Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
Fluoride Jones
Aug 24, 2009

toot toot

Delzuma posted:

This is one of the greatest/saddest political ads I've seen. It manages to be pro ignorance/anti education and anti-corndog all in one weirdass ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0OomdFloKI&hd=1

1000 corn dogs? This man is history's greatest monster!

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB


Rob Ford, Mayor of Canada's Largest city and running jokes.

He was elected on the slogan "stop the gravy train". Has gone on feud with council members, fight vehemently against bike lanes (the real threat to society) and has been involved in numerous scandals. Most recently, he's skipped out on council meetings to coach a high school football (handegg) team, bringing along with him former players that he hired as aids at the city government to help him coach. Also, he had supervisors and higher from city hall fill potholes and do some landscaping (on city time) to spruce up the property around a family business that was having some anniversary event.

Oh, and he didn't know what province the City of Windsor was in. BTW, it's Canada's 15th largest city and about a 3.5 hour drive from Toronto.

e: I forgot one of my personal favourites, he was photographed reading while driving on the highway.

Bonus pic: here is Ford pictured with a member of the Latvian Homeguard, a known Neo-Nazi organization:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford#Controversies

e2: VVVV it would be more like Mayor Bloomberg not knowing where Rochester or Buffalo was. I would think that being elected to that post should require a basic knowledge provincial geography.

Cocaine Bear fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Oct 25, 2012

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

JoelJoel posted:

Oh, and he didn't know what province the City of Windsor was in. BTW, it's Canada's 15th largest city and about a 3.5 hour drive from Toronto.

He sounds terrible but "doesn't know about far-away city" is a weird thing to call a mayor out for.

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

Here's a cartoon about Syria's cluster bomb use and Eid



It was quite satisfying seeing the UN General Assembly talking about cluster bombs today after the work I did with Human Rights Watch on evidence of cluster bomb use in Syria.

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

marktheando posted:

He sounds terrible but "doesn't know about far-away city" is a weird thing to call a mayor out for.



No it's pretty weird. That'd be like not knowing where San Francisco or Detroit is.

Knockknees
Dec 21, 2004

sprung out fully formed
Windsor isn't even a big enough deal to be on that map.

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB

Knockknees posted:

Windsor isn't even a big enough deal to be on that map.


First off, I think you're missing the point (also, zoom out far enough and LA doesn't show up on the map).

Secondly, Windsor represents roughly the same percentage of the national population as L.A.

Windsor is a pretty dull place from my experience, but that doesn't undermine its importance, particularly regarding the US.

Windsor Skyline:

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

Knockknees posted:

Windsor isn't even a big enough deal to be on that map.



It's because Detroit has 6 million to Windsors 750,000 so it gets overrun. Not sure why google labelled them so close together.

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Gazpacho posted:

Hoover held the record for the longest ex-presidency until last month.

Who surpassed him? This guy?



e: wait that's kind of a dumb question I guess. Carter is one of the only four living ex-presidents so it would have to be him.

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
A prolife Male Rights video. Women have too much power guys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDdagm851G4

Lustful Man Hugs
Jul 18, 2010


What. Is Gary Johnson a known Socialist? Also, who the gently caress says something like 'Liberty Rises'?



Although, I've noticed most right-winged internet charts just make poo poo up out of nowhere (highly centralised banks - one of Marx's major points).

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

ChaosSamusX posted:

What. Is Gary Johnson a known Socialist? Also, who the gently caress says something like 'Liberty Rises'?



Although, I've noticed most right-winged internet charts just make poo poo up out of nowhere (highly centralised banks - one of Marx's major points).

It's almost like a World falls to Serfdom for elections.

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

ChaosSamusX posted:

Also, who the gently caress says something like 'Liberty Rises'?

Any and all planning is communist. Corporations are communist. Stay at home. Trust no one.

'You're losing, liberty's rising. LIBERTY!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI63qnjXByE

Alex Jones; the new face of harmless manufactured outrage. Click here to learn the secret of Tesla's Free Energy. Anyone telling you about thermodynamics is part of the conspiracy

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

McDowell posted:

Any and all planning is communist. Corporations are communist. Stay at home. Trust no one.

