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Vord posted:Sure about that? Ah gently caress. I forgot about him. I never watched Voyager. Or any Star Trek really Because I'm not a moderator of Something Awful
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Vord posted:Sure about that? 
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Hattie Masters posted:Star Trek is studied By Paedophiles, not a study Of Paedophiles. Vord posted:Sure about that? 
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Vord posted:Sure about that? My roommate was watching Voyager the other day so I got to see the character he was dating for the first time. They apparently specifically casted somebody who looked like a child but wasn't for the part.
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Iron Crowned posted:The thing about sexual preference doesn't mean you have to do it. I mean I'm sure there are plenty of people who want to gently caress horses, but not all of them become MR. Hands Yeah, some of them become VP of the United States.
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:Yeah, some of them become VP of the United States. For one glorious moment the Prime Minister of the UK was an alleged pig fucker.
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CityMidnightJunky posted:For one glorious moment the Prime Minister of the UK was an alleged pig fucker. And now he is an alleged wife beater.
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CityMidnightJunky posted:For one glorious moment the Prime Minister of the UK was an alleged pig fucker. It's canon that DC did indeed FADP I didn't know about the wife beating but I'm not surprised, because tories are lower than vermin
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I know I'm late but isn't there an episode of South Park that basically says "hate crimes against black people aren't any different than killing your boss because you hate him so racism is over." Lol at the thought of two lilly white guys from Colorado being the voice of a generation when it comes to race.
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Jul 28, 2019 00:06
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Elderbean posted:I know I'm late but isn't there an episode of South Park that basically says "hate crimes against black people aren't any different than killing your boss because you hate him so racism is over." I believe it was Token Black (voiced by a storyboard artist who was the show’s sole black employee), the show’s sole black character for 15+ years, who explained how as a black man, he confirmed racism was over and that the white adults, ignorant of the black experience, were making something out of nothing.
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Jul 28, 2019 00:18
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The hate crime episode is cool. It comes to the conclusion that Eric Cartman did not commit a hate crime, he's just an rear end in a top hat, which is loving stupid as hell when you look at the stuff he goes on to do. Pretending racism was over in the 90s sure was a thing. There's also the episode where they pretend they aren't mocking disabled character Timmy, because everyone is totally laughing with and not at the fictional character voiced by Trey Parker.
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The first couple of seasons of South Park are still my favorites, because for the most part it was just a bunch of dumb kids being dumb kids while some absurd bullshit happens in the town. Once the show became a soapbox for Parker & Stone's Important Opinions, I pretty much lost all interest. By that point Cartman had also gone from "stupid fat kid who says racist poo poo because he's stupid, and gets humiliated pretty often" to "white supremacist supervillain mastermind who never gets his comeuppance" which didn't exactly help either.
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South Park has always been garbage for internet edgelords.
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Sweevo posted:South Park has always been garbage for internet edgelords. This is also why there are adults who have never grown out of the show. If you want to understand South Park's role in our society, you have to look at the whole thing. You can't just separate out the good and the bad parts, because neither explains the show's cultural impact.
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What makes South Park so insidious is the way that it tells viewers that they're normal, everything they think should go unchallenged, and whatever you already believe about the status quo is true. It's a show that presents itself as edgy and challenging, but it has the politics of a big bowl of Gen X oatmeal. It's comfort food for libertarians who never realized that they aren't the default option, and that their pre-existing positions aren't automatically neutral.
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There's a reason the best episodes are the Lord of the Rings one and the anime one and that reason is Butters who is the only good character.
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Push El Burrito posted:There's a reason the best episodes are the Lord of the Rings one and the anime one and that reason is Butters who is the only good character.
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Jul 28, 2019 17:52
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South Park was always funny when it was crazy non-sequiturs about some current thing in pop culture like anime or pokemon. Whenever it got political it became "caring about anything is wrong and being preachy is wrong, watch while Stan or Kyle preach to the audience about why [thing] is wrong."
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Yeah, the hate crime episode was pretty much the biggest reason I quit SP cold turkey, since even dumbass teenaged me recognized how dumb that take was.
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I was legitimately surprised when they quit their truth-is-in-the-middle bit for the NAMBLA episode. That's the only time I can remember that they dropped that whole shtick. Comparing trans people to dolphins was ok, playing rape in Hollywood for laughs was ok, having gay and black mouthpieces agree that discrimination is healthy and good was ok, but raping children was a step too far even for them.
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Jul 28, 2019 18:36
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Butters is awful. He's pretty much a timid Cartman.
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I can't believe Pip is loving dead.
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Gaunab posted:Butters is awful. He's pretty much a timid Cartman. Margerine was way better.
