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CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

You know, I've always been curious why he hasn't been in any of the Expendables movies. They seem like exactly the kind of poo poo flick I would expect to see him in.

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duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

seagal had to leave the country because he got caught kidnapping sex slaves

# ? Nov 13, 2021 03:28

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

lmao from his wikipedia page

In 2017, Seagal collaborated with former chair of the Arizona Republican Party, Tom Morrissey, in writing a self-published conspiracy thriller novel, The Way of the Shadow Wolves: The Deep State And The Hijacking Of America, which featured a Tohono Shadow Wolf tracker working for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to foil a plot by Mexican drug cartels and the "deep state" to smuggle in Islamist terrorists to the United States through the U.S.-Mexico border.

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CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Yeah, see, batshit nazi fanfic like that is why russia can keep him.

# ? Nov 13, 2021 03:43

Panfilo: Aug 27, 2011; EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

You know, I've always been curious why he hasn't been in any of the Expendables movies. They seem like exactly the kind of poo poo flick I would expect to see him in.

I thought he was the bad guy in one of them? I know he played the villain in Machete.

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skipmyseashells: Nov 14, 2020

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Yeah, see, batshit nazi fanfic like that is why russia can keep him.

the constitution is also batshit nazi fanfic but it�s allowed to stay in the states, that�s kinda unfair IMO

# ? Nov 13, 2021 03:54

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Panfilo posted:

I thought he was the bad guy in one of them? I know he played the villain in Machete.

Apparently not. And there's a fourth Expendables coming out next year, so maybe he'll make a cameo.

skipmyseashells posted:

the constitution is also batshit nazi fanfic but it’s allowed to stay in the states, that’s kinda unfair IMO

Valid point, but you also could have said Clancy instead of the constitution and it would have been much more relative of a parallel.

# ? Nov 13, 2021 03:57

stringless: Dec 28, 2005; keyboard ⌨️ cowboy

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

You know, I've always been curious why he hasn't been in any of the Expendables movies. They seem like exactly the kind of poo poo flick I would expect to see him in.

or the RED series

he'd be all about the "Extremely Dangerous" but probably balked at "Retired"

# ? Nov 13, 2021 04:01

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Oh god, I forgot about Red. Senior citizens action squad.

I feel like the last thing I enjoyed by Bruce Willis was The Whole Nine Yards, and that was mostly because of Matthew Perry and Amanda Peet.

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Professor Shark: May 22, 2012

Young Me will never forget seeing Amanda Peet's boobs.

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Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Oh god, I forgot about Red. Senior citizens action squad.

I feel like the last thing I enjoyed by Bruce Willis was The Whole Nine Yards, and that was mostly because of Matthew Perry and Amanda Peet.

I loving love that movie.

# ? Nov 13, 2021 04:25

The Nastier Nate: May 22, 2005; All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!; Yams Fan

Professor Shark posted:

Young Me will never forget seeing Amanda Peet's boobs.

she was great in saving silverman which i feel was an underrated 2000s comedy

# ? Nov 13, 2021 04:27

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Saving Silverman was good. R Lee Ermey getting gay married at the end at a Neil Diamond concert is a chef's kiss. You just know it pissed some of his fans off, and he didn't give the slightest poo poo.

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Casey Finnigan: Apr 30, 2009; Dumb ✔
So goddamn crazy ✔

quote:

Gino Felino is the main protagonist in the 1991 action-thriller film Out for Justice. He is portrayed by Steven Seagal

Gino Felino is a man who grew up in Brooklyn, New York. When he was a boy, he had some friends like Bobby Lupo and Frankie. Gino lived in the neighborhood in Brooklyn of Italian-Americans who he is one, too. He was raised by his mother and father. His dad would help out people, he even sharpened some kids scissors for some years till later on people would start buying disposable scissors and later felt he lost his purpose and die of a broken heart.

