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Experto Crede posted:I've never read Atlas Shrugged and this trailer is not doing much to convince me otherwise Funny, because 1984 itself is a bastardized shittier version of "We" by Euvgeniy Zamyatin. Orwell admitted reading it three weeks before being "inspired" to "write" 1984.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2012 11:22 |
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I am OK posted:No it's not. They have a similar theme but Orwell's message is far more urgent and ultimately the different endings complete alter the point of the stories. They both stand as great works of art by themselves - there's no need to tear one down to build another one up. All great works of art borrow from each other. And what's with the scare quotes around write. For goodness's sake. I guess you're right. I just harbor a grudge because "1984" is famous and "We" is not, and I prefer the latter. Sorry for being a dick. Here's a book we can all agree we haven't read:
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2012 12:45 |
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It's the anniversary of the occupy protests. Post occupy pics.
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# ¿ Sep 17, 2012 15:20 |
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Chitin posted:Are these available somewhere in high def? Those were the highest I could find, but I didn't look very hard. Put them into tineye and report back if you find any higher res. They were made by Fro, who also made these, which are for sale in a limited run of 100 signed and numbered prints: It almost makes me think a goon is behind those. Fro didn't make this, but I found it in this gallery of occupy posters and I like it: Edit: Man, I am totally digging this Fro stuff, I might have to order one. More Fro artwork (that is vaguely political): twoday fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Sep 17, 2012 |
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# ¿ Sep 18, 2012 10:06 |
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An English rendition of the Vertov telegram, sent to Rosa Luxemburg the day after she was beheaded.
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# ¿ Sep 30, 2012 23:35 |
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Holy Roman Empire, Batman!
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# ¿ Sep 30, 2012 23:57 |
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# ¿ Oct 1, 2012 11:39 |
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Alhazred posted:That's some decadent poo poo right there Denmark. Darkie is now Darlie
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# ¿ Oct 23, 2012 21:38 |
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marktheando posted:He sounds terrible but "doesn't know about far-away city" is a weird thing to call a mayor out for. Reminds me of Operation Highjump, though it took place before September 1947: quote:In 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd led 4,000 military troops from the U.S., Britain and Australia in an invasion of Antarctica called "Operation Highjump", and at least one follow-up expedition. twoday fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Oct 26, 2012 |
# ¿ Oct 26, 2012 11:42 |
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I used to live next to the 'e' in Tottenville. Note that in this map, from 1639, the water levels everywhere seem elevated, with a thinner Statem Island and a visibly large river across the Bay in what is now called cliff wood. Elsewhere on the map, in Manhattan, and Brooklyn, water levels also seem higher than one would expect, and then is generally seen on later maps.
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2012 00:10 |
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The flag of Nicaragua is pretty
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2012 20:34 |
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Last minute attempt to get out the Whig vote:
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# ¿ Nov 6, 2012 17:54 |
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# ¿ Nov 10, 2012 14:34 |
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:Then how will anyone see the chunk of the Duchy of Lorraine, inside a bit of France, inside the Duchy of Lorraine (48'N, 6'E)? 10/6
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2012 11:19 |
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Kickstarter? New TMCM? Too Much Coffee Man is like the supersaiyan form of disaffected 90's grunge liberals from Seattle. twoday fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Nov 15, 2012 |
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2012 20:50 |
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SombreroAgnew posted:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2012/dec/04/liberal-amsterdam-plans-scum-villages Quite a scary legal grey area, this "antisocial behavior" situation... Then again, I've witnessed people set up bonfires burning lawn furniture on sidewalks in residential neighborhoods more then once in Amsterdam. And my neighborhood keeps getting locked down with police blockades and helicopters because people keep robbing armored cars. The first time, it was three guys with a gun, and they caught the one with the gun. The next week it was two guys and they just had a can of gasoline and poured it all over the guard and stood over him with a lighter. And then a few days later something happened again but I didn't check the news. Plenty of asocial assholes around here yet I'm sure this could be resolved without creating concentration camps. What really flips my wig is that the supporters of this use "historical tradition" as a justification, (and completely ignoring the obvious historical instance of this) mention a 19th century version of this that ended in the creation of totally lawless parts of the country. But they say that won't happen this time because they'll put in 24-hour police surveillance because they've "learned from the mistakes of history"
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2012 10:05 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:Priority. Suicide, yeeeeeah... Protestors storm past barbed wire to overrun a tank guarding the presidential palace in Egypt. twoday fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Dec 8, 2012 |
# ¿ Dec 8, 2012 00:52 |
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Barometer posted:It took me a longer time than it should have to spot that! Illuminati is a pretty fun game. I always play as the bankers. I think this was recently republished:
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2012 09:16 |
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This is supposedly a thing: maybe supposed thing twoday fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Dec 16, 2012 |
# ¿ Dec 16, 2012 01:38 |
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Volkerball posted:I believe these are both images of the Al-Madina Souq in Aleppo, Syria. It's a world heritage site. First is prior to the civil war, and the second is during a massive fire in late September that all but wrecked the place. That looks straight up like a dungeon out of Diablo. Hmm, maybe they should make a Diablo movie. "The letter came in a box of Halloween decorations purchased at Kmart, but for a near Julie Kieth never knew. It gathered dust in her storage, a haunting plea for help hidden among artificial skeletons! Tombstones, and spiderwebs."
