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May 6, 2014 18:56
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Irish Joe posted:Yeah, but talking about massacres in India is nothing but intellectual cock stroking. There's nothing we, as Americans, can do about how lovely India is as a country. We only like hearing about it because it makes us feel smart and compassionate. "Awwwww, those poor Indians. Someone should do something about that. *sips wine*" When you bring up a domestic issue like the Death Penalty or, even better, local issues like state corruption, the viewer has the power to do something about it but actively chooses not to. That makes them much more disturbing to hear about in general. There's actually sweet gently caress all the average american can do to change a political thing like state sanctioned murder. Now, if you have enough
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May 7, 2014 17:19
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Vincent posted:Is the Vice show good? If you can get over how hipster a lot of the correspondents are yeah it's a great show and the (video) stuff on their website is generally even better. It's very poorly curated though so it helps to check often.
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May 13, 2014 20:35
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axeil posted:Instead their airing the movie about the start of the AIDS outbreak, which actually looks like it might be really good. The new one with Sheldon in it or Dallas Buyer's Club or something?
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May 19, 2014 21:41
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If the FCC wanted their internet site to work they should have to pay for the hyperfast lightspeed tier lane I mean it's only fair right?
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Jun 2, 2014 21:12
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Fateo McMurray posted:Paddywagon is bad? It refers to the van the cops throw all the drunken Irish into so yeah.
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Jun 3, 2014 16:42
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Scorchy posted:Who's worse, the IOC, F1, or FIFA? How much slave labor does F1 wind up using?
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Jun 9, 2014 20:40
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UP AND ADAM posted:Normally, on the Bugle, John would just do all the singing himself. That may have been a fine alternate option. Yeah but if you can get the real thing there's comedy value to that. And I can't imagine it's that hard to get right said fred.
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Jun 10, 2014 22:03
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:Thank you, that's very much the point I'm trying to make. Atheists arrived at a logical conclusion, and I wish more were interested in sharing that rather than spreading stories about dumb Christians or anything else. It's quite likely that people have already seen these stories and shaken their collective heads. Makes me wish there was a better message to send than "your entire spiritual life was a lie!" Problem is the two sides that engage in these conversations have made it pretty central to their identity. The angry atheist very much included. For the atheist who doesn't believe and sees no reason to make it part of their lives it's just a non-issue, like not being a vegan, or not playing golf. Like how am I going to get excited over talking about how not being a rodeo clown is a thing, I just don't give a poo poo, but I have nothing against them.
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Jun 18, 2014 21:48
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A A 2 3 5 8 K posted:Jon Stewart, John Oliver, and Stephen Colbert do a lot of the same fluff, strawman, appeal-to-a-friendly-audience type stuff that they bash in CNN and Fox News. Every night Stewart is out there twisting words, moving the goalposts, editing interviews to make subjects look worse than they otherwise would. But there's real stupidity behind what he's criticizing, and it's entertainment, so it's not a problem. Jon Stewart has unarguably crossed the line between comedy satirist and actually political news figure. His appearance on the 2000s version of Crossfire makes that pretty clear. Colbert and Oliver clearly have an opinion but they never did that. I don't disagree with Jon Stewart at all (except that Crossfire was amusing in a trainwreck kind of way), but he can't cover himself in that satirist cloak anymore, and even if he could, he, Colbert, and Oliver ARE a source of news for a ton of people and whether it's comedy or not they can't handwave away their impact. I just don't like that they consistently try to. Sorry, but you're informing a ton of low-information voters, guys. Colbert based a drat SuperPAC around that for gently caress's sake.
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Jul 20, 2014 23:31
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It would have fit with their nukes piece though, considering I think Israel is probably the most likely state actor to use theirs other than Pakistan losing one.
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Jul 29, 2014 01:45
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Reminder: It's Irish Joe. He is to serious posting as Fox is to serious news.
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Aug 19, 2014 16:39
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Fragmented posted:I think this is my favorite show ever. The space sex geckos tribute was just...perfect. The Russians sure made a Libyan Pool Party out of those poor fucklizards' spaceship.
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Sep 8, 2014 20:39
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hemophilia posted:What the gently caress is going on with that Cuba ban? It's seemed unnecessary and unjustifiable for what seems like the majority of the time in which I've been alive. Miami-Dade County is where all the Cuban expats that fled Castro are. Until they die off the embargo will never be lifted by democrats because it's believed that they would all turn republican in retaliation and Florida is close enough as is. It will never be lifted by republicans because lol at them doing anything decent.
