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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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Unzip and Attack posted: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. There you go again...*applause, all the votes*
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Jun 30, 2014 01:53
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Exclamation Marx posted:most of the brit comics i like are left What the hell would a Tory comic even be like?
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Jun 30, 2014 15:57
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No Red Blooded American should care about soccer, Senator Cruz! So what if it is popular, this is a Republic not a Democracy!
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Jul 1, 2014 23:26
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zoux posted:I sense...regionalism chat... The blacks and Mexicans skew the average 
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Jul 2, 2014 16:48
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'What are you spraying me with!?!' "RUM! So no one will believe your story! hahahaha!"
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Jul 2, 2014 23:18
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I guess the "milquetoast centrist" flavour of liberal would fit well in the LibDems. And yeah, if Obama were Canadian or British, what are the odds that he'd be a Tory? He'd be New Labour (not that there is much of a difference) loquacius posted:e: Also yeah I can say from experience that Amtrak is the best way to get between Boston and NYC unless you have a specific reason to drive it Yup, this goes for the entire Northeast Corridor (which I think is Boston to DC)
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Jul 4, 2014 16:33
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goatse.cx posted:liberals are so loving stupid Two sides of the same coin.
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Jul 4, 2014 23:04
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Chantilly Say posted:Anecdotally, in New Jersey US history I got a nice treatment of labor history, with a lot about populist movements, post-Civil-War domestic politics, a documentary about the Homestead Strike, excerpts from The Jungle... good stuff. God bless our NJEA liberal indoctrination factory  Sure in 9th grade I hated it but it was important information. We got to watch 'Newsies'!
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Jul 6, 2014 02:24
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Someone should remake 'Bush was Right' by the Right Brothers Rising Productivity Jobless Recovery Marx was right!
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Jul 6, 2014 18:26
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comes along bort posted:King of the Hill gets Texas pretty well but Squidbillies is the superior southern culture parody cartoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdFicSjsI0
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Jul 9, 2014 23:56
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Chantilly Say posted:Finally reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 after all the recommendations and I cannot believe even Rolling Stone was willing to give HST a job doing this poo poo. Just got past the part where he drunkenly lends his press pass to an ex-con who gets drunk and assaults Ed Muskie and into the part where he goes off on a tangent about Muskie being addicted to speed which was complete bullshit he was just spewing to meet his goal for column inches. The best part is that after Watergate the Muskie people started thinking Hunter was an agent for Nixon Also McCarthy should have taken HST's advice and done a photo-op drinking beer on the beach in a Grateful Dead tee
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Jul 11, 2014 03:41
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Chantilly Say posted:poo poo, from what HST writes in the book Muskie's people already thought that. Doesn't help that Watergate proved Nixon really had played some dirty tricks against Muskie's campaign, not that they needed to. My conspiracy theory is that Nixon knew about Eagleton's mental health issues before McCarthy did
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Jul 11, 2014 03:52
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Breakfast All Day posted:Zizek is the Sokal hoax made flesh for post-Marxist continental poli-phil. He's also the ultimate liberal: a fashionable and placating way to reconcile a life of consumption with your revolutionary ethics. I would have launched my Red Uprising, too if it wasn't for that pesky Zizek!
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Jul 11, 2014 12:20
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Everyone's got a gimmick Hitchens was an atheist contrarian Discendo Vox, well, it's right there I'm postmodern with some nihilism computerparts is pedantic and contrarian the list goes on...
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Jul 12, 2014 04:51
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moller posted:I thought your gimmick was relating everything to Adam Curtis His work is a big part of my postmodern approach, but there's some David Lynch there, too.
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Jul 12, 2014 18:11
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moller posted:I sort of resent Curtis because his films should be the most rambling, insane, Bob Wilson-style conspiracy theories but instead most of it seems completely plausible and well-researched. I like finding little things elsewhere that support his work, like this Disney cartoon that fits in really well with the second part in 'Century of the Self' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYvr28-5QKw
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Jul 12, 2014 19:57
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Tony Jowns posted:i did that and i still don't have a recognised gimmick, what gives 
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Jul 13, 2014 04:16
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R. Mute posted:uh, that's already my gimmick ??? the content of the posts builds your brand
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Jul 13, 2014 04:32
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SedanChair posted:I wonder if any of Abramoff's old pals helped get them across the line. Didn't they start accepting Bitcoin in the last days of the fundraiser?
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Jul 27, 2014 18:00
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Cheekio posted:What's everyone's pet theory for why we invaded Iraq? I'd guess it was basically an expensive area denial against Russia/China. Economic stimulus That is why ISIL is now driving around in late model Ford trucks.
