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these ones are the dumbest, where they blame "Obama's BLM thugs" for literally every crime (real or imagined) committed by a black person
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1stGear posted:I personally would be really interested in a Philippines thread, even if it's just about Duterte and the culture that led to his election. Disharmony posted:I'd be happy to chime in plenty. It's horrible to be that one guy against Duterte in a sea of many. gradenko_2000 posted:Count me in. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3787820
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Argue posted:
Kind of a tangent but that's the same logic fiscal conservatives use to defend tax cuts, "when you're making as much as I do you'll understand."
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Aug 25, 2016 04:34
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wrt duterte i'm not gonna make fun of people for living in lovely circumstances but god drat are their dumb rear end internet comments funny
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:Kind of a tangent but that's the same logic fiscal conservatives use to defend tax cuts, "when you're making as much as I do you'll understand." Except, who can even feel bad for people who make so much more than you that they'd accuse you of not understanding? I get the comparison, but at least one can feel empathy for people suffering in high crime areas, even if their solution to the problem is misguided. Had to visit with the bf's sister, who is married to a wealthy moderate conservative. She's good company and said quite a few liberal things which was refreshing. And then she said she almost had to send her one kid to private school because of some thing the public school wasn't doing right, I can't remember. This kid has stayed with us before. He's really smart, has the ADD, and hated his public school experience because the population was only 800 students and they were all terribly white and sheltered, like him. It sounded like the education he got was top notch though. I'm not sure what the mom thought an even more rarefied environment was going to do for him. He's doing well on his own, but now he's seeking alternative experiences and well, I hope he doesn't get hurt. Anyway, she knows I'm a teacher in a challenging situation. I doubt she even reflected on that for a moment that maybe telling me her special snowflake couldn't be served by public education would piss me the gently caress off. What about my students? gently caress them right? We send kids to Stanford every year, and they loving stay there and finish. gently caress you. And don't you complain about my kind of students getting scholarships and financial aid when your kid doesn't. You know what? Eat the rich.
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Aug 25, 2016 04:58
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Bast Relief posted:You know what? Eat the rich. That'd be a great solution for needy public school children who don't have regular access to breakfast at home.
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Aug 25, 2016 05:08
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What's even the connection here? Just vague guilt by association? Or are we to assume Hillary is in the pocket of Big Epipen? I just don't see how this can reflect badly on Hillary- is the Foundation supposed to turn away money from anyone who's ever done anything bad? Alternative Answer: Welcome to the free market, bitches! If you don't like health care costs being motivated by profit, jump on the socialized medicine train!
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Aug 25, 2016 06:41
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Jurgan posted:What's even the connection here? Just vague guilt by association? = Yep. Bad people donate to Clinton Foundation so Clinton Foundation is bad.
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Aug 25, 2016 06:45
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Jurgan posted:What's even the connection here? Just vague guilt by association? Or are we to assume Hillary is in the pocket of Big Epipen? I just don't see how this can reflect badly on Hillary- is the Foundation supposed to turn away money from anyone who's ever done anything bad? Everyone agrees that a corporation arbitrarily jacking up the prices of epipens so that their CEO can cut a larger paycheck for themselves is a piece of poo poo, but you don't want people to make the logical connection that maybe they should vote for the party and the candidate whose platform it is to enforce tougher regulations on corporations and make healthcare more affordable. So instead you say "This piece of poo poo donated to the Clinton Foundation. Therefore Hillary Clinton is also bad. Vote Trump! (click)"
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Aug 25, 2016 06:53
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:Kind of a tangent but that's the same logic fiscal conservatives use to defend tax cuts, "when you're making as much as I do you'll understand." The counter to this is Warren Buffet.
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Aug 25, 2016 11:09
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Read the first half and thought this one was going to make an actual point, lovely or not. Instead it's just "if u blame Obama, your right, lik and share"
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Aug 25, 2016 11:18
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The thread has caught up to the year!  Enjoy some retro political forwards. I kind of miss these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Q-sRdV7SY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0OXJneDQ1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE8V22unwRo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ThHrqlGdSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adc3MSS5Ydc
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Want something that will make you hate Disney? I mean, apart from their business practices? For whatever loving reasons, some rear end in a top hat has been making versions of Disney songs about celebrating the alt right and the obvious superiorirty of the white race. Sing along with all your favorites, like Mary Poppins and Bert talking about the need to secure the existence of their children and the future of the white race, the Seven Dwarves singing about how the jews control all the worlds finances, and the greek Muses breathlessly praising Donald Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=channel?UCLziPZRfH3CZEozrVBo7BKw?videos
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Aug 25, 2016 15:35
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Jurgan posted:What's even the connection here? Just vague guilt by association? Or are we to assume Hillary is in the pocket of Big Epipen? I just don't see how this can reflect badly on Hillary- is the Foundation supposed to turn away money from anyone who's ever done anything bad? Even better counterpoint, Donald Trump has too.
