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VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.
Raping nazis is like killing hitler. It sounds like something OK to do, but if you look closer most people who did it were fascists and assholes.

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Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
aside from the rape apologia this discussion always leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it puts you in the position of being on the same side as nazis and also occurs suspiciously often, while it's just assumed a priori that we all know of and condemn nazi crimes and thus you have the odd effect that allied war crimes get talked about in detail more often than the nazi ones in internet discussions. i don't think anybody here is a crypto-nazi or anything, just an observation that witnessing discussions on various forums over the years leads to repeated patterns

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Pornographic Memory posted:

i don't think anybody here is a crypto-nazi or anything,

well not any more, at the moment :hmmyes:

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Was that rape advocate a nazi?

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
extremely reliable in producing takes indistinguishable from nazis, so what is the practical difference really :shrug:

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
The story "every woman in Berlin was raped by the commies!" is nazi propaganda

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
exempli gratia

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

they weren't actually "antifa" stickers according to the police report, just nazi stickers, but paranoid boomers out in the sticks are going to paranoid boom, and it is now pretty funny (to me) they think the leader of patriot front is the local antifa-in-chief

https://twitter.com/AntifaDFW/status/1290377056119926784
https://twitter.com/nickmartin/status/1290413735488569344

manlet

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

I don’t get the “and it was good!” angle they were going for, but I’m not wasting time thinking about a nazi’s motives.

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

ekuNNN posted:

also he was just repeating nazi propaganda

I'm not sure what you're referring to but it's widely accepted historical fact that there was an absolute shitload of rape in the initial occupation of Germany

Your Gay Uncle
Feb 16, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

cyfad posted:

Mein Mampf

Chow Mein Kampf

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

Jewel Repetition posted:

I'm not sure what you're referring to but it's widely accepted historical fact that there was an absolute shitload of rape in the initial occupation of Germany

I think it was the every women line.

every occupation has some rape so tomake your enemies worse you have to punch it up a bit

Mr Interweb
Aug 25, 2004

one of my favorite plot lines in the show Oz happened in the last season. one of the series' worst prisoners, a guy from the aryan brotherhood gets kicked out (cause of a dental procedure that had his gums replaced with that of a dead black guy), and because he made some enemies along the way, he's pretty much marked for death. in order to keep himself alive, he agrees to become a sex slave to another member of the AB. turns out that the guy he's getting protection from is an even more sadistic rapist than he was.

the reason i bring this up is cause even though the ex-AB dude was an absolute piece of poo poo who really deserved every bit of pain and humiliation he got, you still kind of feel for him, as he comes across being completely helpless and pitiful.

Mr Interweb has issued a correction as of 03:05 on Aug 5, 2020

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Mr Interweb posted:

a guy from the aryan brotherhood gets kicked out (cause of a dental procedure that had has gums replaced with that of a dead black guy)

Lol at this part

Mr Interweb
Aug 25, 2004

Jewel Repetition posted:

Lol at this part

yeah the best part is he brought it on himself. he needed gum surgery, so he went to the prison dentist who was middle eastern, and like a good nazi, he couldn't help but continuously make racial slurs, which pissed off the dentist. so in order to teach him a lesson, he replaced his gums with a dead black guy and paid another prisoner to spread the message throughout the prison.

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!
Dunno if this is an unpopular opinion, but I pushed through watching Oz for like three seasons, and it kinda.... sucked?
Great performances, sets etc.
But the writing was yikes. It ended up feeling like a soap opera.

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Grape posted:

Dunno if this is an unpopular opinion, but I pushed through watching Oz for like three seasons, and it kinda.... sucked?
Great performances, sets etc.
But the writing was yikes. It ended up feeling like a soap opera.

it was definitely more groundbreaking in the 90s

Mr Interweb
Aug 25, 2004

Grape posted:

Dunno if this is an unpopular opinion, but I pushed through watching Oz for like three seasons, and it kinda.... sucked?
Great performances, sets etc.
But the writing was yikes. It ended up feeling like a soap opera.

tbh, i felt like the series got worse as it went on, even though there were some storylines that i liked. it became a really, really weird show in many ways.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
I mean that sounds like a soap opera plot

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
Adebisi, though.

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
this is spoilers but lmfao at this career choice


Simon Adebisi is a fictional character played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on the HBO dramatic series Oz. Adebisi serves as one of the main characters in the first four seasons. After the first half of season four, his character was killed off the show so Akinnuoye-Agbaje could film the movie The Mummy Returns.

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

Adebisi, though.

gimme some TIIIIIIIIIIIIITS

Your Gay Uncle
Feb 16, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Grape posted:

Dunno if this is an unpopular opinion, but I pushed through watching Oz for like three seasons, and it kinda.... sucked?
Great performances, sets etc.
But the writing was yikes. It ended up feeling like a soap opera.

You have to remember that Oz was the first time network show runners got to do whatever the gently caress they wanted. So they went hard in the paint. They went from having to fight NBC for years to say "crap" after 9 p.m. to HBO saying " Sure, you can have a rape victim with a swastika burned on his rear end poo poo in a nazi's face".

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Grape posted:

Dunno if this is an unpopular opinion, but I pushed through watching Oz for like three seasons, and it kinda.... sucked?
Great performances, sets etc.
But the writing was yikes. It ended up feeling like a soap opera.

