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GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good
tomorrow we have our first after work bar meetup scheduled. i get to find out if the people i work with are serious or just a bunch of winging teetotalers

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V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

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GhostofJohnMuir posted:

tomorrow we have our first after work bar meetup scheduled. i get to find out if the people i work with are serious or just a bunch of winging teetotalers

they always let you down

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

https://twitter.com/oldfrenchcrime/status/1073809712804782080?s=21

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good
just had the misfortune of seeing a prager u ad (i'm on a pc with no ad block)

starts off with old whitey making the point that liberals and leftists are not the same. intrigued i decided to see where he was taking this. the next words to leave his mouth are that leftists have stolen the term liberal to cloak their agenda and then my head exploded and i'm dead now

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




GhostofJohnMuir posted:

just had the misfortune of seeing a prager u ad (i'm on a pc with no ad block)

starts off with old whitey making the point that liberals and leftists are not the same. intrigued i decided to see where he was taking this. the next words to leave his mouth are that leftists have stolen the term liberal to cloak their agenda and then my head exploded and i'm dead now

Boomers still the worst.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
gen x is worse because they've got the same bad opinions, only with annoying neurosis instead of absurd self-confidence

avshalemon
Jun 28, 2018

Furnaceface posted:

Boomers still the worst.
check out the yellow vest parade we just had over here (except we have no climate tax so these ones are protesting immigration, because of course they are)



terrifying

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

avshalemon posted:

check out the yellow vest parade we just had over here (except we have no climate tax so these ones are protesting immigration, because of course they are)

Figures that the right would keep trying to co-opt the symbolism since the group successfully extracted concessions in France.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Right wing sources basically mis-reported the protests as anti-immigration and pro-trump the second they happened. These people probably don't even realize they're co-opting something.

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

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fukken fash gonna taint the history of this movement something fierce

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
That reminded me of something. There was an interview with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, in which he implied the yellow jackets were (i) very close to the FN and (ii) allegedly coerce people into joining their protests. The basis of the first claim is somebody called José Bové, does that mean anything to anyone here? Personally, I wouldn't trust anything Cohn-Bendit says in the first place but IIRC he is still in good standing with the left/greens, so I wanted to ask people more in tune with French politics.

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

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might want to ask in sharknadothread, i certainly don't know of any jose bove

does sound like bollocks though, the gilets jaunes haven't talked at all about immigrants. i think cohn-bendit's just whining over losing his position as leader of The Big Rebellion tbh

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

avshalemon posted:

check out the yellow vest parade we just had over here (except we have no climate tax so these ones are protesting immigration, because of course they are)



terrifying

why is that person wearing their vest backwards?

are they in distress?

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




GhostofJohnMuir posted:

why is that person wearing their vest backwards?

are they in distress?

Do you consider living in Australia being in a constant state of distress?

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://twitter.com/_chloeswarbrick/status/1074783342883627008

reeferendum 2020

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004





Are politics in NZ different than in Canada? Because politicians putting something to a referendum typically means they want it to fail and love being able to say that it failed because it was the will of the people.

e: They also make the referendum question(s) misleading and stupid to ensure their desired results.

Maybe youre lucky and its just a dumb thing we do here idk

Furnaceface fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Dec 18, 2018

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Furnaceface posted:

Are politics in NZ different than in Canada? Because politicians putting something to a referendum typically means they want it to fail and love being able to say that it failed because it was the will of the people.

e: They also make the referendum question(s) misleading and stupid to ensure their desired results.

Maybe youre lucky and its just a dumb thing we do here idk

mostly contentious stuff the government wants a mandate for, or constitutional stuff obviously. i think this one was part of the labour-greens confidence and supply agreement.

we also have citizen-initiated referendums, which are bad.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

exmarx posted:

we also have citizen-initiated referendums, which are bad.

Initiate one to burn down Peter Thiel’s house?

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
attn vb:

https://twitter.com/Enlargeyournerd/status/1074670984563544064

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good
the amount of chili i'm making doesn't fit in my pot

the paradigm shift
Jan 18, 2006

use a second pot

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Like this is news to me, I saw them open for rammstein in Denver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TjgeTCOoMM

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

the paradigm shift posted:

use a second pot

transferring it is going to be hard

i may just eat some of it and then add the rest of the ingredients later

Scrotum Modem
Sep 12, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtP8hYR31N4

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

govs dead, so what

R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

rot in hell

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good
chili tastes good

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Volkerball posted:

Like this is news to me, I saw them open for rammstein in Denver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TjgeTCOoMM

they should tour with those kids from argentina from a decade ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TviTCFAGr6w

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
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Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
Man, I forgot how good some parts of A New Hope are and how bad other parts are

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
marcia lucas deserves most of the credit for making that movie

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

Pirate Radar posted:

Man, I forgot how good some parts of A New Hope are and how bad other parts are

I don't think the original trilogy is bad necessarily but I def don't see how they became the multi-million dollar franchise it is

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
it's the story of a plucky national liberation front

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

The Muppets On PCP posted:

marcia lucas deserves most of the credit for making that movie

this isn't really true

pangstrom
Jan 25, 2003

Wedge Regret

mandatory lesbian posted:

I don't think the original trilogy is bad necessarily but I def don't see how they became the multi-million dollar franchise it is
Not positive about this, but my sense is that it's in part because back then there was about 70% of the nerd demand that there is today, and about 1% of the big budget / polished nerd media supply that there is today.

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




So Corbyn finally gave the Conservatives the soundbite/video clip theyve been craving? I cant imagine it being a lot of fun living in the UK right now.

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS
lmao, if that one is the one that will stick

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

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The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

this isn't really true

that's fair. paul hirsch and richard chew did a lot of the work turning it into a coherent narrative as well

The Muppets On PCP fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Dec 20, 2018

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