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T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Brave New World posted:

Mohamed Atta & Co were actually members of Generation X, so of course you conveniently overlooked that fact.

We're so hard up for recognition that we'll even brag about terrorists. :smith:
For the purposes of discourse, Gen X are Boomers now. Gen Z are millennials but only when they are bad. Please update your meaningless generational boundaries accordingly.

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T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Booourns posted:

the worse thing is reading a tweet and automatically assuming it's true because you want it to be
Believing fake poo poo is bad, but Mayor Pete's staffers' dance is definitely worse.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

InsertPotPun posted:

"I'd rather a thousand guilty men go free than one innocent man spend a day in prison" is a noble and good sentiment...UNLESS THERE'S LITERALLY A MOTHERFUCKING MONEY TRAIL YOU loving GOBSHITE


innocent birb tax
this is an extremely disingenuous reading and you're being a bloody wanker bruv

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

SchrodingersCat posted:

IP failed the purity test, and thusly must be cast from our midst.

I think I will subtitle this post: Stupid Reasons Why the American Left Keeps Getting Punked by the Right.
This notion that the left is uniquely afflicted by internecine conflict and "purity tests" is super prevalent and also completely unsupported by reality.

The tea party and the freedom caucus and the existence of the term RINO all handily disprove any claim that the right are a unified bloc.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Ice Phisherman posted:

I'll keep my responses short then because apparently people hate it when I type at length.
It's absolutely hilarious that you had the sack to start a 1200 word post like this.

People hate your faux-treatises because you consistently use word count to paper over the fact that your arguments are ill-conceived or incoherent. They are also almost impossible to appropriately respond to in a relatively fast-moving thread, forcing posters to latch on to one or two minor points in a sea of lorem ipsum fakery. If your post doesn't make sense in three sentences, it's not going to make sense in a hundred sentences.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Taerkar posted:

Earth-shattering if true.
drat I'm shocked as hell that the wave of global protests, which often explicitly claim to be a reaction to entrenched wealth and power, are in fact a reaction to entrenched wealth and power.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

TheDisreputableDog posted:

You can do better. Not in a, like, “be a better person” way because you obviously can’t. But the least you can do is put a modicum of effort and creativity into these performative insults.


Point to the timeline where rape switches from acceptable to not, I’m curious.


Sorry, I’ll treat Hillary the same respectful understanding the thread gives Melania :lol:
it honestly sucks poo poo that this is what a man in his 40s does for fun

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Petr posted:

A face said it on cnn. I have a job.

Also, doug jones is going to vote to acquit.
This might end up being true, but right now it feels much more like how Jeff Flake talked during the Kavanaugh confirmation. Jones wants to make it clear that he's a principled non-partisan actor before voting on partisan lines.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013
I live in a neighborhood that is technically on the south side of Chicago (in that it is geographically south of downtown). In the four years I've lived here, I've never been the victim of crime, and have only very rarely felt less than totally safe.

Regardless, every time I talk to my grandma, she informs me that I'm desperately unsafe and need to relocate asap. It's honestly hosed up how divorced from reality these people have become.

mdemone posted:

Oh god no, not this again with AoF. Please do not.
haha I didn't think twice about "nearly mugged" before but now I really wanna know

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Jows posted:

South Loop, Bridgeport, Beverly, or Hyde Park?
Haha yeah Bridgeport. I don't own a car, which probably cuts down on my chances of being crimed.

They've convinced a whole demographic that the city is a war zone, and my lived experience is meaningless in the face of their scaremongering. Even my dad is clearly hesitant to leave the Loop when he comes to visit, and he's someone who prides himself on "listening to both sides" (then voting for the Republicans every time).

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Jows posted:

Sup fellow Bridgeport goon! You should tell your pops he'd be right at home. I remember my old neighbor Jimbo warning me about the dangers of socialism "Think about the Nazis, socialism is right in the name!", and there's a dude at like 34th & Morgan with a bunch of Trump poo poo in his yard.
When the chud uprising begins, that Dunkin at 31st and Halsted will be its epicenter.

BardoTheConsumer posted:

The fact that conservatives live their lives in constant fear of everything around them is literally the only thing that let's me sleep at night.
legitimately shocked at how childish she's acting. Like even beyond the rank bigotry, the way she covers her face with her jacket and mouths "what the gently caress" right in front of the people she's ridiculing is some weird little-kid poo poo.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013
Why does a Jewish guy like Rudy Giuliani care so much about whether they show the nativity on TV news?

