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Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.



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Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


"If Obama is elected I'm moving to a more liberal, more socialist, leftist country."

Oh God drat it. I feel a strong urge to start drinking already.


A dove sits on the shoulder of a Mahdi Army soldier standing guard near the ancient Imam Ali mosque. The Mahdi Army, a Shiite militia, was fighting U.S.-Iraqi forces for control of the holy city.

Black Griffon fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Nov 6, 2012

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Aleksei Vasiliev posted:



that's a lot of loving retweets

When I shared it on Facebook it had been up two minutes or so, and attained 47 000 shares.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


poo poo is getting real in Athens again.

(Not that it ever stopped)

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


front wing flexing posted:

poo poo on a shingle is has neither waffles nor chicken in it. It's white gravy, chipped or dried beef over white bread. Where did you grow up?



Jesus loving Christ, who would eat that?



Well actually, he wouldn't Donny. :shobon:

Black Griffon fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Nov 9, 2012

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


C2C - 2.0 posted:

Ummmm....me?



Well you're a nutter, is all I'm saying.

Students going FTP in Chile.



Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Orange_Lazarus posted:

Yeah, you kinda do.



Kinda? They'd look less racist if they were punching the guy. Thant kind of bullshit is dumber than "I have black friends".

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.



The one positive thing I can say about his one is that at least it doesn't lump socialism in with the tyranny club like the rest of those dumb things do.


Maine and gay marriage.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Rogue0071 posted:

No, it just describes as a socialist Woodrow Wilson, who deployed US troops to Russia to fight against the proletarian revolution and the Bolsheviks. Not to mention slaveowner Thomas Jefferson.

Also, amusingly, Andrew Jackson is on the Republican side of the spectrum, despite having founded the Democratic Party.

Content: Chasseurs de Skins - a documentary in French (with English subtitles) about the rise of the antifascist movement in Paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dn2NRvrR-U

Oh I didn't mean on any level but the superficial. It's still dumb as loving hell.


Mexico and the war on drugs. Several south/middle American countries are looking to change their policies regarding drugs and the war, the future is looking brighter for once.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

Interesting how people always use relatively safe options for those "ha ha we got revenge on these fuckers" pictures rather than

:nws: http://i.imgur.com/sSCJ4.jpg :nws:
A doctor carries 11-month-old baby boy Omar al-Masharawi, who according to hospital officials was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Ahmed Zakot / Reuters 14/11/2012

I'm reminded of the iconic picture from the Highway for Death, which I can't find right now. To butcher the actual quote and paraphrase the photographer: "I take pictures like this so I can show my mom that war isn't what she sees on the television".

White people:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50135091n

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Crasscrab posted:

God is a huge dick.



Bye Paul!

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


"No cause see, they fired rockets at us, and that justifies segregation tyranny murder aggressive expansion"
:goonsay:

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Oh joy. What kind of war is fought with bulldozers? Tell anyone that without context and it won't sound right.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


quote:

Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai says "the goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages. Only then will Israel be calm for 40 years," according to Israel's Haaretz website.

gently caress these people. gently caress them for hijacking Israel, gently caress them for hijacking Judaism and gently caress them for committing the same crimes the Nazis committed sixty years ago.



It's not even hyperbole anymore. These fuckers are complete tyrants. This child could be Jewish or Palestinian, it doesn't matter. The fault lies with one party.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


skipThings posted:

It's a travesty and a monstrous act of imperialism what is happening in Gaza. Opportunistic shitheads use jingoistic populism to get re-elected and when the new Palestianian rockets finally hit Tel Aviv, Benny and his cronies will cheer, because that will get panicing people to vote for loving Likud.

But boy oh boy are you overreacting for comparing that to the Nazi-regime. Why even trying to compare the suffering of one to the other, does it somehow become more monstrous that way because "NAZIS!" ?

Israel is not trying to take ove the world, they are not actively trying to rid the world of Islam. They are fuckheads, but not Nazis.



My point is that they are actively segregating and attempting to destroy the Palestinian population. They've successfully convinced their own countrymen that Israel is simply "better" than Palestine. If I could find the graphs that showed what the average Israelan believed about the average Palestine, I'd post it, but I can't dig it up right now, so I just have to hope you've seen it as well.

