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Shbobdb: Dec 16, 2010; by Reene

Mr Interweb posted:

was the place you worked at 38 studios by chance

No, but I find this sort of experience is common. While capitalism is good for me, I really want to emphasize that: capitalism is bad, yo.

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# ? May 26, 2024 00:13

fishmech: Jul 16, 2006; by VideoGames; Salad Prong

BigRed0427 posted:

It's more like some bored tech bros wanted to make a YouTube clone and a bunch of Alt-Righters flocked to it, because they don't know what they are doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3snVCRo_bI Heres a video explaining the trouble with Vidme.

Yeah VidMe is just one of several dozen small time video hosting sites that have been around for a while (VidMe in this case being since 2014) and then happened to have alt-right idiots try to move to it when YouTube started to do anything at all to hinder them.

Until recently the main place you'd hear about vidme was people rehosting parts of Youtube videos that got blocked for copyright reasons, since Vidme simply didn't police that as closely.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 03:35

toanoradian: May 31, 2011; The happiest waffligator

Vid.me was also the second alternative to host video reviews after Blip.tv shut down.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 04:49

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

https://twitter.com/dineshdsouza/status/903240409035374593

Ughhhhhhhhhhh....Do conservatives give this much of a gently caress about the Koch Brothers? I'm genuinely curious.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 13:59

GutBomb: Jun 15, 2005; Dude?

If Soros really has been contributing the funds for a shadow left-wing conspiratorial elite political terrorist force for as long and for as much as they say it costs wouldn't he be long broke by now given the failures of the Democratic Party to do... anything?

# ? Sep 1, 2017 14:09

Prism: Dec 22, 2007; yospos

GutBomb posted:

If Soros really has been contributing the funds for a shadow left-wing conspiratorial elite political terrorist force for as long and for as much as they say it costs wouldn't he be long broke by now given the failures of the Democratic Party to do... anything?

You don't understand. He has all the wealth of (((globalism))) behind him.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 14:45

Avirosb: Nov 21, 2016; Everyone makes pisstakes

We should do away with money completely. That'll show them!

# ? Sep 1, 2017 14:51

HackensackBackpack: Aug 20, 2007; Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?

Also, Soros was born in 1930. I very much doubt a pre-teen Jewish boy had any part in Hitler's atrocities against Jews.

But, I guess when it comes to the alternate reality in which convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza lives, George Soros probably started World War 1, let alone 2.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 17:50

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Leofish posted:

Also, Soros was born in 1930. I very much doubt a pre-teen Jewish boy had any part in Hitler's atrocities against Jews.

But, I guess when it comes to the alternate reality in which convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza lives, George Soros probably started World War 1, let alone 2.

George Soros is the eternal Jewish elemental

# ? Sep 1, 2017 17:53

Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Leofish posted:

Also, Soros was born in 1930. I very much doubt a pre-teen Jewish boy had any part in Hitler's atrocities against Jews.

But, I guess when it comes to the alternate reality in which convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza lives, George Soros probably started World War 1, let alone 2.

He helped his Hungarian godfather? inventory and appraise confiscated Jewish properties at the age of fourteen.

:ohdear:

# ? Sep 1, 2017 18:11

BiggerBoat: Sep 26, 2007; Don't you tell me my business again.

BigRed0427 posted:

https://twitter.com/dineshdsouza/status/903240409035374593

Ughhhhhhhhhhh....Do conservatives give this much of a gently caress about the Koch Brothers? I'm genuinely curious.

Ah, yes. A convicted felon wants to investigate an imaginary, overblown, boogeyman, supposed left wing puppet master for made up "crimes" committed 70 years ago.

WTH is it with these motherfuckers and George Soros? I've yet to receive one single check and I'm reasonably active. My God.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 18:35

HackensackBackpack: Aug 20, 2007; Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?

BiggerBoat posted:

Ah, yes. A convicted felon wants to investigate an imaginary, overblown, boogeyman, supposed left wing puppet master for made up "crimes" committed 70 years ago.

WTH is it with these motherfuckers and George Soros? I've yet to receive one single check and I'm reasonably active. My God.

Why would he pay you when you're giving it away for free?

Have you applied at your nearest left-wing conspiracy recruitment centre?

