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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Parallax Scroll posted:

It really is a loving blast to play and everyone should jump in. Come up with a dumb gimmick for a character, say the most backwards ignorant poo poo you can think of, and watch as people not only believe you but agree with you.

Which class will get nerfed in the next patch from Tim?

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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Rambling Robot posted:

Tim Selaty - tell us about .... drunksgonewild.com and Sȇx.com!

[Thread deleted] :freep: :ussr:

Or questioning where the donation money would go.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Wet and ready posted:

Holy Mother of God, "Dr" Sharon Schuetz writes short stories too.
One of them is Holy Mother of God first person.
In another she riffs on C.S. Lewis.
In another she does frontier dialect, like Mark Twain I guess.

Yup you can tell she went to the midwest's version of Liberty University:
http://www.cornerstone.edu/home

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

rocketgril posted:

So apparently this picture is akin to creating a picture of Mohammed taking a dump on the Quran.



Edit: Here are some responses to it.





It sounds like this guy was hitting on me.


I'm still waiting for a human centipede parody of the flag

:allears:

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Spacedad posted:

I always found it amusing that Russia's reaction to the idea of someone like Romney becoming president was a little bit like a top tier chess player finding out he's going to square off against preschooler who keeps eating the pieces.

"Yes, please - put a dipshit like that in charge, and then we can walk all over your dumbass country."

They also actively trolled him after his dumb plane comment by offering to send him one of their old rickety cold war turbo-props so he could enjoy rushing in from the windows.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/russian-offers-romney-a-plane-whose-windows-open/

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Spacedad posted:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2012/0912/Putin-I-m-grateful-to-Romney-for-proving-me-right-about-missile-defense


Basically, the US has been trying through diplomacy to get Russia to back down on that missile defense plan - part of the larger disarmament thing.

Romney, being careless and stupid, with his clueles rhetoric, gave Putin liscence to push for that plan. :doh:


When you're a major political figure, careless babble has consequences in diplomacy, and Romney is a loving idiot who did damage to this country's interests without even being in the executive office.

He basically used Tom Clancy novels for making his list of enemy states from including Russian and China, even though US interests are sensitively entangled in those countries.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

CommieGIR posted:

It can fly BACKWARDS. Lets see Romney's private jet do that :smug:

It had another superpower:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuT15bo3iP8


Creating a impressively ironic Video PR Op

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

CommieGIR posted:

The worst part of that video is the abuse of Aaron Copeland's 'Ode to the Common Man'

Plus the irony of the composer being being gay and also having a tremendous loathing for the GOP.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Mitchicon posted:

This is pretty common for a lot of artists. Just look at Paul Ryan and his love for Rage Against the Machine, the level of irony is nearly unbearable. I love it when artists tell Republicans to stop using their music.

Or genius Reagan using "Born in the US' as a jingo Pro-US campaign trail song.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Mitchicon posted:

Now, that level of irony is actually painful. I love it when suuuper Patriotic "Real" Americans play that song.

Well it is a somewhat tricky song since the vocals and chorus make it seem uplifting until you follow the story told by the lyrics.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

socialsecurity posted:

Which part of the constitution allows regular citizens to arrest congress and the president again? Is it right next to the "this is a christian nation" and "this document is perfect forever and should never be changed or doubted?"

Conveniently enough the Constitution allows the opposite scenario where Habeas Corpus can be suspended due to a crisis or rebellion.

Mitchicon posted:

Well yea, because :911: Common Sense :911: tells you that it's a Patriotic Song.

It's a song designed to have great appeal to truthiness.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Icon Of Sin posted:

He kept quoting random bible verses to one of my accounts spamming porn, so he's at least annoying as hell in my book.

Maybe he's just showing appreciation for the porn you posted?

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Dr_Amazing posted:

So what's the deal with Soros? I'm never actually heard of him mentioned outside of crazy people accusing him or doing stuff. From context I'm getting that he's some sort of anti-Koch?

Yeah he basically provided funding for liberal causes, which put him on the right wing conspiracy theory list. He also almost broke the British pound through some cunning currency manipulation.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Mitchicon posted:

Also, Soros is a socialist...but he's also a billionaire. But he loves communism because whatever something something

He also got the other classic right wing fear for the whole rich jew manipulating the world conspiracy theory.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Mitchicon posted:

Someone needs to create a chart of right wing contradictions. So we can laugh at it. And then cry.

