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Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


docbeard posted:

crack-ping

noun

A representation of the only sound one is capable of making when one has screamed for so long and so loud that one's voice has been damaged beyond repair.

I felt a little innocent for that being a mild *crack ping* for me. But anytime people praise Bush so effusively, I think I have an aneurysm.

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is pepsi ok
Oct 23, 2002

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1440847649809354752?s=20


quote:

WASHINGTON — The top State Department official overseeing the response to “Havana Syndrome” is leaving her position after only six months on the job, three officials said.

...

On the call, Spratlen responded to a question about an FBI study that found no evidence of an attack and determined that the staffers were most likely to be suffering from mass psychogenic illness, or mass hysteria.

Spratlen responded by saying she had read the study but did not indicate that she agreed or disagreed with its findings — a response that sufferers on the call later described as “invalidating.”

Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior CIA officer who says he was hit by Havana Syndrome in Russia in 2017, wrote Tuesday on Twitter that declining to rule out the “mass hysteria” theory was “insulting to victims and automatically disqualifying” from leading the task force.

“State is not serious until Ambassador Spratlen is replaced,” Polymeropoulos said.

lol lmao

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Buck Wildman posted:

lol at the two locked feedback threads stickied

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Buck Wildman posted:

lol at the two locked feedback threads stickied

One simply can't create a thread and come back to read it later.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Probably Magic posted:

The occasional bad D&D post is fine, the constant D&D posts border on making this just D&D. I can go over and read their poo poo myself, and if I do, I don't want to be accused of brigading because I'm yelling at something people are syqing over here. Of course, more and more you can't yell at anyone in D&D but then the syqing here just makes me feel helpless and pissed and like logging off. It's fine in moderation, but it's been excessive lately.

yeah again if there's a particularly bad take to syq ITT, I think of it as functionally equivalent to posting a bad Twitter take, which obviously I'm in favor of, and sometimes those take take the form of ridiculous probies

but if we take it too far the thread becomes a place where people come for meta-commentary on the arguments they're having in other places which is super tiresome

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

loquacius posted:

yeah again if there's a particularly bad take to syq ITT, I think of it as functionally equivalent to posting a bad Twitter take, which obviously I'm in favor of, and sometimes those take take the form of ridiculous probies

but if we take it too far the thread becomes a place where people come for meta-commentary on the arguments they're having in other places which is super tiresome

i think we do a pretty good job self-policing. who's that poster that got a redtext for syqing too much in here?

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

Buck Wildman posted:

lol at the two locked feedback threads stickied



camoseven
Dec 30, 2005

RODOLPHONE RINGIN'

Lib and let die posted:

i think we do a pretty good job self-policing. who's that poster that got a redtext for syqing too much in here?

catpetter

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003



Havana Syndrome is like the real test to see who has a little tv with cable news in their head where their brain is supposed to be

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.

loquacius posted:

yeah again if there's a particularly bad take to syq ITT, I think of it as functionally equivalent to posting a bad Twitter take, which obviously I'm in favor of, and sometimes those take take the form of ridiculous probies

but if we take it too far the thread becomes a place where people come for meta-commentary on the arguments they're having in other places which is super tiresome

Admittedly guilty of that last point. I can feel myself getting too worked up over meta bullshit on this site, which is obviously a sign I have too much time on my hands.

BitcoinRockefeller
May 11, 2003

God gave me my money.

Hair Elf

loquacius posted:

I guess I had my mind changed online because I was a dumb libertarian in the '00s and a stock Democrat from roughly 2010 to 2014, but, it wasn't arguments that did it, it was jokes and memes, and owns/burns on powerful people

that makes you a true libertarian. it's sort of like the true MENSA IQ test is not joining, the true application of libertarian facts and logic is looking at the facts and realizing libertarianism sucks.

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


I'm loving loving it that the cia is basically this guy rn

papa horny michael
Aug 18, 2009

by Pragmatica
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1441039243631939584?s=19

this form of weaponized language is worse than gwb white house

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.
I never had a libertarian phase (thank god) but I languished as a liberal for way too long. To the person asking, "Why you guys get so worked up about D&D," that's part of it, is that most of those people I assume are older than their early thirties like myself, and I was the definition of "socialism seems extremist to me" liberalism for so long and I just couldn't hold on to those views in the face of reality anymore, and watching people older than myself, who've experienced more, just continue believing in the lie... that boggles my mind. Even I the idiot have figured this out! What's your excuse? Unless everyone in USPol is actually in their early twenties, which significantly makes me rethink my whole approach to those people, but much more likely they're all in their late thirties to forties and are just like this.

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

papa horny michael posted:

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1441039243631939584?s=19

this form of weaponized language is worse than gwb white house

That Achewood "that's the worst possible answer in the entire universe" comic

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china

Mr Hootington posted:



LOOK AT THEM! WHAT IS HAPPEN TO THEM!

they didn't give marjorie's hooves time to develop into feets during the changing process

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

papa horny michael posted:

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1441039243631939584?s=19

this form of weaponized language is worse than gwb white house

YOU CAN'T QUIT! YOU'RE FIRED!!!

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.

docbeard posted:

That Achewood "that's the worst possible answer in the entire universe" comic

This is some George W. Bush rear end poo poo going on. Really is just the compassionate conservative Democrat presidency.

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


we at the white house cannot presently confirm or deny whether this guy is a prick

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

loquacius posted:

This is the thread for making fun of bad lib takes. I personally prefer to focus on Twitter superstars, but some people prefer to focus on the libs within our own borders.

