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C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat

logikv9 posted:

I don't know what a cumtown is and I'm not sure if I want to know

:same: and I'm scared to look it up because I don't want to see how Google AdSense or whatever handles the phrase "cumtown"

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Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

C-Euro posted:

:same: and I'm scared to look it up because I don't want to see how Google AdSense or whatever handles the phrase "cumtown"

I guess just try typing "Nick Mullen podcast" though that might be worse now that I think of it

Metal Cat
Dec 25, 2017

logikv9 posted:

I don't know what a cumtown is and I'm not sure if I want to know

It's about Senegalese parrots

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Comrayn posted:

I thought the general public was not stupid enough to vote for someone like Trump and overt racism/conspiracy theories would be rejected when they got the spotlight.

Before that I thought most Republicans just wanted to live their lives without government interference and the weird racists were not a core part of the party.

lol


being a southern child I actually believed in "heritage not hate" until I was like 16

1982 Subaru Brat
Feb 2, 2007

by Athanatos
Who's running? Harris? Well she was for gay marraige and decriminilizing drugs as SF District Attorney before it was mainstream, so she's got my vote!

What's this about some guy named Steve Mnuchin?

Oh. Oh no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
I still don't get the whole Iran-Contra thing, or the Keating 5. they're bad tho.

Comrayn
Jul 22, 2008

Peanut President posted:

lol


being a southern child I actually believed in "heritage not hate" until I was like 16

:same:

i thought the actual news coverage on Fox News, like not O’Reilly and Hannity but actual news coverage, was basically the same as other sources and I believe I tried to argue that once on these forums.

a primate
Jun 2, 2010

I don't know why Keynsianism is bad or if it's just stimulus spending or what

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
i thought j edgar hoover and herbert hoover were the same guy

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler

exmarx posted:

i thought j edgar hoover and herbert hoover were the same guy

one was president and the other one was shadow president

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

a primate posted:

I don't know why Keynsianism is bad or if it's just stimulus spending or what

Keynesianism is generally good, but not as good as Socialism hth

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Ze Pollack posted:

the laffer curve is the one that says you always have to cut taxes, forever

the funny bit is that if you actually care about math as opposed to lining your donors' pockets, it doesn't say that at all (even if you accept the premises of the argument)

fabergay egg
Mar 1, 2012

it's not a rhetorical question, for politely saying 'you are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'


i once thought that stalin may, in fact, have done some things wrong

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo
i once thought industrialized civilization would survive the 21st century

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
I thought the Catholic Church wasn't molesting kids until I was 15.

In retrospect, dodged a bullet there!

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

the bitcoin of weed posted:

oh until the election last year I thought incrementalism as a policy strategy was genuinely effective at improving society over time lmao

ive probably got a lot of these

e: dammit yinlock you too??

we've basically followed exactly the same political arc

centrism brought us low and bernie sanders descended from mount commie to lift us back up

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

exmarx posted:

i thought j edgar hoover and herbert hoover were the same guy

i used to think that people were talking about henry ford rather than gerald

like wow the car guy was apparently pretty important??? those crazy americans

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

I used to think that Wisconsin was pronounced "Winsconsin" and now Trump will probably rename the state to accommodate my hypernormalized reality

tag youre fat
Aug 16, 2013

C'est l'homme ideal
charme au masculin
i, to my eternal shame, used to think the brits weren't actually as bad as they were made out to be

Bored Online
May 25, 2009

We don't need Rome telling us what to do.
the economy. i dont understand the economy

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
I used to think that economists were real people with insight and valuable opinions

Turns out 99.9% of them came out of Chicago and want poor people to die.

Qwazes
Sep 29, 2014
Fun Shoe
i used to think things mattered, and i still don't understand why they don't

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016
I used to think suma cum laude was pronounced someone's cum latte

Kit Walker
Jul 10, 2010
"The Man Who Cannot Deadlift"

Yinlock posted:

i used to think that people were talking about henry ford rather than gerald

like wow the car guy was apparently pretty important??? those crazy americans

Oh...oh poo poo, lol.



Unrelated, I used to think I was super smart and good and that women should love me because this was self-evident. I was constantly perplexed by the fact that women didn't and believed all kinds of stupid poo poo to justify this incongruence. This might not be explicitly political on a national scale but it did significantly affect how I interacted with the world. Accepting that I might be wrong about everything was the first step in becoming a sexhaver

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016
okay this one isn't ironic: it just occurred to me that Liz "WHEN abortion is illegal" Bruenig is the same one that was on Chapo and is the mother of Matt Bruenig's child

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese
I voted for the Liberal Democrats on multiple occasions and used to think that Nick Clegg was good

EndTimesProfit
Jul 1, 2004

Don't worry son, it's just the Smilin' Mighty Jesus!

I thought that Max Weber was a better writer and philosopher than Marx.

Whorelord
May 1, 2013

Jump into the well...

tag youre fat posted:

i, to my eternal shame, used to think the brits weren't actually as bad as they were made out to be

same, only with americans

Pikavangelist
Nov 9, 2016

There is no God but Arceus
And Pikachu is His prophet



used to think capitalism was good

kolby
Oct 29, 2004
My only understanding of what the "Whip" does is from Seinfeld.

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Ok for real now. Up until I was about 15 or 16 I thought the Vietnam War was a US victory.

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.
I didn't understand democrats

I still don't

like who has hope of an obvious broken system

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

Third World Reggin posted:

I didn't understand democrats

I still don't

like who has hope of an obvious broken system

Democrats the politicians or Democrats the people?

The politicians are cynical ghouls who created the system. The people are mostly poor rubes who really were never given a fair shake (they also only represent about 20% of the total population).

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Autism Sneaks posted:

I used to think suma cum laude was pronounced someone's cum latte

:aaaaa:

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747
i've still never cared enough to read about gamergate, i just got the impression it was many dumb assholes on both sides, perhaps one side is worse but whatever idgaf that much

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese

Third World Reggin posted:

I didn't understand democrats

I still don't

like who has hope of an obvious broken system

It's people who are afraid of change and/or are already perfectly suited by the current status quo

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

I don't get why people are talking so much about that Apprentice guy here

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Kit Walker posted:

Oh...oh poo poo, lol.



Unrelated, I used to think I was super smart and good and that women should love me because this was self-evident. I was constantly perplexed by the fact that women didn't and believed all kinds of stupid poo poo to justify this incongruence. This might not be explicitly political on a national scale but it did significantly affect how I interacted with the world. Accepting that I might be wrong about everything was the first step in becoming a sexhaver

the 1st step to becoming a functional adult is realizing you're wrong and dumb, so i applaud you friend

i, too, am wrong and dumb

fabergay egg
Mar 1, 2012

it's not a rhetorical question, for politely saying 'you are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'


the doctrine of total depravity 2.0:

we r all cursed w/ being dumb idiots and can never be anything but less wrong and dumb

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Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.
I didn't know what realpolitik meant, so I googled it.

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