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Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

i think it stands for "reply to" OP but idk poo poo about any of this twitter nonsense all the younguns are instagramming these days

did i use those words correctly? have i made a fleek?

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Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

so is the online casual anti-semitism in here and /pol/ and stuff something to be worried about? I never had any kind of desire to move to Israel, but if the USA starts slapping stars on jews and crescents on muslims then that's probably the best place to head. at least they won't go quietly

So, questioning Russia's television network on US cable is good, but questioning the insane amount of influence Israel has over our very governance is a threat to your safety?


HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc
Russia has RT, Israel has ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.

Ahundredbux
Oct 25, 2007

The right to bear arms
why follow the news who cares aobut the state of the world outside whatever shithole you live in imo

crabcakes66
May 24, 2012

by exmarx
There are numerous foreign funded media outlets in the US. From Chinese funded radio stations to RT to Fox News.


We do have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America


But it mostly reports actual news and is pretty tame compared to some of the hilarity that comes out of places like RT.

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

https://twitter.com/rt_play/status/733060595474391040

RT with the important poo poo that the corporate-owned US media wont dare cover.

With soundtrack.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->
as a goon let me tell you about how the lamestream media is basically the same as the state media outlet of an authoritarian country with no press freedom because corporations

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
The correct opinion is Kung Pow is one part good movie one part bad. The parts that were made by editing the existing film were good while the parts that were filmed brand new were bad. It felt like that was terrible poo poo filmed merely to make a trailer




A trailer that prevented me from watching the movie for years and years.

The_Book_Of_Harry
Apr 30, 2013

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

so is the online casual anti-semitism in here and /pol/ and stuff something to be worried about? I never had any kind of desire to move to Israel, but if the USA starts slapping stars on jews and crescents on muslims then that's probably the best place to head. at least they won't go quietly

I too wonder about this.

According to immigration documents, we are good Christians. But there must be some reason we changed the family name, right?

The_Book_Of_Harry
Apr 30, 2013

Ork of Fiction posted:

So, questioning Russia's television network on US cable is good, but questioning the insane amount of influence Israel has over our very governance is a threat to your safety?


HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....

Oh, I'm a virulent anti-Zionist

but I don't want to get killed just because mom (an evangelical Jesus freak) is ethnically Jewish

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

Gone Phishing


Naxuz posted:

RT is run... for the benefit of authoritarian oligarchs.

True, but that's most news.

yogizh
Oct 12, 2015
Dumb Helicopter Joke Enthusiast
RT is the same pile of poo poo as any other news channel. They have good stories outside the political cliché about ecology. For obvious reasons RT with news about Russia is in Russian.

Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine
I like RT.

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther
Pretty much every other network has the thin excuse for shittyness that is chasing after money. Not RT though, their sole purpose for existing and doing what they do is propaganda. Content is strictly policed for compliance with the Kremlin's agenda and if you don't fall in line you're out on your rear end. Ideological conformity outweighs everything else to the point where they'll bring on truthers and other infowars style dipshits because they contribute to the "america bad" narrative.

As for "real news", nowadays there is no real news. The best you can hope for is raw footage or images, combined with cross referencing multiple sources to find the facts that match up. But that's work and even then accuracy is never guaranteed so :lol:

Have Blue fucked around with this message at 08:53 on May 19, 2016

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013

The_Book_Of_Harry posted:

Oh, I'm a virulent anti-Zionist

but I don't want to get killed just because mom (an evangelical Jesus freak) is ethnically Jewish

I don't think anyone's going to kill you, homie.

I get bitter over Israel because the US helped save the Jewish people from Hitler's genocide, and decades later act like they owe Israel some sort of debt. Like, "Sorry we didn't come to your aid earlier. Really it's our fault for not doing enough to protect Judaism."

Meanwhile, back on the reservation...

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

The_Book_Of_Harry posted:

Oh, I'm a virulent anti-Zionist

but I don't want to get killed just because mom (an evangelical Jesus freak) is ethnically Jewish

Do you live in Syria or something? Because otherwise you are being paranoid and craxy.

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Fojar38 posted:

as a goon let me tell you about how the lamestream media is basically the same as the state media outlet of an authoritarian country with no press freedom because corporations

i'm waiting

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008


JiveHonky posted:

The greatest and funniest kung fu movie ever made is called Kung Fu Hustle directed by, written by and starring Stephen Chow. You could make a case for Shaolin Soccer (also Chow) as well. Compared to those two films Kung Pow is limp, lame and hopelessly dim-witted. In fact not only does Kung Pow deserve that 11% rating, it's also on my short list of worst movies of all time.

This is wrong as hell. The funniest kung fu is the oldest drunken master movie from the 70s. Second is The Story of Ricky.

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008


God drat these are facts!

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->

sometimes news channels in the usa say that the us is right, but news channels in russia and china say the us is wrong????

