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So if you've missed the Dark Brandon memes, it was basically twitter leftists going, hey, what if Joe Biden was actually trying to accomplish things? What if his entire presidency wasn't premised on the idea that he shouldn't have to do anything but receive unending gratitude and deference from Democrats and Republicans alike for being not-Trump? What if he wasn't most passionate telling black people to shut up about the piggish brutality of the most well-funded police state in human history and having reveries about hugging and kissing Mitch McConnell and Strom Thurmond? So you have a news item, and in response people shitpost glowing-eyes Biden and say it's all part of Dark Brandon's master plan. Unlike the Dark MAGA stuff, it's premised on how uncool you think Biden is. Anyway, a watered-down anti-inflation reconciliation bill has passed the Senate. It doesn't have many of the good things people want and need, like insulin price caps and reinstatement of the child tax credits that were dropped out of spite, and does have giveaways to the worst people in the country. But still: https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1556412614531584003 (Senator) https://twitter.com/RFlaherty46/status/1556365427097440257 (White House staff) Welp, whether you thought it was funny or not, meme over everyone, was fun while it lasted.
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Dr Christmas posted:So if you've missed the Dark Brandon memes, it was basically twitter leftists going, hey, what if Joe Biden was actually trying to accomplish things? What if his entire presidency wasn't premised on the idea that he shouldn't have to do anything but receive unending gratitude and deference from Democrats and Republicans alike for being not-Trump? What if he wasn't most passionate telling black people to shut up about the piggish brutality of the most well-funded police state in human history and having reveries about hugging and kissing Mitch McConnell and Strom Thurmond? Basically catching Covid lit a fire under both Joes Biden and Manchin's asses and altered their DNA into, while not being good people, at least no longer being shitheads enough to try and do something, ANYTHING, before the Republicans seize permanent control over the United States in November.
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Aug 8, 2022 06:33
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nine-gear crow posted:Basically catching Covid lit a fire under both Joes Biden and Manchin's asses and altered their DNA into, while not being good people, at least no longer being shitheads enough to try and do something, ANYTHING, before the Republicans seize permanent control over the United States in November. lol no
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Aug 8, 2022 06:42
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nine-gear crow posted:Basically catching Covid lit a fire under both Joes Biden and Manchin's asses and altered their DNA into, while not being good people, at least no longer being shitheads enough to try and do something, ANYTHING, before the Republicans seize permanent control over the United States in November. Think so? It would be a nice alternative to what usually happens when one of these ghouls catches COVID. Trump, DeSantis, Boris Johnson, Bolsonaro, etc all basically became full-on Nurgle devotees after their brushes with COVID.
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Aug 8, 2022 06:42
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:lol no I should clarify that that's some people's take on the meme, nothing I actually believe myself.
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Aug 8, 2022 06:47
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Aug 8, 2022 07:46
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Dr Christmas posted:Think so? It would be a nice alternative to what usually happens when one of these ghouls catches COVID. Trump, DeSantis, Boris Johnson, Bolsonaro, etc all basically became full-on Nurgle devotees after their brushes with COVID. Every one of these people, and both Joes, were already full‐on Nurgle devotees.
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Aug 8, 2022 08:09
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the chudosphere is upset because they mobilised late on this "issue" and since it's on Hulu braying gwoke groke isn't the foolproof threat it usually is. "she get too strong" is all they can think of but it's explicitly not true and clearly lined out, like for a baby to understand lol
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Aug 8, 2022 11:14
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nine-gear crow posted:I should clarify that that's some people's take on the meme, nothing I actually believe myself. they're sitting lawmakers trying to keep their jobs and paid DNC operatives/staffers, OP, they have no actual thought process or moral compass
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Aug 8, 2022 13:10
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the comments on the trailers for the new LOTR series are full of a bunch of neckbeards posting the "evil cannot create, only corrupt" Tolkien quote. they think they're being profound instead of very embarrassing and stupid
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Aug 8, 2022 13:25
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"I shall make it my life's calling to prevent minorities from getting representation in beloved popular culture. This in no way makes me evil, in fact it is u who are evil"
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Aug 8, 2022 13:28
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:
I learned that "valueless" is a word. Also, after some confusion, I learned that it has the opposite meaning of "priceless".
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Aug 8, 2022 13:44
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Midnight Voyager posted:imagining a booming voice from above, saying "LONELY HOT MILFS IN YOUR AREA". I feel like that'd make it hard for me to do the job.
