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FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
Why does the left have to be stupid?

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FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
The violent protesters not being students is believable. That they are a right wing plant is where the tinfoil starts. These antifa idiots do this sort of poo poo any time they have an excuse.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjGEHIkZ7ss&t=25s

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
pre-cosby buress minus the overwhelming victim and eyewitness testimony. But still, I think there is a good standup routine to be developed here.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

FuzzySkinner posted:

That's what a lot of wokes are.

They're basically raised in a lot of puritan conservative families with that mindset and don't understand the poor, working class. Nor do they care to.

As I've said before. I've found much more common ground with some :911: gun nut type from rural oklahoma than I could ever dream of finding with some rich upper class white liberal. This is coming from someone who wants Singe payer healthcare, free college education, legalized marijuana, justice reform and wants no foriegn intervention to speak of.

Well yeah. Hillary Clinton opposes all those things and they nominated her. Why wouldn't there be a disconnect between you?

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
What's the best game communism ever made? Tetris?

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

Unfortunately, his son can also easily be taken down by flashing lights.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
Bush is still a worse President than Trump. The Iraq War alone makes it very difficult to catch up with him. Don't get me wrong, I think Trump will get to being worse eventually but people really undersell how bad Bush was. Right now, most of what makes Trump bad is just bad plans most of which he probably can't implement, not hundreds of thousands of people actually dead to find imaginary weapons.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

wizard on a water slide posted:

I don't think I've heard a single person - conservative, liberal, socialist, libertarian, anybody - declare the iraq war a smart or successful move in years

the only right-leaning professor in my department describes it as the worst foreign policy decision in his lifetime and he's over 50

people may not understand the exact details and the degree, but the vast majority of americans think the iraq war was a big mistake

And yet Democrats nominated someone who voted for it because, "Who could have possibly predicted it would go bad? That clever President Bush fooled us into voting for it!"

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
The 9/11 AUMF was obviously too expansive but the immediate reason was Afghanistan really did need a military response for actually helping to make the attack on America happen. People treat folks who talk about how dumb Iraq was like we are pacifists. You don't have to be a pacifist to think attacking a country that didn't attack us to find imaginary WMD is insane.

It should have been repealed and replaced in 2008 once it became clear it was being used as a justification for any military action anywhere, though.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

the trump tutelage posted:

Those are all classically feminine traits. Is he secretly trying to destroy the distinction between femininity and masculinity, or does he not understand that they are meaningless if not conceived as opposing forces?

It's like he wants to say that men should embrace femininity but he knows how that would sound and so he is playing semantic games to have his cake and eat it too.

There are a lot of ways to define a new masculinity. But it's hard within a "woke/sjw" framework because the definition needs to have some explicitly positive, assertive qualities to it to be meaningful but they find it hard to accept defining something as masculine doesn't mean defining the feminine as the opposite.

For instance, the suggestion that a man should be strong and brave can be interpreted as a suggestion that the feminine is weak and cowardly. Obviously, life is much more grey area than all of that and any good future definition of masculinity will be self-defining and not reliant on measuring itself against women in that kind of way. But, that can be hard to explain sometimes when the older attitudes are a long way from being stamped out.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
The last time there was a mass shooting in that town it killed a lot more people and a woman participated in it.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
https://twitter.com/cowlonfullerton/status/748670936069476353

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
https://twitter.com/HuffPostPol/status/855769990041137152

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
My Dad is 90 years old and grew up in the depression and he loves avocado, which he discovered earlier this year and still refers to as "Guacamole" no matter what form it is served in. Point being, everybody young and old can appreciate avocados. It's a generation spanning plant of deliciousness. We are all generation Guac.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
I don't think they have noticed that most Americans across the political spectrum don't actually view the words "Dude" and "Bro" as inherently negative things to call someone. Should somebody tell them they might do better if their insults were actually recognized as insults?

