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Crazycryodude posted:I never read Harrison Bergeron but I went back and re-read both Animal Farm and 1984 when I wasn't 14 and holy poo poo Animal Farm is actually a book about how cool and good Lenin was and it's a shame Stalin ruined it, and 1984 is about how capitalism and the bourgeoisie would rather see humanity in an endless dark age where they waste all the resources on social repression and endless war rather than share with the poors. The only thing you really need to know about Orwell is that he hated Stalin because Stalin wasn't left wing enough.
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Goon Danton posted:"Convinced of his own correctness" just means "thinks he's right" which just means "believes in what he's saying" Wisdom is when you refuse to consider some ideas more likely to be correct than other ideas
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Apr 3, 2019 18:16
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Weird how the only form of foreign policy work that ever gets credit from American press is serial murder.
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Apr 4, 2019 13:17
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Zeroisanumber posted:She didn't wait in line for 30 years while slowly having her soul ground down to nothing by the insane realities of New York machine politics. democracy is when an unaccountable and opaque bureaucracy selects you based on your loyalty to elite interests and you get on multiple party ballots, sometimes both Dem and rep
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Apr 8, 2019 13:52
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The problem with uploading your brain to a big cloud server is that you can copy data faster than you can make storage space, so some serial killer who owned a Sports Authority will murder everyone else so he can make trillions cyber-Horatio clones.
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Apr 12, 2019 17:45
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Is that guy actually a piece of performance art? He’s never written a word worth reading. his avatar is a character from Bojack that exists solely to skewer "writer who uses pretentious nerd personality to cover up ocean of misogyny" which is just, too loving on the nose
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Apr 15, 2019 19:28
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Bushiz posted:There's also a distinct possibility that the yellow vests get blamed because macron wants to start machine gunning them I think there's a 50% chance that Macron puts a shopping mall in there. The other 50% is that the project stalls until Le Pen gets in and turns it into a torture chamber.
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Apr 16, 2019 20:25
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Nathan is the best left wing pundit and owns to hell and back why can't people just think about Satanism and Witchcraft apolitically? They're famously subjects that politicians have no history of weighing in on or exploiting for personal gain
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Apr 17, 2019 13:28
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I know 10 people that are into astrology, of those 10 are very vocal about chemtrails and 8 watch Alex Jones with some regularity so
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Apr 23, 2019 15:55
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Freedom of expression is when the police hold guns up to people and shoot them if they don't tell me I'm cool and smart
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Apr 26, 2019 17:51
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Apr 27, 2019 00:59
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Zeroisanumber posted:I don't believe you, without the stick there is only chaos. *Kermit voice * the stick is masculinity and therefore order
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Apr 29, 2019 13:00
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I just thought it was to save characters from the harsh Twitter limit, cuz I've seen it basically nowhere else
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May 9, 2019 21:40
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Crazycryodude posted:I heard youse growing up in New York, although since I moved to Florida I never have. Call it the northeast regional variant on y'all I guess. it's dead in New York, based on living here for 2 years. The only people I know that use it are old money from North Carolina. The South won the culture war at this point, y'all is just endemic to America in general at this point.
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May 11, 2019 22:45
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LordSloth posted:https://twitter.com/dtru1222/status/1129029137178472449?s=21 "dril" is now a genre
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May 17, 2019 18:59
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Grimoire posted:in the original script, Switch was male IRL but was a woman in the matrix. Shame they chickened out on that plotline, probably a bit to spicy for 1999 I'd heard vague rumors that at one point humans weren't going to be used as heaters but for specialised computational work, but explaining bitcoin in 99 would have been hard and eaten up a lot of screen time
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May 17, 2019 21:39
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Oh hey, I know like 10 people who used to work for him, including my brother. He is in fact worse than that makes him sound. And his dad isn't merely the kind of guy who owns a liquor business, he's a Russian immigrant of the sort that made mad loving bank from profiteering during the Soviet collapse.
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May 18, 2019 13:06
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Zeroisanumber posted:Stories! only one I have off the top of my head is that they called in a plumber for the bathroom, and the cleaning crew went in right after. One bleached the floor, the other used ammonia. So everybody evacuates once they start choking and gagging, but the boss man goes right into screaming at the cashiers on the parking lot to get back on register. Which, given that the customers were in the parking lot as well, pretty funny, but some did go back in for a minute to try to avoid getting fired. Fire department showed up, but this was a Pillar of the Community, so nothing happened.
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May 18, 2019 17:24
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OldTennisCourt posted:I mean, can't the same be said for literally every work with a female villain? ... it can be said for any piece of fiction writing. Authors are the ones who make their characters do things. GOT has a continuous pattern of lazy misogyny in its writing that has mostly gotten worse, which is worth cataloguing because the pattern is more important than individual instances.