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Aug 8, 2022 14:22
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:Reticulating spines? nine-gear crow posted:Little White Cuck Ball
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Aug 8, 2022 14:36
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Arnold killed the predator with a tree
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Aug 8, 2022 14:50
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one of the replies to that twitter predator thing was about how she doesn't kill the predator he kills himself (yeah idiot that was her plan) so she's bad or something apparently forgetting that Schwarzenegger DOESN'T KILL THE PREDATOR it blows itself up trying to kill them both
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Aug 8, 2022 15:02
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Danny Glover killed the Predator bc he’s the goat and Predator 2 is the best
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jjack229 posted:I learned that "valueless" is a word. Also, after some confusion, I learned that it has the opposite meaning of "priceless". Wait till you learn about invaluable!
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Aug 8, 2022 15:20
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Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
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Aug 8, 2022 15:23
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the predators presenting Danny Glover a trophy for killing one of their kind: "this is for being strong, not for using your brains. we only value brute strength. we hate traps, stealth, cunning, and especially combining the weapons and hubris of your enemies to overcome them in asynchronous warfare. anyway we're off to jettison a singular warrior on an unfamiliar planet to work through its species like an mk tournament, using only his advanced weaponry, armour, thermal vision and stealth cloak"
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Aug 8, 2022 15:26
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Entire movie pointing out that this person is capable and learned everything she used to defeat the Predator which had been through multiple battles, being wounded the entire time. Me: "god damned Mary Sue woke culture bullshit!" Honestly though, this movie did a cool thing and present the Predator's earliest canonical enemies. The French
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Aug 8, 2022 15:36
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dialhforhero posted:Wait till you learn about invaluable! Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
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Aug 8, 2022 15:43
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:the predators presenting Danny Glover a trophy for killing one of their kind: "this is for being strong, not for using your brains. we only value brute strength. we hate traps, stealth, cunning, and especially combining the weapons and hubris of your enemies to overcome them in asynchronous warfare. Dr Who is generally arse from a bum and Chibnall's stuff is particularly arse, but I did like how the Predatoresque guy who portrayed himself as a proud hunter turned out to be a craven weenie whose grand quarry was an unarmed and oblivious builder from a species centuries behind his own. Because that'd the kind of poo poo an 'honourable' hunter culture would quickly descend into IRL.
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Aug 8, 2022 15:52
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Push El Burrito posted:Honestly though, this movie did a cool thing and present the Predator's earliest canonical enemies. 
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CelticPredator posted:Danny Glover killed the Predator bc he’s the goat and Predator 2 is the best I liked the alternate ending
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Aug 8, 2022 17:09
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ghosthorse posted:one of the replies to that twitter predator thing was about how she doesn't kill the predator he kills himself (yeah idiot that was her plan) so she's bad or something apparently forgetting that Schwarzenegger DOESN'T KILL THE PREDATOR it blows itself up trying to kill them both I mean, he does kill the Predator. The Pred just decides to nuke them both because he knows he's defeated and going to die.
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Aug 8, 2022 17:16
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I mean, he does kill the Predator. The Pred just decides to nuke them both because he knows he's defeated and going to die. Following the idea that the Predator is Prey is a younger, less experienced/cocky Pred, it’s possible they didn’t give him a nuke for, well, all of the obvious reasons you wouldn’t give someone like that a nuke. He’s got explosives on his bracer and uses them, but they’re relatively short range, as Pred ordnance goes.
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The Predator didn’t really need to use it since it thought it already won.
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Aug 8, 2022 17:31
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I really liked Prey, and I clapped with joy when you see the pistol is the same from Predator 2. It's a shame the only terrible Predator movie (while writing this, I honestly forgot about the AvP movies lol), is the one from Shane Black.
