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Chairman Capone posted:Watching the HBO QAnon documentary, it made me laugh when they showed the guy who runs the Q account but denies it had a big poster of Star Trek Q in his room. I tapped out on that thing, I kept getting this gross feeling that the documentary was kinda trying to portray the 8chan guys as "cool" rather than the tremendously harmful assholes they are
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Simone Magus posted:I tapped out on that thing, I kept getting this gross feeling that the documentary was kinda trying to portray the 8chan guys as "cool" rather than the tremendously harmful assholes they are It doesn't glamorize them at all. The first episode plays into the folksy facade of each of the 8ch owners then every subsequent episode has pulled out an "oh btw these people are extremely awful" moment of some kind, culminating in the guy that is Q slipping up and admitting it at the end. It's not the greatest docuseries but it's nowhere near the level of hagiography that the Vow turned out to be.
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Simone Magus posted:I tapped out on that thing, I kept getting this gross feeling that the documentary was kinda trying to portray the 8chan guys as "cool" rather than the tremendously harmful assholes they are Uh, not even close. The documentary is pretty clear about them being skeezy, hypocritical, anti-Semitic perverts who don't give a poo poo about anything except their own power and being willing to see people die to keep the approval of online racists. One of the episodes directly catches on tape the elder Watkins bragging to his right-wing grifter lawyer about how they programmed in code to 8chan that turns Jewish names into the Israeli flag colors, the lawyer looking uncomfortable and telling him that he's Jewish, and Watkins immediately responding, "I know, I can tell from your features." They repeatedly show Ron Watkins being a porn addict who can't even drive his car without having porn playing and can't talk to a woman without demeaning her. I can't even imagine the mindset of watching the show's depiction of the Watkinses and thinking, "Wow, they're cool!" unless you happened to already be in their 8chan demographic.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/VinceMancini/status/1379467083214323715 It was in the theatrical one.
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Nundizo posted:https://twitter.com/aodespair/status/1379180145609748490?s=21 lmao at WW being better than loving anythign let alone the wire
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/VinceMancini/status/1379467083214323715 bull3964 posted:Apparently only 38% of people that started Justice League finished it within a week. I watched that thing all the way at least 3 times and know a thread with a decent amount of traffic. I know we are goons and all but can't imagine that many checked it out only to nope. Maybe I'm wrong and just don't want the whedon cut to be proven right. Chairman Capone posted:Uh, not even close. The documentary is pretty clear about them being skeezy, hypocritical, anti-Semitic perverts who don't give a poo poo about anything except their own power and being willing to see people die to keep the approval of online racists. Backing this up. Watched the whole thing and in no way were anyone related to 8chan or Q shown to be functional good people. About the only person with any decent intentions was the OG Anonymous guy and he was very loudly repulsed by Gamergate and all the chuds stealing his tactics. The legions of Q are just like you would think: lunatics or the grifters playing them. It was a decent doc but really wished it had gone more into the build up to the 6th as well as the epilogue to all of that. I was saddened it only briefly touched on how Q has grossly infected and radicalized the religious and conservative parties in america as that is legit terrifying and will have long term effects with even higher of a bodycount. Was glad it had some time focused on Christchurch as people have probably forgotten about that with all the insanity of the past couple of years. Glad it came about as when the proper Q doc comes in about a decade they will have some nice footage to yank from. That is IF the world doesn't get cleansed in the holy fire from Trumpika. edit: Aardvark! posted:i watched the west wing while Bush was president and i didnt read any political forums or anything but was ostensibly liberal, and it was addictive. there is some appeal to the People Owning Eachother With Facts and Logic genre imo. Doom2020! fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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i watched the west wing while Bush was president and i didnt read any political forums or anything but was ostensibly liberal, and it was addictive. there is some appeal to the People Owning Eachother With Facts and Logic genre imo. However now that I'm not 19 any more I don't think I could ever watch it again. An experience lost to time.
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I think the last couple seasons hold up better than the Sorkin years. Though it's just as much a fantasy since you have a Democratic President reaching across the aisle to appoint a Republican Secretary of State. Also the Democrat is from Texas and Republican is from California.
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Doom2020! posted:If you want depressing lols check out the Trump thread in GBS. We live in interesting times. lol ive been ik/mod of that thread for almost a year now
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Doom2020! posted:edit: In the same way that the mythical 1950s were the idyllic good old days for chuds, sure.
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Yeah, they just hid the poo poo better back then. A more intact veneer doesn't make the age better, it's worse for pretending that it is.
