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This is so goddamn irritating. My own grandpa was born in 1898. He literally fought in my country's fight for independence. After that point, he was a foundational figure in the rules of how our country ought to be. He shaped the army because he was a trainer for irish officers for about 50 years. And he was a profoundly civilized, kindly, sensible man. I only knew him when he was in his 70s/80s and he was a lovely, loveable man. He never expected to meet his grandchildren, and yeah, he did, all of them. He died in his 90's and he was an excellent man, and very much loved.
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Zeroisanumber posted:K. Put up a statue of Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo instead.
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Columbus was so much of a monster that 15th / 16th century Spain gave him the equivalent of a desk job away from the colonies when they found out about his atrocities, and then kicked him out of the kingdom later on. You know, the guys who conquered, enslaved, and killed most of the Americas afterwards
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“This thing that you grew up celebrating? Turns out it was actually bad.” Regular person: “woah yeah, that’s hosed up” Conservative: *masturbates furiously while erecting bigger and bigger statues of the thing while incoherently screaming*
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Put up a statue of Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo instead. I would be 300% ok with an exhibit about MST3K in the History Center. Joel actually came to a class that I took when I was a kid about inventions and engineering and he was great because his whole presentation was about how inventions can just be fun stuff that you make to make yourself and other people laugh. I think this was about the time that he was just starting to get his show off the ground on KITN.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I would be 300% ok with an exhibit about MST3K in the History Center. Hell, the whole Invention Exchange thing from early MST3K was based on Joel's old standup act if I recall correctly (he was more of a prop comic).
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tek79 posted:I'm not sure if there's any other country with the equivalent of what's happening in the U.S. but things have been getting even creepier with regard to flag waving. I know it's been mentioned here before but a lot of right-wingers aren't even flying the actual American flag anymore. It's some variant of "TRUMP" and blue lives matter, in that order and the in-your-face fascists (usually the younger chuds) are putting up American flag Punisher skulls. My wife and I took our son to the local lake on Memorial Day to splash around for a bit. We go to an area that's popular with weekend campers. After we were there a while another family pulled in beside us and set up camp. When they were done, the guy proudly raised a Trump flag onto his trailer camper that features an idealized/muscular Trump holding a machine gun equipped with an RPG. No actual American flag anywhere. The notion that he was flying the flag of a guy who notoriously dodged the Vietnam draft was being flown in lieu of an American flag on the very day we honor our dead soldiers didn't ever occur to this guy. And this isn't any isolated incident. Deep in chudville here it's becoming the norm. The guy up the street from us flies an upside-down flag because he thinks Biden is an illegitimate usurper. This. Where do you live if you don't mind me asking? All this flag poo poo is just taking on a more aggressive stance. And the ole red, white n' blue just aint cuttin it no more. I work for a sign and graphics company and we get a ton of flag wraps and poo poo. They should just pre-install that poo poo at the factory but everyone needs a different stripe/color combination. Also, pretty sure it's not just in my head but these motherfuckers are DRIVING way more aggressively - and just being aggressive in general - but you can REALLY sense it on the roads. No idea what it is about this one born rich draft dodger celebrity failed businessman adulterer thrice divorced porn star fucker from NYC that captured their hearts and minds but all I can figure is that he's as stupid as they are and acts exactly how they would if they were rich or became president.
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Where I live people go nuts with the state flag, but in our defense Maryland’s flag is pretty dope. Only thing I’ve seen close traveling is the Texas flag, and I can’t help but feel it’s flown by the same people going all red/white/blue.
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Good lord, how many Maryland flags can be in your field of vision before you have a seizure
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Canada is the only country I've seen with as many flags as the US Our conservative parties increasingly really, really want to be the States and are quite happy to borrow the use of flags and stickers, yeah. It's unpleasant! I have no defense other than to say 'it's newer and I hope it goes away'. But you still don't see 'Canadian exceptionalism' or the belief that Canada is Just Different and things that work elsewhere won't work here invoked by media and (non-far-right) politicians in quite the same way, and I hope that stays firmly absent.