The Israeli state are utter tyrants, is the point. They've managed to convince a nation that the Palestine state shouldn't be. The reason the comparison is important and not just a "Goodwin" is because the occupation of Palestinian lands and the acts of terror against the Palestinian population bear such striking resemblances to the neo-nazi actions against "non-Aryan" populations that we've seen in countries like South Africa. It's gone beyond the hyperbolic comparison to the striking reality. The apartheid against the Palestinian population is real, the propaganda is real.

They are not trying to take over the world, but the crimes of the Nazis were not limited to that idea. Their crimes were many, and the moment Israel commits any of them is a moment you have to realize that something has gone wrong. One very important part of realizing just how terrible the Nazi regime was, is to realize how many terrible things they did and not focus on the "obvious" like the holocaust and their drive to take over the world.

I completely accept that my comparisons to the Nazi regime might be accepted negatively, but I believe that there is a point where the comparisons become apt.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Shunkymonky posted:

Whose the poodle supposed to be?



Tony Blair.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.



Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert in Gaza.

the2ndgenesis posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwH3Xr6uyG0
Wrap it up leftailures, it's capitalism.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/24/the-fund-for-american-studies-releases-video-parody-depicting-world-without-capitalism/#ixzz2ChhIiYqr

quote:

"“As a result, you have a lot of anti-Wall Street demonstrations that are largely populated by young people, and we find it ironic because they’re the very ones who take advantage of a lot of the products of capitalism such as the internet, cell phones, YouTube, et cetera,” Slattery said to TheDC. “We’ve done another video that asks young people if they would give up the internet for a million dollars, and overwhelmingly they said no.”

Right. Because shallow idiots are the only people who protest the establishment, and the poor don't even exist. The world consists solely of young white folks with iPads.

Also, no one in America has ever been forced to live on a budget so meager they can barely afford food, no one in America has been forced to live a lovely apartment that's falling apart at the seams (that dude is living in relative luxury), no one in America has been met with constant apathy from their fellow man because the entire system they live under has oppressed them and forced them down, no one in America has ever been beaten up or shot for even suggesting a protest. That only happens in dystopian fantasies. Yes sirree. :allears:

Eat the loving rich.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Saw her speak in Oslo a few months back, she's an inspiration.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Nope, we won't. We really, really never needed "you" white males.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2eWlHEPwI

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Here's a picture of the muslim ethnic group she's ignoring as they slowly die of starvation, disease and poverty and quickly when buddhist extremists try to kill them. :)


God drat it. :(

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.



I'm really annoyed with you right now, because I've wanted to post that in response to any news item where Egeland was mentioned for months now. Oh well, not everyone reads this thread.


heh (2004)

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Bill O'Reilly is a racist idiot and Gangnam style is apparently "dangerous".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb0bCvfwv9g

GirlBones posted:

I don't have a picture to post. I don't care if I get probated. I have to post and say don't watch the video in this link if you don't want to see a living, breathing headless child. This is the worst thing I have seen on the internet, and I have seen a lot.

EDIT: if you are american, canadian, or european, Watch This Video.

It needs to be seen by far more people than those who will see it. I've sent a link to all three major newspapers in Norway, hopefully at least one of them will devote a tiny little blurb about it.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.




They didn't get a better deal.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Reuters released their best pictures of the year. Here are some of them.


Somali police arrest a suspect connected to Al Qaeda.


G8 watches champions league.


Tibetan refugee in India protests a visit from the Chinese president.




Parkour protesters in Egypt attempt to put out a fire.


Man from Palestine mourns his friend lost in Israeli airstrike.


Controlled demolition in Afghanistan.




Bridge in Nepal ruined by flood.


Families mourn relatives lost under Mubarak.


Demonstrations in the Philippines.


Israelis react to missile sirens.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.



Ahahaha, you're outnumbered motherfucker.

So this guy died. Slipped on the ice.


It's weird, because "hero" has never, ever come to mind when I see this guy. Survivor, sure. Victim, yeah. Never hero.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Ron Jeremy posted:

From the related videos on the gamer recruiting ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANri2oLWjms

John Trevolta joins the army.

