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My Face When: Nov 28, 2012; Hide your healthcare.
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2005 was such a weird year for me. That was around the time I found The Cure and Sonic Youth while appreciating The Killers, The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc.

Edit: I remember when Dead Kennedys were on Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. That's how I got into them.

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# ? May 24, 2024 15:31

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

You guys are making me feel so much better about being old. :buddy:

My music library has categories for decades and it's comical how my eighties list balloons well past the seventies, but the nineties is like it fell off a cliff, and it keeps dropping through the 2000s. 2010s are on pace to finally see a small uptick over the prior decade.

I expect the teen years are the prime music consumption range for most people.

# ? Aug 15, 2016 23:20

Crowsbeak: Oct 9, 2012; by Azathoth; Lipstick Apathy

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2005 was such a weird year for me. That was around the time I found The Cure and Sonic Youth while appreciating The Killers, The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc.

Edit: I remember when Dead Kennedys were on Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. That's how I got into them.

2005 was when exploring this cool new thing called YouTube I discovered Blind Gaurdian. Been a metal head since.

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Nihilarian: Oct 2, 2013

speaking of Clinton killing folks, my grandma says that a guy got shot in the head 5 times and the Clintons got it declared a suicide. Anyone have any idea who she was talking about?

# ? Aug 15, 2016 23:32

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

Nihilarian posted:

speaking of Clinton killing folks, my grandma says that a guy got shot in the head 5 times and the Clintons got it declared a suicide. Anyone have any idea who she was talking about?

Probably Vince Foster. He went Bud Dwyer style (without an audience tho) and there was just the one gunshot

# ? Aug 15, 2016 23:42

Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

I don't know how anyone looks back on 2000s music without bringing up Korn or NIN's With Teeth or Year Zero.

# ? Aug 15, 2016 23:43

Push El Burrito: May 9, 2006; Soiled Meat

Epic High Five posted:

Probably Vince Foster. He went Bud Dwyer style (without an audience tho) and there was just the one gunshot

Thought he died in a limo explosion?

# ? Aug 15, 2016 23:44

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

BROCK LESBIAN posted:

Thought he died in a limo explosion?

He did, we're all just waiting for the reveal to confirm who took his place

# ? Aug 15, 2016 23:51

El Gallinero Gros: Mar 17, 2010

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/15/polit...linkId=27695574

WELP

# ? Aug 16, 2016 00:19

King Possum III: Feb 15, 2016

My Face When posted:

2005 was such a weird year for me. That was around the time I found The Cure and Sonic Youth while appreciating The Killers, The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc.

It's quite a coincidence that you mentioned The Killers.

You might even say you could Read My Mind.

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Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Solid choices :lol:

https://twitter.com/mattwalshblog/status/765316963337965568

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/765286206527508480

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RoyKeen: Jul 24, 2007; Grimey Drawer

El Gallinero Gros posted:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/15/polit...linkId=27695574

WELP

Giuliani wrong!? America's Mayor?[red] I'm Gobsmacked.[/red]

# ? Aug 16, 2016 00:30

Phone: Jul 30, 2005; 親子丼をほしい。

Pop music is pop music; it's hard to get excited about overproduced, copycat, engineered garbage. Alternative rock was a complete mess, popular rap and hip-hop was uninteresting (and frequently gross), and country went super mainstream and became about how much of a hardon you have for your truck.

I know this is from last week when I had a slap fight about the FCC in the USPol thread, but the AV Club had a tremendous article the same day about the Telecommunications Act of 1996. They give a fairly convincing argument about how this was the turning point for a lot of things we've seen over the past 2 decades, namely the consolidation of media companies and corporations like Clear Channel completely ruining radio. http://www.avclub.com/article/telecommunications-act-1996-gave-us-lovely-cell-se-240874

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When Congress passed the Telecommunications Act Of 1996, it didn�t seem like a big deal. An act that was meant to save consumers money on cable bills and phone service, the Telecom Act passed through Congress with flying colors, earning yea votes from 91 of the 100 senators, and about 95 percent of the House Of Representatives. And yet, 20 years later, the Telecom Act has led to all sorts of media bullshit, like the conglomeration of radio by Clear Channel�now also known as iHeartMedia, much to the dismay of all sentient adults�the continuing rise of cable, cellphone, and internet pricing, and the dissolution of local newsrooms everywhere. What went wrong, and why should you�a person who just wants to sign on to Netflix, turn into a lump, and watch Master Of None�care?

