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Pakled posted:Because Big Daddy Trump is in charge so obviously everything is going to be fine. People project whatever they want onto their favored fiction; libertarians liked to read Hunger Games as a takedown of BIG GOVT In terms of politoons I think Payne did one about the movie Elysium, which is as blatant an attack on income inequality as you can possibly make, as an attack on Obama's political elites (it featured Obama playing golf)
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loquacius posted:In terms of politoons I think Payne did one about the movie Elysium, which is as blatant an attack on income inequality as you can possibly make, as an attack on Obama's political elites (it featured Obama playing golf) I'm finding it hard to comprehend how someone could take a Battle Angel Alita knock-off and see anything but the intended message, but I suppose if it's from Payne it makes sense.
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I should clarify that I'm not disagreeing with the spirit of Pakled's post, though, which was a theory w/r/t why Tinsley is up his own rear end about dystopias this week, to which my only reply is "yeah maybe, who fuckin knows with that guy"
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Eh, I think even disingenuous idiots understand the main thrust of fictional works whose antagonists are predominantly corporate and wealthy. They can try to twist that poo poo but they hollered over loving Resident Evil being anti-corporate. At least I'm pretty sure I remember Fox News getting angry over the first Resident Evil movie. Maybe it was a fever dream.
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Remember when conservative pundits got really mad about Rainbow Fish, the children's picture book with the message that 'sharing your natural gifts is good'
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fool_of_sound posted:Remember when conservative pundits got really mad about Rainbow Fish, the children's picture book with the message that 'sharing your natural gifts is good' I've seen ire on that from non-conservatives on the grounds that the message is "you have to tear yourself down to make other people accept you".
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I'm actually IRL mad about If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, whose message is "if you give anything to anyone they will become a useless leech on society"
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"I'm a liberal. No really, I am. I sympathize with racists. BECAUSE NON OF YOU LISTENED TO ME AND WORSHIPED ME AS KING ENLIGHTENED."
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By popular demand posted:Are there more versions of this video? The one I saw just showed that protester beating his drum while MAGAboi looked like he was trying to hold in a fart and his buddies shouting incomprehensibly. The beauty of the "watch the full video" line is that you don't actually have to back up your assertion in any way. There are no surrounding circumstances which cast the Covington Catholic kids in a better light, and whenever someone tries to defend them they end up revealing that they think "they were harassed by black Jews earlier" is somehow an excuse, or that they either have no idea what kind of school Covington is or that they think it's entirely unproblematic. Much easier to say "context exists, find it yourself," since at worst that makes you lazy and disingenuous rather than openly bigoted.
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"Watch the full video" might also lead you to other videos, like one of the Covington chuds harassing random women walking by.
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Jan 25, 2019 17:16
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Like the moronic internet calls to Google Ron Paul? Like I'm not going to notice all the racist poo poo?
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gently caress we're all going to die aren't we
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:The beauty of the "watch the full video" line is that you don't actually have to back up your assertion in any way. There are no surrounding circumstances which cast the Covington Catholic kids in a better light, and whenever someone tries to defend them they end up revealing that they think "they were harassed by black Jews earlier" is somehow an excuse, or that they either have no idea what kind of school Covington is or that they think it's entirely unproblematic. Much easier to say "context exists, find it yourself," since at worst that makes you lazy and disingenuous rather than openly bigoted. I do not believe Black Israelites are "Jews" (except for the tiny few who converted)
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"ME ME ME ME ME the rights and livelihoods of all minorities being stripped away by an increasingly far right political movement ME ME ME ME ME ME" Ted "fuckstick" Rall everyone.
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KillerQueen posted:...I don't get it? AOC referenced a UN report that indicated we have 12 years to fix our emissions before catastrophic climate change becomes unavoidable. Ramirez thinks the end is near because people aren't immediately dismissing her for saying that, making them dumb.
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AShamefulDisplay posted:gently caress we're all going to die aren't we Yes, it's the high cost of living. KillerQueen posted:...I don't get it? "AOC dumb"
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 1 2And allow me to introduce you to your new personal hero:  (mildy NSFW due to depictions of 2 guys in bed.)
