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Please use the words apartheid and genocide, please use the words apartheid and genocide.
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Nov 6, 2014 23:45
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agatona posted:Also, the fact that judges have to campaign in the USA is really really scary. How can there be a fair trial if a lawyer in case a judge is handling has made donations to his election? Is the US government doing something to fix this? No, it's working as intended.
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Feb 24, 2015 12:59
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Important lesson for these kids: if you want your bill to pass you gotta get out there and whip up some votes. Get those sweet child mugs in state legislator's offices and in front of cameras so you can twist some arms into supporting your bill. Liberally throw around Redtail Hawk lobby money to grease the wheels and sell out some principled stands you have on other legislation in return for the last votes you need. Offer to appear in an anti-Planned Parenthood commercial come that one dude's next election cycle, making GBS threads all over your parents' decision that caused you not to have a brother or sister and has made you fear for your life. That's how it's done kids. Their civics teacher really failed them tbh.
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Mar 24, 2015 09:53
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He also did a whole bunch of interviews. Seriously how can you never have heard this man speak 
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Apr 7, 2015 18:57
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Mescal posted:Seriousness and respectability are assets when it comes to relaying facts. They're irrelevant or even impediments to telling truth--that's good news for comedians doing journalism. Facts are for encyclopedias; truth is what journalists are supposed to do. This reminds me of a thing Stewart Lee likes to do, which is tell a long story about a public figure while sounding very sincere and telling everyone it is true, then ending it with "Now, that story is not true. But I feel like what it tells us about X is true." Also, as a generally informed person let me just say: most TED talks are in fact stupid.
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Apr 8, 2015 07:15
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Hakkesshu posted:I bet this guy loves this poo poo. He totally just rolls with it. Gotta wonder if he just starts laughing maniacally or starts pounding hard liquor the second he goes off the air.
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Apr 22, 2015 13:48
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Afro posted:Everyone wants in on that sweet sweet government contract gravy train. Government isn't good for anything except making a profit off of, apparently.
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May 4, 2015 11:53
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kater posted:God I would be fascinated to know what the reason the animals ate the pineapple was. If it's because they were hungry that is beyond unfair. Well you know 2 hours did pass, it's right there in the text. Sure they were also annoyed with the pineapple, but as you surely must know, hunger causes animals to seek out and consume food whereas annoyance does not. Check. Also the owl clearly was not the wisest, because it was a part of the set of animals who all agreed to cheer for the pineapple, thus this story cleverly parodies owls being seen as particularly wise going all the way back to the ancient Greeks. The sleeves comment was just the owl being a smartass, which is a way to flippantly sound wise without actually leading to any insight or understanding, and thus not actually being wise. Meanwhile the hare was correct about everything it said and used common sense, factual knowledge and understanding to support its positions. Mate. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 19:18 on May 6, 2015 |
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May 6, 2015 19:16
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TLG James posted:Nope, the owl actually poisoned the pineapple after spending it's life developing a tolerance to it. Thus making himself bird king of the the jungle. The Pineapple and the Hare. By George R.R. Martin
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May 6, 2015 20:04
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Exclamation Marx posted:MMP owns actually, and leads to parliaments that are totally proportionate to the party vote. So does party list proportional representation and you don't have to deal with districts.
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May 10, 2015 13:58
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OhYeah posted:I'm surprised that anyone (who is not rich) decides to have children in United States, because I sure hell wouldn't under those conditions. Don't worry, they have a solution for this. It's called abstinence only sex-education, or ideally, no sex-education at all.
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May 11, 2015 22:12
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Neeksy posted:Maybe using an economic standard of argument is a distraction from the fact that just being a humanitarian society should be enough to argue in favor of this. I get that it's not as persuasive in terms of dollars and cents, and that there are large sections of society that only view policy value in terms of that, but sometimes it just feels like it's trying to quantify something that should be a moral/social issue about the value of preventing needless human suffering. Get a load of this commie.
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May 12, 2015 12:11
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Irish Joe posted:Lack of extraordinary benefits hasn't stopped the poor from breeding like rabbits. Quite the opposite, actually (its almost like poor people make bad decisions hmmmm). We should redistribute the wealth so that nobody is poor and nobody makes bad decisions.
