Lurker > Mr Lasastryke

Vlado posted...

An icon != I like him as a character.

ok, so people voted for a character you like over a character you don't like... yet you're complaining?

the point of this contest is to gauge the popularity of all the characters on this site, not to determine who the most iconic character is.
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Paratroopa1 posted...

dude's a deluded monster who literally believes god put him on this earth to become president.

i mean, GWB thought this too.

not saying that's necessarily a point in pence' favor but hey, the world still exists after 8 years of bush!
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Vlado posted...

Except Mario is a thousand times the icon Zelda is. While I like Zelda, she is a supporting character.

first of all, back in '04 you absolutely despised mario. not sure what amazing character development he has had since then that made you do a complete 180 on him.

second of all, why are main characters automatically superior to supporting characters? in star wars: episode i - the phantom menace, shmi skywalker is a supporting character, but she's still a thousand times better than jar jar binks (who's one of the main characters).
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red sox 777 posted...

The fact that Hillary has 30 years of experience in doing shady things legally while Trump does not explains why his team is getting in legal trouble, but morally, it's all the same.

whoa, since when are you talking about morals here?
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pwned!
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"robert mueller and leakin' lyin' james comey"

he makes up for the lack of a mueller adjective by giving comey TWO of them!
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'40s jazz, huh? anything by dizzy gillespie, charlie parker, miles davis and bud powell from this decade is cool.

i'd have to think about specific albums, but at least check out davis' birth of the cool. it was released in '57 but recorded in '49 and '50, so close enough!
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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

Sorry, didn't get to anything tonight. Tomorrow I'll try some music by Childish Gambino and The Dillinger Escape Plan, which I think will clear everything from the backlog?

did you ever listen to alice cooper?
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i saw there will be blood alone in a theater. the theater wasn't massive but it was still a pretty awesome experience (especially since there will be blood is one of my favorite movies).
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CoolCly posted...

i did say he's a racist

yet you love him?

i like plenty of people i disagree with, but i probably wouldn't be able to enjoy anyone who's flat-out racist.
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what pisses me off about jontron in the jontron/destiny video is that jontron goes "young blacks commit a disproportional amount of crime" and then goes "but i don't really want to go into it." hey douchebag, if you "don't want to go into it" perhaps you shouldn't drop an extremely inflammatory line like that with no explanation. yeah, eventually he did elaborate but only because destiny was pushing him to do so.

maybe i would have given him the benefit of the doubt if he seemed more willing to have a legit debate about the topic but yeah, at the very least he comes off as quite unpleasant to me. racist, possibly.
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Dels posted...

okay, the word "never" is a bit misleading because i guess it implies (as you saw it) to never assume someone is malicious?

yeah, that's how i interpreted it. i agree that you should figure out which it is.
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ok but then it's not a case of "never attributing to malice what can be attributed to stupidity." it's just... saying a non-malicious person is not malicious.
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Xiahou Shake posted...

Also movies are IMO one of the best creations of mankind so seeing folks who say they never watch them in here make me sad. :(

same.

music > movies, though.
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Dels posted...

essentially, never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.

wtf is this bullshit? some things SHOULD be attributed to malice.
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SantaRPidgey posted...

Offensive and "wrong" are not the same thing.

we get this. we just think jontron's quotes are offensive, which is subjective.
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SantaRPidgey posted...

How do you get through your life if you think they are?

it's pretty easy
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it's worth noting that even pim fortuyn never wanted to deport immigrants, exactly BECAUSE of vlado's logic. he always said "now that they're here, it's our duty to take care of them."

man what an anti-human guy.
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Shaduln posted...

Episode 2 has a really good last bit imo, and all the stuff with obi wan. Just skip any anakin parts and it's very enjoyable!

eh, some people kinda overrate how good the obi-wan detective scenes in AotC are, i think. obviously mcgregor plays the character very well but i thought the jango fett stuff was kinda boring. obviously it's amazing compared to the anakin/padm stuff but yeah.

seeing tons of jedi in the finale was pretty badass, though, yeah. this is actually something star wars fans always wanted to see and got in the PT!
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my package was delivered. yay!
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TheRock1525 posted...