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I live in deep red rural Missouri and the Trump flags were ubiquitous up to the election. Now most have been replaced by Gadsdens and blue lines, but you will see at least a few of those in any normal neighborhood here. Every block had one house with multiple Maga 2020 flags like papering the front of the house. Plenty of rebel flags too. Last summer I did see the buff machine gun trump flag not on my block but in my neighborhood, flying from an actual real flagpole in the yard like 15 feet high.
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There's a house here that flies one of those lovely Blue Lives Matter single blue stripe flag instead of an American flag and I hate it so much, I honestly hate it even more than all the blue Trump 2020 flags and the occasional Trump Train flag that I see everywhere. I haven't seen the buff Trump with gun flag fortunately, though now that I've said that I'll probably see it in the next couple of days.Larryb posted:Hell, the whole Invention Exchange thing from early MST3K was based on Joel's old standup act if I recall correctly (he was more of a prop comic). That's correct from what I remember, they also carried it into the Mike era a bit when TV's Frank was still around but either when he left or when they moved to Sci Fi and Pearl became the villain they got rid of it.
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At the intersection of I 64 and I 295 east of Richmond, the country gently caress who lives there put up a huge flagpole and is flying a monstrous* confederate flag. Stickin' it to the libs, I'm sure. *in size as well as morally.
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BiggerBoat posted:This. I'm in AZ, in a fairly rural unincorporated community outside of Phoenix, to the north. Our 15 minutes of Covid fame was when a t-shirt store owner drew a gun on a guy who wore a mask inside his shop near the height of our outbreak. And yeah, the driving things checks out here as well. It seemed worse during the campaign though, when they'd actually have Trump flag caravans on Friday nights and they'd all gather somewhere first and slow roll their oversized Fords through town. They all kind of feed off of each other and turn into even bigger assholes when they're together. I guess fascists do that. For anybody who hasn't yet Googled the Rambo Trump flag. I wouldn't say this is the most common thing, but I've seen a good number of them out in the wild. Totally not a cult, though. 
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Feldegast42 posted:Columbus was so much of a monster that 15th / 16th century Spain gave him the equivalent of a desk job away from the colonies when they found out about his atrocities, and then kicked him out of the kingdom later on. You know, the guys who conquered, enslaved, and killed most of the Americas afterwards this. he was a loving moron and a super rapist murder psycho in his own times and europe was full of monsters like that had kings sanctions. you had to be really hosed to get desk job. Pookah posted:This is so goddamn irritating. My own grandpa was born in 1898. He literally fought in my country's fight for independence. After that point, he was a foundational figure in the rules of how our country ought to be. He shaped the army because he was a trainer for irish officers for about 50 years. your grandpa sounds like he was a cool dude. Danknificent posted:I live in deep red rural Missouri and the Trump flags were ubiquitous up to the election. Now most have been replaced by Gadsdens and blue lines, but you will see at least a few of those in any normal neighborhood here. Every block had one house with multiple Maga 2020 flags like papering the front of the house. Plenty of rebel flags too. i live in purplish red part of PA and i see more pro cop poo poo then trump stuff now but when i do see trump poo poo. its usually with like 30 other trump signs. on the route i go to the gym at there lovely farm area with a giant American flag and its surrounded with trump banners, the flag is now upside down.
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tek79 posted:I'm in AZ, in a fairly rural unincorporated community outside of Phoenix, to the north. Our 15 minutes of Covid fame was when a t-shirt store owner drew a gun on a guy who wore a mask inside his shop near the height of our outbreak. And yeah, the driving things checks out here as well. It seemed worse during the campaign though, when they'd actually have Trump flag caravans on Friday nights and they'd all gather somewhere first and slow roll their oversized Fords through town. They all kind of feed off of each other and turn into even bigger assholes when they're together. I guess fascists do that. Fash are all cowards and cowards only get courage when they outnumber people. So yeah, if you get a load of them together in their trucks with their trump poo poo and they start feeling tough and wanting to bully people because that's what they do. Here in the US they also tend to be people who think that consequences only happen to other people so that's how you get weird poo poo like that one idiot getting domed by the Pinkerton or that stupid woman at the Capitol who kept pushing even when cops had their guns drawn down on her.
