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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

Chronixx - Skakin' Sweet

good song. i think reggae is one of the better music genres. don't ask me why though; it's not the most innovative genre in the world but it just sounds cool to me.

Snake5555555555 posted...

Edge of Sanity - Enigma

wikipedia tells me that these guys invented "progressive death metal," along with opeth - i'm a big prog metal fan, so i should have known this! this song sounds very little like prog metal to me, though - it seems way more trash metal inspired. well, it does have several tempo shifts, i guess that's kinda proggy. but yeah, i didn't like this at all. for the most part i found it to be unappealing music with obnoxious grunting.

MycroProcessor posted...

Deep Forest & Peter Gabriel - While the Earth Sleeps

peter gabriel! where's amazing telephone when you need him? man, could this sound any more '90s? i'm not a big fan of this enigma-ish (the musical project, not the song snake posted) new age worldbeat kind of music. the sound is pleasant enough but compositionally it bores me rather quickly. didn't hate this song, just found it to be pretty mediocre.

jcgamer107 posted...

Ben Folds - Kalamazoo

speaking of repeat bands/artists, i'm pretty sure ben folds has appeared in this series before. good song. i could have done without the uptempo section with the fake strings, though - didn't feel like that added much to the song. (i thought frank zappa was the only artist who has referred to kalamazoo in a song!)
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ExThaNemesis posted...

I was making a joke about how you guys are anti-war and anti-military but staunchly (militantly LOL) supported Hillary.

uh tons of us never supported hillary.

maybe you'd have a better time in this topic if you stopped generalizing "us guys" all the time.
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it's the way woody allen, michael rapaport, etc. talk.
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MysticBrohan posted...

tfs a ny accent?

uh "new york accent" is a pretty common thing people say.
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Inviso posted...

Tammy Duckworth is calling Trump out because he, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, doesn't give two shits about diplomacy and has no problem shitting all over the rest of the world and putting us at risk of war.

"no dude, trump is super anti-war! every sign that he's actually a huge warmonger is fake news!" - vlado
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i hope that's the reason. not going to get to 10000 karma for nothing!
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congrats!

unfortunately there's not even a board for level 39 users :-(
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sephy "i hate trump more than anyone on the board" g at it again
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i don't mind but i also don't mind if flubbin does it next time. nothing wrong with the same band/artist coming back - we've already had several white stripes songs!
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i saw vijay iyer on the list and i wanted to ask "do you like brad mehldau?" and then i saw he's literally the next name on the list lol

instead i'll ask a different question: do you like yaron herman?
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RTA stands for real-time attack.
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Vlado posted...

If I don't, that makes me a leftist?

no. i'm just trying to find out where you consider yourself to be on the political spectrum. are you an anarchist? a libertarian? an objectivist? a neocon? something else?
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ExThaNemesis posted...

Also what did I say that was stupid? I said something that's clearly true.

the problem is that you said it in a context of negativity.
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did you see all the president's men? if so, how does the post compare?
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alrighty
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Jakyl25 posted...

What makes you militant?

i attack and criticize religion a lot.
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i'd call myself a militant atheist and i never go to reddit.
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ExThaNemesis posted...

I'm sorry I have other thoughts than what my liberal overlords have programmed into me, I'll try to stop making you guys uncomfortable with those thoughts.

you said something stupid, got called out for it, and then threw a hissy fit.
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i didn't mean to imply you were arguing the exact same thing as molyneux. the arguments are only tangentially related.
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Vlado posted...

Um. No.

do you think the free market will solve everything?
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all topics get archived on GMUN's site now, for the record.
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ExThaNemesis posted...

Like I know you guys have heard me complain enough to know what Actual ExTha Complaining looks like.

what you call "actual extha complaining" is actually "extha acting like a lunatic."

what you're doing right now is normal complaining.
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ExThaNemesis posted...

Despite that disproportionate amount being pretty easy to explain based on personal choice and what-not.

i'm sure that's the only reason, yeah.
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TheRock1525 posted...

There's a disproportionate amount of white males in charge in the US, are you gonna make a fuss about that?

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Jakyl25 posted...

ExTha, youre an interesting case in that you agree with a number of alt-right talking points, but you didnt follow them down the path of selective Christian Puritanism and anti-Semitism as people such as Vlado and Ulti have.

in fairness, ulti was already a christian before the alt-right became popular so it was probably easier for him to walk into the movement. vlado's been completely brainwashed by the alt-right, though.
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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/954160068848685056

In case you needed another reason to hate Tucker Carlson

pretty much just the stefan molyneux/vlado talking points.
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ExThaNemesis posted...

amazing to me how far ya'll willing to stretch to try and make christianity seem JUST AS BAD as Islam.

not sure why you're so concerned with making it a contest between the two tbqh. can't we just agree that they both suck ass?
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

The point of that is not to say that everyone is awful and should feel bad. The point is to say that your thoughts matter and that god doesn't just care about your actions, but your motives for your actions. It's why it's better to be a poor person who donates a cherished quarter than to be an impossibly wealthy person who donates 10,000 dollars that they don't even care about.

