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Frosted Flake posted:I know people with senior defence and economic policy positions who are like this. My theory is that if you go to an elite school, and get good grades, you basically never question anything in your life afterwards. I want to analyse this a little bit further because I distinctly remember how 13 year old or whatever me reacted to this dumb point system when I read my first Harry Potter book: with utter revulsion because this poo poo is collective punishment. For context obviously I was in high school at the time and I was a stubborn kid. I got into big arguments with a couple teachers, one of them lasted for years, and I flatly refused punishments that were in my mind unfair. Not showing up to detention and poo poo like that. I guess I got away with it through a combination of gerting good grades, being right about calling out bullshit from lovely teachers and accepting fair punishments. Anyway, my point is I never understood why the kids at Hogwarts accepted that dumb points poo poo. Teachers shouldve been getting hexed left and right over that poo poo. I'm like 90% certain had my school done anything like that I would've come to blows with at least one teacher. The idea hate anyone would actively like that poo poo is understandable to me on the same level as telling me it's enjoyable to eat glass.
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Phigs posted:I like how I/P is described as a cycle of violence. Like it's some ancient grudge they've been fighting and everyone's forgotten why but they keep fighting it because they can't break the cycle of revenge. Palestinians have no material reason to fight the Israelis and the Israelis would totally inflict no violence on them if only the Palestinians could learn to live and let live. Someone's gotta be the bigger man and be like no, I will not retaliate, I will end this endless cycle of completely random violence. And then finally Palestinians and Israelis will see their common humanity and their shared goal of a Holy Land purged of all the non-Jews. e: it's late and it took me a while, nm
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a helpful bear posted:he's british and makes sure to remind you a lot his Bugle stuff is still the funniest work he’s ever done even though the politics are bad
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Mantis42 posted:The "I say, let em die" guy from Airplane! but he's talking about children and he's real and on every channel in the West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PbdyJ_ybSI
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smarxist posted:am i crazy or is this clip not beat for beat the helicopter scene from Full Metal Jacket lmao
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Death By The Blues posted:He is just so busted "I'm confident that Israel will do everything in its power to avoid killing innocent civilians," he says. Meanwhile, here are a dozen Israeli government leaders saying they want to eradicate Palestine from the face of the world and see Palestinians die screaming. Yes, filled with confidence and most definitely not full of poo poo.
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Mantis42 posted:he's not even jewish he's just ugly Al! posted:horseshoe theory is when the chief executive seems like he has the mental capacity of someone kicked in the head by a horse lol at both
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death to israel death to america death to landlords free al-saqr
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a helpful bear posted:john oliver blamed the conflict on Hamas (this attack and previous ones) and bothsides it tonight. not surprising i guess Oliver lives in New York City with his wife Kate Norley, an Iraq War veteran who served as a United States Army medic. Oliver has said that they met at the 2008 Republican National Convention; he was reporting for The Daily Show and Norley was campaigning with Vets for Freedom. EDIT: Oh, everyone beat me to this. Clip-On Fedora has issued a correction as of 05:52 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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It should be literally impossible for 2 deeply political people to back opposite parties in America. Impossible. If you're just random workers who just don't really get political except to vote every 4 years then whatever. But 2 politically active people should not be able to make it work. If they can it means their politics are complete poo poo and/or purely aesthetic.
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smarxist posted:am i crazy or is this clip not beat for beat the helicopter scene from Full Metal Jacket Robocop 4 looking good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmJQpjwWVgs
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Nichael posted:Why is Biden 100% squint now? To keep the pestilence and corruption from dribbling out of his eye sockets.
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Phigs posted:It should be literally impossible for 2 deeply political people to back opposite parties in America. Impossible. u almost get it
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Clip-On Fedora posted:To keep the pestilence and corruption from dribbling out of his eye sockets. Ah makes sense. Thank Mr. President!
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Phigs posted:I like how I/P is described as a cycle of violence. Like it's some ancient grudge they've been fighting and everyone's forgotten why but they keep fighting it because they can't break the cycle of revenge. Palestinians have no material reason to fight the Israelis and the Israelis would totally inflict no violence on them if only the Palestinians could learn to live and let live. Someone's gotta be the bigger man and be like no, I will not retaliate, I will end this endless cycle of completely random violence. And then finally Palestinians and Israelis will see their common humanity and their shared goal of a Holy Land purged of all the non-Jews. And they already tried that. It's called Fatah and Abbas does whatever the gently caress the Israelis tell him to do.
