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UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

Halloween Jack posted:

How did Felix get onto the Free Jared thing anyway? Just something he thought was funny one day, or part of his brave pro-pedophilia anti-Gamergate stance?

Everything has to be about irony for your generation, huh? The man has principles.

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UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Fix your loving avatars

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Hell yeah bitch

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

Rhesus Pieces posted:

Yeah that's really tone-deaf at best and incredibly poorly timed on top of that.

ffs don't give your enemies cudgels to beat you with by doing an edgy rapist joke that can be so easily misinterpreted and taken out of context. They're smarter than this.

Who gives a gently caress you miserable nerd.

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

misadventurous posted:

You know I thought the bend the knee thing was stupid and not their fault at all but you'd think it would have gotten them to check their necks in general so they wouldn't do something as poo poo-awful dumb as this

Maybe podcast irony bros should just stay the gently caress away from rape jokes how about that.

Check these nuts. They can do what they want.

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

pospysyl posted:

The difference is that all those men are in prison. Cosby and Ratner aren't and continue to torment their victims to this day.

I do get it, it's wacky and amusing that Cosby and Ratner have Hollywood stars when they shouldn't, but I disagree. It's neither wacky nor amusing, it's just sad. The joke just isn't very funny, especially right now. I think that getting yelled at online is probably the most that will, or should, happen to them and it's not worth complaining about.

It is funny.

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Being leftist is to be politically incorrect.

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Josh said that they were “trying to make a statement about how the Hollywood industry has condemned Harvey Weinstein but still leaves Cosby’s star up.”

Funnily enough, the same intent could’ve been communicated via posting the picture of the star, and, well, just saying “why is his star still up? Hollywood doesn’t actually care about stopping abusive structures” or something to that effect.

I’m an under-20 cis, het, white guy. I’m surrounded by this type of bullshit humor that relies on combining edginess and irony & blowing both aspects up as far as you can until it’s feasibly possible to argue that the joke stands for any imaginable point you ascribe to it. It’s loving horrendous. It’s not clever, it’s not original, and it’s not funny.

It feels like every single man on Earth, from the most regular normie to the most online Nazi has made at least a dozen jokes just like this. This joke is structurally identical in every possible way to something you’d find on /r/dankmemes or the meninist twitter page. When I started realizing caring about other people was good & worth doing, it almost-instantly made me realize that it’s almost impossible to get away from this type of joke/meme. That was why finding Chapo & the Online left was awesome — they did care, they were ironic, but they made fun of people that deserved it in a clear way that really obviously gets across the message that this is loving terrible & you shouldn’t support this, rather than “oh wow, that sure is TWISTED of you to post!”

This type of humor has nothing to do with making any actual statement; it’s about masturbating over how desensitized & cool you are for saying transgressive things that are so wrong they Cross the Line Twice. Keep crap like this out of this space, please— it makes it impossible to actually discuss things that matter, or use relevant humor in said discussions.

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Hello

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Christ in heaven, who cares

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

Skwirl posted:

Oh yeah, now I remember, that was loving stupid.

Yeah people are imbeciles

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
I wish Matt was more optimistic about American politics :( :( :(

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Cunninglynguists is kind of like a bizarro Run the Jewels if you think about it

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

Biden is garbage and if you think the worst thing about him is that he sniffs little girl's' hair then you're an absolute moron. Dude sucks.

Who ever said it was the worst thing? Besides I guess the libs on Twitter who probably don't have anything else bad to say about him, everyone else doesn't want him nominated for many reasons.

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
One was a government hearing, controlled by Republicans though, while the other is ostensibly a democratic primary. I don't think the same influences will necessarily lead to the same outcomes in those scenarios.

That said, yes I can imagine a vocal Resistance-y opposition to him falling apart after his groping issues are brushed past, without following up with any substantive or effectual criticisms, a la Trump, so I understand that fear. But what should be done, then- don't bring up the many hilarious pics of him looming over uncomfortable women?

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
I said that the anti-Trump tactic was not a winning one, though to be fair (1) it was Hillary as the candidate and (2) her campaign team seemed to enjoy loving up, so absent those factors she still could have won.

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Yeah that part definitely rang true. But I'm not like those other young men and I have an erudite socialist perspective on things!

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Twitter is really loving weird

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
I feel like their main concern was how adept these freaky teens (no offense) would turn out to be at acting politically and contributing to leftism. Maybe they underestimate the effect of online activism, or maybe they have a point at how comfortable people are to stay ensconced in their online spaces.

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
She and Matt are tied for best

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

He literally stammered and said "I dont know about that".

Relax man I thought it was a funny bit nobody is attack your favorite podcast nerd

It was funny, they make a funny podcast that gets commented on by loving annoying people

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

alan moore sounds like felix doing his awful english accent

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
I like this podcast because it's good. The community does nothing for me.

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
This is good, not including the actual debate contents which are horrifying

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
It almost makes me think that a ton of leftists are wimpy nerds

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

a new study bible! posted:

gently caress Glenn Greenwald.

Based bolsonaro will fix him up for you

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

Jonas Albrecht posted:

So what's Glenn Greenwald's deal. Why does the left hate him? Trying to do a search but his confrontation with Bolsonaro is kinda walling off the results.

Leftists do not hate him

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Or Crusader Kings with Matt. There are like 50 games that would be better than what they play

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Yeah what the

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
*dabs napkin on corners of mouth* Pardon my error

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Agreed. Yang gang ftw.

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
That happened a lot in the 50 year historical record of Peanuts cartoons, and we should look forward to Charlie Brown doing it again before the 2020 election

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Thinking about goons posting on a podcast forum

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Tulsi is better than Hillary, I'll say it

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
It's so not interesting, and it's potentially racist to even concern yourself with. Haven't you heard that they're investigating starting the process of impeaching Trump?

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Donald Trump gets booed at MMA event!

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
Big Structural Bailey has infected my brain for the past few days

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007
The Chapo dorks drew me to this game too. I didn't even know it was a successor of sorts to the PS:T ideal of CRPGs, so it was really mindblowing learning about this a couple days before release.

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UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

SunAndSpring posted:

Why ever leave social conservatives alone when you can just stamp out conservatism entirely, honestly? What do I gain from letting some racist gently caress proselytize instead of just making it so he never gets to spread his views for fear of getting arrested

I can see an argument for convincing racists, sexists, various deplorables etc. to at least vote in their class interests for a labor populist type (who wouldn't explicitly extend their politics into social equality) to secure a more collectivist economic system for one's country because it'd be better to fight for social justice in an economic climate like that, yes even a racist one, rather than doing it while mired in capitalist oppression. I know it's not that cut and dry, but at least some percentage of racism and sexist oppression is rooted in capitalism perpetuating it. The problem with that is it's not like you can argue racism out of existence- those people either need to come to reality or die. But maybe a more secure and just economic system could move that balance a little.

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