'You're losing, liberty's rising. LIBERTY!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI63qnjXByE

Alex Jones; the new face of harmless manufactured outrage. Click here to learn the secret of Tesla's Free Energy. Anyone telling you about thermodynamics is part of the conspiracy

Speaking of Jones, one of his followers called up PPP Polling when they refused to poll for Infowars.

http://www.youmail.com/youmail/voicemail/message.do?ap=y&mk=ymaQkREQkRBQcKNQkVFQ0lBQ0NBRsKNQsKNwodDwo15enlydHx2woM

Alex Jones Follower Viciously Trolls Polling Firm For Not Polling For Infowars

Darkman Fanpage fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Oct 25, 2012

super fart shooter
Feb 11, 2003

-quacka fat-

ChaosSamusX posted:

What. Is Gary Johnson a known Socialist? Also, who the gently caress says something like 'Liberty Rises'?

I thought it meant that Gary Johnson is siphoning off votes that would otherwise go to Romney, a la Nader 2000, except that would imply that Jill Stein voters would also otherwise be Romney voters, sooooo :shrug:


The children represent the disinterested American voter, driven to apathy by the out of focus, amorphous blob of presidential election politics looming before them, flailing for an iota of their attention.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

JoelJoel posted:

First off, I think you're missing the point (also, zoom out far enough and LA doesn't show up on the map).

Secondly, Windsor represents roughly the same percentage of the national population as L.A.

Windsor is a pretty dull place from my experience, but that doesn't undermine its importance, particularly regarding the US.

Windsor Skyline:


That's Detroit photographed from Windsor.You can see GM headquarters in the middle.

Lord Hydronium
Sep 25, 2007

Non, je ne regrette rien


Unskewed Polls, bringing you the most accurate predictions of the 2012 Presidential election.

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


Lord Hydronium posted:

Unskewed Polls, bringing you the most accurate predictions of the 2012 Presidential election.



It's one thing to "unskew" polls, that's not really falsifiable because you can always say on election night "well people's minds changed since the poll." Projecting blowouts like that is just plain ridiculous.

Carl Von Awesomwitz
May 2, 2006

Sisko Lied, Romulans Died

Come on dude, you can't drop MJ-12 and expect everyone to know what the gently caress like this is our dearly departed P/C(long live P/C).

Long story short: Throughout the 1980s, secret U.S. government "documents" regarding MJ-12(Majority or Majestic 12) began to surface. According to the documents, President Truman formed MJ-12 from the twelve most influential men in American government. They would work in secret on a extremely sensitive national security issue.



(sorry for the tiny image)

Now, 1947 is generally when people date the start of the cold-war, so that such a group might exist ought only to be interested to weirdo history nerds like us.

I should now mention that, according to the documents, MJ-12's job was to deal with the fact that a flying loving saucer had crashed at Roswell in 1947. This had left the government with one hell of national security problem, one that couldn't exactly be addressed openly via normal government channels. IF the story is true, one should keep in mind that the first thing that the U.S. Army did after recovering an alien space ship was to tell the local news paper about it, its not hard to sympathize with this approach.

Depending on who you talk to the documents are:
1. Fake as hell and created as a hoax
2. Fake as hell, but created by the government to discredit the UFO movement.
3. Real
4. Some mix of the above three.

Instead of spamming the hell out of this thread, I'll just link you dudes to this website:
http://www.majesticdocuments.com/documents/pre1948.php

It even has handy "Authenticity Ratings" meters for every document. I'd guess that they are more reliable than poltifact's truth dial things.

Content: UFOs and politics

Jimmy Carter saw a UFO:




While you work and the government steals all your money, fat cat greys are living it up with free medical care at pork barrel waste area 51. WELCOME TO OBAMA'S AMERICA!



