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Icon Of Sin posted:
Imo that's also what made the X files so effective. 99% of the time the monster was camera work, lighting, and actor reactions.
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It's a puzzle to figure out what, if anything, she actually believed. Green party anti war activist to Joe Manchin 2 (in a state that doesn't even want that!) is a hell of a trajectory. And it's not like being left and antiwar is a traditional path to influence within the Dem party - quite the opposite. But if she believed that stuff, how does she believe what she believes now? I can spin on this stuff until I have a headache
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Oct 3, 2021 17:33
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Milo and POTUS posted:There's no way Rs will ever vote for her after having a D beside her name right No way they're ever voting for a openly bisexual woman who was against the Iraq war even before getting that far I figured Rs in California would rally around Catlyn Jenner, who is basically Trump 2 in career arc, disposition and politics, but no they still aren't about to ever support someone with the wrong set of identities it seems.
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Oct 3, 2021 23:03
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facialimpediment posted:The story of the past month or two has basically been the vaccine mandates are cool and good. The entire covid crisis has made me about 1000 times more supportive of authoritarian governance and I don't think I'm alone. Capitalist democracy's pitch is "yes, life will be lovely for some and there will be no guardrails preventing depravation, but you get 50000 various kinds of treat in the grocery store snack isle and you might get to be one of the lucky ones with multiple houses." that is a compelling and winning argument for most people in this country Capitalist democracy's pitch on disease response is "yes, you and your loved ones will have an increased chance of disease and with it horrible death, but on the upside, the worst person you know will get to act out the dumbest beliefs they found on Facebook" and I can't imagine that's as compelling for people
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Oct 4, 2021 18:12
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boop the snoot posted:I’m pretty sure this era of disinformation is going to rubber band hard the other way into authoritarian censorship. True. Then we'll get authoritarian capitalism in the Russian decrepit libertarian corrupt type, instead of the actually effective Chinese nominally public interested but corrupt type that can at least do disease prevention and build public infrastructure.
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Oct 4, 2021 18:19
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Unrelated but: The Something Awful Forums > Internet VF-Boo!
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Oct 5, 2021 20:49
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Soylent Pudding posted:Lebanon shutting down their two biggest power plants because they don't have any fuel. poo poo is so bad there. Their economy is in a depression, their port exploded, it's awful.
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Oct 10, 2021 01:39
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95% of Taiwan is Han Chinese. They're not threatening to genocide them; they're making threatening territorial claims.
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Oct 13, 2021 05:27
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Cugel the Clever posted:Ehh, at least from what I've skimmed, self-identification as "Taiwanese" has surged since the early 90s. As of June, 63% identify foremost as Taiwanese, 31% as both Taiwanese and Chinese, and only 2.7% as only Chinese. A change in national identification in Taiwan meaning that China is going to do ethnic or cultural genocide on Taiwan is an insane reach. And the 'threat of genocide to Taiwan' in question is being sourced from a tweet citing an article which at no point actually threatened genocide. This is flashbacks to the 90s and 2000s when Saddam Hussein was a clear and present danger and was throwing babies out of incubators.
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Oct 13, 2021 06:51
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It's heartening how much our foreign policy establishment and the well meaning liberals who love it care so deeply about oppressed Muslim minorities in distant lands. Now to look at United States foreign policy over the past thirty years and... Oh. Oh no. Oh this can't be right...
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Oct 13, 2021 07:07
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The United States helped create this crisis and is doing nothing to stop this from happening right now and absolutely no one who says the (utterly meaningless) word "Tankie" gives the slightest poo poo. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016–present) quote:
If anyone has deep sympathy in their heart for Muslim minorities being genocided by autocratic regimes, there is at least some good news: the government of the country you actually live in is a million times easier to persuade to stop enabling this than it is to convince the government of China to do anything. Now I'll sit back, confident that all this great concern for Muslim minorities being genocided will absolutely surely result in so much as a phone call to a variety of forum poster representatives, demanding we stop all support for Saudi Arabia and demanding an end to the blockade of Yemen. In fact, doing so would be a great way to own "the tankies" (anyone to your left who says something you find alienating)
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Oct 13, 2021 15:23
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mlmp08 posted:Hey, just cage it as jingoistic America First isolationism. Know your audience! Honestly, yeah. It's possible imo to persuade trumpers that US foreign policy is bad as long as you frame it in purely self interested logic and avoid liberal trigger words. Which is still an improvement!
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Oct 13, 2021 15:34
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I'm completely comfortable saying China does a lot of terrible things. Their environmental policy is disastrous, their human rights record is bad, and they are oppressing Muslims in Western China. We have done far more harm to Muslims than China, and those things we've done have been cheered by the exact same political and media figures who are currently pretending they care about Muslims in Western China. There's whataboutism, and then there's guys in "I loving love it when governments kill Muslims" t shirts acting shocked and appalled at China mistreating Muslims. It's obviously not genuine concern for Muslim human rights driving this campaign, so it must be something else. It sure seems like that something else is saber rattling.
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Oct 13, 2021 16:17
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Sacrist65 posted:Corporations banning the spread of vaccine misinformation mostly. The timing seems right. Agree, I feel like I stopped hearing about "concerns with vaccinations" at work the instant a blast email went out saying it was required.
