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corn in the bible posted:You know, I still get emails from Daily KOS, and it occurs to me that Animal Nuz, terrible as it is, is a pretty good fit for how blindly cheerleading that website is. When the first Anthony Wiener crotch pic scandal broke out, they went into full on conspiracy theory mode. They had this hilariously elaborate article wherein they examine the picture and see that the watch is on the right hand, instead of the left, and showed several photos of Wiener wearing his watch on the left. Then they said this indicates that the photo was flipped, or seen through a mirror. Then they pointed out that the aspect ratio of the picture was unusual, which indicates it'd been cropped. So they concluded that someone had taken a photo of someone's crotch, from across the room at the gym. Then they started talking about how the person who released the photo had once been a moderator of a porn forum, and they explained that "Who but a pornographer would take a clandestine photo of someone else's crotch in a mirror from across the room?" I really wish I'd saved that article, because as soon as Wiener admitted that it was him and he'd taken the picture, they scrubbed it off their site.
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XyloJW posted:I hadn't considered it like this, and this interpretation really explains a lot. His complaints about being systematically censored from newspapers (he thinks they are all well aware of his past, instead of just oblivious to him and think his cartoons are made by a 12 year old), his complaints about censorship from Daily Kos ("I've been drawing Obama like that for years, so why all of a sudden are they crying racist? It's because I criticized his NSA policy!" when really it's because people never saw his poo poo before), his ludicrous eBay dates he used to auction off (starting price $2000 if you live in another country, no interaction guaranteed). The one place I think Ted Rall might not have been a douchebag was in the "have lunch with me" auction. It was so ridiculous and silly and funny (you pay; i might not even talk to you; i'll give you a book, but i get to pick) that I have to believe that was a joke. Everything else about him seems like not-joke terrible behavior, though.
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corn in the bible posted:You know, I still get emails from Daily KOS, and it occurs to me that Animal Nuz, terrible as it is, is a pretty good fit for how blindly cheerleading that website is. Daily KOS is unabashedly pro-Democrat and that's not anything they try to hide. Markos has even said that the site's mission is to further the campaigns of Democratic politicians as opposed to left-leaning ideals.
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JaggerMcDagger posted:Speaking of ted...
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Yeah you can fault Daily KOS for a lot of things but at least you know where they stand. If it helps Democrats, they are there. For better or worse. Of course this gets ridiculous once in a while but you can count on them to blindly fight for anything that helps the Blue Team.
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CampingCarl posted:Ted Rall 'exclusive' because no one else wants to talk to him. I have no idea why anyone would bring on a political cartoonist to talk about NSA spying on your computer anyway. Rall claimed that there were emails in his Gmail inbox that were marked read that he had never read. This, he said, was because the NSA were spying on him. I guess RT believed that.
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Stanos posted:Yeah you can fault Daily KOS for a lot of things but at least you know where they stand. If it helps Democrats, they are there. For better or worse. I mean, I'd prefer a world where everyone clearly labeled what they actually were: Fox News disclosed that they are an organ of the Republican party and so forth, but as long as this is the world we live in where news and dogma are mixed, you have to be cutthroat.
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XyloJW posted:Rall claimed that there were emails in his Gmail inbox that were marked read that he had never read. This, he said, was because the NSA were spying on him. I guess RT believed that. Because everyone knows you can't 'un-read' an email, right? Once you read it, boom, it's done, can't go back. Stupid NSA should have known that.
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A subscription to  1) Admitting that capitalism is a failure that leaves hundreds of thousands of employees in all working classes impoverished? 2) Democracy is fragile?  3) Tim Kreider? They do know he makes awesome things that would outrage their fuddy duddy readership, right?
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Rorus Raz posted:
Someone had better record this because otherwise I'll have to and it will sound like garbage.
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JaggerMcDagger posted:Speaking of ted... Oh, this is too beautiful. RT is a Kremlin-controlled propaganda outlet. They used to be able to fake legitimacy a few years ago, but nowadays they can only get honest-to-goodness anti-american conspiracy theorists on. Tedd Rall is finally moving up in the world! Well, sideways.
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Bores linked this on his facebook:    If anyone finds the content of this too complex I can explain it for them using small words.
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I don't mind big words, but if you could do it with less words, that'd be ideal.
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XyloJW posted:I don't mind big words, but if you could do it with less words, that'd be ideal. "Racists care about weird and dumb things for dumb reasons."
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XyloJW posted:I don't mind big words, but if you could do it with less words, that'd be ideal. Does this mean you're making the thread German language-only?
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MisterBadIdea posted:Recently, someone explored the archives of The World Today Just Nuts, and revealed that its creator is a hardcore feminist (if that's even the right word. "Female chauvinist" maybe?) who opposes Barack solely out of loyalty to Hillary, and also liked Palin a lot. I told you it was a never-ending puzzle and now you've slipped down the rabbit hole. I warned you about the world being just nuts, bro. Anyway, here is the commentary about his drawing of David Duchovny. isaiah posted:Drawing Rachel Maddow? So the media making fun of Sarah Palin was an affront to femininity but everyone saying Rachel Maddow looks like a dude is immediately forgiven because she isn't attractive enough to be a news anchor? Or maybe he's just sexually attracted to both Palin and Hilary? Like I said, never-ending puzzle.  1What? is right. I guess Bish saw a musical.  2Again, what?  3 4This Chinese cartoonist is unhappy that Obama is raising the government's revenue. And uses Ramirez's style guide.  5Ah, yes, Mark Zuckerberg AKA Lil' Stick Arms.
