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Panfilo posted:I mean, "Let's go Brandon" is rather pathetically coy so being transparent in their contempt is a step up. I was calm the whole time and knew perfectly well what I was walking into. My point kind of is that it didn't matter what I said, how polite I said it or how much I focused on a sense of common decency (hey, guys there's small kids out here and we're all just trying to have a nice day at the the beach) that none of it would work. My kid was swimming in the ocean and when he was done I even half joked with him "hey, you want to go watch daddy get his rear end kicked?" I'm going to ask these gentlemen about the explicit language on the giant gently caress flag and see what they say. It didn't happen and, more to the point, I was trying to teach him a subtle lesson about how you don't have to be afraid of bullies but I WAS walking a fine line and I knew it. I provoked them without provoking them, if that makes any sense, but they WANTED to be provoked. There were two dudes; one ready to jump into a fight and another not so much. I didn't push up on anyone, which they seemed to want and didn't give them the satisfaction but I doubt they took anything away from the exchange beyond a "did you see that liberal human being?" at the dinner table conversation probably happening right now. It blew over pretty quick, believe it or not, and when we walked back to the car, I asked my son if he noticed how quickly these people wanted to get into a fight and pointed it out as a way you don't want to be. I knew that they wanted people like me to react to them and come up starting poo poo, which I KIND of did but not really. Sometimes I get tired of having to be the bigger person and mind my manners all the time, I'll be honest, but simply not being scared is surprisingly effective. These people are the ones always pretending to be monitoring morality and decency - or at least say they are - so let's fly the F WORD flag on a public beach full of young kids, right? To be honest, I don't care much and my kid hears me say that word every other day so whatever but I'm not the member of the political party that says curse words are bad and make Jesus cry and poo poo either. It was telling that this dude immediately jumped in about music with dirty words and bad movies or whatever he was on about because me and my son's mom are one of the few parents we know who actually take the time to monitor what our boy watches and listens to. It was wild. Wish I'd recorded it but that might have escalated things in and of itself. I wasn;t looking for trouble but I kind of was a little bit.
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BiggerBoat posted:These people are the ones always pretending to be monitoring morality and decency - or at least say they are - so let's fly the F WORD flag on a public beach full of young kids, right? To be honest, I don't care much and my kid hears me say that word every other day so whatever but I'm not the member of the political party that says curse words are bad and make Jesus cry and poo poo either. It was telling that this dude immediately jumped in about music with dirty words and bad movies or whatever he was on about because me and my son's mom are one of the few parents we know who actually take the time to monitor what our boy watches and listens to. It does kind of boggle my mind how the GOP has completely abandoned any pretense to virtue. I guess it became inevitable after they hitched themselves to Trump, but still, when I see chuds mocking people for "virtue signaling" I remember when Republicans called themselves the Moral Majority. Degenerate gambler Bill Bennett wrote a whole book about virtue!
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Invalid Validation posted:You can’t reason with those people, I wouldn’t even bother. Yeah, I know. I wasn't even trying to reason with them so much as testing their humanity and, for whatever reason, decided I could be passive aggressively brave. You don't put a big 4 x 8 foot flag that says gently caress ______ on it and not expect a response. So I gave them one, wrapped in a Ned Flanders act that pretended to be put off by foul language. And I think I got away with it for that reason. For all they knew, I was just some "please think of the children" type that hates Biden and that's how I played it. I wasn't even defending Biden or coming at them that way, because I actually agree with them and gently caress him indeed, so much as I was testing their sense of basic decency and seeing if there was any sense of a common ground at all. There's not and it was just pure anger all the way down. I dunno. In an odd way, I found it entertaining and semi patted myself on the back for loving with them.
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moonmazed posted:stdh.txt  Whose rereg are you?
