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Electric Bugaloo posted:Get involved. The five of us who do GOONPAC will support you, and maybe more of SA will get involved if there’s a goon running for office/goon-led campaign for something worthwhile somewhere. I didn't really follow the trend directly, but at the time that was going viral people seemed willing to sign on to whatever that guy had to say and it seemed so important at the time and now I doubt anyone even really remembers the whole Joseph Kony "Lords Army" child soldier thing. I also can't help notice that a lot of platforms or forums I used to use almost daily noticeably went to hard poo poo and became infested with assholes and propaganda talking points the moment they were sold out to large media corporations. I distinctly don't remember Gamefaqs being an absolute unequivocal nightmare before it was sold by Jeff Veasey to CBS and ditto youtube to Google and Twitch to Amazon. Suddenly the moderation just kind of stopped on Gamefaqs for example (The userbase also seems incapable of writing well put together FAQS and walkthroughs you used to see so much as pettily arguing among themselves) , the rules didn't seem to loving matter or apply the same to all parties (Youtube and Twitch are brutal for this as well where if you're a big streamer or corporate PR channel you can say or do just about anything you want but if you're just some random individual user have fun eventually getting your account locked out by amassing too many copyright claims where the onus is on you to counterclaim) and the purpose of those sites as seen by it's administrator's became kind of blatantly about towing a corporate line, propaganda, datamining the userbase, and amassing the most follows and likes more than the quality and utility of content. There's many many more examples besides those, but the moment they got bought buy a large media corporation and stopped being run by self-appointed administrators from the userbase, hard loving turn to complete poo poo and the userbase just being infested with outright complete assholes that get the full run of the places without consequence cause the people that run them for all their talking points and bullshit demonstrably don't give a gently caress about fostering a healthy discussion environment free of bad faith rule breaking trolls if it has no net gain on their profit margins. The only reason for example Blizzard is even remotely trying to backpedal on their recent decisions is because the Bad PR Momentum has snowballed so badly against them that their big annual convention is rear end hosed and doomed to turn into a protest where the narrative won't be under their control. Took like two weeks for anything and it's only because it became clear they can't bury this poo poo before then and I doubt they can now either, but they're gonna try I guess. Anyway I keep using this example because I've come to feel all of these problems are interconnected in a way in that they relate back to social media and it's all-encompassing influence on our society one way or another. That and even some U.S Congresspeople have started weighing in on it from both parties, and not the way I expected they would. Kale fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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Paradoxish posted:The fact that Trump constantly says "my generals" is seriously disturbing. He’s the Commander in Chief, it’s literally true.
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Paradoxish posted:The fact that Trump constantly says "my generals" is seriously disturbing. I think it betrays a lack of confidence that the brass actually supports him, which is kinda worrying in its own way.
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1183428032587018240 Kind of weird to say this is a failure of "US policy" when it's directly attributable to one man making a decision out of fear. I mean, unless you're considering "the concept of the executive branch" to be the policy.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:He’s the Commander in Chief, it’s literally true. Yeah but that alone is seriously disturbing.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:As a carbon-based life form.... go on 
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"Which abuts" what the gently caress are you even talking about clown? Yeah the border is located next to the US. No poo poo. Does Saudi Arabia abuts the US?
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The Super-Id posted:Pedro for president (of Turkey) As they say in Alabama, Vote for Pedo
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USPOL Fall: numbers are way down
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Yeah an intern wrote this. "Abuts" is way too advanced.
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Fallom posted:Kind of weird to say this is a failure of "US policy" when it's directly attributable to one man making a decision out of fear. I mean, unless you're considering "the concept of the executive branch" to be the policy. US policy has been to allow this man to take and remain in office despite being manifestly unfit in a thousand different ways the entire time.
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TulliusCicero posted:"Which abuts" what the gently caress are you even talking about clown?
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Paradoxish posted:The fact that Trump constantly says "my generals" is seriously disturbing. He's referred to "my judges" a lot recently too. I'm past the point of feeling disturbed by it, it's just kind of too open, blatant and well documented at this point that the guys well into the self-preserving phase of his attempted presidency for life. The power for powers sake style of "governing" that McConnell and the GOP seem to be all about now that has nothing to do with fulfilling their oath of office or civil service. I'm still struggling to see how he possibly puts together a 2020 campaign that is anything more than more "Me vs. Enemies" talking points. At least in 2016 he seemed to have people around him that could focus him on to talking points and policy stuff even if eventually he'd back down from it like with Charlottesville, but I haven't heard any of that sort of poo poo relating to that sort of thing from him since mid 2017 and heard plenty of constant bitching about having to have political opponents and deal with an opposition in the house being allowed to criticize and not just blindly go along with him and the GOP. It's clearly driven him absolutely loving mental and taken up all his focus and energy having to deal with the Democratic house majority now and we'd probably have seen this full meltdown bullshit from him even earlier in 2016 had the GOP not been given full control of all 3 branches for like the 2nd or 3rd time in the 21st century and had he not been convinced to go with the generic party picks like Priebus and Mattis as key staffers and advisors early on. Like the sheer contempt for even the idea of an opposition party he can't control is an existential crisis for the President of The United States and he thinks it's somehow unfair to him that the public dare exercise it's franchise to elect an opposition party to a majority in a chamber of congress. Like "how loving dare you America" in all but directly stated terms. https://globalnews.ca/news/6029957/trump-video-shooting-white-house-response/ Incidentally this stuff getting out there and going viral and being viewed by millions is absolutely going to rear end gently caress the guy come 2020 if it keeps up. If he doesn't see the imminent danger in not getting on top of these sorts of things he's clearly not the social media wizard he's been touted as. Kale fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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The border is a mess and requires everything, but it's also way safer, and the wall is being built. Almost peak Trump blather there. CuddleCryptid posted:Yeah an intern wrote this. "Abuts" is way too advanced.
