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Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Aurini is so clearly a nerd who is pretending to bat way above his average. His life would be improved if he actually left his home and attempted to engage with people with the intention of learning about who they fundamentally are rather than sitting in front of a webcam while pretending to enjoy cigarettes and whiskey for half an hour.

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Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






The other guy is a massive rear end in a top hat too.

Aurini's explanation is breathtaking. Its one of the most childish things I've ever read.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






BravestOfTheLamps posted:

You tried to trick me into watching half an hour of Yorick Aurini. Nobody deserves that.
If I had any talent with video software, I would go back and start editing clips of Aurini directly into old Command and Conquer cutscenes. That would be the only time he would be even remotely bearable to watch.

Edit: Ah fucks sake, hes already done "parody" videos where he acts out C&C cutscenes. Plus there is this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0L_KiP9GPY

Gorn Myson has a new favorite as of 13:18 on Oct 29, 2015

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Reflections85 posted:

Marx lived in the UK for a good period of time and was buried there. He was also a correspondent for an American newspaper that was on the Union side of the Civil War. He even wrote a letter of congratulations to Lincoln. Thus, all of Marx's influence is through the United States, particularly through the Communist Republican Party.
I've used this to troll Republicans before. The reactions are beautiful. They're even better if you act as a communist Republican who wants to "get the party back to its Marxist roots".

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






I skip all that bullshit and just assume that Messi is God. Messi wouldn't go all Roko's basilisk on us, hes too busy entertaining us with beautiful football.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Archer666 posted:

If I can bear looking at Jim Sterling and Moviebob every week, I can bear him. Then again, I mostly just leave his videos on while I'm doing something more interesting and half-listen to his strange ramblings. If he touches on a subject I find interesting or he says something absolutely crazy about something interesting, I'll look it up myself. Its healthy to listen to opposing opinions. Thanks to Sargy's blathering about rape and feminism and such, I actually sat down with a ladyfriend of mine and had an interesting talk about the issue. Because I never actually actually thought about such things until Sargy started raving against "dem feminists".
I would like to do this, but its just too easy to take down this stuff. Hbomberguy managed to humiliate Calgon by just simply reading the things that he claimed to read. I've been to and witnessed a lot of public debates over the past decade, and demolitions like the one he suffers at the hands of Kristi Winters are extremely rare. What I'm saying is that if you want to listen to opposing opinions, it might be better to find people that have actually put the work in.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Just popping in to say "Neoreaction a Basilisk" loving owns and I had no idea Phil Sandifer had it in him to write like this. Although to be fair I've never read anything by him in the past, but I mostly just went along with this threads enthusiasm for taking someone like Nick Land down.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






The Vosgian Beast posted:

For a while, I thought the author of Tarzan wrote Naked Lunch.

Anyway

I know the adoption of the word "cuck" is cringe inducing and slightly irritating, but I'm glad that these movements have done so and then overused it, because its a lovely little litmus test. As soon as you see the word you think "ohhh, you're one of those guys".

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Okay thats pretty funny. I'm reading Kriss' takedown of Myers on his blog and its something glorious.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Jack Gladney posted:

I can't imagine how empty a life must be before someone dedicates himself to spilling out so much hatred apropos of nothing. Is that guy really keen on Jesus or something? Meyers is the least objectionable internet atheist of all, and is ironically doing the lord's own work in continually baiting and owning the Dawkins contingent and their roiling gynophobia.
To be fair, this is pretty hosed up; http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/21/it-must-have-been-an-act-of-go/

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Small Frozen Thing posted:

Ahahahaha, did a priest seriously vanish himself by sitting in a lawn chair tied to party balloons

That's hilarious
I was going to write about how its loving weird that people throw their humanism out the window when they feel like dancing on someones grave, but Christopher Hitchens mocked Jerry Falwell when he died by saying that if you gave him an enema you could bury him in a match box.

That line is so good that I can't object to any grave dancing. Even though I'm a Catholic and the priest Myers mocked actually sounded like a very good guy.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Annointed posted:

Not empty quoting, actually I want to add my own two cents of "c'mon fellow goons stop calling the Trump supporters racist you're just making things worse for me the pale faced goon."