There are a lot of reasons why. There are entire books that explain why this quickly passed, little-talked-about law matters, but Common Cause, a liberal-leaning non-profit advocacy group, broke it down in 2005 when it published a paper on the act�s long tail. The group said that the act:

� Lifted the limit on how many radio stations one company could own [and] made possible the creation of radio giants like Clear Channel, with more than 1,200 stations�

� Lifted from 12 the number of local TV stations any one corporation could own, and expanded the limit on audience reach� These changes spurred huge media mergers and greatly increased media concentration.

� Deregulated cable rates. Between 1996 and 2003, those rates have skyrocketed, increasing by nearly 50 percent�

� Permitted the Federal Communications Commission to ease cable-broadcast cross-ownership rules... Ninety percent of the top 50 cable stations are owned by the same parent companies that own the broadcast networks, challenging the notion that cable is any real source of competition.

The act also gave broadcasters valuable digital TV licenses for free, as well as extended the term of a broadcast license from five to eight years.

When the Telecom Act lifted the limit of radio stations one company could own, it not only created a climate for mega conglomerates like Clear Channel, it also contributed to the insane slide the music industry has experienced over the past 20 years. If a station in Detroit, for instance, is owned by Clear Channel, the company sets the playlist, not the average DJ. That creates less diversity over the radio waves, especially if the same corporation owns a large group of stations in one town. In essence, if a Chicago pop station is playing a lot of Britney Spears, it�s because CBS�the corporation that owns a number of radio stations in Chicago�likes Britney Spears, not because one dude in the music department is into �Toxic.� And if Chicago�s pop station is playing Britney Spears, then she�s going to get airplay at the adult contemporary station in the same network in a few months or years, and she�s going to be getting similarly heavy airplay all across the country at all CBS� stations.

But what�s wrong with Britney Spears? Nothing, really, unless you�re some upstart pop diva who just wants a single broadcaster to give her a chance. Or you�re an alt-rock radio station that wants to stay afloat by selling ads but can�t really compete with Clear Channel�s army of salespeople who have access to all manner of radio stations at once, making their deals the best in town. Or you�re a listener in Toledo who doesn�t realize that their beloved drive-time DJ isn�t actually in Toledo at all, but instead recorded his or her song segues and chatter from some booth in Dallas, where they�re being paid a couple thousand dollars more to put in some extra hours by pretending to care about�or even know about�a city they�ve maybe never been to. And yes, that happens. A lot. As communications scholar Robert McChesney told The A.V. Club:

If you went to a Clear Channel office in Peoria, Illinois or Toledo, Ohio, where [the company owns] eight stations or six stations, you could go into one floor of an office building where they were located and there would be a large closet for each of their stations, and they�d all be automated out of Texas. There would be one ad sales staff to sell all these stations locally, but a lot of the programming would be done out of a central headquarters.

He also says that radio is �by far the most democratic medium because it�s very inexpensive to produce a good quality radio signal,� noting that �every community could [perceivably] have 30, 40, 50 local stations run by people from the community both for profit and not.�

In 2011, Clear Channel laid off hundreds of DJs in an attempt to revamp about 600 regional stations. One DJ, Micki Goldberg, who was laid off at that time, told The New York Times that she�d been simultaneously working DJ shifts at four different Ohio stations, the listeners of which probably had no idea. Other stations lost their local morning shows entirely at that time, as management chose to move from hyper-local content to cheaper, more sensational content like Rover�s Morning Glory, a shock-jock hosted show that boasts �hook-up hotties� and airs simultaneously on eight different stations around the eastern half of the country.

That kind of radio consolidation might not make you mad if, like seemingly most of the world�s media-savvy twenty- and thirtysomethings, you don�t spend your mornings listening to drive-time radio.

That kind of consolidation has trickled down into newsrooms as well, meaning that local news coverage on most commercially owned radio stations is almost non-existent, just like local flair. As McChesney puts it, �Fifty years ago when you drove from New York to California, every station would have a whole different sound to it because there would be different people talking. You�d learn a lot about the local community through the radio, and that�s all gone now. They destroyed radio. It was assassinated by the FCC and corporate lobbyists.� And while you used to be able to just turn on the local news for that information, that�s not really the case anymore, thanks in part to�you guessed it�the Telecommunications Act Of 1996.