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May 20, 2019 20:19
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Agnosticnixie posted:Maybe DnD are just hacks, basically Basically 
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May 20, 2019 22:54
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Goon Danton posted:I feel like this bizarre "anyone the left hates counts as Jewish" argument is getting more and more common recently. "Neocon" is an antisemitic slur, making fun of Megan McCain is the most antisemitic thing she's ever seen, and now this. Is it just flak to try to both-sides the issue now that actual Nazis are coming out of the closet on the right? Part of centrist marketing is that the center is the only safe political ideology for Jewish people. And while there are antisemites on the left, this marketing is mostly about papering over the part where antisemitism is basically a monotonic increase as you move from left to right, aka centrists are not going to confront their own antisemitism. The one thing really working in their favor is that the only idea centrists talk about as their ideology is replacing democracy with lanyards.
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May 25, 2019 13:44
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"An imperialist state did bad things" is not a hot take lol
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May 29, 2019 12:50
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the greatest peace time humanitarian disaster of the late 20th century, and it's just a massive black hole in the historical knowledge of the West intentionally. The 1st World came to the former USSR to break open bones and suck out the marrow.
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May 29, 2019 19:11
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christmas boots posted:I wonder if the KGB had a Castro, by which I mean a foreign head of state that they attempted and failed to assassinate a comically larger number of times even attempting the old femme fatale gambit only to have her do the literal cliché of falling for the mark and confessing the whole plot. Tito?
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May 29, 2019 23:25
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Pirate Radar posted:honestly I have no idea but in the grand scheme of things irradiating some of space is by far not the worst thing that we could do We irradiate them (rocks) over there so that we don't irradiate them over here (anywhere a human ever lives).
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May 30, 2019 04:01
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Serf posted:same but for the usa and right now conspiracy theorists are in a weird place cuz the U.S. just openly operates a massive child rape ring and it hasn't really significantly delegitimized the central government so like, why would they care about hiding anything else
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May 30, 2019 14:07
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It shortens to "Ferdy" and that's just a good nickname for a dude.
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May 31, 2019 15:27
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Thinking that Lovecraft was afraid of the "traditional" locals and not unspecified immigrants or people of color is already galaxy brain.
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May 31, 2019 16:43
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Huh, I thought it was about race mixing and maybe homophobia, must be conflating it with some other Lovecraft work
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May 31, 2019 16:59
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Yeah, Lovecraft seems like the kind of guy who'd look at someone saying "Only WASPs are white" and shake his head. Not because it was ridiculous that only WASPs would be white, but because it'd be ridiculous to assume that most of them hadn't already had their bloodline polluted by Welshmen. In that light, even stories about mixing with other "whites" could be about miscegenation at their core. his friends would make fun of him for being so racist, to the point of "this is a pretentious 18th century affectation," which given the early 20th century, is pretty intense
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May 31, 2019 18:16
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Given that his writing credits include Fallout 2 and loving Tyranny I'm going to say he just doesn't want to talk about it as an interview question and was too dumb/cowardly to just say "no comment."
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Jun 1, 2019 16:23
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Asteroids is political because it presupposes that it is politically OK to blow up asteroids with the power of man, as opposed to leaving them properly in the sphere of God and his infinite wisdom in where they go.
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Jun 1, 2019 22:35
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I don't think of my art as political, because none of it holds any elected office at the moment. If Fallout 2 manages to win a Senate seat, then my art will be political.
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Jun 2, 2019 02:15
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Plutonis posted:She's right, performative kneejerk "boomer" hating is stupid. You're allowed to take boomer/zoomer divides seriously, or your allowed to use a materialist lens, but you're not allowed to do both. Taintrunner posted:yes, dumbass Yea I mean, c'mon, that's loving war crimes.
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Jun 2, 2019 23:00
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Chillgamesh posted:Straight up asks an "are we the baddies?" of himself, but firmly and emphatically answers his own question with a no Well, looks like gamers found their first true presidential candidate.
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Jun 2, 2019 23:24
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CharlestheHammer posted:I thought studied have shown that politics don’t change much as you get older on the whole But, the more conservative ones typically live longer (wealthier => better access to healthcare+lower stress) so there's a selection pressure even if people are born with their politics.
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Jun 3, 2019 02:37
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Millennials and Zoomers are also the ones shooting up schools. Anyway yeah, the old joke that cranks are better than centrists during a crisis rings true - at least the cranks acknowledge there's a problem. This is why Clinton's "already great" was such a self own, it showed her politics to be even more ignorant and out of touch than Trump's, somehow. Jose posted:Guido Fawkes is a right wing politics site in the UK that breaks a lot of stories. Honestly, the best Brexit rationale is "hating the British" so Irish Brexiteer is perfectly cromulent. Now THIS is some good old fashioned idealism.
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Jun 3, 2019 15:32
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It is 100% always going to shake out in any Just World belief system and frankly it is a fun call out to use.
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Jun 3, 2019 16:58
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Zeroisanumber posted:Remember when they were playing the sad music when the billionaires were being hunted down? I never laughed so hard at a movie in my life. the Nolan movies are some of the best ironic comedies ever made, you go from Schumacher Batman and just go way, way dumber
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Nolan's Batman: Neoconservative Straussian nightmare where any real threat of change is chaotic and to be avoided at all costs, even by lying and spying. I should have said "Nolan Batman movies " cuz Inception is so thoroughly "poo poo version of Paprika" that's not funny just irritating
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