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May 13, 2015 15:22
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DoggPickle posted:You guys have made it quite clear that I will never get any reasonable replies, and the next generation is really weird and pretentious because you want rainbows and unicorns. Screw it. Just like how every other country on the planet provides maternal leave, but it can't possibly work in the US, it must be *everyone else* who is wrong and weird and for sure not you. Never you. You are exceptional.
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May 15, 2015 09:02
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Pinky Artichoke posted:One admittedly less important story I'd kind of like to hear him cover is the jihadi kids who are fleeing ISIS and trying to go home. It seems like an interesting problem going forward: how to handle teens who ran off to join the fight/marry the fighters and then noped out of there. The strategy of the Dutch PM as stated during an election debate is: "hope they die".
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May 15, 2015 18:32
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Is there any shock jock radio personality that isn't a terrible human being? It turns out that being an rear end in a top hat on air is best done by people who are just assholes all the time.
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May 19, 2015 12:40
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JohnSherman posted:This would be less of a problem if the IOC wasn't so deadset on the concept of the Olympic Village. Most developed countries have a lot of that required infrastructure already in place, just not all in one location. It's absurd to put world class facilities all in one city and expect people to make use of them. The Olympic village is a pretty cool part of the Olympics actually. What they should do is just have the games in Athens every time instead of travelling around to places. Just have a different country do the opening/closing ceremonies every time or something to keep the "introduce your culture to the world" element.
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May 29, 2015 13:52
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bull3964 posted:I could see the pope slam getting a lot of people mad. gently caress em, to be honest.
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Jun 1, 2015 20:44
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SlothfulCobra posted:Thailand fought on the opposite side of the war from Hitler, although they were fighting mainly against Japan, so I could understand them not really knowing what Hitler's deal was. Actually Thailand pretty much cooperated with the Japanese and declared war on the Allies. This happened under threat of invasion by Japan and a guerilla resistance movement formed with government support, but still, Thailands WW2 history isn't exactly clean. Why Hitler and "Nazi Chique" are such a thing in East Asia I couldn't tell you, but if we're generous and say it's because they are ignorant as gently caress about this then that still doesn't make them look good.
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Jun 2, 2015 08:12
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Xoidanor posted:Then we're right there in the poo poo with them, most westerners are ignorant as gently caress about Japan's actions during WW2 (with the exception of Pearl Harbour). We don't care about their side of WW2 and they don't give a poo poo about ours, it's perfectly fair. If true (I wouldn't know, Dutch history covers the theatre in at least some detail for obvious reasons) then it's still not comparable unless we start using Hirohito in our marketing or start wearing Unit 731 inspired fashion.
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Jun 2, 2015 11:32
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Relentlessboredomm posted:You got me curious and so I dug around. First, I need a shower now. Second, it's hilarious how mild the criticism is towards Oliver specifically. It's a whole lot of "Oh no he's been convinced by those evil SJWs", or "I lost so much respect for John for making this episode."<- an actual quote. See when a white man does this they can have a reaction like losing respect. Because they respected him before. But if a woman did it they couldn't lose respect cus they never respected any women in the first place.
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Jun 22, 2015 22:04
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Xoidanor posted:I literally did not know the Ottoman Empire and Byzantium was even a thing until I played AOE3 and Europa Universalis. Byzantium wasn't really a thing 
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Jun 26, 2015 19:30
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thehustler posted:If you enjoyed the discussion about scientific reporting and accuracy then you could do a lot worse than get involved with your local skeptics group where we talk about this poo poo all the time. The reactions to this post have been very skeptical.
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May 11, 2016 10:46
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tarlibone posted:Depending on when that happens, though, I might have to advise them first that as a non-fiduciary advisor, I haven't exactly got a lot of "book smarts" when it comes to investments and stuff. What's a million or ten between friends? I mean, when you think about it ten million is mostly zeroes.