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Good grief, I had to look it up, but apparently this is actually a thing that's happening  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3332064/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2 e: I wonder if they'll keep this part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_at9dOElQk
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Horsey has nothing but contempt for modern news media. He basically considers them glorified tabloids and tends to refer to them as the "Tabloid Media" 01I really love the imagery of this one. The song scans fairly well up until the end, too.  02 03 04 05 06 07Coming up later today: Politics! E: Forgot one of my favorite cartoons in the book  08Just sitting here on my tiny little mountain cottage. SwimmingSpider fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Mar 16, 2014 |
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Am I supposed to feel bad about how cable TV is developing infrastructure?
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Internet Webguy posted:
Man, Gonzaga as a Cinderella school is so ten years ago. Now they're just consistently one or two and done. Also, Liechtenstein as the #2 seed? Come on, man. hexwren fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Mar 16, 2014 |
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Rooney Mara is the whitest girl on earth now? Did Nicole Kidman die or something?
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I guess he spent all his money on t-shirts with his name on? I can understand why they have the labels for people who might not be instantly recognizable, but why not try to work in their name more naturally, like have them sat at a desk, with a name plaque or something, rather than LABEL. The worst ones are where they label really obvious ones, like Obama. Do they think people are going to see a drawing of a middle aged black man in a drawing about the president and think "gee, whose that?". Even with some of the awful Obama drawings, you can tell it's him by the context.
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OldMemes posted:The worst ones are where they label really obvious ones, like Obama. Do they think people are going to see a drawing of a middle aged black man in a drawing about the president and think "gee, whose that?". Even with some of the awful Obama drawings, you can tell it's him by the context. Well how are people 100 years from now supposed to know who it is? Jeez.
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colonel_korn posted:Good grief, I had to look it up, but apparently this is actually a thing that's happening Come to think of it, how does Hollywood make movies starring generic native Americans (cast right or not) anymore, anyway? The Lone Ranger was a disaster, and now we're back into arguments about sports team names again. I thought the age where they could get away with that was past. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Mar 16, 2014 |
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:Well how are people 100 years from now supposed to know who it is? Jeez. Because, obviously, we'll have had 100 more years of old white dudes as president at that point. We elected Obama, racism's over, we don't need to prove it by electing non-whites anymore. Bring on the pallid century! Lord, please don't let me be right.
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I don't think there's a large chance this will ever happen (beyond the fact that change.org is lovely as a tool for actual change). The only case it's happened afaik is apartheid era South Africa, but even then I'm pretty sure FIFA gave them like 15 years before they finally suspended them. Also IDF Soldiers = Israeli soccer team? That's the same kind of disingenuous comparison as the Palestinian team to Hamas members. But hey, I'm kind of biased here, so my opinion about this isn't worth much anyways.
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When I think 'Musical that is currently relevant in pop culture'...
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A Meat posted:I don't think there's a large chance this will ever happen (beyond the fact that change.org is lovely as a tool for actual change). The only case it's happened afaik is apartheid era South Africa, but even then I'm pretty sure FIFA gave them like 15 years before they finally suspended them. Anyway, the reason why nothing will happen is because FIFA is a corrupt monster of an organisation and Sepp Blatter can only maintain an erection if he thinks about all the misery he's caused in the world.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Bores linked this on his facebook: My big question about the casting of Michael B Jordan as the Human Torch is not why they cast a black man as a white character - hell, it worked so well for Nick Fury that the comics changed his race. No: my question is why they cast a white woman as his sister.
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Jedit posted:My big question about the casting of Michael B Jordan as the Human Torch is not why they cast a black man as a white character - hell, it worked so well for Nick Fury that the comics changed his race. No: my question is why they cast a white woman as his sister. They changed Nick Fury into Samuel L Jackson before they made any of the live action movies.
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Jedit posted:My big question about the casting of Michael B Jordan as the Human Torch is not why they cast a black man as a white character - hell, it worked so well for Nick Fury that the comics changed his race. No: my question is why they cast a white woman as his sister. Nick Fury in the Marvel Ultimates comics was based on Samuel L Jackson before the movies.
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Jedit posted:My big question about the casting of Michael B Jordan as the Human Torch is not why they cast a black man as a white character - hell, it worked so well for Nick Fury that the comics changed his race. No: my question is why they cast a white woman as his sister. Multi-racial families? What sort of insane nonsense is that?
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rodbeard posted:They changed Nick Fury into Samuel L Jackson before they made any of the live action movies. socialsecurity posted:Nick Fury in the Marvel Ultimates comics was based on Samuel L Jackson before the movies.
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R. Mute posted:IDF soldiers represent the interests of the Israeli state and the Israeli football team represent the Israeli state in football. It would be the same kind of disingenuous comparison if Hamas targeted Israeli football players - which they don't. Can you give me a link to a good article about this? I hadn't heard of it. The foot thing, not FIFA itself.
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