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pangstrom
Jan 25, 2003

Wedge Regret

big boi posted:

Can someone tell me what the gently caress the word "structural" is doing in Big Structural Bailey
I think it's a reference to her "big structural change" slogan.

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SlimGoodbody
Oct 20, 2003


I was going to goof on these dorks but then I clicked through to their posts and pitied them too much.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


The confusing part is why Bailey replaced change. There's no wordplay. It's not absurdist. It's just smashing two things together.

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

Kunster posted:

The problem with that post is that it's in context of a few crowds having designated "free therapist" friends where people just constantly dump everything on them, sometimes to the point where they spend most of their social life time hearing out their pals' issues and comforting them rather than...doing anything else.

Of course then it became framed as a general thing so it legit looks like one could deploy this to anything rather than handling several people who decided to dump a major venting post on your messages app all at once while you're bust with something else.
Why would you ever want to deal with anything in your life without resorting to indecipherable academic language?

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

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Groovelord Neato posted:

The confusing part is why Bailey replaced change. There's no wordplay. It's not absurdist. It's just smashing two things together.

"Big Structural Change Bailey," while it makes more sense, is too many syllables for a chant, and also Warren supporters are dreadfully dull

Hooplah
Jul 15, 2006


Groovelord Neato posted:

The confusing part is why Bailey replaced change. There's no wordplay. It's not absurdist. It's just smashing two things together.

imo thats exactly why it is absurd but the warrenfans definitely didnt do that on purpose

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1197141902044389379

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?
https://twitter.com/CHAPOTRAPHOUSE/status/1197201478986948609

sleeptalker
Feb 17, 2011

My guess for BSB is some overpaid consultant suggested Warren's campaign should have a mascot, and the resulting brainstorming session among her creative genius plan-makers, involving ideas like "her pet dog" and "our campaign slogans that barely get any play", produced the most illegible publicity stunt in recent history.

Say what you will about Buttigieg, at least he's sticking to tried-and-true CIA brainwashing techniques.

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?
the absolute most benefit of the doubt you could give them is that the big parade dog had to have structural integrity. but yeah it's just word salad/pastiche

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

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sleeptalker posted:

My guess for BSB is some overpaid consultant suggested Warren's campaign should have a mascot, and the resulting brainstorming session among her creative genius plan-makers, involving ideas like "her pet dog" and "our campaign slogans that barely get any play", produced the most illegible publicity stunt in recent history.

Say what you will about Buttigieg, at least he's sticking to tried-and-true CIA brainwashing techniques.

Is that why I'm seeing ten articles a day about how Pete has surged 10 points in every swing state in spite of all evidence to the contrary?

papa horny michael
Aug 18, 2009

by Pragmatica
The past debate twitch streams have been seriously lagging in engagement. I don't fault them for it, but c'mon give us something. get those red scare girls over

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?
The Iowa poll claiming Butt is at 25% is so funny. It's like 260 people and 90%+ have master's degrees

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

emdash posted:

The Iowa poll claiming Butt is at 25% is so funny. It's like 260 people and 90%+ have master's degrees

no that's the NH poll showing a rise for him, the Iowa one is the one where like near 50% surveyed were Republicans

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

papa horny michael posted:

The past debate twitch streams have been seriously lagging in engagement. I don't fault them for it, but c'mon give us something. get those red scare girls over

No.

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

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Mayor Pete surges to 92% among subjects polled at this Mayor Pete rally

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


sexpig by night posted:

no that's the NH poll showing a rise for him, the Iowa one is the one where like near 50% surveyed were Republicans

I was curious how a guy who never broke 5 percent nationally was suddenly leading in Iowa but was too lazy to check how.

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?

sexpig by night posted:

no that's the NH poll showing a rise for him, the Iowa one is the one where like near 50% surveyed were Republicans

Oh, whoops. Well they're both p bad then

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
When I talk to Democrats who are even older than me, something I've noticed getting repeated a lot is that they want someone who is "presidential" and "moderate." The first means a man who is old but not too old. The second means absolutely nothing.

So Buttigieg might not be the synthesis of Obama and Romney; he might be the synthesis of Obama and Kasich. He's too young, though, and he looks like Chucky.

