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Xander77 posted:The front page had a parody of this poo poo that I can't find at the moment (and I do mean this exact "tough marine special forces guy in college screw your microaggressions"). I was honestly confused - did someone publish the parody as a full-pledge book and no one got the joke? https://www.somethingawful.com/news/johnstone-trigger-warning/
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there wolf posted:Well if that's too tame... That thread is a pro read. https://twitter.com/erinscafe/status/1089007577084514304
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:As an aside, Henry Payne's personal blog is exactly what you would expect it to be. Pro-click because yes, it absolutely is.
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hey, rear end in a top hat, instead of decrying The State of Our Discourse, why don't you actually present your particular political opinion, which is.......
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Wait what the gently caress "Trigger Warning" is a new book? I thought John Ringo wrote it like at least a decade ago? E: poo poo I'm thinking of "Ghost", which is ALSO about a steely-eyed kinetic operator who goes to college and gets sneered at by The Libs until The Browns invade campus and kidnap all the pure white women and the main character has to kinetically operate to rescue them all (and I think gently caress them all too?).
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Crazycryodude posted:Wait what the gently caress "Trigger Warning" is a new book? I thought John Ringo wrote it like at least a decade ago? Yeap, there was a Let's Read of the whole thing in TFR a while back and it was completely horrible. In one of the later books that same kinetic operator gets an actual harem, including kinetically underaged girls (as in, younger than 15  ) dressed in actual schoolgirl uniforms. Conservative literature is a cesspit.
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Gaybies Nomination Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon
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Trapezium Dave posted:First Dog on the Moon: The Murray Darling Crisis I have a thread backlog, but it would be remiss of me not to do my usual post-FDotM animal picture. Murray Cod 
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Kevino07 posted:Gaybies Nomination Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon
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Perestroika posted:Yeap, there was a Let's Read of the whole thing in TFR a while back and it was completely horrible. In one of the later books that same kinetic operator gets an actual harem, including kinetically underaged girls (as in, younger than 15 He also become defacto leader of some small Eastern European country and turns one of his hookers (who he collects like kittens) into a cyborg murder bot, à la Robocop. I feel like at some point Ringo realized there was a market for reprehensible garbage and decided to become it's king.
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DarklyDreaming posted:Well someone's gonna post this, guess it has to be me: I did a Let's Read of Johnston's first book Out of the Ashes before the election. The guy was really weird by modern standards. You can see a lot of the goofy conservative conspiracy theory crap in place in the early 80s. Things like liberals just want there to be crime because you don't want to hurt peoples feelings. You also have a white guy writing a token black guy so you can see he isn't racist. Also the main bad guys are Illinois Nazi's. There's a lot of gang banger racist stereo types in there as well. But the really weird thing in this after the bomb story. He get's all his like minded individuals together to form their perfect society. And it's communism. Flat out communism. The government makes sure you have a job, everybody has health care. Everybody contributes to defense. In times of trouble everybody is expected to pitch in. It almost reaches the point society works without government. There's nothing for government to do. The workers revolution is complete, if your neighbor needs something you have the means to give it. And he managed to blunder into this without ever taking his eyes off of a rigid set of right wing talking points. And he wrote like 30 of these books before he died.
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Throwing Turtles posted:I did a Let's Read of Johnston's first book Out of the Ashes before the election. The guy was really weird by modern standards. You can see a lot of the goofy conservative conspiracy theory crap in place in the early 80s. Atlas Shrugged kinda has the same thing, Galt's Gulch is a post scarcity utopia with unlimited free energy and robot workers. Despite, every citizen being an ubermensch capitalist/industrialist none of them ever compete with each other with each of them picking one industry and managing the entire thing themselves. There is no crime or disease, government consists of a single judge who doesn't appear to do anything. They say charity is anathema to their society, but they never charge each other more than a symbolic amount, and the oil man continues to drill and sell oil despite it being worthless compared to the perpetual motion generator.