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I hate Trump so much but this is so over the top it makes me lol. I feel like there was a missed opportunity, they should have added a street sign in the background that said “Fifth Ave”. And why did they have to use such a sad, droopy picture of Trump? Anyone who’s good at Photoshop want to try putting a different Trump head on like the one from when he was serving McDonald’s at the White House?
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MrUnderbridge posted:At the intersection of I 64 and I 295 east of Richmond, the country gently caress who lives there put up a huge flagpole and is flying a monstrous* confederate flag. Stickin' it to the libs, I'm sure. There’s another one of these at the intersection of I-4 and I-75 in Tampa. But that one’s been there since Obama.
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Brawnfire posted:Good lord, how many Maryland flags can be in your field of vision before you have a seizure I've been there. You don't have a seizure, it's just like walking through a 90's video game and the background matte/parallax texture fails to load correctly. Edit: there's a thin blue line/fop sign on the highway here and every time I notice it I get angry.
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Feldegast42 posted:Columbus was so much of a monster that 15th / 16th century Spain gave him the equivalent of a desk job away from the colonies when they found out about his atrocities, and then kicked him out of the kingdom later on. You know, the guys who conquered, enslaved, and killed most of the Americas afterwards Imagine being a genocidal fuckhead so bad that other genocidal fuckheads want nothing to do with you. And yet he still has his stupid Holiday in this country.
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King of Foolians posted:I hate Trump so much but this is so over the top it makes me lol. I feel like there was a missed opportunity, they should have added a street sign in the background that said “Fifth Ave”. The Trump & Romney https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=trump+romney+dinner
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Brawnfire posted:Good lord, how many Maryland flags can be in your field of vision before you have a seizure idk. i don't "hate" the maryland flag because its such weird poo poo. like its two inbred family crests slammed together. most other flags are just some greek/roman imagery or some version of the stars and stripes.
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Doctor Butts posted:Edit: there's a thin blue line/fop sign on the highway here and every time I notice it I get angry. Seriously, gently caress FOP I'm a Dapper Dan man.
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I know this is just a rip-off of a Rambo photo, but it feels apropos that they would stick Trump on it. There's an RPG round stuffed in his machine gun and a Soviet attack helicopter in the background because we all know who big-diaps really works for.
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BiggerBoat posted:No idea what it is about this one born rich draft dodger celebrity failed businessman adulterer thrice divorced porn star fucker from NYC that captured their hearts and minds but all I can figure is that he's as stupid as they are and acts exactly how they would if they were rich or became president. He proved once and for all that people will vote for a complete fool with no driving principles other than power and greed. And since they assume everyone else is just as corrupt and craven as they are, they know that all Democrat politicians are complete fools with no driving principles other than power and greed too! Q. E. motherfuckin D. tek79 posted:I'm in AZ, in a fairly rural unincorporated community outside of Phoenix, to the north. Our 15 minutes of Covid fame was when a t-shirt store owner drew a gun on a guy who wore a mask inside his shop near the height of our outbreak. And yeah, the driving things checks out here as well. It seemed worse during the campaign though, when they'd actually have Trump flag caravans on Friday nights and they'd all gather somewhere first and slow roll their oversized Fords through town. They all kind of feed off of each other and turn into even bigger assholes when they're together. I guess fascists do that. uugggghhhh this literally hits too close to home as my parents just moved out of a little "development" near Central and the Carefree Highway. They fell in love with the view when they toured a model home about 15 years ago and then the place chudded the gently caress out (higher than the normal concentration in Phoenix) with the added benefit of being "developed" by the shadiest bunch of shell-game/nesting-doll/constantly busting and reincorporating contractors I've ever seen. They had to do so much work on their house over the 15 years they had it, just fixing dumb poo poo forever (ducts not hooked up to anything, AC didn't work right for 10 years, pool was hosed forever, etc.) and the inspector when they went to sell found another $30k they had to do (the deck was in danger of falling off, plus other stuff). No chance finding anyone who did any of the original work as they all went out of business about 2 years after they bought the place (but the individuals ran about 3 other companies in the meantime until they lost track of them). It was unincorporated land so they had to pay for the roads to be put in themselves, but everyone had their own contract with the waste collectors so the garbage trucks drove through the neighbourhood every single day which tore the hell out of the roads. They were all on wells which dried up every 5 years or so but nobody wanted to pony up as a group to build the pipe to get municipal water because they're all house-flipping psychos who just want to stick someone else with the bill. Then some genius bought this huge strip of land between the freeway and all the houses and cleared all the brush off of it so there's a ton more road noise now as there's nothing between them. This guy's big plan was to sell the lot to Best Buy or Target or another big retail store but they were completely uninterested when they learner there were no power or water connections (because it was unincorporated). Just a little microcosm of libertarian dickheads loving each other over in a little corner of the desert. Sorry for the rant, I hope you're a little farther out and know your neighbors a bit better than my folks did.
