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Lil Peeler posted:I really don't understand where this gut reactionary hatred of the West wing comes from. I've watched a series twice now and none of the poo poo that posters attribute to it happens. Most the time it's about choosing the right action over the popular action, or the importance of throwing political weight around when you can afford to and the ramifications that might have. The situation you're describing generally doesn't exist. I haven't seen the show in 20 years, but your description of those scenes sound like weird wish fulfillment fantasies, and not poo poo a live thinking human would do. Scrubs daydream-level disconnect.
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Lil Peeler posted:I really don't understand where this gut reactionary hatred of the West wing comes from. I've watched a series twice now and none of the poo poo that posters attribute to it happens. Most the time it's about choosing the right action over the popular action, or the importance of throwing political weight around when you can afford to and the ramifications that might have. The situation you're describing generally doesn't exist. Dave Anthony of the Dollop is doing a podcast called The West Wing Thing where they watch each episode in order and break down exactly why the politics are poo poo. They're worse than you remember, I promise.
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Nov 13, 2019 03:39
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P much everything is worse than I remember.
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When's the last time you watched it? Because it's way worse than it seems. Even the super drama moments like with the dominionist were like, okay but what did he do beyond scolding her after ensuring her repugnant views got a national platform? Why should I believe these people are heroic and concerned about people when one of them just spent an episode talking down to Not Bernie Sanders and then bravely putting forward a bill to implement grim austerity to solve a problem with no legitimacy in the first place? It's not how anything has ever worked, it's the lanyard and commentariat's equivalent of conan the barbarian, it ultimately strives to say that there's no amount of dead bodies of the working class that is too high a price to pay if it means we Come Together And Get Something Done, Even If It Is A Dreadful Compromise Between the Fringe Right and Center Right Sorkin has a seething and open contempt for anybody to the left of Reagan and it permeates all his work, it's why the stuff he writes in direct reaction to it is so dreadful and pathetic. The man has nothing to offer you if you want good things in the world - his theory of power is that harming people by the scores of millions is okay if you don't have to see them and a lobbyist is telling you it's okay.
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also that's not how a dominionist would react to some affluent liberal scold trying to quote scripture at them lmfao, these people are deranged and have never interacted with somebody who isn't worth 6 figures whose opinions are decided by the highest bidder they've never read it, they don't give a poo poo, they just want to hurt and control people and bring back segregation, that's it, that's as deep as it goes and everything else is just worked backwards to that
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I've never watched The West Wing but I sure saw this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypsQO3dFiB8 A Wizard of Goatse has issued a correction as of 05:30 on Nov 13, 2019 |
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Nov 13, 2019 05:28
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Lil Peeler posted:I really don't understand where this gut reactionary hatred of the West wing comes from. check out The Worst Wing podcast, op. it's funny, and not unrelentingly critical, gives credit where it's due  Heath posted:Dave Anthony of the Dollop is doing a podcast called The West Wing Thing where they watch each episode in order and break down exactly why the politics are poo poo. They're worse than you remember, I promise. wtf, this is stolen valor
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I've never watched The West Wing but I sure saw this this is one of the most dreadful things ever created and it's the most perfect representation of how desperately the libs want to lick boot
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if you gulag'd every single person who finds that inspirational and they were never heard from again in any circumstance, it would result in fully automated luxury gay space communism every single time this mindset and these people are a cancer and they need cut out
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Nov 13, 2019 06:24
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Epic High Five posted:the problem most poll predictions had is that they assumed that whoever got the most votes wins, which is foolish, as no American alive today has ever been allowed to vote for the President Nonsense, five hundred thirty-eight people get to do it every single time.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I've never watched The West Wing but I sure saw this this is absolutely mind-breakingly hilarious
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Lil Peeler posted:Yeah and like I said, that doesn't really happen...there aren't a whole lot of moments in the show where people go "ah! I was wrong all along and now I will support you." shut the gently caress up, liberal
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i like the west wing
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Lil Peeler posted:Hell, there's even a scene where the Republican presidential candidate is asked to give lip service to Iowa ethanol subsidies, but looks at the script and says "gently caress it" because he knows it's a lie.
