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Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Duzzy Funlop posted:

On the one hand, I kinda agree that wearing some Obama-Halloween-grade-mask isn't exactly "blackface", but with the context of the demographics in that protest, and the fact that they're having loving children put on an Obama mask for some political interpretative dance, I'm perfectly happy to condemn the whole act as "exquisitely racist".


Eh, the Obama Mask is easily the least gross part of that entire... what ever the hell that was.

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Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Best Friends posted:

The thing that gets me is, if it's a manufactured Chinese superweapon, doesn't that make Trump look worse for not taking it seriously? It seems absolutely bizarre as a defend the Pres propaganda move. And yet

Can someone post the, our enemies are both incompetent and unstoppable emoji? I don't know what its called.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

I hope landlords get hosed, I've had multiple and not a loving one has been better than "pay on time and fight me for any repair that you cant do yourself, and oh yea we paved over parking spaces for more storage units that wont ever get used so now you are limites to one car per unit or else we tow. Also were hiking your rent by 30% next year"

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Milo and POTUS posted:

What the gently caress. Who the gently caress needs a storage unit.


e: I mean AT the apartment


Mostly people put their cars in them, but they where advertised as storage units/garages. Effectively from what I could tell they killed two/three parking spaces per unit they put in, and then implemented "First come first serve parking unless you wanna pay an extra 100$ a month for reserved parking or buy the garage, also your guests have to have a parking pass and you will be limited to ONE parking pass per unit, not per person so get hosed if its you and a room mate instead of a family situation." I had to park across the street at a church one night, because I couldn't find parking in the complex, which apparently was so common an occurrence the church put a sign up saying they'd start towing.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Midjack posted:

I wish the White House domestic and service staff well.

:same:

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

orange juche posted:

https://twitter.com/Havok73/status/1259951887547170816?s=20

This is an interesting take from the responses to that bookstore getting robbed.

"Well since they didn't call the cops and threaten retribution for the theft, they've opened themselves up to every criminal in the area who wants to crime because now they know they will suffer no repercussions"

These people have literally never had their poo poo robbed, guaranteed. I've had my car robbed twice, once while parked in my complex with stuff locked up inside(through the window) and once because I was an idiot kid and left my car unlocked in the highschool parking lot, both times the police where like "lol, we'll look for any camera footage, but chances are we aren't finding who did it"

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Milo and POTUS posted:

I hate the people who support him more than him at this point

The real crack ping moment for me was realizing that what we're going through watching this dude, is probably similar to what chuds thought they where experiencing during the Obama years, and really it made me question the nature of reality.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

I mean I know this, members of this dead comedy forum know this, a not insignificant portion of the populace know this but it's hard not to feel like "am I actually the stupid one?", because a not insignificant portion of the populace watched Obama and called him the worst thing to happen to America and is watching Trump almost four years in and is applauding like he's the greatest politician and thinker America ever produced.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Terrifying Effigies posted:

Atlanta drivers would like a word.

As an Atlanta driver, I would just like to say you'd be a bit aggressive if your road system was designed to get trucks in/around/through the city and not actually get commuters where jobs are.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Cugel the Clever posted:

Eh, with any properly planned urban area with actual density, though, you typically have a couple dozen burger options within 20 minutes by foot.

Unfortunately, the car has reigned supreme in our urban planning since WW2, so most American cities are terribly, terribly planned.

Atlanta has some sections where this is possible, however; you're paying about 2$/sqft if you want the ability to be near transit and walking distance of shopping.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

It's really annoying how Republicans want their cake and eat it too.

The cake at this point being a bunch of poor people dying of a disease and also reopening an economy based on said poor people being able to work.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

The existence of aliens/advanced space flight being classified information not withstanding, has it been revealed what the space force even theoretically responsible for besides satellites?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

bulletsponge13 posted:

I mostly lurk, but I've never seen any anti-Duckworth posts in here. Not saying they didn't happen, but I check in daily.

I vaguely remember them during the start of the primary around the time of Nevada. It might have been in reference to something az stated above.

Edit: it wasnt wide spread, I think it was just me and a couple of other posters doing the standard.

Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 20:51 on May 16, 2020

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

bulletsponge13 posted:

My biggest takeaway has been the absolute failure of the American Public School system.

While education level is probably a predictor of chudliness, I feel lack of empathy for strangers is probably a better predictor.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

I don't see how him having a poll lead at this point is a mark in his favor that what ever he does is "good" beyond having a pulse and "(D)" next to his name. From what I've seen generic democrat vs trump has the generic democrat winning by various margins and he's not doing better than the generic ballot.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

facialimpediment posted:

If you're a democrat, and you're running even to the generic democrat number, you're doing a really good job!

Example: McConnell. Public Policy Polling just did Kentucky and they showed McConnell 47%, Generic Democrat 43%. He will win by 15-20% because once he's put up against an actual human Democrat, with a name, negative ads, and actual policy speeches, McConnell will probably win easily. He's not running against a generic democrat because "generic democrat" doesn't exist!

I still don't understand, because by the end of the primary before everyone started dropping everyone except Tulsi where polling similarly positively against Trump from what I can see just looking at various polls. Which seems to me, people are more looking for not Trump rather than Biden in any specific capacity. So in my opinion you(twitter dude) can't say "This old dude saying stupid poo poo is working" because polls are positive

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Anyone got any good news at least?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Report from Atlanta suburbs. My mom has shifted to fash over night, making me believe there was something to Nixon getting elected because a bunch of scarred white people just wanted the violence to stop and everything going back to a "polite" society.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Atlanta PD chief says there where outside agitators rioting last night. Alluded to the same thing happening in 2016.

What the gently caress.



edit: I don't have a direct quote. It's happening during a press conference right now that I'm barely listening to that my mom is watching.


edit 2: found it on a random twitter dude

quote:

“Highly calculated terrorist organization...These were not Atlantans”

Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 23:47 on May 30, 2020

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Fister Roboto posted:

It's complete bullshit, literally a tactic to keep protesters divided along racial lines.

wtf does "outside" even mean here. We're all Americans.

gently caress if I know man, the way she was talking made it seem the Russians did it or something.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

maffew buildings posted:

my immediate reaction is that poor girl is going to get so much not good attention from scumbags now :( and on the antifa terrorist thing, like, shouldn't the USA be an anti-fascist organization, and by declaring an anti-fascist organization terrorists effectively siding with fascists? yes, this is probably fine by the base, just saying.


"ANTI-FA ARE THE REAL FACISTS! JUST BECAUSE THE NAME IS AGAINST FACISM DOESNT MEAN THEY ARENT IN FACT FACIST!" ~ A Chud probably

"NAZIS ARE SOCIALISTS! SOCIALIST IS IN THE NAME SO THEY ARE IN FACT SOCIALISTS!" ~ The same chud.

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Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

bird food bathtub posted:

Why the powers that be would want a domestic forever war against a nebulous concept that can not be identified and never be defeated while linking it to any and all forms of political opposition in the name of "national security" I leave up to each individual's discretion.

Oh poo poo, it's the War on Drugs Terrorism all over again.

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