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Kale posted:

That's basically exactly the point I was trying to make. It's basically entirely why I often shudder at twitter stuff being brought into the thread. That's the stuff that gets tossed around twitter constantly and a good chunk of the reason the platform has become as intolerable for many as it has because it offers far more proactive statements designed to get replies and kick things into a cycle of petty arguing and "keeping score" than it does debate and discussion. It's just very easy to do far better than that, even if it will probably take until tomorrow or even Monday to get a full grasp of the situation and just how far Trump is spinning out this time.

If anything it's just another illustration to me of how erratic Trump is and how he makes every decision based on what he sees as "ratings" precisely in the moment. If I move these troops out of Northern Syria maybe people will praise me for "bringing Obama's war closer to a close". What this embassy was attacked? Oh right Benghazi.....classic anti-Obama talking point and I have a chance to "do Benghazi right now". Okay Esper find me a target? Oh also put more troops here so I can post about it on my twitter and how I did the Anti-Benghazi unlike Obama and Hillary okay? Good.

That's about how I figure it all went down. Even now I figure a lot of people, pundits, voters and politicians alike just seem too assign too much long term decision making to Trump when all evidence points to him only being able to say or do what he thinks will get him the most applause and praise from his preferred sources in the moment and bonus points if it can be used to slag one of "but my enemies", which in the end is all that ultimately matters to him. This weekend and the 72 hour news cycle, that's almost certainly as far ahead as he's looking at it. Forget the election in November and trying to set up a more favorable position. An excuse to rage at CNN and "the fake news" if one of their pundits criticizes him and a chance to promote Jeanine Pirro or whatever Fox News personality blows his horn the hardest and quickest. I doubt the election is even a real consideration for him until there's a general election opponent and he has a face to make an enemy of and then that'll be literally all you hear about period. It'll be all consuming for his myriad twitter posts.
Felix managed to communicate his point more effectively in five words than you did in five hundred words, so maybe his tweet isn't the "drivel" we need to be worried about.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

empty whippet box posted:

In my craziest of fever dreams, this is what finally convinces the senate to remove him somehow.
You've got it backwards; as far as the Senate is concerned, this is one of the coolest things Trump has ever done.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Delthalaz posted:

Shocking radio silence from anti-imperialist Glenn Greenwald. I’m looking forward to a scorching hot take
getting mad as hell at glenn greenwald for how i imagine he'll react to this

Edit https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1213172041215549452

Wait a minute, he called it "one of the most reckless uses of military force in years"? Just to make you look like a dumbass?? Dang there are truly no depths to his depravity.

T. Bombastus fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jan 3, 2020

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

hobbez posted:

“Foreign Official”. As if he was not the single largest proponent and sponsor of terrorism in Iran. She makes it sound like he was some harmless diplomat, this is a complete joke.
were you one of the normal-rear end dudes who got all riled up about "some people did something" too?

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Otteration posted:

Do you suppose Putin had no idea or no plan or no no spoon stirring this stew?
so you think that Putin asked Trump to attack one of Russia's primary allies for ???? reasons

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Otteration posted:

The trump video is likely not fake of course, but it's just not very useful for folks that would like to spread it around but don't have or ever want a twit feed. Propaganda can be useful, but not when it's restricted.
You don't need a Twitter account to see the tweet or to watch the video embedded in it. OP gave you the closest thing to a primary source we can feasibly get.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Craptacular! posted:

I’m the reverse in that I was always against Iraq but see the need for war with Iran.
Typically when people say that peoples' politics get shittier as they get older, I roll my eyes,

but well I guess it does happen sometimes.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Kerning Chameleon posted:

Nah, gently caress any and all computer touchers, especially the ones on these forums.
anyone who can post during the work day is a kulak.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Help Im Alive posted:

Have you ever read his thing where he makes you cum through the power of hypnosis
I've always been afraid to watch that video, because of course it doesn't work... but what if it does?

how could I live with myself if Scott Adams gave me the most powerful orgasm of my life through the science of hypnosis?

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Dr. Red Ranger posted:

Like all hypnosis, it only works if you want it to.


Are you ready to learn about yourself today?
ugh why the gently caress is my tie suddenly laying flat

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Charlz Guybon posted:

Mike Lee and Rand Paul are going to vote for it, so that's at least 49 votes.
They won't vote for the bill if that means it passes. People like Lee and Paul are only in it for the optics.

