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I Killed GBS posted:Those are the far-left, not the "alt-left", which doesn't exist Exactly what has to happen for the alt-left to exist under your definition?
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ate all the Oreos posted:I think a sufficient measure of "existence" would be if there were actually a group that self-identifies as the alt-left and makes a bunch of stupid charts about it and a subreddit and had their own equivalent of Milo. So basically identical to alt-right except for stated beliefs? I Killed GBS posted:Nobody self-identifies as "alt-left." People do self-identify as "alt-right." It's not a complicated subject. That said, self-identifying as "alt-right" is typically just a way to disguise that you hold more sordid views appropriate to existing white supremacist groups in the first place. I don't think I'd necessarily take their self-identification as gospel when so many Neo-Nazis use the moniker to hide themselves. I'd consider "alt-left" to be anyone who at least behaves similarly to an alt-right individual regardless of whether they're 100% identical, like whether or not they have /r/The_Commie or if they're trying to use "alt-left" as a way to disguise that they're tankies. pookel posted:It seems to me that it would be logical to use "alt-left" to describe a movement of young iconoclasts pursuing goals adjacent to standard liberalism, but at odds with the existing liberal establisment and unwilling to compromise with it for the sake of ideological purity, even if their views seem extreme, unusual, or even crazy to the establishment left. ^ This is the definition I'd probably use. They behave similarly to the alt-right, just on the opposite side of the political scale. I'd also include tankies and the people who want the United States to elect an open communist, ostensibly because their candidate will "drain the swamp" and turn the government on its head but really they just want to see their pet peeves taken care of, drat everyone else.
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Dec 5, 2016 22:45
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Fututor Magnus posted:Reposting in light of Trump's cabinet Someone should ask him why.
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Dec 7, 2016 18:14
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Tesseraction posted:Look up Scandinavian open prisons et al. They have less recidivism than the US and don't believe in life sentences or solitary confinement. Anders is only "due for release" in the sense that his sentence is up for review. Norway is allowed to say "No, you haven't changed and you'll still be dangerous if we let you out" and renew his sentence.
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Dec 23, 2016 00:54
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Tesseraction posted:Depends how you interpret - I was suggesting a ratio of 0 innocent victims of the Scandinavian system to <x> of the American system. The absolute value is undoubtedly a finite number but my point was that the Scandinavian system will produce 0 in perpetuity, thus causing an endlessly changing ratio (assuming neither system changes). Hence my X system v Y system being 'less' (implying ratio) instead of 'fewer' (implying numerical comparison). Why is this conversation even happening.
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Dec 23, 2016 04:30
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Edit: May have been a probate-worthy phrase.
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Feb 17, 2017 20:00
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darthbob88 posted:Some of them probably would; wasn't it the Oath Keepers who had that schism over whether or not to support and arm the good (black) citizens of Ferguson against the plundering police? Yeah, which led to some Oath Keepers standing watch over the businesses with guns on the roof. When they weren't able to do that any more, they started marching with the protesters.
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Feb 17, 2017 23:39
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Nice self own, Red Panels.
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Mar 31, 2017 16:44
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"What's your idea to solve human conflict?" "It is very simple, sir: no wars." ".....you seem to be avoiding the questio--" "NO. WARS."
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Apr 11, 2017 13:51
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ate all the Oreos posted:It's gonna be weird to re-learn turn of the century to not mean 1900 because i'm imagining some very weird gundams right about now Even better: in the original Mobile Suit Gundam, one of the Zabi family at the end starts telling his son or something (can't remember the exact relation) the story of Adolf Hitler to try and emphasize that he needs to chill with the crazy dictator poo poo. The guy he's telling the story to refers to WW2 as occurring in "the Middle Ages".
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Apr 11, 2017 17:14
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I love the part where he asks why NORAD didn't identify the threat, as if they would suddenly realize that the commercial traffic looked kinda unusual that day and instantly scramble fighters loaded with missiles and cannon shells within a few minutes.
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May 30, 2017 03:12
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Fututor Magnus posted:
I read a really good breakdown of the "Universities are intolerant left-wing breeding grounds full of biased liberals! Why won't they let right-wing speakers take the stage?" Because the right-wing speakers are usually either virulent racists or supporting absolutely horrible, illogical, unscientific positions. Milo isn't the kind of person who should be speaking at a place of education.