# ? Sep 1, 2017 18:38

boner confessor: Apr 25, 2013; by R. Guyovich

BiggerBoat posted:

WTH is it with these motherfuckers and George Soros? I've yet to receive one single check and I'm reasonably active. My God.

it is their instinctual nature to whine about rich jews controlling the media but they've been told not to do that for decades so they have to find sneakier ways to do it

# ? Sep 1, 2017 18:39

deoju: Jul 11, 2004; All the pieces matter.; Nap Ghost

BigRed0427 posted:

https://twitter.com/dineshdsouza/status/903240409035374593

Ughhhhhhhhhhh....Do conservatives give this much of a gently caress about the Koch Brothers? I'm genuinely curious.

I know convincted felon D'Souza is full of poo poo, but wouldn't it be the ICC that would put someone on trial and not the State of Israel? I'm legit curious about jurisdiction in a case like this.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 18:47

BiggerBoat: Sep 26, 2007; Don't you tell me my business again.

Leofish posted:

Why would he pay you when you're giving it away for free?

Have you applied at your nearest left-wing conspiracy recruitment centre?

I have and they sent me a form but I couldn't decipher the secret acrostic NWO code it was written in. It looked like a Zodiac letter and I'm not that smart.

Seriously though, my GOD these people project. Do they even know who Richard Mellon Scaife was? The loving constant projection and the "accuse your enemy of your own crimes" thing they do and succeed at is tiring.

...

Also, I mentioned this earlier in the thread but check out this hypocrisy from Rush:

Big Fat Idiot posted:

...Limbaugh said he believes he's been made an example by a players' union seeking leverage in talks over a new collective bargaining agreement. What happened to him was an illustration of "Obama's America on full display," the commentator said.

According to transcripts posted on his Web site, in 2007 Limbaugh said: "The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."

Limbaugh blamed Smith, executive director of the NFLPA and an "Obama-ite," along with Sharpton and Jackson, whom he referred to as "race hustlers," for Checketts' decision to drop him. He said his sacking was an example of the political clout wielded by President Barack Obama's administration.

"What is happening to the National Football League, what is about to happen to it, has already happened to Wall Street, has already happened to the automobile business," Limbaugh said.

Limbaugh said he was victimized in the media by "misreporting, lying, repeating the lies while also saying 'Limbaugh denies,' repeating the made-up quotes, the blind hatred."

"Believe me, the hatred that exists in this is found in the sportswriter community, it's found in the news business, it's found in the race hustler business," Limbaugh said.

Limbaugh said the real reason he's out is the NFLPA's attempt to influence negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement. "It's designed to intimidate the owners, frighten the owners, and say, 'We're running this league now, gang, not you,' "

Here's what he had to say about Colin Kaepernick a few days ago

Big Fat Idiot posted:

The NFL has not hired Colin Kaepernick....

They think he�s being blackballed because of his politics. He may be � and if he is, the people blackballing him have every right to do so. What do you think the First Amendment�s free speech clause grants you? The right to say what you want politically? You�re right. It does. Now, the First Amendment says that government cannot stop you from saying what you want. It doesn�t say the San Francisco 49ers can�t. If you work someplace, your First Amendment rights do fall under the policies of your owner or of your boss or of your workplace.

This is not a fine point. But larger point is this: The media is trying to portray Kaepernick as a hero for courageously and with great guts criticizing his own country and criticizing the bias and the prejudice and the murderous police. It takes guts and courage. Now, there�s every entitlement to do it. Kaepernick, anybody else has every right to say what they want to say about that. But, two things are incumbent here. No one has the right to be heard � and this I find� When I say this to people who think they understand the First Amendment, that shocks them.

�Cause they�ve never thought of it that way. Yeah, you can say what you want, but nobody has to listen to you. The second thing is you have the right to say what you want, you have the right to believe what you want, but you do not have the right to not suffer any consequences from it. So if you are going to make a case as a player in the NFL that your country is rotten, that your country mistreats people of color � if you�re gonna say what Kaepernick said � then you�ve got to be willing to accept the consequences of what you said!