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Lightning Knight posted:I admit it, this one made me laugh. I feel bad for him, from what I can tell the only thing about his story that was wrong is that he was in the chopper behind the one that was hit, and they were really in equal amounts of danger. Now he's a disgraced butt of a joke. I feel like he got shafted.
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Goatman Sacks posted:I feel bad for him, from what I can tell the only thing about his story that was wrong is that he was in the chopper behind the one that was hit, and they were really in equal amounts of danger. Now he's a disgraced butt of a joke. I feel like he got shafted. I mean to be fair, he was one of the most respected and talented journalists in the business. I don't really know the specifics, but he probably should've known better than to do something like that. I just thought it was funny because of the presentation and different references thrown together, however. I mean, that said, if MSNBC was like yo guys he's coming back, I might actually watch them again.
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Aug 25, 2016 19:51
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Ron Jeremy posted:It's only a failure of you don't consider the aims: to incarcerate leftists and brown people. I actually read that Duterte's crazy drug war has the support of some Communist group (http://time.com/4392551/philippines-duterte-drugs-communist-new-peoples-army-kill-addicts/). edit: I mean obviously Duterte isn't remotely leftist himself, but it's weird to see a leftist group give support to his actions.
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So I checked in today with my Bernie-or-Buster younger brother, and he's clearly been paying attention to crazy facebook forwards, because he now officially believes that  the Rothschilds (who "came to power before WWII" and were responsible for colonialism, apparently?) and the Federal Reserve orchestrate everything-- especially his number-one hot-button issue, which is student debt.  Is it just that believing in one conspiracy theory makes you feel more isolated from people who think you're a dumbass for believing that conspiracy theory, causing you to socially associate with other people in the same situation, and thereby become a true believer in every other conspiracy theory? Because I can't make the mental leap from "this Brooklyn Jew is right about socialism" to jewsdidthis.gif.
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Aug 25, 2016 21:37
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Quorum posted:So I checked in today with my Bernie-or-Buster younger brother, and he's clearly been paying attention to crazy facebook forwards, because he now officially believes that It's more just general gullibility and magical thinking. Some people can persuaded of literally anything if you use the right language and/or put it to mysterious sounding music.
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Aug 25, 2016 21:46
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That reminds me of pre-youtube when kids in highschool would pass around 9/11 conspiracy video CDs The videos seemed so credible too if you took it at face value.
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Quorum posted:Is it just that believing in one conspiracy theory makes you feel more isolated from people who think you're a dumbass for believing that conspiracy theory, causing you to socially associate with other people in the same situation, and thereby become a true believer in every other conspiracy theory? Because I can't make the mental leap from "this Brooklyn Jew is right about socialism" to jewsdidthis.gif. if you're gullible enough to adhere to one conspiracy theory you're gullible enough to adhere to them all it's like how scammers won't just scam you, but they'll sell your contact info to other scammers as part of a sucker list etc also it's really empowering to have secret knowledge that explains why you're powerless, depressed, and alone and not like all the idiots who are clearly inferior etc. so on
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On the subject of conspiracy theorists, one has just been declared mentally incompetent. I'm not sure why this amuses me as much as it does.
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Zephyrine posted:That reminds me of pre-youtube when kids in highschool would pass around 9/11 conspiracy video CDs We passed around porn. What the gently caress was wrong with your school.
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happyhippy posted:We passed around porn. This was like... 2003. Porn had not been invented yet.
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As someone that went to highschool in the 90s that was definitely not true. We copied porn to each other's TI85s.
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Radish posted:As someone that went to highschool in the 90s that was definitely not true. We copied porn to each other's TI85s. Pretty sure porn was the first thing we looked up whenever my school got an internet lab set up and running. drat, those were the days. Angelfire websites and Hotmail accounts as far as the eye could see.
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the_steve posted:Pretty sure porn was the first thing we looked up whenever my school got an internet lab set up and running. In middle school we passed around the phone numbers to the good BBSes that had lot of porn but you had to read the text descriptions and spend five minutes to download because it was all in terminals. KIDS TODAY HAVE IT GOOD WITH THEIR THUMBNAILS AND WHATNOT.
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Radish posted:In middle school we passed around the phone numbers to the good BBSes that had lot of porn but you had to read the text descriptions and spend five minutes to download because it was all in terminals. KIDS TODAY HAVE IT GOOD WITH THEIR THUMBNAILS AND WHATNOT. Back when .gif meant porn in 256 colors not animation.
