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Rosalind posted:In NYC you can experience: I haven't been to NYC in a while, do the Scientologists still set up their "personality test" table in the Times Square subway station? And I definitely remember a street preacher with a platform/loudspeaker combo somewhere between Times Square and Penn Station when I was trying to get home on 9/11 and the subways were only partially running. No idea if that was a regular fixture or he brought them out special since the streets were pretty empty.
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Edge & Christian posted:I live like ten blocks from where this video was shot and that side of the block is literally, door to door: These is fighting words...
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The Jehovah's Witnesses typically park in Newark Penn across the water. I watched someone in a full veil creep them out once by going "No but can I interest you in the word of Allah?"
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DeathChicken posted:The Jehovah's Witnesses typically park in Newark Penn across the water. I watched someone in a full veil creep them out once by going "No but can I interest you in the word of Allah?" I really dig their move to poster and panphlet stands. Outside of city hall, blocks from the WTC they have had some great posters like "Are you ready for the next disaster?" As if it is gonna be a government PSA.
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The Jehovahs witness were everywhere when I was in NYC this past weekend. I couldn’t even escape them in Chinatown they had recruited mandarin speakers.
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TVs Ian posted:I haven't been to NYC in a while, do the Scientologists still set up their "personality test" table in the Times Square subway station? The preachers love to hang out (portable PA cranked up to 11 and all) in that long walkway tunnel between the 8th ave and 7th ave sides of the Times Square subway station. And if it’s not Scientologists on the 8th ave end it’s the Hare Krishnas handing out Bhagavad Gitas.
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half cocaine posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-george-soros-jewish.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share This wouldn't be a surprising thing for Trump to say, but I'm a little concerned that Trump's handlers have all lost their loving minds by this point and are spouting ZOG conspiracies lifted from Stormfront.
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osker posted:These is fighting words... I am very glad Alpine Cinema is in my neighborhood, but it is not a high end theater. To keep this Trump/USPOL related here is the "Trump Voters? In Brooklyn??" Vice piece. The Salty Dog bar from the video is a Firefighter bar that shifted its clientele focus to cops after one too many drunken FDNY brawls. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Dec 24, 2019 |
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Dec 24, 2019 16:09
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T. Bombastus posted:I live in a neighborhood that is technically on the south side of Chicago (in that it is geographically south of downtown). In the four years I've lived here, I've never been the victim of crime, and have only very rarely felt less than totally safe. South Loop, Bridgeport, Beverly, or Hyde Park?
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What up USPOL, I made a holiday kvetch zone thread in GBS for your “please make this all over” needs. Vent about lovely chud relatives, capitalism sucking life out of holidays, and Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey here.
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Robot dick thread in case that issue comes up again and there's a derail. I haven't kept up with it as much since my daughter was born last week but there's obviously a lot going on right now. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3900149
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What I find especially amusing and hypocritical about them whining about the call to prayer is that the evangelical preacher assaulting people with a megaphone, screaming in their ears at a literally painful volume about how they are sinners and fornicators, is a prominent fixture of moderate sized southern cities. To the point that everyone knows their name "Oh dammit, Preacher Jahn is back again? gently caress."
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Plus this is the season where every time you step into a store there's a good chance they're playing songs about Jesus over the PA.
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celebrate the birth of are lord and savior jesus christ by saving $5500 off the msrp of a honda accord for returning customers
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In some Pakistani cities you get a competition between the various mosques about whose loudest- like who has the biggest speakers. It’s really annoying.
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Did we ever figure out what the hell the Space Force is supposed to do? I found an editorial extolling the virtues of militarizing space, and I'm still real confused.quote:The United States Space Force will ensure that no unfriendly power can impede these activities through military attack. The new service branch will have to be so strong and capable that no other country would think of trying to bring fire and destruction to American and allied space infrastructure.