Are you ignoring the fact that Christianity largely destroyed the Roman Empire and entered us into a dark ages if terms of architecture, art, thought, etc.?

i'll argue against this, actually. there was plenty of important architecture and art created in western europe throughout the middle ages. for instance, the gregorian chant was invented during this time, which was pretty much the basis of western music.

there were some important philosophers too, though the field of thought probably didn't advance too quickly because of religious oppression, sure.
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Vlado posted...

if we're going to play this game, at some point in the middle ages islamic culture was far more advanced than westen culture.
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GuessMyUserName posted...

like yeah i've watched every season up to this but it's always been by force, not something i actually enjoyed doing before

you're in an institution that forces you to watch supergirl?! that's rough.
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Corrik posted...

Do you always pick and choose parts to respond to and ignore the rest?

sometimes, yes. i don't always feel like every single word in an article is worth responding to.
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it's become more unsafe, sure. but there's no reason glorify the way europe used to be before we have had to deal with immigrants, like you're doing. "back in the day our daughters could safely walk on the streets at night - european civilisation has always functioned like this! the chances of a woman getting raped were 1/50000!"

my grandmother was raped. i'm pretty sure my country didn't have to deal with the terrible consequences of multiculturalism yet in the 1950s. i guess it's a remarkable coincidence that i happen to have such a sexual assault victim in my family, given the 1/50000 odds? or could it be that this statistic (with no source provided) is bullshit, and that sexual assault has always been an enormous problem in europe?
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The Washington Examiners Philip Klein lamented how the original tweet nevertheless took off on social media.

The fact that Ocasio-Cortez promoted the idea that slashing Pentagon fraud could mostly pay for Medicare for all, and further that the tweet is now approaching 67,000 likes, says something about the fantasy world that socialists are living in, and their lack of understanding of the enormous trade-offs involved in instituting their agenda, he wrote.

man what a super unbiased guy that i should totally take seriously
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Vlado posted...

When the odds go up from 1:50000 to 1:50,

again, lol. only someone who has absolutely no idea what has been going on in clubs and bars on weekends would spout this "europe was so safe and pristine and nice before the immigrants ruined everything!" bullshit.

you may have a point about the REPORTED number of sexual assault crimes having been low (though not "1:50000" low, that's ridiculous). tons of these crimes have always gone unreported, though thanks to the #metoo revolution there's more women (and men) speaking out, fortunately. anyone who's only slightly familiar with nightlife culture should know what's really going on, though.

this is exactly what always pissed me off about the ridiculous overreaction to the new year's eve controversy in cologne. "omg germany was such a nice country and now those evil refugee rapists are ruining everything!" yes, it's obviously horrible and disgusting that a few immigrants raped a few german women. but as someone who knows several women who were sexually assaulted by dutch white men, i wish those cases got a modicum of the outrage the rapes in cologne did. sexual assault is a gigantic problem, and we're not solving it by solely putting the blame on immigrants while acting like europeans are all wonderful and innocent people.

also, if you care this much about sexual assault, you shouldn't defend kavanaugh as passionately as you do.
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GuessMyUserName posted...

fucking canada posttttttttttt

- checked tracking friday, said made an attempt thursday that I didn't notice... but alright whatever they'll try again
- over the weekend no update, they didn't reattempt friday i figure
- today checking again... says delivered friday.... in mississauga? wtf
- *double checks I gave the right address, i did*
- no address even listed on the tracking page
- *checks delivery receipt, no signature, no address*
- *looks up support options, no emailing so i gotta call during the day*

aughhhhh

as someone who has been waiting on a package for the past 3 hours, this post gives me anxiety
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Vlado posted...