How many people do you think believe that Kaepernick should be applauded for courage and not have to suffer consequences for what he said? How does that work? Everybody� You know, there�s a price. There are consequences. There�s gonna a reaction. Not everybody�s gonna agree with everything that anybody else says. Kaepernick is not a victim. But they�re trying to portray him as a victim. �He went out and he said courageous things; he had the courage to criticize his own country,� and for that he should be made a hero? That�s not how it works.

Nobody gets to� You don�t get to go out and say provocative things and then be immune from criticism or consequences. Everybody is. And so that factors into what you�re gonna do. If you�re gonna go out and you�re gonna say things that are gonna make it harder for the people who might hire you to do business, it makes perfect sense they wouldn�t hire you. Now you add to that that these people may believe you�re not any good anymore. But if Kaepernick isn�t being hired because of what he said, that�s perfectly normal.

Anybody who�s been in the free speech business understands this the first time they ever say something controversial. Why do you think most people shut up? Why do you think most people �don�t want to go there�? They don�t want the reaction. They don�t want the controversy. They don�t want the criticism. So they don�t say anything. They whimper around. They may react when somebody else does, but most people will stand or sit mute � and the reason is because they see what happens.

Now, some of the responses, some of the circumstances are not fair, admittedly. But in a free and open society with the First Amendment guaranteeing political speech, there are consequences, and there are ramifications. The point is, the First Amendment does not grant anybody immunity from the consequences of what they say or from the reactions from people to what they say � and Kaepernick is being held up as somebody who should be immune. �He should not be held accountable for what he said because we happen to agree with what he said,� the media says. That�s not how it works.

If you�re a football coach and you believe your team needs discipline and focus if they�re to have a chance, the last thing you want is a circus, for whatever reason. Talk to Tim Tebow! Tim is the exact opposite of Kaepernick. He loves America, is a born-again proselytizing Christian. Why do you think he�s not in the league? A lot of people think, �Because there�s anti-Christian bias, Mr. Limbaugh!� There may be, but there are also people that don�t want to deal with the circus � and, if they don�t, that�s a consequence.

You know, it may seem unfair, because you make value judgments on what someone says.
Like you may value what Tebow is and what he says, and you might not think so much of Kaepernick and what he says or does. But in both instances, there are consequences for behavior and for reactions. You know, if you want to be on radio or TV? That�s what Kaepernick ought to do. I think what he ought to do, Kaepernick ought to get a show on YouTube and go to town. He can say anything he wants; Google would celebrate it. (Google owns YouTube.) But Jim Brown said it. Jim Brown said (summarized), �Make up your mind what you want to do: You want to play football or you want to be an activist?�

It�s that simple.

gently caress, I could have bolded the entire thing really.

Where's my intern, Kickindagroin? He used to do this stuff for me.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 19:26

BiggerBoat: Sep 26, 2007; Don't you tell me my business again.

^^^My point there is:^^^

When it happens to Rush Limbaugh, it a leftist Obama, Sharpton, union driven agenda.

When it happen to Kaepernick it's the free market and freedom of speech having consequences.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 19:29

PhazonLink: Jul 17, 2010

I wonder if the timeline where Rush got his NFL team made him a less outspoken poo poo.

Like people have also joked that Bush running whatever SPORTS thing would have made him happier, done less damage to the country, and might have actually made the SPORTS less corrupt w/r/t the the PED drugs.

PhazonLink fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Sep 1, 2017

# ? Sep 1, 2017 19:46

BiggerBoat: Sep 26, 2007; Don't you tell me my business again.

PhazonLink posted:

I wonder if the timeline where Rush got his NFL team made him a less outspoken poo poo.

No. It would have made him even worse.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 19:51

Keeshhound: Jan 14, 2010; Mad Duck Swagger

deoju posted:

I know convincted felon D'Souza is full of poo poo, but wouldn't it be the ICC that would put someone on trial and not the State of Israel? I'm legit curious about jurisdiction in a case like this.

The State of Israel does not try suspected former Nazis.

They assasinate them.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 19:54

sweart gliwere: Jul 5, 2005; _{better to die an evil wizard,

than to live as a grand one.}; Pillbug

BiggerBoat posted:

Ah, yes. A convicted felon wants to investigate an imaginary, overblown, boogeyman, supposed left wing puppet master for made up "crimes" committed 70 years ago.