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Jun 13, 2016 21:39
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Jon Stewart was Alexander and the ex-correspondents and Trevor are the Diadochi. Colbert is Ptolemy, Trevor is Cassander, Samantha is Antigonus, John is Seleucus and Wilmore is Lysimachus. Meanwhile what we really need is a glorious new Roman age.
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Aug 20, 2016 13:09
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SlothfulCobra posted:Most places where the private sector outdoes the public ones are where there's monetary incentives. At least private prisons might want to take care of prisoners so that they can provide slave labor. Private prisons would give a poo poo if not taking care of their population resulted in diminished profits, for example through being fined for mistreatment or losing labor due to mistreatment in excess of what proper treatment would cost. It turns out you can use force to squeeze labor out of people even if they are horrible mistreated, a lesson I'm sure the US knows all about, so we're left with fines. This would require a government which gives gently caress one about prisoners and their treatment, and thus by extention a society that doesn't think prison rape is a hilarious joke and also an expected part of the sentence. Even in such a hypothetical society, prisons would then have an equal incentive to changing government regulatory pressure or the societal attitudes driving that pressure. If doing that would ever be perceived as cheaper than complying with the regulations requiring proper treatment, you bet your rear end market pressures will work on achieving regulatory capture or marketing prisoners as subhuman to the general population real quick. Raises some real questions about the ethics of market pressures. (the answer is socialism)
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Aug 26, 2016 15:45
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Servaetes posted:Can you elaborate on the bad things he's done? As far as I understood Tibetan monks are largely just to themselves and peaceful Buddhists so I don't see where atrocities have been incurred by them. Especially when you compare to the things the Chinese government have done for decades. The Dalai Lama was basically the dictator of Tibet before China invaded. And Tibet was rear end-backwards as gently caress so don't think he was all too much of an enlightened one either. That said, none of that justifies the blatant land (read: resource) grab by China.
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Mar 6, 2017 19:57
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The Cheshire Cat posted:It's one of those things that's a symptom of the way the system works but is hard to come up with a better solution while also preserving the core idea behind the system. The core idea behind your system is pretty terrible.
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Apr 11, 2017 19:51
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bull3964 posted:That's great, but it wouldn't have helped that woman because the other person assumed the REASON for that was alcoholism. When you say "people", please be aware that you mean "Americans".
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May 15, 2017 20:57
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Gyges posted:America isn't the only country with people who don't think things out and do not realize they are generally uninformed. We just amplify their ignorant voices the most. This part right here quote:That's obviously really scaled back from the reactions others get for their conditions, but it represents a mindset that people get ingrained with early on. I do not recognize that in people I know outside of Americans.
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May 16, 2017 08:40
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MikeJF posted:I would let young Nixon use me and then dump my body in a river any day. Remember that Nixon liked to pretend he was an alligator while swimming.
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Jul 4, 2017 18:57
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IRQ posted:I don't think anyone is trying to rehab W's image, it's just that Trump is that much worse. Let's not forget Bush killed and tortured a hell of a lot more people.