And that's actually most closely conveyed in an OLD testament verse to begin with:

"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he"
Proverbs 23:7

The thoughts you fill your mind with affect the words that you say and the actions you do.

thanks for this exegesis. i still think the teachings of jesus suck.
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Vlado posted...

Leftists are in panic mode.

aren't you a leftist?
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Vlado posted...

It's not about the "supporters," as in people who voted for him. It's about senators, congressmen, alphabet agencies, the military. You know, people with actual power.

uh, in the video i was referencing molyneux specifically angrily calls out the people who are watching him for not supporting trump enough. pretty sure that means he's talking about trump's supporters, unless he's megalomaniacal enough to believe that senators and congressmen are watching his videos (not out of the question, i guess).
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in certain ways the new testament is worse than the old testament.

old testament: you shall not commit adultery.
new testament: if you look at a woman lustfully you've already committed adultrey.
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foolm0r0n posted...

Woah, Vlado is actually acknowledging and defending Trump's pro-globalism?

it's not that great because he's still arguing that trump doesn't WANT to be pro-globalism but he has no choice, as if he'd immediately die if he didn't do pro-globalism stuff or something.

it's like how stefan molyneux states that trump isn't fighting the deep state hard enough, but this is because "his supporters aren't supporting him enough" and "a king without an army can't do anything." the trump worshipers recognize that trump is doing stuff they dislike, but since trump is perfect it's always someone else's fault that he's doing this stuff.
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Vlado posted...

BTW, here's a nice response from an educated man destroying the "science!!!!!!!" religious fanatics:

...are you calling people who believe in science "religious fanatics"?
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Vlado posted...

lmfao, imagine believing these fake news.

how do you know it's fake news?
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Vlado posted...

Words don't kill people, so a war of words between Trump and Kim is welcomed by anyone with an ounce of understanding of geopolitics.

did you miss the story of tillerson and mattis trying to stop trump from striking north korea?
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Vlado posted...

Do you think Trump can suddenly denounce everyone and everything controlled by globalists, given that Fox are the biggest "conservative" TV channel,

trump is fine with attacking anyone and everyone, as evidenced by his provocations towards kim jong-un. seems a bit weird if the deep state thing he's most afraid of offending is a TV channel.

plus he had no problem with attacking fox when he was still running for president, during the whole megyn kelly thing. now that he's president and he's a gazillion times more powerful, he's suddenly super concerned with being friends with fox?
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Vlado posted...

Look, let's put it this way. If I know Fox are globalist-controlled, there's no way Trump doesn't know.

which is my point. if it's such common knowledge that fox is globalist-controlled, why is trump constantly praising them on twitter (saying that people who watch them are "smart")? seems kind of a weird thing to do for the president who's supposed to be fighting the evils of globalism.
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Vlado posted...

Trump is fond of Fox and Friends.

nice try but no. trump isn't just fond of fox and friends, he's fond of fox in general.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/824078417213747200

just one of many tweets where he's praised fox.
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Jakyl25 posted...

On a side note Im glad no one in these topics to my knowledge has bothered with the Trump/porn star sex scandal

Pure tabloid leering that has nothing to do with whether or not he should be President.

we're just waiting for the inevitable full throttle topic to discuss this.
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how is the question if progressive doctors would refuse to treat trump even relevant to anything?
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

How many progressives would refuse to treat Trump because of their conscience objections?!

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i've taken more pictures with disposable cameras than i ever have with my phone tbqh >_> i'm not as much into taking pictures anymore as i was when i was a kid.
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Metal_DK posted...

This happens everytime. Shift to talking about me specifically.

uh, you missed the part where i specifically attacked the stuff you were saying as well.

you would have had a point if i'd said "metal_dk is a bitter old man" and nothing more.
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yeah, metal_dk sounds like a bitter old man who makes a caricature out of the way people use social media nowadays. sure, there are some crazies out there who do nothing but pose for instagram pictures all night when they're going out, but to say that's all everyone does now and nobody enjoys the location they're at anymore is kind of absurd.
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also worth noting that RT counts average or mediocre reviews as "positive" reviews for the tomatometer percentage, which is stupid.
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yeah, perhaps "useless" is too harsh but i do find imdb's scores to be way more accurate reflections of the quality of the movies. i could see paddington 2 being an 8.1/10 movie, but a 10/10 movie? i doubt it.
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Metal_DK posted...

It is negative,

why is casual negative, though?

you just said you're a casual when it comes to magic the gathering. is that necessarily a bad thing? if so, why?
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banananor posted...

i think the 100% is more a testament that the movie doesn't have any haters

like, if everyone saw a movie and said '3/5 decent movie to plop my kids in front of' you'd have a 100%er right there

yeah, this is why rotten tomatoes is pretty useless for determining what good movies are. imdb is way better.

for the record, paddington 2 has an 8.1 on imdb now so it's probably pretty good regardless.
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Metal_DK posted...

If it makes you feel better I'm not hating o casuals the way gamers say it or something.

it seems that way when you're describing something negative and call it "casual," though. why not call it "the social media revolution" or whatever?
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