any young person that talks like that is definitely a racist rear end in a top hat no matter what else he does, and for that matter a lot of old people that talk like that are racist assholes as well. On the other hand you have people like Clint who have lovely opinions and yet clearly aren't lost souls or whatever - they have certain characteristics permanently baked into their personality as a product of the times that shaped them, and which they have to overcome to even come within shouting distance of what we consider acceptable now. So you can take that into context.

Of course there are also people his age who aren't racist shits in the slightest so it's clearly not totally just "oh they're old". But that's pretty rare. Basically Clint Eastwood was just your average shithead like anyone else 50 years ago and which these days is almost parody.

And now that I see he's saying he'll vote for Trump I'm a little less sure of myself, actually. There isn't any excuse for that and comparing Trump to past American Presidents is just laughable.

Agreed. Old angry racists were usually young angry racists before. We can't give them a pass just because they've gotten feeble.

Mahoning
Feb 3, 2007
On the other hand, old people grew up in a society of blatant racism, not this dog whistle poo poo. So from their perspective I kind of get it. To them, racism is straight up lynching black people and calling them n-words. Anything short of that is just you being an oversensitive little baby.

I mean, they're wrong, but I kind of get it.

Levantine
Feb 14, 2005

GUNDAM!!!
I don't really have any sympathy for anyone who makes that case that calling someone racist is worse than racism, which is basically what he's doing. Millenials are a "pussy generation" because they call it what it is, but they're the oversensitive ones. Ok, Clint.

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

Geostomp posted:

More proof that conservatives can't remember more than two weeks ago clearly.


Agreed. Old angry racists were usually young angry racists before. We can't give them a pass just because they've gotten feeble.
To be clear, I don't think Eastwood is an old angry racist nor that he was a young angry racist. I would guess he was just incurious about racial issues in general and accepting of the status quo ca 1960 or so, and has not made much effort to update his beliefs since then. That means he was a young ordinary racist in 1960 and an old ordinary racist now.

He's got no excuse for not pulling his head out of his rear end in the last fifty years, but as these things go there are bigger fish to fry.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


I said it before but call a white person (specifically an old one) a racist and you'll see who really is the "oversensitive pussy."

disjoe
Feb 18, 2011



Did I just see a mounted Klansman fly out of a film projection like he's Phantom Ganon

disjoe fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Aug 4, 2016

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Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


It's patented Scooby Doo technology.

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