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Epic High Five posted:He certainly has the air of somebody that would apply to Yeah but I like the way he writes 
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Majorian posted:Also, that's not me having a tantrum. That's me getting defensive because I felt like I was being attacked. it feels like you feel like this often, pretty much any time anyone disagrees with you or argues with you
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Pakled posted:During the early/mid Cold War, there was something of a double standard between the parties with regards to accommodation with the Eastern Bloc. Democrats had to be super hardcore Cold Warriors to avoid being branded as either naive fools or communist sympathizers, while Republicans' anti-Communist values were considered beyond reproach basically no matter what. Hence, "only Nixon could go to China." It's a shame Eisenhower decided to throw in with the Republicans. He was offered political support by Truman twice to run as a Democrat but declined because of philosophical differences with the Democrats at the time. I'm willing to wager that a lot of the reputation the Republicans were able to spin as "the party that stands up to Communism" was because they got Ike to be the face of their party in the '50s.
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Pakled posted:During the early/mid Cold War, there was something of a double standard between the parties with regards to accommodation with the Eastern Bloc. Democrats had to be super hardcore Cold Warriors to avoid being branded as either naive fools or communist sympathizers, while Republicans' anti-Communist values were considered beyond reproach basically no matter what. You have no idea.
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Night10194 posted:I've been saying this for weeks. Blame? They are jerking off hardcore right now at this display of power. They've hit piece clintons 6-8 point lead down to 2-3 in the last month against a man who makes 10 campaign ending gaffes a week. The lesson is clear, media controls elections, even and especially the Laurers of the world. Good thing the electoral college is so heavily in HRCs favor.
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nachos posted:Blame? They are jerking off hardcore right now at this display of power. They've hit piece clintons 6-8 point lead down to 2-3 in the last month against a man who makes 10 campaign ending gaffes a week. The lesson is clear, media controls elections, even and especially the Laurers of the world. Good thing the electoral college is so heavily in HRCs favor.
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ErIog posted:They gave a poo poo about communism and socialism. The soviet union fell in 1991 and Putin is president rather than General Secretary of the Communist Party. He's also corrupt as gently caress and likes to wave his dick around. These are things that have traditionally been popular with the American right wing dating back like a century. To be fair, there is a little more to that beyond mere aesthetics, although not much. The Soviet system was nominally based on a maximalist ideology, one that was supposed to upend the existing order of all other countries and start a worldwide revolution. It was, at its very core, a revisionist state. Putin's government, on the other hand, is pretty non-ideological (or, if you like, ideologically inconsistent), beyond "yay Russian chauvinism!" Geopolitically, it's more concerned with shoring up Russia's diminishing status as a Great Power. It's a little revisionist, but not much. So it's harder for Americans to view it as a threat or an evil empire.
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Lightning Knight posted:Hence, "only Nixon could go to China." Eisenhower was the last somewhat decent Republican president, and shitheels like Rich Lowry over at National Review basically have a job as "the adult Republicans in the room" because of caché created for them by Eisenhower.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:it feels like you feel like this often, pretty much any time anyone disagrees with you or argues with you Well, I'm sorry about that. e: I often feel as though my criticisms of Clinton are misattributed to me being a Bernie Bro, which I'm not. I like Hillary Clinton overall. I think she's going to be a decent president. I think she, like every other candidate, has made mistakes with her campaign, and I hope she fixes them so that she maximizes her returns in November. I want her to have as big of a Democratic majority in Congress as possible, so she can get good poo poo done. I don't think that the zoux strategy of coasting into November and not being critical of her positions that are less-than-perfect will lead to a maximum turnout for her. If there's any lesson I've learned from the Obama presidency, it's that progressives need to keep putting pressure on presidents, even ones they like, if they want to get tangible policy results. Majorian fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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nachos posted:Blame? They are jerking off hardcore right now at this display of power. They've hit piece clintons 6-8 point lead down to 2-3 in the last month against a man who makes 10 campaign ending gaffes a week. The lesson is clear, media controls elections, even and especially the Laurers of the world. Good thing the electoral college is so heavily in HRCs favor. They're playing with something much more dangerous than they understand, though. Trump has been pretty clear he intends to do some pretty bad poo poo to them if he wins.