I love that aspect of the right where some them do the Israel cheerleading but then you have other right wing nuts doing the classic
jew puppet master conspiracy theory.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

ReidRansom posted:

Ahahahahaha come on. Seriously?

It's a pretty cunning troll.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

U.S. Barryl posted:

The goon call-ins were so awesome because of how subtle they were. You couldn't get the hosts to outright disagree with you for racism or whatever. It was especially funny when the caller said "those people" at Whole-Foods and the lady host was all like "I hear your heart." Like saying "I know you are talking about poor black people."

I really wish they weren't so rude to their callers. I would have loved to hear Jesus Christ's explanation on being tainted before they hung up on him. I tried to call over and over again, and got hung up on twice.

Yeah I loved the cunning dog whistle calls that got all the positive nodding from the show hosts.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Well it's good when a MMO has achievements to provide incentive to keep people playing.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

duck hunt posted:

Who ever went on the TPC daily briefing and talked about Nobama putting "dihydrogenmonoxide" into America's water supply...

you sir or mam have made my day.

It's like fluoride but even worst from a mind control effectiveness potential.

U.S. Barryl posted:

DING DING DING!



EPIC FAIL!

The average Tea Partier on the other hand has lots in common with Dr. Zaius or maybe the gorilla military caste.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

I love the posts how the whole point of the website was to create a TPC free speech zone without the threat of other viewpoints.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

djw175 posted:



I don't even need to stretch for the Nazi Germany parallels anymore.

Makes easy inspiration for some profile pic photoshop material.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

samsquantch1 posted:

Thanks for posting these! My next account will proudly use one. :)

Isn't it exactly what Tim wants?

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Raged posted:

St. Vincent DePaul is the Australian version of Goodwill. We mostly just call it Vinnies down here. You can take solace in the fact that most right wingers down here would laugh at anyone who claimed to love the Tea Party. The Tea Party tried to set up their own branch down here and just ended up being completely ignored or laughed at. Republicans make even our most vile politicians look good.

I didn't know the Tea Party nuts were trying to move into other countries?

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Raged posted:

Here is the Australian Tea Party website.
http://austeaparty.com.au/web/


Here is their ICONIC PARTY MOVIE Based on Orwell's Animal Farm
http://austeaparty.com.au/web/iconic-movie/

They are so unpopular down here that the movie has been up for ages and has under 20 likes.

It's sort of amusing to see the Tea Party looniness getting applied to completely different political world than the USA.

But has the same sort of irrational whining over things like Global Warming being a fraud.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Wildlife Analysis posted:

You mean their slogan of "Small government and free market" is not playing well with your guys' high quality of living? I'll be damned.

Curse you reasonably priced medical care and higher education!

Such big government and socialism needs to be driven out so it can be a successful country like the USA.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

HackerJoeGuy posted:

I can't see the Tea Party working on a global scale at all. Not that any of the Tea Party views are strictly American, but because the "movement" itself has become so incredibly toxic even to outside observers.

I doubt it would have global appeal since it's a uniquely revolting populist movement like the Know Nothing movement.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Dr_Amazing posted:

It's actually really rare to see them complain about something Obama has done. There's lots of crazy stuff about how he's a lizard man or whatever, and tons of complaints about things he's "going to do." Any true complaints are usually just stupid poo poo like wearing the wrong shirt or something.

Or all their attacks on Michelle complaining about things like nutrition fascism.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Alan Smithee posted:

It's okay for the TPC mods to read your messages because at least they aren't the govt.

It's okay when a corporation shoves their fist up your rear end because FREE MARKET

It's also their right whack off when they intercept lusty messages between different profiles

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Hazo posted:

I know ButtonJ has a lot to come back and respond to (and I really hope he does) and people have already done a pretty good job of refuting his claims so I won't pile on, but I really wanted to emphasize how much I loving hate when people disingenuously talk about Obama's "tax hikes." He let income tax cuts expire, you morons, he didn't jack up rates on his own out of some deep-seated hatred for Americans. And the rate increase only appreciably affects the very richest of Americans, so you'll see virtually no change and have nothing to bitch about unless you're making $400K+ a year. Taxes are still incredibly low historically, and are miles away from "taking half of what someone earned" as ButtonJ claimed in the last thread. gently caress.
I don't get Tom. Half the time he just seems like an ignorant ultra-religious but harmless and well-meaning guy, and the rest of the time he just posts hateful poo poo like this.