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hyperhazard posted:I was legitimately surprised when they quit their truth-is-in-the-middle bit for the NAMBLA episode. That's the only time I can remember that they dropped that whole shtick. Comparing trans people to dolphins was ok, playing rape in Hollywood for laughs was ok, having gay and black mouthpieces agree that discrimination is healthy and good was ok, but raping children was a step too far even for them. I mean what, did you expect them to say something like "we should only rape half the children"?
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CityMidnightJunky posted:For one glorious moment the Prime Minister of the UK was an alleged pig fucker. Just because BoJo didn't gently caress a pig doesn't mean that he isn't an absolute pigfucker.
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:I mean what, did you expect them to say something like "we should only rape half the children"? I mean they used their platform during the 2004 presidential election to make the bold statement of “both candidates are the same” so who knows Also they made an episode where the central joke was that climate change doesn’t exist, which is one of the many backtracks they’ve done over the past few years.
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I always believed in ManBearPig
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:I mean what, did you expect them to say something like "we should only rape half the children"? These are libertarians we're talking about, they probably had to restrain themselves from going on about the tyranny of age-of-consent laws.
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CityMidnightJunky posted:For one glorious moment the Prime Minister of the UK was an alleged pig fucker. Allegedly Boris' party piece before he got too fat was sucking his own penis so there's still that to think about. Also we've got no idea how many children he actually has, and there's been 2 affairs in the last couple of months that the papers refuse to mention (not even in an in joke way so there's probably no superinjunctions in place)
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ookiimarukochan posted:Allegedly Boris' party piece before he got too fat was sucking his own penis so there's still that to think about. I was rewatching The Thick of It and it has plot points such as ministers resigning because their kids went to private schools and it made the govt look bad and stuff like that Now there is a PM with an unknown number of children. That's aged badly.
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Is it easy to become a Prime Minister, because the last two really feel like Parliament just threw up their hands and picked somebody/anybody. I've heard BoJo is really smart, but he looks like crackhead Rob Ford with hair.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Is it easy to become a Prime Minister, because the last two really feel like Parliament just threw up their hands and picked somebody/anybody. Well whoever you heard that from is a loving moron, because he's a loving moron. There's a reason people keep referring to him as the British Trump. And twas the tories threw up their hands.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Is it easy to become a Prime Minister, because the last two really feel like Parliament just threw up their hands and picked somebody/anybody. from what i've gathered the only people who want to be prime minster these days are the ones too dumb to realize that there's no easy way through the brexit mess
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The difficult bit is climbing the Tory party's internal greasy ladder of treachery and betrayal. Once you've done that, national media falls in line to slobber over your cock and electoral victory is all but given. Amazingly, this has produced a series of prime ministers skilled at (a) betraying other conservatives and (b) gently caress all else.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I've heard BoJo is really smart The only people who say that are people who desperately want to believe that political process in the UK/US isn't broken af and that Boris or May or Trump or Cameron aren't the loving useless rich cunts who've failed upwards that they seem and are secretly geniuses playing 12 dimensional chess. I dealt with Boris professionally a few decades ago - before he was "famous" but after it was public that he'd conspired with Darius Guppy to beat up a co-worker, and he was just as dumb in private then as he seems in public now. Ian Hislop gets really angry if anyone suggests to him that Have I Got News For You helped popularise the Legend of BoJo, but he really should take some responsibility for it. ookiimarukochan has a new favorite as of 18:15 on Jul 29, 2019 |
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Anyone in British 'satire' should accept responsibility because it's their brand of posh joshing that makes it all seem like a jolly game and not a matter of life and death https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4919/the-strange-death-of-british-satire Bakhtin was wrong, carnival supports the system
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Shut up Meg posted:I was rewatching The Thick of It and it has plot points such as ministers resigning because their kids went to private schools and it made the govt look bad and stuff like that It was a bad thing because the minister was from the unspoken Labour analogue, ostensibly the left wing of the political system. To the Tories, both fictional and real life, that would not even begin to matter. Also hopping on BoJo chat, I have family that worked directly with him (civil service, they didn't like him either) who said that he was an egotistical little poo poo who is 100% both smarter than he looks and incapable of seeing further than his own self-interest. Also his favourite movie is (apparently) loving Dodgeball.
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Lurkman posted:These are libertarians we're talking about, they probably had to restrain themselves from going on about the tyranny of age-of-consent laws. Fair point
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Barry Foster posted:Anyone in British 'satire' should accept responsibility because it's their brand of posh joshing that makes it all seem like a jolly game and not a matter of life and death We shat on South Park for popularising it, but "both sides are the same and caring about things is bad" has been a cornerstone of British (or, at least, English) culture for much longer.
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