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Lightning Knight posted:Do not post publicly about this anymore. Can we laugh if I get any good stories from work people? I’m sure just what this thread needs is you carrying water for the guy who said he would drown his gay children.
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theblackw0lf posted:Not politics related, but this made me laugh I'm a recruiting specialist, and I am going to print the poo poo out of this and put it on my door Monday, and then inject it into every one of our training power points. This is brilliant.
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:Seek help. The Supreme Court proved last year that just because Trump repeatedly said his so-called travel ban was aimed at keeping Muslims out of the country doesn’t mean a majority of justices will call a presidential order illegally discriminatory. Well researched arguments fail one critical test: they all ignore how evil people are and how they'll destroy everything for power...even if they actually hurt themselves.
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Feb 16, 2019 06:57
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Covok posted:... It’s much more noticeable when evil people destroy something rather than when they don’t. Evil doesn’t always win, often it is quietly defeated. No reason to give up hope because Trump continues to bluster his way through the presidency. There’s a long way to go between the Supreme Court rolling over on this emergency bullshit and a dictatorship.
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Feb 16, 2019 07:12
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lol even the SCO is surprised by Paul Manafort's love of crimes https://twitter.com/kpolantz/status/1096588129753055232
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Feb 16, 2019 07:14
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Buzzfeed sounds like a good place to start. Literally every major piece of breaking news from Buzzfeed in the past year, including that “trump directly told Cohen to do xyz” is bullshit. They, and many other news sources, know they can post a breaking news story with very little actual corroboration and the shakiest of sources and will get shitloads of clicks and retweets.. and when it comes around that their conclusions are absolute trash the entire population of America will forget about the story by the time the weekend is over with zero consequences. It’s a cheap, rapid fire, clickbait “get the scoop first” tactic to see what sticks and what doesn’t, and they’re all doing it because nobody remembers anything anymore.
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Feb 16, 2019 07:15
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silicone thrills posted:I wish this piece of corporate trash would gently caress off back into a hole. And Starbucks keeps running out of Peach Tranquility so gently caress them too.
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Feb 16, 2019 07:25
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I can’t believe how stupid our fat wet president is. I mean gently caress
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Feb 16, 2019 07:35
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Blind Rasputin posted:Literally every major piece of breaking news from Buzzfeed in the past year, including that “trump directly told Cohen to do xyz” is bullshit. They, and many other news sources, know they can post a breaking news story with very little actual corroboration and the shakiest of sources and will get shitloads of clicks and retweets.. and when it comes around that their conclusions are absolute trash the entire population of America will forget about the story by the time the weekend is over with zero consequences. It’s a cheap, rapid fire, clickbait “get the scoop first” tactic to see what sticks and what doesn’t, and they’re all doing it because nobody remembers anything anymore.
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Feb 16, 2019 07:36
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The Glumslinger posted:And yet you post In a world where nothing makes any goddamn sense, the expert knows just as much as the ignorant. The Super-Id posted:It’s much more noticeable when evil people destroy something rather than when they don’t. Evil doesn’t always win, often it is quietly defeated. No reason to give up hope because Trump continues to bluster his way through the presidency. There’s a long way to go between the Supreme Court rolling over on this emergency bullshit and a dictatorship. I get what you're saying. But man. Every time I was told I was overreacting and cooler heads will prevail, I've been kicked in the teeth. The travel ban. The trans ban. Tax Cuts. He even found a way to ruin Obamacare even if he couldn't repeal it. And I haven't even started with how badly everything is going. It just makes more sense after a certain point to expect the worst.
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Feb 16, 2019 07:39
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Oh we’re going to get kicked in the teeth again. That’s just life. I just think there’s plenty of hope that we can continue to nudge that number of teeth kickings down as we await the environmental destruction of our planet.