Really dudes? Are you really loving going that progressive apologetic route? What's next? I'm supposed to hold hands and sing kumbaya with people who if this election was done in the 1960's -70's would have salivated to turn my home country into a blazing inferno? I'm the loving bad guy for not wanting to consolidate with people who treat my ethnicity as either a beat stick against other minorities one moment and then a menace at their own convenience huh?

How about instead we don't compromise with people that want nothing less than to oppress/enslave/genocide minorities?
With this perspective, you've boiled down your options to "revolution, probably through violent means" or "gently caress it, I'm leaving this shithole". Because you've just given up on a large part the country by boxing them up under a single label and dismissing any and all perspectives they've have. So you're at a dead end, because option one will never happen.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Annointed posted:

Judging by the fact the the popular vote is Clinton

You are full of poo poo thinking they are the silent majority.
What do you think the DNC should do for the next election.

I reckon they should bring in someone who will just call that "silent majority" a bunch of cunts and call it a day.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Annointed posted:

Oh huh

How about actually being progressive and kick out the corporatist pussies who have shown their incompetence?

Nice for you to consider racists the majority when that is clearly shown to be a sack of lies
Yeah I'm with you. One of the narratives frequently put forward by leftists in multiple countries is that the right are particularly good at misleading a working class populace into voting against their own interests. The perfect to this would be to put forward a platform of convincing people what would actually help them. So Bernie would have been a decent "anti-establishment" candidate to put forward because he not only offers the same "lets gently caress poo poo up" position that Trump did, but is way more inclusive about it too.

And yeah I don't consider racists to be the majority. And I'm English mate. I voted to remain. I've seen first hand and spoken to a lot of people who saw that vote as a gently caress you to the political establishment, and were willing to overlook the inherent racism of the people promoting the leave argument because the gently caress you was too irresistible to ignore.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






divabot posted:

And yet all the pro-Brexiters I communicate with in any way since then appear to also be xenophobic racists! Truly, the workings of sheer coincidence are remarkable.

like, I know literally one who even admitted after advocating and voting "leave" that it was the stupidest thing ever with stupendously damaging effects, and had realised this when Farage admitted an hour after the vote had been called that the NHS £350m/week had been utter lies. They're still a xenophobe, of course. Pure coincidence, though!

I'm sure they're not really really racist xenophobes when you examine their soul with your soul spectrometer. They just have no problem siding with the literal Nazis who murder opposition politicians literally in the street in their cause, there's no reason that should give them the slightest second thought, it's absolutely nothing to do with Brexit even though it literally was. The raging xenophobes and racists all around the entire issue for its entire history are certainly nothing they could have been expected to take into consideration.
I like how you keep slapping these "I love racists, xenophobes etc" arguments to me when I haven't written anything like that.

The option I would present is "politicians have lied to these people about the causes of their ills, lets build a positive campaign by directing them to solutions that would benefit them in reality, as opposed to the right wing fan-fiction version of reality where all the bad things in the world are caused by people who aren't the same colour as me or don't gently caress the same gender that I do". Your option is "vote for me, I'm totally progressive, if you don't vote for me then you hate blacks, gays, latinos and women". So you want Hilary Clinton again.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Annointed posted:

"With this perspective, you've boiled down your options to "revolution, probably through violent means" or "gently caress it, I'm leaving this shithole". Because you've just given up on a large part the country by boxing them up under a single label and dismissing any and all perspectives they've have. So you're at a dead end, because option one will never happen."

A loving hem. Again you keep pushing the narrative that these people are the majority and therefore we should cowtow to them. Not to mention that they have consistently voted against their own interests, so in the interest of literally everyone else, how about gently caress 'em, we go on with progress, they can be dragged along kicking and screaming if they want or be left in the dust.
They aren't the majority but they're voters and voters are there to be persuaded. You probably aren't going to get those old school die hard Republicans won over to your side, but you've got a good chance of people to vote for their actual interests provided you build a good campaign around those ideas and push them heavily enough. The reason why they vote against those ideas is because they've been mislead. So lead them back to the better path. Alternatively you could just throw your hands up, tell them they're a bunch of loving idiots and then make some vague talk about progress and pat yourself on the back for good work.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