Casey Finnigan has issued a correction as of 05:36 on Nov 13, 2021

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Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Segal had to flee the US or risk prosecution for the crime of Grand Theft Birthday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfNW1ERej0A

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Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

A Bakers Cousin posted:

hackers burning peoples homes down because someone decided to put bluetooth on an oven is a cool timeline

Almost literally the plot of the 1984 movie Runaway with Tom Selleck. Except it was people being stabbed to death by household robots instead of lame whitegoods.

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Dustcat: Jan 26, 2019

spotted in my newsfeed this morning

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lobsterminator: Oct 16, 2012

Dustcat posted:

spotted in my newsfeed this morning

It's always hard to accommodate both visual capitalists and aural capitalists. We all consume in such different ways.

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Fame Douglas: Nov 20, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Wow, didn't realize Google Chrome had so many different logos!

# ? Nov 13, 2021 15:01

30.5 Days: Nov 19, 2006

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Seagal running off to Russia just lols all around. They can keep him.

Not even a cop in a lot of movies. Wasn't he a doctor in Death Wish?

Bronson is rolling in his grave over that remake.

In one movie he was a ghost. Very spooky!

# ? Nov 13, 2021 21:05

Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

Evilreaver posted:

There is only one YouTuber with good thumbnails, and that's Marcel Vos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiiRKavs_74

Nice. Now I don't have to watch the video.

# ? Nov 13, 2021 21:30

Epic High Five: Jun 5, 2004

Paladinus posted:

Nice. Now I don't have to watch the video.

He's an extremely good RCT poster

# ? Nov 13, 2021 21:39

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

I like the ones who turn RCT-style games into industrialised murder factories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvEKky9N1tQ&t=484s

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stringless: Dec 28, 2005; keyboard ⌨️ cowboy

whenever he says "hold please" you know you're in for a good time

# ? Nov 14, 2021 03:12

Panfilo: Aug 27, 2011; EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬

Good news! Turned out Capitalism solved poverty all along!

https://twitter.com/PolicemanMeme/status/1459559203648024585?t=cO_6472PWg7nxxrCszw4jQ&s=19

# ? Nov 14, 2021 07:31

Palladium: May 8, 2012; Very Good
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Socialism sucks *describes capitalism*

# ? Nov 14, 2021 08:30

Blarghalt: May 19, 2010

Panfilo posted:

Good news! Turned out Capitalism solved poverty all along!

https://twitter.com/PolicemanMeme/status/1459559203648024585?t=cO_6472PWg7nxxrCszw4jQ&s=19

I like how they couldn't even do the bare minimum of covering their asses and at least have poverty going up during the Great loving Depression. Nope, everything was getting better! Just...slower! :buddy:

# ? Nov 14, 2021 08:32

Kreeblah: May 17, 2004; INSERT QUACK TO CONTINUE; Taco Defender

Panfilo posted:

Good news! Turned out Capitalism solved poverty all along!

https://twitter.com/PolicemanMeme/status/1459559203648024585?t=cO_6472PWg7nxxrCszw4jQ&s=19

# ? Nov 14, 2021 08:32

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

In 50,000 BC we all lived in caves and worked at quarries alongside our quirky dinosaur friends, by the year 2000 nearly everyone had moved out of caves and into houses or apartments. Capitalism works the same way.

# ? Nov 14, 2021 08:33

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Getting real sick of seeing that idiot,

And my monitor is ON

# ? Nov 14, 2021 12:45

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Milo and POTUS posted:

Getting real sick of seeing that idiot,

And my monitor is ON

turn off ur webcam

# ? Nov 14, 2021 12:53

Peggotty: May 9, 2014

Panfilo posted:

Good news! Turned out Capitalism solved poverty all along!

https://twitter.com/PolicemanMeme/status/1459559203648024585?t=cO_6472PWg7nxxrCszw4jQ&s=19

