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I think one of the great socialist movements in America was actual military veterans. Especially in WWI, all of the yokels who had never been to the next town were suddenly given nice clothes, shoes, and were drinking espresso in Paris. Most people can’t go back to being a yokel after that.
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Wrong. All those racist American yokels just brought their racism to the UK and didn't learn a drat thing
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May 16, 2021 04:01
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Alan_Shore posted:Wrong. All those racist American yokels just brought their racism to the UK and didn't learn a drat thing They tried to bring their racism to the UK: https://aux.avclub.com/white-soldiers-declared-war-on-their-black-counterparts-1844863734
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May 16, 2021 11:16
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Alhazred posted:They tried to bring their racism to the UK: https://aux.avclub.com/white-soldiers-declared-war-on-their-black-counterparts-1844863734 quote:Thing we were happiest to learn: The people of Bamber Bridge had no time for American-style racism. The locals backing up Private Nunn wasn’t the first time Black soldiers had gotten support in the pubs. Their white commanding officers had demanded segregated pubs, and in response, all three pubs in town posted “Black Troops Only” signs. 
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May 16, 2021 11:48
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May 17, 2021 11:59
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Well until someone stole it cause he was too cowardly to shoot someone for takin' his god-given properteh! Also, a lot of people missed it cause it wasn't in the main segment, but he did a piece on Israel/Palestine that framed the situation there as apartheid and called what Isreal is doing war crimes. Even though LWT tends to lean progressive, they're still very much in the liberal sphere so to see it take such a stance feels like a notable shift in perception—at least by the stand of the U.S. where seeing any major source openly criticize Isreal, let alone condemn them, is quite rare.
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May 18, 2021 10:05
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I think there's a couple things he left out there:
Also gently caress murderers into the dirt and gently caress the people who encourage and assist them. For a little bit that also veered into the horrifyingly racist judicial system and squalid prison conditions, but that's not the focus today. Like that scrubjay though.
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May 18, 2021 19:03
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For more on the scrub jay here is a video about how state birds are garbage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAZI5GcPm8c Also I would be very surprised if that NRA lady's story was even true in the first place.
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I don't see why it couldn't be true. It's basically an officer telling her "please don't shoot people or threaten to shoot people". Which is doubly believable next to the clip of an officer trying very hard to dissuade a man from going out to murder people. It also doesn't really sound like she's describing them making any real threats, just pulling up to her and harassing her by talking to her, which does happen. And guns get sold on the promise of giving you a confidence boost from holding the power to murder someone, so why not pull out a gun when you're feeling uncomfortable? And you're white, so why not talk to a police chief about your experience?
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May 19, 2021 01:18
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I had never heard of that lady so I thought he was gonna talk about the lady whose parents were murdered in the Luby's massacre and she had to leave her gun in the car due to Texas law at the time. She got elected to the state legislature and helped weaken gun control laws under the delusion she would've stopped the gunman if she had her gun in her purse.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I don't see why it couldn't be true. It's basically an officer telling her "please don't shoot people or threaten to shoot people". Which is doubly believable next to the clip of an officer trying very hard to dissuade a man from going out to murder people. I fully believe it happened, yeah. Her story is that car-full of dudes harassed her on the street, a perennial reality for young women. But whether they actually constituted a physical threat vs. being scumbags who wanted to feel powerful through words is unclear, since she instantly escalated the situation to life or death. It's mostly interesting how direct the line is between this and actual murders by police: the perception of fear or danger by the right protected class of person instantly becomes the forensic reality. Maybe these guys wanted to cause specific physical harm, maybe they didn't...but de facto it's the former because this legislation is built on the assumption her fear was valid. It's ridiculous on its face that random citizens' perception of the event is enough for authorities to go on (especially after someone literally dies), but it's even more ridiculous to me that police - a profession that assumes you can objectively assess risk - has even less scrutiny on an individual or systemic level after SO MANY suspicious deaths.
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May 19, 2021 03:30
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May 24, 2021 04:46
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gently caress yeah he's doing real world stunts again 
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May 24, 2021 11:01
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Going on TV to advertise your magic nazi sex blanket is a thing we can write about now.
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May 24, 2021 11:11
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Hats off to that actress, by the way. If I hadn't known better and instead saw one of these segments in the wild, I would have thought she truly believed in this product. I mean, I wouldn't have bought it, because the not-even-pseudo-science nonsense she was spouting was patently preposterous. And, "developed in Germany 80 years ago" is hard to miss. But drat if she didn't come off as sincere, excited, and believable, especially given the script she was working with.