WTH is it with these motherfuckers and George Soros? I've yet to receive one single check and I'm reasonably active. My God.

When can we expect Dinesh to go baying for the last Pope's scalp? Also now Dinesh apparently supports antifa for this chapter of history?

Instead of Soros nebulously being a child who wasn't antifa during fascist reign, the old Pope was a legit Hitler youth (technically) right?

# ? Sep 1, 2017 19:55

DACK FAYDEN: Feb 25, 2013; Bear Witness

PhazonLink posted:

I wonder if the timeline where Rush got his NFL team made him a less outspoken poo poo.

Like people have also joked that Bush running whatever SPORTS thing would have made him happier, done less damage to the country, and might have actually made the SPORTS less corrupt w/r/t the the PED drugs.

I feel like it was baseball commissioner I heard this said about, but I've forgotten.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 20:30

Nucleic Acids: Apr 10, 2007

BigRed0427 posted:

https://twitter.com/dineshdsouza/status/903240409035374593

Ughhhhhhhhhhh....Do conservatives give this much of a gently caress about the Koch Brothers? I'm genuinely curious.

Is he heading towards some kind of breakdown? Because it seems like he's been getting crazier and crazier for the past couple of weeks.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 20:42

boner confessor: Apr 25, 2013; by R. Guyovich

Nucleic Acids posted:

Is he heading towards some kind of breakdown? Because it seems like he's been getting crazier and crazier for the past couple of weeks.

i dont know how you could say that dinesh dsouza is getting crazier. he's been flopping around the basement of sanity for years now. he may be more desperate to pay his rent or something

# ? Sep 1, 2017 20:45

Avirosb: Nov 21, 2016; Everyone makes pisstakes

Man, that Soros fella looks like he knows his poo poo. What a boss.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 20:48

BiggerBoat: Sep 26, 2007; Don't you tell me my business again.

Avirosb posted:

Man, that Soros fella looks like he knows his poo poo. What a boss.

Soros/Franken: 2020

the right will lose their poo poo

# ? Sep 1, 2017 21:16

Dr.Tree: May 7, 2007; Sure there are goons in local government. But there are goons in national government too

PhazonLink posted:

I wonder if the timeline where Rush got his NFL team made him a less outspoken poo poo.

Like people have also joked that Bush running whatever SPORTS thing would have made him happier, done less damage to the country, and might have actually made the SPORTS less corrupt w/r/t the the PED drugs.

Dear lord if you listen to him go on about how football (and by extension AMERICA) has been ruined.... not only would he be more insufferable I don't doubt that he would have gotten someone maimed or killed.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 21:49

BiggerBoat: Sep 26, 2007; Don't you tell me my business again.

Dr.Tree posted:

Dear lord if you listen to him go on about how football (and by extension AMERICA) has been ruined.... not only would he be more insufferable I don't doubt that he would have gotten someone maimed or killed.

Definitely. He uses the NFL as a microcosm of everything that's wrong with the world, from "these pussies are soft" to "what a bunch of thugs" while at the same time lauding it for being full of rich successful people.

Does he doubt CTE is a real thing or is that just the cost of becoming a millionaire? You know. Minorities getting their brains mashed into hamburger.

i just thought it was funny that when he was getting bounced, he was a victim of some weird left wing socialism poo poo but with Kaepernick it's some sort of free market solution at work.

BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Sep 1, 2017

# ? Sep 1, 2017 23:30

BigRed0427: Mar 23, 2007; There's no one I'd rather be than me.

QUestion: is The Men's Rights movement still a thing or have they all moved on to full blown Neo nazism?

# ? Sep 1, 2017 23:40

Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

BigRed0427 posted:

QUestion: is The Men's Rights movement still a thing or have they all moved on to full blown Neo nazism?

por que no los dos

# ? Sep 1, 2017 23:42

Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Keeshhound posted:

The State of Israel does not try suspected former Nazis.

They assasinate them.

They kidnapped and hanged at least one.

# ? Sep 1, 2017 23:46

McGlockenshire: Dec 16, 2005; GOLLOCKS!

BigRed0427 posted:

QUestion: is The Men's Rights movement still a thing or have they all moved on to full blown Neo nazism?

