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Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord

JiveHonky posted:

I hope the posters in here arent russian to any conclusions

:shittypop:

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Luvcow
Jul 1, 2007

One day nearer spring

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

ah yes, the billionare businessman, an adequate alternative to the corporate oligarchy

yeah but thats just it, our current politicians have hosed up so much that literally anyone else is a better choice. The people I've talked to who are voting or supporting trump aren't doing it because they like him or even believe in him, its because they loving hate our current government and politicians.

criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it
I wish cable companies would just put the channels in alphabetical order like civilized people. I went all through my channel guide and apparently Time Warner doesn't carry RT. I did discover that there's 4 on-demand gay porn channels, though, so that's good to know.

Meet My Man Meat
(2014) Slender bottles (Ty Roderick, Connor Patricks) slobber all over big juicy meat sticks before they bend over and receive a warm blast of delicious man-juice! 1 hr 30 min

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc
What's a bottle ive never heard this porn term before

Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

Luvcow posted:

yeah but thats just it, our current politicians have hosed up so much that literally anyone else is a better choice. The people I've talked to who are voting or supporting trump aren't doing it because they like him or even believe in him, its because they loving hate our current government and politicians.

same, but that's because the people I talk to tend to be similar to me and also have this (valid) reasoning, but most trump supporters who aren't our sad, defeated friends genuinely seem to be amped about the guy

(unless you're talking about co-workers or something, in which case it's heartening to hear that trump's actual base is people succumbing to nihilism)

Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

criscodisco posted:

I wish cable companies would just put the channels in alphabetical order like civilized people. I went all through my channel guide and apparently Time Warner doesn't carry RT. I did discover that there's 4 on-demand gay porn channels, though, so that's good to know.

Meet My Man Meat
(2014) Slender bottles (Ty Roderick, Connor Patricks) slobber all over big juicy meat sticks before they bend over and receive a warm blast of delicious man-juice! 1 hr 30 min

reality has basically turned into Strange Days, where we all slobber over each other's meat sticks while the world spirals into the sun

Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

JiveHonky posted:

I hope the posters in here arent russian to any conclusions

we're all just slavs to the corporate media

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

The same friends who linked me RT stuff have now moved on to linking me Breitbart stuff.

us vs also us
Jul 8, 2007

Hello! I hope you are having a nice day!
It's a website that shows overall critic and audience reception to movies under the gimmick of calling it a "rotten" or "fresh" tomato op

Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

Dandywalken posted:

The same friends who linked me RT stuff have now moved on to linking me Breitbart stuff.

better than infowars, i guess

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

I forgot Infowars, that shows up now and then with the preface "YEAH I KNOW ITS ALEX JONES INFOWARS BLAH BLAH BUT WATCH IT IT MAKES SENSE"

us vs also us
Jul 8, 2007

Hello! I hope you are having a nice day!
Wow I'm bad at posting (edit is not quote)

us vs also us fucked around with this message at 00:25 on May 18, 2016

Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

The Pony Incident posted:

It's a website that shows overall critic and audience reception to movies under the gimmick of calling it a "rotten" or "fresh" tomato op

real talk, rotten tomatoes has ALWAYS been a stunningly accurate indicator of whether or not I'll enjoy a film (with the exception of southland tales, the greatest film ever made, 36% RT score), but maybe the review score actually prejudices me for/against the films and I would've had a different reaction had I not known it???????

us vs also us
Jul 8, 2007

Hello! I hope you are having a nice day!

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

real talk, rotten tomatoes has ALWAYS been a stunningly accurate indicator of whether or not I'll enjoy a film (with the exception of southland tales, the greatest film ever made, 36% RT score), but maybe the review score actually prejudices me for/against the films and I would've had a different reaction had I not known it???????

I just, like, don't trust critics, man. I'd rather ask what my uncle john fuckface thinks about a movie :downs: also I have a basic misunderstanding of the concept of averages

mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 22 days!
Has anyone ever thought that the unusually large amount of comedy bits critiquing Trump do as much to promote his campaign as any pro-Trump rallies or advertising?

Happy Bear Suit
Jul 21, 2004

the greatest kung fu movie ever made (kung pow: enter the fist) has a 11% rt rating, can someone explain that to me??!!!

also, my guess is that america's freedom of speech laws lets RT get away with whatever they want

World Kraid Center
Oct 18, 2009
do you trust Al-Jazeera on issues in Qatar and other Sunni Kingdoms?

RT is somewhere between that and the BBC

Blurry Gray Thing
Jun 3, 2009
RT is Russia's greatest weapon against the West.

Phase one: Lazy stupid American goes "This is blatant propaganda, why do people just swallow this garbage, and why do they let those corrupt assholes stay in power????"

Phase two: Lazy stupid American turns on American news and takes a hard look at his or her own country. "Hey, wait a minute."

Phase three: :ussr:

extra stout
Feb 24, 2005

ISILDUR's ERR

Blurry Gray Thing posted:

RT is Russia's greatest weapon against the West.

Phase one: Lazy stupid American goes "This is blatant propaganda, why do people just swallow this garbage, and why do they let those corrupt assholes stay in power????"

Phase two: Lazy stupid American turns on American news and takes a hard look at his or her own country. "Hey, wait a minute."