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Nov 13, 2019 11:46
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i lived with a guy who got really into the west wing around the time of the 2016 primaries. he went from being a relatively apolitical person to a hardcore hillary-was-robbed russiagate #resistance person after 11/9. the west wing rots your brain
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Nov 13, 2019 12:08
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The west wing was terrible Remember the jackal song? Thsts the cringiest poo poo ever
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM1Vt6MyKj0 what a fine public servant toby (and by extension bartlett) is
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Nov 13, 2019 12:35
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Libs are the worst loving guillotine for all of them
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Nov 13, 2019 12:38
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The only thing I recall about the West Wing is the scene with the cartographers. I would go a step further and say that world maps should be centered on the Pacific, since when you center on the Atlantic, a bunch of island chains are cut off, but a Pacific-centered map only cuts off Greenland and maybe the Azores.
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Aha, he didn’t say that he liked the characters on the west wing, just that he liked the show and it was accurate. Is there a good fictional president in modern media?
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Remulak posted:Aha, he didn’t say that he liked the characters on the west wing, just that he liked the show and it was accurate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwQzfS-Di98
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Remulak posted:Aha, he didn’t say that he liked the characters on the west wing, just that he liked the show and it was accurate. president bridget strand
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Remulak posted:Aha, he didn’t say that he liked the characters on the west wing, just that he liked the show and it was accurate. Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 
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Nov 13, 2019 15:30
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President Lone Starr, anyone?
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Feldegast42 posted:President Lone Starr, anyone? Only one man would give me the raspberry.
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Remulak posted:Aha, he didn’t say that he liked the characters on the west wing, just that he liked the show and it was accurate. The one from idiocracy
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ElGroucho posted:The west wing was terrible yes but dyk lagavulin? https://youtu.be/M7pebPV6274 sorkin is a hack.
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Remulak posted:Aha, he didn’t say that he liked the characters on the west wing, just that he liked the show and it was accurate. Kevin James in the hit film Pixels
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Serf posted:i lived with a guy who got really into the west wing around the time of the 2016 primaries. he went from being a relatively apolitical person to a hardcore hillary-was-robbed russiagate #resistance person after 11/9. the west wing rots your brain Sorry about the loss of your friend
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Remulak posted:Aha, he didn’t say that he liked the characters on the west wing, just that he liked the show and it was accurate. Everyday the president gets out of bed and yells at God in Latin until they take a poo poo, or so I've read.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I've never watched The West Wing but I sure saw this lol what the gently caress was that even about pointless inter-character drama > NO YOU SIT DOWN > sir, i love are troop (?) > dramatic success music and everyone sharing knowing smiles that scene went through like 4 different aesthetics and it was just complete nonsense. the dramatic music at the end felt forced like they were hoping you'd pick up the audio queue and go "oh yaas this character did a good thing" instead of "what the gently caress was any of that about"
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Remulak posted:Aha, he didn’t say that he liked the characters on the west wing, just that he liked the show and it was accurate.
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ElGroucho posted:The west wing was terrible this remains the only scene i've ever watched and i still don't understand why my dumbass ex made me watch it
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Call Your Grandma posted:the president character in Frost vs Nixon seemed like a pretty cool guy to me I mean it turned out that he was right about everything regarding presidential power
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Epic High Five posted:The one from idiocracy Pththya-lyi posted:Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho 
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Freaking Crumbum posted:lol what the gently caress was that even about also the sorkin staple of "fast talking super smart man tells off dumbass woman"
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Freaking Crumbum posted:lol what the gently caress was that even about it's about putting that stupid bitch flight attendant in her place for telling the disruptive passenger to sit down, obviously
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I've never watched The West Wing but I sure saw this
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