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mango sentinel posted:I see you are unfamiliar with Alessandra Mussolini. All anyone needs to know about Italian politics is to remember the bit from the MST3K episode "Final Justice", where at one point the villain is described as "a major source of embarrassment to the Italian government", at which point Mike replies "That's hard to do!" 
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Archonex posted:Yeah. The idea that anyone would permit a recent descendant of a genocidal fascist to be in political power is a bit mind boggling all by itself actually. Especially when they're literally quoting nazi apologia verbatim. Which I think is still a crime in Italy? Pretty sure Italy's current leadership is more openly fascist than Trump is.
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That Denise lady is just jealous because gay men are allowed to talk to their husbands while The Big Game is on.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:All anyone needs to know about Italian politics is to remember the bit from the MST3K episode "Final Justice", where at one point the villain is described as "a major source of embarrassment to the Italian government", at which point Mike replies "That's hard to do!" My very, very favorite part of John Oliver's tenure on "The Bugle" was the utter, unadulterated joy that he took from reporting on Berlusconi. That's where I learned the phrase "bunga bunga." 
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Mar 31, 2019 17:12
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SocketWrench posted:Well, Robocop takes place in Detroit under a crime epidemic during a time when real Detroit was under a crime epidemic and people were searching for an answer, any answer. Robocop also had to follow law and rules, and felt some emotion as to who he was and people around him. Human emotion in ST is repressed and replaced with anger but the main characters aren't really awful people to begin with, apart from Carmen and Carl. Most of them are normal dumbass young people victimized by a fascist state that replaces genuine agency with service to the state interests. Really humanity is kept at arm's length. When Rasczack tutors Rico he reaches out to him with his remaining hand, but when he's in a military role he only commands using his cybernetic arm, showing how his own mutilation has become a barrier between genuine humanity and what is expected of the mobile infantry.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Really humanity is kept at arm's length. When Rasczack tutors Rico he reaches out to him with his remaining hand, but when he's in a military role he only commands using his cybernetic arm, showing how his own mutilation has become a barrier between genuine humanity and what is expected of the mobile infantry. O_O I never thought about that symbolism before
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Arcsquad12 posted:Human emotion in ST is repressed and replaced with anger but the main characters aren't really awful people to begin with, apart from Carmen and Carl. Most of them are normal dumbass young people victimized by a fascist state that replaces genuine agency with service to the state interests. Really humanity is kept at arm's length. When Rasczack tutors Rico he reaches out to him with his remaining hand, but when he's in a military role he only commands using his cybernetic arm, showing how his own mutilation has become a barrier between genuine humanity and what is expected of the mobile infantry. "Die for your country you're not really part of"
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Denise comes across as the kind of person who would happily tell you that the female orgasm is a myth. Also I doubt she has ever had an orgasm because that would gently caress with her worldview.
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starship troopers is genius because it's not a satire made from our perspective but told by that society itself. it's the kind of movie nazis would be making now if they had won the war.
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The bugs killed ten million people in Buenos Aires and they fairly calmly went to war while nothing else changed in their society. You lost less than three thousand on 9/11 and ended up electing Trump.
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Mar 31, 2019 17:30
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Kafka Esq. posted:The bugs killed ten million people in Buenos Aires and they fairly calmly went to war while nothing else changed in their society. Counterthesis: A meteor hit Buenos Aires, and the government blamed it on a race of bugs they thought were fairly unintelligent and located on the other side of the galaxy, so they could send people to kill them all.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Counterthesis: A meteor hit Buenos Aires, and the government blamed it on a race of bugs they thought were fairly unintelligent and located on the other side of the galaxy, so they could send people to kill them all. They probably blamed the bugs because the Americans were ready to blame the meteor on Muslims and immigrants.
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Kafka Esq. posted:They probably blamed the bugs because the Americans were ready to blame the meteor on Muslims and immigrants. Well, that's fascism for you. It's all about in groups and out groups. We see a fascist society where all genders and ethnicities are respected and given equal rights, and all they had to do to achieve that is send their young to die fighting genocidal wars against a variety of alien menaces all across the galaxy.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Well, that's fascism for you. It's all about in groups and out groups. We see a fascist society where all genders and ethnicities are respected and given equal rights, and all they had to do to achieve that is send their young to die fighting genocidal wars against a variety of alien menaces all across the galaxy. I see a society where white Americans replaced everyone in Buenos Aires.
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Kafka Esq. posted:I see a society where white Americans replaced everyone in Buenos Aires. I mean, sure? It's hard to tell how much of that is intended, and how much is just Hollywood trying to depict future diversity... with a greater diversity of places having white people. We see no direct evidence of discrimination on earth, and a white male general is replaced with a black female one. Society has successfully exported its hate to the bugs.