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Jul 30, 2017 22:29
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IRQ posted:Give Trump time. I'm just saying, actually inflicted evil has got to count for more than evil that will potentially be inflicted. As it stands right now, on July 31st 2017, Bush is a worse human being than Trump. I think the only argument you could make where Trump might be worse than Bush, so far, in terms of actual suffering caused, would be on climate. But then if we look at Bush' climate policies, it's not exactly a night and day situation. None of this is to defend Trump. And I would be the least surprised if Trump were given the kind of power Bush had for 8 years, he'd be able to inflict more suffering, but until he's actually done so, Bush is worse. In conclusion, gently caress Bush and I'm glad Reagan dead. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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Jul 31, 2017 13:24
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Propaganda Machine posted:I agree with all of this, but to be fair to Dubya (why would I do this) An Inconvenient Truth hit the mainstream in 2006 and until then many people could be forgiven for not-quite-buying the gravity of the situation we're facing. As a kid in elementary school in the early-mid 90's, Global Warming was a potentially alarming theory with several contributing factors to point to, but the opposition could just as easily say "we have no idea why there's a hole in our O-zone layer and it's loving absurd that cow dung has anything to do with it. Also, rainforests give us our medicines" Your education system being garbage really isn't much of an excuse. My high school education was pretty loving clear on man-made climate change (granted, they exclusively used the term global warming back then, which isn't the extent of the problem, so not the best term) and the kinds of problems it was likely to cause if it continued and this was in like, 2000-2005. Especially in the early years I had some old books that still had whole chapters on acid rain, and yet even in those global warming was clearly talked about as the bigger issue, and acid rain more of an example on how humans can affect their environment negatively, and then through regulation and effort improve the situation. SlothfulCobra posted:It's an interesting choice to do a whole segment on Alex Jones. I didn't specifically know about his sales schemes, but it fits with what I knew already. There are plenty of talk shows like his that put their weight behind bogus pharmaceuticals, and I remember that scaremongering has in the past been a great sales tool for things like survival kits or selling gold while telling viewers the dollar is doomed, so why not combine the two. Like chocolate and chicken bones. The trick of always claiming that you're on the brink is also something I've heard before, I think the leader of the KKK pulls that one to get extra donations. Alex Jones literally has the ear of your president, is seen as a significantly more respectable individual than the grand wizard of the loving KKK, yet casually and repeatedly shits on the victims, survivors and family members of victims and survivors of an elementary school mass murder for money and attention. He's one of the worst your country has to offer, yet manages to stand out even in that very crowded gutter. He's the Ted Cruz of far right punditry. gently caress Alex Jones, I hope he has a debilitating aneurysm, suffers profoundly, and then dies. tarlibone posted:And let's not forget that he, and I am loathe to even appear to be rationalizing this, first asked some lawyers, "what is the most we can do to someone before we have to consider it torture?" Bush at least had the... uhm... let's call it "technical humanity" to make sure what he was doing wasn't technically torture. According to his lawyers. (Now if you'll excuse me, I have to take a shower.) Why are we treating the torturer and murderer who first spends time trying to figure out how to get away with it with more respect, exactly? Bush, Cheney et al knew exactly what they were doing, they just had the good sense to fire up the propaganda machine to conceal their actions first. Trump, too, has fired up his propaganda machine before doing anything, and due to the pro-torture shift brought about by Bush admin propaganda and actions in the first place, taking a baldly pro-torture position is now a thing that is politically acceptable to a sizable minority of Americans. There is no general consensus in American society that what you fuckers did was torture, and that torture is wrong. I know more than enough Americans to know that that is a lie. If it wasn't a lie, you'd have prosecutions and convictions. You'd have truth and reconciliation commissions. You'd have a loving apology. Instead all anyone got was a "we tortured some folks". Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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Jul 31, 2017 19:01
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Yeah the strangest thing about conspiracy nuts is how often they're like, 70% right, but then that last 30% goes completely off the rails. Like, there ARE massive, global conspiracies of banks... but it doesn't have anything to do with "the Jews" or trying to take over the world or anything, it's just rich people finding ways to make themselves richer. Haven't heard any conspiracy nuts go off on the LIBOR scandal, and that poo poo was a massive banking conspiracy to steal shittons of money. And you know, actually happened.
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Sep 26, 2017 13:10
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Also don't forget, there's a bunch of reports of people who know right wing pundits off camera and claim they don't even actually believe half the poo poo they say.
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Oct 19, 2017 11:42
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pwn posted:Company Scrip for the 21st century. Amazing This new age will be so gilded.
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Oct 21, 2017 14:24
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Hunt11 posted:The weirdest thing about the right is the fact that they worship the police yet don't seem to trust them to actually protect the people. That's really not the weirdest thing. The police aren't there to protect you in the immediate situation, that's a matter of personal responsibility. The police are there to keep non-whites out of your life. Captain_Person posted:And now the National Party's former leader's son has threatened to record a diss track. Ah yes, let's diss Eminem, this is a thing that's known to end well for people. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Oct 26, 2017 |
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TheCenturion posted:It's the old 'looting/gathering supplies' dichotomy. When Oliver was lining up the "worst flooding news segment" bit I really thought he was going to go to Wolf's "so so black" rather than the dumb lady in the dumb boat.
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