They're still a separate thing but the lines continue to blur

# ? Sep 2, 2017 00:12

smoke sumthin bitch: Dec 14, 2009; by FactsAreUseless

Soros is bare minimum a complete psychopath. I dont think him working for the nazis as a child in order to survive was necessary immoral but it seems that he has built for himself a very wicked set of values in order to cope with what he had to do. He openly admits that he doesnt give a gently caress about the social consequences or the human suffering caused by his pursuit of obscene wealth. Just watch the 60 minutes interview he did in 1998 if you want to get a grasp of how repugnant this man is.

interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXqty2rkUDY

e: peep hitlery @ 4:40 prancing around with soros, plotting on the rape of haiti

smoke sumthin bitch fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Sep 2, 2017

# ? Sep 2, 2017 02:39

shrike82: Jun 11, 2005

Well given how incompetent the Dem establishment is, it wouldn't be surprising if Soros actually has donated tons of money to centrists but have it wasted on dumb useless poo poo like Ossoff or #resistance buttons.

# ? Sep 2, 2017 02:42

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

Soros is bare minimum a complete psychopath. I dont think him working for the nazis as a child in order to survive was necessary immoral but it seems that he has built for himself a very wicked set of values in order to cope with what he had to do. He openly admits that he doesnt give a gently caress about the social consequences or the human suffering caused by his pursuit of obscene wealth. Just watch the 60 minutes interview he did in 1998 if you want to get a grasp of how repugnant this man is.

interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXqty2rkUDY

And this differentiates him from every single rich person because

# ? Sep 2, 2017 02:43

Azuth0667: Sep 20, 2011; By the word of Zoroaster, no business decision is poor when it involves Ahura Mazda.

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

Soros is bare minimum a complete psychopath. I dont think him working for the nazis as a child in order to survive was necessary immoral but it seems that he has built for himself a very wicked set of values in order to cope with what he had to do. He openly admits that he doesnt give a gently caress about the social consequences or the human suffering caused by his pursuit of obscene wealth. Just watch the 60 minutes interview he did in 1998 if you want to get a grasp of how repugnant this man is.

interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXqty2rkUDY

e: peep hitlery @ 4:40 prancing around with soros, plotting on the rape of haiti

Can you say this again but, instead of how you said it, say it coherently?

# ? Sep 2, 2017 02:55

smoke sumthin bitch: Dec 14, 2009; by FactsAreUseless

Lemniscate Blue posted:

And this differentiates him from every single rich person because

soros is from the john d rockefeller school of hiding his evil deeds under a cloak of fake philanthropy. I think he does some good like fighting the war on drugs but ultimately the man wields a disproportionate amount of power and hes pioneered and mastered the NGO game. The way he tries impose his political views on the world are completely undemocratic.

# ? Sep 2, 2017 03:06

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

soros is from the john d rockefeller school of hiding his evil deeds under a cloak of fake philanthropy. I think he does some good like fighting the war on drugs but ultimately the man wields a disproportionate amount of power and hes pioneered and mastered the NGO game. The way he tries impose his political views on the world are completely undemocratic.

Whoever gave you that Alex Jones avatar was some sort of prescient internet wizard because you are crazy as a shithouse rat and roughly as welcome company.

# ? Sep 2, 2017 04:17

PJOmega: May 5, 2009

Please stop quoting the idiot.

# ? Sep 2, 2017 06:34

Mantis42: Jul 26, 2010

Rich capitalists are sociopathic scum and that goes for Soros too, even if he doesn't funnel money to the absolute worst people like the Kochs do.

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

Mantis42 posted:

Rich capitalists are sociopathic scum and that goes for Soros too, even if he doesn't funnel money to the absolute worst people like the Kochs do.

And he made his money through currency speculation, which is just about the Platonic Ideal of "getting rich manipulating society while creating nothing to improve it." As far as I can tell he's just a bog standard rich dipshit who doesn't deserve the attention and fear he gets. I'm glad he's using some of his money for good causes, and if you oppose those causes then it makes sense to oppose him personally, but keep things in perspective.

A similar example is Warren Buffett. He's become something of a liberal darling because he supports better tax policy, but he makes a lot of money off of shady real estate dealings. He has a lot of sub-par housing that he using to take advantage of poor people.

Jurgan fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Sep 2, 2017

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