I dunno, personally I got a Twitter to fight in the Posting Wars, but I'm kind of over it. The Posting Wars are a foreverwar. Nobody has their mind changed online, and the question of whether you win or lose comes down to who has more friends paying attention. If you invest yourself in trying to win either the local posting war or the larger one, you're just setting yourself up for feeling angry and terrible all the time for pretty much no gain, and I have a perfectly good job to do that for me, thank you very much

Yes, still find bad takes, yes, still laugh at them, but log off in your heart

Probably Magic posted:

The occasional bad D&D post is fine, the constant D&D posts border on making this just D&D. I can go over and read their poo poo myself, and if I do, I don't want to be accused of brigading because I'm yelling at something people are syqing over here. Of course, more and more you can't yell at anyone in D&D but then the syqing here just makes me feel helpless and pissed and like logging off. It's fine in moderation, but it's been excessive lately.

the_steve posted:

Generally speaking, the "Annoying Thing" that we do is engage in discussions that point out that the Democrats are poo poo instead of praising them for at least being poo poo with peanuts in it.
I mean, obviously there's some shitposting and trolling and that is what it is, but for the most part, it's legitimately just not patting Dems on the back for doing the same poo poo we spent four years complaining about Republicans doing.
all👏of👏this👏

AnimeIsTrash posted:

One simply can't create a thread and come back to read it later.

Not if you care about what's going to be posted and the whole point is to read and respond to it, especially in an extremely active forum. hold your horses lol

sticking the closed threads is to give folks a chance to notice and bookmark if they want instead of suddenly finding it and it's like halfway done or something

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


papa horny michael posted:

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1441039243631939584?s=19

this form of weaponized language is worse than gwb white house

Gonna laugh if it turns out this is the Calm Hitler comic in real life and the dude shouting at people was "YOU CANT JUST STICK A BUNCH OF REFUGEES IS AN ISLAND PRISON!!"

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 2 hours!

Excelzior posted:

US embassy personnel suffering injuries from invisible attacks? Well, if you consider what happened in Elfin Lied,

An anime too hosed up for me.

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

papa horny michael posted:

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1441039243631939584?s=19

this form of weaponized language is worse than gwb white house

This reporter is such a piece of poo poo for publishing that unsourced quote lol

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

Probably Magic posted:

I never had a libertarian phase (thank god) but I languished as a liberal for way too long. To the person asking, "Why you guys get so worked up about D&D," that's part of it, is that most of those people I assume are older than their early thirties like myself, and I was the definition of "socialism seems extremist to me" liberalism for so long and I just couldn't hold on to those views in the face of reality anymore, and watching people older than myself, who've experienced more, just continue believing in the lie... that boggles my mind. Even I the idiot have figured this out! What's your excuse? Unless everyone in USPol is actually in their early twenties, which significantly makes me rethink my whole approach to those people, but much more likely they're all in their late thirties to forties and are just like this.

Yeah this is kinda how my journey was, but I started out even farther to the right thanks to being raised with ultra-conservative parents

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Probably Magic posted:

I was the definition of "socialism seems extremist to me" liberalism for so long and I just couldn't hold on to those views in the face of reality anymore, and watching people older than myself, who've experienced more, just continue believing in the lie... that boggles my mind. Even I the idiot have figured this out! What's your excuse?

The majority of them make enough money where they don't want the system to be torn down and replaced with a better one, because they might be less well off in the new system.

That's it, that's the excuse.

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

lol in this house we trust science anecdotal evidence

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 2 hours!

mcmagic posted:

This reporter is such a piece of poo poo

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Eggplant Squire posted:

Gonna laugh if it turns out this is the Calm Hitler comic in real life and the dude shouting at people was "YOU CANT JUST STICK A BUNCH OF REFUGEES IS AN ISLAND PRISON!!"

yea this is 100% gonna turn out he 'shouted people down' when some border pervert was all 'well I don't see what they're complaining about isn't Haiti a lovely country anyway, I bet they LIKE the bridge' and he told them to shut the gently caress up.

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

strong "Kate's Playground" energy from the MTG pic

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china

Mr Hootington posted:

Anytime I see MTG I have flashbacks to the picture of her hosed up feet

https://twitter.com/pwtham11/status/1417128740790939649?s=20

papa horny michael
Aug 18, 2009

by Pragmatica

WampaLord posted:

The majority of them make enough money where they don't want the system to be torn down and replaced with a better one, because they might be less well off in the new system.

That's it, that's the excuse.

i think one of the mods of that forum worked directly on Biden campaigns lol

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle
i personally enjoy the smug sense of superiority I get from reading/mocking d&d posts

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

Probably Magic posted:

This is some George W. Bush rear end poo poo going on. Really is just the compassionate conservative Democrat presidency.

This Haitian refugee stuff might honestly be worse. I'm like one news story away from dressing in sackcloth and ashes and going out and screaming REPENT at everyone.

(I am actually too lazy to do this but that's how I'm feeling)

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

spacemang_spliff posted:

i personally enjoy the smug sense of superiority I get from reading/mocking d&d posts

Browse Back Better

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Excelzior posted:

strong "Kate's Playground" energy from the MTG pic

oh for gently caress's sake why did I get that reference

isn't that where the get out frog is from

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

gradenko_2000 posted:

oh for gently caress's sake why did I get that reference

isn't that where the get out frog is from

deep forums lore crew represent

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle
MTG"s wikifeet rating is going to be absolute dogshit now, RIP

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

gradenko_2000 posted:

oh for gently caress's sake why did I get that reference

isn't that where the get out frog is from

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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

papa horny michael posted:

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1441039243631939584?s=19

this form of weaponized language is worse than gwb white house

Lmao at this Trumpian Spin control of the narrative.

He resigned for other reasons, not for disagreeing with "upper management" in this case.

You know the Succ plan approves of Haitians being whipped as long as it would improve polling.

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