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VitalSigns posted:I love the Lester one that somehow fails to understand the original painting Rush (and by extension conservatives) is being protected by the Liberal Media, True Racists and the NFL. Checks out to me, surprisingly woke comic from Lester!
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Throwing Turtles posted:I did a Let's Read of Johnston's first book Out of the Ashes before the election. The guy was really weird by modern standards. You can see a lot of the goofy conservative conspiracy theory crap in place in the early 80s. Isn't that kind of the end of Atlas Shrugged, too? In Galt's gulch you'll work on whatever you want and society will provide for all your needs so you can do that. And because everyone is a titian of capital chosen for their inventiveness and industry, they'll all being doing productive things that need doing instead of wasting years on fruitless research and garbage ideas while someone else does the chores.
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there wolf posted:Isn't that kind of the end of Atlas Shrugged, too? In Galt's gulch you'll work on whatever you want and society will provide for all your needs so you can do that. And because everyone is a titian of capital chosen for their inventiveness and industry, they'll all being doing productive things that need doing instead of wasting years on fruitless research and garbage ideas while someone else does the chores. Kind of. In the sense that an author can make a utopia work by author fiat. Ayn Rand made her goofy capitalist system work because everybody was moving around on her puppet strings. Johnstone did the same thing, but the one he created was much different. It was a managed economy in that if you didn't have a job one would be provided for you. If you had something you could do, great, but if you didn't they would find something for you to do. Healthcare was a right. If you got sick, you would get treatment. Housing was a right, this wasn't to hard to swing because it post apocalypse and there was plenty of housing. But it was baked in. There weren't any super rich people, but no poor people either. Now there was a huge caveat. There was a strict interview process to get in and a justice system that could only be described as draconian. It was openly admitted that this kind of society could only work if people of like mind lived together. I'm not sure where he falls on the whole separatist racist line. Normally I'd say it doesn't matter cause if it walks and quacks like a duck. But in his book there was also a Native American country that popped up in California I think, and an African American one in the South. None of them were explicitly "only this race". All of these countries were violently destroyed when the U.S. Federal government decided to reinstate it's authority. There was a theme that maybe it would have been better to gather together under one banner, but it was also worth it to try our separate nations, with the African Americans and the Native Americans not really trusting the white main character. So yeah the guy was really weird.
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Katt posted:This guy 100% makes cartoon porn on the side.
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Koishi Komeiji posted:Ok cartoon heads, it's time for some toonage:  Tell me this is an edit. Or is S.Kelly one of the good ones idk my brain is broken from this thread.
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It’s amazing to me how Trump hosed this whole thing up. I know he’s an incompetent bonehead, but I thought he’d be stubborn enough to stay shut down for months.
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Pants Donkey posted:It’s amazing to me how Trump hosed this whole thing up. I know he’s an incompetent bonehead, but I thought he’d be stubborn enough to stay shut down for months. What do you think will happen in three weeks? His rationale will be, that people hated him for closing the government, but his base even more for giving in. So next time he'll just keep it shut.
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He's already badly hosed any republican with a competitive 2020 reelection. Six republican senators broke rank to vote with the dems for a bill they already knew would not pass. If he does this again, he may see a full blown split and revolt from his coalition.
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Pants Donkey posted:It’s amazing to me how Trump hosed this whole thing up. I know he’s an incompetent bonehead, but I thought he’d be stubborn enough to stay shut down for months. The entire air transport system was about to go down, and that's not stakes anyone with a functioning frontal lobe wants to gamble on. Someone, probably Mitch, told Trump to back down or they'd do it for him.
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Discendo Vox posted:I need some explanation of this one, but it also offers:  NATSEM is the National Centre for Social Economic Modelling, they do impartial reports on, for example, the impact of the proposed government budget on single parents.
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Vib Rib posted:wait According to an Amazon review his actual hideous shameful secret is HE'S GAY!!!!
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Unkempt posted:According to an Amazon review his actual hideous shameful secret is HE'S GAY!!!!
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Unkempt posted:According to an Amazon review his actual hideous shameful secret is HE'S GAY!!!! Oh for fuckin' real.
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