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I think specifically with Bernie is that younger people specifically thought THIS would be thje revolution and they were different from their predecessors that tried for change before, and they had the guy that would finally do it. So when it didn't work out it couldn't be their fault or Bernie Sanders shortcomings, or even just bad luck/not the right time. It HAS to be a conspiracy theory against them.
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the_steve posted:Pretty sure porn was the first thing we looked up whenever my school got an internet lab set up and running. Soon after we got internet access in our house, when I was 12 or 13 I think (1996-1997), I remember going to "www.playboy.com". Soon afterwards our internet connection had some sort of malfunction. I was under the impression that it was because I had looked up porn, and I spent the next week or so terrified that the police would show up at my house and arrest me for attempting to look at porn online.
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Ytlaya posted:Soon after we got internet access in our house, when I was 12 or 13 I think (1996-1997), I remember going to "www.playboy.com". Soon afterwards our internet connection had some sort of malfunction. I was under the impression that it was because I had looked up porn, and I spent the next week or so terrified that the police would show up at my house and arrest me for attempting to look at porn online. They are still gathering evidence to do just this.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:if you're gullible enough to adhere to one conspiracy theory you're gullible enough to adhere to them all That and people who believe in conspiracy theories just want to know SOMETHING is wrong. They don't necessarily care about the particulars about the who or why, just some evidence that the official story isn't right.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I think specifically with Bernie is that younger people specifically thought THIS would be thje revolution and they were different from their predecessors that tried for change before, and they had the guy that would finally do it. So when it didn't work out it couldn't be their fault or Bernie Sanders shortcomings, or even just bad luck/not the right time. It HAS to be a conspiracy theory against them. "We are the generation that we've been waiting for." What really is the problem is that a lot of people fundamentally misunderstood the notion that supporting Bernie was a sound idea not because Bernie was going to or even should have won; it was sound because you were showing political support for the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton moving left, that there is a voter base there to support them doing it and demanding that they do. Bernie did better than I think even he expected to, and it made a lot of people feel like they had snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Factor in the incompetence of the DNC, decades of propaganda against Hillary by the Right, and the interference of the Russians to give us conspiracy theories and you have a lot of disappointed young people believing they'd lost and failed, when in reality they'd succeeded more than your average experienced political observer ever would have expected. Bernie did everything he wanted to and expected to. It's just that he also brought in a lot of people who don't understand the system and are, sadly, taking it poorly.
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Someone just shared a news article about a dad who raped his 9-month-old and added the comment: [translated]quote:To those angry at what [Duterte's] government is doing... what do you think should be done with this guy? I'm resisting the urge to reply that I certainly don't think this guy should be shot dead without a trial, or even with a trial, since the Philippines doesn't have the death penalty. I also want to tell him that it's in bad taste to take a completely unrelated terrible thing and use it to further your other terrible thing. But I'm done with replying to pro-Duterte people, because Jesus Christ do they like to gang up on you in numbers.
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I've always liked, "He should receive a trial in a court and not a newspaper article."
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Argue posted:Someone just shared a news article about a dad who raped his 9-month-old and added the comment: [translated] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrap9ljIVWk&t=123s
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LivesInGrey posted:On the subject of conspiracy theorists, one has just been declared mentally incompetent. I'm not sure why this amuses me as much as it does. 
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Popular Thug Drink posted:if you're gullible enough to adhere to one conspiracy theory you're gullible enough to adhere to them all I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I used to be a big 9/11 truther. The basis for my beliefs was that America was the greatest country on Earth, how could terrorists sneak in and kill 3000 people? It must be BUSH!!! I watched Loose Change, Alex Jones (specifically his 9/11 ones. I didn't know what a nutjob he is) and every video about the Pentagon attack I could. What changed is something I read on SA that basically said something like "If the Gov't was really trying to get away worth something, would they be so sloppy as to let an average Joe figure it out?" And that's when I realized that it was all bullshit. AMA about being a reformed 9/11 truther
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SalTheBard posted:I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I used to be a big 9/11 truther. The basis for my beliefs was that America was the greatest country on Earth, how could terrorists sneak in and kill 3000 people? It must be BUSH!!! I watched Loose Change, Alex Jones (specifically his 9/11 ones. I didn't know what a nutjob he is) and every video about the Pentagon attack I could. How, uh, how long did it take you reach that conclusion? What was your favorite explanation for how Bush did 9/11? What were your feelings on the relationship between jet fuel and steel beams? Lmao I can't take Truthers seriously, "x can't melt steel beams!" is a catchphrase joke among my friends at this point.
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