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paragon1 posted:Well that's just unfortunate. I thought maybe we could sneak in short ones like this missing teenager thing. Probably not though.
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^ What is there to say, though?euphronius posted:I didn't see anything on the recent IP issues. Can we just not handle iP threads anymore. The Mideast thread can handle it. Captain_Maclaine posted:Also, I've often wondered what we might have heard from him if he'd lived long enough to see the 2008 campaign. He knew he had become the bitter old crank that his politics had always opposed, if only other old men would follow his lead. His spirit lives on in LF-posting.
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I predict buzzing swarms of flying death bots will replace our ground troops by 2050.
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That actually does sound like a good thread for GWS, but you should PM bartolimue and ask him if it's kosher.
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Can't. Too lazy.
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I thought the Mideast thread banned PI chat. Or was that an old thread that did that.
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Zeroisanumber posted:They always turn to poo poo. It's not even a slow progression, it's basically OP ---> poo poo. Maybe we could use it as a honey-pot to ban some of the worse posters? Plus it'd be hilarious to watch.
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euphronius posted:I thought the Mideast thread banned PI chat. Or was that an old thread that did that. I think it used to be a forum rule but XyloJW appears to have swept that last remnant of the old order away.
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Defenestration posted:Since you mentioned it, let's take a moment to enjoy some Hunter S Thompson
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I mean, it's really kind of a hard topic to avoid when talking about southwest Asia.
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SubponticatePoster posted:Is it wrong that F&LILV is probably one of my favorite books? Dostoevsky? Miller? Joyce? gently caress that, give me drug- and alcohol-fueled indictments of our whole modern society. I have a feeling Dostoevsky would have been a lot more fun to read if he wasn't getting paid by the word.
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paragon1 posted:I think it used to be a forum rule but XyloJW appears to have swept that last remnant of the old order away. Woah buddy I can't even pronounce Middle East, I'm not changing any rules there. Talk to Xandu, evilweasel, and Brown Moses about that.
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euphronius posted:I didn't see anything on the recent IP issues. Can we just not handle iP threads anymore. You've also got a few people willing to effortpost on how everything got so hosed, which was really informative and the best parts of those threads to me. I'd like to thank those effortposters for doing that, I basically knew fuckall about I/P before that. Oh, and one other part of I/P: the reason the super crazy parts of the Religious right support Israel so hard is because they think that by supporting Israel they can force Jesus to come back and kickstart the Apocalypse/Rapture. I will repeat that fact as much as I can, because holy poo poo there is not a  big enough to describe my face when I learned that.
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XyloJW posted:Woah buddy I can't even pronounce Middle East, I'm not changing any rules there. Talk to Xandu, evilweasel, and Brown Moses about that. Explain the rules thread being authored by yourself then mister.  Don't think you can use other mods as a veil of legitimacy for your arbitrary and authoritarian rule.
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paragon1 posted:Explain the rules thread being authored by yourself then mister. Oh the rules thread? Yeah but there's still the secret rules thread. It lays it all out pretty well.
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All of the I/P chat this forum needs is when people post "gently caress you Kirschen" every day after Jagger subjects us to his white hot desire to genocide Moslems.
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i'm reading nixonland and i'm getting the goldwater one soon. i also notice that he has a new one about the line to reagan coming out in august and i'm super excited even tho i'll wait for the paperback ah i see it's been mentioned on the last page. what's a good reagan book to tide me over until the perlstein one? baw fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Before the Storm is better than Nixonlabd, in my opinion, but Nixon Agonistes is better than both and is the one book you should read to understand American politics. I've got the Reagan book on preorder and am reading Republican Gomorrah while I wait, which I hope will be a better update on movement conservatism than Spanking the Donkey was, which I found disappointing.
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baw posted:i'm reading nixonland and i'm getting the goldwater one soon. i also notice that he has a new one about the line to reagan coming out in august and i'm super excited even tho i'll wait for the paperback Have you read The Reagan Rhetoric: History and Memory in 1980s America? It's a good read on how Reagan used language and communication to so effectively win people over, and to what degree he believed his own bullshit. Also, the cover art alone makes it worth the price: 
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Have you read The Reagan Rhetoric: History and Memory in 1980s America? It's a good read on how Reagan used language and communication to so effectively win people over, and to what degree he believed his own bullshit. Also, the cover art alone makes it worth the price: Has there ever been any kind of study on why old people wear their pants so high?
