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Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Endorsing someone polling worse than a meme candidate rules.

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Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


kiss of death lmao

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Yeah a lot of people are gonna be mistaking him for a Jew.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Bari Weiss used the term "toady" couldn't define it when Rogan asked and then she misspelled it.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


I can't remember the name of it but the terrible big twitter account that kinda set off the whole tradwife thing started just as an overly religious person and then went mask off white supremacist until I think she got banned.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


comedyblissoption posted:

chadwife vs the virgin tradwife

the virgin tradwife vs the chad hotwife

ikanreed posted:

Wife with a purpose, I think

Yeah that was it!



https://www.instagram.com/wifewithapurpose/?hl=en

"Fake news target & stalking survivor" lmao

Groovelord Neato has issued a correction as of 23:36 on Jan 22, 2020

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Victory Position posted:

xQc is on that list, though you can fill him in with whoever "highly-paid Twitch streamer that doesn't understand how to wash dishes or clothes" you wish

Not sure I've been more depressed than watching a video of a Quebecois moron not knowing what condensation is and realizing he's made more money by age 24 than I probably ever will.

edit: lmao nice someone posted it.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014



The book about the massacre is one of the worst things I've ever read. The barbarity is mind boggling.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Idia posted:

What is the name of the book?

The Massacre at El Mozote.

https://www.amazon.com/Massacre-at-El-Mozote/dp/067975525X

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


I forget what was Gladwell's Paterno argument? That he didn't know?

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


vyelkin posted:

His argument is that people default to believing others when told something, and so you can't blame someone for believing the pedophile when the pedophile said they weren't a pedophile. Which is dumb as gently caress because in the Paterno case he was also told by someone else that the guy was a pedophile and evidently didn't believe them, so this idea of defaulting to trust and belief doesn't hold up even in the one case where he wants it to hold up, because it means trusting one side of a he-said/she-said situation over the other, and to get into the details of why you would trust one side over another you have to get into issues of structural power inequalities and so on, which Gladwell doesn't want to do because the whole book is actually just his preemptive defence for why he was on Epstein's rape plane.

hahahah this is even dumber than I remembered good lord.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Toss Bret Stephens into a volcano.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/1223308813098459138

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


I know none of their arguments are ever consistent but I can't even think up an iota of reasoning behind the "economy collapsed because they were forced to give poors mortgages". The economy didn't collapse because people defaulted on their mortgages -- it collapsed because the imaginary market betting on those mortgages was over a 100 times larger than the actual value of the mortgages. And banks like Lehman Brothers were overleveraged to the point a 3 percent drop in the value of their assets would wipe them out.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


comedyblissoption posted:

it's crude scapegoating and market worship

it doesn't have to make sense. you just want regular people to blame anything besides the people who have all the power and control in the system. it works. i know people stupid enough to buy the hapless banker narrative

It's especially weird to me because I was a free market idiot before the collapse and it made me open my eyes about economics (and a bunch of other poo poo) and now I'm a socialist. I'm not a particularly smart guy and I was an adult when it happened and the fact other people will deny reality so blatantly when it's the event that made me question a lot of my beliefs and eventually change them for the better once I'd looked at actual evidence outside a bubble is bizarre to me.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Man imagine if Sanders had run for president in 2008. We might actually be in good shape.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Most Democrats still think Obama was the greatest.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


comedyblissoption posted:

they do, but i haven't seen a single republican argue that the texas electors should be able to switch their state's vote to hillary if they felt like it

Yeah but that's how it's actually supposed to work.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Smith Comma John posted:



:decorum:

e: that's not a summary like the other blurbs either, that was her entire response

Stephens putting Sanders at an 8 is causing me to stroke out.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1230826901926707202

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


comedyblissoption posted:

the electoral college serves one of its old intended purposes of weighting states over population.

Well its original purpose was to give states with a kind of population extra weight...