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ErIog posted:Eisenhower was the last somewhat decent Republican president, and shitheels like Rich Lowry over at National Review basically have a job as "the adult Republicans in the room" because of caché created for them by Eisenhower. It really goes to how lovely the character of the GOP has consistently been in modern history when the last halfway decent president they've had championed mass deportations and coups of democratically elected governments.
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Like they should probably take note of the fact that Trump's BFF Putin is, you know, a guy who has Russian journalists shot. Regularly. And ask if they really want to risk that poo poo coming here.
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stone cold posted:It really goes to how lovely the character of the GOP has consistently been in modern history when the last halfway decent president they've had championed mass deportations and coups of democratically elected governments. He was also a douche-y racist!  That said he was a douche-y racist who stood up for black people with the US Military in the face of angry Southerner assholes and who we owe the interstate highway system existing to. I don't think Eisenhower is an incredible president, but by virtue of most presidents completely sucking he fairly easily makes the top ten, at least for the foreseeable future.
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stone cold posted:It really goes to how lovely the character of the GOP has consistently been in modern history when the last halfway decent president they've had championed mass deportations and coups of democratically elected governments. Yeah, well, to be fair, FDR (who is probably my favorite president, for the record) wasn't exactly perfect in either of these regards either. Lightning Knight posted:He was also a douche-y racist! Yeah, it's important to judge world leaders by their times and contexts. Henry V? Monster by today's standards. By 15th century standards? Monstrously awesome.
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Night10194 posted:They're playing with something much more dangerous than they understand, though. Trump has been pretty clear he intends to do some pretty bad poo poo to them if he wins. Yeah they don't seem to understand that a Trump win in 2016 means they will spend 2020 praising Trump and his upcoming reelection because anyone who reported negatively on him during his first term will at best be sued in to oblivion and at worst jailed/killed for violating the Trump Hurt Feelings Act of 2017.
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Seems some of the trumpbot's angle on this one is about Hillary wearing an earpiece during the forum. What's that all about?
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canepazzo posted:Seems some of the trumpbot's angle on this one is about Hillary wearing an earpiece during the forum. What's that all about? It means Trump was, going by the pattern.
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canepazzo posted:Seems some of the trumpbot's angle on this one is about Hillary wearing an earpiece during the forum. What's that all about?  Told you she was a closet neocon. 
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Sep 8, 2016 07:02
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It's about trying to pin another "NO U" to shift blame for this trash fire to someone other than their
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canepazzo posted:Seems some of the trumpbot's angle on this one is about Hillary wearing an earpiece during the forum. What's that all about? It's probably a microphone. They're scared of giving Hillary a real mic, because she might drop it and walk out after delivering a sick chaos burn on the cheeto fascist. 
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canepazzo posted:Seems some of the trumpbot's angle on this one is about Hillary wearing an earpiece during the forum. What's that all about? Trying to pretend that Hillary would also have let out a string of verbal diarrhea if someone wasn't feeding her coherent policy lines via an earpiece, therefore Trump and Hillary are both morons but at least Trump wallows in his stupidity rather than pretending to be smart and healthy, therefore vote Trump.
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Majorian posted:
Oh my god I had forgotten about this poo poo.
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I think the world has figured out that morning news variety shows are exactly Matt Lauer's punching weight, and no further. Most anchors get promoted out of that slot. Not Lauer. I mean, Bryant Gumbel got all kinds of poo poo for being a huge dick back in the day, but his journalism afaik was never in question.