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Weatherman posted:
your mom's, sad to inform you she got permaed for homegrown (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Zombie Dachshund posted:It does kind of boggle my mind how the GOP has completely abandoned any pretense to virtue. I guess it became inevitable after they hitched themselves to Trump, but still, when I see chuds mocking people for "virtue signaling" I remember when Republicans called themselves the Moral Majority. Degenerate gambler Bill Bennett wrote a whole book about virtue! I thought that's why they latched on to the "groomer" thing so much. Molesting children is Bad, so if I scream about how Bad it is and how the other side are Bad because they want to molest children because the only reason people would tell people how many lady dicks they want to stuff up their buttgina is because they are child molesters and thus Bad. Vs me, who isn't trying to corrupt children because I am not Bad. Therefore I am Good by pointing out the Groomers. And any kind of hair splitting about any of it just gets shouted down as "that's just something a groomer would say"
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Zombie Dachshund posted:It does kind of boggle my mind how the GOP has completely abandoned any pretense to virtue. I guess it became inevitable after they hitched themselves to Trump, but still, when I see chuds mocking people for "virtue signaling" I remember when Republicans called themselves the Moral Majority. Degenerate gambler Bill Bennett wrote a whole book about virtue! They didn't abandon it, they just drastically altered their definition of it. As long as they aren't the other guys, anything they do will, by default, be moral and virtuous and good.
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moonmazed posted:stdh.txt I mean if they were going to make it all up they wouldn't have made them self out to be a milquetoast Ned Flanders in the process (no offense BiggerBoat). If I was going to STDH that kind of story I probably would have had some schadenfreude play out on the rednecks like a rogue wave suddenly swallowed up their truck, flag and all or something. BiggerBoat posted:I was calm the whole time and knew perfectly well what I was walking into. My point kind of is that it didn't matter what I said, how polite I said it or how much I focused on a sense of common decency (hey, guys there's small kids out here and we're all just trying to have a nice day at the the beach) that none of it would work. Agreed on the bolded part, which is why I can find it difficult to stay calm and cool in those situations. Because the point you are confronting them is the culmination of taking "the high road" a million times up to that incident. So it can be frustrating. It's weird they'd comment on your media tastes. How would they know either way? And I bet they probably beat themselves off over the idea that some lib will cry seeing their flag and impotently try to remove it while they sigh and unsheath their hanzo .45
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They didn't know anything about me except that I told them I didn't the flag was in good taste in a family setting and that I didn't like Biden. They'd probably been getting some blowback here and there throughout the day and by that point had a bit of a script. I guess. moonmazed posted:stdh.txt LOL. Yeah, I get my kicks making up lengthy stories where I get to stand there and get yelled at. For some reason. Nobody clapped or anything like that and I didn't have my katana so I didn't even get to sigh. Why the hell would I just sit down and make up a story like that? Weirdo.
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I love people who go around with basically the attitude "gently caress you" and flags and bumper stickers and poo poo that say "gently caress you" and then get increasingly mad throughout their lives that everyone reacts to them poorly
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BiggerBoat posted:Yeah, I know. I wasn't even trying to reason with them so much as testing their humanity and, for whatever reason, decided I could be passive aggressively brave. You don't put a big 4 x 8 foot flag that says gently caress ______ on it and not expect a response. So I gave them one, wrapped in a Ned Flanders act that pretended to be put off by foul language. And I think I got away with it for that reason. For all they knew, I was just some "please think of the children" type that hates Biden and that's how I played it. Ironically yesterday I saw a guy with a let's go Brandon and buck fiden sticker on his car and I asked him if I could take a picture (he's a rep from a fencing company) and he smiled and asked if I enjoyed it and I told him the opposite "you're an adult, just say gently caress?" And he told me how there were kids around and he didn't want to say the bad words around them. Completely opposite experience as yours
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moonmazed posted:your mom's, sad to inform you she got permaed for homegrown I am glad to hear it. My mother deserves to be happy in this stage of her life.
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Parental rights is my favorite. What possible rights do parents not have in this nation other than the fact that you have to give your kid some food some times and you can't sell them for organs. If we ever tried to pass a law to make blanket training illegal it'd probably be blocked. If it's about your kid learning about gay people being real then just homeschool your kids; your family probably thinks women shouldn't work anyways.