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Sep 22, 2014 18:45
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GaussianCopula posted:It is not a sham though. They are the largest provider of scholarships exclusivly for woman* regardless of the way you count. * Who have never been married or pregnant, and are willing to get nearly naked in front of a large group of strangers to be graded like sides of beef.
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Sep 23, 2014 21:11
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Irish Joe posted:Every scholarship on earth has some kind of selection criteria. For example, as a white man, I'm barred from literally thousands of scholarship opportunities targeted towards minorities. Instead of complaining that I don't have the same opportunity at a black scholarship as, say, a black man, I pursue scholarships I am qualified for and likely to get. This is more akin to a scholarship for black people but you must have an afro measuring at least 3 feet in diameter.
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Sep 23, 2014 21:25
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The point is that it's really sad and gross that the biggest scholarship for women falls under what you are now admitting is "unusual" in its requirements.
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Sep 23, 2014 21:39
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GaussianCopula posted:It seems to me they are running out of steam (I only watch the youtube segment because I dont enjoy the shorter bits that much) lately. I think you were looking for Last Week [REDACTED] with Oliver North, this is Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. I can see how that would be an easy mistake to make.
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Sep 29, 2014 15:13
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:How is responding to Irish Joe still a thing? And if I recall correctly, they have since distanced themselves from her horseshit.
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Oct 2, 2014 02:41
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Sakarja posted:Ayn Rand is no different in this regard from any other political philosopher/writer with a following. She's still a thing because influential people agree with her basic message in the form they received it; from her best known and most accessible works. Most of the time people are willing to overlook specific, subordinate points of disagreement along with any unfortunate personal opinions expressed by the Master outside of his or her major works (eg. in letters, interviews and suchlike). It's a comedy show for making me laugh. I laughed, because I am the target audience. I think that counts as a win for the show.
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Oct 3, 2014 15:43
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Sakarja posted:People who attack her always seem to focus on her personal life and opinions, rarely if ever on the actual content of Objectivism. Here again the segment is a good case in point. What about attacking her hypocrisy and her selfish, childlike opinions is not part and parcel to objectivism? It is literally her terrible opinions and nothing more. You can argue that her hypocrisy isn't inconsistent with the philosophy, if you deign to call it that, but it's still relevant. She rode the red scare for all it was worth and now 30 years after she died rich white manchildren buy into her bullshit because it allows them to internally justify their privilege and FYGM attitudes. Are you an Irish Joe parachute account?
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Oct 4, 2014 00:28
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Chamberk posted:The more I hear these days, the more I think The Shield may have been one of the more accurate cop shows. Actually, yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal
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Oct 6, 2014 19:02
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Cerepol posted:Oh snap! Didn't realize. So it's just Jamie and other dude all show now? Wonder how that works out for them. The build team were less than useless so I think it should work out pretty good. Shame the only one of them worth half a drat wound up flipping burgers. Anyway, if anyone wants to be even more pissed off at that donkey, watch the Vice News piece on the interpreters that Oliver showed a clip from. It gets even worse!
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Oct 20, 2014 18:26
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SlothfulCobra posted:McDonald's has the most negative press out of any restaurant next to Denny's. There's no shame in going up and affirming to people that "yes this food is food." Worse than Arby's or Taco Bell? Really?
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Oct 20, 2014 22:14
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InfiniteZero posted:Boondock Saints is an incredibly inept and bad film that really only appeals to people who don't know better. Everything it tries to do and be was done better before and after it. It tries (and hugely fails) so hard that most of the runtime induces a gigantic cringe for me. It really doesn't help that it's unlike-ably juvenile either. Boondock Saints was loving fantastic, when I was a college freshman.
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Feb 3, 2015 17:44
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:I don't see how the two are related. They aren't as vaccines are not terribly profitable for them, but a big line of reasoning the anti-vax shitlords like to trot out now that most people are aware that the autism connection is discredited is concern trolling over how big pharma is untrustworthy and well we just really don't know what's in there, do you trust a big corporation to inject something into your child?