That article is written by James Delingpole. Its a shame his most infamous appearance on TV is strangely not that well documented on YouTube anymore, but heres a short clip of him being completely stumped when pushed on his attacks on the climate change consensus and uncomfortably and transparently trying to change the subjbect; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wv3dIjrcsk

It makes sense he went to Breitbart, he was never really taken seriously as a commentator in the UK.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Given that the alt-right has run out to defend Milo over his comments, I think its only natural to assume that all members of the alt-right are unrepentant pedophiles.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

It is really hard to tell when he's being dense or willfully dense. Since a lot of his misdirection is omission, which could be him just not reading stuff like a lazy dumb rear end
He definitely does read books but you would never describe him as "well-read" or particularly intelligent. Hes the sort of person who would put up a 90 minute video about how leftism is actually fascism but he cribs all of his conclusions from Jonah Goldberg.

So yeah, hes dense and very, very lazy, both intellectually and physically.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






pookel posted:

Yeah, I actually made a personal hobby project out of reading through these slave narratives. One of the interesting things about them is how clearly the quality and tone varies based on who was doing the interviewing. See, they sent a bunch of young white people to interview elderly slaves in the South in the 1930s, and many of them didn't adequately explain the purpose of their questioning. Of course this was the peak time for "Lost Cause" revisionism and Confederate nostalgia, and a lot of white people wanted to think that the slave days weren't so bad. So often, the former slaves told them what they thought white people wanted to hear: that everything was fine in the old days, and master was kind, and we were well treated. But then you find the rare narrative from a black writer, or a white one who was simply better at doing interviews and gaining the trust of the interview subjects, and you see a lot of very, very grim stuff.

Here's a tiny sample:

I've seen people make the observation before that white nationalists are basically terrified of having the same crimes that their ancestors inflicted on other races be committed on them. I think you've just uncovered why the obsession with cuckholding is so rampant amongst these guys.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

The porn probably traces itself back to that though. A legacy with such great hits as the "white slavery" sub genre
Thats pretty much my thought too.

In terms of everyday use though, I suggest that if anyone calls you a cuck, just immediately ask them why they're so obsessed with someone loving their wife, real or imaginary. Every time I've done this the response is either a defence or a clarification of what they actually meant, both of which are really fun to use to keep winding them up.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Even if Hitchens wasn't an Islamophobe (and I think he is) its not an accusation that could drag his character down any further, his scumbaggery is self evident in all of his post 9/11 writing.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Does St Rev actually do anything aside from post on Twitter?

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Its not the hypocrisy that bothers me, its just the grand narratives that he spins about message boards and online culture. Its like hes taken the Frankfurt School conspiracy theory and pushed it even further away from reality.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Fututor Magnus posted:

i want rev to know that the only reason he's discussed in this thread is that his opinions are so consistently lovely and surprisingly so that one can't help but want to figure out what ideological background can make someone have such lovely opinions on basically everything. and, of course, his tendency of raging out to a disproportionate degree to basically anything that disagrees with his ideology. it is pretty ironic how he considers this thread to be unreasonably angry and hateful towards him or whatever when seeing a poster got him into a frothing rage.
I'd also add that hes just such a comical figure. He sits around posting these pompous and high minded diatribes all day on Twitter to an empty audience. Hes a perfect target for the thread.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Dongsturm posted:

We do think further ahead and it's not intellectually bankrupt to worry about teaming up with violent thugs, regardless of their politics. Core antifa aren't reluctant heroes forced to become vigilantes, they are people who enjoy fighting and want a socially acceptable excuse to fight.

I'm definitely on the side of the hippies who want to "win" without having to hit people with sticks.
Yeah I do all my political activism on Twitter as well.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






LoB is a treasure. He stares into the abyss so we don't have to.

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Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Thats pretty much what I did. I skimmed the original post when it came out and thought "shes an rear end in a top hat, but internet relationship drama is so much fun to read through" and then immediately forgot about it. Like, I read it like most of us would read the /r/relationships thread in GBS.

Then a bunch of men got together to launch a long term harassment campaign against her and various other women and to be honest, she doesn't seem that bad compared to them.

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