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mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
A very Brexit finish

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RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

mlmp08 posted:

A very Brexit finish

what, the got confused and scored the winning goal for the opposing team?

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

RFC2324 posted:

what, the got confused and scored the winning goal for the opposing team?

More like the Slavs went behind their backs.

Nuclear War
Nov 7, 2012

You're a pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty girl
Football's coming hom--- going on holiday to the Mediterranean

Jarmak
Jan 24, 2005

Was a pretty excellent game

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Jarmak posted:

Was a pretty excellent game

"Never take a Croat to extra time" has been the lesson of this WC.

Crakkerjakk
Mar 14, 2016


Bolow posted:

https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1017095756354899970

How does someone so loving stupid ever get that much power

The power makes you dumb. People are creatures of habit. As you accrue power, you have to worry about other people's opinions less, have more people to cover for you if you gently caress up, and generally face less consequences for bad behavior. So if most of the time you don't have to worry about consequences, you mostly don't. People in power only get caught up if their fuckup is big enough, obvious enough, or catches the fancy of news/social media, and then they look like freaks because the lack of consequences has conditioned them to generally behave, well, like a freak.

You can actively fight against this, but people aren't good at it and many of the powerfull just assume they got that way because they're awesome and they don't need to do anything to keep them thinking like a normal human being.

The Iron Rose
May 12, 2012

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

Milo and POTUS posted:

I can't identify you by your av anymore but this might be the one of the first things I actually kinda agree with you on. States can't be trusted to help, absolutely. Not with who we have in charge

Yeah I've been doing some uh, reassessments, after the family separation poo poo.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Alright, this is kind of cheating, but I thought the headline "Man with no arms stabs another man" was functionally impossible, but Florida found a way to pull it off.

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/1017154908527579136?s=19

https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-man-with-no-arms-charged-with-stabbing-chicago-tourist/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Relentlessboredomm
Oct 15, 2006

It's Sic Semper Tyrannis. You said, "Ever faithful terrible lizard."

The Iron Rose posted:

Yeah I've been doing some uh, reassessments, after the family separation poo poo.

It's quite the eye opener.


Welcome aboard brother.

crazyivan45
Apr 30, 2008

Laughing Zealot posted:

Aren't we still due for a film on the Chilean miners?

dear lord that was almost a decade ago

Came out a few years back, called 33 or something like that. It was pretty decent

Vasudus
May 30, 2003
It's been amusing watching my mom slowly realize that most of her political beliefs are founded on bullshit because my dad isn't around to constantly have fox news on.

The democrats want to abolish ICE! That means open borders!

No mom, abolishing ICE doesn't mean open borders. No country has open borders.

Then who will watch the borders?

Customs and Border Protection. They're the people that watch the borders.

Typical democrat waste to create another agency!

No mom, CBP already exists and has existed for a long time.

Oh.

Brute Squad
Dec 20, 2006

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race

facialimpediment posted:

Alright, this is kind of cheating, but I thought the headline "Man with no arms stabs another man" was functionally impossible, but Florida found a way to pull it off.

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/1017154908527579136?s=19

https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-man-with-no-arms-charged-with-stabbing-chicago-tourist/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Florida Man and the rest of the Florida family are my favorite superhero group.

Solaris 2.0
May 14, 2008

Vasudus posted:



Typical democrat waste to create another agency!





I love this talking point because the last time we expanded government and created a bunch of new agencies was under W lol.

Anyway your mom sounds like a lot of my family. Can’t trust those tax and spend democrats! Giving away all those free welfare programs to blacks! (Note my family uses Medicare and Medicaid)

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1017176170352316423

Trump must have some sort of sixth sense for this sort of thing, or maybe there's some sort of secret handshake.

Vasudus
May 30, 2003
My mom is a lot more moderate than she realized, my dad was just insanely fox news republican and it washed over her own political beliefs over the years. So it's kind of like deprogramming over time. She voted for Obama in 2008 but never told my dad because he would've flipped a pancake.

Time Crisis Actor
Apr 28, 2002

by Hand Knit
My mom has always been kind of a centrist democrat, but since 2016 she has become a Facebook #resistance warrior and it's a tiny bit annoying. My dad went from being an NRA life member to a Bernie socialist. It kinda rules. My parents are good(?)

