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Author Topic: What the fuck?  (Read 315601 times)

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3300 on: September 28, 2012, 04:06:36 PM »

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3301 on: September 28, 2012, 04:44:02 PM »

Live video is just for assholes at home who want to see a massive crash.
The two biggest pop news story of the '90s started with a car chase. They don't air them for the crash, they air them for the eyeballs. I don't know why seeing the potential behind car chases becoming much larger news stories equates to 'people just like crashes'. It's moronic.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3302 on: September 28, 2012, 04:48:28 PM »

But.... people do like car chases and car crashes.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3303 on: September 28, 2012, 06:21:01 PM »

Right, but news organizations don't show NASCAR. Car chases make news; they don't just show them hoping for a crash.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3304 on: September 28, 2012, 09:09:13 PM »

The two biggest pop news story of the '90s started with a car chase.

Yes.  In the first case, there was really not a whole hell of a lot of danger of a fiery crash and airing the entire thing on live television was asinine.  And in the second, the people who stood around taking photos to sell to newspapers were the biggest fucking assholes in the history of the universe.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3305 on: September 28, 2012, 09:22:43 PM »

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3306 on: September 28, 2012, 11:52:28 PM »

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MANJIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3307 on: September 29, 2012, 06:33:56 AM »

jeez it sounds like someone's got sand in HIS manji
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3308 on: September 29, 2012, 08:32:29 AM »

It's only called a Manji if it's Japanese, and that statue isn't Japanese.  Also, the term "Swastika" far predates that usage.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3309 on: September 29, 2012, 10:42:43 AM »

Yeah, a poke about Wikipedia suggests you're right -- its arms face the opposite direction of the nazi swastika, but it's still a swastika.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3310 on: September 30, 2012, 06:31:41 AM »

Yeah, but for the sake of delineating an ancient symbol from a relatively recent symbol of hate, I think referring to it as a manji in general is acceptable.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3311 on: September 30, 2012, 04:10:44 PM »

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3312 on: September 30, 2012, 04:14:13 PM »

She'd be perfectly fine if she just gave up on the eye thing.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3313 on: September 30, 2012, 04:45:03 PM »

Wait.... wasn't that human Barbie doll woman Ukranian as well?
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3314 on: September 30, 2012, 08:24:23 PM »

Maybe you're thinking of that girl from St. Petersburg who wanted to look like Jessica Rabbit and got giant lip injections.

Coincidentally, her story was also found on The Daily Mail. I'm sensing a pattern here...
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3316 on: October 06, 2012, 11:18:00 AM »

It's a heavy democrat district and the guy holding the seat is a one term Republican. If they thought it'd stick, they'd accuse her of drinking christian baby blood and sacrificing kittens to Allah or some shit.

Having said that, someone connected enough to the net to be an online gamer should know that everything you post online is in the public record and making a bunch of embarrassing posts to a political blog about how you like to murder things in wow that could easily be tied back to her was dumb. I want to re-iterate; she was posting about this on daily kos on the same account she'd been using to post about her campaign. I'd like to say we're better than this, but if someone on the right had done something similarly embarrassing the left would be trotting it out as well, esp if we thought it'd help us keep a seat we had no business getting in the first place.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3317 on: October 06, 2012, 12:16:15 PM »

I don't know when she started, but I really want to see the campaign ad:
"I was the leader of a 40-man Naxx guild.. Come on, guys, you know what I'm talking about. That shit's worse than dealing with Congress; I know what I'm doing."
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3318 on: October 06, 2012, 12:28:05 PM »

The weird thing is that is a pretty damn good argument, really.  If you can corral random spazzes long enough to get through a raid, you're probably more qualified for the job than most elected officials.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3319 on: October 06, 2012, 12:57:13 PM »

Growing pains.  This is probably the biggest example we've seen of this up to this point (I'm not counting Wiener or whatsisname on Craigslist because that's a separate issue), but we're going to go through a period where "potentially embarrassing shit online" sinks some campaigns, and then after awhile it won't be a thing anymore because fucking everybody running for anything is going to have potentially embarrassing shit online.

I want to re-iterate; she was posting about this on daily kos on the same account she'd been using to post about her campaign.

Well, no, more accurately she posted about her campaign on the same account she'd previously used to post about WoW.

And she didn't post very damn much about her campaign; I see a single offhand reference to it from two months ago.  She hasn't posted much of anything since March, and if I'm not mistaken the specific comments they stuck on the flyer are literally years old.

From where I'm sitting she's responded the sensible way: "It's a video game.  Hundreds of millions of people play video games.  Sounds to me like you're out-of-touch."  If she'd overreacted by taking her posts down or something, that would have been a whole lot more damaging; it would have given in to their narrative that they were actually relevant.

I'm currently looking for work.  I also currently have a post titled "Assholes/Pee" on the front page of my blog.

I admit this has given me a bit of pause.  But I also decided a long time ago that fuck it, if a company's going to pass me over because of something it found on my blog (or these forums, or wherever), it's probably not going to be a very friendly place to work anyway.

Anyhow.  Whether she was foolish for writing about her campaign on the same account she used for WoW or not, well, we're likely to find out in a month.  From where I'm sitting this tack reeks of desperation, but that doesn't necessarily mean it won't work.

EDIT TO ADD:

I don't know when she started, but I really want to see the campaign ad:
"I was the leader of a 40-man Naxx guild.. Come on, guys, you know what I'm talking about. That shit's worse than dealing with Congress; I know what I'm doing."

Reminds me of McCain's response when someone complained that he'd been in an R-rated movie with nudity (Wedding Crashers): "I'm in the Senate.  I deal with boobs every day."
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