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Unlike police departments, the FBI requires a bachelor's degree, and a lot of them have a master's degree. I think a lot of their anti-FBI stuff has a subtle but direct line from their anti-college rants.
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StumblyWumbly posted:Unlike police departments, the FBI requires a bachelor's degree, and a lot of them have a master's degree. Way over thinking it. They dared say no to the anger mango's desire to be his personal brown shirts and he declared them to be public enemies.
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StumblyWumbly posted:Unlike police departments, the FBI requires a bachelor's degree, and a lot of them have a master's degree. Do you think there might be a section of the country with a…difficult….relationship to federal power?
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Dec 19, 2022 07:13
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Watching W Bush era Fox News and noticing it was much more of a combat zone than it is today. O'Reilly regularly allowed guests on who would either own him or at least make him look stupidly angry. Hannity had a (pseudo) liberal co-host for a long time and they'd go back and forth. Eventually Fox learned to just shut the opposition out completely. Tucker never allows guests who might call him out.
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Tucker can’t really do his whole bit on his show if there is someone there to rebut it
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We would watch o’reillly all the time in college. One of my roommates was a republican so it was kind of fun, because it was entertaining in the W years. We also used to watch that post crossfire tucker show where he’d debate issues with Willy Geist
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Yeah I used to watch Willy Reamer / Yessy Will all of the time
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It's kind of weird to pine for the good ole days of RWM when all there was to discuss was an illegal war in Iraq and how anyone who opposed it or voted democrat hated America and supported terrorists.
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Hey remember that episode of Family Guy where Brian does a 180 politically after reading Rush Limbaugh's book, only to become too right wing for Rush? And they actually got him to play himself on the episode?
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Panfilo posted:Hey remember that episode of Family Guy where Brian does a 180 politically after reading Rush Limbaugh's book, only to become too right wing for Rush? And they actually got him to play himself on the episode?
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The point of the episode ("Man there's a whole lot of supposed liberals who are actually just contrarians who want to be on the other side") is pretty valid, though.
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BiggerBoat posted:It's kind of weird to pine for the good ole days of RWM when all there was to discuss was an illegal war in Iraq and how anyone who opposed it or voted democrat hated America and supported terrorists. Maybe it was because I was younger but back then it seemed as though they at least saw the same world as we did. True they did draw horrific conclusions from what they saw but that is at least different from what we are dealing with right now.
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Hunt11 posted:Maybe it was because I was younger but back then it seemed as though they at least saw the same world as we did. True they did draw horrific conclusions from what they saw but that is at least different from what we are dealing with right now. There was a stronger belief that they could influence the world by acting and they didn't need to know it as much. There was a Bush administration official who argued that their philosophy was to just change the situation rather than understand what was going on. But it's definitely different now, partly because the real-life gish gallop eventually ran into the cold hard wall of reality, partly because Trump took it even further than anyone else, and partly because a lot of people's brains were broken from being terminally online, racist, and cooped up during the pandemic.
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Hunt11 posted:Maybe it was because I was younger but back then it seemed as though they at least saw the same world as we did. True they did draw horrific conclusions from what they saw but that is at least different from what we are dealing with right now. “You’re part of what we call the reality-based community. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” Doesn’t sound so different from what the q freaks are doing. I guess the US has lost hegemon status and can no longer destroy anything it wants without anyone disagreeing.
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Hunt11 posted:Maybe it was because I was younger but back then it seemed as though they at least saw the same world as we did. True they did draw horrific conclusions from what they saw but that is at least different from what we are dealing with right now.
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Animal-Mother posted:O'Reilly regularly allowed guests on who would either own him or at least make him look stupidly angry. The funny thing is that if he were still on Fox he'd probably be considered one of its more "reasonable" voices for issuing mild criticism of Republicans every now and then. He'd also compete with Tucker over who can generate the most outrage over "woke insanity" (and would probably win, because it's easier for old viewers to identify more with an old man and because O'Reilly would get into arguments with guests as noted.) BiggerBoat posted:It's kind of weird to pine for the good ole days of RWM when all there was to discuss was an illegal war in Iraq and how anyone who opposed it or voted democrat hated America and supported terrorists. Definitely different from "OH MY GOD FASCIST ANTIFA ARE BURNING DOWN ENTIRE CITIES ON BEHALF OF THEIR MARXIST DEMOCRATIC OVERLORDS." Enver Zogha fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Dec 20, 2022 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:“You’re part of what we call the reality-based community. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” It’s not like Qanon at all. It’s much more “move fast and break things” as a philosophy of governing: don’t analyze the current state and determine what truth is; assert that you know truth already and start acting on it, and change your truth based upon what happens. Qanon is just reading tea leaves on the internet to have what you believe determined by a gestalt that makes you feel smarter that everyone around you. The quoted philosophy is much more dangerous than Qanon. They didn’t invade Iraq because they read on an Internet forum about how Saddam is keeping JFK Jr chained up on top of WMDs; they invaded Iraq because they wanted to invade Iraq and by the time you figure out the reason, they’ve already expanded the war into Yemen and Somalia. skeleton warrior fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Dec 20, 2022 |
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Ok. So who or what is Dennis Prager? For some god forsaken reason I just saw a thing where he said leftists want to bring back segregation. What the gently caress is happening?