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Xealot posted:I fully believe it happened, yeah. Her story is that car-full of dudes harassed her on the street, a perennial reality for young women. But whether they actually constituted a physical threat vs. being scumbags who wanted to feel powerful through words is unclear, since she instantly escalated the situation to life or death. The funny thing about her telling the story and the cop saying she'd get in trouble... quote:4. Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2/ Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 13:54 on May 24, 2021 |
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:“...almost eighty years ago...” I hope they gave her some pivot dialogue in case she got questioned about it so she could specify that the inventor of magnetogenetics was not a nazi, but a holocaust survivor named Max Eisenhardt (though his friends call him Erik)
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May 24, 2021 18:29
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So how much was he paid to run all the full length sponsored product segments
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May 24, 2021 21:54
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This, this is what I watch this show for. More ridiculous stunts that show off why our absurd hyper-capitalism is garbage and we all need to turn off our TVs, please!
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May 25, 2021 04:16
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What surprised me is how cheap it was, I figured getting them to sacrifice whatever integrity they had would be slightly more expensive.
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May 25, 2021 04:35
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This show is at its apex when it does real world stunts that shows how stupid and evil people really are. Or gags that go further than any reasonable person ever would (Chi-John comes to Mind).
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May 25, 2021 17:57
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That blanket gag was amazing.
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May 25, 2021 20:16
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socialsecurity posted:What surprised me is how cheap it was, I figured getting them to sacrifice whatever integrity they had would be slightly more expensive. This. He's saying how it was cheaper than you might think, and I'm like, dang, did those spots only cost like 10k a piece? And then he reveals that no, they were 2k
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May 25, 2021 20:38
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Time for some goonfleet propaganda on the evening news
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May 25, 2021 21:01
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rujasu posted:This. He's saying how it was cheaper than you might think, and I'm like, dang, did those spots only cost like 10k a piece? And then he reveals that no, they were 2k I think they had a certain budget planned for that and blew the vast remainder on those George Clooney calls.
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May 25, 2021 21:06
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Azhais posted:Time for some goonfleet propaganda on the evening news  if mittens had known how cheap it was there would have been eve online on every local news broadcast 
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cant cook creole bream posted:I think they had a certain budget planned for that and blew the vast remainder on those George Clooney calls. they couldve just used cameo
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text editor posted:I hope they gave her some pivot dialogue in case she got questioned about it so she could specify that the inventor of magnetogenetics was not a nazi, but a holocaust survivor named Max Eisenhardt (though his friends call him Erik)
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socialsecurity posted:What surprised me is how cheap it was, I figured getting them to sacrifice whatever integrity they had would be slightly more expensive. It was only 200 bucks more than Russel Crowe's jockstrap.
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May 26, 2021 19:01
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While I'd prefer they stay without a audience it does change some dynamics in the show with and without one. With a audience, getting a mascot is silly and amusing. Without a audience, a man is hiring a person to stand around in a fursuit with him in a empty room while he stares at a camera.
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May 28, 2021 17:14
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:With a audience, getting a mascot is silly and amusing.
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:While I'd prefer they stay without a audience it does change some dynamics in the show with and without one. He probably wouldn't hire that guy to stand in a room with him wearing a fursuit during a lockdown anyway, and would probably have paid to have the guy pull a public stunt of some kind instead.
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tsob posted:He probably wouldn't hire that guy to stand in a room with him wearing a fursuit during a lockdown anyway, and would probably have paid to have the guy pull a public stunt of some kind instead. He had a mascot on the show a couple weeks ago, I wonder if he convinced his wife to wear the costume
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:While I'd prefer they stay without a audience it does change some dynamics in the show with and without one. Snowglobe of Doom posted:He had a mascot on the show a couple weeks ago, I wonder if he convinced his wife to wear the costume That's Noel MacNeal and he is a national treasure and should be in every episode. 
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May 29, 2021 02:29
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:He had a mascot on the show a couple weeks ago, I wonder if he convinced his wife to wear the costume I suspect they've been recording at an hbo studio for a while now, the video quality seems to have changed a bit since. He still has the setup at home for interviews and stuff
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May 29, 2021 03:02
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Wait, wasn't the sex blanket already a thing? Also it's interesting and sad that John Oliver spent a bunch of time on Texas politics, because this state's politics are hopeless.
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May 29, 2021 06:01
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Texas: can't vote, can't get an abortion, CAN walk around with guns!
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May 31, 2021 04:24
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Chris Knight posted:Texas: can't vote, can't get an abortion, CAN walk around with guns! Texan road-ragers getting the green light to no-holds-barred concealed carry feels like its going to end up like that spring is here L.A. story freeway scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoU39Rpp4FI
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Good news from Texas: maybe some dems aren’t worthless! https://twitter.com/cathleendecker/status/1399234400127045632?s=21
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