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

holy poo poo


how stupid is manaforte

Solaris 2.0
May 14, 2008


Vasudus posted:

My mom is a lot more moderate than she realized, my dad was just insanely fox news republican and it washed over her own political beliefs over the years. So it's kind of like deprogramming over time. She voted for Obama in 2008 but never told my dad because he would've flipped a pancake.

Oh man this has been opposite for me. My dad was hard core democrat / big on social justice issues and my mom was very centrist. After my dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s my mom fell in with a fundamentalists church to help cope and, while she isn’t MAGA, she has told me she thinks Democrats and leftists go against God. :(

*edit*
Alzheimer’s loving sucks. I’ve seen family waste away from cancer but keep their dignity but there is none of that when your brain literally turns into mosh. :(

Solaris 2.0 fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Jul 12, 2018

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

Deathy McDeath posted:

My mom has always been kind of a centrist democrat, but since 2016 she has become a Facebook #resistance warrior and it's a tiny bit annoying. My dad went from being an NRA life member to a Bernie socialist. It kinda rules. My parents are good(?)

All boomers are bad.

Even your mom and dad.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

My mom and dad have always kinda been center right[The "Fiscally conservative, socially liberal crew"], but she contracted really bad agoraphobia/xenophobia over the last couple of years due to personal poo poo and the 24 hr news cycle kinda broke her brain and sent her right enough to be kinda racist. When a Black dude became president and started "ruling by executive order" and my dad became a FREEMAN ON THE LAND, TAXATION IS THEFT, A GOOD GOVERNMENT IS A GOVERNMENT THAT CANT DO ANYTHING, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS TAKING JOBS AWAY FROM COMPETENT PEOPLE DOING GOOD WORK AND GIVING IT TO LAZY(read: minorities/women) PEOPLE!!

Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jul 12, 2018

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

facialimpediment posted:

Alright, this is kind of cheating, but I thought the headline "Man with no arms stabs another man" was functionally impossible, but Florida found a way to pull it off.

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/1017154908527579136?s=19

https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-man-with-no-arms-charged-with-stabbing-chicago-tourist/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

that's junior league florida amputee crime action.

http://www.ocala.com/news/20070802/armless-driver-says-hes-at-the-end-of-the-road

Time Crisis Actor
Apr 28, 2002

by Hand Knit

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

All boomers are bad.

Even your mom and dad.

True. Though my dad was born before the war (old as hell) I suppose he's an honorary boomer.

Kuroyama
Sep 15, 2012
no fucking Anime in GiP
My parents are in that spot where it gets fuzzy if they're Baby Boomers or Gen X, but we're all pretty liberal. I think my parents are kinda centrist socially. The worst thing I have against my dad is that he's a fan of Bill Maher, and my brother is a little too anti-GMO.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Deathy McDeath posted:

My mom has always been kind of a centrist democrat, but since 2016 she has become a Facebook #resistance warrior and it's a tiny bit annoying. My dad went from being an NRA life member to a Bernie socialist. It kinda rules. My parents are good(?)

get them to start mainlining Chapo Trap House

e:

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Solaris 2.0 posted:

Oh man this has been opposite for me. My dad was hard core democrat / big on social justice issues and my mom was very centrist. After my dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s my mom fell in with a fundamentalists church to help cope and, while she isn’t MAGA, she has told me she thinks Democrats and leftists go against God. :(

*edit*
Alzheimer’s loving sucks. I’ve seen family waste away from cancer but keep their dignity but there is none of that when your brain literally turns into mosh. :(

Alzheimer's is loving horrifying. My mom worked like 22 years on a care facility specifically for that. I spent five minutes at work when I was about ten and heard the following conversation:

"Mom, I'm here, do you know who I am?"

"No dear, are you new here?"

Nope'd the gently caress out and absolutely refused to go back inside ever again. If she wanted anything she met me outside.

TCD
Nov 13, 2002

Every step, a fucking adventure.

Kuroyama posted:

The worst thing I have against my dad is that he's a fan of Bill Maher

I'm not his biggest fan - but I think some of his stuff is okay.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

My mother is a Bernie voting Bill Maher watcher

My dad would've been a hard core Bernie Bro

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

My parents are liberal as gently caress but are Nixon-era Republicans about weed

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Casimir Radon posted:

Well a lot of people in the media failed to call him on his bullshit so...

