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DogonCrook posted:Yeah specifically as a gently caress you the statue in front of the courthouse downtown is just some generic johnny reb type soldier, and was originally facing north until the old courthouse burned down and they had to move the fukken statue, fukken monsters
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Shark Sandwich posted:now i want to read VALIS VALIS is good but really fuckin hard and the plot depends on allusions to weird gnostic concepts and i eventually gave up and read something else
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Guy Goodbody posted:Because love overrides your survival instinct. People will run into a burning building to save someone they love. And the survival instinct is inherently doomed, you can not survive. But the things you love can outlive you. So love allows people to actually make rational decisions by overriding the flawed survival instinct. 
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Agrajag posted:agreed grrm is overrated as a writer and his diction kinda a lotta sucks poo poo. but ill still read whatever books comes out that finally finished off the series. more than his diction, a big problem w/ the series is that he frames the series as about an ensemble cast but ultimately the stories he cares about are jon snow's and daenerys's so a lot more time is spent with them. unfortunately jon and daenerys are boring as hell because they aren't in the seven kingdoms and so their actions never immediately intersect with those of other viewpoint characters, and also they hew the closest to tired fantasy cliches grrm loves the worst parts of his books and wants to skim past the interesting parts Jazerus has issued a correction as of 03:31 on Aug 16, 2017 |
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DogonCrook posted:Yeah specifically as a gently caress you That's what makes them so interesting as historical objects, that people were still so obsessed with this poo poo a century after the war was over
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Sojenus posted:thank goodness this statue of a confederate soldier was made of pure damascus steel huh, not nippon steel? then its fuckin garbage
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Michael Bayleaf posted:are you for destroying all the nazi and holocaust poo poo in museums No but it has to be contextualized or you just end up with people worshiping it
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GobiasIndustries posted:My entire block just lost power, thanks Trump! well get off the internet and spend your time constructively, find a confederate statue to destroy
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CNN is really ripping into Trump. They've gone full POTUS is a Nazi Racist.
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Admiral Ray posted:burritos are pretty good, friend I've had all of life's luxuries because I'm a lucky bastard who's been fortunate enough to be born in a good family and to have met the right people, but I've yet to find a burrito that's more fun to eat alone than to eat with a friend.
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Reality Winner posted:a lot of them are from the 60s as a way of protesting the civil rights movement, yeah. lmao this country is so loving diseased to its core
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Agrajag posted:good think i have the ability to override my other emotions int he name of self preservation. "George can't stand ya!" *chuckles*
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mormonpartyboat posted:angels envy makes a rye and im going to have that for dessert~~~ 
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Vertical Lime posted:https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/897641478004068353 lopl obama still doing his "when tehy go low we go high" bit? yo stfu youre the ereason we got saddled witht rump adn the resurgence of nazis
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Zeroisanumber posted:I've had all of life's luxuries because I'm a lucky bastard who's been fortunate enough to be born in a good family and to have met the right people, but I've yet to find a burrito that's more fun to eat alone than to eat with a friend. alright, u got me there.
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Brogeoisie posted:No but it has to be contextualized or you just end up with people worshiping it k I get you
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Brogeoisie posted:No but it has to be contextualized or you just end up with people worshiping it Great, now can you think of an institution that might be useful for providing cultural context for historical objects?
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triple sulk posted:juggalos........ good? yes well aside from the time they broke tila tequila's brain and made her into a nazi or some poo poo
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Jazerus posted:more than his diction, a big problem w/ the series is that he frames the series as about an ensemble cast but ultimately the stories he cares about are jon snow's and daenaerys's so a lot more time is spent with them. unfortunately jon and daenaerys are boring as hell because they aren't in the seven kingdoms and so their actions never immediately intersect with those of other viewpoint characters, and also they hew the closest to tired fantasy cliches I feel like GRRM is also incredibly lazy with his worldbuilding which would be fine if they weren't all doorstop-sized
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Agrajag posted:huh, not nippon steel? then its fuckin garbage my recollection is that all of the japanese sword stuff is actually trying to deal with the fact of how incredibly garbo their iron is
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Agrajag posted:lopl obama still doing his "when tehy go low we go high" bit? yo stfu youre the ereason we got saddled witht rump adn the resurgence of nazis obama lit the powder keg but this poo poo has been building up since the civil rights movement imo
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Philthy posted:CNN is really ripping into Trump. CNN just parrots whatever everyone already knows so that sounds about right
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Mariana Horchata posted:im waiting 4 the 5min cut of the audacity of hope
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i'm for preserving confederate monuments within a sadistic, trap-filled labyrinth of doom
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Agrajag posted:huh, not nippon steel? then its fuckin garbage this statue of a white supremacist was folded over a thousand times in a trash compactor to create the finest metal in the land
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while it's good to keep artifacts of past times for nerds like me gently caress the statues
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twoday posted:That's what makes them so interesting as historical objects, that people were still so obsessed with this poo poo a century after the war was over They were to keep black people out of parks post segregation. Keeping it is like keeping segregation and just calling it a loving museum.
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Solarin posted:aren't the majority of these statues built and erected in the 80s or at least long after the war was over A lot of them went up in the 1920's after "Birth of a Nation" hit theaters. Others went up in the 50's and 60's when the Civil Rights movement was picking up steam. If you all haven't seen "Birth of a Nation", you should watch it. It is insane how many of our modern racist stereotypes come directly from that film.
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twoday posted:Great, now can you think of an institution that might be useful for providing cultural context for historical objects? are you on drugs? Do you really think museums are all bastions of pure honesty, truth and all that is right? like, have you guys only been to smithsonian museums or some poo poo? most museums are awful and filled with "here's this battle where a bunch of indians were killed" type veneration. It's NOT objectively good to put something in a museum just because it's a museum. Holy christ.
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Agrajag posted:lopl obama still doing his "when tehy go low we go high" bit? yo stfu youre the ereason we got saddled witht rump adn the resurgence of nazis this nazi poo poo was coming no matter what, the thing that set them off this soon was Obama being black and acknowledging institutional racism in the us.
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Doorknob Slobber posted:'things mattering' oh wait, nope quelle surprise
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Philthy posted:CNN is really ripping into Trump. well they're not wrong nyt says aides were shocked not that he said the words but that he'd said them in private and they just never expected him to say them in public he had the notes from the other day in his pocket, that's preparation. this was not spontaneous he said he hadn't talked to bannon in a week (no idea about miller tho) this was the real trump he's a goddamn loving idiot and also happens to be a racist senile grandpa
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the mattering will occur exactly when abandoning donald trump helps republicans get elected and not a moment before.
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Zeroisanumber posted:A lot of them went up in the 1920's after "Birth of a Nation" hit theaters. Others went up in the 50's and 60's when the Civil Rights movement was picking up steam. the scene in congress with fried chicken blew my loving mind when i first saw it. god i hate that film, but it's crazy culturally important for the us. edit: after watching that, peeps need to watch films like Rosewood, though.
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