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The Super-Id posted:Oh we’re going to get kicked in the teeth again. That’s just life. I just think there’s plenty of hope that we can continue to nudge that number of teeth kickings down as we await the environmental destruction of our planet. Not really the uplifting message I was hoping for. But it's kind of the message I was asking for with all my nihilism and self-pity. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jaxyon posted:High end of estimates put him at about $20b at current values which means that numerous American robber barons have trounced him. Dude inherited a huge fortune. At best he's "richest dude at his point of history". Current value doesn't mean anything. The labor value and economic share are far more indicative of true worth. Example, Mr. Darcy made 10,000 pounds a year. Just adjusting that number for inflation would produce a laughable number that would in no way demonstrate how wealthy he was. https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ukcompare/relativevalue.php If you want to compare the value of a £10,000 0s 0d Commodity in 1810 there are four choices. In 2017 the relative: real price of that commodity is £674,400.00 labour value of that commodity is £8,271,000.00 income value of that commodity is £8,668,000.00 economic share of that commodity is £43,540,000.00
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You always have the power to influence yourself, and hope is a good quality to have, it keeps you looking for the things you can do.
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Mantis42 posted:He introduced the bill that gave Palpatine his emergency powers. He-sa killed the republic. There is much truth in the Sith Lord Jar Jar Binks conspiracy.
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Ague Proof posted:It finally happened. So does this mean they want to build houses for immigrants? Because that seems fine. 
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GreyjoyBastard posted:that is no poo poo a great way to remember those bullet points There is an equally good one for cover letters. 
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Feb 16, 2019 08:26
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A bit late to the 'Which Ancient Roman is Trump most like' (timezones mean I'm always way behind on this thread), but there is a good argument to be made that Trump is close to Commodus with a bit of Nero and maybe Tiberius thrown in. To understand Trump, we should look to the tyrants of ancient Rome
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Blind Rasputin posted:and they’re all doing it because nobody remembers anything anymore. This is pretty much true. Remember when Trump initiated a missile barrage against Syria after Assad used chemical weapons against civilians? Because I barely do. 
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Nervous posted:This is pretty much true. Remember when Trump initiated a missile barrage against Syria after Assad used chemical weapons against civilians? Because I barely do. to be fair, that was like 15 years ago right?
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Helith posted:A bit late to the 'Which Ancient Roman is Trump most like' (timezones mean I'm always way behind on this thread), but there is a good argument to be made that Trump is close to Commodus with a bit of Nero and maybe Tiberius thrown in. Nero gets a bum rap  Except for the religious persecution, that was pretty hosed up.
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Bottom Liner posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1096485376087097344 Vid's blocked for me, what went down?
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SocketWrench posted:Vid's blocked for me, what went down? It was a mashup of shots of all the Democrats looking "sad" at the SOTU with Everybody Hurts playing. R.E.M. said they sent a cease and desist. It's reposted in the replies somewhere. edit: article - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/15/rem-publisher-asks-twitter-to-remove-video-tweeted-by-trump-over-song-use.html
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Ror posted:It was a mashup of shots of all the Democrats looking "sad" at the SOTU with Everybody Hurts playing. R.E.M. said they sent a cease and desist. The President of the United States, everyone.
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Ague Proof posted:It finally happened. Can these two women get any dumber?
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Covok posted:Not really the uplifting message I was hoping for. But it's kind of the message I was asking for with all my nihilism and self-pity. Disclaimer: Everything written here is 100% serious. One of the cool things about nihilism is that if you play it right, it actually wraps around from "nothing matters, everything is horrible" to "If nothing matters, I can assign meaning to whatever the hell I want". It's a happier life when you recognize the absurdity, accept it and then assign meaning to your life. I was once like you, nihilistic and depressed. A big part of that was drifting through an absurd world and feeling small and believing in my heart of hearts that nothing mattered except for the horror and then I felt even worse. But you know what? When you're feeling uplifted? I loving love reading your posts when you're upbeat and your morale is high. The Covok with the raised middle finger and riteous anger is the cool Covok. I'd like to see him more. So I'll tell you what worked for me. It was a change in my attitude. It was the Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. So what the gently caress does a philosophical work written by a guy dead for almost 75 years do for you? Well Camus, like Nietzsche, is an existentialist philosopher and it seems like you're going through fairly constant existential dread. So while Nietzsche eventually went nuts, Camus played sports, dated models, drove fast cars and won a nobel prize. Maybe check out his work called "The Myth of Sisyphus". It's just an essay. But if you don't want to do that, here's a primer for you to catch your interest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc9XOxUcvLY There are a bunch more like this, but this is the shortest. Recgonize the absurdity of your life, that rock you are doomed to roll up that hill forever. Recognize that it is your rock and that the torture exists only in your own mind. By making your struggles yours, by making this rock your rock, by realizing the absurdity, by rejecting pain and the forces that torment you, you too can be a force that lifts rocks and can be happy.
