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Charlz Guybon posted:Has the Donald been a Soviet KGB asset the whole time? It is quite the coincidence how Russia keeps popping up in all these Trump scandals and how he keeps doing things that directly and indirectly benefit Russia even after barely surviving an investigation into whether he was conspiring with Russia during an election that was interfered with by Russia.
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Data Graham posted:A guy I know ... I've been having a really hard time talking to him as a friend ever since over a year ago I found out that, years ago, he was a cop briefly. If it really is just that revelation without any further context, then, yeah I think you're being kind of weird about it. Edit: Well going by subsequent posts looks like there indeed is some more context here SidneyIsTheKiller fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Oct 13, 2019 |
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Oct 13, 2019 05:01
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Just call it a surrendur at this point.
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Oct 15, 2019 09:48
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Zwabu posted:I posted in a discussion thread (another forum) about Trump trying to spring "surprise visit/hug session with your son's killer" on the British couple who were meeting with him. Gosh I'd almost forgotten about that whole thing that happened last week. ...I mean this morning...
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Oct 17, 2019 03:40
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Stickman posted:Considering that it's specifically about tricking your mind into undressing women who never consented to be involved in pornography, it's really quite the opposite. Ehhhhhhh people don't have to consent to be in your imagination. I know you probably are just saying it's "the opposite of quaint" rather than a definitive moral judgment, but it does strike me a little silly. Sometimes people jerk it to the Sears catalog and whatnot.
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Oct 21, 2019 05:58
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Stickman posted:It's more about altering and sharing photos to be used as spank bank material without the consent of the people involved. IMO that makes it sketchier that just sharing around centerfold shots or actual professionally developed porn. I'll concede that if I discovered I was the star of a bunch of weird "bubble porn" being distributed amongst a network of randos on the web I probably wouldn't be too amused. It's definitely not a hill I'm willing to die on, for sure. If your original comment was a (perhaps unnecessary) reminder of "Let's not go crazy though, this is still a pervy non-wholesome activity when you get down to it," mine is certainly an equally unnecessary "Let's not go crazy though, this is below even obviously fake nudes and erotic fan fiction in terms of how much indignation we should devote to it."
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Oct 21, 2019 07:01
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sexpig by night posted:they could dig up the unknown soldier's tomb, take a poo poo in it, and call him a secret communist, and they'd barely lose 1% of their base. A reminder that the moment Trump started to be taken somewhat seriously (for lack of a better term) was after "I like people who weren't captured" and he rose in the polls as a result. There were indeed a lot of different things going on there, but I really do think there are a lot of folks that are a bit sick of the sacred cow status of the military.
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Oct 29, 2019 07:55
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From a few pages back now:AhhYes posted:https://twitter.com/ArdenFarhi/status/1189948192986714118?s=20 Tayter Swift posted:Didn't this guy resign his position yesterday? This seems like an... odd path. A reminder in this case that even if the call was technically legal that's by no means an exoneration. Even without the quid pro quo the call still represents an atrocious abuse of power that justifies impeachment on its own. There being an actual crime just makes it that much more clean-cut and damning.
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Nov 1, 2019 13:26
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Skex posted:How the gently caress can you call the Russiagate nonsense at this point? There's definitely a contingent of D&D that gets all defensive and incredulous about 'Russigate' and it's seriously off-putting. Like we can connect-the-dots with Epstein and Cop-case witness murders but get low-key dissmissive with Trump being obsequious to Russia (and Russian interference in general). I can't really fathom why except that I guess Russia = USSR = Communist = Leftist and it's all some dumb tribal thing, but it can't possibly be that stupid and petty can it?
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Nov 3, 2019 06:26
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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:Yeah it's definitely not that the lanyard class has been banging on the Russia drum for three loving years to cover for their own dismal failures in governance and the giant Donald Trump-sized hole they left in our institutions for the fash to just waltz right through in to power. What does this have to do with whether Donald Trump is purposefully doing Russia's bidding or not?