Otteration posted:

Fix it then.
what

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Seph posted:

Guys it was incredibly obvious that it was shot down when the alternative explanation was a literal one in a million mechanical failure taking it down. Don't let your biases cloud your judgment on this one.
"Don't let your biases cloud your judgment" I say, as soon as a news story comes out corroborating my biased judgment.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

SocketWrench posted:

I'm uh, pretty sure that whole thing in Iraq against an Iranian counts
They're all in on some semantic distinction where that was a combat death rather than an assassination.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013
We really are living in a different world than conservatives. How can he have thought that video would help his situation / make him look good?? Same with all the clips of Kaitlyn Bennett getting dunked on by people during her Billy on the Street poo poo.

Numlock posted:

Some troll brood cow twitted at him about how her crotch goblins were starving
hey just wondering what the gently caress is this

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013
When I was a boy I was taught to think of Americans as the two-hot-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Belgians.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Lambert posted:

Arming everyone to ward off violence has really worked out well so far in the US, no reason to change anything. I'm sure everyone being armed will usher in a leftist future any second now.
Hey I think we should ban all guns but this is disingenuous. Clearly the point that Tyrone et al are trying to make is that we haven't armed everyone-- guns are currently held primarily by privileged groups.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

SimonCat posted:

Who is Lizzo?
this post sucks

And if you honestly don't understand the simple rear end point being made, just replace "Lizzo" and "Melissa Jefferson" with "Sting" and "Gordon Sumner" or whatever dumbass dad rock poo poo you recognize.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

ascii genitals posted:

Hey Im pretty sure they were asking a serious question. I dont know who Lizzo is either, are they a US politician? Pretty sure that's a no too.

Edit: OK yeah they're a singer. What the gently caress does this have to do with politics
In a conversation about whether a news article should use a person's legal name or their chosen name, it's extremely obvious from context what point is being made. This is true even if you 1: don't recognize the specific cultural reference and 2: are for some reason incapable of googling a name that is one word long.

The issue isn't ignorance of popular culture, it's using that ignorance as an excuse to avoid discussion.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Djarum posted:

Perhaps before you are a smartass do 20 seconds of research.
really seems like you should have done more than 20 seconds of research

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

KillHour posted:

Nobody is gonna point out that there are already 7 branches of the military and the Space Force would be the 8th?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformed_services_of_the_United_States#Uniformed_services
Getting mad as hell about this erasure of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Arglebargle III posted:

Finally, the op ed page will be ours and political power will naturally follow.
As Frum goes, so goes the nation.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

friendbot2000 posted:

The secret is that she isnt actually a Democrat
Neera Tanden is more of a Democrat than almost anyone itt. She's basically the concentrated id of the establishment wing of the party.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

sexpig by night posted:

it's because Graham's a coward, dude. He thought Trump was gonna lose so he positioned himself as mr 'I warned us, I knew he was a dangerous choice' and then Trump won and he went bootlicker in an instant.
This is right, and it's the answer to CmdrRiker's question too. Yeah people are allowed to change their minds, but in this case it's so obvious that Graham changed his mind bc he's a weak freak.

We're not calling Graham out for changing his mind; we're holding that change up as evidence that he is craven and amoral.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

Solaris 2.0 posted:

A reminder that Trump blew up Qasem Soleimani and (again) nearly plunged us into another war AFTER he had fired Bolton.

We are not safer just because Bolton is gone.
Well it's all a counterfactual at this point, but I really think Bolton would have tried to continue escalating after the Iranian response instead of standing down.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013
I don't agree. No president should answer a Congressional subpoena after this, but the next Democratic administration is going to feel a lot of pressure to revert to rules-following and norms-respecting and (with the possible exception of Bernie) they'll be inclined to do it.

It's the Globetrotters/Generals conundrum from upthread.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

eke out posted:

fyi according to the wapo just now
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This feels like a ploy to make it slightly less obvious that this is a sham trial. Trying to convince some number of the GOP voters who were in favor of calling witnesses that they have done their due diligence.

T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

sexpig by night posted:

*Ron Howard Voice* they won't have to answer to this today
It seriously fucks me up that people STILL believe that Trump can be restrained by stuff like this. His refusal to adhere to the vast network of unwritten rules that underpin our government has been one of the main qualities of his administration, but these resistance nerds still think they're going to throw him out for it.

Jaxyon posted:

Could you state this in an incredibly clever that also reminds all of a joke that was told by a funny person at some point in the past, efficiently up-cycling the genius?
why are you being so *checks notes* crabby at this mcdonalds drive thru

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T. Bombastus
Feb 18, 2013

TyrantWD posted:

2018 was great because Trump was on the ballot for Democrats
I've got some good rear end news about who's going to be on the 2020 ballot

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