Phase three: :ussr:

this thread seems very smart and good to me, and im not at all able to observe that the clinton news network is owned by the same company that is hillary clinton's 12th biggest donor and over charges half a nation of 300 million people for communication services through an agreed split turf mafia monopoly with comcast

Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur
Mar 16, 2006

GOOD LUCK!!
You know this election is divisive when I've started listening to Young Turks and hating everything. I used to think they were smug assholes. Now they're still smug assholes but they seem to back their poo poo up with facts.

Shaquin
May 12, 2007

ive started calling myself The Hung Berk

hot date tonight!
Jan 13, 2009


Slippery Tilde
This is totally normal, most major countries have a propaganda station. Voice of America is the US equivalent.

Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur
Mar 16, 2006

GOOD LUCK!!

Astrotrain posted:

This is totally normal, most major countries have a propaganda station. Voice of America is the US equivalent.

Holy poo poo I'd never heard of that, this is amazing. Although it looks like we win in terms of Free Speech since we even let terrorists on it.

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

who cares

the ol pump-n-bump
Jul 27, 2004

by Smythe
Russian and American media are working together, to form a narrative that promotes a buildup of the military industrial complex in each respective country. The threat of perpetual war is used to funnel money from the masses to enrich a few select elites. The OP is also a fag

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

skeletonotherkin
Sep 26, 2014

PBRstreetgang posted:

Russian and American media are working together, to form a narrative that promotes a buildup of the military industrial complex in each respective country. The threat of perpetual war is used to funnel money from the masses to enrich a few select elites. The OP is also a fag

Yay another 1914 is on the horizon.

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012
RT is for lefties who find Vice "too mainstream." The new hotness I've noticed is TeleSUR

Like I get the need to bash on mainstream media (or specifically, Fox News) for being biased, but doing literally the same loving thing but only to suit your views is hilariously ironic. America and its allies are terrifyingly hosed up, thats pretty well known, but I don't think it needs to be shoehorned into every article.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:

so my question is, why is this "allowed" to happen? Why do comcast, dish, et. al. carry their network when it's openly the propaganda of a decadent foreign government designed to undermine the politics and culture of the nations it airs in? Why is life such a confusing mess?

first amendment

there are chinese, iranian, and north korean propaganda outlets that operate openly in the US too, the Russians just have a century of experience in propaganda-crafting that makes them a lot better at it

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

Gone Phishing



It's always been a war-mongering security state corrupt empire, though.

Space Jam
Jul 22, 2008

wait, you're telling me putin isn't superhuman? i was lied to

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

Gone Phishing


Space Jam posted:

wait, you're telling me putin isn't superhuman? i was lied to

No, he is.

Take the plunge! Okay!
Feb 24, 2007



If you like RT, you're gonna live D&D.

Space Jam
Jul 22, 2008


thank the gods. i thought my painting of him lifting a school bus full of children would be worthless

JiveHonky
May 12, 2001

by zen death robot
Grimey Drawer

Happy Bear Suit posted:

the greatest kung fu movie ever made (kung pow: enter the fist) has a 11% rt rating, can someone explain that to me??!!!

also, my guess is that america's freedom of speech laws lets RT get away with whatever they want

The greatest and funniest kung fu movie ever made is called Kung Fu Hustle directed by, written by and starring Stephen Chow. You could make a case for Shaolin Soccer (also Chow) as well. Compared to those two films Kung Pow is limp, lame and hopelessly dim-witted. In fact not only does Kung Pow deserve that 11% rating, it's also on my short list of worst movies of all time.

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

JiveHonky posted:

Compared to those two films Kung Pow is limp, lame and hopelessly dim-witted. In fact not only does Kung Pow deserve that 11% rating, it's also on my short list of worst movies of all time.
You're right, Balls of Fury is the best Kung Fu movie.

celeron 300a
Jan 23, 2005

by exmarx
Yam Slacker

JiveHonky posted:

I hope the posters in here arent russian to any conclusions

hot date tonight!
Jan 13, 2009


Slippery Tilde

Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:

Holy poo poo I'd never heard of that, this is amazing. Although it looks like we win in terms of Free Speech since we even let terrorists on it.

If you like that, tune into Radio Havana online or with a shortwave sometime, it's great. China Radio International is also a fun listen.

Infinite Katzenjammer
Aug 17, 2004

John Denver Hoxha posted:

It's my life's dream to get into the RT stable of experts

RT interviewed me as an expert in my field (technology forecasting, but who knows what title they gave me) around two years ago, before the first few journalists left RT and made it widely known just how much influence the government held over the programming. I suppose that makes me part of the pasture of experts rather than the stable, but AMA I guess (nothing interesting happened, don't ask me anything).

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Infinite Katzenjammer posted:

RT interviewed me as an expert in my field (technology forecasting, but who knows what title they gave me) around two years ago, before the first few journalists left RT and made it widely known just how much influence the government held over the programming. I suppose that makes me part of the pasture of experts rather than the stable, but AMA I guess (nothing interesting happened, don't ask me anything).

how do you sleep at night knowing you personally enabled the actions of russia's authoritarian regime

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a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Infinite Katzenjammer posted:

RT interviewed me as an expert in my field (technology forecasting, but who knows what title they gave me) around two years ago, before the first few journalists left RT and made it widely known just how much influence the government held over the programming. I suppose that makes me part of the pasture of experts rather than the stable, but AMA I guess (nothing interesting happened, don't ask me anything).
How would you like to take a one way trip in a Russian elevator?

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