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Global warming deniers should be treated like Holocaust deniers.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Chomsky did say the GOP is worse than the Nazis for that reason.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


FacelessVoid posted:

Chad Dick Wolff vs virgin Paul Krugman

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z6J3ROV4IPc

Republicans will call us socialist if Bernie wins :qq:

It's true Sanders isn't actually advocating full-blown socialism but Krugman is a dummy to think it matters. If Sanders accurately described his program as social democracy they'd still call that socialism or communism.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Nebakenezzer posted:

lol, please post examples if you've any

I remember in USPOL everyone acted like it was no big deal.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Nebakenezzer posted:

lol, I always thought it was Rumsfeld

I love the quote, as it underlines how much postmodernism* infected the GOP

*in a 'truth doesn't exist' sense

I don't know how other newspapers have been doing, but the NYT I find especially dismal right now. About 50% of the articles they are putting up are writers trying to find the risk, the threat, the problem with lots of people watching netflix

It's pathetic, even for them

Rove was at least honest about it. Conservatives still think they can do the "facts don't care about your feelings" when all of their positions have zero evidentiary backing.

gradenko_2000 posted:

so they're just going to make it up as they go along, using the power of the courts to reshape American government and governance to whatever form they wish without actually going through the process of amending the Constitution, simply by saying that "well the Constitution doesn't really mean what you think it means, it actually means this other thing"

The Atlantic piece is stupid because that's what originalism has always been. Look at Scalia and any Second Amendment case - he never actually ruled based on the original intent/meaning of the amendment when it was written he just used originalism to coat reactionary beliefs in an objective veneer. This is what all originalists do.

Also the guy that wrote the article got poo poo on so hard so constantly on Twitter he deleted his account lmao

Groovelord Neato has issued a correction as of 11:56 on Apr 4, 2020

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


I haven't seen too many judges as open about imposing Christian doctrine on the population whether they want it or not as he is. He's a psychopath like the other later-in-life convert Sohrab Ahmari. Though I guess he gets points for being more honest than those judges.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


I meant they're both psychopaths not that he has the same economic beliefs.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


brugroffil posted:

Person of the year doesn't come with moral approval

It was really stupid when they gave it to Giuliani over bin Laden.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014



lmao yeah none of us could be court stenographers to ensure we preserve our precious access.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Exit polls showed a majority of Democratic primary voters supported Sanders's platform. It was part of what was so insanity inducing about the outcome.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


The OKC post reminds me how poorly the media handled Columbine to the point most people don't know why it happened - including that it was inspired by OKC.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


A Wizard of Goatse posted:

hell I didn't know that

What they ended up doing was the backup plan - their original plan was to use bombs to collapse the cafeteria roof killing/maiming the hundreds of students in there (they wanted to outdo OKC in terms of body count) and then shooting students trying to escape and first responders.

Groovelord Neato has issued a correction as of 16:57 on Apr 21, 2020

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


PostNouveau posted:

Also Marilyn Manson personally called both of them and told them it would be "hardcore" if they did it.

It was after they removed their ribs.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


It's funny how Trump whines about "fake news" because it is fake news it's just that it's fake in a way helps him and the right.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


They go into it in the Dirty Money episode about him ("Confidence Man") and in the 80s he'd call up the tabloid reporters first thing in the morning and give them all the juicy tidbits from the party set the night before. It was a quid pro quo where their end they had to say he was a billionaire whenever they mentioned him.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Bret Stephens doing the Ben Shapiro thing of inventing an insane hypothetical and pretending that wins him the argument owns.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


He shouldn't have been allowed to quit Twitter without first giving up his column.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


I JUST realized she thought he meant they owned a lot of stuff. What a loving dullard.

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Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Nebakenezzer posted:

Who is Kurt Eichenwald (aside from somebody who is really bad on twitter)

He's probably most famous for doing a story about an underage boy who ran his own webcam empire for pedos and raising ethical concerns because he paid the kid for the story. SVU did an episode based on it if that sounds familiar.

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