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Nov 3, 2019 08:34
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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:It has nothing to do with it and it need not have anything to do with it. Criticizing people who are trying to use the plain fact of collusion as a shield from criticism of their own failures, doesn't imply that you believe the collusion didn't happen. It doesn't even mean you think it happened but it didn't matter. It just means that you recognize that, regardless of whether Russian help pushed him over the line or not, we have a loving problem with fascism in this country which is a direct result of Democratic leadership both in their failure to provide an effective opposition to the GOP and in their failure to make meaningful change to improve people's lives when they did have the chance. And instead of owning up to that after a disastrous defeat in 2016, they've instead concluded that Donald Trump would not have won save for Russia interference and that, therefore, they need not change a thing. They use it as a shield from criticism, and when called out on it they use this idea of leftists being secret allies of Putin as a cudgel against the left. It's extraordinarily dishonest and no one should stand for it. This sounds really specific and 'inside baseball' to the point where I'm not even sure we're actually talking about the same thing.
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Nov 3, 2019 08:59
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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:
Heh, I don't keep up with individual posters but it is funny because on its own that post reads like it was just throwing that "Russiagate nonsense" bit out there to appease anyone who might otherwise chime in with "you aren't taking that too seriously, are you, because let me tell you the real enemy is..."  Because yeah, the post was basically "This sure looks a lot like Russian collusion (but don't worry I don't actually believe in Russian collusion)."
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Nov 3, 2019 09:31
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oxsnard posted:lol I don't think you understand how the media works Yeah, that's a really telling post. He really does think the rest of the world is like Fox News and all cable journalists will turn down a juicy scoop because out of partisanship.
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Nov 22, 2019 02:18
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Ice Phisherman posted:So as someone who enjoys to write and talks about narrative a lot, I'm going to talk about the chosen one narrative. I swear I'm normally the most chill, non-judgmental, let-people-enjoy-things type person but this post broke me. It's your time and effort to waste and all, but does it seriously not bother you that by the end of the day (if not sooner) the 12 pages/6,000 words you worked on here are going to be lost amid the SomethingAwful maelstrom and nobody is ever going to read it again? Imagine if Marx blew "Capital" on a series of effort posts on various thousands-of-pages long threads on a message board or if "I Have a Dream" were just a Skype conversation Dr. King had with his aunt. Like, there's nothing wrong with masturbating but at a certain point maybe you should become a webcam model if you're going to spend all day on it, know what I mean? At least start a blog or something even if just for posterity because this is some "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"-level poo poo. 
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Nov 26, 2019 18:53
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How are u posted:You just inadvertently (I cannot imagine intentionally) compared his massive posting to Marx and MLK. I get what you're trying to say but that strikes me as a little funny He could probably get there even if just on the principle of 1000 monkeys on a 1000 typewriters and all that, his volume of output is already approaching that level. 
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Nov 26, 2019 19:04
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SubG posted:This cannot be stressed enough: the Republican position is now literally Russian disinformation. Yeah, it's more obvious than ever this whole thing's a sham. Guys, they're not scared of "Trump 's base" and they're not protecting Trump for his sake, they're protecting Russian interests. It would be so easy for them to dump Trump and bring in someone else willing to say all the racist stuff and tax break stuff a little more coherently and without all the obvious crimes and organizational incompetence. If Republican leadership turned the media and propaganda apparatus against Trump the majority will turn against him because it's the main thing keeping him going at this point. And they would get away with this basically scot free politically because all they would have to do is blame Russia! It'd be easier for them to form a nationalist authoritarian majority constituency with a bipartisan existential foreign threat that they could use to keep everyone properly freaked out and bludgeon the left with ("what are you, one of them loving commies?") and just live out Cold War II, and hell, if they're really lucky they might be able to eventually leverage all this into bombing Iran or some poo poo. But no, instead of using any of this to their advantage they're bending over backwards and blowing any and all political capital they've ever built to keep an obviously criminal rear end in a top hat buffoon from getting impeached, keep their 40% in polls from ever venturing outside their bubble, and to extremely painfully cultivate a pro-Russian constituency in the US. Whatever is motivating them, they're not even working for their own interests anymore, it's all about Russia.
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Dammit_Carl! posted:re: violent rhetoric In the 2016 election the Arizona GOP mailed its registered voters ads implying they'll tell your conservative neighbors if you didn't vote. It of course didn't actually happen... but was it really just a campaign gimmick or did they just not bother because they won? 
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