When the act deregulated the number of radio stations a single corporation could own, it also deregulated the number of television stations a corporation or individual could own. Local stations that used to belong to a single parent corporation now belong to a larger conglomerate, with Common Cause noting that, �Together, just five companies�Viacom, the parent of CBS, Disney, owner of ABC, News Corp, NBC and AOL, owner of Time Warner�now control 75 percent of all primetime viewing.� The same goes for local news as well, with corporations like the Sinclair Broadcast Group�a company that owned just 12 stations in 1996�accumulating more than 50 stations since, most of which have seen their newsrooms gutted in favor of pre-packaged, centrally produced news, almost none of which is local. McChesney says the move happened for a fairly simple reason, saying that once corporations realized they could make money off the news�rather than just viewing it as a public service�they started �making that a joke, too.� As he notes, the move made it so �they could still put on what�s called a news show, but it�s mostly just fluff and trivia and 23-year-olds spewing out talking points that they read on a teleprompter, having no idea what the gently caress they�re talking about, fortunately for them.�

That kind of mindless newsreading has real consequences, too. As Common Cause notes in its position paper, �In 2002, more than half of TV stations in the nation�s top 50 markets completely ignored state and congressional elections in their highest rated local news programs in the weeks leading up to those elections, with large station owners offering the least election coverage of all.� McChesney takes it further, saying, �What little coverage there is, is mostly gossip, spin, and speculation, or basically what�s spoon-fed to them by party elites and insiders and big shots accepting all their biases as the appropriate way to view the world. It�s impossible to exaggerate just how nutritionless this so-called journalism is.� In other words, viewers of most stations get lots of Donald Trump news, but almost nothing about city council elections or even state representatives.

Additionally, Common Cause�s Todd O�Boyle told The A.V. Club that �election season is a gravy train for broadcasters,� as well, meaning that most local stations �book record revenues for political ads.� According to O�Boyle, �in many communities, voters are seeing more election content in the form of advertising than they are in the form of news reporting,� saying there have even been instances of local newscasts cutting their broadcasts short in order to air more political ads. With politics becoming increasingly polarized over the past 20-odd years, absence of objective local news doesn�t help ease that struggle, nor does it make most people think that there�s anything to be done anywhere close to home.

While some people�especially younger people�might say, �who cares? I get my news from social media anyway,� O�Boyle points out that, �the majority of news coverage, and particularly local news coverage, still comes from local newsrooms.� In other words, just because you saw some article about a police scandal on social media doesn�t mean it wasn�t uncovered by some intrepid reporter first. Additionally, says O�Boyle, �a healthy news ecosystem� is essential if you want �to cut through some of the viral nonsense that�s getting passed around� these days.

The move to deregulation has real impact beyond the newsroom, as well. Now, companies like Disney can own TV networks, film studios�something that McChesney notes was illegal until the �90s�magazines, newspapers, radio stations, amusement parks, sports teams, book publishing houses, and more. That kind of conglomeration can make things incredibly murky for most consumers, as, for instance, the cast of Once Upon A Time, a show on ABC�a network owned by Disney�helps promote Zootopia�a movie made by Disney and starring one of the cast members of Once, Ginnifer Goodwin�as they get snapped by paparazzi at Disneyland, and so on, and so on, and so on.

As Common Cause notes, the Telecom Act Of 1996 also helped deregulate cable rates, meaning that the act is the reason you�re paying $100 a month for what you could probably get online for �free� if you were just willing to sit through a few Honda ads. That kind of deregulation can seem confusing for those who advocate for the free market. Why, for instance, couldn�t some company decide to offer cable to a town or region at a fraction of the cost of what Time Warner might charge? Let McChesney explain:

The principle behind the �96 act was, �Well, we created all these cable monopolies [before 1996] because you can only have one company ripping up the roads and putting in their cable wires� The �96 act was when the internet was going to change everything, so [the thought was that] now telephone companies can use their wires to transmit television shows. Suddenly, [the thought was] we�ll have at least two companies in every market competing� and then [people] said, �If those guys can do it, maybe the electric utility can send stuff over the electric wires, and pretty soon we�ll have wireless companies who will utilize new technologies, so there can be all sorts of people competing. [In reality,] their wires weren�t as good and there wasn�t enough money in it.

