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Recently had reason to hang out with an old regressive buddy of mine that considers himself an intellectual heavyweight. He started talking about how cool it was that he could watch videos by intellectuals on YouTube and I was like "motherfucker you're talking about Jordan Peterson, aren't you". Yes. Nearly fell off my chair laughing when yes, of course he was also referring to Ben Shapiro. But even he realized that interview was a bad look.
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Rex-Goliath posted:I really do believe that they’re lying to themselves en masse and don’t realize how hollow and obvious their self delusions are to everyone else. People seem to be arguing "the specific words Trump said weren't racist, so what's the big deal?" Were they arguing in good faith one could point out that the letters of the alphabet aren't inherently racist but the order they appear in can make racist words but, alas I've definitely run into "intellectual heavyweights" who were completely mystified by my ability to point at the quiet part they were actually arguing, so you're not wrong, but dogwhistles aren't obvious to people that aren't familiar.
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ErIog posted:They pretend that if someone had given them a cookie for being 1980's racist instead of 1950's racist then they would be 1990's racist instead of 1960's racist. 
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Jul 21, 2019 04:30
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Mr Interweb posted:some time after around 2012 or so, i started slowly falling out of favor with new atheism thanks to some more overt islamophobia by the likes of bill maher and sam harris. but what really snapped me out of it was oddly enough, richard dawkins feeling the need to chime in and poo poo on rebecca watson during elevatorgate. i mean, why the gently caress did one of the foremost atheists of the time feel the need to mock a woman for not wanting to be talked to by some rando on an elevator? That's about when I took a step back as well, and for basically the same reasons.
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Lightning Knight posted:I’m not actually sure about that, at least in the long term. Actively resisting the far right in the streets is good, but in Nazi Germany it didn’t work. my second Snopes link of the fiscal day! It's not enough to merely "actively resist" being the takeaway.
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Aug 31, 2019 14:24
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"RUBIN RETURNS" I don't know who that is but also haven't seen Glenn Beck in quite a while and drat, did he just take time off just so he could come back looking "distinguished"?
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https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1142902950521651200 wat
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Jurgan posted:I’m not sure that look works for anyone who isn’t selling fried chicken. over radio, maybe
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Telegraph posted:In fact, the first two decades of the 20th century saw an ongoing campaign for earlier Christmas shopping. American professor Paul Collins has shown how socialist activists – including Florence Kelley, co-founder of the NAACP – fought to free overworked and often under-aged shop workers from the terror of the Christmas rush, which they portrayed as a humanitarian disaster. “Thousands of workers in every city have been taught by bitter experience to look forward to Christmas with dread,” said the Consumer League of New York. “A very little unselfishness on your part will greatly lighten [their] burden.” Sensing opportunity, savvy merchants climbed on board, and by 1918 the movement had been co-opted to such an extent that Santa Claus was telling the public to shop early for the sake of the war effort.
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Sep 23, 2019 20:40
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Groovelord Neato posted:poo poo the right whined so much about an insane guy who carried out illegal actions from nixon that led to what would have been nixon's eventual impeachment being voted down for a supreme court seat that the insane guy's name became a verb for being vilified in public. I would like to know more i.e. pls name this person as I'm not sure
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Oct 4, 2019 18:42
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Groovelord Neato posted:i think chapo is right that the rise of q-anon hosed over beck a lot. why do you need him connecting the dots when you can have the fun yourself. Beck took a few years off in obscurity and came back without hair dye. But hasn't Alex Jones remained through that time? Just put out a video "Trump Activates US Marine Corps to Stop Foreign Backed Coup FULL EMERGENCY SHOW 10/6/2019" in fact.
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Groovelord Neato posted:glenn beck was far more popular than alex jones will ever be. he has a net worth of a quarter billion dollars. More general public appeal, sure? But Alex Jones has just kept going and stoking the flames. I'm watching this most recent AJ output and he unironically cites a Natural News article regarding Marines being activated for work within the US (clearly within the purview of naturalnews.com, that, but they've got plenty of front page articles in the right wingnut spectrum) there are people who believe the things he says and Beck never appealed as much to the truly dangerous.
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Shbobdb posted:I am not nor have I ever been a fan of professional wrestling. But the idea of "kayfabe" and the idea of how thin a line there is between what is deemed to be "real" and what is "fake" is immediately obvious to me and I see it as immensely powerful. Don't listen to the "hard C" cinema elitists. Politics is a showman's game and wrestling is reality. It turns out that the "right to lie because it's an entertainment channel court case" thing isn't accurate. But right now I can't find the video of the dude yelling "Fox lies! Fox lies!" at the dude holding a Fox Business microphone who basically said "no, see, I'm with Fox Business" while being live broadcast on Fox News. I'll post it later if/when I find it.