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This dude has done more in his life than my dreams would aspire to dream and he shouldn’t be forgotten so easily. PhazonLink posted:Didn't Jar become a slight more better spoken senator by episode 3? Also he at least has a good heart and isnt a piss drinking daughter fucker. I see someone hasn’t watched the deleted scenes SocketWrench posted:Vid's blocked for me, what went down? It was a two minute propaganda video set to some song I don’t remember because I usually don’t remember stuff like that. It was clipped together SOTU video showing Democrats looking unenthused to Bernie’s weird stare. That was the extent of what I watched (20-30 seconds) of it because it didn’t appear to have anything new to it other than the song. Efb E2: ^^^ on the topic of optimistic nihilism, I enjoyed this video; not extremely concise but well put together and easy for anyone to follow along with the entire concept. https://youtu.be/MBRqu0YOH14 Ugato fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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Katt posted:Oh god weird Al is still alive. Please hurry up and perish before we found out you had a sex pest dungeon in the 80s or you become an anti-vaxxer. I love you too much to have to see it. Nah, Weird Al is pretty straight in that. Hasn't been a creeper, dosen't drink, doesn't swear, pretty damned smart. Guy's a good role model.
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SocketWrench posted:Nah, Weird Al is pretty straight in that. Hasn't been a creeper, dosen't drink, doesn't swear, pretty damned smart. Guy's a good role model. And any time he’s come close to making a mistake or did something stupid, he’s been genuinely apologetic and strives to do better when dinged on it. Like some parts in UHF haven’t aged well but hell, he’d probably apologize and do better from that too. Like if you want an example of a Good White Dude, it’s him.
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Ror posted:It was a mashup of shots of all the Democrats looking "sad" at the SOTU with Everybody Hurts playing. R.E.M. said they sent a cease and desist. God drat. Chuds are such loving morons
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I regret to inform you that Mr. Yankovich is, in fact, Weird. Hope you can still separate art from artist.
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teen witch posted:And any time he’s come close to making a mistake or did something stupid, he’s been genuinely apologetic and strives to do better when dinged on it. Like some parts in UHF haven’t aged well but hell, he’d probably apologize and do better from that too. Weird Al is a saint
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Mantis42 posted:I regret to inform you that Mr. Yankovich is, in fact, Weird. Dude's weird even outside his art. Everything I've heard about him is he's intelligent and fun to be around in private life Captain Invictus posted:I'm always reminded of the VH1 thing about him where they always try to find some dirty dark drama to focus on for a good chunk of the documentary of a singer but they couldn't find anything on him so they just dwelled on his dead parents instead His voicing Darkseid was loving hysterical
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teen witch posted:Like if you want an example of a Good White Dude, it’s him. I do not disagree with your statement, and like Weird Al. That said, when I read this my first thought is this is an absurdly low bar. Drunk Theory fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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Drunk Theory posted:I do not disagree with your statement, and like Weird Al. oh it’s just lightly hovering above the ground and yet for some white men it is this impossible obstacle to clear.
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Captain Invictus posted:I'm always reminded of the VH1 thing about him where they always try to find some dirty dark drama to focus on for a good chunk of the documentary of a singer but they couldn't find anything on him so they just dwelled on his dead parents instead He's also one of those performers that puts 100% enthusiasm into every performance afaik, even if it's a small venue or it's fairly empty.
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I've been lucky enough to work with Weird Al, one of my childhood heroes. Maybe the only time I've been a little starstruck by someone...I had to thank him for teaching me to find the humor in things, which I think he probably gets a lot judging by his reaction. He's just as nice/fun to be around as everyone here expects. Zisky fucked around with this message at 12:21 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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Ugato posted:This dude has done more in his life than my dreams would aspire to dream and he shouldn’t be forgotten so easily. Straight up, Melvin owns. Drafted by the Lions, tore his hamstring, got picked up by the Cowboys, tore his hamstring a second time, said gently caress it and started to work for NASA before being selected to be an astronaut, recovered from a severe ear injury that almost compromised his hearing, and went to space twice.
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