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I've got What's the matter with Kansas sitting on my shelf. Worth it to read y/n? I feel like maybe we're a couple generations of the conservative party down the road from there now
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baw posted:ah i see it's been mentioned on the last page. what's a good reagan book to tide me over until the perlstein one? Lou Cannon's biography is okay, if a little too deliberately evenhanded.
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Amused to Death posted:Has there ever been any kind of study on why old people wear their pants so high? I think it's because they've lost height and their pants don't fit anymore.
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Amused to Death posted:Has there ever been any kind of study on why old people wear their pants so high? As you age your crotch recedes into your chest cavity.
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Amused to Death posted:Has there ever been any kind of study on why old people wear their pants so high? There is a disease that old men in particular get, that causes them to be slowly consumed by their own pants.
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Defenestration posted:I've got What's the matter with Kansas sitting on my shelf. Worth it to read y/n? I feel like maybe we're a couple generations of the conservative party down the road from there now I remember finding it interesting when I read it some years back. But I don't really remember anything particular about it so I can't say how well it holds up today.
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Professor Jared Diamond traced old-man-pants syndrome back to the advent of agriculture and notes that the native tribes of PNG don't suffer from pants at all.
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XyloJW posted:Professor Jared Diamond traced old-man-pants syndrome back to the advent of agriculture and notes that the native tribes of PNG don't suffer from pants at all. Professor Steven Levitt has linked old-man-pants syndrome and the rate of abortions in China
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John Lott wrote a book called More Guns, Less Pants once, but apparently it's pretty lovely.
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XyloJW posted:Professor Jared Diamond traced old-man-pants syndrome back to the advent of agriculture and notes that the native tribes of PNG don't suffer from pants at all. Have we at last found the reason why the donkey's pants are like that, an auto-immune response?
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XyloJW posted:Oh the rules thread? Yeah but there's still the secret rules thread. It lays it all out pretty well. I knew it!  Also Pants are a tool of Western Imperialism and the capitalist oppressors. Take note of the worst monsters of the past century. Note what they all had in common. That's right. Pants.
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Let's chat about comedians with decent political beliefs. Lewis Black is a cool dude who says he's a socialist and is a funny person. His speech at the National Press Club is pretty worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXANL8m6cfg&t=322s
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XyloJW posted:Professor Jared Diamond traced old-man-pants syndrome back to the advent of agriculture and notes that the native tribes of PNG don't suffer from pants at all. oh good god what deterministic bullshit. Cuffs, Zippers and Denim spends more time on loving crops than it does on utilitarian fashion and doesn't even mention the early Dark Ages racism of non-toga-wearers
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Everyone's always blowing Reagan and his "rhetoric" and what not but aside from coining a few masterful terms like welfare queen, he wasn't some incredible orator. People worship him because the modern conservative movement absolutely needs a contemporary conservative figure to lionize and for historical reasons outside his control, he won by default. I mean poo poo, Reagan's own policies failed the 2008 "Reagan Test" that was supposed to be some pseudo-religious standard of devotion. It's not that Reagan was anything special, it's just that his target audience is made up of the worst scum in the country who willingly praise him for poo poo he didn't even do or say. Also, Chingon IPA is the best IPA. It should be illegal to make beer this delicious.
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SedanChair posted:I'm prejudiced against Australians Amused to Death posted:Has there ever been any kind of study on why old people wear their pants so high?
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Amused to Death posted:Has there ever been any kind of study on why old people wear their pants so high? 
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SedanChair posted:I'm prejudiced against Australians An Australian rules football player just got canned because pictures came out of him pissing in his own mouth.
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Why would they fire him over that though? Isn't that just Australian homebrew? 
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Unzip and Attack posted:Also, Chingon IPA is the best IPA. It should be illegal to make beer this delicious. i'm a jerk for product presentation and naming and this sounds like a shirt i'd see for sale at a cart in Tulum
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More 40s/50s man pants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24xiV3LlBbY&t=62s
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