Colorado's Amendment 64 has been recently endorsed by a very influential special interest group


If aliens were real, I'm pretty sure Bush would have hosed up and let everyone know in the stupidest way possible. Like, he would have given a press conference and a grey would be plainly visible in the immediate background.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

McDowell posted:

Any and all planning is communist. Corporations are communist. Stay at home. Trust no one.

'You're losing, liberty's rising. LIBERTY!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI63qnjXByE

Alex Jones; the new face of harmless manufactured outrage. Click here to learn the secret of Tesla's Free Energy. Anyone telling you about thermodynamics is part of the conspiracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RV4xrcqfo4

Buffer Overflow
Sep 3, 2006
Interweb Addict

Carl Von Awesomwitz posted:

If aliens were real, I'm pretty sure Bush would have hosed up and let everyone know in the stupidest way possible. Like, he would have given a press conference and a grey would be plainly visible in the immediate background.



If I was president I would have aliens in the distant background for every press conference and never say a word about it.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Christoph
Mar 3, 2005

Buffer Overflow posted:

If I was president I would have aliens in the distant background for every press conference and never say a word about it.

Genius. That would keep the crazies so distracted you might have time to get stuff done.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

TheIllestVillain
Dec 27, 2011

Sal, Wyoming's not a country

Carl Von Awesomwitz posted:

Come on dude, you can't drop MJ-12 and expect everyone to know what the gently caress like this is our dearly departed P/C(long live P/C).

Long story short: Throughout the 1980s, secret U.S. government "documents" regarding MJ-12(Majority or Majestic 12) began to surface. According to the documents, President Truman formed MJ-12 from the twelve most influential men in American government. They would work in secret on a extremely sensitive national security issue.




Gettin' some real 'Wisemen's Committee' vibes from that picture

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author

marktheando posted:

He sounds terrible but "doesn't know about far-away city" is a weird thing to call a mayor out for.



Reminds me of Operation Highjump, though it took place before September 1947:

quote:

In 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd led 4,000 military troops from the U.S., Britain and Australia in an invasion of Antarctica called "Operation Highjump", and at least one follow-up expedition.

Operation "High Jump", which was, basically an invasion of the Antarctic, consisted of three Naval battle groups, which departed Norfolk, VA, on 2 December,  1946. They were led by Admiral Richard E. Byrd's command ship, the ice-breaker "Northwind," and consisted of the catapult ship "Pine Island," the destroyer "Brownsen," the aircraft-carrier "Phillipines Sea," the U.S. submarine "Sennet," two support vessels "Yankee" and "Merrick," and two tankers "Canisted" and "Capacan," the destroyer "Henderson" and a floatplane ship "Currituck." A British-Norwegian force and a Russian force, and I believe some Australian and Canadian forces were also involved.

Operation Highjumphas become a topic among UFO conspiracy theorists, who claim it was a covert US military operation to conquer alleged secret underground Nazi facilities in Antarctica including Station 211 and capture the German Vril flying discs, or Thule mercury-powered spaceship prototypes

Many conspiracy articles and discussions examine a postwar encounter reported near a British Antarctic camp with uniformed Germans in an ice cave; this when considered in the context that several German U boats, a large amount of building supplies and German scientists identified by Operation Paperclip were still unaccounted for added credibility to the possibility of a Nazi base; and the real motivation for the subsequent operation.






twoday fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Oct 26, 2012

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS








"We smite the lazy workers!"


Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

I have the government documents! :goonsay:



From the picture description the guy flashed his penis at a feminist pride walk in Australia. From the look on his face everything is going according to plan. :stare:

Darkman Fanpage fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Oct 26, 2012

Fender
Oct 9, 2000
Mechanical Bunny Rabbits!
Dinosaur Gum

Crasscrab posted:

I have the government documents! :goonsay:



From the picture description the guy flashed his penis at a feminist pride walk in Australia. From the look on his face everything is going according to plan. :stare:

That doesn't really look like Australia. And those don't really look like Australians. Are you sure about your source?

