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sexpig by night posted:art is for liberal faggots the alt-right is mostly STEM worshipping brain geniuses who could totally program the next windows if their moms didn't make them take their butt poop pills and all the colleges weren't exclusively letting in minorities Most of the stem worshipping brain geniuses I know are self described libertarians who don't like trump but are also very concerned about the rise of radical Islam and sexual assault statistics in Sweden.
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also they usually suck at the stem part
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:God drat I hate those guys. Relitigating "no, it's not a joke, and even if it is it's never been a funny or interesting one" to edgy punks has been a constant conversation in my life X-Ray Pecs posted:Early punk rock had a lot of crossover with fascist street gangs, and I think that's when "skinhead" went from a certain group of the working class to a synonym for "Nazi." Even Ian Curtis of was obsessed with Nazis and Nazi paraphernalia, and "Joy Division" came from the place in concentration camps where Nazis kept sex slaves. TomViolence posted:Hilariously, Boyd Rice was even into tiki bars for some reason,
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Futurism's an interesting art movement, in that early on, at least up until the Italo-Abyssinian war, it had a sizeable left wing contingent and over the years its currency among the right waned as Italian fascism moved away from embracing modernity and turned to a sort of nostalgic neoclassicism. Rather than being solely the preserve of the right wing, I think futurism had more to do with mass politics in general and the radical, transformative possibilities of technology in previously backward, peasant societies. It's probably for this reason it was also a movement in Russia for a time. Either way once the actual transformation was exhausted and society stabilised again, the agents of change seemed to lose interest in that kind of dynamism.
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Edit: Eh never mind
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# ? Sep 28, 2017 16:07 |
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tiki bars are white supremacist as hell
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# ? Sep 28, 2017 16:43 |
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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:tiki bars are white supremacist as hell I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.
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# ? Sep 28, 2017 16:47 |
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prefect posted:I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. How was his hair?
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"I do that sometimes" - Matt on showering
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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:tiki bars are white supremacist as hell I like Martin Denny, am I racist.
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# ? Sep 28, 2017 19:49 |
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gently caress I love when Derek Davidson stop by
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Halloween Jack posted:Today we associate punk with left activism, but I think that came later; The Decline of Western Civilization shows a lot of people who are simply aware that they're the dregs of bourgeois society and are descending into nihilism. Mick Jones had to explain, decades later, why he was in a band called London SS if he wasn't a Nazi. It was just the most offensive poo poo they could think of.). It wasn't later. Look at Crass. It's just that in punk, both then and today there are two strands. The ones in it for offense and the more left-anarchist leaning ones. It's how you have queer bands offering open spaces to be as trans or fluid as you want, and bands with rapists who get defended.
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sometimes they're even the same band!
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:sometimes they're even the same band! Except for the "getting defended" part. I've never seen a band crash and burn harder and faster than PWR BTTM
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lmao totally. I had to make that joke but realistically outside of that horror story they tend to be semi-far apart
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https://twitter.com/carriesymonds/status/913326646895300608
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https://twitter.com/wheatretard/status/913429734117212160/
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I think Derek's wrong on the Jones act, it's designed so that only American ships can go between American ports, not that only American ships can use American ports. So for example shipping from NY to Florida can only be done by American built/owned/crewed ships, but China to California can be done by international ships. I think. I might be wrong; I'm very dumb.
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padijun posted:I think Derek's wrong on the Jones act, it's designed so that only American ships can go between American ports, not that only American ships can use American ports. So for example shipping from NY to Florida can only be done by American built/owned/crewed ships, but China to California can be done by international ships. I think. I might be wrong; I'm very dumb. This was my understanding as well
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# ? Sep 29, 2017 02:05 |
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padijun posted:I think Derek's wrong on the Jones act, it's designed so that only American ships can go between American ports, not that only American ships can use American ports. So for example shipping from NY to Florida can only be done by American built/owned/crewed ships, but China to California can be done by international ships. I think. I might be wrong; I'm very dumb. Yeah that's it, but it's also as part of an itinerary. Hawaii for instance gets hosed by the Jones act. All those ships from china can't make a stop in Honolulu and then proceed to Long Beach so good to Hawaii have to be reloaded on a us flagged shipped and shipped back across the pacific. Where it matters in Puerto Rico is that foreign flagged ships can't load relief supplies from the US mainland then go to Puerto Rico.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Yeah that's it, but it's also as part of an itinerary. Hawaii for instance gets hosed by the Jones act. All those ships from china can't make a stop in Honolulu and then proceed to Long Beach so good to Hawaii have to be reloaded on a us flagged shipped and shipped back across the pacific. Foreign flagged ships can visit multiple US ports in a row and load/unload at each. The trick that screws Hawaii is that they can't carry US-US bound cargo on those ships. So goods from China could be dropped off on the way to Long Beach, but they couldn't pickup Mainland bound anything. More problematic is the reverse trip, since Hawaiian exports have fallen anyway.
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# ? Sep 29, 2017 02:15 |
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Seb's now basically subtweeting Adomian's impression. https://twitter.com/JAdomian/status/913615615188918273
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Will, Puerto Rico is not an "island nation".
