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BiggerBoat posted:This time they weren't. I'm a bit nervous about 2024 though. 1) Trump won't be in charge of the federal goverment on 1/6/2025 the way he was in 2021. The insurrection only got as far as it did because the president did everything he could to strip the capitol of security and reinforcements. I doubt Biden will tell his DHS secretary to stand down his forces and keep the national guards away from the site the way Trump did. 2) The Biden justice department came down hard on J6 participants. Thousands of arrests, more than 500 convictions, lots of hard prison time, and three years they're still identifying and picking up suspects. This has taken a lot of steam out of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and other would-be freikorps militia groups, as their members are either in jail or worried that the person next to them is an FBI informer, and no one seems to be in any hurry to replace them. It's the same reason we saw barely a ripple of right-wing agitation around Trump's various arrests and indictments. There's lots of things to worry about, but IMHO a more successful restaging of January 6 isn't one of them.
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The funny thing is that I'm not "offended" I just think that person is a stupid gently caress, and I am undoubtedly correct.
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A lot of people are absurdly proud to wear their imbecility on their sleeve. And at this point, I was going to segue back to right-wing media and its audience, but lo and behold, I'm already there.
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BiggerBoat posted:Swiped from another thread but the last couple of pages have touched on performative patriotism and I see a LOT of this poo poo where I live State of the loving kerning on that sticker. So I guess that's another way he could offend someone 
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I have the mother of one of my favorite students who wears a “how else can I offend you” style shirt. It just makes me feel sorry for that student.
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skeleton warrior posted:That would have been great, but that also would have involved shitfucks like Manchin and Sinema actually giving a poo poo about the future instead of deciding that there was a vast untapped voting base of centrists that needed their attention. To be accurate, I should have finished my thought and said "rammed through.... the night of the insurrection". While the sweat and piss was fresh on their bodies. Once they went home and had a few drinks and poo poo, they were able to decompress and go "well I didn't DIE so yeah no biggie"
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Professor Beetus posted:The funny thing is that I'm not "offended" I just think that person is a stupid gently caress, and I am undoubtedly correct. I don't know what you mean about being "offended", the decal I see is clearly asking how they can off end people. Not sure what that means exactly, maybe it's some new teenager lingo? It comes right after cani, which I'm not sure is a word but teenagers like to make stuff like that up all the time.
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FilthyImp posted:yeah. and we'll do the same dance in a few years. Sigh. Mitch McConnell (who was still Senate Majority Leader until January 20, 2021) prevented any sort of impeachment vote from coming to the floor what makes you think he would've allowed a vote on DC Statehood or anything else?
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FilthyImp posted:yeah. and we'll do the same dance in a few years. Sigh.
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This reminds me a lot of the Chaya Raichik interview in that these Karens sound so much dumber in real life when confronted about their ideology. https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1764448437427142892?t=wQrhA4DyfZZYfrOVQA02kw&s=19
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Panfilo posted:This reminds me a lot of the Chaya Raichik interview in that these Karens sound so much dumber in real life when confronted about their ideology. "Let's just say..." proceeds to very carefully not say anything
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Panfilo posted:This reminds me a lot of the Chaya Raichik interview in that these Karens sound so much dumber in real life when confronted about their ideology. more "fake news" then, right?
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Panfilo posted:This reminds me a lot of the Chaya Raichik interview in that these Karens sound so much dumber in real life when confronted about their ideology. Scott Pelfrey looks like he wants call them dumb assholes but can't.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Scott Pelfrey looks like he wants call them dumb assholes but can't. They got really salty about how the interview was edited. They try to make this point about how if they can't show the offending pages of Gender Queer on sixty minutes (and it is always the SAME TWO PAGES out of the entire graphic novel) then obviously it isn't suitable for children.
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Panfilo posted:They got really salty about how the interview was edited. They try to make this point about how if they can't show the offending pages of Gender Queer on sixty minutes (and it is always the SAME TWO PAGES out of the entire graphic novel) then obviously it isn't suitable for children. Recently I wondered where these "think of the children" people were when Titanic came out (a PG-13 movie with breasts in it, the horror), but then I realized that I was falling for their schtick. This isn't about protecting innocence or anything, it's just freaking out at any mainstream acceptance of queer people, hence all the pearl-clutching over a drawn butt cheek. They're scared of Gender Queer's very existence but have manufactured scandal to justify it and it sucks.