Suleman
Sep 4, 2011

Crasscrab posted:

I have the government documents! :goonsay:



From the picture description the guy flashed his penis at a feminist pride walk in Australia. From the look on his face everything is going according to plan. :stare:

Brazil.
http://www.thejournal.ie/video-brazilian-slutwalk-marchers-accost-man-after-he-exposes-himself-465512-May2012/

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Fender posted:

That doesn't really look like Australia. And those don't really look like Australians. Are you sure about your source?



Is that Meat Loaf? He's endorsing a guy who would've bullied him when he was a fat little kid.

This is really more just expected:

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
His name was Robert Paulson :smith:

I've decided this is the R-R themesong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f20Oz9Yr_So

Obama's counter point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNk7amG5iug

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
Peace and Freedom, guys! (Unless you're a tranny)

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Sex ≠ Gender.
You shouldn't be able to use the washroom of the opposite sex just because you feel like it.



(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.

Frosted Flake posted:

Sex ≠ Gender.
You shouldn't be able to use the washroom of the opposite sex just because you feel like it.



Hey, thanks for putting me at risk of urinary tract infections or serious assault! :waycool:



47%. That's way too loving high.

ParaPraxis
Nov 21, 2010

My ultimate Ayn Rand porn

Frosted Flake posted:

Sex ≠ Gender.
You shouldn't be able to use the washroom of the opposite sex just because you feel like it.


Why the hell not? Nobody seems to care who pisses in what room until Trans people are involved.

Seriously, if someone who identifies as as a woman wants to use the ladies room I really can't see a problem.

ParaPraxis fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Oct 26, 2012

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

ParaPraxis posted:

Why the hell not? Nobody seems to care who pisses in what room until Trans people are involved.

Because nobody else wants to piss in a room they aren't supposed to.

Cjones
Jul 4, 2008

Democracia Socrates, MD

Crasscrab posted:

From the picture description the guy flashed his penis at a feminist pride walk in Australia. From the look on his face everything is going according to plan. :stare:

Slutwalk in Brazil

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

quiggy
Aug 7, 2010

[in Russian] Oof.


Frosted Flake posted:

Sex ≠ Gender.
You shouldn't be able to use the washroom of the opposite sex just because you feel like it.



I always love when people trot at this picture, as if to say that all trans people are violent sociopaths who just want to bludgeon cis people to death with a baseball bat. Fun fact! As a trans woman, I'm much, much, much more likely to be assaulted, raped, or murdered than you are, unless you are also a trans woman! Hooray!


Pictured: a violent, deranged, transsexual sociopath (me).

Hardwood Floor
Sep 25, 2011

Frosted Flake posted:

Sex ≠ Gender.
You shouldn't be able to use the washroom of the opposite sex just because you feel like it.
It's a restroom. It's a loving restroom. It shouldn't matter how you look or whether or not you have danglies when you're takin a piss.

Content:


e: For the record, I'm a transguy.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

a false
Mar 5, 2009

I DECIDE
WHO LIVES
AND WHO DIES

JoelJoel posted:


Rob Ford, Mayor of Canada's Largest city and running jokes.

He was elected on the slogan "stop the gravy train". Has gone on feud with council members, fight vehemently against bike lanes (the real threat to society) and has been involved in numerous scandals. Most recently, he's skipped out on council meetings to coach a high school football (handegg) team, bringing along with him former players that he hired as aids at the city government to help him coach. Also, he had supervisors and higher from city hall fill potholes and do some landscaping (on city time) to spruce up the property around a family business that was having some anniversary event.

Oh, and he didn't know what province the City of Windsor was in. BTW, it's Canada's 15th largest city and about a 3.5 hour drive from Toronto.

e: I forgot one of my personal favourites, he was photographed reading while driving on the highway.

Bonus pic: here is Ford pictured with a member of the Latvian Homeguard, a known Neo-Nazi organization:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford#Controversies

e2: VVVV it would be more like Mayor Bloomberg not knowing where Rochester or Buffalo was. I would think that being elected to that post should require a basic knowledge provincial geography.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOi2wIUCTnA

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen

  • Locked thread