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Nov 18, 2016

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consumed by normies posted:

still think his terrible politics are an elaborate troll

why? also, would it matter?

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Nov 18, 2016

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Dapper_Swindler posted:


he wants to get his loving arm or face broken so he can start his own victim money circut just like some libs have been doing for the past few years...

If you'd stop pretending "libs do it too" all the time, you'd probably get more replies. Go ahead, show us the liberal equivalent of Milo.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Thug Lessons posted:

Or they could, you know, look in a mirror and take a moment of self-reflection to recognize that this is all pantomime rather than deadly serious politics with the fate of the country hanging in the balance.

It's both.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Laphroaig posted:

George Ciccariello-Maher is the closest

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Drexel-officials-Professor-George-Ciccariello-Mahers-White-Genocide-tweet-was-utterly-reprehensible.html

He is basically obnoxious and annoying and has monetized it via settling into a professorship in Academia, vs. monetizing it via a speaking tour.

Also I googled this out of curiosity and lol https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Milo-Yiannopoulos-counterpart

I mean basically you are saying "Find me an example in the <dominant culture> of a <counter-culture figure>, checkmate shitlord." - by definition, the opposition to Milo is mainstream, since he is counter-culture, and the culture is liberalism. The closest I could find is someone on the academic left, outside of the culture of liberalism (as a socialist) and a provocateur (Kill All White People). I think this fits your criteria?

I'd never heard of the kill whitey dude. I guess what I was asking for is a liberal who is trying to set themselves up on the gravy train of getting beat up and then talking about it. Because I don't think they really exist. White genocide for Christmas dude is dumb as hell though.

To your larger point, I don't think the culture is liberal or that Milo is counter-culture. He's not mainstream, but he's not opposed to the mainstream. Culture is pretty conservative, it's just not conservative in the way Nationalists would like.

/edit/ I agree with basically everything you said about the Left a couple of posts up.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Plucky Brit posted:

Dumb poo poo with too many vowels

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Nov 18, 2016

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Homeless Friend posted:

Imagine growing up and Trump is president and that's your baseline for how a president should be lol

Every president after Trump is going to be really good, comparatively.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Bud K ninja sword posted:

so he is a bad racist wizard looking fucker.

Rasputin never stays dead

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Nov 18, 2016

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Kilmers Elbow posted:

I found out who the cute furry is but never mind that look at this



That avatar of Kek can unhinge their jaw and swallow an entire person whole.

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Nov 18, 2016

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cumshitter posted:

why the gently caress does crowder have what looks like a lazy susan for pipes on the edge of his desk. why doe sh eneed six cheap rear end pipes as a prop?

Masculinity signaling

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Nov 18, 2016

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The Brown Menace posted:

Let's play youtube poo poo is insanely popular with young kids if those around me are any indication

I mean perfectly normal 10 year olds and such

Bad parenting to let your kids watch someone else play a video game.

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Nov 18, 2016

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lancemantis posted:

he really can't just say I'm sorry and I learned something

he's not sorry and he's learned nothing, so

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Nov 18, 2016

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I'm the vaping luchadore


Milo says groping doesn't count as sexual assault either. Starting to feel like a lot of this isn't trolling at all. Milo doesn't actually understand consent.

He's British, it's cultural confusion.

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rudatron posted:

I'm glad he's getting humbled, but depressed it wasn't for any of the poo poo he said before.

"Antifa prevents pedo apologist speaking at Berkeley" - how many of the same 'but mah free speech'-ers would have come rushing to his defense then? loving none, that's how many.

No reason that can't become the story retroactively though. Like, all the antifas need to do is point out that yeah, this dude is also a pedophile, and we kept him from speaking.

The REAL Goobusters posted:

Hell yes they all hate each other haha

The instant they're done murdering everyone else they'll start in on each other.

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Nov 18, 2016

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wizard on a water slide posted:

I mean nazi jews, yada yada but holy christ 21 year olds who are probably neets aren't angling for political power, they could just as easily jump over here instead of /pol/ and post

NEETS don't have :10bux: and they can't pull off basic capitalization/grammar so they'd get banned and then not have :10bux: more.

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Nov 18, 2016

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zegermans posted:

Reminder that Rush Limbaugh went on a rant where he said "Liberals are fine with anything as long as you use the magic words 'I consent'"

it's like, uh, yeah?

They completely do not understand the concept of consent.

Lack of consent is how they run every other part of their lives. Blatant kinkshaming itt.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I still think Milo going mainstream would have been a good thing. He's so goddamn insufferable that it would have created an even bigger schism on the Right.

I don't want his hosed up version of how gay people act to be normalized. Better to expose Republicans to blue-collar all American gays than the lovely knockoff British version.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Fell onto his sword. It's the best choice. If he shuts up for a couple of months he can reinvent himself as whatever he needs to be next and go back to bilking the rubes. If he stays in the spotlight he'll never manage that. Maybe he'll work on his personal issues, but that's not the way to bet.

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Nov 18, 2016

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I hope he doesn't. Kinda hosed up, honestly.

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Nov 18, 2016

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mysterious frankie posted:

I can't see him recovering from this fully, but he could cobble together a low level entertainment news career online dazzling creeps. But the American mainstream is pretty much shut off to him from now until we become one big eternal Temporary Autonomous Zone and the ancaps dance, boys dangling miserably from their crotches, down the street in celebration.

I think you're correct, but I think he can easily bilk a reasonable living out of the fringe. The conservatives would welcome him with open arms if he'd fake being born-again, and he's amoral enough to pull it off.