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IRQ posted:In the same way that the mythical 1950s were the idyllic good old days for chuds, sure. bull3964 posted:Yeah, they just hid the poo poo better back then. A more intact veneer doesn't make the age better, it's worse for pretending that it is. Heh... oh they still wanted me or my kind dead, in jail or knowing our place but there were also less people in positions of government that believed in jewish space lasers or cleansing the world in holy fire. British government loving sucks/ is terrible and incompetent in every way but American government actually scares me a little. I miss the days when nazis were just punchlines to jokes or nothing you took that seriously. I fluctuate between feeling hopeful because people my age and younger SEEM less tied to racism and genuinely want the world to become a better place but also anxious because Gen X and Boomers sense their era is ending and are using 40k speak in real life and drooling over the apocalypse. Yeah it was never a great world but these past few years felt like they turned the dial up on crazy. Meh...sorry to cause a brief derail. Probably doesn't help I JUST finished the Q doc and jesus... those 8chan guys getting away with fomenting and weaponizing all this chaos and getting to slink away is aggravating. Sorry again. Doom2020! fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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Mu Zeta posted:I think the last couple seasons hold up better than the Sorkin years. Though it's just as much a fantasy since you have a Democratic President reaching across the aisle to appoint a Republican Secretary of State. Also the Democrat is from Texas and Republican is from California. Someone tabulated Bartlett's accomplishments and it was mostly cutting Social Security and not going to War.
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Doom2020! posted:For once it really is not you and it really was a "better" age. There are tons of articles about how political business has changed in the past couple of decades. Things were bad and messed up but there was this air of civility and half the stuff that certain parties do nowadays would get them laughed out of office. There are periods in the past where some people said insane things but it was never the general party stance. If you want depressing lols check out the Trump thread in GBS. We live in interesting times. Gingrinch's Contract with America and Rush Limbaugh controlling the national conversation, while any real leftist positions were smothered by third way corportate giveaways. Black people were being dragged behind trucks and shot without reprecussions (i mean, some things didn't change). We had the head of the republican senate say that Storm thurmond should have been president, and republican candidates say that they only believe in "legitimate rape". The Bush administration wanted to bring christianity to the middle east and 21 year old graduates of evangelical universities ran national and international policy. Lol, better age. At least now there's a viable and visible opposition. The protests against the Iraq War were the biggest on record, and it didn't blip on the national discourse. Today, it would have been alot bigger.
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Shageletic posted:Someone tabulated Bartlett's accomplishments and it was mostly cutting Social Security and not going to War. Life imitates art I guess, at least with the catastrophically low standards audiences have set for liberal politicians.
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Shageletic posted:Someone tabulated Bartlett's accomplishments and it was mostly cutting Social Security and not going to War. But what about their secret plan to fight inflation?
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Nundizo posted:https://twitter.com/aodespair/status/1379180145609748490?s=21 What is this "Pratfall" he refers to?
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Everyone hated his CNN show and it was cancelled
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Chairman Capone posted:Uh, not even close. The documentary is pretty clear about them being skeezy, hypocritical, anti-Semitic perverts who don't give a poo poo about anything except their own power and being willing to see people die to keep the approval of online racists. I just meant in the literal way the series is edited or whatever. I dunno, it's hard to explain. 
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Google Butt posted:how good was season 1 of Homeland? I remember it owning but I could he wrong It was very good right until the end.
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Season 2 was worth watching purely for its willingness to blow up the whole premise of the show, but I dipped out at the end of that.
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Mu Zeta posted:It turns into a fun spy show after that. Eventually. Season 3 is not strong. But the later parts of the show are really great.
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I still need to go back and finish Homeland one day. I watched the first episode of the second-to-last season then fell behind and never forced myself to catch up.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Eventually. Season 3 is not strong. First season and half of season two are absolute top tier TV. Rest of season two and all of season three are bad, then the rest is good, but more in a 24 way than a serious drama.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:It was very good right until the end. Yep. Shoulda gone through with it.
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Homeland could've been one of the best one season shows ever if it had ended that way
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/TheWrap/status/1379476058429399043 Holy poo poo what were they thinking.
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MiddleOne posted:Holy poo poo what were they thinking. TV executives do not think.
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What Law and Order spinoff deals with dudes smuggling that much cake
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Shageletic posted:Someone tabulated Bartlett's accomplishments and it was mostly cutting Social Security and not going to War. Did Bartlett ever have a democratically controlled congress?
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Anderson Cooper would be the best jeopardy host, why not do that
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Simone Magus posted:Anderson Cooper would be the best jeopardy host, why not do that He's got a guest host spot on Jeopardy next month.
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zoux posted:Because Levar Burton would be the best Jeopardy host He's on the list of people who if accused of being sex pests would truly break my heart. Pretty sure he took no salary or payment for Reading Rainbow because he thought encouraging childhood literacy was so important. I think he even financed it himself early on.
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