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HootTheOwl posted:I do not believe Black Israelites are "Jews" (except for the tiny few who converted) Oh, fair, that's on me. I just saw some garbage report that they were harassed by Black Israelites and assumed that was some kind of chud slur I hadn't encountered before. I mean, are there any good frontrunners over the age of 35? I think that's an indictment of US politics rather than its stance on women, really. Warren is cleaner than anyone besides maybe Diamond Joe, but I'm sure he's got a bunch of baggage I haven't run into yet.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I mean, are there any good frontrunners over the age of 35? I think that's an indictment of US politics rather than its stance on women, really. Warren is cleaner than anyone besides maybe Diamond Joe, but I'm sure he's got a bunch of baggage I haven't run into yet. Biden's current popularity numbers seem like a gift to the Dem establishment, and yet they haven't coalesced behind him and are instead turning to Harris, and there's a reason for that In addition to spending a good amount of his political career literally doing the bidding of the finance industry (read: making it a lot harder for people to declare bankruptcy to discharge debts, notably including student-loan debt, thanks Uncle Joe), he is on tape giving a whole bunch of obviously-unwanted physical contact to women and children. People like Biden because of his association with Obama, but as soon as scrutiny is actually turned upon him that won't last. As for the first part of your question, I can sure think of a good frontrunner over the age of 35, but if you like Biden I don't think you'll like it loquacius fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I mean, are there any good frontrunners over the age of 35? I think that's an indictment of US politics rather than its stance on women, really. Warren is cleaner than anyone besides maybe Diamond Joe, but I'm sure he's got a bunch of baggage I haven't run into yet. Biden has the worst politics and baggage of ANY potential dem candidate except Gabbard. And that's remarkable since Harris also has serious loving skeletons in her closet
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fool_of_sound posted:Biden has the worst politics and baggage of ANY potential dem candidate except Gabbard. And that's remarkable since Harris also has serious loving skeletons in her closet Yeah, I can understand why Kendra Wells would focus on trans prisoners here, since trans issues are IIRC her number one priority, but Harris' issues also notably include her firm belief in the three-strikes law (which she has had Republican opponents run to her left on) and the whole thing where she thought a good response to truancy was to give the truant children's parents jail time Oh, and the thing where she opposed a measure to cut down on prison overcrowding on the basis that the prisons would lose out on a lot of cheap labor that way And yet, still a much better choice than Joe Biden. Hell, just play the clip of him saying that kids these days need to stop complaining about all the student debt they can't escape (because he made sure they couldn't) and boom there goes the general election turnout
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is this ironic or not? They're lumping in vague 'unlikable' poo poo with actual examples of bad things with the same characters so I really can't tell if this is 'if you think someone did a bad thing you won't support you're actually a misogynist' or not
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loquacius posted:AOC referenced a UN report that indicated we have 12 years to fix our emissions before catastrophic climate change becomes unavoidable. Ramirez thinks the end is near because people aren't immediately dismissing her for saying that, making them dumb. Alhazred posted:
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sexpig by night posted:is this ironic or not? They're lumping in vague 'unlikable' poo poo with actual examples of bad things with the same characters so I really can't tell if this is 'if you think someone did a bad thing you won't support you're actually a misogynist' or not It's notable that she used the "unlikable" thing with AOC, the most relatable politician of all time, because she couldn't think of anything actually bad to say about her, unlike Warren's weird misstep and Harris' straightup bad policy
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I’m pretty sure it’s a call for ye olde “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” argument, which is fair enough at this point given our current hellworld
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Jay Rust posted:I’m pretty sure it’s a call for ye olde “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” argument, which is fair enough at this point given our current hellworld I mean, sure, but the primary hasn't even really started The primary is the time for us to pick our favorite; the general is the time to call for unity
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Gaybie Nomination: Most Willfully Ignorant Gaybie Nomination: A Thing Happened
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100YrsofAttitude posted:That vocal fry is off the charts, such a great example. Wasn't there a tv show about brain bugs? With some actress with 3 names. That was Mary Elizabeth Winstead in BrainDead a show about the conspiracy behind tiny alien ants that ate into congressmens brains and turned them into republicans.
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BiggerJ posted:I've been wondering - where did the excellent term 'brainworms' originate? You can go at least as far back as 1979, with Pink Floyd’s “Hey You” (“And the worms ate into his brain...) Probably even earlier, though.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Oh, fair, that's on me. I just saw some garbage report that they were harassed by Black Israelites and assumed that was some kind of chud slur I hadn't encountered before. Someone explain to me the difference between Israelites as Israelis if it exists in this context. Because in my mind Israelites is pretty synonymous with jews.
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BonHair posted:Someone explain to me the difference between Israelites as Israelis if it exists in this context. Because in my mind Israelites is pretty synonymous with jews. The thing you need to be paying attention to isn't the word "Israelites" here but the phrase "Black Israelites" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites Xander77 posted:We don't have (and by definition, won't ever have) any sort of objective differentiation between "purity tests" and objectively bad policy decisions that actually matter. "Purity test" is just Internet slang for "caring about something I don't care about" loquacius fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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Darthemed posted:Gaybie Nomination: Most Willfully Ignorant I like that he calls Blackkklansman a 'Spike Lee Rant' as if it wasn't a thing that happened.
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Does Brown Moses read this thread? https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1088887081299005446
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Phuzzy posted:Does Brown Moses read this thread? Yes- at a minimum there was some sharing of domestic Russian cartoons with caricatures of him over the past couple years.
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Pakled posted:Because Big Daddy Trump is in charge so obviously everything is going to be fine. Nah, there is a ton of right-wing "the world is a hellscape because communism/ we respected civil rights too much" fiction out there. It's just not all that popular, especially to kids right now. My bet is Tinsley is being an old man yelling at the fading trend for dystopia in teen movies, set off by having to sit through a trailer for one recently.
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