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# ¿ Dec 25, 2012 00:22 |
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I'm a bit late to the Argentinachat, but hey- Emilio Marcos Palma (born January 7, 1978) is an Argentine national who is the first person known to be born on the continent of Antarctica. He was born in Fortín Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza Base near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. In late 1977, Silvia Morella de Palma, who was then seven months pregnant, was airlifted to Esperanza Base, in order to complete her pregnancy in the base. The airlift was a part of the Argentine solutions to the sovereignty dispute over territory in Antarctica. Emilio was automatically granted Argentine citizenship by the government since his parents were both Argentine citizens, and he was born in the claimed Argentine Antarctica. This is a sector of Antarctica claimed by Argentina as part of its national territory, although this claim is not internationally recognised and overlaps with British and Chilean claims in Antarctica. As Emilio was born in British Antarctic Territory, he had the right to claim British Overseas Territory citizenship under the terms of British Antarctic nationality law. However, neither he nor his parents filed a request.
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2013 07:25 |
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I forgot to mention that the place where Mr. Palma was born, Esperenza Base, continues to operate in a manner suited to back up the Argentine claims to the land. (Coincidentally, Palma's father was the commander of the base when Emilio was born.) They have settled families there and even built schools for the children so that they can claim that is just a normal permanently inhabited settlement. The families live there in 6 month shifts, and I can only imagine that this must be some sort of punishment for political prisoners akin to that chapter in Lolita where Humbert Humbert is forced to work in some sort of miserable arctic scientific expedition for a year, but for all intents and purposes, it is just a normal place where normal Argentines live of their own volition, and hence a normal part of Argentina, right? Right.
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2013 13:14 |
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ekuNNN posted:Here's one of those out-of-touch the Hague political elites coddling a filthy foreign animal You say this in jest, but there was actually a rural PVV politician who was arguing for the parks and nature reserves of the Netherlands to be purged of "foreign species" and letting only "originally Dutch" animals and plants remain, and also pushing for farmers to use Dutch breeds of cows and dogs exclusively. So no tulips, I guess, since they're Turkish. And no cows either, since they are miscegenated descendants of the Aurochs, which is now extinct.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2013 12:57 |
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zoux posted:FDR's 52nd Birthday Party was baller. Nice Fasces, FDR!
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2013 15:08 |
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Highspeeddub posted:President Lukashenko gives President Putin the "Order of Friendship" today during an official Union State meeting. Gotta love The Union State'as the most blatant attempt to piece back together the Soviet Union: Bonus: twoday fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Mar 16, 2013 |
# ¿ Mar 16, 2013 09:03 |
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Guess who allegedly converted to Islam in prison and retroactively views their criminal acts as acts of Jihad? This guy: Looks like this crazy blogpost written shortly after the shooting by a paranoid conspiracy theorist was right all along!
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2013 21:01 |
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Sorry for the tiny image text. Apparently there is a recent trend amongst London's superrich to build 'mega basements' and some people are upset about this. (Red Room! Red Roooom!) twoday fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Mar 21, 2013 |
# ¿ Mar 21, 2013 17:44 |
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Brigadier Sockface posted:I love this. Any context? That looks like an aloof fat policeman and a cross-armed skinny policeman in Russia. It's a pretty standard tactic for them to be deployed in this kind of pairing:
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2013 11:31 |
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There was an interesting counterprotest to the anti-gay protest in Paris yesterday organized by the Ukrainian group Femen, but all the pictures of it are NSFW.
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2013 14:05 |
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Crasscrab posted:drat the Jewish alien/Jewish Bigfoot NWO Illuminati Vampire cabal! I love this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Ool1NsKW4
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2013 13:28 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDt6wOfZi2U
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2013 11:26 |
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ekuNNN posted:"What do you want: freedom or serfdom? Freedom, only through the NSB (Dutch National Socialist League)" "Party for Freedom" (Party for Racism)
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2013 07:58 |
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If I were a conservative hellbent on showing everyone that there is a communist conspiracy on to subversively crash the economies of capitalist countries, this is the poster I would make. On a related note:
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2013 17:38 |
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Taiwanese animation, the only news source I trust! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MKKSJiRwog
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2013 13:53 |
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ekuNNN posted:Money chat! They even had cool psychedelic money under Nazi occupation:
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2013 08:11 |
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ThePutty posted:
Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov, former president of Kalmykia, and still president of the World Chess federation is devoted to making Kalmykia the chess capital of the universe. While he was president of the Republic, he spent a ton of money on chess programs, doing things like making chess a compulsory subject for the first three years of elementary school. When an opposition newspaper published an article exposing that he was diverting government resources to pay for these projects, the editor of that newspaper was mysteriously stabbed to death. Here he is in June, 2011, visiting Muammar Gaddafi in Libya to play chess with the dictator while he was in hiding from rioting mobs. Gaddafi died 4 months later.
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# ¿ May 22, 2013 12:50 |
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alcyon posted:The NS (the Dutch Railways) have been installing new security cameras on platforms for the last few years. Compare this to the cameras in the Red Light District in Amsterdam: They are also super obvious, and there are even some signs pointing them out in busy areas: I think that like the NS cameras, these are supposed to instill a sense of safety in tourists, since the Red Light, like train stations, is famous for being full of pickpockets and scam artists, and many people I know who have come to visit Amsterdam were unnecessarily paranoid about the risk posed by these criminals. On the other hand the Dutch police also have cameras posted in non-touristic poor suburban areas (such as predominantly immigrant neighborhoods) which look more or less like any generic surveillance cameras. The ones in the touristic areas, however, are specifically emblazoned with the police markings, making them super-obvious. This is accentuated by the fact that the Dutch police have a relatively outrageous style consisting of neon colors and jarring patterns that makes them look like extras from an 80's sci-fi movie: twoday fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Sep 5, 2013 |
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I was going to respond with something else, but in the meantime noticed that I have a lot of pictures of Hillary Clinton standing in front of flags, so here's that instead:
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