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While I was watching dumb video game youtube videos the site decided that in the middle of watching people play Mario I should be given a 57 minute "ad" which was a show called "Right On" with Stephen Kent. I watched about five minutes of it (five minutes more than I should have, I know) purely because I was curious what this dork's angle was and it was so bizarre. He I guess claimed to be a libertarian and "free thinker" and all that jazz but the weird part was him claiming that he didn't understand other libertarians and Republicans because all of them are pro-immigration and soft on crime, and that Republican politicians are "asleep at the wheel of government" by holding those positions. I mean, I get we make the "Democrats are right wing" jabs in this forum and if he was just using the term "right wingers" then I'd make them to, but he specifically said it was mainstream Republicans and libertarians that were pro-immigration/not tough on crime. He then introduced a guest, an Indian man who's name I can't remember (started with an S) who he claimed was fairly prominent in right wing circles, they talked a bit about his life and how he became right wing and he mentioned that for grades 9 through 12 his parents moved back to India and so he spent those years there as a teenager, where he said that "the rampant problems caused by immigration and the resulting crime is what took me down the road to nationalism" and that's the part where I skipped the ad.
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I saw this in the YOSPOS bitcoin thread and it belongs here too. https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/1404958629430767618 So for one thing: this involves a Fox affiliate station, not Fox News and not necessarily Newscorp. Two, the big scandal is she said she wanted to do a report on bitcoin and her boss went "Nah, our five o'clock audience isn't really interested in that." Three, lol at Glenn Greenwald retweeting loving Project Veritas.
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But how is their audience supposed to pay for child porn and online narcotics orders if the local news doesn't talk about Bitcoin? Also, I happened to hear an ad for Newsmax on the radio today, and it was one of the most insane things I've ever heard. It was basically "UFO's are a sign from Jesus... Newsmax is real news for real people!", so I'm not sure how anyone is supposed to take it seriously.
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I'm a tad late on this but: Breaking news from Chicago as a huge turd flushes itself. https://twitter.com/CrainsChicago/status/1406012779761487876?s=19 (I know, it's in the midst of the usual VC mass layoffs, but it still feels good knowing we may not have to deal with Kass and his horrendous opinions for a bit.)
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Today while listening to Ben Shapiro on the radio he had to keep interrupting his segments for ads, but all the ads are just for Daily Wire. He's literally keeping himself on the radio by having his website buy the ads, it's hilarious. Also apparently there's a conservative comedian on his site too offering CHAZ's funniest home videos and one can only imagine how awful they must be. Imagine of course because, lol, I'm not looking that up.
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HootTheOwl posted:Today while listening to Ben Shapiro on the radio he had to keep interrupting his segments for ads, but all the ads are just for Daily Wire. He's literally keeping himself on the radio by having his website buy the ads, it's hilarious. It's so wild how weirdly hollow the wingnut welfare structure is. How can Shapiro be both a top link on facebook and struggling so hard for legitimate income?
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:It's so wild how weirdly hollow the wingnut welfare structure is. How can Shapiro be both a top link on facebook and struggling so hard for legitimate income? He's astroturfed all to hell and gone.
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He tried being anti-Trump early on, and it didn’t pay, so Little Ben had to start sucking up to Donnie. Would be cool if his backers are starting to see him as a bad investment. They’ll find someone else but seeing Ben’s life destroyed is a decent consolation prize.
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