At this point, it�s just not economically feasible or smart to set up a cable television operation, meaning more companies are either resorting to using satellite dishes or just focusing on streaming, � la Hulu (a company that�s jointly owned by NBCUniversal, Fox, Disney, and Turner Broadcasting, by the way) or iTunes. Now, as Common Cause notes, �Roughly 98 percent of households with access to cable are served by only one cable company,� and that company can pretty much charge what it wants. That�s especially true if that company is able to offer more and more channels�all generally owned by the same five parent corporations�thus giving the cable provider reason to claim that, since it offers more than what you might get on regular old broadcast TV, it can charge more. And like idiots, we all pay it, because that�s what cable costs.

That kind of market exclusion also applies to cellphones and internet service, something the rest of the world pays much less for. McChesney, whose wife is Norwegian, says that in Norway, �There are people paying much less for this really good modern service,� asking, �Why the hell can�t we have this?� As he puts it, �the rip-off prices people pay for their AT&T and Verizon cellphones, and their cable contracts and their satellite dishes� could be a big issue moving forward, especially if some politician �has the courage to raise that issue.� Google could also prove to be a player in the industry, begrudgingly, with its own broadband service, Google Fiber. The company started installing its own internet in municipalities like Kansas City and Austin, �just to show,� McChesney says, �that we can actually have speeds that are 1,000 times greater than what we have.� Calling it a �shot over the bow to AT&T and Verizon,� McChesney says Fiber is the telecom equivalent of Google saying, �Come on, you jerks. You�re making all this money. Let�s invest in a decent network so we can have high speeds like other places in the world.�

The web is a wild frontier, though. According to McChesney, �Thirteen of the 30 largest companies in the United States are� internet giants, like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook. And, because those companies�even with their streaming video services�are internet-based, they�re classified as information service providers, and thus not subject to supervision by the Federal Communications Commission. While sites like Apple and Facebook might have plausible deniability that they should be subject to FCC regulations, given that they offer services other than just media streaming, sites like Netflix, Cracked, and YouTube might have less of a case. And yet, they�re entirely self-regulated, constrained only by the market and by what advertisers will put up with. Even sites like NBC.com and CNN.com are self-regulated, despite the fact that their parent companies are under the long�albeit lenient�arm of the FCC.

Twenty years later, the Telecommunications Act Of 1996 still casts a long pall on media. The average consumer might not realize it, but every time they turn on their TV, check their cellphone, or access the internet, they�re subject to its provisions and beholden to both its virtues and faults. And while the public might be getting gradually more attuned to the act�s faults thanks in part to internet activism on issues like Net Neutrality, for instance, it still doesn�t look like any of the Telecom Act�s backward thinking will change any time soon. As Duke professor and communications scholar Phil Napoli told The A.V. Club, �Nothing new and better has come along since, so it�s still oddly and disgustingly the guiding legislation for our whole communications infrastructure.� A single piddling act�one that was hardly presented to the public and passed with overwhelming support in both the House and the Senate�has put thousands of people out of work, destroyed entire industries, and cost you thousands of dollars for lovely internet and substandard cell service. Think about that when you go to the polls this November.

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I AM GRANDO: Aug 20, 2006

Has anyone asked his opinion on police violence? Perhaps his thoughts on the necessity of plungers to law and order?

# ? Aug 16, 2016 00:32

Geostomp: Oct 22, 2008; Unite: MASH!!
~They've got the bad guys on the run!~

El Gallinero Gros posted:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/15/polit...linkId=27695574

WELP

The sheer dedication to revise history, even the event that you have been riding for fifteen years, is a new low, even for him.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 00:37

Phone: Jul 30, 2005; 親子丼をほしい。

Geostomp posted:

The sheer dedication to revise history, even the event that you have been riding for fifteen years, is a new low, even for him.

I remember when Barrack Obama was president in 2001 and the towers fell.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 00:40

Phone: Jul 30, 2005; 親子丼をほしい。

Oh, found a news graphic that rivals some of Fox News' best:

# ? Aug 16, 2016 00:51

TyroneGoldstein: Mar 30, 2005

Phoenixan posted:

I don't know how anyone looks back on 2000s music without bringing up Korn or NIN's With Teeth or Year Zero.

Year Zero was masterwork and the ARG they did for that game was absolutely terrifying because of how easily it all could happen...

# ? Aug 16, 2016 00:57

Crowsbeak: Oct 9, 2012; by Azathoth; Lipstick Apathy

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Solid choices

https://twitter.com/mattwalshblog/status/765316963337965568

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/765286206527508480

The only really bad one is Hamlet but then Shapiro has always had poo poo choices.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 00:59

Samuel Clemens: Oct 4, 2013; I think we should call the Avengers.

