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Doesn't our supposedly left-wing media deserve some share of the blame for not fighting the Fox News bandwagon? I mean, who's the leftest person on national TV right now? Maddow? Olberman? As far as I can tell they're both capitalists.
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I was talking VHF/UHF broadcast, actually. Or whatever protocol they use now. Digital something-or-other.
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Oct 17, 2012 11:06
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By the by, any chatter from the pundits about the Sandy relief meltdown? I know it's got its own thread, but this is a talking-head question.
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Jan 3, 2013 09:10
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We need some kind of ultimatum: hey aristocrats, we're gonna soak you or eat you. Your pick.
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Jan 15, 2013 21:32
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I would like to point out that Breitbart was actually from Des Moines, and will repeat it long enough that people begin to describe him as a "supposedly-Los Angeles based pundit."
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Jan 30, 2013 07:32
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Is he Joe Arpaio's son or something? What'd he do?
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Feb 11, 2013 05:23
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The question I find myself asking is whether this disunity is harmful in the long run. It establishes leftists (which I'm using here as a blanket term for greens, LGBT-rights activists, feminists, minority-rights activists, labor unionists, socialized healthcarists, blac bloc anarchists and reds--gently caress, it's a big tent) as people of conscience, so dedicated to their cause that they ignore all others, even those related to their own struggle, whereas rightists tend to circle the wagons-thinking and more importantly voting in lockstep. Look at the horseporn from the last few pages! If we on the political left found someone like that we'd drop them, not find a new hero. But the fact that we just can't seem to get along makes us less vulnerable to becoming an echo chamber. I'm not saying invulnerable. I've got cousins who are knee-jerk crystal-healing loons, but I'll side with 'em when I agree with them, and they'll do the same for me when my pet issues come up. Meanwhile, my Idaho relatives are strongly pro-labor and deeply racist, so I'll side with them on labor issues while calling them on their bullshit when they start insulting Latinos. Among the right wing, it seems that one slip from dogma earns you the wholesale hate of the whole conservative machine. Grand Prize Winner fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Mar 4, 2013 |
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BiggerBoat posted:We (leftists) get along fine. Your post is a little confusing. I agree with you. My wording was outright lovely.
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Mar 5, 2013 08:47
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Pshh, some of my older relatives use the google search bar to search for google then use the main google page to search the address of the website they want to go to. Drives me insane. Every remaining republican voter.txt
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Apr 2, 2013 00:59
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LP97S posted:I always liked to point out that gold sellers were accepting fiat currency. I asked my uncle that. His answer was that the gold sellers didn't believe the dollar was in danger, but they were wrong.
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Apr 18, 2013 19:31
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It's not even "relatively" unbiased, NPR's just managed to hide the fact that it's been bought better.
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Apr 25, 2013 15:50
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Anecdotal: I know a woman whose B-list son died in unpleasant circumstances. Self-inflicted gunshot wound to the heart combined with a long history of self-destructive behavior. She spent years trying to prove that he'd been murdered--she'd become convinced of that after reading one of the celebrity gossip rags they sell in supermarkets. When the police closed the case, she hired a PI, who apparently had enough principle to drop her case or whatever. She went through a series of increasingly-dodgy investigators before resorting to psychics and ghost-whisperers. Now she just drinks waaaay too much wine and goes in for whatever new-agey crystal-healing stuff is in vogue at any given time. And even getting to that level of relative sanity took her years. Public scrutiny couldn't make that situation any better, so I worry for Ms. Smith. She might have gone a little loopy on her own but the media frenzy surrounding things is only gonna make it worse. And until she gets too crazy and the media drops her, she doesn't have any real chance of recovery.
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May 12, 2013 23:02
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Hey, y'all remember how the Koch Brothers rented/bought Buzzfeed? Apparently Buzzfeed's editor-in-chief has a long history with them.
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May 16, 2013 09:17
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Is the voting population of the rest of Louisiana large enough to counteract New Orleans' voters? Maybe they voted Jindal in as an explicit 'gently caress you' to the bl--I mean, to the urban population of New Orleans.
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May 22, 2013 03:35
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This may be a US thing, but me and most of the folks that I know thought Roma were fictional well into our teens. Like, literally not an ethnic group, just bad guys that Disney invented.
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May 26, 2013 01:59
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Dunno. Anne Coulter: "gently caress the Jews."
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Jun 1, 2013 21:11
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Install Gentoo posted:Cell-only households is generally higher in poorer areas then richer areas, due to the fact that even cheap landline plans are still more expensive then getting a $20 Tracfone with a hundred minutes or so. At the risk of sounding  , how does telephone ownership fall within the CDC's wheelhouse? I'd expect it to be monitored by, I dunno, the FTC or some defense agency.
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Jun 21, 2013 00:11
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The word "friend of the family" has an implication beyond "you are black and therefore inferior to me." It further implies "I can kill you, steal from you, or beat you with impunity." "Cracker" does not have that implication in most situations.
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Jul 12, 2013 22:03
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The radio business is worthy of an A/T thread of its own, I think. Any of you radio folks feel up to posting one?
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Jul 21, 2013 04:28
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I was gonna cut him some slack for being a foreigner but apparently he's been in the US since the Iranian Revolution. Seriously, how does he not realize that Fox is basically the Daily Mail as run by Joseph Goebbels?
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Jul 28, 2013 18:20
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kik2dagroin posted:Rush has really been dog whistling the 'Oprah experiences casual racism' story. He actually just made the argument that because Oprah's story happened in Switzerland, which is inhabited by rabid leftists Swiss? Rabid leftists? Aren't they one of the rightiest countries in Europe?