Another related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWqT8Rljt_8

Really, if American ads were more like the Swedish ones, they'd have a better military. The last thing they need is another loving patriot.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


tastethehappy posted:

Andy Rutledge is the worst. He's good at what he does, but he is a colossal shitheel. He wasn't that outspokenly horrible until 2008. Then he kinda freaked out about Obama.

He used to do theoretical site redesigns, which were pretty good and informative. Then he started posting ones like the one he made for USA.gov:

http://www.andyrutledge.com/usa-dot-gov-redux.php

"We live in the greatest nation in the history of the world..."

You know, this is what pisses me off about these people. The idea that the US is in any way, shape or form "the greatest nation on earth", or that their constitution is divine in its perfection is so loving harmful and delusional that I don't have words for it. Their other stupidity and ignorance makes me want to laugh or cry or do some kind of combination, but the "greatest country in the world" horseshit pisses me off.

It wasn't a very good show, but this is a very good scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zqOYBabXmA

The idea that saying "The US is not the greatest country in the world" is some kind of incredible moment that should provoke surprised gasps from the audience of a talk show on a show about a newsroom on HBO is loving depressing.

I live in an amazing country. We have free healthcare, free education, low crime-rates one of the worlds most humane prison-systems and more. Saying "Norway is the greatest country in the world" leaves a bad taste in my mouth, because I know that despite all those things, we still have work to do. I don't want to think that I live in the greatest country in the world; it brings me no pride to think that, and it shouldn't do that for Americans either, because it's pure, delusional ignorance.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Donkwich posted:

That was a fake quote from Obama.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/change.asp


The banner for Canada Free Press, a bizarre Canada-based right-wing news website with a fetish for the United States.

Never believed it was a real one, but it exemplifies what people like Rutledge thinks. People really do believe that the US is the greatest country in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujODgbwToYY
(Memorial concert for July 22, just to clarify)

Black Griffon fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jan 8, 2013

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Orange Devil posted:

This is a good clip except for the last one and a half minute when it goes into total fantasy land. Pretty much none of the things this guy says the US "used to be" or "used to do" are true. Sorry guys, it's always been poo poo, it's just that pretty much everywhere else used to be pretty drat poo poo as well.

Yeah, I honestly forgot about that part, and I cringe when I hear it, because it's just as delusional.



Apparently Jan. 19 is "Gun Appreciation Day" now. Two days before Obama's inauguration.
http://gunappreciationday.com/index

rear end cobra posted:

To add to this, here are a couple of songs from the anniversary concert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NR9kuMvJ4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lZkWD6-G5M

And this is good stuff too.

Black Griffon fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Jan 9, 2013

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.



Things are heating up in Mali.

Mr. Stingly posted:

"These people" actually comprises all Americans, and we've behaved that way since the very beginning. There's an idea that we have only been insufferably smug and proud since the end of the 2nd World War. I would have though the same thing if not for Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. There are a couple hilarious passages where he relates his irritation at being constantly harrassed by Americans; to confirm for them that America is the greatest country in the world. If he said some other place was nice, they'd bug him to say but surely, America's things are better. All that in 1830.

It's the insecurity of the youngest child. We're not quite sure we belong here. We have to talk ourselves into existing, perhaps into being worthy of being here on this continent. We can't point to ancient potsherds and sword handles and say Americans lived here 900 years ago, and feel some kind of special shared identity with five hundred generations like perhaps a Norwegian or a British citizen standing among the tumbled ruins of a medieval castle.

We have hamburgers, football stadiums, and Abraham Lincoln's log cabin. Oh, and this huge, gigantic landmass that made us a fantastically wealthy nation overnight. If we sound like arrogant, smug, annoying nouveau riche douchebags, it's because that's exactly what we are. Give us an eon or so to settle into existence and we'll be way more chill.



Well it's always good to hear that things are worse than you thought.

And you know, I'm not some rear end in a top hat misanthropist. I'm an optimist, and I hope you'll settle in before an eon has passed, but I also hope that every single day before that is filled with people telling, implying, discussing, joking, debating, and proving that you're not the best; it needs to sink in. If you accept the role as an irresponsible child, you should be treated as such.

