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Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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padijun posted:

what episodes in the back catalog are considered "must listens?"

Episode 61 gives an great look on the appeal and rise of the alt right and ways you can throw them off edge.

Episode 20 is an amazing look on the appeal of MMA and why so many fighters believe in conspiracy theories.

Okuteru fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Dec 6, 2016

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Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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My dad is a Hillary fan and this was the first election he ever voted in. He just got his citizenship this year. He tends to be really liberal on immigration for obvious reasons, but conservative on other things.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Good Lord, that Dan Nianan stand up clip was painful to listen to.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Obstacle2 posted:

So I was going to go to a DSA new member meeting tomorrow, but I just realized that its scheduled from 10:30AM to 3:30PM and has assigned readings.

10:30-11:00 am Introductions/Check in
11:00-12:00 pm What is democratic socialism?
12:00- 12:30 pm Socialist speed dating
12:30- 1:30 pm LUNCH
1:30- 2:00 pm History of DSA
2:00- 2:15 pm BREAK
2:15- 3:00 Socialism and Trump: understanding the rise of the right
3:00- 3:30 pm DSA campaigns- How to get involved.

That is, uh, not how you get new people to come out and see if your organization is right for them.

HAHA, the left in this country is so hosed

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Halloween Jack posted:

"So before Netflix existed, the price of movies was that you had to go to a store to get the movie on a disc--like a big, flat flash drive--and you had to listen to an employee ask you if you'd like to buy some stale popcorn or some candy for the same prices they charge for candy in the theatre."

"And sometimes the movie you wanted wasn't even there!"

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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I can't tell if the Christian EDM song they played at the end of the latest episode is parody or real. Amazing.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Bryter posted:

The viletat



I thought it was something to do with his EVE clan or something, not football. Either way lol

Nah, Vilerat was cool and good.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Apoplexy posted:

Minnesota has, since before the ACA as far as I know, had state-funded free health insurance for the poor/working-class. I know I didn't get booted off for doing a $10/hour full-time job. Without that, yeah, I'd have loving killed myself. This country is an abomination and EVERY time the Republicans get even the slightest amount of power, they ruin something good that's helpful to good people. It's disgusting. And the Democrats are spineless pieces of poo poo who do nothing to stop it.

Huge rear end military aside, the US is pretty much turning into a developing country.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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prefect posted:

All I know about metal gear is that it's some kind of video game involving guns and shooting.

It's pretty much a Japanese dude living out his military and political fetishism through homoeroticism and long winded cutscenes because he also really wants to be a movie director.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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The only good thing that Max Landis has ever created is "Wrestling isn't Wrestling" and Chronicle was a trope-fest.

There, I said it.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Halloween Jack posted:

I've always wanted to play the MGS series. How many of the games should I Let's Play, that is which game in the series is the first with decent gameplay?

MGS1 is fine, but MGS2 probably the best game in the series. It's pretty much an Adam Curtis movie: the video game.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Sebadoh Gigante posted:

MGS2 has cool ideas but MGS3 is the most fun to play/the best game overall.

Eh, having to pause the game every time you had to eat, heal wounds or change camo got tedious.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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The latest episode proved that Amber is the best Chapo. Felix is a close second.

Also, if any of you guys are interested, I made a Chapo PS4 community. The name is PS4 Dryboys.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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She's gonna run in 2020, being touted as Obama 2.0 only a woman with a hard on for strong law enforcement. Watch.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Lord Frisk posted:

The Midwest apparently means everything from west of the appalachians until the east side of LA.

I've always considered Las Vegas to be the beginning of the West Coast.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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sleeptalker posted:

It's easy enough to mistake them, the neoliberal "bootstraps" is "go back to school". They'd emphasize the part where poor people need to learn to code, and then they can make the next Facebook.

I thought "bootstraps" meant learning a trade while dismissing college as a scam, declaring unions as money hungry money sinks, and willing to slob the knob of management. That's what has always bothered me about Mike Rowe; the trades are an excellent alternative to college, but his message is anti-labor and dishonest about the benefits of work without questioning the powers that be.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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sexpig by night posted:

pretty much while I really doubt any of them intend to do it when you have guys like Bruenig and all doing poo poo like that it 100% validates the fears that very stupid reactionary people have tried to stoke that 'maybe you need to appeal to working class people and actually listen to what the factory workers and poo poo think in red states' is just a hop and skip from 'maybe we should be FRIENDS with the KKK, have you ever thought about that???'

Again, none of these people actually think that, but the hyper focus on class is exactly what we JUST spent the entire primary and poo poo having a fight over and we were kinda just getting to a place where 'ok yea we need to look at class issues better' is mainstream again. Like, literally today Chuck Schumer on ABC said the dems have no one to blame but themselves for the loss and clinton had a poo poo economic message. That's progress that some of us are cringing at the thought of being hampered by yet another round of 'OH SO SAYING WE NEED TO COMBINE IDPOL AND CLASS AWARENESS MEANS YOU WANNA REACH OUT TO THE PEPES???'

It's a weird kinda leftist version of just world bullshit. Like, these are smart people who are aware of the issues, but they seem to think that the odds of the guy calling him self Kike Killer Kyle on Twitter sending butchered pig pictures of anyone who said antisemitism is gross in a thread actually just kinda fuckin hates Jews and he's not alone in that stance. They want to believe that mr KKK is an outlier and everyone like him just needs to hear about progressive tax reform to realize 'oh poo poo I'm a leftist'. It's like the people who in the primaries right after Obamacare when dems were being hammered by attack ads thought they could reach out to libertarians for support because hey both of us agree that the base level problem is bad right?

So it's like not believing I'm horseshoe theory, but you want the other side to jump over anyway.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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prefect posted:

Is it true that fidget spinners can make you feel normal? I'm now considering getting one.

