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Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:16 am

Yelling continues to be the modern form of political discussion. Isn't Nancy on their side?

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:36 am

Yelling has always been common. Read about some of the debates in the early 1900s or late 1800s. Or look at the British Parliament.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:44 am

stessier wrote:Yelling has always been common. Read about some of the debates in the early 1900s or late 1800s. Or look at the British Parliament.

DON'T TRY AND TELL ME I'M WRONG!! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE??!! I'M RIGHT!!!1 YOU'RE WRONG!!!

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed Sep 20, 2017 12:53 pm

I do find it hilarious that this is some sort of revelation and/or modern failure, that people opposed to things tend to shout.

This is not new. Politics is not less civilized today than it was in the "good old days", nor were people "back then" more likely to sit around carefully considering ideas they were opposed to, because...reasons.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed Sep 20, 2017 1:03 pm

A 30 foot statue for the inventor of a machine gun? 'Merica! Oh wait, no this is for Mikhail Kalashnikov

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed Sep 20, 2017 2:46 pm

Shouting it down is actually a pretty good response to blatant bullshit or weaselry.

It's only a problem when the shoutee is seriously and sincerely trying to engage.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Sat Sep 23, 2017 9:04 am

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sat Sep 23, 2017 10:12 am

Moliere wrote:

A 30 foot statue for the inventor of a machine gun? 'Merica! Oh wait, no this is for Mikhail Kalashnikov

Oops...

Workers in Moscow have cut out part of a new monument to a Russian creator of the world famous AK-47 assault rifle because a weapon depicted on the statue was actually a German-designed firearm.

Mikhail Kalashnikov's monument was opened this week to great fanfare by government officials and members of the Russian Orthodox Church.

But arms experts said a drawing on the base of the statue showed the StG 44 rifle used by the Nazis during WWII.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sun Sep 24, 2017 4:41 pm

Freyland · Post by **Freyland** » Sun Sep 24, 2017 5:03 pm

Max Peck wrote:

I read the comic but I don't understand the man's response. But, it did remind me to profess my defense of gravity's issues, even if they don't always carry equal weight.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sun Sep 24, 2017 5:15 pm

The man is B.D., the most conservative of Doonesbury's stable of characters.

He's less of a caricature than he once was, but presumably he's happy to see the kid rejecting feminism.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sun Sep 24, 2017 5:17 pm

Freyland wrote:I read the comic but I don't understand the man's response.

<jokesplain>Being very conservative, he is pleased that his daughter has rejected "feminism" until he discovers that actual feminism is her default world view. Also, his personal definition of feminism is probably the one given by his daughter, rather than his wife.</jokesplain>

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Sun Sep 24, 2017 5:26 pm

I think you missed that he also though 'gender identity' and 'feminism' were identical... right?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Sep 24, 2017 5:28 pm

Some papers snip the first two pages of Sunday comics. The bottom six can be read as standalone for those poor sap readers.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sun Sep 24, 2017 5:33 pm

Unagi wrote:I think you missed that he also though 'gender identity' and 'feminism' were identical... right?

I took the gender identity thing to be a throw-away joke about "college kids these days" rather than being tied to the joke contrasting the feminist and anti-feminist definitions of feminism.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Mon Sep 25, 2017 12:18 pm

Corporate Consolidation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Mon Sep 25, 2017 12:18 pm

Keith Olbermann wrote:Here's El Presidente saluting the constitution

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:14 am

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:33 am

The takeaway here is that he's still far more eloquent than the President of the United States. Point taken!

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:47 am

I'm not sure we want to lower the bar low enough to start holding sports figures to the same standards we hold the President to.

PLW · Post by **PLW** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:54 am

I'm Comic Sans, Asshole!

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 11:09 am

Max Peck wrote:
Freyland wrote:I read the comic but I don't understand the man's response.
<jokesplain>Being very conservative, he is pleased that his daughter has rejected "feminism" until he discovers that actual feminism is her default world view. Also, his personal definition of feminism is probably the one given by his daughter, rather than his wife.</jokesplain>

It's not funny if you have to explain it.

Freyland · Post by **Freyland** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:37 pm

stimpy wrote:
Max Peck wrote:
Freyland wrote:I read the comic but I don't understand the man's response.
<jokesplain>Being very conservative, he is pleased that his daughter has rejected "feminism" until he discovers that actual feminism is her default world view. Also, his personal definition of feminism is probably the one given by his daughter, rather than his wife.</jokesplain>
It's not funny if you have to explain it.

On the positive side, it's now just as funny as it was when I was not understood, then.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:44 pm

hepcat wrote:The takeaway here is that he's still far more eloquent than the President of the United States. Point taken!

Can you imagine taking a red pen to any Q and A given by the POTUS and pretending it is an essay?

I'm all about digression. I enjoy letting the mind go where it wants to. But the man can't finish a sentence, much a single thought.

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp ... ript+trump

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 1:34 pm

Freyland wrote:
stimpy wrote:
Max Peck wrote:
Freyland wrote:I read the comic but I don't understand the man's response.
<jokesplain>Being very conservative, he is pleased that his daughter has rejected "feminism" until he discovers that actual feminism is her default world view. Also, his personal definition of feminism is probably the one given by his daughter, rather than his wife.</jokesplain>
It's not funny if you have to explain it.
On the positive side, it's now just as funny as it was when I was not understood, then.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 1:35 pm

hepcat wrote:The takeaway here is that he's still far more eloquent than the President of the United States. Point taken!

I'm not sure the majority of Drumpf followers could have read the note, so there's that.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:09 pm

LordMortis wrote:
hepcat wrote:The takeaway here is that he's still far more eloquent than the President of the United States. Point taken!
Can you imagine taking a red pen to any Q and A given by the POTUS and pretending it is an essay?

I'm all about digression. I enjoy letting the mind go where it wants to. But the man can't finish a sentence, much a single thought.

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp ... ript+trump

You'd also have to go back and get the transcripts for his alter egos, John Miller or John Barron.

The fact that folks voted in a guy who pretended to be someone else more than once in order to get good press is just one of the many endearing things about our country.

...did I say endearing? I meant stupid.

Vorret · Post by **Vorret** » Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:35 am

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:38 am

Vorret wrote:

This would make more sense if it was Ivanka instead of Melania.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:51 am

Also, not smiling.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Thu Sep 28, 2017 5:37 pm

MAGA hats represent genocide?

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Sep 28, 2017 6:28 pm

What an objectionable young lady.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Thu Sep 28, 2017 6:36 pm

Kraken wrote:What an objectionable young lady.

It's people like that woman that give progressives a bad rep.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:24 pm

tgb wrote:
Kraken wrote:What an objectionable young lady.
It's people like that woman that give progressives a bad rep.

Indeed. But that's probably our white privilege talking.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 3:29 pm

Weekend Update on Hurricane Maria - SNL

I had to

as Donald described an island.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 6:33 pm

Smokey Robinson Says He's American, Not African-American
It's like freestyle rapping.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:11 pm

Someone dressed like the Monopoly guy is photobombing the Senate's Equifax hearing

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:26 pm

This is our President.

Trent Steel · Post by **Trent Steel** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:34 pm

Smoove_B wrote:This is our President.

I have to give him credit. He literally has no fucks to give about anything. It really is impressive on the public global stage.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:34 pm

I want to hear him pronounce "aluminum".

Also, Melania shouldn't be laughing at her meal ticket. Trophy wives are a dime a dozen.