AnEdgelord
Dec 12, 2016

papa horny michael posted:

The past debate twitch streams have been seriously lagging in engagement. I don't fault them for it, but c'mon give us something. get those red scare girls over

You know not what you ask

Kunster
Dec 24, 2006

Halloween Jack posted:

Why would you ever want to deal with anything in your life without resorting to indecipherable academic language?

I would suggest that the "template" was there so you could figure out a different way of saying, on your own words, what said indecipherable academic language. I'm sure that in the near future, someone is going to articulate the same matter in a less wordy (and admittedly emotionally detached) and talk about it on Street Fight or The Thrillbillies.

https://twitter.com/Random_Factor/status/1197164711378391042

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?

Halloween Jack posted:

When I talk to Democrats who are even older than me, something I've noticed getting repeated a lot is that they want someone who is "presidential" and "moderate." The first means a man who is old but not too old. The second means absolutely nothing.

So Buttigieg might not be the synthesis of Obama and Romney; he might be the synthesis of Obama and Kasich. He's too young, though, and he looks like Chucky.

Presidential also means that he never gets obviously angry, because it would give away that politics is more than a game that can always be arm's length

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Democracy dies in darkness.

https://twitter.com/davejorgenson/status/1196923421541781504

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005
i can respect the idea that big structural bailey is absurdist humor unintentionally, but HIGH HIGH HOPES FOR A MINUTE is far more absurdist

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Kunster posted:

I would suggest that the "template" was there so you could figure out a different way of saying, on your own words, what said indecipherable academic language. I'm sure that in the near future, someone is going to articulate the same matter in a less wordy (and admittedly emotionally detached) and talk about it on Street Fight or The Thrillbillies.

https://twitter.com/Random_Factor/status/1197164711378391042

the word exists, by the same person who came up with emotional labor, it's emotional work

Slanderer
May 6, 2007

Need to take the opportunity to repost something beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJdgErAfiRQ

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Shipon posted:

i can respect the idea that big structural bailey is absurdist humor unintentionally, but HIGH HIGH HOPES FOR A MINUTE is far more absurdist

Yeah it's hard dreaming up something more absurd than people getting amped up for an empty suit who tells you better things aren't possible.

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?
https://twitter.com/fyeahmfabello/status/1196464987193167872?s=20

like so many things on twitter, even if it had a kernel of truth (setting boundaries is good and necessary, at times), it was just a clout grab at heart

Dr. Killjoy
Oct 9, 2012

:thunk::mason::brainworms::tinfoil::thunkher:

papa horny michael posted:

The past debate twitch streams have been seriously lagging in engagement. I don't fault them for it, but c'mon give us something. get those red scare girls over

I swear last time they brought Nick Mullen to one they put him on a morphine drip to keep him from saying anything remotely problematic

Wish they recorded the time they riffed the debate on their live tour in Michigan because you’d at least have the reactions of normal people who weren’t expecting to be stuck in a bar with podcasters.

Slanderer
May 6, 2007
old felix is back

https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1197221476048494592

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

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No seriously what is going on in England

https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/1197226484483661824?s=21

Did Q become Prime Minister when I wasn’t paying attention?

The Dark Souls of Posters
Nov 4, 2011

Just Post, Kupo
So, like, I tried to read through the 1000+ tweets that person tweeted about appreciating a prefacing text asking to vent or w/e and couldn't.

Instead, I'll point out that if someone uses the term 'wellness' I'm going to be immediately skeptical.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Slanderer posted:

Need to take the opportunity to repost something beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJdgErAfiRQ

Is Hank shinji, or gendo??? Also has anyone made a bernie sanders evangelion opening yet?

sleeptalker
Feb 17, 2011

https://twitter.com/CatherineLenson/status/1197073358065717248

???????

sleeptalker
Feb 17, 2011

Corbyn is orthoepic for the win.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005


lol this is a few levels beyond getfiscal

Pharmaskittle
Dec 17, 2007

arf arf put the money in the fuckin bag

lol wait did Trump have a heart attack

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Alan Moore registered to vote for the first time in 40 years and said he is voting Labour

https://twitter.com/amber_moore/status/1197222203152052230?s=21

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

FlamingLiberal posted:

Alan Moore registered to vote for the first time in 40 years and said he is voting Labour

https://twitter.com/amber_moore/status/1197222203152052230?s=21

https://twitter.com/Amber_moore/status/1197228817313607680

:allears:

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Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


https://twitter.com/dril/status/1160112041832529920

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