For normal kids, they're pretty much collectable toys that will be forgotten about in a year.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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cat doter posted:

I'm just gonna keep playing video games but never calling myself a gamer because gamers suck and consumption does not define me, I'm normal

Same.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Is libsyn still a thing?

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Analytic Engine posted:

Another thing about the Brooklyn show: The fan demographics are exactly what you'd expect. 75% white 20s-30s dudes, 24% white 20s women, 1% PoC

I am the one percent.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Harris is gonna be the new Clinton, isn't she?

yas qween slay, indeed.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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prefect posted:

Bitched about "SJWs".

I heard somewhere that when George Takei finally came out, all of the original castmates were nothing but supportive. All except for Shatner, who still had reservations.

Moist von Lipwig posted:

only semi related but I was skimming some huge twitter thread about whatever and realized the only people saying poo poo like "yas qween" and "y'all ain't don't blah blah" were like 29 year old white girls. EXCLUSIVELY. Its loving embarrassing. Cultural appropriation is a pretty overblown concept but holy poo poo is that awful.

"Everybody wanna be a n-word, but nobody wanna BE an n-word"-Paul Mooney.

Everybody in this thread should watch Paris is Burning.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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little munchkin posted:

yea upper/middle class americans always have nice things to say about countries they visit with extreme inequality, because it turns out extreme inequality is pretty nice for the people on top

Humanitarians of Instagram.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Big Coffin Hunter posted:

i listen to everything but rap and country

except that i listen to a lot of both, especially country when it's by crusties trying to get off h

There is a lot of leftist, working-class, woke stuff in country music. Too bad a lot is overproduced soft rock with twang accents for bougie white suburbanites who believe in emails. Their is nothing more infuriating to me than someone who speaks in a twang accent who grew up not even an hour away from a major metro area.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Big Coffin Hunter posted:

it's always easier to punch down

And when you're at the bottom, it's always easier to punch sideways to your fellow men to impress your superiors.

Sebadoh Gigante posted:


Also here's Matt with the Lenin statue.



I want that hat.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Dr.Radical posted:

The boys are wrong about Guam, though. They definitely have a tourist industry. It's a pretty popular place for Japanese tourists for example.

I don't remember who said it, and this was from a thread ages ago, but I remember some goon saying that Guam and Hawaii are what it would be like if Japan won the Pacific Ocean in the Second World War, due to a lot of the Japanese signs near tourist attractions.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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sexpig by night posted:

same, this election was hilariously radicalizing for so many people. Like, it's not 'worth' Trump just ramjamming this country for profit but it's hilarious how me and many of my old neolib friends went from 'guys come on she's right slow but steady progress is the way forward here' to 'gently caress it do it now or get out of the way of people who will, also the juggalos are friends to the worker'.

At the same time, I see a lot of my liberal friends doubling down on compromise and on this or that incident being the silver bullet that kickstarts the impeachment process.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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I remember during the 2004 election, Michael Savage would refer to John Kerry's wife as "Mama Ketchup".

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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prefect posted:

Living in the UK has definitely rubbed off on one R. Delaney.

https://twitter.com/robdelaney/status/908277134191480832

As an American working with a bunch of Brits, British vernacular just rolls off the tongue.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Know Such Peace posted:

One more link for the thread is David Wong's instant classic "6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person", which name-drops TLP. I'd love to see someone pick up the mantle, but that thought itself defeats one of the main points TLP/Alone was trying to make.

There is a difference between entertainment and activism. Do not confuse the two.

That piece was just a handjob to self-proclaimed social darwinists that would not survive in the world David Wong envisioned there.

Halloween Jack posted:

Also, is it just me, or was there a whole sub-sub-subgenre of people purporting to explain that scene in Glengarry Glen Ross to an audience presumably not cool and smart enough to get it?

Here's the for-real woke true fact stated thing that TLP and the Cracked guy (whose writing styles I can't even distinguish from one another) don't get about that scene: If everybody was the employee Baldwin advise them to become, they wouldn't be content to be employees anymore--for gently caress's sake, the outcome of the contest is that for that and other reasons, Roma gets fed up and leaves. Premiere Properties wants their employees to be ruthless sharks who are nonetheless content with a pat on the back and a set of steak knives.

I always thought that scene was a parody of the self made man in business, and hi speech is just him jacking off in front of everyone.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Bryter posted:

The weird cult around HST put me off reading him for a long while, which is a shame because Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 is a really good book

It's a ritual of mine to read it every election year.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Joementum posted:

I thought the live show episode was fine and funny

The Target bit reminds me when I worked at FedEx. I had to watch anti - union videos during orientation.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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PostNouveau posted:

Nothing the flash said was funny. He was super offputting.

Jason Momoa's rant about the others was funnier than anything the Flash said or did. Also, he's the reason most of my coworkers even saw the movie. Cheesecake sells.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Angry Félix is the best Chapo.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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cat doter posted:

what the gently caress that doesn't sound real

https://youtu.be/6EZCBSsBxko

It's basically Shadowrun without the corporate overlords.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Dr.Radical posted:

It was diazepam in the first MGS and then they changed it to pentazamin in the games after

I thought that was the drug you had to take when Snake got a cold, which would give away your location.

padijun posted:

brett and bryan will never be problema-

*bryan goes on a tirade about how drunk driving should be legal and the post office should shave your head*

Isn't Bryan a flat earth guy?

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Halloween Jack posted:

We know that nerds like rap if the guy doing it is white and rapping about video games. There's got to be a better Nerd Football than quidditch.

Wonder what MC Lars is up to nowadays.

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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drat, Amber is really trying to be the Leftist version of Mike Rowe isn't she.

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Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

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Didn't Felix just turn 30 last year?

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