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Feb 9, 2015 22:28
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I've got a feeling that he's going to regret declaring a Twitter war against President Rafael Correa. @LastWeekTonight has about 270,000 Twitter followers and @iamjohnoliver has about 757,000 but @MashiRafael has two million. Poking an honest to god state leader into starting a twitter war with a comedy show that seemingly has no limits imposed upon it that he can't actually do anything whatsoever about is a loss for Oliver how? The only way el presidente wins that game is if he doesn't play it, which it seems he's probably not smart or in control of himself enough to realize.
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Feb 10, 2015 01:12
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Wouldn't a homeopathic vaccine be like when everyone's moms made them go play with the kid that got chicken pox? Only with highly infectious and deadly diseases? Sure that sounds like a wonderful idea.
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Feb 10, 2015 22:48
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Samopsa posted:No it would be more like taking a skin flake of a diseased child, dropping it in the sea in San Francisco, and then dipping your child into the Atlantic Ocean to immunize your kid. What about the part of him you hold onto to dunk him? One day, 20 years later, a measles is going to hit him on the heel and then what, THEN WHAT?
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Feb 10, 2015 22:59
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JohnSherman posted:He should see how far he can go with this. A well placed Falklands war joke could lengthen the list even further. If they really want to go this route they should just let Jeremy Clarkson have about 5 minutes per week unfiltered.
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Feb 13, 2015 22:17
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thehustler posted:Everyone says that because the plate had been on the car since the 90s it's proof they didn't plan it. Just how many porsche 928s, or supercars period, do you think are out there to make that joke? Clarkson revels in being offensive, but this one really probably was just coincidence.
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Feb 15, 2015 14:31
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This week's show really made me want a smoke.
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Feb 16, 2015 17:37
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Pryor on Fire posted:What's this geyser of money? The economy of Florida is not particularly strong by any metric. I think Jackshitville is only there because of the military. Maybe he meant that?
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Feb 18, 2015 21:47
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xcore posted:Whilst funny, the "daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants" joke seemed a bit oversimplified and kind of wrong. Nope, as citizens they can freely travel too and fro unhindered. My understanding of the PR issue is that there's a large amount of post-colonial angst, a massive culture divide, and some manner of wizardry that leaves them better off financially if they aren't a state, although they are still desperately poor. But it's all moot, no more states will ever been admitted to the union because PR is full of browns and DC is extremely liberal when it comes to most relevant issues. The republicans would never allow the balance of power in the senate to shift like that. DC statehood is basically a lock on two left caucusing seats.
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Mar 10, 2015 01:16
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Katana Gomai posted:I'm extremely surprised he didn't bring up the UK (not Ireland) passing plain packaging laws this week as well. Shoulda had Jeff the diseased lung accidentally admit that smoking killed a bunch of people into a hot mic. IRQ fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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Mar 16, 2015 15:02
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Just going to do a preemptive
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Mar 16, 2015 21:18
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Viginti posted:I don't think John is being a Joe, he does sort of have a point in that there is some payment involved. I just think that most people believe that it's not the correct payment and that its immorally contracted: they're being paid in Disney dollars and paid only at the employers discretion, not to any sort of concrete rate. Yeah, I mean, the degrees these players get may be worthless, but universities print tons of worthless liberal arts degrees that people happily pay them for*, but that's all the cash the university is going to make on that student, other than like parking or whatever fees. The issue is that these guys bust their asses, often literally, and, far more importantly, are are doing so only to line the pockets of a bunch of already rich assholes with dumptrucks of money for a ~2% gamble that they could go pro. * I have one in English, before you jump down my throat.
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Mar 17, 2015 01:24
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Forever Zero posted:The girl making 10 bucks an hours isn't generating millions for the school. I don't think college athletes should be paid by the university but they should be allowed to get a job, obtain gifts and make their own money by selling autographs. I don't see why they shouldn't get their fair share of what they bring into the school, their horseshit degrees accounted for I'm sure. How do you even begin to determine what that fair share is? I don't know, but unionizing sounds like a good start, and has precedent now.
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Mar 17, 2015 02:41
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sbaldrick posted:Don't say things you can't take back. The NCAA is a way better organization the FIFA. Yeah FIFA's literal slaves don't even get worthless degrees.
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Mar 17, 2015 03:48
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thehustler posted:I just remembered that in America you get loving televised high school sports. High schools. It's mad. Only in like west buttfuck texas will you see that.
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Mar 19, 2015 21:11
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