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Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

It's in the five-hole!

Reassuring to know that even in Earth-2 where Hilldawg won, we'd still be led by a president with no firm grasp on the truth or reality.

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Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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Famethrowa posted:

Yeah wtf was that a bit?

That's exactly what it sounded like to me, a bit. Maybe it didn't land as well, but I thought it was funny how they were painstakingly deconstructing every single last element of Huckabee's tweets to try and find a shred of humor, or getting intensely agitated about who knows more about frozen ground deer meat. Felt in line with Cross's stuff like, well, pretty much all of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, cringing your way through a painful situation so horrible it comes all the way around to being funny again.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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https://twitter.com/naseeoh/status/870001336749744128

I want to have a clever ironic remark about this, but I'm probably going to wind up screaming "go gently caress yourself" until my vocal cords tear.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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I've been laughing for 5 minutes now about how Virgil says "geocities".

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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Jonas Albrecht posted:

I thought Felix messed that up.

Probably was, I thought I heard Virgil's reedy voice but was trying to parse what he meant when Amber jumped on it.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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I'd love to believe him, except A) Occam's Razor and whatnot, and B) https://twitter.com/spookperson/status/872861857849016320

Also, I guess C) look at the guy, he just screams "I gently caress my waifu love pillow and cry myself to sleep"

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Jul 5, 2006

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Bryter posted:

Turns out being pro-taxation, pro-nationalisation, anti-NATO, etc. doesn't sit well with the British chattering classes and the media barons who employ them.

My favorite were all the people who got mad that he said "maybe Israel shouldn't genocide the Palestinian people?" and turned it into "Corbyn wants to fire up the ovens and kill all the Jews!"

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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Famethrowa posted:

so....the dry boys are totally tooting coke in the first couple episodes, right?

because I definitely hear scraping and coke sniffling

I think it's just their godawful audio engineering skills, without Brendan there the whole setup falls apart. Case in point, the episode Felix just did on Qatar, where you can hear him deep breathing into the microphone every time David talks, like some sort of background ASMR thing.

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Jul 5, 2006

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GalacticAcid posted:

I would like to know how magnets work 40 hours a week in a society as wealthy as ours and are still living in poverty.

loving magnates, how do they work?

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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SousaphoneColossus posted:

would love to know more about scenarios in which it is acceptable to use a gun against tyrannical government according to republicans

1) when they try to take guns away from white people honest, Constitution-abiding citizens
2) when a black man is President
3) ????

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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I don't know anything about the movie beyond the Wikipedia plot summary, but I guess it also whitewashes WWI from being a pile of convoluted aristocratic jackassery and imperialism into A GOD DID IT, but that's also pretty typical Hollywood blockbuster fare, I can't imagine it being that surprising or upsetting.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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Punkin Spunkin posted:

Comic book movies and video games and anime and any western cartoons are all bad & dumb and you should all feel bad & dumb
There's this mass infantalization going on where it's apparently ok to proudly like & consume these things as a Millenial and not be considered a complete dork man/woman-baby and I think that's bad
Just look at the March for science

Check out Ben Sasse's new book, sounds right up your alley.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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GalacticAcid posted:

I have nothing to add here, just noting that it's disgusting.

Agreed, egg has no place in a tortilla.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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Man, we live in the weirdest goddamn world

https://twitter.com/teenvogue/status/880561648578252800

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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Jonas Albrecht posted:

Jesus, this song.

"In the flash of an hour, watchin' dreams fall from towers"

It was amazing, with the intro I was kind of like "yeah, okay, I can get into this, sure", and then the singing started.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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John Romero posted:

did you guys see sady insinuating that the boys were sexual harrassers

That would necessitate paying attention to Sady, so no, I did not.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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Matt being stuck in the back of a cab while Virgil and Felix debate calling a 7-11 to check on the readiness status of their hot dogs for 45 minutes is the most amazing mental image.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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Hey, calling for a murder spree against a bunch of inbred nobles is our thing, she can't co-opt it!

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Jul 5, 2006

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padijun posted:

reddit normies

Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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Gonna throw in my hat for Arsenal For Democracy, a news/interview show very much in the vein of This Is Hell, and Dumb People Town, a comedy podcast with stupidly good rapport between the hosts; 2 of the 3 are twin brothers who sound and act almost identical, to the point where they constantly speak in unison or finish each other's sentences even while improvising, it's both funny and terrifying.

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Jul 5, 2006

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sexpig by night posted:

Also I was meaning to check this out and this post reminded me, these guys are good poo poo.

As much as I appreciate their insight and perspective as leftists informed by their military experience, my favorite episodes are when they're just shooting the poo poo and sharing stories about stupid things they saw during their time, the airplane door in storage story from a few months back was amazing.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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Antti posted:



Edit: Matty's going for the "who are the real neoliberals here?"