My Face When posted:

Alt-right and 4-chan trolls, as far as I can tell. He's been doing it since 2011 I seem to recall.

It's almost impressive that he managed to keep this up for five years despite most of his listeners having no respect for him. I guess an ironic audience is still better than no audience.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/765286206527508480

Ben Shapiro liking The Lives of Others is the strangest thing. Maybe he strongly identified with the main character.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 01:01

BigglesSWE: Dec 2, 2014; How 'bout them hawks news huh!

Some great movies on those lists tbh. There Will Be Blood is a goddamn masterpiece. Though it isn't too pleasant towards priesthood so I do wonder how it holds up amongst the right wingers.

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7c Nickel: Apr 27, 2008

Phone posted:

Oh, found a news graphic that rivals some of Fox News' best:

This hurts my brains. I can't even figure out how they screwed up to get to that point. At least it adds up to 100.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 01:14

Phone: Jul 30, 2005; 親子丼をほしい。

7c Nickel posted:

This hurts my brains. I can't even figure out how they screwed up to get to that point. At least it adds up to 100.

flipped the data point labels and the axis label (alternatively, flipped the bar graph)

# ? Aug 16, 2016 01:19

Armani: Jun 22, 2008; Now it's been 17 summers since I've seen my mother

But every night I see her smile inside my dreams

PhazonLink posted:

I feel like that's an asset/license to hit harder. He should use it.

Also I'm a spiteful bastard that's glad the Nightly Show is gone because the youngest correspondent on it is a pos stoner that's a prime example of why the youth vote is a joke.

My boyfriend hates Ricky Velez so much that it made me like him.

I am super sad Larry is gone. Whitey can't even, I guess

# ? Aug 16, 2016 01:27

Crunch Buttsteak: Feb 26, 2007; You think reality is a circle of salt around my brain keeping witches out?

BigglesSWE posted:

Some great movies on those lists tbh. There Will Be Blood is a goddamn masterpiece. Though it isn't too pleasant towards priesthood so I do wonder how it holds up amongst the right wingers.

I've met a bunch of conservatives that love movies that are critical of individual religious people - they just get uncomfortable when that criticism is aimed towards Christianity in general. Like in There Will Be Blood, they're perfectly content with the priest being portrayed as a greedy rear end in a top hat megalomaniac, because that's just one guy who doesn't represent True Christianity.

Like, they kinda "focus" their critical view down in a way, so characters like that don't threaten their pre-existing worldview. This can get kind of ridiculous - my friend completely missed that Reverend Tuttle from True Detective was totally a stand-in for Franklin Graham Religious Right-types. Because of COURSE a politically-corrupting rich televangelist is a bad guy, but that doesn't happen in TRUE Christianity!

It's only when movies wave giant "CHRISTIANITY IS BAD" flags that this kind of person gets upset. But the last movie I remember doing that was The Invention Of Lying, which should not be watched by anyone.

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beatlegs: Mar 11, 2001

Batman trilogy in your top ten? That's pretty pathetic.

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El Gallinero Gros: Mar 17, 2010

beatlegs posted:

Batman trilogy in your top ten? That's pretty pathetic.

It's also unsurprising considering the whole thing is basically one big allegory for justifying the Iraq war, extradition of international criminals, and being anti-Occupy movement.

Isn't Children of Men ultra-leftist, though? I've not seen it but I remember a brouhaha about how people were interpreting it.

El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Aug 16, 2016

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I AM GRANDO: Aug 20, 2006

I can't help but notice how heavily represented post-2000 movies are on those lists. Goddamn philistines.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 01:51

Rick_Hunter: Jan 5, 2004; My guys are still fighting the hard fight!
(weapons, shields and drones are still online!)

El Gallinero Gros posted:

It's also unsurprising considering the whole thing is basically one big allegory for justifying the Iraq war, extradition of international criminals, and being anti-Occupy movement.

Isn't Children of Men ultra-leftist, though? I've not seen it but I remember a brouhaha about how people were interpreting it.

Children of Men is also pretty anti-abortion in that humans need to procreate to save themselves from extinction at that point.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 02:00

SoSimpleABeginning: Mar 6, 2010; From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.; The Great Twist

El Gallinero Gros posted:

Isn't Children of Men ultra-leftist, though? I've not seen it but I remember a brouhaha about how people were interpreting it.

