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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Also the movie True Lies, whose unflattering depiction of middle eastern terrorists turned out to be 100% correct https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR3xaeE7oLc Honestly, the terrorist is right about America there.
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MonsieurChoc posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR3xaeE7oLc who has taken the key
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System Metternich posted:Because when people think of the Raj they don't think of the real thing but what images pop culture has pressed into their brains: Maharajas riding on elephants through the jungle to hunt tigers, diamonds as big as your head glittering in the treasure chamber, sexy and mysterious belly dancers in the palace, some old dude summoning a snake from a basket with his flute, strange death cults hunting for virgin blood, a stoic British officer with a mustache and a pith helmet working for the common good of the people - for people who are still stuck in this mindset the Raj is something mysterious, and alluring, and sultry in both senses of the word and still cultured in a way a white person can appreciate. meanwhile in the actual Raj
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Back in 2000, there was a guy named Jerry Luke who won the mayorship of my old town. He ran because he was angry that his farm and land had been incorporated by the town, and he would have to start paying taxes, so he got together a bunch of his farmer buddies and launched a mayoral campaign in revenge. No one took him seriously, and as with most local elections, no one voted. So, he was the mayor. He hung out in his office in overalls and dirty tennis shoes. He spent his trip to our sister city in Germany drunk and shouting to random Germans about how he was the mayor and asking if they wanted to shake his hand. He didn't actually get anything done, including unincorporating the land his farm was on, but that was probably for the best. Jerry Luke lost reelection and died of a brain hemorrhage a couple years later.
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System Metternich posted:Because when people think of the Raj they don't think of the real thing but what images pop culture has pressed into their brains: Maharajas riding on elephants through the jungle to hunt tigers, diamonds as big as your head glittering in the treasure chamber, sexy and mysterious belly dancers in the palace, some old dude summoning a snake from a basket with his flute, strange death cults hunting for virgin blood, a stoic British officer with a mustache and a pith helmet working for the common good of the people - for people who are still stuck in this mindset the Raj is something mysterious, and alluring, and sultry in both senses of the word and still cultured in a way a white person can appreciate. That was pretty much the same depiction in the US, yeah. The only piece of media from when I was a kid that I remember calling out the Raj as an abusive system was one of the campaigns in Age of Empires III. Other than that it was all the same lazy orientalist bullshit
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vyelkin posted:imagine writing a story about literal children begging an 85-year-old to support climate change legislation and deciding the spin you want is to call the children Nazis The liberal media! The liberal media!
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she would just hang out on the set of girls as a PA because she couldn’t do anything a PA would normally do
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theflyingexecutive posted:she would just hang out on the set of girls as a PA because she couldn’t do anything a PA would normally do that sounds like it would have sucked
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:the dominant cultural depiction of the middle east before 9/11 was aladdin I'm not quite sure of that. Growing up in the nineties my main exposure to the middle east was seeing Saddam Hussein's picture at every hunting club/shooting range my uncle let me visit.
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May 1, 2020 02:41
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That time in 2016 when one of the centrist comedians (I think Samantha Bee) did a segment trying to rehabilitate Glenn Beck because he was so sane and reasonable compared to Trump
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I have a hard time imagining her doing that except as a joke
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Ellen rehabilitated GWB so basically anything is possible edit: it was that zizek moment, 'bleeding heart liberals say an enemy is just someone who's story we haven't heard - well I say the more I came to understand hitler the more he solidified as an actual enemy' given life
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taqueso posted:I have a hard time imagining her doing that except as a joke how long will you last before stopping https://youtu.be/wuSDfVRGI54
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Toph Bei Fong posted:Back in 2000, there was a guy named Jerry Luke who won the mayorship of my old town. That sounds like pretty much every small town mayoralty I've ever heard of, tbh 
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taqueso posted:I have a hard time imagining her doing that except as a joke https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/08/in-shocking-reversal-glenn-beck-tells-new-yorker-obama-made-me-a-better-man quote:Beck told the New Yorker he doesn’t speak like that any longer, that he’s become a different man. In particular, he said he regrets calling the president a racist. ...which made me suddenly remember quote:After Fox, Megyn Kelly Aims To Be a Force for Good
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AnoHito posted:That sounds like pretty much every small town mayoralty I've ever heard of, tbh that or its just the son of the guy who owns half the buildings in town
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taqueso posted:I have a hard time imagining her doing that except as a joke Lol just google sam bee Glenn beck. He was on the show and everything. E; fb
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Zoran posted:is there a conclusion to this story about a mobster's wife giving your sister roofies? we moved away shortly after that this was in Tenafly NJ btw, which was upper-upper middle class in the 90's also there was a whorehouse across the street, with a red light and everything my folks really hosed up that real estate adventure edit: oh I just remembered up the street was a Korean family and they kept undocumented workers there in the basement, we found out because they had panel vans showing up early in the morning and late at night every day and my mom called the police because it was "suspicious", so the cops raided the place and I don't know what happened after that; their daughter was one of my classmates Filthy Hans has issued a correction as of 13:18 on May 1, 2020 |
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:the dominant cultural depiction of the middle east before 9/11 was aladdin But Aladdin was actually set in Doki Doki China!!! 