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Phigs posted:It should be literally impossible for 2 deeply political people to back opposite parties in America. Impossible. political friction makes good sex, simple as. judging someone for who they sleep with is banal. at least it wasn't rush limbaugh or lynndie england oliver's bit about british imperialism being polite is still on point.
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smarxist posted:am i crazy or is this clip not beat for beat the helicopter scene from Full Metal Jacket This is beyond parody, dear God.
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Clip-On Fedora posted:To keep the pestilence and corruption from dribbling out of his eye sockets. Maybe he should keep his mouth shut too, I can see it leaking out like an unidentified black goo out of a sewage pipe.
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FirstnameLastname posted:u almost get it What am I not getting? It makes me think John Oliver doesn't actually care. He does all these shows about bad things happening but can't even stay out of the pants of someone who supports those bad things with their politics. I guess it's like an extension of liberalism in general. Even if they can identify the problems they're not willing to give up anything to address those problems. Fair enough if he wants to just be another random person going about their lives, but it feels gross with his content being so political. Be political or don't John.
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Phigs posted:What am I not getting? he's an artist op  a game show host without a game
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Phigs posted:What am I not getting? It's the learned helplessness of liberalism. "Progressive" liberals are the most useless of all because they have fully internalized the propaganda that limits even their electoral strategies to neutralize them against the incumbent neoliberals. For them better things really aren't possible, so who cares if you're loving a psychopath. It makes no difference to an already useless person.
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Phigs posted:What am I not getting? He is, that is the politics of liberalism. He practically embodies it, and it's clearly a reflection of the values of most american liberals.
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:he's british op it's this
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It would be nice if Biden had a stronger voice on this, but he seems to be saying SOME of the right things here: 1. Not stepping in a Bush-style "axis of evil" trap, he's being more specific than he needs to be to exonerate Iran here - that's important, and between that and the back-down from Iran I imagine that means there were some back channel sorts of things going on 2. Re-emphasizing the necessity of a Palestinian government - maybe Gaza can have an actual loving election soon so Hamas can't continue being the de jure government of Gaza. 3. Rejected occupation of Gaza as a strategy. It's a really weak red line to draw, but better that than a statement of "unconditional support". Would be nice if he took a bit more of a lead here and said "indiscriminate air strikes are bad and we don't like them", but making a statement about food and water to Gaza seems to me like he probably has people working on getting the sort of humanitarian aid deal Egypt was asking for going. On some level I guess I wouldn't expect the US to make any better statements, since admitting that Israel has been committing genocide this whole time makes the US complicit for providing military aid for basically forever. Hopefully the various US/EU countries are invested enough in at least *looking* moral that they will try to rein the bombing in privately even when they say this kind of poo poo, because I don't really see any chance of Israel being MADE to stop by force.
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this is pretty much like a 9/11 speedrun, Israel is destroying any goodwill it might have gotten from the attacks by doing something totally idiotic, evil and depraved.
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Biden saying he's confident Israel will protect innocent lives is loving incredible. What does he think happens to 2 million people under a total siege?
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Phigs posted:What am I not getting? He cares. He just thinks his job is to get his sensible message out there so sensible people in a position in power will react sensibly and do something that will fix things. It is the purpose of the Artist to inform, not to do. The Artist is not a Real Grownup, so they must wait for an Real Grownup to hear their righteous plea and do the right thing. That is how you act politically when you are an artist. After all, the artist chose this profession precisely because they are afraid if they do the Real Grownup Thing they would just screw up and make fools of themselves. Clip-On Fedora has issued a correction as of 06:16 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Biden saying he's confident Israel will protect innocent lives is loving incredible. What does he think happens to 2 million people under a total siege? He wouldn't know, because he's already forgotten there's 2 million people under siege.
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PawParole posted:this is pretty much like a 9/11 speedrun, Israel is destroying any goodwill it might have gotten from the attacks by doing something totally idiotic, evil and depraved. Israel is doing movie Nazi evil poo poo every hour of every day. I don't think a lot of people can process what's happening. This was actually inconceivable to them.
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:he's british op
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PawParole posted:this is pretty much like a 9/11 speedrun, Israel is destroying any goodwill it might have gotten from the attacks by doing something totally idiotic, evil and depraved. I'm holding on to hope that the Israeli cabinet will actually have their asses hauled out to The Hague while simultaneously feeling incredibly foolish for doing so. The copium is strong here.
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