The dude has batshit crazy ideas. Some of them are dumb and don't work out as planned, some of them are pushing science and industry forward.

ded posted:

I enjoy how the news called his Boring Company 'experts in drilling'.

Have they like drilled anything at all yet?

Yes.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

Lol 4% on military. Does trump think every country has a hundred bases setup around the world and we all need stealth fighters?

We don't even spend 4% anymore.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Boomer mom was a “Republican for Obama” who went centrist democrat in 2007. She hated Trump and preferred Bernie to Clinton. She didn’t live to see Trump win.

Bio father was also a boomer, centrist Republican who stays Republican despite being a defense attorney, vigorously fighting for significant criminal justice reform, having been a hippie in he 70s, and having lived in the New Orleans French Quarter surrounded by minorities and the gay community. He dislikes Trump but is still Republican.

Stepfather is a boomer who didn’t talk much about politics. After Trump, he said he went from voting for both democrats and republicans over the years to going straight D because he was sick of watching “reasonable” republican elected officials support Trump.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

My mother is a Bernie voting Bill Maher watcher

My dad would've been a hard core Bernie Bro

My dad believes a universal single payer nationalized health system is the cheapest and best option for healthcare administration and access in this country. He arrived at that conclusion by being a bankruptcy lawyer for countless shitbag doctors over 35 years. He's a bigly trumper because he also thinks "a businessman" can always do "the job" better than "a politician."

95% of my communication with him is via texts these days lol

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Solaris 2.0 posted:

Anyway your mom sounds like a lot of my family. Can’t trust those tax and spend democrats! Giving away all those free welfare programs to blacks! (Note my family uses Medicare and Medicaid)

This is where I repeat the story about my brother and sister in law ranting about welfare, and my mother dryly pointing out that they(and our oldest brother) are all employed by defense contractors, that she is a teacher, our father draws SS/Medicare and that the only one of us who isn't effectively subsidized by the government is me, the socialist.

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
My father immigrated here fleeing drug violence in Colombia and looking the prospects of a better life. He got his citizenship in like....2007 or 2008? My mother is a white catholic polish/italian mix. My mother is very pro women power, pro females and somehow supports Trump. My dad thinks Trump is super smart and sticking it to the man and doing awesome. Neither liked or voted for Obama, We all voted for Bush Term 1, and they voted for Bush term 2. We never discussed politics much but I had gay friends around the house and alot of black friends and it was never an issue, parents super welcoming and loving of my gay friends, one of them is like a second son to my mother, but somehow they are SUPER REPUBLICAN now. Like vote straight ticket. My mother was for Hilary leading up to the election and suddenly switched to trump at some point. idk

I have always loved current events, studied international relations, interned at a ~* thinktank*~ and basically paying attention to Iraq and Afghanistan made me realize how loving dumb the republicans are after being part of Young Republicans and working in Marco Rubio's campaign in college.

All my dad watches is Fox News. When I was a kid we used to watch CNN and CBS together, but at some point he started watching fox after I went to college and that was it. I used to vote fairly republican and am now about dat straight D....no homo but universal healthcare, abolish ice, tax over a couple million at 90% like lets redistribute the wealth whatever equal rights for everyone and gays should get all the cakes they want.

I have no idea how my father reconciles receiving asylum here and denying it to other people. He's also dark as gently caress so idk man. its weird.

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

If I could blip Fox out of existence I'm pretty sure I could get my mother back to sanity at some point before she dies, but I don't think we're going to get that lucky

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

was this posted yet

Kim Jong-un Blew Off Mike Pompeo to Visit a Potato Farm

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/kim-jong-un-blew-off-mike-pompeo-to-visit-a-potato-farm.html

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Kim got mad Face game

like pompeo is gonna have to schedule a wreath laying at the kim il sung statue and blow it off

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


My dad was in Navy ROTC at Yale regretfully he must be hung and guillotined.

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

Doc Hawkins posted:

My dad was in Navy ROTC at Yale regretfully he must be hung and guillotined.

Calm down, Electra.

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Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

redneck nazgul posted:

Calm down, Electra.

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