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Oct 14, 2021 04:03
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shame on an IGA posted:Pizzagate 100% was created to discredit the very real facts around Jeffrey Epstein and anyone who believes otherwise is the biggest rube in the world I think it might originally have been an organic evolution of chan pedo brain reading a pizza menu as directions for child abuse, but once the ball really got rolling, yeah https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/1280067845322240002?s=20
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Oct 14, 2021 20:59
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Proud Christian Mom posted:the centrists got what they wanted Except Biden pulling out of Afghanistan. They were very mad about that.
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Oct 15, 2021 04:29
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I genuinely didn't know "this guy sucks and everyone hates him, but he's good at pullups" also gets positive career results on the officer side too
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Oct 15, 2021 23:06
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https://twitter.com/Aldanimarki/status/1447865123327168520?s=20 Unsourced Twitter content so who knows, but it appears to be US sof in Yemen doing "we own this city" style patrols. Our sof has been there for the entirety of the conflict (and before) doing kill team stuff, but this seems new, and an increased footprint. If true.
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Oct 16, 2021 18:25
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Emirati SOF has a lot of the same toys and aesthetics that US SOF does and it would make a lot more sense for them to be doing overt presence patrols in that city than it would for the US. Ah, yeah, that would make sense
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Oct 16, 2021 18:49
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Powell reminds me of McCain in how on the surface level we're expected to give them blind admiration for their nonstop achievements, but when you dig it's hard to identify anything objectively positive that made the world a better place. Much like McCain, the entire media apparatus kept saying he's a great guy, which fooled everyone who wasn't looking that hard into everything (including myself). I presume that much like McCain, he got this fawning press through a combination of cultivated flattery to the press corps and being a regular source. Prob the biggest lesson in media awareness I've learned in life is that when a unelected public servant of some variety gets a flattering high level media profile, that public servant is a frequent source and the fawning article is an in-kind payment for services rendered.
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Oct 18, 2021 17:17
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Sure hope that software was coded correctly then
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Oct 19, 2021 16:06
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facialimpediment posted:It's all part of the "irony is dead" movement going on lately. Eric Trump was apparently on Fox yelling about how Biden and his people seem to never be at the White House during crisis times and how Biden doesn't like being there. Trumpers going after Biden have nothing. Oh, corrupt failsons are bad now? Being senile is bad now? The Trump movement has, predictably, collapsed back into being totally normal republicans, as the only traction they're getting on anything is saying leaving Afghanistan is bad and Biden is a big spending lib, two things that notably Trump also supported.
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Oct 19, 2021 19:12
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Libertarian ideology unfortunately comes with the territory in sci fi with a few notable (and great) exceptions. It's sort of like how most fantasy has barely coded mega racism a/o antisemitism built in. "oh we all know how gnomes just love money. They have their own country. They also run the media! Now, here are the kinds of people we need to exterminate to make room for the virtuous human volk..." Like JK Rowling got exactly zero flak for the goblin bankers who are straight out of Nazi propaganda. She only became problematic when she couldn't stop publicly hating trans people, years later.
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Oct 20, 2021 17:52
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That's true. I guess I mean the mainstream set. I feel like she's basically canceled now in liberal circles but definitely wasn't until recently.
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Oct 20, 2021 17:58
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Reagan's brain was barely working his entire presidency and almost non-functional at the end. He's kind of the perfect argument against great man theory imo.
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Oct 21, 2021 06:36
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Ben Shapiro is honestly a conservative powerhouse. He is about half of the most posted shared on Facebook stories every day. Everything is a step down from espn but on "working for a blog" level, Ben s is prob the highest profile tier there. (We live in hell)
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Oct 22, 2021 20:01
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The massive increases in people starting fights on airplanes, and anecdotally seeing in real life a former friend flip out for no reason and disown all her friends including her best friend of like 20 years, has got me thinking that either covid, pandemic isolation, or both is doing something to damage people in a way that increases anger.
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Oct 23, 2021 07:49
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I have zero biological expertise, but I am struck by how much the "it's a bioweapon" crowd overlaps with the "we shouldn't do anything to try to stop it crowd." Seems like opposite positions!
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Oct 25, 2021 16:17
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Dune is a sci fi rendition of a crusader Kings game played on acid after skimming cliff notes of the quran and having a nightmare about worms, and that's the sort of thing that either sounds great or sounds awful imo. There's not a lot of stuff in pop culture that's just relentlessly weird and I love it for that as much as anything. Like most sci fi, imo the sequels get increasingly bad.
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Oct 25, 2021 17:12
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My college was one of the few that still had community kitchen spaces in the dorms, and out of I think 10 floors, only two ever got cleaned. But hey I'm sure in a giant prison complex of thousands of people, the students will be more civic minded.
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Oct 30, 2021 01:15
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liberals empowering and funding a bunch of right wing operatives and getting blowback is a almost too on the nose parody of our foreign policy coming home.
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Oct 30, 2021 17:28
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There's def paid wreckers in DSAs and a ton are just arms of the mainline Dem party, but also most of the dsa scandals I see break into the mainstream are "can you believe these people are saying stuff that's socialist???" As for losing elections, the vast majority of Americans aren't socialists. You can more or less trick liberals into supporting socialists ideas initially like how most Dems say they want universal health care, but as soon as the wheels of power start turning Dems will listen to how actually that socialist idea or person is actually v problematic. Best Friends fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Oct 30, 2021 |
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Then you got to engage with the tote bag disintegrators imo. That level of drama exists in literally every organization, it just gets a magnifying glass in the DSA. I'm also involved in a very non political charity org and drama is just what happens when humans get together. The Dems actively do not want everyone to get healthcare and housing. The former hurts their donors and the latter hurts their suburban voting base.
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