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Jun 24, 2017 02:24
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Setting side the dumbass part where he calls the Jedi an oligarchy in the same sentence that he says they were formed through genetics rather than money, the Jedi specifically didn't take a ruling position in the Republic and were entirely subservient to the federal government as a galactic peacekeeping force.
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Dec 19, 2017 04:28
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divabot posted:Elon Musk low-key believes in Roko's basilisk. I think Grimes is pretty weird?
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May 8, 2018 00:18
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What exactly would cause a self-modifying computer to turn into God where the human brain did not?
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May 16, 2018 14:14
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Subjunctive posted:Neither eschaton nor I made that claim, so I dunno. I didn't say you did, but that seems to be what the "AI will turn into God" claim hinges on: a neural network or individual program with the ability to evolve suddenly gains omniscience and omnipotence. The fact that the human brain has spent a few million years gradually evolving to our current levels (with about 86 billion neurons) and still hasn't accomplished this doesn't exactly give me high hopes for a human-designed system to do that.
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May 16, 2018 14:56
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ate all the Oreos posted:It took me a while to realize we weren't talking about Electronic Arts. I had to reread the posts to figure out what they were talking about that wasn't Electronic Arts.
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Jun 21, 2018 04:45
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Sax Solo posted:a dust of speck Can't say I've ever gotten bacon in my eyes, but there's a first time for everything.
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Jun 24, 2018 15:38
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https://twitter.com/ClickHole/status/1017457309419745281
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Jul 13, 2018 20:22
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quote:In a post-apocalyptic future humanity is under constant threat from giant creatures known as klaxosaurs (叫竜 kyoryū) which are sub-divided into at least four categories based on their size: "Conrad"[b], "Mohorovičić"[c], "Gutenberg"[d], and "(Super) Lehmann" [e]. Pushed to the brink of annihilation, the mysterious organization known as APE has led the remnants of humanity to abandon the Earth's surface for the relative safety of mobile fortress-cities known as Plantations. To defend the Plantations, children called Parasites are raised to pilot giant mecha known as Franxx[f] (フランクス Furankusu) in boy-girl pairs. Hiro is a former pilot-candidate prodigy who can no longer synchronize with his partner and they both fail to complete the training program. While skipping his class's graduation ceremony, Hiro encounters Zero Two, an infamous Franxx pilot with klaxosaur blood and red horns. After Zero Two's partner dies during a klaxosaur attack, Hiro volunteers to become her new partner, or "darling." Is this just Pacific Rim?
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Jul 16, 2018 18:32
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Darth Walrus posted:Mostly, it’s Evangelion/Gurren Lagann/Gunbuster fanfiction by a guy who got lucky enough to work with actual ex-Gainax staff members, but I’m not ruling out there being a tiny bit of Pacific Rim in there. The plot synopsis and setting sound literally identical to Pacific Rim with added anime weirdness.
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Jul 16, 2018 18:50
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ate all the Oreos posted:Buddy have I got a big surprise for you about the origin of Pacific Rim I know Pacific Rim is inspired by anime, but that's the exact plot of the movie 5 years later. The only difference is that it does the full blown anime thing where everything has a weird name for no reason and children do creepy adult poo poo. It's like if there was an anime about a squad of American soldiers in World War II trying to rescue the last remaining brother who was drafted after all his siblings die, but all of the protagonists are 16 and their unit is called the Glorious Cat and the guy they're searching for is named Balls. chitoryu12 has a new favorite as of 21:24 on Jul 16, 2018 |
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Jul 16, 2018 21:21
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NikkolasKing posted:Wasn't Highschool of the Dead just about zombies? Or was there something more overtly Far Right about it? The original Night of the Living Dead wasn't really metaphorical for anything; Romero just wanted to make a horror movie inspired by I Am Legend without totally ripping it off by using vampires. A lot of people took the scene with Ben being killed by zombie hunters at the end as a commentary on racism, but Ben was originally cast as a white truck driver and ended up with a black actor based on the strength of his audition. People have said Dawn of the Dead was an anti-capitalism thing, but I can't find any source of Romero directly saying that. The closest thing I can find to an inspiration for the film is Romero visiting the mall and having the manager joke that you could survive an emergency locked in there, which is the best thing to say to a zombie movie director. All of the sources claiming that Dawn of the Dead was anti-capitalist and that the zombies were a metaphor that I can find are news articles and essays saying it obviously is.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Death of the author, friendo Death of the Author is for hacks who aren't creating anything but want to feel like they are.
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