Topic: Culture Wars (Read 78111 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #840 on:** June 21, 2013, 01:10:38 AM »

THAT MAN.

THAT MAGNIFICENT MAN.

Also, There are posts about the military sexual harassment stuff here and there, but I suspect it's all over the place.

Mothra · « **Reply #841 on:** June 21, 2013, 02:11:01 AM »

God, I wish this kind of thing happened more. Fantastic.

Sharkey · « **Reply #842 on:** June 24, 2013, 12:28:23 PM »

I'd rather I couldn't track the tiny movement of his unblinking eyes reading the prompter. He shows a few calculated hints of emotion about halfway thrugh, but it twigs my uncanny valley meter. The slightest traces of emotion seem so much more emphatic by that point. Reptilian, and then just that faintest hint of pissed off social mammal makes the point.

Which makes me like it even more, to be honest. Calculated coldness in delivering a necessary message seems like the best kind of coldness. At least in this case.

Expert work in the cause of good. By sociopaths who have found their place.

Rico · « **Reply #843 on:** June 24, 2013, 02:31:31 PM »

Quote from: Joxam on June 20, 2013, 09:34:19 PM

because it struck me while watching this video that no US General would EVER say some of the things this man said

I wandered across an awkward conversation on a coworker's Facebook page the other day that to me really emphasized how hidden and insinuated sexual assault is in U.S. military culture that I may as well summarize here:
Link gets posted to a news article about how women who are otherwise interested in going to the military have to seriously consider the problem of sexual assault in their decisionmaking.

Friend's friend, an ex-military lady, posts: This is exactly what's wrong with the media. I'm a woman and I was in the military and I never felt unsafe for a moment. The liberal media just grabbed an isolated story and blew it out of proportion to insult the service.

Friend's another friend, an ex-military man, posts: Uh, $name, didn't you know that one of your friends, $name2 was raped while you were both serving together?

And she didn't know.

Büge · « **Reply #844 on:** July 17, 2013, 07:22:11 AM »

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/16/limbaugh-i-can-use-the-word-nigga-now-because-its-not-racist/

Mongrel · « **Reply #845 on:** July 17, 2013, 08:27:50 AM »

Counterpoint. The Atlantic calls the incident out for what it is: Clever trollling for ratings and exposure.

Sliding into irrelevance? Nothing that a new more extreme dose of "stupidity" can't solve...

Thad · « **Reply #846 on:** July 17, 2013, 03:48:40 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on July 17, 2013, 08:27:50 AM

Counterpoint. The Atlantic calls the incident out for what it is: Clever trollling for ratings and exposure.

As opposed to every single other thing Limbaugh has ever said or done in his entire professional career.

Sharkey · « **Reply #847 on:** July 18, 2013, 11:06:33 AM »

He's a geek. In the original "eats shit for attention" sense.

TA · « **Reply #848 on:** August 22, 2013, 01:22:08 PM »

"Look, the reason black people are so poor is that they eat so much chicken, everybody knows that."

Brentai · « **Reply #849 on:** August 22, 2013, 01:36:46 PM »

She flips from a nature to a nurture argument in the span of a sentence and tops off with something factually inaccurate. I move to suggest that she's not racist so much as not in total command of her mouth.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #850 on:** August 22, 2013, 01:40:47 PM »

It seems like those two attributes seem to go hand in hand a lot.

Brentai · « **Reply #851 on:** August 22, 2013, 01:46:16 PM »

I think each one has a tendency to look like the other. Hanlon's Razor.

Mongrel · « **Reply #852 on:** August 22, 2013, 02:17:06 PM »

Man.... this is like a few word changes away from being a literal copy of that Chapelle show sketch.

Büge · « **Reply #853 on:** September 15, 2013, 10:49:15 PM »

Indian-American Woman wins Miss America Pageant, Twitter Erupts

Post-Racial America, Everybody!

Royal☭ · « **Reply #854 on:** September 15, 2013, 11:12:13 PM »

Why I Hate Buzzfeed Reason #32453: At the end of that list, it goes through a bunch of tweets saying how (white, blond) Miss Kansas is the "Real Miss America." Underneath, it links to a related article about why everyone loves Miss Kansas. Last entry on that list? A tweet that says "We all know she's the real #MissAmerica #MissKansas"

Brentai · « **Reply #855 on:** September 16, 2013, 02:40:56 AM »

I love the insistence that the tattooed soldier/huntress had a snowball's chance in Phoenix. Have any of you ever watched this pageant before?

Mongrel · « **Reply #856 on:** September 16, 2013, 03:06:41 AM »

People referencing beauty pageants as relevant to anything already annoys me. They have been ridiculous, dark, twisted affairs which have little of anything to do with any aspect of real life for decades now.

Brentai · « **Reply #857 on:** September 16, 2013, 03:12:41 AM »

That last question wasn't rhetorical by the way (albeit not directed at you guys). I suspect that a very significant portion of these angry tweets have absolutely no clue what the Miss America pageant even is.

Which is... kind of not too much a bad thing.

Mothra · « **Reply #858 on:** September 16, 2013, 03:20:15 AM »

Quote from: Mongrel on September 16, 2013, 03:06:41 AM

People referencing beauty pageants as relevant to anything already annoys me. They have been ridiculous, dark, twisted affairs which have little of anything to do with any aspect of real life for decades now.

Yeah, it... any time at all we spend discussing beauty pageants, or drama surrounding them and the people who watch them, is time we will never, ever get back.

Mothra · « **Reply #859 on:** September 16, 2013, 03:22:17 AM »

Jesus christ this buzzfeed link is literally just A LIST OF TWEETS

Buge promise me you will never link to this god-forsaken site ever again

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