The freedom to live in a safe country with your compatriots without having to fear for your daughter if she goes out at night, for example. You know, the way European civilisation has always functioned.

lol

bulgaria must be a nice country if you guys have never had to deal with women getting sexually assaulted in bars and clubs and on streets on saturday nights.
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FinalFantasyVII posted...

Holy shit Yoda had a line in unbroken English

he had plenty of those in the OT, actually ("do or do not, there is no try," "that is why you fail").

one of the many things that suck about the PT is that lucas was like "99% of yoda's lines need to be in yodaspeak now for some reason."
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Suprak the Stud posted...

The utter glee I get from watching Ocasio-Cortez dunk on people I don't like does make me understand Trump supporters a bit more, tbqh.

https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1069384857099354112
https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1069390842148896769

eh, this isn't even in the same league as trump attacks tbqh. needs more "you're crazy"/"you're dumb"/implication that a woman is PMS'ing.
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Vlado posted...

I completely agree that your compatriots should not be allowed to live in poverty. And that capitalism needs to be kept in check by the government.

i don't get how you can say something like this after making post #33. you're ecstatic about vox winning in spain and your only reaction to daz' comments is "LOL DELICIOUS GLOBALIST TEARS." but what if daz is saying these things precisely BECAUSE she's a socialist who fears that capitalism is going to run rampant in spain now and poverty is going to become a bigger problem (an understandable fear, given that a right-wing party has just won)? that it has nothing to do with globalism?

this is the gist of what i was saying in post #39. whenever you look at a political news story, you only look at it through a "globalism/nationalism" lens, but there's many other ways to look at it.
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TheRock1525 posted...

Ah yes, hero Steven Seagal. The man who paid hush money after sexually harassing a woman and is currently being looked into for prosecution for more sexual harassment/assault.

given vlado's love for kavanaugh, this probably makes seagal even MORE of a hero to him
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Vlado posted...

If that doesn't matter, what does?

it matters to me. but i'm saying that following your logic, it shouldn't matter to you. you've already established that if there's 1 afghan criminal in germany, all aghanis should leave. at that point, why does it matter whether there's 1 afghan doctor or 100000? they should all leave anyway, according to you.

Yes, they would. I support them as far as uprooting the corrupt deep state goes, no problem with both the left and right combining efforts to do it. But naturally I will not support them against genuine nationalists. They carry too much of the aforementioned poison.

They (and you) need to understand that in order to enact any if the good policies you have in mind, you will have to first get rid of the globalists. Then, they'll have to defeat the new right, of course. But at least it will be a battle between two well-meaning sides, if they do not get infiltrated and corrupted in the meantime, of course.

the fundamental problem with your outlook is that you narrow everything down to the globalism/nationalism divide when obviously the world is more complex than that.

to explain what i mean, let me take an example from the political landscape in my own country since i have some expertise on that. take FVD. i completely agree with their anti-EU ideas but when it comes to economics, they're shit. they're in favor of the exact same "fuck you, i got mine" nonsense various right-wing parties in tons of countries have been in favor of for the past gazillion years.

you're saying that it's important to defeat the new right. but FVD IS the new right! when they've become large enough to replace the current government (and it SHOULD be replaced - the most pro-EU party in my country is currently a part of the government, though they're not the largest party so fortunately they don't have too much influence on the government's policies for now), they've probably already brainwashed too many people into agreeing with their economic policies. at that point it may be too late to fight the right, though the left will always try their best, of course.

as important as patriotism (or "nationalism" or whatever you want to call it) is to me, i find caring about the poor to be equally important. what we need in my country is a party that combines being sufficiently patriotic with caring about the poor, NOT a party that's anti-EU/globalism/whatever while being "let's totally screw over the poor who cares about them" like FVD. (unfortunately i don't think we don't have such a party here at the moment, though [but i may be overlooking one of the super small parties, admittedly]. the most socialist party here is too pro-EU for my tastes.)