AugmentedVision
Feb 17, 2011

by exmarx

Fojar38 posted:

sometimes news channels in the usa say that the us is right, but news channels in russia and china say the us is wrong????

hosed up if the truth is somewhere in the middle

Genesplicer
Oct 19, 2002

I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!

Total Clam

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

btw it's worth noting that Trump's candidacy, the great transgender bathroom culture war of 2016, and ISIS are all a shadowplay cooked up by the elites to keep us all outraged and entertained and distracted from the fact that the world is only years away from being destroyed by global warming, all while they quietly bug the gently caress out to outerspace colonies on their trillion dollar lifeboats built by Elon Musk like in that woody harrelson/john cusack film

And the shadowy organization behind this? Nobody knows who they are. All that is known of them is that the people who do their bidding refer to them as "The Mods".

Captain Yossarian
Feb 24, 2011

All new" Rings of Fire"

Fojar38 posted:

as a goon let me tell you about how the lamestream media is basically the same as the state media outlet of an authoritarian country with no press freedom because corporations

Captain Yossarian
Feb 24, 2011

All new" Rings of Fire"

genesplicer posted:

And the shadowy organization behind this? Nobody knows who they are. All that is known of them is that the people who do their bidding refer to them as "The Mods".

Mod KNEW :eyepop:

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy

Ork of Fiction posted:

So, questioning Russia's television network on US cable is good, but questioning the insane amount of influence Israel has over our very governance is a threat to your safety?


HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....

lol yeah Jews run the gubberment alright, keep on trucking

Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind

John Denver Hoxha posted:

They're right though, brown moses being associated with SA is an embarrassment to the forums (which is saying a lot) and he is a hack and his 'journalism' is a bad joke
I dunno, RT made him look pretty legit.

Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

Ork of Fiction posted:

So, questioning Russia's television network on US cable is good, but questioning the insane amount of influence Israel has over our very governance is a threat to your safety?


HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....

yeah, I meant it more in the strain of this:

The_Book_Of_Harry posted:

but I don't want to get killed just because mom (an evangelical Jesus freak) is ethnically Jewish

my mother is also pro-Jesus. I inherited a white-protestant-american identity with little-to-no connection to the near-irrelvant fact that my grandparents were Jewish

I'm only Jewish by "blood" (in that my ancestors lived in segragated communities in Russia for a long time. Whether I'm a decendant of ancient cannanites is almost certainly not the case). This only matters to literal racists, who believe that "blood" delineates anything at all.

The were hundreds of thousands of Germans, who were culturally German, thought of themselves as German, fought for Germany in WWI, and came from three generations of devout Christians all found themselves in a packed concrete bunker, screaming in terror as Xeloclone D slowly and painfully tore apart their lungs, all because they had at least three grandparents who had been "Jewish by blood"

I fully acknowledge that there are rich Israeli's, Israeli's with dual American citizenship, and American Jews and Evangelicals who spend a gently caress-ton of money to influence US politics in favor of Israel. I know that this understandably drives people loving nuts. I also know that it has nothing to do with me.

Since WWII people have generally understood the delineation of Zionists and "ethic" Jews. They've understood Judaism as being a religion and heritage, and not something to mark on the census. Jews had the enormous advantage of becoming White-Americans in the way that the Italians and Irish did.

And so, when 10 minutes on 4chan /pol/ is enough for me to screencap all this:















classic anti-zionism is one thing, but when I see these people deriding Jews as an inferior or nefarious "race" and associated nazi worship I become very loving concerned. And yeah you can say that these are all just ~edgy kids joking around~, but guess what, if you repeat something over and over again day-in-and-day-out you tend to start believing it.

So if this alt-right movement is headed in this direction, it's not unreasonable for me to wonder when it'll be time to jump ship for the only country that is eager to take immigrating Jews. The German-Jews (and most European Jews!) who saw the blood in the water and got out in the early 30's are the ones that lived. I want to live.

Captain Yossarian
Feb 24, 2011

All new" Rings of Fire"
But on the other hand: :grin:

AugmentedVision
Feb 17, 2011

by exmarx
lol I'm much more likely to end up in an internment camp because I'm Russian and America is literally fighting a proxy war with my country of birth at this very moment, but I don't worry about it because I'm not a paranoid freak

Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

AugmentedVision posted:

lol I'm much more likely to end up in an internment camp because I'm Russian and America is literally fighting a proxy war with my country of birth at this very moment, but I don't worry about it because I'm not a paranoid freak

America was at war with Germany, Italy, and Japan. We didn't put German-Americans or Italian-Americans into camps.

You'll be fine.

AugmentedVision
Feb 17, 2011

by exmarx
you're right, I suppose if Italians were white enough to not put into camps then Russians probably are too

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P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

Small numbers of Germans and Italians were in fact interned.

Keep your head on a swivel.

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