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get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

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get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Xelkelvos posted:

Wtf does "woke" mean in this context and when did that become a thing?
it's a dumb term derived from the opposite of being asleep. if you're "woke," you're aware of the injustices of the world. i'm not sure when it was first coined as slang but it got big a year or two ago. a fair amount of people, like the ones in this thread, use it sarcastically

that is your slang lesson for the day

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Feb 10, 2007

this is a show that a lot of people say is good but i couldn't get through 15 seconds of this

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Feb 10, 2007

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Feb 10, 2007

Women At Monsanto

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Feb 10, 2007

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

is there a tweet person or internet feed i can make a subscruiption to that will give me a slang lesson every day? asking for a friend
urban dictionary

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Feb 10, 2007

i used to think that Girls had the greatest disconnect between economically-advantaged culture critics and everyone else, but Hamilton has it beat by a country mile

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Feb 10, 2007

even The Onion and its affiliated sites are producing sponsored content these days. i guess when your business model is "clicks = money" and there's no incentive to change it, you gotta pay for it somehow

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Feb 10, 2007

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Feb 10, 2007

The Kingfish posted:

I paid $20 to go to that panel it was huge gyp.
you shouldn't say "gyp," that's a negative terms towards the ro- ohhhhhhhhhh

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Feb 10, 2007

that was paid for by a PAC started by the guys who made Cards Against Humanity. i wish i were joking

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Feb 10, 2007

breast cancer awareness month is the month of peak wokeness

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Feb 10, 2007

Jeb Bush 2012 posted:

"raising awareness" gets a lot of poo poo because a bunch of useless and self-indulgent stuff gets justified based on flimsy claims that it raises awareness
that's why protests are so goddamn stupid these days. thanks adbusters

also the susan g. komen foundation is pro-life as hell, and they pinkwashed a natural gas drill, which is hilariously awful

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Feb 10, 2007

Jonny 290 posted:

it seems that a lot of critics of Komen come from a medical background (she's a retired RN) so i think that realists kind of have a problem with the sort of cloying vibe
my mom is a retired doctor and breast cancer survivor, and she used to donate to Komen until the pro-life poo poo came through

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Feb 10, 2007

what is it about taylor swift that makes some of the dumbest people to project their ideals onto her? i read a particularly stupid article about how people should hate her because she's not a self-made celebrity, but someone who had privilege and help

Top City Homo posted:

I think Sam kriss is a cool insightful dude
he's funny but his articles read like a text version of a zero punctuation review

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Feb 10, 2007

i suppose it also helps that she doesn't really talk about much

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Feb 10, 2007

Tatum Girlparts posted:

I mean it's dumb to be all 'my god why, WHY has Taylor Swift not waded in? Truly she is failing to do her duty to America...' but yea it's not fuckin crazy to say 'maybe celebrities who have more direct access to their fans then ever before could be very influential in politics when they typically already have causes and all that fall under the political sphere to begin with'.
people follow celebrities and their lives so that they can escape from the problems of society and their own lives. a great many americans don't give a poo poo about whether their favorite celebrity is on their side on a given political issue, so taylor swift actually has a lot to lose by doing this

thinkpiece media takes karl rove's strategy of making everything political and runs with it farther than he ever did. that's why you can't have news about celebrities, sports, and tv shows (three things people use as escapism) anymore without some self-important prick shoehorning social issues into it. most people don't give a gently caress that aroldis chapman is in the world series a year after shooting around his wife- indeed, they're watching it to forget about that sort of poo poo. but you'll never hear the end of it from sites like deadspin

get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 16:01 on Oct 27, 2016

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Feb 10, 2007

Helsing posted:

The weirdest part of this post is that you don't seem to realize that politics itself is often a form of escapism and that it merges seamlessly into popular culture.
when i watch football, hockey, soccer etc. i don't stop and think about the sociopolitical implications of things, because i want to take a break from doing that. and i'm sure most people who listen to 1989 don't also think, "what does taylor swift think about the injustices of american society?"

it would be one thing if these perpetually mad thinkpiece writers had anything new or insightful to say but it's the same poo poo every article and it gets boring

devtesla posted:

It took me a while to get it, but this is a masterpiece

https://twitter.com/WhovianFeminism/status/791667448319766528
is whovian feminism a spinoff of everyday feminism but for woke nerds?

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Feb 10, 2007

two women vets tell veterans how to transition back to civilian life on the Facebook page of one of the prime causes of perpetual war

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Feb 10, 2007

lena dunham is the stupidest person with celebrity status in america and that's saying something. my dad used to agree but i think he's read one too many New Yorker articles praising her because i brought that up again and he doesn't anymore. getting old sucks

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Feb 10, 2007

this post is relevant again:

get that OUT of my face posted:

i used to think that Girls had the greatest disconnect between economically-advantaged culture critics and everyone else, but Hamilton has it beat by a country mile

snakeandbake posted:

can everyone please stop being so sexist against lena dunham, holy gently caress
stupidity isn't gendered, unless you're talking about the people actually being sexist itt

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Feb 10, 2007

Jeb! Repetition posted:

What do you mean about Hamilton? I haven't seen it.
neither has the vast majority of america, but that doesn't stop pop culture critics from saying it's a cultural juggernaut

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Feb 10, 2007

extrapolating pop culture onto current events is one of the dumbest, most surface-level mental exercises out there and jk rowling regularly does it with the characters she created. also she's a welfare state supporter who is vehemently opposed to someone who would help expand it

steinrokkan posted:

So I take it Hamilton is just another fad for bored bourgies to cling to as they try to convince themselves they are both progressive, and "with it".
you hit it right on the nose

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Feb 10, 2007

Top City Homo posted:

Voted to legalize gay weed in ca and for taco trucks on every corner

God bless
did you vote for big government to force porn stars to wear condoms

speaking of which:

https://twitter.com/trojancondoms/status/785174264647331840

get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 21:37 on Nov 8, 2016

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Feb 10, 2007

devtesla posted:

I sincerely believe that Vox and Slate lost us the election.
was there a single thinkpiece written by the usual suspects that was pro-Hillary and not condescending, smug, and outright hostile to people who weren't already decided? and in any case, hillary lost the election for herself
yeahhhhhhhh about that

get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 18:44 on Nov 11, 2016

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Feb 10, 2007

please read my response piece entitled "Gizmodo Needs To Stop Acting Like Gawker"

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Feb 10, 2007

Nonsense posted:

Anyway to bully his rear end off twitter?
if he's still a professor at Princeton someone going there should give him a wedgie

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Feb 10, 2007

vin scully almost makes up for that

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Feb 10, 2007

the thing about the"Democrats are cool" trope is that obama has the personality to seem/be authentic about it, and hillary clinton is about as cool as a nagging third-grade teacher. watch the "Between Two Ferns" interviews with both of them if you want a good comparison

needless to say, when it comes to the "Party Of Cool," there are far more hillarys than obamas

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Feb 10, 2007

i mean you could just give 25k quid without conditions but ok. they did this last year too

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Feb 10, 2007

it's hilarious that right-wing loons are boycotting a company founded by a jehovah's witness who was pretty hosed up himself

Fidel Cuckstro posted:

I have no idea of the particular arrangement of this challenge, but I'll chime in as someone who worked for a large fundraising non-profit for several years: it's very common that the company agrees in advance that they'll give the entire challenge amount (especially when it's capped like this) to the charity regardless, and something like this is more about principles of corporate responsibility and branding and awareness raising and stuff only marketing directors think is important.
so there's absolutely no reason for them to do this other than to look like they give a poo poo. got it

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Feb 10, 2007

Fidel Cuckstro posted:

No reason for them to give money? Or to promote it?
to promote it

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Feb 10, 2007

i don't think World AIDS Day means what they think it means

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Feb 10, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWEnqC1uPu0

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Feb 10, 2007

when did "pay money to people lower on the privilege totem" become the foremost way of proving your Good Ally Status, because it's pathetic and late-stage capitalism as gently caress

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Feb 10, 2007

Tatum Girlparts posted:

if you genuinely want an answer it came from the good and valid concept of 'it's good to try to support people who are normally shut out of the greater business world, be they minorities or just kinda situations like stay at home moms and poo poo'. Places like, say, Etsy and all started out really good for this, where you didn't have to rely on storefronts and politics around that aspect of selling your poo poo.

The problem came when people decided 'this is a decent way to try to do things' meant 'this is an inherently moral act' because the target audience of those places became upper middle class white people who felt that by patronizing them they somehow are buying a privilege indulgence or something.
you misunderstood my question. i didn't mean "when did buying goods and services from women and nonwhite people become a moral good," i meant "when did straight-up giving money to less privileged people become a moral good?" as in, stuff like this

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Feb 10, 2007

ScrubLeague posted:

No it's not cuz we don't
looks like someone didn't buy a Safety Pin Box

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Feb 10, 2007

using buzzfeed is cheating. if you look there for five minutes you'll find twenty different half-baked tumblr "social justice" posts made into articles or listicles

FactsAreUseless posted:

It's almost as if that young black woman's cause, and the cause of Democrats in national elections, aren't the same thing.
if she had a cause that people gave a poo poo about, then we could be in business

get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 02:59 on Dec 6, 2016

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Feb 10, 2007

platzapS posted:

They work for anti-union Sprint. Their competitor, AT&T, is union though. (Dissent)
verizon also is union, although around my neck of the woods (NYC) they've had a few labor skirmishes recently

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Feb 10, 2007

Sylink posted:

Also note that the areas around these illustrious super rich universities are some of the poorest in the country. So they use the local services like fire/police and pay almost nothing for this.

gently caress Ivy League.
ithaca is the only population center in upstate NY that isn't a complete shell of its former self and they've got Cornell. i guess that school really isn't a true Ivy after all

Perfect Potato posted:

Idiots completely wrapped up in identity politics are some of the most virulently racist people online outside of cesspits like /pol/.
when you're the type of person who regularly says that you can't talk about X topic because you're not the proper shade of color, racism and exclusion comes with the territory. also, "person of color" sounds like a stone's throw away from being "colored person" and yet it's empowering, for some reason

anyway i'll shut up now, here's some content

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