Editedit: I think it's a sign of how far we've come that there are loving Chapo thinkpieces going around now.

I don't think he's entirely wrong, insofar as the podcast isn't necessarily "advancing socialism", but that's also not the point; that's like all the people who used to view the Daily Show as some great source of news or liberalism or whatever, when it's just a comedy show that enjoys poking fun of entrenched, vapid, hypocritical elites and institutions as informed by their political perspective. Occasionally they might try to explain or enlighten listeners as to the reasoning behind the joke, but I certainly wouldn't consider Chapo as a particularly informative or educational show. As it stands, it's a real fun listen that encourages people to think critically of standing media and political narratives, and to push them in a left direction, while leaving it to the listener to educate themselves further about how and what that means, and that's not a bad thing, but it's also not the end-all-be-all of socialism as Marry seems to think they're trying to be.

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Jul 5, 2006

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Serf posted:

will even went on a rant about how listening to the show is not politics and that you have to do more than just listen to them

John Stewart even did the same thing early on, during his "debate" with Hannity and Colmes, but fanboys gonna fanboy.

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Jul 5, 2006

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Antti posted:

Also for going into lots of and lots of detail on what is particularly bad about the latest Republican healthcare proposal.

There's also some interesting wonk stuff about research papers like what giving women free IUDs does (good things, obviously).

What can I say, I'm a barely closeted lanyard.

For any left-leaning folks who also like dry, wonky analysis explaining why socialism is a good thing, try the Wide Left podcast. It's a couple of former college debate nerds who go in-depth on why leftist politics are both sensible and beneficial to everyone, they're definitely nowhere near as much fun as the dry boys, but are a nice middle ground to recommend to centrists who may be sympathetic to leftism while being put off by all those mean ol' Chapos.

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Jul 5, 2006

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Barry Convex posted:

Well, that's good to see. Dude really needs to deal with his issues and not take them out against his critics on Twitter tho

If people dealt with their issues in a healthy and proactive manner, Twitter would have about 250 users worldwide

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Jul 5, 2006

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Henchman of Santa posted:

He tells offensive jokes involving women so of course he's going to attract MRAs. It doesn't matter if they're actually the punchline or if he's operating ironically.

If that's the case, to avoid undesirables it sounds like the best way to go is to avoid telling offensive jokes, is there some kind of clean comedian available?

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Jul 5, 2006

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Trabandiumium posted:

So is CoC a game you have to min/max to do well at or is matt just bad?

Never played it, but I gather it's pretty expected you wind up insane and/or dead, just a question of how far you get first.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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All this talk of Coppola and not one mention of Captain EO, for shame y'all.

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sexpig by night posted:

I have an Audible credit and no idea what I want to spend it on. Chapo thread give me a good political book or something.

Nixonland is a classic D&D recommend. I've also been making my way through Dog Whistle Politics, which is good. Otherwise I tend to use my Audible for non-political books, hard to really think about what I'm listening to when I'm driving, so I tend to keep it light.

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Jul 5, 2006

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Rhesus Pieces posted:

https://twitter.com/byyourlogic/status/893177898013782016

What the gently caress universe do these people live in

I mean, Joy Ann Reid accused 90% of Bernie voters of going for Trump in the general, so yeah.

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Jul 5, 2006

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Henchman of Santa posted:

She was trying to say 10% but hosed it up

Huh, fair enough, I missed that part. Not that it's much better, but I guess it's ever so slightly less stupid.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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I want this tattooed on me

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Henchman of Santa posted:

I don't think it's classist to find something funny or stupid about people who build their entire identity around an atrocious musical act. Like I get that a lot of what Juggalos are made fun of for is related to class but they're an inherently ridiculous group.

I don't know, there's something to be said for a group that could easily fit into a SyFy channel remake of the Warriors.

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Jul 5, 2006

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Lovechop posted:

yeah she was hanging out in the UK and didn't get innoculated against our fish and chips, so now she's paying the price

Geez, I thought it was common knowledge, you don't partake in spotted dick without protection against diseases.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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I honestly wonder how much of this sort of thing went on before the internet, and whether its only due to social media that so very many people are being revealed as being utterly bugfuck crazy.

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

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He's wrapped around to full Trumpian "THE FAKE NEWS MEDUA IS BEING MEAN TO ME", I'd say he's performance art if I had any faith in his being remotely competent

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Jul 5, 2006

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Felix's "what if we bought. . . a hot dog roller?" nearly made me drive off the road.

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Jul 5, 2006

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Was he playing a poo poo song on guitar while he tweeted?

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Jul 5, 2006

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I love that when they rip on Felix's squalid living conditions, I'm never sure where the irony ends and sincerity begins.

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FlamingLiberal posted:

Don't forget Danny DeVito

Danny was made for Cum Town

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