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Aug 8, 2022 17:41
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Data Graham posted:"I shall make it my life's calling to prevent minorities from getting representation in beloved popular culture. This in no way makes me evil, in fact it is u who are evil" A bigot is someone who actively hates a demographic more or less "because." You're being bigoted when you look at someone and go "I dislike their nose shape" or "I find their skin color unattractive." A racist is not necessarily bigoted. They might have a lot of love for minorities. They "have a black friend" or maybe even dated/married someone outside of their race. But they also have a very clear idea about every race's "place." Maybe that "place" is even quite high, but if someone is shown to be outside of that "place" then "they're scamming the system" and "playing unfair." Nevermind that most of these racists get massive privilege and legs up, those don't count, those are just them being "good players" but that's tangential. And because education and general literacy is rear end and butt all over the drat place, most people think the two terms are 100% interchangeable. When they're shown racism in movies, it's rarely casual racism, because casual racists are a huge audience. It's always a cartoon bigot. It's Alan Tudyk in 42 screaming the n-word. That's how schools teach it. That's what most people genuinely think racism looks like. This imbecile probably does think in his heart of hearts "I don't actively hate women, Natives, or anyone that isn't like me [they're just not in their place and that's a problem for fairness]. Therefore I'm not racist, and anyone who calls me that is just presenting a smokescreen for their own sneaky agenda to take power over me, like I would if I were lying to someone's face." And even if he doesn't, enough casual readers are dumb enough to think that so why not just carry it forward? GreenMetalSun posted:Following the idea that the Predator is Prey is a younger, less experienced/cocky Pred, it’s possible they didn’t give him a nuke for, well, all of the obvious reasons you wouldn’t give someone like that a nuke. He’s got explosives on his bracer and uses them, but they’re relatively short range, as Pred ordnance goes. The director was quoted as saying he wanted the design to reflect both more primitive Pred tech to reflect the centuries of time difference between Prey and the original movie, and to show that this is like "maybe a Predator from another hemisphere or something, and the style he goes with is just different." (paraphrased). It was the right call the redesign was tight. Way better than the attempts to have "Super Predators." mind the walrus has a new favorite as of 17:45 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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mind the walrus posted:The director was quoted as saying he wanted the design to reflect both more primitive Pred tech to reflect the centuries of time difference between Prey and the original movie, and to show that this is like "maybe a Predator from another hemisphere or something, and the style he goes with is just different." (paraphrased). The Predator movies have always included weird Yautja cultural quirks without explaining them, which owns.
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mind the walrus posted:This is one of those useful object lessons for how to tell "racist" from "bigot." I'll extend this to sexism/rape culture, using an example I've brought up before but it fits nicely. I just recently saw Dirty Harry for the first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7dpJZW7mSA "mmmm I think he's got a point  "And yeah, you know what, fair. I bet that was the guy's intent. But you know what else you've just done, movie? You've telegraphed not only that "intent" is something worth shooting a potential perp over (which is a side argument), but that the definition of a rapist is a naked guy chasing a woman down an alley with a butcher knife. That's the picture you've put in the audience's head. And no small number of them will go home after the movie with their dates and have what I'm sure they believe is consensual sex. As long as you can tell your audience that no the REAL bad guys are these cartoon caricatures, as long as you're not doing that, u rappin' cool
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I'm not sure you can entirely blame the education system when racism has been defined at least four contradictory ways that I can recall. 1. Racism is when you hate someone for their race. 2. Racism is active hate, bigotry is passive 3. Racism is passive, bigotry is active. 4. Racism is both active and passive, but only when there is institutional power behind it, otherwise it's just prejudice. Bigotry includes racism and the other anti-isms.
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Data Graham posted:I'll extend this to sexism/rape culture, using an example I've brought up before but it fits nicely.
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I didn't realize the Predator films were documentaries. Is that why dudes are upset that they're not "accurate representations?"
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The Shane Black film would make a great Predator parody with very limited editing. It's already got "all the predators showing up this time are here with clear missions and presumably honor codes and poo poo but they have some leisure time to gorily murder random unarmed bystanders, as a treat." Instead of having Sterling K. Brown murder himself so quickly and incidentally that you don't even notice he's gone til the next scene, they could lean on it! Oh or what if half the cast was just walking jokes about various kinds of mental illness? Oh shoot, right.
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Aug 8, 2022 20:20
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SulfurMonoxideCute posted:I didn't realize the Predator films were documentaries. Is that why dudes are upset that they're not "accurate representations?" My wife and I watch the X Files a lot and since we're both scientists we like to shout at all the terrible inaccuracies with scientific equipment, ecg readings, bloodspray, rates of decomposition, vegetation not matching the setting or season, etc. as we enjoy our 46 minutes of gov't cops chasing werewolves and shapeshifters.
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Was that the predator movie where they were trying to capture an autistic child? I liked the one with Topher Grace on the predator planet.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:My wife and I watch the X Files a lot and since we're both scientists we like to shout at all the terrible inaccuracies with scientific equipment, ecg readings, bloodspray, rates of decomposition, vegetation not matching the setting or season, etc. as we enjoy our 46 minutes of gov't cops chasing werewolves and shapeshifters. sometimes I cannot tell if Duchovny's delivery was supposed to sound tounge-in-cheek on the page or if he decided to say it that way on his own
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