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Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Hay.

https://i.imgur.com/CuU8RnQ.mp4

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PurpleXVI
Oct 30, 2011

Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

RyokoTK posted:

It’s more just that terminal apathy is comedy poison and it belongs in the D&D abattoir forever.

Apathy and nihilistic whining are poison to everything. Stop publicly celebrating the fact that you're sad and have given up, all it's gonna do is make you more sad and cement your surrender.

I'm genuinely tired of how prevalent this seems to have become, and how some people are treating it as a cutesy wacky meme.

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008
It was a joke. Everyone call down.

On subject, the trumpkins at his rally yesterday were chanting "lock her up", mere hours after two people close to Trump were convicted of actual, real crimes, and Graham has said he doesn't care that Cohen linked Trump to a federal crime.

I'm just hoping that Cohen's plea will open the door on new targets, seeing as he is the first person in Trump's circle to be found guilty of a crime directly related to the election.

Sandwich Anarchist has a new favorite as of 11:18 on Aug 22, 2018

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



Bogus Adventure posted:

Homer Hickham rules, and anyone who thinks otherwise can suck my cock and balls.

Language.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

PurpleXVI posted:

Apathy and nihilistic whining are poison to everything. Stop publicly celebrating the fact that you're sad and have given up, all it's gonna do is make you more sad and cement your surrender.
There's only so many times you can get your hopes up for these chucklefucks to face some actual goddamn consequences for their loving over the country and it just doesn't happen before you stop caring.

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

https://i.imgur.com/lGCY9rz.gifv

purple death ray
Jul 28, 2007

me omw 2 steal ur girl

It's like the line about how millennials constantly joke about wanting to die. A good portion of this meme is dealing with the fact that a lot of us actually do want to die and that's scary, so we want to laugh at it

Nihilism as a meme or joke is usually an attempt to process overwhelming despair and there's an absolute gently caress ton of overwhelming despair in, honestly, most people, for a few years now.

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

purple death ray posted:

It's like the line about how millennials constantly joke about wanting to die. A good portion of this meme is dealing with the fact that a lot of us actually do want to die and that's scary, so we want to laugh at it

Nihilism as a meme or joke is usually an attempt to process overwhelming despair and there's an absolute gently caress ton of overwhelming despair in, honestly, most people, for a few years now.

Yeah but the other purple guy is tired of hearing it.

Untrustable
Mar 17, 2009






I know it's not politics or nihilism related but a quick PSA:

Hey, *sits in chair backwards* round bales are loving crazy heavy and if they start rolling somehow please get away. Also. Don't park your truck in high, dry grass, because it'll start a fire. I lost almost 20 round bales to fire last year. The fire department came out and we used a backhoe and a bulldozer to push them into a pond. So in conclusion: don't live on a farm.

Aramoro
Jun 1, 2012




Gum posted:

go anywhere? he's just been convicted

Trump will pardon Manafort. Maybe not Cohen because he implicated Trump in wrongdoing. It'll serve as a warning to others, keep your mouth shut and trumpy will pardon you, otherwise you'll die in jail.

Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"

Samovar posted:

Language.

Apologies

china bot
Sep 7, 2014

you listen HERE pal
SAY GOODBYE TO TELEPHONE SEX
Plaster Town Cop

Untrustable posted:

I know it's not politics or nihilism related but a quick PSA:

Hey, *sits in chair backwards* round bales are loving crazy heavy and if they start rolling somehow please get away. Also. Don't park your truck in high, dry grass, because it'll start a fire. I lost almost 20 round bales to fire last year. The fire department came out and we used a backhoe and a bulldozer to push them into a pond. So in conclusion: don't live on a farm.

one of the members of ELO was killed by a rampaging hay bale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Edwards_(musician)#Death

PurpleXVI
Oct 30, 2011

Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

Yeah but the other purple guy is tired of hearing it.

On the one hand that's because I'm loving tired of hearing it, on the other hand it's because I'm also pretty sure it's unhealthy for the people doing it. As it's normalizing nihilism as just a wacky way to feel, rather than as an awful way to feel that should be fought back tooth and nail.

But to get off that topic, loving hay bales, Jesus Christ.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1032247043992023040

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/987679850545778689
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/987679852345135105

I brought my Drake
Jul 10, 2014

These high-G injections have some serious side effects after pulling so many jumps.

Untrustable posted:

I know it's not politics or nihilism related but a quick PSA:

Hey, *sits in chair backwards* round bales are loving crazy heavy and if they start rolling somehow please get away. Also. Don't park your truck in high, dry grass, because it'll start a fire. I lost almost 20 round bales to fire last year. The fire department came out and we used a backhoe and a bulldozer to push them into a pond. So in conclusion: don't live on a farm.

How do we know we can trust you on this?

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Hihohe posted:

You really cant blame the nihilism. Nothing has mattered for so long you forget what justice looks like.

Well, say what you want to about the tenets of National Socialism, dude, at least it's an ethos.

Mu Zeta
Oct 17, 2002

Me crush ass to dust

Nihilism is a valid ethos IMO since I think it just means you don't believe in gods or that we are part of some master plan. We make our own destiny.