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:Recently I wondered where these "think of the children" people were when Titanic came out (a PG-13 movie with breasts in it, the horror), but then I realized that I was falling for their schtick. This isn't about protecting innocence or anything, it's just freaking out at any mainstream acceptance of queer people, hence all the pearl-clutching over a drawn butt cheek. They're scared of Gender Queer's very existence but have manufactured scandal to justify it and it sucks. These types of people do freak out about nudity and sex in media though
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:Recently I wondered where these "think of the children" people were when Titanic came out (a PG-13 movie with breasts in it, the horror), but then I realized that I was falling for their schtick. This isn't about protecting innocence or anything, it's just freaking out at any mainstream acceptance of queer people, hence all the pearl-clutching over a drawn butt cheek. They're scared of Gender Queer's very existence but have manufactured scandal to justify it and it sucks. Their laser focus is to emphasize that books like Gender Queer are being shown to elementary school kids and rebuking the 'lie' that leftists claim is not happening. They really have to focus on the most outrageous scenario, like a hypothetical Drag Queen reading to Kindergarteners about how to eat rear end or something. In terms of controversial movies honestly I think Romeo and Juliet is a better example, which was shown in schools often and not only had boobs but I later learned they were underage boobs, with zero outrage by Moms for Liberty apparently.
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Panfilo posted:Their laser focus is to emphasize that books like Gender Queer are being shown to elementary school kids and rebuking the 'lie' that leftists claim is not happening. They really have to focus on the most outrageous scenario, like a hypothetical Drag Queen reading to Kindergarteners about how to eat rear end or something. It was made back when Rock Stars made hit songs about loving 14 year olds. A more innocent and pure time, unlike the degeneracy of today.
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Panfilo posted:This reminds me a lot of the Chaya Raichik interview in that these Karens sound so much dumber in real life when confronted about their ideology. The Islamic Shock fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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The Islamic Shock posted:Remarkable, having both the inability to defend the slightest amount of pushback on your bullshit from a journalist as the head of this organization and the confidence to think you can go on 60 Minutes like that and not get railroaded. They have been so completely and thoroughly convinced that deflection and paper-thin cherry-picking always works because they're really not used to being pinned down and made to answer for anything in any argument Given the pure gormlessness of so many journalists I wouldn't fault them for the assumption, but I doubt they thought that deeply about it.
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:Recently I wondered where these "think of the children" people were when Titanic came out (a PG-13 movie with breasts in it, the horror), but then I realized that I was falling for their schtick. This isn't about protecting innocence or anything, it's just freaking out at any mainstream acceptance of queer people, hence all the pearl-clutching over a drawn butt cheek. They're scared of Gender Queer's very existence but have manufactured scandal to justify it and it sucks. gently caress, Sixteen Candles shows breasts and it's PG. Granted, the PG-13 rating didn't exist when the movie released but nudity often didn't cause an R rating by itself.
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...! posted:gently caress, Sixteen Candles shows breasts and it's PG. Granted, the PG-13 rating didn't exist when the movie released but nudity often didn't cause an R rating by itself. The Clash of the Titans had that nude bathing scene and I think some other nudity and they'd show that to us constantly in elementary school on teacher hangover day.
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They're a bit optimistic here, aren't they? https://twitter.com/Travis_in_Flint/status/1765214600612491321?t=3SW9rARgGH2U52gc2T5ohw&s=19
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Panfilo posted:They're a bit optimistic here, aren't they? There is no version of reality where Trump wins Hawaii
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mobby_6kl posted:These types of people do freak out about nudity and sex in media though Remember our collective societal freakout when we may have seen a little bit of Janet Jackson's titty?
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Professor Beetus posted:I feel like that person may have a poor understanding of what a primary is Well he's from Flint, there is a nonzero chance his brain is damaged by lead-tainted water. PT6A posted:Remember our collective societal freakout when we may have seen a little bit of Janet Jackson's titty? Imagine if this had happened in the 2010s when HDTV was more ubiquitous. People would still be freaking out about it.
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America: where violence that would result in R ratings at the movie theater is prime time TV material, but if you so much as almost glimpse a nipple, all hell breaks loose
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Open world remorseless violent crime and carjacking simulator pulled from stores after modders discover a hidden deleted scene where the main character has sex with his girlfriend.
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OneEightHundred posted:Open world remorseless violent crime and carjacking simulator pulled from stores after modders discover a hidden deleted scene where the main character has sex with his girlfriend. Those were different times. Now that we have marketplaces like Steam which have freed themselves from strictly relying on the ESRB, we now know that the average American's ideal game appears to be a match-three game with titties in it, if the "New & Trending" tab is a reliable sample.
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And thus we have cycled back to the games found in Korean bars in the 90s, truly the Circle of Life.
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Conservatives: "We can't have a DA hire her boyfriend! Why she's getting maybe $1000 in trips and dinners!" Meanwhile Trump: "Install my daughter in law into this no-work 7 figure salary position so that she can direct all the funds to me and no one else! Also, oust the previous holder because I don't like her dad."
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Murgos posted:Conservatives: "We can't have a DA hire her boyfriend! Why she's getting maybe $1000 in trips and dinners!"
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Murgos posted:Conservatives: "We can't have a DA hire her boyfriend! Why she's getting maybe $1000 in trips and dinners!" But he wasn't, as far as we know, having sex with her. Not that he didnt try.
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OgNar posted:But he wasn't, as far as we know, having sex with her. Angry_Ed posted:Well he's from Flint, there is a nonzero chance his brain is damaged by lead-tainted water.
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