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Trivia posted:Unless it's Ramadan and they play the call to prayer at 4am and wake all the dogs. That you definitely notice. ٱلصَّلَاةُ خَيْرٌ مِنَ ٱلنَّوْمِ
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Did we ever figure out what the hell the Space Force is supposed to do? I found an editorial extolling the virtues of militarizing space, and I'm still real confused. The same things it's been doing for years, since we already have space forces. They've just never gone by that name before or had this specific organization.
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Craig K posted:celebrate the birth of are lord and savior jesus christ by saving $5500 off the msrp of a honda accord for returning customers Keep Honda in Happy Honda days
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It’s supposed to shovel more money into defense contractors gaping maws.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Did we ever figure out what the hell the Space Force is supposed to do? I found an editorial extolling the virtues of militarizing space, and I'm still real confused. I'm here for the argument that existential threats to humanity are a very real danger warranting the creation of a new military branch, and ANY EXPENSE is justified toward that goal But climate change is just a consipracy by greedy Chinese scientists
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The space force is basically taking all the space operations performed by the Air Force and putting them into a separate branch with a stupid name and making them less efficient.
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Jows posted:South Loop, Bridgeport, Beverly, or Hyde Park? They've convinced a whole demographic that the city is a war zone, and my lived experience is meaningless in the face of their scaremongering. Even my dad is clearly hesitant to leave the Loop when he comes to visit, and he's someone who prides himself on "listening to both sides" (then voting for the Republicans every time).
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https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1209496197070807042 https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1207802600063668233
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Did we ever figure out what the hell the Space Force is supposed to do? I found an editorial extolling the virtues of militarizing space, and I'm still real confused. Resume padding so that Turnip can point to some sort of "accomplishment" being done while in office.
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Dr Christmas posted:It'll be incel poo poo and freaking out about "forced diversity" in video games and comic book movies. Gamergate will the the new War on Christmas. Steve Bannon is probably the one old, rich guy who figured that out, and he got too full of himself and alienated from the greater part of the right wing. Most old white assholes have a contempt for video games that prevents them from seeing a potential market. Oh man the easy thread between Gamergate and the kind of talking points the alt-right love to use is a perfect feeding tool for getting a certain kind of younger male to vote Republican in coming elections who otherwise probably wouldn't vote at all cause they just plain don't care about anything beyond their personal entertainment sphere. I had assumed they were already toying around with it seeing as gamers online since about 2014 can no longer STFU about the "forced diversity" and gender roles thing you talk about and are increasingly coming across like a gaggle of chauvinistic weird sex perverts in their contributions to the likes of Twitch and various other gaming hubs. It's like this mass paranoia event almost if you visit places like Gamefaqs or corners of Reddit where they are convinced and want to convince you that some formless "SJW" conspiracy with apparently tremendous influence is waiting right around the corner to take away all your favorite video games, "ruin" your favorite female characters (by I guess depicting them as something beyond a sexual object of desire. Google "Tifa Lockhart" and "Censorship" if you want to go down the rabbit hole of paranoia and I guess concern trolling as an example from this year alone) and that some low level developers/political activists like Anita Sarkeesian are the shadowy George Soros figure just waiting to pull the trigger unless everyone.....I guess.....keeps shitposting and raising awareness about it. They've never been quite clear on what exactly the counterpoint to this apparent imminent (for the last 5 years no less) implosion and transformation of gaming by the "SJWs" is supposed to be, but they'll drat well tell you about it at length and throw random hissy fits. I don't think that was ever the point though obviously. I've kind of come to assume a decent chunk of the white noise that always surrounds video game "controversies" just is political operatives forcing it as a wedge issue for future exploitation as it just seems to deliberate, targeted in talking points, and omni-present within various gaming hubs to just be the general gamer public drumming this poo poo up for every major release or turn of the video game industry. Ditto all the poo poo like with Captain Marvel, Star Wars etc. but there you literally saw the likes of Donald Trump Jr. jumping in to try to fan the flames as if I'm supposed to believe DTJ gives solitary loving poo poo about the whole MCU thing. The right recognizes it as a tool for spreading memes like "Trump is Thanos, watch out Libs", but they don't give a poo poo about it beyond shaping cheap short term political sentiment goals that I can promise. Anyway I wouldn't count out the GOP and it's propaganda machine on this one just because they're old and white and most of them have never touched a video game in their life. They could easily outsource it to some Conservative think tank group or a Cambridge Analytica type outfit to find ways to exploit weird poo poo incel gamer types.