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ErIog posted:Nah, it's because the right wing has a mad fetish for dictator strong men and always has. Putin is the Rommel, had the assassination of Hitler gone through, that the right has been yearning for.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Putin is the Rommel, had the assassination of Hitler gone through, that the right has been yearning for. I dunno, I somehow doubt Putin could find his way around Africa in a tank. 
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Majorian posted:
What a charmingly straightforward and almost reasonable conspiracy theory that was, in retrospect. No crisis actors, just "what is that lump under his jacket?"
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woke wedding drone posted:What a charmingly straightforward and almost reasonable conspiracy theory that was, in retrospect. No crisis actors, just "what is that lump under his jacket?" And Rove played the part of the Svengali so well. Until we learned, oh wait, he's actually dumb as poo poo.
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woke wedding drone posted:What a charmingly straightforward and almost reasonable conspiracy theory that was, in retrospect. No crisis actors, just "what is that lump under his jacket?" Though it did generate a pretty ridiculous "Hillary's health!"-esque theory that he was wearing a bulky portable external defibrillator to prevent another pretzel-choking incident. Didn't it end up being a bulletproof vest?
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canepazzo posted:Seems some of the trumpbot's angle on this one is about Hillary wearing an earpiece during the forum. What's that all about? What a bizarre conspiracy theory. Not cause of the paranoid delusions that is quite common among conservatives, but rather the unintentional admission that Hillary did better than their hero.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Though it did generate a pretty ridiculous "Hillary's health!"-esque theory that he was wearing a bulky portable external defibrillator to prevent another pretzel-choking incident. Pretty sure it was just his mic pack.
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Majorian posted:And Rove played the part of the Svengali so well. Until we learned, oh wait, he's actually dumb as poo poo. it's funny how back then rove was seen as this electoral mastermind and then fast forward to 2012 and all i can think of is that screencap of a sad karl rove wearing a cowboy hat
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Sorus posted:Is that .jpg artifacting or was broadcast resolution that godawful because my memory doesn't say it was (but every time I look at old video it's hot garbage) Broadcast resolution was about that, depending, yeah. It was the rough equivalent of 640x480, but not formatted neatly like a computer monitor or modern televisions are, and the signal could get further degraded depending on what connector you were using (and given that most televisions were RF until the 80s, whoof) as well as what equipment you were using to capture the screens and video with (and consumer VHS was rather low-quality).
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Instant Sunrise posted:it's funny how back then rove was seen as this electoral mastermind and then fast forward to 2012 and all i can think of is that screencap of a sad karl rove wearing a cowboy hat I've literally never felt more schadenfreude. Fox News put every emotional casino chip on that one roll, and lost spectacularly.
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SpaceDrake posted:Broadcast resolution was about that, depending, yeah. It was the rough equivalent of 640x480, but not formatted neatly like a computer monitor or modern televisions are, and the signal could get further degraded depending on what connector you were using (and given that most televisions were RF until the 80s, whoof) as well as what equipment you were using to capture the screens and video with (and consumer VHS was rather low-quality). 640x480 is very generous. It's closer to 480x360 once you take into account interlacing. It actually doesn't look half bad in motion, but framegrabs will always look like poo poo due to the need to average 2 "frames" worth of fields. On a decent CRT from a Betamax or SVHS source that video probably looks pretty alright, but we don't use those anymore. So yeah, the reason old non-HD video looks like poo poo is because interlaced video (except for 1080i) doesn't really exist anymore, and so all the old news footage and stuff has had to be deinterlaced in the process of putting it up on YouTube. Deinterlacing is a finicky art and results can look great or like total rear end depending on the type of content and the algorithm used. It didn't really look that lovely at the time, and people don't know dick about video so they're not really taking the care to do the capturing properly when putting poo poo up on YouTube. ErIog fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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canepazzo posted:This Politico tweet is something else. "Liberals" ?? ah you see it all makes sense when you take into account the years of evidence showing that Politico is stupid garbage for idiots Tiger Beat on the Potomac
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