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Nov 18, 2016

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If Glenn Beck's evil wasn't writ large on his frame that'd be a cute outfit.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Welp, hope his marks wake up sooner rather than later.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Al-Saqr posted:

Holy poo poo what a loving idiot scumbag he literally shook his hand and called him a young Christopher hitchens holy gently caress what a stupid prick.

Tbf if the same had happened to Hitchens before he got big we'd all be better off.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Wikkheiser posted:

he might be right about this, but he hasn't thought about it very deeply. and it might also be that because the First Amendment has such strong protections from govt interference, the social prohibitions are stronger as a means to compensate.

milo would often gloat about how much he understood america better than americans do, but he is living in an abstract version of america where people don't get punched in the goddamned mouth for yapping too much.

Social restrictions aren't real though. You want to be an rear end in a top hat, be an rear end in a top hat. Just don't expect the rest of us to applaud you for it. Milo has never understood that free speech works because words have meaning, not because they're meaningless. You spend your life spouting bullshit, don't be surprised when people call you bullshit.

*edit*Basically British people misunderstand American culture because it looks similar to theirs on the surface so they think that's all there is to it. It's weird the way some Americans will hear a British accent and assume the person has something intelligent to say.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Darkman Fanpage posted:

protesting by consuming is dumb af

People could make their own though, and a tangible thing like a pussyhat or a protest button etc. is something you can use to get others interested "Whatchya wearing?" etc. and something that helps maintain your own interest in the movement because now you're invested because of this dumb hat/button you have.

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Nov 18, 2016

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mysterious frankie posted:

Yeah this. It's like they saw an industry revving up to commodify their message and were like "Oh no, please. Don't put yourself out, allow us." Pussy hats and Dreamworks faces for everyone!

The whole thing came across more like pissing dad off because dad's the worst and doesn't get you and wouldn't let you go to the eight year long prom with Hillary like your wanted, instead of trying to scare the poo poo out of a bunch of political dogsbodies so that maybe they'll collectively do something to stop the legion of doom that's running the government right now.

That and trying to make it about good vibes. gently caress everyone's good vibes. Bad vibes. The worst vibes. Feel what's actually going down and do something about it, instead of trying to The Secret your way out of the poo poo we let happen.

Nah, you're just wrong. Plenty of time for bad vibes, this was a time for solidarity and showing that a massive physical presence could descend on the Capitol at will. It hurt the redhatters a lot that nobody came to the Inauguration and everyone came to the March. Seriously, try talking to them about it, they're still upset.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Tapioca tepid take

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Nov 18, 2016

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Grandma on the far right is going to gently caress some Nazi's poo poo up, and then she's going to walk away innocently.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Comrade Cheggorsky posted:

who do we think the next alt right breakout star will be? how photogenic will they be?

they're all unfuckables. milo's whole thing is get 'em young so they don't know any better, cernovich is convinced his semen-pheromones are magical, and spencers gone through two wives and has zero kids. performative masculinity is all these dudes have, so it's going to be another disposable dipshit. pewdiepie isn't doing anything, so yeah, it's probably him.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Darkman Fanpage posted:

so were the world trade center buildings. but now there's only one ugly building instead of two so i guess thats better

The enormous fountain is amazing though.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

people are carrying shields lmfao, I dunno guys street fighting doesn't seem very cool anymore

only a short step from shields to pikes the SCA is going to use MAGA hats as currency

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Nov 18, 2016

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Race Realists posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Anawnnemus/status/838406953856565249

this article reminds me of how much this is a anti-intellectual movement as well

Alt-Right are STEM nerds who deem Art as an unrealistic career choice

they're not even STEM, they're STEM wannabees. It's that Art is unrealistic, it's that it's too complex for them to do. That's why they do memes instead.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Irony was never real and everything is serious, which is what makes it so funny.

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Nov 18, 2016

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MizPiz posted:

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Plus the elderly.

Respecting our elders means we respect them enough to punch them when they're fascists.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Lindsey O. Graham posted:

yeah, but that's like alchemists well actually'ing modern science, their opinions are clearly bunk and poorly informed

Um, if they're alchemists and still around then I'm interested.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Race Realists posted:

why does the THE FASH hate the Arts so much? Between me finding out how hosed the Indie Film Industry is in Post-Abe Japan and my own Atlanta struggling to keep funding (due to Trump cutting NEA), I whole heartely expect Gen Z to be the most retarded generation since our own (and that's a feat)

ART requires empathy and they've never cultivated that trait. Even Brutalism (which was the most controversial architectural style I could think of off the top of my head) requires an understanding of the human soul, if only to crush it as thoroughly as possible (Brutalism owns).

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Nov 18, 2016

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Baloogan posted:

there isn't a single artist on the government dole whos not left of sanders :shrug:

They hate commercial artists as well though. They'll venerate an artist after they've been dead a century, but they're completely unable to respond to the critique of a still living one except with barbarity.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Not a Step posted:

Panicking about dumb poo poo and trying to make it a massive issue is the most liberal thing possible. Did Milo even have that much of a career before pearl clutchers started protesting him?

Otoh there's something to be said for stomping roaches before they get bigger.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Baloogan posted:

lol none of yall actually have been poo poo or pissed upon

friend, not all of us made our livings as piss-bitches

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Nov 18, 2016

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Baloogan posted:

ive been poo poo on by birds

sexually

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Nov 18, 2016

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To whatever idiot said the Eichenwald thing would be some teenager haha.

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Nov 18, 2016

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Still on the right side of the Nazis vs everyone else question tho

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