Unintentionally praising the CPC lol

# ? Nov 14, 2021 14:26

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

Panfilo posted:

Good news! Turned out Capitalism solved poverty all along!

https://twitter.com/PolicemanMeme/status/1459559203648024585?t=cO_6472PWg7nxxrCszw4jQ&s=19

quote:

But after steeping yourself in their work, you begin to wonder if all their upbeat factoids really do speak for themselves. For a start, why assume that the correct comparison to be making is the one between the world as it was, say, 200 years ago, and the world as it is today? You might argue that comparing the present with the past is stacking the deck. Of course things are better than they were. But they�re surely nowhere near as good as they ought to be. To pick some obvious examples, humanity indisputably has the capacity to eliminate extreme poverty, end famines, or radically reduce human damage to the climate. But we�ve done none of these, and the fact that things aren�t as terrible as they were in 1800 is arguably beside the point.

Ironically, given their reliance on cognitive biases to explain our predilection for negativity, the New Optimists may be in the grip of one themselves: the �anchoring bias�, which describes our tendency to rely too heavily on certain pieces of information when making judgments. If you start from the fact that plague victims once languished in the streets of European cities, it�s natural to conclude that life these days is wonderful. But if you start from the position that we could have eliminated famines, or reversed global warming, the fact that such problems persist may provoke a different kind of judgment.

The argument that we should be feeling happier than we are because life on the planet as a whole is getting better, on average, also misunderstands a fundamental truth about how happiness works: our judgments of the world result from making specific comparisons that feel relevant to us, not on adopting what David Runciman refers to as �the view from outer space�. If people in your small American town are far less economically secure than they were in living memory, or if you�re a young British person facing the prospect that you might never own a home, it�s not particularly consoling to be told that more and more Chinese people are entering the middle classes. At book readings in the US midwest, Ridley recalls, audience members frequently questioned his optimism on the grounds that their own lives didn�t seem to be on an upward trajectory. �They�d say, �You keep saying the world�s getting better, but it doesn�t feel like that round here.� And I would say, �Yes, but this isn�t the whole world! Are you not even a little bit cheered by the fact that really poor Africans are getting a bit less poor?�� There is a sense in which this is a fair point. But there�s another sense in which it�s a completely irrelevant one.

At its heart, the New Optimism is an ideological argument: broadly speaking, its proponents are advocates for the power of free markets, and they intend their sunny picture of humanity�s recent past and imminent future to vindicate their politics. This is a perfectly legitimate political argument to make � but it�s still a political argument, not a straightforward, neutral reliance on objective facts. The claim that we are living in a golden age, and that our dominant mood of pessimism is unwarranted, is not an antidote to the Age of the Take, but a Take like any other � and it makes just as much sense to adopt the opposite view. �What I dislike,� Runciman says, �is this assumption that if you push back against their argument, what you�re saying is that all these things are not worth valuing � For people to feel deeply uneasy about the world we inhabit now, despite all these indicators pointing up, seems to me reasonable, given the relative instability of the evidence of this progress, and the [unpredictability] that overhangs it. Everything really is pretty fragile.�

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/28/is-the-world-really-better-than-ever-the-new-optimists

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Jokerpilled Drudge: Jan 27, 2010; by Pragmatica

it's definitely the era of extreme ecological collapse that holds the most promise for humanity

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AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018; Can't post for 6 hours!

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1459941042501959690

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The Nastier Nate: May 22, 2005; All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!; Yams Fan

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1459941042501959690

if you didnt die, and you still saw the show, why do you deserve a refund?

# ? Nov 14, 2021 22:13

A Bakers Cousin: Dec 18, 2003; by vyelkin

The Nastier Nate posted:

if you didnt die, and you still saw the show, why do you deserve a refund?

what if you wanted to die but didnt?

sounds unfair to me but IANAL

# ? Nov 14, 2021 22:14

Teriyaki Hairpiece: Dec 29, 2006; I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.