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CuddleCryptid posted:Parental rights is my favorite. What possible rights do parents not have in this nation other than the fact that you have to give your kid some food some times and you can't sell them for organs. I think it's a reference to Desantis' Don't Say Gay bill.
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Leon Sumbitches posted:I think it's a reference to Desantis' Don't Say Gay bill. Or that they have the right to not suffocate their poor children with masks.
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"Ultra MAGA" Democrats have a talent for handing their opponents these terms that make them sound cooler than they have any right to be, or that they co-opt for their own benefit (see also: 'deplorables').
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:"Ultra MAGA" It's even funnier because it's a result of the backfire from trying to No True Scotsmen the republicans for them. Dems: "Well obviously not all republicans are racist misogynists who hate anybody darker than mayonnaise. That's just the Super Ultra Magas who are like that." Republicans: "We are all Super Ultra Maga now."
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Trump is the platonic ideal of a Captain Planet villain lmao
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Leon Sumbitches posted:lol @ no new wars Especially after he tried to start at least two wars, and didn't actually end the one that was going on. Leon Sumbitches posted:I think it's a reference to Desantis' Don't Say Gay bill. It is, yes. Right wing media has been pushing the idea that the Don't Say Gay bill is about parents' rights for essentially the entire time it's been in the news. They say things like "If you're a leftist parent and you want to teach your kids how to have gay sex or mutilate their genitals then you still have that right, but most parents don't want their kids learning that, and this protects the rights of those parents to not have their children exposed to it."
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Weatherman posted:Shouldn't they be using five white kids, given their views? Guess that just proves who the real racists are 
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The right loves "The Good Ones" since it gives cover to their white supremacy.
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*very non-racistly writes 'secure borders' on the African and 'lower crime' on the short Latin American kid*
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Guavanaut posted:*very non-racistly writes 'secure borders' on the African and 'lower crime' on the short Latin American kid* I'm genuinely a little surprised those weren't the other way around.
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But then you'd think "parental rights" would be on the blonde WASP instead of the token Asian
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Twelve by Pies posted:The right loves "The Good Ones" since it gives cover to their white supremacy. Reminds me of what I learned about Blaire White, who seems desperate to be the Right's personal toilet for all the poo poo she is willing to scarf down for them. Apparently on Joe Rogan she said how she definitely knew she was trans since before she was 5. Then more recently she tweets in agreement about how kids couldn't possibly know they are trans  .
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D34THROW posted:But then you'd think "parental rights" would be on the blonde WASP instead of the token Asian Other than Heart and Earth, youre putting way to much thought/more than the dumb meme maker did. Also shouldnt they complain about sjw white replacement since the whites are the team minority(i mean they do have plurality , also isnt Vind. from the USSR )
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PhazonLink posted:Other than Heart and Earth, youre putting way to much thought/more than the dumb meme maker did. Linka was 100% Soviet so she probably wouldn't even count as the proper kind of white. And Wheeler is a ginger, are gingers okay? At least he's American. None of the others would last in the MAGA cult
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Was Wheeler a protestant or evil papist? I know they had an episode about the Irish Catholic VS Protestant conflict that also involved a suitcase nuke. Yes a childrens Sat morning cartoon had a "very special episode" that was about Irish religion conflicts and a suitcase nuke. Time travel might also factor in.
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PhazonLink posted:Was Wheeler a protestant or evil papist? I mean, they also did an episode about AIDS, and one about a terrible hyper-capitalist future where the Planeteers are all jaded old folks and the corporations won. Captain Planet gave 0 fucks, I miss it.
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J.A.B.C. posted:Captain Planet gave 0 fucks, I miss it. Same, even though it did approach things with powerful "science is bad, and systemic problems are your individual responsibility" energy at times.
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PhazonLink posted:Was Wheeler a protestant or evil papist? I checked the Captain Planet wiki, and he's a Catholic. And his dad's an alcoholic who would make him go out and buy beer as a kid.
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Of course he's a Catholic, there's some future episode where him and Linka have like 200 kids. Don't remember the AIDS one but I remember one about overpopulation that was just Skaven from Warhammer basically.
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