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I continue to be blown away by what a loving enormous mess he's made out of this situation by reveling in the fact that he doesn't understand or care to understand the complexities of the factions and relationships with non-state actors or American power projection at large.
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Objurium posted:I continue to be blown away by what a loving enormous mess he's made out of this situation by reveling in the fact that he doesn't understand or care to understand the complexities of the factions and relationships with non-state actors or American power projection at large. Yeah who would've thought Donald "Kill Members of ISIS and their families" "We have nukes why don't we use them" Trump would be such a massively inept toolbox when it comes to foreign policy?
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Taerkar posted:Someone check his 'Word a day' calendar. I hope not sporadically.
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Angry_Ed posted:Yeah who would've thought Donald "Kill Members of ISIS and their families" "We have nukes why don't we use them" Trump would be such a massively inept toolbox when it comes to foreign policy? https://twitter.com/BenjaminHallFNC/status/1183804428132016128?s=20
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100% Defeated* *Defeat not guaranteed, terms and conditions apply
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Kale some loving brevity wouldn't kill you
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Okay, I have to ask perhaps a stupid question Why is Turkey so keen on releasing ISIS members? Do they actually share an ideology, or is it just to cause chaos in the country?
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TheScott2K posted:Kale some loving brevity wouldn't kill you He's already the Miles Davis of clever, what more do you want from him?
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TheScott2K posted:Kale some loving brevity wouldn't kill you For kale that was actually quite brief. CuddleCryptid posted:Okay, I have to ask perhaps a stupid question Por que no los dos?
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Angry_Ed posted:Yeah who would've thought Donald "Kill Members of ISIS and their families" "We have nukes why don't we use them" Trump would be such a massively inept toolbox when it comes to foreign policy? I mean, sure - I'm not implying that he's been competent at pretty much anything in the past 2.5 years, but we're finally at the breaking point where he's fired all of the career military advisers that were keeping him from doing loving stupid poo poo like this and uh oh woops now there's an active genocide being waged against an American (former) proxy force by a NATO state. This is by far the biggest mess he's created yet.
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RuanGacho posted:There's a simple subtext, speech calling for the murder, enslavement, financial destruction and marginalization of readily identifiable human beings is at best, evil. The paradox of intolerance unfortunately plays into the neo liberal trap of all speech having a baseline value, whereas hate speech without social normalization would get you thrown out of communities. Liberals tend to view restrictions on speech skeptically not out of any belief that all speech has value, but rather on the basis that such restrictions are invariably used by those with the power to set such restrictions to suppress any speech that would challenge their primacy. Once you give anyone the power to decide what thought is right or wrong thought you give them control over the ideas that can be expressed period with no opportunity to question the wisdom of those decisions which is a recipe for tyranny and oppression. It's never been about protecting the status quo or bad ideas it's about protecting the ability to challenge the status quo and bad ideas. It's like I see all of these "the internet was a mistake" shitposts from people who obviously weren't politically aware during the time prior to the primacy of this communications channel and as such don't realize that the reason that leftist and progressive sentiment is on the rise and the younger generations tend to be more progressive and less hostile to leftist ideas is precisely because the Internet removed the filters that the mass media had placed to prevent their discussion. The resurgence of regressive thought was the predictable and inevitable response to progress, they rightfully see that their existence and point of view is under threat and as such are trying to stop their inevitable extinction. theflyingorc posted:It's certainly possible for atheists to be moral, but I have yet to meet anyone whose core identity was "atheist" to not be kind of a shithead. It's a flaw of any new adherent to a "belief" system and are in their militant spread the word on the "truth" stage. See it with leftists too who blame every societal ill on capitalism rather than on humans being kind of hosed up selfish ignorant creatures.
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DandyLion posted:He's already the Miles Davis of clever, what more do you want from him? More like Dials Mavis. Mavis Beacon, because he took typing lessons so he could get one of those word dumps out in less than an hour.
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"I thought we defeated ISIS" "Well... they got better"
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Tariffs. Trump is like that woman you went to high school with that sells essential oils and promises they'll cure everything. Manufacturing in decline in the US? TARIFFS! China? TARIFFS! Impeachment? TARIFFS! Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in Syria? TARIFFS!
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CuddleCryptid posted:Okay, I have to ask perhaps a stupid question erdogan loves chaos. he's also been allowing isis to move people and resources around his border since isis became a thing. if you are into conspiracy theories, erdogan is aligned with russia who thinks releasing refugees and isis fighters into europe will fuel nationalistic sentiments and get more facists elected.
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The dude just loving tweeted essentially "let them fight” and now this horseshit?
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"any persons contributing to Turkey's destabilizing actions in northeast Syria" drat the self-sanctioning gonna own
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Trump has never heard of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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"liddle' Napoleon Bonaparte"
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Spite posted:if you are into conspiracy theories, erdogan is aligned with russia who thinks releasing refugees and isis fighters into europe will fuel nationalistic sentiments and get more facists elected. It isn’t as dumb as Trump’s plan to gain votes by fueling racial hatred via decimating rural communities with tariffs and his eventual plan to kill Medicare / Medicaid. Judging by what the rear end-wipes at the NYT find from asking nazis in rural diners what’s what about Trump, it may be a successful stupid plan. 
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