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, that liberals are in fact the real racists. I read this argument all the time on FR but it is another thing entirely to hear it broadcasted to millions of people 
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Warchicken posted:I realize it's the cool kid thing to do to act like AJA is some carbon copy of Fox News or whatever, but it's not. It hasn't been on the air but a couple days and people are acting like they've been covering nothing but celebrity news. Even if the first week was like that(and it hasn't been), try and give it a chance. It's really tiresome to see so many people making GBS threads all over the first ray of sunshine in a stormy sky of bullshit just to get a little hipster cred for how "in the know" they are. I've heard AJAM's coverage is pretty decent if more domestic than most of Al Jazeera's stuff, but the frustrating part for me personally is that not a single provider in my area carries it and now I can't even watch the AJE stream; I get the impression that this is a problem for a decent percentage of AJE's previous American viewership.
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It can be done. I've been rehabilitating my old man slowly but surely. He's still an irascible old gently caress but his blue-collar union-man mentality is showing through more and more. Be espousing outright socialist ideas like a national minimum income and nationalized (state-ized? city-ized) sports franchises, I've moved his personal Overton window a good deal to the left.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:To be fair (and balanced), gently caress Canada geese, they should all be put into camps. Biggest dicks in the entire animal kingdom I thought that title went to the tapir but we're agreed on the important thing: death to the Worst Bird. Canadians probably hate 'em as much as we do, anyway.
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I am a racist and:fade5 posted:
edit: oh crap, this post sounds vaguely racist. italics added to clarify.
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The Winco in downtown Boise has a huge endcap of Duckmaster-brand wine in the center of the store. Gaudiest bottle I ever seen.
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quiggy stardust posted:Black people kill white people: RACE WAR URBAN FERAL VIOLENCE A lot of this has to come from tribalism. If people who look the same and think differently (liberals, gays, what-have-you) are part of a different tribe and therefore the enemy, then people who actually look different might as well be Pod People.
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WampaLord posted:They're not, the Internet is just giving them a platform to express their hate speech. The next generation is already becoming less bigoted, less homophobic, etc. These attitudes and opinions are dying out, we're just witnessing the last gasps of it. That kind of (oh god gonna bust out the two-bit words) generational triumphalism has been a problem for the left for god knows how long now. It's not a good idea to embrace it--whether or not the facts that it draws from are correct. And those six-year-olds aren't going to have their world-views really solidified until 10-14 years from now. It's what they say then that's important.
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FuzzySkinner posted:This. I'm not a great bible guy; could you give me the chapter and verse? I'd like to look at it.
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It's easy to sympathize with transpeople on the bathroom thing: I had to use a women's room once and it kinda sucked. It was at a McDonald's in the middle of the Nevada desert and the men's room was out of order. I a friend stand outside and then had the fastest, most unpleasant poo poo of my life, half-assed washing my hands, and booked it out of there. The whole thing felt just so goddamn uncomfortable, like I was gonna get arrested for a sex crime any minute or something - like, the whole time there was just this intense feeling of being in the wrong place. And they've gotta be feeling that way pretty much every time they take a dump for the first year or whatever of their transition. Maybe they just eat a lot of cheese?
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Jurgan posted:A bundle of sticks tied together. or fascia, if you will
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BigRed0427 posted:deadnaming The trans* community has always been our bulwark against necromancers and their foul magicks v: yeah, that was kind of terrible. funnier/less hurtful in my head. sorry. Grand Prize Winner fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Sep 1, 2017 |
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sweart gliwere posted:Shame that he got all neurotic and fixated instead of working out
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Instant Sunrise posted:This is backed up by actual data by the way. There's been a huge drop-off of millennials leaving churches when they turn 18 and aren't socially obligated to go (something like 59% who grew up in the church leave it). And when surveyed the answers are invariably that they were turned off by all the political culture warrior bullshit. my local church growing up was liberation theology as gently caress, I just don't like getting up early on Sundays. turned atheist so I could sleep in more
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fishmech posted:New York City/New York State law allows you to smoke in private businesses that aren't like open to the public. And a set inside the Fox News studios is almost certainly not "open to the public" in a way that would make it a violation. I don't claim to know the laws of New York but that thing is not a real cigarette. It's one of those stupid ciggavape things and it's not a bad idea to hold it close to the "cherry", because the part that gets hot is actually near the joint between the main body of the vape and the filter. Then again the part that heats up only gets kinda warm, not hot, unless you're smoking like a chimney. The little light at the end is an LED so it never really heats up. In conclusion hannity, while definitely a stupid man, and holding and sucking on a stupid object, may not be holding said stupid object in a stupid way. Source: I had to work a play using these and they were the dumbest loving things and I hate them and actors cannot be trusted to hold lighters far enough away to avoid damaging the mechanism and like an eighth of our properties budget was spent on replacing the drat things when they broke thanks for reading
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:Evangelicals tend to treat Lutherans as Christians In Name Only, because they tend to fail the "are you really Born Again?" litmus test, which boils down to "do you actively support the Republican Party?" Chinos?
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Screaming Idiot posted:It's not Mr. Rogers's fault they lost the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny and forfeited all rights to immortality in the afterlife. you are internet old and so is everyone else who understands that reference
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Just come up with your own friendly holiday greeting. I usually go with "happy Seinfeld" or "hail Satan" depending on audience.
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Alkydere posted:I haven't seen a more pathetic attempt to return to glory ever since goons drove Buzz Cut Psycho away from Planetside 2, and at least BCP tried. who? what? I played planetside 2 for about 5 minutes after it released and it turned out my computer couldn't run it well please tell, seriously, because I can abide lovely computers but not missing out on interesting drama
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Someday we are going to see a Congressman Goku, maybe even a Senator Goku.
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