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Nov 7, 2019 11:58
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I found a trimmed version (not including the "this is actually for fox business, sir" part) titled "An Articulate Liberal" and of course the guy eventually got named but still not finding the original there's a TYT video that cuts off for some reason right as they're getting into the "no this is Fox Business actually" part https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIHkpMtJ0dI&t=23s unfortunately every result from how i'm searching is just a thumbnail of one talking head or another instead of the actual context stringless fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Nov 7, 2019 |
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fuckin finally found it "This is Fox Business Network, just FYI" he says, while live on Fox News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4vRz8Vvms&t=36s Context: Madison, Wisconsin 2011 I'll acknowledge that it happened much earlier in the interaction than I remembered. I remembered it as the mouthpiece saying it to the dude yelling truth and a specific change in inflection in the way he said "FOX LIES" immediately after (which still happened as i remembered but in a different context) wishful thinking perhaps, but that was an element of that report summarily/deliberately ignored in favor of "articulate lib lol" stringless fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Nov 7, 2019 |
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Nov 7, 2019 12:32
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moths posted:Apparently Fox really cares about Popeye's now. A white boomer lady acquired a body slam after a prolonged tantrum tossing around the word they love to say (in private), so of course Fox News gives a poo poo. stringless fucked around with this message at 11:16 on Nov 15, 2019 |
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Nov 15, 2019 11:14
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Ague Proof posted:I can personally attest that South Park was partially responsible for a resurgence in anti-Semitism. hold on, are you claiming that "loving jew" is a problematic phrase!? if so i'm going to have to see literally all of the entire run of South Park in a different light and i don't like that idea
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Nov 15, 2019 13:37
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seth macfarlane does funnier voices than trey parker and matt stone can do it's that simple
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Nov 15, 2019 14:20
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Mellow Seas posted:Judging from the picture, he was ironically the least myopic member of his family. more likely he was just as blind as trump and also tied "not wearing glasses" to his masuclinity
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Groovelord Neato posted:Our CEO is sending out more batshit videos: I'm about halfway through and about to close it anyway but the number of times dude's brought up that apparently HIV doesn't cause AIDS is ridiculous. He's clearly got a bigger axe to grind than the current pandemic of concern. and he just said "because this is, again, a flu-type virus" who gave this guy a medical license /e no one, Ph.D. from MIT in biological engineering/systems biology "So when scurvy came around, remember scurvy, when people's teeth would fall out and they had bleeding gums? 'Well it must be a virus!' Well it was deficiency in vitamin C, a hundred years later, when even people on the ground knew it." lol yes long before the discovery of viruses people were insisting that scurvy was caused by a virus, obviously how much does this guy have invested in vitamin C supplements stringless fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Apr 15, 2020 |
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Apr 15, 2020 06:28
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GoutPatrol posted:I will remind everyone that James O'Keefe got his start protesting against Lucky Charms being served in the Rutgers campus cafeteria. i didn't watch too far into the video but that's the first thing they covered
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GoutPatrol posted:I didn't watch the video too, I just went to Rutgers when he was doing this. He's always been seen as a piece of poo poo. oh yeah it's very clear up front about he started with a trap "lucky charms are racist" well there are two probable outcomes and either way looks bad because it's a setup. "okay lucky charms are banned on campus" = "liberals!" "that's obviously nonsense" = "liberals!" foreverially this fuckin' comic 
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Apr 17, 2020 13:23
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i've been seeing way too many people completely misunderstanding what herd immunity is lately. one is an old friend that's now active EMS like bro you should at least understand how awful getting to herd immunity levels would be for everyone that you've got to transport to a hospital for any reason
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Weatherman posted:Why do you have to put the flag—I'm sorry, the ⭐️⭐️⭐️FLAG™⭐️⭐️⭐️—on subway cars in New York? Considering the dichotomy between America-as-perceived and America-as-experienced you might be onto something there.
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Jun 3, 2020 18:32
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If the biased news media would stop reporting all these shark attacks there'd be no problem!
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Jun 27, 2020 08:36
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And if Trump gets re-elected they'll keep trying to insist the same things If it's Biden they'll complain that he isn't doing enough or something. It'll be basically the same switch they do about caring about the national debt
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Jul 16, 2020 13:10
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... both happy and sad that I watched the whole thing.
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Jul 31, 2020 09:33
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to acknowledge a mistake is weakness
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BiggerBoat posted:All I can do to feel better right now is read this in Leslie Neilsen's voice. 
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Sep 22, 2020 03:09
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aspirational USA according to glenn beck and matty glesias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h_nJE2nZWM we want to TRIPLE THE POPULATION and we just SHATTERED OUR BRAINS and we feel GREEEAAAAT (i realize that a recent brain shattering is way past optimistic) stringless fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Sep 22, 2020 |
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Sep 22, 2020 05:40
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my mother fell for a babylon bee article months ago and was not happy that i laughed at her about it so i'm sure this is not unique and makes trump "more relatable" if anything to that particular set that plus the people that are assuredly going "yeah but it's basically true tho"
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PT6A posted:Where's that meme of Jeremy Clarkson going "OH NO!!!.... moving on!" when you need it? 
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tek79 posted:I don't know if it's an exact term for what you're describing, but "Gish galloping" seems like it might be close. "unwarranted accusation of conflict of interest", to summarize.
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Space Gopher posted:You're probably thinking of Sinclair Broadcast Group. https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/980175772206993409
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PhazonLink posted:ah thanks for the super cut. The super cut is Sinclair. iHeartMedia/Clear Channel is a different corporation (though after they sold off all their TV channels Sinclair bought some)
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World Famous W posted:I've been praying for rush for a long time. What that prayer is asking for though... FlamingLiberal posted:I really hope we're finally done with his rear end see what fills up first
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Iron Crowned posted:It truly is amazing but how many places I had been to in the last 15+ years and the lobby or whatever tv was set to Fox News
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awesome can't wait to see all the hot vape takes to come like are we supposed to pretend that there was no one going "you're live in 5, 4, 3" etc or are we supposed to pretend that no one wanted to give him the countdown?
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I recognize his face but yeah I can't imagine having given a poo poo about him unless one was already alive and paying attention when Watergate happened. He was no Oliver North. Or Kissinger, who will be turning 98 in a couple of months somehow stringless fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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