get that OUT of my face posted:

all the good content from The Onion moved over to Observable Reality

an actual dog posted:

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/860116676536410112

quote:

We never see a journalist in “Star Wars.” Not in eight movies and counting.

The galaxy is otherwise rich in professions. There are bartenders, bounty hunters, geneticists, one librarian, medics, moisture farmers, musicians, senators, soldiers and a lady who sells toads out of the sewer. The character who comes closest to an act of journalism, if we're being generous, is a two-headed alien who commentates during a podrace. His sportscast is mostly hackwork, stuff like “It's Skywalker!” and “The crowds are going nuts!” Worse still, he's not very impartial; at the sight of the gangster Jabba the Hutt, both of his heads gargle in apparent fealty.

If there was ever a galaxy far, far away in need of a smart and independent press, you're looking at it.


....

Near the end of the prequel “Revenge of the Sith,” the elected leader of the Galactic Republic gives a speech. It's a rousing speech, full of carnage and conspiracy. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine spins a wild theory that the powerful elite, the Jedi, wish to subvert the government. It's also total bull.

A “Jedi rebellion” has been foiled, Palpatine says. (This is false. Palpatine ordered his troopers to shoot the Jedi in the back, a slaughter presumably carried out on thousands of planets.) The Jedi disfigured his face in a failed assassination attempt, he says. (False again, though difficult to investigate — Palpatine resisted arrest in his private office, then zapped any would-be witnesses to death.)

With that, a millennium-old democracy dies. Palpatine announces that the Republic is now an empire, promising “a safe and secure society, which I assure you will last for 10,000 years.”

Almost everyone in Palpatine's audience greets his speech with thunderous applause.

There are a few heads shaken and sad words muttered. But nobody jots down notes. Nobody switches on a recorder. Nobody in the chamber raises a tentacle and asks, “Uh, excuse me, Mr. Chancellor …?”

Meanwhile, what appear to be drones equipped with video cameras hover around the Senate chamber. The movie never explains the drones' purpose, but it's easy to imagine that the robots are filming the emperor's speech. (In fact, the “Star Wars” television show “Rebels” later offers a glimpse of imperial propaganda recorded from that very location.) If so, there is no evidence that the galaxy tuned into the robot feed to see a popular and rightly outraged news anchor listing the democratic laws broken and historical context ignored.

Brother Entropy posted:

the white people don't like spicy food thing isn't about europeans, it's specifically about white americans because their grandparents and great grandparents had to put up with real bland poo poo during the great depression and then during ww2 rationing and that just kinda became the norm for 'em

some food blog posted:

Not all Jews are as fond of garlic as I am, but the bulbs have long been associated with Jews. The Talmud advises husbands to eat garlic on Shabbat night in order to perform their marital duty with vigor and says that it increases male fertility. On the other hand, no one denies that garlic breath is offensive, to the point that Cohanim performing service at the Temple were forbidden to eat it.

Terror Sweat posted:

women are bringing their babies to work at uber?

Dapper_Swindler posted:

i dont want to sound like a altright dick. but do you think there is some self hatred there? like they hate being white or some poo poo? because when i hear this stuff its rarely from minorities.

Johnny Five-Jaces posted:

what the gently caress do i need the outside part for? i already have the god drat paper grocery bag that I can put my recyclables in?

i am so god drat mad

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i'm the magnanimous man's love for a redhead flavored vodka between all the interracial gay sex

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

Ok Cupid has some new matching questions





Eternal reminder that Chelsea is on the board of Okc's parent company. They're not even pretending that these are about dating anymore, it's pure data collection


Saved the best for last:



TRUMP

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get that OUT of my face posted:

it should be "all of the above," but considering how they love to hand out suspensions for so much as a hacky "white genocide" joke, this makes sense. that vox article comparing fb and twitter to 4chan when it should be a moderated forum like here (yes, SA was the example he gave) is worth a read

quote:

The reason is that Facebook deletes curses, slurs, calls for violence and several other types of attacks only when they are directed at “protected categories”—based on race, sex, gender identity, religious affiliation, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation and serious disability/disease. It gives users broader latitude when they write about “subsets” of protected categories. White men are considered a group because both traits are protected, while female drivers and black children, like radicalized Muslims, are subsets, because one of their characteristics is not protected.

Crane Fist posted:

It's me, I'm the guy comparing black children coming to your kid's school with the city turning your local park into a landfill

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

In what way would they not "get what they expected," by having the schools integrate?

Woozy posted:

Abloo bloo bloo why can't I both be a leftist and also never change my way of thinking about things or any of my current political opinions? Why won't these freaking STALINISTS respect my lifelong habit of reactionary and purely discursive politics that consist entirely of self-righteous posturing

mrmcd posted:

I like how she started from a point of "It would be neat to have more South Asian female leads" and somehow ended up writing a thousand words about "As a very well educated liberal, I have opinions about which races should be allowed to gently caress in movies". I'm not an unemployed humanities major though, so I don't really understand how this leftist critical theory stuff is supposed to work.

Dreddout posted:

Maybe the women of color... Should gently caress white men?!

Control Volume posted:

These were too long so I didnt read them, can anyone explain gamergate to me?

Lumpy the Cook posted:

Honestly, what was the last worthwhile thing the BBC has even? All I can think of is Walking With Dinosaurs and that was in the 90s. Definitely not enough solid content to make up for their many, many, many sexual assaults on women and children.

Poppyseed Poundcake posted:

Woman's march comes out in support of a cop killer, featuring lovely MS paint
https://twitter.com/womensmarch/status/886652647582859264

Clawtopsy posted:

i wonder how many words and variant sentences they had to type to get the last word to autocorrect to what they wanted

alternatively

"These are real questions guys are searching for every day." could have had some much funnier questions, or better searches

Donkwich posted:

does this go in here

https://twitter.com/Mike_Faulk/status/889891202832748544

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Christ, I live in San Diego and there's no 2 AM sushi places. You don't see those kind of places except in the biggest of big 24-hour business cycle cities like NYC and LA. Even loving London only has one or two 24-hour restaurants the last time I checked.

Poppyseed Poundcake posted:

Venom Snake posted:

Oh, well what are they even going to have her do? Fight in Korea or Vietnam? Like do they only want her fighting in pointless wars that didn't need to happen

Taintrunner posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maqNbbAFvow

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GUSHING ABOUT HOW CUTE THE PORGS ARE

Lumpy the Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/898258211068940288

Dapper_Swindler posted:

your that surprised? i am not.

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

It's time for Porn to go Social, link your pornhub account with your facebook today!