I don't really think that HBO shows got good until Deadwood came out.

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

Zeroisanumber posted:

I don't really think that HBO shows got good until Deadwood came out.

I haven't seen Deadwood yet, but uh... The Wire dude.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Grape posted:

I haven't seen Deadwood yet
Your loss.

spaceblancmange
Apr 19, 2018

#essereFerrari

There is a story line in Oz where they trial an aging drug on prisoners for reduced sentences. It probably wasn't even the dumbest thing in the later seasons either. Anyway enjoy this.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ReeceGoddard7/status/1283088387260461057

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

spaceblancmange posted:

There is a story line in Oz where they trial an aging drug on prisoners for reduced sentences. It probably wasn't even the dumbest thing in the later seasons either. Anyway enjoy this.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ReeceGoddard7/status/1283088387260461057

lmfaooooo holy poo poo I'm gonna go hump the fridge.

C2C - 2.0
May 14, 2006

Dubs In The Key Of Life


Lipstick Apathy
HBO had plenty of good programming prior to Deadwood. The Sopranos, Arliss, 6 Feet Under, Carnivale, Taxicab Confessions, The Larry Sanders Show, et. al.

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
I've tried watching Arliss so many times. can't get into it.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

I watched a few episodes of Deadwood but couldn't get over the homophobia

C2C - 2.0
May 14, 2006

Dubs In The Key Of Life


Lipstick Apathy

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

I've tried watching Arliss so many times. can't get into it.

Yeah, not for everybody. But it came out so long ago, I was much younger & thought it was funnier than hell.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

oz is one of those shows that hasn't held up particularly well, but it was definitely decent for its time and today's prestige tv owes a debt of gratitude to it for helping prove there's an audience for something darker than Law and Order.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Pornographic Memory posted:

aside from the rape apologia this discussion always leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it puts you in the position of being on the same side as nazis and also occurs suspiciously often, while it's just assumed a priori that we all know of and condemn nazi crimes and thus you have the odd effect that allied war crimes get talked about in detail more often than the nazi ones in internet discussions. i don't think anybody here is a crypto-nazi or anything, just an observation that witnessing discussions on various forums over the years leads to repeated patterns

That's why I have this kneejerk reaction to people talking about allied war crimes. It isn't exactly taking a pro nazi POV but it does show just how ignorant a lot of people are to just how deep the horrors of the nazi state were rooted in its very existence. That's what happens when a bunch of weirdo nerds who failed at basically everything else had to come up with an ideology that made them special by purely their birth, because that was the one thing they had.

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

I've tried watching Arliss so many times. can't get into it.

I watched one episode and it had a real strawman parody of a Black Activist on it. Also it seemed more about cigars than being a sports agent.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

I don’t understand why nazis think that talking about atrocities visited upon them by the winners of the war would draw people to their cause anyway. It makes them look like failures and vermin who invited their own destruction, but because of that weird rhetorical tic where they are simultaneously mighty supermen who deserve the world by right and blameless, hapless victims of the unscrupulous lesser races, they think it somehow justifies their violence and makes people sympathize with them. It’s extremely stupid, but so are nazis.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
:rip: in hell kris kobach, who just lost his senate primary. wannabe jorg haider rear end motherfucker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgYv64Q0zpQ

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

Azathoth posted:

oz is one of those shows that hasn't held up particularly well, but it was definitely decent for its time and today's prestige tv owes a debt of gratitude to it for helping prove there's an audience for something darker than Law and Order.

it's funny because it basically WAS law & order

also in the hasn't aged well but was really good and important bracket: sex and the city

Stefan Prodan
Jan 7, 2002

I deeply respect you as a human being... Some day I'm gonna make you *Mrs* Buck Turgidson!


Grimey Drawer

Mr Interweb posted:

tbh, i felt like the series got worse as it went on, even though there were some storylines that i liked. it became a really, really weird show in many ways.

i really loved the plot in the last season which involved the main characer and his nemesis playing macbeth and macduff in a prison production of macbeth and the suspense was like would one of them kill the other during the fight in the play by replacing their stage knives with real ones

i also appreciated that like oz was so much like a theatre production I liked the sort of implicit reference to macbeth being the cursed play where someone always dies if you perform it

Gringostar
Nov 12, 2016
Morbid Hound
a show that did age well though is queer as folk which iirc was out (lol) around the same time as oz

well, i mean besides the main character loving a high schooler in the first episode but past that it still holds up (except for the lesbians but they were always the worst part of the show)

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Mr Interweb
Aug 25, 2004

Stefan Prodan posted:

i really loved the plot in the last season which involved the main characer and his nemesis playing macbeth and macduff in a prison production of macbeth and the suspense was like would one of them kill the other during the fight in the play by replacing their stage knives with real ones

i also appreciated that like oz was so much like a theatre production I liked the sort of implicit reference to macbeth being the cursed play where someone always dies if you perform it

i liked how in the 5th season, the leader of the AB finds out the leader of the Italian gang killed his son (because he was paid off by the AB leader's nemesis) and the two gangs go to war, which lasts for like 2 episodes and is pretty much entirely forgotten

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