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Deptfordx posted:Just read wiki. Lol Someone's got to get in there and push him without being killed/permanently disabled by the sight of his naked body.
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"I never said that, I never did that, i'm innocent, i've never done anything wrong in my life. Any further questions?" *in unison* "No, sir!"
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Revelation 2-13 posted:Since the space force is a trump thing, it’s a safe bet to imagine the worst possible thing it could be doing, and that’ll be it. America is setting up rods from God as a backup plan for when unilateral nuclear disarmament finally becomes impossible to put off with the impending absolute necessity of transitioning to nuclear energy for the 21st century energy needs.
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Shifty Pony posted:What I find especially amusing and hypocritical about them whining about the call to prayer is that the evangelical preacher assaulting people with a megaphone, screaming in their ears at a literally painful volume about how they are sinners and fornicators, is a prominent fixture of moderate sized southern cities. To the point that everyone knows their name "Oh dammit, Preacher Jahn is back again? gently caress." Yeah, I find there's a lot of difference between a call to prayer and pastor Bob out shouting at everyone through a megaphone about how they're all filthy wastes going to hell and ruining everyone's day.
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T. Bombastus posted:Haha yeah Bridgeport. I don't own a car, which probably cuts down on my chances of being crimed. I have bad news for you. "Listening to both sides" is a popular cover among republicans to look like they're reasonable people when really any dissenting opinion is just background noise Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1209496197070807042 You know if this had been Obama there'd be right wingers storming the gates repeatedly to lynch him from the White House porch
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Did we ever figure out what the hell the Space Force is supposed to do? I found an editorial extolling the virtues of militarizing space, and I'm still real confused. it's just a bureaucratic reorganization which has had some momentum behind it for years. it doesn't create anything new, it just takes a chunk of responsibilities from the air force and moves it into its own military command structure. this is kind of a good idea because as military space stuff becomes more important (think: spy satellites, tracking satellites, tracking objects in space, managing space resources like the GPS system and military weather sats) then all the space responsibilities should probably be in its own independent branch rather than as an ever larger sub-responsibility of the air force. where all this stuff used to fall under space command, a branch of the air force, the space force now exists as its own thing adjacent to the air force, and air force and space force are lumped together.it is all extraordinarily boring organizational and policy setting blah blah blah trump just stamped his name all over it, like he does everything, and is trying to make it like he invented the idea of going to space because he desperately needs a win and because public awareness about the military's role with space is so low, it can easily be puffed up to be like trump is militarizing space and this is a good thing somehow really the only thing different now is that the folks sitting around at NORAD have different uniforms Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Dec 24, 2019 |
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UnknownTarget posted:The space force is basically taking all the space operations performed by the Air Force and putting them into a separate branch with a stupid name and making them less efficient. And so Trump can say that he started a new branch despite the fact nobody in AFSC (Air Force Space Command) wants it
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SocketWrench posted:Yeah, I find there's a lot of difference between a call to prayer and pastor Bob out shouting at everyone through a megaphone about how they're all filthy wastes going to hell and ruining everyone's day. Weird question, but where was your Pastor Bob? Oklahoma State University (Stillwater) had one who would shout at folk every day from the lawn in front of the student union two decades ago. This is the kind of thing I imagine drat near every public university has. Like a loving twitter troll in the flesh, daring non-believers to step up and DeBaTe HiM or whatever. Most obnoxious thing I ever saw in my life.
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xov posted:Weird question, but where was your Pastor Bob? Oklahoma State University (Stillwater) had one who would shout at folk every day from the lawn in front of the student union two decades ago. This is the kind of thing I imagine drat near every public university has. I was told those people were looking for an excuse to sue the college, but the ones at my college usually were dumb and blocked doorways or something they gave them an excuse to be removed.
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