Submarine Sandpaper
May 27, 2007


fatalism isn't contingent on a god

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008
Confusing nihilism with fatalism itt

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK
whole lotta badpostism up on this page

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

purple death ray
Jul 28, 2007

me omw 2 steal ur girl

PurpleXVI posted:

On the one hand that's because I'm loving tired of hearing it, on the other hand it's because I'm also pretty sure it's unhealthy for the people doing it. As it's normalizing nihilism as just a wacky way to feel, rather than as an awful way to feel that should be fought back tooth and nail.

But to get off that topic, loving hay bales, Jesus Christ.

Do you have depression? Cause you can't always have perfect control, or sometimes any control, over the way you feel and fighting tooth and nail against your own brains best efforts to destroy you is the background noise of my life. It's exhausting and sometimes you have to stop and laugh at it. Sometimes you want to normalize your suffering because you're just so tired of being abnormal. If it's normal and you know lots of people are feeling the same way it becomes a little less terrifying. It's probably not the healthiest coping mechanism but it ain't exactly the healthiest world we live in.

Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

I physically can't see these. What's it say

Flash Gordon Ramsay
Sep 28, 2004

Grimey Drawer

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

I physically can't see these. What's it say

Says the goatman is comin for ya

Bombadilillo
Feb 28, 2009

The dock really fucks a case or nerfing it.

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

I physically can't see these. What's it say

No ring

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008
Excellent

Stupid_Sexy_Flander
Mar 14, 2007

Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?
Grimey Drawer

Aramoro posted:

Trump will pardon Manafort. Maybe not Cohen because he implicated Trump in wrongdoing. It'll serve as a warning to others, keep your mouth shut and trumpy will pardon you, otherwise you'll die in jail.

Nope, I severely doubt it. It'd end up being an obstruction of justice charge for him because that would be interfering with a trial or investigation. Tampering with a witness, I think. Basically at that point they wouldn't need to investigate him for anything else, they'd have the impeachable charge just right there.

Zamboni Rodeo
Jul 19, 2007

NEVER play "Lady of Spain" AGAIN!




Aramoro posted:

Trump will pardon Manafort. Maybe not Cohen because he implicated Trump in wrongdoing. It'll serve as a warning to others, keep your mouth shut and trumpy will pardon you, otherwise you'll die in jail.

Pretty much this right here. The schad's gonna be on all of us when Trump pardons Manafort.

I work with Trump supporters and a common theme with them is "I don't care what he says; I like what he's done." I don't believe in engaging further discussion because I would rather maintain my sanity (and also it's only so much wasted breath trying to debate them), but I hear that and I think to myself, "What the gently caress has he DONE, other than hold Klan "campaign" rallies and sign a bunch of presidential orders?"

And the most frightening part to me is that my coworkers are probably pretty representative of Trumplodytes as a whole.

SpacePig
Apr 4, 2007

I'M FEELING JIMMY

Man I went through a lot of effort to be able to get this big enough to see on my phone, only to get what I got. Schadenfreude on me everybody, drink it up.

Bombadilillo
Feb 28, 2009

The dock really fucks a case or nerfing it.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

Nope, I severely doubt it. It'd end up being an obstruction of justice charge for him because that would be interfering with a trial or investigation. Tampering with a witness, I think. Basically at that point they wouldn't need to investigate him for anything else, they'd have the impeachable charge just right there.

Trump said he will pardon himself. So

Mu Zeta
Oct 17, 2002

Me crush ass to dust

Trump already pardoned Joe Arpaio and Dinesh Dsouza. All these guys are going free. Though Michael Cohen might actually be hosed judging from Trump's tweet about him being a bad lawyer.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Aren't some of these state crimes?

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

Nope, I severely doubt it. It'd end up being an obstruction of justice charge for him because that would be interfering with a trial or investigation.

The pardon power can by definition interfere with a trial and an investigation. Ford pardoned Nixon, who hadn't even been charged with any crimes. The use of the pardon power cannot be obstruction of justice. The President can pardon someone in the middle of a trial if he wants to, there is no Constitutional limitation on it other than that it only applies to Federal crimes.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

Basically at that point they wouldn't need to investigate him for anything else, they'd have the impeachable charge just right there.

An impeachable charge is whatever a majority of the House says is one. Impeachment is a political process, not a criminal one.

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

Subjunctive posted:

Aren't some of these state crimes?

Yes, he has a whole other trial to face, and any convictions there cannot be pardoned.

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


Isn't there also the issue where if Trump pardons someone and they accept they can no longer please the 5th to avoid incriminating themselves and can be compelled to testify on instances where they helped someone else commit a crime? No longer any good for Cohen, but Manafort has maintained his innocence and clammed up right?

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

-Zydeco- posted:

Isn't there also the issue where if Trump pardons someone and they accept they can no longer please the 5th to avoid incriminating themselves and can be compelled to testify on instances where they helped someone else commit a crime?

Yes, that's generally correct, and you can refuse a pardon if you want to maintain your 5th amendment privilege against self-incrimination. But the limitation of the pardon power to Federal crimes works both ways here; if your conduct could also expose you to state prosecution, then even if you're pardoned for the Federal charge you could still incriminate yourself to state charges and hence are still protected by the 5th amendment.

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Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

PurpleXVI posted:

Apathy and nihilistic whining are poison to everything. Stop publicly celebrating the fact that you're sad and have given up, all it's gonna do is make you more sad and cement your surrender.

I'm genuinely tired of how prevalent this seems to have become, and how some people are treating it as a cutesy wacky meme.

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