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
I would buy a talking version that said Bernie Would Have Won though.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

Crane Fist posted:

That seems extremely cool and good

I forgot which but I heard one BLM protest was demanding free ice cream and death to all cops and a moonbase

I thought it was weird when they hired Newt Gingrich to consult with them.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
Grift is the foundation of the two party system.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
She admitted it in her own book though. That's where it originated.

Can you imagine if she won and we had to deal with insane excuses like this every time she hosed up?

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

FYGM, it's not just for the right anymore!

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
Whole lot of people liked to compare Cheney and Bush to Vader and Palpatine. The Phantom Menace kind of encouraged that, with all the lying to create a war.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

wizard on a water slide posted:

the pro-slavery caucus strikes again

what did Hillary do now?

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
Why do people read comic books when animation and novels exist? I just don't get it. It seems like such a worst of all worlds medium.

The best superhero (villain actually) story is worm.

https://parahumans.wordpress.com/table-of-contents/

FuriousxGeorge has issued a correction as of 01:02 on Jul 18, 2017

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

Byolante posted:

Some people like their pulp escapism in the format comics provide. Things like Maus and city of glass exist which help prove it's not inherently an artistically bereft medium.

People don't lament the artistic merit of film just because Michael bay is spending a billion blowing poo poo up and filming it.

It's not the content that doesn't do it for me, it's the medium. I would rather watch animated X-Men than still picture X-Men. The only benefit of not animating I can see is it makes the content significantly easier and cheaper to produce, so you get a lot more creators involved making a lot more content and that has real benefits.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
Sorry, not trying to hate on people for liking what they like. I like a sport where grown men give themselves severe brain trauma in exchange for non-guaranteed employment contracts. I like John Mayer singing "Brown Eyed Woman" more than Jerry Garcia. I like a TV show you get probated for liking on this forum.

FuriousxGeorge has issued a correction as of 11:03 on Jul 18, 2017

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

Tunicate posted:

Worm, like most superhero stories, keeps on going long after it started sucking

no

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
http://www.seattletimes.com/life/tj-miller-on-erlich-bachman-yogi-bear-and-improv-on-tour/

quote:

And he just can’t believe that I haven’t seen what he considers his finest work: The 2010 feature film “Yogi Bear 3D.”

“Let me explain to a person who hasn’t seen the performance,” he began, and I stifled a laugh, then gave up.

“I’ve never done anything better,” he said into the phone. “ I had to wear shorts and a ranger hat every day. I was upside down in New Zealand. I was there for half a year of my life.

He likes to make facetiously grandiose comments about his dumb movies so I don't think you should take his emoji trump resistance at face value necessarily.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
I think this lady really overestimates how many people would recognize a one direction band member.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

FuzzySkinner posted:

I find myself frustrated with people who I am (idealogically speaking) aligned with, but disagree with them on things related to that manner.

Matt Christman for example, was talking about how the collapse of the Soviet Union was a bad thing for the people there (Lower life expectancy, lower quality of living), and I just really couldn't disagree more. While perhaps statistically that may be true? The Soviet Union was a very flawed state, and the people their deserved greater freedoms. (The flip side? We deserve a higher life expectancy, higher quality of living)

R.L. Stephens and others in the DSA are discussing the elimination of the police, jails. While I understand their perspective, again? Couldn't disagree more. (If the discussion is related to eliminating and then replacing them with a better run system? I think I'd be on board with that).

I don't know if that makes me a bad lefty though. I feel on board with a great percentage of what they're about, but it feels like there's some rivers I just cannot cross.

edit: It's not that I find these people "bad". Quite the opposite, I actually admire them, but there's just these bumps in the road I'm noticing.



Some portions of the extreme left often run into the Ron Paul problem. You can listen to them for five minutes and agree with everything they say but after that you are in total crazytown.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. At least with the left you get the sense they care about somebody other than themselves most of the time, that is the central redeeming quality to me.

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FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
This is why they do all the virtue signaling. They are terrified by the idea that their own communities could turn on them at the drop of a hat if they don't constantly assert their allegiance.

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