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Ruffian Price posted:I think that was the time when Beck experimented with making himself more palatable to centrist audiences before falling right back into death cult grift gee i wonder what old glenn's been up to since that abrupt centrist turn???? quote:On May 18, 2018, on his radio show, Beck predicted Donald Trump would win the 2020 Presidential election in a "landslide", saying "Here's why I'm predicting a 2020 win. When I saw yesterday how the press was all reporting the same drat story – that Donald Trump was calling MS-13 gang members, they left that out of the story, 'animals' – they were spinning it as if he was saying that about all immigrants. I had enough. I've had enough ... Gladly, I'll vote for [President Trump] in 2020 and not really even on his record, which we'll talk about here in a second, is pretty drat amazing." Beck went on to say, "I'll vote for him in 2020", and donned a Make America Great Again hat on his television show.[133] quote:In 2020, Beck argued that the election of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders could lead to "another Holocaust."[144] quote:Beck said Trump's defeat in the 2020 election would be "the end of the country as we know it."[217] huh, wow, who would have thought
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vyelkin posted:huh, wow, who would have thought It's a good grift and I can't fault the guy for seeing if there was fresh meat on the dumb lib side to exploit too
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mr stone a few minutes ago you called me a "bitch" lol can't help but root for stone in this against the stuffed shirt law nerd
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Mantis42 posted:"Bernie hasn't even been vetted" This reminded me that Bernie, a 30-year veteran of congressional politics, four years after email leaks proved that the Democratic party was willing to do anything to prevent him from winning their party's nomination, campaigned again for the Democratic nomination and got to the part where he'd have to actually attack his only remaining opponent, a rapist with dementia who had an active hand in creating the student debt crisis the solution to which was a key plank in his campaign, and then he just decided that personal attacks were just a bridge he wasn't willing to cross.
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Oh well okay then I guess I don't need healthcare then, thanks Bernie
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Blaming Bernie for not devising a strategy to defeat an enemy that would do literally anything to prevent him from winning is some armchair quarterbacking that is "funny", and that I just remembered Honestly it reminds me of the feeling after those first few months of the Obama administration. Right at that transition between "We won! Hope and change!" and "What do you mean 'Closing Guantanamo is harder than you thought?'" Do you remember that feeling? I don't blame Bernie for losing to an opponent willing to do anything, including just subverting the process entirely if it came to that, just to prevent his victory. I blame him for not being willing to do everything when it was apparent from the outset that it would be necessary. The thing that made the Obama administration the pivotal disappointment it was wasn't the milquetoast centrist liberalism masquerading as incrementalist progress, it was the clearly articulated promises prior to that that it wouldn't be. It was the active betrayal. Bernie willing to present solutions without being willing to call his opponents part of the problem is a betrayal as well, even if it comes from a different place.
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The Democratic Party wooing suburban woman voters by building an entire edifice about how they were the party that believed women against the evil Republicans who were all sexual predators, only to end up running a rapist as their presidential candidate and now walking it back by saying yes well we didn't actually mean believe all women
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Milo and POTUS posted:PAradol ex was right Baquack Obamailure
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Milo and POTUS posted:PAradol ex was right I have to admit, it was a big surprise to me when 2-term President Mitt Romney handily beat Dem nominee Hillary Clinton in 2008, but PEX did call it from the beginning.
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