also, i somewhat disagree with the notion that if you have a battle between the left and the right, it's necessarily a "battle between two well-meaning sides." i do think some prominent politicians on the right are well-meaning, like ron paul. i completely disagree with some of his ideas, but i do think he genuinely cares about the poor. i'm certain thierry baudet doesn't give a crap about the poor at all, though.
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padme in AotC is super fanservicey.
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it's not just because of that, pet sounds was an incredibly inventive album for several reasons (pretty sure a "pop" band had never made an album that was this progressive and experimental before). but that was one of the main reasons why, yeah.
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interesting thing loliamanalt brought up about pet sounds, relating to it being a big influential thing: i suppose it's the first concept album ever created. frank zappa is my favorite artist ever but i'm not sure why freak out! is often credited for inventing the concept album when it was released a month after pet sounds. perhaps because it more clearly has a concept/story than pet sounds does?

whatever the case may be, it's undeniable that the beatles' sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band is NOT the first concept album (even though people often claim it is).
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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

Huh. This band kinda reminds me of "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band", oddly enough.

interesting comparison. never heard that one before!

aww, you didn't like the mars volta.

glad you liked spock's beard, though!

and yeah, definitely check out pet sounds. one of my favorite albums period (though sloop john b is probably my least favorite song on it, no offense to loliamanalt).
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Vlado posted...

IT'S HAPPENING!

The fire rises, now in Spain, too. A previously unknown right-wing party named Vox led by a Basque has taken enough seats in the large Andalusia province to form a governing coaltion with the traditional centre-right and oust socialists in the region for the first time in 36 years!

https://archive.fo/lp7Y3

The Socialist leader in Andalusia, Susana Daz, on Sunday night urged the right-leaning parties not to allow Spain to become the latest European country in which a far-right party takes a front-line role in politics.

Delicious globalist tears!

you're aware that people like bernie and ocasio-cortez would probably say the same thing, right? not sure how you can claim to support them while being this ecstatic about socialists losing in an election.
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Vlado posted...

There "can be." But there NEVER are. The profile of the average migrant to Europe is clear - a young, uneducated man who's at great odds with European civilisation.

why does this matter, though? you've already stated that you don't care about the number of migrant doctors who come to europe. we don't even need to look at this.

The rest hope that big brother can make up for their own inadequacy by providing them with the means to indulge in mindless, soul-destroying consumerism, and by bringing those who are better than them down to their level.

it still baffles me that in your world capitalists are somehow less consumerist than socialists.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Even THAT is faulty logic really

Like, good deeds by some in a group shouldnt earn the rests place there

They earn a place there by being humans who need food and shelter. Thats what being pro-human is

didn't mean to imply that i disagree with this, i'm just saying that there's two sides to this coin and vlado only focuses on the negative side. any number of good apples? doesn't matter. 2 bad apples? "OBVIOUSLY MEANS THAT ALL THE APPLES SHOULD LEAVE."
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no idea what you'll think of this - let's see!
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TheRock1525 posted...

This makes zero sense. Couldn't you apply that same logic to people saved by migrants? How many migrant doctors in the US saved lives? EMTs? How many lives were made better by a migrant run local business?

By your same logic we could say we can't let white people live. "If even one death results from a white person, its time to get rid of white people."

Do you not understand basic risk management? Do you not drive a car since a car has killed at least one person?

the "logic" he's using is exactly why he's drawing so much attention to the two afghan men raping a german teenage girl ("people should respond to this!!"). there can be 100 afghan doctors saving lives in germany - doesn't matter. as long as there are 2 bad apples all afghanis should leave germany.
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it's no more or less pointless than any post in this topic.
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yeah, how dare i post about a recent politics-related death in the politics topic
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bush sr. sucked.
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hentai rallies?
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lol @ my post getting deleted
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