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# ? Sep 29, 2017 11:26 |
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The Jones Act requires that vessels transporting cargo between two US points be built in the United States, crewed by American citizens, and at least 75% owned by American citizens. It props up a lot of well-paid blue collar jobs in shipping and also discourages tax dodging by, say, flagging your vessels under Panama. The flip side, of course, is that it can be cheaper to transport goods from, as an example, Texas to a Canadian port instead of from Texas to Baltimore, encouraging international trade at the expense of domestic markets.
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Neon Belly posted:The Jones Act requires that vessels transporting cargo between two US points be built in the United States, crewed by American citizens, and at least 75% owned by American citizens. It props up a lot of well-paid blue collar jobs and also discourages tax dodging by, say, flagging your vessels under Panama. Isn't there some ludicrously huge percentage of shipping vessels that are flagged as Liberian, so they can dodge taxes?
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prefect posted:Isn't there some ludicrously huge percentage of shipping vessels that are flagged as Liberian, so they can dodge taxes? Panama is responsible for almost a quarter of all flagged ships in the world, followed by Liberia and to a lesser extend the Marshall Islands and the Bahamas. Other than the tax dodge, regulations also tend to be laxer in these countries, allowing ships that would never get past American/European inspectors to operate. Neon Belly fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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Duncan is the most underappreciated poster on the entire internet and I'm glad he has a real job and doesn't spend all day online.
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Felix liked this tweet. Someone explain it to me. https://twitter.com/viperwave/status/913548936920498176
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prefect posted:Felix liked this tweet. Someone explain it to me. seems like that person has bad videogames opinions
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https://twitter.com/viperwave/status/913551872199245824 There are not "several hours" worth of ranch hand missions and you don't have to start with all of them either. Plus in 2018 I feel it's even more likely that a company would try something weird like that but I'm not a big time gamer.
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Henchman of Santa posted:https://twitter.com/viperwave/status/913551872199245824 Nah, you're right and the tweet is wrong.
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# ? Sep 29, 2017 15:42 |
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Yeah that just sounds like some bitter gamer making a THE CORPORATIONS argument because Rockstar sells imaginary GTA money for real cash.
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Video Game's
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# ? Sep 29, 2017 16:17 |
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Video game geeks seem to want to imagine that studios are artist colonies run by and for fellow geeks that lovingly give birth to masterpieces. That's an idealistic view even of the smaller-scale tabletop game business, let alone video games with 8 and 9 figure budgets.
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Video Games
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Dinosaurs! posted:Yeah that just sounds like some bitter gamer making a THE CORPORATIONS argument because Rockstar sells imaginary GTA money for real cash. I'd argue it's more because GTA has always been the most clumsy, hamfisted, poorly done, 'social commentary' but 5 takes it even further by straight up having torture and poo poo be a thing you do between bouts of radio shows that boil down to "I'M A CELEB BUT I'M SOOOO DUMB" "HAHA WE LOVE YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE SOOOOO DUMB" and somehow it got praised for being 'deep' because of it. Red Dead was a very slow, carefully paced, game where story and character development was kinda important and I literally cannot remember any GTA characters beyond a few names and the fact that Lamar was the one who did the "Nigga~" scene that made the internet love any chance to repost it for a month. It's not so much that THE EVIL CORPORATION will crush the PURE ARTISTIC VISION as it is that Rockstar is genuinely terrible at writing and RDR was a lightning in a bottle situation that any attempt to redo will almost certainly suck.
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Also it doesn't help that RDR didn't get a PC port and so now is trapped on an effectively dead console.
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sexpig by night posted:I'd argue it's more because GTA has always been the most clumsy, hamfisted, poorly done, 'social commentary' but 5 takes it even further by straight up having torture and poo poo be a thing you do between bouts of radio shows that boil down to "I'M A CELEB BUT I'M SOOOO DUMB" "HAHA WE LOVE YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE SOOOOO DUMB" and somehow it got praised for being 'deep' because of it. Red Dead was a very slow, carefully paced, game where story and character development was kinda important and I literally cannot remember any GTA characters beyond a few names and the fact that Lamar was the one who did the "Nigga~" scene that made the internet love any chance to repost it for a month. Also, was already a huge corproration by the time RDR rolled out. The bitterness here is definitely directed at how they write (GTAV only started growing once it started adding more modes where you could ignore the plot) and not like the recent mod hubbub.
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sexpig by night posted:I'd argue it's more because GTA has always been the most clumsy, hamfisted, poorly done, 'social commentary' but 5 takes it even further by straight up having torture and poo poo be a thing you do between bouts of radio shows that boil down to "I'M A CELEB BUT I'M SOOOO DUMB" "HAHA WE LOVE YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE SOOOOO DUMB" and somehow it got praised for being 'deep' because of it. Red Dead was a very slow, carefully paced, game where story and character development was kinda important and I literally cannot remember any GTA characters beyond a few names and the fact that Lamar was the one who did the "Nigga~" scene that made the internet love any chance to repost it for a month. Their radio interviews with the liberal candidate for governor are very bad attempts at parody. They do a better job with the conservative guy. Also, the idea of a proud-Southern-person game called "Pride, not Prejudice" is a fantastic one.
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Halloween Jack posted:Video game geeks seem to want to imagine that studios are artist colonies run by and for fellow geeks that lovingly give birth to masterpieces. That's an idealistic view even of the smaller-scale tabletop game business, let alone video games with 8 and 9 figure budgets. Nationalize video games.
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