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Jul 29, 2014 18:46
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rscott posted:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1912398/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 There's an interesting bit of restraint/censorship in this film: the 'protagonists' never kill any police officers R. Mute posted:we tortured some folks? Disco Stu doesn't advertise
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Aug 2, 2014 00:28
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By confirming that we tortured folks and might have overreacted a little to 9/11 Obama is just revealing his antiAmerican sentiment and influences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB5Lttr53Vk
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Aug 2, 2014 04:25
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Huge Liability posted:This guy might be an exceptional case because he's stable in pretty much every other part of his life. A good friend, a great dad, and a successful businessman. But get him talking about anything remotely political and it's a torrent of absurd bullshit. This won't last if he gets nailed for tax fraud / evasion
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Aug 5, 2014 03:06
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zoux posted:Yes that's why they need to be domesticated. Also bears. This is actually a point Jared Diamond makes in 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' - all the species that are amenable to domestication (without genetic engineering) already have been. Many species can be partially domesticated (elephants, racoons, sheep) but this doesn't become a hereditary trait. Canines are present in every human society and their domestication might be a symbiosis that predates homo-sapiens, much like the use of fire.
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Aug 6, 2014 23:36
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Majorian posted:House cats? Are house cats really domesticated though? It seems more like a symbiotic relationship- we give them food, they kill pests and we enjoy their company (  ). Cats can live independently of humans as well, most breeds of dog not so much.
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Aug 7, 2014 00:07
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Corrupt Politician posted:That wasn't what Diamond said. His claim was that all animals whose domestication was both practical and beneficial to pre-modern people have already been domesticated. Thanks for the details, it's been years since I read it. Maybe I'm thinking of goats, not sheep.
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Aug 7, 2014 00:25
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Humans domesticate themselves. One of the features of this process is the retention of juvenile traits (neoteny). If Freud was writing 'Civilization and its Discontents' today he would note how much US political discourse sounds like a petulant teenager, a mass stunted emotional development that serves to keep society stable/static ('You're not my dad/God! You can't tell me what to do!')
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Aug 7, 2014 01:12
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My Imaginary GF posted:Demonstrate "practical" and "beneficial." You already gave the example of self-selection for canines. Most other domesticated animals are docile herbivores (sheep, cows, llamas). Pigs are omnivorous but their domestication comes from eating our waste food. Horses are the only domesticated animal that comes to mind that would first be 'broken', but their practical benefits are obvious (Diamond also talks about how linguistic clues suggest the people in the Caucasus were the first to domesticate the horse and proceeded to dominate Europe before recorded history)
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Aug 7, 2014 01:27
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My Imaginary GF posted:Once we had rudimentary tools 70,000 BCE, all bets are off for aggresive small animals aggresive towards us. Also, I prefer to follow genetic evidence rather than linguistic clues. Other apes have rudimentary tools, and our genus harnessed fire, not just our species - so there are alot of different factors in play. As I said, I think domestication of dogs started as a symbiotic relationship - wolf packs who followed hominids (or vice versa, since canines have much better sense of smell)
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Aug 7, 2014 01:39
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My Imaginary GF posted:Yet only our species hosed our genus extinct. And again, where you say follow, I say hunt. Following comes after enough failed hunting that the most aggressive hunters are dead. Why eat dogs when you can eat megafauna? The dogs can help bring one down while doubling as a reserve source of food. Also we didn't just interbreed the rest of our genus to extinction, it was more like the colonization of the Americas- a mixture of murder and marriage.
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We are actually driving all the other great apes into extinction. Edit Responses: My Imaginary GF posted:E: I should clarify. Where you say wolves followed humans, I say wolves hunted humans before they followed humans. And by that point, they're dog. Megafauna, such as what? Elephants? 1) Mammoths come to mind, as well as giant elk, sloths, eagles and a bunch of other mammals that disappeared after the ice age (around the same time our species was definitely on every continent) 2) You might not eat dog because there are other meat/protein options and your culture has more empathy for the neoteny traits of dogs. But if you were a survivalist after SHTF you might change your mind about Fido. 'Marriage' was being euphemistic - 'mating' works too and preserves my mnemonic! Mc Do Well fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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If they are so happy why won't they breed in captivity?
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Aug 7, 2014 03:30
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Early 20th Century psychology could write volumes on circumcision chat threads. We just need a time machine.
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Aug 15, 2014 02:20
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What's up with the little grenades next to some usernames? Edit: I have one, too!
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Aug 18, 2014 02:03
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The SDP - Liberal Alliance led by David Owen and David Sterling was one of the best running jokes on Spitting Image.
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Aug 19, 2014 17:14
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Demons kidnapped my baby for big pharma experiments and replaced him with a changeling!
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Aug 24, 2014 17:44
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Bill Kristol should be put in a nursing home to everyone's benefit.
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Aug 28, 2014 04:20
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zoux posted:Yeah psychology is still very much in its "leeching the bad humours" phase and I imagine whoever treats psych problems 500 years in the future will recoil in horror at the practices of our era. I envy your belief in human progress.
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My Imaginary GF posted:Why can't doomsday scenarious ever be fun? What time is it? ADVENTURE TIME!
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