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So one thing most people probably are not aware of is that the Otherkin scene was notoriously obsessed with swords. My little Otherkin cult spent many hours swinging cheap blades at each other in the belief that we were training ourselves for some sort of great uprising. There was a number of Orherkin cults we encountered that had a similar obsession with swords in conjunction with a belief in some sort of pending uprising. In fact this shared belief was part of what made the delusion do convincing- when complete strangers had the same belief structure and compulsive obsession with melee violence or really made us feel line we were a part of this secret elite that deserved to rule dociety. Now whenever I bring up Otherkin cults I usually get drowned out by laughter and guffaws; but please understand that what I and my friends experienced in the Otherkin community was the same basic behaviour pattern that is playing out now in the alt-right. The difference now though is that there were only a few tens of thousands of Otherkin and there are millions of chuds. I cannot tell you how many hundreds of variants of this exact sword-wielding fantasy I heard voiced by dejected social rejects in Otherkin circles: https://mobile.twitter.com/anti0gam...genumber%3D2139 https://mobile.twitter.com/anti0gamer/status/1112192376234115072 Prester Jane fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Mar 31, 2019 |
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SocketWrench posted:Well, Robocop takes place in Detroit under a crime epidemic during a time when real Detroit was under a crime epidemic and people were searching for an answer, any answer. Robocop also had to follow law and rules, and felt some emotion as to who he was and people around him. I need a fuckbuddy. You're it until you're dead or till I find someone better.
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Mar 31, 2019 17:56
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Krispy Wafer posted:I need a fuckbuddy. You're it until you're dead or till I find someone better. this reply would be less menacing if you used some punctuation to suggest it was intended as a quote
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Failed Imagineer posted:this reply would be less menacing if you used some punctuation to suggest it was intended as a quote This is the societal degeneration the English teachers warned us about If. Only. We. Listened.
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Mystic Mongol posted:We see no direct evidence of discrimination on earth, and a white male general is replaced with a black female one. Society has successfully exported its hate to the bugs. So, like Americans, you can point to the appointment of a black head of state as the end of racism.
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Failed Imagineer posted:this reply would be less menacing if you used some punctuation to suggest it was intended as a quote That's what makes it so great.
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Kafka Esq. posted:So, like Americans, you can point to the appointment of a black head of state as the end of racism. As an American, yeah. Man, you can make up any secret racism that you want to, but it's not shown in the movie. Starship Troopers asks, "Would violent military fascism be OK if the violence was directed towards hideous bug space monsters?" And the answer, "It's bad because they hate everyone who isn't white!" is not engaging with the work.
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Prester Jane posted:So one thing most people probably are not aware of is that the Otherkin scene was notoriously obsessed with swords. My little Otherkin cult spent many hours swinging cheap blades at each other in the belief that we were training ourselves for some sort of great uprising. There was a number of Orherkin cults we encountered that had a similar obsession with swords in conjunction with a belief in some sort of pending uprising. In fact this shared belief was part of what made the delusion do convincing- when complete strangers had the same belief structure and compulsive obsession with melee violence or really made us feel line we were a part of this secret elite that deserved to rule dociety. The sword part entirely unsurprising.
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Jealous Cow posted:The sword part entirely unsurprising. As a person interested in historical European martial arts for purely academic and hobby reasons... Yeah white supremacists love that poo poo.
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There was a fash intimidation march in my city recently. Some old MAGA dude also brought a sword, but it fortunately turned out to be plastic. Pretty sure the cops just let him march without checking it.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Human emotion in ST is repressed and replaced with anger but the main characters aren't really awful people to begin with, apart from Carmen and Carl. Most of them are normal dumbass young people victimized by a fascist state that replaces genuine agency with service to the state interests. Really humanity is kept at arm's length. When Rasczack tutors Rico he reaches out to him with his remaining hand, but when he's in a military role he only commands using his cybernetic arm, showing how his own mutilation has become a barrier between genuine humanity and what is expected of the mobile infantry. I love that the completion of Rico's character arc comes at his friend's funeral when he quotes verbatim the same banal propaganda that his high school teacher made him recite at the start of the film, but now he truly believes in the words.
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Jealous Cow posted:https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1112322038956466176
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Abner Assington posted:Somehow I'd never seen a photo of George Conway before and now I realize she married a sentient potato. please, we prefer the term tuberous american
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Jealous Cow posted:https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1112322038956466176 No
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Prester Jane posted:So one thing most people probably are not aware of is that the Otherkin scene was notoriously obsessed with swords. My little Otherkin cult spent many hours swinging cheap blades at each other in the belief that we were training ourselves for some sort of great uprising. There was a number of Orherkin cults we encountered that had a similar obsession with swords in conjunction with a belief in some sort of pending uprising. In fact this shared belief was part of what made the delusion do convincing- when complete strangers had the same belief structure and compulsive obsession with melee violence or really made us feel line we were a part of this secret elite that deserved to rule dociety. Gavin McGuinness also threw a sword around during his NYC street rumble. Fuckers love that imagery. It's an unholy cross-pollination of Mall Ninja weebs, Euro-fetishistic White Supremacists, and "Can't get a gun but still wanna look tough" pseudo-militia idiots.
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Crain posted:Gavin McGuinness also threw a sword around during his NYC street rumble. Fuckers love that imagery. Its the same Crusader imagery the Evangelicals love hearkening back to, especially in response to Muslim Americans.
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i love how he obviously doesn't have real answer. trump hosed them on this issue. my guess was they were planning to make a fight against single payer/MFA/whatever by running on a shittier version of obamacare and now trump has forced them into a really lovely position which will probably hurt them in 2020.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i love how he obviously doesn't have real answer. trump hosed them on this issue. my guess was they were planning to make a fight against single payer/MFA/whatever by running on a shittier version of obamacare and now trump has forced them into a really lovely position which will probably hurt them in 2020. They didn't have any plan at all beyond spamming bullshit and they still don't.
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The Saudis gave AMI Jeff Bezos's dick pics??? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/technology/jeff-bezos-saudis-hack.html
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