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Travic posted:Ok. So who or what is Dennis Prager? For some god forsaken reason I just saw a thing where he said leftists want to bring back segregation. What the gently caress is happening? A propogandist.
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Travic posted:Ok. So who or what is Dennis Prager? For some god forsaken reason I just saw a thing where he said leftists want to bring back segregation. What the gently caress is happening? Some nutjob neocon with a fake University that puts out misleading information at best or outright lies at worst. Very afraid of "secular leftism"
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That's insanity. He says stuff like that and people are just lining up going, "Yep. Knew it. Leftists are the real racists." "Leftists eat babies? Yep. Called it." He's just making poo poo up and people are just fawning over him. I guess because he's telling them what they want to hear?
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PragerU is why I stopped using my Playstation to watch Youtube. Suddenly cartoon Frederick Douglas is saying we ended racism with the civil war so why're we making a big fuss of it. Absolute up is down left is right yes is no mentality on these bits of propagit and no way to turn them off.
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He also has a radio show which came first. He's basically quaint by most current rightwing standards. None of the ferver. Just a softspoken old dude stating matter of factly that the left is everything bad including bad feelings and the right is everything good. Go to his university Prager U to know more *Not a university
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Heres a classic Dennis Pager clip trying to say the unvaccinated are treated far worse than he and his people treated gay men in the 80s. https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1457835361812496395
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Everytime i think about PragerU i think of this poop https://youtu.be/rG_Ue3t17l0
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Of course this would be on "Doctor" Phil... https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1605262328076697600?t=EN_AiwWELF0gxWMc4G6E0Q&s=19
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PragerU is what you get ads from, when you watch any youtube channel that a middle class white male might watch
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OgNar posted:Heres a classic Dennis Pager clip trying to say the unvaccinated are treated far worse than he and his people treated gay men in the 80s. Desperately hoping nobody... remembers?
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Hihohe posted:Everytime i think about PragerU i think of this poop That god is a black lesbian toilet
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HootTheOwl posted:He also has a radio show which came first. He's basically quaint by most current rightwing standards. None of the ferver. Just a softspoken old dude stating matter of factly that the left is everything bad including bad feelings and the right is everything good. Go to his university Prager U to know more Is Prager's radio show still on? A local station used to air his program but dumped him for another arch-conservative talker. Apparently, even right-wingers can take only so much smug self-righteousness.
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Panfilo posted:Of course this would be on "Doctor" Phil... Someone needs to convince Dr. Phil to run for office somewhere high profile as a loopy Trump candidate so he can also eat poo poo and then be surgically removed fro popular culture like Dr. Oz was and that'll be the final stain of Oprah's legacy washed away.
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nine-gear crow posted:Someone needs to convince Dr. Phil to run for office somewhere high profile as a loopy Trump candidate so he can also eat poo poo and then be surgically removed fro popular culture like Dr. Oz was and that'll be the final stain of Oprah's legacy washed away.
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I first heard about Dennis Prager when he wrote an opinion piece in favor of marital rape. https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2008/12/23/when_a_woman_isnt_in_the_mood_part_i-n1055719
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All you need to know about Dennis is this: https://twitter.com/TallBart/status/1593414305755451394?t=yaY_930sLLH20SxvLzvzxA&s=19
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bartok posted:I first heard about Dennis Prager when he wrote an opinion piece in favor of marital rape. This is...unspeakable.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I don't think Dr Phil is nearly as stupid as Dr Oz is He would have Bhad Bhabie run against him and we know what a bloodbath that would be.
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NDP posted:Is Prager's radio show still on? A local station used to air his program but dumped him for another arch-conservative talker. Apparently, even right-wingers can take only so much smug self-righteousness. In major cities with like 3 or 4 lovely right-wing talk stations he'll be on the weakest one. Salem radio insists on propping him up, like Mike Gallagher.
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