Burn a flag, yell at a soldier, film the police, breastfeed in public, just do something to gently caress with the status quo.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Meat addicts are the most immature loving babies on the planet. Meat is great, you can make some amazing stuff with meat, but every time I hear a mate complain that his masculinity is being compromised by a lack of meat I want to drown him in soy sauce.


Wolf 'round Oslo. Lotsa folk achin' to shoot that beast.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.



If both of them said Capitalism this would be a genuinely good picture.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Thank you for that appropriatemetaphor, exactly what I wanted.



Christian Tybring-Gjedde. One of the worst in the Progress Party right now. Thinks that Islam is threatening to rip Norway apart, has said that Pakistani youth are biologically inclined to violence, Israel BFF, the works. I've talked to him a couple of times because he shopped at a grocery store I worked at (and I tended to talk to all of my customers), and he's a very friendly guy, but he's completely misguided, irresponsibly stupid and generally disgusting when it comes to politics.

The past few years I've had in-depth conversations with all sorts of people; conservative/fundamentalist religious people, misanthropic edgy internet atheists, far-right wingers, unhealthily obsessed otakus, smelly disturbing furries, filthy rich one percenters, "green" anti nuclear and GMO activists and more (including many more people with positive stereotypes instead of negative ones, thankfully). The plain truth is that once you talk to people like people, you learn that most of them are compassionate, friendly and trustworthy, and that includes rear end in a top hat right-wing politicians, but it's hard to not just dismiss them as worthless lost causes when they spew so much poo poo.


Giffords for loving president.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


KoldPT posted:

I'm not sure what it says about me that I agree with some of those :v:



Someone stole a gold emblem from Bahlsen, said they'd only give it back if they gave cookies to kids at a hospital in Hannover.

I'm not sure what it says about you either. What do you mean you agree with some of those?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07mVgliChw8

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


KoldPT posted:

Well, pretty much that I don't think the word oval office is a big deal. Profanity is profanity, it's not necessarily making a negative association with the other meanings of the word. I say "oh my god" or "jesus christ" pretty often despite not being religious. I could be wrong, though!



I doubt there's anything better than LoGH for out of context quotes.

It's "some of those" that ticked me off. "oval office" is the one thing I could understand, but the rest of them are pretty prominent rear end in a top hat signs.

Speaking of assholes:

Abloobloo, poor foxie.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Lysdexique posted:

Holy poo poo, how long until he claims his twitter was hacked? What a disgusting pile of human garbage.

Oh that won't happen.
(video)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/04/todd-kincannon-trayvon-martin-tweet_n_2618895.html

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


It would be pretty amazing if they made a G.I. Joe movie where Joe said gently caress America and fought against everything American to save the world. Instead we get what sounds like a Tea Party fanfic.

quote:

Badly beaten, outnumbered and outgunned, the Joes make a desperate plan to overthrow Cobra Commander and take back the world, with their secret black operation called the "Second American Revolution"

G.I. Joe is an imperialist pig.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


I feel for the individual, good cops affected by Christopher Dorner's actions, but the corrupt, infested rear end in a top hat of a leadership--which allows American cops to commit atrocious crimes against the public-- can just burn. They had this coming.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


Whenever I feel ashamed of atheism and at other atheists, Sagan soothes my soul. It's an instant fix-me-up.

This popped up on my Facebook feed:


I don't know whether I should feel angry at the moronic hijacking of a famous feminist quote, or if I should be laughing because of how loving stupid it is. So here's Rebecca West:


"In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again."

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Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

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"The institutions that made America great must be destroyed."

This kind of sentiment is too loving stupid. Slavery, imperialism, capitalism and rampant, catastrophic deregulation leading to massive environmental damage has made a lot of countries great (in the sense that that they have a higher GDP, higher quality of living for anyone not caught under the boot and a higher degree of technological progress). The western world wouldn't have been what it was if it wasn't for colonialism. Institutions are torn down all the time (and then they rise again in a different form), and rightly so.

Really; if the result of every traditional American institution's downfall was a better world, then tear the fuckers down. Nationalistic sentimentality is sickening.

Someone wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a heavy bag was overheard saying something threatening on a bus in Oslo. Police have surrounded important buildings and are searching buses and taxies I can say with absolute certainty that no pickups will be accidentally riddled with bullets by Norwegian police.

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