He probably ignores the anti-authoritarian, anti-xenophobic aspects and views it as a "Pro-Life" movie, with all of the reverence for the pregnant Virgin Mary-like woman.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 02:01

Samuel Clemens: Oct 4, 2013; I think we should call the Avengers.

Jack Gladney posted:

I can't help but notice how heavily represented post-2000 movies are on those lists. Goddamn philistines.

Eh, Shapiro's list spans five decades, which is a lot more diversified than I would have ever given him credit for.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 02:01

FuzzySkinner: May 23, 2012

Dick Trauma posted:

You guys are making me feel so much better about being old.

My music library has categories for decades and it's comical how my eighties list balloons well past the seventies, but the nineties is like it fell off a cliff, and it keeps dropping through the 2000s. 2010s are on pace to finally see a small uptick over the prior decade.

I expect the teen years are the prime music consumption range for most people.

I enjoy EDM quite a bit, along with a lot of indie/synth pop acts. These are things that were bubbling around during the Bush years but never got airplay in the states or even attention.

My music snob little brother listened to them, and then introduced them to me. But I feel I can relate to your list. Pop music from the 60s until the 90s fascinates me. Anything past that? Just is "meh".

# ? Aug 16, 2016 02:03

Wiccan Wasteland: Oct 15, 2012

My Face When posted:

If anyone is interested the craziness that is True Capitalist Radio, some bronies have a live stream of the broadcast.

Like to rage at Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, but don't leave your house much? Try True Capitalist Radio!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwLf6zS2NBU

Lol, the only reason to listen to ghost is when he rages and the bits people do during twitter/chatroom shoutout and Radio Graffiti. I wish I could find the videos of him out of character but I dont think he believes any of this stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JvAt8H2vjU

# ? Aug 16, 2016 02:17

AcidRonin: Apr 2, 2012; iM A ROOKiE RiGHT NOW BUT i PROMiSE YOU EVERY SiNGLE FUCKiN BiTCH ASS ARTiST WHO TRiES TO SHADE ME i WiLL VERBALLY DiSMANTLE YOUR ASSHOLE

Crowsbeak posted:

2005 was when exploring this cool new thing called YouTube I discovered Blind Gaurdian. Been a metal head since.

RUSH LIMMMMBAAAUUGGHHH, DELIVERANCE, WHY'VE YOU EVER FORGOTTEN ME

# ? Aug 16, 2016 02:31

Jurgan: May 8, 2007; Just pour it directly into your gaping mouth-hole you decadent slut

Rick_Hunter posted:

Children of Men is also pretty anti-abortion in that humans need to procreate to save themselves from extinction at that point.

That's a pretty big stretch. Abortion never comes up in that movie, and the population dropping is so different from our world that there's no analogy. The main political message I got was "when poo poo goes bad, people blame immigrants and foreigners, and that's a bad thing." That's not a message Republicans would like, especially in the age of Trump.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 02:50

Crowsbeak: Oct 9, 2012; by Azathoth; Lipstick Apathy

AcidRonin posted:

RUSH LIMMMMBAAAUUGGHHH, DELIVERANCE, WHY'VE YOU EVER FORGOTTEN ME

Yeah I'm more into their post Tales of a Twilight Hall albums. First thing that attracted me to them was Nightfall on Middle Earth.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 02:52

apatheticman: May 13, 2003; Wedge Regret

Calvary was a great movie though.

gently caress...

# ? Aug 16, 2016 03:07

Prism: Dec 22, 2007; yospos

Edit: Probably better off in the Forwarded Emails thread so I put it there instead.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 03:40

Lightning Knight: Feb 24, 2012; Pray for Answer

Who is Ben Shapiro? My dad was insisting he had said smart things about race (my dad is hella racist against black people) and I was suspicious.

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# ? May 24, 2024 15:31

ErIog: Jul 11, 2001

Lightning Knight posted:

Who is Ben Shapiro? My dad was insisting he had said smart things about race (my dad is hella racist against black people) and I was suspicious.

Right wing welfare recipient. He's kind of youngish and a standard college Republican type of douche.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ben_Shapiro

edit:
Lol, RationalWiki refers to him as a "a second-rate, humorless Milo Yiannopoulos"

# ? Aug 16, 2016 04:23

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