Yeah actual taxes paid for top brackets decreased over time due to job creator propaganda dropping down the rates and opening up even more cushy shelters if you have enough good accountants.

Someone clever like mittens easily gets the rate down to 11 to 13 percent.

This is a handy link:
http://taxfoundation.org/article/us-federal-individual-income-tax-rates-history-1913-2013-nominal-and-inflation-adjusted-brackets

For example in the good old 1950s going over 200,000 got you a 91% tax rate, while in the 2013 Obama Reich the tax rate for the top bracket is 39.6%.

etalian fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Mar 3, 2013

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Jet Jaguar posted:

Hell, even going "back to the rates of the Reagan years" (as I've seen folks proclaim as an ideal situation) would jack the top tax bracket back up to 70%. I'd settle for the long national nightmare of peace and prosperity we had during the Clinton years where it was all the way up to 39.6% on income above $250,000. The horror. The horror.

Also it's fun trolling them with Reagan quotes on how he believed in a special millionaire tax since it was more and balanced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgbJ-Fs1ikA

I guess a good amount of the TPC community is creating a false simplistic view of the past that's doesn't line up with actual facts such as their taxes too high talking point.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

djw175 posted:

It's almost like these people are denying reality and just repeating things a talking head has told them they believe.

Let's consult the wisdom of the god-like founding fathers,"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Armitage posted:

I get all my facts from ImageBlitz!

I get my facts from Facebook

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Spacedad posted:

OH LOVELY. I remember the part of the bible where Jesus pointed and laughed at the lepurs. How Christian it is to gloat at the sick and the suffering. :rolleyes:

You know, if it weren't for your archaic beliefs causing the US government under the Reagan administration to drag its loving feet on HIV/AIDS awareness and research, and to this day STILL stymieing sex ed on basic condom usage & safe sex practices, we'd have a lot fewer homosexuals suffering from HIV/AIDs or even having died in mass numbers during the outbreak in the 80s.

Oh and according to the CDC, that rise in HIV/AIDS infection is affecting straight people too, and the cause is pretty clear - it's regressive asswipes like you getting squeamish about discussing condoms & safe sex practices actively shutting down any frank open sex ed discussion thereby dooming kids to a complete lack of awareness: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...g-young-people/


PS - gently caress YOU.

Solid red states also have a much higher rate of teenage pregnancy so the avoid sin and getting rid of sex ed classes approach doesn't seem to work too well.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

C.C.C.P. posted:

The Tea Party is like a combination of Dale's paranoia, Buck Strickland's corruption and skeeziness and Cotton Hill's all-encompassing hatred and anger.

I loved the Hank Hill troll account so much.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

harlequin baby posted:

Defaming :bsg: should be a bannable offense. :colbert:


e:
Tim Sr - Adama
Tim Jr - Appollo(obviously)



"My only regret, son, is that we never got our porn venture to take off the ground."

Complete my legacy son, finish the Sex.com website.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

samsquantch1 posted:

Oh, look. Someone made up a chart of all the horrible stuff in the Bible!



Or even in the modern catholic church.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Icon Of Sin posted:

There isn't a :stare: big enough for that. "He is actually doing things to help people, check this out!" Is met with "YOU'RE A LIAR I DON'T WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU EVER AGAIN I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW YOU COULD BE A REAL PERSON GTFO TROLL". There's a certain sublime beauty to it.

Yup the constitution protects insurance companies so they can refuse coverage for pre-existing conditions.

It's a really awesome moment of zen being forced through personal experiences how government regulation serves a really important function in civil society.

etalian fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Mar 3, 2013

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

The TPC is pretty much the basic plot arc of BSG, people dreaming of finding a mythical paradise world only to discover it's actually a irradiated wasteland.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

samsquantch1 posted:

Tim thinks he has found a new way to force threads that don't comply with their orthodoxy go away. This one is about atheists.



The whole point of democracy is the majority being able tell the minority what to do....

Or through clever proxy IP alt account vote spamming push a goatse picture to the top of the global feed.

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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

I'm still waiting to find a Chief Redcorn alt account.

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